Increasingprices for rent, instead of gas, are hit ting families hard in Puerto Rico. For that reason,
Citizen Victory Movement Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli has introduced legislation in the island House of Representatives that would create the “Puerto Rico Rent Stabilization Act.”
The goal of House Bill 1242 is to establish the government’s public policy regarding protec tion against excessive increases in the cost of rent, protect the right to affordable housing and reduce the effects of gentrification on the island.
“Every person has the right to an adequate standard of living that ensures health and well being for himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing, medical care and necessary social services,” the bill states, quoting the U.N. Universal Declara tion of Human Rights.
According to a recent study published by USA Today, the cost of rent is increasing because of high demand as homebuyers are priced out amid rising interest rates and home prices. Other reasons for the cost of rent are low inventory, landlords making up for lost rent during pandemic-related rent moratoriums, and higher maintenance costs as inflation jumps.
The legislation would ban increases in the cost of rent during the first year of the lease.
The maximum increase allowed after the first year would be calculated considering inflation compared to the average for the previous year, ac cording to the most recent data from the Official Consumer Price Index of Puerto Rico. The tenant would have to be notified of any increase 90 days before it becomes effective.
The bill also limits evictions, which would have to be for the just causes established in the proposed law.
Those causes include non-compliance with the lease payment, major annoyances, or any illegal behavior carried out by the tenant that substantially affects the tranquility or quality of life of the owner and the neighborhood.
Another just cause for evicting a tenant is when the property owner must make substantial repairs or construction to the rental unit due to damages
attributable to the tenant.
However, the bill states specific tenant’s rights with regard to a rental unit even if a tenant has been removed for remodeling or construction purposes.
If a tenant is evicted, the landlord is prohibited from increasing the rent to the next tenant.
The bill would also create the Puerto Rico Rental Price Registry, which would be attached to the island Housing Department, to gather informa tion on rental prices in Puerto Rico, their increases, and notifications.
Opponents of the bill said it is unnecessary because most lease clauses already contain terms banning rent hikes while the lease is in effect.
Housing Assistant Secretary Maytte Texidor López argued that the measure currently in hearings in the House of Representatives may be unconstitu tional because it violates property rights.
She also said it “violates the clause that prevents the approval of laws that undermine contractual obligations.” The official noted that, according to the interpretation of the agency she represents, the measure does not have a “legitimate purpose or interest” to support altering the current constitu tional statute.
“The statement of reasons for the measure under analysis does not justify, with factual data, the implementation of measures that would limit the right to enjoy private property and undermine current contracts,” Texidor López said. “Furthermore, the explanatory statement does not provide data on the correlation between the cases of eviction and the increase in rents.”
works, we have given stability to Guaynabo, once again gaining access to federal funds and regaining the confidence of investors, developers and, very importantly, the federal agencies in charge of rebuilding Puerto Rico.”
roads and asphalt paving work for several public roads.”
Mayor Edward O’Neill Rosa on Sunday announced a $2.7 million surplus for the past fiscal year and raised salaries for all municipality employees. During his Message of Accomplishments, the first-term mayor also announced a series of public works with dozens of bids awarded with contracts, and implemented a new re muneration and classification plan for more than 1,899 municipal employees.
Starting Thursday, municipal public servants in Guaynabo received letters announcing new salary hikes ranging from $400 to $700, representing an impact of $6.9 million on the public treasury, O’Neill Rosa said. The mayor outlined the adjustments he made after his arrival at the mayor’s office last Janu ary, which allowed him to adjust the finances of the city council with an increase in munici
pal taxes of $5 million (11% above estimates).
It also showed a substantial increase in sales and use tax collections that totals $18 million (20% above the projection) and an increase of $750,000 (7%) in construction taxes.
“We have steered municipal finances seri ously and transparently,” O’Neill Rosa said.
“Without ceasing to do good public and social
He also detailed progress in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s obligated funds of $54.4 million, with the obligation of 11 projects reaching $52 million. Likewise, the mayor announced the completion of negotiations with insurers where it was pos sible to invest $15.5 million above the $3.4 million to which the last administration had preliminarily agreed.
O’Neill Rosa also highlighted a $4.9 million investment in the purchase of vehicles for the recycling and beautification units, municipal police, environmental control and other agencies that deliver direct services to the communities.
Regarding the aforementioned public works, the mayor stressed that “there are nine con struction projects representing $4.9 million for improvements to parks, streets and municipal
“In process, there are 42 projects in the design of important areas such as the Tablado del Río, improvements in Avenida Ramírez de Arella no, sports complexes and ball parks in Santa Rosa 3,” the mayor announced. “Dozens of passive parks from various communities will be served in this effort.”
The mayor also announced the reinstatement of the summer bonus to public employees of $1,000, the increase in the Christmas Bonus to $1,200 and announced the new $6.9 million municipal payroll classification and remuneration plan.
“I have always known the importance of recognizing and remunerating the work of our municipal employees,” O’Neill Rosa said. “Since I arrived in January, they have not stopped working to lift our people up and give them, once again, the brightness of their five stars. These benefits reward their work and dedication. You are the best asset that our city has.”
ThePuerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB), the common wealth’s energy regulator, has hired Stone X Financial to develop a hedging program that will allow the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to avoid the upward trend in the price of fuel used to generate over 90% of the island’s energy.
“The Energy Bureau orders PREPA to fully cooperate with Stone X in all matters described herein and any further pertinent requests issued directly from Stone X to PREPA,” the regulator said in a recent order.
One of the main causes of the prohibitive cost of electric power in Puerto Rico is the high cost of purchasing fossil fuels. The increases and volatility of the price of fossil fuels “in the face of geopolitical events and conflicts beyond our control have caused unprecedented economic impacts both in the past and in recent times,” the PREB said.
“Although the final solution to the problem lies in relying as little as possible on these fossil fuels and moving toward electric power generation based on renewable sources,” the regulator noted, “there are tools widely used by countless jurisdictions to mitigate these increases, at least in the short term.”
One of those tools is hedging through the purchase of fuel in the futures markets. Futures markets are those financial markets listed on the stock exchange in which the purchase and sale of derivative contracts or futures contracts is made to ensure a future price of a commodity, asset or security.
A futures contract is a standardized contract between two parties to buy or sell a specific quantity and quality of a commodity, in this case fuel, for a price agreed upon at the time the transaction takes place, with delivery and payment occurring at a specified future date. The contracts are negotiat ed on a futures exchange, such as CME/NYMEX or ICE, which acts as a neutral intermediary between the buyer and seller.
In essence, a futures contract obligates the buyer of the contract to buy the underlying commodity at the price at which he bought the futures contract.
“Through the purchase of these contracts, the purchase price of oil or natural gas, for example, fuels used by the Elec tric Power Authority for power generation, can be secured,” the PREB said. “Thus, when the price of these fuels is at a relatively low level, PREPA could buy future contracts as a measure of protection against future upward fluctuations in the price of these fuels, thus achieving the stabilization of prices and avoiding having to pass this cost suddenly to the energy consumer through their bill.”
It is part of the Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy “to ensure that the purchase of fuel for energy generation and the purchases of power for the transmission and distribution network are made at a reasonable price that takes advantage of the reductions in the costs of supplies according to the market, the geographical realities, and the realities of Puerto Rico’s electrical power infrastructure.”
The PREB said that as part of its duties it intends to es tablish a hedging program and has acquired the professional services of Stone X Financial Inc. to develop a methodical
and structured fuel procurement hedging strategy program.
The design of the project is divided into two phases: Phase 1, risk assessment, and phase 2, review of procurement documentation and activities.
The PREB ordered PREPA in the Oct. 13 order to provide certain information related to its fuel forecasts in 15 days. Puerto Rico, according to the law, must draw all of its energy from renewables by 2050.
The increases in and volatility of the price of fossil fuels “in the face of geopolitical events and conflicts beyond our control have caused unprecedented economic impacts both in the past and in recent times,” according to Puerto Rico’s energy regulator.
has not wanted to roll up his sleeves, who is left out so as not to receive a scratch. … The Popular Party cannot wait to have a candidate until 2024.”
Outside
the empty and padlocked Popular Democratic Party (PDP) headquarters in Puerta de Tierra, a group of “pava” party members gathered on the sidewalk and, to the sound of a strident sound truck playing the par ty’s anthem, watched Morovis Mayor Carmen Maldonado González launch her candidacy for governor in 2024.
That the party’s headquarters was closed was no co incidence. Maldonado and her team requested permission on Friday to rent the premises. They were denied, at a time when there is turmoil in the PDP, and after its governing board decided in a meeting Friday that the current president, José Luis Dalmau Santiago, would remain in office until December 2023 (when the candidacies for governor close by law). However, it had been said there would be a new president in February. Maldonado left the meeting upset by the announcement but declined to say whether that precip itated the declaration of her candidacy on Sunday.
“They have their own separate script; I must say it is a hijacking, and it is undemocratic,” she said. “We have not experienced this in many years in which a group is working on a mechanism to present the regulations. Still, the end they seek is to favor or support the candidacy of a person who
“Today, I am here to bring an important message to the citizens and the Popular people who continue with the faith and hope that this party will not continue to be led by three or four people,” Maldonado said during Sunday’s press conference. “This party belongs to the Popular people. Today, with great honor and commitment, I am pleased to announce that I will be running for governor of Puerto Rico.”
“The Popular people are waiting for an encouraging message; we have a living hope that our Popular Party will continue to move forward,” the PDP vice president continued. “That is why we have come together to bring a message to our citizens: this party is of the people and belongs to the people.”
After announcing her candidacy amid applause, Mal donado said “I am making myself available because there is very little time left for the PDP to do the mounting work; the PDP must return to its true direction.”
As a candidate, “the time has come to strengthen the political position with a viable instrument for all Puerto Ri cans,” she added. “My candidacy is not to promise things, but rather to provide alternatives. I aspire to govern without politics and favoritism intervening in public administration. Our young people represent the future. My government will
“I aspire to govern without politics and favoritism intervening in public administration,” Morovis Mayor Carmen Maldonado González said Sunday as she for mally announced her candidacy for governor in 2024.
be one of youth with citizen participation. We cannot turn our backs on the youth or continue to reject those who want to renew our institution.”
TheImmunization and Health Promotion Coalition in Puerto Rico, VOCES, has teamed up with the Puerto Rico Food Bank to bring vaccination on its food distribution route to towns impacted by Hurricane Fiona.
“Having good nutrition is part of every individual’s health. It is as important to public health as protecting against dangerous diseases after an atmospheric phenom enon such as Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico,” said Lilliam Rodríguez Capó, founder and CEO of VOCES. “This is why we joined forces with the Food Bank, joining efforts and collaborating to bring vaccination against COVID-19 to those communities that are still in need.”
After visiting Peñuelas and Caguas, the route continued to Barrio Minillas in San Germán this past weekend. It will reach Barrio Santa Rosa in Lajas today and Barrio Tanamá in Adjuntas on Wednesday. Utuado and Sábana Grande will also be visited next week.
“New routes will be made until there is not one per son left on this island who lacks food and vaccinations. If a community is still one of those pockets that are without electricity, they should contact us so we can support them,” the organization stated in a press release. “Community leaders and non-profit organizations taking supplies to
different points on the island are being called upon to contact VOCES to deliver the new bivalent vaccine against COVID-19, which all citizens 12 years of age and older should receive.”
“The Puerto Rico Food Bank is honored to be part of the partnership with Voces PR to feed and ensure the health of those impacted by Fiona,” said Denise Santos, president of Puerto Rico Food Bank. “We will continue to work together for a better and stronger country. We urge all those who have not received their COVID-19 and influenza vaccines to take advantage of this opportunity where we
are reaching out to their villages.”
The Food Bank of Puerto Rico works to reduce hun ger, improve nutrition and prevent food waste. It receives large donations of food and products and distributes them to soup kitchens and other social organizations that feed people in need.
For more information, visit the Facebook page of VOCESpr.org and Banco de Alimentos Puerto Rico, or call 787-789-4008.
Sila M. Calderón Center for Puerto Rico (CPR) is assisting individuals and small businesses affected by Hurricane Fiona to apply for federal aid.
“Natural disasters affect all of us, but vulnerable popula tions suffer disproportionately,” said Sila M. Calderón, presi
dent of the nonprofit’s board of directors, in a press release. “The application process can seem complex and intimidating, even when government aid programs are available.”
In the western region, business owners, homeowners and nonprofit organizations that have sustained physical damage or economic loss from Hurricane Fiona can turn to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Business Re covery Center established at the Women’s Enterprise Center (CEM by its Spanish initials) in Mayagüez.
Active since 2016, CEM is an initiative of the Center for Puerto Rico subsidized in part through a cooperative agreement with SBA. It serves the following municipalities: Adjuntas, Aguada, Aguadilla, Añasco, Arecibo, Cabo Rojo, Camuy, Guánica, Guayanilla, Hatillo, Hormigueros, Isabela, Lajas, Lares, Las María, Maricao Mayagüez, Moca, Peñuelas, Ponce, Quebradillas, Rincón, Sabana Grande, San Germán, San Sebastián, Utuado and Yauco.
more information, interested parties may call 787-805-4500 and write to info@cempr.org.
Meanwhile, in Río Piedras, the CPR’s Community Library has been helping those affected by last month’s Category 1 hurricane to complete the form required by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“Many of the people who come to the Library are older adults who face great difficulty with the online application,” noted Luis Gautier Lloveras, president of the nonprofit.
Yamira Borrero, a resident of Río Piedras who filled out her FEMA application at the library, said “it is better to come directly, and they can explain to me what documents I have to bring.”
The Center for Puerto Rico’s Community Library in Río Piedras has been helping those affected by last month’s Category 1 hurricane to complete the aid form required by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Staff is available to serve the public Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays at the Villa Capitán II Building, Highway #2 Km. 159, Suite 204. For
To complete the FEMA disaster relief application, people must bring photo identification, social security number, date of birth, physical and mailing address, bank account and routing number, and an email to receive information about their application. Service hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. Citizens are urged to call 787-765-4500 with any questions.
and Transportation Authority Executive Di rector Edwin González Montalvo announced Sunday that residents and drivers from several communities in Salinas that were impacted by the closure of a section of PR-1 highway, as a result of damage caused by Hurricane Fiona, will receive credit for toll payments made at the main toll plaza of Salinas from Sept. 18 until further notice.
“We recognize the difficulties that the partial closure of this road can generate and the toll costs it can cause,” González Montalvo in a written statement. “That is why we have been working together with the mayor of Salinas to develop this program, in which citizens can make the claim [for relief] in the easiest and simplest way.”
Drivers eligible for AutoExpreso credit are residents of the communities of Vertero, Monte Grande, Mateí, Naranjo,
Parcelas Vázquez, Palmas, Majada, Plena, Reparto Santa Fe, Sabana Llana, Rancho Guayama, Jajomé Baja and Pueblita del Carmen.
Once the start of the process is announced, drivers will be able to go to the municipal office, where they will be required to complete a form to request reimbursement as credit. To be eligible, they must present an electricity or water bill, which serves to validate the physical address. Drivers working or studying in those communities will be required to present certification of employment or study as evidence.
Drivers who need to renew their inspection sticker and have an outstanding debt can go to the Salinas municipal office to begin the reimbursement process if necessary.
It is important that users have their AutoExpreso account registered. As previously reported, no fines will be issued for toll transactions accrued starting April 16 of this year, until further notice.
Anothertwo disaster recovery centers (DRCs) are now open in Jayuya and Toa Baja, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Sunday.
The additional centers are located in: Complejo Deportivo Llaneros, Calle José de Diego, Levittown, Toa Baja, PR 00949; and Universidad Ana G. Méndez, 2 Calle Romero Barceló #10, Jayuya, PR 00664 (the latter is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
FEMA DCRs are open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
The joint DRCs, a collaboration between the munici pality, the central government and FEMA, will help survivors of Hurricane Fiona apply to FEMA for assistance, upload the necessary application documents online, and receive answers to their questions in person.
Representatives of the Small Business Administration (SBA) will be present at both newly opened DRCs to provide
information about the program and explain how to apply for SBA low-interest loans for homeowners, businesses, private non-profit organizations and renters.
They will also provide information on repairs and recon struction to make homes more resilient to disasters.
Services are available in English and Spanish. If reason able accommodation or a sign language interpreter is needed to contact FEMA, can email FEMA-PRaccesible@fema.dhs.gov or call 1-833-285-7448 (press 2 for Spanish).
morning. But it did not change any minds. The panel had reached a decision. Tension mounted, Johnson said.
had all but collapsed Wednesday when Andrew Johnson, one of the 12 jurors in the sen tencing trial of the gunman in the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, tried a surprising, last-ditch move to provoke conversation: He asked for sheriff’s deputies to bring into the jury room the semi-automatic rifle that had been used to murder 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Sto neman Douglas High School.
Johnson and eight other jurors thought that the gunman, Nikolas Cruz, should be sentenced to death for his rampage. But three jurors leaned toward a sentence of life in prison. So Johnson and others pulled evidence out of boxes, Johnson said — at one point even replaying graphic videos of the Feb. 14, 2018, attack — to persuade the jurors who favored life.
They failed. On Thursday, the jury of seven men and five women said Cruz, 24, should spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole, a sentence that shocked and outraged victims’ families and immediately raised questions about what had transpired inside the jury room during the seven or so hours of deliberations.
Most of the jurors wanted a different outcome, Johnson emphasized in an interview Friday, in which he offered a view into the sensitive deliberations. But Florida law requires death sentence recommendations to be unanimous. He said he tried not to look anyone in the eye when the jury walked into the courtroom to deliver its decision.
“I didn’t want to see any lawyers or anyone,” he said, “just out of disappointment.”
He felt let down not only by the sentence but also by how it was reached, he said — without the sort of open dialogue and cooperation that he had hoped for, especially in such a significant case.
“We never deliberated correctly,” he lamented.
The jury’s actions have become the source of much speculation among legal observers and the public in South Florida, where Cruz’s trial was closely followed and where many expected a death sentence. A motion addressing an alleged threat made by one juror in the jury room led to a court hearing Friday, although the issue was not one that could overturn the life sentence.
Judge Elizabeth Scherer told lawyers Friday that hours before that complaint had been made to prosecutors, another juror, Jimmie Benbow, had tried to get her attention before and after the verdict was read. He had asked for a complaint form, which she thought might have been for something innocuous like the courthouse parking. However, that request, according to Johnson, was to address some jurors’ feelings that they had not meaningfully deliberated about the gunman’s fate. Reached by phone Friday, Benbow declined to comment.
The deliberations had started out well enough, said Johnson, 39, a computer technician for Miami International Airport. An initial vote showed that some jurors favored a death sentence, others life and perhaps four were undeci ded, he said. Then, they engaged in what he described as a
productive conversation about how to weigh the aggravating factors presented by prosecutors to justify the death penalty and the mitigating circumstances presented by defense lawyers to show the gunman’s troubled life. Cruz’s biological mother drank heavily while pregnant with him, and his adoptive mother became overwhelmed by his developmental delays and, at times, violent behavior, the gunman’s lawyers said.
But soon, one juror firmly declared that she could not sentence someone she considered to be mentally ill to death, Johnson said. Benjamin Thomas, the jury foreman, gave a similar account to a local television station Thursday.
“When you know that one person says, ‘This is going to be my choice, and I’m not going to change it,’ and that one choice means we’re done, that basically kills the morale,” Johnson said Friday.
By Wednesday afternoon, jurors knew they were at an entrenched 9-3 split. Johnson made a calculated move: He asked for the gun to be brought in.
“We said, ‘OK, let’s not turn this in so early, even though one person basically affects the whole thing,’” Jo hnson said of the jury’s recom mendation. “‘We’re going to the hotel to sleep on it. Maybe there’ll be in the morning the kind of collaborative work and communication that we had at the beginning of the day.’”
The panel, which was sequestered at an undisclo sed location without access to electronics, had dinner at an Italian restaurant. He felt anxious and slept fitfully.
“Not knowing how the next day was going to play out was not easy,” he said.
The gun awaited jurors in the jury room Thursday
“You had a lot of tears, a lot of frustration on everyone’s face,” he said. “It became very silent.”
As they filed into the jury box of the packed and hushed courtroom, Johnson saw Benbow try to get the judge’s atten tion. Once seated, Benbow and another juror hunched over in their chairs, clutching their faces in their hands. Several other jurors cried.
After the verdicts were read, Scherer polled the jurors, asking them one by one: “Is this your verdict?” One woman hesitated for a long time before tearfully replying, “Yes.”
Johnson had to be asked twice. He seriously considered an answer that could have upended the verdict.
“I was going to say no,” he said. But three people had favored life, and the decision was not up to a simple majority. “That’s a huge flaw” in the law, Johnson added.
Back in the jury room, as sheriff’s deputies returned the jurors’ confiscated cellphones, Johnson noticed that the woman who had most strongly opposed a death sentence had written a note to the judge. That note, filed later in the public court docket, was from a juror named Denise Cunha, who said she had been “fair and unbiased” despite accusations from fellow jurors that she had made up her mind before the trial began. Cunha did not respond to multiple requests for comment Friday.
By Friday morning, another juror had filed a complaint to prosecutors about the alleged threat. The prosecutors’ motion did not name the juror accused of making the threat or the complainant.
“I do respect the decision of everyone’s vote, including the ones that made the life vote,” Johnson said. “But at the same time, I would have preferred more cooperation, more involvement.”
“I’m not happy with the result,” he added.
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police described as a “po tential serial killer” who terrorized residents in California’s Central Valley in a string of fatal shootings was arrested early Saturday in Stockton while he was “out hunting” for more victims, authorities said.
The man, Wesley Brownlee, 43, was arrested after an investigation that con nected five fatal shootings across Stockton along with a killing about 70 miles away.
At a news conference Saturday, police did not release any information about a motive. They said Brownlee has a criminal history but did not provide details.
The arrest was the product of good police work and an engaged public, said Stanley McFadden, chief of the Stockton Police Department.
after the police said that five victims, all men between the ages of 21 and 54, had been fatally shot while alone in dimly lit areas at night or in the early morning between July 8 and Sept. 27. Four of the men were Hispanic; one was white. None of the men were robbed.
The police later said that they had also linked those cases to two additional shootings: A 40-year-old Hispanic man who was killed in Oakland, California, about 70 miles west of Stockton, on April 10; and a 46-year-old Black woman who was shot in Stockton on April 16 and survived.
McFadden said on Oct. 4 that the au thorities believed they were dealing with a “potential serial killer” after investigators connected the killings through ballistics and video footage, including a clip that showed a person with an uneven stride and an upright posture.
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Members of the public submitted a large number of tips about the shootings, which had rattled the city and nearby communities. Based on those tips, the police zeroed in on a suspect, McFadden said. A reward for information leading to an arrest had grown to $125,000.
The police said that Brownlee was taken into custody around 2 a.m. local time without a struggle. When officers arrested him, he was wearing dark cloth ing, had a mask around his neck and was carrying a firearm, McFadden said.
Investigators interviewed the woman who survived and learned that she had been in her tent when she heard someone walking around her campsite. When she stepped outside, she saw someone wear ing dark clothes and a mask pointing a gun at her, McFadden said.
She rushed toward the gunman and was shot multiple times before the man lowered his gun, McFadden said.
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“Our surveillance team followed this person while he was driving,” he said. “We watched his patterns and determined early this morning he was on a mission to kill. He was out hunting.”
He added later, “We are sure we stopped another killing.”
Tori Verber Salazar, the district attor ney for San Joaquin County, said that her office was reviewing evidence to deter mine charges, which will be announced Tuesday. She said the capture of Brownlee was the product of a community effort.
“You don’t come to our house and bring this kind of reign of terror” without mobilizing Stockton and the county, she said.
The arrest came nearly two weeks
Stockton, a city of about 322,000 people, is 80 miles west of the San Fran cisco Bay Area in the agricultural flatlands of California’s Central Valley. The killings had spread anxiety among some residents, with many questioning who could be behind such coldblooded acts.
Stanley McFadden, the police chief in Stockton, Calif., announced on Saturday2017 — and again complained of what he claimed was media censorship that downplayed the size of the crowd.
The letter emerged as the House committee, which had voted unanimously Thursday to issue a subpoena to Trump, was at work preparing the demand, which would list specific documents that the for mer president must turn over and a date by when he must testify. People close to the committee’s work said the panel was poised to issue the subpoena as soon as Monday.
hearing in which the Jan. 6 panel summed up its case against the former president, and presented remarkable behind-thescenes video that showed top congressional leaders scrambling to secure the Capitol during the attack.
Members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol hold their 9th public hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 13, 2022.
By LUKE BROADWATER and MAGGIE HABERMANFormerPresident Donald Trump res ponded late last week to a promised subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault with a lengthy, rambling letter that attacked the panel’s work, reiterated false claims of widespread voting fraud and presaged a potentially bruising battle over whether he could be compelled to testify about his role in the riot and his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
In a 14-page missive that did not ad dress whether he would comply with the subpoena, Trump perpetuated the same lies that had fueled the attack and boasted about the size of the crowd that had amassed to hear him speak before marching to the Capitol and staging a violent siege.
The former president has indicated privately to aides that he would be willing to testify to the House panel but would like to do so live, according to a person close to him, a prospect that would prevent video of him from being clipped or edited in a manner he dislikes. The letter he re leased Friday — a conspiracy theory-filled rehash of his many grievances and false assertions — underscored the risks for the committee of giving Trump an unfettered public platform.
“The presidential election of 2020 was rigged and stolen!” the letter began in all capital letters.
Trump dedicated page after page to repeating that lie about the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden, a fact he has repeatedly refused to acknowledge.
“You have not gone after the people that created the fraud, but rather great American patriots who questioned it, as is their constitutional right,” Trump wrote in the screed. “These people have had their lives ruined as your committee sits back and basks in the glow.”
Instead of providing what he claimed was evidence, he included appendices filled with assertions of widespread election irregularities that have been debunked, some by his own former attorney general, William Barr, and other top Justice De partment officials.
“A large percentage of American citizens, including almost the entire Re publican Party, feel that the election was rigged and stolen,” Trump wrote, without mentioning that his false claims were the reason the lies spread among the populace and have come to define the GOP.
He included aerial photographs pur porting to show enormous throngs of people on the National Mall on Jan. 6, 2021 — reminiscent of the images that the White House released after his inauguration in
While Trump was unlikely to comply with the subpoena — he previously refused to testify in his impeachment trial — com mittee and staff members were discussing whether they would accept him testifying live. Those familiar with the discussions said the committee seemed open to the idea, believing the panel could most likely elicit some significant developments from Trump’s testimony.
Should Trump decline to appear, it could lead to a precedent-setting fight. Se veral former presidents voluntarily testified before Congress, but there is no Supreme Court precedent that says whether Congress has the power to compel a former president to testify about his actions in office.
Committee members said they believed Trump should want to comply with the subpoena.
“I want to believe again that every American citi zen who knows something about these events would come forward to testify, and nobody knows more about them than Donald Trump does,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the committee.
Rep. Bennie Thomp son, D-Miss., the chair of the committee, told repor ters Thursday that he hoped Trump would comply but that he believed the panel had compiled a compre hensive case of the events of Jan. 6 without the former president’s testimony.
“If we get his attention, fine,” Thompson said. “If not, we’ll go with the evi dence we collected.”
Trump’s explosive re action came the day after a
In another portion of the video released Friday to CNN, Speaker Nancy Pelosi can be seen talking by cellphone to Vice President Mike Pence, asking about his well-being and advising him, “Don’t let anybody know where you are.” The moment underscored the danger Pence faced as the rioters called for his execution and Trump insulted him on Twitter.
Trump never attempted to check on Pence, who had been evacuated from the Capitol just minutes before the mob flooded the area where he had been. But in a sepa rate phone call sometime that afternoon, Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, reached out Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, to say that he and the vice president were safe, according to a person briefed on the exchange.
During the call, Short said that they believed the counting of electoral votes should resume that night and Meadows agreed, the person said. But when Meadows asked where the vice president was, Short declined to provide specifics, saying only that they were around the Capitol.
the direction of the volatile energy markets has never been easy. But experts say the complexity of market for ces brewing now, in the wake of Russia’s inva sion of Ukraine, makes it especially difficult to predict the direction of both energy prices and the industry.
“I’ve never seen such a spicy bouillabais se of ingredients that could wreak havoc on energy prices,” said Tom Kloza, the global head of energy analysis at Oil Price Information Ser vice. “You have to look and say that the world changed on Feb. 24,” the day of the Russian invasion.
A variety of forces could sustain high energy prices, including the recent production cuts by the producer group OPEC+, the win ding down of a U.S.-led program to release oil from the strategic reserves of the United States and other countries, subsidies by several Euro pean nations to help citizens pay higher energy costs and slow industry investment in drilling operations. On the other hand, prices could fall on fears of a global recession, the potential for energy rationing in Europe this winter and an effort by the Group of 7 industrialized nations to impose a price cap on Russian oil.
Brent crude, the closely watched bench mark for global oil prices, fell almost 25% du ring the third quarter, finishing September tra ding around $85 a barrel, although it has since moved higher as OPEC+ announced significant cuts. The U.S. government forecasts that oil will trade at an average price of $95 a barrel in 2023.
Funds that invest in U.S. energy compa nies, which typically mimic price movements in the oil markets, rose exponentially along with oil prices in the first quarter of this year. By contrast, those funds fell by an average of less than 1% in the three months that ended in September. Energy is the only stock sector fund category that posted gains, on average, in the first nine months of this year, according to Morningstar Direct.
Experts say the G-7 agreement on Sept. 2 to cap the price of Russian oil is generating much of the uncertainty about oil prices. The plan aims to limit Russia’s export revenues while keeping its oil flowing through global markets. Skeptics, though, say a price cap may be diffi cult to enforce. Oil embargoes are notoriously leaky, and shippers can use legal measures like ship-to-ship transfers at sea to try to obscure the origins of a cargo.
Goldman Sachs issued a research report
A convoy of Ukrainian troops moves toward the frontline near Yatskivka, Ukraine, on Oct. 3, 2022.
the same day as the price cap agreement was announced, calling it “bearish in theory, bullish in practice” for oil prices and predicting that Russia, which pumps about 10% of the 100 mi llion barrels of oil produced globally each day, might retaliate by cutting its exports to drive up global energy costs. That, the report said, “would turn this into an additional bullish shock for the oil market.”
That day, Russian-owned energy giant Gazprom announced that it would postpone restarting natural gas flows from Russia to Ger many through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Later in September, gas leaks were discovered in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines under the Baltic Sea. The European Union and several European governments blamed sabotage for the damage.
But Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management, who has been studying the impact of Russia’s war on the energy industry through the Chief Executive Leadership Institu te that he founded at the school, recently wrote an opinion piece expressing his confidence in the G-7 plan. In an interview, he pointed to the small number of major shippers and insurers, mostly based in Europe, saying that should make enforcement easy because “you can cou nt on both hands the number of parties you would need to enforce it with.”
He also cast doubt on the idea that Rus sia would switch off its oil spigots as readily as it had stopped sending natural gas to Europe. Russia has more options to sell its oil, and shut ting down wells could create future problems for the Russian industry, Sonnenfeld said, so President Vladimir Putin “would be poisoning the Russian economy for years.”
Philip K. Verleger, an energy economist
who began his career as a Washington policy adviser 50 years ago, said that the production cuts announced by OPEC+ are likely to have less of an impact now because the circumstan ces are quite different. The United States was more dependent on foreign oil in the 1970s, he said, so OPEC’s aggressive moves led to gas ra tioning and lines at filling stations. But the Uni ted States is a bigger producer today, and some drivers are choosing vehicles that use little to no gas.
“Electric vehicles are beginning to pene trate the market so rapidly that if OPEC pushes too hard now, they could really accelerate the move off oil,” Verleger said.
In past economic cycles, higher energy prices have reduced demand, ultimately putting a lid on prices. European governments are pro viding a test case by spending billions of dollars on price controls and direct stimulus payments to offset higher energy costs while encouraging their citizens to voluntarily turn down the ther mostats. President Emmanuel Macron of France has called such voluntary conservation efforts “energy sobriety.”
But Europe is also investing heavily in new infrastructure to support imports of lique fied natural gas, or LNG, which is supercoo led so it can be shipped on tankers. A flurry of deals have been signed to construct the facili ties required to reconvert LNG to vaporous gas in Germany, France, Belgium and elsewhere. U.S. exporters may be among the biggest bene ficiaries of this trend. The United States began exporting LNG six years ago and became the world’s largest exporter in the first half of this year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Paul M. DeSisto, executive vice presi dent of the wealth management firm M&R Capital Management, says that whatever direc tion energy prices take, he sees the big energy companies in the S&P 500 index returning to something closer to their 20-year average of 8.3% of the market value of the index. At the end of September, energy stocks represented 4.5% of the S&P 500. “Given how important energy is to the world economy, I think it will return to something closer to the longer view,” he said.
His firm uses two energy-focused ex change-traded funds in client portfolios: the $35 billion Energy Select Sector SPDR, mana ged by State Street Global Advisors, and the $7 billion Vanguard Energy fund. The two funds have a slight difference in composition as they track different market indexes. The State Street fund owns the 21 energy stocks in the S&P 500 index, while the Vanguard fund includes a mix of more than 100 large, midsize and small U.S. energy companies. But the returns after the 0.1% management fee charged by both funds tend to be similar because Exxon Mobil and Chevron are the two biggest holdings in each fund, representing more than one-third of the total assets. The State Street fund returned 33.76% in the first three quarters of the year, and the Vanguard fund returned 34.71%.
Despite the substantial geopolitical risks, commodity prices may ultimately be most in fluenced by the rate at which companies choo se to invest profits in their own operations. So far, companies have been focused on returning profits to shareholders through dividends.
The Biden administration is keen to see more investment in the energy industry. “Ulti mately our goal here in the United States and around the world has got to be to increase the supply of energy,” Wally Adeyemo, U.S. de puty secretary of the Treasury, said at a recent energy conference at Columbia University. He pointed out that the president has taken steps in this direction by releasing petroleum from the country’s strategic reserves, but also by calling on the private sector to increase pro duction. “We want to make sure that supply chains are stronger in the United States, but also among our friends and allies.”
But the industry may still be reluctant to risk lowering prices too quickly. Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service said he thought the industry had learned its lesson from past boom and bust cycles and wouldn’t dramatica lly ramp up drilling. “They’ve gotten the mes sage,” he said. “The companies are not going to kill the golden goose.”
market volatility and attractive valua tions are prompting some investors to keep their opti mistic views on energy stocks, one of the few bets that have thrived in an otherwise tough year. It’s not an easy call. The energy sector of the S&P 500 is already up around 46% this year, and tightening monetary policy around the world has increased the chances of a global recession that could choke energy demand.
Still, signs that supply will remain comparatively tight are causing some investors to hold onto the sector, lured by attractive earnings prospects and valuations that remain com paratively low this year despite big gains for many energy stocks. The energy sector of the S&P 500 trades at a trailing price-to-earnings ratio of 9.9, nearly half the broader index’s 17.4 valuation. Few see an end to the sell-off in broader mar kets either, as stubborn inflation fuels expectations of further market-punishing rate hikes from the Federal Reserve and other central banks. The S&P 500 is down about 24.5% this year, while bonds — as measured by the Vanguard Total Bond Market index fund — are down nearly 18%.
“It’s hard to imagine people giving up energy because it’s the best of both worlds,” said Jack Janasiewicz, portfolio manager at Natixis Investment Managers Solutions, citing the sector’s low valuation and the potential for more gains if the offering stays tense. “If you’re worried about the direction of the market, this is a great place to hide.” Analysts are expect ing earnings per share for energy companies to grow 121% in the third quarter from the year-ago period, while the broader ex-energy index is down 2.6%, data from Refinitiv showed.
Energy is the only sector in the S&P 500 that analysts at Credit Suisse expect to revise their third-quarter earnings upside. US oil giants Exxon Mobile Corp and Chevron Corp. report their winnings on October 28th. In the coming week, investors will focus on the earnings of Tesla Inc., Netflix and Johnson & Johnson, among others.
Expectations for further tightening in the oil market have been bolstered by recent OPEC+ production cuts as well as plans by the European Union to phase out Russian crude by February. US production in 2022 is expected to average 11.75 million barrels per day, up from a previous estimate of 11.79 million barrels per day, according to the US Department of Energy.
Brent crude oil prices came in at $91.46 a barrel on Friday, up nearly 10% from a recent low, after falling nearly a third between July and September. “There is an outsized pos sibility that crude oil prices will continue to rise, especially if demand worries don’t materialize to the extent some bears are expecting,” wrote analysts at TD Securities, who expect oil prices to hit $101 in 2023. Analysts at UBS Global Wealth Management expect oil prices to hit $110 by year-end.
Some fund managers remain skeptical that the energy sector can continue to outperform as the global economy slows amid central bank tightening. “We’re heading into a recession globally and that’s going to hurt the demand side,” said Burns McKinney, portfolio manager at NFJ Investment
Group, which is increasing its overweight stance in dividendpaying technology companies like Texas Instruments and Cisco.
At the same time, the sell-off in the S&P 500 creates buying opportunities in consumer discretionary and largecap tech stocks, which are more attractive over the long term than energy, said Lamar Villere, portfolio manager at Villere & Co. “We’re starting to see opportunities that aren’t harder to
capture are useful,” he said.
However, others believe the fundamentals for the sector remain aligned and see more upside. Saira Malik, Nuveen’s chief investment officer, believes fund managers will remain lightly positioned despite recent gains in energy stocks. She is also betting that China’s economy will recover in the coming months, which will support global oil prices. “We still think energy has legs here,” she said.
Two men opened fire on Russian soldiers at a training camp in the Belgorod region Saturday, killing 11 and wounding 15, before being killed themselves, according to Russian staterun news outlets.
The Russian Defense Ministry called the episode a terrorist attack, according to state media outlets RIA Novosti and TASS, which quoted a ministry statement.
The account of the shootings could not be verified independently.
The statement from the ministry said the two men were from an ex-Soviet na tion and fired on other soldiers during tar get practice at a firing range, RIA Novosti reported.
It was not immediately clear if the attackers were volunteer soldiers involved in the training. Earlier reports suggested they were volunteers.
Law enforcement representatives are working on-site, said the statement, which did not give the training camp’s name or precise location.
The camp lies in Belgorod, the Rus sian region that sits directly across the border from the northeastern Ukrainian
region of Kharkiv, which was overrun by Russian forces in the initial phase of the war but was recently reclaimed by Ukrai ne.
The shootings come after President
Vladimir Putin announced a large mobili zation to shore up his faltering war effort in Ukraine, where the Ukrainian army has been recapturing territory in the east and south occupied by Russia.
Putin has said at least 220,000 reser vists have been called up. At least 16,000 of them have been deployed “in units that get involved in fulfilling combat tasks,” Putin told a news conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Friday, adding that he ex pects the mobilization to be completed within two weeks.
Russian media has reported at least seven deaths among people who were recently drafted. Asked Friday why some servicemen had died so soon after mobi lization began, Putin said that in some ca ses training could take just 10 days.
In late September, Putin acknowled ged that there had been “mistakes” in how the Russian government had been carrying out his draft. He described ca ses of people entitled to deferments being wrongly drafted, such as fathers of many children, men with chronic diseases or those above military age.
The Russian news reports did not specify which former Soviet state the shooters came from; the Russian army
allows some foreigners to serve under contract, which can give them a pathway to citizenship.
Inside Russia, Putin’s draft has run into growing resistance after it appeared to be hitting minority groups and rural areas harder than the big cities.
Interviews last month with people in three regions in Russia’s predominantly Muslim Caucasus Mountains suggested widespread fear of mobilization. In Che chnya, a small-business owner described seeing few men on the streets of Grozny, the capital, and said a mosque that was typically overflowing on Fridays was onethird empty.
In Kabardino-Balkaria, a local acti vist reported that one village of 2,500 had seen 38 people drafted and that there was talk of young men injuring themselves to avoid conscription. But few people were protesting, he said, because civic life had been virtually liquidated.
And in Ingushetia, a Russian army officer said he was trying to avoid going to Ukraine. “People are close to panic,” he said. “The police are stopping cars and handing over draft notices.”
All spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
Several strikes hit the Russian region of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border Sunday, wounding at least three people, according to local officials, and renewing questions about the security of an area that has been a key supply route for Russian troops in the war.
It was not immediately clear what cau sed the blasts. Ukrainian officials did not comment, in keeping with an official policy of near-total silence surrounding explosions in Russian territory.
But they appeared to be part of an up tick in attacks in Belgorod, which shares a border with Kharkiv, the northeastern region of Ukraine that Ukrainian forces retook last month in a rapid offensive that began weeks
of setbacks for Russian forces.
Belgorod has served as an important sta ging ground for Russia’s invasion, and Mos cow continues to train soldiers there. On Saturday, two men opened fire on Russian soldiers at a training camp in the region, ki lling 11 and wounding 15, before being ki lled themselves, according to state-run news outlets.
Several attacks in recent days have tar geted Russian-held areas far from the front lines, including in the occupied city of Do netsk in eastern Ukraine, where explosions hit an administrative building Sunday, and most prominently on Russia’s bridge to occu pied Crimea, which was damaged by a blast last weekend. Russia blamed Ukraine for the attacks.
On Sunday, some 16 explosions were heard in the Belgorod region, RIA Novosti,
a Russian state news agency, reported. At least three people were injured in an artillery strike, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the regional go vernor, said in a statement on Telegram, the social messaging app.
Gladkov posted photos that showed shattered glass and scattered debris in what appeared to be a residential area. The ima ges could not immediately be verified. Two injured men were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds, and one woman was treated onsite, Gladkov said.
The city of Belgorod, the regional capi tal, which has a population of 400,000 and lies just 50 miles from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, increasingly finds itself a target in the conflict across the border, undermining Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to distance the Russian people from the war. Colleges and businesses have conducted
evacuation drills, local officials have eva cuated towns and villges that have come under shelling, and thousands of people from Ukraine have crossed the border to flee fighting, especially amid the recent Ukrai nian counteroffensive.
Sunday was the fourth successive day that strikes have been reported in the area.
On Thursday, a rocket hit an apartment buil ding in Razumnoe, a town southeast of the city of Belgorod, without causing injuries, according to state-run media. The following day, Gladkov said, a Ukrainian strike hit a power station.
On Saturday, state-run news agency Tass reported that a fuel depot in Razumnoe was shelled and caught fire. Gladkov pos ted a photo to Telegram showing thick black smoke and flames rising over a building.
“We’re getting bombed again,” he wrote.
Billboard of a Russian soldier at a bus stop in Moscow, in August.
of State Antony Blinken met with Mexico’s foreign minister late last week for the second time in just over a month, as the Biden administration focused on Latin America amid politi cally perilous levels of migration at the southern U.S. border.
Blinken joined several top Biden administration officials at an event with the minister, Marcelo Eb rard, officially titled a “high-level security dialogue.” It was billed as a discussion about protecting the health and safety of American and Mexican citizens, including from gun and drug smugglers.
But immigration was inevitably a key theme of the meeting, at a moment of vast migration across Central and South America — a subject with explo sive political resonance less than a month before the midterm elections.
Biden officials chose their words carefully on the sensitive topic of immigration, avoiding phras es like “border crisis” and emphasizing that the ef fects of social and economic upheaval in the region, thanks in part to the pandemic, are not unique to the United States.
Historically high migration is “not specific to the U.S.-Mexico border, but is a challenge for the en tire hemisphere,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said, calling it “a phenomenon across the world. That number of displaced people is at an all-time high.”
The U.S. delegation also included Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, and Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. In a several-hour session, the officials and their Mexican counterparts also discussed illegal drug and firearms trafficking, public health and human smuggling.
On Sept. 12, Blinken led another delegation, including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, to Mexico City for meetings focused on economic is sues. And Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited President Joe Biden at the White House in mid-July.
Republican congressional candidates are mak ing Biden’s border policies a central campaign theme this fall, accusing the president of failing to stop the flow of immigrants entering the country without le gal permission. An array of Biden officials have been working to stem the tide, to little avail.
But Mexico has taken some recent steps to at least help mitigate the flow. On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced it would accept up to 24,000 Venezuelans via a humanitarian parole plan that grants them a narrow pathway to legalized status, while expanding its use of a public health rule to expel to Mexico Venezuelans who illegally cross
the U.S. border. The United States cannot return Venezuelans to their home country because of its toxic relations with Washington.
Mexico has agreed to accept the Venezuelans, who will be returned under the provision known as Title 42, a public health measure invoked during the pandemic that many experts say has outlived its plau sible application. When the Biden administration an nounced the new plan for Venezuelans, it also said it would add nearly 65,000 more nonagricultural work visas, many of which will benefit Mexicans.
“Those who attempt to cross the southern bor der of the United States illegally will be returned,” Mayorkas said. “Those who follow the lawful pro cess we announced yesterday will have the opportu nity to travel safely to the United States and become eligible to work here.”
Although consumed for the past year with Rus sia’s initial military buildup and then invasion of Ukraine, Blinken has spent increasing amounts of time on Latin America this fall.
Blinken toured South America this month, stop ping in Colombia, Chile and Peru, where he attended a migration meeting at an Organization of American States summit, at which regional officials discussed efforts to address the root causes of migration to the United States.
Of particular concern to the Biden administra tion is an unexpected surge of migrants from Nica ragua, Cuba and Venezuela. Cuba and Venezuela are under heavy U.S. economic sanctions, although the administration insists the blame for dire condi
tions within their borders lies with oppressive and incompetent regimes.
In Bogotá, Colombia’s capi tal, Blinken visited a migrant integration center, funded by USAID, which helps find work, health care and other necessities for some of the 2.5 million Ven ezuelans who have crossed the border between the countries in recent years. The goal, U.S. offi cials say, is humanitarian — but also to keep Venezuelan migrants content enough that they do not travel on to Mexico with the goal of crossing into the United States.
“Guatemalans, Hondurans, El Salvadorans, Haitians, Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans — so many people on the move, and it creates a tremendous challenge for all of us,” Blinken said at the center.
Blinken opened his remarks Thursday by noting that the U.N. General Assembly had voted overwhelmingly the day before to con demn Russia’s annexation of four partially captured regions of Ukraine.
The resolution received 135 votes in favor with just Syria, North Korea, Belarus and Nicaragua join ing with Russia in voting no. Thirty-five nations ab stained, including China and India.
Mexico supported the resolution. Lopez Obra dor has criticized U.S. military support for Ukraine and offered to mediate peace talks, but he has found little backing for the initiative.
Asa child, Lucía Solís watched her family bury a stash of cherished but prohibited cane sugar liquor, called viche, in the woods, fearful of police seizures and even arrest. Yet here she was this past August surrounded by bottles of vari ous types of viche, its liquid the color of amber or cream or crystal, and she was swamped by customers eager for a nowlegal taste.
She was selling her own brand of the liquor at a stand at one of the largest celebrations of Afro-descendant culture in Latin America, the Petronio Álvarez Pacific Music Festival, where 350,000 visitors turn a broad swath of the city of Cali, Colombia, into a giant party.
“Sixth generation!” shouted Solís, 56, straining to be heard over the sounds of deep bass drums and melodic ma rimba as she explained that she was just one in a long line of women to produce viche. “My grandmother, my great-grand mother, my great-great-grandmother. The ancestors!”
Viche, made of distilled sugar cane, was invented by for merly enslaved people in the region around Colombia’s Pacific coast and gained popularity as the homegrown response to the monopoly held by the government on cane liquor — becom ing a sort of Colombian moonshine.
It is distinct from other cane sugar liquors, including Co lombian aguardiente, because the sugar cane must be grown next to the sea or a river and alongside other crops native to the region that producers say give viche its distinct smoky-cit rus taste.
Outlawed for generations, viche (pronounced VEE-chey) became a symbol of the long-standing exclusion of Black cul ture from Colombia’s national narrative — its ban further evi dence, according to critics, that the country was failing to rec ognize the community’s many contributions.
Ana Copete, the director of the Petronio Álvarez Pacific Music Festival, in Cali, Colombia on Aug. 14, 2022.
The Petronio Álvarez festival is a powerful response to any attempt to ignore or dismiss Colombia’s Afro-descendant culture. Named after a musician who celebrated that culture in his songs, it began in 1997 as a music event and has grown into a blend of a regional reunion, fashion week, a series of master chef contests, a dance festival and one of the most important concerts of the year.
For some, annual attendance is tradition, akin to a cul tural pilgrimage. (Petronio, as the event is commonly called, went virtual in 2020 amid the pandemic, and took place in a reduced format last year.)
The festival itself takes place inside an open-air sports complex, where a music contest that is sort of the Colombian Idol of the Pacific coast this year awarded one of its big gest prizes to the band La Jagua.
But its legendary afterparty spills into Cali’s streets, and this year there was a spe cial appearance by Francia Márquez, the country’s first Afro-Colombian vice presi dent, who, fresh off a series of visits with South American presidents, appeared on a balcony, waving and blowing kisses to a crowd chanting her name.
After generations in which Black Colombians were mostly excluded from the highest echelons of na tional politics, Márquez’s re cent political rise — she was born into deep poverty, then became a lawyer and envi
ronmental activist before winning the vice presidency — has electrified many voters.
At the festival, Afro-Colombian food and drink is an es sential part of the scene, and viche is the only alcohol permit ted at the event. Vendors attempting to sell beer are escorted away by security.
Viche’s elevated role at the festival is all the more re markable considering its outlaw history.
But in 2019, the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that a law providing protection for ancestral beverages in Indige nous communities must also apply to Afro-Colombian ones. This paved the way for Congress to legalize viche and declare it the collective heritage of the Afro-Pacific people.
Last year, viche was granted status as a cultural heritage product.
Now, Solís and others are part of a push to convince Colombians beyond the Pacific to embrace viche as a cultural emblem of the entire country.
“Mexico has tequila, Peru has pisco, Scotland has whis ky,” said Manuel Piñeda, president of the regional chapter of the Colombian Association of Bars. “We have viche.”
The aim, he said, is to ultimately go global.
“It is very important for us to respect those grandparents who brought it to this moment,” he said. “But we want the world to know this story.”
The festival’s prevailing mood is one of exuberance and cultural pride, and attendees of all races and ethnicities are welcome.
Viche is everywhere. In bottles at small stands. Poured into plastic sample cups. Sold out of coolers at concerts. Tucked into pockets and backpacks. Passed among new friends. Cele brated in an entire pavilion with more than 50 viche-producing families, called vicheras.
“A drink so charged with symbolism, with values, seems delicious to me,” said Neila Castillo, 68, who stood by Solís’ stand, sampling viches with a college friend, Marta Espinosa, 67. They tucked bottles of clear white viche puro into their bags to enjoy later.
In 2008, viche became the festival’s official drink when organizers made the bold decision to market it during the event as part of an “awareness exercise,” even though it was still il legal, said Ana Copete, the festival’s director and granddaugh ter of its namesake. At the time, viche was granted informal protection under the framework of the event, she said, and vendors were allowed to sell their products without interfer ence from authorities.
Viche represents the only income for many families in the Pacific region of Colombia, and in 2018, Copete launched a collaborative effort with producers and local organizations to put viche legalization on the public agenda.
The group soon secured support from Colombia’s Minis try of Culture and other policymakers who saw the economic potential of the beverage.
“It has been a struggle to keep it alive, to keep the tradi tion from disappearing,” Copete said. Its prominent presence at the festival, she added, “allows other people who are not from the Pacific to know this drink and to know what it represents, to consume it — that helps the vichera families.”
Besidesbeing offended by the racist comments made by members of the Los Angeles City Council — as so many people were — I was also struck by the underlying worl dview revealed during their leaked conversation.
Council President Nury Martinez — who has since resig ned from the Council — along with two colleagues and a labor ally talked about a range of subjects, including redistricting, but two assumptions undergirded much of what they said. Their first assumption was that America is divided into monolithic racial blocs. The world they take for granted is not a world of persons; it’s a world of rigid racial categories.
At one point Martinez vulgarly derided someone because “he’s with the Blacks.” You’re either with one racial army or you’re with another.
The second assumption was that these monolithic racial blocs are locked in a never-ending ethnic war for power. The core topic of their conversation was to redraw Council districts to benefit Latino leaders.
“It’s real simple,” one of the participants in the conversa tion said at one point. “You got 100 people, right? Fifty-two of them are Mexicano. I feel pretty good about it. I feel pretty good about my chances of beating your ass.”
Those two assumptions didn’t come out of nowhere. We have had a long-running debate in this country over how to think about racial categories. On the one side there are tho
se, often associated with Ibram X. Kendi and others, who see American society as a conflict between oppressor and oppres sed groups. They center race and race consciousness when tal king about a person’s identity. Justice will come when minority group power is used to push back on white supremacy. “The only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimina tion,” is how Kendi puts it.
On the other side, there are others, such as Thomas Chat terton Williams, Coleman Hughes and Reihan Salam, who ar gue that racial categorization itself can be the problem. The concept of systemic racism is built upon crude racial categori zation. As Williams puts it, America should fight racism while over the long term getting rid of “the categories that come out of the collision of Africa and Europe in the slave trade and the New World.”
You do that by emphasizing how much all humans have in common and by emphasizing how complex each person’s identity is — that it includes race but so many other things, too. The last thing you want to do is traffic in the sort of racial essentialist categories that were so rampantly on display during that conversation among the City Council members.
That conversation is what happens when the assumptions of the former school of thought are embraced as a matter of course. You don’t get a righteous struggle against oppression. You get a bunch of people who assume that public life is a bru tal struggle of group against group, and who are probably going to develop derogatory views of people in rival groups.
Los Angeles is a version of the American future. America is diversifying rapidly, and before long there will be no single ma jority group. On the ground, groups are mixing and blending. About 3 in 10 Asian newlyweds were married to someone from a different race or ethnicity in 2015, as were about 1 in 4 His panics and roughly 1 in 5 Black Americans. Six years earlier, 35% of Americans said that one of their close kin was married to someone of a different race.
As this blending continues, racial and ethnic categories get a lot more fluid. In an essay for The Atlantic, Richard Alba, Morris Levy and Dowell Myers noted that by 2060 40% of the Americans who will say they are white will also claim another identity. Fifty-two per cent of the individuals cate gorized as nonwhite will also identify as white.
But while all this complex pluralism is happening on the ground, many politicians and conflict entrepreneurs like Tucker Carlson revert to crude racial binaries in order to justi fy their status and gain power. Sadly, history shows us how ri diculously easy it is for people
to whip up in-group versus out-group hostilities, especially if they can spread a worldview that asserts that life is essentially about a zero-sum war of group against group.
“The essential challenge that diversifying states face is the evolution of their identity,” Justin Gest writes in his recent book, “Majority Minority.” That means the crucial struggle is in the realm of ideas and the imagination. What stories do we tell or what rhetoric do we use to define who we are?
If we use rhetoric and tell stories that expand the definition of “we,” if we continue to emphasize how complicated perso nal and national identities are, if we emphasize overlapping and inclusive identities, then we have a shot at making something special out of all this diversity.
If we use rhetoric that assumes that we’re all locked into rigid racial blocs and that group conflict is the essential element of public life, then group conflict is what we will get — Balka nization on a continental scale. That’s not just about LA City Council members. That’s about a set of ideas and a way of talking too readily accepted in this society.
AN JUAN – La Junta de Gobierno (JG) del Partido Po pular Democrático (PPD) aprobó, en su reunión del pasado viernes, proponer a la Asamblea de Reglamento atemperar su estructura política a los nuevos tiempos para otorgar mayor participación ciudadana e inclusión de to dos los sectores de la sociedad puertorriqueña.
El ente rector de la Pava propuso más representativi dad en sus estructuras de toma de decisiones, añadiendo ocho nuevas sillas a la JG, que incluyen un representan te de cada uno de los siguientes sectores: Comunidad LGBTTIQ+, Base de Fe, líderes comunitarios, personas discapacitadas, trabajadores del sector privado, líderes sindicales, pequeños y medianos comerciantes, y retira dos y pensionados. Estos se suman a la Organización de Mujeres Populares, Juventud Popular Nacional y Organi zación de Servidores Públicos, que ya están representa dos en ese organismo.
El secretario general del PPD, Luis Vega Ramos, infor mó, además, que las enmiendas cambiarían la estructura administrativa de la colectividad utilizando el modelo de distritos representativos, por lo que aumentan de ocho a cuarenta las personas que serán electas por cada organi zación.
“La determinación de la Junta de Gobierno busca ampliar la representatividad y democracia en este parti do y brindarle mayor participación a todos los actores de nuestra sociedad que ven en el PPD un instrumento de cambio y justicia social para atemperarlo a nuestros tiem pos, y fortalecer nuestra clase trabajadora y otros sectores que reclaman legítimamente que su voz sea escuchada”, indicó Vega Ramos.
El secretario general añadió que, “con esta propues
ta, la JG del PPD escucha este reclamo y pone en las manos de nuestros delegados y delegadas ampliar nuestra ejecutoria hacia un partido moderno y eficaz, y que aca be siendo más Popular y Democrático. Personalmente, no veo cómo alguien se pueda oponer a este principio”.
Asimismo, la JG propuso la transición de la direc ción institucional a una más balanceada para evitar los conflictos entre futuros aspirantes, fortalecer la figura del Comité Ejecutivo para fomentar las determinaciones de consenso y evitar la centralización de todo el poder deci sional en una sola persona, y se elevarían las funciones y la competencia del secretario general a un administrador no aspirante a ninguna posición electiva.
Entre las nuevas funciones del secretario general es tán dirigir la campaña para el voto íntegro, que actual mente representa un 75 por ciento de los votos que re cibe el PPD, y supervisar la recaudación de fondos de la colectividad.
Precisamente, la subsecretaria general del PPD, Nina Valedón, manifestó que, a fin de darle continuidad y de mocratización operacional al partido, se crearía un nuevo Comité Ejecutivo, el cual estaría conformado por nueve miembros por reglamento:
1. el gobernador o candidato oficial a la goberna ción del Partido. De forma transitoria, el actual liderato presidirá el Comité Ejecutivo hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2023;
2. el presidente del Senado de Puerto Rico, en caso de ser mayoría en dicho cuerpo parlamentario, de lo con trario será el portavoz de la delegación PPD;
3. el presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, en caso de ser mayoría en dicho cuerpo parlamentario, de lo contrario será el portavoz de la delegación PPD;
4. el presidente de la Asociación de Alcaldes de Puer
to Rico;
5. el presidente de la Asociación de Legisladores Mu nicipales;
6. la presidenta de la Organización de las Mujeres Populares;
7. el presidente de la Organización de la Juventud Popular Nacional;
8. el presidente de la Organización de Presidentes de Comités Municipales No Alcaldes;
9. y el presidente de la Organización de los Servido res Públicos Populares.
Como parte de un proceso de transición para pro mover la más rápida integración de los distintos sectores a la colectividad, fortalecer la institución y brindarle es tabilidad, certeza y dirección a este proceso, se incluyó en la propuesta una disposición transitoria en la que los líderes que actualmente ocupan la presidencia, José Luis Dalmau Santiago, y las vicepresidencias, Carlos Delgado Altieri y Carmen Maldonado González, respectivamente, se mantengan en sus cargos.
– Las autoridades intervinieron en la tarde del domingo con una embarcación con 9 per sonas que pretendían entrar ilegalmente a Puerto Rico, por las costas de Aguadilla.
Según el reporte de las autoridades, la embarca
ción interceptada, es de 20 pies de eslora en madera. Los agentes Ángel López, Johanna Soto, Daniel So livera, Jaime Pérez, Noelia López, Marcos Meléndez y Pedro Crespo bajo la supervisión del teniente Jairo Ro sario, de las Fuerzas Unidas de Rápida Acción (FURA), entregarom a los detenidos y la embarcación al perso nal de Patrulla Fronteriza.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,188.
SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el do mingo una muerte y 143 personas hospitalizadas.
Hay 132 adultos hospitalizados y 11 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 26 de septiem bre al 10 de octubre de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está a 13.99 por ciento.
Theymade him at night, in the quiet hours after the bakery had closed. Together they worked, mother and daughter, mixing the materials that would give form to their creation: flour, water and su gar.
Slowly, he began to emerge as each feature was sculpted and placed into the oven to bake. First came the basic contours of his body, then the details: the anguished expression, lips contorted in pain, hands re aching out in desperation.
Finally, after a month of work, he was ready: a lovingly wrought 6-foot re-creation of Han Solo frozen in carbonite, made entirely of bread. The duo behind the creation, Hannalee Pervan and her mother, Cathe rine Pervan, called him “Pan Solo.”
On Sunday, the sculpture went on display outsi de their shop, One House Bakery in Benicia, Califor nia, about 40 miles north of San Francisco, next to an arrangement of seasonal gourds and a chalkboard that read, “Our hero Pan Solo has been trapped in Levaini te by the evil Java the Hut.”
Customers and passersby have noticed.
“People are just super interested by it, and you see people smelling it and poking it, and they’re just like, ‘What is going on?’” said Hanalee Pervan, the shop’s co-owner and head baker. “They kind of don’t believe you that it’s made out of dough.”
But it is. The younger Pervan and her mother, co-owner of the bakery, made Pan Solo out of dead dough, which contains no yeast. Pervan learned to make the dough several years ago at Wheat Stalk, a baking conference, and started using it to bake Ha lloween decorations.
Then she and her mother, both self-described science fiction nerds, set their sights higher.
In 2018, the year they opened the family bakery, they made Game of Scones, featuring a White Walker made of bread next to an iron throne of baguettes.
Encouraged by the positive response from the pu blic, in 2020 they made the “Pain-dough-lorian,” clad in armor made of bread, “Baby Dough-Da” clothed in bread and “floating” in mixing bowls, and “the Pan droid,” made of pans and kitchen tools, all inspired by the television series “The Mandalorian.”
Last year, they created “Dough-ki,” a menacing alligator made of bread, with sharp teeth and curved horns, modeled after “Alligator Loki,” a creature on the Marvel television series “Loki,” starring Tom Hiddles ton.
This year, they thought about baking Audrey II, the bloodthirsty plant from “Little Shop of Horrors,” but worried it wouldn’t fit in the oven. So they settled on Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford, frozen in the mythic substance carbonite from the 1980 “Star Wars” movie “The Empire Strikes Back.”
Hannalee Pervan served as a model for the body, which was placed on a plywood board and then laye red with dough. Getting the final details right was not easy.
“Mom made me leave it because I was obsessing over the lips,” said Hanalee Pervan, who has worked at Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Bakery in Yountville, Ca lifornia, and was part of the team that made bread for Keller’s famed restaurant The French Laundry, also in Yountville. “She was like, ‘You need to walk away.’”
All of their bread sculptures were made for Benicia’s Downtown Scarecrow Contest, which en courages local businesses to display creative scare crows for Halloween.
Pervan said making Pan Solo was particularly meaningful for her because she lost much of her sen ses of smell and taste after contracting the coronavirus in January 2021. She had always found pleasure in the smells and tastes of the kitchen and had dreamed of being a baker since she was 10.
“So just to find joy in a different part of food is really important,” she said.
Catherine Pervan said it was well worth the long
In an image provided by one of the bakers, a 6-foot tribute to frozen-in-carbonite Han Solo, made from bread dough at the One House Bakery in Benicia, Calif. Baker Hannalee Pervan said making ‘Pan Solo’ was particularly meaningful for her after losing much of her senses of smell and taste after contracting COVID.
hours it took her and her daughter to craft Pan Solo.
“It’s a little quiet time for us to have together when she’s not the boss and I’m not the mom,” she said. “It’s just us, hanging out and working together.”
he had started working at KRKD in Los An geles, selling advertising by day and playing music in the wee hours. He thought an allnight restaurant, Scrivener’s Drive-In, might be interested in advertising on his all-night show, so he paid a visit and sold the owner, Paul Scrivener, some spots. A few months later, Scrivener made a suggestion.
“‘You know, that show’s pretty good,’” Laboe, in a 2016 interview with The Desert Sun of Palm Springs, recalled Scrivener say ing. “‘Why couldn’t you do that show from my drive-in?’ So I did.’”
He would broadcast from the restaurant (he moved to KLXA and then KPOP in this period), stopping by cars and asking the oc cupants to pick a song from a list.
“At the bottom of the list,” The San Fran cisco Examiner wrote in 1973, “were a half a dozen ‘oldies’ titles — songs at that time no more than three years old — and when this portion of the list began to show the heavi est action, Laboe wondered if there might be something to this.”
shows at the American Legion Stadium in El Monte, a blue-collar city east of Los Ange les, that were known for the racially diverse crowd they attracted. The Penguins, Ritchie Valens and countless other acts performed at the El Monte shows.
“Friday and Saturday night rhythm-andblues dances at the El Monte Legion Stadium drew up to 2,000 Black, white, Asian Ameri can and Mexican American teenagers from all over Los Angeles city and county, becom ing an alternative cultural institution from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s,” scholar Anthony Macias wrote in American Quarterly in 2004.
Laboe was still producing live shows into his 90s. “If you come to one of our con certs,” he told KQED in 2019, “you’ll see a mixture, a complete mixture, of what we have in California.”
He was also still on the radio, on the syndicated “Art Laboe Connection,” after having logged time at assorted stations.
By NEIL GENZLINGER and ANNABELLE WILLIAMSLaboe, the disc jockey who as a mainstay of the West Coast airwaves for decades bridged racial divides through his music selections and live shows, reached listeners in a new way by allow ing on-air dedications and helped make the phrase “oldies but goodies” ubiquitous, died Friday at his home in Palm Springs, Califor nia. He was 97.
An announcement on his Facebook page said the cause was pneumonia.
Laboe worked in radio for almost 80 years. In 1973, The San Francisco Examiner was already calling him the “dean of Los Angeles rock ’n’ roll broadcasting,” and he would be on the air for almost a half-century more after that.
He started in the business as a teen ager during World War II, working at a San
Francisco station, KSAN, before gravitating to KPMO in Pomona and KCMJ in Palm Springs. The idea of a disc jockey with a dis tinctive personality had not yet become the norm in radio — at KCMJ, a CBS affiliate, he was mostly an announcer doing station identifications and such between radio soap operas — but for an hour late at night he was allowed to play music.
He featured big bands, crooners and oth er sounds of the day. But as tastes changed, his selections changed, and sometimes he was at the front edge of the evolution. In 1954, by then working in Los Angeles, La boe “was largely responsible for making the Chords’ ‘Sh-Boom’ (sometimes cited as the first rock ’n’ roll record) an L.A. No. 1,” Bar ney Hoskyns wrote in “Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes, and the Sound of Los Angeles” (1996).
He also saw the appeal of “oldies” prac tically before they were old. Around 1949
He had already formed his own record label, Original Sound, and in 1959 it issued “Oldies but Goodies, Vol. 1,” a compilation album — a relatively new concept — that in cluded “In the Still of the Night” by the Five Satins, “Earth Angel” by the Penguins and 10 other songs that, although they’d been on the singles charts only a few years earlier, had already begun to acquire a nostalgic feel. The album stayed on the Billboard chart for more than three years, and many more volumes followed.
Early in his career Laboe began taking requests on the air, allowing listeners to ded icate a song to a friend, love interest or other special person. It became one of his signa tures; few if any other disc jockeys were doing that in his early days. Some callers would dedicate a song to a loved one who was incarcerated. And early on, Laboe wel comed Black and Mexican callers, a barrierbreaking thing to do at the time.
In the 1950s, Laboe also began pro ducing and serving as emcee at live music
Arthur Egonian was born on Aug. 7, 1925, in Salt Lake City to a family of Arme nian immigrants. His obsession with radio began at a young age: His sister gave him his first radio for his 8th birthday. In a 2020 interview with The Press-Enterprise, he re called being amazed by the “box that talks.” That experience sparked his interest in the nascent radio scene.
He attended George Washington High School in Los Angeles and studied engi neering for a time at Stanford University.
He was hired at KSAN while still a teenager; his voice, he said, had not yet ac quired the timbre that became his calling card.
“The very first words I uttered on radio myself, I said, ‘This is K-S-A-N San Francis co,’ and it was in 1943,” he said.
The station manager suggested he Americanize his name, and he is said to have taken “Laboe” from the name of a secretary there. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he moved to Southern California, which became his home base.
A photo provided by the Art Laboe Collection of disc jockey Art Laboe, micro phone in hand, at an event promoted by the Los Angeles radio station KPOP in the late 19500s.InJuly, my daughter, my partner and I spent a week in London in an $800-a-night rental flat we found on Airb nb. It was my first time using the company, and, as sug gested, I sent a note to our host “Emily,” telling her about our trip. By the time we left for London, there was a second host listed, but the profile picture was still (we thought) of Emily. “Emily and Tony” instructed us to pick up the keys at a convenience store that worked with KeyNest, a company that facilitates secure transfer of keys. But the keys weren’t there, so we called our host’s contact number and were connected with a representative of Houst, which turned out to be a company that manages the apartment for the owner, which turned out to be another company called Silverbird Properties. When we asked the Houst representative if he could run over an extra set of keys, he told us he could not — he was in Portugal.
After almost three hours waiting on a somewhat dodgy street with our suitcases, our keys finally arrived. But the apartment was not as advertised: Among other things, the elevator was broken and had been for months, the bath room was moldy, and the shower was stopped up with a thicket of human hair I removed (ick) from the drain. After our stay I wrote to Airbnb requesting one day’s rental back — about $900 total with fees. Airbnb told me Houst had at first agreed to the refund but then reneged, claiming I had never returned the keys. (I did return them, to the same con venience store.) I believe I deserve that day’s rent refunded, but I also want Airbnb to make the listing clear for others that the property is managed by a third-party company op erating on the cheap posing as someone named Emily. Can you help? — Jim, Bethesda, Maryland
Dear Jim,
Hearing from a first-time Airbnb user is a breath of fresh air: I’ve used Airbnb regularly enough to have normal ized how absurd it is that the face smiling out at you from countless host profiles is often not the owner but a commer cial representative or property manager aiming to look as though they are welcoming you to their cozy home.
The svelte, swimsuit-clad blonde in the photo is not Emily, a bit of digging reveals, but a former girlfriend of Hamburg, Germany-based photographer Patrick Pilz. He told me via email that he captured her posing in a swim ming pool in Bali, posted it on his Instagram in 2014 and made it available as a free stock photo on the site Stock Snap. It has since been used across the internet.
More digging revealed that there is a real Emily — she is a “Global Client Onboarding Lead” at Houst, a property management company that, though based in London, has customer service representatives anywhere from Portugal, as you found out, to South Africa, as I found out when I called and tried, in vain, to get them to talk to me. (The company also did not respond to emails and LinkedIn mes
A first-time Airbnb user believed he’d be getting personal service from the owner of a London flat, but “she” was actually a managing company using a fake photo — and falling down on the job.
sages; Emily did not respond to a personal Instagram mes sage.)
I’m not sure who Tony is, nor whether it was Emily or Tony who was writing to you, since they signed missives as representatives of Silverbird Properties, LLP, an entity run by a man named Vinodh Coomaraswamy, who is (what else) a justice on the lower tier of the Supreme Court of Singapore.
But before we get back to this web of entities posing as a woman in a swimsuit, let’s get to your money. I tried to get proof from KeyNest that you did return the keys — as if there was any doubt after you sent me geotagged photos taken when you returned the keys at 7:39 on the morning you departed. But Florian Hoven, a KeyNest co-founder, said that providing proof would be tricky, because its sys tems are built around keeping key transactions as private as possible; it does not even know which accounts are con nected to Houst or Airbnb.
It turned out not to be necessary. Though Airbnb didn’t respond to most questions I sent to it, itdid explain in a statement why you were not initially refunded: its consum er protection policy — rebranded and revised in 2022 as AirCover — requires guests to report problems within 72 hours of when they occur. But it did agree to refund $918 to you “as a courtesy.” I can only surmise that Airbnb will extend this goodwill to all customers, but just in case I’m wrong, travelers should report issues to Airbnb as soon as possible to meet the 72-hour requirement.
The Airbnb statement also included a semi-admission that the host had done something wrong. “We maintain high quality and service expectations for our Hosts, and in this case we have recently taken appropriate action to enforce our Host Standards.” It did not specify the action
taken, but the apartment you rented is no longer listed, and the photo on Emily’s other listings has been changed.
Now let’s get back to what I think is the bigger issue: the near-total lack of transparency over Airbnb hosts.
Airbnb has long touted its service as a way to “live like a local” and stay in a real person’s home. In a post from the company last month featuring feedback from travelers who had been chosen to participate in its yearlong Live Any where on Airbnb program, one of three key findings was: “A positive, long-term trip experience usually involved an attentive Host and as such, access to the local community and recommendations.”
A professional host or a hosting company can, in theo ry, provide such an experience, but in my dozens of Airbnb stays over the years, it has always been the individual hosts who stand out. I have long wished Airbnb would include a feature allowing travelers to filter listings by whether the hosts are the property owners themselves. But only in look ing into your case did I realize Airbnb already requires all hosts worldwide to declare themselves either an individual or a company “to comply with E.U. consumer protection law.”
In fact, thanks to an effort spearheaded by the Nor wegian Consumer Authority, the European Commission ex tracted a commitment out of Airbnb in 2018 under which it agreed to follow European consumer regulations and clear ly identify “whether an offer is made by a private host or by a professional,” among other things.
Alas, the results — only available when the guest searches on a European web domain like .ie for Ireland or .it for Italy — are inconsistent at best. Research by Inside Airbnb, a data project that is critical of the company, found that only 11% of Italian listings were denoted as a “profes sional host” — almost certainly far fewer than there actually are. I logged into Airbnb.com through a VPN that disguised my IP address as coming from Madrid and thus got Euro pean listings, but I could not find any “Professional host” demarcations on any of the rentals I looked at — including the listing for the apartment you rented. Airbnb declined to answer any of my questions on the topic of host identity.
It is often possible, however, to figure out whether any particular Airbnb listing is owner-hosted. Some companies actually list their company name as host — kudos to them. And you can often tell from the photos or the description’s personal feel that the host is the owner. If that fails, scroll all the way down to the host profile at the bottom; some times it will show a link to their other properties — a sign a company is likely involved. When it doesn’t, as in the case of your rental, Jim, check if the total number of reviews the property you’re looking at has received matches the number the host has received.
If it’s a mismatch, you can find the other listings on the host’s homepage by taking the far-from-intuitive step of clicking on their profile picture, whether it’s of them or of the German photographer’s ex-girlfriend they’ve uploaded instead.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD
Civil No.: 3:17-cv-01282-JAG.
Re: COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: CARLOS MANUEL REYES RODRÍGUEZ AND CECILIA APONTE ROMÁN AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP REYESAPONTE, GENERAL PUBLIC AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $112,326.86 plus interest at a rate of 5.500% per annum since February 1, 2017 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also or dered to pay Plaintiff late char ges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly install ment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The de fendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made un der the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance pre miums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($8,500.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed un der the mortgage obligation.
The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave nue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MAS TER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without ap praisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: Rustica: predio de terreno con cabida
de 1,118.74 metros cuadrados, en el kilómetro 1.5 del barrio Buena Vista de Bayamón. Colinda por el NORTE, con la carretera estatal número 829, en 28.86 metros; por el SUR, con Sucesión Correa, en 10.00 metros; por el ESTE, con Juan Báez Dávila, en 56.53 metros; y por el OESTE, en 63.92 metros, con Ángel Rodríguez Capó. The property is iden tified with the number 42243 and is recorded at page num ber 88 of volume number 941 of Bayamón, in the Registry of Property of Bayamón, First Section. WHEREAS, The mort gage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 88 of volume number 1814 (ágora) of Baya món, tenth inscription in the Re gistry of Property of Bayamón, First Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage was modified on June 28,2012 by deed number 654 before notary Néstor Machado Córtes. With a new principal of $120,907.08 and variable inter est. From the (1) payment until the (60)payment, the interest rate will be at 2.50%; From the (61)payment until the (72) pa yment, the interest rate will be at 3.50%;From (73) payment until the (84)payment, interest rate will be at 4.50%; From the (85) payment until the (96) pa yment, the interest rate will be at 5.50%; and from the (97) pa yment until (480)payment, the interest rate will be at 6.50%.
Being July 1,2052 its maturity date. Recorded at page 88 of Bayamón Volume 1814. Ele venth inscription. WHEREAS the property is subject to the fo llowing junior liens: MORTGA GE: Pledged by Carlos Manuel Reyes Rodríguez and his wife, Cecilia Aponte Román, guaran teeing a promissory note in fa vor of POPULAR MORTGAGE INC., or to its order, for the origi nal loan amount of $48,000.00, bearing annual interest at a rate of 7.500%, payable by August 1st, 2022, as per deed number 572, executed in San Juan, on July 20th, 2007, before Vanes sa López Ortiz, Notary Public. Recorded at page 88 of Baya món Volume 1814. Tenth ins cription. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the hol ders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acqui re the property subject to any and all the senior liens that en cumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder ac cepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, ta cit, implied or legal) shall con tinue in effect it being unders tood further that the successful
bidder accepts then and is su brogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens.
WHEREFORE, the FIRST PU BLIC SALE will be held on DE CEMBER 2, 2022 AT 9:35AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $120,907.08. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on DECEMBER 9, 2022 AT 9:35AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $80,604.72. If said second auc tion does not result in the adju dication and sale of the proper ty, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on December 16, 2022 at 9:35am and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $60,453.54. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, refe rence is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14 day of September 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIA NO, SPECIAL MASTER.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ
PHALANX CAPITALSERIES, LLC-SERIES1
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV00307. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SU BASTA. El que suscribe, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, hago saber a la parte deman dada, JUAN ALBERTO VELEZ RIVERA y al PÚBLICO EN GE NERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 13 de julio de 2021, por la Secre taría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pa gadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la si guiente propiedad con direc ción física: 1021 Eliseo Guillot St., Mayagüez PR 00680 y que se describe como sigue:
URBANA: Solar número 3 del Bloque B del plano de Urbani zación San Jose radicado en el Barrio Guanajibo del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puer to Rico, compuesto de 313.20 metros cuadrados, colindando por el NORTE, en 13.50 metros con las Calles C; por el SUR, en 13.50 metros con alameda; por el ESTE, en 23.20 metros con el solar número 4 y por el OESTE, en 23.20 metros con el solar numero2. En este solar enclava una casa de hormigón reforzado y bloques de una sola planta dedicada a la vi vienda. Finca 20182, inscrita al folio 112 del tomo 719 de Maya güez, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen: (i) Condi ciones Restrictivas de Venta a favor de la Autoridad para el Fi nanciamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico a Través del Pro grama Mi Nuevo Hogar creado y organizado bajo las provisio nes dispuestas en la Ley 122 del 6 de agosto del 2010 y el Reglamento #7915 del 1 de septiembre de 2010, según enmendado: (a) El inmueble será la residencia principal de la parte compradora y no pue de ser arrendada o destinada a otro uso que no sea el de su residencia principal y habitual. La parte compradora no podrá vender, donar, permutar, o de otro modo transferir la propie dad sin el previo consentimien to de la Autoridad (b) Etas con diciones tendrán vigencia de diez (10) años, según lo esta ble el inciso ocho punto uno del artículo VIII del Reglamento. Dicho término es e caducidad, por lo que podrá ser cancelado por el transcurso del mismo por cualquiera de las partes. Im puestas por la Escritura #240 otorgada en San Juan, el 30 de marzo de 2012, ante el notario Raúl J. Vilá Selles. Inscrita el 13 de septiembre de 2021 al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 20182 de Mayagüez, inscripción 5ta. (ii) Hipoteca suscrita por Juan Alberto Velez Rivera el 30 de marzo de 2012 ante el notario Raúl J. Vila Selles, por la cual Juan Alberto Velez Rivera, soltero, constituye sobre esta finca Hipoteca en garantía de pagare a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico por la suma de $83,252.00 con intereses al 5.75% anual y ven cimiento el 1 de abril de 2042. La hipoteca objeto de esta eje cución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (ii). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satis facer la sentencia dictada el 17 de diciembre de 2020, me diante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada a pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad
ascendiente a $76,116.55 de principal, más intereses acumu lados, que continuarán acumu lándose al 5.75% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, mas $315.76 a cargos por demora, más $8,325.20 de costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será ce lebrada el día 1 DE NOVIEM
BRE DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE
LA TARDE en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ma yagüez, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $83,252.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBAS
TA el 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TAR DE, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $55,501.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudi cación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBAS
TA el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE
DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo míni mo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $41,626.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento incoado estarán de ma nifiesto en la Secretaría del Tri bunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entien de que cualquier carga y/o gra vamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continua rá subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cual quier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propie dad para ejecutar se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de car gas o derechos reales que los
hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo teca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de ins trumentos negociables garan tizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecuta do, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando subrogados en los dere chos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y con signado el precio correspon diente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente es critura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o ti tular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el ad judicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo due ño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si trans curren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior proce dimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la fin ca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edic to bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En MAYAGÜEZ, Puer to Rico, hoy 14 de septiembre de 2022. Alg. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, Alguacil Placa #924, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Mayagüez.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ ROLANDO
Demandante V. RAUL JESUS NOY ANCHIA, SU ESPOSA YEIDIE DEL ROSARIO TROGOLO VELEZ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV01397.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA
ROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL
PLACA #924, Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, al público en general, POR LA PRESEN
TE HAGO SABER: CERTIFICO
Y HAGO SABER: Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia del Secreta rio de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Esta dos Unidos, en mi oficina, en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala de Mayagüez, el día 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, la siguiente propiedad: CABA ÑA SIETE: Esta unidad está localizada en el lado ESTE, de la propiedad y colinda por el NORTE, con los jardines comu nales y con las aceras comu nales de acceso a las demás cabañas; por el SUR, con los jardines comunales y con las aceras de acceso Este; por el ESTE, con los jardines comu nales y de ahí con la cabaña número seis (6); y por el OES TE, con los jardines comunales y de ahí al edificio central. Esta unidad consta de una estructu ra independiente de hormigón y bloques de hormigón de dos plantas, con una cabida su perficial de mil dieciocho punto sesenta (1108.60) pies cuadra dos, equivalentes a noventa y cuatro punto setenta y dos (94.72) metros cuadrados. Se compone este apartamento en su primera planta de una salacomedor, cocina, baño, área de servicio, terraza con área de setenta y siete (77.00) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a siete punto dieciséis (7.16) metros cuadrados, un dormitorio con closet y el pozo de escaleras.
La puerta principal está loca lizado en la sala y abre hacia la terraza ya mencionada, y de ahí al área comunal. Existe una salida de servicio desde la coci na, a través del patio de servi cio. La segunda planta contiene dos cuartos dormitorios, cada uno con closet y balcón, un baño y un closet para ropa de cama. Le corresponde una par ticipación de punto cero ciento ochenta y nueve (.0189%) por ciento en los elementos comu nes del Inmueble, así como de sus gastos comunales y de los elementos comunes limitados.
Consta inscrito al folio 285 del tomo 247 de Cabo Rojo, Re gistro de la Propiedad de San Germán, finca número 7,421.
La dirección física es: Cabaña 7 Agueybana Cluster, Villa Tai na Cabo Rojo, PR 00623. Los tipos mínimos fijados para la
ejecución del bien inmueble an tes mencionado lo es la suma de $140,000.00 para la Primera Subasta; $93,333.33 para la Segunda Subasta; $70,000.00 para la Tercera Subasta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde sea posible, el importe de la sentencia dictada el pa sado 28 de enero de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, ascenden te a las siguientes cantidades: $36,105.00 de principal, más $133.39 de intereses acumu lados hasta el 2 de julio de 2019, más los que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más la suma de $288.90 en recargos, más la cantidad de $14,000.00 por costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogados pactados. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 10 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para ésta será el de las dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se ce lebrará una TERCERA SUBAS TA el día 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta subasta será la mitad del precio mínimo pactado para la primera subasta. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera su basta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuere mayor. Todas las subastas deberán ser acorda das y celebradas según lo or denado por el Tribunal. La su basta antes indicada se llevará a cabo en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. El inmueble NO consta afecto por el siguiente gravamen pre ferencial. El inmueble antes relacionado consta afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: a. AL ASIENTO 2019-118554SG01 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 6 de noviem bre de 2019, Aviso de Deman da de fecha 20 de agosto de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Mayagüez, en el Caso Civil número MZ2019CV01397, por concepto de Cobro de Di
nero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Oriental Bank, versus Raúl
Noy Anchia y su esposa Yeidie
Del Rosario Trogolo Véle, por la suma de $36,105.00 más intereses y otras sumas. b. Em bargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, con tra Raúl J. Roy Anchia y Yeidi Trogolo Vélez, seguro social xxx-xx-4259, por la suma de $158,944.89, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, Embargo número ARE-761, Certificación de fecha 9 de junio de 2017 y presentado el día 13 de junio de 2017 y anotado al Asiento 2017-005357-EST del Sistema Karibe. c. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico contra Raúl
J. Roy Anchia y Yeidi Trogolo Vélez, seguro social números xxx-xx-7761 y xxx-xx-4259, por la suma de $171,402.64, por concepto de Contribucio nes Sobre Ingresos, Embargo número ARE19-7761, Certifi cación de fecha 20 de julio de 2018 y presentado el día 10 de septiembre de 2018 y anotado al Asiento 2018-007048-EST del Sistema Karibe. Se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsisten tes; entiéndase que el rema tante los acepta y quedan su brogados en la responsabilidad del mismo sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Para la publicación de este edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana, durante dos semanas conse cutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, libro el presente en Mayagüez, Puer to Rico, hoy día 22 de agosto del 2022. Alg. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, Alguacil Placa #924, Al guacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Mayagüez.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD
Plaintiff V. THE ESTATE OF RAFAEL CABELLO-COLON CONSTITUTED BY A.C.C.M AND RUBI MARIE CABELLO-COLON AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE Defendants Civil No.: 3:16-cv-03149. PAD.
Re: COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: THE ESTATE OF RAFAEL CABELLOCOLON CONSTITUTED BY A.C.C.M AND RUBI MARIE CABELLO-COLON
WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $243,878.40 plus interest at a rate of 6.000% per annum since February 1, 2015 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also or dered to pay Plaintiff late char ges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly install ment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to in surance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($24,775.04) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The mortgage was modified on August 25, 2012 by deed number 619 before notary Magda V. Alsina Figue roa for a new principal sum of $247,750.49, and maturity date September 1, 2052; beginning on October 1, 2012 with an interest rate at 6.000%. The modification deed is recorded at page 72 of Carolina Volu me 1499, fifth inscription. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Offi ce of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and a at the office of the appointed special master at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 1 del bloque GG de la Urbaniza ción Los Colobos Park, ubicado en el Barrio Canovanillas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área super ficial de 389.53 metros cuadra dos. En lindes por el NORTE, con futuro desarrollo, en dis tancia de 13.569 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle Número 102, en una distancia de 11.254 metros y un arco de 2.90 me tros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 2 del bloque GG, en una distancia de 28.00 metros y por el OESTE, con la Calle
Número 101, en una distancia de 16.073 metros y 8.168 me tros y un arco de 2.90 metros. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto y bloques para vivienda. TRACTO: Se segre ga de la finca número 48901, inscrita al folio 94 del tomo 1441 de Carolina. The proper ty is identified with the number 59892 and is recorded at page number 94 of volume number 1469 of Carolina, in the Regis try of Property of Carolina, Se cond Section. WHEREAS, the mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recor ded at page number 94 of vo lume number 1469 of Carolina, third inscription in the Registry of Property of Carolina, Second Section, third inscription. Po tential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the proper ty. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as suffi cient the title that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFO
RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on DECEMBER 22, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $247,750.49. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on DECEMBER 29, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $165,166.99. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on JANUARY 5, 2023 at 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $123,875.25. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cance ling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforemen tioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 26 day of September 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, SPECIAL MASTER.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD
Plaintiff
CARMINA AMÉRICA
BARNES PAGÁN A/K/A CARMIÑA AMÉRICA
BARNES PAGÁN A/ KA CARMIÑA BARNES PAGÁN AND THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES GARRIGA A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ GARRIGA; JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS THE UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES GARRIGA A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ
GARRIGA
Defendants
Civil No.: 3:16-cv-02980-ADC.
Re: MORTGAGE FORECLO
SURE. NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: CARMINA AMÉRICA BARNES PAGÁN A/K/A CARMIÑA AMÉRICA BARNES PAGÁN A/ KA CARMIÑA BARNES PAGÁN AND THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES GARRIGA
A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ GARRIGA, JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS THE UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES GARRIGA
A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ GARRIGA, GENERAL PUBLIC, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, PUERTO RICO INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICES AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $251,530.05 plus interest at a rate of 4.500% per annum since March 1, 2012 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue un til the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the install ment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plain tiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($30,200.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The re cords of the case and these
proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Offi ce of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and a at the office of the appointed special master at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Condominio Almendro Terra ce de Santurce Norte. Apar tamento número B-2 Tiene una cabida total de 1,867.0 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 569.207 metros cuadrados dividido en dos plantas o nive les comunicados entre sí por una escalera la cual conduce también a una escalera la cual conduce también a una azotea localizada sobre el segundo piso de este apartamento, para el exclusivo de éste como área privada individual. La primera planta consta de una terraza al descubierto, sala, comedor, vestíbulo, cocina, closets, me dio baño, estacionamiento bajo techo o marquesina doble para uso exclusivo e individualizado de este apartamento con ac ceso directo al patio interior común del condominio. La segunda planta consta de 3 cuartos dormitorios, dos baños y laundry. Pertenece también a este apartamento como área privada para uso individual de este apartamento entre el pe rímetro exterior de la edifica ción y la colindancia del solar en que enclava el edificio. La puerta principal de entrada a este apartamento comunica al patio interior común del condo minio, el cual a su vez comuni ca con la vía pública a través de la vía o camino de acceso. Colinda este apartamento por el Este, con el apartamento C-2; por el Oeste, con el apar tamento A-2; por el Norte, con la colindancia Norte del solar en que enclava el edificio; por el Sur, con el patio interior co mún y la marquesina doble del apartamento C-2. Correspon de al anteriormente descrito apartamento una participación de 16.86% en los elementos comunes del inmueble. The property is identified with the number 32,223 and is recorded at page number 171 of volume number 864 of North Santurce, in the Registry of Property of San Juan, First Section. WHE REAS, the mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant procee ding is recorded at mobile page of volume number 1,098 of North Santurce, fifth inscription in the Registry of Property of
San Juan, First Section. WHE
REAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: TAX LIEN: Annotated on this pro perty as belonging to Augusto Quiñones Garriga and Carmiña Barnes Pagán, for the sum of $246,255.14, certification dated August 18, 2004, issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Department of Treasury. Anno tated to mobile volume 1107 of Santurce North Seventh ins cription. TAX LIEN: Annotated on this property, as belonging to Augusto Quiñones Garriga and Carmiña Barnes Pagán, for the amount of $251,521.68, accor ding to certification dated Sep tember 23, 2008, issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Department of Treasury. Anno tated to mobile volume 1107 of Santurce North. Seventh ins cription. TAX LIEN: Annotated on this property as belonging to Augusto Quiñones Garriga, for the sum of $246,255.14, certi fication dated August 18, 2004, issued by Internal Revenue Service ofPuerto Rico. Annota ted on page 3, order number 10 of the Tax Lien Register San turce North, number 110, on September 1, 2004. TAX LIEN: Annotated on this property, as belonging to Augusto Quiño nes Garriga, for the amount of $251,521.68, according to certification of Tax Lien Regis ter dated September 26, 2008, issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Department of Treasury. Annotated on page 16, order number 64 of the Tax Lien Register of Santurce North number 110. LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. vs Car mina América Barnes Pagán a/k/a Carmiña América Barnes Pagán a/ka Carmiña Barnes Pagán and the estate of Au gusto Quiñones Garriga a/k/a Augusto Quiñonez Garriga; John Doe and Jane Doe as the unknown members of the esta te of Augusto Quiñones Garriga a/k/a Augusto Quiñonez Ga rriga before the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, docket number 3:16-cv-02980-ADC regarding foreclosure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstan ding balance of $251,530.05, as per complaint dated Nov ember 15, 2016. Recorded at the Karibe system for North Santurce, notation D. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is unders tood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and prefe rential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that
the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFO
RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on DECEMBER 22, 2022 AT 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $302,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on DECEMBER 29, 2022 AT 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $201,333.33. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on JA NUARY 5, 2023 at 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $151,000.00. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 26 day of Sep tember 2022. Joel Ronda Feli ciano, Special Master.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD
Plaintiff V. FERNANDO SIERRA ARCHILLA, SHARON LYNETTE FRANCO MUÑOZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEM
Defendants
Civil No.: 3:21-cv-01015. RAM. Re: COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: FERNANDO SIERRA ARCHILLA, SHARON LYNETTE FRANCO MUÑOZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEM, GENERAL PUBLIC, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $96,384.84 plus interest at a rate of 7.500% per annum since August 1, 2012 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue un til the debt is paid in full. The
defendants were also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the install ment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plain tiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($9,250.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The re cords of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Offi ce of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the SPECIAL MASTER Joel Ronda at 441 Calle E, Frailes Indus trial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: RUSTICA: Solar radi cado en la Urbanizacion Vista mar III, Vistamar Plaza, situada en el Barrio Sabana Debajo de Carolina, marcado con el número 1212, con un área de 294.25 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la ca lle Gerona, distancia de 9.02 metros y 5.94 metros; por el Sur, con la Avenida Norte, Vis tamar Plaza, distancia de 13.00 metros; por el Este, con el so lar número 1213, distancia de 23.00 metros; por el Oeste, con el solar número 1211, distan cia de 18.72 metros. Contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. The property is identified with the number 13,114 and is recorded at page number 99 of volume number 346 of Carolina, in the Registry of Property of Carolina, First Section. WHEREAS the mort gage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 27 of volume number 955 of Carolina, ninth inscription in the Registry of Property of Carolina, First Sec tion. WHEREAS the mortgage note and deed were modified by the parties on March 7, 2011 via deed number 32 for the Modification and Extension of Mortgage executed before Notary Ileana Quintero Aguiló. The parties established as the new unpaid principal balan ce the amount of $97,700.00, maintained the interest rate as 7.50% and extended the loan’s
maturity date to March 1, 2041.
The modification deed is recor ded at page number 27 (over leaf) of volume number 955 of Carolina, eleventh entry in the Registry of Property of Caroli na, First Section. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: LIS PEN DENS: Civil matter pursued by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Fernando Sierra Archilla and his wife, Sharon Lynette Franco Muñoz, before Puerto Rico Superior Court at Carolina, docket number FCD2007-2150 regarding collection of monies and foreclosure, claiming pay ment of mortgage with an outs tanding balance of $90,568.59, as per complaint dated Nov ember 21, 2007. Recorded at page number 27 (overleaf) of volume 955 of Carolina, entry number A. LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by DLJ Mortga ge Capital, Inc. vs. Fernando Sierra Archilla, Sharon Lynette Franco Muñoz and the conjugal partnership that exists between them, before the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, docket number 3:21-cv-01015-RAM regarding collection of monies and fore closure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $96,384.84, as per complaint dated January 11, 2021. Recorded at page num ber 27 (overleaf) of volume 955 of Carolina, entry number A. Recorded at the Karibe system for Carolina, Notation B. STATE TAX LIEN in favor of the Com monwealth of Puerto Rico in the amount of $707.74, certification issued July 2, 2018, recorded at the Karibe system, entry number 2018-005358-EST. Po tential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the proper ty. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as suffi cient the title that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFO RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on DECEMBER 22, 2022 AT 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $92,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on DECEMBER 29, 2022 AT 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is
the sum of $61,666.67. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on JA NUARY 5, 2023 at 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $46,250.00. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 27 day of Sep tember 2022. Joel Ronda Feli ciano, Special Master.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. NEFTALI VALENTIN FRED Y KEYLA HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: KCD2007-1318. (902). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR DINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a la deman dada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 8 de agosto de 2022 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $63,753.73 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 10 de marzo de 2008, notificada y archivada en autos el 26 de marzo de 2008; procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo dere cho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de San Juan, Puer to Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación: Cond. Los Almendros Plaza, Apt. 302, San Juan, PR 00924. URBANA: PROPIEDAD HO RIZONTAL: RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT THREE HUN DRED TWO (302) IS IRRE GULAR IN SHAPE AND LO CATEDIN CONDOMINIO LOS ALMENDROS PLAZA, WHICH IS LOCATED IN SABANA LLA
NA WARD OF THE MUNICI PALITY OF THE SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, WITH A TOTAL SUPERFICIAL AREA OF NINE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN POINT EIGHTEEN SQUARE
FOOT (927.18 S.F.). MEASU RING THIRTY-EIGHT FEET
ELEVEN- AND ONE-HALF IN CHES (38’11½”) IN WIDTH AT IS NOTHERN WALL, THIRTYONE FEET HALF INCHES PLUS (31’5 ½”) SEVEN FEET
SIX INCHES (7’6”) IN WIDTH AT IS SOUTHERN WALL, SE VETEEN FEET ONE INCHE PLUS (17’1”) EIGHT FEET (8’) IN LEGTH AT WESTERN WALL, AND TWENTY-FIVE FEETONE INCHE (25;1”) IN LEGTH AT ITS EASTERN WALL. IT IS BOUNDED ON THE NORTH, AND WEST, BY THE EXTERIOR WALLS OF THE BUILDING, ON THE SOUTH, BY THE CORRIDOR, ON THE WEST, BY THE CO RRIDOR, ON THE WEST, BY THE APARTMENT THREE HUNDRED ONE (301) AND A JANITOR AND STORAGE ROOM. THE MAIN ENTRACE FACES THE CORRIDOR. THIS UNIT CONSIST OF A LIVINGDINING ROOM, THREE BE DROOMS WITH A CLOSET EACH, ONE BATHROOM, A HALLWAY WITH A LINEN CLOSET AND A KITCHEN A TWO-PART CABINET WITH SPACE FOR A REFRIGERA TOR, SPACE FOR A STORE AND BREAKFAST COUNTER. LE CORRESPONDE A ESTE APARTAMENTO EN LOS ELEMENTOS COMUNES GE NERALES EL CERO PUNTO CUATRO CERO UNO DOS CINCO UNO POR CIENTO (0.401251%) Y A SU VEZ LE CORRESPONDE IDENTICO POR CIENTO EN LOS GAS TOS DE OPERACIÓN Y MEN TENIMIENTO DEL CONDOMI NIO. LE CORRESPONDE EN FORMA EXCLUCIVA, PERMA NENTE E INSEPARABLE EL ESTACIONAMIENTO TRES CIENTOS UNO (301), DEBI DAMENTE DEMARCADO Y NUMERADO DE CONFORMI DAD CON EL PLANO DE AREA DE ESTACIONAMIENTO. POR SU PROCEDENCIA ESTA AFECTA A SERVIDUMBRE A FAVOR DE LA AUTORIDAD DE FUENTES FLUVIALES DE PUERTO RICO Y CONDI CIONES RESTRICTIVAS DE EDIFICACION Y USO. LA AN TES DESCRITA PROPIEDAD CONSTA INSCRITA AL FOLIO 254 VUELTO DEL TOMO 547 DE SABANA LLANA, FINCA NUMERO 22440, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE PUER TO RICO, SECCION QUINTA DE SAN JUAN. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de sa tisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, cuyas canti dades ascienden a $63,753.73
de principal, 5.5% de inte reses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $113.46 por concepto de cargos por mora, los cuales continúan acumu lándose hasta el pago total de la deuda; $15.00 por concepto de otros gastos, y la suma de $6,660.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $66,600.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no pro dujere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y ser virá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $44,400.00. Si tampoco hu biere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se pro cederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $33,300.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo ad judicarse a opción del deman dante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA de la mañana/tarde.
De no comparecer postor al guno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 31 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 7 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. De Estudio de Título realizado, no surgen gra vámenes preferentes, surge el siguiente gravamen posterior: Hipoteca constituída por los esposos Valentín-Hernández a favor de la Autoridad para el Fi nanciamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, por $15,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero en 8 años, según Esc. #645, otorga da en San Juan, el 29 de sep tiembre de 2004, ante Rafael Ojeda Diez, inscrita al Tomo Karibe finca #22440 de Saba na Llana, inscripción 9na. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Nortea mérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimien to de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un
intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del munici pio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certifica do con acuse de recibo a la úl tima dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipote ca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, pre via orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimien to de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publi cación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 14 de septiembre de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN MMG I PR CR LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CARMEN CASTRO SANCHEZ COMPUESTA POR ISRAEL GUZMAN ARROYO POR SI Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTARIA; ISRAEL ALEJANDRO GUZMAN CASTRO; JAVIER ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; DANIEL ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; MANUEL ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; LEARSI ALEJANDRA GUZMAN CASTRO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO, DIVISION DE CAUDAL RELICTO Y CENTRO RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Demandado(s)
Caso Núm.: KCD2013-0303.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI CA SUBASTA A: SUCESION DE
CARMEN CASTRO
SANCHEZ COMPUESTA POR ISRAEL GUZMAN ARROYO POR SI EN CUANTO LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTARIA ISRAEL ALEJANDRO GUZMAN CASTRO; JAVIER ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; DANIEL ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; MANUEL ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; LEARSI ALEJANDRA GUZMAN CASTRO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO, DIVISION DE CAUDAL RELICTO Y CENTRO RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); Y AL PUBLICO EN
GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puer to Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, 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 re gistral, para que puedan concu rrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor eje cutante a saber: DORAL BANK: A cuyo favor aparece una ano tación de demanda, expedida el 3 de junio 2009, en el en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, caso civil # KCD2009-2150, seguido por Doral Bank versus Israel Guzman Arroyo, Carmen Castro Sánchez y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Compuesta por Ambos, por la suma de $73,868.14 y otros suma. Anotado el 24 de julio de 2020, en el Sistema Karibe de Sabana Llana, Finca 35,892. Anotación A. Que en cumpli miento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedi do el día 26 de agosto de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal,
procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: COND PUERTA DEL SOL 2000 APT 1101 San Juan PR 00926.
PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL:
Condominio Puerta del Sol de Sabana Llana, Apartamento 1101, Cabida: (1,408.13) pies cuadrados. Apartamento resi dencial (1101) rectangular loca lizado Enel piso número once (11) del Condominio Puerta del Sol que ubica en la Carretera Estatal Numero 181, del barrio Sabana Llana de Rio Piedras, Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,408.13 pies cuadrados, siendo sus medidas lineales sesenta y seis de largo (66’0”) por veintidós pies con nueve pulgadas (22’9”); en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veintidós pies nueve pulga das (22’9”) con terrenos donde enclava el edificio; por el SUR, en una distancia de veintidós pies nueves pulgadas (22’9”) con terrenos donde enclava el edificio; por el ESTE, en una distancia de sesenta y seis pies (66’0”) con terrenos don de enclava el edificio; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de sesenta y seis pies (66’0”), con el pasillo central del piso y la escalera. La puerta principal del apartamento tiene acceso al pasillo central del piso. Esta unidad residencial consta de los siguiente: sala, comedor, baño, pasillo con closet, biblio teca, laundry, cocina, tres (3) cuartos con closet, dormitorio “Master” con “Walk-in” closet y baño. El apartamento tiene un porciento de participación en los elementos generales de punto cero cero nueve cero seis dos nueve. (.0090629%).
A este apartamento le corres ponde como elemento común limitado el estacionamiento número 145. Consta inscrita en Karibe de Sabana Llana, Finca número 35,892; Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan Sec ción Quinta. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfa cer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dicta da a su favor, el día 14 de agos to de 2013 en el presente caso civil, cuya deuda asciende a la suma de $68,486.65 por con cepto de principal, $38,007.71 de intereses al 25 de mayo de 2020, los cuales se continúan aumentando hasta el pago to tal de la obligación a razón de $13.01 per diem, $2,179.44 de cargos por demora, $2,617.02 de deficiencia en la cuenta plica(“Escrow Deficiency”)más costas, gastos y $7,840.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado. Los intereses se continúan acumulando, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pa garse las sumas antes mencio
nadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa soli citud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tri bunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judi cial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mí nimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $78,400.00. Que de ser necesaria la cele bración de una SEGUNDA SU BASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $52,266.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $39,200.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje
cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de septiembre de 2022. Pedro Hieye González, Algua cil, División De Subastas, Tribu nal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De San Juan.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR CA ROLINA
Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: CA2022RF00399.
Sala: 405. Sobre: DIVORCIO (R. I.). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: SRA. CLAUDIA MARIA MALFA GARCIA.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de 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 7 de octubre de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 12 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA FRANCIS AYALA, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala Superior de TOA BAJA.
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC como agente de ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. CHRISTIAN JIMENEZ LOPEZ
Demandado(a) Civil: DO2021CV00105. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFI CACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO
A: CHRISTIAN JIMENEZ LOPEZ
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican Ia sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que 2 de noviembre de 2021 , 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 Ia misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en Ia 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 Ia Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de Ia cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de Ia publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en Ia fecha de Ia publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 07 de octubre de 2022 En TOA BAJA Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 2022. LIC. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). f/ GLORYMAR SALDAIA QUIIO NES, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan.
E.M.I EQUITY
MORTGAGE INC.
Demandante (a) VS.
RF MORTGAGE AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION, ACREEDOR ORIGINAL Y REGISTRAL, FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO, ULTIMO ACREEDOR Y TENEDOR CONOCIDO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS
Demandado (a)
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05717. Sala: 908. Sobre: CANCELA CION DE PAGARE HIPOTE CARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE 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 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 diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o repre sentando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los tér minos de la Sentencia, Senten cia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recur so de revisión o apelación den tro del término de 30 días con tados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de OCTUBRE de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de OCTUBRE de 2022. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretario Regional Interina. f/ Angela M. Rivera Hernández, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MANA TI SALA SUPERIOR.
ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. DEMANDANTE vs. WANDA LEE ROSADO VEGA POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE RICARDO DAVID QUILES RESTO; LA SUCESION DE RICARDO DAVID QUILES RESTO COMPUESTA POR
CAROLINA, VALERIA, CRISTHIAN TODOS DE APELLIDOS QUILES DE JESUS E IRIANA QUILES ROSADO (MENOR DE EDAD); FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM.: MT2022CV00566.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO Y MAN DAMIENTO DE INTERPELA CION. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.
A la parte co-demandada:
A) FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RICARDO
DA VID QUILES RESTO, A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (a) PO BOX 1018 CIALES, PR 00638; (b) HC-01 BOX 5203 CILAES, PR 00638; (c) CARR. 642 KM 49.0 · LOT 53 COMUNIDAD MONTEBELLO MANATI, PR 00674.
Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Se cretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Co bro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de Wanda Lee Rosado Vega, por sí y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria y La Sucesión de Ricardo David Quiles Resto, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por con cepto de hipoteca la suma de $118,822.95 por concepto de principal, desde el lro de mayo de 2020, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.
Además Wanda Lee Rosado Vega, por sí y en la cuota viu dal usufructuaria y La Sucesión de Ricardo David Quiles Resto adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equiva lentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes, a $12, 764.50.
Ademas Wanda Lee Rosado Vega, por sí y en la cuota viu dal usufructuaria y La Suce sión de David Quiles Resto se comprometio a pagar una suma equivalente a $12,764.50 para
cubrir, cualquier otro adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca nume ro 72, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 1 de marzo de 2016, ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, de la finca nú mero 19,591, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Manati, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Por razón de dicho incumplimien to, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado ta les sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una de manda enmendada en su con tra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o re pudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Ricardo David Quiles Resto. Los co-demandados miembros de la Sucesión de Ricardo Da vid Quiles Resto se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nues tro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en tomo a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del termino de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la noti ficación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte deman dante a que, se incluye a los herederos conocidos y herede ros desconocidos de Ricardo David Quiles Resto denomi nados Fulana De Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publica ción de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el origi nal de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Ledo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte De mandante. 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 derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la De manda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dic tarse contra usted(es) Senten cia en Rebeldía, concediéndo se el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oirle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 13 de octu bre de 2022, en Manatí, Puerto Rico. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GON ZALEZ, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. SARAY SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.
MARIBEL IRIZARRY FLORES Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV06713. Sala: 506. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBAS TA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚ BLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 18 de julio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tri bunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continua ción: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número (203). Apartamento de forma irregular localizado en la esquina Suroeste de la segun da planta del Condominio Tei de, situado en el número (158) de la Calle Costa Rica de Hato Rey, Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. El apartamento tiene un área total aproximada de 1,278.49 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 118.819 me tros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan 45.75 pies, equi valentes a 13.948 metros, con el apartamento 202, la fosa de los elevadores y el recibidor de ese piso; por el SUR, en varias alineaciones que totali zan 45.75 pies, equivalentes a 13.948 metros, con la pared ex
terior y el patio sur del edificio; por el ESTE, en varias alinea ciones que totalizan 28.01 pies, equivalentes a 8.54 metros con la fosa de los ascensores y el apartamento 204; y por el OES TE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan 31.96 pies, equivalen tes a 9.744 metros con la pared exterior y el patio Oeste del edificio. Esta unidad residencial consiste de 3 habitaciones con sus guardarropas, 2 baños, re cibidor, sala, comedor, cocinalavandería, y pasillo interior con su guardarropa. La entrada de esta unidad residencial está lo calizada hacia el Norte y da al vestíbulo o pasillo de escaleras y ascensores del piso. A este apartamento le corresponden como uso común limitado los estacionamientos enumera dos con el número 84 y 85 así como los jardines que sirven exclusivamente para esos pro pósitos. Inscrita al folio 161 del tomo 1281, finca # 35,631 de Río Piedras Norte. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de San Juan. La pro piedad según pagaré ubica en; 203 Apt. 185 Costa Rica Cond. Teide San Juan, PR. El produc to de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 3 de marzo de 2020, este Honora ble Tribunal dictó Sentencia en contra de la parte demandada, notificada a las partes el 9 de marzo de 2020, por la suma de $142,414.29 por concepto de principal, más los intere ses sobre dicha suma a razón del 6.75%, anual desde el 1ro de 1ro de diciembre de 2018; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses con tinúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclama da en este pleito, y la suma de $16,150.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y de más créditos accesorios garan tizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del algua cil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MA ÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fi jado para la PRIMERA SUBAS TA es de $161,500.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE NOVIEMBRE
DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $107,666.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la
PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $80,750.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. EX PIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de octubre de 2022. PEDRO
HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUA CIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS,Con Lugar la demanda determi nando que adeudan la suma de $39,464.39 de principal. Esta suma no incluye los intereses, ni cargos por demora. Dicho monto continúa aumentando intereses bajo la tasa de inte rés acordada, recargos, cos tas, honorarios de abogados y otros gastos contractualmente pactados hasta el saldo total de la deuda. Las sumas antes descritas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. Además, se adeuda las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados y cual quier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipo teca. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el al guacil pondrá en posesión judi cial a los nuevos dueños den tro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deu dor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lan zamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consig nado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el deman dante y/o el acreedor y/o inver sionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Además, se noti fica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desco nocidas que puedan tener de rechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referi da propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen pos terior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fue ra necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan com parecer a la celebración de di cha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titularidad y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante conti nuarán subsistentes. Se enten derá que el rematante los acep ta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas la borables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el pre sente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 14 de septiembre de 2022. Luiz E Roman Carrero, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY. Firma Ilegible, Al guacil Auxiliar 178.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. CESAR NICOLÁS MENDEZ VÁZQUEZ, SU
ESPOSA SONIA ANNETTE GONZÁLEZ ECHANDIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, JOSÉ MANUEL SERRANO VIERA
Caso Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01269. Sobre: EJE CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
POR SI Y COMO REPRESENTANTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLA Y POR CESAR NICOLÁS MENDEZ VÁZQUEZ.
POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electró nica: http://:unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se pre sente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el ori ginal de su contestación ante el
Tribunal correspondiente y noti fique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732-7970; Teléfono: 787843-41668. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número men cionado en el epígrafe. Se ale ga en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de octubre de 2019, 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 $164,256.87 de principal el cual se compone de un pri mer principal por la suma de $151,790.18 y un principal dife rido por la suma de $12,466.69, más intereses sobre la suma de $151,790.18 a razón del 6.50% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipo tecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma pactada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La par te Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PEN DIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio Franquez del término municipal de Morovis, Puerto Rico, mar cado con el número seis (6), según el plano de inscripción con una cabida de cero punto tres tres cuatro dos (0.3342) cuerdas, equivalente a uno tres uno tres punto cuatro nueve cero (1313.490) metros cuadra dos. En lindes por el Norte con el lote número cinco (5), según el plano de inscripción; por el Sur con faja dedicada a uso pú blico, por el Este, con servidum bre de paso; y por el Oeste, con el lote tres (3) lote cuatro (4) según el plano de inscripción. Inscrita al folio móvil de Moro vis, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, finca número doce mil seiscientos dieciocho. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Senten cia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribu nal en Ciales, Puerto Rico. A 4 día de octubre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. JAN
NETTE GONZÁLEZ VARGAS, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE CAGUAS
SAN CARLOS MORTGAGE LLC Demandante V JOHN DOE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ESMERALDO GARCÍA MALDONADO; RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE SUSANA AGUAYO CANDELARIO; DOLTON DOUGLAS
ARCHER SOBERS
GRAYS, LILLIAN JANETTE GARCÍA AGUAYO Y LA SOCIEDAD
LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00897.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA (VÍA ORDINARIA). ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ESMERALDO GARCÍA MALDONADO. URB. ESTANCIAS DE MONTE VERDE #10, GURABO, PR 00778; 10 URB. ESTANCIAS DE SIERVAS DE MARÍA, GURABO, PR 00778; PMB 402 PO BOX 3040, GURABO, PR 00778; PMB 57 PO BOX 1283, SAN LORENZO, PR 00754.
POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este empla zamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia
en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entien de procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, Del gado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 2741414. DADA en Caguas, Puer to Rico, a 3 de septiembre de 2022. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria Regional. Eneida Arroyo Vélez, Secretaria Auxi liar Del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. JORGE ANTONIO CRUZ LEBRON, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01368. (602). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JORGE ANTONIO CRUZ LEBRON, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
POR MEDIO del presente edic to se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la via ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sen tencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presen te al tribunal su alegación res ponsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de ha ber sido diligenciado este em plazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electró nica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunalelectroni co/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su ale
gación responsiva en la Se cretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abo gado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PMB 450, 400 Calle Calaf, San Juan, PR 00918-1314i Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electró nico: legal@jrslawpr.com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publi cación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplaza miento y de la demanda pre sentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Punto Oro, 4065 Calle Corsario, Pon ce, PR 00728-2029. EXPE DIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 03 de octubre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABA LLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. BRENDA L. SANTIAGO LÓ PEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN LEGACYMORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PRI Demandante V. ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS Demandado(a)
Civil: . Sala: 505. Sobre: CAN CELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EX TRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES
DESCONOCIDOS.
(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 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 11 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 11 de octubre de 2022. Lcda.
I.
Sán chez, Secretaria. Militza Merca do 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. Sala:
505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE 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 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 60 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 7 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 2022.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MER CADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.There
are not all that many places that would so eagerly seize a visiting team’s signature, contentious chant and turn it into a rhythmic, derisive eulogy for a season.
But the faux Native American war chant known as the “tomahawk chop,” often cele brated in Atlanta and repeatedly condemned as racist most everywhere else, pulsed through the stands of Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Saturday. There were a rival’s misfortunes to mock.
The Philadelphia Phillies, seeking to clinch a trip to the National League Cham pionship Series, were surging early. If there was to be a dethroning of the franchise that won last year’s World Series, there would be an afternoon of taunting by fans, too.
The barbs and provocations starting in the second inning proved not to be prema ture: The Phillies used daring baserunning and a glut of power to beat Atlanta, 8-3, in Game 4 of a NL Division Series. Their win, beneath a brilliant Philadelphia sky with the soaring cityscape framed behind the outfield fences, ended the best-of-five showdown and gave the Phillies a berth in the NLCS for the first time since 2010.
Philadelphia’s insistent October march into this year’s NLCS, which will begin Tues day and will pit the Phillies against the San Diego Padres (TBD, Fox/FS1), has not been a wholesale matter of luck. Instead, the Phil lies — overcoming a regular season marked by a managerial dismissal, a third-place divi sion finish and a scraping into the playoffs — have embarked on a methodical disassembly of some of the sport’s powers.
The St. Louis Cardinals, the Central Divi sion champions? Swept — in St. Louis, no less — in a wild-card round. The Braves, the reigning World Series winners? So thorough ly bamboozled in the division series that any one could be permitted to wonder whether the Phillies were actually the ones with 101 regular-season victories (and not 87).
“We ran into a really hot team, pretty much,” said Atlanta manager Brian Snitker. “They were hitting on all cylinders. They were playing great baseball. They got big hits. They shut us down offensively, and I think all the credit goes to the Phillies.”
Atlanta, one day after watching a rookie starter get rocked, confronted its first elimi nation game since 2020 and deployed one of its most seasoned pitchers to try to stave off an early playoff exit. Charlie Morton would bring, Atlanta hoped, the beguiling curveball
that he had learned to rely on during a brief stint in Philadelphia in 2016, the very pitch that had helped make him a fearsome master of postseason pressure. Entering the ballpark Saturday, he was 5-0 in playoff elimination starts.
But Saturday, no pitch would do more to betray Morton or to buoy Philadelphia. One in the second inning was rocketed back, hit ting his elbow. Two batters later, with Jean Segura at the plate, another yielded a single that put runners on the corners.
Brandon Marsh, a center fielder who had been hitless in the division series, en tered the batter’s box. Morton threw a curve for a called strike. Four fastballs followed and moved the count to 2-2. Morton threw his breaking ball.
It edged toward Marsh. He made con tact, the crack of the bat summoning the sell out crowd to thunder. Someone in the stands caught the ball 398 feet later, around the time Marsh pumped his fist after he rounded first. Ronald Acuña Jr., the Atlanta right field er, had stopped his pursuit before he reached the warning track.
More curveballs got Morton out of the inning, but he would not face another bat ter. The comebacker had been too much, although Snitker said an X-ray showed no damage. Orlando Arcia had homered for At lanta in the top of the third inning, and the Braves entrusted a mere two-run deficit to
But the man at the plate, Philadelphia’s J.T. Realmuto, is not like many other catch ers, now or ever. Trained as a shortstop but nudged into catching by a Marlins scout, he tied for fourth in the National League in triples this season and was one of two NL players to homer at least 20 times and steal at least 20 bases. (Iván Rodríguez is the only other MLB catcher to have achieved the feat.)
On a 1-1 count, he tagged a slider deep into center field, where Michael Harris II could not keep pace, and the ball slammed back toward the outfield grass, rolling and rolling toward right as Realmuto stormed the base paths.
Realmuto passed first, of course, and then second. He rounded third, a one-man stampede against a usually sterling outfield and an All-Star catcher. He dove home. Safe, for the first inside-the-park home run by a catcher in postseason history.
Matt Olson, the Atlanta first baseman, narrowed the margin to two runs in the fourth when he homered to right. But the Phillies used a series of singles to add three runs of their own in the sixth before Travis d’Arnaud, Atlanta’s catcher, hit a solo home run to lead off the seventh.
Not to be outdone, Bryce Harper, the Philadelphia designated hitter, slugged his third postseason home run on a 1-1 count in the eighth.
For Atlanta, the season’s conclusion was jarring, if historically unsurprising. No Atlanta team with 100 regular-season wins or more has ever captured a World Series. In 1999, for instance, 103-win Atlanta out lasted the New York Mets in the NLCS and then was swept by the New York Yankees in the World Series.
But the 2022 Atlanta team, swept not once this season, never seemed able to mus ter offensive firepower in a series that plenty of people had figured would pit the Braves against St. Louis. They did not homer in two of four games. Strikeouts came by the doz ens. Runners in scoring position could stand along the base paths nearly assured that they would not, in fact, score.
The Phillies, though, are arguably the most surprising team still standing in base ball. On the last day of May, they stood at eight games under .500. A 66-46 run fol lowed. It was only last Monday that the Phil lies announced that they had decided to give Rob Thomson, who became the interim man ager after the ouster of Joe Girardi, a twoyear contract.
The Phillies insist they are playing one game at a time, even one pitch at a time, even if they had a hunch they might have some magic in store.
“To say that we didn’t wake up this morning and have a feeling that this was going to happen, I’d be lying,” Nick Castel lanos, the Philadelphia right fielder, said in the clubhouse after the game. “That doesn’t mean that you take anything for granted or just expect baseball to go your way.”
But plenty of people in Philadelphia did, and a swagger is, at last, beginning to satu rate the city again.
After dark Friday, when the Phillies had just finished their first postseason game at Citizens Bank Park in 4,025 days, a chant ripped east and west along Pattison Avenue.
“One more win!” the hometown fans roared, their Phillies abruptly, improbably near the NLCS. “One more win!”
One man took a longer view. Maybe, af ter all of this, the World Series trophy could come back to South Philly. He cheerfully piped up through the din, a nocturnal swirl of high-fives and hugs and backslaps and — because this is forever Philadelphia — heck les.
“Nine more wins!” he cried. “Think big!”
By Saturday evening, all the Phillies needed were eight more.
And the reigning champion was out of the way.
The Philadelphia Phillies ousted the Atlanta Braves from the playoffs, earning a spot in the National League Championship Series.a 5-3 knockout punch. The Dodgers go home, and the Padres advance to a most unexpected National League Championship Se ries against the Philadelphia Phillies, who eliminated the defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves in the other NL Division Series earlier Saturday. The Phillies and the Padres will start the NLCS in San Diego on Tues day (TBD, Fox/FS1).
from manager Dave Roberts to Freeman and beyond in the Dodgers clubhouse agreed: The bats needed to wake up. And they did not.
The San Diego Padres celebrated their shocking win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday in Game 4 of their National League division series.
By SCOTT MILLER
One-hundred and eleven wins, melted away in five short nights. The Los Angeles Dodgers, going, going, one reliever at a time toward gone in the seventh inning as the San Diego Padres strung together the rally of their
lives.
The Dodgers didn’t know what hit them in a mustard-colored Padres light ning strike Saturday night in San Diego, and it might take them all winter to figure it out.
With five sudden runs in the bot tom of the seventh, the Padres delivered
That the Dodgers were eliminated in a division se ries was an absolutely stag gering development. Only three teams in history won more games than the Dodg ers’ 111 this season: The 1906 Chicago Cubs (11636), the 2001 Seattle Mari ners (116-46) and the 1998 New York Yankees (114-48).
The Padres’ ambush of their fierce rivals up the freeway ranks as one of the greatest postseason upsets in baseball history. During the regular season, the Dodgers were 22 games better than the Padres in the standings, 111 victories to 89. The only time a team beat an oppo nent that was more than 22 wins better was in the 1906 World Series, when the 93-win Chicago White Sox knocked off the 116-win Chicago Cubs. That differ ence was 23 games.
The Dodgers’ 111-51 record this season set a franchise record for wins and winning percentage. They finished with the best run differential in the majors — the number of runs a team scores minus the number of runs it allows. Their plus334 outpaced the Yankees (plus-240) in the American League and Atlanta (plus180) in the National League.
But in five games against San Di ego, the clutch hits rarely dropped and the season-long joyride ran out of gas. When Freddie Freeman doubled home two runs in the third inning Saturday night, it snapped a Dodgers’ streak of 0-for-20 with runners in scoring position in this division series. So many chances, so many blown opportunities. Everyone
It was a night of big surprises. The teams waited out a 31-minute rain delay to begin, a rare occurrence in San Diego. Then, just after the Padres’ five-run out burst in the seventh, the skies opened up again and the Dodgers batted in a steady rain in the eighth. By then, the largest postseason crowd in Petco Park history, 45,139, had reignited. They were loud early, but the Dodgers’ 3-0 lead lulled them into a wary trance for much of the game before the Padres’ rally in the sev enth brought deafening chants of “Beat LA! Beat LA!” that greeted each San Di ego hitter as he stepped into the batter’s box.
As Padres manager Bob Melvin said after Game 3, it was as if the title-starved fans of this city were willing the hits and runs themselves.
The Padres’ seventh inning run came suddenly and without warning. The Dodgers held that 3-0 lead — and the Padres, through the first six innings, had mustered just four hits and had advanced just two runners as far as second base. Los Angeles left-hander Tyler Anderson, making only the second postseason start of his career, shut them out on two hits over five innings. Chris Martin got Rob erts’ crew through the sixth.
But then Tommy Kahnle issued a leadoff walk to start the seventh. Trent Grisham, Austin Nola, Ha-Seong Kim and Juan Soto followed with four consecutive singles and, suddenly, the game’s direc tion changed sharply. The Padres chewed through three relievers in the seventh — Kahnle, Yency Almonte and Alex Vesia — in sending 10 hitters to the plate.
Then reliever Robert Suárez contin ued his domination of the Dodgers this series with a 1-2-3 eighth inning. Sensing the kill, the crowd roared louder.
And when Josh Hader closed it out in the ninth, the Padres punched their ticket to their first NLCS since 1998, when they beat Atlanta to advance to only the second World Series in their his tory. There, they were swept by the Yan kees, one of the three teams in history to win more games than this year’s Dodgers.
U C S P I N S T R E T A E N R E R O H S G E L B A N O I T S E U Q N U Y Q U I C K E S T D I E O I L O T S I P T A F N D H M S I E F P N N O R O U E U E E O T W U I O O F L S A L D S D E V O L G C N P I L L A R
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Business affairs thrive under the current Venus/Saturn link, which encourages fairness and sound practices over dubious schemes. It’s a good time for formal events, when dressing for success can enhance your reputation with other professionals, clients or your boss. The Gemini Moon and its ties, could find you at your inquisitive best. What you find out may be golden and very helpful.
As delightful Venus makes a harmonious angle with cautious Saturn, it may help to avoid becoming entangled in emotions and to take a more logical approach to events. This might not be so easy, but it can mean the difference between making a wise decision, or making a move on the spur of the mo ment that could prove unsettling in a few days. So metimes logical is best, Taurus.
Got an intuitive feeling that what you’re proposing might not be met with approval? With a determined aspect on the cards involving lovely Venus and the focused qualities of Saturn, you could feel inclined to stand your ground. Key influences may have given you useful insights, and these, along with a presen tation of the facts, can give you that persuasive edge, if you need it.
The Moon, your personal planet, moves through a re flective zone, and encourages you to take a back seat and refill your creative well, Cancer. It’s time to dip into the imaginal realms, and see what brilliant ideas bubble up that can be applied to projects, plans and relationships. Simplify your schedule and go with the flow rather than force the pace, as you’ll benefit from less rush.
Ready to expand your knowledge base? It’s a good time to take up a course that can further your educa tion, and get you ready for a new career or the chan ce of a promotion. The Moon in your social zone, highlights the positive side of keeping in contact with friends, as the coming days can be especially upbeat. You may be drawn to someone who is a great con versationalist, Leo.
Nebulous influences can make it difficult to do what you want, especially if your plans involve other people. There may be confusion and mixed messages, which means it’s impossible to get a key event together. Your friends will be there to rescue you, Virgo. You might depend on them to come through, even if there are a few mishaps to contend with. And you will enjoy yourself.
A friend might seek reassurance Libra, and this is where your balanced approach to life can be so very helpful. While it may be tempting to join them by empathizing with their mood, a more earthy ap proach could help them get back on track. And a budding romance might seem to have staying power, with the coming days perhaps finding you eager to make more of a commitment.
You may be hatching a secret plot that you aren’t re ady to share with the world. A positive Venus/Saturn link, hints at a clever idea or key plan that you can be cautiously excited about. And the more you at tend to the facts, the more likely you are to succeed. There’s a lot to be said for letting your imagination play a part, as long as you don’t get too carried away, Scorpio.
Keen to bring a dream to life? Sharing your thoughts could give you feedback that’s worth its weight in gold. And you might want to connect with someone who knows what they are talking about, and who has already succeeded at what you want to accom plish. A very down-to-earth blend of energies su ggests you can get things off to a positive start, if you ask for assistance.
Someone may seem fairly low-key, but they might have an offer for you that’s worth taking seriously. They won’t go out of their way to make it sound ex citing or try to sell it to you, but if you research it, it can intuitively feel right. As Venus aligns with sobe ring Saturn, something you take on board could be very worthwhile, even if it doesn’t appear so at first glance.
An alliance with someone on your wavelength could prove valuable Aquarius, and might be the reason that you’re inclined to trust them with ideas and other confidences, that you may not share with others. You could accomplish a lot together if you work as a team or collaborate on an idea. Your so cial life can also reveal rich potential, if you’re pre pared to do more networking.
You may be in great spirits Pisces, and keen to spread some of your good cheer to others. A friend might not be feeling quite so upbeat though, and could require a boost. It may be a family member or a close friend who is confused about something, and looking to you for help. Your willingness to lis ten can help ease any anxiety and leave them fee ling so much more relaxed.
