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Composition of Legislature could shift with general scrutiny of votes

By THE STAR STAFF

The general scrutiny of the November election, which began Tuesday, entails the counting of thousands of mail-in ballots and the recount of eight races that are on the line and the legislative ballot.

State Elections Commission (SEC) Alternate Chairwoman Jessika Padilla Rivera said the high volume of mail-in ballots could lead to changes in the results of some election contests.

“There are some fewer, some more, which, evidently, can change the final numbers, but that does not

alter the winners or the main races,” she said.

So far, she said the counts in the races for House precincts 2, 3, 1, 20 and 22, the Mayagüez Senate district and the at-large legislative seats could change after the scrutiny. That is mainly because the write-in ballots must be counted by hand and not by machines.

Depending on the results, lawmakers will know if the so-called Minority Law will be applied. The law says that if a party obtains a majority of two-thirds in one or in the two legislative chambers, another minority party lawmaker may have to be added.

In explaining the scrutiny process, Padilla Rivera said that if the minutes of the scrutiny match the minutes of incidents, the ballot box in question is balanced. If the minutes do not match, the case containing ballots must be opened and counted again.

“If it requires a recount, which is what we are talking about with the legislative ballot, then the ‘briefcase’ is opened and that legislative ballot is recounted,” the SEC official said.

During the scrutiny, all political parties must be represented.

Padilla Rivera pointed out that the recount is done with the counting machines and only what is not read by the machine is counted manually, which, of course, includes write-in votes.

SEC gives 3 days for verification of addresses for certain mail-in ballots

By THE STAR STAFF

State Elections Commission Alternate Chairwoman

Jessika Padilla Rivera gave three days to early voters who did not include a copy of their identification when they mailed their ballots, to certify their addresses to the Administrative Board for Absentee and Early Voting (JAVA by its acronym in Spanish).

Some 450 voters who did not submit identification with their absentee or mail-in ballots will receive an official call from the SEC in the next few days to verify their address, the official said.

“The Administrative Board for Absentee and Early Voting is currently validating those applications that

are still pending validation, mainly in the address, when they provided an address that is different from the General Registry of Voters, in which case we have to validate that in effect that address is valid,” Padilla Rivera said.

Asked whether envelopes whose addresses cannot be validated will be canceled, she said “we will be calling and making arrangements with the voters until the scrutiny is finished.”

According to the data provided by the official, the SEC has received 136,713 envelopes containing mailin ballots, out of some 145,917 requests they received for such ballots. For absentee voting, meanwhile, the agency received 6,806 envelopes.

State Elections Commission Alternate Chairwoman Jessika Padilla Rivera

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Amid surge in femicides, a call for new strategies to prevent violence against women

By THE STAR STAFF

Pointing out that in just over two weeks four women have been murdered by their partners or ex-partners, Lisdel Flores Barger, the director of Hogar Ruth, urged governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón to call on various sectors of the government, private companies and nonprofits to form a united front with new strategies to stop femicides and violence against women.

“We can no longer continue to see, almost routinely, shocking deaths like that of the strangled woman who was then thrown out onto the street in a suitcase,” Flores said, referring to this past weekend’s slaying in Guánica of 37-year-old Annette Gaya Concepción, a crime for which her 25-year-old partner has been charged. “The value of the lives of women who are murdered because of an argument, because of jealousy, by sexist men who believe they own them is minimized. In just a few days there have been four femicides with women strangled, stabbed, shot. How many more do we have to see die in the place where they are supposed to feel safest, which is their home? How many more have to live with uncertainty and terrifying fear? The time has passed to unite in a true common plan to stop this absurd violence. We must save lives and create a society in which women and their children can live without fear.”

The director of Hogar Ruth, a community organization that has been serving the needs of survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking since 1984, highlighted that the governor-elect is sensitive to this

Lisdel Flores Barger, director of Hogar Ruth

issue and as resident commissioner in Washington supported funding for the Hogar Ruth women’s shelter, where the development of an integrated center to provide an array of services to victims under one roof will proceed. “This center seeks to be an innovative model and does not currently exist in Puerto Rico, as we did with the successful project of a Montessori Development Center, the only one within and outside the jurisdiction of Puerto Rico that serves the children of survivors with a Montessori model integrating trauma management.”

Flores suggested that this type of initiative and others focused on prevention should be replicated, and ways of implementing them must be a priority at all levels of government and in all social sectors in Puerto Rico.

She noted that during the four-year period

since the PARE Committee was created, which in some instances was positive, more could have been done.

“Organizations like Hogar Ruth receive funds to work with the remedy and the funds are only intended to work with the service,” Flores said. “There is very little or almost nothing that we can do in terms of prevention and education. We recognize that this is everyone’s job, but we have fallen short as a country in campaigns that go to the core of the problem. I have maintained the importance of creating sustained campaigns through all the spaces of the services that are available and how these services are translated, which are those that a survivor can access to save their lives. For this, all sectors need a common goal so that the dissemination of guidance to victims of violence is necessary so that they can escape

from the unsafe environment. [This is] in addition to continuing to insist on education, among the many things that we lack.”

Just this month, when the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is to be commemorated on Nov. 25, killings of women have increased in Puerto Rico. Since Oct. 25, there have been four femicides: Claudia Martínez Suárez, 33, was strangled to death that day in her residence in Barrio Obrero; Janice Báez Gracia, 50, was shot to death in Hormigueros on Nov. 1; Yesenia González Ayala, 49, was stabbed to death in San Sebastián on Nov. 3; and Gaya Concepción, 37, was strangled on Saturday, Nov. 9 in Guánica and her body was thrown into the street in a cloth suitcase in front of a school. Their partners or ex-partners have been accused in the femicides, and some have confessed.

“At the shelter I run, Hogar Ruth, we save lives every day of women who escape with their children from an environment of violence,” said Flores, whose organization through its nine programs served 8,536 survivors and their children in 2023. “When speaking with the victims, I have seen the pain firsthand, the uncertainty and the restlessness. The first thing a victim mentions when receiving any of our services is to tell us that they were unaware of all this help and if they had known before they would not have been so afraid to leave. Leaving is difficult, but what happens in the process with us is truly hopeful. It is looking to the future with enthusiasm and betting on a new life that includes managing all the needs of the victim, their daughters and sons.”

Woman sentenced to 3 years in prison for $1.1 million fraud scheme

By THE STAR STAFF

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Raúl Arias Marxuach has sentenced Zuleika Molina Orozco, the former comptroller of a not-for-profit sports and social club at a resort in Humacao, to 37 months in prison for a wire fraud scheme, according to a press statement issued Tuesday.

According to court documents, Molina Orozco was the comptroller of Company A, a not-for-profit sports and social club, and had access and control over Company A’s bank account, the statement said.

Between October 2019 and March 2022, Molina Orozco fraudulently made 39 unauthorized wire transfers from Company A’s bank account to three of her credit cards and

two unauthorized wire transfers to another bank account, all totaling $1,100,283.36. The money the defendant obtained from the fraud scheme was used to pay the defendant’s personal credit card expenses, to purchase a 2020 Ford F-150 truck, and to transfer money to other individuals.

She was sentenced last Thursday.

The defendant pleaded guilty to all eight counts on April 4 of this year. Molina Orozco also was ordered to pay restitution of $1,100,283.36, which corresponds to the money she obtained from the fraud scheme.

U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow of the District of Puerto Rico, and Rebecca C. González Ramos, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) made the announcement.

HSI investigated the case.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico W. Stephen Muldrow

New health data portal represents ‘significant advance’

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Department of Health launched a new data portal on Tuesday that replaces the previous dashboard focused on COVID-19, expanding access to information on infectious diseases, public health and epidemiological surveillance.

The portal is available at https://datos. salud.pr.gov/

“This portal represents a significant advance in our commitment to transparency and the availability of reliable data, ensuring that citizens have access to essential

information for their well-being,” Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López said in a written statement.

The new website allows users to consult and download data on various conditions of public interest, such as dengue, hepatitis C, influenza, HIV/AIDS and respiratory syncytial virus, among others. The tool facilitates informed decision-making for disease prevention and control, the Health secretary said.

The project, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is part of the Department of Health’s data modernization efforts to strengthen the public health response and ensure access to reliable and accessible information.

Senator asks for inspection of retaining walls

By THE STAR STAFF

Sen. Marissa “Marissita” Jiménez Santoni requested on Tuesday that the Transportation and Public Works (DTOP) Secretary Eileen Vélez Vega inspect all the retaining walls on the expressways in the jurisdiction of Carolina, due to the possible collapse of one of the structures between Jesús M. Fragoso Avenue and the exit for the Plaza Carolina shopping center off the Román Baldorioty de Castro expressway. As reported by the STAR, Carolina Mayor José Aponte Dalmau called attention to the fractured and leaking

retaining wall in a Monday press release in which he said he had made his own request to DTOP to address the matter with urgency.

Jiménez also asked Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago to hold a public hearing to establish a program for evaluating retaining walls along roads and streets throughout the municipality of Carolina.

“DTOP is currently responding to this emergency,” the Carolina District senator said. “However, it can be understood that in the same way that the wall in question began to crack under the weight of the earth undermined

by the rains, there are other retaining walls on avenues and/or expressways in Carolina that could be in the same or near the same [condition].”

DTOP closed the aforementioned exit to assess the damage and begin a process of stabilizing the retaining wall.

“Given this reality and taking into consideration the urgency of ensuring the integrity of these structures near high-volume roads, I call on the DTOP secretary to order, in an expeditious manner, a study of all the soil retaining walls throughout Carolina,” said Jiménez, adding that she will make the request official in a letter to Vélez Vega.

“This is a matter of safety, to avoid a disaster.”

UPR to hold 29th Christmas Festival

By THE STAR STAFF

University of Puerto Rico (UPR) President Luis Ferrao Delgado extended an invitation earlier this week to the university community and the general public to participate in the 29th edition of the UPR’s Christmas Festival (“Festival de Pascuas”).

Each year, the Botanical Garden in San Juan is the site of the University of Puerto Rico’s Christmas Festival, or “Festival de Pascuas.”

“We invite all to the UPR Botanical Garden, where you can enjoy an ample variety of poinsettia and choose your favorite, as well as local handicraft,” Ferrao said. “In addition, we will have an agricultural market, educational workshops, agricultural presentations and artistic performances.”

Each year, the UPR Botanical Garden welcomes the Christmas season with the family event. This year’s festival takes place Saturday, Nov. 23 and Sunday, Nov. 24.

Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López

Sen. Marissa Jiménez Santoni

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California counts methodically as House control hangs in the balance

By SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA, ORLANDO MAYORQUÍN and CORAL MURPHY MARCOS

The nation is again waiting on California to finish tallying votes almost a week after Election Day.

The state has most of the remaining undecided races that will determine the balance of power in the House, and its slow vote-counting process has drawn greater scrutiny — and some scorn — as each day goes by.

While many states tallied the bulk of their ballots within hours of polls’ closing last Tuesday, California still had nearly 5 million to count going into this holiday weekend, just under one-third of all of the ballots that were cast there.

Leaders in California, the nation’s most populous state, defend the deliberate process as necessary to ensure that the tallies are accurate and that as many voters participate as possible. They say their generous provisions for voters give the public greater confidence.

The delay in full results has left Americans wondering why the balance of power in the House is yet to be known. It has also opened avenues for disinformation, with Democrats and Republicans seizing upon the incomplete results as evidence of voter fraud or manipulation.

Counting votes in California is not as simple as running ballots through a machine.

The state is one of a handful nationwide where every registered, active voter is mailed a ballot. Mail-in ballots take longer to process than those cast in person.

Election offices must verify that the signature on each envelope matches the voter’s signature on file. Instead of throwing out ballots that were filled out improperly, election workers in California spend days calling voters and giving them another chance to verify their signatures so that their votes can be counted.

This process, known as ballot curing, occurs in half of U.S. states. But because nearly all of California’s ballots are mailed or hand-delivered in envelopes, the verification process is more tedious than elsewhere.

And unlike most other states, California counts ballots that arrive up to a week late, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.

Twenty years ago, only one-third of California voters cast ballots by mail, and 81% of votes were counted within two days of Election Day. In the primary election in March this year, when nearly 90% were cast by mail, only 59% had been counted within two days, according to an analysis by the nonprofit California Voter Foundation.

California gives counties 30 days to finalize their tallies, far longer than most states do. That means that counties can count at whatever speed suits them, hiring varying levels of reinforcements and drawing up different work schedules, as long as they finish by the deadline, said Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, the top election official in California.

Weber said in an interview that she thought Califor-

nians were accustomed to a slower vote count and that other Americans became impatient only when there were national stakes, as is the case now with the House.

“That’s not our problem,” she said. “We go as fast as we can.”

California is responsible for the largest share of the outstanding ballots left.

Because Vice President Kamala Harris currently has 10 million fewer votes nationwide than President Joe Biden did in 2020, a handful of Democrats have made unfounded claims that Republicans must have caused millions of ballots for Harris to disappear. Some Republicans in turn have incorrectly asserted that the current count for Harris is a more accurate reflection of national support for Democrats and shows that Biden received fraudulent votes four years ago.

“Even actions that are actually just good-faith efforts to have a reliable election” can become fodder for conspiracy theories, said Eric Schickler, a political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “There’s a lot of suspicion and distrust of governmental institutions — this ends up playing into that.”

Weber said that she was aware that an information vacuum could lead to false narratives, but she did not think that providing results faster in California would do much to stop election conspiracists.

“They’re going to do that anyway,” she said. “The reality is that even things that have been resolved, they create stories about them. We want to count every vote.”

In 2022, it took two weeks to determine the winner of a tight U.S. House race in a Northern California district. In 2018, a long delay led then-Speaker Paul Ryan to question the integrity of the state’s voting system after Republicans lost several House contests in which it initially appeared that they would sail to victory.

As of Monday, nine of the 16 uncalled House races

that will determine control of the chamber were in California, including in Orange County and the Central Valley. Five are among the most hotly contested in the nation.

Alameda County in Northern California, which includes Oakland, has counted more slowly than any other large county in California and had tallied only about one-third of its ballots two days after the election. The county does not have any battleground House races, but The Associated Press determined Monday that the Oakland mayor and Alameda County district attorney had both been recalled by voters.

Election offices do not process ballots 24 hours a day. Many count during normal business hours and give workers days off before the counts are complete. In Orange and Marin counties, employees were working Saturday and Monday but not Sunday. In Contra Costa County, counters stopped working Friday and will start again Tuesday morning.

A rush of last-minute ballots compounded the state’s counting burdens. Many local election officials said far more ballots arrived on Election Day this time than did four years ago. That meant that workers had less of a head start on counting, officials said.

In Los Angeles, the most populous county in the United States, roughly 4 million voters cast ballots, with 1 million mailin ballots dropped off on Election Day, said Mike Sanchez, a spokesperson with the registrar’s office. Election workers had to finish staffing polling places and counting in-person votes Tuesday before they pivoted to processing those mail-in ballots.

The delays in California’s tally have most likely distorted the popular-vote tally in the race between Harris and President-elect Donald Trump, Schickler said. The current figures show Trump leading nationwide by about 3.6 million votes, but millions of Democratic votes have yet to be counted in California and other West Coast states.

Schickler said that Trump’s victory could ultimately look similar to Biden’s in 2020, with a smaller popular-vote win than there seemed to be on election night. Regardless, it will be difficult for Democrats to reframe the results for the public two weeks later.

“The narrative sets in and can be misleading, and California coming in so late contributes to that,” he said.

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Election workers remove ballots from envelopes at a county building in City of Industry, Calif., on Nov. 9, 2024. California still had nearly five million votes to count going into the holiday weekend. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)

Ruben Gallego wins Arizona Senate race, defeating Kari Lake

By KELLEN BROWNING

Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Phoenix-area Democrat and military veteran, has won the Senate race in Arizona, The Associated Press said Monday night — a bright spot for Democrats after Republicans regained control of the chamber.

Gallego defeated his Republican opponent, Kari Lake, a fiery ally of President-elect Donald Trump’s, after leading her by sizable margins throughout the summer and the fall. The final result was much closer than some predictions, another sign of Republican strength throughout the country.

Gallego is a five-term congressman who grew up in a working-class Chicago family, working jobs as a teenager to support his family and sometimes sleeping on the floor of their apartment. He attended Harvard University and fought in the Iraq War as a Marine. He will become Arizona’s first Latino senator, replacing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent and former Democrat.

At a news conference in Phoenix late Monday night, Gallego, with tears in his eyes, referred to his humble roots.

“For the kids sleeping on the floor, dreaming about a better, better America and a better, better future, this victory is for you,” he said.

After going decades without electing a Democrat to

the Senate, Arizona’s voters have now done so in four successive elections, underscoring the state’s shift from reliable conservative stronghold to competitive battleground. Voters backed Sinema in 2018, picked Sen. Mark Kelly in a special election in 2020 and then elected him again in 2022.

But Gallego’s victory is perhaps the most notable from an ideological standpoint. For years, he was an outspoken progressive, and there were early questions about whether he would come across as too liberal to be elected statewide.

Gallego announced in January 2023 that he would challenge Sinema for her seat, after she angered Democrats by voting with Republicans to stymie key pieces of President Joe Biden’s agenda.

During his campaign, he caught two big breaks. One came when Sinema announced this year that she would not run for reelection, allowing him to consolidate the support of Democratic voters.

The other was the entrance of Lake, a former television anchor and vocal ally of Trump’s who rose to prominence through a divisive governor’s race in 2022, during which she insulted her fellow Republicans and championed Trump’s baseless election conspiracy theories.

Lake alienated many on the right with her tactics, especially after she filed a series of fruitless lawsuits contesting her 2022 loss. Republicans nevertheless mostly coalesced

around her in the GOP primary for Senate this year, giving Gallego as vulnerable an opponent as he could hope for.

Lake’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On Election Day, she told reporters that she would “accept the results of the election.”

Gallego, who was once known for lobbing profanities at Republicans on social media, ran a disciplined campaign. He successfully rebranded himself as an even-tempered moderate, highlighting his veteran status and pitching himself as a pragmatic legislator who would focus on lowering costs for families and championing tribal water rights. Strategists also expected Gallego, because of his background and military experience, to perform better among Latino men — a group that Vice President Kamala Harris seemed to struggle with.

He enjoyed an enormous cash advantage over Lake, which enabled him to introduce himself to voters on his terms. He also crisscrossed the state, visiting all 22 of Arizona’s federally recognized Native American tribes.

Lake was an underdog throughout the fall, with polls showing her consistently trailing Gallego, even as Trump led Harris in Arizona.

She failed to land a decisive blow at the candidates’ sole televised debate, in early October. And in the waning days of the campaign, she was unable to generate a big moment that could swing the race.

Wildfire grows in New Jersey and New York, despite modest rainfall

By ANDY NEWMAN and MARK BONAMO

Awildfire consuming a vast stretch of hilly forest along the New York-New Jersey border continued to grow earlier this week despite the first significant rainfall in nearly six weeks, fire officials said. Bone-dry weather and gusts of up to 40 mph are expected to sweep through the region Tuesday, raising the risk that the fire will continue to spread.

More than 3,500 acres were burning in New Jersey and New York as of Monday night, and the fire was expected to grow to more than 5,000 acres, a spokesperson for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said.

About 20% of the New Jersey portion of the fire was contained, according to the state’s Forest Fire Service. It was not clear how much of the New York portion of the fire was contained.

The rain Sunday night, measuring just a quarter of an inch across the region, only temporarily slowed the fire’s growth, said Christopher Franek, an assistant division fire warden for the Forest Fire Service.

“We’re throwing everything we’ve got at it,” he said. “A lot of manual labor is choking on smoke and dust.” Five thousand acres is nearly 8 square miles — about a third the size of Manhattan.

Hundreds of firefighters from dozens of fire departments in both states are battling the blaze in a rugged patch of Passaic County in New Jersey and Orange County in New York near the Appalachian Trail.

“Everything is a blur right now,” said Franek, who added he had been up for more than two days straight. “Getting to the

included areas that had stopped burning. (Dakota Santiago/The New York Times)

fire has been a real struggle.”

The fire, which started Friday, claimed the life of an 18-yearold New York state parks worker over the weekend when a tree fell on him. No evacuations have been ordered, but about 10 structures are threatened in New Jersey, officials said.

The Jennings Creek fire is one of hundreds that have flared up in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut during a season of record-breaking drought. As mid-November arrives, trees cloaked in dead, dry late-autumn leaves have become towers of tinder.

Jay Engle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service covering New York City and the surrounding area, said that not much had changed in the fire risk forecast.

“We got a little bit of a wetting rainfall, but as we go into tomorrow things are going to dry out again,” he said. Humidity levels as low as 35% are expected in the area Tuesday, and there is little chance of rain over the next week.

“If we got an inch of rain, it would quiet us down,” Engle said, “but unfortunately we have no relief in sight.”

The fires blanketed much of the New York City metropolitan region in acrid smoke over the weekend. The air quality improved somewhat Monday, with the State Department of Environmental Conservation reporting that the city’s pollution level was “moderate.”

In New Jersey, the Forest Fire Service has responded to more than 500 fires since early October, more than 10 times the number that the agency fought in the same period last year.

In Connecticut, authorities were monitoring 82 fires, including more than a dozen that had broken out in the past few days.

Firefighters battle flames from the Jennings Creek fire in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., Nov. 10, 2024. The Jennings Creek fire nearly doubled in size on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024, to 5,000 acres, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, though the estimate

‘Worst economic nightmare has come true’: Europe braces for Trump

By PATRICIA COHEN

The outlook for Europe’s economy has been disappointing.

Last week — after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election — it got worse.

Deep uncertainty about the Trump administration’s policies on trade, technology, Ukraine, climate change and more is expected to chill investment and hamstring growth. The launch of a possible tariff war by the United States, the biggest trading partner and closest ally of the European Union and Britain, would hammer major industries such as automobiles, pharmaceuticals and machinery.

And the need to raise military spending because of doubts about the United States’ guarantees in Europe would further strain national budgets and increase deficits.

In addition, Trump’s more confrontational attitude toward China could pressure Europe to pick sides or face retribution.

“Europe’s worst economic nightmare has come true,” said Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at the Dutch bank ING. The developments, he warned, could push the eurozone into “a full-blown recession” next year.

People celebrate the results of the second round of legislative elections in France, which took months to form a government after the vote, at Place de la Republic in Paris, July 7, 2024. As a new Trump era begins, internal political squabbles and the fallout from a global backlash to inflation, immigration and ruling elites are hobbling Germany and France. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)

With political turmoil in Germany and France, Europe’s two largest economies, this latest blow could hardly come at a worse time.

The same day that Trump’s victory was announced, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz effectively disbanded his coalition government over deep differences about spending priorities and deficits.

For Germany, which is already weathering a second year of recession, the economic challenges posed by another Trump administration are particularly acute. Its economy foundered after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and the flow of cheap Russian gas — a key ingredient in the country’s industrial success — ended.

Germany is struggling on two fronts. Volkswagen, the continent’s biggest automaker and Germany’s largest employer, recently announced that it would probably close plants and lay off workers. Competition from Chinese electric cars has already bitten into the sector’s sales overseas and in Europe.

Leaders are torn between placating China or confronting it. The German government last month voted against the EU’s plan to impose tariffs as high as 45% on electric vehicles made in China. Other countries such as Spain abstained. A majority approved, and in response, China slapped new duties on European brandy, most of which comes from France.

Tit-for-tat tariffs between the United States and the EU would further dim the outlook for the auto industry. The United States is the largest market for cars exported from Germany, accounting for nearly 13% of the 3.1 million autos that it sold abroad in 2023.

Trump’s talk during the campaign of making the EU “pay a big price” for not buying enough American imports and imposing across-the-board tariffs of 10% or 20% may be a starting point for negotiations. Yet even analysts who expect him to take more modest steps say targeted duties on the auto industry are likely.

“Many in Europe have not yet fully understood what it means to think about geopolitics and economic policy together,” said Hildegard Müller, president of the German Association of the Automotive Industry.

Higher American tariffs, of course, reach far beyond Germany and the automotive industry to include Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company behind Ozempic, as well as sectors such as food, wine, cheese, pearls, chemicals, nuclear reactors, glassware, shoes and more in more than two dozen countries.

Luisa Santos, deputy director of BusinessEurope, a lobbying group representing thousands of companies, warned that tariffs would raise costs and hamper investment.

“We’re still hoping that because of the importance of the economic relationship, they will be reconsidered and we won’t have them,” she said of tariffs. Direct investment from the EU in the United States totaled $2.4 trillion in 2022, which in turn created more than 3.4 million American jobs, according to the EU.

Currently, the average U.S. tariff for European imports is about 3% to 4%.

Meanwhile, higher U.S. duties on China, another of Trump’s trade promises, would probably encourage Chinese manufacturers to expand sales outside the United States, heightening competition with European producers.

European companies may look to set up or expand pro-

duction in the United States. Yet any manufacturer that uses materials imported from China would find costs rising no matter where their facilities were.

Vestas, a Danish company and the world’s leading wind turbine maker, said it was already increasing production at its two American plants in Colorado. More than 40% of its orders originated in the Americas in the three months that ended in September.

“The world has become different in terms of tariffs,” Vestas CEO Henrik Andersen said on a call with industry analysts last week. Vestas has already had to navigate tariffs that were imposed during the first Trump administration and the Biden administration, he said. “Which is why you try to exclude more and more volumes and more and more components from China origin when it’s about the U.S.,” he said.

The need for a coordinated EU response dominated last week’s summit in Budapest, Hungary.

“The sense of urgency is greater than it was a week ago,” said Mario Draghi, the former Italian prime minister who recently completed a report on European competitiveness.

Draghi called for increasing yearly public investment by $900 billion to enable Europe to reverse its stagnant economy and compete better with the United States and China.

More important now, he said, is to redouble efforts to link the bloc’s economies with a single capital market and by issuing common debt, proposals that have bred contention.

“Don’t ask what the U.S. can do for you, ask what Europe should do for itself,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said at the meeting. “Europe must find a balance. We know what we have to do.”

By the meeting’s end, leaders adopted a declaration promising to ramp up Europe’s competitiveness.

But whether the EU can turn those sentiments into reality remains an unanswered question given increasing political fragmentation within Europe and the rise of right-wing parties that are skeptical of giving Brussels more power.

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Wall Street indexes dip with focus on economic data

Major Wall Street indexes closed lower on Tuesday as investors booked some profits from a post-election rally and turned cautious ahead of U.S. economic data due this week.

The three major indexes had rallied to record highs since the Nov. 5 U.S. election as investors bet on a boost to equities from President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts and the prospect of easier regulatory policies.

But investor enthusiasm was dampened on Tuesday. European shares lost 2% as European Central Bank policymakers warned that increased tariffs from Trump would hamper global growth.

Some of the stocks expected to perform well under Trump gave back gains with shares in electric car maker Tesla falling during Tuesday’s session after rising nearly 40% since election day.

The small-cap Russell 2000 index lost ground after closing at a three-year high on Monday. And rising U.S. Treasury yields hurt equities as bond investors priced in Trump policies.

“The 10-year Treasury yield is kind of creating a headwind against the equity rally. There’s sort of these conflicting signals where investors are celebrating all of these growth initiatives but the bond market is pushing back,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Cresset Capital.

“The problem is between tariffs, tax cuts and immigration restrictions, it really is pushing on creating inflation pressure that the bond market can’t ignore.”

Russell Price, chief economist at Ameriprise Financial, said the decline in stocks overseas added some pressure to U.S. stocks, along with profit-taking ahead of inflation data.

“When we opened up already experiencing some downside with the very strong run that we’ve had, investors tend to look to take some profits just in case stocks continue to slide,” Price said.

On investors’ radar is Wednesday’s consumer price inflation data, followed by producer prices inflation and retail sales data later this week, as these could provide clues about the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy path going forward.

The data presents a near-term risk to investments, said Price. “It very likely is contributing to a little bit of the downside that we’re seeing today.”

According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 lost 17.17 points, or 0.29%, to end at 5,984.18 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 16.00 points, or 0.08%, to 19,282.76. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 377.45 points, or 0.85%, to 43,915.68.

Markets have already dialed back expectations for interest-rate reductions over the next year, given strong economic data and the possible inflationary impact of some Trump policies.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari said Tuesday afternoon that U.S. monetary policy is “modestly restrictive,” with short-term borrowing costs continuing to slow inflation and the economy, but not by a lot.

Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said earlier in

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the day that the U.S. central bank is ready to respond if inflation pressures rise or the job market weakens.

Biotech firm Novavax dropped after cutting its annual revenue forecast due to lower-than-expected sales of its COVID-19 vaccine.

Honeywell hit a record high after activist investor Elliott Investment said it has built a stake worth more than $5 billion in the industrial conglomerate.

Wall Street firms are expected to pay heftier bonuses for this year, the first increase since a bumper year in 2021, according to a report by compensation consultancy Johnson Associates.

Payouts will probably rise after financiers benefited from several factors in recent months: a recovery in dealmaking, the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates and equity markets surging to record highs, said the consultancy’s founder, Alan Johnson.

“This year has been surprisingly good, and the industry is quite optimistic about 2025, especially with the potential of announcing more M&A deals,” he said, referring to mergers and acquisitions.

While bonuses will be more generous, they will remain below the record levels from 2021, when revenue and compensation were “abnormally good,” Johnson said.

Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over UK church abuse scandal

By STEPHEN CASTLE and MARK LANDLER

The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Justin Welby, resigned Tuesday after a damning report concluded that he had failed to pursue a proper investigation into claims of widespread abuse of boys and young men decades ago at Christian summer camps.

Pressure had mounted relentlessly on Welby, who serves as the spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, after the report was published. Helen-Ann Hartley, a senior figure in the church and the bishop of Newcastle, called on him publicly to step aside, while Prime Minister Keir Starmer pointedly declined to back him.

Welby’s resignation brings to an abrupt end an eventful and occasionally stormy tenure, during which he became Britain’s best-known cleric, presiding over momentous public ceremonies like the coronation of King Charles III and becoming an impassioned voice on issues like migration.

But Welby struggled to hold together a church cleaved between progressives and traditionalists, and he was ultimately brought down by the same type of sexabuse scandals that have toppled leaders of the Catholic Church.

“It is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatizing period between 2013 and 2024,” Welby said in a statement Tuesday, confirming that he had sought permission from the king to resign.

“I hope this decision makes clear how seriously the Church of England understands the need for change and our profound commitment to creating a safer church,” Welby said. “As I step down I do so in sorrow with all victims and survivors of abuse.”

The turmoil in the Church of England follows a cascade of scandals in the Catholic Church in which the failure to protect young people from predatory priests and the lack of proper investigations into accusations of wrongdoing have soiled the church’s reputation in several countries.

Under the Church of England’s rules, managing the selection of Welby’s successor falls to a committee known as the Crown Nominations Commission. It submits the name of a preferred candidate and a backup to the prime minister, who then advises the monarch on the appointment.

That process could take several

“I promised to see them and failed until 2020,” he said. “This was wrong.”

That television report gave details of how Smyth had groomed boys and young men at Christian summer camps, universities and at Winchester College, a top British private school, before subjecting them to savage beatings.

Smyth convinced those he abused “that the way to Christ was through suffering,” the Makin report said, adding that he subjected them to “traumatic physical, sexual, psychological and spiritual attacks. The impact of that abuse is impossible to overstate and has permanently marked the lives of his victims.”

The report said it had found “clear evidence that the abuse perpetrated by John Smyth in the U.K.” was “‘covered up’, minimized and held as ‘secret’ from at least 1982 (and possibly earlier.)”

months, experts on the church said, and it is cloaked in mystery. By custom, candidates for archbishop do not promote themselves for the job, whose roots date to 597. Welby, 68, confessed to astonishment that he had been chosen as the 105th archbishop. He has held the job since 2013 and was scheduled to retire in 2026.

Welby had navigated a bitter, yearslong debate in the church over how to treat same-sex marriage. The Church of England allows priests to bless same-sex couples, though it continues to debate a more formal recognition of these unions. But it was his handling of the sex-abuse scandal that proved his undoing.

Last week, the independent review concluded that the archbishop had failed to take sufficient action following reports of “abhorrent” abuse by John Smyth, a senior British lawyer, of more than 100 boys and young men since the 1970s and 1980s.

The report, compiled by Keith Makin, a former social services director, said that over four decades, Smyth became “arguably, the most prolific serial abuser to be associated with the Church of England,” operating in three countries, where he inflicted physical, sexual and psychologi-

cal attacks on as many as 130 people. He died in 2018 in South Africa.

The report criticized the actions of a number of people within the church. “Despite the efforts of some individuals to bring the abuse to the attention of authorities, the responses by the Church of England and others were wholly ineffective and amounted to a cover-up,” it said.

In a statement in response to Makin’s report, Welby said he had had “no idea or suspicion of this abuse before 2013,” but that he then “personally failed” to ensure that the claims of abuse were investigated properly. Welby said in 2017 that he had met Smyth but “wasn’t a close friend of his.”

Repeating an apology he made to the reviewers, Welby acknowledged that “he did not meet quickly with victims after the full horror of the abuse was revealed” by Britain’s Channel 4 in 2017.

From July 2013, the Church of England knew, at the highest level, about the abuse, it said, while Welby became aware of the claims against Smyth around August 2013, in his capacity as archbishop of Canterbury. It added: “There was a distinct lack of curiosity shown by these senior figures and a tendency toward minimization of the matter, demonstrated by the absence of any further questioning and follow up.”

The report said Smyth could and should have been reported to the police in 2013, a step that probably would have led to a full investigation; the uncovering of the serial nature of the abuses in Britain, involving multiple victims; and the possibility of his being convicted.

On Monday, before Welby’s announcement, Hartley, the bishop of Newcastle, told the BBC: “I think rightly people are asking the question, ‘Can we really trust the Church of England to keep us safe?’ And I think the answer at the moment is ‘no.’”

The Most Rev. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, in the chapel at Lambeth Palace, his residence in London, Dec. 15, 2023. Welby announced his resignation on Nov. 12, 2024, days after a report concluded that he had failed to ensure a proper investigation into claims that more than 100 boys and young men were abused decades ago at Christian summer camps. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)

Amsterdam authorities say they expect more arrests related to violent clashes

By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE, JIM TANKERSLEY and ROSANNE KROPMAN

Authorities in Amsterdam said Tuesday they expected to make more arrests in connection with what they have called antisemitic assaults on Israeli soccer fans in the city last week, as well as related confrontations and incendiary behavior by both sides.

In the city government’s first detailed report on the events, police said 62 people had already been arrested in connection with the violence, including 10 people who lived in Israel.

Most of the arrests were for minor offenses, authorities said: Forty-five people were issued fines for disturbing the peace, unruly behavior or being unable to show identification when requested by police officers. Nearly a dozen more cases remain under investigation. Four Dutch suspects are still being held on more serious charges, including two teenagers who are accused of assault and violence against riot police.

Authorities did not specify why the Israeli residents had been arrested.

Officials said they were still investigating whether the attacks had been organized.

“What happened over the past few days is a toxic cocktail of antisemitism, hooligan behavior, and anger over the war in Palestine and Israel, and other countries in the Middle East,” Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema wrote in the report. The findings were to be presented to the City Council on Tuesday.

The report offered only a few new details about the attacks and about the inflammatory behavior and vandalism by some Israeli fans surrounding a soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam on Thursday.

It defended both the mayor’s decision to allow visiting fans to attend the match and the police response once violence broke out on Nov. 6. Officials say that 1,200 police were deployed to keep the peace Nov. 6 and Thursday, and that at least 500 officers were still on the streets after midnight those days.

Still, the report concedes that officers struggled to prevent attacks on Maccabi fans Thursday night after the match, which were carried out by assailants who quickly fled on electric bikes, scooters and on foot. They also did not stop what the report describes as some Maccabi fans using sticks to commit acts of vandalism in the city center.

The report details how, after the events of Nov. 6, the city tried to appeal to both UEFA, soccer’s governing body in Europe, and the Israeli government to remind fans that the

event was a sports match and should “not be mixed with politics.”

The report also described how tensions remained high in the city — and how threats persisted to its Jewish and Muslim communities. Officials said a man was thrown out of a taxi at 3 a.m. over the weekend for being Jewish. A synagogue received a bomb threat, which turned out to be false.

There were calls online to attack mosques, officials said, and another attempt to burn a Palestinian flag. On Nov. 6, before the match, a group of Maccabi fans stole and burned a Palestinian flag in central Amsterdam.

“Antisemitism can’t be answered with other racism: The safety of one group cannot be at the expense of the safety of another,” Halsema noted.

The report adds that city authorities took special precautions before the game, though the match itself was not considered especially high risk. None of the intelligence or terrorism watchdog groups the city consulted had raised the threat level, the report said.

Authorities highlighted that the match had coincided with the 86th anniversary of Nazi pogroms, which were officially commemorated in the city’s Portuguese Synagogue. It also noted that authorities permitted a pro-Palestinian demonstration close to the stadium that day.

Tensions started Nov. 6, both on social media and on Amsterdam’s streets. The report notes videos showing supporters engaging in “racist and hateful chants” against Arabs. Police arrested four people on suspicion of daubing pro-Palestinian graffiti at the soc-

cer stadium, which is outside the city center, at around 11 p.m.

Later that evening, about 50 Maccabi supporters, some with their faces covered, gathered in a downtown area. They pulled down a Palestinian flag hanging from a building.

The group then split up. Police report said that a number of the Maccabi supporters took off their belts and used them to attack the exterior of a cab. The report does not say if anyone was in the vehicle.

Around the same time, the report said a call had gone out on a chat group used by cabdrivers to gather at a casino where 400 Israeli supporters were present.

On the day of the match, the city appealed to taxi drivers and ride-share providers asking them “not to seek confrontation and not to be provoked.”

Officials reported there were more confrontations around 1 p.m. Thursday, the report said, when a large group of Israeli fans gathered on Dam Square, in the center of Amsterdam. Fireworks were launched — the report does not say by whom — but police were mostly able to keep the groups apart.

Around midnight, after the match, the report said, clashes intensified. A group of Maccabi supporters gathered back on Dam Square, some armed with sticks; some of the fans committed acts of vandalism, the report added.

Around this time, small groups of men spread throughout city center and carried out assaults on individual Israeli supporters who were not part of the big group of fans. Police, the report said, struggled to stop them because the assailants would “briefly attack Maccabi supporters and then disappear again.”

In a special council meeting following the release of the report, Sheher Khan, a prominent Muslim member, accused Halsema of not paying enough attention to the actions of Maccabi supporters. The mayor defended her response.

“Terrible things were said” by the fans, Halsema said, “but going on a ‘Jew hunt’ goes a step further. That means going through the city in an organized fashion, keeping each other informed, asking people their passports, seeing if they meet the criteria the perpetrators think fit Jews, and then beating them up. That is unacceptable.”

Halsema also said that “quite a lot has been shattered” in both the city’s Jewish and Muslim communities, and said the divisions between those communities were not characteristic of the city.

“I hope we will find the way up again,” she said.

Amsterdam’s Dam Square, where the attacks reportedly began. (Wikipedia)

Why Trump’s deportations will drive up your grocery bill

By PAUL KRUGMAN

For the past few years, over and over, voters have told pollsters and pundits that they’re hopping mad about inflation. Well, we just elected a president who, if he follows through on two of his central campaign promises — across-the-board tariffs and mass deportation of immigrants lacking permanent legal status — will probably cause soaring inflation.

How will voters react?

I’ve written about the likely inflationary impact of Donald Trump’s policies. All of that still stands. But there’s an issue that I haven’t stressed as much as I probably should have: the specific effects of his proposed deportations on grocery and housing prices, both of which have been political flashpoints. First, a word about deficits to set the stage: The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that Trump’s tax plans would add almost $8 trillion to the debt over the next decade.

Trump has claimed that he can make up for tax cuts with revenue from tariffs and huge cuts in government spending, but those claims are wildly unrealistic.

Deficits — contrary to what you sometimes hear — don’t always cause inflation. After the 2008 financial crisis, warnings about deficit-driven inflation proved wrong because (as basic economics predicted) deficits aren’t inflationary in a depressed economy. Even President Joe Biden’s big spending in 2021

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took place in an economy with depressed employment, and the inflationary impact was further mitigated by a surge in immigration, which expanded the labor force and helped create the capacity to meet higher demand.

However, with the economy starting from, essentially, full employment in his second term, Trump, with mass deportations, would degrade productive capacity, balloon deficits and — yes — bring inflation roaring back, keeping a grim pledge on punitive immigration policy while breaking one on providing relief to American consumers.

Here’s what I mean: If you’re upset about grocery prices now, see what happens if Trump goes after a huge part of the agricultural workforce; immigrants are around three-quarters of agricultural workers — and roughly half of them lack permanent legal status. (And do you really doubt that many workers legally here will be caught up in Trump’s threatened dragnets?) Immigrants living in the country illegally also play a large role in food processing. For example, they account for an estimated 30% to 50% of workers in meatpacking.

If these workers are deported, the food industry will probably have great difficulty replacing them. Even in the best case, the industry will have to offer much higher wages — and, of course, these higher wages will be passed on in higher prices.

(Oh, and while we produce most of what we eat, we also import a lot of food — whose prices would be raised by tariffs.)

And when it comes to the downstream economic effects of deportations, it’s not just about grocery prices; it’s also about the cost of housing. The answer to that problem is to build more housing units. But immigrants without legal permission are more than a fifth of the construction workforce, so deportations would severely hamper efforts to increase the housing supply. (And no, contrary to what JD Vance said, immigration hasn’t driven the recent spike in housing costs.)

Could we easily make up for the loss of these workers by replacing them with native-born workers? No. Employment among native-born adults in their prime working years is higher than it was at any point during Trump’s first term. There just isn’t a large pool of idle but employable native-born Americans to put to work.

What will Trump do if inflation rises? Bear in mind that his campaign was replete with false claims — about immigration, jobs, inflation, crime and more. And one of his go-to tactics for dismissing data that shows his claims are false is to insist that the data is fake.

So if he imposes high tariffs and follows through on his plans for an immigrant dragnet — and a crucial part of our workforce is decimated and Americans start to feel the inflationary consequences — don’t expect Trump to acknowledge that he miscalculated. The far likelier scenario is that he’ll deny reality or blame bad actors and try to order prices back down again. But if you think the president can just wave his hands and bring down the cost of a dozen eggs, I have news for you. (It may be worth noting that Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, whom Trump admires, has tried to suppress inflation

A shopping cart outside a supermarket in Peoria, Ariz., on Oct. 2, 2024. (Jesse Rieser/The New York Times)

by imposing price controls, which backfired badly.)

And let’s not lose sight of the human component. The prospect of millions of people who’ve come to America to make a better life for themselves being rounded up and shipped out is ghastly. To borrow a phrase, the cruelty of Trump’s proposed deportations is part of the point. But to the extent that Trump has sold the idea that kicking out immigrants who lack permanent legal status would buoy the economic prospects of working- and middle-class Americans, this is yet another case in which his rhetoric, and his math don’t add up.

Inflation is by no means my biggest concern right now. It’s almost trivial compared with the threat that Trump poses — has posed — to our democracy. But it will matter a lot to many Americans, including many who voted for him, and the nation’s future will depend greatly on how they react if they come to find that they bought into a false belief in Trump’s ability to manage the economy.

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ISABELA – El alcalde de Isabela, Ing. Miguel ‘Ricky’ Méndez Pérez anunció hoy el inicio de los trabajos en las facilidades denominadas Luis Román Rodríguez, del sector Eulogio Burgos del Barrio Galateo Bajo. “Nuestro Gobierno Municipal de Isabela se presta a iniciar la construcción de la segunda (2da) fase de las facilidades deportivas y recreativas del sector Eulogio Burgos en el barrio Galateo Bajo a un costo aproximado de 1.5 millones de dólares”, señaló en conferencia de prensa. El proyecto propuesto considera una estructura en metal con techo, que incluye paredes para convertir la cancha existente en una interior. Además, incluye dos baños con disposiciones especiales para que las personas con impedimentos sean

parte integral del proceso deportivo y recreativo. La nueva construcción también considera espacios para almacén, cantina y cuarto para conserje. “En el exterior se completará el área para juegos infantiles, aceras para caminar, pozo séptico y filtrante, así como la iluminación del área”, añadió el alcalde. Del evento participó Doña Eneida Rosa, viuda de Luis Román Rodríguez, un destacado líder isabelino. Varios de los hermanos Román también participaron del evento.

En términos generales, el alcance de los trabajos a realizar considera entre otras cosas, demolición selectiva, movimiento de terreno, uso de hormigón, estructura metálica, infraestructura eléctrica, instalaciones de agua, sistema de tanque séptico, puertas y ventanas, equipos y accesorios de baño. El proyecto in-

cluye pintura interior y exterior, sistema de alarma contra incendios, construcción de acera, parque infantil, creación de áreas verdes, bancos para los visitantes y pavimento asfáltico.

“Nuestra administración ha puesto mucho empeño en la restauración y mantenimiento efectivo de las facilidades deportivas y recreativas que sirven tanto a los isabelinos, como a los visitantes de los demás pueblos de Puerto Rico y del exterior. Como Jardín del Noroeste que somos, recibimos con cariño a todos los visitantes”, añadió Méndez Pérez. Se contempla que este proyecto del del sector Eulogio Burgos del Barrio Galateo Bajo estará listo en o antes de doce (12) meses aproximadamente.

Durante el encuentro comunitario de primera piedra, el alcalde agradeció a la

ciudadanía el masivo respaldo recibido el pasado martes en los comicios generales. “Los resultados fueron mejor de lo esperado. Participaron 15,375 electores en los 71 colegios de Isabela, y a todos ellos mi agradecimiento por ser parte del proceso democrático. De ese total, 10,972 (71.36%) favorecieron mi candidatura a la reelección, y la labor que continuamos realizando es para todos por igual. Los colores ganadores fueron los de Isabela”. Méndez Pérez recordó además que vuelve el festival culinario ‘Isabela tiene sabor’ en su decimosexta (16ta) edición.

“Este es el festival gastronómico de mayor reconocimiento en el área norte y regresa el sábado, 30 de noviembre y domingo 1ro de diciembre en nuestra plaza pública Manuel Corchado y Juarbe. POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Hacienda, Nelson Pérez Méndez, anunció el martes el primer Programa de Internado de la agencia, que llevará el nombre del CPA Manuel Díaz Saldaña y dará inicio en el verano de 2025, ofreciendo una experiencia práctica para estudiantes universitarios.

“Con gran satisfacción informamos que en junio de 2025, el Departamento de Hacienda iniciará un Programa de Internado de dos meses, como parte

de la nueva Ley 187-2024. Este programa permitirá que los estudiantes conozcan el funcionamiento del Departamento y los trabajos que impactan al país”, explicó Pérez Méndez en declaraciones escritas.

La Ley 187-2024 establece internados educativos en agencias del gobierno, proporcionando a estudiantes universitarios experiencia en temas relacionados con su concentración y habilidades para insertarse en el mundo laboral, contribuyendo al desarrollo económico de Puerto Rico.

El programa honra a Manuel Díaz Saldaña, exse-

cretario de Hacienda y excontralor de Puerto Rico. “Este internado en Hacienda es clave para la formación de nuevos líderes, necesarios para el futuro de la Isla”, expresó Díaz Saldaña.

Estudiantes de áreas como finanzas, administración y asesoría pública podrán aspirar al programa, donde recibirán mentoría en áreas como Recursos Humanos, Política Contributiva y Rentas Internas. Pronto se publicará información de solicitud en www.hacienda.pr.gov y en las redes oficiales de Hacienda.

Quincy Jones orchestrated the sound of America

By WESLEY MORRIS

Ihave this book called “The Complete Quincy Jones,” from 2008. It’s the sort of grand coffee table experience so ephemera loaded that it all but spills out photos and reproductions of letters and sheet music and newspaper clippings and report cards. It’s a book that requires a plan to transport it from a store to your house. Some of this stuff is affixed to the pages, as if Jones, who died Sunday, had assembled it just for me, even though my name’s nowhere near Oprah Winfrey’s effusive “thank you” note. One of the unglued news items, from a 1989 edition of The International Herald Tribune, has now become a bookmark that reads, inartfully: “Quincy Jones: Black Music’s Bernstein.”

It’s a constellatory, celebratory, classy volume, just like the music Jones devoted the majority of his 91 years to. As you make your way through, you realize how ubiquitous this man was. I mean, I knew he was connected. (Maya Angelou writes the preface. The foreword’s by Clint Eastwood, the introduction is by Bono and the afterword belongs to Sidney Poitier.) But not until I sat down with this thing could I truly appreciate something else: what a connector he was, human ligament.

a banger; the chanting and overdubs on George Benson’s “Give Me the Night”; all nine tracks on, say, my favorite Donna Summer album (“Donna Summer”); that chain saw noise that menaces Jackson’s “Speed Demon,” from “Bad”; or some of the way-up-here singing Charles May and Patti Austin do on “Ai No Corrida,” a hit jam from Jones’ own “The Dude.” The names were often the same: Greg Phillinganes, Paulinho da Costa, Michael Boddicker, Steve Porcaro, Rod Temperton. Herbie Hancock! I learned that the rhythmic squeak on Jones’ “Soul Bossa Nova” (now immortalized as the “Austin Powers” ditty) is the cuica.

That, of course, was also in the music. He played many brasses — sousaphone, trombone, tuba, horns — but settled on the trumpet and quickly became an ace arranger and producer, someone whose brilliance involves having it all figured out. His approach to music involved not simply the erasure of boundaries but an emphasis on confluence, of putting some of this with some of that, and a little of this thing over here. Bossa nova together with jazz, Donna Summer doing Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Van Halen and Michael Jackson. On records, for movies, in concerts, with “We Are the World” and Vibe magazine. Connections.

This wasn’t iconoclasm and, officially, it wasn’t civil rights, either. It was vision, curiosity and taste that aligned with civil rights. Jones didn’t want artificial boundaries dictating that vision. So what you hear in all of that music is a little bit of everything — African percussion and R&B rhythm ideas, percolating alongside fur-coat string arrangements and trans-Atlantic flights of falsetto. It sounds like whatever America is supposed to mean. Often, he was orchestrating the sound of America, complicating it while grasping what makes it pop. It’s worth considering how his music opens one of the most-watched television events ever broadcast (“Roots”) and his production is behind the bestselling album ever recorded (“Thriller”). Two titles that nail the depth and sensation of the Quincy Jones experience. But there’s another, related aspect of that experience, and it’s all over “The Complete Quincy Jones.” In just about every photo, he seems so happy to be wherever he is. Standing next to Hillary Clinton, chatting with Colin Powell, cracking up next to Nelson Mandela, perched beneath a conductor’s podium alongside Frank Sinatra and Count Basie. In one picture he’s

got an arm around Sarah Vaughan and the other around Chaka Khan. Elsewhere, he’s planting a kiss on Clarence Avant’s cheek; pressing his cheek into Barbra Streisand’s (she signed that one: “My big ole black butt is sticking out — isn’t it?”; and I’ll just say her dress is dark). A big spread on “The Color Purple,” which he produced and scored, includes a photo of him and Alice Walker, forehead to forehead. Then there’s the intriguing shot of him looking heavenward with Leonard Bernstein at, we’re told, the Sistine Chapel.

I know, I know: Sir, these are pictures. How else would he look? But there’s something going on here for me. On the one hand: I’m just dropping names. On the other: this was a Black man born in 1933 who somehow survived an ominous Chicago upbringing (he remembers somebody pinning a knife to his 7-year-old hand), and now here he is not simply moving and shaking but magnetizing and mattering. I’m sorry, but I have another name to drop. Jones’ middle one: Delight. His parents didn’t miss with that one. He radiated it. His music prioritized it.

Delight is a prime engine of his artistic achievement. Whenever I’ve felt torn about racing to a dance floor because a DJ just dropped a needle on “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” or “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” I set my sense of tarnation aside and remember the temperature of those songs, the unzipping opening bass line of the one and the climactic porchstomping breakdown of the other. Those are as much Jones’ songs as Jackson’s. I’m drawn to the arrangement of what I’m hearing, the newness of it, the ingenuity he cajoled, coaxed, coached and charmed from players and technicians.

I began studying liner notes on albums because I wanted to know who was making the sounds in music Jones happened to produce: the hand claps and flash of tumble-down-the-steps drumming that has helped keep Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party”

Prolonged exposure to Jones’ process reveals that part of a producer’s job is casting. For instance, he discovered the personal delight of James Ingram’s voice and lured him from anonymous demo singing to R&B stardom. Ingram did for the impassioned “woo” what Marilyn Monroe did for moles. Jones could hear that and knew we’d clamor for it. You can see in that “We Are the World” documentary that’s been living on Netflix all year how much the warm tone of Jones’ sound is also a signature of his people management. In one scene, it’s clear what an exasperating job it can be to maintain that warmth. Jones is trying to get his superstar cast to please for two minutes stop talking to one another and listen to Bob Geldof’s explanation of the moral and humanitarian stakes of the long night these dozens of singers are about to spend together, belting. The sign urging them all to check their egos at the door was evidently his idea.

That, I suppose, is another thing about “The Complete Quincy Jones,” really about all of this man’s work. It’s miracle of egolessness. He’s so obviously proud of his endurance, longevity and almost peerless achievements (one of the many foldout pages showcases his extensive prize collection). It’s a pride that comes through in just about every production; you can hear it in his deployment of horns alone. However, this isn’t someone with designs on world ownership. It’s not a person aiming to put it on a string and yo-yo it. But it’s conceivable that some of his superstar-producer progeny have misinterpreted that ubiquity and delight. He embodied what he made. It wasn’t even that he was the world. The world was simply in him.

Pharrell Williams and Quincy Jones present during the 88th Academy Awards ceremony at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Feb. 28, 2016. (Patrick T. Fallon/The New York Times)

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Behind a wall of trees, archaeologists discover a Maya city

By ALAN YUHAS

East of the town of Dos Lagunas, past the major highway cutting through Mexico’s south, the forest rises up in a dense wall of grasping roots, spindly branches and veils of brown and green.

Beyond it lies the ruins of an old Maya city, barely a 15-minute walk from the busy roadway but until now unknown to archaeologists, its secrets cloaked over the centuries by unchecked foliage.

“It’s humbling,” said Marcello Canuto, an archaeologist at Tulane University and one of the researchers who have documented the site. “It’s how easy it is not to know what’s just another 100 meters beyond what you can see when the forest is intact.”

The team found the site not from the ground, but by scouring aerial scans taken for the use of ecologists. Upon close examination, the researchers revealed ruins with all of the hallmarks of ancient Maya.

“If you could design for a video game all of the classic features of a Maya city, they would look like this,” marveled Luke Auld-Thomas, a doctoral student at Tulane who spotted the site in the scans. “It’s got temple pyramids, a palace complex, big public plazas, reservoirs, dams, a broad processional causeway linking different complexes across hilltops.”

Auld-Thomas said the archaeologists also found the remains of residential buildings, terraces, field walls, garden areas, stabilized hills and other signs of human industry.

And at another site identified by the team, the researchers found a deep sinkhole connected to a partly collapsed cave system, and adjacent to that, an architectural complex surrounded by a ditch shaped like a cross.

“That is the canonical representation of a cave in Mesoamerican art, going back to the very beginning of Mesoamerican art,” Auld-Thomas said. “I don’t really know what else to make of it. I’ll describe it — and then I cannot venture an interpretation of what it means or when it dates to. It’s super strange.”

The ruins may have been unknown to researchers who spend

their days in search of just such finds, but some farmers in Dos Lagunas were “perfectly aware of the site’s existence,” Auld-Thomas said. He described his own discovery of it as something other than a mere accident — a “mix of deliberation and serendipity.”

The search began after he heard about other researchers using NASA data collected with lidar, a technology that uses airborne lasers to pierce dense vegetation. Among other things, it allows scientists to scan for hidden structures and landscapes.

“So I just set about digging on the internet, wondering if I could find another airborne lidar set like the one they had found,” he said. “Lo and behold, one turned up.”

He found lidar surveys collected over a decade ago by a group of ecologists mapping Mexico’s forests, and soon saw “a pretty substantial ancient Mayan city, right there mapped in detail.” The ecologists, he said, “were looking at the trees that cover

the city, and not the city itself.”

Auld-Thomas and his colleagues, who published their findings Monday in the journal Antiquity, call the city Valeriana, after a nearby lagoon. They estimate that it may have had a population of as many as 50,000 people at its peak, which was most likely around the end of the late Classic Maya era, probably between about A.D. 750 and 850.

Kathryn Reese-Taylor, an anthropologist at the University of Calgary who was not involved in the research, said she was “thrilled” by the findings. The work builds on growing evidence, like the discovery last year of another city hidden in the jungle, that the region — long understudied by archaeologists — had a dense and widespread population during the Maya period.

“It’s a sprawl,” Reese-Taylor said, comparing it to the spread of medium-size cities and their heavily populated exurbs and suburbs across North America. “Apparently, the Maya had the same kind of spread of dispersal.” Archaeologists have yet to reach Valeriana on foot, as another team led by archaeologist Ivan Šprajc did last year with the city discovered last year, called Ocomtún. The newly documented sites appear to be smaller than that city and the largest city of the region, Calakmul, but the findings bolster the idea that there was once widespread settlement across the region. As a map of the Maya Yucatán is slowly created, a dense mosaic of ancient cities, towns, villages, farms and earthworks is emerging.

“It is fascinating,” said Simon Martin, a political anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the work. “This demonstrates, to a high degree of confidence, that the landscape was heavily populated everywhere.”

Martin, an associate curator at the Penn Museum, said that the growing body of research in the region “has enormous implications for estimating the total population” of the Maya.

“It raises all sorts of questions, too,” he said. “I think it makes the collapse of Classic civilization even more mysterious: The more people there were, the more difficult it is to explain the massive depopulation later on.”

The Calakmul Temple at the ancient Maya city of Calakmul, in the southern Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, on July 18, 2022. A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence that the Maya civilization was even more sprawling than known. (Adrian Wilson/The New York Times)

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What does it mean to be immunocompromised?

By KNVUL SHEIKH

Agrowing number of American adults have weakened immune systems, which can leave them vulnerable to severe illnesses.

Kaley Karaffa had just turned 28 when the reality of having a weakened immune system as a cancer patient started to sink in. A few weeks earlier, at an annual medical exam, Ms. Karaffa had expressed concern to her doctor about enlarged lymph nodes near her collarbone. Testing showed that Ms. Karaffa had a type of B-cell lymphoma, a cancer that affects the white blood cells, which are essential to fighting off infections.

“I had to become cautious about who I saw, the activities I was involved in and even the kind of food I ate,” Ms. Karaffa, who is now 38, said.

Even a seemingly minor threat like the common cold can lead to a serious illness in someone with a compromised immune system.For Ms. Karaffa, getting sick would also mean having to pause the clinical trial she was participating in to receive cancer treatment.

The Covid-19 pandemic made many people familiar with the term “immunocompromised.” But while public health messaging around Covid, flu season or even food-borne illness outbreaks may make those who are immunocompromised sound like a homogenous group with the same kinds of conditions and a similarly high risk of illness, there is a broad spectrum of vulnerability.

And their numbers appear to be going up. A study published this year suggests that about 7 percent of U.S. adults — or about 18 million people — have immune systems that are suppressed in some way, up from about 3 percent in 2013. Researchers have different theories to explain the rise in immune suppression. Some believe it may be caused by an increase in autoimmune diseases, while others blame increasing rates of cancer and chronic diseases that require immunosuppressive treatment and the broader use of medications that can impact the immune system.

“It’s no longer a niche group,” said Dr. Joshua Hill, a specialist who treats infectious diseases in immunocompromised cancer patients at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle. “These are people walking around in the community that you might not know are immunocompromised,” he added.

What makes someone immunocompromised?

Experts often liken the immune system to an army that protects you from foreign enemies, like viruses and bacteria, as well as domestic ones, like cancer cells. But some people have an immune army that is not working as it should, because they were born that way or because of something that occurred later in life.

Researchers have identified more than 430 so-called primary immunodeficiencies, rare conditions that are caused by genetic variants and weaken the immune system. Some of these can be detected through routine newborn screenings or other blood tests shortly after birth.

People with severe immunodeficiencies sometimes require bone marrow transplants, which essentially replace their

immune system with a new one from a donor. Both the nature of their illness and the treatment mean these individuals tend to be among the most immunocompromised, said Dr. Paibel Aguayo-Hiraldo, the medical director of transplant and cellular therapy at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

“Most of our young patients are home-schooled,” Dr. Aguayo-Hiraldo said. “They have to be isolated and try to prevent infections, limit who visits their home, and take other precautionary measures. For at least a year after a bone-marrow transplant, they must live in a bubble because any infection can be fatal.”

People who get certain blood or immune-cell cancers like leukemias, lymphomas or myelomas are also considered severely immunocompromised because both the disease and the treatment wipe out the immune system, Dr. Aguayo-Hiraldo said. Similarly, people who receive organ transplants have to take immunosuppressive drugs so their bodies don’t reject the new organ. This makes it hard to fight off infections, too.

Breast, prostate, lung and colon cancers don’t necessarily weaken the immune system. But some of the treatments for them can reduce the number of immune cells in the blood, Dr. Hill said.

n chronic conditions such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and AIDS can also leave people mildly immunocompromised. These diseases are often driven by an overactive immune system that starts damaging the body’s own cells, making it less capable of fighting off actual pathogens, said Dr. Carl Fichtenbaum, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Cincinnati.

Some of these diseases are treated with high doses of steroids, which reduce inflammation but can weaken the immune system if taken for too long. Others are treated with biologic medicines, which target specific disease pathways that may indirectly affect the immune system.

Normal aging can also weaken the immune system in some ways. As people get older, they tend to produce fewer an-

Even a seemingly minor threat like the common cold can lead to a serious illness in someone with a compromised immune system. (Freepik)

tibodies to fight off pathogens, and the defenses they do have may be deployed more slowly, Dr. Fichtenbaum said. How are your body’s defenses affected?

Depending on why someone is immunocompromised, different parts of the immune army may be temporarily or permanently out of commission.

Adriano Ortiz, 9, was born with Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic condition that predisposed him to an immunodeficient condition. Neither his T cells, which identify and attack pathogens, nor his B cells, which should remind the body how it dealt with past infections, were functioning properly. After a bone-marrow transplant in 2019, he had to remain in the hospital for more than a year to heal and avoid any infections. Even after that, he had to go back to the hospital every time he got sick over the next several years.

“I would mentally prepare for at least two days in the hospital every time he got sick,” said his mother, Eliana Ortiz.

Biologic drugs, such as those taken by people with rheumatoid arthritis, only block specific parts of the immune system, said Dr. Fichtenbaum. Some of these drugs may make patients susceptible to particular types of respiratory infections, while others may raise the risk of infections in the gastrointestinal tract or skin.

Many immunocompromised people are also unable to mount a strong response to vaccines. If vaccination produces 100 antibody “soldiers” ready to fight off Covid or the flu in a healthy person, it might produce only 50 in someone who is immunocompromised, explained Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, the chief of research and development at the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System.

Data from Covid vaccines suggests that protection from antibodies also tends to decline more rapidly in immunocompromised people compared with healthy people. “They may need a booster dose after six months, while most of the rest of us may be OK getting vaccinated once every year,” Dr. Al-Aly said.

Does the immune system ever bounce back?

Luckily, it can recover from many types of damage. Once a person completes chemotherapy and achieves remission from cancer, or is able to stop taking biologics or steroids, the immune system can restore itself within a few weeks or months. If the underlying cause of immunosuppression is a condition like AIDS, antiretroviral therapy can help restore immune function by controlling the virus and giving the body time to make healthy immune cells again. For people with severely compromised immune systems, it can take months or even a few years for bone-marrow or stem-cell transplants to rebuild the immune system, Dr. Aguayo-Hiraldo said. And some people with genetic immune deficiencies and severe autoimmune disorders may need continuous treatment to both manage their disease and keep pathogens at bay.

Even people whose immune systems heal somewhat may have different levels of personal comfort with exposure to potential infection, Dr. Hill said.

After Ms. Karaffa was done with her cancer treatment, she had blood tests every few months to check how her immune system was recovering. She eventually resumed traveling and volunteer work, but she still carries hand sanitizer everywhere and puts on a mask whenever someone sniffles nearby. “I’m much more conscientious about the risk of illness than I was before,” she said.

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DÍAZ, MARIA MILAGROS LÓPEZ DÍAZ, GLADYS

ESTHER LÓPEZ DÍAZ Y GUILLERMINA LÓPEZ DÍAZ

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Caso: BY2024CV05988. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA

PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE

OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal, Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic.

Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 009695650, Teléfono 787-720-9553. La propiedad objeto de la petición se describe del siguiente modo: Según sus títulos: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular, radicada en el barrio Camarones del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 300.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en 2 alineaciones que suman 8.68 metros con carretera estatal #169; por el SUR: en 9.36 metros con calle municipal; por el ESTE: en 4 alineaciones que suman 31.079 metros con solar de la Sucesión de Isabelino Figueroa y por el OESTE: en 3 alineaciones que suman 37.37 metros con Sucesión de Patricio del Valle, Enclava una estructura.” Según Mensura reciente efectuada por Ingeniero Juan Rodríguez Claudio, licencia número 5903: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular, radicada en el barrio Camarones del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 315.468 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 0.0803 de cuerda según mensura. En lindes por el NORTE: en 2 alineaciones que suman 8,68 metros con carretera estatal #169; por el SUR: en 9.36 metros con calle municipal; por el ESTE: en 4 alineaciones que suman 31.079 metros con solar de la Sucesión de Isabelino Figueroa y por el OESTE: en 3 alineaciones que suman 37.37 metros con Sucesión de Patricio del Valle. Enclava una estructura.” Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación el edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 21 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE ANGEL LUIS BERBERENA MALDONADO, COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV09632. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $59,562.87, de balance principal, los intereses vencidos sobre el principal computados al 3.75% anual desde el día primero de abril de 2023, hasta su total pago; más el 4% computado sobre cada mensualidad adeudada por concepto de cargos por demora desde el primero de mayo de 2023, hasta su total pago; más la suma de $7,100.00 garantizada de la hipoteca para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del acreedor demandante, más cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquier concepto legal se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago de esta sentencia hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse

en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 25 de la manzana “E” en el plano de la Urbanización de Villa Granada, sita en el Barrio Sabana Llana de Rio Piedras, con un área de trescientos cuarenta y cuatro punto con cincuenta (344.50) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en veintiséis punto con cincuenta (26.50) metros, con el solar E-24; al Sur, en veintiséis punto con cincuenta (26.50) metros, con el solar E-26; por el Este, en trece punto (13.00) metros, con la calle numero 1; al oeste, en igual medida, con el solar E-16. Encava casa. Inscrita al folio noventa y uno (91), del tomo ciento veintiséis (126) de San Juan, finca número cinco mil cuatrocientos sesenta y nueve (5,469), registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Dirección física: Urb. Villa Granada, 908 (25-E) Calle Alameda (1), San Juan, PR 00923. Dicha propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré suscrito a favor del Municipio de San Juan, por la suma de $48,000.00, según escritura numero 59, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 24 de junio de 2015, ante el Notario Rosibel Carrasquillo Colón, según inscripción octava (8va). Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré suscrito a favor de Small Business Administration, por la suma de $48,800.00, según escritura numero 48, otorgda en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de abril de 2018, ante el Notario Wilma Michelle Bonilla Oliver, según inscripción novena (9na). La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $71,100.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $47,400.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $35,550.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe

de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo me-

nos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en San Juan, Puerto Rico a 25 de octubre de 2024. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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TIC/C ELBERT A. CAMARGO ORENGO

T/C/C EVERANGEL CAMARGO ORENGO; ELSIE CARABALLO

FELICIANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Peticionarios EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: YU2024CV00334. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO, ART. 185 LEY DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD INMOBILIARIA DE P.R. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE & JANE DOE.

Se le notifica a usted que ha sido radicada ante este Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Superior de Yauco, una Petición de Dominio. Usted deberá presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días desde la última publicación de este edicto, sirviéndole copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. Teresa Pacheco Camacho, con oficinas en la Calle Santiago Vivaldi Pacheco, Número 24-B, Yauco, Puerto Rico, dirección postal: P.O. Box 5004, PMB 200, Yauco, Puerto Rico 00698, teléfono número 787267-5784, fax número 787-2676328, correo electrónico terasa@pacheco-camacholawfirm. com, abogada de los Peticionarios. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo así, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Yauco, Puerto Rico, en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de octubre

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Parte Demandada LUIS ÁNGEL FELICIANO MEDINA, NANCY SOTO ACEVEDO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte con Interés Civil Núm.: HA2019CV00064. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 4 de octubre de 2024, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 15 de abril de 2024, notificada el 16 de abril de 2024, procederé a vender el día 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número ciento veinte y siete en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Cocos de los Barrios Cocos y San José del término municipal de Quebradillas con una cabida superficial de no-

vecientos veinte y siete punto cuarenta metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número cuatro A de la comunidad; por el SUR, con calle número siete de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número ciento treinta de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número ciento veinte y seis de la comunidad. Inscrita al Folio 117 del Tomo 115 de Quebradillas, Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda (II) de Arecibo, Finca Número 5,966. Dirección Física: Bo. Cocos, Lote 127 Carr. 484 Km 96.87, Quebradillas, PR 00678. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, o sea, la suma principal de $70,315.17 más intereses al tipo convenido y demás términos y condiciones, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Hatillo. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $77,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 10 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $51,333.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 17 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $38,500.00. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen (a ejecutarse): Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Oriental Bank and Trust, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $77,000.00, con intereses al 4% anual, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2042, constituida mediante la escritura número 36, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de marzo de 2012, ante el notario Norman E. Colón Báez, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Quebradillas, finca número 5,966, inscripción 7ma. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen posterior: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 12 de marzo de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Hatillo, en el Caso Civil número HA2019CV0064,

sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, contra Jesús Manuel Perez Santos y su esposa Jeniffer Mercado Hernández, por la suma de $77,000.00, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 12 de abril de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Quebradillas, finca número 5,966, Anotación A y última. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el termino de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Camuy, Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de 2024. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL.

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Demandante V. DON VALE, INC.

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2024CV05515. (500-A). Sobre: DESAHUCIO SUMARIO Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: DON VALE, INC. - DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS: URB.

ROOSEVELT CALLE

JOSÉ A. CANALS #464 SAN JUAN, PR 00918; URB. VALLE SAN LUIS F-29 LA MONTAÑA, CAGUAS, PR 00725.

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda de Desahucio Sumario y Cobro de Dinero. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a:

Lcdo. Roberto A. Cámara Fuertes

R.U.A. Núm. 13,556

Email: rcamara@ferraiuoli.com

Lcda. Elizabeth Villagrasa Flores R.U.A. Núm. 16.877

Email: evillagrasa@ferraiuoli.com Ferraiuoli

P.O. Box 195168 San Juan, PR 00919-5168

Tel: 787-766-7000 / Fax. 787-766-7001

Abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 1 de noviembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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LINA, ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante vs. ALMEIDA SANCHEZ

HERNANDEZ; MANUEL

ANTONIO PEREZ

SANCHEZ; SONIA

ALMEIDA PEREZ

SANCHEZ; SUCESION DE EDWIN RUBEN PEREZ

SANCHEZ, compuesta por sus hijos MAYRA

PEREZ RIVERA, SHEILA

DAMARIS PEREZ

RIVERA y EDWIN RUBEN

PEREZ RIVERA; MIRIAM

RIVERA RUBIO, en cuanto a la cuota viudal usufructuaria; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. CA2023CV03937 (409). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General

A: ALMEIDA SANCHEZ

HERNANDEZ; MANUEL

ANTONIO PEREZ

SANCHEZ; SONIA

ALMEIDA PEREZ

SANCHEZ; SUCESION DE EDWIN RUBEN PEREZ

SANCHEZ, compuesta por sus hijos MAYRA

PEREZ RIVERA, SHEILA

DAMARIS PEREZ

RIVERA y EDWIN RUBEN

PEREZ RIVERA; MIRIAM

RIVERA RUBIO, en cuanto a la cuota viudal usufructuaria; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, por tener Embargo anotado a su favor por la suma de $4,224.83. Yo, HECTOR L. PEÑA RODRIGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA, 278 Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 4 de diciembre de 2024, a las 10:15 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los do-

cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 11 de diciembre de 2024, a las 10:15 de la mañana y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el 18 de diciembre de 2024, a las 10:15 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue:

RUSTICA: Solar radicado en el BARRIO LOMAS del término municipal de Loíza, Puerto Rico, de forma triangular determinada ésta por una quebrada que bordea dicho solar por dos de sus tres lados midiendo el otro que da frente a la carretera insular treinta y cinco punto cero cero (35.00) metros de largo, resultando con una cabida superficial de DOSCIENTOS DIECIOCHO PUNTO SETENTA Y CINCO (218.75) METROS CUADRADOS. Colinda por su frente, el NORTE, con la ya dicha carretera insular y por sus otros dos lados con la quebrada ya dicha. Radicada en el una casa terrera, de concreto destinada a negocios. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 2109 del tomo 445 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca número 962, inscripción quinta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: RD 186, Km 2.4, Barrio Lomas, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $49,989.90 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.00% anual, desde el 1ro. de mayo de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $6,375.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $63,750.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $42,500.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $31,875.00. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es

mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta al siguientes gravamen posterior: Embargo Federal contra Edwin Pérez, seguro social xxx-xx-3744, por la suma de $4,224.83, notificación número 402963620, Certificación del día 14 de enero de 2020, anotado el día 1ro. de julio de 2021, al Asiento 2020-000466-FED del Sistema Karibe, Fecha límite de Renovación el día 10 de junio de 2029. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, 1ro. de noviembre de 2024. HECTOR L. PEÑA RODRIGUEZ, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCION DE SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE FLOR CARMONA CRUZ, Y OTROS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02249. Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL CARMONA MATOS COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM en sus contras. Se les notifica para que comparezcan ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se les apercibe y notifica que si no contestan la demanda radicada en su contra, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante: GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC Atención: Lcda. Genevieve López Stipes

Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308 Teléfono: 787-758-6550 dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Se ORDENA a los herederos del referido causante a saber: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL, a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación, ACEPTEN o REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del referido causante. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 6 de noviembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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PERFORMANCE LLC.

Demandante V. CARMEN MIRIAM PEREZ MELENDEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV06447.

(Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. RAQUEL DESEDA BELAVALRDESEDA@DELGADOFERNANDEZ. COM.

A: SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MIRIAM PÉREZ MELÉNDEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de noviembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 06 de noviembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. RAQUEL DÍAZ LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante Vs. SR. EDWARD AUGUST SUNDBERG, SRA. LESLIE JEAN DAHN SUNDBERG, LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y/O SUCESIÓN SUNDBERG Demandado

Civil Núm.: FA2024CV01013. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE

LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: EDWARD AUGUST SUNDBERG Y OTROS - 123 E. FOSTER ST., MELROSE, MA 02176. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere que conteste la misma dentro de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en Puerto Rico, radicando el original de contestación de la misma ante el Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Caso (SUMAC) presentada electrónicamente mediante https://tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac2018/ y notificándole con copia fiel al representante legal de la parte Demandante : Lcdo. Jorge Enrique Valldejuli Reyes, PO Box 367455, San Juan, PR 00936; teléfono (787) 2340701, jvalldejuli@dlvpr.com. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de octubre de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR ESE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV05019. (Salón: 505). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN - JMONTALVO@ DELGADOFERNANDEZ.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de noviembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los

10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de noviembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de noviembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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IVONNE SOCORRO

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Demandante V. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, ACTUANDO POR CONDUCTO DE LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: MB2024CV00046. (Salón: 208). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

ENEL M. PÉREZ MONTESLCDAENELPEREZ@GMAIL.COM.

A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de noviembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic-

to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 07 de noviembre de 2024. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 07 de noviembre de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. FERNANDO SOTO CORTES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AU2024CV00065. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMIPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FERNANDO SOTO CORTES - BO GUANABANO CARR 417 KM 3 HM 4 INT, AGUADA PR 00602; HC 56 BOX 5056 AGUADA PR 00602. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MII FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en AGUADA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de octubre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ,

SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NOEMÍ ROMÁN BOSQUES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Demandante V. TAMARA I.

COLON ALICEA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BQ2023CV00191. (Salón: 002). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. A: TAMARA I. COLON ALICEA Y FULANO DE TAL. AMBOS POR SI Y COMO PARTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES QUE AMBOS COMPONEN - HC 1 BOX 3331, BARRANQUITAS PR 00794.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de noviembre de 2024. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 06 de noviembre de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARÍA I. CRUZ ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE JAIME HUMBERTO GUEITS ORTIZ

Demandante Vs. HOUSING INVESTMENT

CORPORATION; JONH DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: PO2024CV02722. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: HOUSING INVESTMENT

CORPORATION - LAS CUMBRES OFFICE

BUILDING AVE. LAS CUMBRES ESQ. CAMINO ALEJANDRINO, GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió pagaré a favor de Housing Investment Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de de treinta y un mil dólares ($31,000.00), con intereses al ocho por ciento (8%), vencedero el primero (1ro) de abril de dos mil siete (2007). Que mediante la escritura número treinta y dos (32) otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día nueve (9) de marzo de mil novecientos setenta y siete (1977), ante el notario Gustavo A. Rodríguez, y cuya obligación está inscrita al folio sesenta y cuatro (64) del tomo mil cuatrocientos noventa y cinco (1495) de Ponce, cuarenta y cuatro mil setecientos veinticuatro (44,724), inscripción segunda (2da). La propiedad

que garantiza dicho pagaré: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: La Cales Condominio de Ponce Norte. Apartamento: dos guión D (2-D). Cabida: Setenta y tres punto sesenta y dos (73.62) metros cuadrados. Apartment number two D (2-D) on the second floor of Condominio La Calesa at Lolita Tizol Street, Ponce, Puerto Rico, with an approximates area of seven hundred ninety two point twenty five (792.25) square feet, equivalent to seventy three point sixty two (73.62) square meters, bounding on the NORTH, with the apartment two E (2-E) the common storage, the incinerator and the common corridor of the same condominium by thirty five (35.00) feet; on the SOUTH, with the exterior elements of the building and the empty space by thirty five feet (35.00); on the EAST, with the apartment two C (2-C) of the same condominium by twenty six point three (26.3) feet; and on the WEST, with the exterior element of the building and the empty space by twenty six point three (26.3) feet. The apartment consists of a living-dining room, kitchen, one bathroom, two bedrooms, four closets and a balcony on its west side. The apartment has a main door connecting with the common corridor on the floor from where Access may be gained to the exterior of the building and to the public street by the elevator and the stairways. This apartment is equipped with a stainless-Steel sink, range with oven, kitchen cabinets and water heater. Al indicado apartamento le corresponde una participación de uno punto ochocientos treinta y seis por ciento (1.836%) en los elementos comunes y generales del edificio. Inscrita al folio sesenta y tres (63) del tomo mil cuatrocientos noventa y cinco (1495) de Ponce Norte, finca número cuarenta y cuatro mil setecientos veinticuatro (44,724). Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Primera (1ra). SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 23 de septiembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. JOAN M. ROSARIO ALBINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BAYAMÓN COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO LA COMERIEÑA

Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV05297. (Salón: 703). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ORLANDO MALDONADO RIVERALIC.OMALDONADO@GMAIL.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de noviembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 07 de noviembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 07 de noviembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDOSUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Vs GARCIA ROSA, MARIELYS

Caso: NSCI201700111. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ROBERTO RIVERA RIVERA - URB RIVER EDGE HILLS, D 149 CALLE ESPIRITU SANTO LUQUILLO PR 00773. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de noviembre de 2021, este

Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 07 de noviembre de 2024. Lic. Somoza Colombani, Guillermo A. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 07 de noviembre de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. ANA CELÍS MÁRQUEZ APONTE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ

LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD Demandante Vs. JOSE VARGAS ALICEA, MARIA L. MILLET MARTIR Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS Demandados

Civil Núm.: ISCI200900145. (307). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE

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

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera lnstancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor pastor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el

Tribunal de Primera lnstancia, Sala de Mayagüez, el 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar: 4. BARRIO ROSARIO de Mayagüez. Cabida: 610.267 Metros Cuadrados. LINDEROS: NORTE, con el solar número cinco (5). SUR, con el solar número tres (3). ESTE, con terrenos de Enrique Pagán. OESTE, con calla de uso público. Consta inscrita al Torno Digital Karibe de Mayagüez, finca número 47,110, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez. Propiedad localizada en: Lot No. 4, Brisas del Río Dev, Km 8 H (Interior), Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $118,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera lnstancia, Sala de Mayagüez, el 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $78,666.66, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $59,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera lnstancia, Sala de Mayagüez, el 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $112,497.96 par concepto de principal adeudado, intereses los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 5.5% anual desde el 1ro. de junio de 2008

hasta el pago total de la deuda, más la suma de $11,800.00 para costas, gastos, honorarios de abogado, más cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente, todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hará y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si ésto fuera necesario, a las efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos las interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas par las (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de noviembre de 2024. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS #283, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION INC

Demandante V. LUIS ANTONIO LIZARDI BENITEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00401. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR).

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM.

LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGI - LMARINI@ MPMLAWPR.COM.

A: LUIS ANTONIO LIZARDI BENÍTEZ, DORIS ALICIA RAMÍREZ

LA FONTAINE T/C/C/ DORIS RAMÍREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE

BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 4590 HASTINGS

DR. CUMMING, GA 300415100.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de septiembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de septiembre de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: ENMENDADA PARA SER PUBLICADA NUEVAMENTE. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 08 de noviembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA FORTALEZA EQUITY PARTNERS I, LLC

Demandante V. YVETTE VEGA LAMBOY POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO RIOS FIGUEROA COMPUESTA POR FRANCISCO RÍOS

VEGA, CRISTAL MARIE RÍOS VEGA E IVETTE VEGA LAMBOY EN SU CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: DO2022CV00203. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

EDICTO A: FRANCISCO RIOS VEGA Y CRISTAL

MARIE RIOS VEGA, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO VEGA FIGUEROA. INTERPELACIÓN A: FRANCISCO RIOS VEGA Y CRISTAL MARIE RIOS VEGA, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO VEGA FIGUEROA. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La información de los abogados de la parte demandante es la siguiente:

Atención:

LCDA. ANA J. BOBONIS ZEQUEIRA RUA 11305

FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908 Tel. (787) 722-3040 ana@ffclaw.com

POR LA PRESENTE, además, se le interpela judicialmente conforme al Art. 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. §2787), para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, acepte o renuncie mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial la herencia del causante Francisco Vega Figueroa, apercibiéndosele que, de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia.

B.B.V.A. y. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 2005). EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA.

MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS.

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CONDOMINIO BAHÍA PROPERTIES, LLC

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES MARRERO GARÍA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV03258. (Salón: 908). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ALEJANDRO BELLVER ESPINOSAALEJANDRO@BELLVERLAW.COM. YAIRA DROZ - YAIRA@ BELLVERLAW.COM.

A: SUTANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES MARRERO GARCÍA.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de noviembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 04 de noviembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ÁNGELA RIVERA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

XIOMARA SERRANO NEGRÓN, YAZMIN

SERRANO NÉGRÓN Y NORMAND SERRANO CORDERO

Parte Demandante Vs. JENNIFER SERRANO HERNÁNDEZ Y, MARISOL MARTÍNEZ OTERO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2024CV03134. Sala: 701. Sobre: IMPUGNACIÓN DE TESTAMENTO POR CAUSA DE DESHEREDACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JENNIFER SERRANO HERNÁNDEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE la parte peticionaria, representada por su abogada, Licenciada Natalia I. Ramírez Díaz, RUA 20125, con dirección postal Calle Baleares #363, Urb. Puerto Nuevo, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00920-4010, teléfono (787) 424-9268, correo electrónico: ramirezlegalpr@gmail.com, notifIca que se ha presentado una Demanda para Impugnación de Testamento por Causa de Desheredación a favor de la parte demandante. Y se notifica a usted, que este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite para que haga oposición a esta demanda si se viere perjudicado con la Impugnación de Testamento por Causa de Desheredación que se solicita; advirtiéndole que de no haber oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde la última publicación de este edicto, la Parte Demandante podrá obtener que se apruebe la Impugnación de Testamento por Causa de Desheredación. POR ORDEN DEL HONORABLE

JUEZ de este Tribunal, expido la presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de noviembre de 2024, bajo mi firma y sello oficial. Y para su cumplimiento, libro el presente bajo mi firma y sellos del Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de noviembre del 2024. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE JESÚS OBRERO

Demandante V. YALEYXA L. DE LEÓN RIVERA Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CR2024CV00062. (Salón: 001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN-

CIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERA - JRG@ GONZALEZMORALES.COM. JUAN ÁNGEL SANTOS BERRÍOS - SANTOSBERRIOSLAW@GMAIL. COM. RICARDO ANDRES ACEVEDO BIANCHI - ACEVEDOBIANCHI@ GMAIL.COM. A: YALEYXA L. DE LEON RWERA, CRSTAN SANTANA AYALA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BENES GANANCALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de noviembre de 2024. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 04 de noviembre de 2024. Elizabeth González Rivera, Secretaria. Maritza Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal. LEGAL NOTICE

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

LUIS ENRIQUE MATOS ROMÁN; ANA LIDIA MONZÓN MARTÍNEZ, T/C/C ANA LIDIA MONGON

Demandantes v. PRUDENTIAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION, H/N/C PRUDENTIAL MORTGAGE CAPITAL COMPANY LLC; FRANCISCO CESTERO AHERAN, OLGA M. CASANSNOVA, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS; FULANO(S) O

SUTANO(S), POSIBLES TENEDORES Y/O INSTITUCION(ES)

BANCARIA(S)

DESCONOCIDA(S)

Demandados

CASO NÚM.: SJ2024CV09096. SOBRE CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMERICA PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: FULANO Y SUTANO, como posibles tenedores y/o Instituciones

Bancarias desconocidas de un pagaré suscrito a favor de Prudential Mortgage Corporation hin/e Prudential Mortgage Capital Company LLC, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $45,000.00, con intereses al 8 ó% anual, vencedero el 1 de abril de 2008, según consta de la escritura número 266, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 1978, ante el notario Raúl E. Casasnova, inscrita al folio 207 vuelto, tomo 317 de Sabana Llana, finca número 13,272, inscripción Segunda. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Ledo. Ismael H. Herrero 111, RÚA Núm. 8439 P.O. BOX 362159, San Juan, PR 00936-2159. Tels.: 787-754-5000 herreroilll@ herrerolaw.com. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal hoy 9 de octubre de 2024 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, Secretario(a) General. F/NANCY I. GARCIA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. LUIS ENRIQUE MATOS ROMAN; ANA LIDIA MONZON MARTINEZ T/C/C ANA LIDIA MONGON Demandantes Vs. PRUDENTIAL MORTAGAGE

CORPORATION H/N/C PRUDNTIAL MORTGAGE CAPITAL COMPANY LLC; FRANCISCO CESTERO AHERAN, OLGA M. CASANOVA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS; FULANOS(S) Y SUTANO(S) POSIBLES TENEDORES Y/O INSTITUCIONES BANCARIAS DESCONOCIDAS Demandados

CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2024CV09096. SALA: 802. SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. s.s. A: FRANCISCO CESTERO AHERAN Y SU ESPOSA OLGA M. CASANOVA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; PRUDENTIAL MORTAGAGE CORPORATION H/N/C PRUDENTIAL MORTGAGE CAPITAL COMPANYLLC Quedan ustedes notificados que los demandantes de epígrafe han presentado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como codemandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación judicial de un Pagaré extraviado a favor de Prudential Mortgage Corporation h/n/c Prudential Mortgage Capital Company LLC, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $45,000.00, con intereses al 8 ó% anual, vencedero el 1 de abril de 2008, según consta de la escritura número 266, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 1978, ante el notario Raúl E. Casasnova. Inscrita al folio 207 vuelto, tomo 317 de Sabana Llana, finca número 13,272, inscripción Segunda. sobre la siguiente propiedad: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización

Park Gardens, en el Barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número cincuenta y cuatro (54) de la Manzana “A” (54 A) del plano de inscripción, con un área de quinientos cinco punto diecinueve (505.19) metros cuadrados y en lindes por el Noreste, en diecisiete punto ciento veinticinco (17.125) metros con la Calle Número Seis (6); por el Noroeste, en veintinueve punto cincuenta (29.50) metros, con el solar cincuenta y cinco A (55 A) del plano; por el Sureste, en veintinueve punto cincuenta (29.50) metros con el solar cincuenta y tres A (53 A) y por el Suroeste, en once punto setenta y cinco (11.75) metros, con el solar veintidós A (22 A) del plano y en cinco punto trescientos setenta y cinco (5.375) metros, con el solar veintitrés A (23 A) del plano. Contiene una casa de hormigón reforzado y bloque de concreto, destinada para una familia. Afecto por el Suroeste a Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes fluviales. Consta inscrita al folio doscientos ocho (208) del tomo trescientos diecisiete (317) de Sabana Llana, finca número trece mil doscientos setenta y dos (13,272), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Quinta de San Juan. Se le emplaza y se le notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Deberá presentar la contestación 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 presentarla ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan con copia al abogado de la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección: LCDO. ISMAEL H. HERRERO 111 RÚA Núm. 8439

Email: herreroilll@herrerolaw.com

P.O. Box 362159 SAN JUAN, PR 00936-2159

Tel. (787) 754-5000

Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí establecido, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 24 de octubre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ

COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL, F/Nancy I. Garcia Figueroa, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA

BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. KATHLEEN A. WELLINGTON, DAVID C. WELLINGTON y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00765. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: David C. Wellington, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales

Kathleen A. Wellington, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Compuesta por Ambos 2219 Se 20th Ave., Cape Coral, FL 33990-3109

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a David C. Wellington, su esposa Kathleen A. Wellington y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro,

si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 20 de septiembre de 2024. Lcda Laura I. Santa Sanchez, Secretario General.por: Maritza Rosario Rosario, Secretario Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. TERESA GNASSO LABOV

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00846. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: Teresa Gnasso Labov 204 N, 35th St. Philadelphia, PA 191042429

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Teresas Gnasso Labov, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA

DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ

LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 4 de

octubre de 2024. LCDA LAURA

I. SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. FRAN BASH, IRA BASH y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00764. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: Fran Bash, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Ira Bash, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales y, La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos 230 Highwood Ave., Tenafly, NJ 07670-1208

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Fran Bash por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, su esposa Ira Bash por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso

deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 23 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. FRANK CHARLES BOGART; MARIE THERESA BOGART; y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00785.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: Marie Theresa Bogart, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Frank Charles Bogart, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, compuesta por ambos 3 Windingbrook Way, Holmdel, NJ 07733-2325

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Frank Charles Bogart, su esposa Marie Theresa Bogart, y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez

(glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 26 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL. POR: MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante VICTOR MANUEL RODRIGUEZ PADILLA tic/ cl VICTOR RODRIGUEZ PADILLA, JOANNE ALICEA FALCON, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: TA2024CV00661. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Padilla tic/cl Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, Joanne Alicea Falcon, por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, y la Sociedad Legal De Bienes Gananciales compuesta

por ambos

Urb. Sabanera 250 Camino del Flamboyán Dorado, Puerto Rico 00646

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Padilla tic/cl Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, su esposa Joanne Alicea Falcon, y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 21 de octubre de 2024. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, SECRETARIA GENERAL. flMRITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. MATTHEW THOMAS NEUENHAUS; VANESSA SLOANE NEUENHAUS; y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00773. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: Matthew Thomas Neuenhaus, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Vanessa Sloane Neuenhaus por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos 16 Vaughn Drive, Ramsey, NJ 07446

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Matthew Thomas Neuenhaus, su esposa Vanessa Sloane Neuenhaus; y la Sociedad Legal De Bienes Gananciales Compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 26 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2024. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL. POR: MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Inter Miami, Messi and Martino are out: What went wrong and

By FELIPE CARDENAS / THE ATHLETIC

Fireworks shot out from the rafters of Inter Miami’s Chase Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale on Saturday night, but there was nothing for the home team to celebrate.

When the final whistle blew, Inter Miami had been beaten 3-2 by ninth-seeded Atlanta United and eliminated from the MLS playoffs. Atlanta had taken the decisive Game 3 of the series and advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals.

The pyrotechnics were an awkward way to end an otherwise successful season for Lionel Messi’s club. Wait. How can Inter Miami’s 2024 campaign be considered a success?

To go out at this stage of the playoffs is an embarrassment for a team whose notoriety has skyrocketed since Messi’s arrival in July 2023. In a temporary home stadium that has become a fortress for Miami this year, Messi and his teammates were eliminated by an opponent that was mediocre for most of the season.

After setting the MLS regular-season points record (74) and claiming the Supporters’ Shield, awarded to the club with the best regular-season record, Miami was, in the minds of many, obligated to win the MLS Cup final at the end of these playoffs on Dec. 7. So what went wrong? And what does this exit mean for the 37-year-old Messi and Miami’s manager, Gerardo Martino?

The 61-year-old Argentine Martino was forced to tinker with his lineup at the most inopportune moment of the season. The ever-reliable Sergio Busquets, suffering from a chest injury, was benched, and Yannick Bright, a ball-winning midfielder with polished possession skills, was unavailable because of a muscle injury sustained in Game 2 in Atlanta.

Messi stepped up Saturday, orchestrating the first goal of the game (scored by Matias Rojas) and then, after Atlanta took a 2-1 lead, scoring the equalizer himself. But the visitors’ winner came when midfielder Bartosz Slisz’s

powerful header stunned the Chase Stadium crowd with 14 minutes to go.

Miami had scored 79 goals during the regular season and routinely dominated possession, but its weaknesses were also there for everyone to see. Atlanta exposed Miami’s high line throughout the series and finished its chances clinically. Despite its regular-season success, Martino’s side had always been susceptible to the counterattack, and that vulnerability after losing possession cost them.

Miami’s ownership group of David Beckham and brothers Jorge and José Mas have spent more than $70 million on first-team signings, pushing the MLS salary cap rule to its limits. Messi, Busquets, Luis Suárez and Jordi Alba brought their spectacular resumes to MLS with one thing in mind: winning titles. A Leagues Cup trophy in 2023 set the stage for a storybook run this season.

With Martino at the helm, a manager accustomed to the brightest lights in world football after leading Barcelona and the Argentina and Mexico men’s national teams, Miami had all the tools, including home-field advantage, to win its first MLS Cup. To be out this early is a worst-case scenario for MLS and Apple, the league’s broadcast partner.

“It’s not a success when you lose in the quarterfinal round,” Martino said. “If one thinks about where we were last November, there has been progress for the club, not just the team. If one considers the expectations we had for these playoffs, we’ve come up very short.”

It’s simple to claim that the Inter Miami project has failed to deliver. But Miami is unlike any club MLS has seen since its inaugural season 28 years ago. The team’s success won’t be measured based solely on what it does on the field. In five years, Miami has gone from a startup with a handful of eager employees to a global brand with extraordinary reach. Messi will forever be linked to this club, a reality that will outweigh any trophy he may win in the United States.

An MLS Cup will never define Messi’s legacy — nothing he does while in Miami’s pink and black uniform will dent or strengthen the career of the sport’s greatest player. As Beckham said in 2023, Inter Miami succeeded when it signed Messi.

Beckham and Messi are linked in more ways than one. Beckham, the former England captain, didn’t win an MLS Cup until his fifth year in the league, following two loan spells with A.C. Milan. Beckham’s L.A. Galaxy followed up its 2011 triumph with another MLS Cup the following year, but Beckham may be

Lionel Messi of Inter Miami is seen during a U.S. Open Cup semifinal match against FC Cincinnati at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio on Aug. 23, 2023. Inter Miami was eliminated from the MLS playoffs on Saturday, losing 3-2 to ninth-seeded Atlanta United. (Wikipedia via Hayden Schiff)

remembered most for the designated player rule that allows teams to sign stars outside of their salary caps.

Messi, an eight-time Ballon d’Or winner and World Cup hero for Argentina’s triumphant side in 2022, is also playing in MLS for reasons that go far beyond the touchline. Miami signed him to change the trajectory of American soccer, to become an icon in a country that still turns its back on the global game.

The marketing machine that Messi commands has made inroads in a nation cluttered with celebrity and mainstream sports. In February, Xavier Asensi, Inter Miami’s chief business officer, said the club had achieved revenue that was more than the preseason figures of Europe’s biggest clubs, with estimates near $20 million for a U.S. preseason tour.

Internationally, the Inter Miami project has been a smashing success, but in America, the Messi phenomenon has been normalized. It was almost unbelievable to suggest that he

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would ever come to MLS. Now, after just 1 1/2 seasons, MLS fans complain of Messi fatigue.

On Friday, with Miami facing elimination, there was one lone television camera at its pregame media availability.

Other than the Diario Olé newspaper from Argentina, the global press, which had landed in Fort Lauderdale in hordes a year ago, was nowhere to be found. Inter Miami is covered by a dedicated group of local reporters, but on some days there are no more than two or three journalists at the training facility. It doesn’t help that Messi has given just one news conference (in August 2023) since arriving.

He has been a model teammate and a joy to watch, but his unwillingness to talk to the press has lessened his effect stateside. When Messi speaks, the world listens. When he doesn’t engage with the press in a country whose media landscape is dominated by sports talk shows that discuss anything but soccer, the silence, as they say, can be deafening.

In late October, in an interview with journalist Fabrizio Romano, Messi said his desired superpower would be invisibility. One can empathize with somebody whose life has been anything but private for more than 20 years. In Fort Lauderdale, thousands of miles away from the football paparazzi that followed him for years in Barcelona and Paris, after his move to Paris St.-Germain, Messi has as normal a life as he has ever had. But MLS cannot afford for him to go unnoticed in America.

This playoff loss against Atlanta proved that big moments can be fleeting. It’s no secret that Messi, who will turn 38 in June, is nearing the end of his illustrious career. He hasn’t ruled out playing at the 2026 World Cup, which will be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Messi’s contract with Inter Miami runs through the 2025 MLS season, a year before that World Cup and a year before the club’s new Miami-based stadium opens.

With that in mind, Miami’s early elimination puts additional pressure on the club’s owners to maximize Messi’s talent and his massive brand appeal. The clock, seemingly, is running out.

The MLS playoffs will continue without Messi, and for a league that needs as much attention as it can get, Saturday’s outcome in Fort Lauderdale was deflating.

But this is soccer in America. There’s a long way to go toward relevance.

The San Juan Daily Star

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