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he minority leader for the New Progressive Party delegation in the House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Mendez, reiterated the importance of promoting the creation of new local airlines through the island’s regional airports.

“I have always promoted a robust regional airport system to develop the economy in our municipalities. One of the ways to create this activity is the development of new airlines that encourage, in turn, the establishment of shops in these airports. For that, it is important to evaluate the creation of an Airline Incentive Fund and for the Development of Air Access, which is proposed in House Bill 28, “ said the former House Speaker.

The legislative piece, which has as co-author the president of the legislative body, Rafael ‘Tatito’ Hernández, establishes that airlines that create new routes departing from Puerto Rico may request an incentive on the costs of landing on the runway, reimbursements for passenger fees, among others.

The bill creates the Air Line Incentives Fund and for the Development of Air Access, under the administration of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC).

This fund will have an initial contribution of $5 million from the PRTC as well as an allocation-for four

consecutive years-of $4 million, which comes from the Special Fund for Economic Development created by Law 73-2008 (Law of Economic Incentives for the Development of Puerto Rico).

“The establishment of new air routes would turn Puerto Rico into an important air hub, and will facilitate greater resources for the municipalities and the same airports that operate, particularly the regional airports that so urgently need this economic injection,” added the leader of the NPP in the Lower House.

The bill also establishes a contribution rate of 4% on the expenses associated with air transport for a fixed term of 20 years, as well as an exemption from the payment of municipal patents of up to 60%.

“Airports such as Antonio Rivera Radiques inVieques, Benjamin Rivera Noriega in Culebra and José Aponte de la Torre in Ceiba, will benefit even more from the statutes of this project because it encourages the creation of more routes to and from the two island municipalities,” said the representative for District # 36 of Rio Grande. Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra.

Article 6 of the bill places an annual allocation of $200,000 from the Fund to assist airlines that establish or expand routes at Antonio Rivera Radiques (Vieques) and Benjamin Rivera Noriega (Culebra) regional airports.

In addition, a preferential fixed rate of air transport tax of three per cent is established for all airlines that travel continuously to Vieques and Culebra.

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The legislative piece establishes that airlines that create new routes departing from PR may request an incentive on the costs of landing on the runway, reimbursements for passenger fees, among others.

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FOMB submit to the Legislature a proposed amended budget for the current FY 2023

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he Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) for Puerto Rico on Monday announced it has submitted to the Legislature a proposed amended budget for the current fiscal year 2023 to appropriate about $475 million in budget surplus bonus for specific government employees and contingent payments to bondholders that are requirements of the Commonwealth Plan of Adjustment.

The plan, confirmed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico on January 18, 2022, reduced the government’s debt by about 80% and saved Puerto Rico more than $50 billion in debt payments. The Plan of Adjustment also provides payments to certain government employees and bondholders in fiscal years when government revenue exceeds the projections in the certified Fiscal Plan for Puerto Rico. Projections are based on the most current data at the time of certification of the Fiscal Plan, the FOMB said in a statement.

“The Oversight Board made sure that the Plan of Adjustment is in the best interest of all people who have a stake in Puerto Rico’s debt restructuring,” Oversight Board’s Chairman David Skeel said. “Public employees, whose salaries had been frozen even before the bankruptcy process under Title III of PROMESA began, were deeply affected by Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis, just as bondholders were. That is why the Plan of Adjustment promised that both share a part of the

upside of Puerto Rico’s stronger than projected recovery.”

“Today, the Oversight Board is making sure that promise is kept,” Skeel said.

The budget resolution submitted to the Legislature appropriates up to $475 million of the government’s budget surplus from the previous fiscal year 2022. The appropriation includes bonuses to be distributed on December 1, 2022, to employees of central government agencies and public corporations covered under the Fiscal Plan, as well as the employer contribution to social security and Medicare. The exact bonus pool will be determined

by an independent agent.

The Oversight Board’s agreement with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and its local affiliate Servidores Públicos Unidos (SPU) to support the Plan of Adjustment provides that if government surplus exceeds the Certified Fiscal Plan’s projections by $100 million or more in any given year, 25% of the excess surplus would be allocated to eligible Commonwealth employees, incentivizing employees to help the government work more efficiently.

The bonus pool will be divided between employees represented by AFSCME and its local affiliates, and other Commonwealth employees.

In October 2022, $1.4 billion of the fiscal year 2022 surplus was paid to the Pension Reserve Trust created by the Plan of Adjustment that will strengthen Puerto Rico’s public pension system by ensuring pensions can be paid even in the event of a future economic downturn.

The Plan of Adjustment also included contingent value instruments (CVIs) for bondholders, sharing Sales and Use Tax (SUT) and Rum Tax revenue, respectively, between the Commonwealth and bondholders if those taxes exceed the projections in Certified Fiscal Plan. Bondholders received $362 million in payments from higher than projected SUT and Rum Tax revenue in the previous fiscal year 2022. The budget resolution submitted to the Legislature includes an $81 million appropriation towards those CVIs.

PREPA gets Vitol as impaired class to push through debt plan

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uerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s fuel line lenders have filed an urgent request seeking information related to PREPA’s court settlement with Vitol, upon learning that the Financial Oversight and Management Board plans to file PREPA’s debt adjustment plan next month for which the firm is the only impaired accepting class.

The fuel line lenders in a recent motion said they learned for the first time on November 2 of the Oversight Board’s plans.

Vitol settled the case for about $45 million and will be put in its own class to try to push through the debt adjustment plan.

“At Wednesday’s omnibus hearing, the Oversight Board revealed that it believes it has an impaired accepting “class”: a single, small (by the standards of this case) general unsecured creditor, Vitol. Counsel for the Oversight Board stated that Vitol has agreed to accept 50% of the ultimate recovery percentage for the general unsecured claims class, Vitol will be placed in its own class which will receive such separate treatment, and Vitol will vote in favor of the plan, creating an impaired accepting class. The Board’s proposed path to achieving a fundamental requirement for confirmation raises concerns for the Fuel Line Lenders,” they said.

Given the importance of the Board’s responsibility to file a plan on December 1 with a realistic prospect of confirmation, the Fuel Line Lenders believe that information about the actual terms of the agreement between the Board and Vitol, including the circumstances under which Vitol’s commitment

to vote in favor of the plan arose, must be made available promptly. If such disclosure were to await confirmation litigation, PREPA’s emergence from bankruptcy could be set back by month, they said.

The Fuel Line Lenders said they believe that it is a matter of urgency for parties in interest to be able to obtain the requested information because the Title III Bankruptcy Court has set a firm deadline of December 1, 2022 for the Oversight Board to file a debt adjustment plan to restructure PREPA’s $9 billion debt.

“As discussed in detail in the Rule 2004 Motion, a review of the pleadings relating to the Vitol litigation combined with the timing and context for the Oversight Board’s revelation raises significant questions about the terms of any settlement between the Oversight Board and Vitol and discussions between the two parties relating thereto,” the Fuel Line lenders said.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain did not approve the motion immediately. She said in an order that any opposition or response to the Fuel Line Lenders’ Rule 2004 Motion shall be due by November 10 while any reply in support of the Rule 2004 Motion shall be due by November 14.

Vitol and PREPA reached a settlement in September after their dispute reached the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals as reported by the STAR. This litigation began in 2009, when PREPA filed the first of two lawsuits against Vitol in Commonwealth Court in San Juan, with a second case filed in 2012.

The dispute was against VIC, an energy supply company

based in Houston, Texas and its former parent company, VSA. PREPA claimed that its fuel-supply contracts with VIC were void because VSA – a legally independent company that was VIC’s parent from late 2006 until late 2007 – was convicted in November 2007 of a crime in New York state court. VSA’s conviction had nothing to do with PREPA or Puerto Rico, but rather concerned the United Nations Oil-forFood Program in Iraq. PREPA claimed that VSA’s conviction caused VIC to violate a since-repealed Puerto Rico statute called Law 458, which barred public corporations from entering into contracts with companies that had been convicted of certain offenses.

In the lawsuits, PREPA claimed that six fuel-oil supply contracts with VIC, in effect between 2005 and 2009 and awarded through competitive bids, had to be declared void, retroactively, based on alleged violations of Puerto Rico’s public-contracting law and alleged misrepresentations.

PREPA sought to recover $3.89 billion from Vitol in the litigation, representing the full value of payments that PREPA made under the contracts.

The case was eventually transferred to federal court.

Last year, Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is presiding over PREPA’s bankruptcy process, dismissed PREPA’s claims to void six fuel-oil supply contracts and recover $3.89 billion.

The court also ruled that Vitol was entitled to recover $28.4 million, plus interest, on a counterclaim it had filed.

The court noted that Vitol “fully performed its delivery obligations under the contracts.”The $28.4 million that PREPA was required to pay was for fuel supplies and other services.

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ASUME to have new guidelines for child support payments in a month

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t a time when inflation is affecting Puerto Rican families, the Child Support Administration (ASUME) announced Monday that by December, it should have draft guidelines for calculating child support payments.

ASUME officials made the remarks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing. Child support guidelines have not been revised since 2014.

ASUME head Nicole Martínez said the draft for the new guidelines, based on a study conducted by consulting firm Estudios Técnicos Inc., is not ready yet.

Preliminary data, however, show that inflation is causing drastic changes to the social and economic situation of Puerto Rico. Therefore, ASUME asked Estudios Tecnicos to review the formula and the tables used to calculate child support.

Likewise, the new guidelines must consider the minimum wage criteria; analyze new ways of computing the reserve of the non-custodial party, among other assignments.

“Puerto Ricans juggle to be able to fulfill their obligations and to be able to satisfy their needs. This reality requires us to be extremely cautious when modifying child support,” Martínez said during her presentation.

ASUME currently has 174,502 active child support cases, of which 114,940 have some arrears in payment. The average child support established by the dependency is $416.68.

Martines, who took over the agency in June, indicated

that budget cuts and understaffing has impacted case management. Since May, ASUME has opened calls for 29 vacant case manager positions, of which only three have been filled.

Once the draft is available, ASUME will hold public hearings in the ten regions around the island to receive citizen input on the new regulations. In addition, the Standing Committee for the Revision of the Mandatory Guidelines,

made up of 14 members with a multidisciplinary background, will evaluate the draft and issue its recommendations.

Committee Chairman Orlando Aponte Rosario asked to know the identity of the people who make up the Permanent Committee but ASUME denied the request arguing that the information is confidential.

However, she said some members are specialists, including Court Administration Office (OAT) head Sigfrido Steidel Figueroa, Bar Association President Manuel Quilichini; a family relations judge; an administrative judge from ASUME; and a child support examiner; among others.

Martínez also refused to make public the minutes of the six meetings that the committee has held since it resumed its work in June 2021 but agreed to share the information in a closed hearing.

The administrator also said she considers confidential information the cost of raising children, possible simulations, reformulation, and other possible scenarios related to the revision of child support guidelines.

“Precisely, that is what we want to know: the possible scenarios... I think it is good for the country and the committee itself that we are interested in knowing how we can collaborate with the work,” said Aponte Rosario.

According to the information provided by ASUME, as of June 2021, the Permanent Committee has met six times.

The last meeting occurred on October 6, while the next one is in December.

PDP wants to change amendments to Rules Assembly

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmchaul@gmail.com

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he Rules Committee of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) presented a resolution so that through a preferential turn in the PDP Rules Assembly, the original amendments approved by the PPD can be considered and the amendments filed in the PDP Governing Board in mid-October can be excluded.

The committee was chaired by Luis Javier Hernández, mayor of Villalba and president of the Association of Mayors; and it is also composed of the representative and vice president of the House of Representatives, Lydia Méndez; Representative Deborah Soto; the senator and vice president of the Senate, Marially González; PDP electoral commissioner Ramón Torres and José Ramón Castro.

“After the meeting of the Governing Board in October, the Committee met immediately, to discuss what happened and seek alternatives for the benefit of our Popular Party. We understand that the work we do for almost seven months must have deference and more when it comes to transcribing the requests of the popular who participated in each of our hearings, “ said the mayor of Villalba.

For the Rules Assembly, which will be held on Novem- vanguard. It is our responsibility to defend this effort and to ber 13, 2022, the Rules Committee presented a resolution enforce and respect the original amendments. The proposals to the secretary of the PPD, Luis Vega Ramos, in which it for regulations approved in the last Governing Board put was requested that the Committee present a brief summary us in a confrontation between all sectors of our party. As a of all the work that was done and to discuss the regulation conciliatory measure we propose that the General Assembly delivered before the amendments of the Governing Board. see a single issue, The Original Regulation, and in a next In addition, it is requested that the originals that were Governing Board the other matters are addressed,” said the compiled and approved in the Rules Committee and that lawyer and President of the Association of Mayors. were amendments delivered to the President of the PDP on September 7, 2022, be taken to the vote of the assembly.

This, based on the fact that it is the product of the verbal and written claim of the participants in the different meetings or Public Hearings.

The Committee also requests that the issue of the presidency and executive committee be left on the table to be discussed by the Governing Board at a later date than the Assembly, that it must be immediate and that the work of the Assembly be closed after the votes on the original amendments are concluded.

“The Party and the Country know my behavior and I have always been a leader of conciliation. The PDP president’s task of directing this effort achieved the integration of leaders and various sectors, in the search for our Rules of Procedure Luis Javier Hernández, mayor of Villalba and president to position the PDP as an inclusive party, with a future and of the Association of Mayors.

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Representative urges passage of veterans’ privilege signage in commercial centers

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmchaul@gmail.com

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ays before the celebration of Veterans Day, the representative for José Enrique ‘Quiquito’ Meléndez, recalled that the Chamber of Representatives have before their consideration a measure that would force everything commerce in Puerto Rico place a sign describing the benefits, discounts and offers that extend to Puerto Rican veterans.

The House Bill 1257 was filed on March 10, 2022 and which is under evaluation by the Federal Relations Commission, International, Status and Veteran.

The measure amends Article 4 of Law 203-2007 (Bill of Rights of the Puerto Rican Veteran of the XXI Century) to provide that every commercial establishment, from where a person, natural or legal, supplier of goods and Services shall have the obligation to design and place in a visible place, a sign, through which to advertise all kinds

of privileges, discounts or special offers which, as an institutional policy of trade, extend to them the veterans.

“Our Veterans, like any other con-

sumer, go out daily to perform a countless purchases, either to acquire items for themselves or for others. In tune with this, multiple chains and commercial establish-

ments in Puerto Rico, offer active military and veterans and their families, different privileges so they can buy products in their stores with Discounts. However, these special promotions aimed at active military members, or veterans, reservists and family members are not properly disclosed.

Occasionally, requires the person to ask, and even give the impression that they are pleading for something, for which the store understood itself to privilege, which creates a stigma against the beneficiary,” reads the Explanatory Memorandum of the piece legislative.

“This Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly, in its commitment to honor Puerto Rican veterans, considers necessary the approval of this Law, which seeks to save them time and money during the realization of their purchases. It is also our Intention, to recognize all our veterans, in attention to their service in the Armed Forces of the United States,” the New Progressive Party representative concluded.

Juncos bridge swept away had no security fence

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he secretary of the Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP), Eileen Vélez Vega will investigate why the bridge where a lady was swept away by the current in Juncos did not have security fences.

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“We’re doing the investigation with the Highway and Transportation Authority (ACT by its Spanish acronym) at that point because yes, it’s certainly a ford. The fords are those bridges that are designed so that when the current grows the water passes over and this is one of those bridges. So I asked the director of highways for the report of that ford and we are doing the investigation of what the condition of that ford was, if it has been inspected this year,” Velez Vega said in a radio interview.

What I want to see is what steps were being taken after that inspection. All these bridges are inspected every two years or more frequently if something like happened in Fiona and these recent days,” he added.

Questioned about the state of the ford bridge, which is supposedly without fences since Hurricane Maria in 2017, Vélez Vega replied: “We are going to verify it and we are going to attend to it.

I have to tell you that it is a very sad situation, we are working with Emergency Management also in all these areas and really, it has been a weekend with many difficulties. “ On Saturday night, Leila Sierra Rohena, 47, was traveling with her vehicle, a gray Toyota Yaris of 2017 when

it passed over the PR-3 bridge at kilometer 24.4 over the La Ceiba ravine in Juncos despite receiving warnings from Emergency Management personnel.

The lady’s body has not yet been recovered.

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Who will win the battle for Congress? Four scenarios.

By NATE COHN

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ust about anything is still possible in this year’s midterm elections.

Everything from a Democratic hold in the Senate and a fairly close race for the House to something like a Republican rout is well within the range of realistic possibilities on Tuesday.

Why such a wide range? With so many races on edge, it wouldn’t take much for the final outcome to feel very good, or very bad, for either party.

In the Senate, the races likeliest to decide control remain exceptionally close, with the poll averages showing essentially a dead-heat in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and even New Hampshire.

With just a few lucky breaks, either party could win control.

There’s a similar story in the House.

While Republicans are favored to win the chamber, dozens of races are tossups. It wouldn’t take much for Democrats to keep the race fairly close, perhaps delaying a call on House control for many hours or perhaps even days. On the other hand, it wouldn’t take much for Republicans to pick up dozens of seats, leaving the impression that 2022 was something like a wave election.

There is also the possibility of more surprising outcomes: a true Republican landslide or a Democratic hold on Congress. The polls have been wrong before.

The voters, after all, have the final say.

Here’s an overview of what might still happen — how it might happen, why so much remains possible, and what signs to look for on election night.

Scenario 1: The clear Republican win With five critical Senate races and dozens of House races looking like tossups, even some random breaks could give Republicans something that feels like a rout: control of the Senate and a big gain in the House.

The election could still be fairly close.

It might still take days to resolve. But it wouldn’t take much for the final scoreboard to look more like a rout than a close and competitive race.

In almost every critical race, the final NewYork Times/Siena College polls suggested that voters preferred Republican control

of Congress and disapproved of President Joe Biden’s performance, but Democrats often had the advantage of incumbency or Republicans had the disadvantage of an unpopular candidate.

But Republicans could quickly have a great night if even a small share of voters swallows their doubts about unpopular nominees or discards their warm feelings about longtime Democratic incumbents.

Another factor is turnout, especially in the House races in states with less competitive races at the top of the ticket. It might be enough for Republicans to scratch out a few extra wins.

It might take a long time before a clear Republican success becomes a certainty.

It might take days before critical races in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Nevada are resolved. Georgia might take until December, if no candidate clears the 50% necessary to avoid a runoff.

But on Tuesday night, the signs of a clear Republican win might start to pile

up. Republicans would quickly register comfortable wins in North Carolina, Florida and Ohio. New Hampshire might be close, even if the Democrats pull it out. Wisconsin would be in the Republican column by bedtime. A series of crucial House districts in the Southeast, like North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District and Virginia’s 2nd, might swing into the Republican column.

The odds of Democrats holding on in the pivotal but slower-counting states would start to look pretty bleak.

Scenario 2: The feels-like-a-win for Democrats Democrats cling to a five-seat majority in the House, but if they get a few breaks, the night might leave them with a lot to feel good about — even if the scoreboard shows the Republicans gaining seats and taking the House. It might even feel like a Democratic win, given how the polls have trended toward Republicans in recent weeks.

This feels-like-a-win mainly comes

down to holding control of the Senate. To hold the chamber, the party will probably need to win three of the four most critical races: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.

Democrats would start to feel a lot better if they could add a few more feel-good wins to the ledger, like beating “stop the steal” Republican candidates for governor in Pennsylvania and Arizona, or a victory for abortion rights in Michigan.

It might just be enough for Democrats to take a glass-half-full perspective on the 2022 election, provided the party also holds down its House losses and can save face by avoiding embarrassingly close races in blue states and districts, such as for governor of New York or for the Senate from Washington.

The Democratic path to an acceptable night counts on voters who will back the candidate they know and like most, even if they don’t love the idea of having Democrats control the Senate. Staving off embarrassment will also require Democrats to turn out in states far removed from the national spotlight — the states where the Senate isn’t at stake, where abortion is not on the ballot, and where no stop-the-steal candidate has a realistic chance of winning statewide.

It will take a long time before it becomes clear that Democrats are on track for a feels-like-a-win. There’s a distinct chance that none of the key Senate races will be called on election night. Democrats will start to feel optimistic on Tuesday night if they can stay close in states such as Ohio, Wisconsin and North Carolina, and hold the key East Coast House races.

They might even get outright excited if Mark Kelly opens up a wide lead in Arizona’s increasingly Democratic early mail vote.

Scenario 3: The Republican landslide If the polls underestimate the Republicans again, the result of this year’s midterms won’t just feel like a Republican landslide — it will be a Republican landslide.

A “red wave” election would not be a surprise; nor would it be hard to explain.

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8 From page 7 Donald Trump’s approval ratings in 2018, Bill Clinton’s in 1994 and Barack Obama’s in 2010. In each case, the party out of power gained 40 or more House seats and won the House national popular vote by around 7 percentage points or more. With Republicans making steady gains in the polls, it does not take any great imagination to see them stretching out a more decisive lead.

It’s tempting to think a decisive Republican victory isn’t possible in such a polarized country, especially because Democrats have won the national vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. But just last November, Republicans won the Virginia governor’s race by 2 percentage points — exactly the kind of showing that would be equivalent to a red wave nationwide.

The red wave doesn’t necessarily require the surveys to be systematically biased in the same ways they were two years ago, although that very well might happen. It may require only that undecided voters decide, as they often have, to use their vote as a check on the party of the president, regardless of their feelings about individual Democratic incumbents. Or maybe it would take an unexpectedly strong Republican turnout on Election Day, while young, Black and Hispanic voters stay home in greater numbers than they did in 2018.

On Tuesday night, if Republicans are headed for a landslide, the signs would be obvious from the start. Not only would Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Ron DeSantis cruise to victory in Florida, where votes are counted quickly, but safe Democratic House incumbents in South Florida — even the wellknown former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz —

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might find themselves in surprisingly close races. Farther north, Republicans would easily flip the key tossup districts in Virginia and North Carolina, but also advance even further into blue territory — flippingVirginia’s 7th, held by Abigail Spanberger, while endangering the next tier of safer Democratic incumbents, such as Jennifer Wexton. The Senate races in North Carolina and Ohio would not be close.

It might still be a long time until we see a call in the Senate, but in this scenario Herschel Walker would have a chance to clear the 50% necessary to win outright and avoid a runoff in Georgia. A Republican win in the Senate race in New Hampshire would seal the deal.

Scenario 4: A Democratic surprise A surprising Democratic night — a hold in the House and the Senate — is unlikely.

With polls trending toward Republicans, the outcome feels even harder to imagine than the word “unlikely” suggests.

But it does remain within the realm of possibility: Democrats are still within striking distance of a good night. Unlike in previous cycles, they remain competitive in enough races to win control of the House. And not only do Democrats remain competitive in the race for the Senate, but they also have upside potential for a good night: Upsets remain possible in states such as Wisconsin, Ohio and North Carolina, even if Republicans are plainly favored.

By any historical perspective, it would be hard to explain if the Democrats managed to hold both chambers of Congress. No president with an approval rating under 50% has seen his party gain House seats in a midterm election, dating to the dawn of modern polling. But this is not an ordinary moment in American history. Partisan polarization is

extreme. Many Democratic voters perceive that democracy is under threat. Others are furious about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In another midterm election, these voters might have stayed home. This cycle, they may well vote. And a critical sliver of voters dissatisfied with Biden and Democrats might feel they have no choice but to vote against Republicans.

Democratic strength among highly educated voters would most likely be a critical part of any upset. Not only are these voters well represented in key battleground districts, but they’re also likelier to make up a larger share of the electorate in a lowturnout midterm election. It’s a tendency that might cut against the usual pattern for the president’s party to suffer from low turnout. At the same time, Democrats would need relatively disaffected elements of their party’s base — Black, Hispanic and young voters — to come home down the stretch.

The possibility of the polls erring in this way might also seem hard to imagine. After all, polls have underestimated Republicans in recent cycles. But historically, there isn’t much of a relationship between polling error in one election and the next. The pollsters

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who did poorly either adjust or drop out.

The pollsters who did well one year feel emboldened the next. And that does seem to be happening this cycle.

The traditional pollsters who underestimated Republicans the most in 2020 have significantly reduced their polling this cycle or stopped altogether. Other pollsters are doing everything they can to ensure a more Republican-leaning sample, including by means that would have been scorned a few years ago. And then there’s the flood of state polls by Republican firms, showing eye-popping results such as a Republican lead for New York governor.

All of this may add up to far more accurate polling averages than in 2020. But if pollsters overcorrect — or if the balance of pollsters has shifted too far toward the Republican-leaning outfits — there would be a chance that the polls underestimate Democrats.

Indeed, many traditional polls still show signs of Democratic strength. To take one recent example: Marist College released polls showing Democrats ahead in Pennsylvania and Arizona, and leading among registered voters in Georgia. Siena College showed Democrats faring quite well in several critical House races in New York state that one might have thought were leaning toward Republicans in this national environment.

On Tuesday night, if Democrats are on track to greatly exceed expectations, the signs would show up pretty early. The Senate races in North Carolina, Wisconsin and Ohio will all largely be decided on election night. If Democrats remain highly competitive in all three or even win one, it will be a clear sign that this isn’t the simple Republican win that analysts long expected.

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Biden and Clinton try to narrow Hochul’s enthusiasm gap in New York

By JESSE McKINLEY

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eaning on presidents past and present, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York barnstormed around the New York City area this weekend, furiously trying to stave off a major upset by focusing on areas where high Democratic voter turnout will be crucial for her chances.

In a eleventh-hour rally Sunday at Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester County, New York, President Joe Biden appeared with Hochul, calling her a governor who can “get things done” and characterizing Election Day as “a choice between two fundamentally different visions of America.”

“Democracy is literally on the ballot,” Biden said.

Speaking for a half-hour in front of crowd of college students and other supporters, Biden repeatedly criticized Hochul’s Republican opponent, Rep. Lee Zeldin, for his stances on gun control and abortion and ridiculed his focus on crime as empty rhetoric.

“Gov. Hochul’s opponent talks a good game,” the president said. “But it’s all talk.”

The president’s visit underlined that the governor’s race in New York, once thought to be a worry-free contest for Democrats, has grown tighter, reflecting the party’s troubles across the nation.

His appearance came on the heels of an event in Brooklyn on Saturday with Bill Clinton, the former president, who urged party faithful to reject what he characterized as fearmongering and macho bravado voiced by Zeldin.

Democrats are girding for loss of the House and possibly the Senate, where races in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin are all considered close to impossible to predict.

In New York, the governor’s race has become one of the more competitive in the nation, a shock in a liberal state that hasn’t elected a Republican to the governor’s mansion since George Pataki won a third term in 2002.

Numerous polls have shown Hochul, a first-term Democrat who rose to power in August 2021 after the resignation of Andrew Cuomo, leading Zeldin by single digits even though her party has millions more registered voters in the state.

During the closing days of the campaign, Zeldin’s rhetoric on public safety and inflation seemed to be galvanizing and invigorating his supporters, like Tony Donato, 60, a retired 911 dispatcher from Warwick, New York, who said that a 2019 law that eliminated bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies “has got to go.”

“Criminal justice reform is killing cops,”

said Donato, a registered Republican. “It’s making our prisons more unsafe for the corrections officers.”

While Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans in New York, there are also millions of independents like Barrett Braithwaite, 42, who was shopping in downtown Brooklyn with her daughter Saturday afternoon. Braithwaite said she would probably vote Democrat but wasn’t especially excited about the election.

“I think everybody is tired, after the last few years, in politics and the pandemic,” she said. “Overall, everyone is just fatigued. But I’m trying.”

At the Brooklyn rally, Clinton suggested that Zeldin was preying on fears of crime, saying that he “makes it sound like Kathy Hochul gets up every morning, goes to the nearest subway stop and hands out billy clubs and baseball bats to everybody who gets on the subway.”

He added that the congressman “looks like he’s auditioning to replace Dwayne Johnson in all those movies.”

At the same time, Zeldin held a series of rallies in the Hudson Valley and its environs, where three competitive congressional races may well determine control of the House of Representatives.

Democrats have sought to channel outrage over the overturning of Roe v. Wade, threats to democracy and the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021, as well as the specter of former President Donald Trump, who remains deeply unpopular in a state he once called home.

But Zeldin’s supporters seem to have little interest in such issues.

“Nobody cares about Jan. 6. Nobody cares about Trump,” James DiGraziano, 55, of Massapequa Park, said at a Zeldin rally last weekend featuring Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“Crime is at the top of the ticket.”

At rallies, many of Zeldin’s supporters said they planned to vote Tuesday, saying they didn’t trust the early voting system, a reflection of Trump’s and some other Republicans’ repeated, and unfounded, assertions of nefarious meddling in the 2020 election. Sunday was the last day for early voting, with hundreds of thousands of votes already cast in New York City, though that rate still lagged far behind 2020.

Jack Lanthan, a registered Republican and retired NewYork City police officer from Chester, where Zeldin held a lively rally Saturday night, said he’d vote Tuesday and was “amazed” that the Republican was seemingly running so close in “this dark blue state.”

“I hope the polls are right and he wins,” Lanthan said, noting high prices for gas and

upporters hold signs boosting Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), the Republican candidate for governor, and his running mate, Alison Esposito, in a rally in Chester, N.Y., on Nov. 5, 2022.

Sother things. “We need a change in Albany.”

Not everyone, however, was willing to blame Democrats for rising prices and other woes. At a Halloween rally in Queens, Andy Liu said the economy is one of his big concerns, but that he still feels “good with the Democratic Party.”

“They try to make everybody better,” said Liu, a 40-year-old cashier. “They care about everyone.”

Such were the arguments made by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, who spoke alongside Mayor Eric Adams, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, and Attorney General Letitia James, all from Brooklyn, a vote-rich borough which has long been critical to Democratic success in state elections.

Jeffries, whose 8th Congressional District includes a chunk of Brooklyn and a slice of Queens, urged the assembled crowd — many of whom were union members, another critical constituency in the Democratic calculus — to vote against what he called a virulent new brand of Republicanism, saying that his party fought for “the least, the lost and the left behind.”

As for Republicans, Jeffries said, “These people are out of control, they are off the chain.”

In his speech, Biden said Zeldin — who voted against certifying the 2020 election — and other “election deniers” were dangerously out of step with most New Yorkers — and Americans.

“These deniers not only are trying to deny your right to vote, they’re trying to deny your

right to have your vote counted,” Biden said, adding, “With these election deniers, there are only two outcomes for any election. Either they win or they were cheated.”

He added, “You can’t only love the country when you win.”

Some voters seemed inclined to give Hochul the benefit of the doubt. Nia Howard, 30, said she felt the governor had been blamed for things beyond her control. “I don’t know how much she could’ve done better,” said Howard, who works in office administration. But she added: “The way the economy is, people are desperate.”

On Saturday in Chester, Zeldin was promising his fans a concession speech this week from “soon-to-be-former governor Kathy Hochul,” while mocking Hochul’s use of Clinton and Biden as surrogates.

“You know that you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel when that is your message as your final pitch,” said Zeldin, a conservative congressman who has voiced support for Trump and his agenda for much of the past six years.

He added that the very presence of such prominent Democrats — including earlier appearances by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Kamala Harris — spoke to Hochul’s concerns about the race.

“Why are you bringing all these people to New York if this race isn’t as close as we know it actually is?” Zeldin said.

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For Fetterman, campaign trail doubles as road to recovery

John Fetterman with supporters at an event in Harrisburg, Pa., on Sunday.

BY KATIE GLUECK

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ohn Fetterman was getting fired up at a campaign rally Thursday evening, vigorously bashing his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz, as a “fraud,” when the lingering effects of the stroke he had in May abruptly surfaced.

“This is a guy that’s, that’s made millions, with scam, ah — you know, scam …” Fetterman trailed off, trying twice more for the word he would eventually land on: “artist.”

“Eh — that’s another one, somebody can film that,” he continued, laughing a little and flinging his arms out to his sides, as if daring his critics to mock him. “Stroke thing.

He sold miracles that I just couldn’t even pronounce even before I had a stroke.”

In the final days of the extraordinary Pennsylvania Senate race, in which a stroke survivor is running against a celebrity television physician, Fetterman is proactively acknowledging that his recovery remains a work in progress, leaning into the issue with a mix of humor, sarcasm and notes of empathy for others struggling with health challenges, as he competes in one of the most consequential contests in the nation.

Over the course of four events — the Thursday gathering, a Friday discussion with a Philadelphia-area congresswoman and two major Saturday rallies — Fetterman came across as high-energy and forceful at times, but uneven in crispness and fluency. He sometimes stumbled over a word, corrected himself midsentence or tacked on extraneous words. Abortion decisions belong “only between a woman and their doctor,” he said Thursday. “Always has — should — been, and always should — will.”

But all of those appearances were a far cry from Fetterman’s debate performance last month, where his strikingly halting answers alarmed Democrats in Pennsylvania and nationally as they worried about a seat that could determine control of the U.S. Senate.

At his events, it was evident that Fetterman has fiercely devoted fans who know his biography, revel in his social media swipes at Oz and are eager to shout encouragement at any mention of the stroke. The gatherings sometimes had the feel of a movement campaign, but the question is how

big that movement is, in a sharply divided state and at a challenging time for Democrats across the country.

Fetterman often sounded clear and relaxed during a Friday conversation with Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon at a senior center in Delaware County, the day after he received a prized endorsement from Oprah Winfrey, who was instrumental in Oz’s rise to fame. He engaged in exchanges over issues like the infrastructure package as he used a closed captioning system, which was barely detectable to the audience.

“Have people heard that I’ve had a stroke?” he asked wryly near the beginning of that appearance. “I thought I was always pretty empathetic before, but after that, it’s really deepened just how critical it is to make sure that there needs to be things like captioning, which I’m using now — right now.” He mentioned that such accommodations allowed more people to “fully participate.”

And at rallies in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia on Saturday, he cracked self-deprecating jokes about the challenge of being a stroke survivor who had to speak before former President Barack Obama, widely regarded as the Democratic Party’s most powerful surrogate.

At his Thursday rally in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, he had several noticeable verbal missteps, sounding choppy as he discussed abortion rights or dealings with China.

But in tone and delivery, he often came across as vigorous and seemed to be enjoying himself during his roughly 18-minute performance that included riffs about sports — the Eagles and the Phillies were both playing that night. He was cheered on by a crowd that, by the end, was treating seemingly every other sentence as an applause line.

A Marist poll conducted after the debate found Fetterman with a lead of 6 percentage points over Oz among registered voters and among those who said they definitely planned to vote. But an Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey of Pennsylvania voters, also conducted after the debate, found Oz with a narrow lead, but within the poll’s margin of error. Many party strategists on both sides of the aisle regard the race as very close.

While questions about Fetterman’s health have been a significant theme of the race, crime, the economy and Oz’s biography have been equally or, in some cases, more dominant. Fetterman has been pummeled with attacks on his criminal justice record as Republicans have zeroed in on his tenure as chair of the state’s Board of Pardons, and Democrats face a difficult national environment amid high inflation and President Joe Biden’s weak approval numbers.

But polls also show warning signs for Oz, whose time as a TV doctor and ties to the state have repeatedly come under scrutiny. A Monmouth University poll released Wednesday found that 55% of Pennsylvanians surveyed thought he had little understanding of the concerns of voters like them. A Fox News poll showed that 44% of voters worried that Oz, whose longtime principal residence was in New Jersey, was not familiar enough with Pennsylvania to carry out the job of senator.

At this point in the race, with few undecided voters left, “it comes down to the intangibles, the character attri-

butes of the candidates themselves,” said Robert Blizzard, a Republican pollster.

“What’s the more damning hit?” he said. “Is it Fetterman’s health and not being able to serve or ‘Oz is from Jersey’?”

Fetterman had a stroke on the Friday before the May primary election, though he waited until Sunday to disclose it. On Primary Day, he had a pacemaker and defibrillator implanted, which his campaign described at the time as a standard procedure that would help address “the underlying cause of his stroke, atrial fibrillation.” The statement prompted questioning from doctors. His campaign offered few other details about his condition in the days that followed.

In a statement in early June, his cardiologist said that he also had a serious heart condition called cardiomyopathy, but that “if he takes his medications, eats healthy, and exercises, he’ll be fine.”

And last month, Fetterman released a letter from his primary care doctor saying that “he has no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office,” and that he “spoke intelligently without cognitive deficits.”

“His speech was normal, and he continues to exhibit symptoms of an auditory processing disorder, which can come across as hearing difficulty,” said the letter from Dr. Clifford Chen, the primary care physician. “Occasional words he will ‘miss,’ which seems like he doesn’t hear the word, but it is actually not processed properly.”

Chen has donated to Fetterman’s campaign and to other Democrats, The Associated Press has noted.

In the final days of the campaign, both candidates are competing hard in the Pennsylvania suburbs, with dueling appearances in Bucks County on Sunday.

Oz campaigned with Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, two lawmakers regarded as more moderate Republicans, and his final preelection rally Monday is in suburban Montgomery County.

He is walking a difficult line, though: He also appeared with former President Donald Trump and state Sen. Doug Mastriano, the far-right nominee for governor who is anathema to many centrist suburban voters, at a rally Saturday.

Fetterman, for his part, appeared on “The View” on Friday, which may have reached suburban women in particular, his team said. He campaigned with state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democratic nominee for governor, in Bucks County on Sunday afternoon.

And his advisers and allies were elated by the endorsement from Winfrey, which was heavily covered on the local news.

“This week was ‘Fetterman Strikes Back,’ ” said Joe Calvello, a spokesperson for Fetterman. He also noted the letter the candidate released from his doctor, and that Fetterman was “doing a recovery in public, in the public eye.”

On the campaign trail, Fetterman has a habit of narrating what that process entails.

“Sometimes I miss words, sometimes I might mush two words together,” Fetterman said Thursday, to shouts of “We don’t care!”

“This,” he said at another point, “is what recovery looks like.”

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TV prepares for a chaotic midterm night

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

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earing up to report this year’s midterm election results, U.S. television networks are facing an uncomfortable question: How many viewers will believe them?

Amid rampant distrust in the news media and a rash of candidates who have telegraphed that they may claim election fraud if they lose, news anchors and executives are seeking new ways to tackle the attacks on the democratic process that have infected politics since the last election night broadcast in 2020.

“For entrepreneurs of chaos, making untrue claims about the election system is a route to greater glory,” said John Dickerson, the chief political analyst at CBS News, who will co-anchor the network’s coverage Nov. 8. “Elections and the American experiment exist basically on faith in the system, and if people don’t have any faith in the system, they may decide to take things into their own hands.”

CBS has been televising elections since 1948. But this is the first year that the network has felt obligated to install a dedicated “Democracy Desk” as a cornerstone of its live coverage. Seated a few feet from the co-anchors in the network’s Times Square studio, election law experts and correspondents will report on fraud allegations and threats of violence at the polls.

“It’s not traditional,” said Mary Hager, CBS’ executive editor of politics, who has covered election nights for three decades.

“But I’m not sure we’ll ever have traditional again.”

Across the industry, networks have deployed dozens of reporters to state capitals around the country, where journalists have spent weeks cultivating relationships with local election officials and learning the minutiae of ballot-counting procedures.

Still, an election night that ends without a clear indication of which party will control the House and Senate — a likely possibility, given the dozens of tight races — could present an extended period of uncertainty, allowing rumors and disinformation to run rampant. And Americans’ trust in the national news media has rarely

been lower, with barely one-third of adults in a recent Gallup Poll expressing confidence in it.

“I can’t control what politicians are going to say, if they choose to call an election result into question,” said David Chalian, CNN’s political director. “You’ve got to be clear, when it’s a partial picture, that nothing about that is untoward.”

Two years ago, TV networks prepared for pandemic-related ballot headaches and speculation that President Donald Trump might resist conceding defeat.

But 2022 has presented novel challenges. Allies of Trump — who claimed two years ago, without evidence, that “frankly, we did win this election” — continue to sow doubts about the integrity of the vote-counting process. Republican candidates in some key races still refuse to accept that Trump lost.

Even as Americans consume information from an increasingly kaleidoscopic set of news sources — social media, hyperpartisan blogs, streaming services and family Facebook posts — the big TV networks still play a major role in setting the narrative of an election night, for better and worse.

In 2020, Fox News’ early Arizona call signaled that Joe Biden might emerge victorious (and left Trump enraged). In 2018, TV had a more ignominious evening: After a series of deflating early defeats for Democrats, some anchors predicted that a “blue wave” had fizzled and that Republicans would retain control of the House. It was Fox News again, working off a proprietary data model, that made the correct call that Democrats would take the chamber.

Marc Burstein, the executive in charge of ABC News’ election night coverage, said his team “will be very clear to explain that there could be red or blue mirages.

We’re going to be patient.” Carrie Budoff Brown, who runs “Meet the Press” on NBC, said it was “everybody’s responsibility” to prepare audiences for an extended wait.

Executives are optimistic that Americans will tune in — and stick around.

Despite steep drops this year in viewership of CNN and MSNBC, the Big Three broadcast networks are planning to preempt

their entire prime-time lineups for political coverage Nov. 8.

ABC, CBS and NBC will kick off their traditional election night coverage at 8 p.m. Eastern time and continue into the wee hours. In the past, those networks often shied away from midterm nights, shoehorning in an hour of coverage between police procedurals and the local news. Executives reasoned that, without a presidential race, audiences were less engaged. That changed in 2018 at the height of the Trump presidency, when ABC, CBS and NBC each devoted three prime-time hours to covering the midterms.

On cable, the anchors are preparing for the usual marathon.

“This is our Super Bowl,” said Bret Baier, the chief political anchor at Fox News.

Fox News’ decision desk will again be run by Arnon Mishkin, the outside consultant who spearheaded its controversial Arizona call in 2020. Although Fox’s projection was eventually proved correct, it

took several days for other news outlets to concur, and Trump turned his wrath on the network in retaliation. The network later fired a top executive, Chris Stirewalt, who was involved in the decision to announce the call so early; another executive involved in the decision, Bill Sammon, promptly retired.

“What we want to be, always, is right — and first is really nice — but right is what we want to be,” Baier said. “In the wake of 2020, we’re going to be looking at numbers very closely, and there may be times when we wait for more raw vote total than we have in the past.”

“It’ll be a lot smoother than that moment,” he added, referring to when he and his fellow co-anchors were visibly caught by surprise as their colleagues projected a victory for Biden in Arizona.

Fox officials later ascribed the confusion to poor communication among producers.

“I think,” Baier said, “we all learned a lot from that experience.”

The “Democracy Desk” at the CBS News studios in New York, Oct. 24, 2022.

Amid rampant distrust in the news media and a rash of candidates who have telegraphed that they may claim election fraud if they lose, news anchors and executives are seeking new ways to tackle the attacks on the democratic process that have infected politics since the last election night broadcast in 2020.

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A big publishing merger was blocked, but brought the industry little clarity

The exterior of Penguin Random House in New York, July 27, 2022. A federal judge blocked on Monday, Oct. 31, a bid by Penguin Random House, the biggest book publisher in the United States, to buy one of its main rivals, Simon & Schuster, in a significant victory for the Biden administration, which is trying to expand the boundaries of antitrust enforcement.

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS and ALEXANDRA A. ALTER

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judge blocked the largest publisher in the country from absorbing a rival, thwarting further consolidation in an industry that has been deeply reshaped by mergers in recent years. But the decision brought little clarity about what lies ahead for the companies involved, or for the publishing world.

Penguin Random House, the larger publisher, vowed to appeal Judge Florence Y. Pan’s decision Monday to stop its purchase of Simon & Schuster, a deal that would have reduced the number of major publishers from five to four. Appealing, however, may not be so simple.

The purchase agreement between

Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster’s parent company, Paramount Global, expires at the end of November, according to court records. An appeal would require more time, and an extension of the arrangement. Neither company would confirm or comment on Tuesday on whether such an extension was in place.

The order laying out the judge’s reasoning is temporarily under seal because it contains confidential information. So Penguin Random House’s legal strategy, should they go forward with an appeal, is also unclear.

This uncertainty comes at what is already a tenuous moment for the industry, when many are worried about a looming recession and the drag on profits from inflation and supply chain constraints.

Sales have also started to slump, after a surprising surge of book sales that boosted publishers’ bottom lines during the pandemic. So far this year, sales of print books were down 6% compared to 2021 — a drop of more than 37 million units, according to NPD BookScan, though they are still well above 2019 levels. The Association of American Publishers reported recently that publishers’ revenues were down 2.5% for the first seven months of the year, based on data gathered from 1,368 publishers. Hardcover sales were especially weak, with a revenue drop of 10.5%, suggesting that the demand for new books is softening.

Some of the biggest companies, including Hachette and Penguin Random House, have reported results that are relatively modest this year, compared with 2021.

Simon & Schuster, however, has been having a very strong year, outperforming many of its rivals. Its revenue grew by 34% in the second quarter of the year, driven in large part by older books that have taken off on TikTok, including “It Ends With Us,”

by Colleen Hoover. “The Last Thing He Told Me,” a novel by Laura Dave, spent a year on the bestseller list and has now sold 2 million copies, Simon & Schuster said.

Ada Ferrer’s “Cuba: An American History” won a Pulitzer Prize.

Its recent success would make it attractive to potential buyers if Paramount were to abandon the Penguin Random House deal and put Simon & Schuster back on the market. If the deal does not go through, Paramount will walk away with a fee for their trouble of about $200 million, but even with that, it may be hard to match the $2.175 billion Penguin Random House has agreed to pay.

The Department of Justice sued to stop the acquisition on the grounds that it would hinder competition in the market for what it called “anticipated top-selling books” and lead to lower advances for authors. The trial was not about whether the deal would create a monopoly, but about whether it would lead to a monopsony, or too much control over suppliers — in this case, top-selling writers.

Penguin Random House and its parent company, Bertelsmann, argued that efficiencies created by the mergers would

allow the company to pay authors more, not less, and it said the government was focusing on a very narrow slice of books at the top of the market.

“This transaction would benefit both Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster by helping writers at all levels better share their stories with as many readers as possible through our industry-leading supply chain,” Markus Dohle, the CEO of Penguin Random House, said in a letter to employees sent after the ruling Monday night. “As it’s also my belief that the best long-term home for Simon & Schuster is a like-minded organization with a proud publishing history, I know we are their best possible steward.”

Pan, who heard the case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, sided with the Biden administration.

After the decision was issued, groups that had criticized the deal, including the Authors Guild and the American Booksellers Association, celebrated what they saw as a victory for writers and for the industry overall.

“This is a judgment that really took authors into consideration, and without authors, there would be no books,” said novelist Douglas Preston, the president of the Authors Guild. “The ruling is important not just for authors and the book business but really for the free flow of ideas in society.”

For Simon & Schuster, the collapse of the deal would leave it once again facing the uncertainty of a sale, after more than two years in limbo. In a letter sent Monday night, Jonathan Karp, the company’s CEO, sought to reassure Simon & Schuster’s staff.

“Despite this news, our company continues to thrive,” he wrote. “We are more successful and valuable today than we have ever been.”

Some analysts speculated that the ruling would put a damper on major mergers and acquisitions, making it unlikely that other big publishing houses would escape antitrust scrutiny if they acquired it.

“It will make it very hard for any one of the big five to acquire any other of the big five,” said Mike Shatzkin, the founder and CEO of Idea Logical, which analyzes the book business. “It will be the same problem, it will be one more player taken out of the big money pot game.”

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S&P 500 rises and Meta jumps as investors eye midterms

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he S&P 500 rose on Monday as investors focused on Tuesday’s midterm elections that will determine control of Congress, while shares of Meta Platforms jumped on a report of job cuts at the Facebook parent.

Republican candidates have picked up momentum in polls and analysts expect a split government, with the GOP winning the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate, as the likely outcome possibly hindering Democratic President Joe Biden’s agenda.

“The likelihood that the Republicans take the House or the Senate is pretty high, therefore guaranteeing some form of gridlock over the next couple of years. That would probably take tax hikes off the table, and any sort of big spending potentially perceived as inflationary off the table,” said Ross Mayfield, an investment strategy analyst at Baird.

Focus this week will also be on U.S. consumer prices data for October, due out on Thursday, for clues about how much the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rapid interest rate hikes are helping cool down the economy.

Four Fed policymakers on Friday indicated they would consider a smaller rate hike at their next policy meeting, despite new data showing another month of robust job gains and only small signs of progress in lowering inflation.

Traders are divided about whether the Fed will raise interest rates by 50 basis points or 75 basis points at the U.S. central bank’s meeting in December.

“All else equal, whether the terminal rate sits at 4.5%, 5% or beyond, monetary policy is poised to have a negative effect on the economy heading into 2023,” Glenmede’s investment strategists wrote in a note on Monday.

All the three major U.S. indexes have slumped this year, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq down 33% due to worries that aggressive monetary policy tightening could cripple the U.S. economy.

In afternoon trading, the S&P 500 was up 0.29% at 3,781.54 points.

The Nasdaq gained 0.03% to 10,478.70 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.84% at 32,675.85 points.

S&P 500 by market cap https://fingfx.thomsonreuters. com/gfx/mkt/akveqgwaxvr/SPX_by_marketcap.png Meta Platforms Inc jumped 4.6% following a report that the company was planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week. The stock has slumped more than 70% so far this year.

Weighing on the tech-heavy Nasdaq, Apple Inc fell about 1% after the company said it expected lower shipments of premium iPhone 14 models than previously anticipated.

Digital World Acquisition Corp surged 44% after former U.S. President Donald Trump hinted at another White House bid. The blank-check firm has agreed to take social-media startup Trump Media & Technology Group Corp public.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc gained 3.8%% after VillageMD, a primary care provider backed by the pharmacy chain, said it will acquire Summit Health in a deal valued at nearly $9 billion.

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A core question at COP27: Who will pay for climate change?

By ELENA SOTO

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hen world leaders gather in Sharm el Sheikh this week for the annual United Nations climate summit, the debate over who bears financial responsibility for climate change will be center stage.

Poor nations, which have contributed the least to climate change but are among the most vulnerable to its effects today, are seeking more financial commitments from rich countries, many of which have grown their economies by burning fossil fuels.

The consequences of global warming are already unfolding, with developing countries often on the front lines of the devastation.

Pakistan experienced catastrophic floods this summer, which scientists said were made worse by climate change.

One-third of the country was left under water, leaving 1,700 people dead and causing at least $40 billion in economic losses.

Extreme flooding also submerged parts of Nigeria this month, and elsewhere in Africa, record drought has brought millions to the brink of starvation.

At this year’s climate conference, known as COP27, developing countries are expected to press wealthy nations — historically the world’s biggest emitters — to fulfill earlier promises of financial support and push them ever further.

Current Promises Falling Short More than a decade ago, the world’s rich, industrialized countries — including the United States, Canada, Australia, Britain and Japan — committed to giving $100 billion a year by 2020 (and through 2025) to poor nations for climate adaptation and mitigation projects.

But wealthy countries have failed to meet that goal.

Nations will need to agree on another financing goal of at least $100 billion a year before 2025, so negotiations at this year’s summit will begin shaping that goal. Most estimates have suggested that $100 billion is not nearly enough to help poor countries stave off

Rich countries promised to mobilize $100 billion per year in public and private financing by 2020 to help poor countries mitigate and adapt to a changing climate. the worst effects of climate change, let alone shift away from burning oil, gas and coal.

“All of the evidence suggests that we need trillions, not billions,” said Baysa Naran, a manager at Climate Policy Initiative, a research center.

The money has funded mitigation projects, which help developing countries transition away from fossil fuels, like building a zero-emissions transit system in Pakistan. Money has also gone toward adaptation projects, which help countries build resilience against climate risks, like restoring mangrove habitats in Guinea-Bissau to protect from rising seas.

Critics point out that funding has often come in the form of loans rather than grants. That has increased many poor countries’ already unsustainable burden of debt, said Alina Averchenkova, a climate policy fellow at the London School of Economics.

Some countries may also count certain types of projects toward their contributions that others do not, which can lead to inflated figures, said Sarah Colenbrander, director of the climate program at the Overseas Development Institute.

The $100 billion goal was “carefully crafted” to be deliberately vague — a result of highly politicized negotiations at COP15 in Copenhagen, said Preety Bhandari, a senior adviser at the World Resources Institute.

As a result, there’s no requirement that specific countries contribute a certain proportion of the funds. Multiple analyses have calculated that the United States, which contributed less than $3 billion of the $83.3 billion in 2020, is underdelivering by tens of billions of dollars when considering its relative emissions, population size and wealth.

In addition, mitigation projects have generally received twice as much

funding as those focused on adaptation, although many experts and representatives from vulnerable nations say that the two should be more balanced. While mitigation addresses the root of the climate problem by curbing emissions, it doesn’t help communities adapt to current or future risks.

An agreement reached at the end of last year’s climate negotiations in Glasgow urged rich countries to “at least double” finance for adaptation by 2025 to $40 billion.

New Funds for ‘Loss and Damage’ More recently, some of the world’s most vulnerable nations have intensified calls for new funds from the world’s wealthiest economies to compensate for damages caused by climate change.

The issue is known in climate negotiations as “loss and damage” and proponents have described it as a form of climate reparations to pay for irreversible losses of income, culture, biodiversity and lives.

Wealthy countries have historically resisted calls for a loss and damage fund, largely out of fear that it could open them up to legal liability.

In Glasgow last year, the United States opposed language that would set up such a fund.

This year, as Egypt has vowed to put loss and damage on the formal COP27 agenda, representatives from the United States and European countries have indicated that they might be open to discussing it.

A group of small island states first raised the issue of loss and damage in 1991, pointing to the irreparable destruction they faced from sea level rise.

Since then, those countries have attempted to quantify the crushing costs.

V20, or the Vulnerable Twenty group composed of finance ministers from 58 nations, estimated that its member states have lost $525 billion, or about one-fifth of their wealth, over the past two decades because of climate change.

“Countries are already paying for climate change now, and the burning question is: Can we let this go on?,” said Sara Jane Ahmed, a financial adviser to V20. “And the answer is: No, we can’t.”

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Even as challenges mount, Europeans stick by Ukraine

By JASON HOROWITZ and CATHERINE PORTER

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he high cost of living is provoking strikes, protests and widespread grumbling. Talk about nuclear weapons has heightened anxieties and encouraged some to demand rapid negotiations. And Russian President Vladimir Putin is wooing politicians, including many from populist parties on the right and the left who have flirted with him in the past.

But while Putin may have bet on European fatigue and intolerance for hardship to divide the alliance and buckle its weakest members, more than eight months into Russia’s war on Ukraine, the scale of the challenges has been leveraged effectively by leaders to stiffen the public spine and Europe is holding firm.

Despite some kicking and screaming, governments across the ideological spectrum and the continent — in Western and Eastern Europe, in the Baltics and along the Mediterranean — are maintaining support for Ukraine and tough sanctions on Russia.

While recent polls show a slight dip in popular support for Ukraine across Europe, backing still remains strong, and the leaders of Germany, France and Italy — the continent’s three largest countries — seem insulated against external and internal pressures to cave for the foreseeable future, as they have all recently had elections.

Many analysts believe that commitment will last as long as the United States holds the line, but gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections

by Republicans, some of whom have questioned the cost of the war, could alter those expectations. Most of those pushing for immediate peace or a reembrace of Putin are for now sequestered in the political opposition.

“Of course we want to achieve peace, that’s the goal for everybody, but it’s impossible to achieve this goal, peace, without justice,” Antonio Tajani, Italy’s new foreign minister, said in a brief interview in his office Wednesday.

“If you want peace,” he added, “you need to strengthen Ukraine.”

How long such resolve will last remains the lingering question, especially with the uneasy realization that the war will stretch through winter, and most likely beyond, pushing Europeans into a new world of security threats and economic uncertainty.

But many Europeans are girding themselves for the challenge.

“Putin is a dictator. He’s attacking all of the European Union. I find it intolerable,”

The funeral of a Ukrainian soldier who was killed last month by Russian artillery was held on Thursday in Kharkiv, Ukraine. said Tristan Malinas, 28, a roofing apprentice, who sat watching his 3-year-old daughter ride an antique carousel during a midweek holiday in Paris. “The European Union was created for peace. He is trying to destroy that.”

Like him, many French have accepted President Emmanuel Macron’s depiction of the war as an existential battle, directly threatening peace and democracies built carefully since World War II and reinforced by the creation of NATO and the European Union.

Many also worry that Russia’s targets will expand, bringing the war closer to their own doorsteps.

“In France, there’s a strong concern if we don’t stop Putin here, he will continue — next will be Poland or the Baltic nations.

He will eventually destabilize all of Europe,” said Jérôme Fourquet, one of France’s leading pollsters, whose firm, IFOP, has shown support for sanctions against Russia and for Ukraine in general still around 70%.

Few French believe the Russian argument that the war was pushed by NATO and the United States, he added. “For the great majority of French people, there is no debate,” he said. “It’s clear that Ukraine is the victim and Russia the attacker.”

A new survey by eupinions, a platform for European public opinion by the polling foundation Bertelsmann Stiftung, found that

57% of Europeans, down from 60% in the summer and 64% in March, still support sending arms to Ukraine.

“The French simply don’t have the right to say that they are fed up with the war,” said Florence Habay, 50, playing with her two sons in Paris’ Bastille district.

The rise in gas prices has spelled the end of the family’s weekend trips to a country home. But it seemed a small price to pay compared with what is happening on the Ukrainian battlefields, she said.

But there are still signs that European resolve could yet soften under the weight of the economic toll and fears of a wider war or the use of nuclear weapons.

Some elements in the Social Democratic Party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz are also showing signs of gravitating back toward rapprochement with Russia.

Rolf Mützenich, the head of the party’s parliamentary group, accused the foreign minister of not doing more to find a diplomatic solution, and argued that there needed to be a “balance” between the Ukrainian right to self-defense and the need for diplomacy.

That feeling is simmering around Europe, though for now, it is relegated to the opposition.

“There are two camps now in Europe,” George Katrougalos, the former Greek foreign minister of the country’s main opposition

Syriza party, said in a recent interview. “The camp of justice and the camp of peace.”

“The camp of justice says, now, whatever, Russia must be punished and we cannot have an end of the war, at least until Russia is defeated completely,” he added. “I don’t believe this is feasible for a nuclear power.

So I’m supporting the other idea. The idea of peace.”

But Greece’s government has been staunchly in support of Ukraine, as has Italy’s new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. In an interview before taking power last month, she said she would “totally” continue to send offensive arms to Ukraine.

But Meloni’s coalition partner, Silvio Berlusconi, was quoted this past week saying a peace process depended on Ukraine understanding that at a certain point, “it can no longer count on arms and help.”

Tajani, a member of Berlusconi’s party, said that what mattered was not what Berlusconi said in private, but how he voted in public, and that he had consistently backed Ukraine.

“This for a politician is important, what we do,” Tajani said, adding, in an apparent show of institutional, and internal-party, strength, “My position is very clear.”

He said the government would “follow the European decisions” when it came to sending arms to Ukraine. Those small Italian arms shipments, while inconsequential on the battlefield, have become a political issue in a country with the lowest support in Europe for arms deliveries, fewer than 40%, according to eupinions.

A large peace rally Saturday in Rome included the center-left establishment as well as populists opposed to arming Ukraine and a variety of pacifist and Roman Catholic groups.

Prominent among them was Giuseppe Conte, the former prime minister and now leader of the populist Five Star Movement, who, to rebuild his party from the left, has blamed a “bellicose push” by NATO and the European Union for the continuance of the war.

While Conte has for months adopted a pacifist line, the participation in the march of the center-left Democratic Party, which was a strong supporter of Ukraine in the prior government, surprised many.

“It’s nauseating,” said Nathalie Tocci, the director of the Institute for International Affairs in Rome, who considered the step a blatant political play to chase Five Star voters rather than a change of heart on Ukraine.

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Russia looks to private militia to secure a victory in Eastern Ukraine

By ANDREW HIGGINS and MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG

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fter weeks of unexpected battlefield setbacks for Russia, the war in Ukraine on Sunday delivered another surprise: the emergence of a former Russian convict and onetime hot-dog seller as perhaps the Kremlin’s best hope for a small, face-saving military victory.

With occupying Russian forces at peril in the strategic southern city of Kherson, troops with a private military force controlled by Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, a convicted thief and longtime associate of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, advanced on the Ukrainian-held city of Bakhmut in the country’s east.

The city, under attack by Russia for months, has little strategic value, but a victory there for Moscow would break its humiliating run of defeats — and give a boost to the political fortunes of Prigozhin, a shadowy businessman who served nine years in a Soviet prison for robbery. Prigozhin used to be mocked as “Putin’s cook” because of his business interests in catering but is now a growing force in Russia’s labyrinthine power politics.

Although steadfastly loyal to Putin in his public statements, Prigozhin has cut an increasingly assertive and independent figure, denouncing military commanders appointed by the Kremlin and, on a recent visit to Russia’s Kursk region, meeting with local business owners about the organization of an ill-defined people’s militia outside the regular military command.

One of the commanders he criticized, Col. Gen. Alexander Lapin, the head of Russia’s Central Military District, has since left his post, according to the Russian state news media, and been replaced, at least temporarily, by Maj. Gen. Alexander Linkov. The top commanders of the eastern, southern and western military districts have been replaced since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Under fire over military bungling in Ukraine from Prigozhin and Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the southern Russian region of Chechnya, Russia’s Defense Ministry last month appointed a new overall commander for its forces in Ukraine, Gen. Sergei Surovikin.

Britain’s military intelligence agency, in its latest daily update on the war in Ukraine, said Sunday that the “dismissals represent a pattern of blame against senior Russian military commanders for failures to achieve Russian objectives on the battlefield.” The frequent

Civilians on Saturday crossed what remained of a bridge that had been bombarded by Russia in Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

military reshuffling, it added, “is in part likely an attempt to insulate and deflect blame from Russian senior leadership at home.”

While the regular military has often floundered in Ukraine, Prigozhin’s private force, the Wagner Group, has on occasion put up more of a fight, particularly around Bakhmut in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.

A correspondent for Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency said Sunday that Wagner troops had seized the village of Ivangrad, which is close to a road on Bakhmut’s southern approach, and were fighting fierce battles in another suburb.

A spokesperson for Ukraine’s forces in the east, Serhii Cherevaty, said Bakhmut was “one of the hottest spots” in the region and where “the enemy is the most aggressive, with the concentration of its maximum forces.” He told a Ukrainian television channel that 30,000 Russian forces were deployed to the assault.

The capture of Bakhmut would not offset Russia’s September rout in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, now largely back under Ukrainian control, or reports of a recent drubbing near a town in Luhansk, another eastern region.

A Russian media outlet, Verstka, reported Saturday that hundreds of Russian soldiers, mostly conscripts dragooned into the military as part of Putin’s recent “partial mobilization” had been killed near the town of Makiivka in Luhansk. The report quoted Aleksey Agafonov, a recently mobilized soldier who survived, as saying his unit had been ordered to dig defensive trenches near Ukrainian positions but given only three shovels and no provisions. When Ukraine started shelling, he said, “the officers immediately ran away,” leaving their untrained men in the open to face fire from Ukrainian artillery, mortars and helicopters.

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city of Kherson. Russia seized the city, on the west bank of the Dnieper River, at the start of the war and last month declared it part of the Russian Federation. But, warning of an imminent Ukrainian attack, it has since urged civilians to evacuate to the east bank of the river.

Kiril Stremousov, the Moscow-installed deputy head of the occupied Kherson region, said Sunday that Ukraine was moving a large number of tanks and armored vehicles into the area. The evacuation of civilians, he said, was continuing. Russia also accused Ukraine of damaging the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam up the river from Kherson city with American-made HIMAR rockets. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, last month accused Moscow of planning to attack the dam in a “false flag” operation.

The Ukrainian military’s general staff said Sunday that its forces had attacked a building in Kakhovka but only because it was being used to house “up to 200 enemy soldiers,” adding that “the enemy carefully hides the consequences of this attack.” It also accused Russia of destroying private boats on the banks of the Dnieper, apparently to prevent them from being used

by Ukraine should Russian troops retreat from Kherson city to the east side of the river.

Frustrated on the battlefield by motivated and, thanks to Western support, well-armed Ukrainian troops, Russia has turned with increasing fury on civilians, seeking to undermine Ukraine’s morale by pummeling power stations and other infrastructure with drone and missile attacks.

On Sunday in his nightly address, Zelenskyy said: “We also understand that the terrorist state is concentrating forces and means for a possible repetition of mass attacks on our infrastructure. First of all, energy.”

Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, the capital, warned residents Saturday to prepare for the worst. “Let’s be frank, our enemies are doing everything for the city to be without heat, without electricity, without water supply, in general, so we all die,” he told Ukrainian news outlets. “The future of the country and the future of each of us depends on how prepared we are.”

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Taiwan’s bomb shelters: ‘A space for life. And a space for death.’

By DAMIEN CAVE and AMY CHANG CHIEN

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isitors to Keelung, a mountainous port city on Taiwan’s northern coast, might reasonably think that the white wall at the back of Shi Hui-hua’s breakfast shop is, well, a wall. Only a few air vents suggest that there might be something on the other side.

“It’s a bomb shelter,” said Shi, 53, as she waited for the morning rush. “Because we’re Keelung people, we know these kinds of places.”

“It’s a space for life,” she added. “And a space for death.”

All over her street and many more in Keelung — which suffered its first foreign attack, by the Dutch, in 1642 — the landscape has been carved up for protection.

Kitchens connect to underground passageways that tunnel into the sandstone.

Rusty gates at the ends of alleys lead to dark maws that are filled with memories of war, and sometimes trash or bats — or an altar or restaurant annex.

There are nearly 700 bomb shelters in this city of 360,000 people, leading officials to declare that Keelung has a higher density of places to hide than anywhere else in heavily fortified Taiwan. And for a loosely organized band of urban planners, artists and history lovers, Keelung’s bomb shelters have become a canvas — for creative urban renewal and civil defense.

Some of these havens have been recast as cultural spaces. But these subterranean spaces are not just cool relics; on a self-governed island that China considers lost property it plans to reclaim, they are also vital infrastructure.

Most of the bunkers were mapped out and built by Japan, which governed Taiwan from 1895 until the end of World War II, when Keelung was a bombing target.

The shelters around Shi’s shop occupy one of the oldest parts of the city, sitting just below a hillside park that is being upgraded with an elevator. One of its entrances will soon require a short stroll through a cave with winding tunnels that, until recently, had been used as a fire department storage shed.

On a recent morning, it looked more like an art gallery or a nightclub. Rails of lights hugged the moist walls, shining on sprouts of green plants, the underground’s

A bunker that has been converted into a temple in Keelung, Taiwan. only bursts of color. Concrete floors had been laid with drainage areas on the sides.

Hung Chih-chien, 33, a public servant in Keelung’s urban planning division, said city officials had initially thought of opening up the space and making it a restaurant, then decided they did not want to ruin the original geology.

Keelung’s shelters are not easy to manage; deeds are rare, and access often defines possession. But the city found documents showing that this bunker had been built in the 19th century, near the end of the Qing Dynasty’s rule over Taiwan. It was one of several tunnels and bunkers built in that era, when China, weakened by famine and rebellion, struggled to hold on to territory.

In 1884, for example, the French invaded Keelung, seizing the city for about a year until the imperial commissioner for Taiwan, Liu Ming-ch’uan, pushed out French troops. Soon after that, to better secure Keelung, he commissioned construction of Taiwan’s first railway tunnel through Shihciouling Mountain, a natural barrier blocking Keelung from Taipei.

The tunnel opened in 1890 — and will reopen, renovated, in a few months.

On a recent tour, Kuo Li-ya, who heads the cultural heritage department of Keelung’s local government, explained the complicated restoration effort, which included running small cameras above the tunnel to gauge the strength of the ceiling.

She said she hoped it would eventually be

connected to local hiking trails and roads.

“We want people to know the history, to know the way this helped protect Keelung,” she said.

Standing in the tunnel, with new bricks of bright orange blending with aging gray stone, she spoke of history but acknowledged that the tunnel could also protect people in another conflict.

For many in Keelung, past and present threats blur.

In recent months, China has increased the frequency and intensity of military drills off Taiwan’s coast. Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has also become more vocal about unification with Taiwan, reserving the right to use force.

At Pufferfish, a restaurant in Keelung that backs into a cavernous bomb shelter, tourists at the half-dozen wooden tables snap photographs of the interior. But locals favor dark humor.

“Many people told me if a war breaks out, they would come to my restaurant,” said Miao Hsu-ching, 34, Pufferfish’s owner. “They’re certain that we would still provide food.”

Growing up in Keelung, Miao felt it was a pity that many abandoned bomb shelters were filled with garbage and overlooked. For generations, children in Keelung have scared one another with stories of their ghosts, soldiers killed and killing.

“It’s important to renovate them and connect them with their surrounding areas,” Miao said.

To some, a fondness for the shelters seems strange. Shi said she saw a snake in the one behind her shop — beyond the storage room — and has no intention of

going in there, even if missiles start flying.

She said Keelung’s shelters should be renovated mainly to make young people — whom she called soft, a “strawberry generation” — pay more attention to the tensions with China that may force them to fight or hide.

For some of her neighbors, the bunkers are a reminder of their past.

A few doors down from her shop, Wang Huo-hsiang, 91, sat at the store where he made rubber stamps, before he retired.

He remembers when the Americans bombed Keelung in 1944 and 1945, recalling the bump, bump, bump of the bombs he heard while hiding in a shelter nearby.

He slept in one tunnel at night, he said, lived by day in another. He was just a boy, in fifth grade, but the memory made him smile. The shelters had rescued him.

“That was the only safe place to be,” he said. “They were filled with people.”

He and his wife later spent summer nights in the man-made caves, hiding from the heat. They would share a drink and food, talk to friends.

“It was like an air-conditioner in there,” he said. His wife, Wang Chen Shumei, stood behind him. She laughed and agreed.

But when asked if they could imagine returning to the shelters in case of another attack, they both frowned. Wang Chen began to yell.

“We’re Taiwanese, we have nothing to do with China,” she said. Then, she spoke quietly: “We don’t know when the bombs will come. We hope they never come.”

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Republicans have made it very clear what they want to do if they win Congress

By EZRA KLEIN

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hat Republicans are offering, if they win the 2022 elections, is not conservatism. It is crisis. More accurately, it is crises. A debt-ceiling crisis. An election crisis. And a body blow to the government’s efforts to prepare for a slew of other crises we know are coming.

That is not to say there aren’t bills House Republicans would like to pass. There are. The closest thing to an agenda that congressional Republicans have released is the House Republican Study Committee’s 122-page budget. The committee is meant to be something akin to an internal think tank for House Republicans. It counts well over half of House Republicans as members and includes Reps. Steve Scalise, Elise Stefanik and Gary Palmer — all the leaders save for Kevin McCarthy.

After spending some time with the document, I would say it lacks even the pretense of prioritization, preferring instead the comforts of quantity. It lists bill after bill that House Republicans would like to pass. Legislation that would upend the structure and powers of the government — like the bill sponsored by Rep. Byron Donalds that seeks to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — gets exactly the same treatment as Rep. Bob Good’s bill to force schools to release their correspondence with teachers’ unions about when to reopen or Rep. Michael Cloud’s resolution disapproving of vaccinating 11-year-olds in Washington, D.C. There are plans to privatize much of Medicare, repeal much of Obamacare and raise the Social Security age and no fewer than eight bills attacking critical race theory.

But even if Republicans win the House and Senate, they cannot enact this agenda. It would fall to President Joe Biden’s veto. What Republicans could do is trigger crises they hope would give them leverage to force Biden to accept this agenda or perhaps force him out of office. And even where Republican leadership does not actually believe that crisis would win them the day, they may have to trigger it anyway to prove their commitment to the cause or to avoid the wrath of Donald Trump.

Start with the debt ceiling. U.S. Treasuries are the bedrock asset of the global financial system. They are the safest of safe investments, the security that countries and funds buy when they must be absolutely sure that their money is safe. Much else in the financial system is priced on this assumption of American reliability: Lenders begin with the riskless rate of return — that is, the interest rate on U.S. Treasuries — and then add their premiums atop that. If the U.S. government defaults on its debt, it would trigger financial chaos. (I guess that’s one way to deal with inflation: Crash the global economy!)

Republicans have been perfectly clear, though: They see the debt limit as leverage in negotiations with Biden. “We’ll provide you more money, but you got to change your current behavior,” Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader and possible speaker of the House, told Punchbowl News. “We’re not just going to keep lifting your credit card limit, right?”

McCarthy may sound measured, but that he would open the door to this tactic at all either shows his weakness or his recklessness. A hostage is leverage only if you’re willing to shoot. And there will be plenty of voices demanding that Republicans pull the trigger or at least prove their willingness to do so.

One of those voices will be Trump’s. “It’s crazy what’s happening with this debt ceiling,” the former president recently told a conservative radio host. “Mitch McConnell keeps allowing it to happen. I mean, they ought to impeach Mitch McConnell if he allows that.”

To put it gently, the record of Republican Party leaders on resisting the demands of their party’s hard-liners, even when they think those demands are mad, is not inspiring.

McConnell and the Republican former House speaker John Boehner didn’t have enough command of their members to reject Ted Cruz’s doomed 2013 shutdown over the Affordable Care Act, which both of them thought to be lunacy. And Cruz’s influence with the Republican base and the GOP’s congressional caucus in 2013 was nothing compared with the power Trump now wields.

That’s not the only looming crisis. At this point, much is known about the myriad attempts Trump and his backers made to subvert the result of the 2020 presidential election.

The country’s saving grace was that there was little preparation behind that effort and Republicans in key positions — to say nothing of Democrats — proved hostile to the project. But as The New York Times reported in October, more than 370 Republicans running for office in 2022 have said they doubt the results of that election, and “hundreds of these candidates are favored to win their races.”

The 2022 elections are very likely to sweep into power hundreds of Republicans committed to making sure that the 2024 presidential election goes their way, no matter how the vote tallies turn out. Hardly anything has been done to fortify the system against chicanery since Jan. 6, 2021. What if congressional Republicans refuse to certify the results in key states, as a majority of House Republicans did in 2020?

What if, when Trump calls Republican secretaries of state or governors or board of elections supervisors in 2024, demanding they find the votes he wishes he had or disqualify the votes his opponent does have, they try harder to comply?

The possibilities for crisis abound.

Not all crises begin with a political showdown. Some could come from a virus mutating toward greater lethality.

Some could come from a planet warming outside the narrow band that has fostered human civilization. Some could come from the expansionary ambitions of dictators and autocrats.

The past few years have brought vivid examples of all three.

But particularly over the past year, the Republican Party has shown itself to be somewhere between dismissive of and hostile toward the preparations and responses these possible crises demand.

Last week I criticized the Biden administration for failing to find a party-line path to financing pandemic preparedness.

But such a path was necessary only because the Republican Party has swung so hard against efforts to prepare for the next pandemic. The Republican Study Committee’s budget is a vivid example of where the party has gone on COVID. It is not that Republicans are pro-COVID. But the party’s energy is very much anti-anti-COVID. It includes policy after policy attacking vaccine mandates, emergency powers and vaccinations for children. But in its 100-plus pages, I could find nothing proposing ways to make sure we are better prepared for the next viral threat.

And it’s not just COVID. Republicans have long been skeptical of efforts to prepare for climate change. The study committee’s budget is thick with plans to goose fossil fuel extraction and bar federal dollars from supporting the Paris climate agreement. Republicans have been, shall we say, divided in their affections for Vladimir Putin, but at least in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many backed efforts to support Ukraine. But McCarthy has suggested that Republicans will cut aid to Ukraine if they win in November, and he’s far from alone in wanting to see the United States back off from the conflict.

I’ll say this for Republicans. They have not hidden their intentions or their tactics. They have made clear what they intend to do if they win. Biden ran — and won — in 2020 promising a return to normalcy. Republicans are running in 2022 promising a return to calamity.

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Noviembre es el Mes de Concienciación sobre el Cáncer del Pulmón y Gástrico, dos enfermedades de alta incidencia en Puerto Rico POR CYBERNEWS

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n Puerto Rico, el cáncer de pulmón y bronquios es el segundo de mayor mortalidad y el quinto de mayor incidencia en la población puertorriqueña, según los datos del Registro Central de Cáncer de Puerto Rico para el periodo de 2015 a 2019. Mientras, el cáncer de estómago es el séptimo cáncer de mayor mortalidad y se estima que alrededor del 0.8% de todos los hombres y mujeres serán diagnosticados con cáncer de estómago en algún momento de su vida, según los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de las Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés).

Al iniciar noviembre, Mes de la Concienciación sobre el Cáncer del Pulmón y Gástrico, y ante este panorama de preocupación, la biofarmacéutica Bristol Myers Squibb, la Revista de Medicina y Salud Pública y un grupo de profesionales de la salud se unieron en una actividad efectuada en el Senado de Puerto Rico para dialogar y conocer la información más actualizada sobre la importancia del diagnóstico temprano, terapias de tratamiento y apoyo al paciente de estos dos tipos de cánceres.

El doctor Luis Báez Vallecillo, hematólogo oncólogo de PR Oncology Inc. resaltó que “el cáncer de pulmón se considera un ‘cáncer invisible’ debido a la aparición tardía de los síntomas. Cuando está en etapas avanzadas, baja la tasa de supervivencia. En cuanto a los síntomas del cáncer gástrico, el paciente puede presentar indigestión y malestar o dolor estomacal, sensación de hinchazón después de comer, náuseas leves, pérdida

de apetito y acidez estomacal, entre otros malestares. Ante estos síntomas, el paciente tiene que acudir a su médico para realizar una prueba de laboratorio e imágenes para poder hacer un diagnóstico certero.

La detección temprana y el tratamiento adecuado son esenciales para la atención y el control de la enfermedad”.

La iniciativa educativa contó con la participación de un panel compuesto por diversos médicos y profe- Profesionales de la salud junto a Bristol Myers Squibb y la Revista Medicina y sionales de la salud, tales Salud Pública compartieron en iniciativa educativa sobre la concienciación del como el doctor Oscar Soto cáncer del pulmón y gástrico.

Raíces, Editor de la Revista Medicina y Salud Pública; del Mes de Concienciación sobre el Cáncer del Pulmón Dr. Carlos Micames, pasado presidente de la Asocia- y Gástrico por parte del Dr. Félix Rodríguez Schmidt, ción Puertorriqueña de Gastroenterología; Dra. Daph- subsecretario del Departamento de Salud del Gobierno ne Delgado, presidenta de la Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Puerto Rico y con el reconocimiento especial a la fade Neumología; el hematólogo oncólogo, Dr. Luis Báez milia Rodríguez Hernández, por el cuidado y entrega a Vallecillo de PR Oncology Inc.; Dra. Marivelisse Soto, la fallecida periodista Keylla Hernández, quien padeció investigadora adscrita al Centro Compresivo de Cáncer de cáncer del pulmón. Igualmente, las organizaciones y UPR y la Sra. María Cristy, vicepresidenta de Servicio a profesionales de la salud que participaron de la inicialos Pacientes y Control de Cáncer de la Sociedad Ameri- tiva recibieron reconocimiento por parte del Senado de cana Contra el Cáncer de Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico y la Cámara de Representantes por su labor La iniciativa finalizó con la entrega de la Proclama y colaboración hacia los pacientes oncológicos.

Escuela de Profesiones de la Salud del RCM orientará sobre su oferta académica POR CYBERNEWS

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on el propósito de orientar a las personas interesadas en conocer sobre su oferta académica, la Escuela de Profesiones de la Salud (EPS) del Recinto de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (RCM-UPR) llevará a cabo su Casa Abierta. El evento se realizará el 9 de noviembre de 2022, desde las 8:30 a.m. hasta las 3:00 p.m en la escuela ubicada en las inmediaciones del RCM. “Con mucho entusiasmo abrimos nuestras puertas para orientar a todas las personas interesadas sobre la amplia oferta académica de la EPS, la escuela líder en la formación de profesionales de la salud en Puerto Rico. Contamos con casi 40 años educando brindando a Puerto Rico con los profesionales de la salud que necesitamos. La EPS forma a profesionales de a salud de excelencia, comprometidos con la salud de la isla y otros países donde sirven nuestros egresados”, expuso la Dra.

Lourdes E. Soto de Laurido, decana interina de la Escuela de Profesiones de la Salud del RCM. La Casa Abierta contará con una serie de actividades tales como recorridos guiados por los laboratorios y salones de clase, actividades interactivas, mesas informativas, así como venta de alimentos. A su vez, durante el evento se ofrecerá a los participantes la charla “Desición ocupacional para futuros profesionales de la salud”.

Cabe señalar que, la EPS cuenta con casi 40 años de fundación, ofreciendo programas académicos únicos en Puero Rico, acreditados por agencias a nivel nacional, tales como bachilleratos, certificados posgraduados, maestrías, doctorados y grados asociados.

Asimismo, los grados profesionales que ofrecen se destacan por ser programas de alta empleomanía en el campo de la salud.

Las personas interesadas en asistir a la Casa Abierta de la Escuela de Profesiones de la Salud del RCM pueden comunicarse al (787)-758-2525, extensión 4000.

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‘Documentary Now!’ review: The comfort we’ve been waiting for

The new season of “Documentary Now!” includes a spoof of “My Octopus Teacher” called “My Monkey Grifter” (with Jamie Demetriou, left, and Fred Armisen).

By MIKE HALE

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ince “Documentary Now!” was last on the air in 2019, we have experienced a murderous pandemic and a corresponding rise in popularity for comedies that put a thin crust of conflict over a comforting stew of banality and audience flattery. (You shall know them by their Emmys.)

“Documentary Now!,” IFC’s quirky and loving simulation of a public-television documentary series, was offering comfort before we knew we needed it. But rather than pander, it inspires happiness simply through its unbounded affection for its material.

(Also, it’s hard to pander when only a small fraction of your potential audience has seen the films you’re sending up.)

John Mulaney, a frequent writer for the series, summed up the show’s appeal when he referred to the making of the Season 3 episode “Original Cast Album: Co-op” (inspired by D.A. Pennebaker’s “Original Cast Album: Company”) as “that party we had.”

The party resumes Wednesday with the long delayed premiere of the show’s fourth season, which, in keeping with the slowly grinding nature of public TV, is

referred to onscreen — by its solemn host, Helen Mirren — as Season 53.

The show was created in 2015 by a “Saturday Night Live”-associated quartet, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers and Rhys Thomas. It was probably a second or third or fifth project for all of them, and that may be part of why it has worked so well: Nothing is taken too seriously or dwelt upon, and no matter how ponderous a documentary might be, its “Documentary Now!” parody is dispatched in about 20 minutes of screen time. (Each season has one double-length episode.)

Hader isn’t in the new season, and he is missed; his performances in the show’s “Grey Gardens” and “Swimming to Cambodia” takeoffs were series highlights. But Thomas is still a primary director (with Alex Buono), Meyers wrote three of the five episodes, and Armisen makes droll supporting appearances, beginning with his turn as an oily Hollywood agent in the season premiere, “Soldier of Illusion.”

That two-part opener, a gloss on Les Blank’s 1982 “Burden of Dreams,” about the making of Werner Herzog’s Amazon epic “Fitzcarraldo,” is not “Documentary Now!” at its best. The craziness that

Blank captured had an autocratic, creepy quality that doesn’t lend itself to jokey caricature, and “Soldier of Illusion” — with Alexander Skarsgard as Herzog and August Diehl as his excitable leading man, Klaus Kinski — is overthought and diffuse, and not very funny.

“Documentary Now!” is better when it burrows into a single mood or character or idea. The new season’s “Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport” is all about capturing the charm, alternately winsome and bracing, of the British short film “3 Salons at the Seaside,” in which storefront hair salons are second homes for groups of doughty, talkative old women.

An imperious Harriet Walter and a timorous Cate Blanchett play the hairdressers who tend to a steady clientele portrayed by a squad of veteran British character actresses; the routines of gossip and reprimand are interrupted by Armisen’s appearances as the friendly, bumbling mail man. It’s a pleasant, prickly trifle, and Meyers’ script offers nuggets for the terrific cast, like this for Walter: “Her daughter came up to me at the funeral and said the nicest thing, she said: ‘You know what, Edwina? You made our mum’s hair look nicer than she’d ever been to any of us.’”

In “Trouver Frisson,” the key is the casting of Liliane Rovère — known to American audiences as the wily older agent, Arlette, in “Call My Agent!” — as a French filmmaker based on Agnès Varda. Rovère’s baleful deadpan is a constant amusement as the director, inspired by mold on her ceiling, sets off on a late-in-life search for the excitement she no longer feels.

She doesn’t find it at her old house, or at the retirement home where she visits a Godard-like former colleague (inspiring a quick recreation of moments from “Band of Outsiders,” retitled “The Philosophical Layabouts”), or in Frisson, a village whose residents are devoted to giving one another goose bumps.

But she’s terrific company, and Matt Pacult and Tamsin Rawady’s script cleverly evokes the chilly Gallic whimsy of Varda’s essay films. (“The smell of mold is gone, yet there is the lingering stench of change.”)

The season’s high point demonstrates how a simple idea can have a satisfying payoff. “My Monkey Grifter” takes the incredulity felt by people who didn’t buy into the anthropomorphic narrative of “My Octopus Teacher” and parlays it into a playful lark that mixes natural history and true crime. Jamie Demetriou of the British cult sitcom “Stath Lets Flats” plays the protagonist, a gullible wildlife filmmaker, as a film-noir sap whose femme fatale is a hard-eyed rhesus monkey; reading words into her random arm movements, the first full sentence he makes out is “I want to see your films.” Now that’s comfort comedy that’s not talking down to you.

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‘We don’t want to relive it’: Jeffrey Dahmer drama on Netflix draws anger

By REMY TUMIN

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or years, Eric Wynn was the only Black drag queen at Club 219 in Milwaukee.

He performed as Erica Stevens, singing Whitney Houston, Grace Jones and Tina Turner for adoring fans, eventually earning the title of Miss Gay Wisconsin in 1986 and 1987.

“I had this group of Black kids who came in because they were represented,” Wynn, now 58, said of his time at the club in the late 1980s and early ’90s. “I saw them and let them know I saw them, because they finally had representation onstage.”

Among them were Eddie Smith, who was known as “the Sheikh” because he often wore a headscarf, and Anthony Hughes, who was deaf. Hughes was “my absolute favorite fan” and blushed when Wynn winked at him from stage. In return, Hughes taught him the ABCs of sign language.

“He would sit there laughing at me when I was trying to learn sign language with my big, old fake nails on,” Wynn recalled, laughing.

But then, Wynn said, the group of young Black men began to thin out.

“They were there and then all of the sudden there were less of them,” he said.

Smith and Hughes were two of the 17 young men Jeffrey Dahmer killed, dismembered and cannibalized in a serial murder spree that largely targeted the gay community in Milwaukee between 1978 and 1991.

Dahmer was a frequent customer at Club 219. He was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms in prison but was killed in prison in 1994.

Dahmer’s life has the been the subject of several documentaries and books, but none have received the attention or criticism showered on Netflix’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which dramatizes the killing spree in a 10-part series created by Ryan Murphy. It stars Evan Peters as Dahmer and Niecy Nash as a neighbor who repeatedly tried to warn the police, and aims to explore Dahmer’s gruesome tale through the stories of his victims.

For many critics, that attempt failed immediately when Netflix labeled the series under its LGBTQ vertical when it premiered last month. The label was removed after pushback on Twitter. Wynn and fami-

lies of the victims questioned the need to dramatize and humanize a serial killer at all.

“It couldn’t be more wrong, more ill timed, and it’s a media grab,” Wynn said, adding that he was “disappointed” in Murphy. “I thought he was better than that.”

Murphy, who rose to fame with the high school comedy show “Glee,” has explored true crime before. His miniseries “American Crime Story” tackled the assassination of Gianni Versace, the O.J. Simpson trial and President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. But it was Murphy’s pivot from “The Normal Heart,” based on a play written

by AIDS activist Larry Kramer, and “Pose,” about New York City’s 1980s ballroom scene, to “Monster” that stopped Wynn in

Scott Gunkel, 62, worked at Club 219 as a bartender when Dahmer was a customer. Gunkel watched the first two episodes of “Monster” but could not continue. He said he and his friends “don’t want to relive it.”

“The first ones really didn’t have any context of the victims, I was taken aback,” he said of the episodes, adding that the bar scenes did not accurately portray the racial mix of the city’s gay bars at the time. It was largely white, not Black, as the show depicts.

Gunkel also remembered Hughes, the deaf man, who he said would come into the bar and wait for it to get busy. Hughes was one of the few victims to receive a full episode dedicated to his story.

“He’d get there early and have a cou-

In photo provided by Wisconsin L.G.B.T.Q. Project, a performance at Club 219.

A Netflix series about the infamous Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer aims to tell the gruesome story through the experience of his victims. his tracks.

Of “Pose,” Wynn said, “I was so impressed, we finally had representation that we were involved in.” He added, “It was such a great homage to all of us. And then he turns around and does this, somebody who is actually attacking the Black gay community.”

Instead of focusing on the victims, Wynn said, “Monster” focuses on Dahmer.

The Netflix label of an LGBTQ film and the timing right before Halloween did not help either, Wynn said.

Netflix did not return a request for comment.

In an essay for Insider, Rita Isbell, whose brother Errol Lindsey was murdered

by Dahmer, described watching a portrayal of her victim’s statement at Dahmer’s trial in the Netflix series and “reliving it all over again.”

“It brought back all the emotions I was feeling back then,” she wrote. “I was never contacted about the show. I feel like Netflix should’ve asked if we mind or how we felt about making it. They didn’t ask me anything. They just did it.”

Eric Perry, who said he was a relative of the Isbells, wrote that the series was “retraumatizing over and over again, and for what?”

ple sodas and write me notes to keep the conversation going,” Gunkel recalled. “He disappeared, and I didn’t think much of it at the time.”

That’s in part because the Dahmer years also coincided with the AIDS epidemic. There are opaque references to the crisis in the Netflix show, including hesitation by the police to help the victims and a bath house scene in which condom use is discussed. But Gunkel said customers vanishing was not uncommon.

“We had this saying in the bars — if somebody was not there anymore, either he had AIDS or he got married,” Gunkel recalled.

The AIDS epidemic combined with the transient lifestyle of many gay men in Milwaukee and “institutional homophobia and racism targeting the community” provided a perfect cover for Dahmer, said Michail Takach, a curator for the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project. Takach was 18 when Dahmer was arrested.

“People were always looking for something new and people always disappeared,” Takach, now 50, said. “This was different, because it just got worse and worse.”

Missing person posters climbed “like a tree in Club 219 until they reached the ceiling,” he said.

Nathaniel Brennan, an adjunct professor of cinema studies at New York University who is teaching a course on true crime this semester, said that it “is by nature an exploitative genre.”

Even with the best intentions, he said, “the victims become the pawn or a game or a symbol.”

Contemporary true crime often falls victim to an unresolvable tension, Brennan said. “We can’t tolerate forgetting it, but the representation of it will never be perfect,” he said. “That balance has become more apparent in the past 25 years.”

Criminals are often portrayed with tragic backgrounds, he said. “There’s an idea that if society had done more, it could have been avoided.”

Much of “Monster” is dedicated to Dahmer’s origins, including a suggestion that a hernia operation at the age of 4 or his mother’s postpartum mental health issues may have impacted his mental development.

Wynn, who lives in San Francisco now, said he did not plan to watch the series and said Murphy owed an apology to the families of the victims and the city of Milwaukee. “That’s a scar on the city,” he said.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Qatar offered fans free World cup trips, but only on its terms

By TARIQ PANJA

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t is an offer good enough to make any soccer fan stop and listen. Free flights to the World Cup. Free tickets to matches. Free housing during the tournament and even a bit of spending money.

But the offer comes with a catch.

The hand-picked fans who accept this trip of a lifetime — financed by Qatar, the host nation of this year’s World Cup — will be required to abide by contracts that will require them to sing what they’re told to sing, to watch what they say and, most controversially, to report social media posts made by other fans critical of Qatar.

Yet despite those rules, hundreds of supporters have signed up.

The invitations went out in late September, and targeted some of the most wellconnected and well-known fan leaders backing the 32 teams headed to the World Cup. A Dutch fan told the broadcaster NOS that he had agreed to vet other supporters from the Netherlands. A board member from the American Outlaws, the biggest U.S. supporters group, agreed to take part, and then helped sign up fellow members and others.

On Thursday, the Outlaws’ member, who accepted an earlier trip to Qatar that was part of the program, said he had decided weeks ago not to accept free travel or housing from Qatar at the World Cup. Fans from all of FIFA’s confederations,

meanwhile, have accepted the offer; dozens have already traveled to Qatar at least once for luxurious pre-World Cup visits. Those, too, were paid for by tournament organizers.

Other fans, though, have declined. The conditions attached to the offer, one French fan told Le Parisien, felt like a step too far.

“Despite the appetizing side of the dish, I preferred to stay true to my values,” said Joseph Delage, a member of a prominent French supporters group.

Qatar’s offer, which came out of a fan engagement program started in 2020, is the first time a host nation has paid for groups of fans from all the competing nations to attend the World Cup. But it is not the first time Qatar has worked to fill stadiums with friendly voices; in 2019, migrant workers and schoolchildren were enlisted to fill empty seats at the world track and field championships in Doha.

In exchange for their World Cup perks, this year’s fans — as many as 50 from each country — will be required to perform in a ceremony before Qatar opens the tournament against Ecuador on Nov. 20. Organizers have dedicated five minutes of that celebration to a fan-themed segment that will require the beneficiaries of Qatar’s generosity to perform a chant or song specific to their country, selected not by them but by tournament organizers.

Representatives of Qatar’s World Cup organizing committee, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, tried this week

Qatar will welcome fans from every corner of the world this month. Some will get special attention.

to play down the requirements explicit, and implicit, in the offer. “There is no obligation to promote or do anything,” Ahsan Mansoor, the fan engagement director for the 2022 World Cup, said in an interview.

But a closer look at the terms of the relationship revealed that chosen supporters are encouraged to do just that, and also to amplify messaging from the organizers to support the World Cup “by ‘liking’ and re-sharing thirdparty posts.” At the same time, according to documents and contracts reviewed by The New York Times and authenticated by multiple fans, participants are warned that although they are not being asked to be a “mouthpiece” for Qatar, “it would obviously not be appropriate for you to disparage” the country or the tournament.

The fan leaders have also signed up to be on the lookout for such negativity in comments on their posts; a clause in the code of conduct asks that they “report any offensive, degrading or abusive comments” to the organizers. Where possible, the code says, they should supply screenshots of any offending posts.

Those who breach regulations are warned that they could be dismissed from the program.

“At best they’re volunteers for the World Cup and at worst they’re a mouthpiece for the Supreme Committee,” said Ronan Evain, the executive director of Football Supporters Europe, an umbrella organization of fan groups that is recognized by European soccer’s governing body, UEFA. In the dozen years since Qatar was awarded the World Cup, the country has taken pains to shape and defend its national image amid corruption claims, environmental concerns and human rights issues.

The program to sign up fans as de facto ambassadors appears to have begun in 2020, when the Supreme Committee reached out to national federations around the world and asked to be put in contact with leading fan groups to better understand the needs of visitors. Qatar, which has almost no tradition of hosting major sporting events and little in the way of a domestic fan culture, was grappling with a complex task: how to create a tournament experience that would feel authentic to visiting supporters, but also one that fit within the cultural norms of Qatar, a conservative Muslim nation.

Most federations complied on that understanding. A U.S. Soccer spokesperson said

that it had received a request from World Cup officials looking to connect with fans, and had used it to open a dialogue with its own supporters groups, but that the federation had played no role in selecting individual fans for the World Cup trips. Other federations either supplied contacts to high-profile fan groups or, in the case of England, engaged by placing a sign-up form on behalf of Qatar’s World Cup committee on the website of its official fan club.

England’s federation said it found out about the program offering fans expensespaid trips to the tournament from news media reports.

“We were told this was an opportunity to engage with fans from all competing nations to ensure that the voice of supporters was clearly heard in the planning for the World Cup, and that many international football associations were being approached,” England’s Football Association said in a statement. The FA said that since posting a link to connect fans with Qatari organizers, “we have had no more involvement with the scheme, and no sight of the ‘code of conduct’ or any of the terms and conditions of involvement.”

Over the past two years, though, the program quietly expanded. Fan leaders were flown to Qatar for meetings with World Cup organizers keen to hear what supporters in their nations expected from the tournament, and then sent home armed with information about what to expect in Qatar. They were treated to first-class hospitality, according to members who took part in the trips, and many posted social media content and posed for photos promoting the program.

“If you are an influencer receiving support or paid by brand you should have to disclose it,” said Evain, the European supporters group representative. “What we saw around the Arab Cup last year was European fan leaders who were not disclosing these ties with the Supreme Committee.”

World Cup organizers defended the offer to fans as nothing more than recognition for the time they have provided to help Qatar understand and prepare for a foreign influx unprecedented in its history.

“They don’t have any formal or contractual association with the World Cup, and they are not ambassadors for it,” said Mansoor, the head of the fan program. All they are required to do, he said, is take their place at the opening ceremony.

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‘Planet killer’ asteroid spotted that poses distant risk to Earth

By ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS

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stronomers on the hunt for modestly sized asteroids that could vaporize a city or bulkier beasts that could sterilize Earth’s surface have spotted a new potential threat. But there’s no immediate need to worry — it’ll be many generations until it may pose a danger to our planet.

Detecting uncharted space rocks relies on spying sunlight glinting off their surfaces. But some asteroids occupy corners of the sky in which the sun’s glare smothers them, and, like embers flitting in front of a thermonuclear bonfire, they fade from view.

Last year, in the hope of finding asteroids cloaked by excessive sunlight, an international team of astronomers co-opted a camera primarily designed to investigate the universe’s notoriously elusive dark energy. In an announcement Monday based on a survey first published in September in The Astronomical Journal, the researchers announced the discovery of three new light-drowned projectiles.

One of them, 2022 AP7, is roughly 1 mile long, and its orbit crosses Earth’s path around the sun, getting as near as 4.4 million miles to Earth itself — uncomfortably close by cosmic standards (although far more distant than Earth’s moon). That makes 2022 AP7 “the largest potentially hazardous asteroid found in the last eight years or so,” said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., and an author of the study.

After the asteroid was discovered in January, additional observatories studied its motion and other astronomers retrospectively identified it in older images. This data set made it clear that it won’t be paying Earth a visit during the next century, and perhaps far longer.

“There is an extremely low probability of an impact in the foreseeable future,” said Tracy Becker, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute who was not involved with the study.

But the gravitational pull of objects around the solar system — including our own planet — ensures that Earth-crossing asteroids don’t dance the same way forev-

An undated photo provided by the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile shows the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope dome, where a Dark Energy Camera detects asteroids that orbit between Earth and the sun. er. The asteroid 2022 AP7 is no exception.

“Over time, this asteroid will get brighter and brighter in the sky as it starts crossing Earth’s orbit closer and closer to where the Earth actually is,” Sheppard said.

It’s possible that “way down the line, in the next few thousand years, it could turn into a problem for our descendants,” said Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queen’s University Belfast who was not involved with the study.

And if, in the unluckiest of timelines, 2022 AP7 ultimately impacts Earth?

“This is what we call a planet killer,” Sheppard said. “If this one hits the Earth, it would cause planetwide destruction. It would be very bad for life as we know it.”

But as we are safe for many generations, this asteroid’s orbit is not its most noteworthy feature. “The interesting thing about 2022 AP7 is its relatively large size,” said Cristina Thomas, a planetary astronomer at Northern Arizona University who was not involved with the study. Its existence suggests that other elephantine asteroids, veiled by the sun’s glare, remain disconcertingly undiscovered.

Today, astronomers looking for potentially hazardous asteroids — those that get at least as close as 4.6 million miles to Earth and are too chunky to be incinerated without incident by our atmosphere — fo-

cus on finding rocks around 460 feet across.

There are most likely tens of thousands of them, and fewer than half have been identified. They could wreak destruction on a country-size scale. Such threats have motivated NASA and other space agencies to develop planetary defense missions like DART, the spacecraft that successfully adjusted the orbit of a small, nonthreatening asteroid in September.

Most asteroids that are two-thirds of a mile long and larger — far less common, but capable of global devastation — have already been found. But “we know some are still out there to find,” Fitzsimmons said.

Several no doubt sneak about near Mercury and Venus. But it’s “incredibly difficult to discover objects interior to Earth’s orbit with our current discovery telescopes,” Thomas said. During most hours of the day, the sun blinds Earth’s telescopes and objects can be hunted only in the few minutes around twilight.

To overcome this limitation, the astronomers who detected 2022 AP7 relied on the Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope in Chile.

Not only can it examine large swaths of the sky, but it is also sensitive enough to find faint objects engulfed by sunlight. So far, the camera has found two additional near-Earth objects: a planet-killer in size whose orbit never crosses Earth’s but takes it closer to the sun than any other known asteroid, flambéing its surface at temperatures extreme enough to liquefy lead; and a smaller, country-killer-size rock that poses no risk.

The twilight survey’s capabilities will eventually be eclipsed by NASA’s NearEarth Object Surveyor mission. Launching later this decade, this Earth-orbiting infrared observatory will stare into the sun’s glare and find most of the hazardous asteroids that other surveys have missed.

“We want to do everything possible to not be surprised,” Thomas said. That’s why these surveys exist: to find Earthimpacting asteroids many lifetimes in advance so that, through energetic prods or nuclear explosions, we can send these monsters back into the shadows.

24 LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Small Business Administration) Plaintiff v.

JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE as those unknown persons who may be the holders of the lost mortgage note or have any interest in this proceeding,

Defendants CIVIL NO. 22-cv-1244 RAM. ACTION FOR CANCELLATION OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (Gregorio Narvaez Torres d/b/a D’Millenium Dry Cleaners).

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.

TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE

Unknown holders of a promissory note of $280,000.00 executed on November 11, 2005,

by Gregorio Narvaez Torres d/b/a D’Millenium Dry Cleaners, as acknowledged by affidavit number 24,259 sworn before Manuel L. Correa Marquez, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mortgage Deed No. 204 executed on November 11, 2005 before Notary Public Manuel L. Correa Marquez, over the following property, described in the Spanish language as: URBANA: Solar radicada en el Barrio Cerro Gordo del termino municipal de Bayamon, con una cabida superficial de 2,035.2925 metros cuadrados, siendo el remanente luego de una expropiaci6n de 137.8723 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 29.86 metros, con solar propiedad del senor Hector Santiago Vazquez y en 15.89 metros, con terrenos propiedad de la Sucesi6n de Juan Reyes Villanueva; por el SUR, en 75.00 metros y 30.66 metros, respectivamente, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, en 75.00 metros y 30.66 metros, respectivamente, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega y por el OESTE, en 25.00 metros, con la Carretera Estatal 167. Es el remanente luego de una expropiaci6n de 137 .8723 metros cuadrados, que se relaciona al margen del folio 250 del tomo hist6rico de Bayamon.

ESTRUCTURA: Estructura dividida en cuatro espacios, los cuales se describen a continuaci6n: El espacio No.1 con un area superficial de 36 pies½

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de largo por 17 pies 6 pulgadas de ancho, el espacio No. 2, con un area superficial de 23 pies 4 pulgadas de ancho por 36 pies y ½ de largo, el espacio No. 3, con un area superficial de 36 pies y ½ de largo por 23 pfes 4 pulgadas de ancho y el espacio No. 4 con un area superficial de 36 pies y 1/2 de largo por 23 pies 4 pulgadas de ancho, construida dicha estructura mitad en cementa y otra mitad en aluminio, dedicada para fines comerciales, la cual tiene una cabida total de 90 pies cuadrados de largo por 36 pies cuadrados de ancho. Dicha estructura consta de dos bafios, conectados a un pozo muro y “rolling doors”, con un valor de $50,000.00, segun consta de la escritura #79, otorgada en San Juan, el 7 de junio de 2006, ante el notario Manuel L. Correa Marquez. The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is duly recorded in the Registry Property of Bayamon, First Section, at page 90, volume 1825 of Bayamon, property number 44,415, sixth inscription. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on 09/07/2022 by the Honorable Raul M. Arias Marxuach,United States District Judge (Docket No. 4), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty’ (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime Lopez Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de Leon Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269. T. his Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 7th day of September, 2022. MARIA ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN, ESQ., CLERK - U.S. DISTRICT COURT. By: Ana Duran-Capella, Deputy Clerk.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO RAFAEL TORRES COLON, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS HILDA TORRES AVILES, PEDRO RAFAEL TORRES AVILES, ANTONIO MANUEL TORRES AVILES Y SARA TORRES AVILES; HILDA ROSA AVILES ORTIZ, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE PEDRO RAFAEL TORRES COLON; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)

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

EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO RAFAEL TORRES COLON, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS HILDA TORRES AVILES, PEDRO RAFAEL TORRES AVILES, ANTONIO MANUEL TORRES AVILES Y SARA TORRES AVILES; HILDA ROSA AVILES ORTIZ, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE PEDRO RAFAEL TORRES COLON; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”); BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, POR TENER AVISO DE DEMANDA ANOTADO A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $57,927.10.

Yo, ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 2 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina,

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sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerío, Comerío, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Comerío durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 9 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Solar marcado con el número Uno (1) del Bloque “B” del RESIDENCIAL NUEVO BARRANQUITAS, radicado en el Barrio Quebrada Grande y Quebradillas del término municipal de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de DOSCIENTOS NOVENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO CERO CERO (299.00) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: por el NORTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Mariano Villaronga y del Hotel Barranquitas; SUR, con la Calle número Tres (3); ESTE, con el solar número Doce (12); y por el OESTE, con el solar número Diez (10). Enclava una casa dedicada a vivienda en cemento. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 1ro del tomo 243 de Barranquitas, finca número 8,307, inscripción novena. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Residencial Nuevo Barranquitas, Solar 1, Bloque B, Carretera 152 Int., Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $57,927.10 de principal, intereses al 9.45% anual, desde el día 1ro de julio de 2018, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $7,100.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están liquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será

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Tuesday, Novemer 8, 2022 de $71,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $47,333.33 y de necesitarse una tercera subasta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $35,500.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Aviso de Demanda, del día 31 de julio de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Comerío, en el Caso Civil Número CR2019CV00240, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico contra Hilda Rosa Avilés Ortiz, por la suma de $57,927.10, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 4 de septiembre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Barranquitas, finca 8,307, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, Anotación A. Pendiente de cancelación al Asiento 2022-115994-BA01. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas.

Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abo-

no total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Comerío, Puerto Rico, a 15 de septiembre de 2022. ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO.

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

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF UPLAND MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST A Demandante Vs.

MARIO RODRIGUEZ COLOME, HILDA AURORA RODRIGUEZ TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO HILDA AURORA MENDOZA SANCHEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, DAMARIS CLAUDIO MARCANO

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03213.

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 11 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:00 DE LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman-

dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: Propiedad A: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Cedros del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número 8 en el plano de segregación aprobado en el caso 88-20-C-10 OPL, con una cabida de 1394.010 metros cuadrados, o sea, equivalentes a 0.356 cuerdas. Colindando por el NORTE, en una distancia de 45.80 metros con lote número 9 del plano; por el SUR, en una distancia de 45.70 metros, con lote número 7 del mismo plano y viraje público en radio; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 30.00 metros con camino público; y por el OESTE, en 34.00 metros con Anacleto Sosa.

Consta inscrita al folio 84 del tomo 1125 de Carolina, finca número 48868, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Carolina. Propiedad B: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el barrio Cedros del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número 9 en el plano de segregación aprobado en el caso número 88-20-C-101-OPL, con una cabida superficial de 1604.429 metros cuadrados, o su equivalencia a 0.408 cuerdas, colindando por el NORTE, en una distancia de 44.50 metros con el lote número 10 del mismo plano; por el SUR, en una distancia de 45.80 metros con el lote número 8 del mismo plano; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 40.26 metros con camino público y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 35.50 metros con Anacleto Sosa.

Consta inscrita al folio 1125 del tomo 91 de Carolina, finca número 48869, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Carolina. Propiedad localizada en: Lote 9, Km. 13.4 Carr. 853, Barrio Cedros, Carolina, PR 00979. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o preferentes: Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Propiedad A: HIPOTECA constituida por Mario Rodríguez Colome y su esposa Hilda Mendoza Sánchez en garantía de pagaré a favor de Citibank, N.A. por la suma de $50,000.00, respondiendo esta finca por $24,500.00, con intereses a razón de 2.250% sobre la tasa de interés preferencial, sin exceder el 20% anual, y vencimiento a la presentación.

Constituida por la Escritura 79 otorgada en San Juan el 19 de abril de 2007 ante el notario Leslye Llenera Reyes, e inscrita al folio 33 del tomo 1379 de Carolina Sur, finca 48868, inscripción 9ª. Propiedad B: HIPOTECA constituida por Mario Rodríguez Colome y su esposa Hilda Mendoza Sánchez en garantía de pagaré a favor de Citibank, N.A., o a su orden, por la suma de $50,000.00 respondiendo esta finca por $25,500.00 con intereses a razón de 2.250% sobre la tasa de interés preferencial, sin exceder el 20% anual, y vencimiento a la presentación. Constituida mediante la escritura 79 otorgada en San Juan el 19 de abril de 2007 ante el notario Leslye Llerena Reyes, e inscrita al folio 32 del tomo 1379 de Carolina Sur, finca 48869, inscripción 13ª. 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 $216,800.00, 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 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:00 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $144,533.33, 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 $108,400.00, 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 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:00 DE LA TARDE. 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 $178,345.12 de principal, intereses al tipo del 5.12500% anual según ajustado desde el día 1ro. de diciembre de 2015 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $21,680.00 por con-

The San Juan Daily Star cepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2022. Héctor L. Peña Rodríguez, Alguacil De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Carolina, Sala Superior.

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LUNA COMMERCIAL II, LLC Plaintiff Vs.

JAIME RODRIGUEZ TORRES, NELIDA OTERO TORRES A/K/A NELIDA OTERO AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN

Defendants Civil No.: 17-1005. (GAG). Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, SS.

To: JAIME RODRIGUEZ TORRES, NELIDA OTERO TORRES a/k/a NELIDA OTERO AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN; WESTERNBANK PUERTO RICO; UNITED ESTATES

OF AMERICA; JOHN DOE; AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $149,053.30 in principal, accrued interest in the amount of $117,016.60 as of July 16, 2019 which continue to accrue until full payment at the rate of $37.22 per diem until full payment of the debt, property tax charge in the amount of $105.58, and any additional disbursements made by plaintiff on behalf of defendants in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs and attorney’s fee; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federico Degetau Federal Building, Chardón Street, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Clerk, to be applied to the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following properties: PROPERTY A: URBANA: Solar número veintiséis (26) de la manzana doscientos trece (213) de la Urbanización Villa Carolina, Quinta Sección del Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, de trescientos noventa y seis (396) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Principal Campo Rico, distancia de veinticuatro (24) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número veinticinco (25), distancia de veinticuatro (24) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número uno (1), distancia dieciséis punto cincuenta (16.50) metros, y; por el OESTE, con la calle quinientos tres (503), distancia dieciséis punto cincuenta (16.50) metros. Enclava una casa de concreto para una familia. Inscrito al folio 36 del tomo 831 de Carolina, finca número 33406, Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda (II) de Carolina.

Physical address: Lot 213-26, 503 St. & Campo Rico Ave., Carolina, Puerto Rico 00985.

Property “A” is subject to the following Senior liens: MORTGAGE: To secure a mortgage note in favor of the BEARER in the original principal amount of $15,000.00, with interest at the rate of 7 1/2% per annum, due on demand, constituted by deed #127, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 28, 1986, before Notary Public William A. Power, recorded at overleaf of page 41 overleaf of volume 831 of Carolina, property number 33,406 of Carolina, 6th inscription. Property “A” is subject to the following Junior liens: MORTGAGE: To secure a mortgage note in favor of

Tuesday November 8, 2022 WesternBank Puerto Rico, or to its order, for the principal amount of $20,000.00, interest at the rate of 11.99% per annum, due on demand, constituted in virtue of deed 406, executed in Carolina, Puerto Rico, on June 25, 2007, before Notary Public Juan Manuel Casanova Rivera, recorded at page 93 of volume 1344 of Carolina, property number 33,406, 10th and last inscription. PROPERTY B: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Carolina, Quinta Sección, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe con el número Doscientos Trece (213) de la Manzana dos (2), con un área de Trescientos Veinticuatro puntos Cero Cero (324.00) metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el Solar número uno (1) en una distancia de veinticuatro puntos cero cero (24.00); por el SUR, con el Solar número tres (3), en una distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros; por el ESTE, con la calle número quinientos ocho (508), en una distancia de trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros; y, por el OESTE, con el Solar número veinticinco (25), en una distancia de trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros. Contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrito al folio 36 del tomo 830 de Carolina, finca número 33,364, Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda (II) de Carolina. Physical address: Lot 213-2, 508 St., Villa Carolina Development, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00985.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood 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. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 2TH ,2022, AT THE 10:15 A.M. for “Property A” and 10:30 A.M. for “Property B”. The minimum bid that will be accepted for “Property A” is the sum of $95,000.00.

The minimum bid that will be accepted for “Property B” is the sum of $100,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property(ies) is/are not

adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the DECEMBER 9TH, 2022 AT 10:15 A.M. for “Property A” and 10:30 A.M. for “Property B”. The minimum bid that will be accepted for “Property A” is the sum of $63,333.33. The minimum bid that will be accepted for “Property B” the sum of $66,666.67, which amounts to 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property(ies), a THIRD AUCTION will be held on the DECEMBER 16TH, 2022 AT 10:15 A.M. for “Property A” and 10:30 A.M. for “Property B”. The minimum bid that will be accepted for “Property A” is the sum of $47,500.00. The minimum bid that will be accepted for “Property B” the sum of $50,000.00, which amounts to ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which, along with all documents related to the instance case, can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico during regular business hours. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 21, 2022.

AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, SPECIAL MASTER.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante v.

ARIEL ROMAN DAVILA, SU ESPOSA WILDALY MICHELLE GONZÁLEZ FORTES, T/C/C WILDALY GONZÁLEZ FORTES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: DCD2015-3147.

SALA: 501. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL; y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos

sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan 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: Estado Libre Asociado De Puerto Rico “Programa Home”, A cuyo favor aparece una hipoteca por la suma de $20,000.00 de principal, sin intereses y vencedero en 10 años, según consta de la escritura número #345, otorgada en San Juan, el día 14 de mayo de 2008, ante el notario Pedro R. Cintrón Rivera, e inscrita al folio 108 del tomo 187 de Cataño, finca número #3,527, inscripción 6ta.

Postergación: Postergada esta hipoteca de la inscripción 6ta., en beneficio de la Modificación de Hipoteca por la inscripción 9na, para que tenga rango preferente, según consta de la escritura #434, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de noviembre de 2014, ante la notario MARÍA I. GARCÍA MANTILLA, inscrita al margen de la inscripción 6ta. al tomo Karibe de Cataño, finca #3527 Autoridad Para El Financiamiento De La Vivienda De Puerto Rico: A cuyo favor aparece una hipoteca por la suma de $11,000.00 de principal, sin intereses y vencedero el día 14 de mayo de 2016, según consta de la escritura número #346, otorgada en San Juan, el día 14 de mayo de 2008, ante el notario Pedro R. Cintrón Rivera, e inscrita al folio 108 del tomo 187 de Cataño, finca número #3,527, inscripción 7ma.Postergación: Postergada la hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma., en beneficio de la hipoteca modificada por la inscripción 9na, para que esta última tenga rango preferente, según consta de la escritura #435, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de noviembre de 2014, ante la notario MARÍA I. GARCÍA MANTILLA, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Cataño, finca #3527, al margen de la inscripción 7ma. Autoridad Para El Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico: A cuyo favor aparece unas Condiciones Restrictivas bajo el Programa “Protegiendo Tu Hogar”, por haber concedido la suma de $6,047.04 para subvencionar el pago mensual de hipoteca: En-

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tre las cuales no podrá vender, donar, permutar o de cualquier otro modo transferir la propiedad sin el previo consentimiento de la Autoridad, por un término de 5 años, según consta de la escritura #121, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de julio de 2012, ante la notario FRANCÉS SANABRIA MONTAÑEZ, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Cataño, finca #3,527, inscripción 8va. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 14 de octubre de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar de Manglar desecado ubicado en la zona urbana de Cataño, con una cabida superficial de 96.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 9.40 metros, con Compañía Popular de Transporte; por el SUR, en 9.40 metros, con Calle Amparo; por el ESTE, en 10.20 metros, con José Figueroa y por el OESTE, en 10.20 metros, con Marcelino Fonseca. Enclava una edificación diseñada para una familia, construida de madera y techada de zinc. Inscrito al folio 152 del tomo 76 de Cataño, finca número #3,527 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de Bayamón. La propiedad objeto de ejecución ubica en: Amparo, BM2, Cataño Pueblo, Cataño, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 18 de abril de 2017 y notificada el 27 de abril de 2017, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $50,390.04 adeudada al 1ro de julio de 2015, la cual se desglosa en $45,271.40 por concepto de principal; $152.89 por concepto de intereses acumulados; los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, $329.55 por concepto de ‘’Escrow Advances’’ y la suma de $4,636.20 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 18 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el en el cuarto piso del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

El precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la cantidad de $46,362.00. Que

de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $30,908.00, 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 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe.

El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $23,181.00, 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. Los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con dere-

cho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado pueden concurrir a la subasta si les convienen 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. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de octubre de 2022. Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE JOAQUÍN QUIÑONES FERNÁNDEZ, T/C/C JOAQUÍN QUIÑONES COMPUESTA POR MARÍA LASANTA IGNACIO NARTISA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV04802.

Salón: 506. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE JOAQUÍN QUIÑONES FERNÁNDEZ, T/C/C JOAQUÍN QUIÑONES COMPUESTA POR MARÍA LASANTA IGNACIO NARTISA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

26 POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 6 de julio de 2022.

Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 5 de octubre de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar en el Barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras, termino municipal de San Juan, marcado con el numero cincuenta y siete guion R (57-R) de la Urbanización Venus Gardens, con una cabida de trescientos treinta y ocho punto cero cero (338.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en veintiséis punto cero cero (26.00) metros, con el solar número cincuenta y ocho (58) del propio bloque; por el Sur, en veintiséis punto cero cero (26.00) metros, con el solar cincuenta y seis (56) del

mismo bloque; por el Este, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la Avenida A; y por el Oeste, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la calle catorce (14). Enclava una casa. Finca número 17,063, inscrita al folio 120 del tomo 395 de Sabana Llana. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. Dirección de la Propiedad: Calle Cupido 729 Urb. Venus Gardens, San Juan PR 00926. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $$232,668.04 por concepto de principal, la cual incluye los intereses acumulados al 28 de febrero de 2019, y los cuales continúan acumulándose, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 561 otorgada el día 11 de mayo de 2009, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Raul Rivera Burgos y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 17,063, Registro de la Propiedad de Sabana Llana, Sección V de San Juan. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito,

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de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $375,000.00, con intereses al 4.25% anual, vencedero el día 21 de agosto de 2090, constituida mediante la escritura número 562, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de mayo de 2009, ante el notario Raúl Rivera Burgos, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 17,063, inscripción 15ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $250,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $166,666.66; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $125,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re-

clamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio 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. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 24 de octubre de 2022. Edwin E. López Mulero, Alguacil Auxiliar, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De San Juan.

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FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs.

MARIA DEL CARMEN CABALLERO PARIS Y LUIS FELIPE SIERRA LOPEZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: KCD2017-0334.

(504). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia

y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 31 de agosto de 2017 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 7 de junio de 2022, librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número 1104, ubicado en el piso once del Condominio Golden View Plaza, localizado en el Sub-Barrio Sabana Llana del barrio Río Piedras del Municipio de San Juan, con una cabida superficial de 598.66 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 55.617 metros cuadrados. Contiene dos habitaciones, sala-comedor, cocina y baño. Colinda por el NORTE, en 26’4” con el apartamento 1105; por el SUR, en 26’4” con espacio exterior y con área de escalera; por el ESTE, en 22’3” con espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en 22’3” con pasillo de acceso. Este apartamento tiene asignado el estacionamiento número 110. En los elementos comunes tiene un 0.00477% de participación. FINCA NÚMERO: 34,375, inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 1062 de Sabana Llana, sección V de San Juan.

DIRECCIÓN FISICA: COND. COND. GOLDEN VIEW PLAZA, APT. 1104, SAN JUAN, PR 00924. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, PR. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $48,151.42 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 6.375% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lan-

zamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Por la presente se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto.

La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 25 de octubre de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE MYRNA ELISA AROCHO MARTÍNEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS SONIA MARGARITA AROCHO MARTÍNEZ, MILAGROS IVETTE AROCHO MARTÍNEZ Y VÍCTOR

FELIPE AROCHO MARTÍNEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03606.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 10 de diciembre de 2021 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 8 de febrero de 2022, librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dos del bloque EE en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Reparto Apolo, situado en el barrio Caimito del término municipal de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de cuatrocientos cuarenta y tres metros dieciséis centímetros cuadrados, colinda por el NORTE, en veintinueve metros con el solar marcado con el número tres; por el SUR, en treinta metros treinta y tres centímetros con el solar marcado con el número uno; por el ESTE, en quince metros con la calle número nueve; y por el OESTE, en catorce metros noventa y cuatro centímetros con el paseo público del bloque EE de dicha urbanización. En este solar se ha construido una casa de concreto diseñada para fines residenciales. FINCA NÚMERO: 2,353, inscrita al folio 15 del tomo 62 de Río Piedras Sur, sección IV de San Juan.

Nota Aclaratoria: La descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. En la Escritura número 177, otorgada el 29 de marzo de 2006, consta lo siguiente; URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dos mil ciento seis (#2106) del bloque EE en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Reparto Apolo, situado en el barrio Caimito del término municipal de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Dirección Física: B O .

CAIMITO URB. REPARTO APOLO, SOLAR #2106, BLOQUE EE, CALLE ONFALA, RIO PIEDRAS, PR 00969. Se anuncia por medio de este

edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 22 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $150,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $100,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $75,000.00. Si se declare 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 mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Tribunal dictó Sentencia declarando con lugar la demanda y, por consiguiente, ordenó a la parte demandada SUCESIÓN DE MYRNA ELISA AROCHO MARTÍNEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS SONIA MARGARITA AROCHO MARTÍNEZ, MILAGROS IVETTE AROCHO MARTÍNEZ Y VÍCTOR FELIPE AROCHO MARTÍNEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN, a pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $110,251.90 más intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose anualmente al tipo convenido de 5.25% hasta el saldo total de la obligación, cargos por demora; costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados según pactados; más cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca.

Dichas sumas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nue-

The San Juan Daily Star vos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen.

El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario.

Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2022.

Erik F. Osuna Acevedo, Alguacil Auxiliar. Pedro Hieye González, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De San Juan.

OCASIO GONZALEZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED BETWEEN THEM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Case No.: 3:19-cv-02037.

(ADC). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE (IN REM). NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: JOSE ORLANDO RIVERA GARCIA, BRENDA EUNICE OCASIO GONZALEZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED BETWEEN THEM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AA-42, CALLE MARGARITA SUR, URB. LEVITTOWN, TOA BAJA, PR 00949.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: On June 28, 2022, this Court entered Default Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, against Defendants. On September 9, 2022, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that Defendant has failed to pay the sums of monies adjudged to be paid under the judgment. The In the Judgment, this Court stated that Defendant has defaulted on the repayment obligation to LIME HOMES, LTD, and ordered to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of $132,274,83, plus interest 4.55200% per annum from January 1st, 2018, accrued late charges, all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $15,030.40, to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed by 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 marcado con el número 42 del bloque AA en la Urbanización Levittown, barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de 310.50 metros cuadrados. En lindes: NORTE, en LEGAL NOTICE 23.00 metros con el solar 43; UNITED STATES FOR DIS- SUR, en 23.00 metros con el TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- solar 41; ESTE, en 13.50 meTRICT OF PUERTO RICO tros con la Calle Margarita Sur LIME HOMES, LTD. (según plano Calle 409); OESPlaintiff Vs. TE, en 13.50 metros con los solares 27 y 28. Sobre este solar JOSE ORLANDO enclava una casa de cemento y RIVERA GARCIA, bloques para una familia. Pro-

BRENDA EUNICE

Tuesday November 8, 2022 perty Number 6686, recorded at page 151 of volume 101 of Toa Baja, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Bayamón. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following lien: EMBARGO FEDERAL en contra de José Rivera García e Ivette Collazo, con número de seguro social xx-4919 por la suma de $9,463.94. Número de notificación 234256216. Anotado el 3 de noviembre de 2016 al asiento 2016-009801-FED del Tomo de Embargos Federales de Karibe. EMBARGO FEDERAL en contra de José Rivera García, con número de seguro social xx-4919 por la suma de $33,871.43. Número de notificación 234256416. Anotado el 9 de noviembre de 2016 al asiento 2016-009802-FED del Tomo de Embargos Federales de Karibe. Senior Lien: None.

The above-described property is subject to the following junior lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage LLC, o a su orden, por la suma de $150,304.00 con intereses al 5.50% anual y vencimiento 1 de agosto de 2040. Constituida por la Escritura 281 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de julio de 2010 ante el notario Heriberto Soto Mainardi, e inscrita al folio 204 del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, finca 6686, inscripción 13ª. 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 $150,304.00 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 $100,202.67. 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 $75,152.00 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asocia-

do 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 the 9 OF DECEMBER OF 2022 AT 9:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property 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 the 16 OF DECEMBER OF 2022 AT 9:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court located at the address indicated above. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 23 OF DECEMBER OF 2022 AT 9:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court located at the address indicated above. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 26 day of September 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.

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

ESTRELLA COMMERCIAL, LLC Demandante V.

TOMÁS ULISES POVENTUD LÓPEZ, SU ESPOSA CARMEN MCDOUGAL MERCADO, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: KCD2014-2855.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

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

El Alguacil que suscribe por la

presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 20 de marzo de 2015, notificada y archivada en autos el 25 de marzo de 2015; y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 15 de agosto de 2022, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, procederá a vender en 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, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 1 DE DICIEMBRE DEL AÑO 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: LOCAL COMERCIAL 1-A o C-1-A: Local comercial localizado en la planta baja del Condominio The Crystal House, localizado en la Avenida De Diego final, barrio de Sabana Llana, Río Piedras, Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, consistente de la parte correspondiente a la esquina Oeste de lo que anteriormente fuera el Local Comercial 1. Comprende un área de 982.3371 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 91.2643 metros cuadrados. En linderos: Norte, con un frente de 23.03’, terminando en medianera este de pared estructural intercalada, en colindancia con área pública, paseo y acceso vehicular; Sur, partiendo de la medianera estructural intercalada, en 23.07’ hacia pared interior esquina oeste; Este, en 51.73’ con la parcela remanente a denominarse Local Comercial 1-B o C-1-B y Oeste, con la pared estructural, paredes de área pública, escalera #3 y acceso vehicular, en una distancia total de 51.73’ en recta. Este local contiene un cuarto de baño equipado con lavamanos e inodoro. La parte del local está localizada en su parte Norte, dando al paseo común frontal del edificio con puerta hacia la salida. PORCENTAJE: elementos Comunes: 0.5926%.

FINCA #33290, inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 985 de Sabana Llana (Sección V de San Juan).

Dirección física: C-1-A 368 De Diego Ave. Crystal House San Juan PR 00923. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $100,000.00,

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con intereses sobre la tasa de interés preferencial, en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Portador, o a su orden, que vence a la presentación. Según escritura #189, otorgada en Río Grande, el 13 de mayo de 1998, ante William M. Vidal Carvajal, inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 985 de Sabana Llana (ágora), inscripción 2da. La hipoteca anterior ha sido extendida por un término adicional de 15 años.

Según escritura #364-A, otorgada en Río Grande, el 29 de julio de 1999, ante William M. Vidal Carvajal, inscrita en nota marginal, al folio 55 del tomo 985 de Sabana Llana (ágora), a la inscripción 2da. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. Que según surge del estudio de título, la propiedad se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: HIPOTECA: Por $48,000.00, con intereses sobre el balance insoluto del mismo, igual al tipo resultante, al restar el 1/2% anual a la tasa preferencial (“prime rate”), en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Portador, o a su orden, que vence a la presentación. Según escritura #365, otorgada en Río Grande, el 29 de julio de 1999, ante William M. Vidal Carvajal, inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 985 de Sabana Llana (ágora), inscripción 3ra y última. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $87,742.27 por concepto de principal, más intereses acumulados al día 3 de noviembre de 2021, ascendentes a $32,914.93 y aquellos intereses que se continúen acumulando desde el día tres de noviembre de 2021, a razón de $11.58 diarios. La demandada adeuda además a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y desembolsos de litigio, al igual que una suma equivalente al diez (10%) de los pagarés correspondiente a los gastos de honorarios de abogado según pactados. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de San Juan, durante las horas laborables.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su

extinción el precio del remate.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de CIEN MIL DÓLARES ($100,000.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DEL AÑO 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de SESENTA Y SEIS MIL SEISCIENTOS SESENTA Y SEIS DÓLARES CON SESENTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($66,666.66) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 15 DE DICIEMBRE DEL AÑO 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CINCUENTA MIL DÓLARES ($50,000.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 25 de octubre de 2022, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

VÍCTOR MANUEL ORTIZ BERGANZO

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02722.

Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamien-

to de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 14 de octubre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar sito en el Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, marcado con el número diez guión B (10-B) de la manzana KI de la Urbanización Caparra Terrace, con un área de doscientos treinta y siete punto cincuenta metros cuadrados (237.50). En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número (9) de la manzana KI; por el SUR, con la propiedad diez guión A (10A) de la manzana K-I; por el ESTE, con la calle ciento cuatro (104) Sur; y por el OESTE, con el solar trece de la manzana KI. Enclava en este solar una casa de concreto armado con techo de azotea y piso de losas del país, de una sola planta, que consiste de una vivienda de tres dormitorios con un closet, sala y comedor de una sola unidad, cocina con un closet, balcón y cuarto de baño. Dicha propiedad tiene únicamente en común con la número diez A de la Manzana KI la pared medianera que divide su edificio de la edificación en la dicha parcela diez A de dicho bloque.

Este es el remanente de esta finca luego de descontada la segregación del Solar 10A de la manzana KI de 237.50 metros cuadrados, según escritura número 509, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 20 de octubre de 2054, ante el notario Julián O. McConnie, inscrita al folio 221 vuelto del tomo 227 de Monacillos, finca número 8,384, inscripción 2da. Inscrita en la finca número 8,384, al folio 221 del tomo 227 de Monacillos. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de San Juan. La propiedad ubica según pagaré: 15 St. S E-814 Caparra Terrace, San Juan Puerto Rico. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan 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: Firstbank Puerto

28 Rico: A cuyo favor aparece una hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré por la suma principal de $24,800.00, con intereses al 7 5/8% anual, vencedero el día 1ro de julio de 2019, constituida mediante la escritura número 77, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de junio de 2004, ante la notario María del C. Mulero Fernández, e inscrita al folio 151 del tomo 991 de Monacillos, finca número 8,384, inscripción 12da. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada a su favor el día 8 de agosto de 2022, a saber la suma de $85,675.37 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 7.5% desde el 1ro de marzo de 2020; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $9,438.88 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 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $94,388.87. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $62,925.91, 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 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $47,194.43, 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 correspondientes 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de octubre de 2022. ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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

WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA Peticionario

EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01828.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN / CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA-

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Tuesday November 8, 2022

DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. NOTIFICACIÓN / CITACIÓN al colindante del área Norte: Familia Flor Alvarado, por no conocer su paradero, ni última dirección conocida a pesar de los esfuerzos realizados, a los que tengan cualquier derecho real sobre el inmueble, así como a las personas ignoradas o desconocidas y ausentes a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción de dominio solicitada del inmueble que se describe más adelante tendrán el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a partir de la última publicación de este edicto para exponer la que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el kilómetro uno punto cuatro (1.4 KM) de la Carretera Estatal quinientos doce (512) del Barrio Cayabo, del término municipal de Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico.

Compuesto de DOSCIENTOS NOVENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO OCHO MIL CUATROCIENTOS SETENTA Y DOS METROS CUADRADOS (299.8472 MC).

Colinda por el NORTE, en diecinueve punto treinta y ocho metros lineales (19.38 ml) con terrenos de Flor Alvarado; por el SUR, en dos alineaciones que suman veinte punto setenta y ocho metros lineales (20.78 ml) con la Sucesión Serallés; Por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones que suman trece punto cincuenta y dos metros lineales (13.52 ml) con terrenos de la Sucesión Serallés; y por el ESTE, en una alineación de quince punto cuarenta y ocho metros lineales (15.48 ml) con la Carretera Estatal quinientos doce (512). Usted deberá presentar su oposición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: htts://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su oposición en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, de no hacer oposición dentro del término antes expresado, éste podrá obtener que se apruebe el expediente de dominio y se ordene inscribir el dominio de la finca antes descrita.

LCDA. FABIOLA DE JESÚS VEGA RUA 22, 396 Urb. Perla del Sur 2449 Calle Marginal Ponce, P.R. 00717 Teléfono: (787) 359-9417 dejesusvegaiaw@gmail.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BAUTISTA REO PR CORP. Plaintiff, v.

SYLAR CORPORATION, AMERICAN TOOLS, INC., ARMANDO CEPEDA CHEMBI, HIS WIFE SYLVIA CEPEDA BENAVIDES, AND THE LEGAL CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CEPEDACEPEDA

Defendants Civil No. 16-3109 (RAM). Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES; FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND OTHER COLLATERAL. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: SYLAR CORPORATION; AMERICAN TOOLS, INC.; ARMANDO CEPEDA CHEMBI, HIS WIFE SYLVIA CEPEDA BENAVIDES, THE LEGAL CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CEPEDACEPEDA; AND GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: On August 14, 2017, Partial Final Default Judgment (the “Partial Judgment”) was entered in favor of plaintiff Bautista Cayman Asset Company now Bautista REO PR Corp. (“Bautista”) against defendants Sylar Corporation, Armando Cepeda Chembi, his wife Sylvia Cepeda Benavides and the legal conjugal partnership Cepeda-Cepeda (jointly, the “Co-Defendants”). Under the Partial Judgment, this Court concluded that the Co-Defendants had defaulted on their loan obligations, had failed to pay the amounts due therein, further concluding that, as of May 1, 2017, Defendant owed the sum of $2,053,978.38, which would continue to accrue interest until payment is made in full. On September 7, 2022, this Court entered an Order for Execution of Judgment (the “Order of Execution”), designating Mr. Joel Ronda Feliciano as Special Master (the “Special Master”) for the execution of the Partial Judgment pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 53(a)(1)(C). On September 9, 2022, this Court entered, in accordance with the Order of Execution, a Writ of Execution (the “Writ of Execution”). The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Partial Judgment, Order of Execution, and

the Writ of Execution, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash, or certified or bank manager check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property, described in the Spanish language (the “Property”) : RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno número veinticuatro guión B-24, (24-B), localizada en la Urbanización Industrial Minillas Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de una cuerda y nueve mil doscientos treinta y cuatro cien milésimas de otra (1.9234 cds), equivalentes a siete mil quinientos cincuenta y nueve punto ochenta y siete doce metros cuadrados (7,559.8712). Ésta en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar número veinticuatro guión A (24A), en distancia de ciento siete punto trece metros (107.13); por el SUR, con solar número veintitrés A (23-A), en distancia de treinta y nueve punto setecientos noventa y siete (34.797) y cincuenta y ocho punto ciento sesenta y tres metros (58.163); por el ESTE, en distancia de noventa y nueve punto trescientos (99.300) metros en arco, con Calle C; y por el OESTE, con los solares treinta y tres (33) y número veintitrés B (23B), en distancia de cuarenta punto treinta y tres (40.33), sesenta (60.00) y veintitrés punto seiscientos noventa y cuatro (23.694) metros. Enclava edificación identificada como Proyecto T-100-8-0-70, según la escritura número 2, otorgada en San Juan Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 1992, ante el notario Luis A. Morales Rosado, e inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 186 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 67,532, inscripción 1ra.

Property number 67,532, recorded at page 146 of volume 1,537 of Bayamón Sur, Puerto Rico Property Registry, First Section of Bayamón. WHEREAS: The Property is encumbered by its origin by the following senior liens: i) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewer Authority (ii) Easement in favor of the PR Railway Light & Power Company (iii) (iii) Easement of way of sewerage in favor of the People of Puerto Rico to the benefit of the Hospital of the District of Bayamón. By itself: (i) Mortgage securing a mortgage note in favor of Doral Mortgage, LLC, or to its order, in the principal amount of ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY

THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,730,000.00), bearing an annual interest rate of 8.50%, due on December 30, 2016, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 753 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on December 30, 2009 before Notary Public Gadiel O. Rosario Rivera, and recorded at page 81 of the reverse volume 1,586 of Bayamón sur, Property No. 67,532, 3rd recordation, as abbreviated seat, the lines extended on November 8, 2011 by virtue of Act 216 of December 27, 2010. (ii) Notice of complaint presented on December 8, 2016, issued in the United States District Court for the District Court of Puerto Rico, Civil Case Num. 16-3109, for Collection of Monies, Foreclosure of Mortgage, and Other Collateral followed by Bautista Cayman Asset Company against Sylar Corporation, American Tools, Inc., Armando Cepeda Chembi, his wife Sylvia Cepeda Benavides and the United States of America, in the principal amount of $1,975,964.14 plus additional amounts, annotated on June 13, 2017 at the Karibe Volume of Bayamón Sur, Property 67,532, Annotation “A”.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including 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 them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on December 1, 2022, at 9:30 a.m.

The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $1,730,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the on December8, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $1,153,333.34, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the on December 15, 2022, at 9:30 a.m., the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $865,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the Property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified or bank manager checks, except in case

the Property is sold and adjudicated to Bautista, in which case the amount of the bid made by Bautista shall be credited and deducted from its credit; Bautista being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. If the third auction is deserted, Bautista may proceed to coordinate the execution of a deed of conveyance with the Special Master within twenty (20) days of the public sale, to take title of the Property in full satisfaction of the Partial Judgment. WHEREAS: said sale to be conducted by the Special Master pursuant to the Order of Execution. Compliance with all foreclosure proceedings are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico pursuant to article 107 of the Registry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (30 L.P.R.A. § 6144), and the corresponding deed of conveyance and possession to the Property will be executed and delivered by the Special Master after delivery of such Order of Confirmation. Once the Property is adjudicated in payment of the credit guaranteeing the mortgage, and the price does not exceed the value thereof, all junior liens must be canceled provided that said junior creditors be notified of the public sale of said property. For further information, reference is made to the Partial Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 24, 2022. By: Joel Ronda, Special Master. Ronda Legal Services, LLC rondajoel@me.com 787-565-0515. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

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

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

GERARDO A BENCOSME FERNANDEZ, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA

Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01161.

Salón: 407. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: GERARDO A. BENCOSME FIGUEROA, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA URB. MANSIONES DE CAROLINA FF18 CALLE MARQUESA CAROLINA P.R 00987-8111.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección Kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, Andrea.ruiz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de julio de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 28 de julio de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE HECTOR LUIS MUÑIZ PÉREZ COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA LUZ CELENIA HERNÁNDEZ VALLE, POR SI; SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA LILLIAM YAHAIRA MUÑIZ HERNÁNDEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE

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TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; SUCESIÓN DE HECTOR LUIS MUÑIZ HERNÁNDEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL POR POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; LEVITT MORTGAGE CORP.

Demandados Civil Núm.: AG2022CV01121.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR PAGARÉ ETRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

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.

Este caso es relacionado a un Pagaré extraviado por la cantidad principal de $54,192.00 e intereses al 7.50% anual, suscrito mediante la Escritura #127 de 30 de diciembre de 1995 ante el Notario Carlos F. Padín Pérez, el cual grava la finca #19014 inscrita al folio 183 del tomo 337 de Aguadilla, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. 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 RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 1 de noviembre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

Tuesday November 8, 2022 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. 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.

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 RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 31 de octubre de 2022. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. MAGALY BONILLA MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

A: LEVITT MORTGAGE CORP.; FULANO DE LEGAL NOTICE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL Estado Libre Asociado de PuerCOMO HEREDEROS to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL LEGAL NOTICE DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriDESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO mera Instancia Sala Superior DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- de SAN JUAN. DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ORLANDO HECTOR LUIS MUÑIZ NAL SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAMALDONADO RIVERA PÉREZ Y LA SUCESIÓN GÜEZ Demandante v.

DE SUCESIÓN DE BANCO POPULAR FEDERAL DEPOSIT IN HECTOR LUIS MUÑIZ DE PUERTO RICO URANCE CORPORATION HERNÁNDEZ Y/O Demandante Vs. COMO SUCESOR DE COMO POSIBLES MAGDA ELAINE DORAL MORTGAGE TENEDORES DEL TORO LABOY CORPORATION; BANCO PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. Demandados POPULAR DE PUERTO Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV01143.

CALLE RAFAEL RICO; JOHN DOE Y HERNÁNDEZ #391 SAN Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO RICHARD ROE Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA ANTONIO, AGUADILLA, Y EJECUCIÓN DE PRENDA. Demandado(a) PR 00603. DIRECCIÓN EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- Civil: SJ2022CV06982 (503).

POSTAL: CALLE RAFAEL TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE HERNÁNDEZ #2170 AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXPOBLADO SAN ANTONIO DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO TRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN SAN ANTONIO, PR 00690 LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE Y Y PO BOX 600 POBLADO SS. A: MAGDA ELAINE RICHARD ROE SAN ANTONIO SAN TORO LABOY. URB. LAS (Nombre de las partes a las que se ANTONIO, PR 00690. le notifican la sentencia por edicto) QUINTAS DEL REY I-5, EL POR LA PRESENTE se le emSECRETARIO(A) que susplaza para que presente al tri- SAN GERMÁN, PR 00683. cribe le notifica a usted que el 1 bunal su alegación responsiva DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: de NOVIEMBRE de 2022, este dentro de los 30 días a partir de URB. LAS QUINTAS #219 Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, la publicación de este edicto.

CALLE ESPAÑA SAN Sentencia Parcial o Resolución Usted deberá presentar su aleGERMÁN, PR 00683 Y en este caso, que ha sido debigación responsiva a través del registrada y archivada PO BOX 1696 LAJAS, PR damente Sistema Unificado de Manejo y en autos donde podrá usted 00667.

Administración de Casos (SUenterarse detalladamente de MAC), 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. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

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

los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos

de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 2 de noviembre de 2022. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 2 de noviembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, Secretario(a). F/MARILY LOPEZ MARTINEZ, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST HB2 Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL GUILLERMO ALICEA OTERO T/C/C ÁNGEL ALICEA COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA CRISTINA ROSARIO NARVÁEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: MV2021CV00026.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL GUILLERMO ALICEA OTERO T/C/C ÁNGEL ALICEA COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA CRISTINA ROSARIO NARVÁEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS;

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

Yo, JORGE L. AYALA ACEVEDO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ciales, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ciales, Ciales, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 10 de febrero de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 22 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 17 de mayo de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: RÚSTICA: Parcela radicada en el Barrio Fránquez del término municipal de Morovis, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos punto cero cero (500.00)metros cuadrados y en lindes: por el NORTE, en veintiocho punto treinta metros con terrenos propiedad de Eleuterio Rosado; por el SUR y OESTE, en diecisiete punto cero cero metros y en veintitrés punto quince metros, respectivamente, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega propiedad de Patricio Rosado; y por el ESTE, en veintiuno punto cero cero metros con un camino vecinal.

Finca número 5,919 inscrita al

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folio 35 del tomo 327 de Morovis. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. Dirección de la Propiedad: 15 RD R 634 Km 1.3 Bo Franquez, Morovis PR 00687. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $107,524.29, con interés al 5.560% anual, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo el cual incluye intereses y otros gastos acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $13,800.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 71 otorgada el día 11 de mayo de 2010, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público David E. Vera Umpierre y consta inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 327 de Morovis, finca número 5,919, Registro de la Propiedad de Morovis, Sección de Manatí. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $138,000.00, con intereses al 5.560% anual, vencedero el día 8 de octubre

de 2089, constituida mediante la escritura número 72, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de mayo de 2010, ante el notario David E. Vera Umpierre, e inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 327 de Morovis, finca número 5,919, inscripción 5th. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $138,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $92,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $69,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor

según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio 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. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Ciales, Puerto Rico, a 11 de octubre de 2022. JORGE L. AYALA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CIALES.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING LLC Demandante V.

GRENDA C BONILLA

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: MZ2021CV00670.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: GRENDA C BONILLA.

(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 1 de noviembre de 2022, 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

30 notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 2 de noviembre de 2022. En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el 2 de noviembre de 2022. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

con fecha de 2 de noviembre de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 2 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy: 02 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

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

Demandante V.

LUIS RAFAEL DÍAZ PLAZA, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON NATALIA PADRÓN GONZÁLEZ Y ESTA POR SÍ

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

YEIMY C. VASQUEZ GUZMÁN

The San Juan Daily Star

Tuesday November 8, 2022

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03059.

Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO, COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL Demandados ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Civil Núm.: DCD2014-1759.

LEGAL NOTICE Sala: 701. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: YEIMY C. DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉVÁSQUEZ GUZMÁN. GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA FISICA Y POSTAL: LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESISLAND PORTFOLIO CALLE JAZMÍN J-6, TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE SERVICES, LLC URB. HACIENDA REAL, PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE Demandante V. CAROLINA, P.R. 00987. SUBASTA. El que suscribe, AlALEXIS De: FIRSTBANK guacil del Tribunal de Primera RAMIREZ TOLEDO Instancia, Sala Superior de BaPUERTO RICO. Demandado(a) Se le emplaza y requiere que yamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Civil: CA2022CV01807. Sala: conteste la demanda dentro de hago saber, a la parte deman406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE- los treinta (30) días siguientes dada y al PÚBLICO EN GERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICA- a la publicación de este edicto. NERAL: Que en cumplimiento CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR Usted deberá presentar su ale- del Mandamiento de Ejecución EDICTO. gación responsiva a través del de Sentencia expedido el día A: ALEXIS RAMIREZ Sistema Unificado de Manejo y 13 de septiembre de 2022, TOLEDO - URB VALLE Administración de Casos (SU- por la Secretaría del Tribunal, ARRIBA HTS, BP9 CALLE MAC), al cual puede acceder procederé a vender y venderé 109 CAROLINA PR 00983- utilizando la siguiente direc- en pública subasta y al mejor ción electrónica: https://unired. postor la propiedad que ubica 3317. y se describe a continuación: (Nombre de las partes a las que se ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) represente por derecho propio, URBANA: Parcela de terreno EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- en cuyo caso deberá presen- en la Urbanización Levittown, cribe le notifica a usted que el tar su alegación responsiva en Quinta Unidad de Planificación, 2 de noviembre de 2022, este la secretaría del tribunal. Este en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, caso trata sobre Cobro de Di- Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, y que Sentencia Parcial o Resolución nero y Ejecución de Garantías se describe en el plano de insen este caso, que ha sido debi- en que la parte demandante so- cripción de la Urbanización Ledamente registrada y archivada licita que se condene a la parte vittown con el número, área y en autos donde podrá usted en- demandada a pagar: la canti- colindancias que se relacionan terarse detalladamente de los dad de $74,529.11 de principal; a continuación número del solar términos de la misma. Esta no- más el interés legal acumulado; treinta y cinco (35) del bloque tificación se publicará una sola más $730.70 de cargos por “BL”. Área del solar: trescientos vez en un periódico de circula- mora los cuales se continúan ochenta y cuatro punto cero ción general en la Isla de Puer- acumulando hasta el total y ocho (384.08) metros cuadrato Rico, dentro de los 10 días completo pago de la deuda; dos. En lindes por el NORTE, siguientes a su notificación. Y, más $184.58 correspondientes en veintitrés punto novecientos siendo o representando usted a otros cargos; más una suma cuarenta y seis (23.946) meuna parte en el procedimiento equivalente al 30% del total tros, con el solar número treinta y cuatro (34): por el SUR, en sujeta a los términos de la Sen- adeudado para honorarios de diecinueve punto cincuenta tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re- abogados según pactado. Se (19.50) metros y un arco de solución, de la cual puede esta- le apercibe que, si dejare de dos punto setecientos cuarenta blecerse recurso de revisión o hacerlo, se dictará contra usted y nueve (2.749) metros, con la sentencia en rebeldía, conceapelación dentro del término de calle Doctor Emigdio Antique; 30 días contados a partir de la diéndose el remedio solicitado por el ESTE, en dieciocho punpublicación por edicto de esta en la demanda, sin más citarle to setecientos cuarenta y dos ni oírle. notificación, dirijo a usted esta (18.742) metros, con el solar Lcdo. Erick M. Bellber Sánchez notificación que se considerará Abogado Número 22144 número treinta y seis (36); y por hecha en la fecha de la publi221 Ponce de León Ave. el OESTE, en cuatro punto doscación de este edicto. Copia de Suite 900, San Juan, PR 00917 cientos veintitrés (4.223) meesta notificación ha sido archiTeléfono: (787) 296-9500 tros, arco de seis punto noveCorreo Electrónico: vada en los autos de este caso, cientos setenta (6.970) metros ebellber@lvprlaw.com

y arco de dos punto setecientos cuarenta y nueve (2.749) metros, con Calle Doctor Joaquín Bosch, según Plano con calle quinientos cuatro. Enclava una casa. Inscrito al folio 56 del tomo 149 de Toa Baja, finca número #9,016 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Bayamón. La propiedad ubica según pagaré: 35 BL Joaquín Bosh, Levittown, Toa Baja, PR. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan 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: Estados Unidos de América: A cuyo favor aparece un Embargo pendiente de anotación al asiento 931 del diario 711, se presentó el día 2 de octubre de 2013, Embargo en Estados Unidos de América, de fecha 20 de abril de 2012, United States of America. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada a su favor el día 20 de julio de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $106,764.22 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 6.25%, anual desde el 1ro de enero de 2014, 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 $12,400.00 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 18 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de

Subasta del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $124,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $82,666.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $62,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la 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 correspondientes 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de octubre de 2022.

EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs.

SUCESION NELIDA LUZ CARDONA MUÑIZ T/C/C NELIDA L. CARDONA T/C/C NELIDA L. CARDONA MUÑIZ T/C/C NELIDA CARDONA COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION FRANCISCO ANTONIO HERNANDEZ MATOS T/C/C FRANCISCO A. HERNANDEZ MATOS COMPUESTA POR ZORAIDA HERNANDEZ MATOS, ANA MARIA HERNANDEZ MATOS, CARMEN ELOIZA HERNANDEZ MATOS; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civl Núm.: SJ2020CV04414.

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.

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 Senten-

cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, 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 San Juan, el 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 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 Rio Piedras Heights del Barrio Monacillos del Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número seis (6) de la Manzana “G” con un área de Trescientos Treinta y Dos punto Cincuenta (332.50) metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros, con el Solar número veinticinco (25); por el Sur, en catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros, con la calle número uno (1); por el Este, en veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros, con el solar número siete (7); y por el Oeste, en veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros, con el solar número cinco (5). Enclava edificación. Inscrita al folio 134 del tomo 14 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, finca 455 (antes 18,781) Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. La Hipoteca Revertida se encuentra inscrita en el Tomo Karibe, finca 455 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V, inscripción 14ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. RIO PIEDRAS HEIGHTS, 1647 CALLE TAMESIS, SAN JUAN, PR 00926. 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: $367,500.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 23 de enero de 2083. 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 de mínima subasta la suma de $245,000.00, 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 San Juan, el 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $163,333.33, 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 $122,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 9 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $225,886.88 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $23,041.16 en intereses acumulados al 28 de febrero de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.84% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $8,026.97 en seguro hipotecario; $5,215.00 en cargos por servicio; $1,092.00 en seguro de la propiedad; $625.00 de tasaciones; $360.00 de inspecciones; $2,320.10 en adelantos de gastos y de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $24,500.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. 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

The San Juan Daily Star 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de octubre de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #368.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs.

THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.; JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO Demandados

SUCESION JOSE RAMON PEREZ PORTALES T/C/C JOSE R. PEREZ PORTALES T/C/C JOSE PEREZ PORTALES T/C/C JOSE Ramon PEREZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION RUFINA ESTHER DOMINGUEZ MARTINEZ T/C/C RUFINA E. DOMINGUEZ MARTINEZ T/C/C RUFINA DOMINGUEZ MARTINEZ T/C/C RUFINA ESTHER DOMINGUEZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS

Tuesday November 8, 2022

JOSE RAMON PEREZ Y DE LA SUCESION RUFINA ESTHER DOMINGUEZ MARTINEZ T/C/C RUFINA E. DOMINGUEZ MARTINEZ T/C/C RUFINA DOMINGUEZ MARTINEZ T/C/C RUFINA ESTHER DOMINGUEZ. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá 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.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de octubre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional.

Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOT ICE

Demandados Civil Núm.: BQ2022CV00097.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ORDEN PARA LA PUBLICACIÓN DE EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. Examinada la Moción en Solicitud de Orden de Interpelación presentada por la parte demandante, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación. Ante esto, se ORDENA a las sucesiones de MÁXIMO DÁVILA SANTIAGO y PROVIDENCIA BENÍTEZ SERRANO, compuestas por FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL y MENGANA DE TAL como posibles herederos desconocidos con interés en las sucesiones, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente ORDEN, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia.

Lot Núm. 513, San Luis Com., Llanos Ward, Aibonito, Puerto Rico 00705; 6 Calle Efeso, Aibonito, Puerto Rico 00705. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la misma se tendrá por aceptada. También, se les APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente ORDEN, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y por consiguiente responde por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme a lo que dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021. Se ORDENA a la parte demandante proceda a notificar la presente ORDEN mediante un edicto a esos efectos una (1) sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico.

NOTIFÍQUESE. Dada en Aibonito Puerto Rico, a 19 de octubre de 2022. ALEXIS J. CARLO RÍOS, JUEZ SUPERIOR.

SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Utuado, P.O. Box 2555, Utuado, Puerto Rico 006412555 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no nacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal para su publicación, en Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de octubre de 2022. Diane Álvarez Villanueva, Secretaria Regional. Gloria I. Rivera Fonseca, Secretaria Auxiliar I.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBULEGAL NOTICE Parte Con Interés NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA IN THE UNITED STATES DISCivil Núm.: CA2022CV01661. SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITRICT COURT FOR THE DISSobre: SUSTITUCIÓN O RES- TO TRICT OF PUERTO RICO TITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EX- GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC TRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENGITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC Demandante V. TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS Plaintiff, Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL WANDA PÉREZ CORTÉS, LEGAL NOTICE MÁXIMO DÁVILA PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAJOSÉ RAFAEL BAS DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI- SANTIAGO COMPUESTA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ORTIZ, EDUARDO POR FULANO DE TAL Y DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO BAS ORTIZ, ELVIRA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA RICO, SS. FULANA DE TAL COMO SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES BAS ORTIZ, JOSHUA A: JAS B. NUTTER &

POSIBLES HEREDEROS BANCO POPULAR NATHANIEL BAS COMPANY; JOHN DOE DESCONOCIDOS DE PUERTO RICO PEDREGUERA, DANIEL Y JANE DOE COMO CON INTERÉS EN Demandante V. BAS PEDREGUERA, POSIBLES TENEDORES LA SUCESIÓN Y FULANA DE TAL, ET ALS. DANILA SOFIA BAS DESCONOCIDOS LA SUCESIÓN DE Demandados VARGAS, JOSÉ ANTONIO DEL PAGARE PROVIDENCIA BENÍTEZ Civil: LR2022CV00160. Sobre: APONTE BAS, FABÍAN EXTRAVIADO; JOHN SERRANO COMPUESTA COBRO DE DINERO. EMIGNACIO APONTE ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POR MENGANO DE TAL Y PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. BAS, PERSONALLY POSIBLES MIEMBROS MENGANA DE TAL COMO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE AND AS MEMBERS OF DESCONOCIDOS DE LA POSIBLES HEREDEROS LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL THE ESTATE OF JOSE SUCESION JOSE RAMON DESCONOCIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RAFAEL BAS GARCIA PEREZ PORTALES CON INTERÉS EN LA DE PUERTO RICO. Defendant(s) T/C/C JOSE R. PEREZ SUCESIÓN; CENTRO A: ELIWD SANTIAGO Civil No.: 3:18-cv-01723.

PORTALES T/C/C JOSE DE RECAUDACIÓN DE ACEVEDO, FULANA (ADC). FORECLOSURE OF PEREZ PORTALES T/C/C INGRESOS MUNICIPALES MORTGAGE AND COLLECDE TAL Y LA

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TION OF MONIES. NOTICE estacionamiento. Sus linderos son los siguientes por el NOROF SALE. TE, en una distancia de 27’1” To: WANDA PÉREZ equivalentes a 8.255 metros CORTÉS, JOSÉ RAFAEL con área exterior del edificio y BAS ORTIZ, EDUARDO recibidor; por el SUR, en una BAS ORTIZ, ELVIRA distancia de 27’1” equivalenBAS ORTIZ, JOSHUA tes a 8.255 metros con área común exterior del edificio; por NATHANIEL BAS PEDREGUERA, DANIEL el ESTE, en una distancia de 53’10” equivalentes a 16.4087 BAS PEDREGUERA, metros con apartamento 2-D y DANILA SOFIA BAS área común exterior del edificio VARGAS, JOSÉ ANTONIO y por el OESTE, en una disAPONTE BAS, FABÍAN tancia de 53’10” equivalentes a 16.4087 metros con apartaIGNACIO APONTE mento 1-D (lobby) y área coBAS, PERSONALLY mún xterior del edificio. A esta AND AS MEMBERS OF unidad se le ha asignado el THE ESTATE OF JOSE uso exclusivo de dos espacios RAFAEL BAS GARCIA, de estacionamientos marcados COND. MÁLAGA PARK, 1-C los cuales son elemenAPT. 1-C, SAN JUAN, PR tos comunes limitados. A este apartamento le corresponde 00971.

1.0097% en los elementos coTHE GENERAL PUBLIC. munes generales del inmueble.

WHEREAS: On June 11, 2022, Property Number 41397, recorthis Court entered Consent Jud- ded at page 75 of volume 1182 gment in the captioned case. of Guaynabo, Registry of the On October 26, 2022, this Court Property of Guaynabo. WHEentered Order for Execution of REAS: The property is subject Judgment, stating that the Con- to the following lien: HIPOTECA sent Judgment recognizes that en garantía de pagaré a favor GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC is de First Equity Mortgage Comowed as of June 4, 2020, the pany, o a su orden, por la suma amount of $126,397.18; distri- de $127,800.00 con intereses buted as follows: the principal al 6½% anual y vencimiento 1ro balance of $98,779.77, ac- de febrero de 2034. Constituida crued interests in the amount por la Escritura 27 otorgada en of $19,200.74, since May 1st, Guaynabo el 27 de enero de 2017, at the interest rate of 2004 ante el notario Francelis 6.5%, escrow advanced balan- Ortiz Pagán, e inscrita al folio ce in the amount of $2,298.73, 56 del tomo 1288 de Guaynaadvance balance in the amount bo, finca 41397, inscripción of $1,035.00, accrued late char- 4ª. Senior Lien: None. Junior ges in the amount of $1,764.36, Lien: None. Potential bidders and expressly agreed-upon are advised to verify the extent attorneys’ fees and legal costs. of preferential lien with the holThe records of the case and of ders thereof. It shall be understhese proceedings may be exa- tood that each bidder accepts mined by the parties at the office as sufficient the title and that of the Clerk of the United States prior and preferential lien to District Court, Federal Building, the one being foreclosed upon, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, including but not limited to any Puerto Rico. WHERAEAS, Pur- property tax, lien (express, tacit, suant to the terms of the afo- implied or legal), shall continue rementioned judgment and the in effect it being understood order of execution thereof, the further that the successful following property belonging to bidder accepts them and is Defendant will be sold at a pu- subrogated in the responsibiblic auction: URBANA: Propie- lity for the same and that the dad Horizontal: Unidad 1-C del bid price shall not be applied Condominio Málaga Park, loca- toward their cancellation. The lizado en el Barrio Frailes del present property will be acquiMunicipio de Guaynabo, Puerto red free and clear of all junior Rico, compuesto de un área liens. WHEREAS: For the purde construcción de 1,215.7689 pose of the First Judicial Sale, pies cuadrados, equivalentes the minimum bid agreed upon a 112.95 metros cuadrados. by the parties in the mortgage Consta de terraza, sala- come- deed will be $127,800.00 for dor, cocina, laundry, tres dormi- the property and no lower offers torios, dos baños equipados y will be accepted. Should the closets. La misma fue fabricada first judicial sale of the aboveen hormigón armado y bloques described property be unsucde cemento y se encuentra lo- cessful, then the minimum bid calizada en la segunda planta for the property on the Second del edificio número 1. Su puer- Judicial Sale will be two-thirds ta de entrada está localizada of the amount of the minimum en el lindero Norte y la misma bid for the First Judicial Sale, or da al área común central del $85,200.00. The minimum bid edificio ocupada por las esca- for the Third Judicial Sale, if the leras y un recibidor (lobby) y same is necessary, will be onedesde la cual se tiene acceso half of the minimum bid agreed a áreas comunes que dan al upon by the parties in the afo-

rementioned mortgage deed, or $63,900.00 (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 the 2 OF DECEMBER 2022 AT 9:05 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (18.3699435, -66.1126780) in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property 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 the 9 OF DECEMBER 2022 AT 9:05 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (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 the 16 OF DECEMBER 2022 AT 9:05 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (18.3699435, -66.1126780). In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 29 day of October 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante Vs.

DIANA CALDERON JORDAN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06343.

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.

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 San Juan, 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 San Juan, el 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, 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: URBAN: Apartment located at BORINQUEN TOWERS CONDOMINIUM, situated at Monacillos Ward, in the municipality of Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Apartment number FOUR HUNDRED EIGHT (408) is situated on the fourth floor of the building, in the southwest corner of the section which composes the western end of the building. It consists of an irregular rectangular shaped body, measuring approximately thirty two feet zero inches wide, by thirty three feet six and one fourth inches long, and an open eleven feet eleven inches long, by five feet five inches wide, that is, an area of eight hundred twenty eight point fifty five square feet, equivalents to SEVENTY SEVEN SQUARE METERS AND SEVEN HUNDREDTHS OF ANOTHER (77.07 S.M.).

Bounding on the NORTH, with a party wall which separates it from apartment number four hundred nine; on the SOUTH, with an exterior wall which separates it from the common yard of the southern side of the building where the balcony opens; on the EAST, with a party wall which separates it from apartment number four hundred seven, and with an interior wall which separates it from the common public corridor, to which the entrance door of the apartment opens, and which leads to common stairway and elevator; on the WEST, with an exterior wall which separates it from the common yard on the western side of the building.

The apartment consists of three bedrooms with their closets, a hall, one bathroom, combination of living and dining room, which gives access to the open balcony, storage, entrance hall and a kitchen with cabinets and thirty gallon capacity water hea-

32 ter. Le corresponde una participación de cero punto cinco mil cincuenta y siete por ciento (0.5057%) en los elementos comunes. Finca número 22,341, inscrita al folio 204 del tomo 705 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 102 del tomo 939 de Monacillos, Finca 22341, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III, inscripción 5ª. Propiedad localizada en: 1482 AVE FD ROOSEVELT, APT. 408 BORINQUEN TOWERS III, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00920.

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: $202,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 7 de diciembre de 2096. 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 de mínima subasta la suma de $202,500.00, 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 San Juan, el 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $135,000.00, 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 $101,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 9 DE ENERO 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 la suma de $82,276.50, de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma en la cantidad de $14,941.06 los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.483% anual hasta su total y completo pago, más contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y la suma de $20,250.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de octubre de 2022. GILBERTO FIGUEROA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ERIK F. OSUNA, ALGUACIL PLACA #390.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HATILLO

EMMA ROSA ROSA Demandante V.

EUROBANK, JOHN DOE

Demandado(a) Civil: AR2022CV01460. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: EUROBANK, JOHN 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 28 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los

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10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 1 de noviembre de 2022. En Hatillo, Puerto Rico, el 1 de noviembre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRENDA LIZ TORRES MUÑIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

EDWIN PADILLA RIVERA Demandante Vs.

ORIENTAL BANK Y JOHN DOE

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV05309.

Sala: 703. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: JOHN DOE

Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe, solicitando la cancelación del pagaré extraviado que se describe más adelante y que fue pagado en su totalidad. En dicha Demanda se reclama que usted es el posible Tenedor de un Pagaré extraviado el cual se constituyó por la suma principal de $153,243.00, a favor de R& G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, con interés al 6% anual y vencimiento el 1 de noviembre de 2017, según surge de la Escritura número Cuatrocientos Doce (412), de Hipoteca Para Garantizar Pagaré, otorgada el día Veintitrés (23) de octubre de Dos Mil Cinco (2005) ante el Notario Heberto J. De Vizcarrondo, sobre la finca Número Setenta y Cuatro Mil Novecientos Cuarenta y Cinco (74,945), demarcación de Bayamón Sur, inscripción tercera, sobre la finca que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Primera Fase de la URBANIZACIÓN VISTAS DEL BOSQUE, conocida como de LAS FLORES, situado en el Barrio Buena Vista del término municipal de Bayamón, el cual se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a conti-

nuación: SOLAR NÚMERO: A GUIÓN SIETE (A-7). ÁREA DEL SOLAR: SETECIENTOS DIECINUEVE PUNTO OCHENTA Y TRES METROS CUADRADOS (719.83.83 mc.).

En lindes por el Noreste, en tres punto siete metros (3.7 m) y una curva con un arco de nueve punto cuarenta y seis (9,46) metros, con la calle número uno (1) de Bosque de las Flores; Por el Suroeste, en treinta y tres punto cero cuatro (33.04) metros, con la avenida principal de acceso a la Urbanización; Por el Noroeste, en treinta y ocho punto cuarenta y ocho (38.48) metros, con solar A guión Ocho (A-8); Por el Sureste, en treinta (30) metros con solar A guión Seis (A-6).

Este solar de forma irregular tiene un talud en su colindancia Suroeste, con un arca aproximada de cientos dieciséis punto noventa y dos (116.92) metros cuadrados. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto de dos plantas para residencia de una familia. Inscrita al Folio Ciento Cincuenta y Cinco (155) del Tomo Mil Ochocientos Veintisiete (1,827) de Bayamón Sur, Finca Número Setenta y Cuatro Mil Novecientos Cuarenta y Cinco (74,945). Se le emplaza y requiere que dentro de treinta días conteste la Demanda, deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y se le apercibe que de no contestar la misma dentro del término antes indicado, radicando el original según indicado con con copia al licenciado HÉCTOR MANUEL MARRERO MARRERO, cuya dirección es PO Box 283, Naranjito, Puerto Rico 00719, teléfono 787-8690806, se le anotará Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Se expidió bajo mi finna y sello de este Honorable Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO AVILÉS

SÁNCHEZ COMPUESTA POR: FRANCISCO AVILÉS VÁZQUEZ; MIRIAM FRANCELIA AVILES VÁZQUEZ; FRANCHESCA ROSA AVILES VÁZQUEZ Y MIRIAM VÁZQUEZ TORRES, POR SI Y EN CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA

Demandados Civil Núm.: DO2022CV00160.

(401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO AVILÉS SÁNCHEZ COMPUESTA POR: FRANCISCO AVILÉS VÁZQUEZ; MIRIAM FRANCELIA AVILES VÁZQUEZ Y MIRIAM VÁZQUEZ TORRES, POR SI Y EN CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA. RR 2 Box 4095, Toa Alta, PR, 00953.

De: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su 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. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $110,785.29, más la suma de $28,846.22, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más los intereses acumulados al 5.5% desde el 1 de febrero de 2020, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Se ordena a los herederos a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación, ACEPTEN O

REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Sucesión de Francisco Avilés Sánchez. Se les apercibe que de no expresarse dentro del término de (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada.

Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693 PO Box 194089, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 26 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTANA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1 Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE HERMINIA ORTIZ BURGOS, T/C/C HERMINIA ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: GM2019CV00251.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE HERMINIA ORTIZ BURGOS, T/C/C HERMINIA ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, LITZY M. CORA ANAYA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #247, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera

Instancia, Sala de Guayama, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 22 de febrero de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 25 de mayo de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número once (11) del bloque “Q” de la Urbanización Costa Azul, radicada en el término municipal de Guayama, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos veinticinco punto cero cero (325.00 mc) metros cuadrados. Colindando por el NORTE, en veinte y cinco punto cero cero metros (25.00 m) con el solar número diez (10) del bloque “Q”; por el SUR, en veinte y cinco punto cero cero metros (25.00 m) con el solar número doce (12) del bloque “Q”; por el ESTE, en trece punto cero cero metros (13.00 m) con la calle número veinte y nueve de la Urbanización y por el OESTE, en trece punto cero cero metros (13.00 m) con el solar número seis (6) del bloque “Q”. Sobre el solar antes descrito enclava una casa de concreto dedicada a vivienda.

Finca número 7,406 inscrita al folio 40 del tomo 246 de Guayama. Registro de la Propiedad

de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. Dirección de la Propiedad: Q-11 29 St. Costa Azul Dev Guayama, PR 00784. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $89,655.08, con interés al 3.186% anual , por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados al 9 de abril de 2022, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 130 otorgada el día 30 de julio de 2013, Guayama, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Samuel Soto Alonso y consta inscrita al folio 193 del tomo 497 de Guayama, finca número 7,406, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama, Sección de Guayama.

Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $120,000.00, con intereses al 3.191% anual, vencedero el día 29 de marzo de 2083, constituida mediante la escritura número 131, otorgada en Guayama, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de julio de 2013, ante el notario Samuel Soto Alonso, e inscrita al folio 193 del tomo 497 de Guayama, finca número 7,406, inscripción 4ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $120,000.00 según se establece en la escri-

The San Juan Daily Star tura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $80,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $60,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá dili-

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genciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio 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. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 14 de septiembre de 2022. Litzy M. Cora Anaya, Alguacil Auxiliar #247, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Guayama.

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SANDRA LIZZETTE SANTANA SOUFRONT Parte Demandante Vs.

CORPORACIÓN DE RENOVACIÓN URBANA Y VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV01512.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudical.pr/sumac/, salvo que se

presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva. al PO BOX 7970, Ponce.

P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagare extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento se constituyó favor de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana de Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de veintisiete mil cincuenta dólares ($27,050.00), con un interés con un interés (no se indica) y vencedero a primero (1ro) de diciembre de dos mil nueve (2009). Que mediante la escritura número doscientos sesenta y dos (262), otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día veinte ocho (28) de noviembre de mil novecientos setenta y nueve (1979). ante el notario Walter Vivaldi Olivieri, en el cual se constituyó hipoteca en garantía de pagaré, a favor de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana de Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de veintisiete mil cincuenta dólares ($27,050.00), con un interés con un interés (no se indica) y vencedero a primero (1ro) de diciembre de dos mil nueve (2009), y cuya obligación hipotecaria fue inscrita al folio doscientos veinticinco (225) del tomo novecientos ochenta y nueve (989) de Mayagüez, finca número veintinueve mil seiscientos treinta y tres (29,633), inscripción primera (1ra). La propiedad que garantiza dicho pagaré: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento G guión dos guión C (G-2-C), del Condominio Río Cristal, Cluster número dos (2), localizado en el Proyecto Río Cristal, Mayagüez VBC guión ciento ochenta y siete (VBC-187). Esta construido de hormigón armado y bloques de hormigón. Este apartamento consta de dos (2) plantas y tiene un área superficial incluyendo ambos pisos de mil diecinueve pies cuadrados y veinticuatro centésimas de pies cuadrados, equivalente a noventa y cuatro metros con seiscientos noventa milímetros cuadrados (94.690). en lindes por el NORTE, en veinte (20) p1es una pulgadas, equivalentes a seis (6) metros con ciento veintiún milímetros la pared exterior, por el SUR, en veinte (20) pies una pulgada, equivalentes a seis (6) metros con ciento veintiún milímetros con la pared exterior, por el ESTE, veintisiete (27) pies seis (6) pulgadas equivalentes a ocho (8) metros con trescientos ochenta y dos (3802) milímetros con el apartamento dos G guión tres B (G-3-B), y por el OESTE,

en veintisiete pies (27’) seis pulgadas (6”), equivalentes a ocho (8) metros con trescientos ochenta y dos (382) milímetros eon el apartamento G guión dos guión B (G-2-B). La puerta principal de entrada de este apartamento queda al Norte.

Le corresponde el uno punto cero cinco cuatro dieciséis por ciento (1.05416%) en Jos elementos comunes generales.

Inscrita al folio doscientos veinticinco (225) del tomo novecientos ochenta y nueve (989) de Mayagüez, finca número veintinueve mil seiscientos treinta y tres (29,633), Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez.

SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 27 de octubre de 2022. Lcda. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional.

Jazmín Sanabria Torres, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ SANTIAGO COMPUESTA POR FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ MORENO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y LA SUCESION DE MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA POR CONDUCTO DEL FISCAL FEDERAL DE LA CORTE DE DISTRITO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS PARA EL DISTRITO DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01266. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FRANCISCO

MARTÍNEZ MORENO COMO HEREDERO DE FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ SANTIAGO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ SANTIAGO Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda.

Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de noviembre de 2021 hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a $69,954.94 el cual se compone de un primer principal por la sumad $60,704.06 y un balance diferido por la suma de $9,250.88, más los intereses sobre la suma de $60,704.06 al 5.50% anual, desde el día primero de octubre de 2021, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo lo pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚS-

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TICA: Parcela marcada con el número doscientos cincuenta (250) en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Cotto Norte del territorio municipal de Manatí, con una cabida superficial de cero punto dos cinco ocho uno (0.2581) cuerdas, equivalentes a uno cero uno cuatro punto tres uno (1014.31) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con parcela número doscientos cuarenta y cinco (245) de la comunidad; por el Sur, con la carretera estatal seiscientos setenta (670); por el este, con la parcela número doscientos cincuenta y uno de la comunidad; y por el oeste, con la parcela doscientos cuarenta y nueve (249) de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio ciento noventa y cinco (195) del tomo doscientos dieciséis (216) de Manatí, finca número nueve mil quinientos ochenta y cuatro (9,584), Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de Francisco Martínez de Milagros Rodríguez Cruz, se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro dd término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado a beneficio de inventario la herencia de Sucesión de Francisco Martínez de Milagros Rodríguez Cruz y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone del Código Civil de Puerto Rico. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, a 27 de octubre de 2022. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria Regional. Saray Salgado, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.

ROE, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ÉSTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y LA ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02199. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ÁNGEL SANTIAGO COLÓN Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ROSA AMELIA OCASIO FEBRES, T/C/C ROSA ACASIO FEBRES.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado da Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda.

Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incuLEGAL NOTICE rrió en el incumplimiento del ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Contrato de Hipoteca, al no DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- poder pagar las mensualidades NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA vencidas correspondientes a SALA DE CAROLINA los meses enero de 2022 hasFIRSTBANK ta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

PUERTO RICO Además, adeuda a la parte deParte Demandante Vs. mandante las costas. gastos y LA SUCESION DE honorarios de abogado en que MIGUEL ÁNGEL incurra el tenedor del pagaré SANTIAGO COLÓN Y en este litigio. De acuerdo con LA SUCESION DE ROSA dicho Contrato de Garantía HiAMELIA OCASIO FEBRES potecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de T/C/C ROSA ACASIO FEBRES, COMPUESTA la deuda ascendente a la suma POR MIGUEL ÁNGEL de $31,620.26 da principal, compuesto de un primer princiSANTIAGO OCASIO; pal por la suma de $30,257.30

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y un principal diferido por la suma de $1,362.96, más los intereses sobre la suma de $30,257.30 al 9.5% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que suman de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Parcela marcada con el número doscientos setenta y uno (271) guión “A” en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Buenaventura del Barrio Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veintinueve punto noventa y seis (329.96) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el Norte, con la calle Clavel; por el Sur, con propiedad de Andrés Maeso; por el Este, con parcela doscientos setenta (270) de la comunidad; y por el oeste, con la parcela número doscientos setenta y uno (271) de la comunidad.

Inscrita al tomo móvil mil doscientos ochenta y cuatro (1284) de Carolina, finca número cincuenta y cuatro mil ochocientos cincuenta (54,850), Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de MIGUEL ÁNGEL SANTIAGO COLÓN y la Sucesión de ROSA AMELIA OCASIO FEBRES, t/c/c Rosa Acasio Febres se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia.

Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en tomo a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia de los causantes Miguel Ángel Santiago Colón Y La Sucesión De Rosa Amelia Ocasio Febres, T/C/C Rosa Acasio Febres Y Por Consiguiente, Responderán Por Las Cargas De Dicha Herencia Conforme Dispone El Articulo 1578 Del Código Civil De Puerto Rico, 31 L.p.r.a.

Sec. 11021. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, A 02 de Noviembre se 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional.

Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Next to Lambeau field, a place where cheeseheads come together

By JOSHUA NEEDELMAN

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n Titletown, games of catch have an open invite.

Deangelo Marshall, for instance, had gone to the regulation-size football field at the complex — a 45-acre mixed-use development adjacent to Lambeau Field — to throw passes to his stepson Paul Clay, 13. Another boy, around Clay’s age, joined their crew for a few throws, and later an adult did the same. But there’s something about the space that brings strangers together.

Marshall, a Chicago transplant who moved to the Green Bay, Wisconsin, area for college, looked around the field. Bobby McFerrin’s 1988 hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” had just played through the loudspeaker on the gloomy Sunday afternoon in mid-September. It was the day of the team’s home opener, and fans played catch, kicked field goals, executed cartwheels and shared laughs.

“There’s always someone here,” said Marshall, 44, wearing a Packers T-shirt, ripped white shorts and a relaxed smile.

It was eight hours before kickoff, and as the afternoon wore on, raucous fans would crowd the area, some drunk on more than just the sunny anticipation that marks a fresh start. But it’s afternoons like the one Marshall spent with his stepson, and the more than 350 days the Packers aren’t playing at Lambeau Field, that Titletown’s park was built for.

Several NFL teams in recent years have built entertainment districts in the areas surrounding their stadiums in a bid to generate more revenue. Patriot Place, the roughly 1.3 million-square-foot shopping center that wraps around the New England Patriots’ Gillette Stadium, has been a boon for the team’s owner, Robert Kraft. The center has generated between $8 million and $10 million, accounting for about 10% of the yearly budget of Foxborogh, Massachusetts, where it’s located, William Keegan, the town manager, told WGRZ in Buffalo, New York. (There has been discussion of the Bills adding a development as well.)

Titletown, which opened in 2017, features shops, restaurants, business spaces and residential homes. But what distinguishes it is its park, free and open to the public year round. The park tries to appeal to Green Bay’s famously football-obsessed fans and more casual visitors alike: A cheese-themed playground and an area for fans to practice their timed 40-yard dashes share space with a tubing hill and a variety of pop-up attractions, including areas for yoga and tai chi and a space for a book club.

The accessibility and variety befit the only publicly owned major professional sports franchise in North America. The land beneath Titletown is owned by the Packers, and some of the buildings there are jointly owned with or leased to various partner companies — but the park is clearly for the public.

“No developer would take a third of a development and make it a park, but for us, it’s not about trying to make a profit,” said Aaron Popkey, the team’s director of public affairs. “It’s more about providing this amenity, this asset, to the community.”

Green Bay Packers fans, known as Cheeseheads, congregate and show off their team gear at Titletown.

The Packers, formed in 1919 as a semiprofessional team, joined the NFL (then known as the American Professional Football Association) in 1921 and soon faced financial trouble. Local businessmen incorporated the team as a nonprofit two years later, which helped keep the franchise afloat as the league gravitated to markets in bigger cities.

The shift to nonprofit status led to offering fans the ability to be shareholders (albeit ones who pay no dividends and whose shares cannot be traded). It’s become a way for fans to feel a literal sense of ownership of their beloved team, and for the team to raise money — significant money. The team has conducted six stock sales in its history, most recently last winter, when it raised $65 million.

“For communities this size, I think, having an NFL team, it’s an anomaly,” Popkey said of Green Bay, which has a population of about 107,000. “It’ll never happen again.”

Four hours before the Packers game against the Chicago Bears, Avalyn Hein, 1, poked her head out from a hole in the cheese jungle gym. Her parents, Brandon and Lora, and grandparents all mimicked her smile and then followed as Avalyn waddled over to a bench.

Brandon Hein, 32, was raised in the Green Bay area

and spent much of his childhood at Lambeau Field. His father placed him on the Packers’ season-ticket waiting list not long after he was born, and he didn’t receive tickets until just before his 30th birthday.

The Heins planned to attend the game later that evening, but first they wanted Avalyn to experience Titletown.

She particularly enjoyed running up and down 46-foot-high Ariens Hill, which is frozen in the winter for tubing.

“Everybody feels like they have a piece in this,” said Hein, a Packers shareholder. He cradled Avalyn in his arms, brushing a strand of blond hair out of her eyes.

Both father and daughter wore Aaron Rodgers jerseys.

They were hardly the only ones. The quarterback, who led Green Bay to its Super Bowl XLV victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, is a hero to many fans despite a controversial 2021 season. Rodgers reportedly demanded a trade last spring because of friction with the front office, and though he ended up signing a three-year, $150.8 million contract extension, he remained in the headlines throughout the season — most notably when it was revealed he had misled the league and the public about his COVID-19 vaccination status. (Though the league never mandated vaccinations, it said that about 95% of players had gotten the vaccine, along with almost 100% of personnel.) Rodgers said he had been “immunized” against the virus, and after facing criticism he railed against “cancel culture” and the “woke mob.”

But the national culture wars seem to melt away in Titletown. Packers fans came for the season opener from across the Midwest, including Bradley Stone, 46, who arrived with his family from Duluth, Minnesota. It was the 14th birthday of his son, Madden, and the family spent the afternoon testing the 40-yard dash area. As his wife, Kirsten, 45, shouted “Go!” Stone took off, followed by his daughter, Ella, 11, and Madden. The walkway that leads from the field to Ariens Hill was lined with restaurants and a bank and dotted with foosball tables, cornhole sets, bocce courts, shuffleboard courts and Ping-Pong tables, complete with rackets and paddles ready for guests.

“No one steals ’em,” said Jackie Krutz, Titletown residential and programs manager, gesturing to the Ping-Pong equipment.

Krutz is responsible for developing and overseeing many of Titletown’s programs and large events and works closely with Craig Dickman, managing director of TitletownTech, a startup venture capital fund that formed out of a partnership between the Packers and Microsoft and is situated along the walkway between the field and the hill. One area of the TitletownTech building features floorto-ceiling windows with views of the whole development.

Dickman said that being able to look through the windows and see people using the facilities gave “context” to the company’s work, which is focused on companies with forward-looking goals, like Fork Farms, which develops indoor hydroponic vertical farming.

“It creates this little microcosm that does breathe meaning into what’s being done in a unique way,” Dickman said.

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A Messy marital split tarnishes a Roman soccer legend

By JASON HOROWITZ

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nce upon a time, Francesco Totti, the crowned prince of Italian soccer, celebrated a goal by ripping off his jersey and revealing a T-shirt reading, “You’re the One,” a proclamation of eternal love for Ilary Blasi, a showgirl who stole his heart.

The two got married on live television, had three children and moved into a villa befitting Rome’s born-and-bred royal family.

Now, 20 years later, he says Blasi’s the one who stole his Rolex watches.

In response to her filching his timepieces, said to be valued at more than 1 million euros, Totti, 46, admits he raided his wife’s Jimmy Choo, Amina Muaddi, Le Silla, Casadei and Gucci shoe collection. He also hid her purses by Dior, Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Chanel, which is the name of one of their daughters.

“The War of the Wardrobe,” declared the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero.

“What could I do? I hid her handbags, hoping we could trade,” Totti said in one interview. She would not, but in recent days, Blasi, 41, reclaimed the bags — either with the help of a locksmith in the villa she, awkwardly, still shares with Totti, or through a peace offering from her husband.

For a country — and especially a city — that is often afflicted with a deep cynicism about storybook appearances, the durability of happiness and even the existence of true love, the breakup has proved to be a public trauma and tabloid bonanza.

The split may be run of the mill for the blingy soccer celebrity industrial complex, but in Rome, the separation has cut into a legend. Totti — one of the most celebrated players of his generation and the most beloved player in A.S. Roma’s history — is revered in Rome for staying with his hometown team throughout his entire quarter-century career, including his days as The Golden Child, The Phenomenon, The Captain and The Legend.

The more outsiders mocked his Ro-

A mural of Francesco Totti, the Italian soccer star, on the side of his childhood school in Rome’s San Giovanni neighborhood, Nov. 30, 2016. man accent, dialect-abbreviated grammar and colorful vocabulary for its Roman provincialism, the more he became the city’s human coat of arms. He eventually poked fun at himself in television ads and Totti joke books.

In Totti’s final game, generations of Italians shed a tear, and Romans bawled uncontrollably, as the star took a victory lap around the field with Blasi and his children. He became the personification of Roman fidelity.

Now all of Italy, it seems, is focused on his alleged infidelity.

Last week, Totti publicly house hunted with his girlfriend, Noemi Bocchi, 34, a florist who looks not entirely unlike how Blasi used to look. (“Photo Exclusive,” read the cover of Chi, a gossip magazine, “Francesco Totti builds a home with Noemi.”)

Not to be outdone, Blasi carried one of her designer bags like a newborn baby to dinner with a mystery real estate investor, a night out captured by paparazzi and splashed on the cover of Diva and Donna magazine. (“Between Totti and Blasi Always More War,” the headline read.)

This week, the estranged couple are expected to meet behind closed doors

in a Rome courtroom for a second hearing over the missing merchandise.

The proceedings are considered a warmup to a nasty divorce fight over their villa, which she apparently wants him out of, stakes in the Totti soccer school, which she apparently wants to keep a chunk of, and blame over who betrayed whom first.

The first tip came in February, when Dagospia, the most trusted name in Italian gossip, reported that Totti had a girlfriend, pointing out Bocchi seated a couple rows behind him at a soccer game in December.

Both Totti and Blasi vigorously denied the report.

“It’s not the first time it happens to me, to hear this fake news,” Totti, wearing a gray hoodie and down jacket, said in a video filmed on an empty street.

“And, sincerely, I’m really tired of having to deny.”

But people started looking for signs of discord. The British media zeroed in on a 2020 conversation that Totti had on video with Christian Vieri, another now middle-aged star of Italian soccer, in which the Roman introduced a bald cat that he called a “bat,” named Donna Paola, that he said his wife had demand-

ed become a member of their family.

“I swear, I was going to separate with my wife over her getting this cat,” Totti said lightheartedly. “We didn’t speak for days, and then I fell in love with the cat, too.”

It is not clear who will get the cat now. In July, the couple acknowledged the end of their marriage in back-to-back news releases. Both pleaded for privacy for the sake of their three children.

Both Totti and Blasi, through their lawyers, declined to comment, but in his tell-all interview in September with the Corriere della Sera, Italy’s largest newspaper, Totti copped to hiding his wife’s designer accessories, products that her lawyers say are critical, along with more than 30,000 euros a month, for the maintenance of her lifestyle.

In the interview, Totti said the marriage had been on the rocks for quite a while, and alleged that he was “not the first one to cheat,” and subsequently said that informants had told him that his wife had “more than one” paramour.

Italy’s gossip sheets have proposed the former lover of a popular Argentine showgirl and a personal trainer as good candidates.

But supporters of Blasi countered that one of the messages Totti intercepted on her phone with instructions for a hotel rendezvous was actually intended for a private investigator Blasi had hired to follow her husband.

Totti said she also planted bugs and GPS trackers in his car. He pointed to several pressure points, including the death of his father from COVID in 2020 and his own illness from COVID. “My wife, however, when I needed her most, was not there,” he said. He admitted some fault (“I should have taken her to dinner more”), but said the marriage was in trouble as early as 2017, as his career ended.

“I was fragile,” he said. “And Ilary didn’t understand the importance of this pain.”

That pain was compounded, Totti said, by the discovery of his wife’s extracurricular activity.

“Noemi helped me get through this,” he said.

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Overtime elite gets media deal with Amazon Prime Video

By ADAM ZAGORIA

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OSELLE, N.J. — On a recent Friday evening, Naasir Cunningham was back home in New Jersey doing what he does best: flying up and down a basketball court, deftly floating in baskets and hitting an array of jump shots from various angles.

Five months earlier, Cunningham had left his home in West Orange, New Jersey, and his friends at the Gill St. Bernard’s high school in Gladstone, to join the quasiprofessional Overtime Elite league based in Atlanta. His parents moved to be near their son.

Cunningham, 17, a 6-foot-7 small forward, was now performing in a showcase at Roselle Catholic High School before a curious and wide-ranging crowd of several hundred that included NBA agents, professional scouts, college coaches, casual local fans and 13-year-old boys seeking his autograph. The game was also livestreamed for the hoop heads who couldn’t attend.

In a move that speaks to both the appetite for live programming and the appeal of rising basketball stars like Cunningham, Overtime Elite has entered an agreement with Amazon Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming service, giving Prime Video exclusive streaming rights in the United States to 20 live games per season for the next three years.

Officials for the companies declined to disclose the terms of the deal, which was announced Wednesday. But the companies said that Amazon had also made an investment in Overtime as part of a recent funding round. “It looks a lot like a sports league does,” Dan Porter, CEO of Overtime, said in an interview before the announcement.

Live sports are “the only thing that hold a linear television bundle together and they’re super valuable,” Porter said. “Look at the success that Amazon is having with ‘Thursday Night Football’ and Apple is going to have with Major League Baseball. I think that that’s the future, and we want to participate in that.”

Amazon, which claims it has more than 200 million subscribers to Amazon Prime, already owns the rights to numerous live sporting events, including in football, baseball, soccer and tennis, and has signaled interest in the NBA. And as it targets an increasingly younger audience, Amazon is adding Overtime Elite, a six-team basketball league featuring top 16- to 20-year-old male players from around the world. The league counts Ama-

Members of an opposing team warm up before a game against an Overtime Elite team during a game at Roselle Catholic High School in Roselle, N.J., Oct. 14, 2022. zon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, among its investors.

Many of the league’s players hope they will wind up in the NBA, just like Dominick Barlow, a 6-foot-10 forward from Dumont, New Jersey, who played for Overtime Elite last season and is now with the San Antonio Spurs. Among the league’s current players are 19-year-old twins Ausar and Amen Thompson, who are both projected to be lottery picks in next year’s NBA draft.

When the Thompsons signed with the league for its inaugural season in 2021, they and the other players agreed to contracts worth at least $100,000 each. That, in turn, made them ineligible for college basketball.

Before the league’s second season, Overtime changed course by allowing what it calls a scholarship option, whereby players do not get paid but retain their college eligibility while still being able to earn income through endorsement deals, the same way college athletes have been able to do through so-called name, image and likeness deals.

Cunningham, in consultation with his father, chose that option and is still being recruited by a slew of major men’s college programs, including Duke, Kansas, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas and Seton Hall.

Cunningham, speaking in an interview while nursing a sore ankle and eating a slice of pizza after a game, said he has more time to devote to his craft than he would have had at a traditional high school.

In that way, Overtime functions similarly to

the European training academies that feed professional club teams.

“The skill development, being able to play against top players every day, it’s like there’s no room for slacking, there’s no room to goof off,” Cunningham said.

“You’re always going to be working, you’re always getting better.”

Still, Overtime isn’t for everyone.

A year ago, Efton Reid, a center rated as a five-star recruit, turned down a six-figure offer in favor of attending Louisiana State because the new professional league planned to play against prep school opponents.

Reid’s mother, Maria, said in an interview at the time that he had already done that while at IMG Academy in Florida “and did not want to repeat another year playing against prep schools.”

She added: “He wants to play against the next level college ball.”

Reid has since transferred to Gonzaga.

In August, Michigan State commit Jeremy Fears reversed his original plan to play for Overtime and instead will spend his senior season playing at Joliet West High School in Illinois with his brother.

Back in New York and New Jersey, some coaches of high-profile prospects expressed concern about letting their players compete against the Overtime Elite teams, fearing they might be recruited to join the league and thus leave

their high school teams. Of course, nothing was stopping the league from reaching out to those players anyway.

Simeon Wilcher, a 6-foot-5 senior point guard at Roselle Catholic and an honors student, turned down what his father said was a high-six-figure offer from Overtime Elite in August 2021 because he preferred the more traditional high school experience, including playing high school basketball. Last year, he helped lead the Lions to their fourth New Jersey Tournament of Champions title, beating D.J. Wagner, the No. 1 prospect in the class of 2023, and Camden High School in the final. (They also beat Cunningham and his Gill St. Bernard’s team along the way.)

Wilcher also wanted other benefits from high school, like staying with his friends and attending the big events.

“You always got to love the regular high school stuff, like prom, graduation,” he said. “All of that is needed, that’s memories that you’ll never be able to get back.”

Still, Wilcher, who committed to North Carolina last fall, is earning endorsement money, his father, Sergio Wilcher, said, through various deals. It is increasingly common for high-profile high school basketball players to have agents representing them for name, image and likeness deals, but Wilcher doesn’t have one, his father said.

Jonathan Givony, an NBA draft expert for ESPN, sat in the stands at Roselle Catholic taking notes on each player on a spreadsheet to prepare for future NBA mock drafts.

He said there is a benefit to Overtime Elite in that players who want to be future pros like Cunningham can devote themselves to their craft and find themselves playing in front of more fans more quickly.

“There is no comparison between a public school and what OTE has to offer in terms of the platform that they offer, the national exposure, the competition that they play, the schedule,” he said.

Ross Perlstein and Owen Burns, 13-year-old fans from Livingston, New Jersey, didn’t really care which players competed for Overtime Elite or the high school teams at Roselle Catholic. Burns wore a North Carolina jersey autographed by Roy Williams, its former coach, and asked Wilcher, Cunningham and several other players to add their signatures.

“I feel like a lot of these guys are going to play overseas or in the NBA,” Perlstein said, “so I feel like we’re watching what they’re becoming.”

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Something may seem off with a friendship or social situation, and you might be more aware of it on the eve of a potent Lunar Eclipse. Perhaps a distance has developed, that seems to signal the end of this connection. It could be time to move in new circles that are more suited to your current ideas and interests.

Nothing lasts forever, and the change and new company can do you good.

A cash flow issue could delay plans to invest in a new hobby or other activity you enjoy. It’s time for some major financial changes, so you might find that with some lateral thinking, there are ways around this. While the coming days can see you working hard, you stand to gain so much from taking charge of a creative project or showcasing your work to others, Libra.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

As Venus your guide planet faces off with Saturn, someone in authority may seem to be ignoring your efforts, leaving you wondering what might be wrong. It can be nothing at all, but this aspect could fuel fears, leaving you unsettled. This event may be the start of a major change though. If you feel you’re being taken for granted, then you’ll want to do something about it.

Feelings of insecurity could leave you wondering if you’re doing the right thing, Gemini. As Venus your guide planet forges an awkward angle with Saturn, it may be a fear of failure that causes you to hold back.

And with Mars rewinding in your sign, you’ll need all the confidence you can get. Tomorrow’s Eclipse might help you realize why it’s important to push yourself.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

If it seems you’re not seeing eye-to-eye with family members, then don’t let it weigh on your mind. Be as tactful and diplomatic as you can be in the circumstances, as the right words at the right time, could inspire a shift. Rather than focus on any disagreements, it might help to emphasise those areas where you do share an understanding, as this may assist with healing.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

People can surprise you, as you may have found out. As a result, you might hold back from getting someone’s agreement for a plan or project, because you aren’t certain how they will respond. Embrace this opportunity to talk, as with logical Mercury forging a sizzling link with innovative Uranus, they could contribute a brilliant idea and their insights be golden.

The awkward Venus/Saturn tie, could leave you feeling shut out of vital talks, but it might be because this temporary aspect can also leave you isolated. A much more dynamic alignment, hints that trusting your instincts may lead to a potential romance or to passions being reignited. A change of attitude could be all it takes to encourage a change of heart in you and others.

You may be impressed with someone’s energy and determination to succeed. And if they show signs of wanting to know you better, it’s a chance to make friends with a kindred spirit. Mind, with a powerful Eclipse on the cards tomorrow, interesting developments could take place when you’re socializing. Someone you connect with can have a life-changing opportunity for you.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

If a family disagreement seems to be getting worse, then you’ll be relieved to know that things are about to shift, Leo. It won’t be down to others, but to your determination to sort this out and restore harmony.

To do this, you may have to have a word with someone. They might not like what you have to say, but if it helps them to see matters with new eyes, then it’s very necessary.

Doubts may crop up, but this is not the time to entertain them, Aquarius. Instead, a realistic Venus/Saturn aspect encourages you to persevere regardless, as this can pave the way for constructive progress.

Is there someone you could talk to who might have some advice? A word or two with them may reassure you that you have nothing to worry about and everything to gain.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

On the lookout for activities and opportunities that might add more excitement to the day? If you are unfulfilled by your daily schedule, seeking out new interests and friendships could go a long way to filling this gap. Plus, a determined attitude can find you ready to make lifestyle changes that boost wellbeing and energy levels. Build up any new disciplines slowly and surely.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Changes to your circumstances can begin with a shift in your understanding, and with a willingness to embrace more of yourself and more of life. This could be your choice over coming days, as a potent influence encourages you to step out of your comfort zone. A missed opportunity may show up again Pisces, and making the most of it might be a game-changer.

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