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PREPA retirees call on governor to explain his plan for guaranteeing pensions

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

Electric Power Authority Retirees Association (AJAEE by its Spanish initials) President Johnny Rodríguez Ortiz sent a letter to Gov. Pedro Pier luisi Urrutia asking the governor to explain what his plan is to guarantee thousands of pensions, including those of colleagues who are about to start the retire ment process.

Both the governor and Omar Marrero Díaz, the secretary of state and executive director of the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, publicly stated that the government “will not endorse” an adjustment plan for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) if it modifies the pensions of that public corporation’s employees.

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In the letter, Rodríguez Ortiz said that “according to the information provided by our Retirement System, in April 2023 our fund will be exhausted and we will stop receiving our pensions.”

“The retirees of our Retirement System and those who have already obtained the right to a pension, even if they have not exercised it, dedicate our youth and energy to fulfilling our duties at the agency,” the AJAEE president said. “That is why we vehemently demand our acquired right, because we buy and accumulate our pensions, thus fulfilling all the requirements to be beneficiaries of them.”

Rodríguez Ortiz also stressed that given their statements that PREPA retirees’ pensions would be “guaranteed,” they requested a meeting to “inform us what their plan is to ‘guarantee’ our pensions for life as stated in the regulations of our Retirement System.”

He added that Retirement System Board President José Rivera Rivera, along with the contracted firm, have presented a plan to save PREPA as the main sponsor of the retirement system. He stressed that it “was de signed in tune with the necessary accounting, fiscal and actuarial information,” but that unfortunately “the plan has not been addressed in the government forum where it has been presented.”

Rodríguez Ortiz also reminded the governor that for retirees “it is of utmost urgency that our de mands be addressed with haste,” taking into account that since the general hearing on the Title III Cases in September – when U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain demanded an adjustment plan from the Financial Oversight and Management Board by Dec. 1 in order to complete the debt restructuring process by June 2023.

Given the critical fiscal situation facing the PREPA Employees Retirement System, Rodríguez Or tiz lamented that retirees “are living in times of great uncertainty and anguish.”

Acknowledging that the crisis began in 2016, under the administration of previous Gov. Alejandro García Padilla, “when they unilaterally stopped mak ing the corresponding contributions,” he reminded the governor that “you have been in charge for two years and you are not oblivious.”

“Therefore, we hope that, on this occasion, our proposals do not fall on deaf ears,” Rodríguez Ortiz said.

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Mayor: Bayamón to become producer of electricity

By THE STAR STAFF

Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz announced on Monday that his municipality will become a producer of electricity, as soon as the privatization of electricity generation is made possible in December.

“As soon as there is also private generation, everyone can generate,” the mayor said at a press conference. “In fact, we are already working on a master plan in the City of Bayamón and we are going to generate energy as well. It is one of the ideas we have and perhaps I am advancing an idea that is being worked on at the moment, but the entire roof of the Juan Ramón Loubriel Coliseum with all the roofs of the urban area can generate enough mega

watts for us to supply, even people from the periphery and organizations and businesses from the periphery.”

“Why can we do it? Because it changed,” Rivera Cruz added. “Before, with the [Puerto Rico Electric Power] Authority that could not be done. The Authority was the owner and mistress of everything and determined and did what they determined when they wanted. That changes now.”

The mayor insisted that he has been critical of LUMA Energy.

“They have been making adjustments and of course there is still a long way to go, but as far as saying cancel the contract, no,” he said. “Because we can’t throw Puerto Rico down a ravine.”

Lawmaker files ethics complaint over school bus contracts between DE and Arecibo mayor’s firm

By THE STAR STAFF

New Progressive Party Rep. José Enrique “Quiquito” Meléndez Ortiz has filed a complaint at the Govern ment Ethics Office (OEG by its Spanish initials) to the affect that Arecibo Mayor Carlos “Tito” Ramírez Irizarry may be engaged in a conflict of interest for having a contract with the Department of Education (DE) while serving as mayor.

“We are concerned that the position held by Mr. Ramírez, as resident agent, president and treasurer of Tito Ramírez Bus Service Inc., while serving as mayor of the Municipality of Arecibo, without a waiver to perform both positions, could degenerate into a conflict of interest, which is detrimental to the good name of Puerto Rico. Furthermore, this affects the transparency with which those who run government institu tions must operate, which is crucial to avoid corruption,” the lawmaker said Monday in a written statement.

The conflict, Meléndez Ortiz said, stems from the fact that the corporation, with registration number 131250 and named Tito Ramírez Bus Service Inc. (incorporated on Oct. 17, 2002), currently has the mayor of Arecibo as its resident agent.

He signed a contract with the Education Department while exercising the mayor’s functions without obtaining a waiver.

Specifically, on March 1, 2021, the DE awarded Tito Ramírez Bus Service Inc. contracts number 2021-RA0009, 2021-RA0010, 2021-RA0011 and 2021-RA0017.

The company is dedicated to the transportation of DE students, and special and educational tours, as well as other tours requested by the general public.

“According to the oversight function that falls to me as an at-large representative, I refer to your attention what, in our opinion, is an evident commission of actions that violate ethical principles, among other legal and regulatory norms that we are obligated to uphold in the performance of our duties and that give the appearance of being perpetrated by the Hon. Carlos ‘Tito’ Ramírez Irizarry, mayor of the Munici pality of Arecibo, who, in turn, is resident agent, president and treasurer of Tito Ramírez Bus Service Inc.,” reads the letter sent in early November to OEG Executive Director Luis A. Pérez.

It is worth mentioning that Ramírez Irizarry himself did

not sign the contracts, but rather they were signed by a Karla M. Ramírez Vilella, in her alleged capacity as secretary of Tito Ramírez Bus Service Inc., on the aforementioned date of March 1, 2021.

However, in a corporate resolution of Tito Ramírez Bus Service Inc. of March 4, 2021, the company’s board of directors agreed to authorize Ramírez Vilella to sign offers, subscribe to contracts, and all types of documents as required by central government agencies, public corporations and municipalities.

“Ms. Karla M. Ramírez Vilella signed four contracts with the Department of Education of Puerto Rico, three days before having the endorsement of the Board of Directors of Tito Ramírez Bus Service Inc., to carry out said type of management,” the legislator noted. “Therefore, the possible nullity of the contracts should be evaluated, since a person signed them without the authority to do so.”

Meléndez Ortiz added that although there is no waiver from the OEG for such purposes, the contracts between Tito Ramírez Bus Service Inc. and the DE have not ceased.

Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz

Rep. José Enrique Meléndez Ortiz

16 island towns sue fossil fuel firms for hurricane damages

By THE STAR STAFF

More than a dozen municipalities in Puerto Rico have filed a class action lawsuit against fossil fuel companies for their alleged role in the 2017 hur ricane season that devastated the island, causing billions in damages and leaving thousands dead, according to a statement from Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman LLC on Monday.

The first-of-its-kind lawsuit seeks financial compensation from oil and coal companies for marketing and selling car bon-based products that they intentionally misrepresented to the public, according to the suit. It describes how companies that include Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Arch Coal worked together to publicly conceal the climate risk changes from their products while internally acting on climate science to safeguard their own assets. The municipalities are represented by the aforemen tioned law firm.

“Puerto Rico was hit by the perfect storm and is the ultimate victim of global warming,” Milberg partner Marc Grossman said. “This is an opportunity to finally get justice for all that Puerto Rico sacrificed in 2017.”

The municipalities of Bayamón, Caguas, Loíza, Lares, Barranquitas, Comerío, Cayey, Las Marías, Trujillo Alto, Vega Baja, Añasco, Cidra, Aguadilla, Aibonito, Morovis and Moca seek to recover damages from the defendant oil and coal companies for 2017 storm losses, including social, educational and economic losses.

Climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that anthro

pogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, primarily in the form of CO2, are the main driver of global warming and sea level rise. From 1965 to 2017, the defendant oil and coal companies were responsible for 40.01% of all global industrial GHG emissions, the statement reads.

The defendants knew since the 1970s that these emis sions were likely to produce stronger storms that threatened their infrastructure, internal documents show. But instead of transparency, the defendants engaged in a pseudo-scientific campaign to sow doubt about climate change and protect their monopoly over fossil fuel production. Their failure to disclose the truth about their products had disastrous effects for Puerto Rico, which was defenseless against the historically strong hurricanes that hit the island in 2017.

The Global Climate Risk Index 2020 report found Puerto Rico has been affected by climate change more than anywhere else in the world. As the canary in the coalm ine for GHG-driven global warming, Puerto Rico has the opportunity to serve as a bellwether for successful oil and coal climate change litigation, according to the lawsuit.

“While Puerto Rico is the ultimate victim and the first victim, it is not the last,” Grossman said. “We are investi gating claims by municipalities all over the world coming to the realization that they, along with the rest of the planet, were duped by the fossil fuel industry and now live in grave danger of being the next Puerto Rico.”

To date, climate change litigation against fossil fuel companies has stalled in courts, in part because cases have been based on causes of action preempted by federal law, including the Clean Air Act. The current lawsuit — based on consumer fraud, racketeering, antitrust, products liability, nuisance, and failure-to-warn claims — alleges that the defendants conspired to sell their products in violation of federal and Puerto Rico statutes. The case is supported by research from leading universities, professors and organiza tions in the field of climate science, and sets a new standard for such claims, the plaintiffs said.

“This complaint rightly seeks redress for the citizens and municipalities harmed by the 2017 hurricanes from parties that knew their business model would accelerate the early onset of storms of higher intensity, yet did nothing to warn the communities of the risk of continued use of their products,” said Richard Heeds of the Climate Accountability Institute. “On the strength of this litigation, it is time to pay the piper.”

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, along with Economic Development Bank (EDB) President Luis Alemañy González and Housing (DH) Secretary William Ro dríguez Rodríguez, announced on Monday the closure of the Small Business Financing program through which a total of $125 million in grants were delivered to small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) throughout the island using funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program.

“Today is another day in which, as a government, we highlight our support for the development and growth of our small businesses that are the backbone of our Puerto Rican economy,” Alemañy González said. “In the face of the historic challenges we have experienced in recent years, our local entrepreneurs have shown great fortitude and resilience. We are celebrating the achievements of the Small Business Financing Program (SBF), administered by the Economic Development Bank as a sub-recipient of CDBG-DR funds. This program began by providing an allocation of up to $50,000 and we increased it to $150,000, to maximize assistance to micro and small businesses of 75 or fewer employees who suffered damage or loss after the 2017 hurricanes.”

“After that initial phase of the Recovery Grant, the SBF

program offered them the opportunity to apply for flexible loans to further promote their economic recovery,” he added.

The EDB is the general manager of the SBF program through a subrecipient agreement with the island Housing Department. The EDB is responsible for managing all major aspects of the program, such as conducting CDBG-DR compli ance assessments and admissions and eligibility assessments, implementing financial management and compliance reports, and carrying out calculations of granting and design agendas.

The Housing secretary noted that, as defined by the CD BG-DR program, microenterprises are those companies that have five or fewer employees, which includes their owner or owners. The microenterprises line also may include an autonomous person. In addition, small businesses are defined as enterprises with 75 or fewer employees.

“As part of the requirements, applicants submitted evi dence of damage or disruption to their business in the wake of the 2017 hurricanes, as well as an unmet need for recovery and growth, or an unmet need for low- or moderate-income job creation and retention,” Rodríguez added.

The governor reiterated his administration’s commitment to continue supporting small entrepreneurs, as the spearhead of Puerto Rico’s recovery.

“It is indisputable that our economy is showing clear signs of recovery in all areas, with growth in our gross domestic product, increases in manufacturing rates, historic declines

in unemployment, increases in labor participation and reduc tion in poverty rates,” Pierluisi said. “Undoubtedly, we have sought to support our SMEs because they are the ones who represent the most productive sector of our economy, and who employ a large part of our workforce. My administration has a great commitment to our SMEs and we continuously look for ways to give them a hand so that they can continue to grow and progress.”

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Buffalo gunman pleads guilty in racist attack that left 10 dead

By HURUBIE MEKO and DAN HIGGINS

The gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist massacre at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in May pleaded guilty to state charges against him in Erie County Court on Monday morning.

The gunman, Payton Gendron, 19, was indicted by a grand jury in June on 25 counts, including murder and a single count of domestic terrorism motivated by hate, which carries a penalty of life imprisonment without parole.

Inside the packed courtroom, Gendron was handcuffed and dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit. As Judge Susan Eagan read each count to him, he simply replied “guilty” or “yes.”

After the hearing, John J. Flynn, the Erie County district attorney, said that the terrorism charge was relatively new to the state’s penal code and had not been used before, adding that the gunman was the first person to have pleaded guilty in New York to domestic terrorism motivated by hate.

The gunman still faces federal hate crimes and weapons violations, and some of those charges could carry the death penalty if the Justice Department decides to seek it. Although there is now a moratorium on federal executions, Attorney General Merrick Garland did not rule out the possibility of seeking the death penalty when he announced the charges in June.

Because of a legal technicality in the state charges, Flynn said, the gunman pleaded guilty to the highest counts, in cluding the 10 counts of first-degree murder. Those 10 counts

Memorials for the victims of the racist massacre at the Tops Friendly Markets grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., May 24, 2022.

automatically dismissed the lesser 10 second-degree charges.

He also pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder in the second degree as a hate crime and one count of criminal possession of a weapon as well as the domestic terrorism motivated by hate charge.

During the news conference, Flynn read a statement recounting how the shooting unfolded, outside and inside of the supermarket, emphasizing how most victims were selected because they were Black.

The 13 people who were shot, three of whom survived,

were almost all Black.

The first person the gunman encountered outside of the store was Roberta A. Drury, 32, Flynn said.

“He immediately intentionally shot and killed Roberta Drury who was walking in the parking lot,” Flynn said, refer ring to the gunman. “That defendant did this because Roberta Drury was African American.”

Months before the massacre, the gunman, an avowed white supremacist, began writing about his plans for an attack in Buffalo in a private diary on messaging site Discord. In May, Gendron, who was 18 at the time, traveled about 200 miles to East Buffalo from his home in the Southern Tier town of Conklin, New York, to carry out the attack.

In the abundant online writings he left behind, the gunman said he had chosen that area of Buffalo for its large population of Black residents.

According to authorities, Gendron, who livestreamed the attack and was arrested shortly afterward, used a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle that was purchased legally at a store near his hometown and wore camouflage and body armor.

In the aftermath of the Buffalo attack, and the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, lawmakers in Albany, New York, passed a broad package of gun bills that raised the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic rifle to 21 and banned most civilians from purchasing bullet-resistant body vests.

“It was clear that this act of pure evil, premeditated, pure evil, that this individual knew what they were doing,” said Buffalo’s mayor, Byron Brown, at the news conference Monday.

Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii erupts for first time in nearly 40 years

By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR

The world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii, erupted for the first time in 38 years late Sunday, following a series of spectacular eruptions of the smaller Kilauea volcano, also on the island, over the last five years.

At 11:30 p.m. local time, an eruption began at Mauna Loa’s summit, inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Lava flowing from the volcano was confined to the summit area, and officials said there was no immediate threat to the public, but they warned that winds could carry volcanic gas, fine ash and thin glass fibers known as Pele’s hair downwind.

The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency raised the volcano alert level to a warning from an advisory. Mitch Roth, mayor of Hawaii County, which has a population of about 200,000, said in a statement on Facebook early Monday that there were no evacuation orders or threats to the community. Two shelters were opened along the South Kona coast for people who voluntarily left their homes, officials said.

Roth did not respond to a request for comment Monday about how Hawaii County was preparing and guiding its residents.

The location and direction of lava flow can quickly change, officials said. Residents who are at risk were ad vised to review their preparedness plans.

Officials said they planned to conduct an aerial survey of the eruption and assess any hazards.

A period of heightened unrest began in mid-Septem ber when the number of earthquakes below Mauna Loa’s summit increased to between 40 and 50 per day from 10 to 20 per day, officials said.

In mid-October, the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency reported a 5.0 magnitude earthquake on Mauna Loa’s southeastern flank, setting off near-daily updates on the volcano’s status and the number of earthquakes detected in a 24-hour period.

Before the eruption was reported Sunday night, officials said on Twitter that Mauna Loa was not erupting and that there were no signs of an imminent eruption. Twenty-four earthquakes, all below 3.0 magnitude, were also detected in the previous 24 hours.

Mauna Loa, which encompasses more than half of the Big Island of Hawaii and rises more than 13,600 feet above the Pacific Ocean, has erupted 33 times since 1843, averaging one eruption every five years. A majority of the eruptions occurred before 1950; since then, there have been only two — a summit eruption in 1975 and an erup tion in 1984, when lava flow approached the city of Hilo.

That last eruption caused volcanic air pollution across the state and prompted authorities to close Highway 200 as lava flows destroyed utility poles and power lines. Heat released during the eruption also caused local thunder storms and snowfall in certain regions.

While Mauna Loa has been largely dormant for 38 years, Kilauea, in the southeast corner of the Big Island, is considered one of the most active volcanoes in the world. It has been a site of continuous volcanic activity over a period of decades, punctuated by sequences of spectacular eruptions.

A monthslong eruption in 2018 produced 320,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of lava that trans formed the landscape around Kilauea and was blamed for the destruction of around 700 homes.

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The only US territory without US birthright citizenship

By NATASHA FROST

It seems straightforward enough. As the U.S. Constitution put it, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citi zens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

And generally, that’s accurate. People born in any of the 50 states, one federal district and four major territories (Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands) are automatically American citizens.

But in one U.S. territory, which has been held by the United States for more than 120 years and which is some 2,600 mi les (4,184 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii, they aren’t.

Every April, people in American Sa moa, which has a population of about 50,000, celebrate “Flag Day,” the most im portant holiday of the year, commemorating its five islands and two coastal atolls beco ming part of the United States. Its residents serve in the U.S. military — indeed, more soldiers per capita come from the Pacific territory than from any other U.S. territory or state. If they choose to leave their island home, they can live anywhere else in the United States they like. They even hold American passports.

But they aren’t United States citizens. Instead, American Samoans are U.S. “na tionals,” a small but significant distinction that precludes them from voting, running for office and holding jobs in a narrow se lection of fields, including law enforcement. They can become citizens after moving to the mainland, but the process is long, requi res passing a history test and costs at least $725, before legal fees, without any guaran tee of success.

Until quite recently, the difference bet ween being a U.S. national and a U.S. citi zen was not always closely observed. Many American Samoans living elsewhere in the United States voted in elections without knowing that they were ineligible to.

But under the Trump administration, that distinction became more closely ob served. In 2018, a woman born in Ameri can Samoa ran as a Republican state House candidate in Hawaii, before learning that she was ineligible to run or even to vote. American Samoans serving as officers in the U.S. Army suddenly found that unless

they underwent naturalization, they would be demoted.

A handful of American Samoans li ving in the United States have attempted to challenge the status quo. In a recent case, which the U.S. Supreme Court last month declined to hear, three American Samoans living in Utah sought to demonstrate the ways in which not having U.S. citizenship were harmful to them.

One said he had been criticized by his peers for not voting in elections; another was precluded from pursuing a career as a police officer, he said; a third said that as a noncitizen, she could not sponsor her ailing parents for immigration visas to the Uni ted States, where they could receive better health care. (Her father subsequently died before he was able to relocate.)

Perhaps surprisingly, the government of American Samoans, as well as a majori ty of its citizens, is opposed to its residents acquiring birthright citizenship, particularly by judicial fiat, said Michael F. Williams, a lawyer who represents the government.

In 1900, chiefs in American Samoa agreed to become part of the United States by signing a deed, which included protec tions for fa’a Samoa, a phrase meaning “the Samoan way” that refers to the islands’ tra ditional culture.

“The American Samoan people have

concerns that incorporating citizenship wholesale to the territory of American Sa moa could have a harmful impact on tra ditional Samoan culture,” Williams said. He added: “The American Samoans believe if they need to make this fundamental chan ge, they should be the ones to bring it upon themselves, not have some judge in Salt Lake City, or in Denver, Colorado, or Wash ington, D.C., doing it.”

Yet the reasons American Samoans do not have birthright citizenship were not originally related to any effort to protect Sa moan culture. Instead, a set of court cases in the early 20th century, known as the “In sular Cases,” established that U.S. territories were at once part of the United States and outside of it. The reason, the Supreme Court ruled in 1901, was that these territories were “foreign in a domestic sense,” “inhabited by alien races,” and that therefore governing them “according to Anglo-Saxon principles may for a time be impossible.”

Those calling for a legislative change include Charles Ala’ilima, a lawyer based in American Samoa.

“There’s only one class of citizens in the United States — except here in Ameri can Samoa,” he said. “What we have now is basically the imposition of second-class sta tus on a people that are under the sovereig nty of the government. That is the definition

of colonialism.”

Some legal scholars contend that American Samoa is not entirely subject to the U.S. Constitution, allowing it to maintain certain features of life, including the sa, a prayer curfew in place in some villages, and traditional communal ownership of land. Imposing birthright citizenship, they argue, would put those traditions at legal risk.

But in the 1970s, a court in Washing ton, D.C., found that residents of American Samoa had the right to jury trials “as gua ranteed by our Constitution” — even after a court in American Samoa said that introdu cing jury trials would be “an arbitrary, illo gical and inappropriate foreign imposition.”

Introducing jury trials has made little di fference to the Samoan way of life, Ala’ilima said, and there was no evidence to suggest that granting its people citizenship would either. In the Northern Mariana Islands, another U.S. territory, residents can restrict land ownership to people of native descent — while still receiving birthright citizenship.

“My impression is that at some level, they know that if they get upgraded to citi zen, nothing’s going to happen,” he said, of the American Samoan government. Already, he added, a significant minority of American Samoans were citizens of the United States through descent.

But for others in the territory, Hawaii, a former U.S. territory that acquired state hood in 1959, stands as a warning. “The government of American Samoa looks at Hawaii and sees what has happened to the Native Hawaiians. Hawaii has become a playground for rich Americans; Native Hawaiian people are looking at crumbs,” Williams said.

“Programs that were established by the state government in Hawaii for the bene fit of Native Hawaiians, including the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, have been struck down or limited by constitutional litigation, based on the argument that it would be unfair to help one category of citizens based solely on their race,” he added.

It may be that, to the extent American Samoa is already exposed to this risk, as some contend, granting birthright citizens hip to its people would make little differen ce, beyond giving its people something that they are constitutionally owed. But for its leaders, and its deeply conservative people, the unknown consequences for now feel far too great.

A view of Rainmaker Mountain in Pago Pago, American Samoa, in May 2020. People born in American Samoa, which has been held by the United States for more than 120 years, are not automatically citizens of the United States.

Another patron who subdued assailant at Club Q acted to save ‘the family I found’

By AVA SASANI and LUKE VANDER PLOEG

Thomas James was trained in the mili tary on how to act in a crisis. And he responded immediately when an assail ant entered Club Q in Colorado Springs on Nov. 19 shrouded in body armor and began shooting with an AR-15-style rifle, police said.

James, a petty officer 2nd class in the Navy, helped Richard Fierro, an Army veteran and another patron at the LGBTQ club, subdue the attacker, preventing further bloodshed in a massacre that left five dead and 18 injured, authorities said last week. Chief Adrian Vasquez of the Colorado Springs Police Department said both knocked down

the assailant.

On Sunday, in his first public com ments on his role that night, James said in a statement that “I simply wanted to save the family I found.”

James issued the statement through Centura Penrose Hospital, where he was recovering from an undisclosed injury from the attack. The hospital said he was in stable condition.

Fierro said the chaos during the rampage made the takedown of the assailant a blur, but he remembers clearly how James, whom he had never met, tumbled to the ground with him as he took down the attacker, pushed one of the shooter’s guns away, then, at the urging of Fierro, repeatedly kicked the assail ant in the face.

“That was hard to do — it’s not a humane act,” Fierro said in an interview. “But I asked him to help me, and he helped me.”

The suspect in the attack, Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, is being held on suspicion of firstdegree murder and hate crimes and is expected to be formally charged at a hearing Dec. 6.

“If I had my way, I would shield everyone I could from the nonsensical acts of hate in the world,” James said.

“Thankfully, we are family, and family looks after one another. We came a long way from Stonewall. Bullies aren’t invincible,”

James said, referring to the uprising at a New York bar in 1969 that galvanized a national movement for gay rights.

In his statement, James told young people to “be brave.”

“Your family is out there,” he said. “You are loved and valued. So when you come out of the closet, come out swinging.”

According to Navy records, James is an information systems technician who enlisted in 2011. He served on the Bonhomme Richard, a ship that was destroyed in a fire in 2020, and at bases in England and the Naval Air Station Lemoore in California. In 2021, he was sta tioned in Colorado Springs with the Defense Intelligence Agency, which provides military intelligence to the Defense Department.

A friend, David Whelan, 48, of Beckley, West Virginia, said James grew up in the state and that the two of them became close years ago when James would visit his game and comic book store as a teenager. The two stayed in touch over the years, and when Whelan saw the news about his friend’s actions at Club Q, he wasn’t surprised.

“It didn’t matter where it would be,” Whelan said. “If Thomas was somewhere and gunfire lit out, quiet Thomas would be the one who would jump up and run to protect people. Because if you just know him, you know that he doesn’t want to see people hurt.”

Marijuana pardons affect just a sliver of those swept up in the war on drugs

By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Valerie Schultz’s conviction for possession of a small amount of marijuana in 2010 was anything but simple.

Schultz was arrested on federal land, the Mount Olympus Trail in Utah, which means she was charged under federal law. Authorities found pot in her car, so her license was revoked. Without the ability to drive, she was forced to give up her job teaching second grade.

“It just seemed like it was very harsh punishment,” said Schultz, 33. “You think I’m such a menace to society because I’m smoking in a forest?”

President Joe Biden’s decision last month to pardon thousands of people who had been convicted of marijuana possession under federal law was an acknowledgment that his administration does not see possession of cannabis, with no intent to sell or distribute, as a public safety threat.

But people like Schultz, whose lone conviction has hounded her for more than a decade, represent just a sliver of those swept up in the decadeslong war on drugs. A majority of marijuana convictions have been state crimes, which Biden

does not have the authority to pardon; he can only hope that governors will follow suit.

And while many advocates welcomed the presidential act of forgiveness, they say far too many people — many of them Black and Latino — are not eligible for the pardons, leaving

them with minor marijuana convictions that will continue to get in the way of job prospects, educational opportunities and financing for homes.

Kevin Munoz, a White House spokesperson, said the marijuana announcement was one of the largest single uses of the president’s pardon power in history, one that “will bring relief to thousands of Americans, disproportionately Black and brown, who are unfairly barred from housing, employment and benefits.”

The highly targeted pardons fit a broader pattern for Biden when it comes to reforming America’s criminal justice system. A champion of aggressive drug laws earlier in his career, including the 1994 crime bill that led to mass incarceration, he has more recently embraced leniency for those convicted of minor drug offenses.

As president, he has favored taking limited steps that enact change slowly — not the kind of overhauls that some in his party believe are necessary to reverse the effect of harsh prison sentences that have disproportionately harmed minori ties. (Biden has said he does not support legalizing marijuana, putting him at odds with 80% of self-described Democrats

Club Q, where five people were killed in a shooting in Colorado Springs, on Nov. 22, 2022. Thomas James, a Navy officer, knocked down the attacker along with an Army veteran.

Jeremy Sharp in Athens, Ga. Oct. 28, 2022. Sharp said the president’s efforts regarding marijuana did not go far enough.

and 68% of Americans, according to a Gallup Poll released this month.)

“It’s symbolic to have the White House to start getting behind decriminalization of marijuana in this intentional way,” said Nayna Gupta, associate director of policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center. She said that 45,000 immigrants had been deported for state and federal marijuana possession charges between 2003 and 2018. “But the symbolism of it is different than who does it actually help and affect and impact?”

Criminal justice reform advocates said most federal marijua na possession cases involved someone found with the drug at a border checkpoint, on federally owned land or at an airport — even if they were flying out of a state that has legalized marijuana use.

More than 55% of the 7,800 citizens and legal permanent residents convicted of federal marijuana possession from 1992 to 2021 were Black or Hispanic, according to data released by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Most of the prosecutions for the drug have occurred in California, Arizona and Texas. Nearly 150 people were sentenced in the federal prison system for ma rijuana possession in the 2021 fiscal year, while more than 1,000 offenders were sentenced for trafficking marijuana, according to the commission.

Schultz, now a freelance filmmaker in Los Angeles, said she was thankful for Biden’s pardon, especially since a clear record may make it easier for her to secure a mortgage. But she questio ned what additional research of marijuana Biden would need to issue more sweeping action that would cover more nonviolent drug offenders currently in prison.

“How long have they been saying, ‘Let’s study it’?” Schultz said. “The research is out there.”

Legal permanent residents — people with green cards — were covered by the president’s pardons. But they left out many immigrants at risk of deportation because of marijuana convictions. Biden’s order failed to instruct federal immigration authorities to stop deporting immigrants for possession of pot, according to a letter sent to Biden this month by dozens of civil and immigrant rights groups.

“You rooted the Oct. 6 proclamation in the pursuit of racial equity, noting that ‘Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted and convicted at disproportionate rates,’” the groups wrote. “Yet you exclude Black and brown immigrants facing the same structural racism as U.S. citizens.”

Kenault Lawrence, 38, immigrated legally to the United States when he was 10, settling in Front Royal, Virginia, and gra duating from high school as an undefeated wrestling champion. Years after two Virginia misdemeanor convictions for possession with intent to distribute less than half an ounce of marijuana, Lawrence was detained by federal agents for more than a year and deported to Jamaica.

His first son was born months after he was detained in 2011, and he was deported in 2012, forcing him to spend almost a decade away from his wife, an American citizen, and his son.

Advocacy groups spent almost nine years working to get Lawrence returned to the United States. But after finally succee ding in coming home last year, he faces the possibility of being deported again if he cannot persuade an immigration court to permanently cancel his deportation. Since his charges included intent to distribute and were under state law, and because the president’s order did not address deportations, Biden’s pardon will not help.

“This is America,” Lawrence said, adding that he was thankful to be home but worried that his use of pot decades ago could

send him away again. “People do smoke weed, and you know, now it’s legal. Back then, we used to hide it.”

Biden’s pardons may have helped rally Democratic sup porters to the polls in the midterm elections by serving as a kind of political down payment for those who wanted the president to go much further.

Some governors took notice: Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon, a Democrat, last week announced pardons for state charges of simple marijuana possession before 2016, when marijuana was legalized in Oregon. The move affects an estimated 45,000 people, the governor’s office said.

Other Democratic governors, including in Louisiana and Minnesota, do not have the authority to issue pardons for marijuana offenses; they must go through state boards instead.

Still, Republicans have seized on the president’s decision to portray him as weak on law and order. And several Republican governors have already rejected the president’s advice. Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas accused Biden of “playing election-year politics” with the marijuana announcement and said such pardons should be considered on a case-by-case basis “in this time of rising crime.” A spokesperson for Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said the state would not take “criminal justice advice from the leader of the defund police party.” (Biden has not supported defunding the police.)

Biden also directed federal agencies to review whether marijuana should remain classified as a Schedule 1 drug — the same legal category as heroin and LSD. Advocates argue that

changing the classification could encourage lawmakers to lighten the criminal penalties for marijuana-related crimes.

Changing the classification would make it easier for legal cannabis companies to use federally chartered banks, and it would allow federal health officials to conduct research on the medical impact of marijuana.

Biden’s aides say those who are not eligible for pardons under the current order can apply for one through the Justice Department’s normal clemency process — a case-by-case system the president used to commute the sentences of 75 drug offenders this year. He has committed to relying less on prison for nonviolent drug offenders by expanding prevention programs and alternatives to detention.

Jeremy Sharp, a 35-year-old from Athens, Georgia, who speaks to college students about drugs, said he knew how even minor drug offenses could upend a person’s life.

While leading overdose prevention training recently at the University of Georgia, Sharp spoke to students about how he had been charged with marijuana possession three times, which he believes put him at a disadvantage as he pursues law school. He hopes to build a career helping people struggling with addiction avoid incarceration.

Sharp would not be eligible for a pardon because he was convicted on state charges. But he said he saw Biden’s decision as a symbolic gesture rather than a sign of broad change.

“It is a political move,” Sharp told the group of college students.

Valerie Schultz at her home in Los Angeles on Oct. 29, 2022. Schultz said she was thankful for the president’s pardon, but was mindful that many more nonviolent drug offenders remained in prison.

Why retailers are trying extra hard to woo holiday shoppers

By SYDNEY EMBER and JORDYN HOL MAN

Amazon held what amounted to an extra Prime Day in October, blanke ting its site with deals. Best Buy ro lled out Black Friday-level sales last month. And on Friday, Kohl’s entered the first 200 people to walk into each of its stores into a sweepstakes, with prizes including gift cards to Sephora and a family trip to a Le goland resort.

With the arrival of the all-important holiday shopping season, retailers are not just competing with one another to attract customers. They are also competing against the clock.

For now, Americans are spending, buoyed by pandemic-era savings and a red-hot labor market. But at the same time, prices are climbing at the fastest pace in de cades and the Federal Reserve is attemp ting to rein them in by raising interest rates. That effort to curb demand by making bo rrowing more expensive is, in turn, making consumers pessimistic about the economy. And a recession is a distinct possibility.

Retailers, some of them sitting on a glut of inventory, want to sell as much as they can while consumers are still pulling out their wallets. So they are barraging cus tomers with discounts, hoping to entice them to buy before an economic slowdown causes a change in behavior once more.

Whether retailers succeed will have profound implications. Billions of dollars are at stake, and companies will be wat ching the outcome closely as they make hi ring and investment decisions for the new year.

“We’re going to spend a lot of time

right now focused on executing our plan, getting through the holiday season and then assessing the consumer and the ove rall retail landscape as we look to 2023,” Target CEO Brian Cornell said on a call with analysts this month.

More broadly, retail sales during the holiday shopping period could provide clues about the trajectory of the economy in the weeks and months to come.

“For the overall economy, I think that it’s going to be very important to look at what the consumer is doing because, rea lly, that’s going to be your key indicator,” said Lydia Boussour, an economist at EYParthenon. “It’s the key engine of growth.”

Forecasters generally believe that consumer spending, which accounts for about 70% of total economic growth, will remain strong in the fourth quarter, in large part because of household savings. Collec tively, Americans by the middle of this year were still sitting on about $1.7 trillion in ex tra savings accumulated during the pande mic, based on Fed estimates, thanks in part to government aid.

But in September, the most recent month for which calculations were avai lable, Americans saved only 3.1% of their after-tax income, less than half the share before the pandemic. And poorer Ameri

cans are seeing their savings dwindle even faster than wealthier ones.

Meanwhile, credit card balances in the third quarter swelled 15% compared with a year earlier, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That was the largest increase in more than two decades, as consumers increasingly rely on credit even as borrowing costs are rising.

And a University of Michigan survey this month showed a sharp decline in “con sumer sentiment” — a measurement of how people feel about the economy and their financial situation. Even as consumers continue to make purchases, Boussour said, “they’re feeling depressed about the overall economic situation, and they are going to grow increasingly reluctant to spend.”

Retail sales grew 1.3% in October, more than expected, as shoppers snapped up earlier-than-usual holiday deals. Some major retailers, including Walmart and Home Depot, reported strong third-quarter earnings, bolstered by sales for less-discre tionary goods such as groceries or items related to home renovation and do-it-your self projects. “Households are still spen ding money because they can,” said Aneta Markowska, chief financial economist at in vestment bank Jefferies. “I still think there’s a lot of uncertainty about next year becau

se the Fed obviously has raised rates very aggressively this year and we haven’t really felt the effects yet.”

But several retailers said they saw demand for their products slow during the month, and when shoppers did buy, they seemed motivated by sales. Some compa nies have lowered their financial outlook or declined outright to provide forecasts for next year to avoid being caught flat-footed.

Shoppers seemed price conscious on Black Friday and throughout the weekend.

Retailers dropped online prices for merchandise such as toys, electronics and computers, according to data released Fri day from Adobe Analytics. Discounts for sporting goods and TVs were far steeper this year than last year, according to Ado be data, and clothing prices were slightly lower this year. The average discount for Black Friday deals in the United States was 30%, according to Salesforce. In 2019, Sa lesforce said, the average discount rate for Black Friday was 33%.

In-store sales Friday rose 12% from last year, and e-commerce sales increa sed 14% compared with 2021, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse data released Saturday. Those sales included spending not just in retail stores but also at restau rants.

Still, not everyone was satisfied. On social media, people complained that Black Friday deals weren’t as sizable as they expected.

In San Francisco, Riz Gordon, 24, woke up at 6 a.m. Friday to shop with her parents and younger sister. Going to the stores that day is “a long family tradition,” she said, and they had already picked out stocking stuffers and smaller presents. But inflation was on their minds.

“The prices are very much different than 10 years ago,” Gordon said.

On Sunday, at a Target in Springfield, Illinois, D.J. Baggerly, 69, made a quick trip for one final Christmas gift: a white knitted throw blanket. She had spent the weekend mostly shopping online, working through her grandchildren’s wish list.

Baggerly lives on a fixed income, and the higher prices for gas and groceries, she said, have been “ridiculous.” Asked if she planned to cut back on spending in the coming weeks, she said, “Oh, yeah. I’m done.”

A J.C. Penney in Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas on Nov. 25, 2022. J.C. Penney brought back doorbuster sales on Black Friday aimed at getting shoppers back into the store.

Apple, energy shares drag Wall St lower amid China COVID protests

Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Mon day as protests in major Chinese cit ies against strict COVID-19 policies sparked concerns over economic growth and dragged commodity-linked shares lower, while Apple slid on worries about a hit to iPhone pro duction.

Shares of the tech giant fell 2% and weighed the most on the benchmark S&P 500 index, as growing worker unrest at the world’s biggest iPhone factory in China fanned fears of a deeper hit to the already constrained production of higher-end models.

Rare protests in major Chinese cities over the weekend against the country’s strict zero-COVID curbs have hit growth expectations in the world’s second-largest economy.

“If these protests continue, it could disrupt sup ply chains and the reopenings, a glimpse of which we saw earlier this year,” said Brian Klimke, di rector of investment research at Cetera Financial Group.

“It will continue to weigh on investors’ minds going forward.”

The S&P 500 energy index and the materials index slid 1.7% and 1.4%, respectively, making them the biggest sectoral decliners as oil and metal prices dropped on China news.

U.S.-listed shares of Chinese companies such as Bilibili Inc, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, JD.com Inc , Baidu Inc and Nio Inc, however, eked out gains, rising between 1% and 2.2%.

“Those that are buying might be trying to pick up some ball games on stocks that have been way beaten down or maybe they think that this is go ing to force the (Chinese) party’s hand into relaxing some of the restrictions,” said Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth in Fairfield.

At 12:29 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 270.56 points, or 0.79%, at 34,076.47, the S&P 500 was down 35.13 points, or 0.87%, at 3,990.99, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 87.55 points, or 0.78%, at 11,138.80.

A 1.2% rise in shares of Amazon.com limited the downside, after an industry report estimated spending during Cyber Monday, the biggest U.S. online shopping day, to rise as much as $11.6 bil lion, encouraged by some of the biggest discounts and deals to attract inflation-wary consumers.

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Among other stocks, Biogen Inc fell 3.9% fol lowing a report of death during a clinical study of its experimental Alzheimer’s drug.

Shares of cryptocurrency and blockchain-re lated companies, including Coinbase Global Inc, Riot Blockchain Inc and Marathon Digital Hold ings Inc , were down about 2.5% each following lender BlockFi’s

bankruptcy filing, the latest casualty since FTX’s collapse earlier this month.

For the week, investors will keep a close watch on nonfarm payrolls for November, the second es timate for third-quarter gross domestic product and consumer confidence this month.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 2.47-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and for a 1.95-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

The S&P index recorded 11 new 52-week highs and two new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 74 new highs and 102 new lows.

In Ukraine, Bakhmut becomes a bloody vortex for 2 militaries

By THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF and NATA LIA YERMAK

For almost an hour, the stream of Ukrai nian casualties in the eastern city of Bakhmut seemed unending: Ambu lances, an armored personnel carrier and private vehicles all screamed to a halt, one after another, and disgorged the wounded in front of the city’s only military hospital.

A soldier propped up by his comrades, his face a mass of mangled flesh, walked in the main gate. The dark green stretcher that awaited him was one of several still covered in blood.

By around noon Friday, doctors had counted 50 wounded, many of them sol diers. The day before was even worse: 240 people had come through the hospital’s doors with everything from gunshot wounds to shrapnel injuries and concussions.

“They came in batches — 10, 10, five, 10,” said Parus, one of the Ukrainian med ics at the hospital, as artillery screeched overhead and the chatter of machine-gun fire echoed off the surrounding buildings. “In the last couple of days the Russians have tried to advance more intensely.”

In the nine months since Russia invad ed, Ukraine has celebrated major victories, breaking the siege of its capital, Kyiv, and pushing Russian forces out of the Kharkiv region and the port city of Kherson. But Bakhmut, in Ukraine’s Donbas region, has become a destructive vortex for both countries’ militaries. For months, they have thrown masses of troops and materiel into battle here as the Russians mount desperate attempts to capture the city and the Ukrai nians to hold it.

The results have been near catastrophic. The city, once with a population of around 70,000, has slowly been chewed apart. And now, according to residents and Ukrainian soldiers, the bombardment in and around Bakhmut is at an intensity never before seen. Buildings that had been shelled before have been shelled again. The front line, on the city’s outskirts, looks like a muddy moon scape or a scene from World War I. At night, residents can hear the grumble of Russian jets prowling the skies.

In recent days, Ukraine has sent floods of reinforcements into Bakhmut, including special forces and lesser trained territorial defense fighters, according to soldiers, local residents and a U.S. defense official.

The Russians have continued to throw formations from Wagner Group, an infamous

paramilitary organization with direct ties to the Kremlin, at Ukrainian trenches. But they are now supported by a new tranche of Rus sian rank-and-file forces redeployed from the Kherson front, according to the U.S. de fense official and Ukrainian soldiers.

The intensity of Russia’s attempts to seize the city has baffled military analysts. Elsewhere along their 600-mile front line, the Russians are mostly digging in for winter to entrench and conserve resources.

In summer, after Russian forces cap tured the neighboring province of Luhansk, seizing Bakhmut might have looked like a natural progression in Russia’s campaign to conquer the east — a step toward two more important cities, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. But now, analysts said, given the degrada tion of Russian forces and their ammunition shortages after a series of setbacks, that goal seems improbable, especially after the loss of their foothold in the northeast.

“The Russian military is still dealing with unrealistic political demands to show prog ress,” said Michael Kofman, director of Rus sian studies at CNA, a research institute in Arlington, Virginia. “But given poor quality of available forces and decreasing stocks of artillery ammunition, they are unlikely to be successful, because once again the Russian military appears to be feeding units piece meal without adequate support.”

In recent weeks, Moscow’s need for any

type of military victory has made itself felt in pockets elsewhere along the front line. Small villages near the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk have turned into flashpoints. But as the temperature plummets, Bakhmut has quickly evolved into Moscow’s main ef fort, where masses of their forces — includ ing recently mobilized troops, according to Ukrainian soldiers — are trying to strangle the city from the east and south.

Russia’s strategy in Bakhmut is remi niscent of its seizure of the eastern cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in June. There, Russian troops relied on superior artillery fire to overpower Ukrainian forces and gain ground. But the Ukrainian forces they faced then were short of both shells and Western-supplied artillery — something that is no longer as pressing, especially in Bakhmut.

“In the six months that I’ve been in Bakhmut, I have never seen our artillery working like this,” said a Ukrainian soldier in the city, referring to the volume of Ukrainian shells fired. He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

But at this point in the war both armies may find the pace of bombardment hard to sustain. The Russians are reportedly try ing to buy munitions from North Korea and Iran. And Ukraine continues to ask for more artillery shells from NATO and other donor

countries, even though those nations’ stock piles are dwindling.

One of the Pentagon’s frequent con cerns is that the Ukrainians are firing am munition at an unsustainable rate — espe cially in places like Bakhmut — under the false assumption that the West’s supply of ordnance is unlimited, said the U.S. defense official, who spoke on the condition of ano nymity to discuss sensitive information.

As Bakhmut — shelled continually by the Russians since July — devolves into a battle of attrition, its strategic significance has changed, too. Even if Russia’s hopes of expanding its territory here have dwindled, it can still make the city a resource-intensive black hole for Kyiv, taking troops from other Ukrainian priorities, potentially including future offensives.

“Battles like Bakhmut consume forces that could be used elsewhere,” Kofman said, adding that Russian forces are using people they deem “expendable,” but even so, they cannot afford to waste that much artillery.

Much of the city’s eastern reaches — around a once acclaimed winery — is a gray zone between Russian and Ukrainian positions. To its south, the village of Optyne is heavily contested.

The mobilized Russian troops “are just taking a rifle and walking right down like in Soviet times,” said another Ukrainian medic going by the call sign Smile. “He gets killed, and the next one comes up the same way.”

Recent battlefield advances around Bakhmut have been measured in yards, not miles. Every day is a kaleidoscope of Russian and Ukrainian forces either push ing forward or retreating, often resulting in minimal gains at a bloody cost.

On Friday, one Ukrainian soldier said, his unit was retreating when he was blown off his feet by a mortar, while another unit elsewhere in Bakhmut was assaulting a Rus sian position.

Ayrat, a soldier from the 71st Brigade, was pushing toward a Russian trench when he was wounded in both legs by a grenade, either dropped by a drone or fired by a Rus sian grenade launcher.

“We went for an assault,” he said, speaking hoarsely in a dimly lit hospital hall and wrapped in a foil survival blanket. His unit had approached where Russians “were entrenched.”

“My comrades are alive,” he said, winc ing through the pain. “Do you have a ciga rette?”

Residents walk past destruction in Bakhmut, Ukraine, Nov. 26, 2022. Residents and Ukrainian soldiers say the bombardment in and around Bakhmut is at an intensity never before seen.

Mexico’s president leads supporters in march through capital

By STEVE FISHER and MARIA ABIHABIB

Two weeks after tens of thousands of Mexicans protested against pro posed electoral changes they say would undermine democracy, Mexico’s president on Sunday marched through the capital accompanied by massive crowds in a display of popular support for his mandate.

In an early taste of the 2024 presi dential election, President Andrés Man uel López Obrador’s supporters, some traveling hundreds of miles by bus to the capital, came with Mexican flags, marching bands and even presidentshaped stuffed toys as they filled the heart of the capital, chanting, “It’s an honor to be with Obrador.”

Mexico’s political opposition and some members of civil society spoke out against the march, calling it a show of force by a leader they cast as a bud ding authoritarian who uses state re sources — including welfare programs — to maintain his popularity.

The president has denied those ac cusations, but the sway López Obrador maintains over many Mexicans was on full display Sunday.

Some said they were there to show support for a president who had ben efited them economically through wel fare programs, although they were less aware of López Obrador’s more specific policy goals — including the conten tious electoral changes he hopes to get ratified.

The overhaul would give the presi dent more control over Mexico’s elec toral systems, but while Mexico’s Con gress began discussing the proposal this month, López Obrador does not have enough votes for it to be adopted.

Opposition members worry that the president will try to push the changes through by other means before the end of the year. López Obrador has used presidential decrees to adopt some of his more contentious policies recently.

Sunday’s march was a bid by the president to show popular support for his overall mandate as well as for his bid to overhaul the electoral system and increase his power over the body that

oversees voting, the National Electoral Institute.

It came two weeks after a march to insulate the institute from the changes drew tens of thousands of supporters. That protest was the biggest opposition march of this presidency.

When López Obrador addressed the crowd Sunday afternoon, his speech focused heavily on the welfare programs his government has introduced while mostly skirting the rising violence and worsening security situation that has af flicted the country since he took office in 2018. Some four years into his term. the president maintains an approval rat ing that hovers around 60%, making him one of the world’s more popular leaders.

“Love is paid back with love,” he said when he took to the stage.

López Obrador cited the austerity spending program his government has pursued, which had led to some gov ernment workers having to bring in their own toilet paper and drinking water to some state agencies, according to em ployees. “In our government,” he said, “there is neither luxuries nor waste.”

That has freed up more money to direct into the welfare system, although

some independent economists say the programs are not as efficiently run as during previous administrations and hand out assistance regardless of need.

On Sunday, the president’s sup porters filled out the 2 1/2-mile stretch from the Angel of Independence monu ment to the Zócalo, the seat of govern ment power where Lopez Obrador ad dressed throngs of supporters at the end of the day.

Alfredo Ramirez Martínez, 56, a farmer who traveled roughly 300 miles by bus to Mexico City from Oaxaca state, said he had come out to support a president who “helps the people most in need.”

But he said he was disappointed with the worsening security situation in his hometown. “That will always exist,” he said.

Critics of López Obrador’s said he and his government put pressure on Mexico’s powerful labor unions to at tend Sunday’s march and accused mu nicipalities governed by the ruling party of pressuring citizens to attend, paying for the buses to transport them to the capital.

“What the march shows is the fear of the president and his administration:

that is, to lose power in the 2024 elec tion,” said Claudio X. González Guajar do, a member of the political opposition who helped organize the protests earlier this month. “I believe that we are faced with an authoritarian man who seeks to preserve power at all costs, is willing to bypass the constitution and laws to achieve this.”

Although González agreed that the president maintained high approval ratings, he pointed to the loss of seats in Congress the ruling party suffered dur ing the elections last year.

The president maintained that Sun day’s turnout was genuine.

Hundreds of members of Mexico’s huge electricity and construction unions waved the flags of their unions and the ruling party. Buses bearing signs of their origin were parked throughout the capi tal, protesters dismounting from the ve hicles as mariachi bands serenaded the crowds headed toward the Zócalo.

The opposing marches of recent weeks underscored a fractured Mex ico, where López Obrador over the past decade has established a political party that has mostly outmaneuvered its opposition. But the ruling party faces major obstacles before the 2024 presi dential elections, including a weakening economy.

López Obrador is barred by the constitution from running for a second term but is thought to be positioning a loyalist from his party as a presidential candidate so that he can maintain influ ence once he steps down.

Magdalena Molina García, 62, a homemaker from Mexico City, said she attended Sunday’s march to voice sup port for a president who had increased her and her family’s access to social pro grams, including a flagship one aimed at younger Mexicans.

But Molina said she did not sup port the president’s “hugs not bullets” security strategy. López Obrador used the phrase to describe a tactic of spend ing more to wean youths away from country’s powerful drug cartels and to ward a more meaningful life.

“I would never hug a criminal,” she said. But, she said, “I am 100% an Ob radorista.”

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s president, during a rally in support of the proposed electoral reform in Mexico City, Mexico on Sunday.

3 weeks after hack, island nation’s government is still offline

By YAN ZHUANG

The government of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu has essentially been offline for three weeks because of a cyberattack, leaving people struggling to get access to services and forcing some civil servants to use pen and paper to conduct business.

The government’s network, official sites and online services were “compromised” Nov. 6, officials told local news media a few days later. Since then, the government has been closed-mouthed about the attack and its attempts to restore the system, leading to criticism from some. One news outlet called the hack “our worst kept secret.”

The attack — which took place the day after a new government, led by Prime Mi nister Alatoi Ishmael Kalsakau, was sworn in — has caused significant inconveniences for many of Vanuatu’s 320,000 residents, who live on dozens of islands.

“Everything runs on email here, so the email outages are causing a lot of issues,” said Glen Craig, the managing partner of Pa cific Advisory, a consulting firm that works with businesses and governments in the Pa cific, including Vanuatu’s government. “If you’ve got things in process like building permits or residency applications or work permits — all those services have been held up.”

Emergency services were also affected, with a police hotline disabled for about a week. Government workers’ salary pay ments were delayed, and some people said they had trouble paying taxes.

“A friend of mine could not get his driver’s license renewed,” said Gilbert Fries, who helps run the Million Dollar View re sort on the island of Luganville. “Another friend of mine was unable to pay his proper ty tax on a piece of land within a deadline.”

He said workers at ports had used pen and paper to register incoming and outgoing cargo.

Craig, who lives in Port Vila, the capital, said that while tax payments could be made in person at a government office, “in terms of recording the transaction, it’s being done manually in a spreadsheet.”

Pat Conroy, the minister for the Pacific for Australia, Vanuatu’s biggest neighbor, said Friday that his country had been hel

ping to bring the government back online.

“We immediately made offers of assis tance and we sent in a team to assist with that disgraceful cyberattack and the respon se, and we are working through the process of bringing the government IT systems back up to speed,” Conroy told reporters in Va nuatu, which he was visiting for a regional conference.

The Sydney Morning Herald in Aus tralia reported this month that the hackers had demanded a ransom, which the go vernment had refused to pay. The office of Vanuatu’s chief information officer did not respond to repeated requests for comment by phone, text and email.

Although governments are hit by cybe rattacks “every day,” it is unusual for their

systems to be brought down because “in variably governments are pretty good with cybersecurity,” said Nigel Phair, the director for enterprise at the Institute for Cyber Secu rity at the University of New South Wales.

Hackers usually target sensitive data that a government would be likely to pay to protect, Phair said.

“If it’s highly sensitive tax information, or social security or health information or some part of the prime minister’s de partment — that’s more likely to elicit a favorable response for the criminals rather than an IT system which just, for example, looks after the mowing schedule for local parks,” Phair said.

Carsten Rudolph, the deputy dean of the faculty of IT at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said that because of their small populations, it can be hard for Pacific Island nations to maintain a cyber security staff that can meet the challenges governments currently face.

“It’s not only a problem for the Paci fic, but they have specific issues around it because of the sizes of the countries, and because of people moving away because of contact with climate change and risks in the area,” he said. “So we cannot just look at cybersecurity just as an issue that is not connected to all these other issues.”

Craig, the consultant, said it was “di sappointing” that Vanuatu’s government did not have more extensive contingency plans for keeping services going in the event of a prolonged network outage.

“Some departments have been good, they’ve immediately gone on their social media and said ‘these are the alternative Gmail accounts for our staff,’” Craig said. “Other departments — no, I wouldn’t have any idea of how to communicate with them.”

Vanuatu has been deemed the world’s most at-risk nation for natural hazards and disasters, and climate change will only make it more vulnerable, Craig said. Another Pa cific nation, Tonga, was knocked offline by a volcanic eruption in January, which seve red the only fiber-optic cable connecting it to the world.

“In this day and age, especially when Vanuatu is so at risk, it would be expected that there would be more robust systems in place to account for that,” Craig said.

A local news outlet called the cyberattack in Vanuatu “our worst kept secret.”

Vanuatu’s government online systems have been down for a number of days.

Russia traffics in Ukrainian children

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

The children left the town of Balakliya, Ukraine in August for a free summer camp sponsored by the Russian occupiers, enticed by assurances of gifts and of safety from constant shelling.

“The Russians promised it would be two or three weeks, and then the children would be back,” Nadia Borysenko, 29, told me. Her 12-year-old daughter, Daria, was among 25 children from this town in northeastern Ukraine who boarded a bus to the camp.

Russia did not return them, however. Daria and other children are now across the border in Russia, and Moscow is making it very difficult for families to recover their children.

The youngsters here are among many thousands of Ukrainian children whom Russia has taken from Ukraine and in some cases put up for adoption.

The Ukrainian government count is 11,461 children known by name and taken without families to Russia or Russian-controlled areas. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Group of 20 summit that there are “tens of thousands” more who are known about only indirectly or with less detail.

“Among them are many whose parents were killed by Russian strikes, and now they are being held in the

state that murdered them,” he said.

The transfer of thousands of children is a stark reminder that this is not a typical armed conflict. These may be war crimes. They should be a wake-up call to Americans and Europeans fatigued by support for Ukraine.

Do you really want to boost a state sponsor of child trafficking?

Russia doesn’t hide the transfer of Ukrainian children but trumpets it on its television propaganda programs, portraying itself as the savior of abandoned children and showing Russians handing teddy bears to Ukrainian boys and girls.

Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, boasted last month that she had adopted a Ukrainian boy, and many of these stolen children seem to have been adopted into Russian families.

That is not charity; it may be genocide. A 1948 international treaty specifies that “forcibly transferring children,” when intended to destroy a nationality, constitutes genocide.

Yet the situation is also nuanced. I reached Daria on her cellphone, and she didn’t sound like a traditional prisoner: She has friends, takes classes and can use her phone each evening to call her mom. But she unmistakably wants to go home to Ukraine.

“I miss home all the time,” she said.

Russian authorities allow parents to pick up their kids, but only by traveling to Russia through Poland and then other countries. That means that parents have to scramble to obtain passports and other documents — even as their homes and possessions may have been destroyed by Russian shells — and then take on a substantial expense just as the war has impoverished them. Some parents have managed to do this; most haven’t.

“Of course it’s a war crime when they take our children,” said Dementiev Mykola, a local prosecutor. “And they commit a crime by not making it easy for those children to come back.”

Mykola noted that the summer camp was attractive because it seemed the only way to keep kids safe from Russian shelling. He added that if the Russians wanted to, they could establish humanitarian corridors to repatriate children.

Another mother in Balakliya, Nadia Borysenko’s sister-in-law, Viktoria Borysenko, whose 12-year-old son, Bohdan, is at the camp, said he told her in phone calls that he and others are treated well but want to return. “They are crying and want to come home,” she said.

My best guess is that Russia takes the children to serve as props in its television propaganda shows. And afterward it doesn’t bother to return the props.

Many of the children taken to Russia were removed from institutions such as children’s homes, boarding schools and hospitals. Some of these youngsters didn’t have parents, but when they did, families were apparently not consulted.

Olena Matvienko told me that her 10-year-old grandson, Illya Matvienko, was in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol with his mother, Natalya, when both were badly injured by shrapnel. She died in front of Illya, and Russian troops took the boy not to a local hospital but to one in an enclave that Russian-backed separatists have declared the Donetsk People’s Republic.

The family had no idea what had happened to mother and son until a relative in Russia chanced to see a report on Russian television about heroic doctors in Donetsk saving Illya.

“He was kidnapped,” Matvienko told me. “He was taken forcibly.” She said that Russian authorities prepared papers so that Illya could be adopted in Russia.

To recover her grandson, Matvienko traveled through Poland and Turkey to Russia.

“It was just an accident that this video was seen and reached our family,” she said. “He would have been a Russian boy, and he would have grown up in another family.”

Children are not spoils of war. A government should not traffic in thousands of children. These elementary propositions underscore the moral stakes of the war in Ukraine, and it’s important for the world to stand firmly on the side of right — and to bring Daria home to her mom.

Nadia Borysenko shows a photo of her daughter, Daria, 12, on her phone in Balakliya, Ukraine, Nov. 4, 2022.

Justicia y Asociación de Bancos se unen para reforzar el procesamiento de los casos de fraude y crímenes

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SAN JUAN – El Departamento de Justicia (DJ) y la Asociación de Bancos de Puerto Rico (ABPR) desa rrollaron una iniciativa para reforzar el procesamiento de los casos de fraude y crímenes cibernéticos en la isla ante la alta incidencia que se ha registrado tras la llegada de nuevas tecnologías, así lo anunció el lunes, el secretario de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli Hernán dez, junto a la vicepresidenta ejecutiva de la organiza ción, Zoimé Álvarez Rubio.

“Constantemente estamos desarrollando e identifi cando herramientas y capacitación actualizada y avan zada para optimizar las investigaciones y el procesa miento de delitos, especialmente aquellos que surgen con la creación de nuevas plataformas, aplicaciones y tecnologías. Este esfuerzo colaborativo entre el De partamento de Justicia y la Asociación de Bancos de Puerto Rico también nos facilitará el procedimiento de recopilación de la evidencia requerida, y a su vez,

nos permitirá agilizar la presentación de los casos en el tribunal. En la medida en que surgen nuevas mo dalidades delictivas, el Departamento de Justicia está preparado para identificarlas y procesarlas”, indicó el secretario de Justicia en declaraciones escritas.

Más de 300 funcionarios, incluyendo fiscales, abo gados, procuradores y registradores del Departamento de Justicia, así como agentes del Negociado de la Poli cía y empleados invitados de la Junta de Libertad Bajo Palabra y la Corporación Pública para la Supervisión y Seguro de Cooperativas de Puerto Rico (COSSEC), par ticiparon de un adiestramiento especializado sobre los métodos para detectar los crímenes cibernéticos y el fraude a través del uso del celular y aplicaciones móvi les, y las medidas para reforzar las investigaciones y el procesamiento de estos delitos

Entre los recursos que participaron se encuentran re presentantes de las instituciones First Bank, Banco Po pular de Puerto Rico y Evertec, Inc. Estos presentaron las incidencias modernas de fraude bancario, las me

cibernéticos

didas de seguridad configuradas en sus distintas apli caciones y los métodos para agilizar la recopilación de información específica. El adiestramiento, coordinado entre la Oficina de la Jefa de los Fiscales y la ABPR con el apoyo del Instituto de Capacitación y Desarrollo de Pensamiento Jurídico del DJ, se llevó a cabo en las mo dalidades presencial y virtual simultáneamente.

DRNA anuncia inicio de temporada de caza en Isla de Mona

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SAN JUAN – El Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambienta les (DRNA) anunció este lunes que la temporada de caza con arco y flecha en Isla de Mona será entre el 9 de enero de 2023 al 19 de enero de 2023. Mientras, la temporada de caza con escopeta, arco y flecha será entre 23 enero de 2023 al 13 de abril de 2023.

La munición permitida para las escopetas son 0, 00, 000 y ”Slug”.

Por otra parte, solamente se permitirá cazar entre las 6:00 am y las 6:00 pm, de lunes a jueves. El límite de caza es de cinco cabros diarios por día, y no hay límite diario para la caza de cerdos. Los cazadores de ben estar autorizados por el DRNA.

Los cazadores de cabros y cerdos deben llevar

puesto a plena vista un mínimo de 500 pulgadas cuadradas ininterrumpidas de material anaranjado fluorescente, según dispone el Artículo 9, sección 9.4, inciso (B) del Reglamento para regir la conservación y el manejo de la vida silvestre (Reglamento 6785). Igualmente, los cazadores deben tener visible sus presas antes de dis parar y evitar accidentes desgraciados. Mientras, los novatos deben estar acom pañados de otro cazador experimentado. Además, no se permite transportar cualquier parte de los cerdos (carne, piel, vísceras) a la Isla de Puer to Rico. Tampoco se permite el consumo de bebidas alcohólicas en la Reserva. La agencia ambiental sos tuvo que mantienen una política de cero tolerancia a la violación de estas regulaciones y a las reglas de uso de esa Reserva.

Los cazadores están sujetos a que se inspeccione el

producto diario de caza y deben proveer los datos es tadísticos de caza. La licencia de caza deportiva tam bién está sujeta a inspección de parte de funcionarios del DRNA. La agencia adelantó que no se permite el uso de la pista de aterrizaje en Isla de Mona.

El sorteo de los turnos para el acceso a la Reserva de Isla de Mona, se llevará a cabo el 2 de diciembre a las 10:00 am., en el Salón Auditorio ubicado en el Cuarto Piso del DRNA; y solo se permitirá la entrada a los líderes de los grupos.

Las solicitudes se recibirán a partir del día de hoy martes, 29 de noviembre, en la Oficina Usos de Te rrenos y Permisos Forestales, (787) 999-2200 Ext. 5610, 5613; y en las Oficinas Regionales del Depar tamento en: Aguadilla (787) 882-5752, Arecibo (787) 880-8070, Guayama (787) 864-3895, Humacao (787) 852-4440, Mayagüez (787) 230-4900 y Ponce (787) 844-4051. Toda solicitud deberá estar acompañada de un pago de $50.00. Este pago es un cargo por partici pación en el sorteo, el mismo no será transferible.

Un muerto y 199 hospitalizados en informe preliminar COVID-19

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S AN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el lu

nes una muerte y 199 personas hospitalizadas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,351. Hay 184 adultos hospitalizados y 15 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 10 al 24 de no

viembre de 2022.

La tasa de positividad está en 20.57 por ciento.

How ‘Black Panther’ builds complex characters from the politics of colonization

By MAYA PHILLIPS

What ingredients make a hero or a villain? Despite so many film franchises’ attempts at bringing nuance to the dichotomy between good and evil, their formulas for these charac ters, particularly in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, seem painfully reductive: He roes make speeches about justice and fight to valiant, soaring theme music. Vi llains? God complexes and more stylish fashion.

A notable exception is the “Black Panther” films, which imbue heroes and villains with a complexity that derives from the politics around colonization and the African diaspora. In these movies, the line between hero and villain isn’t simply one between good and evil; it’s a boun dary defined by the relatable ways each side reacts to the real enemy: the white nations and institutions that benefit from the enslavement and disenfranchisement of people of color.

“Black Panther” and, particularly, the new sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Fo rever,” exhibit a reverence for their heroes that is rooted in familial and cultural lega cy. T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the king of Wakanda with a superhero alter ego, is grounded in and supported by his lineage; not only do his mother and sister act as his moral foundation, but so do his father and the Black Panthers who have come before him. It’s noteworthy that the ceremony to become the next Black Panther involves being buried and speaking to ancestors for guidance.

“Wakanda Forever” begins with the death of T’Challa (from disease, like Bose man, who died from cancer in 2020). The movie honors T’Challa with a gorgeously filmed and choreographed funeral se quence. And it’s clear this is not just about building emotional stakes in the film. “Wakanda Forever” is honoring Boseman himself, showing clips from the first film and allowing the other characters to fully address their grief so that his death doesn’t become just another plot twist or issue that the narrative needs to work around.

In “Black Panther,” T’Challa’s typica lly even-keeled, empathetic personality is tempered by his occasionally less-than-re solute political stances. At first, he follows

his family’s policy of keeping Wakanda and its resources isolated from the outside world. Then his decision, at the end of the film, to reveal Wakanda’s existence sets off a chain of events that leads to the cen tral conflict in the sequel. Boseman’s and, thus, T’Challa’s premature passing begs the question of how the Black Panther would have evolved as king: How would he have ruled Wakanda given his decision to abandon the nation’s isolationist attitu de and open it up?

The sequel wisely poses that weighty question to Shuri (Letitia Wright), whom the film also entrusts to carry our rage and grief over T’Challa’s death. In order to be come the Black Panther, she has to over come these feelings — symbolized by the appearance of Killmonger, the first film’s antagonist, in a vision brought on when she eats the Heart-Shaped Herb.

Her grief is recognizable. In T’Challa’s absence, Wakanda begins to resemble so many Black communities in which the women are left to mourn and then take charge after the men die, the victims of poor health or violence. Of course, Shuri feels wronged and spends the film being warned against her rage; “Wakanda Fore ver” is well aware of the enduring angry Black woman stereotype and surmounts it by having Shuri harness and work through her anger, ultimately evolving to become

the hero in the end.

On the flip side, the villains of the “Black Panther” films aren’t clear-cut ene mies but victims of structural racism: Kill monger in the original and Namor in the sequel are righteously angry men of color who are responding to the ways their com munities have been damaged by several great-isms (including capitalism, colonia lism and, again, racism). Killmonger, who grew up in Oakland, California, without a father and with all the disadvantages that come with being a Black man in Ameri ca, wants to use Wakandan technology to empower Black people all over the world. His plan is violent, but it’s not far from the Black Power movement’s extreme factions in the 1960s. (That’s when a group of Black Panthers with guns protested at the California statehouse, proclaiming, “The time has come for Black people to arm themselves.”)

Namor, the king of Talokan, a hidden Atlantis-style underwater civilization of In digenous peoples, is a direct victim of co lonization who has witnessed the enslave ment of his people. He fears that Talokan might be discovered now that America and its allies are searching for vibranium. Will his people be at risk of exploitation and violence from white nations as a con sequence of T’Challa’s decision to reveal Wakanda and its resources?

On one level, the conflicts in these movies are insular: Communities of color are set against one another, which is so much more real than an evil robot or a big purple dude snapping half the universe away. But in “Wakanda Forever,” although the big battle is between Wakanda and Talokan, the actual villains are the coun tries searching for vibranium in their bids for power. In an early scene at the United Nations, Queen Ramonda confronts di plomats demanding access to vibranium; their countries have sent undercover agents to raid Wakanda’s vibranium facili ties and have searched the ocean for other possible stores of vibranium, aiming to use the precious metal to further develop their weaponry.

In “Black Panther,” the film tosses us a red herring in the form of Ulysses Klaue, one of Black Panther’s main nemeses and the son of an actual Nazi in the original comics. Klaue is perfectly set up as the bad guy: He is a criminal mastermind, a shady profiteer who sells weapons and ar tifacts, many from Wakanda. A more pre dictable film would have maintained him as the big bad guy and brought Killmonger in as a villainous sidekick — a Black man misled by anger but still likely to redeem himself by the end. With his murder of Klaue, Killmonger may have supplanted him as the antagonist, but the reality is that the fountainhead for Killmonger’s fury and militant politics are society’s racial inequi ties, exploited by Klaue, Europeans and others who see Black people primarily as a means to building wealth, tracing all the way back to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

When Shuri is forced to confront Kill monger, which means confronting the part of her that’s angry and hurt and hardened by grief, the film implies that this is a com mon duality Black people embody today, that we must simultaneously hold our per sonal sense of dignity and righteousness, like a Wakandan royal, and our outrage and shame, like Killmonger. Does that make any one of us less than a hero? No, these films say, because in the end, there’s still a Black Panther protecting the nation.

In these films, the true villain is a his tory of white oppression and power, but the enemy — whether another person of color or a Black person elsewhere in the diaspora — is on the same team.

From left, Michaela Coel and Florence Kasumba are soldiers in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

Five science fiction movies to stream now

empty world. And since Britain doesn’t have guns lying around everywhere, people have to make do with what ever tools they can find — Harry, who was an accoun tant, does not suddenly become a sharpshooter. Fans of zombie carnage might be frustrated by the emphasis on the drudgery of life in a catastrophic new normal, but that precisely is what makes this movie worth a look.

(Rent or buy on most major platforms.)

‘Eradication’

Like “Among the Living,” this low-budget Tubi Orig inal from Daniel Byers, which is streaming for free, is a modest effort that ventures off the beaten post-apocalyp tic path. And here, too, the smell of blood is a powerful draw for very hostile creatures. David (Harry Aspinwall) has somehow managed to make it through a pandemic that pretty much laid waste to the United States. There are a few other survivors but David is different: He was infected but remained seemingly healthy.

By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

‘I’m Totally Fine’

Vanessa (Jillian Bell) is a wreck after the unex pected death of her childhood friend and business partner, Jennifer (Natalie Morales, from “Dead to Me”). Until Jennifer suddenly turns up again, fresh as a daisy. “I am simply an extraterrestrial who has taken her form,” she tells the stunned Vanessa — the alien is a “species observation officer” and has been sent to study earthlings.

The premise is similar to that of “Starman,” from 1984, and both movies directly deal with grief and re newal. But whereas John Carpenter’s movie was a ro mance, Brandon Dermer’s “I’m Totally Fine” borrows its structure from the buddy-comedy genre. And it is, in deed, quite funny, as well as sweetly affecting.

Bell mostly plays it straight, while Morales’ perfor mance is ceaselessly inventive, with every line reading feeling unexpected. The actress even injects new life into a sci-fi stock character — the alien whose connection to emotion is theoretical. Jennifer 2.0 looks startlingly like her dead host but that does not mean she thinks or be haves like her. And while she has downloaded the origi nal Jennifer’s memories, those do not translate into ex perience, and Jennifer 2.0 must learn as she goes along. Like, for example, friendship is real, and it’s best to not eat a whole sandwich in one gigantic bite.

(Rent or buy on most major platforms.)

‘The Witch: Part 2 — The Other One’

An info dump around the 50-minute mark helps somewhat, but there is no denying that the plot of Park Hoon-jung’s latest feature is convoluted. At least the en tertainment factor is high. Technically speaking, this is a sequel to Park’s “The Witch: Part 1 — The Subversion,”

though the characters are new, with the notable excep tion of the great Jo Min-soo’s Dr. Baek. It’s worth starting with “The Subversion” anyway since we are in the same universe — and an epilogue after the end credits of “The Other One” suggests that the director is planning a trilogy.

This extended saga centers on young women who escape from a lab in which they were created, raised and endowed with superpowers, and the various factions try ing to find them. Park throws everything he’s got at the screen: nefarious secret organizations, potty-mouthed mercenaries, a thoughtful scientist in a wheelchair, sur prise twin siblings and, of course, gallons of blood and an elevated body count. There are so many groups of ri val goons that it can be hard to keep track of them, but the director, who has a terrific eye for striking visual com positions, keeps viewers wondering what could possibly come next.

(Rent or buy on most major platforms.)

‘Among the Living’

Harry (Dean Michael Gregory) and his little sister, Lily (Melissa Worsey), take off to visit their father. Harry estimates the journey will take about two weeks through the countryside, which seems a bit long but they are walking and, well, there’s been a zombie apocalypse.

Mind you, we don’t actually see that many of them in Rob Worsey’s indie release — just enough to learn that they move fast and react not to sound, as per com mon lore, but to smell. The merest whiff of blood is a particularly big lure. In a neat example of economical world-building, we discover that duct tape has become a necessary commodity because it can be used to seal off wounds.

The story is mainly concerned by the small details of survival as the siblings make their way in an eerily

Holed up in a house in the woods, he sends sam ples of his blood at regular intervals to his wife, Sam (Anita Abdinezhad), a scientist working to find a cure in a Washington, D.C., lab. After two years of that routine, David starts getting odd calls on his landline and slowly realizes that his situation is not quite what he had been led to believe. “Eradication” is at its best when describing the crumbling psyche of a man cut off from everyday in teractions while being under surveillance — an exagger ated version of the way many of us live now. What really gets to David, after all, is not so much monstrous ghouls created by a virus, but being alone.

(Stream it on Tubi.)

‘Neptune Frost’

Some science fiction experiments with plot and some with form; Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams’ “Neptune Frost” does both. Set in Burundi, the story cen ters on Matalusa (Bertrand Ninteretse), whose brother was killed in the open-air mine where they worked, and the intersex hacker Neptune (Elvis Ngabo then Cheryl Isheja).

The movie, which incorporates songs by Williams, is a head trip that refuses to be tamed into convention yet eschews the “wackiness for the sake of wackiness” that provides a safe, noncommittal refuge to so many di rectors. Fluidity is key here, starting with dialogue and songs in languages that include Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, English and French. Similarly porous are the borders be tween genders, various dimensions, even between man and machine — the costumes look as if they were made of recycled electronic parts. The film often feels like an overly cryptic flight of fancy, but it also offers a startling vision of a realistically chaotic near-future (or alternate present), made up of jury-rigged scraps and hardy souls fighting off oppression. This is the rare pamphlet that feels equally political and poetic.

(Stream it on the Criterion Channel. Rent or buy on most major platforms.)

Jillian Bell and Natalie Morales in “I’m Totally Fine.”

How to tell the difference between regular distraction and ADHD

By DANA SMITH

Do you: Cut the tags out of your clothes? Relive (and regret) past conversations? Have episodes of burnout and fatigue? Zone out while someone is talking? Become hyper-fo cused while working on a project? Take on dozens of hobbies? Daydream? Forget things?

According to TikTok, you might have attention deficit hyperactivity dis order. Videos about the psychiatric con dition are all over the social media app, with the #adhd hashtag receiving more than 17 billion views to date. Many feature young people describing their specific (and sometimes surprising) symptoms, such as sensitivity to small sensory annoyances (such as cloth ing tags) or ADHD paralysis, a type of extreme procrastination. After viewing these videos, many people who were not diagnosed with ADHD as children may question whether they would qual ify as adults.

As with most psychiatric conditions, ADHD symptoms can range in type and severity. And many of them “are behav iors everyone experiences at some point or another,” said Joel Nigg, a professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University. The key to diagnosing the condition, however, requires “determin ing that it’s serious, it’s extreme” and it’s interfering with people’s lives, he said. It’s also critical that the symptoms have been present since childhood.

Those nuances can be lost on so cial media, experts say. In fact, one study published this year found that more than half of the ADHD videos on TikTok were misleading. If a video (or article) has you thinking you may have undiagnosed ADHD, here’s what to consider.

Why is ADHD often undiagnosed in adults?

About 4% of adults in the United States have enough symptoms to qualify for ADHD, but only an estimated 1 in 10 of them is diagnosed and treated. For comparison, roughly 9% of children in the United States have been diagnosed with the condition, and three-quarters

have received medication or behavioral therapy for it.

One reason for the lack of diagno ses in adults is that when people think of ADHD, they often imagine a boy who can’t sit still and is disruptive in class, said Dr. Deepti Anbarasan, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. But those stereotypical hy peractive symptoms are present in just 5% of adult cases, she said.

Instead, symptoms such as forget fulness, trouble focusing, organization problems and procrastination — what experts call inattentive ADHD (as op posed to hyperactive ADHD) — are more common in adults. “With adults, it’s oftentimes not necessarily hyperac tivity or impulsivity, it’s more executive functioning issues,” Anbarasan said. “It’s more subtle.”

ADHD may also be misdiagnosed as another psychiatric condition. For example, it is common for people with ADHD to have problems with emotion regulation; people can be quick to anger or have dramatic mood swings. Excessive worry and anxiety can also occur, some times because of the ADHD symptoms themselves. As a result, many adults may have been diagnosed with depression or anxiety when the root problem is actu ally ADHD.

How do you diagnose adult ADHD?

There are three main questions a psychiatrist will go over with you to help determine whether you have normal in attention or forgetfulness or ADHD: How many symptoms do you have? Have you

had them since childhood? And do they affect two or more parts of your life?

The last two are particularly helpful in determining whether someone will be diagnosed, said Craig Surman, a psychia trist who runs the Adult ADHD Research Program at Massachusetts General Hos pital. Once those have been established, he said, “you really winnow out a num ber of people.”

A person must have five out of nine symptoms listed in the official psychiatry diagnostic manual to qualify for inatten tive ADHD. These symptoms loosely fall into three categories: problems with pro ductivity or performance (procrastinat ing at work or failing to finish chores); memory (frequently losing your phone or keys or forgetting to pick up milk on your way home); and organization of ob jects and time (having a cluttered house or always running late).

These symptoms must negatively affect two or more parts of life, such as work, home and relationships. If your house is a mess, but you’re successful at work and your personal life is rich and fulfilling, you probably wouldn’t qualify for a diagnosis.

The symptoms also must have been present since before you were 12 years old. In the eyes of most clinicians, ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disor der, meaning it started when the child (and their brain) was young. This can be the most difficult to determine because people might have received assistance or compensated for their symptoms without realizing it. For example, a parent may have provided them with daily remind ers to finish homework that helped get

them through school.

“They’ve had the disorder prob ably for most of their lives, but they’ve learned how to cope with it in various ways,” Anbarasan said. “They’ll be peo ple who write everything down or they follow a structure very well and they put a lot of time and effort into organizing themselves.” Many people don’t recog nize something is wrong until the de mands and responsibilities of adulthood add up and the systems they’ve been us ing begin to fail.

This can be especially true for women. Boys are roughly twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD in child hood as girls are because, even at young ages, girls’ symptoms tend to be more inattentive than hyperactive in nature. As a result, girls with ADHD might struggle a bit in school or be seen as quiet day dreamers, but evade diagnosis because they aren’t noticeably disruptive in class or at home.

What options are available if you are diagnosed?

The good news is that ADHD is fair ly easy to treat. Stimulant medications such as Ritalin or Adderall are effective at helping people harness their attention. Another class of drugs, called alpha-2 agonists, were originally developed to treat high blood pressure but are also sometimes prescribed for ADHD. These medications can help people focus with out many of the unpleasant side effects of stimulants, such as trouble sleeping or decreased appetite.

Non-pharmaceutical treatments, such as behavioral coaching and thera py, can also be useful. These techniques help people understand how ADHD af fects their daily lives and gives them strategies to cope.

Regardless of your recommended treatment plan, it’s important to take ADHD seriously. Untreated, people with the condition have a higher risk of early death, both from accidents and suicide. They are also more likely to have prob lems with their finances, legal issues, sub stance use, unsafe sexual behavior and un safe driving. But with effective treatment, those risks are dramatically reduced.

A study published earlier this year found that more than half of the videos about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on TikTok were misleading. As with most psychiatric conditions, symptoms can range in type and severity.

Why chimps and gorillas form rainforest friendships

By ASHER ELBEIN

In the misty forests of the Congolese rain forest, a small band of apes fed in a tree. Adult chimpanzees dined on fruit in the canopy, while a pair of young apes played nearby. But one of the playing apes was not a chimpanzee: It was a gorilla.

“Most of what we’d been told about the interactions between these two species is that they’d be competitive or they would avoid each other,” said Crickette Sanz, an anthro pologist at Washington University in St. Louis who witnessed such a scene for the first time in 2000. But over two decades of observa tions at Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, she and her colleagues recorded yearslong relationships and other forms of social interactions between individ ual chimpanzees and gorillas. Their research was published last month in iScience.

While the populations of chimpanzees in East and West Africa have been well studied over the past several decades, the bands present in Congo are less well known, Sanz said. Their range overlaps with the region containing a majority of remaining gorillas, par ticularly within the remote Goualougo Triangle.

From 1999, Sanz and her colleagues embarked on a long-term study of a band of Goualougo chimps. Over the course of daily excursions following them through the forest, the team documented 285 interactions between the two species, over encounters lasting from a minute to more than eight hours.

Often, Sanz said, interactions occurred after a band of chimps located an exciting meal, such as a fruiting strangler fig or kapok. The sound of excited chimpanzees would draw in a family group of gorillas. In 34% of the encounters, the two ape bands went on to co-feed in the same tree, or forage alongside each other for different foods.

The interactions the team saw were “generally tol erant,” Sanz said, and occasionally actively friendly. The larger gorillas tended to approach chimpanzee mothers

more often than males or childless females. From there, dif ferent individuals paired off to chase one another, wrestle and generally roughhouse. These relationships tended to last for years, the team found: Upon encountering a band of the other species, particular apes sometimes scanned it and then made a beeline for individuals they knew.

These interactions weren’t random. Social apes occa sionally stepped on one another’s toes, and the team noted moments of friction. But aggressive interactions rarely got beyond yelled warnings, and never escalated to the kind of lethal interspecies attacks seen at sites in Gabon.

“They’re not spending all of their time together, but they’re definitely coming together more consistently and regularly than we’d anticipated,” Sanz said. “These social ties are not what we’d have been expecting if these were just chance interactions in a foraging landscape.”

These sorts of groupings don’t seem to help ward off predation, Sanz and her colleagues found. Instead, main taining friendly relationships seems to open up new feed ing opportunities, with apes of different species some

times alerting one another to fruits that are harder to spot. Co-feeding, in turn, gives apes a chance to make lasting relationships.

“Five or 10 years down the road, these individuals on the landscape know each oth er — they grew up together, they interacted every week or so at different types of food resources,” Sanz said.

It’s notable that these connections of ten start with play between two similar spe cies, said Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University who was not involved with the study. “It must be as much fun for them to play together as it is between us and, say, a dog or other companion animal. It ex pands how we look at primate social sys tems, which traditionally is entirely within species.”

The presence of peaceable interactions between two species of great ape has intrigu ing implications for our own evolutionary history. Anthropologists have often assumed that various species of hominin actively com peted with one another, Sanz said. But if chimps and go rillas are any indication, humanity’s ancestors may also have come together to share resources on the landscape — a possibility hinted at by the amount of interbreeding between different hominin species.

Unfortunately, such co-feeding can provide oppor tunities for the transmission of diseases like Ebola, waves of which have killed thousands of chimpanzees and go rillas over the past two decades. The interspecies toler ance the team documented suggests that outbreaks might be able to hop between populations of endangered apes more easily than previously guessed.

“It’s critical that we’re all engaged in conservation and engaged in trying to protect these species,” Sanz said, both for their own sake and for how much we still have to learn about them. “As primatologists, I think we have a long way to go in understanding variation or behav ioral diversity. We tend to get one particular group or one model and run with that, and it seems to me there’s a lot more variation than we thought.”

A photo provided by Sean Brogan shows chimpanzees in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park of the Republic of Congo. The scientists noted even adult female chimpanzees with young, vulnerable offspring would engage in tolerant inter species associations with gorillas.

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POR CARLOS ISRAEL MONTAÑEZ SAN FELIX, CARLOS LUIS MONTAÑEZ SAN FELIX, JOSSIE ANN MONTAÑEZ SAN FELIX, CRISTELA MONTAÑEZ SAN FELIX; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2021CV02621.

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

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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 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 Carolina, el 12 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:45

DE LA TARDE, 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: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número nueve (9) en el plano de inscrip ción de la Urbanización Paseos de la Alhambra, ubicado en el Barrio San Antón del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto

Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos setenta punto seis mil novecientos cincuen ta y nueve metros cuadrados (470.6959). Colindando por el NORTE, en quince metros (15.00) con la calle Córdova; por el SUR, en doce punto sete cientos cuatro metros (12.704), con solar número seis (6) y en dos punto doscientos noventa y seis metros (2.296) con terre nos de Francisco Benítez por el ESTE en treinta y uno punto trescientos uno metros (31.301) con el solar número diez (10) y por el OESTE, en treinta y uno punto cuatrocientos cincuenta y ocho metros (31.458) con el solar número ocho (8). Contie ne una casa residencial para una familia. Inscrita al folio 105 del tomo 1178 de Carolina Sur, finca 50,849, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sec ción II. Propiedad localizada en: PASEO DEL ALHAMBRA, #9 CALLE CORDOVA, CARO LINA, PR 00987. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferen tes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posterio res a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $360,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 10 de abril de 2085. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los pre ferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas car gas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $360,000.00, 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 19 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TAR DE, y se establece como míni ma para dicha segunda subas ta la suma de $240,000.00, 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 $180,000.00, 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 26 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TAR DE. Dicha subasta se llevará 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 $190,300.34 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $86,963.34 en in tereses acumulados al 7 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a ra zón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $26,283.03 en se guro hipotecario; $525.00 de tasaciones; $380.00 de inspec ciones; $2,014.46 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $36,000.00, para gastos, cos tas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta 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) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por es pacio de dos semanas conse cutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expe dido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de octubre de 2022.

SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #713.

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Demandante Vs. SUCESION LUZ E. LUGO T/C/C LUZ E. LUGO MARTINEZ T/C/C LUZ EVELINA LUGO MARTINEZ T/C/C LUZ EVELIA LUGO T/C/C LUZ LUGO COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2021CV02715.

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 12 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:15 DE LA TARDE, 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: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Siete (7) del bloque “Z” del plano de URBANIZACION DEL REPAR TO LOS ANGELES de Caroli na, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de TRESCIENTOS DIECISIE TE PUNTO VEINTICINCO ME TROS CUADRADOS (317.25 M.C.). En lindes por el NORTE, en trece punto cincuenta me tros (13.50 m.), con la Calle “N”; por el SUR, en trece punto cincuenta metros (13.50 m.), con terrenos propiedad del Es tado Libre Asociado de Puerto

Rico; por el ESTE, en veintitrés punto cincuenta metros (23.50 m.), con el solar número Ocho (8); y por el OESTE, en vein titrés punto cincuenta metros (23.50 m.), con el solar número Seis (6). Inscrita al folio 65 del tomo 594 de Carolina Norte, fin ca 31,494, Registro de la Pro piedad de Carolina, Sección I. Propiedad localizada en: URB. REPARTO LOS ANGELES, 11 (Z-7) CALLE LIRA, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00979. 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: $195,000.00. Fe cha de Vencimiento: 7 de di ciembre de 2091. 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 $130,000.00, 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 19 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:15 DE LA TAR DE, y se establece como míni ma para dicha segunda subas ta la suma de $86,666.67, 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 $65,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y di cha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 26 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:15 DE LA TAR DE. Dicha subasta se llevará 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 $101,156.16 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $11,390.91 en in tereses acumulados al 3 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.00% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $4,640.94 en se guro hipotecario; $5,670.00 en tarifas de servicios; $554.31 en seguro; $475.00 de tasacio nes; $240.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 de adelantos pendien tes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,000.00, para gastos, cos tas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta 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) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por es pacio de dos semanas conse cutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expe dido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de octubre de 2022.

SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL PLACA #713.

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Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00327.

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 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 9:40

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: URBA NA: Solar marcado con el 1-B de la Urbanización Parkville, compuesta de 477.63 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la Calle Lopategui, en 19.77 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 3, en 13.17 metros; por el ESTE, con el so lar número 2 en 29.00 metros y por el OESTE, con la Sucesión Rodríguez, en 29.75 metros.

Finca número 12,135, inscrita al folio 165 del tomo 1,260 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Pro piedad de Guaynabo. Propie dad localizada en: URB. PARK VILLE, B1 AVE LOPATEGUI, GUAYNABO, PR 00969. 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

Carga: $351,750.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 1 de enero de 2087. 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 $351,750.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesa ria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la pri mera, 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 9:40

DE LA MAÑANA, y se estable ce como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $234,500.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $175,875.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA. Di cha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfa cer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dic tada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $158,990.47 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $94,019.61 en inte reses acumulados al 30 de septiembre de 2021 y los cua les continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $27,916.16 en seguro hipotecario; $1,563.16 en contribuciones; $3,633.00 en seguro; $440.00 de tasacio nes; $840.00 de inspecciones; $16,493.82 en preservación; $5,258.30 en honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $35,175.00, 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

crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la

T/C/C NAHIR SCHMIDT T/C/C NAHYR

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. Expedi do en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 4 de noviembre de 2022.

FRANCES TORRES, ALGUA CIL REGIONAL. YANIXA RA MOS, ALGUACIL PLACA #783.

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Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00283. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO

TECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESION DE ZAIDA IRIS CLAUDIO VÁZQUEZ COMPUESTA POR RAMÓN ORTA CLAUDIO; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ANDRÉS RIVERA CLAUDIO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA USUFRUCTUARIA;

DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

CENTRO

El Alguacil que suscribe, cer tifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Caguas, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separa do, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parce la marcada con el número 394 en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Bairoa, del Barrio Bairoa de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de 0.1033 cuerda, equivalente a 406.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle número 9 de la Comuni dad; por el SUR, con la parcela número 393 de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 396; y por el OESTE, con la parcela número 392 de la Comunidad. Enclava un edifi cio de dos niveles construido en hormigón y bloques del mismo material, el primer piso consta de un garaje y una habitación; el segundo nivel está dividido en dos cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor-cocina, servicio sanitario y balcón al frente con instalación de luz eléctrica y agua. Consta inscrita al folio 42 del tomo 1126 de Caguas, finca número #38,654. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción I de Caguas. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está locali zada en la siguiente dirección: #394 Calle Azucena, Las Caro linas, Caguas, P.R. 00725. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritu ra de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de can celación de gravamen poste rior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Su basta la suma de $50,000.00, según acordado entre las par tes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #444, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de octubre de 2001, ante la notario Magaly

Rodríguez Batista, inscrita al fo lio móvil del tomo 1583 de Ca guas, finca #38,654, inscripción 9na. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:15

DE LA MAÑANA, en mis ofici nas sitas en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $50,000.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no pro dujere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pac tada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $33,333.33. Si la segunda subasta no produje re remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SU BASTA el día 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $25,000.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto sa tisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dic tada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $36,050.69, más intereses a razón del 10.5% anual, desde el 1 de junio de 2021 hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha an teriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su ven cimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribucio nes, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a 10% de la obliga ción principal ($5,000.00), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resul te por cualesquiera otros ade lantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipo tecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares pú blicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación gene ral en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continua

rán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procede rá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de confor midad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal po drá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lan zamiento del ocupante u ocu pantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedi do en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 7 de noviembre de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. JOSE EDUARDO SANCHEZ HERNANDEZ Y SU ESPOSA ELIA COLLAZO ZAYAS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: TA2022CV00163.

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

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: JOSE EDUARDO SANCHEZ HERNANDEZ Y SU ESPOSA ELIA COLLAZO ZAYAS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Yo, ROSAMARIE MELENDEZ PEÑA, Alguacil de este Tribu nal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SA BER: Que el día 12 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala Superior de Toa Alta, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propie dad inmueble que más adelan te 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 Se cretaría del Tribunal de Toa Alta durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS TA para la venta de la suso dicha propiedad, el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00

DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudi cación, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00

DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número Dos cientos Treinta y Nueve (239) en el plano de parcelación de la COMUNIDAD RURAL CANDE LARIA del Barrio Candelaria del término municipal de Toa Baja, con una cabida superficial de CERO PUNTO CERO NUEVE

UNO SEIS (0.0916) CUERDA, equivalentes a TRESCIEN TOS SESENTA PUNTO DIE CISIETE (360.17) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle número Cinco (5) de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número Doscientos Cuarenta (240) de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número Doscien tos Cuarenta y Uno (241) de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la parcela número Doscien tos Treinta y Siete (237) de la Comunidad. Se ha construido una edificación de concreto de dos plantas dedicada a vivien da y comercio. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 268 del tomo 254 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segun da, finca número 15,470, ins cripción séptima. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: 239 Calle Poma rrosa, Candelaria Arenas, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satis facer a la parte demandante la suma de $17,569.87, de princi pal, intereses al 8% anual, des de el día 1ro. de diciembre de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $3,800.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí nima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $38,000.00 y de ser nece saria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equiva lente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $25,333.34 y de ser necesaria una terce ra subasta, la cantidad míni

ma será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $19,000.00. Si se declara de sierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se 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 todo lici tador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas 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 firma y sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de noviem bre de 2022. ROSAMARIE MELÉNDEZ PEÑA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPE RIOR DE TOA ALTA.

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GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC

Demandante Vs. MIGUELINA LEBRON SCHETINI T/C/C MIGUELINA LEBRON SCHETTINI

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2018CV03054. 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, 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 Sen tencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario( a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 23 DE ENE RO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho títu lo, 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: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Calle Eugenio María de Hostos del Municipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico, mar cado con el número 8 con una cabida superficial de 165.24 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 20.40 metros con el solar de Manuel Váz quez, viuda de Pacheco; por el SUR, en 20.40 metros con el solar de Rafael Acevedo; por el ESTE, en 8.20 metros con la Calle Eugenio María de Hostos y por el OESTE, en 8.00 metros con solar Domingo Díaz. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa.

Finca #4359, inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 124 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. Pro piedad localizada en: 8 Calle Euigenio Maria De Hostos, Ca guas, PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferen tes: Nombre del Titular: N/A.

Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecu tante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si

los hubiere, continuarán sub sistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $54,590.00, según acordado entre las par tes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SU

BASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se cele brará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala de Caguas, el 30 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se estable ce como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $36,393.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $27,295.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $47,031.74 de principal, intereses al tipo del % anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de mayo de 2017 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $5,459.00 por concepto de honorarios de abo gado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipo tecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hi poteca. La venta en pública su basta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afec te la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace sa ber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o perso nas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas la borables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el perió dico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos se manas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete

(7) días entre ambas publica ciones, así como para su pu blicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de noviembre de 2022. Ángel Gómez Gómez, Alguacil Placa #593, Alguacil De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Caguas, Sala Superior.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante

V. LILLIAM RUTH RIOS RIVERA, ET ALS.

Demandados Civil Núm.: N3CI2017000191.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA

POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVI

SO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace cons tar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 20 de junio de 2019 y de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción emitido el día 20 de agosto de 2019, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, procederá a vender en subasta, por separado, y al me jor postor con dinero en efecti vo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subas ta habrá de celebrarse el día 7

DE MARZO DEL AÑO 2023 A

LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina localizada en el edificio que ocupa la Sala del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Par cela de terreno localizada en la calle #16 de la Urbanización

Villas de Cambalache II, Barrio Ciénaga Baja, Municipio de Río Grande, identificado en el plano de inscripción aprobado por la Administración de Reglamen tos y Permisos de Puerto Rico, para la urbanización, como Solar R-26. El mismo tiene una cabida superficial de 336.00 metros cuadrados; sus colin dancias por el NORTE, con el lote #R-4, distancia de 14.00 metros; por el SUR, con calle #16, distancia de 14.00 metros; por el ESTE, con loe #R-27, distancia de 24.00 metros y por el OESTE, con lote #R-25, distancia de 24.00 metros. EN

CLAVA: Una estructura de hor

migón armado y bloques, con siste la misma de tres cuartos dormitorios, dos baños, cocina, sala-comedor, marquesina y demás dependencias. Afecta a una servidumbre de paso de 1.50 metros de ancho, a lo largo de su colindancia Sur, a favor de Puerto Rico Telepho ne Company. FINCA número 29611 inscrita al folio 160 del tomo 521 de Rio Grande (Sec ción III de Carolina). Dirección física: R-26 Villas de Camba lache Río Grande PR 00745. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $90,100.00, con intereses al 8-1/8% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, que vence el 1ro de agosto de 2029. Según escritura #193, otorgada en San Juan, el 9 de julio de 1999, ante Nay Del Car men Rodríguez González, ins crita al folio 160 del tomo 521 de Río Grande, inscripción 2da. y última. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguien tes sumas: $63,853.59 por con cepto de principal, más $411.44 por concepto de recargos por atraso, más $69.95 por con cepto de escrow, más intereses al 8.125% anual a partir del 1 de noviembre de 2016 hasta su completo pago, más 5% de todo pago en atraso, más $9,010.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados según pactados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el con trato de préstamo, según pacta do. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESA

DAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser ins peccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia Sala Superior de Fajardo, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulari dad del inmueble y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gra vamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, con tinuarán subsistentes, enten diéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de NO

VENTA MIL CIEN DÓLARES ($90,100.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrar se. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera su basta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 14 DE MARZO DEL AÑO 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subas ta, o sea, la suma de SESENTA MIL SESENTA Y SEIS DÓLA RES CON SESENTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($60,066.66) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudica ción en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se cele brará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes men cionado, el día 21 DE MARZO DEL AÑO 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera su basta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CUAREN TA Y CINCO MIL CINCUENTA DÓLARES ($45,050.00) para la finca antes descrita. En tes timonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 14 de noviembre de 2022, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, AGUACIL REGIONAL INTERI NO #622.

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Civil Núm.: HSCI201200935. (207). Sobre: IN REM - EJE CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Humacao, Huma cao, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚ BLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia ex pedido el día 4 de noviembre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a con tinuación: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno compuesto de 720.00 metros cuadrados, que lleva el #48, radicado en la urbani zación San Benito, en el barrio Mabu del término municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, y que colinda por el Norte, con la fin ca principal que se segrego en 18.00 metros, por el Sur, con la calle #5, en 18.00 metros, por el Este, con el solar #49 de la ur banización, en 40.00 metros y por el Oeste, con servidumbre de paso paro el Barrio Mabu, en 40.00 metros. En este solar enclava una casa de hormigón armado y bloques para fines residenciales de 2 plantas que consta de sala, comedor, coci na, balcón, 3 dormitorios, dos garajes en la planta baja. Inscri ta al folio 110 del tomo 320 de Humacao, finca número 13222

(CRIM) Demandados

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Huma cao. Propiedad ubicada en: Al turas de San Benito, Calle San ta María #48, Humacao, PR. El producto de la subasta se des tinará a satisfacer al deman dante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el 30 de septiembre de 2019, notificada el 25 de octubre de 2019 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $208,028.95 por concepto de principal; $113,500.37 por concepto de intereses acumulados a razón de 7.50%, $7,070.50 por con cepto de cargos por demora; los cuales al igual que los inte reses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deu da reclamada en este pleito; y $25,600.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y de más créditos accesorios garan tizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del algua cil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA,

en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fija do para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $256,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puer to Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $170,666.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Algua ciles de Subastas de Centro Ju dicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $128,000.00, equiva lentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRI MERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciem bre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propie dad 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 do

cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes. Se entenderá, que el re matante los acepta y queda su brogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de noviembre de 2022. JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL RE GIONAL INTERINO, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandantes V. PABLO SANTANA NAZARIO; AFORTUNADA FERNÁNDEZ T/C/C AFORTUNADA

FERNANDEZ ROSARIO Demandados

Civil Núm.: ECD2012-0806. (703). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR DINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, AL GUACIL PLACA #593, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a la demanda da y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha li brado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 14 de octubre de 2022 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $53,916.09 de principal, dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 22 de julio de 2015, notificada y archivada en autos el 29 de julio de 2015, enmendada dicha notificación y archivada en autos el 31 de julio de 2017 y publicada me diante edicto el día 4 de agosto de 2017, en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star”; procede ré a vender en pública subas ta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora de mandada en cuanto a la pro piedad localizada en el: Muni cipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a

continuación: 35 W 20 Street, Villa Nueva Dev., Caguas, PR 00725. URBANA: Solar mar cado con el número treinta y cinco del bloque “W” del plano de inscripción de la Urbaniza ción Villa Nueva, situada en el Barrio Turabo del término mu nicipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de Trescientos Treinta y Uno Pun to Veinte Metros Cuadrados (331.20 m.c.). En lindes por el Norte, en veinticuatro metros con el solar número treinta y seis; por el Sur, en veinticua tro metros con el solar número treinta y cuatro; por el Este, en trece punto ochenta metros con los solares número cinco y seis y por el Oeste, en trece punto ochenta metros con la calle número veinte. Enclava una casa residencial para una familia. Consta inscrita al Folio 169 del Tomo 582 de Caguas, finca número 19074, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satis facer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, se gún la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $53,916.09 de principal, 6.8750% anual, los cuales continúan acumulán dose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $79.21 de reserva es crow, $9.38 de bad check fees, $932.28 de gastos por mora, $1,525.00 de otros gastos, los cuales continúan acumulán dose hasta el pago total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $60,000.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad antes descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo míni mo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $40,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual re girá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $30,000.00. Art. 104 de la Ley Hipotecaria, 30 L.P.R.A. sec. 2721. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBAS TA se llevará a cabo el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA.

La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el

Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas. De Estudio de Título realizado, no surgen gravámenes preferen tes y/o posteriores que deban ser cancelados. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudi cación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el im porte de su oferta en el mis mo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamé rica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimien to de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del munici pio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certifica do con acuse de recibo a la úl tima dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipote ca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titulación y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continua rán subsiguientes entendiéndo se que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden ju dicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cance lación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la de mandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspon dientes. Librado en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 2 de noviembre de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓ MEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593. ***

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PUJALS JANER T/C/C MERILYN PUJALS JANET T/C/C MERILYN PUJOLS DE LÓPEZ, AGUSTÍN COLÓN DUEÑO (NUEVO TITULAR REGISTRAL) Y, EL HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

TOA ALTA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. HECTOR I

ORTIZ

TORRES, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SLG

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: TA2022CV00227. Sobre: COBRO DINERO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: HECTOR I ORTIZ TORRES, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SLG COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(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 18 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede es tablecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se consi derará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Co pia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de no viembre de 2022. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 21 de noviem bre de 2022. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MA RITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. RAMON A. PIMENTEL BATISTA, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08511.

Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI

DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: A: FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLA Y RAMON A. PIMENTEL BATISTA. Se les notifica a ustedes, FU LANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLA Y RAMON A. PIMENTEL BATIS TA, que en la Demanda que originó este caso se alega que ustedes le adeudan a la parte demandante, BANCO PO PULAR DE PUERTO RICO, las siguientes cantidades: a) $9,447.94 de principal e intere ses devengados hasta el 14 de enero de 2022, más los intere ses que se devenguen a partir de la fecha de radicación de la Demanda al tipo legal, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, y una suma razo nable para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, por concepto de las sumas des embolsadas por el uso de la demandada de una tarjeta de crédito VISA cuyos últimos 4 dígitos son 8629; b) $7,736.76 de principal más los intereses que se devenguen a partir de la fecha de radicación de la Demanda al tipo legal, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, y la suma pactada de $773.67 para las costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do, por concepto de las sumas desembolsadas por un présta mo cuyos últimos 4 dígitos son 0102. Se les emplaza y requie re que presenten al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Deberán notificar a la licenciada: María S. Jiménez Meléndez al PO Box 9023632, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009023632; teléfono: (787) 723-2455; abogada de la parte deman dante, con copia de la contes tación a la demanda. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de noviembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍ GUEZ COLLADO, SECRE TARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABÁ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES SAN GERARDO, INC.

Demandante Vs. RAFAEL VILLABOL RIVERA; CYNTHIA RIVERA DIAZ; AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: KCM2017-0008. (901). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (R.60). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: RAFAEL VILLABOL RIVERA; CYNTHIA RIVERA DIAZ; AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. FÍSICA & POSTAL: URB. SAN GERARDO, 1771 CALLE ALABAMA, SAN JUAN, PR 00926.

PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace cons tar: 1. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: URBANIZACIÓN SAN GERARDO de Río Pie dras Sur. Solar: 23 BLOQUE F. Cabida: 967.89 Metros Cuadra dos. Linderos: Norte, en distan cia de 35 metros lineales con el solar 22. Sur, en distancia de 8.29 metros y 25.77 metros con propiedad de Venancio Martínez. Oeste, en distancia de 33.28 metros lineales con la calle “J”. Enclava casa de con creto reforzado para dedicarla a vivienda. Finca #143, inscrita al Folio 61 del Tomo 748 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Pro piedad de San Juan Sección IV.” Dirección física: Urb. San Gerardo, 1771 Calle Alabama, San Juan, PR 00926. 2. 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. 3. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes ante riores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuaran subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

4. La propiedad para ejecutar se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. 5. Que el licitador y/o mejor postor pagará el importe de su oferta en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Al guacil de Tribunal. 6. La pro piedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: A.

HIPOTECA: A favor de BAN CO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, por la suma principal de $175,821.00. INTERESES: 3.50% anual. VENCIMIENTO: 1RO DE ENERO DE 2047. TASACIÓN: $175,821.00.

CREDITOS GARANTIZADOS: Garantizándose los siguientes créditos adicionales: Tres su mas equivalentes al 10% de la cuantía original del pagaré, cada una, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; para intereses, en adición a los ga rantizados por la ley; y para cu brir cualquier anticipo que pue da hacerse bajo este contrato. Pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio número 13,719, y en virtud de la escritura número 422 del 12 de diciembre de 2016, otorga da en San Juan, ante el Notario Héctor M. Lúgaro Figueroa, Se gún la inscripción 20a, al TOMO KARIBE de RIO PIEDRAS SUR. B. MODIFICACIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR INSCRIP CIÓN: La Hipoteca que surge de la inscripción 20a a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por la suma principal de $175,821.00 fue modificada y CANCELADA PARCIALMEN TE en la suma de $36,538.65 para un nuevo principal en la suma de $139,282.35. Se MO DIFICA en cuanto a los siguien tes extremos: (1) Se MODIFICA el interés al 3.50% anual. (2) Se MODIFICA el pago mensual de principal e interés a la suma de $625.44, comenzando el 1ro de noviembre de 2018, con vencimiento el 1ro de octubre de 2048. (3) Se MODIFICA el valor de la finca para la primera subasta en caso de ejecución a la suma de $139,282.35. En virtud de la escritura 834 del 31 de octubre de 2018 otorgada en San Juan ante el Notario Néstor Machado Cortés, según la inscripción 21a al TOMO KA RIBE de RIO PIEDRAS SUR. Se incluye copia de Estudio de Título. C. HIPOTECA: HIPO

TECA SUBORDINADA a favor del SECRETARY OF HOU SING AND URBAN DEVELO

PMENT OF THE UNITED STA TES, por la suma principal de $40,951.00. SIN INTERESES. VENCIMIENTO: 1ro de octubre de 2048, o cuando ocurra lo pri mero de los siguientes eventos: i) Los deudores hipotecarios hayan pagado en su totalidad las cantidades adeudadas bajo el pagaré primario y la hipoteca relacionada, escritura de fidei comiso o instrumento de ga rantía similar asegurado por el Secretario, o; ii) El vencimiento del pagaré primario ha sido acelerado, o; iii) El pagaré y la hipoteca relacionada, escritura de fideicomiso o instrumento de garantía similar asegurado por el Secretario o; iv) La pro piedad no está ocupada por el comprador, como su residencia principal. TASACIÓN: Se tasa esta propiedad en una cantidad equivalente al principal original del pagaré. PAGARE: Suscrito bajo el testimonio 10,676. En virtud de la escritura número 835 del 31 de octubre de 2018, otorgada en San Juan, ante el Notario Néstor Machado Cor tés, según la inscripción 22a, al TOMO KARIBE de Río Piedras Sur. D. Anotación de Embargo (Judicial, Ley 209): Según la Anotación letra A al TOMO KA RIBE de RIO PIEDRAS SUR, en virtud de ORDEN Y MAN DAMIENTO DE EMBARGO expedidos los días 13 y 20 de agosto de 2018, respectiva mente, por el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, con número de caso civil KCM20174-0008 (901), la finca está afecta con la Anotación de Embargo en Eje cución de Sentencia a favor de la ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDEN TES SAN GERARDO, INC., por la suma de $3,431.63. E. Ano tación de Embargo (Judicial, Ley 209): Según la Anotación letra B al TOMO KARIBE de RIO PIEDRAS SUR, en virtud de ORDEN Y MANDAMIENTO DE EMBARGO expedidos los días 17 de agosto de 2020 y 16 de febrero de 2021, respec tivamente, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Muni cipal de San Juan, con número de caso civil SJ2019CV05591 (503), la finca está afecta con la Anotación de Embargo en Eje cución de Sentencia a favor de la ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDEN TES SAN GERARDO, INC., por la suma de $862.00. 7. Dicha subasta se celebrará para con el importe de la misma satisfa cer a la parte demandante la suma principal de $3,903.75, cantidad que incluye cuotas de mantenimiento vencidas y no pagadas al 10 de marzo de 2017, cantidad que incluye costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más intereses des de que se dicte la sentencia al 4.50% anual ($0.48 diario), a partir de esa fecha en la can tidad de $385.03, al 28 de ju

nio de 2019; más $950.00 por concepto de las costas y gastos del proceso de ejecución de la sentencia mediante embargo de bien mueble, inmueble y vehículo, concedidos median te Ordenes de fecha de 13 de agosto de 2018; menos pagos realizados por la parte deman dada ($712.00), totalizan la cantidad de $4.526.78; más $750.00 por las costas y gastos del proceso en la ejecución de la sentencia mediante Venta en Pública Subasta. La subasta se llevará a cabo en mi oficina lo calizada en el local que ocupa en el Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Municipal de San Juan el día 10 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Y para la conveniencia de los licitadores expido el presen te Edicto para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los luga res públicos que determine la ley. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 17 de noviembre de 2022.

PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

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

NIKKE ITURRINO ORTÍZ, POR SÍ, Y FRANCISCO SUÁREZ Y NIKKE ITURRINO ORTÍZ COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandante V. DINA ITURRINO ORTÍZ, ESTTER ITURRINO

ORTÍZ, NICOLE ITURRINO

LEJET

Demandado(a) Civil: CG2022CV00425. (704). Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNI DAD HEREDITARIA. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: NICOLE ITURRINO LEJET.

(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 8 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento

sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede es tablecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se consi derará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Co pia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de no viembre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 9 de noviembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. LILI RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIME INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. ALEJANDRO J. URIARTE OTHEGUY, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08297.

Sala: 803. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO EMITIDO POR EL TRIBUNAL DE PRIME RA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO, SALA DE SAN JUAN. A: ALEJANDRO J. URIARTE OTHEGUY, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Alejandro J. Uriarte Otheguy, Fulana de Tal y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales Compuesta por Ambos, Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08297 (803)

sobre Cobro de Dinero.

Se les notifica a ustedes, ALEJANDRO J. URIARTE OTHEGUY, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA

POR AMBOS, que en la De manda que originó este caso se alega que ustedes le adeudan a la parte demandante, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, las siguientes cantidades: a. $44,052.64 de principal e in tereses devengados hasta el 13 de junio de 2022, más los intereses que se devenguen al tipo legal a partir de la fecha de radicación de la Demanda, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, y una suma

razonable para las costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado. La deuda es por concepto de las sumas desembolsadas por el uso de una tarjeta de crédito VISA cuyos últimos cuatro dígi tos son 3552. Se les emplaza y requiere que presenten al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, a través del Siste ma Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utili zando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presen tar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. De berán notificar a la licenciada: María S. Jiménez Meléndez al PO Box 9023632, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902-3632; telé fono: (787) 723-2455; abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la demanda. Si ustedes dejan de presentar su alegación respon siva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar senten cia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 21 de no viembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. IRIS OLIVO NÚÑEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v. JOSÉ RAFAEL

TERRASSA NOLLA, T/C/C JOSÉ RAFAEL TERRASA NOLLA

Demandados

CIVIL NUM.: DCD2015-1158 (702). SOBRE: COBRO DE DI NERO - EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico - {243 Pueblo}, hago saber, a la parte deman dada y al PÚBLICO EN GENE RAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 9 de noviembre de 2022 - {250 Fe cha mandamiento}, por la Se cretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública

subasta y al mejor postor la pro piedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA:

PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 909, construido en bloques y hormi gón de dos niveles y terraza en la azotea, localizado en el Edifi cio 9, cuarto y quinto pisos del Condominio Prados del Monte, radicado en el Barrio Frailes del término municipal de Guayna bo, Puerto Rico. Consta de un área superficial de 710.00 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 65.99 metros cuadrados, en el cuarto piso, 860 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 79.93 metros cuadrados, en el quinto piso y de 378.00 pies cuadrados equi valentes a 35.13 metros cua drados, en la terraza localizado en la azotea para un total de 1,948.00 pies cuadrados equi valentes a 181.04 metros cua drados. El nivel inferior, locali zado en el cuarto piso. Colinda por el NORTE, en 30 pies 8 pulgadas, con elemento común exterior; por el SUR, en 30 pies 8 pulgadas, con pared media nera que lo separa del Aparta mento número 910 (pero según plano con el APARTAMENTO NUMERO 908), pasillo, escale ra y elemento común exterior; por el ESTE, en 29 pies 3 pul gadas, con pared medianera que lo separa del Apartamento número 910 y por el OESTE, en 29 pies 3 pulgadas, con ele mento exterior común. Este ni vel interior, localizado en el cuarto piso, consta de sala-co medor, cocina, medio baño, balcón y escalera que conduce al quinto piso. El nivel superior, localizado en el quinto piso. Co linda por el NORTE, en 26 pies 10 pulgadas, con elemento ex terior común; por el SUR, en 26 pies 10 pulgadas, con pared medianera que lo separa del Apartamento número 908 y ele mento exterior común; por el ESTE, en 23 pies 9 pulgadas, con Apartamento número 910 y por el OESTE, en 23 pies 9 pul gadas, con elemento exterior común. Este nivel superior, lo calizado en el quinto piso, cons ta de un dormitorio principal, con “walk-in closet” y baño, dos dormitorios con sus “closets” y un baño en el área de pasillo, “linen closet” y “laundryroom”, también en área de pasillo y es calera que conduce a la terraza en la azotea. La terraza techa da, localizada en la azotea, co linda por el NORTE, en 20 pies 6 pulgadas, con área de uso condicionado; por el SUR, en 20 pies 6 pulgadas, con pared medianera que lo separa del Apartamento número 908; por el ESTE, en 23 pies 9 pulgadas, con pared medianera que lo se para del Apartamento número 910 y por el OESTE, en 23 pies 9 pulgadas, con área de uso condicionado. Esta terraza consta de un área techada y un

cuarto de baño. Se le asigna el uso condicionado de la azotea adyacente a la terraza techada.

La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Sur y comunica directa mente al área de la sala-come dor del Apartamento. Se le asignan un estacionamiento doble (Back to Back), identifica do con los números 161 y 162. Este apartamento tiene una participación de 0.833%, en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio. Inscrito al folio 55 del tomo 1,260 de Guayna bo, finca número #43,929 Re gistro de la Propiedad de Puer to Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. La propiedad ubica según pa garé en: Apt 909 Prados del Monte Guaynabo, PR. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anota dos sus derechos sobre los bie nes hipotecados con posteriori dad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acree dores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pos puesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cum plimiento de instrumentos ne gociables garantizados hipote cariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación regis tral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus inte reses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor eje cutante: Embargo: Según Or den de fecha 15 de abril de 2009 y Mandamiento de fecha 6 de mayo de 2009, seguido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KCD99-0630, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero, por Ricardo M. Bird Laborde, su esposa Ma ría Del C. de Bird y otros versus José Rafael Terrasa Nolla, por la suma de $71,847.73 y otras sumas y anotado el 19 de agos to de 2009, al folio 55 del tomo 1,256 de Guaynabo, finca nú mero 43,929. Anotación A. El producto de la subasta se desti nará a satisfacer al demandan te hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 7 de septiembre de 2016, notificada el 28 de septiembre de 2016, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $231,238.29, adeudada al 1 de diciembre de 2014; la cual se desglosa en: $204,641.65 por concepto de principal; $1,418.99 por concepto de inte reses acumulados; $506.65 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los inte reses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito,

$21.00 por concepto de ‘’Es crow Advances’’ y la suma de $24,650.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y de más créditos accesorios garan tizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del algua cil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina de Alguaciles en el Cuarto Piso del Centro Judicial de Bayamón - {243 Pueblo}, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $246,500.00. Que de ser nece saria la celebración de una SE GUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $164,333.33, equiva lentes a dos terceras (2/3) par tes 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 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SU BASTA será de $123,250.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se de clarase desierta la tercera su basta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totali dad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera su basta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a te nor 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 Honorable Tribunal, se proce derá a otorgar la correspon diente escritura de venta judi cial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposi ciones de Ley. Para conoci miento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que

se está ejecutando, y para co nocimiento de todos los licita dores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) sema nas consecutivas, con un inter valo 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 cele brarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Co lecturía. Se les informa, por últi mo, que: a. Que los autos y to dos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento incoado estarán de ma nifiesto en la secretaría del tri bunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entende rá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsisten tes. Se entenderá, que el rema tante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presen te EDICTO, en Bayamón - {243 Pueblo}, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de noviembre de 2022. MA

RIBEL LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, Alguacil, División de Subastas Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Bayamón.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE MARIBEL RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA COMPUESTA POR MALVIN DÁVILA RODRÍGUEZ Y MARISEL DÁVILA RODRÍGUEZ, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN; SUCESIÓN DE MARIA RIVERA MALAVÉ COMPUESTA POR PEDRO RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN; PRISCILA ROBLES VELÁZQUEZ, COMO PARTE CON INTERÉS; CENTRO DE DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandado(a) Civil: CG2021CV01183. (704).

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

A: SUCESIÓN DE MARIBEL RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA COMPUESTA POR MALVIN DÁVILA RODRÍGUEZ, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN. SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA RIVERA MALAVÉ COMPUESTA POR PEDRO RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN.

PRISCILA ROBLES VELÁZQUEZ, COMO PARTE CON INTERÉS. (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 18 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de noviembre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 21 de noviembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. LILI RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO . NOMBRE COMER CIAL PARA REGISTRAR. AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA IN TERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Depar tamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro.

BIEN SOCIAL MEDIA

Número de Expediente: 245827-99-1. Propietario: BRENDALIZ ROLDAN OSO RIO. Dirección: 15251 SECT LOS PAGANES, CIDRA, PR 00739. Actividad Empresarial: Servicios profesionales de mercadeo digital para pymes. Renuncia a elementos no regis trables: NOTIFICACIÓN: Cual quier oposición a este registro deberá presentarse en el De partamento de Estado de Puer to Rico dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este aviso.

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Demandante V. HAYDEE FIGUEROA DIAZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA POR CONDUCTO DE LA ADMINISTRACIÓN DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022CV03729. 401. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMU NIDAD DE BIENES Y PARTI CIÓN HEREDITARIA. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JANE DOE YJOHN DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHO.

(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 22 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso,

con fecha de 22 de noviembre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 22 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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LUNA RESIDENTIAL III, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE GUILLERMINA CARABALLO CARABALLO COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESO MUNICALES Y ADMJNISTRACION

PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00703. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA

POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLA ZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE JOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE GUILLERMINA CARABALLO CARABALLO.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.rama judicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Mar jaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce. P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de di nero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas

correspondientes a los meses 26 de marzo de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte de mandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hi potecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $13,624.28 de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 13.99% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, inclu yendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandan te presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: UR BANA: Solar número veintiocho (28), con un área superficial de cinco siete punto dos cero (57.20) metros cuadrados, radi cado en la calle San Benito de Las Marías. En lindes al NOR TE, en cinco punto dos cero (5.20) metros, con terrenos de la Autoridad de Tierras de Puer to Rico; al SUR, en cinco punto dos cero (5.20) metros. con la calle San Benito, en que radi ca: al ESTE, en uno cero punto siete cero (10.70) metros, con terrenos municipales y al OES TE, en uno uno punto tres cero (11.30) metros. Inscrita al folio ciento sesenta (160) del tomo ochenta y cinco (85) de Las Marías, finca número dos mil cuatrocientos noventa (2,490), Registro de San Sebastián. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones respon sivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dicta rá Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la De manda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de GUILLERMINA CARABALLO CARABALLO se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en tomo a la aceptación o re pudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante GUI LLERMINA CARABALLO CA RABALLO y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021. En

San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 21 de noviembre de 2022. LIC NOR

MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. MAGALY BONILLA MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESIONES DE VÍCTOR MANUEL PÉREZ RIVERA T/C/C VICTOR M. PÉREZ RIVERA Y ROSA MARÍA LEON ORTIZ T/C/C ROSA MARÍA LEON, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS VICTOR MANUEL PEREZ LEON, JOSE MANUEL PEREZ LEON, ELVIN PEREZ LEON Y BETZIA ESTER PEREZ

LEON; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LAS SUCESIONES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM), COMO PARTE CON POSIBLE INTERÉS

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2021CV02313.

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,

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 Ponce, 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 Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 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: Parce la marcada con el número 148 en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Las Ollas del barrio Descalabrado de Santa Isabel, con una cabida superfi cial de .0935 diezmilésimas de cuerda equivalentes a 367.43 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con calle; por el SUR, con parcela número 169; por el ESTE, con parcela nú mero 149 y por el OESTE, con parcela número 147. Inscrita al folio 238 del tomo 130 de Santa Isabel, finca número 4833, Re gistro de la Propiedad de Puer to Rico, Sección de Guayama. Propiedad localizada en: Des calabrado WD, 148 Las Olas Com, Santa Isabel, PR 00757. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o cargas pos teriores a la inscripción del cré dito 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 $72,000.00, 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 ofi cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Pon ce, el 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $48,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido origi nalmente. Si tampoco se pro duce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $36,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $66,980.57 de principal, inte reses al tipo del 5.004% anual según ajustado desde el día 4 de noviembre de 2017 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totali dad, más la suma de $7,200.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las canti

dades que se adeudan men sualmente 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 publica ciones, así como para su pu blicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de noviembre de 2022. JUAN ROLANDO CRUZ ROMÁN, ALGUACIL #965, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYA GÜEZ REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION HECTOR CESAR AUGUSTO PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR C. PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR CESAR PEREZ COMPUESTA POR HECTOR PEREZ RAMIREZ, JULIO PEREZ RAMIREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION MARTA RAMIREZ MORENO T/C/C MARTA RAMIREZ DE PEREZ COMPUESTA POR HECTOR PEREZ RAMIREZ, JULIO PEREZ RAMIREZ; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE

AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2020CV00321.

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: HECTOR PEREZ RAMIREZ Y JULIO PEREZ RAMIREZ COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN HECTOR

CESAR AUGUSTO PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR C. PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR CESAR PEREZ Y SUCESION MARTA RAMIREZ MORENO T/C/C MARTA RAMIREZ DE PEREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN HECTOR CESAR AUGUSTO PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR C. PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR CESAR PEREZ; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLE MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION MARTA RAMIREZ MORENO T/C/C MARTA RAMIREZ DE PEREZ.

El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Trans curridos treinta (30) días des de que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al lla mado un plazo, para que ma nifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de HECTOR CESAR AUGUSTO PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HEC TOR C. PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR CESAR PEREZ y MARTA RAMIREZ MORENO T/C/C MARTA RAMIREZ DE

PEREZ. Se les apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por acep tada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: GREENS POON MARDER, LLP, TRADE CENTRE SOUTH , SUITE 700, 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309, Tel. (954) 343 6273, Fax. (954) 343 6982. Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribu nal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de noviembre de 2022. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL II. MAGALY BONILLA MORALES, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2019 -HB1

Demandante Vs. SUCESION LUIS MANUEL SANTIAGO DE JESUS T/C/C LUIS M. SANTIAGO DE JESUS T/C/C LUIS M SANTIAGO - DE JESUS T/C/C LUIS SANTIAGO DE JESUS COMPUESTA POR PABLO SANTIAGO NUÑEZ, MARIBEL SANTIAGO NUÑEZ, LUIS SANTIAGO NUÑEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CARMEN IRIS NUNEZ T/C/C CARMEN I. NUNEZ T/C/C CARMEN IRIS NUNEZ ESTRADA T/C/C CARMEN IRIS NUÑEZ T/C/C CARMEN I. NUÑEZ POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2022CV01304.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: MARIBEL SANTIAGO NUÑEZ, LUIS SANTIAGO

NUÑEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION LUIS MANUEL SANTIAGO DE JESUS T/C/C LUIS M. SANTIAGO DE JESUS T/C/C LUIS H SANTIAGO - DE JESUS T/C/C LUIS SANTIAGO DE JESUS.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación respon siva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsive en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio - Guido R.U.A. 15,622

TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273

Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y se llo del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de no viembre de 2022. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. NORIE I. MER CADO LABOY, SUB-SECRE TARIA.

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EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFI CACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06743.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y

A:

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN

ADA JIMENEZ RESTO.

POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar 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: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tri bunal correspondiente y notifi que con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda.

Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número men cionado en el epígrafe. Se ale ga en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los me ses de febrero de 2020 hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además, adeuda a la parte de mandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hi potecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $85,534.66, más intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 7.00% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma pactada para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado.

La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Regis tro de la Propiedad correspon diente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: PRO PIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Resi dential apartment number 1001 is irregular in shape located in Condominium Los Almendros Plaza, which is located in Sa

bana Llana Ward of the Munici pality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total superficial area of 917.18 square fit. Measuring 38 lineal feet and 11 1/2 inches in width at its northern wall; 31 li neal feet and 6 inches and 5 1/2 half inches plus 7 lineal feet and 6 inches in width at its southern wall; 25 lineal feet 1 inch length at its western wall; and 17 lineal feet 1 inch plus 8 lineal feet in length at its eastern wall. lt is bounded on the North and West by the exterior walls of the building; on the South by the corridor; and on the East by the apartment number 1002 and janitors and storage room. The main entrance faces corri dor. This unit consists of a living dining room, three bedrooms with closet each, one bathroom. A hallway with a linen closet and kitchen. The bathroom in cludes a bathtub, wash a basin and toilet and the kitchen a two part cabinet with space for refri gerator, space for a stove and breakfast counter. Le corres ponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes gene rales el 040125% y a su vez le corresponde idéntico porciento en los gastos de operación y mantenimiento del condominio. Le corresponde en forma exclu siva, permanente e inseparable el estacionamiento número 47, debidamente demarcado y numerado de conformidad con el plano de área de estaciona miento. Inscrita al folio 93 del tomo 601 de Sabana Llana, finca número veinticuatro mil cuatrocientos setenta y dos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan V. SE LES APERCI

BE que de no hacer sus ale gaciones responsivas a la de manda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio soli citado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de CARMEN ADA JIMENEZ RES TO, se ha presentado una so licitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repu diar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o repudia ción de la herencia, se presumi rá que han aceptado a benefi cio de inventario la herencia del

CARMEN ADA JIMENEZ RES TO y por consiguiente, respon derán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone del Código Civil de Puerto Rico. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 18 de noviembre de 2022. GRISEL DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABA, SE CRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

What we learned from Week 12 in the NFL

By DERRIK KLASSEN

The AFC playoff race only gets more and more contentious with each passing week, and teams are ad justing to make sure they can keep pace. To that end, the New York Jets reset their offense by sitting quarterback Zach Wil son and running back James Robinson.

The Jets’ offense can work.

Coach Robert Saleh hasn’t gone so far as to say that second-year quarter back Zach Wilson won’t return as the Jets’ starter, but the team’s 31-10 win over the Chicago Bears at home pointed out the glaring disconnect between Wil son and the offense’s potential.

On Sunday, Mike White completed 22 of 28 passes for 315 yards and three touchdowns, lacing throws to 10 differ ent receivers while starting in place of Wilson, who was inactive for the game after a nightmare performance with just nine completions against the New Eng land Patriots in Week 11.

When the Jets selected Wilson No. 2 overall out of Brigham Young University in 2021, the bill was that they were get ting a semi-athletic, strong-armed scram bler who could go off script and make big plays down the field. He would be a player whose creativity and explosive plays could make up for inefficiency, a la Russell Wilson or Kyler Murray.

But despite the team adding tight end C.J. Uzomah and rookie receiver Garrett Wilson in the offseason, Zach Wilson hasn’t yet consistently made the types of throws that keep drives alive long enough for firework plays to develop. He doesn’t work the quick game or check through his progressions and that has made for a wonky fit in Mike LaFleur’s offense, which is built on timing and precision.

LaFleur, who previously worked un der Kyle Shanahan, employs a scheme built on play-action calls and throws tar geting the middle of the field, similar to those run by accurate quarterbacks like Jimmy Garoppolo and Tua Tagovailoa.

On Sunday, White highlighted what is supposed to work for the Jets (7-4). The team’s first drive featured five short completions before White found Garrett Wilson on a short corner route in the end zone for an 8-yard score that helped put

the Jets up 7-0.

White’s second touchdown, also to Wilson, showcased the big-play potential of the Jets’ personnel. On a first-and-10 near midfield late in the second quarter, the Jets stacked Denzel Mims and Wil son to the right side and had Mims run an over route to clear the middle of the field for Wilson. White reared back and delivered the ball to Wilson right over a linebacker. Wilson made a Bears defend er miss, then zoomed to the end zone for a 54-yard score.

This is the second straight season in which White has made a star cameo for the Jets. White, selected in the fifth round by the Dallas Cowboys in 2018, stunned the league in the Jets’ upset win over the Bengals in his first career start last season. He threw four picks to a fierce Buffalo Bills defense two weeks later. White’s big moment this season comes with a grain of salt: The Bears (39) started a backup quarterback of their own, Trevor Siemian, and couldn’t gener ate a semblance of a pass rush.

Around the NFL Eagles 40, Packers 33: Eagles quar terback Jalen Hurts dashed to 157 yards, a game-high that narrowly eclipsed run ning back Miles Sanders’ 143. Aaron Rodgers left the game in the third quarter with an oblique injury, and 2020 firstround pick Jordan Love came on in relief to lead two drives that resulted in a total of 10 points.

Las Vegas Raiders 40, Seattle Se ahawks 34, overtime: Raiders running back Josh Jacobs took 33 carries, bru talizing the Seahawks’ defense for four quarters. Jacobs topped off his perfor mance with an 86-yard, game-winning touchdown in overtime, giving Las Ve gas overtime road wins in back-to-back weeks.

Chargers 25, Cardinals 24: The Car dinals were the marginally better team for about 59 minutes, 45 seconds. Kyler Murray went 18 of 29 for 191 yards with two passing touchdowns, one rushing score and an interception in his return from a hamstring injury. Justin Herbert dropped back more than 50 times and was regularly under duress but put to gether one drive at the end, finishing it off with a 2-point play to Gerald Everett

Mike White helped get the Jets’ offense back on track by throwing three touchdowns against Chicago, including two to Garrett Wilson.

to take the lead with 15 seconds left. The Cardinals had three consecutive threeand-outs in the fourth quarter to give the Chargers the window they needed.

Kansas City Chiefs 26, Los Angeles Rams 10: Kansas City took a 20-3 lead into the fourth quarter in a game that wasn’t remotely close. Rams backup quarterback Bryce Perkins eked out 100 yards passing while taking three sacks and tossing two interceptions.

San Francisco 49ers 13, New Orleans Saints 0: The 49ers’ defense hand ed the Saints their first shutout since 2001, as defensive end Nick Bosa added another sack, linebacker Fred Warner was a nuisance across the middle, and safety Talanoa Hufanga led the team in tackles with nine.

Washington Commanders 19, At lanta Falcons 13: The Commanders do not feel like a 7-5 team, but with this win over the Falcons, that’s what they are. Running the ball had been Atlanta’s calling card, but Washington won the ground battle, 176 yards to 167, led by Brian Robinson’s 105 yards on 18 car ries. The Falcons had a shot to win with a minute left, but Marcus Mariota’s pass was tipped inside the 5-yardline and fell into the hands of Commanders cor nerback Kendall Fuller. Taylor Heinicke improved to 5-1 since replacing Carson Wentz at quarterback.

Miami Dolphins 30, Houston Tex ans 15: Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa had no issue finding Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle in the Texans’ zone-heavy de fense, calling passes over runs at about

a 3-to-1 ratio as the Dolphins scored 30 points in the first half. Starting left tackle Terron Armstead left the game with a pectoral injury, and Miami cruised to its fifth straight win and retained control of the AFC East.

Carolina Panthers 23, Denver Broncos 10: Russell Wilson was outdueled by Sam Darnold (11 of 19 passing for 164 yards and a touchdown), who made his first start of the season for Carolina. Wil son finished with just 4.1 yards per at tempt, and the Broncos’ lone touchdown came with three minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. A successful onside kick attempt gave the Broncos brief hope, but Denver turned it over on downs and that was that.

Cleveland Browns 23, Buccaneers 17, overtime: Cleveland has a bottom10-ranked run defense, and the Bucs entered the game dead last in rushing of fense. Tampa Bay stuck with its high-vol ume passing game, but was held without a point on their last seven possessions as Jacoby Brissett mounted a 13-point comeback to beat the Buccaneers in what is expected to be his last start be fore Deshaun Watson returns from an 11game suspension.

Jaguars 28, Baltimore Ravens 27: Baltimore’s fourth quarters have been interesting, to say the least. The Ravens entered the final quarter ahead, 12-10, and the two teams combined to score 33 points in the fourth. Trevor Lawrence found Zay Jones and Marvin Jones on back-to-back plays and scored on a 75yard drive with less than 30 seconds left.

Jaguars coach Doug Pederson’s 2-point conversion attempt was successful. Ra vens kicker Justin Tucker nearly made a 67-yarder as time expired, but in a rare moment of mortality, he came up short.

Bengals 20, Titans 16: The Titans’ brutish front-four and tricky coverage schemes put a damper on the Bengals’ offense for about three quarters before Joe Burrow and Tee Higgins decided it was jump ball time. On the other end, the Titans’ offense had its game plan flipped on its head. Derrick Henry was held to 38 yards on 17 carries and fum bled into the end zone for his teammate Treylon Burks to recover and score Ten nessee’s only touchdown of the day.

Once a star of college basketball, Kevin Ollie is now disrupting it

By KURT STREETER

“I’m in a great place,” said Kevin Ol lie, his voice clear and firm as we spoke recently in a telephone inter view. “Exactly where I need to be.”

Ollie meant that he was back to doing what he does best: prodding, cajoling and using his ability to connect to help young basketball players maximize their talent.

“I always was a facilitator,” he said. “That was always just my nature. When I played, I wanted to get the assist instead of the basket. I wanted to give more than I wanted to receive.”

He was known for those qualities dur ing his 13-year career as an NBA journey man who mentored then-nascent stars like LeBron James in Cleveland and Kevin Du rant, James Harden and Russell Westbrook in Oklahoma City.

And he did the same more recently at the University of Connecticut, where he helped guide the Huskies to the 2011 na tional title as an assistant to coach Jim Cal houn and then led them to another cham pionship in 2014 as head coach.

But all that was before Ollie’s charmed basketball life went awry — before he went from NCAA poster child to NCAA pariah, fired by UConn for allegations he had skirted the Byzantine thicket of rules that have propped up collegiate sports for decades.

Now, buoyed by a legal ruling that castigated UConn for how it treated him, he has returned to basketball — but in an entirely new role. Along with being a facili tator, these days he calls himself a “vision ary” and a “disrupter” — part of a wave of change that is challenging the tried-andtrue amateur system that developed young athletes, polishing them for college and the pros.

Ollie, 49, serves as head of coach ing and director of player development at Overtime Elite, a pro basketball league and training academy based in Atlanta now in its second year.

With its flashy new 103,000-squarefoot campus — encompassing an arena that rivals those in the college ranks, stateof-the-art conditioning facilities and class rooms — Overtime Elite offers stiff com petition, full-time training, schoolwork and two options for getting paid to 31 of the top young players in the world, ages 16 to

20.

“It’s all about choice,” said Ollie, a preacher’s enthusiastic cadence in his voice, which makes sense given that his late mother, Dorothy, was a minister.

Choice is the disruptive part.

“There should not just be one pathway for these young student-athletes,” he said. “We give them options that didn’t exist be fore.”

Who could have imagined this even a few years ago? Overtime Elite players can skip college and earn $100,000 plus bo nuses while honing their skills under the eye of Ollie and other coaches. Or they can forsake a salary, earn money from endorsements and remain eligible to play in college, if the pro leagues aren’t in the cards.

The tired mythology of amateurism is peeling away. As it does, players have new ways to realize their dreams, allowing them to circumvent college and begin making serious money while in their teens. Along with the NBA’s developmental league and overseas professional basketball, Overtime is another pathway for the best young bas ketball talent.

That Ollie is helping lead the upstart, game-changing academy is symbolic, for the contours of his journey once repre sented the optimal path the NCAA could offer a player.

When he returned to UConn as an as sistant coach, he helped Kemba Walker find his way onto the same road. Their 2011 championship title came courtesy of Walker’s monster scoring streaks in the Big East and NCAA tournaments.

“There was something special about how he affected guys and gave us confi dence,” said Walker, who has played in four All-Star Games during his 11-year NBA career. “It was his spirit. He’s such a posi tive dude in a way that gets to you, and I ended up getting a lot of my positivity from him. He was huge for me in college.”

Ollie took over for Calhoun in 2012 and became only the fourth Black coach to win a Division I men’s basketball champi onship, in 2014. He was so highly regarded then that his name was in the mix to fill head jobs with the Brooklyn Nets, Los An geles Lakers and Golden State Warriors.

But Ollie stayed at UConn, nudging his players to their futures until, in 2018, UConn fired him amid an NCAA investi gation that his program skirted the rules. Among the accusations: Student manag ers kept statistics on pickup games and reported them back to coaches; a trainer friend of Ollie’s worked out players and did not charge them; Ollie arranged a call between a recruit and former UConn stars who had played in the NBA.

The dismissal pushed Ollie to fight.

“I didn’t want my voice to be quiet,” Ol lie said of his next move — suing the univer sity that had shaped him.

A four-year battle began coming to an end in January when an arbitrator ruled UConn had to give Ollie $11.1 million in back pay and issued a 69-page report that read as a stinging indictment of the univer sity, which had supported Calhoun during similar NCAA investigations. The arbitrator wrote that “UConn’s dismissal of Kevin Ol lie was predicated on an incomplete inves tigation, inadequate process and ultimately a collection of unproven or minor, isolated infractions for which termination was far too severe a sanction.”

In September, UConn agreed to pay Ol lie an additional $3.9 million, helping the for mer coach pay his legal fees.

Ollie cannot talk about the details of his victory, but said he hoped to be a beacon to Black coaches who believe they’ve unfairly lost jobs.

What a turn of events. College basket ball now needs coaches like Ollie — able to relate to players, and embrace change, more than ever. The NCAA’s antiquated model has been upended again and again in recent years. Athletes can transfer in a blink, and endorsement rules have made some of them millionaires.

The pace of evolution helped spur the departure of a pair of the old-guard coaching greats. Mike Krzyzewski at Duke University and Roy Williams at the University of North Carolina seemed to have no appetite for this new structure, a poor fit for my-way-or-thehighway leaders of old.

Ollie said he has watched the metamor phosis unfold at arm’s length. He catches only snippets of UConn basketball, never a whole game. He remains optimistic that col lege basketball will find a way to survive and even thrive. The “bloodlines,” he said, run too deep.

“We played in the Big East,” he said. “I coached for the University of Connecticut, my alma mater. I loved it there. Still do. The battles I had on the court as a player and a coach, being in the NCAA tournament, the pressure, all these things, I miss.”

There was sadness in his voice. Then a beat passed, and he snapped back to his usu al, up-tempo self as he noted how much he loves being in the mix of change and “help ing young kids evolve into something special, because we all have a masterpiece inside us.”

“There should not just be one pathway for these young student-athletes,” Kevin Ollie said.

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Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29 Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

You know what you need to say to inspire others and get things moving, but your words may come out wrong, and could have the opposite effect to that intended. As Mars continues to rewind in your sector of communication, you might need to rethink plans and projects that had seemed a done deal. In fact, its tie with prudent Saturn suggests others will insist that you get it right.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

You may be excited about the many ways you can improve your income and the opportunities around you. Even so, with Mars retro in your personal money zone, there might be some reluctance to engage. With key planets on edge and confusion in the air, this isn’t the best time to go ahead, as you could take a wrong turn. Listen to your instincts, as they are reliable.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

You may have no desire to move out of your comfort zone, even if doing so could improve your future prospects. With Mars in reverse in your sign, making some leading aspects over the days ahead, you might be easily persuaded to forget about a plan or turn down an opportunity. If you were all set to go ahead, you wouldn’t let others manipulate you, but you may have doubts too.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

The Moon in Aquarius and its angle with restless Uranus, hints that you may be keen on many ideas, except the sensible option. For some reason this might leave you cold, Cancer. You don’t want to dally with the tried and trusted, you want to dance with the wild and unpredictable. This short-lived aspect could find you doing anything to exit a situation that seems to confine you.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

You may not have been in the mood for too much socializing, since Mars turned retrograde in your friendship zone last month. The coming weeks might find you eager to do your own thing rather than hang out in a crowd. You need room to express your individuality, as there are some exciting opportunities on the cards. Showcase your skills, as someone can be watching, Leo.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Hard work will keep your reputation intact, as well as your chances of reaching the goals you have set yourself. With Mars retro affecting your ability to get ahead, you could feel powerless at the delays which seem to be stopping you in your tracks. And yet a warm and welcoming focus on your home zone makes this a good time for family projects and festive preparations, Virgo.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

While you are very attractive to most people, not everyone will be impressed. There may be someone who seems intent on creating conflict and refusing to co-operate, no matter how much effort you make to include them. They can have their reasons for behaving in this way, but if they don’t need you, then you certainly don’t need them. Steering clear might be the better option.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Avoid topics that trigger others, as with Mars regressing, there’s no knowing how they’ll react. Your insights may be fascinating to many, but there are some who won’t thank you for your input. So, if you want to enjoy the coming days, then focus on spending quality time with those you care about. You’re in a generous mood, and treating someone to a meal will go down well.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You’ve had lots of good ideas and you may want to make a start on them. Those closest to you might not think so, and can even be unwilling to help. This could be one of those times when people are being awkward for the sake of it. Soon they’ll tire of their games, especially if they need something from you. The emphasis on your sign suggests it’s time to think about yourself.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

As Mars aligns with Saturn in your money zone, you may get back in touch with a boss or client from the past, with a view to getting more work. It’s also possible that they’ll get in touch with you. Alternatively, you might be asked to provide services which depend on skills you were once known for. Whatever happens, don’t second guess yourself. Use every opportunity to get ahead.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Today’s excitable Moon/Uranus angle could make it hard to get anything done, as you won’t be able to sit still for long enough. If you want to make the most of the day, then start out with a workout, jog or a good walk. Get your body moving, and you’ll feel calmer and find it easier to concentrate. And you’ll be less likely to make an impulsive decision that might cause chaos.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Finding it hard to share your feelings with those you live with? Rather than let a matter fester and allow things to get worse, it helps to talk about it, even if it’s difficult. If you’ve had a block about this, getting it out in the open will be a relief. This is the only way you’ll find a solution. On another note, an intuitive nudge could assist you in making a wise career move, Pisces.