TheNational Science Foundation (NSF) in a report
Thursday did not mention any plans to rebuild the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope and instead is proposing an educational center to focus on STEM (sci ence, technology, engineering and mathematics) research.
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón said Thursday that she was disappointed.
“While we know the titanic challenge that is the construction of a new radio telescope that can surpass the previous 305-meter telescope, the fact that this possibility is not being explored by the NSF in its new plans disap points us,” the resident commissioner said in a statement.
The telescope was destroyed in 2020 after a 900-ton metal platform suspended above it collapsed.
The NSF issued a solicitation Thursday for a new multidisciplinary, world-class educational center at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that would serve as a hub for STEM education and outreach.
The center would expand upon existing education and outreach opportunities currently in place at the Arecibo Observatory site, while also implementing new STEM programs and initiatives. The new center is expected to open next year.
The scientific community has expressed broad sup port for an expanded educational facility. Specifically, the 2020 Decadal Survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics, or Astro2020, recognized that the observatory has, over the course of its nearly 60-year history, become a highly regarded part of the community for many of Puerto Rico’s citizens, serving as a source of pride and local economic
benefit while also providing access to training and em ployment for many in the community. Astro2020 called out support for its continuation as an important nexus for education, community, and developing a diversified STEM workforce, the NSF said.
The goals of the center would be to promote STEM education, learning and teaching; support fundamental and applied STEM and STEM education research; broaden participation in STEM; and build and leverage existing and new collaborations and partnerships.
The solicitation calls for proposals to manage the edu cation, STEM research, and outreach aspects of the center. Resources available on site include: a learning center, the Ángel Ramos Foundation Science and Visitor Center, exhibition space, laboratory space, auditorium, cafeteria, office space and dormitories. A third-party contractor will be responsible for maintenance of the site resources listed above, in addition to grounds maintenance.
NSF program directors will work with awardees who have ongoing NSF-funded activities at the Arecibo Observatory to ensure continuity of programs.
“The solicitation does not include rebuilding the 305-meter telescope or operational support for current scientific infrastructure, such as the 12-meter radio tele scope or Lidar facility,” the NSF said. “Teams seeking to utilize existing scientific infrastructure or proposing new projects can submit proposals that are complementary to the scope of the new center. All proposals will go through the standard NSF merit review process. Inter ested parties are advised to contact an NSF program director in their program area to discuss the proposal prior to submission.”
Agriculture Committee Chairman Jorge Alfredo Rivera Segarra this week held the sixth public hearing related to the ReGrow Program, a federal initiative that consists of an allocation of $92.5 million in funds to help small farmers affected by Hurricane Maria, whose income from farming is less than $350,000 annually.
“As of today, only 288 cases have been addressed with $19 million disbursed, out of the $92.5 million available. This is the same situation we have seen before, where bureaucracy kills initiatives of this type,” Rivera Segarra said. “This is aggravated because, on top of the damage caused by Hurricane Maria, there is also the damage caused by Fiona.”
“House Resolution 347 allowed us to investigate how these funds have been allocated. Originally ReGrow was assigned to the Department of Housing [DV], which assigned it to the Science and Technology Trust,” the lawmaker noted.
“In August last year, the central government transferred the project to the Department of Agriculture [DA]. The farmers complain that the heavy and immense bureaucracy has tremendously limited the allocation of funds.”
Mayra Texidor López, for the Housing Department, and Jorge Campos, for the Agriculture Department, testified at the hearing. Currently, 160 cases filed by farmers have been denied; according to the guidelines established by the DA, “many are cases that do not comply with the cost-benefit, income that is not consistent with the project, or because of cases of bankruptcy,” Campos said.
Rep. Lisie Burgos Muñiz presented at the hearing documentation of a case that was rejected four times, and now its operation has been halted due to the floods caused by Hurricane Fiona.
“In that case, the ReGrow Program applies for damages from Hurricane Maria only,” Texidor López pointed out.
Currently, Campos said, the Department of Agriculture
grants up to $5,000 for damages caused by Hurricane Fiona.
Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli questioned how the DA and DV granted subsidies to ‘start-up’ type initiatives when they had not been created before the passage of Hurricane Maria.
“ReGrow is supposed to be for established agricultural businesses that suffered damage,” she said.
She also asked the deponents how many start-ups have benefited, and the deponents did not have the information at hand. On that issue, among others, the Agriculture Committee gave the deponents three days to submit the information.
On Oct. 25 of last year, the Puerto Rico Farmers Association, through its president, Héctor I. Cordero Toledo, called on the Housing Department to take action on the process of disbursement of the allocated Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funds. The ReGrow Program started in December 2020 and closed in April of this year.
“At that time, the program had $92.5 million allocated, for which $20 million had been directed for administration
and $72.5 for farmers,” Rivera Segarra said. “That’s the information we have at the moment. Once again, we are seeing how the bureaucratic tangle delays the processes and hinders the recovery of Puerto Rican agriculture.”
New loan program available for farmers & agribusinesses
For those farms damaged by Hurricane Fiona, Agriculture (DA) Secretary Ramón González Beiró announced a new Emergency Loan Financing Program on Thursday.
The financing, which will be granted through the Agricultural Development Innovation Fund (FIDA by its Spanish acronym) is aimed at individual farmers, agribusinesses, agro-industries, agricultural cooperatives and value-added companies.
González Beiró said the financing, whose interest rate is 4 percent, can be used for the items included in the Emergency Program for Investments, Equipment, Works and Permanent Improvements, and other emergency aid granted by the agricultural regions. Also, the money can be used for operating capital, purchase of consumables, rehabilitation of structures, non-incentivized equipment, and inventory of seeds and animals.
The two categories included in the Emergency Loan Financing Program are term loans with financing ranging from $5,000 to $150,000 and non-incentive term loans with funding of up to $300,000.
Any agribusiness owner eligible for the DA Emergency Program grant and in need of more funds can apply for the Emergency Loan Financing Program through FIDA.
More information can be attained by visiting the FIDA office on the second floor of the Agriculture Department at 1309 Manuel Fernández Juncos Ave., San Juan, or by communicating via e-mail at nvidal@agricultura.pr.gov, gfebus@ agricultura.pr.gov and through the eight agricultural regions around the island: Mayagüez, San Germán, Arecibo, Caguas, Ponce, Naranjito, Utuado and Lares.
TheHighways and Transportation Authority (ACT by its Spanish initials) Executive Director Edwin González Montalvo confirmed on Thursday that after the approval by federal judge Laura Taylor Swain of the agency’s debt adjustment plan, increases in tolls will begin in January.
“Tolls are the only fixed income that the Highways and Transportation Authority has. The tolls will be for debt service to pay the debt, which is now more reasonable,” González Montalvo said in a radio interview. “It will be a more comfortable payment in that sense because the debt is smaller.”
“Tolls are going up,” he said. “What was achieved is that the fiscal control board wanted increases of 8.3% for the
first few years and that was basically cut in half, achieving savings on the payment of the ACT debt in our projections that was not necessarily an increase as drastic as the one that the board was proposing.”
The highways director noted that the intention of the Financial Oversight and Management Board was to recover the debt with increases which had not been charged since 2005.
“There will be annual increases until that debt is paid off,” he said.
“It is an important agreement for Puerto Rico. It brings us closer every day to where the fiscal control board is no longer necessary, reduces the debt of the [ACT] and allows us to focus on that debt service and the projects that will result in a better quality of life,” González Montalvo said.
He said the ACT’s assets -- tolls -- were combined under a Toll Office, which will segregate funds that are from toll roads from those that are not.
Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia was adamant Thurs day that he wants Wayne Stensby removed as president of LUMA Energy.
“Do you anticipate the departure of Wayne Stens by governor?” asked NotiUno programming director Alex Delgado.
“I already said it. I don’t have to say it with name and surname,” the governor replied. “Yes, I am asking for a change at the highest level in management so that performance improves, period.”
Meanwhile, Pierluisi praised LUMA Energy’s di rector of renewable energy projects, Daniel Hernández Morales, who served as spokesman for the consortium in the process of restoring electricity service after Hur ricane Fiona.
“He communicated correctly, consistently, was available to the media at all times, and spoke in ‘rice and beans,’” the governor said. “And that is a break
through. I have to say it because he’s ours. He’s Puerto Rican and he did a great job.”
Could Hernández eventually become the head of LUMA?
“That’s an internal decision of LUMA,” Pierluisi said. “They are responsible for their own actions, for fulfilling the contract they have.”
He also said in the interview that he demanded of the president of Quanta (one of LUMA’s parent com panies), Earl “Duke” Austin, that the private operator of the island’s electricity transmission and distribution system has to improve communication, especially with the mayors, and insisted that they have to have to increase the number of permanent employees in Puerto Rico.
“No emergency personnel or subcontractors and stuff, they have to increase staff on the street …” he said. “If they had more staff on the street, the response to an event like the one that just happened would have been faster.”
The Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities and its Protection and Advocacy for Voting Accessibility Program this week held the first ‘Go Voter’ workshop for people with disabilities
to vote in an accessible, private and independent way.
“This initiative is generated by the nonprofit organi zation SABE (Self Advocates Becoming Empowered) to enable people with disabilities to vote in an accessible and informed way, both in general elections, primaries, referendums, and plebiscites,” said Gabriel Esterrich Lombay, coordinator in Puerto Rico of the Program for the Protection and Defense of the Rights of Voters with Disabilities. “This project is currently being carried out in 37 states in the United States, and [the Go Voter] workshop is the first to create a group here in Puerto Rico. The dynamic is that people already trained, with knowledge and experience in the subject, educate community leaders to increase the number of people who help in the voting process.”
As part of the program’s institutional mission to pro mote an accessible voting process, the electoral events held by the State Elections Commission, as well as the primaries held by the political parties, are supervised.
“Thanks to the cumulative effect of the educational and oversight work we carry out, in the recent primaries held in Humacao, Aguas Buenas and San Juan, among other municipalities, we have experienced a notable improvement in the accessibility of the voting centers,” Esterrich Lombay added. “Both election officials and the general public are becoming aware of the impor tance of defending the electoral rights of people with disabilities.”
The acting head of the Office of Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities, Loida Oliveras,
pointed out that the Help America Vote Act explicitly requires that voters with disabilities can vote privately and independently. The Americans with Disabilities Act, meanwhile, requires accessibility and equal treatment in public services such as voting.
“What we are working on is innovative in the sense of illustrating through workshops, that eventually people with disabilities themselves will offer, how important voting is for people with disabilities and how to train others about voting and accessibility in the electoral process for all Puerto Rican citizens,” Oliveras said.
AlthoughGov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia says he wants to appoint a women’s advocate, at the moment he has no candidate.
“That appointment is pending, but I have the desire to do it,” the governor said earlier this week in response to questions from the press. “So as soon as we have the right person, I will do it.”
When asked if he would submit the appointment during the current legislative session, Pierluisi answered: “It would be positive, but I will announce it at the ap propriate time.”
“There are different candidates, and I have not made my decision, but I want to make it in due time because it would be positive for me to make this appointment soon,” he said.
According to Article 4 of Law 20 of 2001, the ap pointee for the Women’s Advocate Office (OPM by its Spanish initials) “must be a woman of recognized capacity, professionalism and independence of opinion who has distinguished herself by her commitment to defending the rights of women and in the fight for the elimination of all manifestations of oppression, marginalization, and discrimination.”
Some names that have been considered are former
Gov. Pedro PierluisiSen. Zoé Laboy Alvarado and Rep. Wanda del Valle Cor rea, but feminist organizations have endorsed neither. Enid Pérez of Proyecto Matria mentioned in August that they would not accept the appointment of a fundamentalist. Irma Lugo, from the Gender Equity Observatory, said that “as far as I understand, since May, that position had been available for a new advocate, but at that time, there was Lersy Boria, who later resigned because she had
another position available.”
“We wanted to know if there was going to be compli ance with Law 20,” Lugo added. “I understand that some candidates were discussed.”
“The governor had asked at PARE committee [for Gen der Violence Prevention, Support, Rescue and Education] meetings about possible candidates, and in the statistics and research subcommittee of the PARE committee, one of our statements was that we were the only civil organization participating there, and we gave good recommendations,” Lugo said. “Many were well taken, but we realized that many committee members had no decision-making power. It was important for them to make those decisions. The people representing the Women’s Advocate Office were very silent, which worried me.”
Lugo pointed out that “the concern is that in the OPM, there should be a person who is knowledgeable about the issues, active, who does the job of supervision, not of pro viding services, because that is not her job,” Lugo pointed out, adding that the governor has a letter provided by the PARE committee with acceptable candidates.
“Which candidates were recommended in the letter to Pierluisi?” the STAR asked.
“I am not authorized to say, but it is good to tell the governor that he has a letter from the organizations,” Lugo noted. “Are these candidates being considered?”
The STAR tried to reach other feminist organizations on Thursday, but text messages and calls went unanswered.
Althoughit recognized the “laudable purpose” of the leg islation, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) opposed a bill Thursday that enhances oversight over the use of federal funds.
OMB officials made their remarks at a House Treasury Committee hearing.
House Bill 1230, authored by Reps. José B. Márquez Reyes and Jesús Santa Rodríguez, would create the Federal Funds Em powerment Law and establish the Federal Funds Empowerment and Oversight Commission that would be attached to the OMB.
The legislation also provides for the creation of the Federal Funds Monitoring and Evaluation System (SMEFF), a cyber por tal to manage the processing cycle of applications for federal funds, and the publication of proposals to provide transparency in the use of funds.
“We are aware of the importance of establishing regulations to improve the use and management of federal funds in the government,” OMB adviser Roberto Rivera said. “However, we believe that the main problem is not solved with more regulations, but by strengthening existing structures, providing the necessary tools to our public servants regarding applicable regulations, and executing existing regulations.”
According to the measure’s explanatory memorandum, the OMB has not issued any binding regulations on the use of federal funds and currently, those grants are not subject to the normal budget process despite the various administrative orders promulgated by the agency.
In response to that statement, the agency said it modified its organizational structure this year to include the new Di rectorate of Federal Grants, whose responsibility is to assist various government agencies and municipalities in managing their federal funds.
Likewise, the agency stated that it was “focused” on strengthening communication channels with entities related to the issue of federal funds, such as the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration in Washington, D.C. and the Puerto Rico Planning Board, to evaluate new proposals.
As for establishing that the Empowerment and Oversight Commission would be in charge of regulating federal funds, the OMB believed that it could be interpreted as an “undue interference” by the state.
The agency considered that such a commission could also entail a challenge of continuity because the appointments of its members are for positions of trust and would be subject to shift changes in the government. Similarly, the legislation provides that one of the members must have five years of experience in
managing and fulfilling federal grants.
According to the OMB, the latter regulation could create a conflict of interest since people with experience in the field of federal funds are generally consultants or advisers for federal programs in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico has been plagued with cases of corruption but they have involved the use of state funds and not federal funds.
Rep. José B. Márquez ReyesTheTreasury Department’s inspector general is investigating whether Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida mi sused pandemic relief money when he orchestrated the transport of two plane loads of Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last month.
The inquiry came in response to a request from congressional Democrats, who accused DeSantis, a Republican, of violating federal law by using money the state had been given to combat the impact of the pandemic for what they described as an “inhumane program to relocate newly arrived immigrants out of Florida.” The flights to Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts, originated in Texas but were paid for by Florida.
“For the sake of the migrants who were lured onto charter planes under false pretenses, and for the commenda ble commonwealth residents who rallied together to offer support, I hope that this investigation sheds light on whether Gov. DeSantis misused funds that were inten ded for COVID relief for Floridians,” said Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., who was among the lawmakers who requested the investigation.
About 50 migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard last month on the Florida-funded flights, escalating a tactic in which Republican-led states, including Texas, have shipped busloads of migrants to liberal enclaves such as Washington and New York to protest the rise in illegal immigration under President Joe Biden.
It is not illegal for states to pay for the travel of immigrants who have been released from federal custody. The maneu ver by DeSantis raised questions about the funds that Florida was using, although Treasury guidance suggests the state may be on firm legal footing.
Watchdogs across the federal go vernment have been tracking the use of stimulus funds to root out cases of fraud and improper spending. Despite the Bi den administration’s efforts to encourage states to use aid money in ways that are in line with its economic agenda, many
The $90 Migrants who had been flown to Martha’s Vineyard are taken to a bus for a ferry to the mainland in Edgartown, Mass., Sept. 16, 2022. The Treasury Department’s inspector general is investigating whether Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida misused pandemic relief money when he orchestrated the transport of two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last month.
used the funds to subsidize tax cuts or other projects unrelated to the pandemic.
Inspectors general and other federal investigators have been scrambling to keep track of the $5 trillion in aid that has been deployed to prop up the economy since the pandemic emerged in 2020. Billions of dollars have been stolen or misused, and states and cities have found ways to work around restrictions that were supposed to be embedded in the law.
The Florida Legislature this year set aside $12 million for a state program to transport immigrants lacking permanent legal status to so-called sanctuary desti nations. The program was funded with interest generated from the $8.8 billion in aid that the state had been given through the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan of 2021.
In a letter to the lawmakers, Richard K. Delmar, the Treasury deputy inspector general, confirmed that his office would look into how the money had been de ployed and said he hoped to quickly start work on the matter.
A spokesperson for DeSantis said that the state’s Office of Policy and Budget
had already been in touch with Treasury’s inspector general to make clear that using interest from the funds to transport immigrants lacking permanent legal status voluntarily to sanctuary jurisdic tions was permissible under the Treasury Department’s guidance.
“Reviews by Treasury are typical,” said Taryn Fenske, communications di rector for DeSantis.
Despite the inquiry, it appears that Florida’s use of the funds may be allowed under Treasury guidelines.
The Treasury Department created clear rules for how states and cities could use their $350 billion in stimulus funds. However, state and local governments were given broad discretion regarding how the interest generated from that money can be deployed. According to the Treasury Department’s guidance, “recipients can place funds in interestbearing accounts, do not need to remit interest to Treasury and are not limited to using that interest for eligible uses” under the pandemic grant program.
When DeSantis first proposed re locating immigrants last year, his office noted that the guidance gave him the leeway to use interest on the pandemic aid to fund the program.
Following the relocation of the mi grants, Biden accused DeSantis of using human beings as political props. However, the White House said that the two did not discuss the matter last week when Biden visited Florida to assess the damage from Hurricane Ian.
The Biden administration is creating a humanitarian parole program for 24,000 Venezuelans who have been fleeing poli tical instability and poverty. The program would allow sponsors in the United States to apply and commit to providing refugees with financial assistance while they are in the country.
ply for the program either.
The administration said its plan for Venezuelans was based on what it described as the success of the Uniting for Ukraine program, which was instituted after Ukrainians — fleeing the Rus sian invasion — made their way to the U.S. border from Mexico. The Biden administration has since welcomed more than 100,000 Ukrainians, through the parole program and other resettlement measures. The Department of Homeland Security said there are no limits on the number of Ukrainians who can come to the country under the program.
While the Ukrainian program received bipartisan support, Republicans have been less welcoming to the Venezuelans, more than 150,000 of whom have been apprehended at the U.S. south western border from October 2021 through the end of August.
“These actions make clear that there is a lawful and orderly way for Venezuelans to enter the United States, and lawful entry is the only way,” Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security sec retary, said in a statement about the new program on Wednesday.
Announcing a new policy less than a month before the midterm elections is a calculated and political decision by the White House, John Thomas, a Republican strategist, said.
“This is more of an effort to soften people’s anger on what’s happening on the southern border,” Thomas said. “It also gives the administration a talking point that they are ‘doing something.’”
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TheBiden administration this week announced it would ac cept up to 24,000 Venezuelans via a humanitarian parole plan, although the scope of the program was far narrower than a similar one for Ukrainians.
The parole plan would grant Venezuelans a narrow legal pathway to the United States, and the administration hopes those eligible will apply for it remotely and fly to the United States rather than making the dangerous trek to the southwest border.
The Department of Homeland Security also said it would expand its use of a public health rule to start expelling to Mexico Venezuelans who illegally cross the U.S. border.
But it is not clear that the humanitarian parole and expansion of Title 42 will significantly stem the number of border crossings, as Venezuelans make up only a fraction of the migrants crossing illegally.
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The reliance on a Trump-era pandemic rule crystallized the Biden administration’s balancing act in helping refugees and tightening border restrictions in the face of Republican attacks on President Joe Biden’s immigration policy and record numbers of illegal border crossings. And there is no guarantee that just 27 days before the midterm elections, it will have the desired effect.
Until now, the majority of Venezuelans who crossed into the United States have not been expelled under the public health authority, known as Title 42. Instead, they were screened and re leased into the country temporarily to face removal proceedings in immigration court, where they have the option to apply for asylum.
Advocates for immigrant rights have been urging the White House to create a humanitarian parole program for migrants from particularly unstable countries, including Venezuela. But they are not supportive of a plan that ties humanitarian parole to expelling thousands of other Venezuelan migrants to the dangerous northern border region of Mexico.
“It’s great to be expanding access to humanitarian parole, but it can’t come at the cost of additional harm to asylum-seekers,” said Raha Wala, deputy director for legislative advocacy for the National Immigration Law Center. “Title 42 is a cruel, Trump-era, anti-immigrant policy that deserves to be relegated to the dustbin of history, not expanded.”
Escaping poverty and political instability, more than 6.8 mil lion Venezuelans have fled their country since 2015, according to the United Nations. Most went to other South American countries.
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Venezuelans who apply for the humanitarian parole program must have someone in the United States who can show that they are able to financially support the migrant for up to two years. During the application process, the government will assess the sponsor’s finances and vet the applicants, who will also have to have certain vaccinations and comply with other public health requirements. Venezuelans who are granted the humanitarian parole will be allowed to work legally in the United States and have more stability than those who face removal proceedings.
In addition, any Venezuelan who enters Mexico or Panama illegally or has permanent resident status, dual nationality or refugee status with another country is ineligible for the parole program. Venezuelans who have already been released in the United States to face removal proceedings are not eligible to ap
But in the past year, more and more have been making their way to the United States. In August, Venezuelans made up about 12% of those who crossed the southwestern border illegally. While a majority of migrants who do so are expelled back to their country or to Mexico under the public health order, the U.S. government has not been able to repatriate Venezuelans because of minimal diplomatic relations between Washington and Caracas. And — until now — Mexico has not been willing to take in Venezuelans from the United States.
The humanitarian parole program announced Wednesday appears to be a much more limited version of earlier proposals. One under consideration as recently as last week included Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans, according to officials briefed on the discussions. It was not immediately clear why these nationalities were ultimately left out.
Migrants wait to be transported to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility after they crossed the Rio Grande River into the United States from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas., on May 16, 2022.Thefamilies of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims Wednesday won nearly $1 billion in damages from Infowars fabulist Alex Jones, a devastating blow against his empire and a message from the jury that his lies and those of his followers have crippling consequences.
Jones, who for years said the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, was a government hoax, now faces financial ruin. But it is unclear how much money the families will ultimately collect.
The families and their lawyers sat in stunned silence as the court clerk read one by one the sums awarded to each of 15 plaintiffs in the case. After court was adjourned, they hugged one another quietly, weeping.
The largest award went to Robbie Parker, who received $120 million. For years on his Infowars show and website, Jones singled out Parker, whose daughter Emilie died at Sandy Hook, as an actor whose televised tribute to Emilie a day after her death was “disgusting.”
Parker, who has endured online abuse, harassment and death threats since, formed the centerpiece of the Connecticut case. “Every day in that courtroom, we got up on the stand, and we told the truth,” he said. “Telling the truth shouldn’t be so hard, and it shouldn’t be so scary.”
Parker added, in a nod to Jones’ followers, “For anybody that still chooses to listen to that man, just ask yourself, what has he ever given you?”
In all likelihood Jones does not have the money to pay Wednesday’s award. In August a forensic economist estimated that Jones’ empire was worth a maximum of $270 million, but that same month Jones put his parent company, Free Speech Systems, into bankruptcy. Jones claimed that a debt of $54 million — owed to a company he controls — had made him insolvent.
But Jones’ annual revenues have topped $50 million in recent years from hawking diet supplements, survivalist gear and gun paraphernalia on his broadcasts. He has also used the Connecticut trial as well as a trial this past summer in Texas — in which he was ordered to pay two Sandy Hook parents about $50 million — to solicit donations to his legal fund and boost his product sales.
The Sandy Hook families have challenged the bankruptcy in court, saying the filing is an effort to avoid paying what are mounting damages awards.
Jones, unrepentant, livestreamed the jury’s verdict Wednesday on his Infowars show. “They
Alex Jones outside Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., on Sept. 22, 2022. Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, must pay close to $1 billion to the family members of eight victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary and an FBI agent who responded to the scene of the 2012 massacre, which killed 20 first graders and six educators.
covered up what really happened, and now I’m the devil,” he said. “I’m actually proud to be under this level of attack.”
Wednesday’s award was divided among the 15 plaintiffs in the Connecticut case, which included parents, siblings, children and spouses of eight victims, and an FBI agent who was implicated in the bogus theories, which falsely claimed that the families were actors in a government plot to enact gun control and that the massacre never happened.
Over two weeks of testimony in the Connecticut trial, the families showed how Jones ignored years of pleas and demands that he stop airing Sandy Hook falsehoods because they boosted Infowars’ product sales. In court, the witnesses shared wrenching stories of harassment by conspiracy theorists who believed Jones’ lies — including death and rape threats, confrontations and messages threatening to defile and dig up the victims’ graves. The jury also heard Jones’ explosive and evasive testimony and saw data demonstrating the theories’ extensive online reach.
During his testimony, Parker described a 2016 episode in which he was accosted in Seattle — four years and thousands of miles away from the massacre — by a man who launched a profanity-laced tirade, asking Parker how much money he had made from the government for faking his daughter’s death at Sandy Hook.
In mid-2018, the families of 10 victims
filed four separate defamation lawsuits against Jones, later combined into three. Beyond stopping Jones, the families said the lawsuits aimed to draw attention to an explosion of harmful disinformation and false narratives spread by people with powerful social media platforms who were seldom held to account.
Once an obscure conspiracy broadcaster in Austin, Texas, Jones garnered national attention in the aftermath of Sandy Hook, when his explosive defense of the Second Amendment brought him mainstream media coverage.
His staunch support for former President Donald Trump, who appeared on Jones’ show while a candidate for president, ushered Jones
from the extremist fringe to the center of Trumpera Republican politics.
He has had a role in spreading virtually every incendiary lie to dominate headlines over the past decade, including Pizzagate, the false claim that Democrats trafficked children from a Washington pizzeria; the “great replacement theory” that ignited deadly neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, Virginia; COVID-19 vaccine lies; and the 2020 presidential election falsehoods that brought a violent mob to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Today, nearly one- fi fth of Americans believe high-profile mass shootings have been staged, usually by the government.
Jones is now under scrutiny by the Justice Department and the House Jan. 6 committee for his role in planning events adjacent to the Capitol insurrection, which he broadcast live.
Jones for years refused to supply analytical data, business records or testimony ordered by the courts in the lawsuits, which were filed in Texas, where Infowars is based, and the current one in Connecticut. Late last year judges in both states ruled him liable by default, granting the families a sweeping victory that set the current damages trials in motion.
“Just to get to a trial in front of a jury is a huge accomplishment, given the extreme measures Alex Jones has taken to try to avoid that,” said Alinor Sterling, a lawyer on the families’ legal team. “His attack on these families has been a dehumanizing attack, and one of the ways to restore a sense of balance and community and humanity is to try this case in front of a jury.”
A third and final damages trial — in a defamation case brought by Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, whose son Noah Pozner was killed at Sandy Hook — is tentatively scheduled for late this year, but the date has not been set.
About70 million Americans collecting Social Security will receive an 8.7% bump in their benefits next year, the largest raise since 1981, according to the Social Security Administration. That will provide some measure of relief to retirees struggling with soaring prices on everyday necessities, from groceries to housing.
Prices have remained stubbornly high over the past year, even as federal policy makers have taken aggressive measures to rein them in. Social Security is designed to keep pace with inflation through its costof-living adjustment, or COLA, which is calculated annually. Starting in January, the increase will lift the typical monthly retiree benefit by $140 to $1,827. That follows a 5.9% increase for 2022, another four-de cade high at the time.
“That is breathing room,” said Gloria Hinojos, 75, a retiree in Hacienda Heights, California, who stands to receive roughly $182 more each month, and relies largely on her benefit check to cover her monthly expenses. That includes rent of roughly $1,200 to $1,350 each month, which pays for the land her mobile home sits on, and includes utilities.
The increase — which will help about 52.5 million people 65 and older and 12 mi llion people with disabilities, among others — is based on the Labor Department’s latest report on the consumer price index, relea sed Thursday, which said that prices increa sed 8.2% in the year through September.
The coronavirus pandemic created conditions that led to the fastest pace of in flation in decades. Disruptions in the supply chain emerged just as consumers, flush with
Security
stimulus payments, were demanding more goods, leading to price increases. That dyna mic worsened earlier this year when Russia invaded Ukraine, pushing up the cost of fuel and food.
Sustained price increases are particu larly painful for retirees, many of whom rely on Social Security for a significant share of their household income.
For Ted Padgett, 81, and his wife, Bar bara, 78, it’s their only source of income. Both worked at a furniture manufacturer near their home in Galax, Virginia, for deca des. Ted Padgett said he assembled furniture and did maintenance work, while she wor ked on the furniture’s final touches, such as spraying on finishes.
Together, their checks amount to
roughly $1,900 a month. But after paying for Medicare, their supplemental health coverage and rent, there’s only about $700 left to cover groceries and everything else. Two months ago, the couple started to visit a food bank. The couple also hunts for deer, which provides many meals during the win ter months, from tenderloin to burgers.
“It’s rough,” Padgett said. “We used to go and buy what you needed and it would be maybe $60. Now, you go buy the same thing and it would be $140. It really went up.”
Many retirees depend almost entirely on Social Security checks. But even retired households 65 and older who are squarely in the middle of the income distribution, with an average annual income of about $41,000, relied on Social Security for a little more than half their income in 2019, accor ding to calculations by the Center for Reti rement Research, using data from the Sur vey of Consumer Finances that year. (Other analyses found that people may be less re liant.)
Social Security also helps lift millions of older Americans above the poverty line, which stood at $12,880 for an individual as of 2021. A greater number of people 65 and older — about 10% — slipped below last year, up from 8.9% in 2020. It was the first increase since 2016, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. One likely culprit:
More older people, particularly those with lower incomes, were forced into an early re tirement because of the pandemic, experts said.
“A significant increase in the COLA is most welcome, but it doesn’t solve the increase in poverty we saw on the 65-plus numbers,” said Ramsey Alwin, president and chief executive of the National Council on Aging, a nonprofit advocacy group for older adults. “To us, it’s a warning bell. The se numbers will increase in the future unless we shore up the programs we need to age well.”
Though the financial health of Social Security improved slightly in 2021 from the previous year thanks to a rebounding eco nomy — when more people are working, the program collects more taxes on wages — it faces a longer-term shortfall. The trust fund that pays retiree benefits will be deple ted in 2034, at which time its reserves will run down. When that happens, incoming tax revenue will be enough to cover only 77% of all scheduled benefits. If no action is taken, all benefits will shrink by 23%.
Demographic shifts have led to that imbalance. More baby boomers are collec ting payments. Retirees are living longer. At the same time, a declining birthrate has produced fewer workers contributing to pa yroll taxes — the primary source of Social Security funds. The payroll tax is split bet ween employers and employees, who each paid 6.2% of wages, up to a taxable maxi mum of $147,000, in 2022. Next year, up to $160,200 of earnings will be subject to these taxes.
There are two ways to close the fun ding gap: raising payroll taxes or trimming benefits, both of which require congres sional approval. But so far, legislators have done little to address the problem.
This year, retirees will also get to keep more of the annual bump to their Social Security check. Last year, Medicare benefi ciaries had to absorb a big increase in their premiums, which are deducted from their checks. But this year, for the first time in more than a decade, premiums will decli ne. The standard monthly premium for Me dicare Part B — which covers doctor visits and outpatient hospital services — will be $164.90 in 2023, or $5.20 less than it is this year, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Street’s main indexes reversed people to commercialized higher by aboriginal day con nected Thursday arsenic stocks affected by mac roeconomic changes gained, brushing speech rate-hike jitters aft a astonishment emergence successful inflation.
The Dow outperformed, portion the S&P 500 scale and Nasdaq Composite picked up from league lows, with analysts reckoning that the indexes perchance person deed the bottommost arsenic stocks languish heavy successful the carnivore marketplace territory. “There are nary sellers left,” said Thomas Hayes, managing subordinate astatine Great Hill Capital Llc successful New York. “No question that we’re astatine oregon adjacent (the bottom).”
Markets were sharply little earlier successful the time aft header user terms scale gained astatine an yearly gait of 8.2% successful September, compared with an estimated 8.1% rise. Core CPI, which excludes volatile nutrient and substance prices, gained 6.6% past month, compared with the estimates of a 6.5% rise. The speechmaking was over much higher than a 6.3% emergence successful August.
The study follows information connected Wednes day that showed U.S. shaper prices accrued much than expected successful September. Markets present terms successful a adjacent 91% likelihood of a 4th consecu tive 75-basis-point hike by the Fed astatine its gathering adjacent month, with immoderate besides pricing suc cessful a 9% accidental of a 100 bps rise.
Cyclical parts of the market, including the S&P 500 financials, vigor and materials assemblage indexes, rose ate betwixt 2% and 3%. Big Wall Street banks volition kick-off third-quarter reporting play connected Friday, with investors awaiting to spot however a precocious interest-rate situation would impact their profit.
Analysts expect nett for S&P 500 companies to person risen conscionable 4.1% from a twelvemonth ago, overmuch little than an 11.1% summation ex pected astatine the commencement of July, accord ing to Refinitiv data. “We knew we were astatine an utmost inflection constituent and to spot the market place rally connected atrocious quality is really truly a motion of assistance due to the fact that it conscio nable shows the selling has exhausted, the atrocious quality is already known and present we’re going into net play with precise debased expectations,” said Hayes.
At 12:23 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Aver age was up 526.53 points, oregon 1.80%, astatine 29,737.38, the S&P 500 was up 49.12 points, ore gon 1.37%, astatine 3,626.15 and the Nasdaq Com posite was up 87.00 points, oregon 0.84%, astatine 10,504.10. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc roseate 4.2% pursuing better-than-estimated fourth-quarter results.
Russianmissiles pummeled civilian tar gets in Ukraine again Thursday, brin ging the death toll from a four-day ba rrage to more than three dozen and adding urgency to Ukraine’s demands for more aid.
The European Union said Thursday it would train Ukrainian soldiers on EU soil, the first time the bloc has undertaken such a mission within its territory. Its pledge is the latest in a series of swift new promises of mi litary help from the United States and other Western nations.
As defense officials from NATO countries meet in Brussels to discuss expediting wea pons to Ukraine, the United States is working to deliver two air-defense systems, the White House said. Ukraine said it had received the first of several ultramodern air-defense sys tems from Germany.
Still, top Western defense officials have acknowledged that Kyiv needs yet more weapons after the barrage of strikes President Vladimir Putin of Russia ordered Monday that killed at least 19 people across Ukraine — including areas such as Lviv, in the west, and Kyiv, the capital, that had been relatively unscathed for months — in retaliation for an attack on a bridge that connects Russia with the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
Putin said the explosion was a terrorist attack and blamed Ukraine. Kyiv has not officially claimed responsibility, but senior
Ukrainian officials have said Ukrainian inte lligence carried out the blast.
Russia’s attacks have targeted civilian in frastructure, including electrical lines, and have included areas away from the front lines as well as cities that have been struck repea tedly throughout the seven-month war.
Some 40 cities, towns and villages around the country had been struck since Wednesday morning, the Ukrainian military said, with officials reporting that 17 people
had been killed Wednesday. A drone attack hit the Kyiv region Thursday, adding to anxie ty in a region mostly spared from strikes, but the capital was otherwise mostly calm.
A strike Thursday left people buried un der the rubble of an apartment building in Mykolaiv, a city near the Black Sea coast that attacks have targeted since the war began. Eight missiles landed overnight in Mykolaiv, the head of the regional military administra tion, Vitaliy Kim, wrote on the Telegram mes
saging app Thursday.
The city’s mayor, Oleksandr Sienkevych, said the top two floors of the building were “completely destroyed.” An 11-year-old boy was rescued after spending six hours buried in the crumbled five-story building, Kim said. In a later post on Telegram, he said rescuers searching the building had recovered the bo dies of a 31-year-old man and an 80-year-old woman.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a senior official in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, said 11 people were killed in missile strikes Wed nesday in the Dneprotrovsk region of cen tral Ukraine and one person was wounded. He said on Telegram that two people were killed and 13 others wounded in the hardhit southern Zaporizhzhia region, while in the Mykolaiv region two people were killed Wednesday and six others were injured.
The Zaporizhzhia region has borne the brunt of Russia’s recent attacks. The regional police chief said at least 73 people had been killed there since late September, including 30 who died when three missiles hit a con voy of people leaving the main city Sept. 30.
Russia has in the past denied that it tar gets civilian areas and accused Ukraine of shelling civilians in areas of the country that Moscow and its proxy forces control. On Thursday, the pro-Russian mayor of the city of Donetsk, Alexei Kulemzin, said on Tele gram that Ukrainian shelling had damaged a hospital in the city. His comments were reported by Russia’s state news agency, Tass.
Saudi
Arabia pushed back Thursday aga inst U.S. threats to punish the kingdom for agreeing with Russia and other oilproducing countries to cut output, saying the decision last week was based purely on eco nomic reasons.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry, in an unusual statement, said that the Biden administration had urged the kingdom to delay the produc tion cuts for one month. Such a delay could have prevented price hikes at the gas pumps that might harm Democratic candidates in the U.S. midterm elections Nov. 8.
But the Saudis said that they had disregar
ded the U.S. request because they feared that such a delay “would have had negative eco nomic consequences.”
The statement was the latest evidence that the dispute over oil production was ratcheting up tensions between the United States and Saudi Arabia, whose relationship has already been strained by disagreements over how to treat President Vladimir Putin of Russia after his invasion of Ukraine, American concerns about Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, and Saudi worries that Washington had given up its commitment to the kingdom’s security.
After the cartel of oil-producing countries known as OPEC+ announced an output cut of 2 million barrels per day last week, President
Joe Biden vowed that there would be “con sequences” for the kingdom, without defining what they might be.
Some members of Congress went further, accusing the Saudis of siding with Putin, who also benefits from higher oil prices, and dis cussing legislation that would cut arms sa les to Saudi Arabia or allow lawsuits against OPEC+ members for price-fixing.
The Saudi statement Thursday appeared to be an attempt to tamp down the tensions, sta ting the kingdom’s “total rejection” of the idea that it was playing politics with its oil. Such thinking, the statement said, portrayed the de cision “out of its purely economic context.”
The Saudi Foreign Ministry praised the
relationship with the United States as “a stra tegic one that serves the common interests of both countries.”
The statement went on to say that “any at tempts to distort the facts about the kingdom’s position regarding the crisis in Ukraine are unfortunate,” an apparent reference to the accusation that it was siding with Russia. It underscored this point by referring to Saudi votes on United Nations resolutions related to the war.
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states vo ted at the U.N. on Wednesday to condemn Russia’s annexation of four eastern Ukrainian territories, backing a resolution that deman ded Moscow reverse course.
Kateryna Smovzh mourns over the grave of her fiancée, Ukrainian soldier Vasyl Vasiliovych Kurbet, 41, who died earlier this month from injuries sustained in combat near Bakhmut, in the eastern Donbas region, at a cemetery in Bucha, Ukraine on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022.taking a few steps back to get a running start, Hadj Benhalima dashed toward the building, pushed against its wall with his foot, propelled himself upward and stretched out his arm.
At the peak of his leap, he flipped off a light switch, more than 10 feet off the ground. A click sound rang out, and the bright lights of a nearby barbershop went off instantly.
“Oooh,” his friends cheered, as Ben halima, a thin 21-year-old dressed all in black, landed back on the sidewalk. It was the sec ond store sign he had turned off on a recent nighttime tour across Paris’ upscale neighbor hoods. Many more would follow as he soared up and dropped back down across the city.
Over the past two years, groups of young athletes practicing Parkour — a sport that consists of running, climbing and jumping over urban obstacles — have been swinging around big French cities switching off waste ful shop signs at night, in a bid to fight light pollution and save energy.
Videos of their feats, showing SpiderMan-like aerialists clinging to stone facades and balcony edges before plunging streets into darkness with the flick of an elevated switch, have been popular on social media since the start of the trend.
But these so-called Lights Off opera tions have become extra resonant in recent months, with France embarking on energy conservation efforts to cope with Russia’s chokehold on Europe’s gas.
Paris, the City of Light, is a favorite tar get. While its landmark monuments now go dark earlier than usual, many store signs still stay lit all night.
“Everyone can contribute in their own way” to save energy, said Kevin Ha, the lead er of the Paris-based On The Spot Parkour collective, with about 20 members. “We put our physical abilities to good use.”
Several times a month, Ha and his compatriots can be found vaulting their way around Paris, on the hunt for electric adver tising signs perched above awnings or illumi nated store names.
They search out the small emergency switches installed outside storefronts, usually about 9 to 13 feet high. Most of the time these switches control only outdoor signs, mean ing the group cannot extinguish the window displays bathing a store’s interior in golden, if wasteful, light.
While scaling other people’s property
to turn off their lights may strike some as a form of trespassing, the Parkour athletes — or nonviolent vigilantes, to some — insist their activities are only about enforcing seldomrespected rules.
More than a decade ago, Paris City Hall issued orders requiring stores to turn off all signs and window displays from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m., but the ordinance is widely ignored with little consequence.
“For 10 years there has been no followup, no control, no sanction,” said Anne-Marie Ducroux, the head of the National Asso ciation for the Protection of the Sky and the Night Environment, which has long lobbied to increase efforts against light pollution.
That is why On The Spot members have taken matters into their own hands. The group often converges on the so-called Golden Tri angle neighborhood, in western Paris, the epicenter of French luxury, where elegant Haussmann-era buildings with cream-colored facades line the streets.
Enforcing the orders in place of the au thorities certainly enters a legal gray area. But the group said all the police officers they have met during their rounds have approved of the initiative — as long as it causes no damage. And they have the full support of the City Council.
“They are right to take action,” said Dan Lert, a Paris deputy mayor in charge of the en vironment. “It’s also thanks to them that we’ll put an end to these shocking habits.”
Dali Debabeche, another On The Spot member, said these nighttime missions al lowed him to hone his Parkour skills while “sending a message” about environmen tal protection. “We kill two birds with one stone,” he said.
Ha, 30, said the On The Spot collec tive was inspired by the Wizzy Gang, from Rennes, France, the first Parkour group to come up with the idea of acrobatically turn ing off store signs. A slick video of one such performance they posted on Instagram in 2020 reached over 700,000 views. Soon af ter, similar initiatives popped up across the country.
“We’re kind of a generation that is bear ing the brunt of global warming,” said Ma thieu Brulard, 27, a Wizzy Gang member. He added that he no longer believed “that the so lution will come from political leaders,” and that these lights-out patrols were just the lat est example of a younger gen eration ready to take action.
Smaller cities across France are supposed to abide by government-issued lightsoff decrees similar to the one in Paris, rules which authori ties said could save enough electricity to power 750,000 households every year.
On a recent nighttime expedition, five members of On The Spot were in their el
ement. The streets around them glowed with dazzling signs for beauty and sport shops, and the shiny facades of luxury clothing bou tiques.
“Terrific,” said Benhalima, eyeing the scene with obvious excitement. Spotting the glaring sign of a French bank where he has an account, he rushed to climb a gutter and turn it off. “My favorite one,” he said with a grin.
By the end of their tour, at 3:30 a.m., they had turned off nearly 40 signs.
Many of the targeted stores did not re spond to requests for comment about the Par kour activities. Those that did said their signs were on at night because of issues with their automatic lighting control systems.
Some employees said they did not know about the decrees and questioned the legality of the group’s activity. “Are they even allowed to do this?” a perfume shop employee asked.
The “Lights Off” movement has per haps never been more relevant than today, with France moving toward what President Emmanuel Macron called a new era of en ergy “sobriety.”
Paris authorities recently started switch ing off ornamental lights that grace monu ments earlier than usual, part of a plan to cut energy use by 10% this winter.
The government also published a de cree just this month standardizing lights-out rules for illuminated advertising signs through out France. They now have to be turned off from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.; violation is punishable with a 1,500 euro ($1,480) fine.
But Ducroux, the lobbyist, said the new rule lacked the necessary ambition amid the current energy crisis.
The parkour initiative, however, may be having the desired effect.
Ha said he had noticed that in recent months, several shops had stopped leaving their lights on after his group targeted them. He hopes others will follow suit.
“At least, I’ll sleep better,” he said.
Defying a lethal crackdown in cities across Iran, protesters demanding the ouster of Iran’s Islamic Republic have driven their uprising into a fourth week, with workers from the country’s vital oil sector going on strike this week and activists call ing for further work stoppages and protests Wednesday.
Despite efforts by Iran’s security forces, including the feared plainclothes Basij mili tias, to crush the protests, they have only wid ened. Some have turned into chaotic street battles, with security forces opening fire and protesters fighting back and refusing to give ground, according to witnesses, rights groups and videos of the clashes on social media.
The internet and popular communica tions applications in Iran have been disrupted for weeks, making it difficult to confirm the true toll of the government’s crackdown on the protests, which have been led and in spired by women from their start in mid-Sep tember. But human rights groups said Tues day that at least 185 people had been killed, including 28 children, with thousands injured or arrested so far. The government said that 24 of its security forces had been killed and about 2,000 wounded.
The protests were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police after they arrested her under the country’s rule requiring women to wear dress modestly and cover their hair in public. Iran’s security forces claimed she died
of a heart attack, but her family said she had been killed by blows to her head and was healthy at the time of her arrest.
The government’s violent crackdown has been intense in many cities across the country, and in recent weeks, it has escalated in the Kurdish region where Amini lived and the protests began.
One city there, Sanandaj, about 250 miles from Iran’s capital of Tehran, came un der intense fire over the weekend, according to residents, rights groups and videos posted on social media. Security forces indiscrimi nately opened fire on residents and homes and threw tear gas into residential buildings, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 400, according to the Kurdish rights group Hengaw.
Since the protests began in September, two teenage girls have joined Amini as the faces of the uprising, appearing on posters and street art across the country, their names chanted as rallying cries and trending on Per sian-language Twitter. The girls — Nika Shakarami and Sarina Esmailzadeh, both 16 but from different towns — went missing af ter they joined the protests in September, their families only learning their fates af ter authorities suddenly re turned their bodies.
The government claimed that the girls had
killed themselves by jumping from buildings. But family members immediately rejected those accusations, telling the media and hu man rights groups that the girls had been beaten to death.
Last week, Iran’s supreme leader, Aya tollah Ali Khamenei, broke weeks of silence over the protests, accusing the United States and Israel of aiding the demonstrators, and voicing support for the security forces’ ac tions.
But scenes like those this month at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran — Iran’s most elite academic institution, where authorities shot rubber bullets into crowds of young people and beat and arrested dozens, according to witnesses — have reverberated, outraging even some Iranians who had for merly supported the revolutionary govern ment.
Iran has been rocked by nationwide protest movements before, most notably over contested election results in 2009 and over the economy in 2017 and 2019. Those also brought a swift and deadly reaction from au thorities.
But the current uprising has not only been able to survive weeks of crackdown at tempts; it has also grown and taken a tone directly threatening the country’s theocratic leadership, with women burning their hijabs, campuses erupting into protest, and march ers chanting, “Death to the dictator!” and “We don’t want an Islamic republic!”
Activists called for another nationwide protest Wednesday and called for workers and businesses to join.
Workers in the oil and energy sector have staged strikes for two days. On Monday, workers from the Abadan and Kangan oil re
fineries and the Bushehr Petrochemical Proj ect in Asaluyeh went on strike, and a video showed the workers in Asaluyeh blocking a road and chanting, “Death to the dictator!” Eleven workers were arrested Tuesday, but the walkouts continued, according to media reports, and more were expected Wednes day.
Strikes that could further damage the economy, particularly those called by the unions representing the bazaar merchants and the oil and energy sector, carry a heavy weight in Iran’s history. During the 1979 Is lamic Revolution, strikes in those sectors were a powerful tool that accelerated the Shah’s collapse.
Amnesty International and rights groups sounded the alarm Tuesday about the violence unfolding in Sanandaj, the city in Iran’s Kurdish region, which has a strong tradition of civil society and organized op position parties.
Rebin Rahmani, director of the Francebased Kurdistan Human Rights Network, said that it had identified four demonstrators killed by security forces in Sanandaj since the protests began, including a man in his 20s who was shot in his car by a plainclothes se curity officer.
The official response has mostly been dismissive. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday compared protesters to flies and labeled them enemies during a speech at a university campus. Afterward, university demonstrations took on a new chant: “Raisi, get lost!”
The head of the country’s judiciary, hard-line cleric Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, has played a central role in the crack down on protesters, officials say. But on Sun day, he appeared to be attempting damage control, saying that he was ready for dialogue with protesters and that the government was willing to make “corrections” to policies.
But many Iranians viewed Mohseni Ejei’s gesture as insincere and instead took it as a sign that the state was realizing that crackdowns alone might not resolve the cur rent crisis.
The government is also facing increas ingly vocal criticism for its handling of the crisis from its power base, including some conservative politicians. Mohammad Sadr, a member of the powerful Expediency Council that advises the supreme leader and has over sight over the government, said Tuesday that Amini’s death had ignited “pent-up frustra tions, demands and rage, especially among the young generation,” and added that “you cannot rule by force.”
a theory about the future of America that I don’t want to come true.
It is a theory that worries me and that I have written about: that with the browning of America, white supremacy could simply be replaced by — or buffeted by — a form of “lite” supremacy, in which fairer-skin people perpetuate a modified anti-Blackness rather than eliminating it.
The racist comments revealed this week on a recording of Latino leaders in Los Angeles — three City Council members and a labor union leader — did nothing to allay those fears.
In the recordings, the Council president, Nury Martinez, who resigned as Council president on Monday and resigned from the Council on Wednesday, offered the most egregious comments. She insulted people in the crudest, most racially offensive ways, comparing a colleague’s Black son to a monkey and appearing to insult Oaxacans — people from the dispro portionately Indigenous Oaxaca region of Mexico — by calling them “little short dark people” who are “ugly.”
But what disturbs me most is the racial, ethnic tribalism of her political calculations. After all, the recording is of a mee ting to discuss the city’s once-in-a-decade redistricting pro cess. This is a meeting about power, about who can be helped — or hurt — by how districts are drawn.
On the recording, when the former Los Angeles Coun ty Federation of Labor president, Ron Herrera, says, “I’m sure Katz and his crew have an agenda,” referring to t former state
Assembly member Richard Katz, who is Jewish, Martinez res ponds that the Jews “cut their deal with South LA.”
Even more directly, Martinez dismisses one official by sa ying, “[expletive] that guy … He’s with the Blacks.”
I don’t want to suggest that the people on that call are representative of society at large, but I do understand that poli tics is a full contact sport and that it divides people into groups. Sometimes those groupings are around policy and vision. So metimes they are around more basic things like identity and culture.
To be clear, I believe in representative distribution of poli tical power. Los Angeles is nearly half Latino. There should be strong, unapologetic Latino political power in that city. In fact, underrepresentation is a problem that continues to plague the Latino community.
As Paul Barragan-Monge, the director of mobilization for the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, explained this week about Hispanic power in California, “Despite making up 39% of the state population, they only constituted 18.4% of executive appointments in the governor’s leadership cabinet.”
That imbalance must be remedied. The problem this re cording poses is that the people on the call seem to see power among the city’s constituents as a zero-sum game, and in that game, they openly disparaged other groups because of their identities.
Instead of allying with other disadvantaged groups, they diminished them. Their discussion was anti-Black, anti-Indige nous, anti-Jewish.
They were doing the work of white supremacy. And not because they see white power as one and the same as their own. At one point in the recording, while discussing whether Council member Mark Ridley-Thomas, who is Black, will con tinue to be paid after his indictment on corruption charges, Martinez says, “It’s not us. It’s the white members on this cou ncil that will [expletive] you in a heartbeat.”
Intra-minority racism is complex in some ways, but simple in others.
Racism is perpetuated by those who benefit from it. AntiBlack racism benefits those whose appearances are least Black. White supremacy benefits those who are white, or those who are white-adjacent in both appearance, culture and affect.
I, too, wish that we were destined for the idealized future that some activists long for: an America that, as it becomes less
Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times.white, also becomes less racist and more racially egalitarian and accepting.
But that hopeful future isn’t destined, no matter how much more racially tolerant we believe our children are, no matter how much more often racial diversity is presented in pop culture, no matter how often we have multicultural pot lucks at work.
That is in part because some of the allyship we experience is performative. During the Summer of Protest in 2020, you would have thought that Martinez stood in solidarity with Black people and Black lives. She filed a motion to reduce funding to the Los Angeles Police Department — to defund the police — and she issued a tweet endorsing the policy, saying:
“Today we intrdcd a motion to cut funding to the LAPD, as we reset our priorities in the wake of the murder of #Geor geFloyd & the #BlackLivesMatter call that we all support to end racism. This is just one small step. We cannot talk about change, we have to be about change.”
She supported an end to racism in public, but perpetuated it in private.
Even in the part of the recording where she refers to the Black child as a monkey, she is explaining that she was with that child on a Martin Luther King Day parade float full of Black and brown people.
The unfortunate reality is that anti-Black white suprema cy is not confined to white people or to Republicans, even though they court it and coddle it. Martinez is a Democrat in an overwhelmingly Democratic city.
The fallacy is to believe that every person in every com munity that has been oppressed by white supremacy will reject it. That’s simply not true, for some see oppression as having a perch: You must be elevated to perform it. In that way, being in a position to oppress becomes aspirational; being anti-Black — and being able to skirt most anti-Blackness — becomes a sorting device. It is an achievement. It is most American.
EL CAPITOLIO – El senador independiente José “Cha co” Vargas Vidot radicó el jueves, la Resolución Conjunta del Senado 342 para designar con el nombre de “Sandra Zaiter” la sede del Departamento de Educa ción, con el fin de homenajear el trabajo de la educa dora quien recientemente falleció.
“Esto es lo mínimo que podemos hacer para reco nocer y darle las gracias a Sandra Zaiter, quien tanto hizo por la educación de los niños y las niñas del país”, expresó el senador Vargas Vidot en declaraciones escri tas.
De ser aprobada la Resolución Conjunta del Sena do 342, el Departamento de Educación de Puerto Rico hará la correspondiente designación del actual edificio
o cualquier edificio que en su futuro sea designado como la oficina central o sede del Departamento con el nombre de “Sandra Zaiter”.
Zaiter falleció el pasado 25 de septiembre de 2022 a sus 78 años de edad, dejando un gran legado en el campo educativo como animadora de programas infan tiles, cantante, compositora, escritora, música y peda goga.
La educadora también recibió muchos reconoci mientos, tanto por su labor en el arte como en el campo social. Como ejemplo recibió un doctorado de la Uni versidad Interamericana en 1993, fue merecedora del premio Tradición de Excelencia en Desarrollo infantil en 1997 cuatro años más tarde se le otorgó la Meda lla Servicio Público de la Fundación Felisa Rincón de Gautier.
asunto a las decisiones de l presidente José Luis Dal mau Santiago.
“Muy triste para todos los populares esa informa ción. Es una consecuencia directa de la decisión que tomó el presidente en términos de no realizar ninguna actividad por las razones que él ha explicado pública mente. Pero no deja de ser una consecuencia de esa decisión. Distinto a la decisión que tomó en torno a su comité de campaña”, dijo Ortiz en conferencia de prensa.
partido activo, un partido unificado, es parte fundamen tal para que la gente se motive a aportar, claro está”.
“Aquí no se trata, por lo que ha dicho el presidente, de que aquí no se han hecho intentos de recaudo y el dinero no ha llegado. Él ha planteado que él determinó no hacer ninguna recaudación”, señaló Ortiz.
EL CAPITOLIO – El representante del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Jesús Manuel Ortiz catalogó el jueves como un asunto “muy triste” para los populares el estado de las arcas de esa colectividad y adjudicó el
“A los populares yo les puedo asegurar que lo que nos corresponde es recuperar el tiempo perdido y que el Partido Popular va a tener los recursos que necesita para cumplir con el trabajo que nosotros tenemos de frente”, añadió.
Sostuvo que para poder aumentar los recaudos de la pava, “tienen que percibir un partido organizado, un
Asimismo Ortiz levantó bandera de la transparen cia al señalar que de cara a las elecciones del PPD en la que el presidente actual, José Luis Dalmau Santiago participará a la presidencia, para que abra a la parti cipación de todos los candidatos a la presidencia a la administración de la elección.
“En esta ocasión, el presidente aspira a un proceso, pues lo adecuado y lo que le da transparencia al pro ceso es que haya participación de todos los candidatos en la medida en que se administre esa elección. Para mi eso es fundamental que ocurra”, dijo.
nados.
S AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Depar tamento de Salud (DS) reportó el jueves, sobre 94 casos positivos confirmados, 470 casos probables y trece muertes.
Las personas fallecidas fueron 8 hombres y 5 mujeres entre las edades de 28 a 92 años de las re giones de Arecibo, Bayamón, Fajardo, Mayagüez, Metropolitano y Ponce. Cinco de ellos estaban sin vacunas al día, 4 con vacunas al día y 4 no vacu
El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 27 de septiem bre de 2022 al 11 de octubre de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está en 13.25 por ciento.
Hay 134 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 16 es tán en intensivo. Mientras, 19 menores están hospi talizados y 2 menores están en intensivo. 10 adultos están en ventilador y un menor.
Las personas con vacunas al día son 1,054,113 personas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,206.
leading lady, but, she said in a New York Times interview in 2009, she was not comfortable trying to climb that ladder.
“I wasn’t very good at being a starlet,” she said. “I didn’t want to pose for cheesecake photos and that kind of thing.”
Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones on sta ge during the 70th Tony Awards presentation at the Beacon Theater in New York on June 12, 2016.
By DANIEL LEWIS Angela
Lansbury, a formidable actor who captivated Hollywood in her youth, be came a Broadway musical sensation in middle age and then drew millions of fans as a widowed mystery writer on the long-running television series “Murder, She Wrote,” died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 96.
Her death was announced in a statement by her family.
Lansbury was the winner of five Tony Awards for her starring performances on the New York stage, from “Mame” in 1966 to “Blithe Spirit” in 2009, when she was 83, a testament to her extraordinary stamina. Yet she appeared on Broadway only from time to time over a seven-decade career in film, theater and television in which there were also years when nothing seemed to be coming up roses.
The English-born daughter of an Irish ac tor, she was 18 when she landed her first movie role, as Charles Boyer’s cheeky Cockney ser vant in the thriller “Gaslight” (1944), a preco cious debut that brought her a contract with MGM and an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. She received a second Oscar nomination in 1946, for her supporting performance as a dance hall girl in “The Pictu re of Dorian Gray.”
It was a giddy start for a young woman who at 14 had fled wartime London with her mother and had only recently graduated from New York’s Feagin School of Dramatic Art. Lansbury imagined she might have a future as a
It might also have been a matter of bo nes. Her full, round face was not well suited for the dramatic lighting of the time, which favo red the more angular looks of stars like Lauren Bacall and Katharine Hepburn. In any event, she appeared in many a forgettable film before breaking out as the glamorous, madcap aunt in “Mame” on Broadway.
MGM regularly cast her as an older wo man, or a nasty one. Of the 11 movies she made after “Dorian Gray,” perhaps her most notable role was in “State of the Union” (1948), with Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, in which she played a newspaper magnate trying to get her married lover elected president.
On to Broadway
Lansbury made her Broadway debut in 1957 in “Hotel Paradiso,” a translation of a 19th-century French farce. Good reviews en couraged her to try more theater work. She returned to Broadway in 1960 as the alcoho lic single mother of a pregnant teenager in “A Taste of Honey.”
In 1964, she was cast as a corrupt mayor in the Arthur Laurents-Stephen Sondheim mu sical “Anyone Can Whistle.” A notorious failu re, it closed after 12 previews and nine perfor mances, but it showed she could summon the right stuff for live musical performance. “I had a little, high soprano, and they wanted a belter,” she said in 2009. “So I learned how to belt.”
Lansbury was anything but a shoo-in for the coveted lead in “Mame,” the Jerry Herman musical adaptation of Patrick Dennis’ novel “Auntie Mame,” which had already been adap ted into a stage play and a movie, both starring Rosalind Russell and both great successes.
Russell did not want to play Mame again. Mary Martin was cast but opted out. More than a dozen other actors, including Judy Garland, Doris Day and Hepburn, were said to be under consideration. But Lansbury was one of the few willing to audition for the role in front of the show’s creative and financial principals.
In a Life magazine cover article about the show and her part in it, she recalled that the re had been many distracting interruptions by
men in dark glasses, compelling her to sing the songs over again. “Then they said, ‘Goodbye, thank you.’ That was all,” she said.
Back home in Malibu, California, with her husband, Peter Shaw, an MGM executive, and their teenage children, Anthony and Deir dre, she waited for months for a call from the East. Finally, she flew to New York and con fronted the producers.
“I am going back to California,” she re called telling them, “and unless you tell me — let’s face it, I have prostrated myself — now, yes or no, that’s the end of it.” That afternoon, she got an official yes.
Lansbury won her second Tony for best actress as the 75-year-old Countess Aurelia in “Dear World,” a 1969 musical adaptation of “The Madwoman of Chaillot.” The production itself was not well received and closed after 132 performances. For a while, though, it held the distinction of charging the highest ticket prices on Broadway: $12.50 for the best seats (the equivalent of about $105 today).
She then returned to Hollywood, where she played an aging German aristocrat in “So mething for Everyone” (1970), a rare cinematic effort from Broadway producer and director Harold Prince, and a witch in the Disney mo vie “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” (1971).
Over the next decade, Lansbury wor ked mostly on the stage, in London and New York. She starred as Mama Rose in a revival of “Gypsy,” which opened in London and won her a third Tony when it reached Broadway in 1974. She won yet another for her performan ce as Mrs. Lovett, the baker with a grisly source of meat for her pies, in Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s “Sweeney Todd,” with Len Cariou in the title role, which opened in March 1979 and ran for 557 performances.
Success on the London stage closed a circle for Lansbury.
Angela Brigid Lansbury was born in London on Oct. 16, 1925, and grew up there in upper-middle-class comfort, the daughter of Moyna MacGill, an Irish actor, and Edgar Lansbury, a timber merchant and politician who was the son of a Labour Party leader, George Lansbury. Her father died of stomach cancer when she was 9; her grandfather died five years later, and that loss, together with the Blitz, prompted her mother to move to the United States with Angela, her half sister and her twin younger brothers.
“We left everything behind,” Lansbury recalled. “Suddenly, we just weren’t there an ymore.”
For all her stage success, Lansbury would capture the biggest audience of her career in
1984, when she was cast as mystery writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the CBS se ries “Murder, She Wrote.”
It was widely believed that the series, whose protagonist was a bicycle-riding widow living in a small town in Maine, had little chan ce against sexier competition like the action crime drama “Knight Rider” on NBC. The con ventional wisdom was that advertisers would not go after the older audience the show was likely to attract.
“We were getting condolences even before we went on the air,” Richard Levinson, one of the show’s creators, recalled. “At best, we hoped that it would be a marginal success.”
Instead, the show became a huge hit. In its second season it outdrew Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated anthology series, “Amazing Stories,” by more than 2 million viewers a week, and it went on to run until 1996.
“What appealed to me about Jessica Flet cher,” Lansbury said in an interview with the Ti mes early in the show’s second season, “is that I could do what I do best and have little chance to play — a sincere, down-to-earth woman.”
She received 12 successive Emmy nomi nations for her portrayal of Jessica Fletcher, but she never won.
Lansbury remained active on television (she returned to her signature role in four madefor-television “Murder, She Wrote” films) and in
movies, notably the Disney animated hit “Beau ty and the Beast” (1991), in which she was the voice of the talking teapot Mrs. Potts. And there were more Broadway performances to come. Neither arthritis nor hip and knee replacements could keep her off the stage for very long.
She starred with Marian Seldes in the Terrence McNally comedy “Deuce” in 2007, and played eccentric medium Madame Arcati in the 2009 revival of Noël Coward’s “Blithe Spirit,” earning Tony No. 5 — a total excee ded only by Audra McDonald and Julie Harris with six each (including Harris’ lifetime achie vement award). Lansbury received another no mination for her performance later that year as Madame Armfeldt in a revival of the Sondheim musical “A Little Night Music.”
Although she never won an Oscar or an Emmy, Lansbury received an honorary award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2013 for creating “some of cinema’s most memorable characters” and “inspiring ge nerations of actors.” A year later, she was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II.
Shaw, her husband, died in 2003. An earlier marriage to Richard Cromwell, an American actor, ended in divorce after less than a year. Lansbury is survived by her sons, Anthony and David; her daughter, Deirdre; a brother, Edgar; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Theopportunity to drink really old wines is a rare joy, not solely because of what’s in the glass. Crucial to the experience is history. What was happening in the world the year the wine was pro duced? Some might argue that the wine itself is all that matters, but history and the imagination are what gives wine meaning, adding to it a beautiful, important, often joyous and sometimes poignant dimension.
That’s why many people commemorate the birth of a child with wines of the same vintage or search for a wine made the year of their wedding. Aged wines have the power to bring to life events that took place long ago. They tangibly express the passage of time.
Bottles like those have great personal meaning. But when the vintages coincide with profound histori cal events, the significance of the year and the wine are amplified, as are the emotions that go with it.
For that reason, when I recently received an in vitation to a small dinner arranged for the purpose of drinking wines produced during World War II, I leaped at the opportunity.
Partly it was the rare chance to taste wines roughly 80 years old. In Europe’s vineyards, growers and pro ducers labored under wartime conditions. French vi gnerons also endured the brutal, terrifying conditions of Nazi occupation, all against the backdrop of the deportation of Jews and others and the horrors of the Holocaust.
Their perseverance is testimony to their courage and ingenuity as well as to the cultural importance of wine in France, where it was regarded as something of a national emblem worth protecting with one’s life.
It’s difficult all this time later to imagine the years beginning in September 1939, right around harvest time, when Germany invaded Poland, and France and Britain declared war on Germany.
France’s army mobilized, disrupting the harvest as young vignerons and other agricultural workers left their fields behind to fulfill their military obligations. Women, whose myriad responsibilities did not ordinar ily include vineyard and cellar work, and the elderly were left to oversee the harvest and wine production.
The 1940 vintage in France was far worse as Ger many had invaded France in June and occupied the northern half of the country, while putting its Vichy col laborators in charge of the rest.
Over the next few years, from Champagne in the north to Burgundy in the east and Bordeaux in the southwest, the Germans looted cellars of precious old er bottles while requisitioning much of the current and future production for their own troops and population.
In turn, French winemakers went to great lengths to hide their best bottles from the Germans and to sabo
tage the wine bound for Germany. The stories of these vignerons, both harrowing and heroic, are recounted in fascinating detail in the superb book “Wine and War” by Don and Petie Kladstrup.
Difficulties did not stop at danger and duress. Basic materials for farming and winemaking were ex ceedingly difficult to come by. Copper sulfate, a crucial component in preventing mold and mildew in vine yards, was reserved for the German war effort. Glass for bottles was scarce.
At one point, later in the war, large producers were even ordered to distill half their production for use by the Germans as solvents and fuel.
Where to find a wine that survived the war
The centerpiece of the tasting, which was held in Darien, Connecticut, was French wines, including three 1942 Bordeaux — from Cheval Blanc; LynchBages; and Climens, a Barsac, the sweet sibling of Sau ternes — and two from ’43, Gruaud-Larose and Petrus, all superb producers.
There was a Burgundy, a ’42 Nuits-St.-Georges from L’Héritier-Guyot, which today is better known as a distillery but apparently at one time was a négociant, and a 1945 Huet Le Mont Moelleux Perlant, a sweet wine that was intended to be sparkling as well.
From outside France, we had a 1943 Giacomo Conterno Monfortino Barolo, which would have been harvested under German occupation after the collapse of Fascist Italy earlier that year, and two bottles from Spain, a 1941 Vega Sicilia Único and a 1943 Rioja Reserva from Marqués de Riscal. We also had a 1941
cabernet sauvignon from California, harvested a few months before Pearl Harbor.
While several of these were from producers that are among the greatest in the world, I will confess that I was particularly looking forward to the Petrus, a Pomerol that today is among the most coveted and ex pensive wines in the world. Pomerol, and Petrus, were little known back then, however, except among a small circle who recognized the quality of the producer and the region despite their lack of renown.
It was the Petrus that had been the impetus for the dinner. In early 2020, Philippe Newlin, a wine indus try veteran who is director of Bordeaux and fine wine at Wine.com, an online retailer, was browsing internet auction sites looking for older bottles he could serve to the wine classes he teaches at Columbia Business School and the Yale School of Management.
He was surprised to see a bottle of 1943 Petrus available for under $3,000, not at all cheap but far less than current vintages, which sell for around $5,000 a bottle. He rounded up a couple of collector friends to join him in buying the bottle.
It was something of a risk. Wine fraud is an ongo ing problem, and Petrus is among the bottles most sub ject to counterfeiting. This particular bottle had been listed by an owner who said he bought it on his hon eymoon in Paris in 1973 and held onto it since then. As best as Newlin could tell, the label looked to be correct.
What’s more, wine counterfeiters tend to focus on the best vintages, which fetch the highest prices. The ’43 vintage is not in that category. While you can’t rule out fraud, it seemed to the buyers a reasonable gamble.
With the bottle in hand, they wondered whether they could build a World War II-era dinner around it. They spoke with a few other collectors and the dinner, after two pandemic years, began to take shape. In the end, it would include Newlin, five wine-lovers who, as Newlin put it, collect wine to drink, not flip for profit, one other guest and me.
How to consume an ancient bottle
Opening 80-year-old bottles is fraught with anxi ety. Corks crumble over time, and, if you were not the original buyer, you have no idea of how the wines had been stored. Almost all these wines were intended for aging over long periods, maybe 30 or 40 years. But 80 years? It is too long to assume any bottle is still good, even if they were stored carefully and had been from the best vintages. From 1939 through 1944, only ’43 was considered better than mediocre.
Before the dinner I guessed that maybe half of them might be drinkable, the others fascinating relics. But I was wrong.
Every single bottle was not only sound, but good at the very least. It seemed miraculous to all of us.
We began with the two sweet whites, which New lin felt would go well with the opening course: sea scal lop carpaccio, prepared by chef Jeff Raider. The ’42 Cli mens, the great Barsac producer, was stunning. It was dark amber but kaleidoscopically complex, with flavors of apricot, orange, spices and, over time, caramelized sugar. It wasn’t overtly sweet, but it was refreshing. With aging, the sugar had dissipated, though the acidity re mained — “just like people,” Newlin observed.
Next came the Huet from 1945, a vintage that began in wartime and ended after the Germans sur rendered. Gaston Huet, the proprietor, whose story is recounted in “Wine and War,” had returned after five years in a German POW camp. He was in a gravely weakened condition but was able to make the ’45, a great vintage in France.
It was a tranquil wine, without the fireworks of the Climens, but with time it gained complexity, tasting a bit like candied orange zest but with an unexpectedly savory aspect. Although the wine was intended to be lightly sparkling, no trace of effervescence remained.
Then, with risotto and wild mushrooms, the pa rade of reds began.
The California cabernet apparently came from a vineyard in San Benito county. The wine was made but then sold before bottling to Sebastiani Vineyards, which stored it in redwood casks until 1947. When it was final ly bottled, August Sebastiani, then the proprietor, named it Casa de Sonoma after his own residence and sold it under the El Gavilan label. It was primarily herbal, with little fruit left, and eventually took on a beefy, bouillon flavor.
The ’42 Nuits-St.-George was pretty, with aromas and flavors of dried flowers, somewhat simple in con trast to the wines to come.
Next was the ’43 Riscal Rioja, dark and pure, fresh, balanced and seemingly young with a smoky, herbal quality. I wondered if cabernet sauvignon had been part of a blend with tempranillo, as was sometimes the case with older Riscals.
The ’43 Monfortino Barolo was wonderful, surpris
ingly pale, like a dark rosé, but, with time in the glass, it began to smell like dried roses and iron, beautifully bal anced with lingering, high-toned flavors. The ’41 Vega Sicilia, a defining Ribera del Duero wine, was rich and full, with deep, delicious flavors of chocolate, espresso and smoke.
It had been a wonderful beginning. Now, between
the risotto and the next course, filet mignon, began the small procession of red Bordeaux. Each bottle was a cu rious blue-green color, apparently the result of wartime restrictions on glassmaking that prohibited the use of certain elements that would have provided the more typical color of dark green.
First came the ’42 Lynch-Bages, an excellent Pauil lac producer, pleasant and drinkable but lacking shape or definition. On its own, its survival might have seemed miraculous, but in the company of the other bottles it paled. Next was the ’42 Cheval Blanc, a St.-Émilion from one of the great producers of Bordeaux. It was rich, full and lively, with savory flavors of oregano and cumin.
Then the ’43 Gruaud-Larose, a St.-Julien, with pep pery, gentle flavors and a hint of the pencilly graphite that is often found in wines of the Médoc. And final ly, the Petrus in its pale blue bottle. It was rich, deep and fresh, with flavors that seemed on the precipice of evolving from chocolate to tobacco, a beautiful wine.
Even so, with so many fascinating bottles, it was hard to focus on one at the expense of the others. And with the history involved, the entire experience was transporting and a bit overwhelming.
One collector, James K. Finkel, spoke warmly of his father, who had landed at Normandy in the third wave on D-Day. Newlin recalled his grandparents, who were French and endured the occupation.
“If you had relatives who were impacted by that war, you can’t help but think of them when tasting these wines,” he said.
I couldn’t help imagining, from my privileged dis tance, what it must have been like to live through those days, risking my life for my country, my family and my way of life.
I was grateful to have consumed these wines, to have understood that these in some cases were not sim ply beautiful beverages but acts of defiance, small ways of asserting one’s humanity in the most dehumanizing of circumstances, messages still echoing far away and decades later.
Puedes
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. 3:22-cv-01330-SCC.
ACTION FOR CANCELLATION OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (Segaloal, Inc. d/b/a The Hair Club). SUMMONS BY PUBLI CATION.
Unknown holders of a pro missory note of $536,000.00 executed on March 28, 2011, by Segaloal, Inc., d/b/a The Hair Club, as acknowledged by affidavit number 2,155 sworn before Héctor R. Crespo Mi lián, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mortgage Deed No. 7 executed on March 28, 2011, before Notary Public Héctor R. Crespo Milián, over the fo llowing properties, described in the Spanish language as:
COMERCIAL: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Unidad de Ofi cina marcado con el número 507 ubicado en el quinto piso del Condominio Centro Inter nacional de Mercadeo, Torre II, gobernado por el Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, y locali zado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, del municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de 1,980.619 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 184.006 metros cuadrados. Su entrada principal se encuentra en el lado Este que la conecta con el corredor común del piso. Colinda por el NORTE, en una extensión de 43’5½”,equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina número 508; por el SUR, en una exten sión de 43’5½”, equivalentes a 13.246 metros, en parte con la escalera de escape comunal y parte con el espacio comunal; por el ESTE, en una exten sión de 45’10”, equivalentes a 13.970 metros, con corre dor común del piso; y por el OESTE, en una extensión de 45’10”, equivalentes a 13.970 metros, con el espacio exterior. Le corresponde una participa ción en los elementos comunes generales del edificio igual a 1.343%. The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is recorded over this property in the Regis try of the Property of Guaynabo,
at page 119 (vuelto) of volume 1,469 of Guaynabo, property number 47,138, 6th inscription. This property secures the afo rementioned Deed of Mortgage in the amount of $183,368.42.
COMERCIAL: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Unidad de Ofi cina marcado con el número 508 ubicado en el quinto piso del Condominio Centro Inter nacional de Mercadeo, Torre II, gobernado por el Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, y locali zado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, del municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de 2,992.792 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 278.041 metros cuadrados. Su entrada principal se encuentra en el lado Este que la conecta con el corredor común del piso. Colinda por el NORTE, en una extensión de 43’5½”,equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina núme ro 501, parte con el pozo del elevador de carga y parte con corredor común del piso; por el SUR, en una extensión de 43’5½”, equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina 507; por el ESTE, en una extensión de 74’0”, equivalentes a 22.555 metros, en parte con la escale ra interior de escape comunal, parte con el pozo del elevador de carga, parte con corredor común del piso y parte con un pozo del sistema de aire acon dicionado; y por el OESTE, en una extensión de 74’0”, equi valentes a 22.555 metros, con el espacio exterior. Le corres ponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales del edificio igual a 2.029%.
The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is recorded over this pro perty in the Registry of the Pro perty of Guaynabo, at page 123 of volume 1,469 of Guaynabo, property number 47,139, 8th inscription. This property se cures the aforementioned Deed of Mortgage in the amount of $352,631.58.
Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on August 26, 2002, by the Honorable Silvia L. Carre ño-Coll , 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 López Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269. This Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general cir
culation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Com plaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause aga inst 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 30th day of August, 2022. MA RIA ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN, ESQ.CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT. By: Viviana Diaz-Mu lero, Deputy Clerk.
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19-09-072210
CA2019CV03770
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA SALA SUPERIOR CIELO VIVIENDA LLC
Demandante V. JOEL IVÁN COLÓN RÍOS, GRACIELA RIVERA MUÑOZ; OMAR MUÑOZ ROURE T/C/C EMILIO OMAR MUÑOZ ROURE (CO-DEUDOR) Y CARMEN MARÍA BUITRAGO GONZÁLEZ (CO-DEUDORA), ANTES, AHORA JOEL IVÁN COLÓN RÍOS, GRACIELA RIVERA MUÑOZ POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LAS SUCESIONES DE EDITH MUÑOZ BUITRAGO, OMAR MUÑOZ ROURE T/C/C EMILIO OMAR MUÑOZ ROURE Y CARMEN MARÍA BUITRAGO GONZÁLEZ; CARMEN VIRGINIA MUÑOZ BUITRAGO, EMMA M. MUÑOZ BUITRAGO, LEE OMAR VAASJO MUÑOZ Y JULIA VAASJO MUÑOZ TODOS COMO MIEMBROS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE EDITH MUÑOZ BUITRAGO, OMAR MUÑOZ ROURE T/C/C EMILIO OMAR MUÑOZ ROURE Y CARMEN MARÍA BUITRAGO GONZÁLEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE OMAR
MUÑOZ ROURE; SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MARÍA BUITRAGO GONZÁLEZ; MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDITH MUÑOZ BUITRAGO Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03770. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Al guacil que suscribe por la pre sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cum plimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI
CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epí grafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de ge rente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MA ÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI
CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, títu lo e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en S-401 Alturas de Mon temar, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizon tal: Apartamento número S guion cuatrocientos uno (S401) de los edificios conocidos como Condominio Alturas de Montemar con frente a la Calle Municipal, radicado en el tér mino municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, está destinado a vivienda y situado en el cuarto piso del Edificio Sur, con un área de mil doscientos uno pun to treinta y ocho pies cuadrados (1,201.38 pc), equivalentes a ciento once punto sesenta y dos metros cuadrados (111.62). Son sus linderos y distancias son las siguientes: Por el Norte, en varias distancias que totali zan treinta y tres pies tres pul gadas (33’ 3’) formando parte de la fachada lateral izquierda y espacio comunal; por el Sur, en varias distancias que totali zan treinta y tres pies tres pul gadas (33’ 3’), colindando con
el vestíbulo y escalera; por el Este, en una distancia de cua renta y seis pies seis pulgadas (46’ 6’), colindando con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento S cuatrocientos dos (S-402); y por el Oeste, en una distancia de cuarenta y seis pies seis pulgadas (46’ 6’), formando parte de la fachada delantera y espacio comunal. Consta de sala, comedor, área de cocina, área de lavandería, pasillo, un dormitorio principal con baño y dos closets, dos dormitorios con closets, un baño adicional y balcón. Su puerta principal de acceso con duce al área de descanso de la escalera que a su vez conduce al puente peatonal que discu rre hasta el estacionamiento que colinda con la vía pública. Esta unidad de vivienda tiene asignado para uso exclusivo los estacionamientos marca dos con los números ochenta y tres (83) y ochenta y cuatro (84). Este apartamento tiene una participación de dos punto trescientos setenta y siete por ciento (2.377%) en los elemen tos comunes generales del con dominio. La propiedad antes re lacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 217 del Tomo 856 de Tru jillo Alto, finca número 33,327, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $110,000.00.
Si no hubiere remate ni adju dicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SU BASTA en las oficinas del Al guacil que suscribe el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. En la se gunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $73,333.33.
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA.
Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $55,000.00. La hipoteca a eje cutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la es critura número 832, otorgada el día 4 de diciembre de 2002, ante el Notario Rafael Bras Benitez y consta inscrita en el Folio 217 del Tomo 856 de Tru jillo Alto, finca número 33,327, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, inscripción primera. Dicha su basta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al
Demandante total o parcial mente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $78,393.23 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.375% anual desde el día 1 de octubre de 2017. Dichos intereses conti núan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $11,000.00 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $11,000.00para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $11,000.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al Proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA
DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI
CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA
SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante 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 de 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 tí tulo efectuado a la finca antes descrita. 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 car gos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo teca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmi sibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamen te 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 inte reses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado ase gurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Y para conocimien to de licitadores del público en
general se publicará este Edic to de acuerdo con la ley por es pacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribu nal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edic tos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes pos teriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subas ta bajo mi firma, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de septiembre de 2022. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUA CIL PLACA #830.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
Demandante Vs. MIGUEL TORRES
Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01684.
Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: MIGUEL TORRES. EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 5 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 5 de octubre de 2022.
GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. MARTHA ALMODÓ VAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BA RRANQUITAS GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC Demandante V.
POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA QE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN Y
LA SUCESIÓN DE PROVIDENCIA BENÍTEZ SERRANO COMPUESTA POR MENGANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BQ2022CV00097. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, S. S. A: LA SUCESIÓN DE MÁXIMO DÁ VILA SANTIAGO COMPUESTA
POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN Y LA SUCESIÓN DE PROVIDENCIA BENÍTEZ SERRANO COMPUESTA POR MENGANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN.
Queden emplazados y notifi cados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alega ción responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente direc
ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá 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 discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abo gados de la parte demandante
son: Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC
1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy, 27 de septiembre de 2022. ELIZA
BETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARIELY LÓPEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA
NYDIA BENITEZ JIMENEZ Demandante V. HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION, JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIERA
PERSONA
DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE
SOLICITA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03118.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JUAN Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de (1) pagaré hipotecario: pagaré a favor Housing Investment Cor poration, por la suma principal de $62,100.00 dólares con in tereses al 8% anual, vencede ro el día 1 de febrero de 2005, constituida mediante la escri tura número 189, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día
13 de enero de 1976, ante el notario Joaquin Pedroza, inscri ta al folio 194 del tomo 551 de Carolina, finca número 27,591, inscripción 1ra.; sobre la pro piedad que se describe a con tinuación: URBAN: Residential apartment marked one thou sand seven hundred four on the seventeenth floor of Marbella del Caribe Condominium East Tower at Kilometer 0.6, of Sta te Road Number one hundred eighty seven, Isla Verde, Ca rolina, Puerto Rico, with an ap proximate area of nine hundred twelve point eighty one square feet, equivalent to eighty four point eighty square meters, bounding on the NORTH, with the exterior elements of the building and the empty space over the terrace of apartment number one thousand six hun dred four; on the EAST, with apartment number one thou sand seven hundred five; on the SOUTH, with common co rridor of same Condominium and with apartment number one thousand seven hundred three; on the WEST, with apartment number one thousand seven hundred three of same Con dominium. The dependencies of this section are described in the document. This apartment corresponds to the parking area number two hundred and twen ty-two. It corresponds to .421% in the common elements. Finca Número 27,591 inscrita al Folio 199 del Tomo 551 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ca rolina. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detallada mente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede exami narse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudien do usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le empla za por este edicto que se publi cará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac, salvo que se represente por de recho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante a la Lcda. Alyssa Rivera Rivera, a la direc ción P.O. Box 19815, San Juan, P.R. 00910. Teléfono 787-4007269, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribu nal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la De manda sin más citarle, ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA
Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy a 28 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA.
MARILYN APONTE RODRÍ
GUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIO
NAL. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA
NYDIA BENITEZ JIMENEZ Demandante V. HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION, JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIERA PERSONA
DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03118.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de (1) pagaré hipotecario: pagaré a favor Housing Investment Cor poration, por la suma principal de $62,100.00 dólares con in tereses al 8% anual, vencede ro el día 1 de febrero de 2005, constituida mediante la escri tura número 189, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de enero de 1976, ante el notario Joaquin Pedroza, inscri ta al folio 194 del tomo 551 de Carolina, finca número 27,591, inscripción 1ra.; sobre la pro piedad que se describe a con tinuación: URBAN: Residential apartment marked one thou sand seven hundred four on the seventeenth floor of Marbella del Caribe Condominium East Tower at Kilometer 0.6, of Sta te Road Number one hundred eighty seven, Isla Verde, Ca rolina, Puerto Rico, with an ap proximate area of nine hundred twelve point eighty one square feet, equivalent to eighty four point eighty square meters, bounding on the NORTH, with
the exterior elements of the building and the empty space over the terrace of apartment number one thousand six hun dred four; on the EAST, with apartment number one thou sand seven hundred five; on the SOUTH, with common co rridor of same Condominium and with apartment number one thousand seven hundred three; on the WEST, with apartment number one thousand seven hundred three of same Con dominium. The dependencies of this section are described in the document. This apartment corresponds to the parking area number two hundred and twen ty-two. It corresponds to .421% in the common elements. Finca Número 27,591 inscrita al Folio 199 del Tomo 551 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ca rolina. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detallada mente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede exami narse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudien do usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le empla za por este edicto que se publi cará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac, salvo que se represente por de recho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante a la Lcda. Alyssa Rivera Rivera, a la direc ción P.O. Box 19815, San Juan, P.R. 00910. Teléfono 787-4007269, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribu nal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la De manda sin más citarle, ni oírle.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy a 28 de septiembre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Se cretaria Regional. Lilliam Ortiz Nieves, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. WILSON ACEVEDO RIVERA, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MADELYN ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD
ROE COMO MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MADELYN ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ
Demandado(a)
Civil: HU2022CV00510. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL, COBRO DE DINERO - ORDI NARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MADELYN ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ
A SUS DIRECCIONES
CONOCIDAS: HC4 BOX 4424-4, LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771; PEÑA POBRE COMMUNITY, E STREET, LOT #334, NAGUABO, PR 00718; SOLAR 334 DE LA COMUNIDAD RURAL PEÑA POBRE, BARRIO
PEÑA, NAGUABO, PR 00718. P/C LCDO. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 04 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma.
Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de octubre de 2022. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 05 de octubre de 2022.
IVELISSE C. FONSECA RO DRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MI CHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
Ciil: MZ2021CV00730. Sala: 307. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE Y JUAN DEL PUEBLO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 5 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede es tablecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se consi derará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Co pia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de octubre de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 6 de octubre de 2022.
LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. RE BECA MEDINA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUEJO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PR Demandante Vs MYRNA LUZ RIBOT
ADORNO, DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE Demandado
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01385.
Sala: 701. Sobre: CANCELA CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIA DO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO. A: DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDOI ES DESCONOCIDOS DEL
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 5 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de octubre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ
AGOSTO, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL INTERINA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND Demandante V. JOEL O.
VAZQUEZ SERRANO
Demandado(a)
Civil: SJ2021CV07848. Sala: 403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOEL O. VAZQUEZ SERRANO. PO BOX 30750 SAN JUAN, PR 00929-1750; URB. LA PROVIDENCIA, 2 A6 CALLE 12, TOA ALTA, PR 00953-4628.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica
ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 6 de octubre de 2022. LAURA I. SANTA SÁN CHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. YOMARY BENÍTEZ MORALES; CAMEN YADIRA BENÍTEZ MORALES T/C/C CARMEN Y. BENÍTEZ MORALES; MEILING BENÍTEZ MORALES; ÁNGELES MILAGROS CRUZ LAUREANO T/C/C ÁNGELES M. CRUZ LAUREANO T/C/C ÁNGELES MILAGROS CRUZ Y ÁNGELES MILAGROS BENÍTEZ CRUZ T/C/C ÁNGELES M. BENÍTEZ CRUZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV04993. (604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ÁNGELES MILAGROS CRUZ LAUREANO T/C/C ÁNGELES M. CRUZ LAUREANO T/C/C ÁNGELES MILAGROS CRUZ Y ÁNGELES MILAGROS BENÍTEZ CRUZ T/C/C ÁNGELES M. BENÍTEZ CRUZ.
LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento
sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede es tablecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se consi derará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Co pia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 5 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 5 de octubre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Elsa Ma galy Candelario Cabrera, Se cretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA - SUPERIOR.
ESQUILIN GONZALEZ, JUAN
Vs SANTIAGO GOMEZ, LUZ EDNA
Caso: FAC2016-0035. Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HERENCIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.
FRANK POE,SU CONYUGE PATRICIA MAE
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
CONSTITUIDA POR AMBOS, JAMES TOE, SU CONYUGE JESSICA FOE
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, PERSONAS NATURALES IDENTIFICADAS CON NOMBRES FICTICIOS POR SABERSE QUE EXISTEN PERO DESCONOCERSE SUS VERDADEROS NOMBRES,SUS HEREDEROS, SUCESORES, CAUSAHABIENTES
Y/O CESIONARIOS.
IRAIDA RODRIGUEZ, JOHANY ROHENA RODRIGUEZ,YARITZA ROHENA RODRIGUEZ,CARLOS ROHENA RODRIGUEZ
Y CARLOS ROHENA
MOJICA,MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE RUBEN ROHENA SANTIAGO
Y A SU VEZ DE LA SUCESION DE ANGELICA
SANTIAGO GOMEZ, TODOS CON DIRECCION DESCONOCIDA, JORGE LUIS CORREA ROHENA,WALESKA CORREA ROHENA
Y LUIS M. CORREA ROHENA,MIEMBROS DE
LA SUCESION DE MARIA ROHENA SANTIAGO Y A SU VEZ DE LA SUCESION DE ANGELICA SANTIAGO GOMEZ, TODOS CON DIRECCION DESCONOCIDA. JANE DOE, VIUDA DE LUIS JORGE ROHENA SANTIAGO, JOHN DOE, VIUDO DE CARMEN LUZ SANTIAGO GOMEZ, PERENSEJO, PERENSEJA Y SALLY ROE, MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE JORGE LUIS RIVERA SANTIAGO Y A SU VEZ DE LA SUCESION DE ELIZABETH SANTIAGO GOMEZ Y MENGANO, EL VIUDO DE ESTA ULTIMA, TODOS CON DIRECCION DESCONOCIDA. EL SECRETARIO(A) QUE SUSCRIBE LE NOTIFICA A USTED QUE EL 29 DE AGOS TO DE 2022 , ESTE TRIBUNAL HA DICTADO SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RE SOLUCION EN ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRADA Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS DONDE PODRA USTED ENTERARSE DETA LLADAMENTE DE LOS TER MINOS DE LA MISMA. ESTA NOTIFICACION SE PUBLICA RA UNA SOLA VEZ EN UN PE RIODICO DE CIRCULACION GENERAL EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, DENTRO DE LOS 10 DIAS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICACION. Y, SIEN DO O REPRESENTANDO US TED UNA PARTE EN EL PRO CEDIMIENTO SUJETA A LOS TERMINOS DE LA SENTEN CIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION, DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTABLECERSE RE CURSO DE REVISION O APE LACION DENTRO DEL TERMI NO DE 30 DIAS CONTADOS A PARTIR DE LA PUBLICACION POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTI FICACION, DIRIJO A USTED ESTA NOTIFICACION QUE SE CONSIDERARA HECHA EN LA FECHA DE LA PUBLICACION DE ESTE EDICTO. COPIA DE ESTA NOTIFICACION HA SIDO ARCHIVADA EN LOS AUTOS DE ESTE CASO, CON FECHA DE 05 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022. LIC. BETANCOURT BETANCOURT, DALMARIS. DALMABET@GMAIL.COM. EN CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO, A 05 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APON TE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETA RIA. ANGÉLICA ROMERO CHAPARRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO BANCO POPULAR
Civil Núm.: GB2022CV00644.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓ DE PA GARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRA VIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO
POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO DESCRITO MÁS ADELANTE.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado una De manda donde se solicita se cancele el siguiente pagaré, el cual está extraviado, así como la hipoteca que garantiza su pago: a. pagaré a favor de Ban co Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $217,500.00, más intereses
a una tasa de 4.25% anual so bre el balance adeudado, con vencimiento el día 1 de febrero de 2035, suscrito el día 14 de enero de 2015 y garantizado por hipoteca constituida me diante la escritura número 5 otorgada en esa misma fecha ante el Notario Roy R. Sánchez Vahamonde-Dieppa, y consta inscrita al folio 150 del tomo 1,518, de Guaynabo. Regis tro de la Propiedad, Sección de Guaynabo, finca número 14,400, inscripción 8va. Por la presente se les emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la Lcda. Maritza Guzmán Ma tos, PMB 767, Avenida Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966, teléfono (787) 7583276, abogada de la parte de mandante, con copia de vues tra contestación a la demanda radicada en este caso contra ustedes, dentro de un término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Por la presente se les apercibe de que de no com parecer a formular alegacio nes dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la deman da, sin más citarle ni oírle. Ex pedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 11 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. MAIRENI TREINTA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE CAGUAS
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02419.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SS.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere part que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.rama judicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abo gados de la parte demandan te, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de di nero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los me ses de mayo de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además adeuda a la parte de mandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hi potecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de principal de $74,424.05 más intereses a razón del 5.50% anual desde el 1 de abril de 2020 hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha an teriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su ven cimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribu ciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $9,180.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo
según pactado. La parte De mandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIEITE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la pro piedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 181 en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comuni dad Rural Valenciano de! Barrio Valenciano del término muni cipal de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos cuarenta punto no venta y un metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela 182 de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con Pedro Borges López; por el ESTE, con Pedro Borges López; y por el OESTE, con Calle 3 de la Comunidad. Se segrega de la finca núme ro 5,300, inscrita al folio 22 del tomo 141 de Juncos. Consta inscrita al folio 192 del tomo 225 de Juncos, fina número #8,851. Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del tér mino legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Or den, acepten o repudien la par ticipación que les corresponda en la herencia de la DE LA SU CESION DE GERTRUDIS QUI ÑONES ROJAS De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones respon sivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dicta rá sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la De manda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico. A 07 de octubre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO EN EL TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE CAGUAS.
Demandante Vs. ISMAEL RIVERA ROMERO
Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2022RF00520.
Sala: 504. Sobre: DIVORCIO, RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EEUU EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO. S.S.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte Demandante ha presentado ante este tribunal una Demanda de Divorcio por la causal de Ruptura Irrepa rable. Representa a la parte
Demandante la abogada cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna
a continuación: Lcda. Beatriz Cay Vázquez RUA 18,234 P.O. Box 1809, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-1809 Tel. (787) 731-0526
Email: beatrizcayvazquez@gmail.com
Se le apercibe que si no com pareciere usted a presentar alegación sobre dicha Deman da dentro del termino de treinta (30) días a partir de la publica ción del edicto, podrá dictarse Sentencia concediendo el re medio solicitado en la Deman da. Por eI presente Edicto se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda radi cando el original de su contes tación ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ca guas y noficandole con copia de dicha contestación a la abo gada de la parte demandante
POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, expido el presente Edicto en Caguas, Puerto Rico hoy día 7 de octubre de 2022. Lisilda Martinez, Sec General. Ivelisse Gomez Falcon, Sec Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.
NELSON EDDIE RIVERA CASAN Y SU ESPOSA GISELLE CHICO MATOS, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO GRISELLE CHICO MATOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: GM2022CV00327. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: NELSON EDDIE RIVERA CABAN Y SU ESPOSA GISELLE CHICO MATOS, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO GRISELLE CHICO MATOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta
notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de octubre de 2022. En Salinas, Puerto Rico, el 6 de octubre de 2022. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. SANTA MELÉNDEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE BENJAMÍN RIVERA TORRES COMPUESTA
POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, LA SUCESIÓN DE SILVIA
BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SILVIA MARÍA
BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SYLVIA MARÍA BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SYLVIA M. BETANCOURT RAMOS Y SYLVIA BETANCOURT RAMOS COMPUESTA
POR SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, ANGÉLICA MARÍA
RIVERA BETANCOURT, JOSÉ MANUEL RIVERA BETANCOURT, POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDEROS DE BENJAMÍN RIVERA TORRES Y DE SILVIA BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SILVIA MARÍA BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SYLVIA MARÍA
BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SYLVIA M. BETANCOURT RAMOS Y SYLVIA BETANCOURT RAMOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2021CV05214.
505.
RO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: ANGÉLICA MARÍA RIVERA BETANCOURT, JOSÉ MANUEL RIVERA BETANCOURT, POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDEROS DE BENJAMÍN RIVERA
TORRES Y DE SILVIA BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SILVIA MARÍA BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SYLVIA MARÍA BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SYLVIA M. BETANCOURT RAMOS Y SYLVIA BETANCOURT RAMOS a las siguientes direcciones: URB. REXVILLE, CA7 CALLE 13, BAYAMON, PR 009574012 y 2764 CRANBROOK
AVE., NORTH PORT, FL 34286-4956. FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE BENJAMÍN RIVERA
TORRES, SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE SILVIA BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SILVIA MARÍA BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SYLVIA MARÍA BETANCOURT RAMOS T/C/C SYLVIA M. BETANCOURT RAMOS Y SYLVIA BETANCOURT RAMOS.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 2022. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Militza Mercado Ri vera, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN
JUAN
CARMEN D. ROMÁN DE BETANCOURT, T/C/C CARMEN DELIA ROMÁN, T/C/C CARMEN DELIA ROMÁN
al inscrita al folio 97 del tomo 685 de Toa Baja, finca número 4,124, inscripción 10ma. UR
PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. VENTURA TAVAREZ LAUREANO
Parte Demandada
Civi Núm.: SJ2022CV07041.
(604). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO
POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI
DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE
SIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU.,
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE P.R., SS A: VENTURA
Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha presentado una demanda de COBRO DE DINERO; EJE CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA en su contra. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y en viando copia a la parte deman dante: Lcda. Marie L. Quiñones Tañón, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la pu blicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el re medio solicitado en la deman da, sin más citárseles, ni oír seles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 5 de octubre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. FER
NÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, LUZ E., SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS
A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE TOA BAJA
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante Vs. JUAN RAMÓN
BETANCOURT
ÁLAMO, T/C/C JUAN R. BETANCOURT POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
QUE COMPONE
JUNTO A CARMEN D. ROMÁN O’NEILL, T/C/C
ONIELL; CARMEN D. ROMÁN O’NEILL, T/C/C CARMEN D. ROMÁN DE BETANCOURT, T/C/C CARMEN DELIA ROMÁN, T/C/C CARMEN DELIA ROMÁN ONIELL POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES QUE COMPONE JUNTO A JUAN RAMÓN BETANCOURT ÁLAMO, T/C/C JUAN R. BETANCOURT; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: TB2020CV00141.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: CARMEN D. ROMÁN
O’NEILL, T/C/C CARMEN D. ROMÁN DE BETANCOURT, T/C/C CARMEN DELIA ROMÁN, T/C/C CARMEN DELIA ROMÁN ONIELL POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
QUE COMPONE
JUNTO A JUAN RAMÓN BETANCOURT ÁLAMO, T/C/C JUAN R. BETANCOURT.
POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitan do la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de The Money House, Inc o a su orden, por la suma principal de $160,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 4.27% anual, la cual será ajustada mensual mente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $16,000.00, equi valente al 10% de la suma prin cipal original. Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 13,879 ante el notario Raul Ri vera Burgos. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida me diante la escritura número 471 otorgada el 29 de abril de 2009, ante el mismo notario público, inscrita bajo la ley 216-2010,
BANA: Solar mil quinientos diez y siete, Bloque S, Levittown, Barrio Sabana Seca, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos diez metros cuadra dos con cincuenta centímetros cuadrados y colinda al NORTE, en trece metros cincuenta cen tímetros, con paseo público; al SUR, igual medida, con Paseo Delta; al ESTE, en veintitrés metros, con solar mil quinientos diez y seis; y al OESTE, igual medida, con solar mil quinien tos diez y ocho. Enclava una casa de concreto para una fa milia. Finca numero 4,124, ins crito al folio 236 del tomo 47 de Toa Baja. Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Bayamón. Se apercibe y ad vierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.rama juducial.pr , salvo que se re presente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radican do el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conduc to de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Genevieve Lopez Stipes Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, den tro de los próximos 30 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación dia ria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, conce diendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy de 30 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. WANDA L. TRINIDAD SILVA, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.
Demandado(a) Civil: SJ2022CV03489. Sala: 802. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 3 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 5 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 5 de octubre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Co llado, Secretaria. Elsie Pratts Meléndez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. ROSALINA
TAPIA VELAZQUEZ
Demandado(a)
Civil: CA2022CV01092. Sala: 403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi
cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de octubre de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 12 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS
Demandados Civil Núm.: ECD2015-0320. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBAS TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. YO, NATALIA SUÁREZ ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #089, Alguacil del Tribu nal Superior, Sala de Caguas, al público en genial. CERTIFI CO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Sen tencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Honorable Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, en el caso arriba indicado venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor de contado y en mone da legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día PRIMERO (1RO) DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS NUEVE Y CUA RENTA Y CINCO DE LA MA ÑANA (9:45AM) en mi oficina, sita en el Centro Judicial de Ca guas, Puerto Rico, el siguiente inmueble: URBANA: solar nú mero Sesenta y Seis (66) del bloque “C” de la Urbanización Las Carolinas, radicado en el Barrio Bairoa del término mu nicipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico. Area del solar DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y CINCO PUN TO CUARENTA Y CINCO ME TROS CUADRADOS (255.45 m.c.).
En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de veinticinco punto sesenta y seis (25.66) metros, con el solar número Sesenta y Siete (67) del bloque “C”; por el Sur, en una distan cia de veinticuatro punto vein tinueve (24.29) metros, con el solar número Sesenta y Cinco (65) del bloque “C”; por el Este, en una distancia de diez punto treinta (10.30) metros, con el solar número Siete (7) del blo que “C”; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de diez punto treinta y tres (10.33) metros, con la calle número Tres (3) de la urbani zación. Enclava una casa dise
ñada para una familia. Inscrita al folio Ciento Treinta (130) del tomo Mil Trescientos Noventa y Uno (1,391) de Caguas, finca número Cuarenta y Nueve Mil Doscientos Ochenta y Cuatro (49,284), Registro de la Propie dad de Caguas, Sección Prime ra. Dicha propiedad está afecta a una (1) hipoteca a favor de la parte demandante, la cual se desglosa a continuación: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pa garé a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Caguas, o a su orden, por la cantidad de $75,000.00, con intereses al 6.50% anual, vencedero el primero (1ro.) de septiembre de 2038, según la Escritura núme ro 85, otorgada en Caguas, el 14 de agosto de 2008 ante la Notario Público Teresa Pache co Camacho, e inscrita al folio Ciento Diecisiete (117) del tomo Mil Setecientos Quince (1,715) de Caguas, finca número Cua renta y Nueve Mil Doscientos Ochenta y Cuatro (49,284), inscripción quinta (5ta.), Regis tro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera y modificada en cuanto a los pagos men suales y su vencimiento, que ahora será el primero (1ro.) de diciembre de dos mil treinta y ocho (2038), según la Escritura número 9, otorgada en Caguas, el 10 de febrero de 2012 ante la Notario Público Teresa Pache co Camacho, e inscrita al folio Ciento Diecisiete (117) del tomo Mil Setecientos Quince (1,715) de Caguas, finca número Cua renta y Nueve Mil Doscientos Ochenta y Cuatro (49,284), inscripción sexta (6ta.). La di rección física de la propiedad es: Urbanización Las Caroli nas, Calle 3 #C-66, Bo. Bairoa en Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725.
Se ha ordenado la venta en pú blica subasta de la finca antes mencionada para satisfacer el monto adeudado de la hipote ca y se llevará a efecto por un precio mínimo de $75,000.00 y su producto servirá a la deman dante como abono al importe de la Sentencia que ha obteni do ascendente a $72,300.55 de principal de la primera hipoteca, más los intereses devengados a razón del 6.50% anual, más la suma de $7,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado establecidos en la sentencia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondien tes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Se cretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Todo licitador deberá asumir la parte propor cional de la carga que afecta la propiedad así subastada. Si se declarare desierta la subasta señalada, la misma será nue vamente celebrada el OCHO
TA Y CINCO DE LA MAÑANA (9:45AM) en el mismo lugar antes señalado por la suma de $49,500.00, equivalente a 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo original pactado para la hipoteca. A su vez, de declararse desierta di
cha segunda subasta, la misma será celebrada por tercera y úl tima vez el DIECISÉIS (16) DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS NUEVE Y CUARENTA Y CIN
CO DE LA MAÑANA (9:45AM) en el mismo lugar antes señala do por la suma de $37,500.00, equivalente a la 1/2 parte del tipo mínimo original pactado para la hipoteca. No obstan te, si se declarare desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el proceso y se po drá adjudicar el inmueble a la parte demandante, conforme lo dispuesto en el Artículo 104 de la Ley del Registro de la Pro piedad Inmobiliaria de 2015. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de éstos sin des tinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que la propiedad objeto de ejecución está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes preferentes: 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 hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo teca del actor y a los dueños poseedores tenedores o de interesados en títulos transmi sibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor y con los cuales no hubie se tenido efecto la notificación personal del escrito inicial y del Mandamiento del requerimiento de pago, para que puedan con currir a la subasta si les con viniere o satisficiera antes del remate el importe del crédito de sus intereses, costas y honora rios de abogados asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecu tante. Que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posterio res. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este tribunal, pudiendo ser revisados por cualquier parte durante horas laborables. Y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley en un periódico de los de mayor circulación, y para conocimiento de la parte de mandada y del público en ge neral, y para conocimiento del Departamento de Hacienda y/o al Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) que pueda tener algún crédito por concepto de contribuciones territoriales o de cualquier otra índole, y para su publicación además, en los sitios públicos de costumbre, expido el pre sente Edicto de Subasta bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala
de Caguas, hoy 11 de octubre de 2022. Natalia Suárez Ortiz, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #089, Alguacil Tribunal De Primera Instancia.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO ESTRELLA COMMERCIAL LLC Demandante V.
Demandada
Civil Núm.: N3CI201500074.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.
AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI CA SUBASTA.
AMBOS: Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte de mandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acree dores 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 de rechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecu tada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan con currir a la subasta si les con venga o satisfacer antes del re mate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honora rios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subroga dos en los derechos del acree dor ejecutante a saber: BANCO
POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO:
A Cuyo favor aparece una ano tación de demanda, en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia Sala de Fajardo, caso civil #DCE2014-2586 por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Francisco Nieves Freitas; Mari bel Maldonado Castro y la So ciedad Legal de Gananciales Compuesta por ellos, por la suma de $470,612.72 y otras sumas. Anotado el 27 de junio de 2019 en Karibe de Rio Gran de finca # 2,210, Anotación A, finca # 8,003, Anotación B, fin
Ithas been the most remarkable decade of excellence in recent baseball history. In the 10 seasons that Terry Francona has man aged in Cleveland — in Cleveland, remember — his teams have always been good.
“Since Tito’s been here,” said Chris An tonetti, president of baseball operations for the Guardians, using Francona’s nickname, “we’ve only played 19 games in which we weren’t secured a playoff spot or in conten tion for one, and most of those actually were last year. So before last year we were in the single digits, literally, the whole time he was here, where we weren’t playing meaningful games.”
Teams don’t raise banners for that, and Cleveland has gone without a World Series title since 1948, longer than every other team that was playing then. But nine out of 10 sea sons with a winning record — the exception: an 80-82 stumble in 2021 — is astounding for a low-payroll team.
It’s no fun to talk about money in Oc tober; there will be plenty of time for that in the winter. But it’s hard to ignore the dispar ity between the Guardians and the New York Yankees, who took the opener of the teams’ best-of-five division series, 4-1, on Tuesday in the Bronx. Game 2 was rescheduled for Friday at Yankee Stadium (1:07 p.m. ET, TBS) after Thursday night’s game was rained out.
The Yankees’ opening day payroll, ac cording to Cot’s Baseball Contracts, was about $246 million. The Guardians’ was about $68 million — or the combined salaries of Gerrit Cole and Giancarlo Stanton in 2023.
So, yes, it’s not a fair fight. Cole gave the Yankees what they paid for in Game 1, spin ning tight sliders and curves below the strike zone, mixing more change-ups late in the game, and leaving only eight outs for the Yan kees’ patchwork bullpen.
“He can have overwhelming stuff,” Francona said. “He starts to speed you up and then he spins it. It can get tough.”
The Guardians — baseball’s youngest team — play with a throwback style that is fun to watch when it works. They steal bases. They put the ball in play. They don’t hit a lot of homers yet still score more runs than the average team.
“Getting the next guy up, walks, taking advantage of errors, running counts up, tak ing first to third, I think that’s when we’re at our best,” said left fielder Steven Kwan, Cleve land’s rookie leadoff hitter. “It’s getting contri butions from everybody, it’s not just live and
die by the long ball. When we can get that going, I think we’re a very good team.”
They are, but the Guardians also play in the American League Central, where only one non-Cleveland pitcher (Dylan Cease of the Chicago White Sox) worked the required 162 innings to qualify for the ERA title. Playoff pitching has scrambled their strategy.
Cleveland swept the Tampa Bay Rays in a two-game wild-card series by scoring three total runs to the Rays’ one. The runs scored on a two-run homer by José Ramírez in Game 1 and a series-clinching blast by Os car González in the 15th inning of Game 2. On Tuesday, Kwan homered off Cole for the Guardians’ only run.
The Guardians ranked 29th in the ma jors in homers, ahead of only the Detroit Ti gers. Yet going into Thursday’s game they had been unable to score any other way in the postseason. They had the fewest strikeouts of any offense this season, yet have fanned 35 times in three games against the Rays and the Yankees.
Pitching saved the Guardians in the last round, and it remains their best hope. Shane Bieber, who is slotted to start Game 2 on Fri day, is about as good as there is. Bieber has a 2.91 ERA over the past four seasons, second only to Max Scherzer among pitchers with at least 90 starts in that time. The Yankees have not faced him since April 2021.
“Shane’s a special one,” catcher Austin Hedges said. “He just has special stuff. He gets swings on pitches that you don’t really see from many guys. He’s got a large pitch repertoire and he can use any of them at any time.”
Bieber, the 2020 AL Cy Young Award
winner, will try to keep the Yankees guessing — few starters throw more off-speed pitches — and give Cleveland its best chance to make this series competitive. The Guardians would be encouraged to head home with a split, be cause Triston McKenzie, one of the majors’ hottest pitchers down the stretch, is set to start Game 3. He held the Yankees to one hit in seven shutout innings in July.
Bieber and McKenzie were drafted and developed by Cleveland, like Ramírez, the team’s do-it-all third baseman. Antonetti and his staff have shrewdly filled in around them, never giving in to the protracted rebuilding projects of other teams in Cleveland’s payroll district.
In three separate trades from December 2019 through January 2021, the Guardians collected five high-impact players: second baseman Andrés Giménez, shortstop Amed
Rosario, first baseman Josh Naylor, starter Cal Quantrill and closer Emmanuel Clase.
They traded starters Corey Kluber (to Texas) and Mike Clevinger (to San Diego) and shortstop Francisco Lindor (to the Mets) in those trades and saved a lot of money in the process, helping them sign Ramírez to a club-record seven-year, $141 million contract extension this April.
“We have an understanding of what our challenges are, and what we seek to do is find a way to overcome them and build winning teams,” Antonetti said. “The more consistently we can do that, the more chances we give ourselves to get to the postseason, the bet ter chances we have to win the World Series, which is all of our goals.”
This is the sixth postseason for Francona, 63, in his decade with Cleveland. He has been battered by physical problems — three surger ies for blood clotting in 2020, and hip and foot surgeries in 2021 — but has kept returning.
“I probably wouldn’t be working if it wasn’t for the people that I work for — I re spect them and enjoy them and I know what they do,” he said. “They do a really good job of explaining to me, like coming into this year:
‘Hey, this is kind of where we’re at.’ It gives me a chance to adapt and then talk to the coach es so we stay on line and keep our direction, however you want to say it. They are the best. They are the best people you could ever work for.”
The Guardians have a narrow pathway to squeeze past the Yankees and into the AL Championship, but if anyone can guide them there, it is Francona. His contract expires after the postseason, but the job is his for as long as he wants it — and there is no place he would rather be.
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Manager Terry Francona returned to the bench this season after missing a great deal of time as a result of health problems. He has guided young players like Amed Rosario, left, and Steven Kwan to a division series.
Ithad the signatures of a trick question, of being a surefire pathway to buying someone else’s drink. When did Atlanta — the franchise of Glavine and Maddux and Smoltz, those guys who surely played only yesterday, or maybe they really were a long time ago — last have a 20-game winner?
Until this September, the answer was 2003 (and the man behind the number was Russ Ortiz). Then Kyle Wright, who spent much of last year at Class AAA, won 21 regular-season games. But Wright gave Atlanta a masterwork, not a simple dose of seasonal trivia, on Wednesday night, when he crafted a two-hit, six-inning outing that positioned the Braves to even their Na tional League Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.
And once Zack Wheeler, the Phila delphia star born not far from Truist Park, found his sinker and slider had been fig ured out in the sixth inning, Atlanta’s of fense added its own special effects to a 3-0 victory. Game 3 in the best-of-five series will be in Philadelphia on Friday (4:37 p.m. ET, FS1).
Until Wednesday’s sixth inning,
though, host Atlanta and Philadelphia were stubbornly scoreless just a day after an offensive scramble that ended with the scoreboard reading 7-6, Philadelphia.
There were possibilities Wednesday.
Matt Olson, the Atlanta first base man, glared Bryce Harper back to third
when a grounder came his way in the sec ond. Philadelphia’s Rhys Hoskins slammed a ball to the warning track in the fourth. Olson soon slugged a long foul to left.
The sixth began sharply enough for Wheeler, who recorded a strikeout and got a flyout to center. Then a sinker darted
into the elbow of Ronald Acuña Jr., who walked to first after being swarmed by At lanta’s trainers. Dansby Swanson walked on a full count before Olson turned a slider into a single. Acuña, his legs and speedometer unbothered by the wayward sinker, scored unchallenged from second. (Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said after the game that Acuña had “no structural damage or anything.”)
Austin Riley tapped out an infield single that gave Swanson enough space to score. Another single off a slider, this one by catcher Travis d’Arnaud, brought home Olson, too.
“He had everything going,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said of Wheeler. “I don’t know whether the hit batsman threw him off a little bit or not.” But, Thomson said, Wheeler ultimately “just kind of un raveled.”
Atlanta’s defense added a handful of dazzling catches Wednesday that helped Wright, whose pitching style is more prone to allowing balls in play, stump the Phillies.
“I don’t have a truly good swing-andmiss, four-seam fastball,” Wright said. Re ferring to the Atlanta defense, he added, “I try to rely on these guys a lot. They’ve been a huge piece of my success.”
Wright threw the game’s first pitch at 7:30 p.m., after a rain delay that lasted nearly three hours. With Game 3 planned for Friday afternoon, both teams were keen to play sometime Wednesday, but only if the game could be finished.
“We’re not looking for delays,” Thomson said before the game. “I don’t think anybody is — the Braves, us, Major League Baseball. If there’s a window there, we’ll go.”
The window yielded a sobering re sult for Philadelphia: After Atlanta lost the first Division Series game by a run, it won, 3-0. The Braves took the same route last season against the Milwaukee Brewers — and then won the World Series.
Left-handed reliever Tyler Matzek, who last year set an Atlanta franchise re cord for postseason appearances, had Tommy John surgery Wednesday. Matzek spent part of this season on the injured list, but made 42 appearances for Atlanta, amassing a 4-2 record, one save and an ERA of 3.50. He is arbitration-eligible this offseason.
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Get the right help, and you’ll be able to make the most of an opportunity. Keen to do something that can enhance efficiency? Reading and learning could boost your expertise, enabling you to gain some useful knowledge. Plus, an encounter might connect you with someone who turns out to be a great asset to you. You may have many reasons to want to see more of them after this.
With a bright focus on a creative zone, there’s lots to be glad about. And with continued work, a creative idea could show promise. Go easy though, as a deal or offer that seems to promise a lot may be lacking. If someone is pushing you and won’t give up, this can have the opposite effect, causing you to reject it. Yet this is probably the best and wisest outcome, Gemini.
Confidence can soar regarding a key idea. You’ll see the potential in it, and feel inspired to take action. And although things might come together nicely, it’s worth putting in the extra effort as you’ll reap the rewards. Plus, other influences suggest getting feedback on your ideas before you commit to them. Without another opinion, you could wander down the wrong path, Cancer.
Can you trust what others are saying? If not, it may be time to get to the bottom of an intriguing mystery. This could involve an emotional situation, and whether professional or romantic, it’s best to know what’s going on before you make any further commitments. Still, one encounter today looks to be very promising. If you’re keen to meet again, good things might happen, Leo.
Mercury’s tie with Jupiter brings a positive vibe into your affairs. This might coincide with an offer that’s too good to pass by. Don’t worry if things take a while to conclude, as it’s worth waiting for. Is something bothering you? Rather than stew over it, drop it and do something fun or creative instead. Taking your mind off it, can allow some brilliant answers to emerge, Virgo.
A positive vibe can bring a dose of good fortune into your life that you’ll truly appreciate. It could be a meeting that leads to a romance, or it may be discovering a hobby that leaves you very enthusiastic. And if it allows your creative side out to play, so much the better. Something or someone might light up your life, and leave you in a much happier and positive place, Libra.
You could learn something about your heritage that leaves you inspired, happy and with a greater sense of purpose. Perhaps you hear a story about one of your ancestors that really chimes with you, and helps you to see your situation in perspective. Or you might become aware of a gift that has been passed down the line that you’ve wondered about. Could it be time to use it?
Something you learn over coming days, could leave you feeling buoyant, especially if it’s linked with an opportunity that can make your life happier and easier. Plus, a social event might have extra sparkle. A stroke of good fortune or lucky encounter, may kickstart a new friendship or positive collaboration. Have an entrepreneurial idea? Sharing it could allow it to take off.
What are you waiting for, Capricorn? A positive line-up in your sector of career and ambition, means you’re in a peak time for making a big splash and getting noticed. A positive blend of energies, hints that past experience could be invaluable in helping you achieve something important. And someone you know can also play a part, as they may have contacts you can use.
Ready to take advantage of an opportunity? Something could show up today that you’ll be keen to get working on. It may be that a new door opens, and you’ll love what appears on the other side. It might even seem too good to be true. If you feel the urge to go for it, then do so. This chance may never come your way again. Don’t let doubts stop you in your tracks, Aquarius.
Trusting your intuition could be a big deal today, as it might lead to an offer or opportunity that is just too good to miss. If you feel it’s perfect for you, then embrace it now. Mind, someone may be a tad jealous and try to sow the seeds of doubt in your mind. This is where you need to trust yourself and don’t be swayed by anyone, no matter what they say. Believe in yourself, Pisces!
