An analysis by the pro-transparency organization Open Spaces (EA) concluded that although changes to the local earned income tax credit (EITC) and child tax credit (CTC) this year have had a positive impact on the pockets of more than 515,000 and 223,000 families, respectively, more needs to be done.
The study found that more significant measures are required to effectively combat economic insecurity and sustainably increase labor participation in the formal labor market.
The senior analyst of public policy and research director at EA, Daniel Santamaría Ots, said the study was based on information from 4 million individual tax returns, which allowed the evaluation of 20 vari ables of each tax unit for the past three years. The EA report places greater emphasis on the EITC, a pro gram that has proven to dramatically impact poverty in the United States (by annually helping more than
5.6 million people to exceed the poverty line and to improve economic security for another 16.5 million).
Santamaría Ots recommended that the federal EITC contribution to Puerto Rico should be equal to the average per capita distribution of the states and that the CTC should be transferred from the Internal Revenue Service to the Puerto Rico Treasury Depart ment to allow families to receive the credit.
“Our analysis shows that progress has been made, although the amount of federal funds invested in EITC is still insufficient to combat economic insecurity and increase the labor participation rate in Puerto Rico,” Santamaría Ots said. “Additionally, many people are not receiving the CTC in Puerto Rico when they could have received it since early April. The most vulnerable families need the money in their pocket as soon as possible.”
“The learning in both programs shows us that immediate adjustments are required,” the economist added. “The effect of both programs on reducing the poverty rate has been significant. However, Puerto Rico, the poorest jurisdiction in the United States, has a long way to go. Urgent action is needed if we want the effects to be sustainable and continuous in time.”
The Open Spaces team estimated that for the 2021 payroll, 44,999 contributory units (99,272 people) exceeded the poverty line by receiving the EITC. That figure represents a reduction in the poverty rate of some 3.1 percent from 40.5% to 37.44%.
“The economic insecurity in which more than a million and a half people live in Puerto Rico requires forceful action. The reincorporation of the work credit in the 2018 tax reform was a step in that direction. The redesign of local credit from the ARPA law was another,” said Cecille Blondet, executive director of Open Spaces. “The Open Spaces analysis shows that there is room for action at the local level to avoid losing the ground gained against poverty during 2021. The information that EA obtained from the tax returns for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 allowed for an accurate analysis. It turned estimates into accurate data and robust evidence to support public policy decisions.”
Blondet, at the same time, denounced what she said was resistance on the part of the Treasury Department to divulge information requested by the organization that prevents a rendering of accounts regarding the disbursement of public funds assigned for credit for work. The request for information has been the subject of a lawsuit filed against the Treasury.
The San Juan Daily Star, the only paper with News Service in English in Puerto Rico, publishes 7 days a week, with a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday edition, along with a Weekend Edition to cover Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Financial Oversight and Management Board objected on Monday to several bills that seek to alter the contract between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and the private operator of its transmission and distribution (T&D) system, LUMA Energy.
The oversight board in letters to the governor and legislative leaders said it reserves the right to challenge the proposed laws.
The first bill taken up by the oversight board was House Joint Resolution (HJR) 235, which the island House of Representatives passed on Nov. 10, 2021. The oversight board said it has serious concerns about HJR 235 because of its inconsistency with the certified fiscal plans for the commonwealth and PREPA, and because the bill if enacted into law will impair and defeat the purposes of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), as determined by the oversight board.
HJR 235 purports to, among other things: declare an emergency in the Puerto Rico electrical system; prepare an accelerated conservation and repair plan for the electric power generation system that appears to relax requirements for procurement of contracts by PREPA related to the generation system; mandate the Public Private Partnership Authority (P3A) to refrain from awarding an operation and maintenance or similar contract for the private operation of PREPA’s generation assets until July 1, 2023; and prohibit the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) from approving or endorsing any request for reconciliation or an increase in the cost of electrical energy except for those issues relating to the cost of fuel or the purchase of energy.
The oversight board also objected to House Bill (HB)
One measure in the island House of Representatives would, among other things, declare an emergency in the Puerto Rico electrical system and mandate the Public Private Partnership Authority to refrain from awarding an operation and maintenance or similar contract for the private operation of PREPA’s generation assets until July 1, 2023.
1397, which proposes to, among other things: amend Act 29-2009 to exempt from the P3A’s supervision all P3 contracts in which PREPA is the participating government entity; and (2) amend Act 17-2019 to authorize PREPA to recruit the necessary personnel to supervise private operators.
“The bill seeks to reinstate the prior regime by placing the PREPA Governing Board in control of a utility that is in the process of transferring operation and maintenance responsibilities to experienced private-sector operators,” the oversight board said.
The oversight board also objected to HB 1429 be cause, the board said, it has a negative fiscal impact, is directly contrary to PROMESA, and is inconsistent with the certified fiscal plans for the commonwealth and PREPA.
HB 1429 would amend Acts 89-1941, 57-2014, and 4-2016 to establish minimum conditions for the restruc
turing of PREPA’s debt and other legacy obligations, as well as the issuances of PREPA bonds.
“These conditions would place limitations on PREPA’s ability to set consumer rates, mandate PREPA’s bond debt be ‘significantly cut,’ dictate requirements regarding the treatment of PREPA’s pension system, impose restrictions on bonds to be issued under a PREPA plan of adjustment, and require that all government agencies only support and/or approve a debt restructuring if it meets the Bill’s conditions,” the oversight board said.
The oversight board also said it has become aware of HJR 315 as approved by the House of Representatives, which among other things purports to require the ter mination of the operation and maintenance agreement between PREPA and LUMA Energy within 60 days of days of the legislation’s enactment for supposed breaches of contract by LUMA and its subsidiaries.
The board said LUMA’s continued operation of PREPA’s T&D system is mandated by the current certified fiscal plans, and is critical to the success of the fiscal plans and Puerto Rico’s energy future.
The oversight board also came out against Senate Joint Resolution 326, which among other things purports to require PREPA and the P3A to submit, within 20 days, a “work plan” for the possible cancellation of the opera tion and maintenance agreement with LUMA Energy. The board said the bill also is inconsistent with the fiscal plan.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said that if bills do not meet requirements set by PROMESA, he is prevented from turning them into law.
“I have said so before, on December 1 we will have LUMA Energy providing a better service to the people,” he said.
Astatus conference in the corruption case filed in federal court against former Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced and two others is slated for today as the defendants objected to the use of a filter team by pros ecutors to evaluate privileged information obtained in search warrants.
Meanwhile, lawyers for Julio Herrera Velutini and Mark Rossini, who were accused along with Vázquez Garced in a corruption scheme, sought an order enjoining federal prosecutors from continuing their “unilateral and procedurally flawed review of attorney-client and work product privileged electronic data” obtained through search warrants.
A similar request was made by Vázquez Garced recently.
The lawyers said the government only within the past several weeks advised them that it has been in possession of their privileged data (attorney-client and work product)
for well over two years and only now within the past month commenced a “filter team” review of the electronic data.
“The volume of this data could reasonably dwarf the size of the discovery produced to date, as it contains seized data from approximately 32 electronic accounts and devices,” the lawyers said. “It is not only surprising but profoundly concerning that this electronic data was not subjected to any filter team review prior to the in dictment being returned in this matter. Given the volume and nature of the data, it is reasonably certain that it contains Brady which should have been evaluated and considered as to whether charges were even warranted in the first instance.
The materials were seized as a result of search war rants directed to Herrera-Velutini’s and Rossini’s email accounts and iCloud backup of their phones. In the case of the email accounts and iCloud backups, the warrants were issued to third party electronic communications providers and thus Herrera-Velutini and Rossini did not receive any information.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced Monday that on or before Dec. 1, 98,270 employees of different island government agencies will receive a bonus of $2,954, as established in the central govern ment’s debt adjustment plan (PAD by its Spanish acronym).
In addition, the PAD establishes a greater bonus to the 9,452 employees represented by the Public Servants Union (SPU/AFSCME by its Spanish initials), who will receive $11,360 because they supported the PAD. The payment stipulated in the PAD is a result of the gov ernment exceeding collection expectations, which means it can make additional payment to its creditors.
“Our commitment to public servants is unwavering,” the governor said in a written statement. “The adjustments we have made to our finances have yielded results and now we have to meet the needs of our public employees, who have been affected by the budget cuts of the
Gov. Pedro Pierluisipast while the government was going through a fiscal bankruptcy. We will continue, at a steady pace, to establish strategies that contribute to the growth of the economy, while recognizing the service work of our government employees.”
Employees who qualify to receive the PAD bonus are those public servants eligible to receive the Christmas bonus and who are
employees of a public entity that is subject to the certified central government fiscal plan. The government of Puerto Rico managed to get the Financial Oversight and Management Board to include the maximum number of public servants to receive the PAD bonus, since they are the ones who must annually certify eligibility, as long as the financial results established in the certified fiscal plan are exceeded.
Like the Christmas bonus, the PAD bonus is considered part of the ordinary income of public servants and will be subject to the corresponding federal and state withholdings.
For the past five years, the central gov ernment has been immersed in a bankruptcy process, which culminated this year with the approval of a PAD approved by the federal court. The PAD included an 80 percent cut in the payment of the central government’s debt.
David Skeel, the chairman of the oversight board, said in a written statement that: “The Plan Support Agreement between the Oversight Board and AFSCME/SPU represented a critical step on the path to the final confirmation of the
Adjustment Plan that reduced Puerto Rico’s debt by 80 percent and saved Puerto Rico more than $50 billion in debt service payments.”
“All parties affected by Puerto Rico’s un sustainable debt have already benefited from that Adjustment Plan: bondholders and other creditors whose recovery was fair, public em ployees whose collective bargaining agreements were honored, retirees whose pensions were not cut, and residents of Puerto Rico whose tax money goes to government services rather than unsustainable debt service,” Skeel said. “As Puerto Rico’s recovery strengthens, eligible government employees will receive their share of the top performance. The Oversight Board attempted to negotiate similar agreements with other public employee groups and unions, but ultimately only AFSCME/SPU members were willing to support the plan. For this reason, the agreement guarantees a greater share of the surplus to the employees represented by AFSCME/SPU. Payments issued to eligible pub lic employees guarantee that the promise made in the Adjustment Plan is a promise fulfilled.”
By THE STAR STAFF
For the second consecutive year, faculty members and graduates of the Medical Sciences Campus (RCM by its Spanish initials) of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) will be inducted into the Medicine Hall of Fame. The recognition will take place during the Second Induction Ceremony of the Puerto Rican Medicine Hall of Fame to be held at the Sheraton Hotel & Casino on Friday.
This year’s RCM inductees will be honored by Drs. Amalia Martínez Picó, Lillian Haddock Suárez and Ana Judith Román García, as well as Dr. Norman Maldonado, a former president of the UPR. In turn, doctors Oscar Costa
Mandry and Guillermo Picó Santiago will receive posthu mous tributes.
“We are extremely proud of the recognition that the Puerto Rican Medicine Hall of Fame grants, some posthu mously, to these distinguished members of our institution,” said RCM Interim Chancellor Carlos Ortiz Reyes. “This award is overwhelming proof of the legacy of excellence, commitment and dedication, and above all, the contribution that the Medical Sciences Campus and its members make to Puerto Rico. I extend congratulations to the families and loved ones of the honorees, who serve as an example, inspiration and guide for the future generation of health professionals on the island.”
Dr. Humberto M. Guiot, interim dean of the UPR School of Medicine said: “We are extremely pleased with this initiative that honors and recognizes outstanding figures in our institution, who have served the health of Puerto Rico, and are an example for us and the world.”
“We also congratulate our outstanding students who will participate in the activity, since they are a promise that the health of Puerto Rico will be in good hands,” he added. Once again participating in the event will be a group of outstanding students from four island medical schools: UPR, Ponce Health Sciences University, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine and Central University of the Caribbean.
“In November 2021, the first recognition ceremony of the Medicine Hall of Fame took place, where doctors and entities that with their contribution have done great work
in favor of medicine were recognized,” recalled Dr. Yuseff Galib-Frangie Fiol, president of the Puerto Rico Medical Association. “That day, the invited students and all those present lived unforgettable moments, full of history and anecdotes, but above all inspiring for that new generation of young doctors who are preparing, who will be in charge of the health and scientific future of Puerto Rico. This year, we seek to amplify this experience by celebrating the life, work and legacy of this medical class that has left a deep mark on the medicine, science and health of the people of Puerto Rico.”
After a long week counting mail votes out west, a Republican House majority now seems in sight. It might still be days until the major decision desks can project that Republi cans have won the 218 seats necessary to win control. But over the weekend, Democrats fell short of their targets in the late count in critical battleground districts in Arizona and California.
The sometimes good — but not good enough — results for Democrats raised the bar for what the party needs in the votes yet be counted, while making a late surge seem even less likely.
Right now, Republicans would be on track to win 221 seats if the latest trends continued, though several of these races remain so close that they could easily go the other way.
Here’s the Republican path to the 218 needed to win.
— Where Republicans are losing ground, but on track to hold on California 27, California 45 Democrats have made steady gains in the post-Election Day count in these two diverse districts that went for Joe Biden in 2020. Their overperformance in the initial post-Tuesday count helped keep their hopes for a majority alive.
But this past weekend the results were well short of what they needed to be on track for victory.
Republican Michelle Steel still leads by 7 percentage points in California’s 45th, and Mike Garcia leads by 11 points in California’s 27th.
In the end, Democrats might pull within 4 points of victory in both races. But they’ll need to do about 12 points better in the remaining vote than they’ve done so far in the votes counted after Election Day.
A few more good-but-not-goodenough Democratic batches might mean Republicans can lock down both districts — perhaps even Monday or Tuesday.
The Republicans have already been projected to win 212 districts, according to The Associated Press, just six short of the 218 needed for a majority. They will
have 214 districts if they clinch these two races.
— Where Republicans are ahead and gaining
Arizona 1, California 3, California 41
For days, Democrats led the count in Arizona’s 1st. They also seemed tantaliz ingly close in California’s 41st.
But over the weekend, the relatively Republican Election Day drop-off vote in Maricopa County swung Arizona’s 1st into the Republican column. Meanwhile, Republicans continued to pad their lead in California’s 41st, a district that looked like a near-must-win for Democrats if they couldn’t come back and win California’s 27th or 45th.
California’s 3rd, a Trump district that Republican Kevin Kiley leads by 6 points, has never looked competitive.
California’s 41st and Arizona’s 1st are much closer than California’s 45th and 27th. There are many ballots left to count as well. Put it together, and there’s no guarantee that either of these races is called quickly.
But Republicans would reach 217 districts, just one short of the magic 218, if they ultimately locked down these three contests.
— Where Republicans are ahead and not much vote is left
Colorado 3, New York 22
With the previous five districts look ing good for Republicans, Democratic chances may hinge on pulling off a sur prising upset in at least one race in which Republicans lead in an all-but-final count.
Of the two, Colorado’s 3rd is the most compelling. Lauren Boebert leads by just 0.4 points, with overseas and cured mail ballots remaining to be counted. Both types of vote might be expected to lean toward her Democratic chal lenger, Adam Frisch, but the number of outstanding ballots is unknown, making it unclear whether his path to victory remains plausible.
New York’s 22nd is more ambigu ous. There appears to be some number of votes remaining, which is why the race has not yet been called. There is no public reporting to suggest that these
ballots would be expected to be enough for the Democrat to take the lead in this race. Most analysts have been penciling it in to the Republican column.
Republicans will win a majority if they secure these two districts and the five previously mentioned.
— Where Democrats remain highly competitive
California 13, California 22, Ari zona 6
If Democrats can pull off at least two upsets in the previous seven districts where Republicans are unequivocal fa vorites, Democrats would need to sweep these three districts to win a majority.
For now, Republicans hold a nomi nal lead in all three races, but there are still many votes left to count. In general, Democrats have gained in the postTuesday count in all three races. The final results could be within 1 percent age point.
Of the bunch, Arizona’s 6th is the one that’s starting to look most daunt
ing for Democrats. While they’ve been steadily gaining, their momentum ap peared to stall out Sunday when ballots in Tucson’s Pima County expanded the Republican lead for the first time.
California’s 13th, on the other hand, seems most challenging for Republicans. Republican John Duarte leads by just 84 votes, and Democrats have been gaining in this district since election night.
The most uncertain is California’s 22nd. It’s still early there; only 53% has been counted, according to AP estimates. The Democratic stronghold in the district, parts of Kern County, didn’t report over the weekend. But Democrats have been gaining in the count, and they will prob ably continue to gain. It’s too early to say if it will be enough.
If Republicans win the races in which they’re plainly favored and sweep these three tossups, Republicans could win a 222-213 majority. If Democrats win these three, the final tally might be 219 for Republicans and 216 for Democrats.
These are heady days for President Joe Biden. The midterm elections offered long-sought validation. Democrats held onto the Senate, and even if they lose the House, it will be by a narrow margin. The Republicans are in retreat and, by the way, so are the Russians and, just a bit at least, so is inflation.
The president’s fellow Democrats are flocking to cameras to give him credit. “This victory belongs to Joe Biden,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., his onetime rival, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. His advisers sound almost giddy, using words like “miracle” and “biblical” to describe the election.
But even as the history-defying mid terms went a long way toward solving some of the president’s immediate political problems, they did not miraculously make him any younger. A week from Sunday, Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, will turn 80, a milestone the White House has no plans to celebrate with fireworks or splashy parties. And so Biden confronts a choice that still leaves many in his party quietly uncomfortable: Should he run for a second term?
Top advisers such as Ron Klain, Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, Steven J. Ricchetti and Jennifer O’Malley Dillon are already meeting to map out what a 2024 campaign would look like. The president said last week that he “intends” to run but would talk with his family over the holidays and announce a decision early next year. He will only be more motivated assuming former President Donald Trump jumps into the race Tuesday night as expected.
Biden likes to remind anyone who will listen that he is the only one who has beaten Trump, and he remains confident that he is the Democrat who is best equipped to do it again. Polls show that as unpopular as Biden remains, he still has more support than Trump does and the Republican setbacks last week have undercut the former president in his own party.
“Even before the midterms, Biden was running ahead of Donald Trump,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. “Now you’ve got Biden, he has the wind behind his back, he’s gotten a lift from doing better than expected, while Trump is obviously part of a Republican Party meltdown. When you look at it in that frame, Biden has emerged
in a stronger position.”
Unspoken is the reality that Democrats have an unproven bench behind Biden. Many party operatives are deeply worried that Vice President Kamala Harris could not win. While there are many other would-be contenders, none of them has impressed the president enough for him to feel comfortable turning the party over to them.
Some Democrats argue that this is a si tuation of Biden’s own making, having failed to successfully groom a potential successor, consciously or not making himself the indis pensable man. But either way, it leaves many Democrats circling back to the conclusion that Biden remains the party’s best choice.
“Boy, he literally had the Democratic Party across the country at every level, state, local, congressional, it had the best midterms of any Democratic president since JFK,” said Sen. Chris Coons, a Democratic ally from Delaware, the president’s home state. “It’d be hard not to look at that and say, ‘OK, there’s still a role, there’s still a path, there’s still important things to do.’ ”
The elections, however, were as much a testament to Republican weakness as an indication of Biden’s strength. According to an aggregate of surveys tracked by the political website FiveThirtyEight, Biden’s average 41.5% approval rating remains lower at this point in his term than that of all 13 presidents at similar points going back to Harry Truman (albeit only slightly lower than Trump’s was at this stage).
One House Democrat who won re
election last week said the party’s success should not be viewed as a validation of the president. Biden’s numbers were “a huge drag” on Democratic candidates, who won in spite of the president not thanks to him, the lawmaker said on the condition of anonymity to avoid antagonizing the White House.
RootsAction.org, a left-leaning ad vocacy group that supported Sen. Bernie Sanders, the socialist independent from Vermont, in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, barely waited until the polling booths closed Tuesday before kicking off a “Don’t Run Joe” campaign to pressure the president to step aside.
Norman Solomon, the group’s national director, noted that Democrats won with hig her numbers than Biden’s approval ratings, meaning they outperformed their leader.
In CNN exit polls, 67% of voters last week said they did not want Biden to run for reelection, including a significant share of Democrats. A New York Times/Siena College poll in July found that nearly two-thirds of Democrats preferred another candidate for 2024, with age listed as the top concern by the most party members.
While past presidents marked major birthdays with lavish spectacles — Bill Clinton celebrated his 50th with 20,000 supporters at Radio City Music Hall; Barack Obama partied on his 50th with Tom Hanks, Stevie Wonder and Jay-Z — Biden has not made similar plans for next Sunday, when he becomes an octogenarian. Aides said they had not intentionally avoided a public
display, but simply had not had time given the midterms and the president’s current trip overseas.
Biden has said age is a legitimate factor for voters to consider while maintaining that he is in great shape. Despite occasio nal verbal stumbles, he has made a point of showcasing his stamina by following a stretch of cross-country campaign travel with an arduous weeklong journey to North Africa and Asia. While four years younger, Trump faced plenty of questions about age-related diminishment while in office.
Biden’s aides respond to questions about age by citing his record: Look at all the bills he has passed, they argue, because that shows he can get the job done. Among others, Biden enacted major legislation providing COVID-19 relief; rebuilding the nation’s roads, bridges and other infras tructure; jump-starting the semiconductor industry; expanding health care; extending help to veterans afflicted by toxic burn pits; curbing the price of prescription drugs and combating climate change.
None of which, of course, guarantees how he would be doing in six years, at the end of a second term, when he would be 86 — nine years older than Ronald Reagan, the previous oldest president, who was 77 when he left the White House.
The midterm success gives Biden space to decide on his own terms. If he runs again, he is likely to have stronger party support than if there had been a Republican wave. Barring a surprise, it is harder to imagine a significant challenge emerging for the nomination. If he does not run, he can bow out with his pride intact rather than looking as if he was forced to step aside by a bad election.
An announcement may not come until the State of the Union address, probably in February. Aides argue they do not need to move any sooner since Biden is an incum bent, and besides, if he does not run, he would prefer to delay the day he becomes a lame duck. Should he not run, it would still leave nearly a year for other Democrats to prove themselves on the campaign trail.
But in the exuberance after last week’s elections, many Democrats are betting that Biden will give it another go.
“He just defied midterm political history, ” said Cornell Belcher, who was Obama’s pollster. “My God, what president in the last two decades has been better positioned?”
El peticionario, Sr. Juan L. Pagán Méndez, cuya dirección postal es Box 2030 Vega Baja PR 00694, ha solicitado a la Oficina Regional de Arecibo del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) la renovación del Permiso de Operación UIC-10-74-0012RA para una facilidad de inyección subterránea (FIS) Clase VC-1 bajo las provisiones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) del Programa para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (PCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada, 42 use 300f, et seq. (LFAPS), La FIS consiste de un tanque séptico rectangular de 11.5 pies de largo por 5.5 pies de ancho por 7.5 pies de profundidad líquida con una capacidad de 3,548 galones con descarga a un pozo filtrante de forma rectangular de 11.5 pies de largo por 5.5 pies de ancho por 7.5 pies de profundidad líquida para un área de percolación de 255 pies cuadrados para la disposición de aguas exclusivamente sanitarias provenientes del Taller de Reciclaje de Metales Inc. ubicado en la Carr. 688 Km. 3.0 Bo. Cabo Caribe Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.
Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de otorgar la renovación del permiso de operación para la instalación en conformidad con el RCIS y de la LFAPS. Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA ha preparado el borrador del permiso de operación de forma tal que el público interesado puede someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El borrador de permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES
AUniversity of Virginia student has been arrested and charged in the shooting deaths of three members of the school’s football team and the wounding of two other people Sunday night, university officials said Monday.
The suspect is being charged with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony, authorities said.
The university campus was locked down under a shelter-in-place order for nearly 12 hours while au thorities searched for the suspect, whom they identi fied as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22. The university canceled classes Monday, and public schools in the surrounding county were closed.
The order was lifted around the time the suspect was arrested without incident near Richmond, Virginia, about an hour’s drive from Charlottesville.
The university’s president, Jim Ryan, identified
the three students who were killed as Devin Chandler of Virginia Beach; Lavel “Tyler” Davis of Dorchester, South Carolina; and D’Sean Perry of Miami.
The football players had just returned from a class trip to see a play and were attacked as their bus pulled into a campus parking garage, Ryan said at a news conference Monday.
The university’s athletics website listed Jones as a one-time member of its football team; the website listed him as a freshman member of the team who did not appear in any games in 2018.
Jones had come to the attention of the university’s threat assessment team in September after he made a comment about possessing a gun, Chief Tim Longo of the university police said during a news conference Monday. Jones was also involved in a hazing investi gation, the chief said.
The university’s office of emergency management said it received reports of shots fired at a garage on Culbreth Road around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
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Asurprisingly nuanced verdict in the midterm elections has delivered at least one important conclusion about the state of the national mood: In battleground states and swing districts across the country, voters voiced their support for moderation.
That happened in Nevada’s Senate race, where Catherine Cortez Masto, an unassuming incumbent Democrat occu pying one of the party’s most endangered seats, overcame voters’ economic fears and won reelection, highlighting her Republican opponent’s embrace of Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election and his denigration of abortion rights.
It happened in Pennsylvania, where Josh Shapiro, facing the far-right Doug Mastriano, won the governor’s office in the biggest landsli de for a non-incumbent in the state since 1946.
And it happened Sunday, when a liberal Democrat in Oregon who beat a veteran cen trist House Democrat in the primary, Rep. Kurt Schrader, lost the seat for her party to the GOP, a stinging blow to the Democrats’ chances of holding their majority.
In contests up and down the ballot, Republicans betting on a red wave instead received a sweeping rebuke from Americans who, for all the qualms polls show they have about Democratic governance, made clear they believe that the GOP has become unac ceptably extreme.
On a smaller scale, a similar dynamic could be discerned on the left: After Demo cratic primary voters chose more progressive nominees over moderates in a handful of House races including in Oregon, Texas and California, those left-leaning candidates were defeated or are at risk of losing seats that could have helped preserve a narrow Democratic majority.
But the 2022 midterm was the third con secutive federal election in which the march of many Republican candidates into a morass of conspiracy theories and far-right policy positions had grave electoral consequences for the GOP.
“The message on Tuesday was the ave rage person is done voting for extremism,” said Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat who ran for reelection in a Republican-leaning district in central Michigan on an explicitly centrist message, with the backing of a Republican, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. “They’re done with voting for people who just want to blow up the system.”
Republicans not only collapsed in governor’s races from Pennsylvania to Min nesota, but also lost House races they had targeted in those states, reflecting the poli tical dangers of top-of-the-ticket candidates perceived as extreme or unserious, party strategists said.
And while Republicans may still cap ture the House, their efforts to win back the districts that powered the 2018 Democratic takeover of the chamber fell short in many races, while Democrats flipped a Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
“Many Republicans know democracy’s at risk and that these extreme candidates are the reason,” said Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, chair of the Democratic Governors Association.
Democrats had their share of missed opportunities, including in cases where their primary voters had elevated candidates from the liberal wing of their party instead of from the center.
In a competitive district outside Portland, Oregon, Democratic primary voters in May turned out Schrader, a seven-term moderate incumbent, in favor of a considerably more liberal candidate, Jamie McLeod-Skinner. On Sunday, The Associated Press called the race for the Republican, Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
“We’re more divided than ever,” Schrader said in an interview Sunday evening. “People are reverting to their tribal allegiances that are getting further right and further left. It’s not healthy for the country.”
Underscoring that message, Adam Frisch, an independent-turned-Democrat from Aspen, Colorado, squeaked by a much more liberal Democrat, Sol Sandoval, by 290 votes to challenge Rep. Lauren Boebert, one of the most flamboyant torchbearers of Trumpism. Frisch is now within range of pulling off the biggest upset of the campaign after running as a pro-business, pro-energy production, “pro-normal party” moderate.
“The pro-normal party had legs all across the country,” Frisch said in an interview Sun day. “People really want their representatives to play between the 30-yard lines,” not on the extremes.
Certainly, plenty of candidates roots on the left or right prevailed. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis flipped Miami-Dade County, which had not voted for a Republican candidate for governor in two decades, while Gov. Brian Kemp easily won reelection in Georgia. Neither man is closely tied to Trump — DeSantis is often mentioned as the leading alternative
for the Republican presidential nomination — but both are staunch conservatives. And John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat who beat Mehmet Oz for a Senate seat, staked out a number of middle-of-the-road positions during the campaign, but as a 2016 supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders, he has long had cre dibility on the left.
For months before the 2022 midterm elections, Sarah Longwell, an anti-Trump Re publican strategist, would ask her focus groups how they felt the nation was doing. Terribly, they’d say, citing the lingering pandemic, crime and the worst inflation rate in 40 years.
“Then I’d say, ‘Who are you going to vote for, Mark Kelly or Blake Masters?’ ” she said, referring to the Democratic and Republican Senate candidates in Arizona. “And they’d say, ‘Oh, Blake Masters is insane.’ ”
Republicans remain bullish on their chances of retaking the House, even if by a narrower margin than many had predicted.
“House Republicans are pleased with the inroads we made in New York, the tough seats we held in California and the fact that we went from holding one seat in Iowa to holding all four seats in just two cycles,” Mike Berg, a spokesperson for the House Republican cam paign arm, said in a statement, as California results continued to be counted.
But in most battlegrounds, the vaunted red wave failed to materialize.
In Nevada, Democrats pounded Republi can Senate candidate Adam Laxalt for saying the Roe v. Wade decision that protected federal abortion rights was “a joke.”
“Abortion certainly was a factor in Neva da, but so was the economy,” said Rep. Dina Titus, a Democrat who won a tough reelection battle in her Las Vegas-area district. “We talked a lot in all our races about the things that we had done over the last two years to bring this economy back.”
Slotkin of Michigan was facing voters in a newly drawn district that leaned more Repu blican than before. Her Republican opponent, state Sen. Tom Barrett, tried to temper his views on abortion and tamped down questions he had earlier raised over the 2020 election.
But Slotkin tarred him with what she characterized as the extremism of the Repu blicans running for governor, secretary of state and attorney general.
“He was smart enough to know that extreme views wouldn’t fly in a swing district like ours, but he had a record,” she said in an interview.
Jason Cabel Roe, a Republican strategist who consulted for Barrett, acknowledged Re publican problems with independent voters.
“The Dobbs decision, you take the Jan. 6 stuff, you take the election denialism and wrap it all together, it’s not a good look for us,” he said.”
Vitrina Solidaria graduated 20 busi nessmen and women who com pleted training at the El Yunque Emprende Accelerator and established businesses in the eastern region, Raquel Skerret Escalera, executive director of Vitrina Solidaria, said Monday.
The El Yunque Emprende Acce lerator develops and promotes local microenterprises — free of charge for participants — through a process of advice and training that is based on the principles of a solidarity economy. The program is funded via the Housing Department with Community Develo pment Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) recovery and is part of an agreement with El Yunque National Fo rest.
“The achievements of this group of 20 entrepreneurs inspire us to continue training more struggling people who accept the challenge of bringing their ideas to their culmination with the de velopment of their microenterprises in a region (east) that needs to strengthen its economy and generate jobs,” Skerret Escalera said. “Once they graduate, at Vitrina Solidaria we continue to support
our entrepreneurs because that accom paniment and mentoring is fundamental to facing the challenges of doing busi ness.
The group that participated in the first edition of the El Yunque Emprende
Accelerator received 64 hours of trai ning and 650 hours of practice in speci fic topics in their area of specialty with experts in sustainable tourism, gastro nomy and local production. Another component of the process
was permanent training in the areas of entrepreneurship, strategic planning, business outlook, strengthening of pro ducts and services, resilience and envi ronmental responsibilities, legal aspects, financial management, action plan, mar keting (brand development and digital marketing), and the solidarity economy, among others.
The training was offered at the El Portal visitor center of El Yunque Natio nal Forest and at a Vitrina Solidaria pro perty in Río Grande.
To participate businesses had to be established in one of the 10 municipali ties that make up the El Yunque region: Canóvanas, Ceiba, Naguabo, Humacao, Las Piedras, Juncos, Fajardo, Luquillo, Loíza and Río Grande.
El Yunque National Forest Supervi sor Keenan Adams said “today, thanks to the El Yunque Emprende Business Acceleration program of Vitrina Solida ria, we can count on a group of new entrepreneurs trained with the neces sary tools and skills to contribute, from a philosophy of the solidarity economy, to the economic and tourist development of the El Yunque region and the chan ge that our region and its communities deserve.”
With the participation of New York City Councilmen, along with state sena tors and community leaders from New York who traveled to Puerto Rico to par ticipate in the Convention of the organization SOMOS NY, the Committee of the Delegation of Puerto Rico, as part of Puerto Rican Week events and the National Puerto Rican Parade in New York, dedicated its annual “November Puerto Rican Heritage Month” to industrialist and entrepreneur José González Freyre, presi dent & CEO of Pan American Grain.
“For his outstanding social and business work in having become one of the most suc cessful industrialists on the island and for his support of the activities of Puerto Rican Week and the National Puerto Rican Parade in New
York, we are recognizing and dedicating to José González Freyre, chief executive officer and president of Pan American Grain, the certificate delivery activity that happens to be the most im portant event held by the Puerto Rico Delega tion. which travels annually to the ‘Big Apple’ to participate in the largest Hispanic cultural event in the United States, which takes place on Fifth Avenue,” said José J. Taboada de Jesús, presi dent of the Puerto Rico Police Members Asso ciation and organizer of the event.
Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santia go and Lorraine Cortés Vázquez, former presi dent of the board of directors of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade Inc., also presented awards to Lymaris Albors Sánchez (CEO Aca cia Networks NY), Monserrate Flores Jiménez (co-founder of Desfile Puertorriqueña NY), and Antonio Fas Alzamora (a former president of the
Puerto Rico Senate).
“Every day hundreds of colleagues, all Puerto Ricans, get up to work in our compa nies, especially in Pan American Grain, focused on giving their best for our country,” González Freyre said. “Our companies within the food in dustry provide food supply to the country and create a livelihood for hundreds of employees and service companies, but above all we make a difference fighting to help those less fortuna te who need a helping hand. We will continue to support the defense of our culture and the work done by the Committee of the Puerto Rico Delegation … because we believe that it is an activity that raising our flag, unites the diaspora that decided to move to the United States while clearly determined to maintain their identity as children of this land. We are united by many things, but what stands out most is the pride in
our single-star flag, the flag of Puerto Rico, so I appreciate this distinction …”
Wall Street’s main indexes slipped on Monday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq down about 1%, as hawk ish comments from a U.S. Federal Reserve official tempered hopes of the central bank toning down its aggres sive monetary policy approach.
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller, a voting member of the rate-setting committee this year, said on Sun day that markets should now pay attention to the “endpoint” of rate increases, not the pace of each move, and that the endpoint was likely “a ways off”.
The comments follow a softer-than-expected inflation re port last week, which had buoyed hopes that the Fed could scale back its hefty interest rate hikes and helped drive a eu phoric market rally.
The S&P 500 in the previous session logged its biggest weekly percentage gain in about five months, while the techheavy Nasdaq .IXIC notched its best week since March.
In the week ahead, focus will be on a slew of economic data including retail sales numbers on Wednesday as well as speeches by several Fed officials for further clues on the outlook for interest rates.
“The market is expecting the Fed to continue its hawkish rhetoric on rates. That could all change once we get more confirmation on inflation in December,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities.
Traders now expect the Fed to hike interest rates in De cember by a half point, and expect terminal rate in the range of 4.75%-5.0% next year. FEDWATCH
At 9:42 a.m. ET, the S&P 500 .SPX was down 17.25 points, or 0.43%, at 3,975.68, and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was down 115.13 points, or 1.02%, at 11,208.20.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was down 7.84 points, or 0.02%, at 33,740.02. Gains in drugmakers includ ing Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N and Amgen AMGN.O limited declines on the blue-chip index.
As U.S. Treasury yields edged up, technology and growth names such as Microsoft Corp MSFT.O, Apple Inc AAPL. Oand Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O slipped between 1% and 3%. US/
The S&P 500 information technology sector .SPLRCT was down 1.2% and among the leading sectoral decliners on the benchmark index.
Tesla Inc TSLA.O fell 3.4% as Chief Executive Elon Musk said “I have too much work on my plate” when asked about his recent acquisition of Twitter and his leadership of the electric-vehicle maker.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden met on Monday for long-awaited talks that come as relations between their countries are at their lowest in decades, marred by disagreements over a host of issues from Taiwan to trade.
Among other stocks, Biogen Inc BIIB.O and Eli Lilly LLY.N gained 3.4% and 1.4%, respectively, after the failure of Swiss rival Roche’s ROG.S Alzheimer’s disease drug can didate.
Theater operator AMC Entertainment AMC.O jumped 6.5% as Marvel’s latest film “Black Panther: Wakanda For
ever” grossed $330 million globally in its opening weekend, while Hasbro Inc HAS.O fell 7.4% after BofA Global Re search downgraded the toymaker’s stock.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 2.08-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 1.65-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded four new 52-week highs and no new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 23 new highs and 21 new lows.
U.S.-listed shares of Chinese companies rose, with Ali
baba Group Holding Ltd BABA.N gaining 1.4% after China eased some of its strict COVID-19 rules.
Advancing issues outnumbered falling ones within the S&P 500 .AD.SPX by a 1.7-to-one ratio.
The S&PCore services prices rose 0.5%. Away from rents and other services, goods disinflation is broadening.
Prices of used cars and trucks plunged 2.4%. The cost of apparel declined for the second straight month as retailers offered discounts to move unwanted inventory.
There were also decreases in prices of furniture and bed ding as well as appliances. As a result, core goods prices fell 0.4% after being unchanged in September, a function of slowing demand and recovering fractured global supply chains.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine made an unannounced visit to the newly freed city of Kherson on Monday, reveling in perhaps the most significant success by his country’s forces since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February.
“We are, step by step, coming to all of our country,” he said to a crowd of hun dreds of people, some wrapped in Ukrai nian flags. “I am happy we are in Kher son.”
The president’s visit to Kherson just days after it was retaken was a tangible sign of Ukraine’s soaring morale and its growing boldness in the nearly ninemonth war. Kherson, a vital Black Sea port and a gateway to Crimea, was the first ma jor city to fall to Russian forces after the start of the invasion on Feb. 24. Russia’s decision to withdraw was a major blow to the Kremlin and its ambition to conquer all of southern Ukraine.
At the same time, there were palpa ble reminders that the conflict was con tinuing. While he was talking, explosions
— possibly Ukrainian forces deactivating mines — echoed in the distance. And Rus sian forces remained nearby, across the Dnieper River, within striking distance, another reminder of the immediate threat to the civilian population.
Zelenskyy was surrounded by dozens of soldiers and police officers carrying ri fles, underscoring the daring nature of the
visit.
The crowd of several hundred people cheered and shouted “glory to Ukraine.”
The Ukrainian president wore a hood ed parka and cargo pants and looked a bit bleary-eyed but defiant. He spoke in front of the Kherson regional administration building, where only a few days ago the tricolors of the Russian flag flew above its imposing facade, and vowed to restore all of the land occupied by Russia to Ukraine.
Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelen skyy’s office, posted a video of the Ukrai nian flag being raised above the city.
Russia captured the Kherson region early in the conflict in March. Last week, the Kremlin ordered the withdrawal of its forces as Ukraine’s military bore down on the city, and later took control. Ukrainian troops arrived in triumph to be greeted by the remnants of the population.
Since September, Ukraine has re captured territory in the northeast of the country, as well as in the south.
Zelenskyy stayed for only about 10 minutes. After he left, the crowd stayed.
A satellite dish had been set up in the square, and scores of people continued to
try to reach loved ones.
Alina Samofalova, 26, who works at a human resources agency in Kherson and was wearing a yellow and blue flag over her shoulders, came to the main square Monday morning unaware that Zelenskyy was on his way.
“I am so excited he came,” said Samo falova, whose nails were painted yellow. “When the orcs were here, it was a gray mood like a black-and-white movie,” she said, using a common insult to refer to Russian soldiers.
“Now, it is like the sun is shining over the city.”
There is no power, heat, running wa ter or internet, and Ukrainian officials have asked people to leave the city while it is made safe and essential services are restored.
Samofalova said she came to the square because it had such good energy. The fact that Zelenskyy would risk his own safety, she said, sent an important mes sage to the people.
“When the government and president come to hear our problems,” she said, “they seem close to the people.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to visit China early next year to follow up on the meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia, a State Department official in Washington said Monday. The trip by Blinken would have the same broad aims as the meeting in Bali: to keep the lines of communica tion open and to have frank exchanges about important issues at senior lev els in order to avoid conflict. Ameri can and Chinese officials plan to work out details of the trip over the coming weeks.
Biden said at his news conference in Bali on Monday night that Blinken would make a trip sometime soon. Blinken sat to Biden’s right as the U.S. delegation met in a hotel with Xi and Chinese officials. The U.S. ambassa
dor to China, R. Nicholas Burns, was also on the U.S. side of the table.
Blinken has met with Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, sever al times in various places outside of China. They spoke in late September on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting. Taiwan was a central topic of the discussions.
Blinken and Wang first met in their current roles in March 2021 in Anchorage, Alaska, where Wang and Yang Jiechi, China’s top Communist Party official for foreign policy, sharp ly criticized Blinken and Jake Sullivan, the White House national security ad viser, on U.S. policy on China.
“We believe that it is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the rest of the world,” Yang told Blinken and Sullivan in that meeting.
In internal discussions, Blinken has
been supportive of the Biden admin istration’s actions on China, including the sweeping export controls on semi conductor technology announced last month.
Blinken has rallied allies and part ners to denounce China’s actions on Taiwan, including the military exercis es and missile tests that Beijing carried out after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to the island in August. And Blinken has not changed the of ficial State Department designation of the Chinese government’s actions against ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang as “genocide,” a designation that Blink en’s predecessor, Mike Pompeo, made in January 2021, right before the end of the Trump administration.
At the same time, Blinken is a proponent of Biden’s goal of keep ing open channels of communication with China in order to avoid a rapid deterioration of the relationship. The
two countries are the world’s largest economies and have extensive trade ties.
U.S. officials said after the meeting in Bali that the two countries would re sume diplomatic talks that Beijing had frozen after Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. That includes talks on climate change and global environmental policy.
But analysts say Blinken and other administration officials will continue to enact tough policies on China even as they carry on diplomacy.
“To use Theodore Roosevelt’s phrase, Biden’s approach to China can be described as ‘Speak softly and car ry a big stick,’” said Yuen Yuen Ang, a political scientist at the University of Michigan. “Unlike Trump, Biden does not send wild tweets or insult China, but he is determined to counter Chi na’s rise, and he has been steadily do ing so by rallying allies and cutting off China’s access to critical technology.”
Turkish authorities arrested a woman Monday they suspect was behind the deadly bombing in central Istanbul a day earlier, saying she had been sent to Turkey from Syria by Kurdish militants to carry out the at tack.
The bombing Sunday on a crowd ed shopping street popular with both Turks and tourists killed six people — all of them Turkish nationals — who belonged to three different families, ac cording to officials. It was the deadliest such attack in Turkey in more than five years, raising painful memories of the days when bombings by Kurdish and Islamic State militants often struck Turk ish cities.
Turkey accused the United States of complicity in the attack because the U.S. has long maintained a military partnership with a Kurdish-led militia in Syria. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, during a visit to the site of the attack Monday, dismissed condolence mes sages from the United States, saying this was like “the killer is among the first ones returning to the scene.”
The United States is an ally of Tur key in NATO, but Soylu’s accusation of complicity was rooted in the long-stand ing U.S. partnership with a Kurdish-led militia in northeastern Syria formed to battle the Islamic State, which ruled a so-called caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq for years.
U.S. officials have hailed the Syr ian Democratic Forces, their Kurdishled partners in Syria, as reliable and effective fighters who were essential to the U.S.-led effort to destroy the Is lamic State, which was driven from its last patch of territory in Syria in March 2019.
But that partnership infuriated Tur key, which considers the Syrian militia a branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a Kurdish group that has been fighting a war with the Turkish state for decades. Turkey, the United States and the European Union all consider the PKK a terrorist group.
The U.S. Embassy in Turkey wrote on Twitter on Sunday that it was “deep
ly saddened” by the bombing.
“We extend our deepest condo lences to the families of those who lost their lives and wish a speedy recovery for the injured,” it said.
A spokesperson for the embassy
did not immediately respond to a re quest for comment on Soylu’s accusa tion.
On Monday, Istanbul police iden tified the suspect in the bombing as Ahlam al-Bashir and said she had been
arrested overnight in Istanbul.
Police said she had crossed into Turkey illegally from northern Syria to carry out the attack, adding that she had received orders from Kobani, a Kurdish city in northern Syria. The explosion had been caused by a small amount of TNT left in a bag on the street, police said.
Authorities searched footage from 1,200 security cameras, raided 21 sites and detained 46 other people before finding her, the police statement said.
The PKK denied any involvement in the bombing in a statement posted on the website of its armed wing. Ma zloum Abdi, the commander of the Syr ian Democratic Forces, also denied in a post on Twitter any connection to his forces.
During his visit to the bombing site, Soylu vowed that Turkey would re taliate, without specifics, and lamented the disruption of years of calm.
“We are embarrassed in front of our people on that matter,” he said.
For many Turks, the bombing re called tense days from 2015-17 when such attacks were more common.
The dead included a father and his 9-year-old daughter; a couple; and a mother and her 15-year-old daugh ter, officials said. More than 80 people were injured.
Istiklal Avenue, where the bomb ing took place, was open Monday and visitors laid red flowers on a memorial at the site to commemorate the dead.
In the city of Adana in southern Turkey, government officials and fam ily members gathered at the airport to receive the bodies of Yusuf Meydan, 34, and his daughter, Ecrin, 9, who died in the bombing while their mother was inside a nearby shop. The family had been in Istanbul for Meydan’s brother’s engagement ceremony, relatives said.
As the coffins were removed from the plane and carried by soldiers to a car, the mother, Mevlide, cried and kissed photographs of her husband and daughter. During the burial at a near by cemetery, she pleaded to see her daughter one last time.
“She is my baby,” she said. “I want a piece of her hair.”
President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping of China agreed Monday to restart talks between their cou ntries as part of international climate ne gotiations, a breakthrough in the effort to avert catastrophic global warming.
Talks between China and the United States over climate had been frozen for months, amid rising tensions between the two countries over trade, Taiwan and a host of security issues. China suspen ded all cooperation with the United Sta tes, including around climate change, in August as retaliation for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan.
But the leaders of the world’s two bi ggest economies — and the two biggest sources of fossil fuel emissions that are warming the planet — met for more than three hours Monday afternoon before the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, and emerged to say their representatives would return to the negotiating table.
The announcement reverberated nearly 6,000 miles away in Sharm elSheikh, Egypt, where delegates and ac tivists at the United Nations climate con ference, known as COP27, were hoping for news that could spur more aggressive climate action from countries around the world.
“This is good news for the climate talks and for climate action,” said Natha niel Keohane, the president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, an en vironmental group based in Washington.
Thousands of diplomats and activists in Egypt were hyper-focused on Biden’s Bali meeting with Xi.
“A lot is at stake,” said Li Shuo, a Beijing-based policy adviser for Green peace, an environmental group. He said the United States and China needed to send a signal that the existential threat to humanity posed by climate change was worth putting aside their differences.
Biden seemed to push Xi on clima te cooperation in his opening remarks in Bali before the bilateral meeting at the Chinese delegation’s hotel.
“The world expects, I believe, China and the United States to play key roles in addressing global challenges, from clima te changes to food insecurity, and to — for us to be able to work together,” Biden said. “The United States stands ready to
do just that — work with you — if that’s what you desire.”
After the meeting, the White Hou se released a statement saying the two leaders “agreed to empower key senior officials to maintain communication and deepen constructive efforts” on climate change and other issues.
John Kerry, Biden’s climate envoy, and his counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, have had no formal negotiations in Sharm elSheikh, where delegates representing nearly 200 countries are struggling with the question of whether industrialized countries should compensate developing nations for loss and damage from climate disasters.
The two men, who have known each other for 20 years, have met casually at least seven times at COP27, an adminis tration official said. They have been seen speaking together in public — at one point Xie affectionately clasped Kerry’s arm — and Kerry has been spotted wal king into the Chinese delegation’s office.
On Monday, neither Kerry nor Xie would answer questions about what get ting a green light from their bosses would mean for the rest of their time at the cli mate conference.
The renewed talks come at a pivotal moment in the fight to limit global war ming. Negotiators representing nearly 200 countries at the talks in Egypt are struggling to find common ground bet ween rich and poor nations.
“Countries like to hide between the U.S. and China and say, ‘The two biggest polluters aren’t working together, aren’t doing much, so why should we?’” said Bernice Lee, a climate policy expert at Chatham House, a policy institute in Bri tain. When they come together around ambition, she said, it removes that argu ment.
The discussions also come as coun tries position themselves to dominate the industries like solar, wind and batteries that will help the world pivot from fossil fuels.
The United States is poised to com pete aggressively with China when it co mes to the green economy following a landmark climate law signed by Biden this summer that will pump $370 billion into renewable energy and electric vehi cles. When Biden appeared at the clima te talks in Egypt on Friday, he said the funding would clear the way for Ameri can innovation that would drive down the cost of solar, wind and other renewa ble energy.
The United States and China are the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, which have already warmed the planet an average of 1.1 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, compared with preindustrial levels. If temperature rise passes 1.5 degrees, scientists warn, the likelihood of catastrophic climate impact significantly increases.
Previous deals between the United
States and China helped pave the way for the 2015 Paris Agreement, which was the first global warming pact in which both developed and developing nations pled ged to cut greenhouse gases.
“Can we imagine meeting 1.5 without the United States and China tal king to each other for the rest of this de cade?” Li said. “I can’t see that.”
But it remains unclear how renewed cooperation between Washington and Beijing might translate into concrete agreements at COP27, which began Nov. 6 and is scheduled to end Friday.
The two countries are at odds on se veral fronts.
The United States wants negotiators at COP27 to reaffirm a commitment to keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but China is resisting because that would re quire it to commit to deeper emissions cuts.
The single largest issue facing ne gotiators in Egypt is whether to create a fund to help poor countries cope with the loss and damage from continuing clima te disasters — like the devastating floods in Pakistan and Nigeria, or the need to relocate island communities because of rising sea levels.
The Biden administration is resisting the creation of a new fund, in part be cause it is unlikely to secure any money from Congress, and also because the ad ministration does not want to be held lia ble for skyrocketing global disaster costs.
Kerry has also said that China should contribute to any new pot of money that might be created, given its large and growing contribution to the global war ming. That has not gone over well with China, which is clinging to its status in the U.N. climate body as a developing country and not an industrialized nation.
“It is not the obligation of China to provide financial support” under the U.N. climate rules, Xie said Wednesday. Beijing is prepared to spend money to help poorer countries, he said, but only through separate channels.
“Both countries are under pressure at the COP to mobilize more climate finan ce for poor countries,” said Kelly Sims Gallagher, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She said she hoped that will be the focus when Kerry and Xie sit down for substantive discus sions.
Six dollars and 50 cents is a lot to pay for a scoop of ice cream, no matter how artisanal. But that’s the cost at Van Leeuwen’s 20 ice cream shops in New York City. It’s especially egregious when you consider that a full pint of Van Leeuwen, which contains 2 1/2 servings of ice cream, depending on your self-discipline, costs only a few dollars more.
But some people haven’t been allowed to pay for Van Leeuwen’s ice cream, be it vegan or French, at all. For nearly two years after New York City banned retail stores from being cashless, Van Leeuwen shops in New York refused to comply. The company bore down on this defiance with a brazenness that felt almost ideological. Not only did signs warn customers that its stores did not take cash — until last month, when it finally acquiesced after threat of legal action — it violated the law at least 90 times and declined to show up for administrative hearings. The company also declined to respond to repeated requests for comment.
“Nobody should be discriminated against because they only want to or can pay with cash,” Vilda Vera Mayuga, commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, told me after
Van Leeuwen finally conceded defeat. “It’s not for the business to decide who they want to serve.”
Maybe you didn’t need that serving of Royal Wedding Cake ice cream with elderflower and lemon anyway. Lots of people like to avoid scrounging for pennies at the bottom of their bags or standing behind someone in line who does. Many businesses prefer cashless transactions too. What’s the problem?
Clearly a cash-free economy has its beneficiaries, foremost banks and credit card companies: Visa and Mastercard reap $138 billion from participating merchants in service fees a year. According to a recent report in The Economist, Visa and Mastercard are two of the most profitable companies in the world, with net margins of 51% and 46% last year.
It’s also easy to pick up the rich scent of Silicon Valley. In the rose-metallic vision of libertarians like Peter Thiel — who of course, co-founded PayPal — operating in a cash-free world is easier and more convenient than handling grubby lucre. Amazon has also been a notable opponent to cashless bans in states like New Jersey; in the company’s original vision for its Go stores, paper money was not an option.
Many people believe cashless is the wave of the future, citing Sweden as an example. Countries such as India and South Korea have also made a strong push toward a cash-free future. According to an analysis of sales data by payment platform Square, the share of cashless businesses nearly doubled in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada between February 2020 and February 2021; in the United States, cash payments dropped more than 8 percentage points in that period. And while the United States is far from the vanguard on going cash-free, here consumers use either credit or debit cards for 57% of transactions. As of 2022, 41% of Americans say they go cashless in a typical week, up from 24% in 2015.
So who’s paying for all this? While cash-free means profits for credit card industries and efficiencies for merchants in terms of training workers and managing their time, it isn’t cost-free for everyone. One recent study found that merchants increase their prices by approximately 1.4% to offset the interchange fees they pay to credit card companies; for those earning miles, that may not matter — but those who pay cash pay the price. Moreover, many cashless venues use tablet payment systems that automatically ask consumers to tip for a retail service that was long standard. If you’re like me, that screen may leave you flummoxed: Are the workers being paid less than minimum wage because these are now tipped jobs? Will this barista think I’m a jerk for not tacking on 20% percent or 30% for a muffin?
Consumers also pay in terms of privacy. Do you
want your payment app or credit card company to share exactly how many beers or Big Macs you’ve bought in the past week with its data partners or to know every item you picked up at the pharmacy? And while a cash system is subject to crime, like employee theft and robbery, digital payments aren’t without their own risks, including double charges and identity theft.
But the most significant objection to a cashless system is whom it shuts out. Whereas cash enables everyone, no matter their age, credit history, immigration status or income, to pay directly for goods or services rather than use an intermediary, credit cards generally require a bank account. Not everyone — including 301,700 households, or almost one in 10 households in New York City — has one. And even those who do don’t necessarily want to add to their credit card debt. Regardless of whether they have a choice, teenagers and people earning less than $30,000 a year are more likely to use cash. This is also disproportionately true for minorities.
In response to these disparities, Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York City and the state of New Jersey have passed legislation forbidding most merchants from refusing to accept cash. But that’s a tiny fraction of the country. Chicago’s proposed ban failed to pass in 2019. Though the U.S. Treasury notes on all bills, “This Note Is Legal Tender for All Debts, Public and Private,” there is no federal law mandating that all businesses accept cash. In the absence of an explicit law stating otherwise, merchants can decline any form of payment they like.
Going cashless sounds so sleek and shiny and techforward, but like many high-tech initiatives, it doesn’t necessarily translate into progress for all. Given this country’s ongoing inflation, given the persistence of its profound wealth disparities, given the paycheck-topaycheck lives of many Americans, widening another divide between the haves and the have-nots isn’t the cost-free leap forward proponents make it out to be. Someone always pays the price.
SAN JUAN – La comisionada residente, Jenniffer Gon zález Colón opinó el lunes, que el secretario de Justi cia, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández debe revisar y ofrece su recomendación al gobernador Pedro Pierluisi sobre el contrato de LUMA Energy.
“Esa es una determinación que solo él la puede tomar, la Oficina de Alianzas Público Privadas y el gobernador de Puerto Rico, o sea que ellos tienen una información evidentemente que yo no tengo para hacer esa evalua ción. Yo confío que eso no signifique el que se baje la guardia en lo que debe ser la fiscalización de este contra to. Hay unos elementos que a mi juicio requieren que la Oficina de las Alianzas Público Privadas en lo que es el Negociado de Energía se mantengan en continua fiscali zación de este contrato”, dijo la comisión da residente a preguntas de la prensa.
“Soy de las que digo que el secretario de Justicia de bería evaluar este contrato en todas sus dimensiones y hacerle recomendaciones al gobernador. No sé si esa de terminación del gobernador responde al estudio que haya hecho el secretario de Justicia. Yo desconozco”, añadió.
Mencionó que “debió haber habido -a mi juicio- una evaluación del secretario de Justicia sobre la contrata ción, que fuera compartida tanto con la Junta, como con el Negociado de Energía y con las Alianzas Público Priva das. Yo creo que el que el contrato permanezca no signi fica que uno no pueda fiscalizar. Todo lo contrario, si no hubiera sido por la fiscalización esta compañía (LUMA Energy) no hubiera hecho algunos cambios que se han hecho, pero a mi juicio no son suficientes todavía”.
El próximo jueves se llevará a cabo una vista en el Congreso donde depondrá tanto personal de LUMA Ener gy y funcionarios del gobierno.
El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia repitió el lunes que su intención es mantener el contrato de LUMA Energy luego del 30 de noviembre, a pesar de los proyec tos aprobados por la Asamblea Legislativa que procuran la cancelación.
“Lo he dicho y lo repito, el primero de diciembre vamos a tener a LUMA y yo espero que cada vez mas, brindando un mejor servicio a nuestro pueblo”, dijo el gobernador a preguntas de la prensa.
Sobre el proyecto que procura la cancelación del contrato, mencionó que la medida tiene que cumplir con
los requisitos de la Ley federal PROMESA.
“Esa ley es ley suprema. Igual manera, estoy pen diente de los requisitos del Plan Fiscal de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica que aplica, de igual manera, el Plan Fiscal del Gobierno aplica. Así que yo arranco por ahí, porque si el proyecto incumple con esos requisitos, pues básicamente estoy impedido de firmarlo. Por otra parte, hay asuntos de política pública que son importantes para mí”, expresó.
– El alcalde de Vieques, José Corcino Ace vedo, anunció el lunes, que desde la pasada sema na la unidad para hacer el proceso de diálisis en dicho municipio opera un nuevo sistema de aire acondicio nado.
El primer ejecutivo municipal también notificó que en los próximos días se construirá una rampa pro visional para personas con necesidades especiales, la cual operará hasta que se repare el mecanismo hi dráulico que se utiliza para personas con sillones de ruedas.
“Nuestro compromiso es con la salud del pueblo
viequense. Desde que nos entramos en conocimien to de que la unidad de aire en la sala de diálisis no funcionaba correctamente, entramos en conversacio nes con el Departamento de Salud y desde la pasa da semana se instaló un nuevo y moderno sistema de acondicionador de aire para el beneficio de nuestros pacientes”, señaló Corcino Acevedo en declaraciones escritas.
“Otro asunto que atendimos fue la avería al sis tema hidráulico que se utiliza en dicha unidad para subir y bajar a personas con silla de ruedas. Ante esto, la administración municipal adquirió los materiales necesarios para desarrollar una rampa provisional para que estos pacientes puedan tomar sus proce
dimientos aquí, en Vieques. En esta misma semana, personal del Departamento de Salud vendrá para construir esta rampa e instalar la misma. Esto se hace en lo que el sistema hidráulico es reparado”, aña dió.
Corcino Acevedo indicó, además, que las medidas que se le están realizando son para asegurar que los viequenses que reciben este tipo de tratamiento no tengan que viajar para el mismo. Destacó, también, que con la construc ción del nuevo hospital el proceso de diálisis se realizaría en dicha facilidad.
La unidad de diálisis en Vieques, la cual se ubi ca en el sector Las Marías, atiende a unos 13 pacien tes.
SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el lu nes 150 personas hospitalizadas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,299.
Hay 141 adultos hospitalizados y 9 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 28 de octubre al 11 de noviembre de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está a 15.61 por ciento.
Afresh face arrives on the shores of the fabled nation of Wakanda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which hit theaters Friday. His name is Namor, and he is played by Tenoch Huerta Mejía (“The Forever Purge,” “Narcos: Mexico”). But although the character may be new to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he has roots in the earliest days of Marvel Comics. Here is a primer on who Na mor is and how he came to be.
FIRST APPEARANCE: Namor — whose code name is the Sub-Mariner — was created by writer-artist Bill Everett and debuted in Mar vel Comics No. 1, published on Aug. 31, 1939, by Timely Comics, a forerunner of Marvel. Eve rett came up with the character’s name from the word Roman, written backward. Other characters premiered in that anthology issue, but none have made quite the, uh, splash as Namor.
BACKSTORY: In Marvel Comics No. 1, we learn that Namor is from an underwater kingdom (later named Atlantis), which is home to a race of water-breathing beings. The At lanteans do not look kindly upon the surface world, after explosions set off by an American ship demolished parts of the sunken nation and killed many of its people. Namor, despite ha ving a human father, is encouraged by his At lantean mother to be the scourge of the surface world.
“He was comics’ first antihero,” Mark Waid, a veteran comic book writer and editor, said in a 2019 email interview when Namor turned 80. “Namor’s goal wasn’t to rescue kit tens or punch criminals — it was to lead an Atlantean army against the air-breathers of America.”
In the film, the kingdom is named Ta lokan, which director Ryan Coogler has called “a re-imagined version” of Atlantis. He has ex plained that it was “deeply inspired by Mesoa merican cultures, specifically from the Yucatán and the Mayan postclassic period.”
ABILITIES: Namor is well armed for his mission against humanity: He is superhumanly fast, strong and agile. He can fly, live on land or undersea, and communicate telepathica lly with sea life. (That may sound like Aquaman, from DC, but that underwater hero surfaced in 1941.)
LOOK: Despite some early depictions of Namor as blue or green while underwater, he is usually shown as white. His distinguishing characteristics are pointy ears and ankle wings.
COSTUMES: Superhero outfits, particularly for wo
men, can rightly get a lot of grief for being impossibly tight or too revealing. Namor’s original costume leaves little to the imagination — he is clad only in swim trunks. That alone points to his bravery and confidence — and commitment to working out. Over the years, he has worn other costumes, but the majority of them find room to show off his specta cular abs.
The film’s costume designer, Ruth Carter, has said she was inspired by Mayan culture and Namor’s ocean environ ment for a look that includes kelp in his headdress and cape.
ROLES: The final panel in Namor’s first story shows
him diving back into the ocean, and a caption promises further adventures in his crusade aga inst the surface world. But a lot can change over 83 years and Namor has evolved, although his motivation sometimes seems caught in a revol ving door. He has been a villain, a hero, an envi ronmentalist and a corporate titan. And, despite being a relative loner, he has been a member of the Avengers, the Defenders and the X-Men. Namor is complicated.
NOTABLE CONFLICTS: One of the most exciting stories from Namor’s early days is a battle royale with the Human Torch, an android hero who also debuted in Marvel Comics No. 1. (This Human Torch is not to be confused with the Fantastic Four hero of the same name who arrived in 1961.) The three-issue set-to opened in Marvel Mystery Comics No. 8 and is an early example of the Marvel motto “to reflect the world outside your window.” The grudge match between the two takes place in New York City
Namor’s unpredictable actions are evi dent in the story. At the Bronx Zoo, he causes a stampede of elephants but saves a baby from their destructive path. “This kid needs someo ne to look after him,” he says. But as onlookers begin to reconsider their opinion of him, he responds: “Bah! Stupid idiots! You’ll see.” Sure, Namor, sure.
UNREQUITED LOVE: Namor graduated to his own series from 1941-49. He then re ceived a short revival in 1954, but his best ti mes were still ahead — although the Fantastic Four, his new focus of scorn, may not agree. In 1962’s Fantastic Four No. 4, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Namor, who has amnesia, is disco vered on the Bowery. He soon regains his me mory and his mighty rage. Five issues later, he returns and finances a film about the quartet, but his secret goal is to make the Invisible Girl his wife. She spurns his advances, which only makes her more attractive to him. One of the most powerful weapons in the arsenal of Susan Storm Richards — these days known as the In visible Woman — may be her ability to reason with Namor.
FUN FACT: His catchphrase is “Imperius Rex!” After Namor shouted it in a comic book battle in 2019, Thor confessed, “After all these years, Namor, I still have no idea what that means.” Namor answered: “It means I’m going to feed your sorry Asgardian hide to the biggest sharks I can find.” Thor responded: “Why not just say that?” (Ma ybe because the English translation, “Empire King,” feels a little flat?) Tumblr offers a historic and educational look at the phrase. Welcome to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Namor!
Tenoch Huerta Mejía as Namor in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”A: I wanted to surprise myself. I wrote thinking this would never get made and I threw out the rule book, like a kid colors with crayons. Stephen King has this analogy, that as a writer you’re a paleontologist unveiling a fossil one bone at a time, and the fossil tells you what’s coming next. That’s a beautiful way to write.
Q: Why did you set the film in Detroit?
A: There are a lot of places this could have taken place in. Detroit’s not the only city that has swaths of blight. I happened to spend a good amount of time in Detroit, and it felt like something I knew. It was more of an intuitive story device more than any social agenda.
Q: Some people on social media have been asking why Tess goes back to save A.J. Why does she go back?
A: At the beginning, Tess says “my problem is I keep going back” to a dysfunctional relationship. She’s the child of an alcoholic — and I am the child of an alco holic — and as a result one of the things she does is al low herself to be completely subservient to whoever she’s with. It’s a kind of infantilization. I understand people have a problem with her going back. But also, there is no movie if she doesn’t go back.
Q: People are also defending the mother monster, insisting she’s a sympathetic protector, not a villain.
By ERIK PIEPENBURGZach Cregger was recently on a hike in the woods when he saw a woman walking toward him on the path. He smiled, took his hands out of his pockets and didn’t linger as she walked by.
“To her, passing is different than it is for me,” he recalled in a recent phone interview. “I’m thinking: ‘How can I carry myself so I can indicate I mean no ill will?’”
If it sounds like Cregger is practiced in not making strangers uncomfortable, it may be because he’s atoning for making audiences deeply uncomfortable with his hor ror film “Barbarian.” Lifted by word-of-mouth, the $4.5 million film became a sleeper hit, taking in more than $43 million internationally since it opened in theaters in September to mostly positive reviews. The film, now streaming on HBO Max and available on demand, joins “Smile” and “Terrifier 2” as non-franchise horror movies attracting eyeballs in a standout way, in a year when the broader genre has helped keep the box office humming.
Set in a rundown section of Detroit, “Barbarian” begins as two strangers, Tess (Georgina Campbell) and Keith (Bill Skarsgard), agree to stay the night in the same rental home even though it was double-booked. Ignoring the horror movie tenet to never go in the basement, they and A.J. (Justin Long) — a director facing sexual assault accusations who later enters the picture — discover that something monstrous dwells under the house, one of the movie’s many nerve-plucking twists.
Cregger, 41, recently spoke about what inspired his film and unpacked some of its off-kilter plot details — in cluding the spoilers. The interview has been edited and condensed.
Q: Where did you get the idea for your film?
A: I read “The Gift of Fear” by Gavin de Becker. It advises people on how better to protect themselves against threats. A portion of the book encourages women to honor their inner subconscious alarm system around indicators that men give off, like injecting nonsexual physical touch when it’s not asked for. By themselves they are not nefarious, but in concert they can be a warn ing that you’re with a dangerous person. I knew that men and women have different experiences of interacting with strangers but didn’t let it marinate until I read this book.
I wanted to write a scene with as many red flags that a man wouldn’t think twice about but I would say every woman would recognize. I thought of a double-booked Airbnb and a woman cohabiting there or sleeping in her car. I had no idea where it was going to go, but I wrote the movie you think you’re watching: that Keith is a bad guy. But then this giant naked lady comes out and smash es his head, and I was like, now this is interesting.
If the first part of the film is about a woman being hyper aware, and her brain is working overtime to cate gorize behavior and assess threat, then the inverse would be a predator with no awareness. I wanted to structure the movie as two mirror images that converge.
Q: Did you know you’d take so many detours?
A: I see her as an innocent, a person who had no behavior model other than her father’s horrific violence and this mother love that she watches on videotape. Her behavior is understandable. The best monsters, like King Kong and Leatherface, are not just evil. They’re behaving the best way they can with the tools they have.
Q: What was it about Justin Long that made you say he’s the guy to play a creepy role?
A: Justin is a charming actor who brings an inher ent charisma and an openness to the role. People are in clined to like and trust him, and that makes the character of a sexual predator more insidious. I’d guess that a lot of the most successful predators are charming and likable people, and that’s why they’re able to get away with hor rible things.
Q: What horror movies have you liked recently?
A: “Saint Maud” is a criminally underappreciated movie. Rose Glass was a victim of the pandemic, yet she delivered a masterpiece. If people are looking for a film similar to “Barbarian,” I’d say the biggest spiritual ances tor is Takashi Miike’s “Audition.” It has the same subver sive structure, and it’s about sexual aggression and male privilege. It’s also terrifying.
Q: I’ll say. That’s a hard-core film to suggest people watch.
A: I saw it in my basement when I was a teenager. It tricked me. It lulled me into thinking it was one movie and then it punched me in the face. I felt betrayed and violated by it. I went through an experience that was deeper than watching a movie. It was so fun and radical and exciting. I love the idea that movies can be Trojan horses.
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE LUCILA RUIZ RIVERA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, JUAN MIRANDA GARCÍA T/C/C JOHNNY MIRANDA GARCÍA, POR SÍ, EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA Y COMO HEREDERO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00726.
Sala: 407. Sobre: EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVI SO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace cons tar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 24 de junio de 2022, la Or den de Ejecución de Sentencia del 19 de agosto de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 1 de septiembre de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el dÍa 11 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, locali zada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en la Avenida 65 Infantería, Carrete ra Número Tres (3), Kilómetro 11.7 (Entrada de la Urbaniza ción Mansiones de Carolina)
Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Parcela marcada con el número F guion Ocho (F-8) en el plano de par celación de la Comunidad Rural Villa Conquistador en el Barrio Canóvanas del término munici
pal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 342.55 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número F guion Siete (F-7) de la comunidad; por el SUR, con las parcelas números F guion Nueve (F-9), F guion Diez (F-10) y la F guion Once (F-11) de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la Calle Número Doce (12) de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con las parcelas números F guion Trece (F-13) y la F guion Catorce (F-14) de la comunidad. Inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 225 de Canóvanas, Finca Número 10411, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La hipoteca cons ta inscrita al Folio 42 vuelto del Tomo 390 de Canóvanas, Finca Número 10411, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción novena.
Dirección Física: Villa Conquis tador, F8 Calle 12, Canóvanas, PR 00729. Número de Catas tro: 80-089-049-445-08-000.
El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $72,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos ter ceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $48,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA, el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pacta do, o sea, $36,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la deman dante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $54,252.80 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.75% anual des de el 1 de noviembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $1,063.80 de recargos acumu lados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,200.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el con trato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por
Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de Lucila Miranda García compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Juan Miran da García también conocido como Johnny Miranda García, Departamento de Hacienda por conducto de la División de Caudales Relictos y el Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), ante el Tri bunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2022CV00726, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecu ción de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $54,252.80 y otras cantidades, según De manda de fecha 10 de marzo de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Kari be de Canóvanas. Anotación B. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los docu mentos relacionados con la pre sente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Su basta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un pe riódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos re queridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecuta da se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conoci miento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes inte resadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspon dientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de octubre de 2022. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL PLACA #830, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01697. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR DINARIA). EDICTO DE SU BASTA. Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte de mandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en gene ral, HAGO SABER: Que el día 1 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, 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 Prime ra Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondien tes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan 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 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Residential apartment number N-16 of irregular shape located in CONCORDIA II CONDOMI NIUM, which in turn is located in the Southeast corner of the Intersection of 65th Infantry Highway with State Road num
ber 181 in the Ward of Sabana Llana, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total private area of FIVE HUNDRED SIX (506)SQUARE FEET, equivalent to FORTY SEVEN POINT CERO CERO (47.00) SQUARE METERS; being its lineal measurements 28’8” in its widest dimension by 33’9” in its longest dimen sion, which includes foyer with closet, living-dining room, bedrooms, balcony, dressing room with closet, kitchen and one bathroom; bounding of the NORTHEAST, with common corridor; on the SOUTHWEST, with the exterior yard; on the SOUTHEAST, with apartment number M-16; and on the NOR THWEST, with apartment num ber A-16. This apartment has one entrance door with access from and exit to the principal corridor of the 15th floor of the Building which connects or communicates the apartment with the elevator and the stairs through which it has access from and exit to the public thoroughfare. Le correspon de 0.2824% en los elementos comunes generales. La escri tura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 913 de Sábana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta, finca número 18,732, inscripción novena. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Concordia Gardens II, Aparta mento 16-N, San Juan, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $26,551.72, intereses al 7.50% anual desde el 1ro. de mayo de 2020, hasta su completo pago; $817.00 de principal di ferido; $4,640.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; recargos acumu lados; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $46,400.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $30,933.34 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la canti dad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $23,200.00. De decla rarse desierta la tercera subas ta 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 adju dicará 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 car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán sub sistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a to das 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 po drán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta acep tada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, debe rá 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 ex ceso 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 fir ma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 27 de octu bre de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01699. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESION DE NELSON RAMON MARTINEZ CANDELARIO, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS LUIS ALBERTO MARTINEZ SCUOTTO Y DAVID ERNESTO MARTINEZ SCUOTTO; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RIO (DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA), POR TENER EMBARGOS ANOTADOS
A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $26,492.44; DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA (HUD) POR TENER HIPOTECA A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $50,000.00.
Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁ LEZ, Alguacil, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se descri be, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 1 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, 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 Prime ra Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondien tes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir re mate ni adjudicación en la pri mera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SU BASTA para la venta de la su sodicha propiedad, el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS
11:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número Seis guión A (6-A). Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la primera plan ta del Edificio número Seis(6) del CONDOMINIO PAVILLION COURT, situado en la Aveni da César González del Barrio Hato Rey Norte (Nuevo Centro de San Juan) del término mu nicipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada es de NOVECIENTOS SESENTA Y OCHO PUNTO CERO SIETE (968.07) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a OCHENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO NOVENTA Y OCHO (89.98) METROS CUA DRADOS. Son sus linderos los siguientes: por el NORTE, en veintiocho pies tres pulga das (28’3”) lineales y en tres alineaciones, con área exterior común de uso limitado; por el SUR, en veintiocho pies tres pulgadas (28’3”) lineales y en cinco alineaciones, con área exterior común y área de pa sillo del Edificio; por el ESTE, en cuarenta y cinco pies ocho pulgadas (45’8”) lineales y en dos alineaciones, con área ex terior común de uso limitado y pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento número Siete guión B (7-B); y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y cinco pies ocho pulgadas (45’8”) lineales y en seis alineaciones, con área exterior común de uso limita do, área exterior común, área de pasillo, escaleras y cuarto de contadores eléctricos y pa red medianera que lo separa del apartamento número Seis guión B(6-B). Consta de bal cón, sala-comedor, cocina, “laundry”, un baño y medio y tres dormitorios. La puerta de entrada de este apartamen to esta situada en su lindero Oeste. Le corresponde un es tacionamiento identificado con el mismo número y letra del apartamento. Este apartamen to tiene una participación de punto cinco cuatro seis cuatro dos seis cuatro uno porcien to(.54642641%) en los elemen tos comunes del Condominio. Este apartamento goza del uso exclusivo de un patio que es elemento común limitado el cual esta delimitado por verjas según surge de los planos de la propiedad. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscri ta al folio 100 vuelto del tomo 1564 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 35,713, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan,
POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE MARIA DE LOS ANGELES FIGUEROA MACHUCA, COMPUESTA POR SU MADRE EUSEBIA MACHUCA PIZARRO; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Vs. SUCESION DE NELSON RAMON MARTINEZ CANDELARIO, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS LUIS ALBERTO MARTINEZ SCUOTTO Y DAVID ERNESTO MARTINEZ SCUOTTO;FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
ROJAS, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES- COND BAYSIDE COVE 105 AVE
ARTERIAL HOSTOS APT 244 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918-3053
A: FULANA DE TAL, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES- COND BAYSIDE COVE 105 AVE
ARTERIAL HOSTOS APT
244 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918-3053
A: LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS - COND BAYSIDE COVE 105 AVE ARTERIAL HOSTOS APT 244 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918-3053
POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días_ siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldia en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo en tiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abo gado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose. aguilru@orflaw.com y a la di rección notificaciones@orf-law.
com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de septiembre de 2022.
GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ CO
LLAOO, Secretaria Regional. F/Diana C Perez Sierra, Sec Auxiliar a Sala.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION ANGEL LUIS SALDAÑA REYES
COMPUESTA POR SU ESPOSA VICTORIA NAVARRO CRUZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONICIDOS; VICTORIA NAVARRO CRUZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2021CV02166.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, 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 Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 13 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Cacao del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero punto cuatro ocho seis tres uno siete cuerdas (0.486317), equivalentes a mil novecientos once punto cuatro mil ciento noventa y seis metros cuadra dos (1911.4196 m/c). En lindes por el NORTE, en veintinueve punto ochenta y cuatro metros (29.84m), con el remanente de la finca a dedicarse a uso público para ensanche de un camino municipal; por el SUR, en treinta punto cero cuatro metros (30.04m), con terrenos del señor Elogio Delgado; por el ESTE, en sesenta y cuatro punto quince metros (64.15m), con terrenos de la Sucesión Benítez; y por el OESTE, en sesenta y siete punto cincuen ta y ocho metros (67.58m), con la parcela “A”. Finca número 38694, inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 951 de Carolina Sur, Re gistro de la Propiedad de Ca rolina, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 96 del tomo 1436 de Caroli na Sur, Finca 38694, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina,
Sección II, inscripción 8ª. Pro piedad localizada en: CARR. 858 KM 4.0 SECTOR BENI TEZ, BO. CACAO, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00987. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $264,000.00. Fe cha de Vencimiento: 1 de fe brero de 2093. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $264,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 20 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑA NA, y se establece como míni ma para dicha segunda subas ta la suma de $176,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima estable cido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudica ción en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $132,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 27 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MA ÑANA. Dicha subasta se lleva rá a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $143,081.25 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $16,373.17 en inte reses acumulados al 8 de di ciembre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 2.37% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,159.35 en se guro hipotecario; $4,680.00 en tarifas de servicios; $600.00 de tasaciones; $160.00 de inspec ciones; $4,512.00 de preserva ción; $1,145.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $26,400.00, para gas tos, costas y honorarios de abo
gado, esta última habrá de de vengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.
Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) in teresados (as). Y para su publi cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia rio de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de octubre de 2022. JOSÉ R. CRISTOBAL, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. MANUEL VILLA FAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL PLACA #830.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESION JULIO MUNOZ TRINIDAD T/C/C JULIO MUÑOZ TRINIDAD T/C/C JULIO MUÑOZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: MT2022CV00170.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESI DENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION JULIO MUNOZ TRINIDAD T/C/C JULIO MUÑOZ TRINIDAD T/C/C JULIO MUÑOZ.
El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurri dos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurri do el plazo señalado no ha ma nifestado su voluntad de acep tar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exporta ción, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan decla ración aceptado o, repudiando la herencia del causante JULIO MUNOZ TRINIDAD T/C/C JU LIO MUÑOZ TRINIDAD T/C/C JULIO. Se les apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: GRE ENSPOON MARDER, LLP, TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700, 100 WEST CY PRESS CREEK ROAD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309, Tel. (954) 343 6273, Fax. (954) 343 6982. Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy 01 de noviem bre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRES SE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SARAY SALGA DO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN
XIOMARA MORETA VALENZUELA Demandante V. GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV05609. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E STADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JUAN Y
JUANA DEL PUEBLO.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe.
En este caso la parte deman dante ha radicado una Deman da para que se decrete judicial mente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Great Atlantic Mortgage Corporation, por la suma de $101,449.00.
El pagaré por fue suscrito el día 30 de mayo de 2001, ante el notario Manuel R. Perez Ca baller, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritu ra número 150, inscrita al folio 293 vuelto del tomo 421 de Bayamón Sur, 7ma inscripción, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar número 19 de la manzana H, Urbanización Villa Contessa, Barrio Pájaros y Cerro Gordo de Bayamón, compuesto de 335.00 metros cuadrados, en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar número 18, distancia de 25.00 metros; por e SUR, con el solar número 20, distancia de 25.00 metros; por el ESTE, en 13.95 metros con la calle número 78, dis tancia de 13.95 metros; por el OESTE, con los solares núme ro 10 y 11, distancia de 12.85 metros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado para una sola familia. FINCA: #19032 Inscrita al folio 161 del tomo 421 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. La par te demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que pue de examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afecta do por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sis tema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, y notifique con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Zilmarie Delgado Pieras, 33 Calle Re solución, Suite 302, San Juan, PR 00920-2727; Tel. (787) 7826500, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribu nal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la De manda sin más citarle ni oírle.
EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Ba yamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 03 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
KATHERINE SANTIAGO RO DRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE COROZAL
Parte Demandante Vs
Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm. CZ2022RF00007. Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO.
POR LA PRESENTE se le no tifica que deberá comparecer ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de TREINTA (30) DIAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto, el cual se publicará una vez en un periódico de circula ción general, para exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en la presente petición sobre Demanda Sobre Divorcio Por Ruptura Irreparable, promovi do por la Parte Demandante.
La Parte Demandada deberá notificar sus alegaciones res ponsivas través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración y de casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal; y copiar a la represen tación legal de la Demandante, LCDA. CARMEN E. ALFONSO ARROYO, con dirección en 41 AVE FERNANDO L. RIBAS, BOX 355, UTUADO, P.R. 00641; a su correo electrónico: alfonsoabogada@gmail.com.
EXPEDIDO POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, en Bayamón, Puer to Rico, hoy 4 de noviembre de 2022. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sán chez, Secretaria General. Mar tha E. Rosario Rosa, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ACM CDGY VI LN LLC Demandante V. OLGA IRIS VAQUEZ
FIGUEROA T/C/C OLGAFIGUEROA T/C/C OLGA VAZQUEZ
Demandado
Caso Núm.: SJ2019CV08625. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI CA SUBASTA.
A: OLGA IRIS VAZQUEZ
El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puer to Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL, y a todos los acree dores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre el bien hipotecado con pos terioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecu tada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación re gistral, para que puedan concu rrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: MUNICIPIO DE SAN JUAN.: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito un pagaré por la suma de $49,000.00, sin in tereses y a vencer en quince años, según consta de la es critura # 33, otorgada en San Juan, el 30 de septiembre de 2003, ante el Notario Jesús Alejandro Ledesma Amador, inscrito al folio móvil del tomo 642 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca 5,436, inscripción 11ra. ACM CDGY VI LN LLC: A cuyo fa vor aparece una anotación de demanda, expedida el 23 de agosto de 2019, en el en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, caso civil # SJ2019CV08625, seguido por ACM CDGY VI LN LLC versus Olga Iris Vazquez Figueroa t/c/c Olga Vazquez Figueroa Ismael Candelaria, por la suma de $86,038.26 y otros gastos. Anotado en Kari be de Rio Piedras Sur, finca # 5,436, anotación A y ultima del 26 de octubre de 2020. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 31 de agosto de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continua ción: Dirección de la Propiedad: J 15 8 ST CUPEY GARDENS, San Juan PR 00926. URBA NA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Cupey de Rio Piedras, termino municipal de San Juan Puerto Rico, marcado con el numero quince (15) del bloque “J” de la Urbanización Cupey Gardens, con una cabida superficial de trescientos treinta y tres punto treinta y nueve (339.39) me tros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número ocho (8), en trece punto cero tres (13.03) metros más cero
punto cinco (0.5) metros, equi valentes a trece punto ocho (13.8) metros; por el SUR, con el solar uno (1) y dos (2) del pro pio bloque en trece punto cinco (13.5) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número catorce (14) del propio bloque, en veintiséis punto cero (26.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar die ciséis (16) del propio bloque en veinticinco punto nueve (25.9) metros. Enclava una casa. Consta inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 159 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca número 5,436, Registro de la Propiedad Sección Cuarta de San Juan IV. El producto de la subasta se destinará a sa tisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 29 de octubre de 2019 en el presen te caso civil, ascendente a la suma de $86,038.26 de princi pal, intereses pactados y com putados y primas sobre esta suma al tipo 5.0% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contri buciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y primas de seguro adeudados y la suma de $8,667.50 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente lue go de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados y/o parte con derecho previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la re ferida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada fin ca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá con signar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudi cación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE DICIEM
BRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE
LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $86,000.00. Que de ser nece saria la celebración de una SE GUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 12 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $57,333.33 equivalen tes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE ENER DE 2023 A
LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $43,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2)
del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. EX PIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de noviembre de 2022. ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUA CIL AUXILIAR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
Demandante Vs. JESUS RAUL
PEREZ MENDEZ
Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02568. Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de noviembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 8 de no viembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. MAR THA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYA GÜEZ
MYRIAM VÉLEZ COMAS, MIGDALIA VÉLEZ COMAS Y MARIBEL VÉLEZ DESARDÉN; MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DAMIÁN VÉLEZ ROMÁN Demandantes Vs. WANDA VÉLEZ RUIZ, DIANA VÉLEZ RUIZ E IVONNE VÉLEZ RUIZ, MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DAMIÁN VÉLEZ ROMÁN Y DE LA DE SUCESIÓN DE RAQUEL RUIZ FERNÁNDEZ; EGDA NORA JUSINO RODRÍGUEZ, CÓNYUGE SUPÉRSTITE; LCDO. JOSÉ ALDEBOL CUEVAS POR SÍ Y COMO ACCIONISTA DE J.A.C AUTO IMPORTS AND EXPORT INC.; SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR LCDO. JOSÉ ALDEBOL CUEVAS Y CÓNYUGE JONE DOE POR SÍ Y COMO ACCIONISTAS DE J.A.C AUTO IMPORTS AND EXPORT INC.; ACCIONISTAS ABC DE J.A.C AUTO IMPORTS AND EXPORT INC.; CORPORACIÓN X,Y,Z; FULANO DE TAL, COMO PERSONAS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO Y/O CON INTERÉS
Demandados Caso Núm.: MZ2022CV01457.
Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HE RENCIA Y REIVINDICACIÓN.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUESTO RICO.
A: CORPORACIÓN X, Y, Z; FULANO DE TAL, COMO PERSONA DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO Y/O CON INTERÉS EN ESTE PROCEDIMIENTO CIVIL. De: MYRIAM VÉLEZ COMAS, MIGDALIA VÉLEZ COMAS Y MARIBEL VÉLEZ DESARDÉN; MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DAMIÁN VÉLEZ ROMÁN.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le no tifica a usted que se ha radica do una Demanda de Partición de Herencia y Reivindicación. Se le concede un plazo impro rrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del presente edic to para contestar la petición. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente.
Por haber los demandantes acreditado las gestiones para conocer la identidad y circuns tancias personales de los de mandados se le ha relevado del cumplimiento de notificación a la última dirección conocida de la copia de la demanda y del emplazamiento.
LCDA. MARGGIE RODRIGUEZ PEREZ
RUA NUM. 20,363
182 CALLE DR. RAMON E. BETANCES S MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO 006804065
TEL. (787)265-1111 e-mail: mrplawoffices@gmail.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 4 de noviem bre de 2022. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. MA RIEMER ALICEA TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE FAJARDO
SAN CARLOS MORTGAGE LLC
Demandante V. EVELYN MAE ACOSTA ACHA Demandada Civil Núm.: RG2022CV00402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. EDICTO.
A: EVELYN MAE ACOSTA ACHA. 61 KINGS COURT, APT. 2W, SAN JUAN, PR 00911; COSTA REAL COSTA DORADA 2, A-301 CALLE 6, RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745; COSTA DORADA 2, CALLE 6, A-301, RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745; 8 JEFFERSON ST. PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, NY 11050.
POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este empla zamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entien de procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, Del gado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Jun cos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 3 de noviembre de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ
REYES, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOT ICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN
GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC
Demandante Vs. ELEAZAR VILLAFANE LASSALLE T/C/C
ELEAZAR VILLAFANE LASSALLE T/C/C ELEAZAR VILLAFANE LASSALLE JR T/C/C
ELEAZAR VILLAFANE LASALLE T/C/C
ELEAZAR VILLAFANE T/C/C ELEAZAR VILLAFANE L; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2020CV02273. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA,
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque ge rente, giro postal, cheque certi ficado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se descri be a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno identificada como el Solar Número 7 del bloque “AP de la Urbanización Villa del Río Oeste, Sección Pradera, radicado en el Barrio Palmas del término municipal de Cataño, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 312.194 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 12.80 me tros con la Calle Número 15; por el SUR, 12.81 metros con el “old Bayamón riverbed”;
por el ESTE, en 24.12 metros con el solar número 6; y por el OESTE, en 24.67 metros con el solar número 8. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concre to, diseñada para una familia.
Consta inscrita al folio 124 delo tomo 290 de Cataño, finca 6030, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta de Bayamón. Propiedad loca lizada en: Solar #7, Bloque AP Urb. Villa del Rio Costa, Sec. Pradera, Barrio Palmas, Cata no, PR 00962. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas preferentes o cargas posterio res a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, 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 $136,800.99, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $91,200.66, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda su basta, se establece como míni ma para la TERCERA SUBAS TA, la suma de $68,400.49, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 1RO DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de e $136,309.48 más intereses convenidos al tipo de 6.587% anual desde el día 1ro. de mar zo de 2018 hasta su total y com pleto pago, más la cantidad de $13,680.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escri tura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen poste rior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUN
DA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efec tos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la cele bración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás cons tancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser exa minadas por los (las) interesa dos (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 pu blicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públi cos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 02 de noviembre de 2022.
EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJAR DO FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS HERNÁNDEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00553. Salón Núm.: (303). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDIC TO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: LUIS HERNÁNDEZEl Alguacil que suscribe, cer tifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Se cretaría del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subas tas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cual quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORI ZONTAL: Condominio Ocean Club At Seven Seas de Fajar do. Apartamento AW-401 The
Sunset Village 4to y 5to nivel.
Cabida: 256.53 metros cuadra dos. Su entrada principal está en su colindancia Sur en el ni vel 4to siendo sus linderos los siguientes: En el primer nivel: por el NORTE, en una distan cia de 12.01 metros, más 0.61 metros, con espacio exterior; por el SUR, en una distancia de 1.90 metros, más 0.61 metros, con espacio exterior, en 2.62 metros con área común y en 7.49 metros con el apartamento AW-402; por el ESTE, en 1.68 metros, más 7.62 metros, más 1.60 metros con espacio exte rior; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 7.17 metros más 2.36 metros, con espacio exte rior y en 1.37 metros con área común. En el segundo nivel: por el NORTE, en una distan cia de 12.01 metros, más 1.07 metros, con espacio exterior; por el SUR, en una distancia de 1.90 metros, más 1.07 metros con espacio exterior y en 10.11 metros con el segundo nivel del apartamento AW-402; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 1.68 metros, más 7.62 metros, más 1.60 metros con espacio exte rior; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 7.17 metros, más 3.73 metros con espacio exte rior. Contiene en el primer nivel: sala-comedor, cocina, balcón cubierto, un cuarto principal con un baño completo, un closet de pared, dos cuartos adicionales con un closet de pared cada uno, un baño completo en el pasillo y closet de lavandería y una escalera de espiral que conduce al segundo nivel. Con tiene en el segundo nivel: área de “foyer” salón familiar, baño completo con ducha, un closet de pared y una terraza descu bierta. Le corresponde dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento descubierto con cabida cada uno para un (1) automóvil, iden tificados en el correspondiente plano con el mismo número que se identifica a la unidad; y una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio, que incluye sus anejos de 0.5132%.
Consta inscrita al tomo Kari be de Fajardo, finca número #20,382. Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Condo minio The Ocean Club At Seven Seas, Apto. AW-401, Fajardo, P.R. 00738. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se es tablece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $209,197.76, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escri tura de Modificación, escritura #268, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el día 30 de agosto
de 2013, ante la notario Wales ka C. Colón Villanueva, ambas inscritas al tomo Karibe de Fa jardo, finca #20,382, Inscripción 3ra. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Fajardo, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $209,197.76. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni ad judicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la pri mera subasta, o sea, la suma de $139,465.17. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera su basta la mitad del precio pac tado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $104,598.88. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $192,812.97, más intereses a razón del 6.75% anual, desde el 1ro de junio de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se correspon den a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pac tada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más ade lantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $20,919.78, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cuales quiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las perso nas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspon dientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la juris dicción de Puerto Rico. Se en tenderá que todo licitador acep ta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subroga do en la responsabilidad de
los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del re mate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solici ta dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá or denar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamien to del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 09 de noviembre de 2022. Denise Bruno Ortiz, Alguacil Placa #266. Jorge A. Ortiz Estrada, Alguacil Regional Interino #622.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAY NABO
LLC
Demandante Vs. ANGEL MANUEL AYALA DIAZ T/C/C ANGEL AYALA DIAZ T/C/C ANGEL M. AYALA DIAZ; ROSA DIAZ MARRERO T/C/C ROSA A. DIAZ MARRERO T/C/C ROSA AMERICA DIAZ MARRERO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00501. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Guaynabo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certifica do, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 10 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:40 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 des cribe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número ciento cincuenta y dos (152) en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Santa Rosa II del Barrio Santa Rosa II del tér mino municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil quinientos cin cuenta y nueve punto cuarenta (1,559.40) metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el Norte, con la parcela número ciento cincuen ta y tres (153) de la comuni dad; por el Sur, con la parcela número ciento cincuenta y uno (151) de la comunidad; por el Este, con la calle número once (11) de la Comunidad; y por el Oeste, con terrenos privados de Simplicio Chinea. Enclava edificio de dos plantas. Finca número 30,630, inscrita al folio 60 del tomo 802 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La Hipoteca Re vertida consta inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 1294 de Guayna bo, Finca 30630, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo, inscripción 3ª. Propiedad locali zada en: URB. SANTA ROSA II, #152 CALLE 11, GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO 00971. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $240,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 13 de abril de 2089. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes.
El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $160,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 17 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:40 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $106,666.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda su
basta, se establece como míni ma para la TERCERA SUBAS TA, la suma de $80,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:40 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha su basta 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 $117,791.44 por concepto de principal, la cual no incluye intereses y otros gastos acu mulados hasta el 31 de julio de 2021. La suma global vencida, líquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acu mulados hasta el 31 de julio de 2021 es de $147,148.23 y los cuales continúan acumulándo se, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha. La suma pactada para el gasto de honorarios de abogado asciende el 10% de la suma del préstamo principal. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) in teresados (as). Y para su publi cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia rio de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedi do en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 2 de noviembre de 2022.
FRANCES TORRES, ALGUA CIL REGIONAL. YANIXA RA MOS CEBALLOS, ALGUACIL PLACA #783.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA
Parte Demandante Vs. MARTA
LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN BÁEZ DÁVILA COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: DO2022CV00154. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. OR DEN PARA LA PUBLICACIÓN DE EDICTO E INTERPELA CIÓN. Examinada la Moción en Solicitud de Orden de In terpelación presentada por la parte demandante, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación. Ante esto, se ORDENA a la SUCE SION JUAN BÁEZ DÁVILA, compuesta por MARTA RO DRÍGUEZ ORTIZ, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, como posibles herederos desconoci dos con interés en la Sucesión, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente ORDEN, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia. #88 Calle Principal, Com. San Carlos, Bo. Higuillar, Dorado, PR 00646; 1761 Danube CT, Aurora, CO 80011-5246. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expre sarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la misma se tendrá por aceptada. También se les APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado a partir de la fecha de notifica ción de la presente ORDEN, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y por consiguiente responde por las cargas de dicha herencia con forme a lo que dispone el Artí culo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021. Se ORDENA a la parte demandante proceda a notificar la presente ORDEN mediante un edicto a esos efec tos una (1) sola vez en un pe riódico de circulación diaria ge neral de la Isla de Puerto Rico. NOTIFÍQUESE. Dada Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 1 de noviembre de 2022. JUAN S. NEVÁREZ GARCÍA, JUEZ SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01856.
Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días conta dos a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de noviembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, El 7 De Noviembre De 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Mildred J. Franco Reventos, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL ANTONIO LUGO FRANCISCO COMPUESTA POR: 1. VANESSA NINETTE LUGO OBJIO, 2. OSMANY ANTONIO LUGO OBJIO, 3. MANUEL ANTONIO LUGO OBJIO, 4. PHEDRA MARÍA LUGO OBJIO, 5. MANUEL ANTONIO LUGO MELÉNDEZ, 6. MIGUEL ANTONIO LUGO ROSA, 7. FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, 8. CELENIA AURORA OBJIO LARA POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA COUTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; 9. DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00985.
Sobre: INTERPELACIÓN; CO BRO DE DINERO Y EJECU CIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL ANTONIO LUGO FRANCISCO COMPUESTA POR VANESSA NINETTE LUGO OBJIO, OSMANY ANTONIO LUGO OBJIO, MANUEL ANTONIO LUGO OBJIO, PHEDRA MARÍA LUGO OBJIO, MANUEL ANTONIO LUGO MELÉNDEZ, MIGUEL ANTONIO LUGO ROSA, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION. 3092 AVE. EMILIO FAGOT, PONCE, PUERTO RICO 00716. De: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO. Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presen tar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Di nero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $67,133.35, la suma de $23,958.69, que incluye cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más los intere ses acumulados al 6.5% desde el 1 de enero de 2020 hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipo tecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, conce diéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
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EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 8 de noviembre de 2022. Luz Mayra Caraballo García, Secretaria. Keilene Rodríguez Meléndez, Sub-Secretaria.
The Minnesota Vikings and Buffalo Bills played to what might have been the NFL’s best finish this season, with Min nesota claiming yet another late comeback victory thanks in part to an unreal catch by Justin Jefferson to keep a fourth-quarter drive alive.
Elsewhere, wobbling franchises came alive in the regular season’s second half as Tom Brady had the full force of his Tam pa Bay Buccaneers’ receiving corps ready to play, Aaron Rodgers knighted a Green Bay Packers receiver, and the Indianapolis Colts’ newbie coach got his first win, over the struggling Las Vegas Raiders.
Justin Jefferson is the key to the Vikings’ late-game comebacks.
The Vikings’ late-game heroics have been a bit of a double-edged sword. Escap ing Week 10 with a 33-30 overtime win in Orchard Park, New York, Kirk Cousins and Co. have now won five games decided by a game-winning drive in the fourth quarter or overtime to take a late lead.
But those scores were necessitated by Minnesota’s midgame lulls. The Vikings (81) scored on six of their opening drives this season, but the team has averaged fewer than 3 points in third quarters.
So far, Minnesota has been able to af ford scoring droughts because third-year receiver Jefferson has been nearly unguard able when games are on the line. Sunday was the best example yet of how dominant Jefferson has been as the Vikings’ top tar get.
Jefferson caught 10 of 16 targets for 193 yards and one touchdown, but his shining moments came when Minnesota most needed him. On the Vikings’ open ing possession, a six-play, 74-yard touch down drive, Jefferson got 68 yards on just two receptions. Jefferson caught a dig route and broke a tackle for a 46-yard gain on the third play and then burned cornerback Dane Jackson on a go ball for a 22-yard score three plays later. Both receptions came on third-down plays.
With Cousins under pressure from the Bills’ front, the Vikings tried to establish the run over the next two quarters as Buffalo built a 27-23 lead.
On what looked like the Vikings’ final shot, Cousins was sacked by Von Miller on third down at the Vikings’ 27-yard line with 2:21 remaining. The rejoicing from Bills fans was quickly silenced on fourth-
and-18: Cousins heaved up a 32-yard prayer between a sea of blue jerseys, and Jefferson climbed, reached back into his defender and pulled the ball down with just his right hand.
The snatch kept the drive alive and saved an interception.
Jefferson’s 6-yard touchdown catch five plays later was overturned, and Cousins failed to sneak across the plane on fourthand-goal, giving the Bills (6-3) the ball back. The Vikings’ defense forced a Josh Allen fumble on the Bills’ first play and recovered it for a touchdown, but Allen marshaled his own late field-goal drive to send the game to overtime.
A one-score game? Well, that’s where Minnesota has thrived this season. Jefferson caught a 13-yard pass over Ed Oliver to get the Vikings past midfield in overtime. Then Cousins targeted him on second-and-22, and Jefferson drew a pass-interference call as Bills cornerback Christian Benford tried to prevent another highlight. Jefferson’s final catch of the day, a 24-yarder to the Bills’ 2-yard line, put the Vikings in range of the field goal that sealed Minnesota’s eighth win.
Around the NFL 49ers 22, Chargers 16: This was a game of attrition. For the first quarter, the Chargers decided to play the best run de fense they have all season, relying on fiveman fronts to get the job done and hold the 49ers to a field goal. Eventually, the 49ers wore them down as they shelled out 36 car ries to Christian McCaffrey, Elijah Mitchell and Deebo Samuel. The run game helped unlock all of the play-action passes Jimmy Garoppolo loves, and that was that. Char gers quarterback Justin Herbert played a valiant first half despite no rushing support and endless pressure from the 49ers’ front, but he didn’t look the same after a shot to the head late in the second quarter, and the Chargers went scoreless in the second half.
Cardinals 27, Rams 17: With Kyler Murray nursing a hamstring injury and Mat thew Stafford in concussion protocol, this battle of the backups turned on other posi tion players. Colt McCoy, the Cardinals’ No. 2 quarterback, found DeAndre Hopkins for 98 yards on 10 completions, and benefited from receiver Rondale Moore’s breakout game of nine catches for 94 yards, including one tough contested grab down the field. The Rams’ John Wolford came up short and Cooper Kupp went down with an apparent ankle injury in the fourth quarter.
Packers 31, Cowboys 28 (OT ): Dak Prescott (27-of-46 passing for 265 yards and three touchdowns) started the game by throwing two picks then building a 14-point lead over Green Bay. But the Packers’ de fense shut out the Cowboys in the fourth quarter and overtime. Christian Watson erupted for three touchdown catches and the Packers ended a five-game slide.
Colts 25, Raiders 20: Another 100-yard game from Davante Adams, another Raiders loss. Jeff Saturday, the Colts’ interim coach, reinstated Matt Ryan as the starting quarter back and leaned heavily on the run game as well as quick passes, which worked to gether to negate an already weak Raiders pass rush. The Raiders are now 2-7 and Josh McDaniels’ seat is on fire.
Giants 24, Texans 16: Saquon Barkley carried the ball 35 times for 152 yards and a touchdown, giving the Giants both con sistency and explosiveness. Daniel Jones delivered the ball well on just 17 attempts and found Darius Slayton for multiple plays of at least 30 yards, including a short throw under pressure that Slayton took 54 yards for a score. Houston’s Davis Mills tried his best to keep up but saw constant pressure, taking four sacks.
Titans 17, Broncos 10: Despite receiver Jerry Jeudy going down early, the Broncos hit on a number of shot plays in the first half, including a 66-yard Russell Wilson touchdown pass to a wide-open Jalen Vir gil. The Broncos dropped a 10-0 lead as Nick Westbrook-Ikhine’s 119 yards and two touchdowns led the way for Tennessee. Wilson’s goal-line interception ended Den ver’s comeback attempt.
Steelers 20, Saints 10: New Orleans committed 10 penalties and gave away the
ball twice, and Najee Harris’ 99 rushing yards on 20 carries helped Pittsburgh hold the ball for 38:56, completely suffocating the Saints.
Dolphins 39, Browns 17: Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle combined for 110 yards and a touchdown, but no Dolphin caught more than five passes as Tua Tagovailoa distributed the ball effectively. Tagovailoa finished 25 of 32 with three passing touch downs and 285 yards in a game that was decided by the third quarter.
Chiefs 27, Jaguars 17: Kansas City found a role for former Giants receiver Kadarius Toney, who had four catches for 57 yards and a touchdown, as a horizontal stretch. Kansas City sent him on multiple jet sweeps, motions and quick throws on the perimeter. But the team saw receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster leave the game in the second quarter after what appeared to be a helmet-to-helmet hit left him motionless on the turf with his hands frozen in the air. There was no penalty on the tackle.
Lions 31, Bears 30: Justin Fields scored four touchdowns for the Bears but threw a pick-6 to Lions cornerback Jeff Okudah in the fourth quarter. Detroit’s Jared Goff operated well as a point-and-shoot passer, working to the tune of 9.1 yards per attempt without any of the turnovers that so often plague him.
Buccaneers 21, Seahawks 16: Tom Brady finally looked comfortable enough to dice up the Seahawks’ secondary for his highest quarterback rating of the sea son (85.9). Geno Smith strung together two touchdown drives in the fourth quarter, but the Buccaneers killed the final 4 minutes to ensure Smith couldn’t get one last shot at the lead.
Beginning next season, the way the game is played and looks in Major League Baseball will be noticeably different. In the hopes of injecting more action, shaving time off games and reduc ing injuries, MLB will, for the time, intro duce a pitch clock, ban defensive infield shifts and enlarge the bases.
As front offices reshape their rosters for 2023 — free agency began in earnest Thursday — they are weighing the new rules and trying to figure out how they could affect players.
Will teams with more speed become more potent offensively? Will players who had potential hits robbed often by ex treme shifts become more valuable? Will defenders who can cover a lot of ground become more coveted? Will fireballers who need a lot of time in between pitches suddenly lose a bit of velocity?
“Major League Baseball players are ca pable of making very quick adjustments,” said Texas general manager Chris Young, who pitched for 13 seasons in the majors.
“They’re great athletes and they make adjustments,” he continued. “So I’m con fident that most major leaguers can adjust to the rule changes. That said, it is some thing we factor in and we’ll consider. I don’t think it’s going to sway our opinion from one extreme to the other in terms of liking a player to not liking a player.”
Other presidents of baseball opera tions and general managers at MLB’s an nual general managers’ meetings last week echoed similar sentiments: The new rules may not nix their interest in a certain player, but the executives certainly have to account for how they might alter on-field performances.
“You have to make adjustments,” said Dave Dombrowski, the president of base ball operations of the Philadelphia Phillies, whose team lost to the Houston Astros in the World Series this month.
As part of the collective bargaining agreement between MLB’s team owners and its players’ union, the sides agreed to an 11-person committee, controlled by MLB, that would tackle rules changes. For 2023, the players voted against ban ning shifts and adding a pitch clock, but the vote on changing the base size passed unanimously.
The defensive shift, in which infielders position themselves based on an oppos ing batter’s tendencies, was the darling of analytically inclined front offices and be came a near constant strategy employed by almost every team. But the extreme proliferation of it led to a game in which batting averages plummeted and hitters, frustrated by facing alignments with three infielders stacked on one side — and even some with four outfielders — began try ing more and more to smash the ball over the outfield fences. The batting average in MLB in 2022 was .243, the lowest since 1968, according to Baseball Reference.
Beginning next season, two infielders must be positioned on each side of second base when a pitch is released. All four in fielders must have their feet positioned in the infield cutout in front of the outfield grass.
Dombrowski said this new rule would somewhat affect how he builds a roster but he added that he didn’t shy away from players who were hurt by the shift before, pointing to the four-year, $79 million con tract the Phillies gave left-handed slug ger Kyle Schwarber in March. Although he hit .218 last season, Schwarber was a valuable hitter because he clobbered a National League-leading 46 homers and drove in 94 runs. He has never hit for a high average in the majors, but his pro duction could creep up next season.
Where the shift will also be a factor, Dombrowski said, is with middle infield ers. The shift allowed some teams to hide the deficiencies of a less skilled infielder because he or his surrounding teammates could be positioned in a way to help, said Derek Falvey, the Minnesota Twins’ presi dent of baseball operations. That soon may change.
“We saw over the last few years that some teams even traded for players that hadn’t played second before and put them there,” he said. “Your eyes get big and you’re like, ‘Oooh, that could be a little dangerous.’ But then you realize, well, with the shift, with the ability to maybe duck it away, maybe sometimes throw the third baseman over into that deep second base position and then kind of hide the range factor there a little bit, you could get the combinations. Now I think you’re stuck with what you got. So you’re going to have to have that range.”
Miami Marlins general manager Kim Ng pointed to her second baseman, Jazz Chisholm Jr., as an example of a defender whom fans will “get to see his skill a little more.” In other words, more athleticism and perhaps more highlight-reel plays on defense.
As for the bases, they will increase in size to 18 inches square from 15 inch es in hopes of protecting players — the chances of a first baseman having his foot stepped on should decrease. As an added benefit, the bigger bases could encourage more stolen bases and hits. In 2022, MLB teams averaged 0.51 stolen bases per game, according to Baseball Reference, a rate that has trended down for decades thanks largely to teams deciding the risk is not worth the reward.
Ng said the bigger bags might benefit a team like hers, which has several players with speed, such as Chisholm, Jon Berti, and Joey Wendle. Not only could it net them a few extra stolen bases, she said, but it could lead to more infield hits over 162 games or players successfully break ing up more double plays.
“I don’t know if it would affect per se the way that I could build a club, al though it might put more of a premium on speed,” Dombrowski said. Hitting home runs and striking out little, after all, not speed, has been used successfully by the Astros to win.
The pitch clock, Ng said, is “going to be a huge adjustment for everybody, from our defense to pitchers, offense, coaches, manager.” She added later about any po tential impact across the sport, “The good part if it does, it’s going to happen to ev erybody.”
In 2023, the pitch clock will be set to 15 seconds between pitches when the bases are empty, and it will count down from 20 seconds with at least one runner on base, with an automatic ball call issued if time expires. MLB found that its imple mentation of a pitch clock in the minor leagues last season reduced the average time of games by 25 minutes, to roughly 2 hours, 38 minutes.
But it remained to be seen, some executives said, whether that will hurt pitchers’ performance. As velocity has in creased in MLB — the average four-seam fastball was at a record 94 mph in 2022 — so has the time in between pitches. Throwing hard takes a fair amount of en ergy, and maximum-effort pitchers need a few more seconds to regroup in between pitches.
“I don’t think the impact of cutting it down by a few seconds between pitches in the ninth inning for a guy that is throw ing 20 pitches is going to be the differ ence,” Falvey said. “For a starting pitcher, maybe. For a guy who is going to be a little bit more deliberate between pitches, I can see that.”
(With a pitch clock in the minor leagues last season, MLB found that injury rates dropped and velocity was flat.)
Dombrowski pointed out that young er pitchers who were in the minor leagues last year have already adapted to a short ened time in between pitches. But for the max-effort major leaguers who work slowly, he said, “they’re going to have to make an adjustment.”
He added, “I assume they’ll be able to, but it might mess some of them up, there’s no doubt about that.”
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