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Another proposal that, in Hernández Rivera’s opinion, would have an impact on the island is to he roster of candidates for resi“promote amendments to federal dent commissioner from the two tax laws, such as the Territorial Ecomajor political parties became more apparent on Sunday. nomic Recovery Act [introduced] by New Progressive Party (NPP) Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez Sen. William Villafañe Ramos conof New York and Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands, so firmed that he plans to seek the NPP U.S. companies in the territories candidacy for resident commissioner are not fiscally treated like those in the political party’s primaries. established in Ireland, Singapore “Today, I am making the forward or Mexico,” he said. step for Puerto Rico. I am going with Regarding Puerto Rico’s politiall the strength of my spirit to ensure our people are treated equally in cal status, the lawyer proposed “adPablo José Hernández Rivera Washington,” Villafañe Ramos said dressing the status responsibly and in a social media post Sunday. “With inclusively, at the appropriate time.”

God’s blessing and everyone’s help, First, Puerto Rico must end WE ARE GOING TO THE FUTURE; WE ARE GOING PROMESA [the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management TO WIN.” and Economic Stability Act] and then prove its ability to Villafañe Ramos was also La Fortaleza chief of staff govern itself responsibly without the Financial Oversight and government secretary from 2017 to 2018, under and Management Board, the resident commissioner former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, before becoming hopeful said. a senator in 2019. He was reelected in 2020.

“Then we must carry out a process with all the Villafañe may end up running against Popular options: statehood, independence, free association, and Democratic Party (PDP) primary candidate for resident yes, as it is and with a mandate to improve it, the Comcommissioner, Pablo José Hernández Rivera, who appears monwealth [status],” he said. to be that party’s favorite. On Sunday, Hernández Rivera Hernández Rivera also articulated his vision of the presented three of his proposals to promote the economic PDP as a centrist party. development of the island from the U.S. capital.

“Being centrist means that instead of being antiThe presentation was part of a press event at PDP capitalist like Victoria Ciudadana [Citizen Victory Moveheadquarters in Puerta de Tierra to announce the filing ment], or ultra-capitalist like some in the NPP, we believe of Hernández Rivera’s candidacy for the Washington, in free enterprise with social justice,” he said. “May the D.C. post, before a large group of attendees, including tide rise and lift all boats, but may there be a life preserver his wife, family, friends, activists and community leaders. so that those left behind do not drown.”

During a speech, Hernández Rivera stressed that he will go to Washington with the agenda of “everyone” and not of “some.” He said the “everyone to Washington” agenda is to focus on the economic development and social well-being of Puerto Rico.

This, he said, contrasts with the “agenda of the few” of past NPP resident commissioners, who have focused on holding sterile and undemocratic plebiscites.

Among the proposals, Hernández Rivera highlighted promoting credit for salaries, benefits and investments made in Puerto Rico.

“These credits can be promoted like the content in the Territory Economic Development Tax Credit Act, filed in the federal Senate, to attract investment and create jobs, as we did with Section 936,” he said.

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Summit calls attention to increasing abandonment of elderly in hospitals

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ith the participation of most mental health hospitals, general hospitals, and institutions related to the health industry, the Puerto Rico Hospital Association held the “2023 Mental Health Summit,” an event that spotlighted the theme of the abandonment of elderly patients in hospitals and the lack of care centers for them.

Among the many in attendance at the meeting was prominent psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Fisher, key developer of the “Emotional CPR” method, who offered alternatives for those who wish to help a person with mental health problems.

“Executives of general and mental health hospitals were able to take the first steps to agree on the problem

The 2023 Mental Health Summit spotlighted the rising rates of abandonment of elderly patients in hospitals and the lack of care centers for them.

of abandoned patients in hospital institutions, many of them elderly and patients admitted involuntarily [by court order],” said Marta Rivera Plaza, president of the Hospital Association’s Mental Health Committee and CEO of the San Juan Capestrano Hospital System. “This summit offered new alternatives for collaboration and exposure of the issue of abandoned patients and those not claimed by their families.”

Rivera Plaza added that “the participation of the world-renowned Dr. Daniel Fisher at the summit unleashed great enthusiasm since this doctor is one of the developers of the ‘Emotional CPR’ method, a public health educational program that trains people to assist others who are going through a mental or emotional crisis.”

She said the professional meeting was “aimed at training attendees with mental health strategies to help women in perinatal and postpartum stages.”

“The issue of managing the mental health of the workforce, crises at work and even dealing with legal situations was discussed extensively,” Rivera Plaza said.

It was also agreed to follow up on all the issues discussed at the summit so that the effort achieved has an impact on hospital institutions, workplaces and the population, especially those that are linked to the treatment and education of the issue of mental health.

“It is important to emphasize that the central theme of the summit was the serious problem that is being created with demographic ancestry and tenure in the elderly population,” said Pedro González, executive vice president of the Hospital Association. “The country, its institutions, whether government, private companies and health organizations, must prepare to face the increase in the number of older

adults, which is increasing every day. This is something that we have to discuss and look for alternatives since every day the number of elderly patients who are abandoned or unclaimed in our hospital institutions is increasing.”

“In the same way,” he continued, “we must all cooperate so that more options, homes or institutions are achieved to place older people who need medical care. Many times hospitals delay the discharge order of an older adult patient because they do not have an alternative to place that person who due to their health condition needs special care.”

“In that aspect, the places for this type of care are limited; there are not many options and that worries the professionals who work in hospitals,” González said. “Our institutions are not homes for the elderly; however, we cannot throw these people out on the street who are not claimed by their families or guardians.”

The real need to address the mental wellness of patient care professionals was also a topic of special concern at the summit.

“It is important to provide support in the area of mental health so that these caregivers can offer their best abilities in the care of a patient,” González said. “Especially in the care of elderly patients, coordinated actions are required, a public policy strategy that supports all components joining forces to train caregivers on their role, since an accelerated increase in the number of people who will be part of the elderly population is on the horizon. Centers that offer health care and help must immediately address the issue of mental health of patient caregivers, as it is a very stressed, intense and exhausting field for those responsible for the care of an elderly person.”

House to vote on appropriations bill for community projects

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he U.S. House of Representatives will take House Resolution 4820, which contains funding for seven community projects from Puerto Rico, to the floor this week.

The measure is called the Departments of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2024.

“This measure contains seven community projects that we submitted and the Appropriations Committee approved and now go to the full House vote,” Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón said over the weekend.

“As a congresswoman, I had the opportunity again this year to choose projects through which municipalities and nonprofit organizations, among other entities, benefit. I am very pleased that these funds, totaling $8.75 million for the seven projects, would impact services

for low-income people and people with special needs, our senior population, and water infrastructure in the municipalities. I hope they will be approved this coming week.”

After the House votes on the legislation, if approved it would go to the Senate for consideration.

The resident commissioner provided a list of community projects that will go to vote this week: 1. Center for Help and Therapy for Children with Disabilities Inc. (Centro AYANI Inc.): consisting of $3.5 million in capital improvements and the equipping of three of its centers in the municipalities of Moca, Aguadilla and Camuy with solar panels, water well systems and improved accessibility in their parking lots.

2. Housing project for the elderly in Isabela. The House will decide whether to allocate $1.75 million for the rehabilitation and construction of the Ciudad de Oro Home

for the Elderly in the municipality of Isabela.

3. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico: $1 million for the rehabilitation of a building in Arecibo to be used as a community center of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico.

4. Fundación Alas a la Mujer Inc.: $750,000 for structural improvements and rehabilitation of a temporary emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence in the municipality of Utuado. It would also house victims from Adjuntas, Jayuya, Lares, and the central region of Puerto Rico.

5. The construction of a housing complex and center for the elderly in Barceloneta: $750,000 for the construction of a housing center for low-income seniors who receive assistance from the Section 8 program, in the municipality of Barceloneta. The facilities will, in turn, serve as a senior center with common recreation areas and to offer services to the

senior population.

6. Construction of a water pumping station in Yauco: $500,000 for the construction of a new water pumping station in the Duey neighborhood in the municipality of Yauco. The new station would connect a well to a drinking water distribution system. It would directly serve eight communities, thus supporting essential services in the rural area of the municipality.

7. San Germán Children’s Home Shelter Project: $500,000 for the planning, design and construction of the San Germán Children’s Home Shelter facilities that will help its expansion and increase the capacity of the nonprofit organization.

This year, U.S. House lawmakers once again had the opportunity to submit community projects for consideration by the Appropriations Committee. Between fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the resident commissioner secured $21.8 million for 15 community projects.

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NASA Europa Clipper Mission personnel to visit island this week

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ore than 200 scientists and engineers from the NASA Europa Clipper Mission and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory will visit Puerto Rico this week to hold educational activities and plan the launch of a ship in October 2024.

NASA’s Europa Clipper is slated to conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter’s moon Europa and investigate whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life.

The mission will place a spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter in order to perform a detailed investigation of Europa -- a world that shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust and which could host conditions favorable to life. The mission will send a highly capable, radiation-tolerant spacecraft into a long, looping orbit around Jupiter to perform repeated close flybys of the icy moon, according to NASA’s website.

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will place a spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter in order to perform a detailed investigation of Europa -- a moon that shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust and which could host conditions favorable to life. (Image courtesy of NASA)

“The NASA Europa Clipper team is very excited to be able to make an alliance with the University of Puerto Rico [UPR] to hold a day of educational activities,” NASA Europa Clipper Mission Scientific Director Robert Pappalardo said.

NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director Lori Glaze will attend meetings at the Hotel Condado Plaza in San Juan.

In addition, six students from UPR will participate throughout the week.

Gerardo Morell, director of the NASA Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortium, said: “We believe that Puerto Rico has been recognized as a center for the development of scientists and engineers for space exploration missions.”

Educational activities are scheduled for Wednesday at El Morro, with the “Astronomy Observation Night” from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Friday, events and activities will take place at the Hotel Condado Plaza.

For more details on the visit, those interested can contact Laura Quiñones, manager of projects at UPR.

PDP president asks suspended Mayagüez mayor to resign

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opular Democratic Party (PDP) President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González has asked suspended Mayagüez Mayor José Guillermo “Guillito” Rodríguez Rodríguez to resign as he faces trial on charges of conspiracy and embezzlement of public funds.

After noting that “the process that the mayor will face requires his full attention,” Ortiz González said in a written statement that he had spoken with the mayor and had expressed that “in order to dedicate his efforts to address his personal and family situation, as well as to make viable the work that we have to do as a party a year before the elections, the most appropriate thing is for him to resign from his position and continue focused on the process that is coming.”

Ortiz González said he hopes Rodríguez will do what’s best for himself, his family, Mayagüez and the PDP.

“To the popular leadership of Mayagüez, I call on you to reflect on the responsibility that we all have. This is not the time for personal agendas,” Ortiz González said. “Now it is up to us to work with determination in our reorganization and prepare the community for the upcoming electoral event.”

Judge Héctor López Sánchez found cause for trial last Friday against Rodríguez and Mayagüez’s municipal finance director, Yahaira Valentín Andrade.

The allegations are related to the diversion of $9.8 million earmarked for phases 5 and 6 of the Mayagüez Trauma Center project.The funds, granted by the island Legislature, were deposited into an investment account in New York.

The trial is scheduled to begin on Dec. 22.

“I am the mayor of Mayagüez, I am at the end of my fouryear term, and we will make determinations when I have to make them,” the mayor said Friday.

Mayagüez Mayor José Guillermo Rodríguez Rodríguez

US Forest Service to provide orientation to potential businesses in El Yunque

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he U.S. Forest Service on Thursday will provide potential tourism service providers in El Yunque National Forest with orientation on how to submit proposals for new businesses in the environs of the forest.

“We invite interested individuals to review the prospectus document and submit their proposal within the deadline,” said the Forest Service in a written statement late last week.

The orientation will take place from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday at Solidarity Headquarters in El Yunque National Forest’s El Portal visitor center.

To support the applicants, the Forest Service, along with Vitrina Solidaria, will offer guidance and technical assistance to complete the documentation and writing of the proposal in English. The orientation will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at Solidarity Headquarters, located in the El Portal visitor center in El Yunque.

Space for in-person orientation is limited to 25 spots. Interested parties must register online. There will also be a virtual option via Zoom. The link for virtual participation will be sent by email after registration.

The deadline to submit proposals is Jan. 16, 2024.

For more details, those interested can visit the official website and social networks of the El Yunque National Forest or send an email to SM.FS.EYNFSU@USDA.GOV.

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Trump leads in 5 critical states as voters blast Biden, Times/Siena poll finds

Campaign posters on the chairs ahead of former President Donald Trump’s remarks at a rally in Waterloo, Iowa, on Oct. 7, 2023.

By SHANE GOLDMACHER

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resident Joe Biden is trailing Donald Trump in five of the six most important battleground states one year before the 2024 election, suffering from enormous doubts about his age and deep dissatisfaction over his handling of the economy and a host of other issues, new polls by The New York Times and Siena College have found.

The results show Biden losing to Trump, his likeliest Republican rival, by margins of 3 to 10 percentage points among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Biden is ahead only in Wisconsin, by 2 percentage points, the poll found.

Across the six battlegrounds — all of which Biden carried in 2020 — the president trails by an average of 48% to 44%.

Discontent pulsates throughout the Times/Siena poll, with a majority of voters saying Biden’s policies have personally hurt them. The survey also reveals the extent to which the multiracial and multigenerational coalition that elected Biden is fraying. Demographic groups that backed Biden by landslide margins in 2020 are now far more closely contested, as two-thirds of the electorate sees the country moving in the wrong direction.

Voters younger than 30 favor Biden by only a single percentage point, his lead among Hispanic voters is down to single

digits and his advantage in urban areas is half of Trump’s edge in rural regions. And while women still favored Biden, men preferred Trump by twice as large a margin, reversing the gender advantage that had fueled so many Democratic gains in recent years.

Black voters — long a bulwark for Democrats and for Biden — are now registering 22% support in these states for Trump, a level unseen in presidential politics for a Republican in modern times.

Add it all together, and Trump leads by 10 points in Nevada, 6 in Georgia, 5 in Arizona, 5 in Michigan and 4 in Pennsylvania. Biden held a 2-point edge in Wisconsin.

In a remarkable sign of a gradual racial realignment between the two parties, the more diverse the swing state, the further Biden was behind, and he led only in the whitest of the six.

Biden and Trump are both deeply — and similarly — unpopular, according to the poll. But voters who overwhelmingly said the nation was on the wrong track are taking out their frustrations on the president.

Biden still has a year to turn the situation around. Economic indicators are up even if voters do not agree with them. Trump remains polarizing. And Biden’s well-funded campaign will aim to shore up his demographic weak spots. The president’s advisers have repeatedly noted that Democrats successfully limited the party’s losses in 2022 despite

Biden’s poor approval ratings at the time.

Still, the survey shows how Biden begins the next year at a deficit even though Trump has been indicted on criminal charges four times and faces trial in 2024. If the results in the poll were the same next November, Trump would be poised to win more than 300 Electoral College votes, far above the 270 needed to take the White House.

Another ominous sign for Democrats is that voters across all income levels felt that Biden’s policies had hurt them personally, while they credited Trump’s policies for helping them. The results were mirror opposites: Voters gave Trump a 17-point advantage for having helped them and Biden an 18-point disadvantage for having hurt them.

For Biden, who turns 81 later this month, being the oldest president in American history stands out as a glaring liability. An overwhelming 71% said he was “too old” to be an effective president — an opinion shared across every demographic and geographic group in the poll, including a remarkable 54% of Biden’s own supporters.

In contrast, only 19% of supporters of Trump, who is 77, viewed him as too old, and 39% of the electorate overall.

Concerns about the president’s advancing age and mental acuity — 62% also said Biden does not have the “mental sharpness” to be effective — are just the start of a sweeping set of Biden weaknesses in the survey results.

Voters, by a 59% to 37% margin, said they better trusted Trump over Biden on the economy, the largest gap of any issue. The preference for Trump on economic matters spanned the electorate, among both men and women, those with college degrees and those without them, every age range and every income level.

That result is especially problematic for Biden because nearly twice as many voters said economic issues would determine their 2024 vote compared with social issues, such as abortion or guns. And those economic voters favored Trump by a landslide 60% to 32%.

The findings come after Biden’s campaign has run millions of dollars in ads promoting his record, and as the president continues to tour the country to brag about the state of the economy. “Folks, Bidenomics is just another way of saying the American dream!” Biden declared Wednesday on a trip to Minnesota.

Voters clearly disagree. Only 2% of voters said the economy was excellent.

Voters younger than 30 — a group that strongly voted for Biden in 2020 — said they trusted Trump more on the economy by an extraordinary 28 percentage-point margin after years of inflation and now high interest rates that have made mortgages far less affordable. Less than 1% of poll respondents younger than 30 rated the current economy as excellent, including zero poll respondents in that age group in three states: Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin.

In 2020, Biden’s path to victory had been rebuilding the so-called blue wall in the Rust Belt states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and then expanding the map in the diversifying Sun Belt states of Arizona and Georgia.

The poll shows that Biden is notably stronger in the industrial northern states than in the more diverse Sun Belt.

And his vulnerabilities stretch across an expansive set of issues.

Voters preferred Trump over Biden on immigration by 12 points, on national security by 12 points and on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by 11 points. And though a 58% majority supported more economic and military aid to Ukraine — which aligns with Biden’s policy — that did not seem to benefit the president on broader questions of fitness to handle foreign affairs.

“I don’t think he’s the right guy to go toe to toe with these other world leaders that don’t respect him or fear him,” said Travis Waterman, 33, who worked in home restoration in Phoenix. He voted for Biden in 2020 but sees him as “weak” now and prefers Trump.

The gender gap on national security was enormous. Men preferred Trump 62% to 33%; women preferred Biden 47% to 46%.

Biden’s strongest issue was abortion, where voters trusted him over Trump by 9 percentage points. Biden also maintained the trust of voters by an even slimmer margin of 3 points over Trump on the more amorphous handling of “democracy.”

The New York Times/Siena College polls of 3,662 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were conducted by telephone using live operators from Oct. 22 to Nov. 3, 2023. When all states are combined, the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 1.8 percentage points. The margin of sampling error for each state is between 4.4 and 4.8 percentage points.

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DeSantis and Trump bring their campaign battle home to Florida

By MICHAEL GOLD and NICHOLAS NEHAMAS

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hen Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the stage at a state Republican Party event in Kissimmee on Saturday, he strode in front of a giant screen that proclaimed “Florida Is DeSantis Country.”

Hours later, when it was former President Donald Trump’s turn, the backdrop instead broadcast a forceful rebuttal: “Florida Is Trump Country.”

Both men were well received. But by the end of the night, Trump’s slogan rang truer.

During his speech, Trump, the frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary, aggressively attacked DeSantis, who once seemed like his most formidable rival. He called DeSantis names and described him as weak and disloyal to a crowd that laughed at a popular governor who once appeared infallible in his home state.

Yet DeSantis had not even mentioned the former president in his own speech, even after questioning Trump’s manhood on a conservative news network this past week.

Instead, he shied away from his recent outspokenness against his rival and returned to the veiled swipes that characterized the race’s early months.

Trump and DeSantis have circled each other on the campaign trail for months but have rarely appeared on the same stage. Saturday’s event, the Florida Freedom Summit, brought their political tussle into full view.

It also emphasized a dynamic that has become one of DeSantis’ largest political hurdles. Even as his rivalry with Trump has defined the Republican primary for months, the former president’s grip on the party has not loosened, while DeSantis has been losing ground.

DeSantis’ reluctance to single out Trump on Saturday was all the more striking because the other candidates who spoke throughout the day were willing to do so.

Vivek Ramaswamy, 38, said he was better positioned than Trump to reach younger voters. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said that Republicans had underperformed in multiple elections under Trump’s leadership.

Scott also took aim at DeSantis’ campaign, saying that the governor had entered the race as a “historically strong candidate with all the advantages” but had drastically bled support.

DeSantis’ falling stature was made evident earlier in the day when six Republican

state lawmakers said that they would shift their endorsements from DeSantis to Trump, a move first reported by The Messenger.

The defections came days after Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, DeSantis’ predecessor with whom he has a frosty relationship, said that he would back Trump.

DeSantis dismissed the significance of the legislators’ about-face.

“Look, this happens in these things,” he told reporters Saturday after signing the paperwork to file for the Florida primary. “We’ve had flips the other way in other states. It’s a dynamic thing. I mean, politicians do what they’re going to do.”

But Trump made a point of bringing his new supporters onstage early in his speech, emphasizing how he was chipping away at DeSantis’ core base.

He also portrayed DeSantis as having desperately sought his endorsement in 2018, saying that DeSantis had come to him with “tears flowing from his eyes,” and took credit for his political rise. Trump has made such attacks a mainstay of his stump speech.

“It’s so disloyal,” Trump said of DeSantis’ decision to enter the 2024 race. And voters, he said, “care about loyalty.” The crowd whooped in affirmation.

The crowd seemed to be on DeSantis’ side only when Trump discussed the coronavirus pandemic. As he rattled off the states whose Republican governors he believed

best handled COVID-19, he conspicuously left out one.

Members of the crowd filled in the blank: “Florida,” they shouted. Trump simply smirked and shrugged.

During his time onstage earlier in the afternoon, DeSantis at times appeared to be operating within an alternate reality. He did not acknowledge Trump’s position in the race.

His claim that Florida is “DeSantis Country” — certainly accurate when he won reelection by nearly 20 percentage points last year — ignored polling averages that show Trump 35 points ahead of him in the state.

And while DeSantis opened his speech by joking that he did not need a teleprompter, a jab at President Joe Biden, he frequently looked down at his notes as he spoke.

Trump’s hold on Republicans in Florida was evident at the summit. The audience responded with booming cheers as he rattled off his accomplishments and attacked Biden.

No other candidate received such resounding support.

Mark Spowage, 73, said he had considered DeSantis a Republican “golden boy” after he received Trump’s endorsement as governor. But his opinion of DeSantis plummeted when he announced that he was challenging Trump — a shift shared by many of Trump’s loyal followers.

“How does he think he has the right to do that?” Spowage, a software engineer, as-

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida met a friendly reception at the Florida Freedom Summit on Saturday, but former President Donald J. Trump’s jabs at the governor were well received by a crowd that laughed at Mr. DeSantis’s expense.

ked of DeSantis. “Because from my position, Trump was ordained, like someone that God has anointed to somehow take responsibility.

For him to stand up to Trump, wow.”

Many Republicans in the state have been privately whispering that DeSantis seems weaker at home than ever before, and Trump’s allies have said they are recruiting more defectors.

DeSantis is now regularly ridiculed by his onetime ally, Trump. Memes poke fun at his unfortunate moments on the campaign trail, including a controversy over whether DeSantis wears lifts in his boots. (He says he does not.)

A spokesperson for DeSantis’ campaign pointed out that he still has many more endorsements from state legislators in Florida, as well as in New Hampshire and Iowa, the first nominating states.

Trump, however, remains widely popular with voters in those states. And though DeSantis has staked his campaign on a strong showing in Iowa, a recent survey found him tied there with Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina. She has edged him out in polls in New Hampshire as well.

Haley was originally scheduled to speak at Saturday’s summit but did not attend. Her campaign did not answer questions about her absence.

Trump will again try to overshadow DeSantis on Wednesday, when the governor and other GOP rivals take part in the third Republican debate in Miami. The former president, who has announced that he will instead hold a rally in Hialeah, is skipping the debate once again, a decision DeSantis sharply criticized earlier this week but did not mention Saturday.

“If Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate, I’ll wear a boot on my head,” DeSantis said in an interview on Newsmax on Thursday.

But the crowd at the summit was clearly in no mood to hear any digs at the former president, and candidates who criticized Trump were heckled. When former Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said that he believed Trump would probably be found guilty in one of the criminal cases he was facing, the boos were ferocious.

And Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey who has become an outspoken Trump critic, was jeered immediately after he took the stage.

Christie was not dissuaded, firing back at the crowd, “Your anger against the truth is reprehensible.”

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Obama urges Americans to take in ‘whole truth’ of Israel-Gaza war

By LISA LERER

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arack Obama offered a complex analysis of the conflict between Israel and Gaza, telling thousands of former aides that they were all “complicit to some degree” in the current bloodshed.

“I look at this, and I think back, ‘What could I have done during my presidency to move this forward, as hard as I tried?’” he said in an interview conducted by his former staffers for their podcast, Pod Save America. “But there’s a part of me that’s still saying, ‘Well, was there something else I could have done?’”

Obama entered the White House convinced he could be the president who would resolve the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. He left office after years of friction and mistrust with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was frustrated by Obama’s masterminding of the Iran nuclear deal and by his demands that Israel suspend new settlements.

In his comments Friday, delivered at a gathering of his former staff in Chicago, Obama acknowledged the strong emotions the war had raised, saying that “this is century-old

stuff that’s coming to the fore.” He blamed social media for amplifying the divisions and reducing a thorny international dispute to what he viewed as sloganeering.

Yet he urged his former aides to “take in the whole

Israeli soldiers salute at the funeral of Yuval Zilber, an Israeli soldier who was killed during military operations in the Gaza Strip, in Neta’im, Israel, on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023.

truth,” seemingly attempting to strike a balance between the killings on both sides.

“What Hamas did was horrific, and there’s no justification for it,” Obama said. “And what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable.”

He continued: “And what is also true is that there is a history of the Jewish people that may be dismissed unless your grandparents or your great-grandparents, or your uncle or your aunt tell you stories about the madness of antisemitism. And what is true is that there are people right now who are dying, who have nothing to do with what Hamas did.”

Still, Obama appeared to acknowledge the limits of his musings about bridging divides and embracing complexity.

“Even what I just said, which sounds very persuasive, still doesn’t answer the fact of, all right, how do we prevent kids from being killed today?” he said. “But the problem is that if you are dug in on that, well, the other side is dug in remembering the videos that Hamas took or what they did on the 7th, and they’re dug in, too, which means we will not stop those kids from dying.”

Thousands across US protest Israel’s retaliation in Gaza

By ALAN BLINDER and KAYLA GUO

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housands of demonstrators filled the streets of Washington and other cities across America on Saturday to protest the scope and scale of Israel’s retaliation in the Gaza Strip for last month’s terrorist assault by Hamas.

Saturday’s marches, organized in cities including New York; Nashville, Tennessee; Cincinnati; Las Vegas; and San Francisco, extended a stretch of loud calls for a cease-fire and lifting of the siege, following vast demonstrations a week ago in Asian and European capitals.

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fight against Hamas, but as Israel escalates attacks on Gaza, U.S. support for Palestinian civilians has surged as well.

In a poll released by Quinnipiac University on Thursday, 84% of voters said they were concerned that the United States would be drawn militarily into the Middle East conflict. Nonetheless, a 51% majority supported sending more military aid to Israel for their campaign against Hamas, and 71% supported humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The demonstrations Saturday reflected the constellation of causes and groups that have long connected themselves to Palestinian politics, including student organizations, labor unions and anti-war campaigns.

In Washington, the number of attendees was not clear Saturday afternoon, but the streets swelled with demonstrators, and the crowd was dense. Some of the areas of the rally were rowdy, while others were more sedate.

At one spot, a man wearing a Palestinian flag as a cape climbed up a traffic light and yelled, “Free, free Palestine!” to a drumbeat below. A calmer segment of protesters sat quietly at the World War I Memorial, holding up signs and Palestinian flags and looking on at Freedom Plaza, where chants and cheers abounded.

Some protesters on the edges of the demonstration sat on a ledge outside the White House Visitor Center, their message to President Joe Biden clear. “Stop U.S.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march from Herald Square towards the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan on Nov. 4, 2023. military aid to Israel,” their signs read. Another said, “You lost my vote.”

Well before the protest’s scheduled start, many lifted placards high, broadcasting messages including “Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living” and “Let Gaza live!” A coffin shrouded in a Palestinian flag rested on the ground, not far from where more than a dozen adults and children stretched out another flag. Around 1 p.m., a Muslim call to prayer sounded through the plaza.

Many of the demonstrators, who had been milling about, turned still.

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New Jersey’s first lady positions herself to run for Menéndez’s seat

By TRACEY TULLY

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alled off and under renovation for nearly six years, the governor’s wing in New Jersey’s 231-year-old State House reopened in April after a gut rehab that was years overdue.

The Democratic governor, Phil Murphy, moved into a hub of elegantly appointed rooms on the first floor. His wife, Tammy Murphy, took over a maze of offices roughly as large, one flight up. Her prominent spot in the State House underscored their close partnership, a bond each has said propels their 30-year marriage and has helped to define the governor’s two terms in Trenton.

Still, that did not stop some Capitol staff members from wryly dubbing it the his-andher suite and noting that her expansive new work space dwarfed the office she had been using before.

Now, Tammy Murphy is preparing to expand her reach even further, laying the groundwork to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by New Jersey’s embattled senior senator, Robert Menendez, next year. Menendez, facing federal bribery charges, has insisted he will not resign and has not ruled out seeking reelection. But he has been abandoned by nearly every leading Democrat in the state, including Phil Murphy, leaving Menendez an extremely difficult path to victory and creating the likelihood of a rare open seat in the Senate.

Tammy Murphy, 58, has quickly stepped into that looming void. She is assembling a campaign team, alerting prominent political leaders about her interest in running and polling voters, according to interviews with more than two dozen state and national Democratic officials, strategists and people close to the Murphys.

If elected, she would be New Jersey’s first female senator and the only governor’s spouse ever sent directly to the U.S. Senate by voters, according to the U.S. Senate Historical Office.

If she enters the race as expected after this week’s legislative contests, she will join a long roster of unconventional candidates who have run for Congress. By many measures her campaign would be even less traditional than most.

She would run as a Democrat in a blue state, but she regularly voted as a Republican until 2014, even as her husband was finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the ambassador to Germany appointed

by President Barack Obama.

She has been a champion for improving New Jersey’s poor maternal and infant morta-

lity rates and played key roles in both of her husband’s campaigns. But she describes herself as a homemaker on tax forms and has never held elected office.

Tammy Murphy, through an aide, declined an interview request.

She will have at least one well-tested Democratic opponent if she enters the primary: Rep. Andy Kim, a third-term congressman, who announced his plans to challenge Menendez more than a month ago.

‘The engine room’ Before Phil Murphy was sworn in for a second term after a narrow reelection victory, Josh Murphy, the couple’s eldest son, took the mic and called his mother “the engine room.”

“Without her,” he said, “the show actually does not go on.”

Few of the Trenton insiders gathered that day in the War Memorial, a national historic site across the street from the State House, would have doubted the quip’s accuracy.

Tammy Murphy is widely known for her willingness to raise campaign contributions for Democrats and as the energetic leader of Nurture NJ, a state initiative focused on improving maternal-related death rates.

In May former Vice President Al Gore appointed her to the board of his Climate Reality Project, and she was instrumental in winning support for new education standards that require climate change be incorporated into lessons across New Jersey’s public school curriculum.

There is also often an actual show. She wore a bunny costume to wish Facebook friends a happy but socially distant Easter during the COVID-19 pandemic’s early days. She reads aloud to children during Tammy’s Tremendous Tuesday Tales. On the trade trip, she paused for photos with her husband before they jogged through Seoul, South Korea, and Taipei, Taiwan, in matching T-shirts.

Tammy Murphy worked in New York as an analyst for Goldman Sachs for about three years, until March 1990. She left to work at investment firms in London, but quit to marry Phil Murphy in 1994 and move to Frankfurt, Germany, where he was working at the time.

Four years later, after the birth of their first child, they began to throw down roots in New Jersey, buying a $6 million estate in Red Bank, near the Jersey Shore. The annual property taxes on the home are $179,000, roughly twice the state’s average household income.

For the next 15 years, Tammy Murphy voted regularly in Republican primaries, Monmouth County election records show.

Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) speaks to community members in Montclair, N.J., on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. Kim announced plans to run for the Senate a day after Sen. Robert Menendez was charged with accepting bribes.

In June 2008, when Obama was running in the state’s Democratic presidential primary against former Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tammy Murphy voted in the Republican primary. Obama went on to win the race, and Phil Murphy, then the DNC’s national finance chair, was named ambassador to Germany, a position he held until 2013.

Tammy Murphy continued to vote in Republican primaries by mail in 2010, 2012 and 2013 and in person in 2014, according to a voter profile obtained through a public records request.

During the same years, she was also donating generously to Democrats across the country.

Tammy Murphy said during her husband’s first campaign that she had been raised in a conservative community in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and she acknowledged voting as a Republican until souring on the party over her concerns about the environment, gun violence and access to abortion.

News articles at the time suggested the shift had occurred in the mid-2000s. But election records show that she did not join the Democratic Party until August 2014, three years before Phil Murphy was elected.

Aides to Tammy Murphy declined to answer questions about her voting history and party affiliation.

‘What kind of person comes next?’

Were Tammy Murphy to win the June primary, she would square off next November against a Republican hoping to break the Democrats’ four-decade Senate winning streak.

In addition to Kim, other Democrats are already in the race, and more are considering it. Kyle Jasey, a real estate lender and first-time candidate, announced his campaign before Menendez was indicted. Kim jumped in a day

after the senator was charged with accepting bribes in exchange for steering weapons and aid to Egypt and trying to quash criminal cases for allies.

“There is a palpable hunger for a new generation of leadership,” said Kim, 41, a former national security adviser under Obama.

His candidacy, he said, offered voters a “course correction.”

“What does the Democratic Party show the people as it moves on from this scandal?”

Kim said about the claims of political corruption dogging Menendez. “What kind of person comes next?”

The line In New Jersey primary races, it is often political leaders from the state’s densely populated northern counties who have the most say. That is because they control who gets to run on the so-called line — a ballot placement that is often tantamount to victory.

It is these party leaders whom the Murphys have been courting most aggressively, according to three people familiar with the conversations who did want to be identified saying anything that could be considered critical of the governor.

The leaders of two northern counties, Essex and Middlesex, have jobs as lobbyists with business before the state, limiting the likelihood that they might openly oppose a governor with two years left in his term — and control over the next two multibillion-dollar state budgets.

The Democratic chair in Bergen County, the state’s most populous county, was chosen

by Phil Murphy in February for a coveted job leading the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. And a Democratic candidate for Hudson County executive recently posted a picture with Tammy Murphy on social media.

Still, there is no guarantee that Murphy would glide to victory even if she garnered the widespread institutional support her supporters and detractors agree she is likely to get as a powerful governor’s wife.

Chris Russell, a political strategist who ran the campaign of the Republican incumbent Kim beat to win a first congressional term in 2019, said it would be unwise to underestimate Kim or his “Clark Kent-type” persona, particularly in the wake of a scandal.

“After what is alleged about Sen. Menendez — about how he’s abused his office — the idea that it’s an inside job to put the governor’s wife into a U.S. Senate seat is not likely to be well received by the base of either party,” Russell said.

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Wild ride and dizzying crash for reluctant king of crypto

Sam Bankman-Fried speaks at the Crypto Bahamas conference in Nassau on April 27, 2022. The crypto king gambled that his trading platform would make him a benevolent trillionaire, but after a fraud conviction, all bets are off.

By DAVID STREITFELD

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here comes a moment in the development of a new technology when the hype is so common it passes for common sense. Lawyers, accountants and regulators are nowhere to be found. Investors insist entrepreneurs take their money.

The world trembles on the brink of change.

For dot-coms, the moment was 1999.

For artificial intelligence, it was just over nine months ago. For cryptocurrency, it was 2017.

Six years ago, Sam Bankman-Fried knew little about alternative currencies. But he correctly bet there were huge opportunities in grabbing a tiny piece of millions of crypto trades. In the blink of an eye, he was lauded as being worth $23 billion. Only Mark Zuckerberg had accumulated so much wealth so young.

The Facebook co-founder has his critics, but he looks like Thomas Edison next to Bankman-Fried. After a speedy trial in Manhattan federal court, the onetime crypto king, now 31, was convicted late last week of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy involving his companies FTX and Alameda Research.

Bankman-Fried once partied with stars and big shots, doled out fortunes in looted funds to politicians and himself, was acclai-

med as the next Warren Buffett, employed his friends and made them rich for a while, was courted by the news media that printed his most banal comments. For a time, everyone loved Sam Bankman-Fried — with the apparent exception of Sam Bankman-Fried.

“I am, and for most of my adult life have been, sad.” That plaintive statement appears at the end of testimony BankmanFried had hoped to give Congress last winter before his arrest scuttled his plans. He was onto something.

In photographs from his heyday, Bankman-Fried always looked awkward, embarrassed and as if he would rather be playing a video game, even when Gisele Bündchen had an arm around him. Everyone kept insisting he was off-the-charts brilliant, the entrepreneur who would create the future.

Maybe he knew better.

As journalists — and now prosecutors — have made clear, FTX and Alameda were run by a group of hapless young people who did not have the required skills, maturity or patience. Those who actually had a moral compass and sensed something was wrong soon peeled off, leaving a core crew who drifted — or perhaps dived — into trouble.

“When I started working at Alameda, I don’t think I would have believed you if you told me I would be sending false ba-

lance sheets to our lenders or taking customer money, but over time it was something I became more comfortable with,” Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried’s colleague and sometime girlfriend, testified during the trial.

When Ellison started working at Alameda, something called the blockchain was going to transform everything, somehow.

Silicon Valley poured billions into crypto, seeking out those like Bankman-Fried who got in early and appeared smart.

Sequoia Capital, a top venture firm that has funded Apple, Airbnb, Instagram and WhatsApp, all but begged BankmanFried to take its money during the mad rush when crypto was shiny and new. The FTX founder did. Sequoia then commissioned a very long celebration of Bankman-Fried by Adam Fisher, a longtime Silicon Valley writer who fell hard for the man whose fans called him SBF. “After my interview with S.B.F., I was convinced: I was talking to a future trillionaire,” Fisher wrote. He added: “The FTX competitive advantage? Ethical behavior.”

Less than two months after the interview was published, FTX collapsed. Sequoia put a note at the top of the story saying this was an “unexpected turn of events.” It later took the story down and wrote off its $214 million investment in the exchange. Sequoia and Fisher declined to comment.

The central myth of Silicon Valley is that techies are here to save the world. If they get insanely rich in the process, well, that only proves how great their idea was in the first place.

This was the appeal of Elizabeth Holmes and her blood-testing company, Theranos. She was young, female and attractive, which looked good on the covers of magazines. But the notion that really propelled her to fame and fortune was that she was a sort of high-tech Florence Nightingale, working all night to refine medical technology that would improve people’s health. (The truth was that her technology didn’t work and placed customers at risk by giving them unreliable results.)

FTX allowed people to bet on cryptocurrencies. It was, in essence, a casino. It is difficult for even the most sympathetic journalist to portray a casino as a savior of humanity, so the focus of the stories was always on Bankman-Fried himself.

He calculated the odds on everything

— he thought there was a 5% chance he would become president of the United States. He figured he would help humanity by making a fortune and then giving it all away, a philosophy known as effective altruism.

The details didn’t matter. As a fawning Forbes profile put it in 2021: “He’s a mercenary, dedicated to making as much money as possible (he doesn’t really care how) solely so he can give it away (he doesn’t really know to whom, or when).”

During the trial, it emerged that Bankman-Fried had spent $15 million on private plane travel. He never did much to disguise the fact that he lived with some of his FTX pals in a $35 million penthouse. The question of whether these young people should be sleeping on the beach instead of living the high life if they were truly following the doctrine of effective altruism never seemed to get asked.

In that glowing Sequoia profile, Bankman-Fried said: “I’m very skeptical of books.

I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.” He didn’t like movies either.

It’s impossible to read the sad saga of Bankman-Fried without thinking he, and many of those around him, would have been better off if they had spent less time at math camp and more time in English class.

Sometimes in books, the characters find their moral compass; in the best books, the reader does too.

As I read about Bankman-Fried, the historical drama “A Man for All Seasons,” once a staple for high school students, kept coming to mind. It’s about a man who knows right from wrong and a man who doesn’t.

Richard Rich is a little like Bankman-Fried: a young man with huge ambitions and no scruples. He begs Thomas More for a place at court. More tells Rich he would be a good teacher.

Who would know if I were a good teacher? Rich asks scornfully.

“You, your pupils, your friends, God,” More replies. “Not a bad public, that.”

Rich rejects the quiet life, betrays More and is rewarded with a post in Wales. Viewers are given to understand that he loses his soul. Bankman-Fried rejected the quiet life, betrayed nearly everyone he knew — and ended up with neither wealth nor Wales.

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As US job market cools, Fed’s own job gets easier

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lowing jobs growth and cooling wage pressures may give Federal Reserve policymakers renewed confidence the U.S. economy is adjusting from the shock of the coronavirus pandemic, allowing inflation to ease further without more interest rate rises.

That was the read from many analysts of the Labor Department report showing nonfarm payrolls increased by 150,000 last month, below the pre-pandemic trend for only the third time since December 2020, and hourly earnings rose 4.1% from a year earlier, the smallest increase since June 2021.

That was also the betting in financial markets. Bond yields fell, and traders of contracts tied to the Fed’s policy rate now see only about a 10% chance of a rate hike by January, down from 30% before the employment report. Rate futures pricing now reflects a better-than-even chance of a Fed rate cut by May 2024, with several more cuts expected later next year.

U.S. policymakers themselves are not even thinking about rate cuts, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said this week after the central bank kept its benchmark overnight interest rate steady in the 5.25%-5.50% range.

They are waiting for more confirmation the economy is coming into better balance after pandemic disruptions to the supply of goods and labor helped push inflation to 40year highs in 2022.

But Powell also signaled a further rate hike could yet be in the offing as he and his colleagues were not yet confident that monetary policy is restrictive enough to bring inflation down to the Fed’s 2% target. He cited the rise in longerterm borrowing costs, including the rise in 30-year fixed-rate mortgages to nearly 8%, as potentially doing some of the Fed’s work.

Friday’s drop in the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note to below 4.5% after the jobs report poses a problem that, if it continues, may actually bolster the case for another rate hike to ensure overall borrowing conditions do not loosen. So far, neither analysts nor Fed policymakers are framing the bond-yield drop itself as a spoiler.

“It’s too soon to call,” said Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, a skeptic of reading too much into financial market moves.

“We just need to keep watching the actual data to see, are we actually making enough progress to get inflation down to our 2% target,” he said, adding that the latest data “gives us more comfort that the economy is moving back into balance.”

A lot will hinge on inflation in the weeks leading up to the Fed’s Dec. 12-13 policy meeting. Investors and analysts largely expect price pressures to continue easing and the Fed to remain on hold as a long-awaited hiring slowdown appears to take shape.

The average monthly payrolls gain over the last three months has slowed to 204,000, the latest report showed, after peaking in the summer of 2021 at 708,000. That is nearing the average monthly gain of 183,000 in the decade

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leading up to the pandemic.

The report, Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin told CNBC, was “welcome to see” and backs up what he says businesses have been telling him.

“What I’ve been hearing is normalizing,” Barkin said, adding that key will be what inflation reports show in coming months.

Inflation by the Fed’s preferred measure has held

around 3.4% for the last couple of months, down from 7.1% last summer but still above its 2% goal.

Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic also said he’s closely watching inflation data, but told Bloomberg TV he feels that the fresh jobs data adds to his long-held view that for now rates are “sufficiently restrictive.”

SOFT LANDING After lifting the policy rate rapidly last year, Fed policymakers are seeking a stopping point that is high enough to bring inflation down but not so high that it does excessive damage to the labor market. Powell on Wednesday indicated the Fed is still steering toward what has been that historically elusive “soft landing” for the economy.

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Israel quietly pushed for Egypt to admit large numbers of Gazans

By PATRICK KINGSLEY

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srael has quietly tried to build international support in recent weeks for the transfer of several hundred thousand civilians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt for the duration of its war in the territory, according to six senior foreign diplomats.

Israeli leaders and diplomats have privately proposed the idea to several foreign governments, framing it as a humanitarian initiative that would allow civilians to temporarily escape the perils of Gaza for refugee camps in the Sinai Desert, just across the border in neighboring Egypt.

The suggestion was dismissed by most of Israel’s interlocutors — who include the United States and Britain — because of the risk that such a mass displacement could become permanent. These countries fear that such a development might destabilize Egypt and lock significant numbers of Palestinians out of their homeland, according to the diplomats, who spoke anonymously in order to discuss a sensitive matter more freely.

The idea has also been firmly rejected by Palestinians, who fear that Israel is using the war — which began Oct. 7 after terrorists from Gaza raided Israel and killed roughly 1,400 people — to permanently displace the more than 2 million people living in Gaza.

More than 700,000 Palestinians either fled or were expelled from their homes in what is now Israel during the war surrounding the creation of the state in 1948. Many of their descendants are now warning that the current war will end with a similar “nakba,” or catastrophe, as the 1948 migration is known in Arabic.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to comment on the proposal.

Days after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that oversees Gaza, the Israeli military called for all residents of northern Gaza — about half the entire population of the territory — to evacuate to southern Gaza as it prepared for a ground invasion. But Israel did not publicly suggest that Palestinians cross the Egyptian border, which has been largely sealed since the start of the war.

Egypt has rejected the idea of a temporary displacement, let alone a permanent one. A spokesperson for the Egyptian government declined to comment, referring instead to a speech made last month by Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, the Egyptian president, that dismissed idea.

“Egypt has affirmed and reiterated its complete rejection of the forced displacement of Palestinians and their exodus to Egyptian lands in Sinai, as this is nothing but a final liquidation of the Palestinian cause,” el-Sissi said in a speech published on his website.

Some of Netanyahu’s political allies, however, have publicly backed the idea of temporarily moving large numbers of Palestinians to Egypt as well as to other coun-

Israeli police and soldiers are confronted by protesters outside the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. tries in the region and in the West.

Danny Danon, a lawmaker from Netanyahu’s Likud party and a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said he supported evacuating civilians in Gaza to give Israel more room to maneuver during its ground invasion of Gaza, and to move civilians out of harm’s way.

“We’re trying to lower the level of casualties for our troops and for the civilians,” Danon said in a phone interview. “We expect not only the Egyptians, but the entire international community to make a genuine effort to support and accept the residents of Gaza.”

Danon added that the idea would need the agreement of the Egyptian government, which controls Gaza’s southern border. However, Danon is not a member of the government and could not confirm whether Israel had been pushing foreign governments to back such a plan.

Israel’s diplomatic push has added to a growing sense of uncertainty about what will happen if Israel takes control over parts or all of Gaza, even temporarily, at the end of its military operations.

Israeli ground forces invaded Gaza on Oct. 27, nearly three weeks after Hamas overran parts of southern Israel.

Israel’s stated goals are the dismantling of Hamas and the rescue of more than 240 civilians and soldiers captured by the group and its allies on Oct. 7. But Israeli officials have repeatedly said they are still assessing who should lead the enclave once those goals are achieved.

One proposal is to cede Gaza to an international force that could then help reconstruct its infrastructure and housing before handing it to the Palestinian Authority, a more moderate Palestinian institution that administers parts of the occupied West Bank. But the authority has said that it does not want to take over the territory unless Israel allows the creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank.

Some Israeli hard-liners advocate keeping control of Gaza and permanently expelling its Palestinian residents.

A Likud lawmaker, Ariel Kallner, has called for another nakba that would “overshadow” the original mass displacement in 1948.

“Right now, one goal: Nakba!” Kallner said on Oct. 8. “Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join!” he added.

Egypt plays a delicate role in Gaza — part border guard, part mediator, part aid facilitator — but it does not want to end up as the de facto administrator of the territory. After more than a decade of internal turmoil kicked off by the Arab Spring uprising, the country is now mired in a deep economic crisis and fears a large influx of Palestinians could be even more destabilizing.

Egypt fears that the sudden immigration of Palestinians could roil northern Sinai, where the Egyptian military has struggled to contain an Islamist insurgency, or that it could lead some Palestinians to launch attacks from Sinai into Israel, which could then draw Egypt into conflict with Israel.

Danon said that Israel did not intend to expel Palestinians from the enclave and that anyone who left would be allowed to return.

The defense minister, Yoav Gallant, said last month that Israel would not seek to maintain day-to-day control over Gaza after the invasion.

But the matter is still the subject of considerable discussion and disagreement within Israel’s government and governing coalition. Some members of Netanyahu’s coalition and officials in his government have expressly called for the permanent expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza.

A department within Israel’s Intelligence Ministry, which has no executive power, published a paper Oct. 13 recommending “the evacuation of the civilian population from Gaza to Sinai.” After the document was leaked to Local Call, an Israeli news outlet, the prime minister’s office confirmed the authenticity of the document — but said it was just a “preliminary paper.”

A far-right government minister, Amichay Eliyahu, said Wednesday that the Gaza Strip should be given to former Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza — or to former Israeli settlers who lived in the enclave before Israel withdrew from it in 2005. Then, on Sunday, Eliyahu said that Israel should consider dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza, an idea that drew condemnation from Netanyahu and other members of the government.

Video has also emerged of an Israeli military officer recently calling for Israel to reoccupy Gaza, as well as a separate video that shows a pop singer calling for the reoccupation of Gaza, prompting the approval of an audience of soldiers. In response, the Israeli military condemned the officer and said it was looking into the incident with the pop singer.

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‘I am dreaming it will stop’: A deadlocked war tests Ukrainian morale

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

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istening to the daily thud of artillery hitting nearby towns, a school principal in southern Ukraine appealed to parents for donations for a new bomb shelter.

A soldier and his girlfriend gave up hope that the war against Russia would end soon and decided to get engaged, despite not having any idea when he might come home.

A woman, depressed for months about the instability, decided to stop worrying and just imagine that peace would come next spring, maybe, along with the flower blossoms.

“I felt so helpless,” said the woman, Tetyana Kuksa, who works at a market in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. “I am dreaming it will stop.”

With Ukraine’s army stalled in trenches along the front line and a sense that weaponry from allies arrived too late and will now begin to dwindle, Ukrainians are increasingly pessimistic over prospects for a quick victory, polling and interviews show. Hopefulness, a linchpin of Ukraine’s fight against a much more powerful foe, has been dented.

The result is a nation preparing, with a sort of sober resignation, for life with war as a constant, and no end in sight.

It is a trend, not a waving of the white flag.

The vast majority of Ukrainians remain defiant, support President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and trust their military. The spirit that drove Ukrainian bartenders, truck drivers and university professors to enlist in the army after Russia invaded in February 2022 is still evident daily.

But recent polling shows that it has faded by several measures.

Readiness for a negotiated settlement with Russia has increased in a small but still significant way for the first time since the invasion began, polling and focus group studies show, rising to 14% from 10%, though the vast majority of Ukrainians still staunchly reject trading territory for peace.

Ukrainians were most hopeful, polls indicated, last winter, in the run-up to the counteroffensive in the south.

Trust in all institutions other than the army has since dropped, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, one of the country’s leading pollsters.

Trust in government fell from 74% in May to 39% in October, the period when the Ukrainian offensive began and then petered out, the institute found.

Ukraine’s last significant military gain, the reclaiming of Kherson city, came a year ago. Despite months of bloody trench fighting and tens of thousands of casualties, little land has changed hands since.

This week, Ukraine’s top military commander, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, provided a blunt assessment of the country’s near-term prospects, telling The Economist that the fighting had settled into a “stalemate.” Mechanized assaults are failing, he wrote, and without more advanced technological weaponry, a new, long phase of war would settle in.

It was a conclusion that Andriy Tkachyk, the mayor of the village of Tukhlia, in western Ukraine, had already drawn after volunteering to drive the bodies of soldiers from the front to their hometowns and organize funerals.

In conversations, he said, he heard of difficult, bloody battles just to hold positions, and complaints by war-weary soldiers that they lacked ammunition.

“The boys who are at the front are physically and psychologically tired,” Tkachyk said. “Very tired. This war will last a long time.

“Frustration is rising,” he said, including a sense that poor village boys are dying while civilians from wealthier families in the cities find ways to avoid conscription. Draft dodging is on the rise as men hide to avoid receiving notices or try to bribe officials at local recruiting centers.

“Every village has graves,” he said. “The situation is bad.”

Ukrainians who were once quick to express healthy skepticism about their government rallied around the flag when the fullscale war started, elevating trust in Zelenskyy, the army and nearly all institutions of their threatened state.

That, too, is fading with the stalled military advance, the daily shelling and the mounting casualties.

Trust in Zelenskyy, though still shared by a majority of Ukrainians, has slumped to 76% in October from 91% in May, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology survey showed. Other polls have shown Zelenskyy’s job approval ratings at 72%.

Only 48% of Ukrainians say they trust the government-controlled television news channel, called the Telemarafon, which aired upbeat reporting of the military operation in the south, the institute’s survey found.

The programming was intended to bolster Ukrainians’ morale as their army fought to push Russian forces from the coast of the Sea of Azov, but its divergence from events on

the ground ended up prompting skepticism among Ukrainians.

“We should be honest,” Anton Hrushetsky, the director of the Kyiv institute, said in an interview. “People are becoming pessimistic.”

Stress is rising, he said, as Ukrainians want to move on with their lives in safety but see no promising prospects.

Anger is rising toward government corruption at home and toward the country’s Western allies, who, in Ukrainians’ view, have slow-walked the delivery of weapons.

A survey commissioned by the European Union found the number of Ukrainians who say the West does not want Ukraine to win the war has doubled, to 30% from 15%, over the past year.

Fault lines are emerging, too, in the country’s domestic politics. Those who support Zelenskyy are more inclined to blame allies, while Zelenskyy’s political opponents draw attention to corruption at home.

Small protests broke out in October, revealing points of stress. Families of Ukrainian soldiers missing in action pressed the government for answers in a street demonstration in Kyiv. And in the capital and other cities, families of soldiers who have been in the army for the duration of the war protested to demand the government rotate them off the front. “It’s time others stepped up,” they chanted on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv.

Thwarted expectations of a summer military success largely lie behind the trend toward pessimism, the polling suggests.

After a winter of darkness last year when Russia targeted electrical power plants and transformer substations, leading to blackouts, Ukrainians felt hopeful as the power returned in the spring.

“We said, ‘Well, we managed. Everything is over. Now there will be a counteroffensive,’” said Andriy Liubka, a Ukrainian novelist. “We had this inspired optimism.”

Now families hear from soldiers in the trenches, where autumn rain is drenching them, and “life is like something from past historical eras” of hardship and violence, Liubka said.

The trenches are yielding a steady stream of dead and wounded. In their most recent estimate, U.S. officials said in August that about 70,000 Ukrainians had been killed in the war and that more than 100,000 had been wounded. The Ukrainian government does not provide casualty figures.

Many Ukrainians look with alarm at the politicization of military aid in the United States, Slovakia, Poland and other countries.

“A stage of great anxiety” has set in, Liubka said.

And yet any concession to Russia risks leaving millions of Ukrainians under occupation, facing potential repression, arrest and execution.

Ukrainian soldiers in a bus in Myrnohrad heading toward Avdiivka, a focal point of the fighting in eastern Ukraine, on Oct. 16, 2023. As winter approaches, Russian and Ukrainian forces are both trying to seize the initiative along different parts of the front.

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The new enemies of Argentina’s far right: Swifties and the BTS Army

By NATALIE ALCOBA

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avier Milei, a far-right libertarian economist, has stayed aloft in Argentina’s presidential campaign on the wings of the youth vote.

To win the runoff election this month, he will need to hold on to that key demographic, pollsters say. But now, a major hurdle stands in his way: Swifties.

Squadrons of Argentine fans of pop star Taylor Swift have gotten political. They have trained their online sights on Milei and his rising libertarian party, framing them as a danger to Argentina, while Swift herself is preparing to arrive in Argentina next week for the launch of her Eras Tour outside North America.

“Milei=Trump,” said one post from a group called Swifties Against Freedom Advances, which is the name of Milei’s party.

After Milei placed second in Argentina’s election last month, sending him to a runoff on Nov. 19, a group of 10 Argentine fans of Swift created the group and issued a news release calling on fellow fans to vote against Milei. They said they were inspired

by Swift’s past efforts to confront right-wing politicians in the United States.

“We cannot not fight after having heard and seen Taylor give everything so that the right doesn’t win in her country,” the group said in the statement. “As Taylor says, we have to be on the right side of history.”

The two-page missive was viewed 1.5 million times on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, before it suspended the group’s account without explanation, the group said.

In the statement, it called Milei’s positions against legal abortion, his support for

Macarena, a member of a group calling on fans of Taylor Swift to vote against the Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei, at home in Buenos Aires on Oct. 31, 2023. the loosening of gun laws and his proposals to overhaul public education and public health care as “a danger to democracy.”

The statement also took aim at Milei’s comments that criticized feminism, claimed a pay gap between men and women does not exist and referred to the atrocities committed by Argentina’s military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 as simply “excesses.”

Milei, in response, has shrugged off the Swifties. “I’m not the far right,” he told a radio station. “They can express what they want.” His campaign declined to comment.

Swift, who will perform the first of a series of three sold-out shows in Buenos Aires on Thursday, has not commented publicly on the Argentine election.

The Swifties’ criticism of Milei has

shifted the conversation to his conservative social views and away from his drastic proposals to reverse Argentina’s economic crisis, which include ditching the Argentine peso for the U.S. dollar and closing the country’s central bank.

But it isn’t just Swifties who are organizing against Milei. He and his running mate, Victoria Villarruel, are also contending with criticism from legions of loyal fans of another musical juggernaut, the K-pop band BTS. They are so active and organized on the internet that they have become known as the BTS Army.

Last week, the fury of that army was unleashed upon Villarruel after a series of her tweets denigrating the K-pop group resurfaced. In 2020, she likened the name BTS to a sexually transmitted disease. She also mocked the dyed pink and green hair of some members.

Those tweets prompted such a fierce response from BTS fans, accusing her of xenophobia, that a large BTS fan club in Argentina felt compelled to try to calm their fellow fans down. “The message that BTS always transmits is one of respect to oneself and everyone else,” said a statement from the club, which has been viewed 1.9 million times, according to X. Villarruel’s only reaction online to the BTS blowback has been a post in which she called her STD post part of “funny chats” from “a thousand years ago.”

Milei’s political base is particularly reliant on young voters. One survey of 2,400

people in October showed that nearly 27% of his support came from people ages 17 to 25, versus less than 9% for Sergio Massa, the center-left economy minister who opposes Milei in the runoff. People under 29 account for 27% of all eligible voters in Argentina.

Many young voters said they see Milei, who has taken to wearing leather jackets and wielding a chain saw at his campaign events, as the “cool” outsider candidate who has also become a sort of online meme.

Swift shunned politics for most of her career. But in 2018 she broke her silence to oppose Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn in Swift’s home state, Tennessee, helping to trigger a spike in young-voter registrations in the U.S. midterms that year.

And Swift’s comments in a 2020 documentary, in which she said she had decided to publicly oppose Trump despite the risk to her career, have been circulating widely in Argentina in recent weeks.

BTS fans are their own political force, having most likely helped suppress turnout at a Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2020 by reserving seats and not showing up.

Outside the River Plate soccer stadium in Buenos Aires, where Swift will perform next week, a contingent of Swifties has been camping out to see the show. Many said they were not eager to mix politics with music.

“The reality of the United States is a very different reality than the one that we are living here,” said Barbara Alcibiade, 22, a pastry chef. “It’s true that a large percentage of fans may or may not follow certain ideals or the values that she represents, but that doesn’t mean that represents everyone.”

The Swifties behind the anti-Milei news release said they never claimed to speak for Swift or all her fans. “That’s why we were very careful not to say that Taylor wouldn’t vote for Javier Milei,” said one member, Macarena, 29, who declined to give her last name because she said the group had received threats online.

But for Macarena and her friends, the parallels between Milei and Trump are clear.

“There isn’t any Taylor statement that you can use to say that I’m going to vote for a candidate from the far right,” she said.

Ahead of Swift’s arrival, the Buenos Aires Legislature voted Thursday to name Swift a guest of honor. The only officials to vote against the proposal were members of Milei’s party.

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A humanitarian pause in Gaza

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

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our weeks ago, Israel began its military campaign to defeat Hamas, in retaliation for the attack on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400 people, kidnapped some 240 others and destroyed a fundamental sense of security for all Israelis. Israel has a right to defend itself against this threat at its border, and the United States, its closest ally, has rightly pledged to stand by its side until that sense of security is restored.

But the fight against Hamas is not a war against another nation, one that respects international law or the laws of war.

Hamas is a terrorist group, one whose founding charter called for nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state. “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it,” the group’s founding charter says in its preface, quoting Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. And while it may cling to the idea that it represents Palestinians, Hamas has shown that it has little regard for the lives of civilians in the Gaza Strip: Hamas militants have long hidden themselves in mosques and schools and hospitals, intentionally placing civilians in harm’s way.

People around the world, including in the United States, who have justified the attacks by Hamas would do well to understand exactly what this group continues to stand for.

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This situation makes Israel’s fight against Hamas exceptionally difficult. As a liberal democracy, the only one in the Middle East, Israel has made a commitment under international law to protect Palestinian civilians while pursuing its military objectives. While it is true that Hamas has made no such commitment, Israel holds itself to a different, higher standard.

It cannot allow anger and the desire for vengeance to undermine its moral obligations.

After weeks of airstrikes by Israel and the continued firing of rockets by Hamas, civilians in Gaza have paid a grave price. Thousands have lost their lives or suffered serious injuries. As reporters for The New York Times detailed, Palestinians in Gaza under siege “say there is a surge of severely injured children entering hospitals, doctors operating without anesthesia and morgues overflowing with bodies.” There are shortages of food, water and fuel needed to power everything from desalination plants to generators.

That is why so many of Israel’s allies, including President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have called for a humanitarian pause to see to the urgent and immediate needs of civilians. Restoring access to food and safe drinking water should be first priorities, as well as delivering medical supplies and other essential aid. Israel has expressed concern that aid will only be diverted to support Hamas, but it is worth trying to get it to the civilians who desperately require it.

While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far resisted them, those calls have grown louder and more insistent after Israel’s recent bombardment of the Jabalia neighborhood in Gaza, which Israel said targeted Hamas militants located there. UNICEF, a children’s aid organization, described the damage as “horrific and appalling,” and it said in a statement that the attacks follow weeks of bombardment “that have reportedly resulted in more than 3,500 children killed.”

A pause in hostilities between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces would not be, as Netanyahu declared recently, a surrender to terrorism, nor is a pause the equivalent of a cease-fire, as a White House official noted. Israel has warned

that a blanket cease-fire would accomplish little at this point other than allowing Hamas time to regroup.

A humanitarian pause, in contrast, would give some relief to Palestinian civilians in Gaza and allow Israel to make progress on another key part of its objectives: the release of hostages. Two American hostages were freed during an earlier brief pause in shelling, and another pause, or a series of them, could allow more of the hostages still believed to be held by Hamas a chance at being returned to their families.

A humanitarian pause would also allow more of the millions of civilians who remain in Gaza an opportunity to move to relative safety until the hostilities end. The Rafah border crossing was opened earlier this week, allowing hundreds of foreigners, including dozens of Americans, to leave Gaza and enter Egypt.

For any such measure to be effective, both sides in this conflict must abide by it. Hamas would have to agree, through its interlocutors, to stop launching rockets at Israel.

Arab countries in the region should also put pressure on Hamas to release all of its hostages, which include many women and children.

There is no guarantee that a humanitarian pause, particularly in a conflict with a terrorist group, will ensure the safe return of hostages or end the suffering of civilians. It is certain, however, that inaction will lead to more civilian suffering and may increase the risk that this conflict will spark a regional conflagration. Already, supporters of Hamas in the region and elsewhere are using the deaths of Palestinians to urge Hezbollah and other armed groups to join the fight against Israel — while absolving Hamas for its role in Gaza’s suffering.

Israel’s leaders have tried from the outset of this conflict to prepare their country for a long war, and a humanitarian pause is unlikely to change that fact. But it is a vital step to ease the burden on civilians in Gaza, and to allow international aid agencies, which are essential to life in Gaza, to keep functioning. Israeli officials have so far been willing to hear the concerns of allies who have pressed Israel to live up to its commitments to the laws governing conflict. Those laws are designed both to regulate conduct during hostilities and also to create a baseline of humanity for what follows.

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Representantes del PNP catalogan como ‘inmovilismo’ propuesta de estatus de Pablo José Hernández POR EL STAR STAFF

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AN JUAN – El expresidente de la Cámara de Representantes, José Aponte, junto al representante por acumulación, José ‘Che’ Pérez, catalogaron la propuesta de estatus del ahora aspirante a la comisaría residente por el Partido Popular Democrático, Pablo José Hernández, como ‘más del inmovilismo’.

En la mañana de hoy, Hernández dijo que su propuesta de estatus es esperar la salida de la Junta de Supervisión y Administración Financiera, crear un desarrollo económico y luego, acudir al Congreso a pedir un proyecto de estatus que incluya la actual condición territorial.

“Hoy vemos al Partido Popular manteniendo abrazado el ‘no hacer nada’ para solucionar el asunto del estatus político de Puerto Rico, la principal razón de todos nuestros problemas. La gran propuesta del ahora aspirante a Comisionado Residente es el actual estatus colonial, el

Estado Libre Asociado, que ha sido rechazado como opción por las tres ramas del gobierno federal, el Ejecutivo, el Congreso y el Tribunal Supremo. Esta propuesta no es nada, es más del inmovilismo que nos tienen acostumbrados”,

dijo Aponte.

“Para este aspirante, Puerto Rico no debe tocar el asunto del estatus, debemos quedarnos como estamos, bajo la colonia, régimen que hizo posible la imposición de la Junta de Supervisión y Administración Financiera, que nos hace suplicar por ayudas, que discrimina contra nuestros veteranos y personas con necesidades especiales, que obliga a muchos puertorriqueños a trasladarse a los estados y que evita un continuo desarrollo económico. Es el inmovilismo, es las ganas de no hacer nada, dejar todo para ‘otro momento’, como siempre hacen, nada nuevo”, señaló Pérez.

Para ese candidato, tenemos que esperar una década para entonces ‘tratar’ de hacer algo con el estatus. Vemos que no se trata el asunto con la seriedad que amerita. Para este aspirante, el estatus no es importante, lo único que importa es salir electo y administrar la colonia, algo que no sucederá”, añadió Aponte.

Sentencian a Félix Verdejo a dos cadenas perpetuas por asesinato POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El juez federal Pedro Delgado sentenció el pasado viernes a perpetuidad al exboxeador Félix Verdejo Sánchez por el asesinato de Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz, una joven embarazada, luego que un jurado lo halló culpable de secuestro que resultó en muerte, y de asesinar a un no nacido.

“La sentencia de hoy condena justamente a Verdejo Sánchez por el dolor y sufrimiento que infligió a sus víctimas”, dijo el fiscal federal W. Stephen Muldrow, en declaraciones escritas.

“Hasta el día de hoy, el acusado mantiene su actitud de falta de arrepentimiento. Como ahora sabe Verdejo Sánchez, cualquiera que cometa crímenes violentos a sangre fría en violación de la ley federal será procesado al máximo por el Departamento de Justicia y esta oficina”, añadió.

La mañana del 29 de abril de 2021, Félix Verdejo Sánchez ejecutó un plan premeditado para asesinar a Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz y a su hijo no nacido. Atrajo a Rodríguez Ortiz a su vehículo Dodge Durango, donde, con la ayuda de Luis Cádiz Martínez, golpeó a Rodríguez Ortiz, la inyectó con drogas y luego la ató con alambre metálico a un bloque de cemento. Verdejo Sánchez condujo a la víctima al puente Teodoro Moscoso y, con la asistencia de Cádiz, lanzó a la Sra. Rodríguez Ortiz a la laguna San José. Posteriormente,

saltó a la laguna para asegurar la muerte de ambas víctimas.

“En casos como este, independientemente del resultado, no hay forma de restaurar lo que se ha perdido”, dijo Joseph González, Agente Especial a Cargo de la Oficina de Campo del FBI en San Juan.

“El único consuelo que podemos ofrecer a las familias de las víctimas es hacer nuestro trabajo con celo y sin descanso, hasta que se haga justicia. Creo que lo hemos logrado aquí y rezo para que esto le dé algo de paz a la familia de Keishla. Reconocimientos especiales a la Oficina del Fiscal de Estados Unidos para el Distrito de Puerto Rico, a la Policía de Puerto Rico y a nuestro Escuadrón de Crímenes Violentos por un trabajo detallado y arduo bien hecho”, añadió.

El FBI estuvo a cargo de la investigación con la estrecha colaboración y apoyo del Departamento de Seguridad Pública , el Negociado de Policía de Puerto Rico y el Departamento de Justicia.

“La familia de Keishla, que luchó incansablemente por encontrar la justicia, hoy pueden salir del Tribunal con la paz de ver la convicción de quien le arrebató a uno de sus seres más amado. Agradezco a los compañeros fiscales federales y agentes del FBI por el esfuerzo rendido que resultó en la convicción de Félix Verdejo.

Reconozco al secretario de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli, a los fiscales asignados a la investigación inicial,

a la doctora María Conte y sus peritos forenses y en especial a todos mis agentes que trabajaron de sol a sol y como un solo equipo para recopilar la prueba esencial.

Agradezco, además, a los ciudadanos y a la prensa que colaboraron desde que activamos por primera vez la Alerta Rosa por la búsqueda de Keishla y en los procesos de investigación subsiguientes.

Medios reportaron que Verdejo llegó a corte en la mañana del viernes, mientras que familiares de Keishla se encontraron con manifestantes al llegar al tribunal por la tarde.

En el pasado 28 de julio, un jurado declaró culpable a Verdejo Sánchez.

Keishla trabajaba en estilismo para mascotas y estaba embarazada al momento del crimen. Su desaparición activó la primera Alerta Rosa, una herramienta para reportar mujeres mayores de 18 desaparecidas o secuestradas.

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To star at the Venice Biennale, artists need patrons’ deep pockets

By ZACHARY SMALL

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hen organizers with the State Department announced that Jeffrey Gibson would represent the United States at the 60th Venice Biennale next spring — the contemporary art world’s version of the Olympics — there were clear reasons to celebrate. Not only would the artist fulfill a personal dream, but he would also be writing a chapter of American history as the first Indigenous artist to receive a solo exhibition there.

But with only six months until the April opening, the team behind his exhibition still needs to raise millions to reach the total of $5 million to complete work on the U.S. Pavilion.

The government provides only $375,000 — roughly 7.5% of the projected cost of this year’s show. So a patchwork coalition of curators, gallerists, collectors and philanthropists is working overtime to secure donations to house and feed the artist and his workers and install the Venice exhibition — while trying to ensure that Gibson isn’t saddled with debt for the honor of representing his country.

“The team is really focused on fundraising for the pavilion,” said Gibson, 51, a sculptor and painter who lives near Hudson, New York, and whose works draw on his ChoctawCherokee heritage.

From the arts groups supporting his vision — the Portland Museum of Art and SITE Santa Fe — some collectors and foundations have received letters seeking donations of either $60,000 or $125,000. The gifts are funneled through the Portland Museum toward the Venice Biennale and are tax-deductible, according to organizers; in return, they offer such perks as a cocktail reception with the artist, a private preview of the exhibition and a signed catalog.

“This global recognition celebrates Gibson’s career as an artist, and we are committed to ensuring the success of his presentation,” the letter said. “The special honor of representing the U.S. in Venice is a major undertaking.”

Gibson is known for his hypercolorful paintings, beaded punching bags and intricate textiles that contemplate Native American and queer life. He estimated there are nearly 40 people working on the project inside and outside his studio. And while the artist remains focused on completing nearly two dozen sculptures, paintings and flags, he is also making calls for donations for all aspects of the project, including a performance program.

“There are moments when I think it’s totally unfair,” Gibson said, “and then I realize that I’m the one who chose to make such an expansive exhibition.”

The cost of representing the United States at its space in Venice, a Palladian-style building designed in 1930 by William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich, has ballooned over the years, from about $72,400 in 1964 for Robert Rauschenberg’s exhibition (about $720,000 in today’s dollars) to nearly $2.5 million (roughly $4.4 million today) for Robert Gober’s 2001 exhibition, according to collectors involved in the fundraising effort.

Organizers said that last year’s exhibition there

by Simone Leigh cost about $7 million. But curators say financial support from the State Department has not kept pace with the increases.

“We consider private-sector support a strength in our approach to this program, as it creates broad engagement with a wide variety of stakeholders,” a spokesperson for the State Department said. “We always aim to optimize the value to the U.S. taxpayer.”

The budget for the Venice Biennale international exhibition, which hosts the work of dozens of foreign countries as well as Italy, was nearly $19 million in 2022, but it receives substantial financial support from the Italian government. (The budget is the same this year, according to the organizers.)

“I think there is an understanding even before a selection is made that if you apply, then you have the ability to fundraise,” said Brooke Kamin Rapaport, artistic director and chief curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy and the commissioner of the $3.8 million Venice exhibition by sculptor Martin Puryear in 2019. “In that sense, it is self-selecting.”

Asking for donations from collectors and

A grouping of Jeffrey Gibson’s signature flags from “The Spirits Are Laughing,” his recent show at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colo., in August 2023.

The neo-Palladian exterior of the U.S. Pavilion, transformed by the sculptor Simone Leigh, who added a thatched roof and a massive sculpture outside, at the 2022 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, in April 2022. gallerists, while it has become part of the job, raises ethical concerns for some curators, including those who have previously run the show.

Robert Storr, who directed the 2007 Venice Biennale and is a former dean of the Yale School of Art, said the rising costs of shipping and other logistics make the system unsustainable.

“There are all kinds of hidden charges,” Storr said, recalling the repeated joke at the Biennales that it costs more to transport artworks by boat from the Venice airport to the exhibition halls than it does to fly paintings into Italy.

“Everyone makes a different deal with the devil to get their shows up,” he added. “If you want to do anything major, you must rely on artists having support networks available, which I disapproved of because I don’t think you should invite artists into pay-as-you-go arrangements.”

Storr and other art experts have also complained that only a handful of artists have the support of dealers who are able to pay the steep costs of organizing a U.S. Pavilion and who can afford to take the risk that such a prominent exhibition will increase the artist’s value.

Several galleries represent Gibson, including Sikkema Jenkins & Co., which recently sold his beaded punching bags in an exhibition for more than $400,000 each. (Nearly a decade ago, with a previous dealer, buyers could snag a bag — inspired by the garments of Native powwow dancers — for about $16,000.)

In the run-up to last year’s Biennale, Leigh was represented by Hauser & Wirth, the blue-chip dealers who also backed Mark Bradford when he represented the United States in 2017.

This year’s Biennale has presented even more challenges. The 2024 exhibition has had its preparation time shortened because of the pandemic and a late selection cycle at the State Department. Organizers behind the Gibson effort said that they have verbal pledges from donors but that very few have sent the money.

“There is a leap of faith,” said Louis Grachos, one of the exhibition’s commissioners and the director of SITE Santa Fe. “Once you commit to a program, you have to build a strategy to fund that program.”

During a phone interview, Gibson said his exhibition — titled “the space in which to place me” — is taking shape. The beadwork on his sculptures is being set, artworks are being framed, and other works are being prepared for shipment.

He knows his message will be set against the ongoing world events, including violence in Ukraine, Israel and the Gaza Strip. “It is impossible to not think about the state of the world — in particular, nationhood and the lack of diplomacy,” Gibson said. “I’m like any other person figuring out what is important to say.”

The commissioners feel confident they can get the exhibition funded in time. “We feel there is great enthusiasm for this particular artist,” Grachos said. “And we have the capability needed to raise the money.”

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Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow join the rock hall

By BEN SISARIO

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he Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted its 38th annual class of musical heroes on Friday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, in a night dominated by strong women and giants from genres the institution had long treated as adjacent to rock.

The latest inductees in the flagship performer category included Willie Nelson, the 90-year-old country icon; Missy Elliott, the hall’s first female rapper; the singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow; George Michael, the larger-than-life pop singer of Wham! who became one of pop’s first openly gay heroes; the soul vocal act the Spinners; Kate Bush, the eclectic British performer, who did not attend; and the political firebrands Rage Against the Machine, who were represented solely by their guitarist, Tom Morello.

In other categories, the hall inducted DJ Kool Herc, who presided over hip-hop’s founding party 50 years ago; the rockabilly guitarist Link Wray; the spitfire R&B singer Chaka Khan; Al Kooper, one of rock’s most well-traveled musicians, who played with Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and many others; Bernie Taupin, Elton John’s longtime songwriting partner; and Don Cornelius, the creator and host of the TV show “Soul Train.”

The induction came less than two months after the Rock Hall ejected Jann Wenner, one of its founders, who made disparaging remarks about female and Black performers as part of a New York Times interview. This year’s class demonstrated the organization’s recent commitment to inclusion, but the night didn’t end without a barbed reference to the controversy.

“I’m honored to be in the class of 2023, alongside such a group of profoundly ‘articulate’ women and outstanding, ‘articulate’ Black artists,” said Taupin, echoing Wenner’s comments in the interview.

Here are some highlights from the show.

Stars from beyond rock’s borders Some of the most commanding presences were artists outside the traditional boundaries of rock ’n’ roll who claimed their places in music history proudly.

In an arena-worthy spectacle that began with her own countdown clock, Elliott arrived onstage just after midnight outfitted in gold and surrounded by a phalanx of backup dancers. After an energetic spin through abbreviated versions of songs including “Get Ur Freak On,” “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” and “Work It,” she got emotional at the podium, revealing that this was the first time her mother had seen her perform. (Elliott hadn’t wanted to rap risqué records in front of her mom because “she from the church” she said, to laughter.)

She mentioned women innovators who “gave me their shoulders to stand on,” including Pepa, Queen Latifah (who inducted her) and Roxanne Shante, and noted that on hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, she felt the magnitude of the moment: “You just feel like it’s so far to reach when you in the hip-hop world, and to be standing here, it means so much to me.”

Earlier, Nelson sat stone-faced, in his signature red

Missy Elliott became the first female rapper to join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Friday night.

A night of notable absences The ceremony was defined as much by who wasn’t there as who was.

Bush, who shot up the charts last year when a decades-old song, “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” was used in the TV show “Stranger Things,” did not attend. Neither did three of the four members of Rage Against the Machine. And some of the most uproarious applause in the arena was for Michael, who died in 2016.

Smaller names who made a big impact Some of the most poignant moments came in celebrations of people who were never household-name stars. These fulfilled one of the Rock Hall’s key missions of contextualizing pop music history and shining lights on figures whose influence was greater than their fame.

The Spinners began as a doo-wop group in Michigan in the 1950s, then spent years without fame at Motown before signing to Atlantic Records and making a string of hits that defined Philadelphia soul. DJ Kool Herc, who took the stage with a cane, was honored as a father of hip-hop and gave a tearful speech thanking various people from throughout his life, including artists like James Brown and Harry Belafonte.

In a video inducting Link Wray, the rockabilly guitarist whose snarling 1958 instrumental “Rumble” became a controversial hit — it was banned in some cities, out of fear it would incite violence — Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin called Wray “my hero,” saying the song taught him “the drama you could set up with six strings.” He then appeared on the Barclays stage, leading a performance of “Rumble” with a three-piece rockabilly combo.

John told of how his 56-year songwriting partnership with Taupin started randomly, when a record company paired them together, and spoke passionately about the underappreciated role of lyricists. Then, at the piano, John gave a stirring performance of “Tiny Dancer,” one of their most enduring collaborations.

Taupin summed up his speech with an appeal to accept the all-inclusive borders of pop music.

“It means no walls, no inherent snobbery,” he said.

“It means we’re all in this together.”

bandanna and long braids, as Dave Matthews gave a rambling but affectionate induction speech, praising Nelson’s longevity and history of activism — and his well-known penchant for marijuana.

Nelson, who has been a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame for 30 years, cut to the chase in a brief acceptance speech, saying, “I never paid much attention to categories, and I’m not sure fans did either.”

At 90, Nelson’s love of performing was still palpable.

Seated and playing a weathered acoustic guitar, he nimbly ran through riffs and solos, leading his band on classics like “Whiskey River,” “On the Road Again,” and, joined by Crow, “Crazy,” his song made famous by Patsy Cline.

Women celebrated women As recently as 2016, there were years when the hall welcomed no women. But on Friday, they were a strong presence, and honored one another onstage and in supportive statements.

The night kicked off with Crow, who began her career as a backup singer for Michael Jackson before breaking out on her own in the 1990s with hits like “All I Wanna Do.” She was joined onstage by Olivia Rodrigo, the 20-year-old pop star, for a duet of “If It Makes You Happy,” a power ballad about vulnerability. And Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac — in black lace and fingerless gloves — sang with Crow on “Strong Enough.”

In a video segment, Nicks called Crow “everything that every girl should want to be.” In her acceptance speech, Crow thanked her parents “for all the years of unconditional love,” adding, “and piano lessons.”

Khan sang her hits “Ain’t Nobody” and “Sweet Thing” with H.E.R. and “I’m Every Woman” with the pop singer and songwriter Sia, who entered the stage in a gigantic, rainbow-colored wig that obscured her face. In accepting her honor, Khan spent much of her time praising Jazmine Sullivan, the R&B singer who inducted her.

Queen Latifah introduced Elliott by noting all the boundaries she’d broken: “Missy has never been afraid to speak out about the preconceptions, the stereotypes, the string of misogyny and the obstacles that have been Willie Nelson, the 90-year-old country star, was honored at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. placed in the way of women.”

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Monday, November 6, 2023

19

Move over, Machu Picchu: There’s more to see in Peru

By RICHARD MORGAN

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lvis Lexin La Torre Uñaccori knows quite well that a wonder of the world often creates a less-wondrous world of waste — he is the mayor of Machu Picchu Pueblo, the gateway village to the bucket-list destination in Peru that draws millions of visitors (and their trash) each year.

He shared this expertise in waste and waste management in February, at a twoday summit he organized about environmental and infrastructural advances at the Inca citadel. To 99 mayors and other municipal leaders from across Peru, La Torre spoke about a plastic bottle compactor, a glass bottle pulverizer and a processor his village developed for hotel and restaurant food scraps.

But the main goal of the summit was larger than recycling and food waste initiatives; it was about disseminating effective practices for sustainable tourism across Peru, part of a national desire to fast-track tourism development of lesser-known archaeological sites and their local villages.

In recent years, the country has engaged in a grassroots effort to elevate its vast trove of archaeological sites that are often just as well preserved or culturally significant as Machu Picchu.

“Machu Picchu is a wonder seen by the world. We are fortunate. But there are many wonders in Peru waiting to be seen,” La Torre said.

Local leadership like that of La Torre has filled a power vacuum in Peru, which has had seven presidents since 2016 — all from different political parties. Violent protests after its last transfer of power, in December 2022, prompted a mass evacuation of tourists from Machu Picchu and a complete shutdown of the site for 21 days.

The importance of Machu Picchu and tourism overall to Peru’s economy is unquestionable. Madeleine Burns Vidaurrazaga, Peru’s vice minister of tourism, said the industry in 2019 accounted for $8.9 billion, or 3.9% of the country’s gross domestic product, and 1.5 million jobs.

Burns said the Peruvian government in 2023 raised its annual tourism budget to $100 million, about a 15% increase from $87 million last year, then dedicat-

In an image Alvaro Gamarra provided, Elvis Lexin La Torre Uñaccori, the mayor of Machu Picchu Pueblo, the gateway village to the bucket-list destination in Peru that draws millions of visitors (and their trash) each year. ed an additional $144 million for tourism infrastructure, marketing, and support for artisans and businesses with fewer than 50 employees. In December, Burns plans to unveil a national campaign called “Peru al Natural” that will highlight Huascarán National Park and other “nature and adventure hot spots” and complement better-known sites like the Nazca Lines, the ancient geoglyphs etched into the coastal desert in Southern Peru.

“We have jewels but don’t know how to use them, how to discuss them, how to share them,” Burns said, adding that her tourism models are Egypt and India, both of which have expanded their tourism offerings and infrastructures beyond the Great Pyramids and the Taj Mahal.

“We have a living culture and a living history,” said Jose Koechlin, chair of Canatur, Peru’s national tourism agency.

“We’re one of the cradles of civilization on the level of Egypt or Mesopotamia. But it needs un codazo suave.” A gentle nudge.

‘Challenging, but it’s exciting’ In 1975, Koechlin founded Inkaterra, an ecotourism company based in Peru that now employs 600 workers across several properties.

“We can make things happen on our own terms. It’s challenging, but it’s exciting,” Koechlin said.

One of Koechlin’s employees, Joaquín Escudero, transferred from Inkaterra’s Machu Picchu hotel, where he worked as its general manager, to become general manager at Hacienda Urubamba, its property in the Sacred Valley near Cuzco, in 2014. In 2017, he founded a tourism alliance in the region that now includes 14 local restaurants, hotels, travel agencies and a clinic. The alliance recently met with local police chiefs to strategize on safety, including the creation of special patrols and the installation of security cameras for tourists and locals alike.

Escudero has lobbied the local government for better roads and sewage treatment for the whole community. “We are not living on another planet,” he said of the travel industry in Peru. “We are in the same towns. We are neighbors. I want to feel proud of my neighborhood. Pride is the magic that changes stones into world wonders.”

For some of Peru’s Indigenous Quechua people, the movement to expand tourism is also a chance for increased vis-

ibility for their ancestors and culture.

“Peru is not only Machu Picchu. It is the home of a vast empire,” said Roger Gabriel Caviedes, a tour guide across the Cuzco region who is mestizo of Andean descent and who grew up speaking Quechua. “If tourists can see all of our story, we have an opportunity to exist in their hearts, not only their Instagrams.”

A visit to Machu Picchu has become a highly choreographed experience with specific arrival times, time-limited visits, roped-off areas and caps on daily visitors (now set at 4,044).

“It was almost like the Disneyfication of the Incas,” said Rachel Rucker-Schmidt, 48, a tourist from Dallas, of her Machu Picchu visit last summer. “It was like being back in Texas. Everyone was American, just a little less special. It was neat to see but had a different vibe. We had resigned ourselves to checking it off the list.”

Then her family went to Moray, a terraced farm site built by the Incas, where they encountered fewer than a dozen other tourists. “It was very intimate,” RuckerSchmidt said. “We were often the only people there with locals.”

Her husband, Jason, 48, agreed. “I found it much more charming,” he said of Moray. “It wasn’t being presented to you in a perfect state. It’s maintained, but not to the same level as Machu Picchu. Everyone has the same photo from Machu Picchu.”

Moray and the eight-hour hikes the family completed through the Andean wilderness also resonated with their daughter, Trilby, 15. “It was more of a local point of view,” she said. “We were basically in Peru’s backyard.”

20 LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES FOR DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC Plaintiff Vs.

CARMEN IRIS VEGA HOYOS, FOR HERSELF AND AS MEMBER OF THE ESTATE OF MANUEL RAMÓN ÁLVAREZ ARIAS A/K/A MANUEL ÁLVAREZ ARIAS; MANUEL DE JESUS ALVAREZ ECHEVARRIA, SUSANA ALTAGRACIA ÁLVAREZ ECHEVARRIA, CELESTE AIDA ÁLVAREZ ECHEVARRIA, MINOR K.N.A.D., MINOR M.N.A.P., AS MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF MANUEL RAMÓN ÁLVAREZ ARIAS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Núm.: 3:19-cv-02074.

(DRD). Sobre: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE - IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: CARMEN IRIS VEGA HOYOS, FOR HERSELF AND AS MEMBER OF THE ESTATE OF MANUEL RAMÓN ÁLVAREZ ARIAS A/K/A MANUEL ÁLVAREZ ARIAS; MANUEL DE JESUS ALVAREZ ECHEVARRIA, SUSANA ALTAGRACIA ÁLVAREZ ECHEVARRIA, CELESTE AIDA ÁLVAREZ ECHEVARRIA, MINOR K.N.A.D., MINOR M.N.A.P., AS MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF MANUEL RAMÓN ÁLVAREZ ARIAS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,.

BO. OBRERO 660 CALLE 8, SAN JUAN, PR 00915.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: On August 13, 2023, this Court entered Judgment in the captioned case. On October 4, 20232, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that GITSIT Solutions, LLC, is entitled to judgment as a matter of law against Defendants, in the following amounts: principal amount of $127,470.76, plus interest 5.004% per annum from

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March 15, 2016, until the debt is paid in full. Late charges in the amount of 5% of each and every monthly installment not received by the person entitled to enforce the instrument within 15 days after the installment was due, until the debt is paid in full. All advances made under the mortgage note, including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $13,138.50 to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHERAEAS, Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendant will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar radicado en el sito conocido con el nombre de Barrio Obrero de San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número cinco de la Calle ocho del plano de Urbanización trazado por el Departamento del Interior, titulado Plano Demostration de la Progresión del Barrio Obrero, que Tiene una superficie de ciento cincuenticinco metros cuadrados, colindando por el Frente, en una extensión de diez metros con la calle número ocho; por el derecha entrando, en una extension de quince metros cuarenta centímetros con el solar número siete de la calle ocho; por el izquierda entrando, en una extensión de quince metros sesenta centímetros con el solar número tres de la calle ocho; y por el fondo, en una extensión de diez metros con el solar número seis de la calle siete. Enclava casa terrera de madera y techada de zinc, según la inscripción 3ra.

Property number 7218, recorded at page 174 of volume 45 of Santurce Norte, Registry of the Property of San Juan, Section I. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following lien: Mortgage securing a note in favor of Associates International Holdings Corporation doing business as Citifinancial, or its order, in the original principal amount of $131,385.00, plus 12.035% annual interest, due on April 4, 2038, pursuant to deed number 39, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 31, 2008, before notary Adela Surillo Gutiérrez, and recorded at the overleaf of page 92 of volume 1,140 of Santurce Nor te, proper t y number 7,218, 20th inscription. Senior Lien: None.

Junior Lien: Federal Attachment against Manuel Álvarez, social security number xxxxx-2548, address: 1522 Calle López Landrón, Apartmento 5, San Juan, PR 00911-1982; in the amount of $6,233.37, under notification number 356978307, annotated on April 17, 2007, at page 207, entry 1 of Federal Liens Book number 7. Refiling: January 31, 2017. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential lien to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $131,385.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuccessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $87,590.00. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the aforementioned mortgage deed, or $65,692.50 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will on NOVEMBER 17TH, 2023 AT 9:45 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3699435, -66.1126780) in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property

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described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on DECEMBER 1ST, 2023 AT 9:45 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3699435, -66.1126780). Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on DECEMBER 8TH, 2023 AT 9:45 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3699435, -66.1126780).

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 16 day of October 2023. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.

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

SUCESIÓN DE LUIS ROLÓN GARCIA, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS: MYRIAM ESTHER ROLÓN GONZÁLEZ T/C/C MYRIAM E. RIVERA; WILBERTO ROLÓN GONZÁLEZ; ÁNGEL RAFAEL ROLON GONZÁLEZ; LUIS EDGARDO ROLÓN GONZÁLEZ; RAYMOND LUIS ROLÓN ANAYA Y GEMARK ROLÓN OSORIO Peticionarios

EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: CG2023CV02596.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: CUALQUIER PERSONA QUE PUDIESE TENER INTERÉS Y TODA PERSONA A QUIEN PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria.

El Sr. Luis Rolón García, padre

(787) 743-3346

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Monday, November 6, 2023 de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando los referidos bienes inmuebles hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante Luis Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida a la parte peticionaria todo derecho sobre las propiedades inmuebles antes descritas. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo los inmuebles como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento son los siguientes: RUSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote 2, con una cabida superficial de 561.6357 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.1430 cuerdas.

En lindes al Norte, en 23.8839 metros con un camino existente, al Sur en 18.8313 metros en un arco con Carretera #734; al Este en 28.3940 metros con Minerva Rolón García y al Oeste, en 22.8786 metros con un camino existente. RUSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote 5, con una cabida superficial de 3376.5057 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.8591 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 17.6875 metros con terrenos de Nicanor Izona; al Sur en 27.9263 metros con Camino Publico y en 24.9405 metros con la Sucn. Rolón García; al Este en 91.1828 metros con Nicanor Izona y al Oeste, en 119.6142 metros con Felicita González Vázquez, Suzette A. Rolón González, Luis Antonio Rolón González y Marisol Rolón González. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO. VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710,

fax: 787-268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga.

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 07 de septiembre de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. IDALIA PIÑERO REYES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V.

AMERICO MARTINEZ ROMERO, MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ AND THE CONYUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY AMERICO MARTINEZ AND MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ

Defendants Civil No.: 15-2723. JAG. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: AMERICO MARTINEZ ROMERO, MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THE TWO, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $663,971.78 of principal balance, plus interest at a rate of 6.25% per annum since December 1st, 2008. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges in the amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant owes Plaintiff all of the advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% ($68,900.00) of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case

and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: URBANA: Solar Marcado con el número cuarenta y cuatro (44) de la Urbanización Campos de Montehiedra, localizada en el Barrio Caimito de Rio Piedras, termino municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de setecientos veintisiete puntos nueve mil quinientos cuarenta y cuatro (727.9544) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle Juncal, en una distancia de veintitrés punto doscientos treinta y nueve (23.239) metros; por el Sur, con terreno de Acisclo González, en una distancia de veintitrés punto novecientos dos (23.902) metros; por Este, con el lote número cuarenta y tres (43), en una distancia de treinta y uno punto cero treinticuatro (31.034) metros; por el Oeste, con los lotes cuarenta y cinco (45) y cuarenta y seis (46) en una distancia de treinta y uno punto ochocientos veintinueve (31.829) metros. Enclava en este solar una estructura de concreto reforzado y bloques de hormigón, para fines residenciales. Property number 21335, recorded at page 53 of volume 756 of Rio Piedra Sur, Registry of the Property of San Juan, Section IV. Physical Address: 744 Juncal St. Los Campos I, De Montehiedra, Barrio Caimito, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, inclu-

ding but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, AT 2:15 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $689,000.00. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public sale shall be held on the DECEMBER 13T, 2023 AT 2:15 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $459,333.33. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 2:15 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $344,500.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 11th of October 2023. BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

LIME HOMES. LTD. Plaintiff V.

AURIEL RIVERA VAZQUEZ, SARAI TORRES ALVELO AND THE CONYUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THE TWO

Defendants Civil No.: 18-1447. (SCC). Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: AURIEL RIVERA VAZQUEZ, SARAI TORRES ALVELO AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THEM, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $126,500.00 of principal balance of the mortgage note, plus interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum since April

The San Juan Daily Star 1st, 2017, over said balance.

Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenants of 28 U.S.C. sec 1691. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant also owes Plaintiff pursuant to the provisions or dispositions of all of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. Advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees.

The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by internet accessing https://ecf.prd. uscourts.gov. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendants will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número trece (13) del proyecto de renovación urbana conocido como Vista Alegre, localizado en el Barrio Pájaros de la municipalidad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de cuatrocientos seis punto treinta y seis (406.36) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar treinta y siete (37), en quince punto cuarenta y siete (15.47) metros y terrenos de Juan Toro Pérez, en dieciocho punto treinta y seis (18.36) metros; por el SUR, con la calle A, en distancia curvilínea en seis punto treinta y siete (6.37) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número doce (12), en dieciocho punto noventa y tres (18.93) metros; y por el OESTE, el solar número catorce (14), en treinta y uno punto noventa y dos (31.92) metros. The property is identified as land number 14,919, recorded at page number 126 of volume number 331 of Bayamón, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Bayamón I. Physical Address: Colinas de Vista Alegre, 13X Calle A, Bayamón, PR 00956. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, inclu-

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ding but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. NOW THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master will celebrate the judicial sale in the dates and time set forth below, in the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of Federico Degetau Federal Building and Clemente Ruiz Nazario United States Courthouse, at 150 Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1st, Floor in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein. The proceeds of said sale will be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment.

WHEREAS: For the purpose of the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH, 2023 AT 2:00 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $127,784.98 and no lower offers will be accepted. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13TH, 2023 AT 2:00 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,189.99. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 2:00 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $63,892.49. WHEREAS: The sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of October 2023. BEATRIZ VÁZQUEZ SOLÍS, SPECIAL MASTER.

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

LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Parte Demandante Vs.

SANTOS ÁLVAREZ COLÓN

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2020CV00007.

Salón Núm.: (406). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA-

DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE 4ª. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. se llevará a cabo el día 29 DE A: SANTOS ÁLVAREZ NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS COLÓN: Y AL PÚBLICO 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de EN GENERAL: Primera Instancia, Sala SupeEl Alguacil que suscribe, certifi- rior de Ponce, el tipo mínimo ca y hace constar que en cum- para la primera subasta es plimiento de Mandamiento de la suma de $20,000.00. Si la Ejecución de Sentencia que me primera subasta del inmueble ha sido dirigido por la Secreta- no produjere remate, ni adría del Tribunal de Primera Ins- judicación, se celebrará una tancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día procederé a vender en pública 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A subasta y al mejor postor, por LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en separado, de contado y por mo- el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo neda de curso legal de los Es- mínimo las dos terceras partes tados Unidos de América. Todo del precio pactada para la pripago recibido por el (la) Algua- mera subasta, o sea, la suma cil por concepto de subastas de $13,333.33. Si la segunda será en efectivo, giro postal o subasta no produjere remate, cheque certificado a nombre ni adjudicación, se celebrará del (de la) Alguacil del Tribu- una TERCERA SUBASTA el nal de Primera Instancia. Todo día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE derecho, título, participación 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑAe interés que le corresponda NA, en el mismo lugar y regirá a la parte demandada o cual- como tipo mínimo de la tercequiera de ellos en el inmueble ra subasta la mitad del precio hipotecado objeto de ejecución pactado para la primera, o sea, que se describe a continuación: la suma de $10,000.00. Dicha RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada subasta se llevará a cabo, para con el número ochenta y nueve con su producto satisfacer a la en el plano de parcelación de la parte demandante el importe Comunidad Rural José Esteban de la Sentencia dictada a su Rodríguez del Barrio Collores favor, a saber: La suma global del término municipal de Juana de $11,225.64, la cual se desDíaz, con una cabida superficial glosa a continuación: la suma de una cuerda con seis mil dos- principal de $9,075.64, con cientos treinta y una diezmilési- intereses a 10.5510% anual, mas de otra, equivalente a seis desde el 29 de febrero de 2019, mil trescientos setenta y nueve hasta el presente y los que se punto cincuenta y nueve me- continúen acumulando hasta tros cuadrados. En lindes por su total y completo pago, más el NORTE, con terrenos de Lo- la suma de $2,150.00, como renzo Pontón; por el SUR, con balance diferido y la cual no la parcela noventa de la comu- genera intereses, más los carnidad; por el ESTE, con terre- gos por demora que se corresnos de Juan Rodríguez Torres; ponden a los plazos atrasados y por el OESTE, con la parcela desde la fecha anteriormente ochenta y ocho de la comuni- indicada a razón de la tasa pacdad. En su inscripción segunda tada de 5% de cualquier pago se dice que en este solar se que éste en mora por más de constituye la siguiente casa: quince (15) días desde la fecha Casa de madera y zinc la cual de su vencimiento, más una consta de tres dormitorios, me- suma equivalente a $2,000.00, dio balcón, baño de cemento, por concepto de costas, gassala-comedor y cocina. Consta tos y honorarios de abogado, inscrita al folio 64 del tomo 247 más cualquier otra suma que de Juana Díaz, finca número resulte por cualesquiera otros #9,387. Registro de la Propie- adelantos que se hayan hecho dad de Puerto Rico, Sección I la demandante, en virtud de las de Ponce. La propiedad objeto disposiciones de la escritura de de ejecución está localizada hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecaen la siguiente dirección: Lote rio. Para más información, a las 89, José Esteban Rodríguez, personas interesadas se les noJuana Díaz, P.R. 00795. Se tifica que los autos y todos los informa que la propiedad a ser documentos correspondientes ejecutada se adquirirá libre de al procedimiento incoado, estacargas y gravamen posterior, rán de manifiesto en la Secreuna vez sea otorgada la escritu- taría del Tribunal, durante las ra de venta judicial y obtenida la horas laborables. Este EDICTO Orden y Mandamiento de can- DE SUBASTA, se publicará en celación de gravamen poste- los lugares públicos corresponrior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En dientes y en un periódico de relación a la finca a subastarse, circulación general en la jurisse establece como tipo mínimo dicción de Puerto Rico. Se ende licitación en la Primera Su- tenderá que todo licitador acepbasta la suma de $20,000.00, ta como bastante la titularidad según acordado entre las par- y que las cargas y gravámenes tes en el precio pactado en anteriores y los referentes, si la Escritura de Hipoteca #93, los hubiere, al crédito del ejecuotorgada en Ponce, Puerto tante continuarán subsistentes.

Rico, el día 24 de abril de 2008, Se entenderá que el rematante ante el notario Carlos A. Surillo los acepta y queda subrogaPumarada, e inscrita al folio 75 do en la responsabilidad de del tomo 521 de Juana Díaz, los mismos, sin destinarse a finca número 9,387, inscripción su extinción el precio del re-

mate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 12 de octubre de 2023. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL PLACA #820.

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

NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING Demandante V.

RAMÓN RICARTE HERRERA PAGÁN

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00678.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, 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 Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Fontana situada en el barrio SABANA Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, que se describe con el número 8 de la manzana 5-K con un área de 261.65 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 7 en una dis-

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tancia de 23.300 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 9 en una distancia de 23.300 metros; por el ESTE, con la calle número 5-2 en una distancia de 11.230 metros; y por el OESTE, con los solares número 14 y 15 en una distancia de 11.230 metros. En dicho solar enclava una vivienda de concreto para una sola familia. Consta inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 371 de Carolina, finca 14124, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera. Propiedad localizada en: 5K8, Calle Parque Borinquen, Villa Fontana Park, Carolina, PR 00983. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $88,000.00, 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 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $58,666.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $44,000.00, 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 21 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $67,937.59 de principal; más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.75% anual desde el 1ro. de agosto de 2021, hasta el saldo total de la deuda; cargos por mora equivalentes a 5% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda, los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; más la suma de $8,800.00 por concepto de honorarios

de abogado. Además de cua- rreno con una cabida de novelesquiera sumas de dinero por cientos cuarentisiete metros concepto de contribuciones, cuadrados con doce centésiprimas de seguro hipotecario mas de otro, y en lindes por el y riesgo, los cuales continúan NORTE, en curva y una distanacumulándose hasta el saldo cia de trientinueve metros seistotal de la deuda, así como de cientos cincuentinueve milésicualesquiera otras cantidades mas de otro, con la carretera pactadas en la escritura de hi- número ---URBANA: Edificio poteca. La venta en pública su- número 2 Propiedad Horizontal: basta de la referida propiedad Apartamento identificado con el se verificará libre de toda carga número 2406 ubicado en el móo gravamen posterior que afec- dulo 5 del Edificio 2, en el quinte la mencionada finca, a cuyo to piso del Condominio Paseo efecto se notifica y se hace sa- Gales, a su vez localizado en el ber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Barrio Rincón del término muniPRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER- cipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico.

CERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera El apartamento consta de 3 necesario, a los efectos de que plantas, con una cabida de cualquier persona o perso- 2,180.69 pies cuadrados, equinas con algún interés puedan valentes a 202.67 metros cuacomparecer a la celebración drados. Colinda su primera de dicha subasta. Se notifica planta, por el NORTE, en una a todos los interesados que las distancia de 22 pulgadas equiactas y demás constancias del valentes a 6.70 m.l, con una expediente de este caso están pared que es un elemento extedisponibles en la Secretaría rior; por el SUR, en una distandel Tribunal durante horas la- cia de 22 pies equivalentes a borables para ser examinadas 6.70 meros con la escalera, el por los (las) interesados (as). Y lobby y una pared que es un para su publicación en el perió- elemento exterior; por el ESTE, dico The San Juan Daily Star, en una distancia de 38’10” que es un diario de circulación equivalentes a 11.84 metros ligeneral en la isla de Puerto neales, con el apartamento núRico, por espacio de dos se- mero 2405; y por el OESTE, en manas consecutivas con un una distancia de 38’10” equivaintervalo de por lo menos siete lentes a 11.84 metros, el apar(7) días entre ambas publica- tamento número 2505. La priciones, así como para su pu- mera planta consta de un área blicación en los sitios públicos de 815.04 pies cuadrados equide Puerto Rico. Expedido en valentes a 75.75 metros cuaCarolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día drados y contiene foyer sala, 17 de octubre de 2023. HÉC- comedor, un (1) linen closet, laTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, vandería, cocina, balcón, un ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, medio baño y una escalera.

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- Colinda su segundo planta por TANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL el NORTE¸ en una distancia de DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPE- 22 pies equivalentes a 6.70 meRIOR. tros, con una pared que es un elemento exterior; por el SUR, LEGAL NOTICE en una distancia de 22’ equivaESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO lentes a 6.70 metros lineales, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL con una pared que es un eleGENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- mento exterior; por el ESTE, en BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- una distancia de 47’10”, equiCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE valentes a 14.58 metros, con el CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR apartamento número 2405; y BANCO POPULAR DE por el OESTE, en una distancia de 47’10” equivalentes a 14.58 PUERTO RICO metros, con el apartamento núDemandante V. mero 2505. La segunda planta CRISTINA MARÍA tiene un área de 889.29 pies TORRES SANTINI cuadrados equivalentes a Demandada 82.65 metros cuadrados y conCivil Núm.: CG2023CV00712. tiene un (1) master bedroom Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- con walk in closet, un área para TECA - “IN REM”. ESTADOS vestirse, dos (2) dormitorios UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL adicionales, y dos (2) baños y PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA- una escalera que conduce a la DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE tercera planta. La tercera planta ASOCIADO DE PUERTO consiste de una terraza cubierRICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBAS- ta que le pertenece a este aparTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del tamento con un área de 476.36 Tribunal de Primera Instancia, pies cuadrados, equivalentes a Sala Superior de Caguas, Ca- 44.27 metros cuadrados, la guas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, cual a su vez colinda con un a la parte demandada y al PÚ- área de terraza descubierta loBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en calizada en la azotea de este cumplimiento del Mandamiento edificio. Le pertenece a este de Ejecución de Sentencia ex- apartamento el uso y disfrute pedido el día 6 de octubre de exclusivo de la terraza descu2023, por la Secretaría del Tri- bierta con un área de 414.79 bunal, procederé a vender y pies cuadrados equivalentes a venderé en pública subasta y al 38.55 metros cuadrados. Su mejor postor la propiedad que puerta principal de acceso se ubica y se describe a continua- encuentra en su colindancia ción: RÚSTICA: Parcela de te- Sur. Le corresponde una parti-

22 cipación en los elementos comunes generales de 0.0136674%. También le ha sido asignado a este apartamento el uso y disfrute exclusivo de dos (2) estacionamientos para vehículos de motor debidamente marcados e identificados con le numero del apartamento en el área de estacionamiento del condominio. Inscrita en la finca número 18,382, al folio 157 del tomo 474 de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. La finca antes relacionada se encuentra afectada por dos gravámenes posteriores al que se pretende ejecutar, el cual se describe de la siguiente manera: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $10,000.00, con intereses al 5.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2041, constituida mediante la escritura número 117, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de julio de 2011, ante el notario Manuel E. Maldonado Pérez, e inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 474 de Gurabo, finca número 18,382, inscripción 5ta última. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 3 de marzo de 2023, expedida en el Tribunal Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, en el caso civil CG2023CV00712, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus Cristina María Torres Santini, por la suma de $149,986.26, anotada el 5 de junio de 2023 al tomo Karibe de Gurabo, finca número 18,382, Anotación A. La propiedad está ubicada, según pagaré, en: Apt. 2406, Paseo Gales Condominium, Gurabo, PR 00778-5177. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 17 de agosto de 2023, archivada en autos y notificada el 21 de agosto de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $149,986.26 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 6.00%, anual desde el 1ro agosto de 2018, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $16,296.20 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados 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 alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 28 DE

NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $162,962.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $108,641.33, 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 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina/ Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $81,481.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm.

210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6.

Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres-

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pondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de octubre de 2023. ALGUACIL ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, PLACA #593, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

LUNA RESIDENTIAL III, LLC. Parte Demandante Vs.

JOHANNA DE LA CRUZ JAMES, JOE MANUEL SANTANA TORRES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2021CV01162.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $95,284.51, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $93,598.18 y un principal diferido por la suma de $1,686.33, más los intereses sobre la suma de $93,598.18, al 5.50% anual desde el primero de octubre de 2018, hasta su completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad de principal de interés por la suma estipulada por concepto de cargos por demora desde el primero de noviembre de 2018; más la suma de $9,900.00 estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca;

y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la tercera planta del edificio G del Condominio Rio Vista, localizado en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas del municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, el cual se describe en la escritura matriz de dedicación al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Apartamento número trece (13), área del apartamento mil doscientos ochenta y seis punto treinta y nueve (1,286.39) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento diecinueve punto cincuenta y cinco (119.55) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en cincuenta y cuatro pues once pulgadas (54’11”) con espacio abierto; por el SUR, en veintisiete pies ocho pulgadas (27’ 8”), con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento identificado con el número veintitrés (23) y área de pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento identificado con el número veintitrés (23) y área de escalera que da acceso al edificio; por el ESTE, en dieciocho pies tres pulgadas y media (18’ 3 ½”), con espacio abierto; y por el OESTE, en veintidós pies media pulgada (22’ ½”), con espacio abierto.

Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Sur, que da el área del pasillo que conduce a la escalera que le brinda acceso al edificio. En el área de la sala se encuentra ubicada una escalera en forma de espiral, la cual provee acceso al área de terraza en el techo de esta unidad de vivienda. Consta de balcón, sala-comedor, una habitación dormitorio con un closet en su interior, un pasillo que brinda acceso a las siguientes áreas: cocina, un closet pequeño, área de lavandería, un baño completo de uso general, una habitación dormitorio principal (master bedroom), en la cual ubica un área de “walkin-closet” y un baño completo.

Esta unidad de vivienda tiene el uso y disfrute exclusivo y le corresponde la limpieza, conservación y mantenimiento de un área de terraza (azotea) techada, con piso en cemento. Dicha terraza tiene facilidades de agua fría y caliente y desagüe para la instalación de un gabinete de cocina y/o kitchenette.

Tiene además alumbrado y un receptáculo electrónico para uso misceláneo. Le corresponde a este apartamento dos espacios de estacionamientos identificados con los números cinco y seis (5 y 6). A este apartamento le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del condominio de cero punto cero cero siete

cinco nueve dos uno porciento (0.0075921%). Inscrita al folio noventa y uno (91), del tomo mil doscientos veintitrés (1,223) de Carolina, finca número cincuenta y dos mil cuatrocientos setenta y nueve (52,479). Dirección Física: G-13, Rio Vista Cond., Carolina, PR 00987. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $99,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $66,000.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $49,500.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimien-

to de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Carolina, Puerto Rico a 12 de octubre de 2023. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA. ****

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

TRUST MORTGAGE CORP. Demandante Vs.

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHOS DE WESTERNBANK PUERTO RICO; CONDADO 3 LLC; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERÉS

Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00970.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: CONDADO 3 LLC C/O MIDWEST SERVICING INC 3144 S. WINTON ED. ROCHESTER NY 14623.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS).

En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado Demanda

para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo del siguiente pagaré: Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por $288,000.00, con intereses al 9.99% anual, vence la presentación, crédito ejecutivo 10% del principal, tasada en una cantidad equivalente al pagaré origina, según consta de la escritura #1380, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de diciembre de 2002, ante el Notario Público Adrian J. Hilera Torres, testimonio número 6665 inscrito al folio #91 del tomo #1344 de Guaynabo, finca #13478, inscripción 10ma. Modificación de pagaré Hipotecario que resulta de la inscripción 10ma en cuanto a lo siguiente a partir de la fecha de otorgamiento de la presente escritura el tipo de intereses que devengara será a razón de 5.99% anual a partir de esta fecha y durante los siguientes 24 meses y durante periodos consecutivos de 24 meses siguientes a razón del por ciento anual igual al tipo resultante al añadir 1 punto porcentual a la tasa preferencial según establecido por el Citibank N. A. en la Ciudad de Nueva York, vigente al comenzar cada periodo consecutivo de 24 meses o al 6.99 % anual; cual sea mayor hasta su total y completo pago; vencedero el 31 de diciembre de 2044, según consta de la escritura #398, otorgada en Guaynabo, el día 16 de diciembre de 2009, ante el Notario Público Leo M. Irizarry Román, inscrita al folio 91 del tomo 1344, de Guaynabo, finca #13478, inscripción 11ma. y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad, que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Torrimar, situada en el Barrio Viejo de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico; que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área, y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número de Solar: Uno (1) de la manzana siete (7) área del solar: setecientos cincuenta y cuatro metros cuadrados y setenta centímetros (754.70 m.c.) En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle diecisiete distancia de diecisiete metros y setenta y un centímetros y tres metros y treinta y dos centímetros en Tang; por el SUR, con la Avenida Lomas Verdes distancia de diecinueve metros y ochenta y dos centímetros en Tang; y por el ESTE, con la Calle Santa Ana distancia de veintisiete metros y veintiocho centímetros y tres metros y ochenta y nueve centímetros en Tang; y por el OESTE, con el Solar Dos, distancia de treinta y cuatro metros y dieciocho centímetros. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto reforzado dedicada a vivienda. Inscrito al folio 91 del tomo 1344 de Guaynabo, finca 13,478, inscripción 9na, Registro de la Propiedad Sección

Guaynabo La parte demandante alega que dicho Pagaré se ha extraviado, según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de unas obligaciones hipotecarias, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Guaynabo, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón, de PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SALON DE SESIONES SALON 803 CIVIL.

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO HERMANOS UNIDOS Demandante V.

PAN AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV07366.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCION DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

A: PAN AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION, JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en-

The San Juan Daily Star terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 31 de octubre de 2023. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 31 de octubre de 2023.

GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. F/KAROLYN RIVERA NAVARRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

cribe a continuación: Montón Abajo SR 730 Int, Cayey, Puerto Rico 00736. RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Montón Abajo del término municipal de Cayey con una cabida superficial de mil setecientos setenta y cinco punto setecientos noventa y dos (1,775.792 m.c.) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en dos alineaciones distintas que suman cincuenta y tres punto treinta y cinco (53.35 m.) metros con camino público y terrenos de Alfredo Colón; por el SUR, y ESTE, en dos alineaciones distintas que suman sesenta y ocho punto cuatrocientos cuarenta y uno (68.441 m.) metros y en un punto respectivamente con terrenos de la finca principal de la cual se segrega y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y siete punto cuarenta y nueve (47.49 m.) metros con terrenos de Luis Colón. Inscrita al folio 156 del tomo 311 de Cayey, finca número 10466, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Con el importe de dicha venta LEGAL NOTICE se habrá de satisfacer a la parESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO te demandante las cantidades DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- adeudadas, en el caso de epíNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- grafe, que se desglosan de la CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE siguiente forma: $92,867.67 de GUAYAMA. principal, 5.75% de intereses, BANCO POPULAR DE los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de PUERTO RICO la deuda, $18.51 de cargos por DEMANDANTE V. demora, los cuales continúan LUIS ISRAEL LÓPEZ acumulándose hasta el saldo COLÓN, NATALIA RESTO total de la deuda, $417.34 de reserva “escrow”, más costas, CARABALLO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE gastos y honorarios de abogaEl tipo mínimo para la suBIENES GANANCIALES do. basta será la suma de tasación COMPUESTA POR pactada, la cual es $97,466.00 AMBOS para la propiedad antes desDEMANDADOS crita. De declarase la subasta CIVIL NÚM. GCD2016-0316 desierta y tener que celebrarse (307). SOBRE: COBRO DE una segunda subasta el tipo DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE mínimo serán dos terceras HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR- partes (2/3) del precio mínimo DINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA antes mencionado; $64,977.33.

EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Si tampoco hubiere remate ni Hector Marquez Neris, Alguacil adjudicación en la segunda Supervisor de la División de Su- subasta, regirá como tipo de la bastas del Tribunal de Primera tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) Instancia, Sala de Guayama, a del precio pactado; $48,733.00. los demandados y al público en La primera subasta se llevará a general les notifico que, cum- cabo el 7 de diciembre de 2023, pliendo con un Mandamiento a las 10:30 de la mañana. De que se ha librado en el presen- no comparecer postor alguno te caso por el Secretario del se llevará a efecto una segunTribunal de epígrafe con fecha da subasta el 14 de diciembre 14 de junio de 2023 y para sa- de 2023, a las 10:30 de la matisfacer la cantidad adeudada ñana. De no comparecer postor de $92,867.67 de principal me- alguno se llevará a cabo una diante Sentencia dictada en el tercera subasta el 21 de diciemcaso de autos el 4 de agosto de bre de 2023, a las 10:30 de la 2017, notificada y archivada en mañana. La subasta o subasautos el 9 de agosto de 2017, tas antes indicadas se llevarán procederé a vender en públi- a efecto en mi oficina, localizaca subasta, al mejor postor en da en el Tribunal de Primera pago de contado y en moneda Instancia, Sala de Guayama. del curso legal de los Estados Del Estudio de Título realizado Unidos de América, mediante surgen los siguientes graváefectivo, giro o cheque certifi- menes: Servidumbre de paso cado a nombre del Alguacil de a favor del Pueblo de Puerto este Tribunal todo derecho, tí- Rico. Condiciones Restrictivas tulo e interés que hayan tenido de Venta por el término de 10 tengan o puedan tener los deu- años impuestas por la Autoridores demandados en cuanto dad para el Financiamiento de a la propiedad localizada en el la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por Municipio de Guayama, Puerto haber concedido la suma de Rico, el bien inmueble se des- $5,000.00 para sufragar gastos

Monday, November 6, 2023 de cierre, según Esc. #169 en San Juan el 13 de abril de 2012 ante Edeli Marie Pláceres Miranda, inscrita al tomo Karibe, finca #10466 de Cayey inscripción 12da. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento 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 ejecutando, 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 publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 31 de octubre de 2023. Hector Marquez Neris, ALGUACIL.

LEGAL NOTICE

AlDA M ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ

A: ROBERTO MELENDEZ HERNANDEZ. BO AMELIA 66 CALLE SANTIAGO IGLESIAS, GUAYNABO PR 00965; 2272 CENTERRA LOOP, KISSIMMEE FL 34741.

DEMANDADO CIVIL NÚM.: CD20230V00117.

SALÓN: 203-B. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América El Presidente de los Estados Uni- POR LA PRESENTE se le dos El Estado Libre Asociado emplaza y requiere para que de Puerto Rico. SS: conteste la demanda dentro de A: Alda M. Ortiz Rodriguez los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edic- URB ALT DE SAN to. Usted deberá presentar su LORENZO 173 CALLE 5 alegación responsiva a través #1409 SAN LORENZO PR del Sistema Unificado de Ma00754-4413 nejo y Administración de CaPOR LA PRESENTE se le sos (SUMAC), la cual puede emplaza y requiere para que acceder utilizando la siguiente conteste la demanda dentro de dirección electrónica: unired. los treinta (30) días siguientes ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se a la publicación de este Edicto. represente por derecho propio, Usted deberá presentar su ale- en cuyo caso deberá presentar gación responsiva a través del su alegación responsiva en la Sistema Unificado de Manejo y secretaría del tribunal. Si usted Administración de Casos (SU- deja de presentar su alegación MAC), la cual puede acceder responsiva dentro del referido utilizando la siguiente direc- término, el tribunal podrá dicción electrónica: https://unired. tar sentencia en rebeldía en ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se su contra y conceder el remerepresente por derecho propio, dio solicitado en la demanda o en cuyo caso deberá presentar cualquier otro sin más citarle ni su alegación responsiva en la oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercisecretaría del tribunal. Si usted cio de su sana discreción, lo endeja de presentar su alegación tiende procedente. El sistema responsiva dentro del referido SUMAC notificará copia al abotérmino, el tribunal podrá dic- gado de la parte demandante, tar sentencia en rebeldía en Kenmuel J. Ruiz Lopez cuya su contra y conceder el reme- dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 dio solicitado en la demanda o San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936cualquier otro sin más citarle ni 8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci- a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@ cio de su sana discreción, lo en- orf-law.com y a la dirección notiende procedente. El sistema tiflcaciones@orf-law.com. EXSUMAC notificará copia a los TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y abogados de la parte deman- el sello del Tribunal, en GUAYdante, el Lcdo. Edwin Serrano NABO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 cuyas direcciones son: P.O. de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer- LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. (787) 993-3731 a la dirección SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SEedwin.serranoçuiorf4awcom y a CRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL la dirección notificaciones@orf- CONFIDENCIAL I. law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO LEGAL NOTICE MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO hoy día 27 de SEPTIEMBRE de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU2023. En Cidra, Puerto Rico, el NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de 27 de septiembre de 2023. SALA SUPERIOR DE CALISILDA MARTNEZ AGOSTO, GUAS Secretaria. Glorimar Rivera Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

ROBERTO MELENDEZ HERNANDEZ

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Parte Demandada SALA DE CIDRA EN CAGUAS. Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00597.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE RICO, LLC COMO AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE AGENTE DE: MIDLAND DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAFUNDING, LLC DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. DEMAIVDANTE VS.

CORPORATION D/B/A CELINK Demandante Vs.

SUCESION AIDA CINTRON MALDONADO COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00831.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar Número 15 del bloque “F” de la Urbanización Valle San Luis, radicada en los Barrios Río Cañas y Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 359.33 metros cuadrados, equivalente aproximadamente a 0.0914 cuerdas. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de 15.50 metros, y un arco de 0.50 metros, con la Calle Número 6; por el SUR, en una distancia de 16.67 metros lineales, con solar F-24; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 22.00 metros, con el solar F-16; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 22.00 metros con solar F-14. Contiene una casa para fines residenciales.”

Finca número 50468, inscrita al folio 220 del tomo 1440 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 81 del tomo 1670 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 7ª. Propiedad localizada en: VALLE DE SAN LUIS, F-15 VIA DEL CIELO #306, CAGUAS, PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $382,500.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 2 de marzo de 2077. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubie-

re, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $255,000.00, 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 Caguas, el 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $170,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $127,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 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 $253,521.08 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $72,897.49 en intereses acumulados al 8 de agosto de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.535% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $12,502.05 en seguro hipotecario; $5,915.00 cargos de servicio; $216.42 de contribuciones; $610.00 de tasaciones; $215.00 de inspecciones; $3,584.00 de preservación; $1,110.00 en adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $25,500.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante

horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 05 de octubre de 2023. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ALEJANDRO URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #997.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

BEATRIZ CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, NILDA CELESTE CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUCESIÓN DE TEODORO CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR MARIO CRUZ ALMODÓVAR, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; JUANA MARÍA CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, LIDIA IVETTE CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, TOMÁS CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, ANDRÉS CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL MANUEL CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR MARÍA ANGELI CRUZ CUADRA, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE REINERIA RODRIGUEZ DE JESÚS COMPUESTA POR BEATRIZ CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUCESIÓN DE TEODORO CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, JUANA MARIA CRUZ RODRIGUEZ, TOMAS CRUZ RODRIGUEZ Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL MANUEL CRUZ RODRIGUEZ Demandados

DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte con Interés Civil Núm.: HU2021CV00854.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de HUMACAO, hago saber a la parte deman-

24 dada, BEATRIZ CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, NILDA CELESTE CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUCESIÓN DE TEODORO CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ compuesta por Mario Cruz Almodóvar, Fulano y Fulana de Tal; JUANA MARÍA CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, LIDIA IVETTE CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, TOMÁS CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, ANDRÉS CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL MANUEL CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ compuesta por María Angeli Cruz Cuadra, Fulano y Fulana de Tal; SUCESIÓN DE REINERIA RODRIGUEZ DE JESÚS compuesta por BEATRIZ CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUCESIÓN DE TEODORO CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, JUANA MARIA CRUZ RODRIGUEZ, TOMAS CRUZ RODRIGUEZ y la SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL MANUEL CRUZ RODRIGUEZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGREGOS MUNICIPALES como Parte con Interés; y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 2 de octubre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: Urbanización Villa Universitaria BG-12 Calle 35, Humacao PR 00791-4365 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Universitaria, situada en los Barrios Mariana y Tejas del término municipal de Humacao, con el número 12-BG, con un área de 335.80 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 13, en una distancia de 23.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 11, en una distancia de 23.00 metros, por el ESTE, con el solar número 3, en una distancia de 14.60 metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle 35, en una distancia de 14.60 metros.

Enclava una casa para fines residenciales. Finca 16089, inscrita al Folio 295 del tomo 368 de Humacao, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao.

La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Reineria Rodríguez de Jesús, Beatriz, Nilda Celeste, Teodoro, Juana Maria, Lydia Ivette, Tomás y Andrés de apellidos Cruz Rodríguez, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $55,850.00, con intereses al 5 ¾% anual y vencimiento 1 de marzo de 2025. Según escritura 149 otorgada en San Juan el 23 de febrero de 2005 ante el notario Rafael Bras Benítez.

Inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Humacao, finca 16089, inscripción 8va. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha

quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 17 de agosto de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad adeudada y vencida el 1 de febrero de 2021, ascendiente a $18,332.83 de principal, más $587.72 a intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 5.750% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $2,364.50 a otros cargos, con un balance de $1,596.67, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de HUMACAO, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $55,850.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $37,233.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $27,925.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables.

Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del

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ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de octubre de 2023. JOSÉ LUIS RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE HUMACAO. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.

PEDRO JARED CUBANO RIVERA, CHERLYN AIXA LÓPEZ NEGRÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: C4CD2017-0083.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Manatí, hago saber a la parte demandada, VISTA DE TIERRAS NUEVAS, INC.; SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ compuesta por JOSE VICTOR MENDEZ GARCÍA, CECILIA PEPITONE GARCÍA, EFREN RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, LILDA RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, NELLY RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, a la parte con interés PEDRO JARED CUBANO RIVERA, CHERLYN AIXA LÓPEZ NEGRÓN y la SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES compuesta por ambos; y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 13 de junio de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, las propiedades con dirección física: [Barrio Tierras Nuevas Ponientes, PR-685, Km 3.2 Int., Manatí PR 00674] (Solares 7, 8 y 9). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 18 de marzo de 2021, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad adeudada y vencida desde el 20 de enero de 2017 la cual LEGAL NOTICE para el 7 de mayo de 2023 era ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO un total de $89,543.55 que inDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUcluye $41,776.58 de principal, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA más $27,679.00 a interés acuSALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ mulados y que continúan acuWM CAPITAL mulándose hasta el saldo total PARTNERS 76. LLC de la deuda, más $5,541.28 Demandante V. cargos por demora (Calc Late Charges), más $6,546.69 a VISTA DE TIERRAS otros cargos (misceláneos fee NUEVAS, INC.; y $8,000.00 para cosSUCESIÓN DE CARLOS balance) tas gastos y honorarios de aboRODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ gado según pactado, más cualCOMPUESTA POR quier otro desembolso que JOSE VICTOR MENDEZ haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la GARCÍA, CECILIA tramitación de este caso para PEPITONE GARCÍA, otros adelantos de conformidad EFREN RODRIGUEZ con el Contrato Hipotecario.

PROPIEDAD A: RUSTICA: SORODRIGUEZ, LILDA RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, LAR #7: Predio de terreno ubicado en el barrio Tierras NueNELLY RODRIGUEZ vas Ponientes, del término RODRIGUEZ, FULANO DE municipal de Manatí, Puerto TAL Y FULANA DE TAL Rico, con una cabida superficial Demandados de Mil (1,000.00) Metros Cua-

drados; en lindes por el NORTE, con el remanente de la finca principal; por el SUR, con calle de uso público; por el ESTE, con el solar #8, y por el OESTE, con el Solar #6. Inscrita al Folio 103 del Tomo 577 de Manatí, Registro de la Propiedad, Finca Número 18831. La finca antes descrita identificada con la letra “A” se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Vistas de Tierras Nuevas, Inc. en garantía de pagaré, aff. 5415 a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $80,000.00 respondiendo esta finca por $20,000.00 con intereses al 4.00% preferencial, vencedero a la demanda. Según escritura 500 otorgada en Arecibo el 25 de octubre de 2012 ante el notario Gaddiel Morales Olivera, e inscrita el 19 de abril de 2017 al tomo Karibe, finca 18831 de Manatí, inscripción 2ª. (ii) ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: se presentó el 11 de diciembre de 2018 Copia certificada de Demanda radicada el 5 de abril de 2017 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan en el caso civil número C4CD20170083 sobre incumplimiento de contrato, cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Oriental Bank and Trust, demandante v.

Vistas de Tierras Nuevas Inc., Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez, demandados; Pedro Jared Cubano Rivera, Cherlyn Aixa López Negrón y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, parte con interés. Por la misma se reclama el pago del préstamo Hipotecario garantizado con la Hipoteca por $80,000.00 respondiendo esta finca por $20,000.00, de la inscripción 2ª antes relacionada, adeudando $54,999.21 al momento de radicar la demanda. Anotada al Sistema Karibe de Manatí, finca #18832, el 15 de febrero de 2023, anotación A. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). La PRIMERA SUBASTA SOLAR #7 (FINCA 18831) será celebrada el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de MANATÍ, Puerto Rico.

Servirá de tipo mínimo para la primera subasta, la cantidad de $20,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $13,333,33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá

como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $10,000.00. PROPIEDAD B: RUSTICA: SOLAR #8: Predio de terreno ubicado en el barrio Tierras Nuevas Ponientes, del término municipal de Manatí, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de Mil (1,000.00) Metros Cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, con el remanente de la finca principal; por el SUR, con calle de uso público; por el ESTE, con el solar #9, y por el OESTE, con el Solar #9.

Inscrita al Folio 105 del Tomo 577 de Manatí, Registro de la Propiedad, Finca Número 18832. La finca antes descrita identificada con la letra “B” se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Vistas de Tierras Nuevas, Inc. en garantía de pagaré, aff. 5415 a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $80,000.00 respondiendo esta finca por $20,000.00 con intereses al 4.00% preferencial, vencedero a la demanda. Según escritura 500 otorgada en Arecibo el 25 de octubre de 2012 ante el notario Gaddiel Morales Olivera, e inscrita el 19 de abril de 2017 al tomo Karibe, finca 18831 de Manatí, inscripción 2ª. (ii) ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: se presentó el 11 de diciembre de 2018 Copia certificada de Demanda radicada el 5 de abril de 2017 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan en el caso civil número C4CD20170083 sobre incumplimiento de contrato, cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Oriental Bank and Trust, demandante v.

Vistas de Tierras Nuevas Inc., Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez, demandados; Pedro Jared Cubano Rivera, Cherlyn Aixa López Negrón y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, parte con interés. Por la misma se reclama el pago del préstamo Hipotecario garantizado con la Hipoteca por $80,000.00 respondiendo esta finca por $20,000.00, de la inscripción 2ª antes relacionada, adeudando $54,999.21 al momento de radicar la demanda. Anotada al Sistema Karibe de Manatí, finca #18832, el 15 de febrero de 2023, anotación A. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). La PRIMERA SUBASTA SOLAR #8 (FINCA 18832) será celebrada el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de MANATÍ, Puerto Rico.

Servirá de tipo mínimo para la primera subasta, la cantidad de $20,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá

como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $13,333,33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $10,000.00. PROPIEDAD C: RUSTICA: SOLAR #9: Predio de terreno ubicado en el barrio Tierras Nuevas Ponientes, del término municipal de Manatí, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de Novecientos (900.00) Metros Cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, con el remanente de la finca principal; por el SUR, con calle de uso público; por el ESTE, con área del parque, y por el OESTE, con el Solar #8. Inscrita al Folio 107 del Tomo 577 de Manatí, Registro de la Propiedad, Finca Número 18833. La finca antes descrita identificada con la letra “C” se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Vistas de Tierras Nuevas, Inc. en garantía de pagaré, aff. 5415 a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $80,000.00 respondiendo esta finca por $20,000.00 con intereses al 4.00% preferencial, vencedero a la demanda. Según escritura 500 otorgada en Arecibo el 25 de octubre de 2012 ante el notario Gaddiel Morales Olivera, e inscrita el 19 de abril de 2017 al tomo Karibe, finca 18831 de Manatí, inscripción 2ª. (ii) HIPOTECA constituida por Pedro Jared Cubano Rivera y esposa Cherlyn Aixa López Negrón, en garantía de pagaré, aff. #18867, a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma de $33,000.00 con intereses al 7½% anual y vencimiento 15 años. Según escritura 69 otorgada en San Juan el 12 de mayo de 2014 ante el notario Raúl Caballero Meléndez, e inscrita el 19 de abril de 2017 al tomo Karibe, finca 18833 de Manatí, inscripción 4ª. (iii) ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: se presentó el 11 de diciembre de 2018 Copia certificada de Demanda radicada el 5 de abril de 2017 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan en el caso civil número C4CD20170083 sobre incumplimiento de contrato, cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Oriental Bank and Trust, demandante v.

Vistas de Tierras Nuevas Inc., Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez, demandados; Pedro Jared Cubano Rivera, Cherlyn Aixa López Negrón y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, parte con interés. Por la misma se reclama el pago del préstamo Hipotecario garantizado con la Hipoteca por $80,000.00 respondiendo esta finca por

$20,000.00, de la inscripción 2ª antes relacionada, adeudando $54,999.21 al momento de radicar la demanda, anotada al Sistema Karibe de Manatí, finca #18833, el 15 de febrero de 2023, anotación A. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). La PRIMERA SUBASTA SOLAR #9 (FINCA 18833) será celebrada el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de MANATÍ, Puerto Rico.

Servirá de tipo mínimo para la primera subasta, la cantidad de $20,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $13,333,33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $10,000.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables.

Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del

The San Juan Daily Star remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada las fincas o derechos hipotecados y consignado los precios correspondientes, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación.

Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de octubre de 2023. WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ CARRIÓN, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #135, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MANATÍ.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestarla demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: httos://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son.

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Suite 209 LEGAL NOTICE 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Tel.: (787) 523-2670 DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFax: (787) 523-2664 NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA rdíaz@bdprlaw.com SALA DE BAYAMÓN Expido este edicto bajo mi firma BANCO POPULAR DE y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy PUERTO RICO 30 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. Demandante V. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, GENERAL. ANGEL MANUEL TABARO SECRETARIA NOELIA MATÍAS SALAS, SEO’FERRAL, EMILY CRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Yauco, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de octubre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Monday, November 6, 2023 POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

parte demandante son: Lcdo.

Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 00936-6603. Tel. (787) 9190073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 23 de octubre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABÁ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida de aquello Codemandados de quienes se desconoce su paradero. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente Edicto. Dada en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, a 24 de octubre de 2023.

CRISTINA CORDOVA PONCE, (FIRMADO)JUEZ SUPERIOR”.

Se le advierte que, si no comparece al Tribunal en el presente caso, enviando copia de su posición a la abogada del Demandante, la Lcda. Lizannette Morales Crespo, PO Box 5272, Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel.

(787) 945-5233, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación, se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. NATALIA BURGOS MALDONADO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

Tribunal ordena que se cite por edicto a la Codemandada Hilda Ildefonso Meléndez. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 (a) (c), mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndoseles que de no hacerlo se les anotará la rebeldía sin más citarles ni oírlos. Se exime al Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida de aquello Codemandados de quienes se desconoce su paradero. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente Edicto. Dada en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, a 24 de octubre de 2023.

CRISTINA CORDOVA PONCE, (FIRMADO)JUEZ SUPERIOR”.

Se le advierte que, si no comparece al Tribunal en el presente caso, enviando copia de su posición a la abogada del Demandante, la Lcda. Lizannette Morales Crespo, PO Box 5272, Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel.

(787) 945-5233, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación, se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. NATALIA BURGOS MALDONADO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

ILDEFONSO; JOHN DOE

Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2023CV00264.

Salón: 003C-LEY 246. Sobre: ACCIÓN CONTRADICTORIA DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: RUTH IVELISSE MARTÍNEZ TORRES, COMO HEREDERA A: NILSIA ILDEFONSO DE LA SUCESIÓN MELÉNDEZ. DE ÁNGEL LUIS El Tribunal Superior de Puerto MARTÍNEZ SALDAÑA Rico, Sala de Aibonito dictó la LEGAL NOTICE Y LA SUCESIÓN DE siguiente providencia: “Vista ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO la solicitud para la orden de RUTH EDILIA MARTÍNEZ DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUemplazamiento por edicto, y SALDAÑA T/C/C RUTH E. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA cónsono con las Reglas de CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBOMARTÍNEZ SALDAÑA; Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el JAIME MARTÍNEZ COMO NITO SALA SUPERIOR Tribunal ordena que se cite por GERARDO ILDEFONSO HEREDERO DE LA edicto a la Codemandada Nilsia MELENDEZ Ildefonso Meléndez. El edicto SUCESIÓN DE EMIGLIO Demandante V. se publicará conforme a la ReMARTÍNEZ SALDAÑA, gla 4.6 de las de Procedimiento HILDA ILDEFONSO T/C/C EMIGDIO Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 MELENDEZ, EDILBERTO MARTÍNEZ SALDAÑA Y (a) (c), mediante la publicación ILDEFONSO MELENDEZ, de un solo edicto en un periódiRUTH EDILIA MARTÍNEZ NILSIA ILDEFONSO co de circulación general diaria SALDAÑA T/C/C RUTH E. MELENDEZ, ROSA en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de MARTÍNEZ SALDAÑA; que presenten cualquier oposiMARGARITA ILDEFONSO FULANO DE TAL, COMO ción a la demanda dentro del ORTIZ, CARMEN POSIBLE HEREDERO LEGAL NOTICE término de treinta (30) días a LAURA ILDEFONSO contarse de la publicación del DESCONOCIDO DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ORTIZ, EDNA MARIA edicto, apercibiéndoseles que LA SUCESIÓN DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUILDEFONSO ORTIZ, de no hacerlo se les anotará NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA EMIGLIO MARTÍNEZ la rebeldía sin más citarles ni MAYRA LUZ ILDEFONSO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBOSALDAÑA T/C/C EMIGDIO oírlos. Se exime al DemandanORTIZ, SHEYSA DAVILA NITO SALA SUPERIOR MARTÍNEZ SALDAÑA Y te del requisito impuesto por GERARDO ILDEFONSO ILDEFONSO, KELVIN la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento RUTH EDILIA MARTÍNEZ MELENDEZ GADIEL DAVILA Civil de enviar por correo certiSALDAÑA T/C/C RUTH E. Demandante V. ficado con acuse de recibo coILDEFONSO Y SUCESION MARTÍNEZ SALDAÑA. HILDA ILDEFONSO pia de la Demanda y del edicto LIGIA ILDEFONSO MARRERO VALLADARES Por la presente se le emplaza a la última dirección conocida MELENDEZ, EDILBERTO MELENDEZ, COMPUESTA y notifica que debe contestar la LEGAL NOTICE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL de aquello Codemandados de ILDEFONSO MELENDEZ, demanda dentro del término de POR ANGEL VALENTIN DE GANANCIALES quienes se desconoce su paraESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO treinta (30) días a partir de la NILSIA ILDEFONSO SIERRA, SANDRA dero. Se ordena a la Secretaria DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCOMPUESTA POR publicación del presente edicto.

MELENDEZ, ROSA expida el correspondiente EdicNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LEGAL NOTICE VALENTIN ILDEFONSO AMBOS, JOHN DOE Usted deberá presentar su aleto. Dada en Aibonito, Puerto SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN MARGARITA ILDEFONSO Y LOIDA VALENTIN Demandadas ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO gación responsiva a través del Rico, a 24 de octubre de 2023.

JUAN ORTIZ, CARMEN Civil Núm.: BY2023CV05922.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSistema Unificado de Manejo y ILDEFONSO; JOHN DOE CRISTINA CORDOVA PONCE, BANCO POPULAR DE Administración de Casos (SUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Sobre: CANCELACION DE LAURA ILDEFONSO Demandados (FIRMADO)JUEZ SUPERIOR”.

PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR SALA SUPERIOR YAUCO PUERTO RICO Civil Núm.: AI2023CV00264.

MAC), al cual puede acceder ORTIZ, EDNA MARIA LEGAL NOTICE Se le advierte que, si no comLA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLADemandante V. utilizando la siguiente direc- Salón: 003C-LEY 246. Sobre: COOPERATIVA DE ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LA SUCESIÓN DE RUTH ción electrónica: https://unired. ACCIÓN CONTRADICTORIA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO parece al Tribunal en el presenAHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉMAYRA LUZ ILDEFONSO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- te caso, enviando copia de su ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTAEDILIA MARTÍNEZ CABO ROJO ORTIZ, SHEYSA DAVILA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA posición a la abogada del DeRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, por derecho propio, la Lcda. Lizannette Parte Demandante Vs SALDAÑA T/C/C RUTH represente ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO ILDEFONSO, KELVIN CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBO- mandante, en cuyo caso deberá presentar PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. Morales Crespo, PO Box 5272, ERVING ABDIEL LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER- E. MARTÍNEZ SALDAÑA su alegación responsiva en la UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIANITO SALA SUPERIOR GADIEL DAVILA Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel.

CAMACHO SÁNCHEZ TO RICO, S.S. COMPUESTA POR LA secretaría del tribunal. Se le DO DE P.R., SS. ILDEFONSO Y SUCESION GERARDO ILDEFONSO (787) 945-5233, dentro del térA: JOHN DOE Y OTROS SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL apercibe que, de no contestar A: JOHN DOE MELENDEZ mino de treinta (30) días a parLIGIA ILDEFONSO la demanda dentro del término El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Parte Demandada COMO TENEDOR Demandante V. LUIS MARTÍNEZ tir de la publicación, se dictará aquí estipulado, se le anotará Rico, Sala de Aibonito dictó la MELENDEZ, COMPUESTA Civil Núm.: YU2023CV00346.

DESCONOCIDOS DEL HILDA ILDEFONSO Sentencia concediendo el reSALDAÑA COMPUESTA la rebeldía y se dictará sen- siguiente providencia: “Vista POR ANGEL VALENTIN Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO medio solicitado sin más citarle PAGARÉ a favor de MELENDEZ, EDILBERTO POR RUTH IVELISSE tencia sin más citarle ni oírle. la solicitud para la orden de (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO. SIERRA, SANDRA Popular Mortgage Inc., o a ILDEFONSO MELENDEZ, ni oírle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma MARTÍNEZ TORRES Por la presente el Tribunal de emplazamiento por edicto, y A: ERVING ABDIEL y sello del Tribunal en Aibonito, VALENTIN ILDEFONSO Primera Instancia, conforme al su orden, por la suma de NILSIA ILDEFONSO cónsono con las Reglas de Y EDDIE AMAURY Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de CAMACHO SÁNCHEZ, SU Y LOIDA VALENTIN caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Procedimiento Civil vigentes, MELENDEZ, ROSA MARTÍNEZ TORRES 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL $126,850.00 de principal, Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana el Tribunal ordena que se cite ILDEFONSO; JOHN DOE MARGARITA ILDEFONSO RIVERA, SECRETARIA. NATAY LA SUCESIÓN DE Demandados Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL intereses al 5 3/4% anual, de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. por edicto a la Codemandado LIA BURGOS MALDONADO, vencedero el día 28 de ORTIZ, CARMEN EMIGLIO MARTÍNEZ 689 (2005), le ordena que en el JOHN DOE. El edicto se publi- Civil Núm.: AI2023CV00264.

DE GANANCIALES SUB-SECRETARIA. Salón: 003C-LEY 246.

Sobre: noviembre de 2014, LAURA ILDEFONSO término de treinta (30) días, cará conforme a la Regla 4.6 SALDAÑA, T/C/C COMPUESTA POR haga declaración aceptan- de las de Procedimiento Civil, ACCIÓN CONTRADICTORIA constituida mediante la ORTIZ, EDNA MARIA LEGAL NOTICE EMIGDIO MARTÍNEZ AMBOS. do o repudiando la herencia 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 (a) DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTAescritura número 507, ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SALDAÑA COMPUESTA Se le apercibe que la parte deLA SUCESIÓN DE RUTH (c), mediante la publicación de DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUotorgada en San Juan, POR JAIME MARTÍNEZ Y de MAYRA LUZ ILDEFONSO mandante por mediación del PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. EDILIA MARTÍNEZ SALDAÑA un solo edicto en un periódico Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Puerto Rico, el día 30 de FULANO DE TAL, COMO T/C/C RUTH E. MARTÍNEZ de circulación general diaria en UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- ORTIZ, SHEYSA DAVILA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto agosto de 2001, ante la ILDEFONSO, KELVIN SALA DE BAYAMÓN POSIBLE HEREDERO SALDAÑA Y LA SUCESIÓN Puerto Rico, a los efectos de DO DE P.R., SS. Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, APEX BANK DE ÁNGEL LUIS MARTÍNEZ que presenten cualquier opoA: HILDA ILDEFONSO notario Mireya Ocasio GADIEL DAVILA DESCONOCIDO; ha radicado la acción de epíDemandante V. SALDAÑA Y/O LA SUCESIÓN sición a la demanda dentro del MELÉNDEZ. García, e inscrita al folio ILDEFONSO Y SUCESION DEPARTAMENTO grafe en su contra. Copia de RICARDO GUZMÁN DE EMIGLIO MARTÍNEZ SAL- término de treinta (30) días a El Tribunal Superior de Puerto 166 deI tomo 442 de Toa LIGIA ILDEFONSO la demanda, emplazamientos DE HACIENDA; DAÑA T/C/C EMIGDIO MARTÍ- contarse de la publicación del Rico, Sala de Aibonito dictó la ALICEA, NORMA y del presente edicto le ha sido Alta, finca número 22,671, DEPARTAMENTO DE NEZ SALDAÑA. Se le apercibe edicto, apercibiéndoseles que siguiente providencia: “Vista MELENDEZ, COMPUESTA PUIG BERRIOS Y LA enviado por correo a la última Registro de la Propiedad que de no expresar su inten- de no hacerlo se les anotará la solicitud para la orden de POR ANGEL VALENTIN JUSTICIA SOCIEDAD LEGAL dirección conocida. Pueden ción de aceptar o repudiar la la rebeldía sin más citarles ni emplazamiento por edicto, y Demandado de Puerto Rico, Tercera SIERRA, SANDRA ustedes obtener mayor inforDE GANANCIALES herencia dentro del término que oírlos. Se exime al Demandan- cónsono con las Reglas de Sección de Bayamón, Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV02421.

VALENTIN ILDEFONSO mación sobre el asunto reviCOMPUESTA POR Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO se le fijó, herencia se tendrá por te del requisito impuesto por Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el sando los autos en el Tribunal. inscripción 1ra.

Y LOIDA VALENTIN AMBOS Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA aceptada. Los abogados de la la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento

26 Demandada Civil Núm.: DCD2017-0997.

(503). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, hago saber a la parte demandada, RICARDO GUZMÁN ALICEA, NORMA PUIG BERRIOS y la SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES compuesta por ambos y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 23 de agosto de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: Condominio Altos de Miraflores 969 Ave. Higuillar, Apt. 321 Dorado PR 00646 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento #31. Residencial identificado con el #321, ubicado en el segundo piso del Módulo #3 del Condominio Altos de Miraflores, localizado en el Barrio Espinosa del término municipal de Dorado, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida superficial total de 115.3171 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de 13.46 metros, con los apartamentos #222 y 232; por el SUR, en una distancia de 13.46 metros con área exterior común, con área común, con el Apartamento #322 y con área exterior común; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 9.42 metros, con área exterior común; por el OESTE, en una distancia de 9.42 con área exterior común y con área común. Consta de vestíbulo de entrada, una salacomedor, terraza, una cocina con área de lavandería, pasillo interior, dos linen closet, 3 habitaciones con sus respectivos closets, una de estas designada como la habitación principal con su baño completo, otra de estas destinada como habitación de estar (family room) y un baño completo adicional. La puerta principal de acceso de este apartamento se encuentra en su colindancia Sur y da acceso a elementos comunes generales, a saber, pasillo, escalera y a su vez a través de la calle interior tiene acceso a la vía pública Avenida Higuillar. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de 1.58103% en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio Altos de Miraflores. Tiene y le pertenecen de forma y manera exclusiva, permanente e inseparable, dos espacios para estacionamientos que identifican con el #25, con una cabida

superficial de 2.5 metros de ancho por 5.5 metros de largo y #26, con una cabida superficial de 2.5 metros de ancho por 5.5 metros de largo, uno detrás del otro. Finca 16521 de Dorado, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Eurobank o a su orden, por $161,100.00, intereses al 3.50% anual y vencedera el 1 de noviembre de 2014, préstamo Ballon con 59 pagos de $624.09 mensuales y un último pago de $151,628.26, según Esc. 146, en San Juan a 30 de octubre de 2009, ante el Notario Público Julio Francisco Fernández Rodríguez, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Dorado, finca #16521, inscripción segunda. (ii) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a su orden, por $17,900.00, al 3.50%, vencedero el 1 de noviembre de 2014, según Esc. #147, en San Juan, el 30 de octubre de 2009, ante el Notario Público Julio Francisco Fernández Rodríguez, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Dorado, finca #16521, inscripción 3ra, el 14 de junio de 2023. (iii) Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 2da, por cancelación parcial por $6,978.78 para un nuevo principal de $154,121.22, intereses al 3.50% desde el 1 de septiembre de 2014 y vence el 1 de agosto de 2049, según Esc. #183, en San Juan, el 31 de julio de 2014, ante Luis Yamil Rodríguez San Miguel, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Dorado, finca #16521, inscripción 4ta, el 14 de junio de 2023. (iv) Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 3ra., se amplía hasta $18,283.94, intereses al 3.50% desde el 1 de septiembre de 2014, y vence el 1 de agosto de 2049, según Esc. #184, en San Juan, el 31 de julio de 2014, ante Luis Yamil Rodríguez San Miguel, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Dorado, finca #16521, inscripción 5ta. El 14 de junio de 2023. (v) Sentencia del 11 de abril de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Dorado, en el caso civil #DO2018CV00246, sobre Cobro de Dinero, seguido por Consejo de Titulares Altos de Miraflores, representado por su presidenta la Sra. Mariela E. Colón González, demandante, versus Ricardo Guzmán Alicea y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta con Norma I. Puig Berrios, demandados por $626.86, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Dorado, finca #16521, el 20 de junio de 2023, anotación A. (vi) Demanda del 24 de agosto de 2017, radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil #DCD2017-0997, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Oriental Bank, demandante, versus Ri-

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cardo Guzmán Alicea y Norma Iris Puig Berrios, demandados, por $166,069.17, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Dorado, finca #16521, el 20 de junio de 2023, anotación B y última. (vii) Documento Pendiente: Al asiento 2018-118946-BY04, el 28 de noviembre de 2018, se presentó Sentencia del 19 de junio de 2018, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil #DCD2017-0997 (503), seguido por Oriental Bank, demandante, versus Ricardo Guzmán Alicea, et al, demandado, por $148, 457.28. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 19 de junio de 2018, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante las cantidades ascendientes a: a) Préstamo hipotecario (gravamen preferente) la cantidad de $148,457.28 de principal, más intereses acumulados que continuarán acumulándose al 3.5% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más cargos por demora y $16,100.00 de costas gastos y honorarios de abogado según pactado más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos; b) Préstamo hipotecario (gravamen posterior) la cantidad de $17,611.89 de principal, más de intereses acumulados y que continuarán acumulándose al 3.50% anual hasta el saldo total, más cargos por atrasos, y $1,790.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $161,100.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $107,400.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $80,550.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para

pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables.

Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación.

Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de octubre de 2023. ED-

GARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.

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

RAÚL GARCÍA ROMÁN Y MARTHA HINGINIA VALLE ROJAS T/C/P HINGINIA VALLE ROJAS Y POR MARTHA H. VALLE ROJAS

Peticionarios Civil Núm.: AR2023CV01918.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: TODO AQUÉL QUE TENGA ALGÚN DERECHO REAL O INTERÉS SOBRE EL INMUEBLE DESCRITO EN LA PETICIÓN DE DOMINIO QUE MUESTRA EL EPÍGRAFE; A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN, Y EN GENERAL, A TODA PERSONA QUE DESEE OPONERSE:

Por la presente se le notifica para que comparezcan si creyeren que les conviene, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los VEINTE (20) DIAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por el peticionario para adquirir el dominio sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno marcada con la letra “E” del plano de inscripción en el caso 77-06-D005-APL, con una cabida de mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y cuatro punto mil trescientos diez (1,454.1310 m.c.) metros cuadrados y en lindes por el Norte, en diez y nueve punto cinco mil cuatrocientos treinta y nueve metros (19.5439) con el solar “A” del Plano de Inscripción antes, ahora, Jorge Luis Ruiz Rivera; por el Sur, en veintitrés punto siete mil novecientos ochenta y dos metros (23.7982) con terrenos de Rosa María Jiménez antes, ahora, Raúl García Román; por el Este, en setenta y cuatro punto tres mil quinientos diez (74.3510) con terrenos de Marcial Maldonado antes, ahora, Luz Marisol Maldonado Román; por el Oeste, en dos alineaciones de veintidós punto tres mil doscientos diez y ocho (22.3218) y cuarenta y dos punto cinco mil quinientos cuarenta y dos (42.5542) respectivamente con terrenos del solar marca-

do con la letra “C”, ahora, América Román Álvarez, con Raúl García Román y con servidumbre de paso. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad.

Catastro número 013-035-52483-000. Deben notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal de los peticionarios: Lcdo. Fernando H. Padrón Jiménez, PO Box 2833, Arecibo, PR 00613-2833. Tel. (787) 816-6732. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico a 24 de octubre de 2023. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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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 Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 31 de octubre de 2023. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 31 de octubre de 2023.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTHA E. ROSARIO ROSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: DO2022CV00154.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE BRANDON DAVID LEWIS COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: AG2023CV01521.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss.

A: SUCESIÓN DE BRANDON DA VID LEWIS COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN COND. LANDING VIEW A: FULANO DE VILLAGE, APT. B-204, TAL, FULANA DE EDIF. B, RINCON PR TAL, CENTRO DE 00677 (Barrio Puntas, Apt. RECAUDACION DE B-204), y; 72 WOODWINE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES AVE. OAKVILLE, CT (Nombre de las partes que se le 06779-2334. notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puer-

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc-

ción electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos by f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. De ser el demandado un heredero de una sucesión, se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días, en tomo a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11,021. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 30 de OCTUBRE de 2023. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretario(a). MARIA VALENTIN RAMIREZ, SubSecretario(a).

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Another medal for Puerto Rico in table tennis as Pan Am Games conclude

By THE STAR STAFF

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he Puerto Rico women’s table tennis team, led by sisters Adriana and Melanie Díaz and Brianna Burgos, won the sixth silver medal and the 19th overall for the island delegation on Sunday, the last day of the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.

“This was a very complicated match. But, I have to tell you honestly, as I always say, we exceeded expectations,” national table tennis team coach Bladimir Díaz told the media. “I never had any expectation of a team silver. We barely captured a bronze as a team, and we have a silver.”

“Added to that, Adriana, despite being the player with the most sets in this event … had to play a very close final,” he said. “She had to play a very difficult match with Lily [Zhang of the United States] and she also caught a cold in recent days. The exhaustion was notice-

able. The batteries were low, and with all that, her heart is immense. And Brianna and Melanie. … I am very happy with my team.”

Adriana Díaz acknowledged after the match that “at the end I was very tired; it has been a very hard few days for me, but I am happy that it is over.”

“I feel relieved,” she said.

Table tennis became the flagship sport of the Puerto Rico delegation in Santiago. The women’s squad led the way with Adriana Díaz winning the individual gold, the team taking silver and the Díaz sisters earning a bronze in doubles.

On Saturday, Puerto Rican women’s softball team won the silver medal, while karate fighter Janessa Fonseca and archer Jean Pizarro won gold in their respective disciplines.

Bowler Cristian Azcona won bronze in the singles event on Sunday.

Sunday’s silver in the team competition was the Puerto Rican women’s table tennis squad’s third medal in Santiago, with Adriana Díaz, middle, also winning the individual gold, and sisters Melanie, left, and Adriana Díaz earning a bronze in doubles. Brianna Burgos is at right.

After a 40-year wait, a trap shooter returns to the Olympics

By EDUARDO MEDINA and VICTOR MATHER

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n 1984, Leonel Martínez of Venezuela competed in the trap shooting event at the Los Angeles Olympic Games. He finished tied for 41st.

But he was only 20 years old at the time. Surely, there would be many more chances to come.

Martínez indeed qualified for the Olympics again — but not until two Fridays ago. After a 40-year wait, he will finally return to the Summer Games, next year in Paris.

Martínez, now 60, qualified by finishing second in men’s trap shooting at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.

“This is how I see things: Age is just a number,” Martínez said in an interview in Spanish.

Now, he is focused on training for Paris, where he will be competing against many athletes in their twenties.

Martínez has been chasing an Olympic medal since his teenage years. He learned trap shooting, in which competitors shoot at clay targets in split-second times, through his father, Alonso Martínez, who competed internationally in the sport. He first tried trap shooting at 17 years old, when his father let him borrow one of the guns.

“Almost immediately, I loved it,” he said.

When Martínez arrives in Paris next summer, it will be the culmination of a fourdecade journey that has often come with sacrifice, he said. There were days away from his family, countless hours of training and flickers of self-doubt, especially as his time since Los Angeles increased with each passing year.

Martínez said he still remembered how bewildered he felt in Los Angeles, and how “everything looked so large” at the time.

Before his first competition, as he put on clothes shaded in the yellow, blue and red of his home country, he was anxious.

“That feeling doesn’t help you much with results,” Martínez said.

Martínez left those Games without a medal, but said he had planned to be back

Leonel Martínez qualified for Venezuela’s Olympic team Oct. 27. He will return to the Games next year in Paris, after a 40year Olympic drought.

by the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

When he returned home to Venezuela, however, he quickly became preoccupied with regular life.

He started a business that manufactured disposable items for medical professionals, like scrubs and other tools. He met the woman who is now his wife, Magaly Chacin, and had two children. By the time the 1988 Games arrived, he had retired from professional competition, deciding instead to focus all of his energy on his family and business.

After about 25 years, though, Martínez said, he saw that he had reached a stable place in life. His children were grown, and business was steady, allowing him to take stock of his old dream.

“Once I realized my family was good and everyone was taken care of, I thought, ‘Now I can think about me for a little bit,’” Martínez said.

In 2011, he started training to compete in trap shooting again with the goal of returning to the world stage, and he was struck by how effortlessly the rhythms of the sport came back to him, he said. Firmly grasping the gun and steadily tracking targets felt natural.

“Trap shooting, unlike other sports like soccer or swimming or tennis, is a sport more mental than physical,” Martínez said. “It’s a sport that is 90% mental, 10% physical.”

After coming out of retirement, Martínez

competed in several Pan American Games, including in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2011; Toronto, in 2015; and Lima, Peru, in 2019.

In Guadalajara, he said, he initially worried about whether he could compete with younger athletes. But by the time he made it to Lima, his confidence was back, and he felt better while competing than ever before.

Age and maturity, Martínez has said, have been benefits in trap shooting.

“My emotions are different, and now I know that I can control my thoughts and feelings,” Martínez said. “That’s why I say I’m better now than I was in Los Angeles.”

Last Friday, though, when he fired the shot that won him the silver medal in Santiago, his emotions overwhelmed him, he said.

Martínez’s Olympic drought is not the longest on record. Hiroshi Hoketsu of Japan, an equestrian, had a 44-year gap between competing in the 1964 and 2008 Games. He competed again in London in 2012, at age 71, and finished 40th out of 50 in dressage.

Martínez said he was not treating the Paris Olympics as an opportunity to ruminate about his accomplishments, but instead as a work trip to win a medal.

And he said he had already set a goal for after Paris.

“I started my career in Los Angeles 1984,” he said. “Well, I’m going to the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028 — and return to the place where I started.”

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A first title for the Rangers, and a thrill for the former First Fan

Former President George W. Bush threw the first pitch before Game 1 of the World Series Oct. 27.

By PETER BAKER

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t doesn’t come with a ring, but last week was still special for former First Fan George W. Bush. Nearly three decades after he sold the Texas Rangers, the team that propelled him into politics finally brought home its first World Series title.

Bush kicked off the series last week by throwing out the first pitch and cheered from home in Dallas last Wednesday when his old team won Game 5 in Phoenix. For the onetime Rangers managing partner, it was an enervating finale to a championship that eluded him when he was signing the checks.

“I think he’s loving it,” said Tom Bernstein, a longtime friend and fellow partner in the Rangers ownership back in the day. Bush, he said, has always been captivated by base-

ball. “It just speaks to him. It sounds corny but the rhythm of the whole thing. He’s a student of the game. He’s immersed in it. He always was.

Why baseball? It’s a crazy game. But it resonates with him. It’s part of who he is.”

The former president, who generally stays out of the statement-issuing business these days, made an exception, declaring himself “thrilled” by the victory. “I congratulate the owners, the managers and coaching staff, the front office and the entire organization,” he said. “And, of course, I congratulate the players of this awesome team on winning the first World Series in our club’s history. This was baseball at its finest, and Laura and I are proud of this team.”

Baseball has long been the sport of presidents, from the days when Andrew Johnson brought the first players of an organized team to the White House and William Howard Taft be-

came the first commander in chief to throw out the first pitch on opening day. But perhaps none had more direct ties to America’s pastime than Bush and his father, President George H.W. Bush, a star first baseman at Andover and Yale.

Young George dreamed of becoming another Willie Mays as he played catch in the backyard in Midland, Texas, with his father, who coached his Little League team. Yet while following his father to Andover and Yale, he could not match Poppy’s glory on the diamond.

Instead, he was a cheerleader and formed a stickball league, serving as a commissioner called “Tweeds Bush,” a play on Boss Tweed, the old political kingpin.

Baseball “acted as a bonding agent” between the two Bushes, according to Mark K. Updegrove, author of “The Last Republicans,” a book about the presidential pair. Although football dominated the sports culture in Texas, “it was baseball that captured 43’s imagination, just as it had for 41,” Updegrove added, using their nicknames based on presidential order.

For years, George W. Bush found little success in business or politics, but whatever unspoken competition existed between the two Bushes peaked in 1989 when the son recruited investors to buy the Rangers, finally allowing him to begin edging out of his father’s considerable shadow.

“It may have meant just a little more to 43 that when he finally made something of himself in business after struggling in the oil industry in which his father had succeeded, it was in Major League Baseball, given the family’s reverence for the sport,” Updegrove said.

It was a sweet deal, too. Bush put in just $606,000 as his share of the $86 million purchase but as a managing partner was the team’s accessible public face. He sat most nights not in the owner’s box but in Section 109, Row 1, Seat 8, behind the dugout, signing autographs.

He printed baseball cards with his face on them and traveled the state giving speeches at Rotary and Kiwanis Club lunches.

Bush orchestrated a referendum for a temporary tax increase to build a new stadium, and while he traded away Sammy Sosa to his everlasting regret, the Rangers went from losers to winners in seven of the next 10 seasons, while nearly doubling attendance and increasing revenues.

For a political scion with ambition of his own, the turnaround also built a foundation for a campaign for governor in 1994. The ownership success “solved my biggest political problem in Texas,” he once observed. “My problem was, ‘What’s the boy ever done?’” Soon, he

moved his collection of autographed baseball cards into the governor’s office, and in 1998, he sold his stake in the Rangers for $14.9 million, a sizable return.

Bush’s most famous baseball moment, though, came after the Sept. 11 attacks, when he threw the first pitch in Game 3 of the World Series in New York to demonstrate the country’s resolve. Wearing a Kevlar vest, he was nervous before heading out to the field.

Derek Jeter, the New York Yankees shortstop, razzed him into throwing from the mound: “This is New York. If you throw from the base of the mound, they’re going to boo you.” Bush’s strike down the middle was roundly cheered.

Bush reunited with Jeter on Friday at the Rangers’ ballpark, Globe Life Field in Arlington, before throwing out the first pitch of the team’s opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

“I’m fired up,” Bush told him on camera before predicting that the Rangers would “prevail in six games.”

He remembered Jeter’s taunt 22 years later — “all I thought about on the mound was you!” — but said this time he would pitch from the base of the mound. “Totally different environment,” said Bush, now 77.

“Well, this is Texas, so if you bounce it, they won’t boo you,” Jeter replied.

Bush agreed. The pressure was off. “It doesn’t matter now.”

Wearing a Rangers jacket, Bush indeed threw a one-bouncer. But the crowd cheered, and Bush walked off with a huge grin on his face.

His daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, noted afterward that he was still recovering from back surgery, a detail his chief of staff, Freddy Ford, confirmed. “President Bush isn’t one to make excuses, but that’s true — he did have fusion surgery on his lower back early this year,” Ford said. “He continues to recover well and in fact is looking forward to riding mountain bikes with wounded warriors at his ranch on Veterans Day weekend.”

It has been an exciting few weeks. Bush maintains ties to the team in the form of Kenneth A. Hersh, president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, who is also a minority owner. Roland W. Betts, a Rangers partner from the old days, said that he and Bush were “emailing each other throughout the postseason” and that the former president was still “a devoted fan of the Rangers.”

It all recalled the night when Bush first took the pitcher’s mound as a young owner 3 1/2 decades ago. “How cool is this?” he asked that night. Still pretty cool.

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(Mar 21-April 20)

A lot of calls could come your way today. Some involve people who live far away, some are from friends with heavy emotional difficulties, and one could come from a romantic partner with whom you’re very anxious to get together.

You might hop in the car to meet this person somewhere familiar in your community. Don’t wear your voice out talking on the phone!

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

You may have been making plans to take a long trip or return to school for an advanced degree.

Until now you may have put it off. You’ve finally stepped over the line and made the decision to do it. There’s no stopping you! You may spend a lot of time on the phone gathering information and making preliminary arrangements.

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Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

A lot of calls could come your way today. Some involve people who live far away, some are from friends with heavy emotional difficulties, and one could come from a romantic partner with whom you’re very anxious to get together.

You might hop in the car to meet this person somewhere familiar in your community. Don’t wear your voice out talking on the phone!

You’re in a great mood, and you’re raring to go at just about anything. Your physical energy is high, so some exercise is indicated, possibly sports. You might want to take a short trip out of town or embark on a new course of study or try your hand at writing. Your enthusiasm and optimism are high, so the sky’s the limit.

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(June 22-July 23)

Today you might feel a strong psychic link with a friend who lives far away that you haven’t seen for a long time. You might wonder what this person is up to and this could be a bit worrying.

Don’t be shy. Call! One way or another, you should know what’s happening. It could be that your friend is just having a bad day. Provide a sympathetic ear!

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Group activities or meetings could prove fraught today as those around you get pulled into discussions about which they feel strongly and on which they don’t all agree! This isn’t a good day to get involved in heated discussions even if you find the idea tempting. Stay out of it! Find someone who’s also staying out of it and talk to that person.

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You should feel especially talkative, enthusiastic, and passionate. You may want to schedule a romantic evening with your partner. Have fun!

Some bad experiences regarding career, family, travel, or education could have a friend, colleague, or love partner in an explosive mood today. This person could be unpredictable now - happy one minute and in the depths of gloom the next. Don’t try to give advice or cheer up him or her. It will only result in anger. Stay out of the way and let your friend work through it.

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Today you should feel romantic and passionate and want to get together with your love partner. You’ll probably do that, but it may be difficult and only arranged at the last minute. Don’t panic if you can’t reach your friend during the early part of the day. Don’t give up. You’ll have a great evening.

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