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New York pols, diaspora leaders, island groups tell PR governor to dump LUMA

By THE STAR STAFF

New York elected officials, diaspora leaders and representatives of local organizations demanded Thursday that Gov. Pedro Pier luisi Urrutia defend the people of Puerto Rico’s interests by preventing the renewal of the contract with LUMA Energy.

LUMA Energy is the private operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution system. Because PREPA is in bank ruptcy, LUMA Energy is working under the terms of a supplemental agreement signed together with a 15-year contract that is up for renewal on Nov. 30.

“The people of Puerto Rico and the diaspora in the United States have clearly conveyed a strong mes sage: LUMA has to go,” said New York City Council members Tiffany Cabán and Alexa Avilés, who were on the island for the annual SOMOS Conference.

“Governor Pierluisi must learn from the mistakes of his predecessors, who put money and self-interest before the well being of the island. We urge him to stand up to a company that has worsened conditions on the island.”

“Representatives of the Puerto Rican diaspora are present today because our families are affected by an unfair contract and poor service,” added Erica González, director of Power 4 Puerto Rico.

The groups that appeared at a San Juan press conference were Power 4 Puerto Rico Coalition, Vamos Puerto Rico, Todos Somos Pueblo, Boricuas Unidos en la Diaspora, and Coalición Para El Pensa miento Energético. They joined diaspora members in “an effort to defend the people of Puerto Rico in the face of an abusive contract that does not serve the interests of citizens on the island well.”

“The governor must fulfill his ministerial role of protecting and serving the best interests of the people,” said Melissa Mark-Viverito, the former New York City Council president and a spokesperson for the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. “That is why we demand that he terminate the contract with this company that has shown over and over again that it is incapable of providing the service that the people demand and deserve.”

Meanwhile, spokespersons for local or ganizations also joined the call not to extend the contract to the private energy consortium.

“We demand that Governor Pierluisi not renew LUMA Energy’s supplemental contract on November 30 and that he focus on transforming Puerto Rico’s energy system to renewable energy,” Myrna Conty, spokes person for Quiero Sol. “Photovoltaic systems should be installed on roofs with storage and distribution. In this way, we will be able to face natural events without losing access to energy, which is an essential right for people.”

Jessica Méndez Colberg, from the Coali tion for Energy Thinking, said LUMA Energy is paid millions of dollars for mediocre service and that there are other alternatives.

The spokespersons added that the citizens of Puerto Rico cannot continue to be harmed by the incompetence of LUMA and continue to risk losing their economic future.

The San Juan Daily Star, the only paper with News Service in English in Puerto Rico, publishes 7 days a week, with a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday edition, along with a Weekend Edition to cover Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Rep. Méndez thanks Senate for passing bill that enables salary hikes for prosecutors, DAs

By THE STAR STAFF

Rep.Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, the New Progressive Party minority leader in the island House of Representatives, thanked the Senate on Thursday for the approval House Bill 1343, which makes it possible to raise the salary of prosecutors, district attorneys and assistant prosecutors, as well as prosecutors in the family and juvenile court systems, and property registrars.

The Senate on Wednesday endorsed the measure, authored by Méndez along with House Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, and Reps. José Enrique “Quiquito” Meléndez Ortiz and Jesús Santa Rodríguez with a vote of 25 in favor and none against.

“This is a very important bill that does salary justice to our prosecutors and district attorneys,” Méndez said. “We thank the senators who voted for it yesterday. Since the measure was filed in the House of Representatives we have fought for its approval. Men and women serving as prosecutors deserve, like other public employees,

an increase in their salaries.”

The bill, which now goes to La Fortaleza for the governor’s signature, amends Article 82 of the Law 205-2004 and Article 283 of Law 210-2015 in order to transfer to the Department of Justice the authority to conduct the review of compensation and salary scales for the aforementioned professionals.

The legislation also orders the adoption of five salary categories for such officials, in accordance with the uniform criteria laid down in the statute.

All reference to the judicial branch is deleted during the computation of the base salary applicable to the affected public servants to reconcile the doctrine of separation of powers, and the legislation puts in place a permanent prohibition to prevent the reduction of the basic salary established by law.

The salary compensation for prosecutors, as well as that of district attorneys, is established by law; how ever, the new Classification and Remuneration Plan does not contain provisions for trust employees as is the case with prosecutors and prosecutors.

Bill that would extend vacations for gov’t workers is headed to governor’s desk

By THE STAR STAFF

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that would increase vacation time for government workers is on its way to the gover nor’s desk.

House Labor Affairs Committee Chairman Domin go Torres García announced Thursday the passage of a bill that would hike vacation from 15 days to 24 days for public sector workers. He urged Gov.Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia to sign it into law. Workers saw their vacation days reduced from 30 days per year to 15 days per year following the passage of Law 26-2017, known as the Fiscal Plan Compliance Law.

“We managed to strike a balance between the original law and the one currently implemented,” Torres García said.

“After long legislative procedures, House Bill 1182 was approved by the House and Senate. We hope that it will become law when it reaches Governor Pierluisi’s

desk,” the District 25 lawmaker added. “This way, public servants would see an increase in their vacation days as a recognition of their work. Therefore, I urge the governor

to sign the legislation with multi-party support in both bodies. It is time to show our support for public servants who, day by day, give their best to serve our country.”

House Labor Affairs Committee

Chairman Domingo Torres García

Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez

Planning Board sets public hearings on permit regulations, urges broad

By THE STAR STAFF

ThePuerto Rico Planning Board on Thursday announced the schedule of public hearings for the adoption of new joint regulations for the issuance of permits related to development, land use and business operation.

The public hearings are an essential part of the participatory process that takes place prior to the approval and adoption of the aforementioned important planning and regulatory tool.

Planning Board Chairman Julio Lassús Ruiz stressed that there will be a longer period for the issuance of comments and a greater number of public hearing sessions in order to provide a participatory process prior to the promulgation of the new regulation.

“In total, we will be conducting 22 public hearings,” Lassús Ruiz said. “There will be 11 face-to-face hearings through different municipalities and 11 virtual hearings, all of which will be open to the public in general. It is an unprecedented number of hearings. The intention is that all professionals, interest groups and the general public can participate widely in this process so that we can have a robust and consensus regulatory tool. The joint regulations are an essential instru ment for ensuring the protection of resources and promoting orderly and sustainable socio-economic development. In that sense, it is an issue that connects each and every one of us.”

The cycle of public hearings will begin on Nov. 29 and will end on Dec. 21. There will be face-to-face hearings in the

following municipalities: San Juan, Fajardo, Ponce, Manatí, Arecibo, Gurabo, Humacao, Mayagüez, Cayey, Moca and Guayama. All will have their face-to-face and virtual hearings on the same day. The face-to-face hearings will begin at 10 a.m, while the virtual ones will begin at 1:30 p.m.

After the end of the round of public hearings, an additional period of comment will be granted until Jan. 20, 2023.

On Oct. 28, the Planning Board issued the first notice of disclosure of the draft of the new joint regulations and since then published the document for public review and consultation on its www.jp.pr.gov portal. The draft will continue to be available for citizen scrutiny and so that they can issue comments or even send papers regarding the regulations. In addition, the digital portal also contains a thematic summary for each of the 12 rules of the regulation and a section allowing for the automated and timely issuance of comments, according to the specific sections of the document, among other features.

“We have prepared a very complete digital space that not only allows consulting the entire draft regulation, but also issuing comments by specific areas, as well as data boards that reflect the participation methods, the calendar of all public hearings, a section to register to participate in virtual hearings, a repository to store the videos of the hearings, a glossary of terms, answers to frequently asked questions, a history of the various rules of procedure and a section to consult previous rules,” Lassús Ruiz added. “Everything the citizen needs to know about the joint rules can be found in one place. The portal allows us an

important transparency exercise, while making it easier for us to provide the service of good guidance to citizens.”

The agency will consider as an official comment only those registered through the portal, those sent via email to comentariosjp@jp.pr.gov or those submitted in writing at the agency’s secretarial office, located at the Roberto Sánchez Vilella Government Center, Torre Norte, in Santurce.

The Planning Board chairman urged all professionals with an interest in the processes that are regulated through the regulations (planners, engineers, instructors, surveyors, envi ronmentalists, lawyers, among others), as well as other citizens, to actively participate in the evaluation and comment process.

Symposium highlights continuing federal assistance for home acquisition,

By THE STAR STAFF

island Housing Department held the “Buy Your Home with CDBG-DR” symposium Thursday, which featured wide participation from real estate brokers, banking institutions and other members of the real estate industry in Puerto Rico.

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“It is our purpose to continue to promote available as sistance and make adjustments to programs that help families obtain a home. With this in mind, we summoned the mortgage sector, which is a key piece in the implementation of these

types of aid, to talk, present the changes and offer their input,” Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez said in a written statement. “We are happy with the great participation of the industry and we are sure that it will be the first of many openings that we will create to continue improving.”

As part of the agenda, the most recent guidelines for the implementation of the Direct Buyer Assistance Program and the Repair, Reconstruction or Relocation Program (R3) were addressed. In addition, myths and realities, eligibility and reloca tion processes, as well as the general framework of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds were discussed.

During the event, a panel discussion was also presented by several representatives of unions, who presented their expe riences and recommendations after the latest published version of the guidelines that regulate the implementation of CDBG-DR programs in Puerto Rico.

Housing Finance Authority Executive Director Blanca Fernández González said “this symposium gave us the op portunity to personally thank this sector for its collaboration and contribution to the success of the Direct Buyer Assistance Program, whose economic aid has impacted more than 4,000 Puerto Ricans who acquired their new homes in Puerto Rico.”

CDBG-DR funds were allocated to Puerto Rico as an incentive for its recovery from the onslaught of hurricanes Irma and Maria. Both programs provide financial assistance to low-and-moderate-income families impacted by the hurricanes.

Direct Buyer Assistance offers a subsidy of up to $60,000 to

cover expenses related to the purchase of a property. Currently, the initiative has allocated $133 million to Puerto Rico families that, thanks to this type of assistance, acquired a safe home. Meanwhile, R3 channels home reconstruction or repair, as well as voluntary relocation to safe housing for eligible participants who applied for program assistance.

The total amount of funds directed to recovery is $1 billion, Rodríguez said.

The morning symposium was held at Vivo Beach Club in Carolina.

Housing Finance Authority Executive Director Blanca Fernández González

Puerto Rico Planning Board Chairman Julio Lassús Ruiz

What many Pennsylvanians saw in Fetterman

By TRIP GABRIEL

Themorning after Lt. Gov. John Fet terman won Pennsylvania’s Senate race, Alberta Wilkes was in a radi ant mood as she waited for a bus to the post office to buy money orders for bills.

“I love it,” Wilkes, 71, a retired hospital cook, said Wednesday. “John overcame a lot of obstacles.”

A resident of the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Wilkes said that her sister used to work at the Edgar Thomson steel mill near Braddock, Penn sylvania, where Fetterman was mayor for 13 years. “He would come down there and talk to the steelworkers,” Wilkes said. “John is for the people, and it doesn’t matter if you’re rich, poor, white, Black.”

By reinventing his campaign after a near-fatal stroke, appealing to anyone who “got knocked down and had to get back up,” as he put it, Fetterman appeared to connect with many Pennsylvanians who responded to his saga of loss and comeback.

Rather than seeing his difficult re covery and uneven debate performance as evidence of lack of fitness for office — as Fetterman’s Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, tried to frame it — voters said they found Fetterman relatable, even an inspiration. His personal revitalization, however incomplete, echoed a promise he campaigned on — the resurgence of Pennsylvania communities that feel left behind, a left-wing response to the ap peal that Donald Trump made in winning Pennsylvania and other industrial states in 2016.

“For every job that’s ever been lost, for every factory that was ever closed, for every person that works hard but never gets ahead,” Fetterman said at his elec tion party early Wednesday morning. “I’m proud of what we ran on.”

In Pittsburgh, a liberal city with roots in steel that has been reborn as a technology and medical center, Fetter man supporters expressed a rush of hopes Wednesday that his progressive politics would lift struggling people and become a national template for the Democratic Party. They also spoke personally, even intimately, of how they saw in his health struggles a reflection of their lives.

Kim Kifer, 59, a banker who has family members who were stroke vic tims, said Fetterman’s performance in the debate last month, when he struggled for words and left sentences unfinished, was “not good.” Still, she added, the performance showed courage.

“I found it inspiring,” Kifer said. “I admired that he actually showed up for the debate. I think it takes tremendous courage to get back on the horse.”

Jena Bence, 33, a nanny pushing a stroller, agreed. “I didn’t think that Fet terman did great” in the debate, she said, “but I think it was great that he still went out there and did it.”

Republican voters were hardly elated. Many were crestfallen about the defeat of Oz, a TV celebrity doctor endorsed by Trump.

Fetterman won by only about 182,000 votes out of more than 5 mil lion cast, as of late Wednesday. Shana Smith, 59, who voted for Oz, said she was surprised more people didn’t vote their pocketbooks and elect the Republican.

“With the price of gasoline and the price of food, people can’t live,” said Smith, 59, who was crossing Market Square downtown on her way to work for the county criminal courts. “So many homeless people. There’s so many people that can’t afford their prescriptions.”

A number of voters hoped that Fet terman’s victory provided an answer in the perennial debate among Democrats about whether progressive or moderate candidates held the best hopes for win ning battleground states like Pennsylva nia. They said it showed there was indeed support for progressives.

For Paula DeCarlo, 56, a former teacher and flight attendant who said she had to quit work because of cancer, the takeaway from Fetterman’s win was, “We need help.”

“The message would be helping people with health care, universal health care, single-payer system,” she said. “We need that in this country.”

A couple in their 20s, Max Snyder and Anastasia Hons-Astle, who identified themselves as working class and “hard left,” said they had voted enthusiastically for Fetterman, after casting reluctant votes for Joe Biden in 2020.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for the Senate, during a campaign event in Coatesville, Pa. on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022.

“I think a lot of people weren’t excited to vote for Joe Biden,” said HonsAstle, 27, who was recently laid off from a tech startup. “I can identify with Fet terman. I can’t identify with Joe Biden.”

Hons-Astle’s father is a steelworker who supported Trump, she said. Demo cratic candidates like Fetterman, who have at least some appeal to white working-class voters, ought to be seen as the future of the party, she said.

“The Democrats tend to elect more centrist Democrats, and in theory, that would appeal to a larger audience, but it does exclude the working class,” Hons-Astle said. “The working class feels alienated by Democrats or Republicans.”

Snyder, 28, a tattoo artist, said Democrats had failed at speaking to working-class voters and “the very real material problems that people have.”

Fetterman’s path to victory state wide was blazed largely through rural counties that lean heavily red. He was able to win higher margins in those counties than Biden did in 2020 in his

contest with Trump. Michelle McFall, the Democratic chair in one of those deep-red places, Westmoreland County, east of Pittsburgh, attended Fetterman’s election night party in the city.

“I was tired but needed to be there,” she said.

When results were announced, she described realizing that his victory came not only because he racked up votes in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but, she said, “because of Westmoreland and Erie and Washington and Fayette and Butler and Beaver and Indiana” — all rural counties in western Pennsylvania. Many were Democratic strongholds in the past but have swung hard for Republicans in recent years.

McFall cited the Fetterman cam paign slogan — “Every county, every vote.”

“Those words were the anthem of this cycle,” she said, “but they must be come the model we use in every statewide election. This is how we win elections in Pennsylvania.”

With House majority in play, a new class takes shape

By EMILY COCHRANE and CATIE EDMONDSON

Whoeverholds the House majority in January, the new lawmakers will include a fresh crop of Republican election deniers, including a veteran who attended the “Stop the Steal” rally at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021; a handful of GOP members of color; and a diverse group of young Democratic progressives.

As vote counting continued across the country Wednesday, with Republicans grasping to take control and Democrats outperforming expectations in key races, the contours of a new class of lawmakers began to emerge.

Here are some of the new faces:

The Republicans

Jen A. Kiggans, a Navy veteran and state senator

As a woman with military experience, Kiggans was regarded by Republicans as a prime recruit to put up against a centrist Democrat in a conservative-leaning area. She defeated Rep. Elaine Luria on the Eas tern Shore of Virginia, propelled in part by state redistricting that tilted the district more decisively to the right.

She focused her campaign narrowly on inflation and public safety, and was bolstered by top Republicans, including Rep. Kevin Mc Carthy of California, the minority leader who is running to become speaker should his party retake the House, and Gov. Glenn Youngkin. That suggested that she would be more likely to serve as an acolyte to Republican leaders than a thorn in their sides.

Although she ran as a mainstream candidate, Kiggans declined throughout her campaign to say whether she believed President Joe Biden was legitimately elected.

Derrick Van Orden, a veteran at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

A retired Navy SEAL who rallied at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Van Orden flipped a key seat for Republicans in western Wiscon sin, in a largely rural district currently held by Rep. Ron Kind, a 13-term centrist Democrat who did not seek reelection.

Van Orden, who emphasized his mi litary service on the campaign trail, largely ducked questions about his attendance at the Jan. 6 rally. He has said he did not go into the Capitol, and wrote in an opinion essay that he left the grounds outside the building when violence began, watching “what should have

been an expression of free speech devolve into one of the most tragic incidents in the history of our nation.”

During his race, Van Orden leaned heavily into culture war messaging, accu sing Democrats of “taking the nation rapidly down the path to socialism” and railing on a podcast against what he described as “woke ideology” seeping into the military.

John James, an Iraq veteran set to expand the House’s ranks of Black Republicans

A West Point graduate who comman ded Apache helicopters in Iraq, James was personally lobbied for months to run by party leaders including McCarthy, who were convinced that his victory would keep this Michigan seat safely in Republican hands for years to come.

James, who unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., in 2020, ran a more moderate campaign than many of his colleagues in safe seats. He presented himself to voters as “an open-minded, freethinking conservative,” and focused on kitchen table issues like lowering prices and bringing back manufacturing.

His victory will nudge up the number of Black Republicans in the House to at least three from two.

Monica De La Cruz, a conservative from the Rio Grande Valley

De La Cruz emphasized her conser vative ideology in flipping a seat in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas abandoned by an incumbent who switched districts after the state Legislature handed him an unfavorable gerrymander.

De La Cruz, who owns an insurance firm, had campaigned heavily on the influx of migrants entering the country without legal permission at the southern border, emphasi zing how her family had immigrated legally to the United States from Mexico and pledging to “finish the wall” started by former President Donald Trump.

Republicans had enthusiastically poin ted to her candidacy, as well as those of two other Latinas running in the Rio Grande Va lley — Mayra Flores and Cassy Garcia — as evidence that they were finally making inroads with Latino voters. But Flores and Garcia lost, according to The Associated Press.

Andy Ogles, a hard-right former mayor

A former mayor, Ogles flipped a Democratic-held seat in central Tennessee thanks to a drastic redrawing of the district that all but guaranteed a Republican victory.

Outspoken, hard-right lawmakers like Ogles could cause headaches for Republican leaders as they try to keep the government funded and prevent the country from defaul ting on its debt.

After triumphing in his primary election, Ogles called for the impeachment of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as “treason” charges against Alejandro Ma yorkas, the homeland security secretary, over the administration’s handling of immigration at the southern border. And a video released by his Democratic opponent showed him at a GOP candidate forum following the repeal of Roe v. Wade arguing that the “next thing we have to do is go after gay marriage.”

The Democrats Summer Lee, the first Black woman to represent Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, Lee became the first Black woman to represent the state, repla cing Rep. Mike Doyle, a retiring Democratic incumbent.

She is a vocal supporter of “Medicare for All” and the Green New Deal and had support from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other prominent liberals in Congress. Those endorsements included Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez of New York.

Lee had battled a deluge of advertising

from a super political action committee alig ned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and concern from more centrist Democrats, including Doyle, who had endor sed a primary rival. She also had to navigate name confusion: The outgoing Doyle, a De mocrat, had to remind constituents that he was not Mike Doyle, Lee’s Republican opponent.

She had been backed by Justice De mocrats, the liberal organization that helped launch the first campaign for Congress of Ocasio-Cortez.

Becca Balint, the first woman elected to represent Vermont in Congress

Balint, a Democrat who is the president of the state Senate and previously served as a majority leader, had the backing of Sanders, who has championed the Democratic Party’s most liberal stances. Balint backed those po sitions, including the Green New Deal and “Medicare for All.”

Until Balint, Vermont had been the only state not to send a woman to Congress.

Her run for the at-large seat in the House came after Rep. Peter Welch, a Democrat, sought the seat of the retiring Sen. Patrick Leahy. She will also be the first openly LGBTQ person to represent the state.

Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a liberal mem ber of Generation Z

Derrick Van Orden, a candidate for the U.S. House, after being endorsed by former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 5, 2022. The Republican ranks grew more extreme and slightly more diverse, while Democrats added several young liberals to their caucus.

Senate control comes down to a few races, and Nevada is one of them

By BEN SHPIGEL

Theduel in Nevada between Sen. Cathe rine Cortez Masto, one of the Democratic Party’s more vulnerable incumbents, and Adam Laxalt, a Republican who helped to spearhead former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, is the most expensive political contest in state history — with good reason.

The outcome of the race, where candi dates have built their campaigns on broader narratives over the state of the economy and the threat to abortion access, may tip control of the Senate.

As of early Wednesday afternoon, Laxalt led Cortez Masto, the nation’s first Latina sena tor, by 2.7 percentage points with 75% of the vote counted. But most of the remaining votes were expected to come from Democraticleaning mail ballots and provisional ballots, including from same-day registrants.

The race in Nevada has embodied Re publicans’ robust hopes of regaining a Senate majority and Democrats’ fight to preserve the vestiges of a party juggernaut forged there by the late Harry Reid, who spent 30 years in the

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Senate before retiring in 2017. That political machine long relied on favorable demographics to maintain its mo mentum, but the economic downturn has

posed a steep challenge. Laxalt seized on the issue, blaming Democrats and President Joe Biden for the grim financial outlook. Just last weekend, Laxalt condemned Biden for the state’s 15% inflation rate, while noting that Biden had not visited Nevada to campaign.

With Democrats’ troubles in Nevada reflecting those around the nation, Cortez Masto, herself a protege of Reid, focused her campaign on abortion rights in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

Nevada allows abortion up to 24 weeks and after that in cases where the mother’s health is at risk. Laxalt has said he would support banning abortions in the state after 13 weeks, or the first trimester, and was caught saying during a breakfast with pastors that “Roe v. Wade was always a joke.”

For years, even with Democrats repre senting a minority among registered voters, Nevada maintained its blue-state status. Their chances of retaining that distinction hinges, in part, on the turnout of working-class and Latino voters — voters who Democrats have long relied on and who Republicans have feverishly courted.

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At 25, Frost won his seat the first year he was eligible to run for the House, positioning him to become the first member of Congress from his generation to serve.

He will replace Rep. Val Demings of Florida, a Democrat who left the Orlando-area seat in an ill-fated Senate run against Sen. Marco Rubio, the Republican incumbent. Frost has worked with March for Our Lives, the student group that mobilized against gun violence after the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.

He has also pledged to support several liberal policies when elected, including “Medi care for All,” the legalization of marijuana, the Green New Deal and expanding the number of justices seated on the Supreme Court.

Greg Casar, a rising progressive in Texas

The son of Mexican immigrants, Casar is the first Latino lawmaker to represent Austin, Texas, as part of a redrawn district.

The district, which now stretches from western San Antonio to East Austin, was pre viously represented by Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat who will represent a separate district in Texas beginning in January.

In his campaign, Casar, a member of the Austin City Council, emphasized his support and work on behalf of the labor movement in Texas, vowing to be the “most pro-labor member of Congress from the South.” He has also pledged support for “Medicare for All” and other liberal policies.

Hillary Scholten, an immigration lawyer from west Michigan Scholten, who worked in the Justice Department under the Obama administration, became the first Democrat to represent the Grand Rapids-area district since the 1970s.

She is also the first woman to represent the newly redrawn district. She focused her campaign in part on her support for codifying abortion rights at the federal level. She had previously sought the seat in 2020, losing to Rep. Peter Meijer, a centrist Republican.

Meijer faced backlash in 2021 over his decision to vote to impeach Trump for incite ment of insurrection after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and lost his primary to John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official. Democrats poured money into the primary race to call attention to Gibbs, viewing him as an easier target in the general election.

Sun rises in Flamingo Road neighborhood in Las Vegas after the 2022 midterm election.

By MIKE IVES and ABIGAIL GEIGER

TropicalStorm Nicole swung across the Florida Peninsula Thursday after making landfall overnight as a hurricane.

The sprawling weather system was battering the state with high winds, heavy rain, erosion and coastal flooding as it moved northwest toward a swing offshore over the Gulf of Mexico and then an expected turn to the north.

The National Hurricane Center said Nicole made landfall at 3 a.m. Eastern time south of Vero Beach, the first hurricane to come ashore on Florida’s Atlantic coast since Katrina in 2005. By 1 p.m. the center of the storm was nearing the Gulf Coast north of Tampa.

More than 30 million people were under some type of storm-related warning, and about 300,000 customers in Florida were without electricity early Thursday afternoon, mostly in Brevard, Indian River and Volusia counties along the state’s east coast, according to poweroutage.us, a site that tracks power interruptions.

Two people in Orange County were electrocuted by contact with a downed power line, the sheriff’s department said. They appeared to be the first deaths in Florida that were attributed to the storm.

The breach of a sea wall protecting drainage canals in Port Orange threatened more than 500 homes with flooding, the mayor said.

Nicole is likely to cause more coastal flooding and

sweeps across Florida

some tornadoes as it moves through Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas over the next two days, forecasters said.

Although the center of the storm is expected to swerve out over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday afternoon, forecas ters did not think its foray into warm waters would last long enough to significantly reintensify the storm.

On Wednesday, even before Nicole made landfall in the Bahamas, the storm had breached a few sea walls in Martin and St. Lucie counties in Florida. There were also scattered reports of flooding in Palm Beach County.

Forecasters predicted several inches of rain in the state, along with large and destructive waves near the landfall site, south of Vero Beach.

Forecasters said they did not expect Nicole’s impacts to be anywhere close to those of Hurricane Ian, which left a trail of devastation in September after hitting western Flo rida as a Category 4 storm. Many of the evacuation orders issued along the state’s Atlantic Coast on Wednesday were not mandatory.

Still, because Nicole’s wind field stretched for hundreds of miles, a primary concern was that the storm could raise water levels along the coastlines of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.

“It has a big envelope of water it’s pushing out ahead out of it,” said Tim Sedlock, a meteorologist at the weather service office in Melbourne, Florida. “So it’s going to affect a large area.”

Sedlock said that he expected to see coas tal waters rise to 3-6 feet along some parts of the Florida coast. He said rapid beach erosion could potentially topple some coastal structures, particularly in the Day tona Beach area.

James Swan, 49, a former Florida resident who now lives in Utah, has been in Port Canave ral this week to attend his son’s wedding Friday.

Around 2:15 a.m. Thursday, he said, he decided to drive inland with his wife along a rou te that included a coastal byway and a causeway.

Floodwaters from storm surge caused by Hurricane Nicole cover the road onto Fort Pierce’s barrier island after the state’s east coast was battered by the storm, in Fort Pierce, Fla. on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022.

Normally the cau seway, which crosses the Indian River and connects a barrier island with Florida’s mainland, is idyllic. But this time the conditions forced Swan’s car to hydro plane.

FV Bank launches digital asset custody & settlement services

FV Bank is the first U.S.-regulated depository and custodial bank to develop an inhouse vertically integrated technology infrastructure that enables the seamless interoperability and safeguarding of both digital asset and fiat deposits.

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FVBank, a U.S.-licensed global digital bank operating in Puerto Rico, has launched digi tal asset custody and settlement services for its U.S. and international clients.

The bank is the only one operating in cryp to currency. FV Bank is the first U.S.-regulated depository and custodial bank to develop an inhouse vertically integrated technology infras tructure that enables the seamless interoperabi lity and safeguarding of both digital asset and fiat deposits. The FV Bank platform offers integrated settlement services and robust compliance, KYC/ KYB and AML protocols.

“We’re excited to announce the launch of our dedicated account ACH facility for FV Bank customers,’’ said FV Bank Chief Revenue Officer Nitin Agarwal. “Adding ACH processing to our suite of digital banking products provides our clients with increased efficiencies, security, and reliability for their payments processing needs.”

FV Bank’s custody feature is live on the platform with immediate effect, launching initia lly with Bitcoin (BTC) as the first supported digital asset. Ethereum (ETH), USDC and USDT custo dy is expected to launch in the coming weeks, with phase two of the custody service seeing an additional number of digital assets supported fo llowing a vetting and approval process.

FV Bank has been granted regulatory ap proval to provide settlements between digital as sets and fiat currencies, allowing clients to safely and efficiently settle transactions in their accou nts on the FV Bank platform. With that feature,

FV Bank is now a full-service bank and a digital asset custodian that offers its clients the ability to hold, transfer and settle both digital assets and fiat currencies within one account on the FV Bank platform.

“We are extremely pleased to announce the official launch of our digital asset custody and settlement service,” said Miles Paschini, CEO of FV Bank. “Our primary goal since founding FV Bank has been to help drive blockchain technolo gy innovation in financial services by offering ins titutional clients a technology solution seamlessly integrated into a regulated bank and trust model that offers traditional banking along with digital assets custody and settlement. The infrastructu re we are delivering to the marketplace will help bridge the divide between the traditional financial sector and the digital asset economy and will ac celerate digital asset adoption globally. We have also advanced best in class AML procedures for digital assets by combining traditional bank com pliance functions with specialized blockchain analytics, to ensure we are positioned as a leader and role model for how banks can participate in the convergence of traditional financial services and the digital asset economy.”

Alongside the digital asset custody and settlement service, FV Bank announced the in tegration of its Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments processing service. FV Bank clients can now enable automatic direct debits and direct deposits providing them with fully digital pay ment processing across all business, government and e-commerce companies that use the ACH electronic funds transfer system.

Wall St shoots up as cooling inflation spurs hopes of smaller rate hikes

U.S. consumer prices rose less than expected in Oc tober, pushing the annual increase below 8% for the first time in eight months, the strongest signs yet that inflation was slowing, which would allow the Federal Re serve to scale back its hefty interest rate hikes.

But the fight against inflation is far from won, with oth er data from the Labor Department on Thursday showing a moderate increase in the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week, pointing to a still-tight jobs market. Nevertheless, the rare good news on inflation sparked a rally on Wall Street and sent U.S. Treasury yields tumbling. The dollar slumped against a basket of cur rencies.

“Inflation is still too high, but there is evidence that the Fed has turned the corner in its fight and that the pace of future interest rate increases will begin to slow,” said Christo pher Rupkey, chief economist at FWDBONDS in New York.

“The market is on fire with the long-wished for inflation moderation finally starting to appear.”

The consumer price index rose 0.4% last month after climbing by the same margin in September. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI would advance 0.6%. Soaring rents accounted for more than half of the increase in the CPI. Gasoline prices rebounded after three straight monthly decreases.

While food prices increased 0.6%, the pace was much slower relative to prior months. The price of food consumed at home rose 0.4%, the smallest gain since December 2021. There were increases in the prices of meats, poultry, fish, eggs, cereals and bakery products. But fruits and vegetables cost less.

In the 12 months through October, the CPI increased 7.7% after rising 8.2% on the same basis in September. It was the first time since February that the annual increase in the CPI was below 8%, and the smallest gain since January.

President Joe Biden welcomed the inflation reprieve ahead of the holidays and said it was evidence that his eco nomic policies were yielding fruit. Biden’s Democratic Party showed a better-than-expected performance against Repub lican opponents in Tuesday’s mid-term elections.

“I will work with anyone, Democrat or Republican, on ideas to provide more breathing room to middle-class and working families,” Biden said in a statement. “And I will oppose any effort to undo my agenda or to make inflation worse.”

The annual CPI peaked at 9.1% in June, which was the biggest advance since November 1981. Annual inflation is slowing as last year’s big increases drop out of the calcula tion.

Some economists, however, cautioned against declaring that the worst was behind, noting that prices ebbed in July last year through September, before accelerating again.

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Inflation in labor-intensive services is also pushing high er as spending shifts from goods.

“Services inflation is a sign of price pressures becom ing embedded and these numbers are way too high for the Fed to take much comfort that monetary policy tightening to date has had much impact on underlying inflation,” said Brian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings.

The Fed last week delivered a fourth consecutive 75-ba sis-point interest rate hike and said its fight to lower inflation

to the U.S. central bank’s 2% target would require borrow ing costs to rise further. It, however, signaled it may be near ing an inflection point in what has become the fastest rate hiking cycle since the 1980s.

Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the CPI increased 0.3% last month after gaining 0.6% in Sep tember. The so-called core CPI is being driven by surging rents as soaring mortgage rates price out prospective buyers.

Owners’ equivalent rent, a measure of the amount homeowners would pay to rent or would earn from rent ing their property, increased 0.6% after shooting up 0.8% in September. This measure jumped a record 6.9% on a yearon-year basis after rising 6.7% in September. But rental infla tion has likely peaked.

Ukrainian forces advance after Russia orders Kherson retreat

By MARC SANTORA

Ukrainian troops were advancing in the south Thursday after Russia’s announcement of a retreat from the strategic port city of Kherson. Ukraine claimed to recapture a dozen settlements in the region, even as military officials said they could not be sure that Moscow’s forc es were indeed withdrawing from the city.

A day after Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, ordered the withdrawal of Russian forces from the west bank of the Dnieper River in Kherson, it was unclear how many of the estimated 40,000 soldiers sent by Moscow to the region remained, how far along they were in their retreat and whether a contingent had been left behind to fight in the city. Ukrainian officials said Moscow’s announcement of a withdraw al from the capital of the Kherson region could be a trap meant to lure their forces into brutal urban combat.

Still, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the com mander of the Ukrainian military, said his forces continued “conducting offensive op erations,” and in a separate statement the military said it had recaptured 12 settle ments in the Kherson region in the past day, reclaiming about 60 square miles.

Videos posted by Ukrainian officials on

social media purported to show Ukrainian soldiers standing in front of a tank and their country’s yellow-and-blue flag in one new ly reclaimed village in the south, although the footage could not immediately be veri fied independently.

The Ukrainian military’s southern com mand said in a statement Thursday that its

forces were confronting mines and road blocks laid by Russian forces. There were explosions across the region overnight, with the Ukrainian military saying it had hit a Russian command post, a column of mili tary equipment and ammunition depots.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, said on Twitter that Russian forces had mined “everything they can” in Kherson city, including apartments and sewers.

The Ukrainians have warned for days that Russian soldiers in the city were chang ing into civilian clothes, moving into hous es and fortifying positions outside the city.

The loss of Kherson, where tattered billboards have proclaimed that “Russia is here forever,” would be one of the most se rious blows of the war for President Vladi mir Putin of Russia. It was only a little over a month ago that he took to a stage in Red Square in Moscow to declare Kherson and three other regions in Ukraine part of the Russian nation. His move to illegally annex parts of Ukraine was condemned around the world.

Military analysts said they believed Russia would try to maintain defensive po sitions near the banks of the Dnieper River to protect its withdrawal route. With only one major road over a dam north of the

city left to the Russians, they have relied on a series of ferries and pontoons to move back and forth across the river.

“With limited crossing points, Rus sian forces will be vulnerable in crossing the Dnieper River,” Britain’s defense intel ligence agency said Thursday. “It is likely that the withdrawal will take place over several days with defensive positions and artillery fires covering withdrawing forces.”

Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday that 20,000 to 30,000 Russian troops would need to be withdrawn to south and east of the river, and that the retreat would be slow if Mos cow went through with it.

“It won’t take them a day or two,” he said. “This is going to take them days and perhaps even weeks to pull those forces south of that river.”

About 80 miles north of Kherson city, there was joy. Alla Torchanska, a local of ficial in Dudchany, said Wednesday that af ter weeks of fighting all around her home, the Ukrainians had managed to retake the village.

“For a month, our village was divided by the front line,” she said by telephone. “Today, the Ukrainian forces finally took the entire village under their control. It’s such a blessing.”

Biden and Xi will meet as tensions grow over Taiwan

By KATIE ROGERS

President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping of China will meet Monday before the Group of 20 summit in In donesia, an encounter that Biden and his advisers said would be focused on setting expectations with the Chinese as tensions continue to rise over matters such as Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The meeting, the first in person between the two since Biden took office, will be held after the president attends a climate conference in Egypt and makes another stop in

Cambodia this week. In Cambodia, he plans to speak with leaders of Southeast Asian countries as part of a larger effort to shore up relationships that could help counter China’s in fluence in the region.

Jake Sullivan, the president’s national security adviser, told reporters in a briefing Thursday that Biden “will get to sit in the same room with Xi Jinping, be direct and straight forward with him as he always is, and expect the same in return from Xi.”

A senior administration official, who spoke on the con dition of anonymity, also reinforced the president’s position, delivered during a news conference Wednesday, that he would make no “fundamental concessions” over U.S. sup port for Taiwan. China insists that Taiwan is part of its terri tory and cannot exist as a sovereign nation.

Biden and Xi are also expected to discuss trade, human rights and North Korea.

Setting a meeting gives Biden, a politician who believes in the power of face-to-face encounters, a chance to rees tablish boundaries with a leader whom he treats more as a Cold War-era enemy than a skeptical competitor he once knew. Since the two first met, when they were both vice presidents over a decade ago, Xi has tightened his grip on power domestically and become more confrontational as a

global adversary, even as he was more physically isolated during the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden said during a news conference Wednesday that he wanted to draw “red lines” in the working relationship with China, evaluate the critical interests of the United States and “determine whether or not they conflict with one another. And if they do, how to resolve it and how to work it out.”

A Ukrainian woman weeps in the company of a Ukrainian soldier in Snihu rivka, southern Ukraine, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022.

President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China are also expected to discuss trade, human rights and North Korea.

The world is falling short of its climate goals. Four big emitters show why.

By MAX BEARAK and NADJA POPOV ICH

Sevenyears after the Paris Agreement, in which leaders pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change, the world is still not on track to meet those goals.

New data released by Climate Ac tion Tracker, an independent research group, before this week’s United Nations summit on climate change reveals the gap.

None of the world’s biggest emitters — China, the United States, the European Union and India — have reduced their emissions enough to meet the Paris Agree ment goals. Together, the three countries and the European bloc account for more than half of historical emissions of planetwarming gases, which include carbon di oxide and methane. The United States is the largest historical emitter, and China is the largest current emitter. Their policies have an outsize impact on the future of Earth’s climate.

The outlook for how much the world is expected to warm has improved as governments have adopted policies to reduce emissions and renewable energy has grown. But it hasn’t been enough to steer the world toward the future envi sioned by the Paris Agreement, which sought to keep global warming well be low 2 degrees Celsius and make a goodfaith effort to stay at 1.5 degrees.

The pathways of the four biggest emitters reveal both progress toward lowering emissions and major challenges ahead.

China

Over the past two decades, China’s emissions have surged as the country has developed economically at a breakneck pace. Mainly because of its reliance on coal, one of the highest-emitting fuels, China now accounts for almost one-third of all human-caused greenhouse gases — more than the United States, Europe and Japan combined.

But China also has the world’s largest renewable energy projects. The country now produces, and uses, the vast major ity of the world’s wind turbines and solar panels. It is the world’s leader in hydro electric power and continues to expand its already large nuclear power capacity.

Seven years after the Paris Agreement, in which leaders pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change, the world is still not on track to meet those goals.

According to projections from Cli mate Action Tracker and other monitor ing organizations, China’s emissions are nearing their peak, years ahead of when China’s government had pledged to reach that goal. Analyses show China’s rate of emissions neither growing nor declining from now until 2025, before gradually dropping off. China’s peak will occur at a far lower per-capita emissions level than countries like the United States.

Because China’s emissions are so high, however, no other country will be more crucial in lowering global emissions. Despite agreeing to do so at the last global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Chi na’s government has not released an up dated set of emissions reductions pledges in 2022. Amid diplomatic tensions with the United States, Chinese officials sus pended dialogue in early August between the two countries on climate goals.

United States

The United States is, by far, the larg est historical emitter of greenhouse gases, and remains one of the largest when mea sured per capita.

This year, the Biden administration passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which included the biggest infusion of federal funding the country has ever made in car bon-free energy initiatives. The law is pro jected to bring emissions from the United States down significantly, but not enough to fully comply with a pledge to cut emis sions by at least half by 2030 when com

pared with 2005 levels.

Because of the country’s enormous historical role in emitting greenhouse gases, and its dominating position in the world’s biggest lending institutions, the U.S. government is expected by many others to play a leading role in both set ting ambitious emissions reductions tar gets and helping smaller and poorer na tions adapt to the destabilizing effects of the changing global climate.

European Union

Of the world’s biggest emitters, the European Union has been the most affect ed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which fundamentally altered the global market for fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal, the burning of which results in most of the world’s emissions.

In the short term, most of the 27 constituent countries in the European Union have scrambled to find new sourc es of fuel as part of efforts to reduce over reliance on Russian supply. Germany, for instance, has increased coal mining and coal imports to shore up energy reserves ahead of winter, when consumption rises. European countries are now facing record energy prices, some of which have fallen on consumers, generating demands for speedy solutions.

European leaders have laid out a plan to dramatically increase investment in renewable energy infrastructure. Im ports of solar panels are soaring. Electric heat pumps are replacing gas in European

homes at record rates.

The European Union is already well ahead of other major emitters in its transi tion from fossil fuels to renewables and is the closest of the big four to achieving its emissions reductions pledges.

India

India, like most developing coun tries, has not announced a specific time line toward peaking its emissions. Its lead ers assert that it should not be required to, given how little it has contributed to historical emissions and how much it needs to develop its economy in order to lift hundreds of millions of citizens out of poverty.

India’s emissions are steadily in creasing, though not anywhere close to the rate at which China’s did during its de cades of rapid development. Like China, India has relied heavily on coal as a fuel, though it, too, has been investing in largescale renewable projects.

This year, India modified its emis sions reduction pledges but did not change its target date of 2070 for achiev ing net-zero emissions, the term used to indicate when a country cancels out its greenhouse gases through emissions cuts and measures to remove them from the atmosphere, like protecting forests that absorb and store carbon dioxide.

Projections show India’s emissions surpassing the European Union’s some time next year. They also show India’s population surpassing China’s.

India’s per-capita emissions rate is very low: less than half of the European Union’s and less than a third of China’s.

Methodology: The Paris pledge pathways in the charts above reflect ef forts that are unconditional and can be started based on a country’s own re sources and capabilities. The 1.5 degree C-compatible ranges are based on two approaches used by scientists at Climate Action Tracker to assess how responsibil ity for global emissions reductions might be divided among countries: a modeled domestic pathway and an effort-sharing pathway. Annual emissions reflect carbon dioxide equivalent, a unit used to com pare emissions from various greenhouse gases. Analyses for each country were completed between August and October 2022.

Sea turtle sanctuary has survived 40 years. Climate change may kill it.

By HANNAH REYES MORALES

The large green sea turtles used to be terrified of humans, scuttling away as fast as they could.

“When the turtles saw people, it was like they saw a ghost,” said Mario Pascobello, a resident of Apo Island in the Philippines. “In the old days, they were being slaughtered here,” he added, with the island’s fishermen feasting on their flesh and their eggs.

Now, the endangered green turtles, largely herbiv orous, peacefully graze in the shallows off Apo’s coast, unbothered by the fishermen, who share the waters with them.

But if the turtles are no longer menaced by the fish ermen here, they do face another man-made threat: climate change.

“Climate change increasing the temperatures of coastal areas will kill corals and fish larvae,” said An gel Alcala, a marine biologist who started visiting the island in the 1970s. “Typhoons usually reached the Negros area only once in 10 to 15 years before, but now every four or five years a typhoon hits Apo.”

The community is still rehabilitating from the last typhoon, and in recent years it has had to restore parts of its reef damaged in bleaching events, when over heated seawater causes coral to expel the plantlike or ganism that live inside them, which causes the corals to not only turn white but also puts them at greater risk of death.

Apo, a tiny volcanic speck roughly in the center of the Philippines archipelago, is home to a pristine marine sanctuary in an area known as the Amazon of the Sea because of its biodiversity. The waters around the tiny island are thought to be home to around 400 species of coral.

The current harmony between the turtles and the humans was initially hard to come by.

The island’s community is made up primarily of fishermen, who heavily opposed the establishment of

the sanctuary at first, worried that the conservation ef forts would impose restrictions that would send an al ready impoverished place deeper into privation.

“I remember thinking that our island might be tak en from us,” said Leonardo Tabanera, an elderly fisher man on the island. “What if we could no longer fish?”

But the marine sanctuary, established in 1982, has since become recognized as a successful example of how negotiation and compromise can balance the needs of a local population — one that depends on harvesting natural resources to survive — with global conservation goals.

“Which is important, the sanctuary, or the life of people who need to eat?” said Pascobello, one of the community’s leaders. “You need a lot of talks, you need a lot of discussion.”

At the urging of his mother, Pascobello said he be came open to the sanctuary idea, but only if, he said, the community and conservationists could arrive at what he called a “win-win situation.”

After years of discussions, a solution was reached: The fishermen agreed to create a no-take zone — but only in an area they rarely used for fishing anyway.

“I suspected that the fishermen were amenable to us to protect the portion of the reef that was not really very productive from their own point of view,” Alcala said.

But the fishermen’s local knowledge of which part of the reef they could forgo was actually instrumen tal in helping protect the waters, Pascobello said, with the off-limits area essentially coming to function as a highly productive nursery for the area’s fish.

“If I ask the scientist, where does the grouper lay

eggs? Nobody can answer me,” Pascobello said. “But if I ask fishermen, they know where the grouper lays eggs.”

By agreeing to leave completely undisturbed the part of the reef that played a key role in fish reproduc tion, Apo got the win-win it had been looking for.

“In 10 years, the fish biomass increased about three times,” Alcala said — a result good for the envi ronment and for fishermen.

The Apo community of just less than 1,000 resi dents has since helped numerous communities across the Philippines, and even in Indonesia, establish their own sanctuaries, always emphasizing the importance of taking local expertise into account as well as that of scientists.

The increase in fish biomass wasn’t the only eco nomic benefit brought by the sanctuary: It has also brought tourists, with Apo becoming a destination for diving and snorkeling.

The fishing life is still central to the island’s identity.

The children of Apo fill the coastline at sunset. They gather around rock pools, examining the speci mens in the clear water, picking out shells and rocks to sell, crustaceans to play with, and fish bait for their parents. They dive with goggles made at home and untangle fish nets; a few take small boats out on their own.

Apo’s conservation efforts have been maintained for 40 years, with limited outside financing. But they are now being threatened at a rapid pace by climate change, which disproportionately affects those living in poverty — and often hits hardest those communities that have contributed the least to carbon emissions, like those on Apo where most live without power for much of the day.

Apo’s fishermen such as Tabanera are aware that climate change poses an existential risk, but the daily focus is on their immediate struggles to get by.

“We don’t have much to be proud of, because we are poor,” Tabanera said.

Still, he sees the continued presence of the island’s turtles as a good omen, a sign that Apo’s waters are healthy enough, at least for now, for fishermen to put food on the table. He’s also hopeful that the tourists who come to see the turtles will help spread the word about Apo, and the gloomy future it faces from climate change.

“Our dream here is however little we make from the sea, perhaps we can turn it into a living, no matter how small,” he said.

In his home, he preserves an altar of lucky fish hooks, each one rusted by saltwater and humid air. They remind him of some of the most bountiful catch es of his life.

“Maybe someday,” he said, “everyone might be able to rise up.”

A green turtle swimming near the coast of Apo Island in the Philippines.

America dodged an arrow

By THOMAS FRIEDMAN

Youcan hold off moving to Canada. You can for go the call to the New Zealand Embassy on how to become a citizen there. Tuesday’s election re ally was the most important test since the Civil War of whether the engine of our constitutional system — our ability to peacefully and legitimately transfer power — remains intact. And it looks to have come through — a little dinged up, but OK.

I am still not even close to ready to sound the allclear, to declare that running on a platform of election denialism will never tempt another American politician. But given the unprecedented degree to which election denialism was elevated in this midterm and the way se veral big-name Donald Trump-imitating knuckleheads who made denialism central to their campaigns got their clocks cleaned — we may have just dodged one of the biggest arrows ever aimed at the heart of our democracy.

To be sure, another arrow could target us at any mo ment, but the whole U.S. electoral system — in red states and blue — seemed to perform admirably, almost shrug ging off the last two years of controversy, diminishing it to what it always was: the shameful fabrication of one man and his most shameless sycophants and imitators. Given the threat posed by Trump denialists to the acceptance

and legitimacy of our elections, that is a big deal (and hopefully it will last through the Arizona count).

It could not come at a better time as the leaders of Russia and China have manipulated their systems to en trench themselves in power beyond their previously esta blished terms of office.

One of their arguments to their own people in doing so was to point to things like the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in America and the seeming chaos of our elections to tell their citizens: “That’s what democracy looks like. Is that what you want here?”

Indeed, in May, during his commencement address to the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduating class, President Joe Biden recalled when President Xi Jinping of China congratulated him in 2020 on his election: “He said de mocracies cannot be sustained in the 21st century; au tocracies will run the world. Why? Things are changing so rapidly. Democracies require consensus, and it takes time, and you don’t have the time.”

For that reason, Xi and Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin — and the supreme leader in Iran now facing an uprising led by Iranian women — lost Tuesday night, too. Because the more wild and unstable our politics, the less able we become to peacefully transfer power, the easier it is for them to justify never doing so.

But while election denialism took a thumping this week as a winning message, none of the things that are still eating away at the foundations of American demo cracy — and preventing us from actually getting big hard things done — have gone away.

I am talking about the way in which our primary sys tem, gerrymandering and social networks have coalesced to steadily poison our national dialogue, steadily polari ze our society into political tribes and steadily erode the twin pillars of our democracy: truth and trust.

Without being able to agree on what is true, we don’t know which way to go. And without being able to trust one another, we can’t head there together. And everything big and hard needs to be done together.

So, our enemies would be wise not to leave us for

dead, but we would be even wiser not to conclude that, because we avoided the worst, we’ve locked in the best going forward.

Everything is not all right.

We are as divided coming out of this election as we were going into it. But to the extent that the red wave did not manifest itself — particularly in swing states like Penn sylvania, where John Fetterman won a Senate seat over the Trump-endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz, and in swing dis tricts like one in central Virginia where Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger was reelected by defeating another Trump-backed candidate — it was because enough in dependents and moderate Republicans and Democrats showed up to put Fetterman and Spanberger over the top.

“There is still a viable group of centrist voters out there, who, when given a valid choice — not everywhe re, and not always, but in some key districts — asserted themselves,” Don Baer, who was a communications di rector in the Clinton White House, told me. “I think there are still a lot of voters saying: ‘We want a viable center, where we can figure out how to make things happen that can really help people, even if it isn’t perfect or all at once. We don’t want every election to be existential.’ ”

The challenge, added Baer, “is, how do you take that sentiment to scale and make it work in Washington on a regular basis?”

I don’t know, but, if this election is a sign that we are at least edging back from the brink, it’s because enough Americans still fall into this independent or centrist camp and do not want to keep dwelling on the grievances, lies and fantasies of Trump, which they can see are making the GOP crazy and roiling the whole country. They also don’t want to be shackled by the woke enforcers of the far left, and they are terrified by the spread of the kind of sick political violence that was just visited on Nancy Pelosi’s husband.

We owe a huge debt for keeping this center alive to Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria. The three of them helped to spearhead the Jan. 6 investigation in Congress and ended up being forced out of office as a result. But the message that committee sent to enough voters — that we must never, ever, ever let something like this happen again — surely also contributed to the absence of a proTrump wave in this midterm election.

Titular de Justicia remite al Panel del FEI alegaciones de fiscal sobre paralización del caso de Kevin Fret Rodríguez

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SAN JUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Jus ticia, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, refirió el jue ves a la Oficina del Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Inde pendiente (OPFEI) la investigación relacionada con las alegaciones realizadas por la fiscal Betzaida Quiñones Rodríguez en torno a que recibió instrucciones de pa ralizar el proceso investigativo de la muerte de Kevin Fret Rodríguez por parte de la exjefa de fiscales y ac

tual fiscal federal, Olga Castellón, bajo la administra ción de la exsecretaria Wanda Vázquez Garced.

“En el día de hoy referí a la Oficina del Panel so bre el Fiscal Especial Independiente la evaluación con relación a las alegaciones realizadas por la fiscal a cargo de investigar la muerte de Kevin Fret Rodríguez, Betzaida Quiñones Rodríguez, sobre las instrucciones que presuntamente recibió de la exjefa de los fiscales durante la pasada administración, la fiscal federal Olga Castellón, mientras la exgobernadora, Wanda Vázquez Garced, se desempeñaba como secretaria de Justicia. Solicité que, de conformidad con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 2-1988, la Oficina del Panel sobre el Fis cal Especial Independiente evalúe directamente este asunto y determine si designa un fiscal especial”, dijo Emanuelli Hernández en declaraciones escritas.

“De esta manera, cumplimos cabalmente con la responsabilidad de garantizar la absoluta objetividad de todas las investigaciones. Recalco que no vamos a permitir que nada ni nadie ponga en riesgo la integri dad del Departamento de Justicia y sus funcionarios”,

añadió.

El secretario lamentó que “mediante especulacio nes algunas personas intenten mancillar la imagen de la agencia y el gran trabajo que realizan los fiscales, quienes diariamente atienden miles de casos y laboran arduamente para investigar y procesar los crímenes, abogar por las víctimas y hacer justicia”.

“Con este referido, la evaluación continuará en ma nos de un organismo independiente para salvaguardar la confianza del pueblo de Puerto Rico en la integridad y honestidad de la institución que tengo el honor de dirigir y de las gestiones de más de 300 fiscales que todos los días abogan por las víctimas en los tribunales a través de su labor en el Departamento de Justicia”, puntualizó el titular de Justicia.

Por otra parte, Emanuelli Hernández reiteró que la investigación criminal sobre los hechos que rodearon la muerte de Kevin Fret Rodríguez continúa y, bajo su mandato, el Departamento de Justicia llegará hasta las últimas consecuencias por descubrir la verdad y proce sar al o los responsables.

Tres aerolíneas Canadienses reinician rutas hacia Puerto Rico para la temporada alta

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SAN JUAN – El director ejecutivo de la Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico (CTPR), Carlos Mercado Santiago, celebró el reinicio de los vuelos directos des de las ciudades de Toronto y Montreal en Canadá hacia el Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín durante esta temporada de invierno.

“Le damos la bienvenida a los primeros vuelos de Air Canada, WestJet y Air Transat, que se suman a la recién recuperada ruta operada por la línea canadien se Transat, que nos conectan con dos de las ciudades más importantes de Canadá. El reinicio de este servicio durante la temporada alta de nuestra industria turística aumenta la oferta y accesibilidad de nuestro destino, proveyendo una magnífica oportunidad para continuar ampliando la proyección de Puerto Rico en mercados internacionales y así aumentar la aportación del Turis mo al desarrollo económico de la Isla”, dijo el principal ejecutivo de la CTPR.

Se calcula que el impacto económico total de las operaciones de los viajes de las aerolíneas Air Canada, WestJet y Air Transat será de sobre $14.4 millones y que los mismos añadirán sobre 23 mil asientos al inventario disponible durante los meses de noviembre 2022 y abril 2023. Dos de las seis rutas iniciaron sus operaciones este pasado sábado.

La aerolínea Air Canada ofrecerá rutas desde Toron to y Montreal. Los vuelos desde Toronto operarán entre dos y tres frecuencias semanales. El servicio de vuelos desde Montreal iniciará el 3 de diciembre, operando un máximo de dos frecuencias semanales. Por otra parte, WestJet opera desde Toronto una frecuencia semanal los sábados.

La tercera línea aérea canadiense que nos conecta rá esta temporada, Air Transat, comenzará sus vuelos semanales desde Toronto el 20 de diciembre, y desde Montreal el 25 de diciembre. Las tres aerolíneas tienen pautado terminar su temporada de invierno en San Juan durante la última semana del próximo abril.

“La CTPR continúa cumpliendo con su labor minis terial de liderar las negociaciones con la industria aérea para maximizar el potencial de desarrollo del Turismo en Puerto Rico”, concluyó Mercado Santiago.

6 muertos y 166 hospitalizados en informe preliminar COVID-19

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S AN JUAN – El informe preliminar de CO VID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) re

portó el jueves 6 muertes y 166 personas hos pitalizadas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,293.

Hay 148 adultos hospitalizados y 18 meno

res. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 24 de octubre al 7 de noviembre de 2022.

La tasa de positividad está a 12.94 por cien to.

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Gal Costa, singer who embodied tropicália’s innovative spirit, dies at 77

By JON PARELES

GalCosta, one of Brazil’s greatest singers and a mo del for generations of Brazilian performers, died Wednesday at her home in São Paulo. She was 77. Her death was announced on her social media ac counts. No cause was cited.

Costa’s voice, a lustrous mezzo-soprano, was a mar vel of grace and vitality, equally capable of gravity-defying delicacy, tart teasing, jazzy agility and rock intensity. Over a recording career that spanned more than 50 years and three dozen albums, she championed innovative Brazilian songwriters and cross-fertilized Brazilian regional styles with international pop and rock.

In the 1960s, Costa was at the forefront of tropicália, the movement that brought psychedelic experimentation and anti-authoritarian irreverence to Brazilian pop music. When the leading songwriters of tropicália, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, were forced into exile by Brazil’s dic tatorship, from 1969 to 1972, Costa recorded their songs for Brazilian listeners.

“It was not a matter of courage,” she told The New York Times in 1985. “I belonged to that movement, and they were my friends.”

Throughout her career, she continued to seek out emerging songwriters. She also reached back to older Bra zilian repertoire, devoting full albums to songwriters inclu ding Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dorival Caymmi and Ary Barro so. She performed and recorded with her peers in Brazilian music, among them Veloso, Elis Regina, João Gilberto, Chi co Buarque and Milton Nascimento. She received the Latin Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 2011.

The president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Sil va, wrote on Twitter: “Gal Costa was among the world’s best singers, among our principal artists to carry the name and sounds of Brazil to the whole planet. Her talent, te chnique and courage enriched and renewed our culture, shaped and marked the lives of millions of Brazilians.”

Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos was born Sept. 26, 1945, in Salvador, Bahia. She was encouraged to sing by her mother, Mariah Costa Penna, who separated from her father, Arnaldo Burgos, after discovering that he had a second family in another city.

Strongly influenced by the subtle bossa novas sung by João Gilberto, Costa began performing in her teens. “I didn’t study music, and I don’t read music,” she told the Times. “I sing by feeling.”

She also absorbed current music by working at a re cord store. In Salvador, she joined a coterie of Bahian mu sicians who would transform Brazilian music, among them Veloso, Gil, Maria Bethânia and Tom Zé.

Her first single, which she released in 1965 as Maria da Graça, included a song by Veloso on one side and a song by Gil on the other. Costa and Veloso made an al bum as a duo, “Domingo,” in 1967. In 1968, she joined her fellow Bahians and kindred spirits on an album that was a manifesto of their movement: “Tropicália, ou Panis et Cir censes” (“Tropicália, or Bread and Circuses”). It included Veloso’s “Baby,” a sweetly melodic ballad satirizing consu merism that became her first major hit.

Veloso and Gil collaborated on the defiant “Divino, Maravilhoso” (“Divine Marvelous”), which Costa introdu ced at a music festival in 1968. The lyrics declared, “You have to be attentive and strong / We don’t have time to fear death,” and Costa let loose her rock side with growls and shouts. It appeared, along with “Baby,” on her debut solo album, called simply “Gal Costa” and released in 1969.

She was both popular and prolific in the 1970s, buil ding a catalog that drew on the tropicália songwriters as well as on many other schools of Brazilian pop. Her 1971 concert tour, built around her album “-Fa-Tal-,” was seen as a bold statement defying Brazil’s military dictatorship. In Rio de Janeiro, a section of the beach at Ipanema with a reputation for uninhibited behavior was known in the early 1970s as the Dunes of Gal.

In 1976, she joined Veloso, Gil and Bethânia to per form and record as Os Doces Bárbaros (the Sweet Barba rians); they regrouped for a concert in 1994.

In 1985, when she made her United States debut with a pair of concerts at Carnegie Hall, Costa told the Times that despite her decision to finally perform in America, “I am not planning to conquer the United States market; I am a Brazilian singer, and I am kind of lazy about leaving Bra zil.”

Costa never settled into one style. Through the deca des, she recorded upbeat carnival-rooted songs, hard rock, crystalline acoustic ballads, Afro-Brazilian funk and orches tral pop. Her 2018 album, “A Pele do Futuro” (“The Skin of the Future”), dipped into disco and featured a duet with sertanejo (Brazil’s equivalent of country music) star Marília Mendonça. Her most recent album, “Nenhuma Dor” (“No Pain”), released in 2021, was a set of duets recorded during the pandemic, revisiting old songs with collaborators inclu ding Seu Jorge, Rodrigo Amarante and Jorge Drexler.

“I’m a singer who likes to dare, to change, to create new paths,” Costa said in a 2022 Brazilian newspaper in terview.

She is survived by her son, Gabriel.

How Peter Asher, a jack-of-all-trades in music, mastered them all

me to spot the opportunities and move for ward.”

Born in London in 1944, Asher came from an accomplished family. His mother, Margaret Eliot, was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music whose private pupils in cluded future Beatles producer George Mar tin. His father, Dr. Richard Asher, was a pio neering medical theorist, who first identified and named Munchausen’s Syndrome.

Peter Asher and his younger sisters, Jane and Clare, were scouted by an agent, lead ing to childhood acting careers. His first film role came opposite Claudette Colbert in “The Planter’s Wife” (1952), but he focused on his studies at the prestigious Westminster School, where he would meet his future musical partner Gordon Waller. The lanky, sonorous Waller and the diminutive choirboy Asher were a stark visual and vocal contrast, but they clicked instantly. The fledgling folk-pop duo Peter & Gordon landed a deal with EMI Records in 1963.

smashes like “Simple Dreams” and “Living in the USA” — evolved in the 1980s as she be gan exploring the Great American Songbook on “What’s New,” the first of three Nelson Riddle-arranged albums of standards. “I did not believe it would be a big hit, let alone sell 4 million copies,” Asher said. “It was purely a belief in Linda.”

The faith ran both ways. Ronstadt tapped Asher to produce her 1987 album “Canciones de Mi Padre,” a deeply personal exploration of her Mexican heritage, and their success helped make him a go-to producer for top women artists, including Bonnie Raitt, Diana Ross, Cher and Natalie Merchant. “I didn’t seek it out,” Asher said, “but have no objection to the fact that I ended up working with so many brilliant women.”

By BOB MEHR

InDecember 1977, in an exceptionally rare move, Rolling Stone put a producer and a manager on its cover: Peter Asher, a be spectacled, copper-haired Brit, photographed sandwiched between his artists James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.

Asher was at his zenith then, having guided the careers of two of the decade’s de fining stars, and about to pick up his first pro ducer of the year Grammy. “People always ask, ‘What does it take to become a great manager or a great producer?’” Asher said re cently. “And the answer is tragically simple: great clients.”

Of course there’s more to the story, which Asher detailed over breakfast on a breezy fall morning at a beachside club in the Los Angeles enclave he has called home for the past 40 years. His journey is the subject of a new biography by David Jacks, “Peter Asher: A Life in Music,” out Tuesday.

Asher — peering through tortoiseshell glasses, framed by tufts of faded red hair — was initially dubious at the prospect of a book. “I told David, ‘I wouldn’t count on sell ing it,’” he noted, in a musically lilting accent. “Because I don’t think I’m all that interesting.”

At 78, Asher remains a fascinating mu sic business anomaly. In an industry filled with specialists, he has moved between roles

with a remarkable ease. A pop star during the British Invasion, he became the head of A&R for the Beatles’ Apple Records label in the late ’60s, before segueing to a career as a top artist manager and record producer in the ’70s and ’80s. He spent a decade as a label executive before returning to management, producing, and even performing, as well as finding new avenues as the author of a Bea tles book and radio broadcaster.

“Anybody can get a bunch of different jobs,” Ronstadt said in a phone interview. “The question is whether they can do them well. And Peter has done every single one of them to the utmost.”

Steve Martin, the comedian and musi cian, said he first heard Asher’s name float ing around the Troubadour nightclub in the 1970s, “and he was already legendary then.”

“Peter’s just one of those people who knows the exact right thing to say, whether you’re at dinner together or working in the studio,” he added in a phone interview.

That thoughtfulness has helped ensure Asher’s enduring success, including 60 gold and platinum albums for clients and col laborators including Randy Newman, Carole King, Neil Diamond and 10,000 Maniacs.

“I’ve never been someone who reacts with his gut; I tend to think about things in great de tail,” Asher said. “That’s what’s always helped

By then, Jane Asher was dating Paul McCartney, who moved into the Asher fam ily residence and offered “A World Without Love,” rejected by John Lennon, to Peter & Gordon. It became their debut single and a worldwide hit.

Peter Asher’s first unofficial producing experience came as he helped shape the song at EMI Studios. “I wanted to be a producer straightaway,” he recalled. “To be able to try things out in this beautiful studio and get to tell brilliant musicians, much better than yourself, what do to — that struck me as a fabulous job.”

When the Beatles tapped him to head A&R operations for their newly established Apple Records in 1968, Asher quickly dis covered an American singer-songwriter vis iting London named James Taylor, produced his self-titled debut, then moved to America with him, seeking a fresh start.

“When people talk about what a pro ducer does, there are numerous answers,” Asher said of the early lessons he learned be hind the board. “But one of them is knowing when to stop recording,” noting that the title track to Taylor’s third album, “Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon,” was the result of more than 100 takes.

In 1973, Asher took on managerial du ties for Ronstadt, kicking off one of the lon gest and most successful artist-producer part nerships in history.

Asher’s work with Ronstadt — starting with pristinely produced, multiplatinum pop

Asher’s current assignment, an as-yetuntitled solo record for Bangles singer Susan na Hoffs, is a sophisticated song collection in the mold of his ’70 albums for Ronstadt. Nearly 60 years after he first set foot in the studio, Asher’s enthusiasm remains palpable.

“On a day like today, when I know I’m going into the studio,” he said, “I wake up excited.”

Just two weeks after our conversation in Malibu, however, Asher woke up in the intensive care unit of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, following an emergency brain surgery. Over the summer, while in Lon don, he had fallen and suffered a concussion. Doctors in Britain initially cleared him, but weeks later, he began experience disquieting symptoms, including difficulty walking and playing guitar. Asher had just completed a second brain scan in early October, and was on his way home when the doctors called in a panic.

“They said, ‘Turn right back around, you are in surgery as soon as you get here,’” said Asher, who was suffering a massive brain bleed and in critical danger. “They had to drill a few holes in my head.”

Surviving a near-death experience left Asher unfazed. “I’m not one of those people whose own mortality suddenly dawned on them — it’s never been any question,” he said. “As the son of a doctor, I suppose I took some refuge in being fascinated by the sci ence of it all. Though I wish I had not been the subject of this particular experiment.”

The extended recovery time did force Asher to take a rare break, during which he fi nally began reading David Jacks’ biography of him in full. “I did,” he said, chuckling. “And, you know, I realize that perhaps my life has been a bit more interesting than I thought.”

From left: Gordon Waller and Peter Asher, of the duo Peter & Gordon. Asher’s long career in music is the subject of a new biography.

Samuel L. Katz, a developer of the measles vaccine, dies at 95

29, 1927, in Manchester, New Hampshire. His father, Morris, was a railroad executive; his moth er, Ethel (Lawrence) Katz, was a homemaker.

He entered Dartmouth College in 1944, hoping to become a journalist. His interest changed to medicine a year later, when he en listed in the Navy and was sent to hospital train ing school in San Diego.

He returned to Dartmouth after the war and earned a bachelor’s degree in political sci ence in 1948. He also took the pre-med courses required to enter Dartmouth’s medical school, a two-year school then. He graduated with a bachelor’s in medical science in 1950 and from Harvard Medical School in 1952.

Katz left Harvard for the Duke University School of Medicine in 1968. As chair of its pe diatrics department for 22 years, he helped raise its national standing.

clinical care and mentoring the next generation of clinicians.”

Katz stepped down from running the Duke pediatrics department in 1990 to work with his second wife, Dr. Catherine Wilfert, an HIV/AIDS researcher and activist and profes sor of pediatrics at the Duke medical school. She was the principal investigator in a pediat ric AIDS clinical trial, beginning in 1987, that showed the efficacy of using the drug AZT to reduce the incidence of mother-to-child trans mission of HIV by over 60%.

Wilfert left Duke in 1996 and became sci entific director of the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Katz continued to teach at Duke until retiring in 2017.

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Dr.Samuel L. Katz, a virologist who was part of the research team at Harvard Medical School that developed the measles vaccine, an advance more than half a century ago that has saved countless lives, died Oct. 31 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Caro lina. He was 95.

His son David confirmed the death.

Katz later enhanced the reputation of the pediatrics department at the Duke University School of Medicine as its chair.

Katz took up the fight against measles in 1956, when he joined a laboratory at Children’s Hospital Medical Center (now Boston Children’s Hospital) run by Dr. John Enders. Two years ear lier, Enders had shared the Nobel Prize in physi ology or medicine for discovering how to grow the polio virus in cultures, a breakthrough that was critical to Jonas Salk’s development of a po lio vaccine, which led to widespread successful immunizations.

Enders’ lab had already isolated the mea sles virus from a 13-year-old boy when Katz ar rived there as a research fellow. Measles was a major medical threat at the time: In the decade before the vaccine was made available in 1963, nearly every child in the United States had mea sles by age 15, with 3 to 4 million people infect ed by it every year, leading to an estimated 400 to 500 deaths annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Worldwide, measles killed 2.6 million people a year before the availability of vaccines,

the World Health Organization said.

“I was put to work with a visitor from Yu goslavia, Milan Milovanovic, who taught me a lot of practical, at-the-bench work,” Katz told Dartmouth Medicine, an alumni magazine, in 2009. “We worked together on adapting the virus to different cell systems and to eggs and eventually to chick embryo cells” — a process that led to the weakening of the virus so it could stimulate an immune response without causing serious side effects.

Katz was involved in inoculating rhesus monkeys with the virus.

“And when we put the chick virus into monkeys, they didn’t develop viremia” — a vi rus in the blood — “they didn’t develop fever, they didn’t develop any sort of nasal congestion or conjunctivitis or rash, they were perfectly fine,” he said on the podcast “Open Forum In fectious Diseases” in 2014. “But they developed antibodies.”

The chick virus was injected into students at a state school for children with neurological and central nervous system problems, a group whose use by the lab reflected a time of looser ethical standards about test subjects.

“At the end of several weeks, they had antibodies to the measles virus,” Katz recalled.

He became a research associate in the lab in 1958 and kept that title for the next de cade, during which he was also a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Samuel Lawrence Katz was born on May

“He had such a command of virology and clinical practice and was engaging in a very pos itive way,” Dr. Mary Klotman, dean of the Duke medical school, said in a phone interview. “He was a role model for the integration of science,

In addition to his son David, he is sur vived by two other sons, John and William; five daughters, Deborah Miora, Susan Calderon, Penelope Katz Facher, Rachel Wilfert and Katie Regen; and 17 grandchildren. His marriage to Betsy Cohan ended in divorce. His marriage to Wilfert ended with her death in 2020. His son Samuel Jr. died in 1980.

An undated photo provided by Duke University shows Dr. Alan Katz, a virologist who was part of the research team that developed the measles vaccine. Katz died on Oct. 31, 2022, at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 95.

LEGAL NOT ICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN

JUAN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante

V. ALBERTO RAMÓN REYES FRANCESCHI, MILITZA ORTIZ PÉREZ T/C/C MILITZA ORTIZ DE REYES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02235. (508). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). EDIC TO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que sus cribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Man damiento que me ha sido dirigi do por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmue ble que se describe a continua ción: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Colinas de Cupey, situado en los Barrios Cupey y Caimito del término municipal de San Juan (antes Río Piedras), Puerto Rico, que se describe con el número 70 del Bloque B, tiene un área de trescientos sesenta y cuatro metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, con la calle número cinco, distancia de ca torce metros; por el SUR, con terrenos de Ciudad Interameri cana, distancia de catorce me tros; por el ESTE, con el solar número setenta y uno, distancia de veinte y seis metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número sesenta y nueve, distancia de veinte y seis metros. Enclava una vivienda de concreto para una sola familia. Dirección Fí sica: Colinas de Cupey, B 70 Calle 5, San Juan, PR 00926. Finca 6,936, inscrita al folio 251

Juan. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes poste riores. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguien tes gravámenes preferentes a la hipoteca que se ejecuta en la presente causa de acción: Hipoteca en garantía de un pa garé a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $6,500.00, con intereses al 8 ½% anual, vencedero a la pre sentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 72, otorga da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de junio de 1975, ante el notario Fred H. Martínez, e inscrita al folio 252 vuelto del tomo 209 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 6,936, inscripción 2da. NOTA: Esta hipoteca tiene nota de cancelada mediante Instancia de fecha 28 de mar zo de 2003, ante el notario Charles Candelaria Farrulla, bajo Affidavit número 7266 y a Orden de fecha 14 de octubre de 2002, dictada por el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KICD00-3452, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puer to Rico, Alberto Ramón Reyes Fransechi y su esposa Militza Ortiz Pérez, demandantes, versus Fulano de Tal, por ha berse declarada extinta la deu da, anotada el día 18 de sep tiembre de 2003, sin que esté firmada por el Registrador. E. Que la Propiedad se encuentra afecta los siguientes graváme nes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta en la presente causa de acción: Sentencia de fecha 16 de diciembre de 2003, dictada en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KCM02-0945 sobe Cobro de Dinero, seguido por la Asociación Recreativa Resi dentes Colinas de Cupey, Inc., versus Alberto Reyes Frances chi; Militza Ortiz Pérez, ambos por sí y en representación de

la Sociedad Legal de Ganan ciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $902.31, más otras sumas, anotada al folio 56, Demanda 163, del libro de Sentencias 2. Sentencia de fecha 23 de septiembre de 2013, dictada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KCM2013-2153, sobre Cobro de Dinero, seguido por la Aso ciación Recreativa Residentes Colinas de Cupey, Inc., versus Alberto Ramón Reyes Frances chi; Militza Ortiz Pérez, ambos por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Ganan ciales compuesta entre ellos, por la suma de $4,181.25, más otras sumas, anotada el día 3 de diciembre de 2014, al folio 70, Demanda 207, del libro de Sentencias 3 de San Juan IV. F. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte de mandante el importe de la sen tencia que ha obtenido ascen dente la suma de $87,280.43 de principal, más los intereses al 5.5% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguros adeudados y los cuales conti nuarán en aumento hasta el to tal de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $14,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en vir tud de la escritura de hipoteca.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA se ce lebrará el día 29 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia de San Juan, por el tipo mínimo de $140,000.00.

De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes menciona do. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $93,333.33. De decla rarse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mis mo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $70,000.00.

Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un pe riódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos con forme a la ley, expido la presen te bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 24 de octubre de 2022 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE HECTOR LUIS PANTOJA GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR: SUE HELLEN PANTOJA; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; JUANA PAEZ SOTO, POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2022CV00326. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GA RANTÍAS (IN REM). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que sus cribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Man damiento que me ha sido dirigi do por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número trece (13) de la Man zana “AA” del Plano de Inscrip ción de la Urbanización Man siones del Caribe, localizado en el Barrio Río Abajo del término municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cuarenta y siete punto sesenta metros cuadra dos (347.60 mc). En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de trece punto sesenta y siete (13.67) metros con terrenos de la Urbanización Villa Humacao; por el SUR, en una alineación de trece punto sesenta y sie te (13.67) metros con la Calle

Ópalo; por el ESTE, en una alineación de veinticinco pun to treinta y ocho (25.38) me tros con el Solar número doce (12); y por el OESTE, en una alineación de veinticinco punto cuarenta y seis (25.46) metros con el Solar número catorce (14). Enclava una estructura de hormigón y bloques de con creto para uso residencial. Di rección Física: Urb. Mansiones del Caribe, Calle Opalo AA-13, Humacao, PR 00791. Finca 24,804, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 551 de Humacao, Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. B. Que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes ante riores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandan te el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $119,711.78, más la suma de $31,238.86, que incluye intereses según pacta dos, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan dia riamente hasta su total y com pleto pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de ostas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. La PRIMERA SU BASTA se celebrará el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Humacao, por el tipo mínimo de $178,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS TA el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar an tes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $118,666.67. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebra rá una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera,

o sea, $89,000.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 25 de octubre de 2022 en Humacao, Puerto Rico. JOSÉ LUIS RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁN DEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO. WILNEA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR #249.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA GUAS SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL MALDONADO LUGO COMPUESTA POR: RAFAEL MALDONADO SANTOS, GABRIEL MALDONADO SANTOS, LORAIMA MICHELLE MALDONADO BURGOS, BÁRBARA YASLIN MALDONADO BURGOS, RAFAEL EDGARDO MALDONADO FONSECA, MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; MELBA E. SANTOS VÁZQUEZ T/C/C MELBA ENERIS SANTOS VÁZQUEZ T/C/C MELBA ENERI SANTOS VÁZQUEZ EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2021CV01396.

Sala: 705. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Algua cil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 22 de abril de 2022, la Orden de Eje cución de Sentencia del 27 de junio de 2022 y el Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia del 29 de junio de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, locali zada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (PR 1),

Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa, (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de Amé rica, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Reparto Valencia no situada en el Barrio Mamey del término municipal de Jun cos, Puerto Rico, que se descri be en el plano de inscripción de dicha urbanización con el nú mero, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: Cinco (5) del bloque “M”. Área del solar: 306.51 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 7.902 metros con Calle Número Cinco (#5); por el SUR, en 14.025 me tros, con el solar número siete (#7) y el solar número ocho (#8) del bloque M; por el ESTE, en 21.668 metros con la Calle A; por el OESTE, en 25.00 me tros, con el solar número cuatro (#4) del bloque M; y por el NO RESTE, en 5.530 metros, con la intersección de las Calles A y Cinco (5). Sobre este solar enclava una casa de concreto reforzado destinada a vivienda para una familia. Inscrita al folio 51 del tomo 206 de Juncos, Fin ca Número 8008, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La hipoteca consta inscrita como asiento abreviado al folio 1050 del tomo 450 de Juncos, Finca Número 8008, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Inscripción sexta.

Dirección Física: Urb. Reparto Valenciano, M5 Calle 5, Barrio Mamey, Juncos, PR 00777. Número de Catastro: 49-227031-242-05-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $72,800.00. De no haber adju dicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 19 DE ENE RO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 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 su basta, o sea, $48,533.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $36,400.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad 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 deman dante el importe de la Senten cia por la suma de $9,899.40 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.875% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2020 hasta su completo pago, más $1,331.03 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,280.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Regis tral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecu tar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de Rafael Maldonado Lugo com puesta por Rafael Maldonado Santos, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Melba E. Santos Vázquez también conocida como Melba Eneris Santos Vázquez y como Melba Eneri Santos Vázquez, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Nú mero CG2021CV01396, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un ba lance de $9,899.40 y otras can tidades, según Demanda de fecha 10 de junio de 2021. Ano tada al Tomo Karibe de Juncos. Anotación B. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su su cesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a prote ger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipote ca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas la borables, 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 pe riódico 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 re queridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecuta

del tomo 208 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Quinta de San

da se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conoci miento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes inte resadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos corres pondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de octu bre de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ

GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL, PLACA #593, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA GUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYA GUEZ SALA SUPERIOR.

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RUPERTO VÉLEZ ORTÍZ, a las siguientes direcciones: (a) PO BOX 99 CABO ROJO, PR 00623; (b) URB. ESTANCIAS DEL RIO #235 CALLE YAGUEZ HORMIGUEROS, PR 00660; (c) URB. ANA MARIA B-10 CALLE 5 CABO ROJO, PR 00623.

inscrita al Folio 260 del Tomo 331 de Cabo Rojo, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán.

ORIENTAL

BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. DEMANDANTE VS. LAS SUCESIONES DE RICARDA ORTIZ PESANTE T/C/C RICARDA ORTIZ Y RUPERTO VELEZ ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR RUPERTO VELEZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: MZ2022CV01030.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO Y MAN DAMIENTO DE INTERPELA CION. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

A la parte co-demandada:

A) FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RICARDA ORTÍZ PESANTE T/C/C RICARDA ORTÍZ, a las siguientes direcciones: (a) PO BOX 99 CABO ROJO, PR 00623; (b) URB. ESTANCIAS DEL RIO #235 CALLE YAGUEZ HORMIGUEROS, PR 00660; (c) URB. ANA MARIA B-10 CALLE 5 CABO ROJO, PR 00623.

B) MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO

C) RUPERTO VELEZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE RUPERTO VELEZ ORTIZ, a las siguientes direcciones: (a) 10 PLEASANT ST SOUTHBRIDGE, MA 01550; (b) PO BOX 99 CABO ROJO, PR 00623; (c) URB. ESTANCIAS DEL RIO #235 CALLE YAGUEZ HORMIGUEROS, PR 00660; (d) URB. ANA MARIA B-10 CALLE 5 CABO ROJO, PR 00623.

Por la presente se le(s) noti fica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de Las Sucesiones de Ricarda Ortíz Pesante t/c/c Ricarda Ortíz y Ruperto Vélez Ortíz, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandan te por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $62,877.81 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2021, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además Las Sucesiones de Ricarda Or tíz Pesante t/c/c Ricarda Ortíz y Ruperto Vélez Ortíz adeuda a la parte demandante los car gos 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 crédi tos accesorios y adelantos he chos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equi valentes a $7,091.90. Además Las Sucesiones de Ricarda Or tíz Pesante t/c/c Ricarda Ortíz y Ruperto Vélez Ortíz se compro metió a pagar una suma equi valente a $7,091.90 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equi valente a $7,091.90 para cubrir intereses en adición a los ga rantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipo teca número 387, otorgada en Isabela, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de diciembre de 2015, ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, de la finca número 11,148,

Por razón de dicho incumpli miento, y al amparo del dere cho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una de manda enmendada en su con tra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o re pudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Ricarda Ortíz Pesante t/c/c Ricarda Ortíz y Ruperto Vé lez Ortíz. Los co-demandados miembros de la Sucesiones de Ricarda Ortíz Pesante t/c/c Ricarda Ortíz y Ruperto Vélez Ortíz se incluyen en la deman da enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordena miento Jurídico. Se les aperci be y notifica que, de no expre sarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su acepta ción o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por acep tada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del termino de 30 días antes se ñalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguien te, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, se incluye a los herederos conoci dos y herederos desconocidos de Ricarda Ortíz Pesante t/c/c Ricarda Ortíz y Ruperto Vélez Ortíz denominados Ruperto Vélez; Fulano y Fulana De Tal, Mengano y Mengana de Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de cir culación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) empla za y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publica ción de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el origi nal de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte De mandante. Usted deberá pre

sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, po drá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, conce diéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oirle(s).

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 9 de noviembre de 2022, en Mayaquez, Puerto Rico. Lic. Norma G Santana Irizarry, Sec Regional II. Magaly Bonilla Mo rales, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FTIND, LLC Demandante Vs. BRENDA L. OSORIO CANDELARIA Demandada Civil Núm.: CT2022CV00065.

Salón: 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: BRENDA L. OSORIO CANDELARIAURB. LEVITTOWN 2249 PASEO AMAPOLA TOA BAJA, PR 00949-4311 / PO BOX TOA BAJA, PR 00951.

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 ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presen tar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en re beldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la de manda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si ci tribunal en

el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la par te demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sanchez Campanero cuyas di recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección no tificaciones@orf-law.com. EX TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de oc tubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR PUERTO RICO RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC Demandante V. REAL FOODS CORP.; RICARDO MORALES RIVERA, SU ESPOSA LEILA MONSERRATE ORTIZ RAMIREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ROCIO MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE, INC. Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV12389. Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE GA RANTÍAS. AVISO DE SUBAS TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, PE DRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, el Al guacil que suscribe, por la pre sente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Man damiento de Ejecución de Sen tencia expedido por la Secreta ria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, pro cederé a vender en pública su basta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo, en cheque certificado o en cheque de ge rente a la orden del alguacil suscribiente en moneda de cur so legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 28 DE NO VIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, todo títu lo, derecho o interés que co rresponda a las partes code mandadas sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar sito en el Ba rrio Monacillos de la municipali dad de Río Piedras, antes, hoy

San Juan, Puerto Rico, marca do con el número dieciséis-A (16-A) de la Manzana “LM” de la Urbanización Caparra Terra ce, con un área superficial de ochocientos noventa y seis me tros cuadrados con ochenta y tres centímetros de otro (896.83) más o menos, el cual colinda por el NORTE, en cua renta y dos metros con dieci nueve centímetros de otro (42.19), con el solar número “15-B” de la Manzana “LM”; por el SUR, en veinticinco metros (25.00), con el solar número “16-B” de la Manzana “LM”; por el ESTE, en cuarenta y siete metros con treinta y tres centí metros, con los solares núme ros diecinueve (19), “20-A”, “20” y veintiuno (21) de la Manzana “LM”; y por el OESTE, en die ciocho metros con setenta y nueve centímetros (18.79), con la Calle número noventa y cua tro (94) de la Urbanización. En clava una casa de concreto ar mado con techo de azotea y piso de losas del país, de una sola planta, que constituye una vivienda independiente, consis tiendo de tres dormitorios con sus closets, sala, comedor en una sola unidad, cocina con su closet, balcón y cuarto de baño. Existe una servidumbre por sig no aparente establecida por la corporación vendedora en la pared que divide los aparta mentos “A” y “B”, cuya pared continuará en común pro indivi so y en toda su actual extensión y espesor a los propietarios de ambos apartamentos. Este so lar constituye el resto de esta finca, luego de reducida la se gregación del solar 16 B de la Manzana ML, con cabida de 241.75 metros cuadrados (finca número $15,479).” Inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 232 de Monaci llos, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de San Juan. Finca 8,583 (antes 10,105). DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. CAPARRA TERRACE 16-A CALLE LM, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00920. AFEC TA POR SU PROCEDENCIA: CONDICIONES RESTRICTI VAS: Según inscripción primera afecta a Condiciones Restricti vas de Edificación, las cuales dicen lo siguiente: Es condición esencial que cada uno de los solares segregados y permuta dos han de ser dedicados a única y exclusivamente para fi nes residenciales. A)El dueño o los dueños de los mismos de berán de cumplir con las leyes de zonificación y las reglas y reglamentos de la Junta de Pla nificación de Puerto Rico, el Negociado de Permisos sobre construcción, el Departamento de Salud y todos y cada uno de los negociados, agencias, jun tas, instrumentalidades y de partamentos del Gobierno de Puerto Rico y de las autorida des municipales, en cuanto al uso y ocupación de las estruc turas levantadas en los mis

mos, la clase y tipo de dichas estructuras y las mejoras que se lleven a cabo a las fincas, así como las ampliaciones o variaciones que se hagan a di chas estructura. B) Cualquier dueño de un solar residencial en esta urbanización podí enta blar la acción judicial apropiada para hacer que otro dueños de propiedades en la misma urba nización, cumplas las condicio nes restrictivas aquí estableci dos. C) Estas condiciones estarán en vigor por un término de 35 años a partir de la fecha del otorgamiento de la escritura de compraventa. SERVIDUM BRE: Afecta por su proceden cia a servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Flu viales de Puerto Rico. AFECTA

POR SI: HIPOTECA: Hipoteca a favor del Banco de Desarrollo Económico para Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $142,000.00. Intereses: Con un interés variable equivalente a 2.75% sobre la tasa de interés preferente (prime rate). El inte rés inicial será de 6%. Se toma rá como base la tasa de interés preferente determinada de tiempo por el Citibank N.A. El interés se pagará mensualmen te y se computará a base del balance vigente de principal del préstamo, tomado como base un ano de 360 días. El tipo de interés se revisará mensual mente. VENCIMIENTO: A la presentación. TASACION. Se tasa esta propiedad en una cantidad equivalente al princi pal original del pagare. Créditos Garantizados, garantizándose los siguientes créditos adicio nales: tres sumas equivalentes al 10% de la cuantía original del pagare, cada una, para costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga dos; para intereses, en adición a los garantizados por la ley; y para cubrir cualquier anticipo que pueda hacerse bajo este contrato. Pagare suscrito bajo testimonio numero 25853. Con diciones: El deudor hipotecario no podrá agravar o hipotecar de ninguna forma o manera la propiedad sin el previo consen timiento por escrito del Acree dor Hipotecario. En virtud de la escritura numero 47 del 2 de mayo de 2013, otorgada en San Juan, ante el Notario Gil A. Mercado Nieves, según la ins cripción 6ª, al folio 13 del tomo 992 de Monacillos. El grava men objeto de ejecución en este procedimiento es la que surge de la Escritura de Hipote ca número 47, otorgada el 2 de mayo de 2013 ante el Notario Público Gil A. Mercado Nieves, en la cual se establece como precio mínimo para la primera subasta la suma de $142,000.00. De no adjudicar se la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA, en las mis mas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA.

El precio mínimo para la segun da subasta serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $94,666.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa segunda subasta, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA en las mis mas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA. El precio mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo de la pri mera subasta, o sea, $71,000.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la Parte Demandante, hasta donde al cance, el importe adeudado bajo la sentencia en este caso, que al 30 de agosto de 2019 ascienden la cantidad total de $157,525.20, desglosado en $137,125.44 de principal, $20,399.76 de intereses acu mulados, más los que se conti núen acumulando hasta el sal do total y una cantidad adicional de $3014,200.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados en el Pagaré Hipotecario que garantiza la deuda. Se entiende que todo licitador que compa rezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastan te la titularidad que da base a las mismas. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descri ta anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha pro piedad. Se entiende que cual quier carga y/o gravamen ante rior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsis tente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de estos, sin destinar se a su extinción el precio del remate. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrarán las SUBASTAS en las fechas, horas y sitio ante riormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dichas subastas, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecu tante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efec tuar tal subrogación. SE HACE CONSTAR que los autos y to dos los documentos correspon dientes al procedimiento incoa do están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables, bajo el epí grafe de este caso. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en dos (2) lugares públicos del Mu nicipio donde se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un periódico de circulación

general en dos ocasiones y me diante correo certificado a la úl tima dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SU BASTA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 21 de octubre de 2022.

PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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Demandante Vs. GLORIA IVONNE

MALDONADO RUIZ T/C/C

IVONNE MALDONADO

RUIZ, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LAS SUCESIONES DE LUIS MALDONADO RIVERA

Y JUANA DEL ROSARIO

RUIZ NIEVES T/C/C JUANA DEL ROSARIO

RUIZ T/C/C JUANITA RUIZ NIEVES T/C/C JUANITA RUIZ COMPUESTAS

POR LUIS ANGEL, IRIS, MARGARITA Y CARLOS JUAN TODOS DE APELLIDOS

MALDONADO RUIZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: JCD2017-0568.

Sala: 406. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM” (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SU BASTA. El Alguacil que suscri be por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigi do al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN

TRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a ven der en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque cer tificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 31 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE, en su ofi cina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR, todo dere cho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad

que ubica en: BO. QUINTO 17, CALLE 2 DE MAYO, PONCE, PUERTO RICO 00730 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar y casa, radi cado en la calle Virtud, esquina calle dos de mayo, en el Barrio Quinto del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 252.10 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 14.68 metros con Augusto Gil, Hijo, por SUR, en 13.10 metros con la calle Dos de Mayo; por el ESTE, en 16.86 metros con la calle Virtud y por el OESTE, en 7.00 metros con Carpia Ro driguez y en 12.44 metros con el solar que se describirá con la letra B. ENCLAVA: Casa resi dencial construida de hormigón, la cual mide 28’6” x 51’6”de fondo. Consta de balcón, sala, comedor, cocina, baño pasillo, 3 closets y 3 cuartos dormito rios. EDIFICACION: Casa para residencia, de madera y zinc, que consta de sala, comedor, cocina, 2 cuartos dormitorios, cuarto de baño, un pasillo, un closet, balcón, terraza y una escalera por el lado Oeste de la casa principal, que da accedo independiente a la calle Dos de Mayo en el lado Sur. La propie dad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 21 del Tomo 2,074 de Ponce, finca número 26,738, Registro de la Propie dad de Ponce, Sección Prime ra. El tipo mínimo para la prime ra subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $58,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adju dicación en la primera subas ta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE. En la se gunda 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 $38,666.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE. 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 $29,000.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 563 otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de noviembre de 2007, ante el Notario Sergio Ortiz Atienza, y consta inscrita al Folio 21 del Tomo 2,074 de Ponce, finca número 26,738, inscripción 4ta, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Primera. Dicha subasta se lle vará a cabo para con su pro ducto satisfacer al Demandante

total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Senten cia que ha obtenido contra la parte co-demandada, ascen dente a la suma de $42,034.79 por concepto de principal, des de el 1ro de marzo de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.95% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, Gloria Ivonne Maldonado Ruiz t/c/c Ivonne Maldonado Ruiz adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equiva lentes a 5.00% 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 escritu ra de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do equivalentes a $5,800.00. Además, Gloria Ivonne Maldo nado Ruiz t/c/c Ivonne Maldo nado Ruiz se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $5,800.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipo teca y una suma equivalente a $5,800.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha de clarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su tota lidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado esta rán de manifiesto en la SECRE TARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRI MERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes an teriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. 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 car gos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo teca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmi sibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamen te 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 inte reses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado ase gurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anterior mente se adquirirá libre de car gas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Or den de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en ge neral se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por es pacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribu nal 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 Tri bunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de noviembre de 2022. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR.

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RENÉ JULIO MONCIÓN RICARVETT TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO POR RENÉ JULIO MONDÓN Y RENÉ MONCIÓN

Demandante Vs. LEIGH ELLEN MONCIÓN Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2022CV05243.

Sobre: EXEQUÁTUR. EMPLA ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO,. A: LEIGH ELLEN MONCIÓN.

472 EDEN ROC CIRCLE, APT. 205, VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 23451.

POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndo se el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se

represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente.

ABOGADA DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: LCDA. OMARY RIVERA GONZÁLEZ NÚMERO DEL TRIBUNAL

SUPREMO: 16,050 PO BOX 441 BAYAMÓN PR 00960-0441

Email: lcda.riveragonzalez@gmail.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 1 de noviem bre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL. IVETTE RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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MADELINE SÁNCHEZ VÁZQUEZ

Demandante Vs ANA LYDIA GONZÁLEZ GONZÁLEZ

Demandada Civil Núm.: AU2022CV00632. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO Y DAÑOS. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SRA. ANA LYDIA GONZÁLEZ GONZÁLEZ.

258 SUNVIEW AVE 3A, BRONX, NY 10473 O SEA, LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza y requiere para que notifi que a la licenciada: LCDA. WANDA I. CRUZ PACHECO

Abogada Número 15179 AVILES, CRUZ & ASOCIADOS SA 20 Bucaré St., Valle Hermoso Hormigueros, Puerto Rico 00660

TEL./FAX 787-805-6262 abogada de la parte Deman dante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la De manda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publi cación del edicto, radicando el original de la Contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando a la abogada a la dirección arriba indicada. Este caso trata de una Demanda de Incumplimiento de Contrato y Daños. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo así podría dictarse Sentencia en rebeldía en con tra suya, concediendo el reme dio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EX

TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Aguada, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de oc tubre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. ERIKA I. CRUZ PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN LUIS ANTONIO CRUZ ANDINO, LUIS RAUL CRUZ ANDINO, NORMA IRIS ANDINO MATOS, MOISES ANDINO MATOS, JULIA ELBA ANDINO MATOS, LUIS MARIN ANDINO MATOS Y JOSEFINA MATOS, TODOS MIEMBROS DE LA SUCN. ANDINO MATOS Demandante V. IVONNE AYUSO GARCIA, MANUEL ORTIZ Y MARGARITA SOTO Y LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR ELLOS Y JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO HEREDEROS DE ELLOS Demandado(a) Civil: DAC2015-1588. Sala: 703. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN (20 AÑOS) EXPEDIENTE DE DO MINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: IVONNE AYUSO GARCIA, MANUEL ORTIZ Y MARGARITA SOTO Y LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS Y JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO HEREDEROS DE ELLOS O PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de julio de 2016, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Senten cia 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 ge neral en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sen tencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publica

ción por edicto de esta notifica ción, dirijo a usted esta notifica ción que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de julio de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 21 de julio de 2022. RUTH

APONTE COTTO, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL II. DANETSA APONTE REYES, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.

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Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESI DENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: MARIA ARLENE HERNANDEZ

NIEVES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ELISA NIEVES MONTES T/C/C ELISA N. ROSADO T/C/C ELISA NIEVES; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION GENOVEVA NIEVES MONTES T/C/C GENOVEVA NIEVESMONTE.

El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Trans curridos treinta (30) días des

de que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al lla mado un plazo, para que ma nifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de la causante GENOVEVA NIEVES MONTES T/C/C GENOVE VA NIEVES-MONTE y ELISA NIEVES MONTES T/C/C ELI SA N. ROSADO T/C/C ELISA NIEVES. Se les apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por acep tada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: GREENS POON MARDER, LLP, TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700, 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309, Tel. (954) 343 6273, Fax. (954) 343 6982. Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribu nal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de octubre de 2022.

LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ,SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

LLC Demandante V. B&E EMPRESAS ISLA NENA, INC.; B&E

RENTAL, INC.;

MARINA, INC.; VÍCTOR MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ PADILLA; SU ESPOSA LUZ ENEIDA DELERME AYALA; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS Demandados Civil Núm.: VQ2021CV00104. (001). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRI CA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO

lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pac tado para la primera subasta, o sea, $47,711.50. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacer se para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, 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. Que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posterio res. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta eje cución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá li bre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuestos al gra vamen del actor y a los dueños poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en título trasmisible por endoso al portador garan tizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del ac tor, y con los cuales no hubiese tenido el efecto la notificación del escrito inicial y del Man damiento de requerimiento de pago para que puedan concu rrir a la subasta si les conviene o satisficiera antes del remate el importe del crédito de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados, asegurados que dando subrogados en los dere chos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consig nado el precio correspondiente, una vez confirmada la venta o adjudicación, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente es critura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o ti tular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el ad judicatario o comprador, quien

deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo due ño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si trans curren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior proce dimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la fin ca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edic to bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de noviembre de 2022. ERIK F. OSUNA ACE VEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MANATÍ ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

MAIKEL

BATISTA MONTELIER

Demandado Civil Núm.: MT2022CV00447. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: MAIKEL

BATISTA MONTELIER.

POR MEDIO del presente edic to se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sen tencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.

POR EL PRESENTE EDJ:CTO se le emplaza para que presen te al tribunal su alegación res ponsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este empla zamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciarniento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electró nica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electroni co/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación

responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Te léfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la deman da presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Villa Forestal, 701 Calle Cam balache, Manatí, PR 006746716; PO Box 796, Toa Baja, PR 00952. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de octubre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. CAR MEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante V. NANCY CRUZ ANDINO POR SÍY EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GASPAR BULTRÓN RIVERA COMPUESTA CON NADYA MARIE BULTRÓN CRUZ, AZARYA BULTRÓN CRUZ Y SUCESIÓN DE JONATHAN HOMAR BULTRÓN FIGUEROA COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B, Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GASPAR BULTRÓN RIVERA Y SUCESIÓN DE JONATHAN HOMAR BULTRÓN FIGUEROA; SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA Y SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR Demandados

Civil Núm.: CN2022CV00245.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A La Parte Demandada: FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B Y C DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GASPAR BULTRÓN RIVERA. FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B Y C DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JONATHAN HOMAR BULTRÓN FIGUEROA.

NADYA MARIE BULTRÓN CRUZ Y AZARYA BULTRÓN

CRUZ, HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GASPAR BULTRÓN RIVERA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsi va a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamien to, excluyéndose el día del dili genciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al (a la) abogado (a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representa ción legal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bil bao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. La tinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), le or dena que en el término de trein ta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando las he rencias de la Sucesión de Gas par Bultrón Rivera y Jonathan Homar Bultrón Figueroa. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr. salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso

deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de co bro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma está garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radiado en la Urbanización Villas de Loíza, situada en el Barrio Canóvanas del Municipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico que se describe en el pla no de inscripción de la Urbani zación con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación que contiene una casa de concreto reforza do, diseñada para una sola fa milia: Solar número 24 del blo que CC. Área del solar: 230.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 me tros con solar 25; por el ESTE, en 23.00 metros con solar 23; por el ESTE, en 10.00 metros con calle 45A; y por el OESTE, en 10.00 metros con solar 13. Afecto a una Servidumbre de 1.5 metros por su colindancia Norte para mantenimiento. Consta inscrita al folio cuarenta y tres (43) de tomo doscientos diecisiete (217) de Canóvanas, finca número diez mil ciento cuarenta y siete (10147), ins cripción primera, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Tercera de Carolina. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: GarcíaChamorro Law Group, P.SC., 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, Sui te 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, TeL (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y se llo de este Tribunal, hoy 02 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. MA RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE NADDIA EMILIA DE LAS MERCEDES BETANCOURT Y ESCALERAS T/C/C

NADDIA EMILIA BETANCOURT ESCALERA T/C/C

NADDIA BETANCOURT ESCALERA COMPUESTA POR LISSETTE PENTON BETANCOURT, MANUEL JESUS PENTON BETANCOURT, JULIO PENTON BETANCOURT, FULANO Y SUTANO COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS;

CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03025. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM. EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO.

A: LISSETTE PENTON BETANCOURT, FULANO DETAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE NADDIA EMILIA DE LAS MERCEDES BETANCOURT Y ESCALERAS T/C/C NADDIA EMILIA BETANCOURT ESCALERA T/C/C NADDIA BETANCOURT ESCALERA.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitan do la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de First Equity Mortgage Bankers, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $360,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 3.563% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gas tos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $36,000.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este paga ré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 1280 ante el notario Carmen Lourdes Vega Anadon. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritu ra número 186 otorgada el 29 de mayo de 2009, ante el mis ma notario público, inscrita bajo la ley 216-2010, al folio 45 del tomo 1004 de Carolina, finca número 10,607, inscripción 6ta.

“PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: URBANA: Apartamento B-uno localizado en la esquina Su roeste de la Primera Planta del Condominio Mar Azul, localiza do en la calle H, ahora Lirio de la Urbanización Bioscoechea en Isla Verde, Barrio Cangre jero Arriba, Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una área total de mil quinientos ochenta y dos pun to cero cuatro pies cuadrados, equivalente a ciento cuarenta y siete punto cero tres metros cuadrados. Colina por el NOR

TE, en parte con el núcleo central comunal de la primera planta donde están localiza dos el vestíbulo de esa planta y el elevador y en parte con el laundry y la terraza descubierta del apartamento C-uno; por el SUR, con el patio del solar que ocupa el edificio en colindancia con la Calle Lirio; y por el SUR, con el patio del solar que ocupa el edificio en colindancia con la Calle Lirio; por el ESTE, con la pared maestra que lo separa del apartamento A-1, localizado en la esquina Sureste de esa misma planta; y por el Oeste, con el patio del solar que ocupa el edificio en colindancia con el solar número ciento diecio cho en la misma Urbanización Bioscoecha. Consiste este apartamiento de las siguientes dependencias, un vestíbulo en veinticinco pies cuadrados, equivalente a dos punto trein ta y dos metros cuadrados, un área de sala-comedor, que ocupa trescientos veintiséis punto veinte pies cuadrados, equivalentes a treinta punto treinta y dos metros cuadrados; un blanco que ocupa noventa y seis pies cuadrados, equivalen te a ocho punto noventa y dos metros cuadrados; un pasillo interior que ocupa cincuenta y nueve punto cincuenta y siete pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cinco punto cincuenta y cinco metros cuadrados; un dormito rio numero uno que ocupa cien to noventa y cuatro punto trein ta pies cuadrados, equivalentes a dieciocho punto cero seis me tros cuadrados; un dormitorio numero dos que ocupa ciento sesenta y tres punto ochenta pies cuadrados, equivalente a quince punto veintidós me tros cuadrados; un dormitorio número tres que ocupa ciento cuarenta y ocho punto ochenta pies cuadrados, equivalentes a trece punto ochenta y tres metros cuadrados; un baño nú mero uno que ocupa cuarenta y ocho punto cincuenta pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cua tro punto cincuenta metros cua drados; un baño número dos que ocupa treinta y seis punto cuarenta pies cuadrados equi valentes a trece punto cero uno metros cuadrados; un laundry que ocupa cincuenta y nueve punto veinte pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cinco punto cin cuenta metros cuadrados; una terraza descubierta que ocupa doscientos ochenta y cuatro punto veintisiete pies cuadra dos; equivalentes a treintiuno punto setenta y seis metros cuadrados. Este apartamento contiene seis closets incluidos en las áreas anteriormente mencionadas y localizadas como sigue; uno en cada dor mitorio, en la cocina, uno en el pasillo interior y uno en el área de comedor. El apartamiento se comunica con las áreas y vestí bulos comunales localizados en cada planta a través de su puer

ta principal, que se encuentra localizada en el vestíbulo del apartamento. Le corresponde el cuatro punto ciento setenta y dos por ciento en los elemen tos comunes generales. Finca Número 10,607 inscrita al folio 278 del tomo 694 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I, de Ca rolina. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desco nocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a tra vés del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.rama juducial.pr, salvo que se repre sente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radican do el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conduc to de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Yadira López González Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, den tro de los próximos 60 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación dia ria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, conce diendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 07 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. MA

RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOT ICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01666. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE

NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS MANUEL ARRIGOITÍA RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

A: LA SUCESIÓN DE

LUIS MANUEL ARRIGOITÍA RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN.

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Senten cia 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 repre sentando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los tér minos de la Sentencia, Senten cia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recur so de revisión o apelación den tro del término de 30 días con tados 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 notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de noviembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 7 de noviembre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Elsa Magaly Cande lario Cabrera, Secretaria Auxi liar Del Tribunal I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. ARMANDO HERNANDEZ MENA Y SU ESPOSA CLAIRE RIOS

VENAVIDES, TAMBIÉN

CONOCIDA COMO CLAIRE HERNANDEZ

Y COMO CLAIRE RIOS BENAVIDES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2021CV02391. (406). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: ARMANDO HERNANDEZ MENA Y SU ESPOSA CLAIRE RIOS

VENAVIDES, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO CLAIRE HERNANDEZ

Y COMO CLAIRE RIOS BENAVIDES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; WESTERNBANK PUERTO RICO Y/O SUCESOR EN DERECHO, POR TENER HIPOTECA EN GARANTÍA DE PAGARÉ A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $40,000.00.

Yo, MANUEL MALDONADO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acree dores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 10 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Su basta 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 pos tal o cheque certificado a nom bre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Ponce durante horas labora bles. Que en caso de no produ cir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE en mi ofi cina sita en el lugar antes indi cado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar número Cuarenta y Cuatro (44) del plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACIÓN SANTA MARTA DEVELOPMENT, ra dicado en el Barrio Jacaguas del término municipal de Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, compuesto de SETECIENTOS CINCUEN TA Y CUATRO PUNTO NUEVE SEIS SIETE OCHO (754.9678) METROS CUADRADOS; en lindes por el NORTE, en 18.07 metros, con la Autoridad de Tierras; por el SUR, en 18.00 metros, con la Calle “A” de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en 42.76 metros, con el solar nú mero 45 de la Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 41.12 me tros, con el solar número 43 de la Urbanización. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra ins

crita al folio 56 del tomo 404 de Juana Díaz, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce Sección I, finca número 12,662, inscrip ción quinta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Santa Marta, 44 Reparto, Juana Díaz, Puer to Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $47,029.78 de principal, intere ses al 8 7/8% anual, desde el día 1ro de noviembre de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $7,650.00 esti pulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están liquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí nima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $76,500.00 y de ser nece saria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equi valente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $51,000.00 y de necesitarse una tercera su basta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $38,250.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad 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 im porte de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el mo mento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes prefe rentes, si los hubiese, continua rán subsistentes, entendiéndo se que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma princi pal de $40,000.00, con intere ses al 2% anual, vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la Escritura Número 340, otor gada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de agosto de 2002, ante la Notario Público Lourdes Alicea Soto; inscrita al folio 289 del tomo 465 de Juana Díaz, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce Sección I, finca número 12,662, inscripción séptima. La propiedad a ser vendida en pú blica subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes pos teriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipo tecarios 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 totali dad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abo no total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitado res, bajo mi firma y sello del Tri bunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 18 de octubre de 2022. Manuel Maldonado, Alguacil Del Tribu nal, Sala Superior De Ponce.

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Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV09366. (802). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación respon siva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o

cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente.

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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04399. Salón Núm.: (0508). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDIC TO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A:

INES MARĺA

CRUZ VÁZQUEZ Y AL PÚBLICO

EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, cer tifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de San Juan, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separa do, 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 deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Pro piedad Horizontal: Apartamento Residencial de forma irregular localizado en la decimo planta del Edificio Puerta de la Bahía, situado en la Calle Las Palmas esquina Calle Cerra del término municipal de San Juan, Puer to Rico. Apartamento número mil siete (1007). Área neta del apartamento: setecientos ochenta y nueve punto sesenta y cinco (789.65) pies cuadra dos, equivalentes a setenta y tres punto treinta y ocho (73.38) metros cuadrados. En lindes: Colinda por el NORTE, con

espacio área en una distancia de treinta pies con punto cinco pulgadas (30’.5”), equivalentes a nueve metros con dieciséis centímetros (9m 16 cm); por el SUR, colinda con área común en una distancia de veintiún pies con dos punto cinco pul gadas (21’2.5”), equivalentes a seis metros con cuarenta y seis centímetros (6 m 46 cm); por el ESTE, colinda con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento mil ocho (1008), en una distancia de treinta y dos pies con cuatro pulgadas (32’04”), equivalentes a nueve metros con ochenta y cinco centímetros (9 m 85 cm); por el OESTE, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento mil seis (1006), en una distan cia de treinta y dos pies con cuatro pulgadas (32’04”), equi valentes a nueve metros con ochenta y cinco centímetros (9 m 85 cm). El apartamento consta de un nivel y está dividi do en los siguientes elementos: sala-comedor, cocina, área de lavandería, tres cuartos dor mitorios con sus closets, un baño. Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. La puerta de entrada con acce so al vestíbulo del edificio. Le corresponde a esta unidad el uso exclusivo de un estaciona miento marcado con el número mil siete (1007) el cual es ele mento privado. Le correspon de a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio el cero punto cero cero tres ocho seis seis seis dos cero dos porciento (0.0038666202%). Consta ins crita al folio 196 del tomo 397 de Santurce Sur, finca número #21,909, Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de San Juan. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está locali zada en la siguiente dirección: Condominio Puerta de la Bahía, Apto. 1007 Avenida Las pal mas, San Juan, P.R. 00907. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritu ra de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de can celación de gravamen poste rior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Su basta la suma de $35,000.00, según acordado entre las par tes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca ##275, otorgada en San Juan, Puer to Rico, el día 27 de mayo de 2008, ante el Notario Luis En rique Mejías Rivera, inscrita al 196 del tomo 397 de Santurce Sur, finca #21,909, inscripción 2da. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de San Juan, el tipo míni

mo para la primera subasta es la suma de $35,000.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni ad judicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la pri mera subasta, o sea, la suma de $23,333.33. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 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 $17,500.00. 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: Suma Principal de $27,497.64, la cual se desglo sa a continuación: una suma principal de $ 27,155.16, más intereses a razón del 5.875% anual, desde el 1 de diciembre de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma principal diferi da por la cantidad de $342.48 (Piggy Back) la cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su ven cimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribucio nes, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a ($3,500.00), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resul te por cualesquiera otros ade lantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipoteca rio. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les no tifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, esta rán de manifiesto en la Secre taría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspon dientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la juris dicción de Puerto Rico. Se en tenderá que todo licitador acep ta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante 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 co rrespondiente Escritura de Ven

ta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita den tro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si trans curren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior proce dimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la fin ca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 4 de noviembre de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GON ZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

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OCASIO,

KATHERINE

I. VAZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD

LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS H/N/C ENTERNET CAFE

Demandados Civil Núm.: TB2022CV00176. Sobre: DESAHUCIO Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: KATHERINE VAZQUEZ, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ESTA Y JAVIER HERNANDEZ OCASIO.

Por Ia presente se Ies notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal Ia Demanda de epI grafe. Se le emplaza y requie re para que notifique a: Lcda. Alexandra Sanchez Mitchell y/o Lcdo. Fernando Gierbolini; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Pa tricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 6205300, abogados de Ia parte de mandante, con copia de Ia con testación a Ia Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguien tes a Ia publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circula ción diana general. Se le aper cibe que si no contesta Ia De manda radicando el original de Ia misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando

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BAJO MI FIRMA y eI Sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTHA E. ROSARIO ROSA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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OCASIO, KATHERINE

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Sucésión; SUCESION

DE HILDA DORIA LAMBOY GONZALEZ, compuesta por “JOHN

Y RICHARD ROE” como posibles herederos desconocidos de dicha Sucesión.

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

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

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS H/N/C ENTERNET CAFE

Demandados Civil Núm.: TB2022CV00176.

Sobre: DESAHUCIO Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: JAVIER HERNANDEZ

OCASIO, POR SI Y

COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA ESTE Y KATHERINE I. VAZQUEZ.

Por Ia presente se Ies notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal Ia Demanda de epI grafe. Se le emplaza y requie re para que notifique a: Lcda. Alexandra Sanchez Mitchell y/o Lcdo. Fernando Gierbolini; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Pa tricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 6205300, abogados de Ia parte de mandante, con copia de Ia con testación a Ia Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguien tes a Ia publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circula ción diana general. Se le aper cibe que si no contesta Ia De manda radicando el original de Ia misma a través del Sistema

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v. SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR FÉLIX ORTIZ ORTIZ compuesta por EVELYN ORTIZ ORTIZ, MARIA DEL CARMEN ORTIZ ORTIZ, DORIS ORTIZ ORTIZ, MIRIAM IVETTE ORTIZ ORTIZ, LUZ SELENIA ORTIZ ORTIZ, “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” como posibles herederos desconocidos de dicha Sucesión; SUCESIÓN DE HILDA DORIA LAMBOY GONZALEZ, compuesta por “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” como posibles herederos desconocidos de dicha Sucesión; y, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. AI2021CV00374.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO ENMEN DADA.

A: SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR FÉLIX ORTIZ ORTIZ compuesta por EVELYN ORTIZ ORTIZ, MARIA DEL CARMEN ORTIZ ORTIZ, DORIS ORTIZ ORTIZ, MIRIAM IVETTE ORTIZ ORTIZ, “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” como posibles herederos desconocidos de dicha

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse 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 publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de noviembre de 2022. En AIBONITO, Puer to Rico, el 8 de noviembre de 2022. ELIZABETH GONZALEZ RIVERA, Secretaria. f/ NÉLI DA APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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RAFAEL ORTIZ DUMONT, ROSA MARIA LOZANO MENDOZA, y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta entre ellos Demandante V.

BASILIA DIAZ CRUZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL

Demandado(a) Civil: CG2022CV02483. Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: BASILIA DIAZ CRUZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL, o sea, la persona desconocida que pudiera resultar tenedora y portadora del pagare a que se refiere esta acción, y al publico en general.

P/C LIC. MANUEL A. ARROYO RAMOS

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 3 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente 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 notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento 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 edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 4 de noviembre de 2022. En HU MACAO, Puerto Rico, el 4 de noviembre de 2022. Ivelisse C Fonseca Rodriguez, Secretaria Regional. Ivelisse M. Monclova Cruz, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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DEMANDADOS Civil Núm. KCD2016-1736 (506). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EMPLA ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América Presidente de los Estados Uni dos Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. SS.

A: ANDREW ENRIQUE LANDESTOY ZAPATA y JOSÉ ALBERTO LANDESTOY ZAPATA

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Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE HILDA ESTHER FIGUEROA MERCADO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO HILDA FIGUEROA MERCADO, POR HILDA F. BUXEDA Y POR ILDA ESTHER

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Demandados Civil Núm.: TJ2022CV00397. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VíA ORDINA RIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, s.s.

A: LA SUCESIÓN DE HILDA ESTHER FIGUEROA MERCADO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO HILDA FIGUEROA MERCADO, POR HILDA F. BUXEDA Y POR ILDA ESTHER FIGUEROA MERCADO, COMPUESTA POR IVETTE RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA, OSCAR RODRÍGUEZ FIGUEROA; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN.

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By TANIA GANGULI

Nostranger to drama lately, the Brooklyn Nets eschewed a pro tracted coaching search and made a quick decision to hire someone familiar.

The team named longtime Nets as sistant Jacque Vaughn as head coach Wednesday to replace Steve Nash, who was fired last week. Vaughn has coached the team in an interim capacity in the four games since then.

Vaughn took over at a particularly fraught time for the organization, whose star point guard Kyrie Irving posted a link to an antisemitic film on Twitter in late October. The Nets suspended Irving indefinitely for refusing to disavow an tisemitism. He has missed four games, including Wednesday’s 112-85 win at home over the New York Knicks, and the team said he would miss at least one more. The Nets’ next game is Saturday on the road against the Los Angeles Clippers.

“Finding somebody with some stabil ity, that’s JV,” Nets general manager Sean Marks said. “Very stable, poised under pressure. Gentleman. That’s sort of who he is.”

Before Wednesday’s game, Vaughn

met with reporters and smiled brightly. In answering one question, he nodded to the rampant rumors of the past week that the Nets had chosen Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka, who is suspended for the season, to replace Nash.

“I guess I was the write-in candidate,” Vaughn said, laughing. He added: “I’m OK with that. I said to my wife, I might have not been her first choice, and we’ve been together 20 years. So, you know, it could all work out. Off we go.”

Vaughn has been an assistant coach for the Nets since 2016 and served as an interim head coach in 2020 after Kenny Atkinson was fired as coach. The Nets considered him to replace Atkinson but ultimately hired Nash, and Vaughn re mained on Nash’s staff.

On Wednesday, Marks praised Vaughn for stepping in, again, as an inter im coach. This time, Marks saw enough out of him to give him a shot on a more permanent basis.

The Nets had a 2-2 record under Vaughn heading into Wednesday’s game, and Marks said he liked the energy around the team during those four games.

“We’re looking at the big picture here and having a relationship with him for seven years, his relationship to players, his competitive spirit, a lot of that goes a long way,” Marks said. “We’re seeing how this team, to be quite frank, has re sponded to him lately.”

Vaughn said he had not reached out to Irving since he was suspended on Nov. 3.

“I thought in the capacity that I was serving that it wasn’t my place to,” Vaughn said. “I’ve always understood my boundaries as an assistant coach. That could change going forward in the posi tion that I’m in now.”

Marks said he had not spoken to Ir ving since last Thursday, either, but he did not explain why he hadn’t.

The team announced Nov. 1 that it had agreed to part ways with Nash. Not long afterward, news media reports be gan to link the Nets with Udoka, who was suspended by the Celtics in September for violating unspecified team policies. According to two people familiar with the situation who were not authorized to speak about it publicly, Udoka had a re lationship with a female subordinate.

When asked specifically about why

he didn’t hire Udoka, Marks said it wouldn’t be appropriate to discuss what candidates were considered. The Celtics have given Udoka permission to talk to other teams and will not demand com pensation if another team signs him, ac cording to a person briefed on the mat ter who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Nash initially had the support of Ir ving and forward Kevin Durant when he was hired in 2020 with no previous coaching experience, but he presided over a chaotic time for the franchise that included: Irving missing most of the 2021-22 season because he would not get vaccinated against the coronavirus; injuries to Durant and Ben Simmons; and James Harden being traded to the Nets from Houston — and then to Phila delphia from the Nets as the team strug gled last season.

This summer, The Athletic reported that Durant had asked team owner Joe Tsai to choose between him or Marks and Nash. Nash, Marks and Durant all said at media day in September that they were ready to move on together.

Healthy again to start this season, the Nets continued to struggle. They began the year 2-5 before firing Nash. Marks said that players had “zero” input on the decision, and that he and Nash “felt that it was time.”

“If I sat here and listed one by one all the things that he had to go through over his tenure here, I’d be doing him a disservice because he doesn’t want ex cuses,” Marks said. “That’s not who he is. So he has certainly not had an even

playing field over two years here. And for that, I certainly feel definitely some responsibility because this does not all fall on him.”

Vaughn began his NBA journey as a player, with a 12-year career that includ ed two seasons with the Nets. He won a championship as part of the San Antonio Spurs in 2007.

San Antonio was where Vaughn’s playing career ended and his coaching career began. He was an assistant for coach Gregg Popovich for two seasons before the Orlando Magic hired Vaughn as their head coach in July 2012.

The Magic were beginning a rebuild. They traded the All-Star center Dwight Howard that summer, then went 20-62 in Vaughn’s first season. It was the worst record in the NBA, and the next year was only slightly better at 23-59. After a 1537 start to the 2014-15 season, the Mag ic fired Vaughn.

He joined Atkinson’s Nets staff in the summer of 2016. The Nets fired Atkinson on March 7, 2020, less than a week be fore the season was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. When the NBA resumed the season in a bubble environment at Walt Disney World in Florida that summer, Vaughn coached the team to a 5-3 record in playoff seed ing games and then lost to the Toronto Raptors in the first round of the playoffs.

“I was a young coach,” Vaughn said. “I’m definitely glad I took that job. It made me a better assistant coach.” He added: “I’ve just grown as an individual. Much more secure in myself, as you can see with this beard right here.”

US announces a World Cup roster shaped by a wholesale turnover

By ANDREW KEH

Ithas been eight years since the U.S. men’s national team last appeared on soccer’s biggest stage, the World Cup. Eight years of waiting. Eight years of dreaming. Eight years of discovering and developing and then shaping a new generation of talents into just the right mix to contend for the sport’s biggest prize.

On Wednesday night in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, Gregg Berhalter, the U.S. coach, laid his cards on the table by revealing the 26 players who will travel this month to Qatar for the Americans’ long-anticipated return to the World Cup.

The team’s hopes will be pinned to a core of young stalwarts led by Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, Tyler Adams and a few others who have formed the foundation of the squad in recent years.

There were inevitably some surprising selections, in cluding veteran center back Tim Ream and young forward Haji Wright, neither of whom had featured much in the team’s qualifying campaign over the past year. Zack Steffen, once seen as the team’s No. 1 goalkeeper, was not on the list, and neither was Ricardo Pepi, the promising teenage striker who scored three goals for the U.S. in the qualifying tournament.

And, of course, there were lingering questions: Who will start at striker? What sort of result would represent suc cess for this group, which is talented but clearly inexperi enced? What would be considered a failure?

These will begin to be addressed Nov. 21, when the Americans face Wales in their opening match of the World Cup. They will play England next, on Nov. 25, before clos ing out the group stage against Iran on Nov. 29.

I think the best part of the last couple of days was see ing genuine smiles from the guys,” said Berhalter, who start ed video calling players who made the cut Sunday. “That’s priceless. Every player, even guys who’d concluded they’d be there 100%, when I told them, there was real genuine happiness.”

The United States is expected to be the youngest team at the World Cup. The squad, in this way, represents a wholesale generational turnover, a group of promising pros pects assembled and molded after the country’s spectacular

failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Only a few players, most notably Pulisic, remain from that previous team. And only one player in this cur rent group, right back DeAndre Yedlin, 29, has any previous World Cup experience.

“We all were pretty upset about 2018,” Yedlin said. “This is definitely a little revenge tour for that.”

At the same time, the tournament will offer some of the team’s youngest players a chance to announce them selves in front of a global audience. Gio Reyna, 19, son of former U.S. captain Claudio Reyna, is seen by some as per haps the most purely skilled player on the squad. Brenden Aaronson, 22, has become a fan favorite with Leeds United in his first season in the English Premier League for his tur bocharged play on both sides of the ball.

Amid their other issues, the Americans have been for tunate to avoid the injury bug that is making life difficult for other nations. For example, France will be without two star midfielders, Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kanté; Germany will not have forward Timo Werner; England will be short at least two defenders, Ben Chilwell and Reece James; and Mexico will miss the presence of Jesús Corona.

The conditions of several other star players are being closely monitored, including South Korean forward Heungmin Son, who had surgery last week to repair a fractured bone in his face and Sen egalese forward Sadio Mané, who injured his right knee this week.

Rather than major in juries, then, one of the big questions for the U.S. team will be whether some of the players are, essentially, too well rested.

There are the team’s

players from MLS, for example, which concluded its regular season a month ago and had its championship game Satur day. Striker Jesús Ferreira, who plays for FC Dallas, played his last competitive match Oct. 23. Yedlin last played Oct. 17, with Inter Miami. Center back Walker Zimmerman last played Oct. 15, with Nashville SC.

Berhalter convened a training camp for the MLS-based players last month to maintain their conditioning. The group played three 90-minute scrimmages with the U.S. Under-20 team. It remains to be seen how sharp these players will look when called upon in Qatar.

“We feel real good about where our fitness is coming out of that camp,” Zimmerman said. It was just an important time for all of us to stay sharp.”

Some of the players based in Europe, meanwhile, have been struggling to procure regular minutes at their clubs. Matt Turner, the goalkeeper most likely to start for the Americans, has been a backup at Arsenal. Pulisic has been used mostly as a late-game substitute for Chelsea. Right back Sergiño Dest has been appearing inconsistently for A.C. Milan.

Most of the Europe-based players will have one last game with their clubs this weekend before heading to the World Cup. They will hope to avoid injury to make sure their longtime dreams come true next week.

“It’s a bit surreal to watch them reveal roster today,” said Adams, a 23-year-old defensive midfielder. “It’s a long time coming now, a long cycle since Gregg took over.”

The roster size for this year’s tournament was increased to 26 from 23. Coaches will be allowed to make five substi tutes per game, up from three.

Along with Turner, the goalkeepers heading to Qatar will be Ethan Horvath and Sean Johnson.

In defense, Berhalter selected Ream, Yedlin, Zim merman, Dest, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Aaron Long, Shaq Moore, Antonee Robinson and Joe Scally.

The team’s midfielders are Aaronson, Adams, McKen nie, Kellyn Acosta, Luca de la Torre, Yunus Musah and Cris tian Roldan.

And the seven forwards are Ferreira, Pulisic, Reyna, Wright, Jordan Morris, Josh Sargent and Tim Weah.

Berhalter said it was “heartbreaking” telling certain players that they had not made the cut. But he declined to elaborate on the reasoning behind Steffen’s omission. As for Ream, 35, Berhalter said it was an easy decision to name him to the team — even if he had not played for the national team since the first game of the 14-game qualifying tourna ment — considering his sparkling form of late for Fulham, his club in the English Premier League.

“We hope these decisions are right,” Berhalter said. “They may not be. We’re making the best possible decisions with the information we have.”

The first group of players is set to depart Wednesday for Doha. The rest will follow in the coming days after finish ing up a final weekend of matches with their clubs.

The window for gearing up after that will be short. And all of the team’s preparations over the past few years, all of its hopes and expectations, will be quickly put to the test.

The core of Gregg Berhalter’s U.S. team has been set for months, but his final decisions included a few surprises.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Want to hurry things along concerning matters of the heart? You may have no option but to go with the flow. Communication might be stilted at first, so patience is key. But with luscious Venus aligning with ethereal Neptune, you can make a great impression by showing more of your sensitive side. And you’ll easily pick up on their true feelings for you, the more you talk, Aries.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

With lovely Venus your personal planet lining up with dreamy Neptune, it’s easy to be caught up in unrealistic feelings for someone. Even if you weren’t that drawn to them in the past, this aspect could mean you begin to see them as a dazzling presence. And yet with intense and probing influences also on the cards, you won’t be so foolish as to take someone at their word.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

The desire to help may sweep over you, Gemini. You’ll be ready to support those who are looking to make something of their life. Be practical too though, and make sure that any new plans or discussions work out as well for you as for others. If you shortchange yourself, you’ll regret it! Ready to seize an opportunity? Be flexible, and you’ll have even more of a chance.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Don’t hold back! Instead, get to grips with issues that have been weighing you down. Need to confer with someone? Mercury’s alignment with Saturn, means that a conversation could give you the focus and insight to make a decision. Yet an alluring influence might find you easily drawn in a certain direction and unable to resist temptation. If you give in, you may regret it.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

This is a mixed time, when you could so easily get caught out by a dubious scheme if you don’t have your wits about you. With other aspects causing frustration and a sense that nothing is working, you may be only too pleased to go with a plan that promises a positive outcome. If you’re prepared to wait though Leo, you might find something that perfectly meets your needs.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

You’ll be inclined to see the best in others, and to excuse their faults and failings. If you haven’t been getting on with someone, the Venus/Neptune link encourages you to forgive and forget, which will make a difference. In a romantic mood? An encounter could seem so inviting, but will it be good for you? The potent Scorpio focus can make you aware of whether it is or not.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

You could end up helping someone out, and telling yourself that you’ve done the right thing. They may be appreciative, but if you’re already behind with your own work, you might start to feel resentful. Don’t feel bad for putting yourself first over coming days, especially if you’re already experiencing difficulties with a creative or entrepreneurial idea that’s important to you.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Sometimes the way to feel better about life, is to recharge your batteries and look at ways to resolve issues that are draining you. If you need time to yourself to do this, then take it. Plus, practices such as yoga or tai chi, could help you feel more self-contained, enabling you to say no without guilt. Feel in the mood to make something beautiful? Unleash your creativity, Scorpio.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

All fired up by an idea? Your enthusiasm may be the reason you impress someone who can help you. And you might be drawn to collaborate on a project that could put you in the spotlight. Mind, a very soulful aspect suggests you and another can chime very easily. There may be a natural understanding between you, enabling you to pick up on each other’s thoughts, Archer.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

Mercury and the Sun in your social zone, enhance your desire to connect with people who are on your wavelength. You may be drawn by someone’s intellect and lively wit, and their ability to talk about things that really interest you. You love to liaise with those who have power, and if you meet someone useful, it could turn out well for you, even if you do have different values.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Mercury’s angle with Saturn in your sign is perfect for getting on with things, even if you’re dealing with tedious tasks. The key is to keep plodding along, and somehow you won’t mind this. It could even feel quite comforting. You may be drawn into a web of intrigue, as Venus ties with Neptune. If someone suggests you get involved in a moneymaking scheme, think twice!

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

The allure of what you don’t have can cause you to fantasize greatly, Pisces. An ethereal Venus/Neptune link, may find you browsing the net and losing yourself in offers and opportunities to escape the everyday grind. While this is a temporary aspect, it could cause you to fall in love with an idea. And whether practical or not, you might be keen to make it happen.

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