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FEMA awards $54 million for repairs at regional airports, shipping docks

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is the largest of the island’s regional air travel facilities, with more than 1,700 employees and nearly 700,000 passengers during 2022.

In addition to the Aguadilla airport’s main terminal, FEMA obligated nearly $3.3 million to repair the Air Rescue Unit and Lufthansa Technik Puerto Rico facilities.

Lufthansa Technik specializes in maintenance, repair and overhaul of short and medium-range aircraft.

FEMA also obligated over $1.4 million to repair damage at Yabucoa Harbor, a commercial maritime shipping facility located at Playa Guayanés that specializes in storage and distribution of fuel and petroleum derivatives, such as diesel, bunker C, jet fuel and gasoline.

This obligation will allow repairs at several structures, including Pier No. 1, the West Wharf, East Wharf and the breakwater area. It provides nearly $31,600 in hazard mitigation repairs to protect against future similar damage.

Manuel A. Laboy Rivera, executive director of the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency (COR3), noted that “in support of the Ports Authority, COR3 advanced $20.5 million through the Working Capital Advance pilot program for multiple reconstruction projects that will transform the ports and airports infrastructure into a modern and resilient one for the socioeconomic benefit of Puerto Rico.”

he Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $54 million to the Puerto Rico Ports Authority for repairs at regional airports and shipping docks, a press release said Tuesday.

FEMA has awarded Ports nearly $174 million for permanent work projects at various air and sea transportation facilities throughout Puerto Rico, the press release noted.

The obligation will allow repairs at the Puerto Nuevo Seaport, Yabucoa Harbor, Rafael Hernández International Airport in Aguadilla and José Aponte de la Torre Airport in Ceiba.

Funding includes more than $4.6 million to cover hazard mitigation work at each site, adding strength and resiliency to permanent work to prevent similar damage from future events.

The Puerto Nuevo Pier is one of the busiest on the island, with more than 30,000 containers or nearly 300,000 tons of merchandise imported every month by local and U.S.-based shipping companies.

In the case of the Puerto Nuevo seaport, over $27.8 million will fund construction at six loading docks, the port’s main roadway, and the Trafon Building -- a twostory, corrugated metal warehouse that serves as one of the main storage facilities for perishable food items.

Nearly $2.8 million is earmarked for hazard mitigation work, including strengthening metal rooftops, improving exterior metal panels, and installing anchoring systems and impact-resistant windows.

Meanwhile, José Aponte de la Torre Regional Airport, located in the former Roosevelt Roads Navy base in Ceiba, was awarded nearly $16.5 million in public assistance funds to repair its main terminal, pilot school, storage facilities and hangars.

This amount includes about $800,000 for hazard mitigation repairs to prevent or reduce future damages from similar events.

In addition, FEMA awarded over $5.5 million to repair the main terminal building at Rafael Hernández International Airport, formerly known as the Ramey Air Force Base. Located in Aguadilla, the airport José Aponte de la Torre Airport in Ceiba

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Fiscal board welcomes new PPP that will leave bankrupt PRHTA debt free

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he Financial Oversight and Management Board on Tuesday welcomed a proposed new public-private partnership with the Spanish firm Abertis Infraestructuras to operate four toll roads as it will leave the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (PRHTA) debt free.

The oversight board said it reviewed and approved the proposed concession agreement, a critical element to improve Puerto Rico’s roads by providing a clear incentive for more efficient maintenance of toll roads and significant new funding for investments in non-toll roads. PR Tollroads, a subsidiary of Abertis Infraestructuras SA, will pay the PRHTA a concession fee of about $2.85 billion, considerably more than the minimum Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) had required under its request for proposals (RFP) from all bidders.

The concession fee will enable the PRHTA to pay off its roughly $1.6 billion outstanding debt, including a loan of approximately $360 million from the island government, under

Robert F. Mujica Jr., left, executive director of the Financial Oversight and Management Board the redemption provision of the PRHTA’s plan of adjustment.

The debt deal went into effect in December.

In addition, the concession fee will provide an estimated $1.1 billion in new funding. The oversight board supports the creation of a trust that invests those surplus proceeds

in road maintenance and other long-term investments for transportation projects and transactions.

“The people of Puerto Rico depend on solid and well-maintained roads to get to work, take their children to school, get groceries, visit friends and family, and for businesses to deliver goods and services and stock warehouses,” said the oversight board’s executive director, Robert F. Mujica Jr. “The P3A agreement is a big win for Puerto Rico,” Mujica added. “Puerto Rico’s toll roads attracted several highly qualified applicants in a public and transparent bidding process that provides Puerto Rico with substantial new funding. This money comes from Puerto Rico’s road system and should stay with Puerto Rico’s road system.”

“We congratulate P3A and PRHTA for a highly successful private-public partnership process that led to an attractive agreement, promoting market competition and complying with the PRHTA Fiscal Plan reforms and the PRHTA Plan of Adjustment that cut PRHTA’s debt by more than 80%,” the oversight board official said.

National Guard endorses creation of strategic diesel reserve

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he Puerto Rico National Guard (PRNG) endorsed on Tuesday the creation of a strategic diesel reserve on the island as a measure to mitigate the effects of supply chain disruptions caused by the impact of a major storm.

“Yesterday the Senate received the first report of Resolution 659, which orders the Innovation, Telecommunications and Infrastructure committees and the government to investigate the feasibility of creating a strategic diesel reserve for the purpose of having sufficient supplies during an emergency,” said Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera, author of the bill. “In that report, the PRNG endorsed the creation of this reserve, which we believe is of great importance to our people.”

The resolution also calls for the investigation of the location, capacity and construction of the reserve, along with access to federal funds, and that it be administered by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau and the Public Safety Department, and

that its distribution be coordinated by the National Guard.

“In this first report, it is highlighted that the reserve is something viable and necessary because one of the great problems that the island faces every time it is hit by an atmospheric phenomenon is the high demand for diesel, since this fuel is used by most of the emergency electrical generators in hospitals, stores and government centers, among others,” the at-large senator said. “During a regular period, this is a fuel that doesn’t have as much output, in contrast to gasoline or gas; however, in an emergency, the use of diesel increases dramatically.”

Last year, Riquelme proposed the creation of a strategic diesel reserve just like those in the states of Texas and Louisiana.

A network of several tanks can be underground -- depending on the final study -- where a sufficient volume of fuel can be stored to meet a high demand for a period of up to 60 days.

According to data provided by fuel retailers in Puerto Rico, diesel sales in normal periods represent 20 percent of total

fuel sales, between 160,000 and 175,000 million gallons each year. This, coupled with the fact that the fleet of tanker trucks that transport the fuel to its destination is relatively small compared to the refined gasoline fleet, means that in times of crisis the real possibility of a shortage arises.

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Blood donors requested for injured agent in Guayama

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gent Ramón Sanabria Baerga, assigned to the Guayama Maritime Surveillance Division, is in need of blood donors after suffering a serious traffic accident on Highway 713 in the Cimarrona neighborhood on Monday afternoon.

Sanabria Baerga, 47, a resident of Salinas, was driving a 2019 Ford F150 vehicle when he had a health problem, invaded the opposite lane and collided head-on with a heavy vehicle, a Kenworth Contract T-80, driven by Josean Colón,

33, of Cidra.

Sanabria Baerga suffered serious injuries and, after being stabilized at the Menonita Hospital in Guayama, was transferred to the Río Piedras Medical Center, where he remains in delicate condition.

Those who wish to donate blood can go to the Blood Bank of the Río Piedras Medical Center from Monday to Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, call (787) 777-3844.

The Guayama Highway Patrol Division and prosecutor Michael Mir are investigating the circumstances of the accident.

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A public-private deal to improve toll roads Convenience (D&C) Study that analyzed various options to address the island’s toll roads situation with the objective of improving the budgetary and fiscal situation of the PRHTA; modernizing and improving existing infrastructure; improving mobility, accessibility and safety of users; improving operational performance; increasing revenue opportunities through reduced leakage; optimizing fare collection and better aligning toll rates to costs; and accelerating toll road A 40-year public-private partnership between Abertis (Metropistas) and the Puerto improvements.

The D&C study concluded that a PPP Rico Highways and Transportation Authority has been proposed for the improvethat covers all four toll roads currently under ment, financing and maintenance of toll roads PR-20, PR-52, PR-53 and PR-66.

PRHTA management is the most appropriate mechanism for the project, because it provides the An upfront payment of $2.85 bil- istration to the reconstruction and modernization of our infrastrucprivate capital investment neclion will allow highway authority ture are known to all,” Pierluisi essary to bring those roads up to pay its debt said at a press conference. “The to world-class standards in the renewal of our physical environquickest and most efficient way

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ ment is going full steam ahead, in order to benefit all users. richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com and it includes the development, Fontanés Gómez, the P3A construction, maintenance, and chief, said “the selection of Abertis t is no secret that Puerto Rico’s roads, toll expansion of permanent road is the culmination of an extenhighways included, are in rather poor con- construction projects; the electrisive, competitive and transparent dition. This is in part because the island has cal grid; the aqueduct and sewage 19-month process that involved a a huge debt on its shoulders and cannot afford system; and in our schools, as well Puerto Rico Highways rigorous study of several options to fix all the roads as quickly as is needed. as projects of decent housing for to achieve the project’s objectives That is why Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, our people, especially for those & Transportation Au- within the fiscal limitations of along with Puerto Rico Public-Private Partner- who need it most. That is why thority Executive Di- the PRHTA.” ship Authority (P3A) Executive Director Fermín today we announce this important rector Edwin Gonzaléz “Today we formalize a path Fontanés Gómez and Puerto Rico Highways step forward for the improvement Montalvo to execute the improvements that & Transportation Authority (PRHTA) Executive of our toll roads throughout the our infrastructure needs, in the Director Edwin Gonzaléz Montalvo, announced island. After a rigorous and competitive study, hands of a private company that not only has on Tuesday the selection of Abertis (Metropistas) bidding and analysis process, the Government extensive global expertise in highway operations, for the improvement, financing and maintenance of Puerto Rico has selected the company Ab- but also has extensive experience providing an of toll roads PR-20, PR-52, PR-53 and PR-66. ertis to carry out the financing, repair, design, excellent product and service here in Puerto The contract is a public-private partnership construction, maintenance and operation of the Rico,” he added.

(PPP) agreement between PRHTA and Abertis PR-52 highway, Autopista Luis A. Ferré; PR-53, Puerto Rico TollRoads LLC, a subsidiary for a 40-year term.

José Celso Barbosa Highway; PR-66, Roberto of Abertis Infraestructuras S.A., will be the enThe concession contemplates an upfront Sánchez Vilella Highway; and PR-20, Rafael payment of $2.85 billion to the PRHTA, which Martínez Nadal Expressway, under a public-priwill allow it to cover the payment of its debt, vate partnership agreement with the Puerto Rico and a private capital investment of over $2.37 Highways and Transportation Authority under billion to modernize and improve the infrastruc- Act 29-2009.” ture, quality and safety of the island’s toll roads.

González Montalvo noted that “together The selection of Abertis, the officials said, with the P3A, we undertook the task of looking is the result of a rigorous procurement process for solutions to improve safety standards, service that began in 2022 with the objective of provid- levels and the quality of infrastructure for the toll ing Puerto Rico with a reliable highway system, roads, and to address the PRHTA’s existing debt.” in a state of good repair and safe for drivers, “After an exhaustive study, we concluded capable of supporting the economic growth that the best solution was to establish a puband development of the island. This will be lic-private partnership with an operator that has accomplished through a PPP mechanism that proven experience and the financial capacity will allow the improvement of the budgetary necessary to reach our objectives,” he said. and fiscal certainty of the PRHTA, in accordance As part of the process established by the with the public corporation’s certified fiscal plan. Public-Private Partnership Authority Act (Act “My commitment and that of my admin- 29-2009), the P3A conducted a Desirability and

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tity that will sign the PPP agreement and will operate on the island under Metropistas. Abertis is a multinational company dedicated to the management of road transportation infrastructure around the world. Currently, the company operates and manages the PR-22 and PR-5 toll roads and the Teodoro Moscoso toll bridge.

For years, the PRHTA has faced administrative, operational and fiscal challenges -- including debt, funding restrictions and shrinking budgets -- that have made it difficult to carry out effective planning for toll roads, maintain them in a state of good repair and provide a reliable road network. The situation has resulted in old and deteriorating infrastructure that is not up to par with the operational standards of the road and highway industry.

While new roads, lighting and other maintenance features sound promising, the sum involved is not small, and Abertis will have to recover its investment somehow.

“Half of the money will be covered by Abertis’ own capital, while the other half will be financed with the help of 11 banks which will be local financing,” Metropistas CEO Julián Fernández Rodes said.

And what does that mean for drivers? The government has already formulated a fiscal plan that will inevitably continue to impact toll rates.

Will the new PPP have a further effect on the already established hikes that will occur?

“Toll prices will inevitably continue to rise because of inflation,” Pierluisi said. “In the past there have been raises to the toll prices, and they will happen in the future depending on the inflationary cost of living. In terms of Abertis, it’s the same thing; the income created by these tolls will be directed straight to Abertis.

The government will not have any participation in that.”

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Over $93 million in credit payments issued for low-income seniors, pensioners

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, along with Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea, announced earlier this week the disbursement of $93 million in payments corresponding to the credit for people 65 years of age or older and for low-income pensioners.

The period for requesting the credit for the 2022 tax year through the Unified Internal Revenue System ended Monday.

“Just hours before the end of the period to request the senior loan, we have fulfilled our commitment to send payments in an agile and timely manner to 191,499 older adults,” the governor said in a written statement. “This represents a disbursement of $93,036,600, of which $91,416,000 corresponds to the credit for people over 65 years of age and $1,620,600 to low-income pensioners.”

Parés Alicea meanwhile highlighted that as of Monday, 207,019 forms had been received since the filing period began in July.

“We have been efficient in processing applications and disbursing payments and we have already completed 92.5 percent of the total forms filed,” he said.

Last year on the same date, the Treasury Department had received 202,472 applications and approved 183,652 forms for both credits, which represented disbursements of $89,999,000.

People who, as of the last day of the taxable year, are 65 years old or older qualify for the senior credit provided their aggregate annual income does not exceed $15,000.The personal compensatory credit is $400, since the Treasury Department met the net income test to the General Fund, established in the Internal Revenue Code.

In the case of married people, each spouse was entitled to claim the senior credit, as long as the aggregate income did not exceed $30,000.

Pensioners from the Government Employees’ Retirement Systems Administration, the Teachers’ Retirement System, the University of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and pensioners from the private sector were able to opt

Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea for the compensatory credit.

The pensioners’ credit is $300, provided that the only source of income is the pension and it does not exceed $4,800 annually.

PDP names new president of Guaynabo municipal committee

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opular Democratic Party (PDP) President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González onTuesday introduced Ernesto Cabrera as president of the PDP Municipal Committee of Guaynabo.

“Since I assumed the presidency, we have begun to work on the reorganization of the party from our base,” Ortiz González said. “An important part of the reorganization is to identify the best men and women who want to serve the country and who are aligned with the postulates that govern us as an Institution. One of those committed people is our friend Ernesto Cabrera.”

Cabrera’s certification as PDP president in Guaynabo comes as part of the results of the work of the Metropolitan Task Force appointed by Ortiz González last June, which is tasked with reorganizing the towns of Guaynabo, San Juan and Bayamón.

“We know how important it is for the PDP to reorganize the towns of the metropolitan area, that is why we appointed a group of party members to develop a work plan adjusted

Ernesto Cabrera, center, is the new president of the Popular Democratic Party Municipal Committee in Guaynabo. to the current reality of these municipalities, and today we can say that we are beginning to see the fruits of that work with the reorganization of Guaynabo, and Ernesto’s official certification as municipal president,” Ortiz González said.

He added that “by having a president [in Guaynabo] who

knows the leadership and with commitment to our institution, the reorganization processes will be accelerated. We are confident that it will soon be 100% reorganized.”

Cabrera, a young businessman from the municipality, said he felt committed to solidifying the PDP’s reorganization work in Guaynabo to be the alternative for change that the town needs.

“My people of Guaynabo, as the whole country knows, have suffered great disappointments, the people to whom we have given the opportunity to lead have failed us and have put us in positions of shame before everyone,” Cabrera said.

“I want to focus on the positives that we can all achieve if we come together in the changes we want to realize. I come to work for Guaynabo, to reorganize our party on every corner, to put our party in a position to win in Guaynabo and in Puerto Rico. I come to present a vision of service to build a New Guaynabo. From Amelia to Torrimar, from Villa Isleña to Quintas Reales, from Camarones to Juan Domingo, from Sonadora to Caparra. We are going to work for our city of Guaynabo.”

González Colón reports over $1 million in her campaign chest

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esident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón reported Tuesday that during the most recent quarter, from July to September, she raised more than $875,000, positioning her with more than $1 million in cash for her gubernatorial election campaign.

The report filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by the campaign of the New Progressive Party (NPP) vice president, and now gubernatorial candidate, clearly demonstrates that “the campaign is achieving and exceeding the established collection goals,” said Oriol Campos, treasurer of González Colón’s campaign.

“In this way, we will be able to bring to the people the mes-

sage of a change of vision that Jenniffer has so that public affairs are handled with the urgency that our people demand,” he said.

The sum raised in the most recent quarter was the largest raised by González Colón in a quarter for any of the political offices for which she has been a candidate in the past. The amount raised was added to what already existed in the bank account, exceeding $1 million. In compliance with federal and state rules and regulations, $750,000 was transferred from that federal account to the new gubernatorial campaign account, with additional transfers coming soon.

“Jenniffer is extremely grateful for the strong support she continues to receive from the people. This quarter was an extremely positive one for her campaign, in which a well-attended birthday activity was held,” Campos said. “We invite all the people to

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón join this effort for change and visit our website www.jenniffer. com where they can join the $51 for Puerto Rico campaign or contribute the amount they wish.”

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Jim Jordan loses first vote to become speaker

By LUKE BROADWATER

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ep. Jim Jordan, the right-wing Republican hard-liner from Ohio, lost his first bid to be elected speaker Tuesday, prolonging a two-week fight that has paralyzed the chamber and shone a spotlight on deep GOP divisions.

Jordan, the combative co-founder of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus and a close ally of former President Donald Trump, fell 17 votes short of the majority he would have needed to prevail, despite a right-wing pressure campaign to win the support of mainstream Republicans who opposed him.

The group of GOP holdouts was larger than previously known and included some powerful members of the House, including Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, the chair of the Appropriations Committee, and several Republicans from politically competitive districts won by President Joe Biden.

Following the vote, Republicans immediately called a recess to allow them to regroup and chart a path forward.

Before the vote, he said he was willing to force multiple rounds — “Whatever it takes to get a speaker today.” And with his opponents’ names now on the record, right-wing activists were planning to bombard them with calls.

Democrats were united in voting for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader. Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, the No. 3 Democrat, delivered a blistering speech against Jordan, accusing him of “inciting violence on this chamber,” a reference to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol — re-

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the Republican nominee for speaker, was seeking the support of holdout members of his party after the first round of voting. markably direct language about another lawmaker seldom heard on the House floor.

Jordan’s defeat prolonged the drawn-out Republican fight touched off by the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy by a band of far-right rebels, most of whom are allied with Jordan.

Two hundred Republicans voted for Jordan, leaving him well short of a majority, while 212 Democrats backed Jeffries, also too few to elect him. Twenty Republicans voted for others, including for McCarthy or for Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2

leader who the party initially nominated to succeed McCarthy.

The chamber has been paralyzed since a far-right faction forced McCarthy out. Lawmakers had grown increasingly worried about the impact of continuing to operate without a duly elected speaker, including that the chamber might not be able act to support Israel as it wages war against the terrorist group Hamas.

In recent years, Jordan has embarked on an extraordinary rise in Congress that brought him to the cusp of the speakership.

He was once a right-wing rebel on the fringe of his party who was described as a “legislative terrorist” by a former Republican speaker. His ascent is the clearest indicator yet of how far House Republicans have moved to the right and shows the strength of Trump’s grip on the party.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who formally nominated Jordan on the floor Tuesday, praised his bruising style. “Whether on the wrestling mat or committee room, Jim Jordan is strategic, scrappy, tough and principled,” she said.

Jordan, 59, is a close ally of Trump, with whom he speaks frequently. He played a key role in helping the former president plan his efforts to use Congress to overturn the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021. Since then, he has been a leading defender of Trump on Capitol Hill, using his committee to try to intervene in the various legal cases against him. Jordan is also a co-leader of the impeachment inquiry against Biden that Republicans are pursuing in the absence of any evidence linking him to high crimes or misdemeanors.

Former Navajo Nation leader is running for Congress in Arizona

By NEIL VIGDOR

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onathan Nez, a former president of the Navajo Nation, will run as a Democrat for a congressional seat in Arizona — a bid that could make him the first Native American from the state to be elected to the House.

The seat, in Arizona’s 2nd District, is now held by Eli Crane, a first-term lawmaker who was among the small group of Republicans who voted to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this month. Nez announced his candidacy in a video posted Monday on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

“I grew up in a rural, low-income home without electricity or running water,” Nez said in the video. “I understand the struggles that 2nd District families are facing right now, from the rising costs of food, gas and child care to increasingly devastating wildfires and health care deserts.”

The sprawling district, which is larger than several states, includes 14 of the 22 federally recognized tribes in Arizona.

But it leans more Republican after redistricting last year.

Nez, 48, who lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, led the Navajo Nation, one of the largest federally recognized tribes

in the country, from 2019 to 2023, a period marked by an enrollment surge during the pandemic. But last fall, he lost his bid for reelection as president of the tribe, a group that tilts Democratic.

Crane, 43, a former Navy SEAL and a contender on “Shark Tank,” won a crowded Republican primary last year in the district, aided by an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.

His arrival on Capitol Hill was hardly low key. At the beginning of the year, he was one of the notable holdouts among a group of right-wing Republicans who opposed McCarthy’s election as speaker, voting against him 14 times until McCarthy garnered enough votes on the 15th ballot. He voted “present” on the final ballot.

That intraparty fight played out again this month, when Crane cast his vote to oust McCarthy.

At least two other candidates have filed to run in the race: Lindsay Bowe, a Democrat, and David Bies, a Libertarian.

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Families separated at border by Trump reach settlement

By MIRIAM JORDAN

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awyers representing thousands of families separated at the southern border during a Trump administration crackdown have reached a settlement with the federal government that enables the migrants to remain in the United States and apply for asylum, putting them on the path to permanent legal residency.

The agreement, filed Monday in federal court in San Diego, concludes years of negotiations that were part of a class-action lawsuit to address the harm inflicted by family separations carried out in 2017 and 2018.

The policy was a key component of the Trump administration’s efforts to curb unauthorized immigration. Children were systematically taken from their parents and sent to shelters and foster homes across the country, and parents were criminally charged for entering the country unlawfully.

The objective was to deliver a powerful deterrent to families planning to come to the United States, even those seeking asylum. All told, several thousand foreignborn children were taken from their parents.

Later, it emerged that hundreds of U.S.-born children crossing the border with migrant parents were also subjected to the policy.

Wrenching images and audio of children being taken from their parents stirred outrage and criticism, and eventually prompted a wave of lawsuits — including the class-action suit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Demonstrators rally near the U.S. Port of Entry against family separations being carried out by the Trump administration in El Paso, Texas, June 30, 2018.

About three-quarters of the families that were separated have either been reunified or had been provided with the information they need to begin to reunification process, a senior administration official told reporters Monday.

If approved by the judge overseeing case, the settlement in the class action would grant the families permission to live and work legally in the United States while they await a decision on their asylum claims. Parents and children who have been separated and are already in the United States will be able to petition to bring immediate family members from

their home countries.

“This agreement will facilitate the reunification of separated families and provide them with critical services to aid in their recovery,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.

Families that have previously been denied asylum will be eligible to reapply, and asylum officers will be instructed by the government to take into account the trauma caused by the forced separations.

Families that prevail in their asylum cases — which typically take years to be adjudicated — will be eligible for green cards and, eventually, U.S. citizenship.

“While we can never completely make these families whole again, or erase the moral stain of this abhorrent policy, we are thrilled for the families that will receive the settlement’s benefits, most of all the children who have not seen their parents in years and suffering families who will have a meaningful opportunity to remain in the U.S.,” said Lee Gelernt of the American Civil Liberties Union, the lead counsel in the class-action lawsuit.

The agreement, which was negotiated by the Justice Department, now goes before Judge Dana M. Sabraw of U.S. District Court in San Diego, who has been overseeing the case. A hearing is scheduled for December.

“When we brought this lawsuit, no one thought it would involve thousands

of children, take us to so many countries searching for families, or last for years,” Gelernt said.

Parents were incarcerated for illegally entering the country, and their children, as young as 6 months old, were sent to shelters or foster homes. Most of the separations occurred in the spring of 2018 and lasted several weeks. But, in some cases, they extended to years because parents were deported without their children.

The American Academy of Pediatrics said the initiative amounted to “sweeping cruelty.”

Some young children did not recognize their parents when they were reunified

by U.S. authorities, after an order issued in June 2018 by Sabraw. Other parents and children could not be found, delaying reunification, because of poor record-keeping by federal agencies.

The settlement largely restricts separations in the future to cases in which a parent has been abusive or committed serious crimes, and the settlement stipulates that all separations must be documented in databases shared among federal agencies.

While many of the separated families have been reunited, and many parents who were deported have returned to the United States, hundreds more families are yet to be found.

Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden established a task force to create a process for locating parents who had not been reunited with their children because they had been deported to countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

Lawyers for the families and the government lawyers also had been negotiating financial compensation for the harm caused by the separations. But talks stalled, and ultimately collapsed in October 2021, after a leak suggested that the Justice Department was willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to each family.

Following that disclosure, only the class-action negotiations proceeded, and the government task force continued to work with the ACLU and advocacy groups to reunite families.

Still, some lawsuits seeking money damages are proceeding in federal courts, accusing the government of negligence, abuse and intentionally inflicting emotional distress.

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The real estate tycoon whose fingerprints are on the Menéndez indictment

The former Alcoa plant in Edgewater, N.J., on June 14, 1997. Fred Daibes, the real estate developer, is credited with much of the community’s economic rebirth.

By ELISE YOUNG and TRACEY TULLY

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red Daibes, the New Jersey real estate tycoon at the center of an international scandal threatening the career of Sen. Bob Menendez, has found his way out of more than one tough spot over the course of his tumultuous life.

He spent his first 10 years in a Palestinian refugee camp before emigrating to New Jersey, court records show. At 20, after his father died, he dropped out of college to support four younger siblings, a decision that paved the way to a wildly successful career building luxury housing in Edgewater, New Jersey. In 2013, he survived a vicious beating inside his penthouse apartment there.

But in 2018, he faced a challenge that was far different. A 14-count federal indictment accusing him of scheming to defraud a bank he had founded threatened to upend his real estate empire and carried the risk of a lengthy prison term.

It was then, prosecutors say, that he turned to a longtime ally for help: Menendez.

What followed would form the basis for federal charges that Daibes, Menendez and his wife, Nadine, and two other business owners are now facing. All five have pleaded not guilty.

Daibes, 66, was accused of giving the Menendezes bribes in exchange for the Democratic senator’s efforts to help him in the bank fraud case by installing a U.S. attorney inclined to ease up on the prosecution. Envelopes stuffed with cash bearing Daibes’ fingerprints and nine bars of gold bullion with serial numbers tracked to him were seized during a search of the Menendez home, according to federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

Still, the senator’s effort to meddle in the bank-fraud case failed, prosecutors said.

“I don’t want him to be upset over it,” Daibes wrote in a text message to Nadine Menendez as his case proceeded toward trial. “This is not his fault he was amazing in all he did he’s an amazing friend and as loyal as they come.”

In the end, there was no trial. Daibes pleaded guilty to a single count of making false entries in connection with a $1.8 million loan document as part of an agreement, approved by the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey, that required no prison time.

Last week, however, a judge rejected that plea agreement, scuttling the original deal altogether and complicating an already sprawling web of allegations that poses new threats to Daibes’ real estate empire.

On Friday, his lawyer in the New Jersey federal case, Lawrence Lustberg, formally withdrew Daibes’ guilty plea.

Both cases — the accusations of bank fraud and bribery — have tainted Daibes’ legacy as the chief architect of Edgewater’s rebirth.

Forty years ago, the borough of Edgewater was struggling. The narrow ribbon of land adjacent to the Hudson River, facing Manhattan, was once home to factories where Ford manufactured cars, Alcoa made toothpaste tubes and Quanta Resources produced roofing tar. But the companies had shut down, leaving environmental contamination in their wake.

In the 1980s, Daibes, a mason’s son, hopped on a wave of postindustrial redevelopment already taking place downriver, in Hoboken and Jersey City. While taxpayers

financed much of Edgewater’s environmental cleanup, Daibes Enterprises built thousands of residential units, plus office suites, retail complexes and a golf range. Its working-class bars long gone, Edgewater’s bustling business district today includes Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, multiple fine restaurants and a seven-story day spa with a rooftop pool.

As Daibes’ high-rises went up, the population roughly tripled — to 14,600 — over three decades.

Robert D’Angelo, the owner of Roberto’s II, a family-run restaurant in business since 1962 in Edgewater, said Daibes put the borough on the map yet never forgot his humble roots.

After Hurricane Sandy, D’Angelo said Daibes was one of the first people to arrive at the restaurant once the roads reopened.

Daibes helped him clean up and put him in touch with electricians, plumbers and carpenters.

A local media fixture, Daibes was featured in a magazine spread about his classic and exotic car collection, including a red 1957 Jaguar XK140, a silver 2005 Bentley Continental GT with a turbocharged W-12 engine and a pair of Mercedes-Benz SLR McLarens.

His high profile, though, came at a cost.

Two days before Thanksgiving, in 2013, four people broke into his penthouse at the St. Moritz, one of his buildings, tied a bag over his head and beat him, breaking his ribs, dislocating a shoulder and bruising his face.

They left with at least $2 million in cash, gold and jewelry. When they were arrested, one

Fred Daibes, the New Jersey real estate tycoon at the center of an international scandal threatening the career of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), leaves federal court in Manhattan after his arraignment on Sept. 27, 2023.

turned out to be a confidant of Daibes living in the same building. The four struck plea agreements to serve 12 to 18 years in prison.

Last month, prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed a 39-page indictment against Daibes, the Menendezes and the two other business owners, Wael Hana and Jose Uribe.

It said that Daibes provided financial backing to Hana, an Egyptian American business owner who was later awarded a lucrative contract giving his company, IS EG Halal, the sole rights to certify that products imported to Egypt had been prepared according to Islamic law. IS EG Halal operates from a building in Edgewater owned by a company run by Daibes, who also has offices there.

In turn, Bob Menendez, as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, helped direct aid and weapons to Egypt, prosecutors said.

Daibes’ lawyer in the Manhattan criminal case, Tim Donohue, said his client’s financial link to Hana was limited to an “arms-length loan.”

“Mr. Daibes is not an owner or investor in that business,” Donohue said about IS EG Halal.

By then, Daibes was a major fundraiser for Menendez, a Democratic power broker who has represented the region since he was appointed to the Senate in 2006, prosecutors and federal election records show.

Similar generosity had helped earn Daibes a role as kingmaker in Edgewater, at the expense of taxpayers, according to a recent state investigation.

Daibes provided Edgewater officials free or reduced rents in apartment buildings he owned and awarded a flooring job to a council member’s company in exchange for favorable treatment in business deals, state investigators found.

“Daibes’ power and influence within Edgewater were so strong he even held sway in local political decisions and other municipal concerns,” New Jersey’s Commission of Investigation found.

“Municipal officers who took official actions unsupportive of the developer faced political and professional retribution,” investigators added. Daibes, through his lawyer, has rebutted the allegations and said that the rental benefits were gifts provided to longtime friends.

A judge has scheduled trial on the bribery-related charges for May 2024, in a courthouse in lower Manhattan, 10 miles from Edgewater.

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Top FTX executive says Sam Bankman-Fried used customer money for ‘excess’ spending

By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN, J. EDWARD MORENO and DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY

mer Hollywood agent, Michael Kives, who had close ties to celebrities. Bankman-Fried raved about a Super Bowl party organized by K5 that he had attended, Singh said, and the ishad Singh, a former top executive “impressive” guest list that included Jeff Beat the once high-flying FTX crypto exchange, testified earlier this week zos, Hillary Clinton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kris that his former boss, Sam Bankman-Fried, had Jenner and Kendall Jenner. used customer money to engage in large and Bankman-Fried described it as “the extravagant spending sprees that “reeked of most impressive group of people he ever met excess.” in one location,” Singh testified.

At Bankman-Fried’s criminal fraud trial, But when Bankman-Fried shared with which has become a referendum on the cryphim the terms of a possible investment in K5, Singh said, he was shocked by the amount tocurrency industry’s volatility and risk-taking, of money involved and voiced his concerns.

Singh said he had clashed with the FTX founThe investment totaled several hundred mider over the hundreds of millions of dollars that the company used to buy lavish real estallion dollars, Singh said.

“I was worried about partnering with te, invest in startups, and sign celebrities and K5 and giving them this much money would sports stars including Tom Brady, Steph Curry be toxic to FTX and Alameda culture,” he and Larry David. said.

“I felt embarrassed and ashamed,” Singh, Singh was also part of a group of FTX 28, said of one investment that FTX made in a Nishad Singh, a former top executive of the FTX crypto exchange, leaves federal executives, including Salame, who contribufirm, K5, that had ties to many celebrities.

Speaking for more than five hours in court after his first day of testimony in the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried in ted more than $90 million to political camManhattan federal court, Singh said that he New York, Oct. 16, 2023. paigns over several years, backing Democrats had learned about an “enormous” $8 billion and Republicans. Singh said many of the conhole in FTX customer deposits about two months before the Ellison, testified last week that Bankman-Fried had directed tributions to political candidates were made from loans he got firm collapsed in November and that much of the missing mo- them to commit crimes that led to FTX’s implosion. A fourth from Alameda, which he later learned were funded with FTX ney had financed Bankman-Fried’s lavish spending and other top executive, Ryan Salame, has also pleaded guilty but decli- customer money. ned to cooperate with authorities.

Singh has pleaded guilty to participating in a “straw doexpenses.

Singh has known Bankman-Fried and his family since he nor” scheme designed to circumvent campaign finance rules Singh said he was “blindsided and horrified” by the deficit and did not feel better after discussing the situation with was a teenager in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was a close by obscuring the source of donations. On the stand, Singh Bankman-Fried in two private meetings. “I felt really betra- friend of Bankman-Fried’s younger brother, Gabe, and had a described how the scheme worked. He said he tended to be yed,” he said. “Five years of blood, sweat and tears for a force rapport with his mother, Stanford law professor Barbara Fried. as “uninvolved as possible” in the donation process, following At FTX, Singh served as the head of engineering. Pro- instructions in a text chat that involved Bankman-Fried, Salafor good that had become so evil.” As FTX unraveled, he said, secutors have said that Bankman-Fried instructed Singh and me and others associated with a political action committee he even felt suicidal.

Bankman-Fried, 31, has been charged with orchestrating Wang to design computer code that allowed Alameda to run by Gabe Bankman-Fried, he said. a scheme to funnel billions of dollars of FTX customer accou- borrow virtually limitless amounts of money from FTX cusSingh said he signed “a bunch of blank checks” from his nts into a trading firm he also owned, Alameda Research. Pro- tomers. Singh was also part of an inner circle of Bankman- personal account and gave them to Gabe Bankman-Fried so secutors claim that he also used the money for political contri- Fried’s advisers who lived with the founder in a penthouse in the committee could make political donations in his name to Democratic candidates. butions, venture capital investments and real estate purchases. the Bahamas, where FTX was based.

On the witness stand, Singh, who said he was a billioJudge Lewis Kaplan, who is presiding over the case, also Singh is one of three key executives in Bankman-Fried’s business empire who have pleaded guilty to fraud and, hoping naire while at FTX, testified that he conspired with Bankman- weighed in on Monday about Sa, Bankman-Fried’s dosage of for leniency in return, agreed to work with prosecutors inves- Fried, Ellison, Wang and Salame in committing the crimes to the stimulant medication Adderall. Defense lawyers had writtigating FTX’s collapse. The others, Gary Wang and Caroline which he had pleaded guilty. He said Bankman-Fried had ten to the judge Sunday, saying their client was not receiving wielded great authority at FTX and Alameda, and made most the amount he had been prescribed. They argued that Bankof the final business decisions for the companies. man-Fried’s decision to testify at trial might rest on whether “I’ve always been intimidated by Sam,” Singh said. “Sam he could get the proper dosage at the Metropolitan Detention is a formidable character, and I had a lot of respect for him. Center in Brooklyn, where he is being held. Adderall is often Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para But over time, that eroded.” used to treat ADHD. Bankman-Fried spent “excessive” amounts of Alameda’s préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la “The defense has a growing concern that because of funds, Singh said. When he pushed back in one instance, Bankman-Fried’s lack of access to Adderall, he has not been semana que terminó el sábado, 14 de octubre de 2023 Bankman-Fried “got visibly mad” and told Singh it was “people able to concentrate at the level he ordinarily would and that like me sowing seeds of doubt in the company that are the real he will not be able to meaningfully participate in the presentaTasa Mínima Promedio Tasa Máxima problem here,” he testified. “It was pretty humiliating.” (%) Ponderado (%) (%) tion of the defense case,” his lawyers told the judge.

Singh also detailed Bankman-Fried’s interest in teaming As the trial wrapped up Monday, Kaplan said he was not 24% 26% 28% up with K5, a California investment company led by a for- inclined to up Bankman-Fried’s dosage.

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Marketmind: Banks, Biden Visit Buoy Markets A

look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Another eye-catching bounceback in U.S. stocks on Monday was just about sustained overnight ahead of another slew of big bank earnings and as President Joe Biden’s planned visit to Israel tempered anxiety about a wider escalation of the Gaza war.

Even with a packed diary of third-quarter earnings, economic updates and policymaker speeches ahead this week, day-to-day sentiment still appears to be dominated by the ebb and flow of concern about the tense Middle East conflict.

Biden leaves later on Tuesday for a high stakes visit to Israel and Jordan and Washington said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to let humanitarian aid reach besieged Gazans.

That reversed a pre-weekend ‘safety bid’ that emerged amid fears an Israeli ground invasion into Gaza could draw other regional countries and groups into the war. It appeared to put the situation on hold for a day at least.

The 1%-plus rally in the S&P 500, which was the best start to the week since February, was matched by a retreat in crude oil, gold and Treasury bond prices and the dollar.

Global stocks in Asia and Europe aped at least some of that bounce overnight, but Wall St futures ticked back a touch ahead of Tuesday’s opening bell. U.S. crude held steady and Treasury yields crept higher.

But after impressive Q3 readouts from JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and Citigroup on Friday, markets are braced on Tuesday for updates from Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Bank of New York Mellon.

Reflecting the optimism around how banks and financials are benefitting from a higher interest rate world and rising asset management growth, Charles Schwab shares also jumped 4.7% on Monday as the brokerage posted a smallerthan-expected drop in quarterly profit.

Third-quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies are estimated to have increased 2.2% year-over-year, up from an estimated increase of 1.3% a week earlier, according to LSEG data.

But a welter of economic numbers will barrel into the mix today too - chief among them the September retail sales release, but also industrial output data and an October reading on U.S. housing. Canada’s latest consumer price data will be also be closely eyed.

And a full schedule of Federal Reserve speakers tees up Fed boss Jerome Powell’s public appearance on Thursday.

Before then, bond markets will have to negotiate tomorrow’s 20-year Treasury auction.

The relatively new 20-year tenor has often proved unpopular and will be watched closely after a poor reception for the latest 30-year bond last week. But with yields back

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above 5% and close to record highs of 5.25% set earlier this month, it will be an interesting test of investor appetite to grab these elevated long-term coupons.

Another key moment on the radar is China’s third-quarter GDP release on Wednesday - but angst about the ongoing property sector bust there just won’t go away.

Country Garden’s entire offshore debt will be deemed to be in default if China’s largest private property developer fails to make a $15 million coupon payment on Tuesday, the

end of a 30-day grace period.

And non-payment of this tranche is set to trigger cross defaults in other bonds as is standard in bond contracts.

To add to the complication of foreign investment in China, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on a widely watched trip aimed at showcasing the trust and “no-limits” partnership between the countries even as the war in Ukraine raged on.

Elsewhere, there was some relief for the Bank of England amid signs of ebbing wage growth for the first time since January. That helped drag back government gilt yields and the pound slightly lower.

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Israeli airstrike hits Gaza hospital, killing 500, Palestinian Health Ministry says

By HIBA YAZBEK and MATTHEW ROSENBERG

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t least 500 people were killed by an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday that Palestinian authorities said was caused by an Israeli airstrike.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the number of casualties was expected to rise. Many civilians were sheltering at the Ahli Arab Hospital, better known as AlMa’amadani, before it was hit.

The Israeli military said it was investigating if it was responsible for the blast.

“We’re checking,” said Maj. Nir Dinar, a military spokesperson. In the past, rockets fired by Palestinian armed groups have occasionally malfunctioned and hit civilian neighborhoods.

The deadly blast at the hospital came as President Joe Biden was preparing for a visit to Israel on Wednesday as conditions in besieged Gaza grew ever more desperate. What little remains of the enclave’s food, fuel and water supplies were dwindling fast Tuesday and hundreds of thousands of people were on the move, fleeing the strip’s northern half to escape a planned Israeli ground invasion.

Israel has blocked basic necessities from reaching Gaza and has launched daily airstrikes in retaliation for the Oct. 7 cross-border attacks, in which 1,400 Israelis died and 200 people were taken hostage by the Hamas militants who control the enclave.

By Tuesday, the consequences of the blockade and strikes were inescapable: Rescuers were struggling to free some 1,200 people trapped under rubble, fights were breaking out over loaves of bread, and hospitals were grappling with how to treat the rapidly growing number of wounded and ill as their generators ran short of fuel. Palestinian officials said at least 2,800 people have been killed and 10,000 others wounded in the Israeli strikes.

With the humanitarian crisis deepening, pressure mounted to immediately provide safety and aid to Gaza’s 2 million residents. Yet U.S.-led diplomatic efforts have so far yielded few results. Days of efforts to get aid through Egypt’s border with Gaza have failed to bear fruit.

Early Tuesday, the United States again expressed hope that it was close to an aid agreement and to establishing safe zones in southern Gaza, where the United Na-

tions said 600,000 Palestinians have fled after Israel warned them to leave the north.

But Israeli forces have continued launching airstrikes into southern Gaza.

Gaza’s Interior Ministry said at least 72 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in attacks on residential buildings in the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah. The Israeli military said Tuesday morning it had struck Hamas targets.

Here is what else to know: — After visiting Israel on Wednesday, Biden plans to travel to Jordan to hold talks on the conflict with King Abdullah II, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, the White House said.

— As Secretary of State Antony Blinken continues a week of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, a senior State Department official said U.S. and Israeli officials had agreed to develop a plan to get humanitarian aid into Gaza and set up “safe zones.” The outlines of a deal, which would be negotiated by a new U.S. envoy, came after Blinken met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for nearly nine hours Monday.

— Hamas said that one of its commanders, Ayman Nofal, was killed in an Israeli strike on a refugee camp in central Gaza. The statement identified him as a commander in the Qassam Brigades, the group’s military wing.

— Hamas released a hostage video showing Mia Schem, a 21-year-old woman who was abducted during its massacre at a music festival, one of the approximately 200 people believed to have been taken hostage by the group on Oct. 7. On Tuesday, Schem’s mother pleaded for her release, saying: “All I want from world leaders is to bring my baby home.”

— Iran’s foreign minister, returning from a visit with the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria, warned that Iran’s closest allies would open “multiple fronts” against Israel if its attacks keep killing civilians in Gaza.

— The Pentagon ordered about 2,000 more U.S. troops to prepare to deploy to the Middle East, adding to a growing number of U.S. warships and forces in the region in an effort to contain the conflict. The troops would be on hand to provide advice and medical support to Israeli forces, not take part in combat, Pentagon officials said.

Mourners embrace each other during a funeral for the Kutz family who were killed by Hamas militants, in Gan-Yavne, Israel, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.

People survey the destruction after an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in Gaza on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. President Joe Biden is expected to visit Israel today as pressure mounts to provide safety and aid to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza who have fled their homes before a likely Israeli invasion. (Yousef Masoud/The New York Times)

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Tracking cellphone data by neighborhood, Israel gauges Gaza evacuation

By PATRICK KINGSLEY and RONEN BERGMAN

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n a windowless control room on an army base in southern Israel, five soldiers monitored the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Gazans on a massive computer screen.

The screen showed a live map of northern Gaza, the densely populated area of roughly 1.1 million residents who were told Friday by the Israeli military to head south for their own safety. Using data harvested mainly from more than 1 million mobile phones, the map gave the soldiers a real-time assessment of how many Gazans had heeded Israel’s demand.

The Israel Defense Forces have telegraphed for days that they will soon begin a ground operation in northern Gaza to oust Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that controls Gaza and orchestrated the worst terrorist attacks in Israel’s history on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,400 people and abducting at least 199 others. Israeli counterattacks have killed more than 2,800 Palestinians, according to the Gazan health authorities.

The Israeli military allowed a New York Times journalist to view the data-tracking system, hoping to show that it was doing what it could to reduce harm to civilians — even as its warplanes killed hundreds more Palestinians on Monday, including in southern Gaza, where civilians had been told to take shelter.

Some neighborhoods were colored white and red on the screen, suggesting that they still housed the majority of their residents. But an increasing number of areas were turning green and yellow, signaling that most of their residents had left.

“It’s not a 100% perfect system — but it gives you the information you need to make a decision,” said Brig. Gen. Udi Ben Muha, who oversees the monitoring process. “The colors say what you can and can’t do.”

With political leaders yet to give the final go-ahead for a ground operation, the Israeli military was locked in a holding pattern on Monday. On Monday night, its troops remained massed on the border of Gaza, yet to advance across it. The army was watching to see how many civilians had left northern Gaza.

It was also giving last-minute training and equipment to the hundreds of thousands of military reservists who had been called up for the war effort. And the extra few days have given diplomats time to conduct last-minute — and, so far, unsuccessful — negotiations about opening Gaza’s border with Egypt to evacuees and aid convoys.

Employees with UNRWA, the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians, distribute aid to displaced Palestinians at a school in Khan Younis in Gaza, Oct. 16, 2023.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also invited President Joe Biden to visit Israel this week, and the military was unlikely to complicate his visit by starting an invasion while he was on Israeli soil, analysts said.

“The ground operation is going to have lots of casualties on both sides,” said Miri Eisin, a former senior military officer and the director of the International Institute for CounterTerrorism at Reichman University in Israel.

“You don’t want to do that when the U.S. president is here,” she added.

In the meantime, three senior Israeli commanders said they were using every moment to prepare the reservists for ground warfare.

The expected operation will be the first in nearly 15 years in which Israel will attempt to capture and hold on to land for a prolonged period. Many full-time soldiers have never conducted such an operation, let alone the 360,000 reservists called up from their day jobs since the Hamas attacks.

A significant minority of infantrymen and tank units likely to be deployed in Gaza are reservists, according to three senior officers, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The Israel Defense Forces were believed to have 200,000 active-duty troops before the call-up, of whom three-fourths were conscripts, but there are no official figures.

It has taken the military time to stock up on enough equipment for its army. Although Israel’s commandos all have enough protec-

tive gear, the army is still securing protective vests for some reservists, according to one senior officer. Several families have also said they privately obtained vests for sons who were called up.

In the meantime, more Palestinian civilians are leaving northern Gaza, albeit to dire conditions in the south, where there is a lack of accommodation, fuel, water, medicine and food — and where Israeli strikes also continue.

Many Palestinians say they fear that Israel ultimately seeks to force them into Egypt, never to return, in a mass expulsion that they compare to the Nakba, an Arabic term that refers to the flight or expulsion of 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the wars that surrounded the creation of Israel in 1948.

Israel says the call to evacuate is to prevent as many civilian casualties as possible during upcoming military operations in the north.

To that end, from the military control room in southern Israel, Ben Muha was trying to encourage more Gazans to head south. Military offi-

cers called Palestinians directly, and air force planes dropped leaflets that urged Gazans to ignore Hamas’ demands for them to stay put.

Spread across the general’s desk were dossiers and spreadsheets that listed the phone numbers of hundreds of Gazan community leaders, hospital directors and school administrators — all of whom could be phoned at a moment’s notice by a soldier in the control room.

On a whiteboard nearby, aides had detailed the timing of the regular airdrops of leaflets across northern Gaza.

On the live map in front of the general, there were fewer and fewer patches of red and white: Up to 700,000 Gazans had moved south by Monday afternoon, the data suggested, leaving about 400,000 in the north.

Once a neighborhood turns green on the map, an Israeli officer operating in the area will have greater room for maneuver because of the reduced likelihood of harming civilians during the fight against Hamas, the general said.

“If you are a brigade commander and you see those colors, it tells you how many civilians are in the area, and you know if you can or can’t use your tank, your infantry,” he said.

Palestinians say such measures mean little amid the steep loss of life and hardship caused by the bombings and the displacement. Civilians and aid workers say that many people lack transportation to move southward or are too infirm to make the trip.

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A severe drought pushes an imperiled Amazon to the brink

By ANA IONOVA and MANUELA ANDREONI

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he planet’s biggest freshwater tank is in trouble.

The Amazon rainforest, where one-fifth of the world’s freshwater flows, is reeling from a powerful drought that shows no sign of abating.

Likely made worse by global warming and deforestation, the drought has fueled large wildfires that have made the air hazardous for millions of people, including Indigenous communities, while also drying out major rivers at a record pace.

One major river reached its lowest level ever documented on Monday, and others are nearing records, suffocating endangered pink dolphins, shutting down a major hydropower plant and isolating tens of thousands living in remote communities who can only travel by boat.

“There’s just dirt now where the river used to be,” said Ruth Martins, 50, a leader of Boca do Mamirauá, a tiny riverside community in the Amazon. “We’ve never lived through a drought like this.”

The drier conditions are accelerating the destruction of the world’s largest and most biodiverse rainforest where parts have started to transform from humid ecosystems that store huge amounts of heat-trapping gases into drier ones that are releasing the gases into the atmosphere. The result is a double blow to the global struggle to fight climate change and biodiversity loss.

“This is a catastrophe of lasting consequences,” said Luciana Vanni Gatti, a scientist at Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research who has been documenting changes in the Amazon. “The more forest loss we have, the less resilience it has.”

Recent studies have shown that climate change, deforestation and fires have made it harder for the Amazon to recover from severe droughts.

And, Gatti warned, the worst may be yet to come. The rainy season is expected to start in the next weeks and if the drought, which

The Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon River, reached its lowest level ever recorded this week. started in June, persists it would mark the first time such extreme conditions took hold in the Amazon’s driest period and continued into its wettest.

In Tefé, a rural municipality in the northwestern Amazon, residents are crossing muddy stretches of lake bed on motorcycles and paddling canoes down narrow streams that were once rivers. Some 158 riverside villages in the same region have been left stranded as waterways linking them to bigger towns have dried up, said Edivilson Braga, coordinator of the local civil defense service.

“They’re completely cut off,” he said, adding that so far authorities have delivered thousands of basic food baskets, many by helicopter, to about 3,500 families.

The Amazon has experienced droughts in the past, but it’s now facing “simultaneous disasters,” said Ayan Santos Fleischmann, a hydrologist at the Mamirauá Institute, a research organization based in Tefé. Scarce rainfall, scorching heat and scalding water temperatures are battering the region all at once.

“This is a crisis — a humanitarian, envi-

ronmental and health crisis,” said Fleischmann.

“And what scares us most is what lies ahead.”

In Boca do Mamirauá, about two hours by speedboat from Tefé, drying waterways have caused stocks of basic food items and medications to dwindle and prevented children from making the river journey to school since Sept.

20, Martins said.

Across the Amazon, wells and streams have dried up, leaving communities without clean drinking water. “The water turned to mud here,” said Tuniel Gomes Figueiredo, who lives in Murutinga, an Indigenous village of about 3,000 people.

With no alternative, some residents are drinking, cooking and bathing with contaminated water. “This water is making children sick, it’s making elderly people sick,” Braga said.

Health authorities also worry that stagnant pools of overheated water could breed mosquitoes carrying malaria and dengue.

The drought has stressed countless animal species in a region known for abundant wildlife. In Lake Tefé, water temperatures remain high and the carcasses of more pink river dolphins have surfaced over the last week, bringing the death toll to 153 since the first carcasses were recovered on Sept. 23, Fleischmann said.

A toxic algae bloom, likely linked to the drought and extreme heat, has also proliferated in the lake, creating a red stain in the water, although scientists are unsure if it could harm

humans or animals. “We’re using nets to try to steer the dolphins out of this area,” Fleischmann said.

While low humidity and high heat alone can kill some plants and animals, much of the destruction is caused by the drier forest’s increased vulnerability to fires typically started by farmers and others who clear the land. Wildfires have consumed more than 18,000 square miles of the Amazon since the start of the year, an area twice the size of Vermont.

Smoke from wildfires turned the air so hazardous in Manaus, a city of 2 million in the heart of the Amazon, that it recently became one of the most polluted cities on the planet, according to the World Air Quality Index project. Checking air quality data each morning has become an anxious habit in the city, as children and older people have ended up in hospitals struggling to breathe, according to doctors in Manaus.

Camila Justa, a veterinarian in Manaus, said she has never seen such heavy smoke blanket the sky and suffered an asthma attack for the first time in 20 years, while her 4-year-old son has had pneumonia twice since September.

“It’s really hard to fill your lungs with air,” she said. “And, when you do, it burns.”

The drought has parched countries across the Amazon region. In Bolivia, dozens of municipalities have dwindling water supplies, crops have shriveled and lagoons have dried up, “with great consequences to biodiversity,” said Marlene Quintanilla, a research director at the Friends of Nature Foundation, a nonprofit group.

The lack of rain in the Amazon is largely the result of two climate patterns, experts said.

From the west, El Niño, which warms waters in the Pacific near the equator, is gaining strength. From the southwest, high temperatures in North Atlantic waters have accelerated the air flow toward the Amazon, preventing rain clouds from forming above the forest.

While the link between human-caused global warming and the drought is unclear, climate models suggest that “over the next decades, with the increase in temperatures caused by climate change, these events will become more frequent,” said Gilvan Sampaio, a scientist monitoring climate patterns at Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research.

The effects of a changing climate are intensified by high deforestation levels in the Amazon, as farmers clear land for soy and cattle farms whose products are exported to countries around the world. Cutting down trees, like global warming, makes rain scarcer and temperatures higher because the Amazon’s trees release moisture, cooling temperatures and forming rain clouds.

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Piling horror upon horror

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atching from afar as people race toward an abyss, I find it hard to know what to write except “no,” over and over. In the face of massacres that for Jews around the world brought back memories of genocide, the language of some Israeli leaders has, in turn, become murderous. On the cusp of a likely ground invasion of Gaza, many people I’ve spoken to, Jewish and Palestinian alike, are terrified that this rhetoric will become reality.

Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president, said that the “entire nation” of Gaza was “responsible” for the attacks at a news conference on Friday, telling reporters, “It is not true, this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved.”

Herzog later clarified that civilians are not legitimate targets, but his words, coming from a member of Israel’s center-left Labor Party, were still chilling, suggesting a broad political consensus that Gazans are collectively to blame for the horror that befell Israel. “All gloves are off,” Ron Prosor, a distinguished Israeli diplomat, told Politico.

In such an environment, the ruling Israeli right, some of whose members spoke of forcing Palestinians out of Israel even before Hamas’ latest rampage, has little to restrain it.

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, urged the use of “doomsday weapons” on Gaza. Another member of Likud called for a second nakba, the Arabic word referring to the mass expulsion of Palestinians at Israel’s creation in 1948.

I can empathize with liberal Jews both in Israel and throughout the diaspora who feel too overwhelmed, at this moment of great fear and vulnerability, to protest the escalating suffering inflicted on Palestinians. It is not fair that events are moving too quickly to give people time to grieve the victimization of their own community before being asked to try to prevent the victimization of others.

Nevertheless, as atrocities are piled on atrocities, I hope Jews will attend to what is being threatened in our name.

And all Americans should pay attention, given how much our country underwrites Israel’s military.

In Gaza, mass death has already begun. Last week Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced that Israel was cutting off Gaza’s water, electricity, food and fuel.

There was hopeful reporting over the weekend that at the urging of President Joe Biden’s administration, water to a town in Gaza’s south had been turned back on, but for many, drinking water is still unavailable. The Associated Press reported Sunday that clean water has run out in U.N. shelters across Gaza. On Saturday, UNICEF reported that, according to local sources, more than 700 children in Gaza had been killed. The number by now is surely higher.

Some readers, I suspect, will respond that while this is all terrible, it is also all Hamas’ fault. In many ways, I agree.

Hamas’ terror is clearly the immediate cause of the hell raining down on Gaza; most countries attacked as Israel was attacked would respond with war. That does not, however, license Israeli indifference, or worse, to the lives of civilians. Israelis have a right to their rage; I imagine that if I were Israeli, I would share it. But incitement against Palestinians, the overwhelming majority of whom have nothing to do with Hamas terrorism, is leading us toward somewhere even darker than where we are right now.

Influential voices in America are intensifying the bloodthirsty atmosphere. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., dismissed worries that mass civilian casualties in Gaza will work to Hamas’ advantage on the world stage. “As far as I’m concerned, Israel can bounce the rubble in Gaza,” he said. That phrase, “bounce the rubble,” is a reference to a Winston Churchill quote about apocalyptic military overkill. To Cotton’s right, the language is even more incendiary. “If it comes down to ethnic cleansing — you want to cleanse my people, I’ll cleanse yours first,” said Joel Pollak, a senior editor at large at Breitbart News, on the webcast of the leading young conservative Charlie Kirk.

A child wounded by an Israeli airstrike is carried into Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 16, 2023.

We can already see where the total dehumanization of Palestinians leads. This weekend, a 6-year-old boy in Illinois was allegedly stabbed to death by his landlord, who is also accused of gravely injuring the boy’s mother.

According to the local sheriff’s office, the victims were targeted “due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis.”

If this is the atmosphere in parts of the United States, it is exponentially more fevered in Israel. On Monday morning I spoke to Diana Buttu, a Canadian Palestinian lawyer in Haifa who once served as a legal adviser for the Palestine Liberation Organization. “I can understand what my grandmother felt in 1948 when she fled” from a town near Nazareth, Buttu said. “Because it’s a climate of total fear that you’re next. And this isn’t just in the Gaza Strip; it’s also spread to the West Bank.” According to Al Jazeera, at least 55 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed, some by soldiers and others by settlers.

Haaretz reported that five Palestinians were shot dead by settlers in the village of Qusra. A message to the village on WhatsApp said, “We have no red lines. We’ll punish you in order to make an example out of you.”

Buttu sent me a link to a mostly Hebrew-language Telegram group with over 82,000 subscribers in which people had posted celebratory photographs of dead and injured Palestinians. “The people of Gaza are not innocent!” said an introductory message for English speakers. If and when those who believe this act on it, we can’t pretend we weren’t warned.

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Unidos y Agradecidos Nos sentimos agradecidos de nuestros socios, auspiciadores, suplidores y amigos que con su presencia en nuestra Sexagésima Cuarta Convención Anual marcaron la diferencia e hicieron de este evento uno memorable.

Su apoyo y participación en cada paso del proceso hizo que fuera un éxito, volvimos a probar que unidos logramos más.

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LOVE cumple su primer año de retos creativos POR CYBERNEWS

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an Juan, Puerto Rico – Presentándose como un aliado de las marcas, la agencia de publicidad Love Creative Thinkers celebra su primer aniversario, tras reinventarse luego de 25 años dándose a conocer como JMD Communications.

A la trayectoria de JMD, liderada por sus fundadores Joey Jiménez y Carlos Dávila, se sumó Juan Carlos Rodríguez, quien fungió por más de 20 años como Director Creativo Ejecutivo de Badillo Saatchi & Saatchi, donde estuvo a cargo de importantes marcas como Toyota, Lexus, MMM, Wendy’s, y Claro, entre muchas otras.

Según el destacado creativo, la propuesta de Love parte de una realidad incómoda que afecta la industria publicitaria: la gente odia la publicidad, al punto de estar dispuesta a pagar para no verla. Con esto en mente, desarrolló un concepto en el que la agencia trabaja de la mano con el cliente actuando como su socio de negocios. “Los modelos tradicionales ya no funcionan.

El mercado se ha vuelto mucho más competitivo, cuesta mucho mover la aguja y esto nos obliga más que nunca a pensar estratégicamente, porque estamos viviendo el momento de mayor distanciamiento entre la gente y la publicidad. Sin estrategia, la creatividad se vuelve

un ejercicio muchas veces efímero”, sostuvo Rodríguez.

Por su parte, JMD Communications contaba ya con una vasta trayectoria en la industria y una cartera de clientes tales como First Bank, Money Express, Ferries del Caribe, Weedco y César Castillo, entre otros.

“Buscábamos reinventar JMD luego de 25 años en la industria, por lo que decidimos acoger el concepto de Love que nos trajo Juan Carlos y que ya ha demostrado ser uno exitoso”, indicó Joey Jiménez, uno de los socios fundadores de JMD Communications.

Tras la implementación de esta nueva filosofía, se han sumado a la cartera de clientes de la agencia marcas tales como Cuvro, agente de seguros 100% online en Puerto Rico, y la empresa puertorriqueña Global Mattress.

“Queremos ser verdaderos socios de negocio de las marcas.

Tenemos una combinación muy buena de experiencia y juventud.

Nosotros sabemos que LOVE seguirá creciendo si nuestros clientes crecen, ese es el premio que buscamos.

Lo importante de este primer año es que comprobamos que nuestra filosofía conecta con las necesidades de las marcas”, puntualizó Rodríguez.

Love Creative Thinkers está ubicada en Galería Pacífico en Cupey y cuenta con una plantilla de 25 empleados a tiempo completo.

Patricia Ramírez, Juan Carlos Rodríguez y Marisol Hernández, parte del management de LOVE.

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Bad Bunny looks back and hunkers down people.” And for all his well-earned selfconfidence, the haters still get under his skin.

“I’m not at my peak, now I’m in my prime,” he sings. “That’s why they’re praying that I crash.”

Connect that, of course, to grievancepowered politics and social media algorithms that stoke conflict and encourage pointless beefs. Musicians now market themselves in that environment and have to deal, one way or another, with the comments. But musicians also have different, nonverbal outlets.

They have the visceral joys of rhythm. They have the intuitive responses to a harmony or a vocal tone. They have the freedom, especially in the digital era, to make startling sonic leaps with a mouse click.

Bad Bunny has embraced those possibilities, broadening his musical horizons with each of his albums. While Latin trap and Bad Bunny is known for embracing and experimenting in different genres, but on the new album, he deliberately narrows his reggaeton are his musical foundations, he has delved into rock, reggae, hip-hop, salsa, palette. bomba, merengue, EDM and more, sometiBy JON PARELES mes within the same song, as he did in tracks like “Después de la Playa” and “El Apagón” on his blockbuster ure, it’s lonely at the top. But isn’t it also fun once in a while? 2022 album, “Un Verano Sin Ti.” It’s hard not to ask that question listening to Bad Bunny’s laYet on the new album, Bad Bunny deliberately narrows his test flood of songs, the suprise-released album “Nadie Sabe palette. “Nadie Sabe” declares that the album is for his “real fans,” Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana” (“Nobody Knows What Will Happen and most of its songs return to the Latin trap that dominated his Tomorrow”). It holds 21 songs and a quick snippet. But that abun- first album, “X 100PRE,” in 2018. Five years seems a little too dance brings little joy. soon for a nostalgia trip.

With this album, Bad Bunny, aka Puerto Rican songwriter As craftsman and singer, Bad Bunny is thoroughly at home Benito Martínez Ocasio, joins the ranks of the sullen superstars: with the ticking electronic drums and minor chords of Latin figures like Drake and Ye, stars who have conquered the world trap. In the new songs, he works his way through familiar topics: but still feel unappreciated and beleaguered. Overwhelming wealth, parties, sex, fame, autonomy. And even in well-trodden commercial success — hundreds of millions of streams, sold-out sonic territory, he can create arresting songs. He’s decisively emarena and stadium tours, attention from every possible quarter — bittered in “Gracias por Nada” (“Thanks for Nothing”), a posthas only made them hunker down defensively. breakup trap ballad that burns every bridge as it details how deeIt doesn’t have to be that way. Look at how Taylor Swift and ply he was betrayed.

Beyoncé now handle megastardom, savoring every moment (at But as the album ticks and hums along, the songs that linger least in public) while inviting fans to share the exhilaration. are the ones that break away from standard Latin trap. In “Mr. Bad Bunny has a perpetually startling voice, a baritone that October,” Bad Bunny boasts about his achievements as looping, can sing or rap with equal power. It leaps out of radio or com- nervous keyboards suggest anxiety behind the proud facade. puter speakers; it carries weight and connects emotionally across “Where She Goes,” a single released in May, uses the pounding, language barriers. Throughout the 2020s, Bad Bunny has smashed capacious sounds of a Jersey Club beat for a lament about a oneexpectations and sales records entirely on his own terms. He as- night stand he wishes he could repeat. serts his Puerto Rican and Caribbean identity and regularly praises “Cybertruck” seesaws between melting keyboard tones his role models; he collaborates across borders and genres. Defying and a skeletal reggaeton beat as Bad Bunny declares “I’m not the conventional wisdom of American pop crossover, he keeps his normal” and taunts, “Let those who hate me hate me/Let those lyrics in Spanish, making any collaborators cross over to him. His who love me love me.” And the camaraderie sounds genuine as new songs proclaim that he’s well aware of his status as a trailblazer Bad Bunny joins Puerto Rican rappers he grew up hearing — Ar— but that it doesn’t give him much comfort. cángel, De La Ghetto & Ñengo Flow — in “Acho PR,” which is The album opens with “Nadie Sabe,” a six-minute mani- dedicated to “the people in the barrio.” festo of superstar isolation set to brooding orchestral chords, with “Acho PR,” like much of the album, insists that Bad BunBad Bunny eventually joined by a full choir. He declares him- ny is still rooted, that international recognition hasn’t changed his self “the biggest star in the entire world”; he also warns that “No deepest loyalties. But the biggest star in the world has countless one knows, no, what it feels like to feel alone in front of 100,000 options. Now that he has looked back, how can he move ahead?

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AVISO AMBIENTAL INTENCIÓN DE RENOVAR PERMISO DE INYECCIÓN SUBTERRÁNEA El peticionario, Sr. Ralph G. Christiansen, cuya dirección postal es 3623 Ave. Militar PM B 394, Isabela Puerto Rico 00662, ha solicitado al Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) la renovación del Permiso de Operación para un sistema de inyección subterránea (SIS) Clase VC-1, bajo las disposiciones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS), y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada 42 USC 300f et seq. (LFAPS).

El SIS 001 consiste de una planta tratamiento con una capacidad de tratamiento de 19,000.00 galones por día y cuatro (4) lechos de percolación, (dos (2) lechos de 100 pies de largo por 20 pies de ancho, un (1) lecho de 90 pies de largo por 20 pies de ancho y un (1) lecho de 64 pies de largo por 20 pies de ancho con un área de percolación total de 7,080.0 pies cuadrados), para la disposición de aguas sanitarias provenientes del Proyecto. El sistema se compone de una (1) planta de tratamiento de 19,000.0 galones (Modelo STM-SR 2.6 x 2.2 m), que distribuirá las aguas tratadas a los cuatros (4) lechos de percolación para la disposición de aguas sanitarias provenientes de Villa Montaña Beach Resort. Los referidos SIS estarán ubicados en la Carretera 4466, Km 1.9, Bo. Montaña, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de emitir la renovación del Permiso de Operación para la instalación antes indicada, en conformidad con los requisitos del RCIS y de la LFAPS. Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA, ha preparado el borrador del permiso de forma tal que el público interesado pueda someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.

El público puede evaluar copia de la solicitud de permiso que sometió el peticionario ante el DRNA, el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes en la Oficina Central del DRNA. Copias de dichos documentos pueden adquirirse en la Oficina de Secretaría localizada en el Edificio de Agencias Ambientales Cruz A. Matos, Urbanización San José Industrial Park, Ave. Ponce de León 1375, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00910 o en la ORM, entre las 8:00 am y las 4:00 pm de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la dirección: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, PO Box 11488, San Juan, PR 00910.

Las partes interesadas o afectadas pueden enviar sus comentarios o solicitar una vista pública por escrito al Gerente del Área de Calidad de Agua, Director de la ORM y a la Secretaria del ORNA, respectivamente, a la dirección indicada.

Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vistas públicas deberán ser sometidos a la DRNA, no más tarde de treinta {30) días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública deberá señalar la razón o las razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de la misma. De realizarse una vista pública los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emiten o deniegan los permisos, si la Secretaria determina que dicha vista es necesaria o apropiada.

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How your diet affects your skin

By ALICE CALLAHAN

healing and rough, thickened skin.

And protein deficiencies can cause f you’ve ever looked in the mirror flaky, discolored skin. and noticed a new pimple or salBut these conditions, Chang low skin, it’s natural to wonder if added, are rare in the United States. the food you eat is somehow responIt’s difficult to study the more sible. subtle ways that your diet can affect “Our diet absolutely affects our your skin, but some research offers skin,” said Dr. Lauren Ploch, a derclues, said Dr. Rajani Katta, a dermatologist in Aiken, South Carolina. matologist and a clinical professor at The skin is an organ, just like your Baylor College of Medicine. heart or liver, and it’s built and mainIn one study from the Nethtained by nutrients from food, she erlands published in 2019, for instance, researchers analyzed the said. dietary records and photographs of Protein, for example, is used to about 2,800 older adults, most in make collagen, which plumps and their 60s and 70s. They found that maintains the skin and helps heal women who ate more fruits, vegetawounds; and antioxidants like vitamins C and E protect the skin from bles, fish and fiber-rich foods tended air pollution and the sun, she said. to have fewer wrinkles than those But can eating certain foods, who ate more meat and snack foods. like fruits or vegetables, lead to glowAnother study published in ing, clear skin? And can other foods, 2019 found that women in France like soda or white bread, worsen who followed the Mediterranean acne or “make your skin look ter- If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and noticed a diet had significantly lower risks of rible,” as some on TikTok have said? new pimple or sallow skin, it’s natural to wonder if developing skin cancer than those Here’s what we know. who did not. The authors hypoththe food you eat is somehow responsible. esized that the diet’s antioxidant and What the research suggests anti-inflammatory effects could have Certain nutrient deficiencies sity of Connecticut School of Medicine. can cause obvious skin problems, said Dr. A deficiency in vitamin C, for exam- played a role.

Some small trials have also found that Mary Wu Chang, an associate professor of ple, can cause scurvy, which leads to sympdermatology and pediatrics at the Univer- toms including easy bruising, poor wound individual foods may directly affect the skin, Katta said.

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The Mediterranean diet may also benefit those with psoriasis, a condition that causes thick, dry and itchy patches of skin, Ploch added.

In general, though, evidence that dietary changes can treat skin conditions is limited, said Dr. Aaron Drucker, a dermatologist and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. And even if dietary changes help, he added, you may still need medications.

Dietary advice for healthy skin Unless you’ve been diagnosed with a specific deficiency, it’s best to get your nutrients from food rather than from supplements, which aren’t well-regulated and can sometimes cause more harm than good, Ploch said.

In one large clinical trial conducted in France, for instance, adult women who took a daily antioxidant supplement containing vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, selenium and zinc for 7.5 years had a 68% greater chance of developing skin cancer than those who did not take the supplement.

And biotin supplements, which claim to support hair, skin and nails, can contain up to 650 times the recommended dose, which may lead to incorrect lab test results.

Ploch’s go-to recommendation for healthy skin is the Mediterranean diet, which provides beneficial nutrients like antioxidants and protective plant-based compounds, she said.

Chang also often suggests that her acne-prone patients try cutting back on dairy products and foods high in sugar and refined carbohydrates for at least four to six weeks. This won’t help everyone, she said, but some notice significant improvements.

Eczema and other skin conditions naturally “wax and wane,” so it may not always be obvious if a dietary change is helping or hurting, Drucker said.

But if you notice that a certain food consistently worsens your symptoms, it makes sense to avoid it, he said.

In general, though, be aware that eliminating too many foods or food groups can have unintended consequences, Drucker said. If you cut out dairy, for example, you might lose out on calcium and vitamin D, so make sure that your diet is balanced with a variety of foods to meet your nutrient needs.

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What are the must-have amenities for today’s pampered pet?

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hen you’re designing or decorating a home, you have to consider the needs of the occupants — and that means not just people but any resident animals.

“Our clients are very serious about their animals,” said Jimmy Crisp, the principal of Crisp Architects in Millbrook, New York.

At Crisp’s home, in nearby Poughquag, New York, there are multiple dogs in residence, along with a cat. So it’s not surprising that many of the homes he designs have built-in amenities for pets.

Amy Storm, the principal of interior design firm Amy Storm & Co., in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, thinks along the same lines. “Most of our clients do have pets and certainly want to pamper them and create special places for them,” she said. “It would actually be unusual that we wouldn’t be working on some sort of location for the pets to eat and bathe.”

What are the must-have amenities for today’s pampered pet? Read on.

The dog shower One of the most popular features is a dog shower. Usually placed in a mudroom or laundry room with direct outdoor access,

A pot filler, in a pet-food station designed by Daley Home, makes it easy to add water to an animal’s bowl.

it offers a convenient way to rinse muddy paws and fur.

Kate Marker, an interior designer in Barrington, Illinois, added a shower for her two dogs to the lower-level mudroom of her own home. “We made the dog shower opening fairly large and implemented a hand-shower component for easy washing,” Marker said.

There is no shower curtain or glass door to get in the way, which makes it easier to reach in and scrub the dog.

For larger dogs, a shower with an opening at the floor makes the most sense, Storm said. But for smaller dogs, it’s often better to raise the shower, so that it resembles an oversized sink, she said — that way, you don’t have to hunch over.

And don’t forget: Dog showers can be multifunctional. A raised shower for small dogs “could double as a mudroom sink,” Storm said, while those that extend to the floor offer a great place to dry laundry if you add a hanging rod.

Built-in bowls Food and water bowls can look like an afterthought if separate dishes are simply placed on a waterproof mat. A better alternative is a built-in pet food station.

Shelby Van Daley, a founder of interior design firm Daley Home, included an open cabinet with built-in dog bowls when she was designing a kitchenette for a family room in Austin, Texas. The pet dining space is lined in quartz countertop material and has cutouts to hold removable stainless-steel bowls. There’s also a pot filler, to make it easy to add water.

“A lot of our clients look for things they can add to their home to make it easier having pets,” Van Daley said.

If you don’t want to see bowls sitting out all day long, there’s another option: Install a low drawer in a bank of cabinetry, with cutouts for bowls, so you can slide it closed when it’s not in use.

“It’s a hidden dog bowl,” said Crisp, who once built a bowl drawer into the base of a mudroom bench seat.

A custom crate Crate training your dog shouldn’t mean putting up with an ugly wire structure in the middle of your living space. Many designers are creating upscale custom crates that are built into homes.

Kate Marker, an interior designer in Illinois, added a dog shower to her mudroom, “with a hand-shower component for easy washing.”

Van Daley designed a pair of crates with brass-mesh doors and enough space inside for dog beds as part of storage cabinets in the primary bedroom of one project. And Crisp designed a custom crate to fill the unused space under a staircase.

If you don’t need a crate but want a place to hold wet dogs in the mudroom, there are other options.

For one client, Storm designed a mudroom with a half-height screened pocket door that pulls out of the wall like a baby gate. Compared with a solid door, “you still have good light and good air, and everyone can still see each other,” she said, “even though the dogs are secured.”

An architectural playground While dogs can usually get outside to play, indoor cats don’t have that opportunity.

To compensate, some cat owners design their interiors to double as feline playgrounds.

Alexandra Barker, the founder of New York-based architecture firm BAAO, prioritized cat-friendly features while renovating a Brooklyn row house for a couple of cat lovers. “They came to me with a request to design a house for them and their two cats,” Barker said. “Right from the get-go, the cats were on an equivalent plane.”

The home’s defining feature is a builtin bookcase that runs along one wall of the living room. Some of the shelves project out into the room to serve as cat steps, and the top of the structure angles up and down to

serve as a cat run. At one end, the run reaches a ceiling hatch that opens to the primary bedroom above; at the other, a hatch opens to an art studio.

A concealed cat bathroom For another client in Brooklyn, Barker is designing a cat bathroom that conceals the litter box.

“It’s a door into a closet with a portal in it,” she said, so the cats can come and go as they please and no one has to look at the litter box. “Then you can open the door to take the litter box out.”

The same thing can be achieved with cabinetry, by adding a cat door that opens to a concealed litter box in a base cabinet.

That way, Barker said, “the litter box isn’t this object always parked in your way.”

Playful products If you want to create an indoor feline playground but aren’t ready to renovate, there are products that can be installed on an existing wall.

Mike Wilson co-founded Catastrophic Creations, a manufacturer of cat-play equipment in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after devising a wall-mounted rope bridge for his own cat in 2013.

“We had a small apartment and were looking for ways that we could expand the place for him without taking up floor space,” Wilson said. “I wanted it to look good. We just weren’t interested in regular cat trees.”

On Etsy, the bridge was a hit, and the company soon developed a range of wallmounted cat runways, steps, scratch posts and hammocks.

Jackson Cunningham started Tuft & Paw in Vancouver, British Columbia, for similar reasons. “The idea came from our own experience of living in a smaller space in the city and caring about the stuff we put in that space,” Cunningham said. “When it came to pet furniture, you had to settle for one of these tacky, fuzzy cat trees.”

Tuft & Paw now makes cat hammocks, perches, beds and litter boxes that are as considered as any piece of designer furniture.

After all, creating a home that takes into consideration the needs of animals shouldn’t mean compromising on design.

“People love their pets,” Barker said.

“The idea is to integrate their pets’ needs into the design of their spaces.”

22 LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIANDO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYANILLA EN SÁBANA GRANDE.

LUZ CELENIA PAGANPEREZ PO Box 560807 Guayanilla, PR 00656 Tel. (787)835-2799 Peticionaria Vs.

Ex-parte

Civil Núm.: GY2023CV00004.

SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, a Juan Borrelí, Josefina Irizarry, Rafael Borrelí y Ermitania Gil y/o sus herederos, a todo el que tenga derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Expediente de Dominio, a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitada, así como los colindantes, causahabientes o herederos y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse. Por la presente se le notifica que comparezca, si creyera que le conviene, a este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de veinte (20) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, el cual se publicará por tres (3) veces y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por los peticionarios para adquirir el dominio de la siguiente propiedad: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno situado en el Barrio Quebrada Honda del término municipal de Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de Veintiséis Mil Seiscientos Cuarenta y Uno punto Nueve Mil Cuatrocientos Treinta y Nueve Metros Cuadrados (26,641.9439 m.c.) equivalentes a Seis punto Siete Mil Setecientos Ochenta y Cuatro Cuerdas (6.7784 cdas.), y en colindancias por el Norte, con Luis Rodríguez Pagán; por el Sur, con Sucesión Delfina Pérez; por el Este, Luis Rodríguez Pagán y en parte con Eligio Pagan; y por el Oeste, con Sucesión Juan Santiago. Contiene una estructura dedicada a vivienda. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegación a la representación legal de prominentes, Lcdo. Joseph Brocco Santiago, P.O. Box 608, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico 00624-0608, Teléfono 787-836-3020. CARMEN G. T!RÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF WISCONSIN : CIRCUIT COURT : MILWAUKEE COUNTY FAMILY COURT

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BRANCH. In RE the marriage of:

Michelle Abraham Demandante, -and-

Eliezer Jose Hernandez

Demandado Case no. 2023FA004118.

CITACIÓN DE PUBLICACIÓN. EL ESTADO DE WISCONSIN, a la persona nombrada arriba como demandado: Se le notifica que la demandante mencionada anteriormente ha presentado una Petición de divorcio en su contra. Debe responder con una solicitud por escrito de una copia de la Petición dentro de los 40 días siguientes al día siguiente de la primera fecha de publicación. La demanda deberá enviarse o entregarse al tribunal al: Clerk of Court, Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N 9th Street Milwaukee, WI 53233 y al Centro Legal, abogado de la demandante, al: 611 W National Avenue, Suite 103 Milwaukee, WI 53204 Puede tener un abogado que lo ayude o lo represente. Si no exige una copia de la Petición dentro de los 40 días, el tribunal puede dictar sentencia en su contra por la concesión de dinero u otra acción legal solicitada en la Petición, y usted puede perder su derecho a oponerse a cualquier cosa que sea o pueda ser incorrecto en la Petición.

Una sentencia puede ejecutarse según lo dispuesto por la ley. Una sentencia que otorga dinero puede convertirse en un gravamen sobre cualquier bien inmueble que usted posea ahora o en el futuro, y también puede hacerse cumplir mediante embargo o incautación de propiedad. Se le notifica que si las partes de esta acción tienen hijos menores, la violación de §948.31 Wis. Stats. se castiga con multas y/o prisión. Si usted y la demandante tienen hijos menores, documentos que establezcan el porcentaje estándar de manutención infantil establecido por el departamento según §49.22(9), Wis. Stats., y los factores que un tribunal puede considerar para modificar ese estándar según §767.511 (1m), Wis. Stats., están disponibles previa solicitud al Secretario del Tribunal. Se le notifica la disponibilidad de información por parte del Comisionado del Tribunal de Circuito según lo establecido en §767.105, Wis. Stats.

Dated: September 20, 2023 Centro Legal, Attorneys for the Petitioner By: Jennifer Morales

Wisconsin State Bar No. 1115510

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

ELSA ROMAN MÉNDEZ, JOSÉ MANUEL FLORES DELGADO PARTE PETICIONARIA

EX - PARTE

CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2023CV08364.

SALA: 606. SOBRE: Expediente de Dominio bajo el Art. 13 de la Ley 118 del 2022, Procedimiento expedito. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.

A: CUALQUIER PERSONA QUE ALEGASE TENER ALGÚN DERECHO REAL SOBRE EL INMUEBLE QUE SE DESCRIBE MAS ADELANTE A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCR1PCION SOLICITADA.

POR LA PRESENTE, se notifica a ustedes que se ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal una Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio con el fin de justificar e inscribir a favor de la parte peticionaria, el dominio a que tiene derecho sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Tortugo del término municipal de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de uno punto mil cuarenta y uno metros cuadrados (1.1041 m/c), en lindes por el NORTE, con camino vecina; por el ESTE: con terrenos de Don Ramón Ydowatt; por el OESTE: con solar propiedad del señor Ramón Ydowatt y por el SUR: con terrenos de la sucesión Mario Jiménez Escoda.

Luego de mensurada el 20 de junio de 2023 por el agrimensor Fernando Santiago Rosario la descripción actual de la propiedad es la siguiente: Solar con residencia construida en madera con techo de zinc, sobre columnas ubicado en el barrio Tortugo del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 137.463 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en varias alineaciones de 4.837 metros y 6.930 metros con acera que da acceso hacia la carretera

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PR-873; por el Sur en una alineación de 12.290 metros con terreno el cual se desconoce el dueño; por el Este en varias alineaciones de 0.896 metros, 6.861 metros y 4.694 metros con Wanda I. Flores Román; y por el Oeste en una alineación de 10.429 metros con Nicolas Santos. Se les notifica para que comparezcan, silo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días, contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca antes descrita. Se les notifica que deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte peticionaria: Lcdo. Ernesto Rovira Gándara, PME 767 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux Guaynabo, P.R. 00966, Tel. (787) 758-3276, correo electrónico: erovira@partnerslegalservicepr.com. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 28 de septiembre de 2023.

Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Sec Regional. F/Hyuam Rivera Villanueva, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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KEYLINK LLC

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE ELSA ZAMBRANA RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2023CV00594.

Salón Núm.: (406). Sobre: EJE-

(787) 743-3346

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE ELSA ZAMBRANA RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA: SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, O A SU ORDEN: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número cinco del bloque “O” de la Urbanización Valle Alto, situada en el Barrio Cerrillo del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos diez y ocho metros con cincuenta centímetros cuadrados (318.50 mc), colindando por el NORTE, en veintidós metros, con el solar número O-6; por el SUR, en veinticinco metros, con el solar número O-4; por el ESTE, en trece metros cincuenta centímetros, con la Calle número uno; y por el OESTE, en dos metros con diez centímetros, tiene un arco de cuatro metros con nueve centímetros y arco de siete metros ochenta y dos centímetros, con la Calle número veintidós. Consta inscrita al folio 48 del tomo 1282 de Ponce Norte, finca número #36,133, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ponce. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Valle Alto, 2144 Calle Colina, Ponce, Puerto Rico 00730. Según figura en el Estudio de título, la propiedad obje-

to de ejecución está gravada al siguiente Gravamen posterior a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: a. Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $202,500.00, vencedero el día 28 de abril de 2076, constituida mediante la escritura número 264, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2011, ante el notario Manuel Rivera Meléndez, e inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 2111 de Ponce Norte, finca número 36,133, inscripción 11ma. Se le notifica a los acreedores posteriores anteriormente identificados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $202,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #263, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2011, ante el notario Manuel Rivera Meléndez, e inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 2111 de Ponce Norte, finca número 36,133, inscripción 10ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $202,500.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $135,000.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $101,250.00. Dicha

The San Juan Daily Star subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $97,198.60, con intereses a 5.06% anual, desde que dichas sumas fueron desembolsadas con el primer desembolso el 18 de julio de 2011, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma equivalente a $20,250.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Se informa que la propiedad objeto de ejecución se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 21 de septiembre de 2023. MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #560.

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CASITAS BLANCAS, LLC Demandante V.

JOHN DOE y RICHARD DOE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN NICOLÁS ROSARIO ÁLVAREZ Demandados

DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00552.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, INTERPELACIÓN. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, hago saber a la parte demandada JOHN DOE y RICHARD DOE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN NICOLÁS ROSARIO ÁLVAREZ, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 16 de junio de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $173,000.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: C-3 Cond. La Costa, Fajardo, PR 00734, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la segunda planta del Edificio C del Condominio La Costa, del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico. APARTAMENTO NÚMERO: C-3. AREA NETA DEL APARTAMENTO: 1317.00 pies cuadrados, equivalente a 122.40 metros cuadrados. EN LINDES: por el NORTE, con el apartamento C-4 en una distancia de 45 pies 4 pulgadas, equivalente a 13.82 metros; por el SUR, colinda con el apartamento B-4 en una distancia de 45 pies 4 pulgadas, equivalente a 13.82 metros; por el ESTE, colinda con espacio aério y área común en una distancia de 37 pies, equivalente a 11.28 metros; y por el OESTE, con espacio aério y área común que da acceso al vestíbulo en una distancia de 37 pies, equivalente a 11.28 metros. El apartamento consta de un nivel y está dividido en los siguien-

The San Juan Daily Star tes elementos: sala-comedor y puerta de entrada con acceso al vestíbulo del edificio, cocina, área de lavandería, balcón, tres cuartos dormitorio s con sus closets, unidos por un pasillo central, dos baños, uno con acceso al pasillo central y el segundo ubicado dentro del área del cuarto dormitorio principal.

Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. Le corresponde a este apartamento dos espacios de ESTACIONAMIENTOS marcados con los números 43 y 44. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los ELEMENTOS COMUNES GENERALES del condominio el 0.00783%. Finca 21463 inscrita al sistema Karibe de Fajardo, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, aff#.2914, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria P.R., o a su orden, por $173,000.00, al 5.875%, vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2035, según Esc. #21, en San Juan, a 20 de abril de 2005, ante José A. Crespo Rivera, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Fajardo, finca #21463, inscripción 2da. (ii) Mandamiento) Embargo de fecha 20 de abril de 2022, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el caso civil FA2021CV00552, sabre Cobro de Dinero, por San Carlos Mortgage LLC, versus John Doe y Richard Doe, como miembros desconocidos de la Sucesión Nicolas Rosario Alvarez, por $128,096.01 y otros gastos, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Fajardo, anotación A y ultima, el 17 de marzo de 2023. El embargo objeto de esta subasta es el que ha quedado descrito en el inciso (ii). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 19 de enero de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $128,096.01 de principal, más interés que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total al 5.875% anual, $345.34 cargos por atrasos, $6,500.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS DE LAS 1:30 TARDE, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $173,000.00, sin admitirse

oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, 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, $115,333.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS DE LA 1:30 TARDE, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $86,500.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada 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 cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de julio de 2023.

JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622. MILDRED I. TORO COLÓN, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #197, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO.

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MMG I PR CDGY LLC Demandante V.

IVAN DAVID JIMENEZ GONZALEZ, FRANCES MYRIAM ENRIQUEZ DE JESUS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENENS GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandada Civil Núm.: GCD2010-0445.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: IVAN DAVID JIMENEZ GONZALEZ, FRANCES MYRIAM ENRIQUEZ DE JESUS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENENS GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada y, al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL, y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos

negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: A Cuyo favor aparece inscrito un Embargo por la cantidad de $53,794.00, en contra Iván David Jimenez Gonzalez y Frances Myriam Enríquez de Jesús según Certificación suscrita el día 25 de enero de 2006, anotado al folio 100 del tomo 6 de Embargos del ELA, Orden 2731 el 30 de enero de 2006. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: A Cuyo favor aparece inscrito un Embargo por la cantidad de $51,237.84, en contra Iván David Jimenez Gonzalez y Frances Myriam Enríquez de Jesús según Certificación suscrita el día 27 de agosto de 2007, anotado al folio 101 del tomo 6 de Embargos del ELA, Orden 2737 el 5 de septiembre de 2007. BITACORA: Al asiento 2023-01 0795-GA01, el día 31 de enero de 2023, se presenta Certificación de Embargo de Bienes Inmuebles, por concepto de ingreso, por la suma de $51,237.84 contra Ivan D. Jimenez González, de fecha 27 de agosto de 2007. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 19 de septiembre de 2019, 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: Condominio Campomar Apt. 44, Arroyo, Puerto Rico, 00714. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Villa #44, Villa residencial de forma rectangular, de dos niveles en hilera, localizada en el Condominio Campomar, situado en los barrios Palmas y Cuatro Calles del Municipio de Arroyo, Puerto Rico. La Villa tiene un área superficial aproximada en 1059.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 98.49 metros cuadrados. Son sus linderos los siguientes: por el NORTE, en distancia 39.00 pies lineales con la villa 45 y área de elemento común; por el SUR, en distancia de 39.00 pies lineales con la villa 43 y área de elementos común; por el ESTE, en distancia de 13.00 pies lineales con área de elemento común; y por el OESTE, en distancia de 13.00 pies cuadrados con área de elemento común. Consta el primer nivel de cocina, sala-comedor, terraza, un medio baño y escaleras que conducen al segundo nivel; el segundo nivel

consiste de dos dormitorios, un baño y un balcón, en su frente y otro en la parte posterior. La puerta principal de entrada y salida está en el lado Oeste, en su lado Este, tiene otra puerta de entrada y salida que conduce a la terraza que a su vez conduce al patio exterior asignado y a los elementos comunes del Condominio, el cual será mantenido por el propietario aunque no puede ser cercado, ampliado ni habilitado para otros, unos que no sea un espacio, entendiéndose que podrá ser techado únicamente siguiendo el diseño que al momento se provea y con la aprobación del Comité de Arquitectura del Condominio.

Esta Villa tiene una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de 2.10%. Inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 148 de Arroyo, finca número 5,517; Registro de la Propiedad Guayama. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor ascendente a $93,167.85 de principal, $77,729.40 de intereses al 4 de agosto de 2023, los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 8.880% anual hasta el pago total de la deuda, $374.84 de cargos de seguro de la propiedad (“force placed insurance”), $5,800.00 de deficiencia de la cuenta plica (“negative escrow”), $500.00 de cargo por fondos insuficientes (“NSF”), $6,848.63 de cargos de preservación de la propiedad concepto, más cualquier partida pactada y/o adelanto adicional y realizado por la demandante, conforme a los términos pactados y garantizadas en la escritura de hipoteca y pagaré, costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado ascendentes al 10% del principal según pactado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con interés previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada 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 Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 7 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $117,700.00. Que de ser

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necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 14 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $78,466.67, 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 21 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $58,850.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes

solar Q-72 de la Calle K. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrita en la finca número 16,067, al folio 92 del tomo 377 de Fajardo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con LEGAL NOTICE derecho a exigir el cumplimienESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO to de instrumentos negociables DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL garantizados hipotecariamente GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- con posterioridad al crédito ejeBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- cutado, siempre que surjan de CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE la certificación registral, para FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR que puedan concurrir a la suBANCO POPULAR DE basta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe PUERTO RICO del crédito, de sus intereses, Demandante V. costas y honorarios de aboIVELISSE JANET CALDERÓN ROLDÁN gados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los Demandada derechos del acreedor ejecuCivil Núm.: FA2023CV00325. tante: Hipoteca en garantía de Sala: 307. Sobre: COBRO DE un pagaré a favor de la AutoriDINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE dad para el Financiamiento de HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIla Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PREsu orden, por la suma principal SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS de $15,000.00, sin intereses, UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE vencedero el día 1 de octubre ASOCIADO DE PUERTO de 2012, constituida mediante RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASla escritura número 312, otorTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del gada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el día 2 de septiembre de 2004, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Faante el notario Jorge Laborde jardo, Puerto Rico, hago saber, Corretjer, e inscrita al folio 169 a la parte demandada y al PÚdel tomo 436 de Fajardo, finca BLICO EN GENERAL: Que en número 16,067, inscripción 5ta. cumplimiento del Mandamiento Sujeta a Condiciones Restrictide Ejecución de Sentencia exvas bajo el Programa La Llave pedido el día 15 de septiembre para Tu Hogar, por un término de 2023, por la Secretaría del de 8 años. El producto de la suTribunal, procederé a vender y basta se destinará a satisfacer venderé en pública subasta y al al demandante hasta donde almejor postor la propiedad que cance, la SENTENCIA dictada ubica y se describe a continuaa su favor el día 7 de agosto ción: URBANA: Solar radicado de 2023, archivada en autos en la Urbanización Alturas De y notificada el 9 de agosto de San Pedro, situada en el Barrio 2023, en el presente caso civil, Florencio del término municipal a saber la suma de $39,621.06 de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, que por concepto de principal; gese describe en el plano de insnerando intereses a razón de cripción de la Urbanización con 6.125% desde el 1ro de octubre el número, área y colindancia de 2022; cargos por demora los siguientes: Número del solar: cuales al igual que los intereses Q-63 de la Calle L. Área del continúan acumulándose hasta solar: trescientos cincuenta el saldo total de la deuda reclametros cuadrados (350.00). En mada en este pleito, y la suma lindes: NORTE, en una distande $6,500.00 para costas, gascia de veinticinco metros lineatos y honorarios de abogado; les (25.00), con el solar Q-62; y demás créditos accesorios SUR, en una distancia de veingarantizados hipotecariamente. ticinco metros lineales (25.00), La adjudicación se hará al mecon el solar Q-64; ESTE, en jor postor, quien deberá consiguna distancia de catorce metros nar el importe de su oferta en el lineales (14.00), con la Calle L; acto mismo de la adjudicación, OESTE, en dos alineaciones, la en efectivo (moneda del curso primera en una distancia de un legal de los Estados Unidos de metros con ciento cincuenta y América), giro postal o cheque seis milímetros lineales (1.156), certificado a nombre del alguacon el solar Q-73 de la Calle K cil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA y la segunda en una distancia SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el de doce metros con ochociendía 11 DE ENERO DE 2024 A tos cuarenta y cuatro milímeLAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en tros lineales (12.844), con el la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Guayama, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de septiembre de 2023.

LITZY M. CONA ANAYA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #247, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA. ***

24 de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $65,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $43,333.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $32,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al proce-

dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de septiembre de 2023.

JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO. NORIE J. MERCADO LABOY, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #044.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante Vs.

RAMON VARGAS TORRES, ADA LIGIA MATIAS CORTES T/C/C ADA LIGIA MATIAS DE VARGAS T/C/C ADA MATIAS CORTES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04884.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 13 DE NOVIEMBRE

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar número 1771 del bloque “Y” de Levittown, barrio Sabana Seca Toa Baja compuesto de 232.53 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 10.11 metros con un paseo público; por el SUR, en 10.11 metros con el Paseo Dosel; por el ESTE, en 23 metros con el solar número 1772; y por el OESTE, en 23 metros con el solar número 1770.” Finca número 4304, inscrita al folio 111 del tomo 52 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 60 del tomo 694 de Toa Baja, finca 4304, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II, inscripción 3a. Propiedad localizada en: Y-1771 PASEO DOSEL ST LEVITTOWN DE, TOA BAJA, PR 00949. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $181,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 1 de octubre de 2090. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $181,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $121,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la

TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $90,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $87,351.99 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $17,576.33 en intereses acumulados al 10 de octubre de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.259% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $4,575.76 en seguro hipotecario; $4,740.00 en tarifas de servicio; $1,823.78 en seguro; $1,075.00 de tasaciones; $135.00 de inspecciones; $7,075.00 de mantenimiento; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $18,150.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico.

Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de septiembre de 2023. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735.

SAYRA ALMODOVAR GUZMAN

Defendants Civil No.: 16-03051. SCC. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: SAYRA ALMODOVAR GUZMAN, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

ochocientos cuarenta y dos (842); por el Oeste, en veinticuatro (24.00) metros, con el lote numero ochocientos cuarenta y cuatro (844). Enclava una casa. The property is identified as land number 19,193, recorded at page number 23 of volume number 282 of Rio Grande, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Carolina III. Physical Address: 843 Q 15 St., Alturas de Rio Grande Dev. Rio Grande, PR 00745. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, 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 lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, AT 3: 00 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $129,734.76. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13TH, 2023 AT 3:00 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $86,486.84. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 3:00 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $64,867.38. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of October 2023. BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $126,019.89 of principal balance, plus interest at a rate of 5.50% per annum since March 1st, 2014. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges in the amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant owes Plaintiff all of the advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by accessing the electronic court records by internet accessing https://ecf.prd.uscourts.gov.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Ciénaga Baja del Municipio de Rio Grande marcado en el plano de inscripción con el numero ochocientos cuarenta y tres (843) del Bloque Q en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Alturas de Rio Grande, compuesto de trescientos ocho punto ochenta y ocho (308.88) metros cuadrados. En lindes; LEGAL NOTICE por el Norte, en doce punto IN THE UNITED STATES DISochenta y siete (12.87) metros, TRICT COURT FOR THE DIScon el solar ochocientos setenLEGAL NOTICE TRICT OF PUERTO RICO ta (870); por el Sur, en doce IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- punto ochenta y siete (12.87), WILMINGTON SAVINGS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- con la calle quince (15); por el FUND SOCIETY, FSB, TRICT OF PUERTO RICO Este, en veinticuatro (24.00) D/B/A CHRISTIANA LIME HOMES, LTD. metros, con el lote numero TRUST, AS INDENTURE Plaintiff V.

TRUSTEE, FOR CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015-PPR1 Plaintiff V.

MIGDALIA ROSADO TORRES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil No.: 19-1921. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: MIGDALIA ROSADO TORRES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $142,903.14 of principal balance, plus interest at a rate of 6.875% per annum since June 1st, 2017. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges in the amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant owes Plaintiff all of the advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by accessing the electronic court records by internet accessing https://ecf.prd.uscourts.gov.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno identificado con el numero 4-A, radicado en la Carretera Estatal número 829, Barrio Santa Olaya del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 952.3293 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a .2423 cuerda, colindando por el Norte, con la

Calle Municipal existente, en una distancia de 19.236 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad en un arco de 6.289 metros que se extiende hacia el este y otra sección de aproximadamente la mitad en otro arco de 5.498 metros que se extiende hacia el oeste; por el Sur, con el remanente, en una distancia de 17.254 metros, segregado en el caso número 89-15-I-300 BPL; por el Este, con el lote 5-A, en una distancia de 46.401 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad de un arco de 6.289 metros que se extiende hacia el Norte; y por el Oeste, con la calle Municipal, en una distancia de 34.300 metros, con la calle existente, en una distancia de 3.50 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad en un arco de 5.498 metros que se extiende hacia el Norte. Recorded at page 256 of book 1520 of Bayamon, land number 66,838, Registry of the Property, Bayamon Section I. Physical Address: 2 St. A-4, Monserrate Hills, Bayamon, PR 00959. The property is affected to the following junior lien or attachment described below: Lien in favor of the Unites States against Jorge Luis Rivera Rivera, social security number xxx-xx-8980, for the sum of $4,833.16, notificacion number 792035811, annotated on June 21st, 2011, at page 50, book 3, volume 9. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, 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 lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, AT 2:45PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $155,656.00.

In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13T, 2023 AT 2:45 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $103.770.67. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of

The San Juan Daily Star the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 2:45 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $77,828.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of October 2023.

BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que se presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación LEGAL NOTICE responsiva en la Secretaría del ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO tribunal y notificar copia de la DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- misma al (a la) abogado(a) de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA la parte demandante o a ésta, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJAR- de no tener representación leDO gal. Si usted deja de presentar BANCO POPULAR DE su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal PUERTO RICO podrá dictar sentencia en rebelDemandante Vs. día en su contra y conceder el SUCESION DE CARLOS remedio solicitado en la demanJUAN CARDONA DE da, o cualquier otro, si el tribuJESÚS, COMPUESTA nal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procePOR ROSA ELENA dente. Además, se le apercibe CARPEÑA CIRILO, en los casos al amparo POR SI; JAN CARLOS que, de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, tituCARDONA CARPEÑA Y lada Ley para la Prevención JOYCE OMAR CARDONA del Maltrato, Preservación de CARPEÑA; FULANO DE la Unidad Familiar y para la TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los COMO HEREDEROS remedios que le Tribunal podrá DESCONOCIDOS Y/O conceder se incluyen la ubicaPARTES CON INTERÉS ción permanente de un(una) EN LA SUCESION menor fuera del hogar, el inciso Demandados de procesos para la privación Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00735. de patria potestad, y cualquieSobre: COBRO DE DINERO ra otra medida en el mejor Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE- interés del (de la) menor. (ArtíCA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR culo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN- de su derecho a comparecer TE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ES- acompañado(a) de abogado(a) TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE en los casos que proceda. Se P.R., SS. le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de A: SUCESION DE abogado(a) en los casos que CARLOS JUAN De ser el demandado CARDONA DE JESÚS, proceda. un heredero de una sucesión, COMPUESTA POR JAN se le apercibe a los herederos CARLOS CARDONA antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese térmiCARPEÑA Y JOYCE no de treinta (30) días, en torno OMAR CARDONA CARPEÑA; FULANO DE a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL tendrá por aceptada. También COMO HEREDEROS se le apercibe a los herederos DESCONOCIDOS Y/O antes mencionados que luego PARTES CON INTERÉS del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalaEN LA SUCESION. do, contados a partir de la fecha CALLE ESTACIÓN de publicación de este edicto, #121, RIO GRANDE, se presumirá que han aceptado PR 00745 (PLANO DE la herencia del(los) causante(s) PARCELACIÓN DE LA y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herenCOMUNIDAD RURAL PALMER DEL BARRIO cia conforme dispone el Artículo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, MAMEYES); PO BOX 467, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11,021. ReprePALMER, RIO GRANDE, senta a la parte demandante, PR 00721; BO. PALMER, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se 283 CALLE B, RÍO consigna de inmediato: GRANDE, PR 00745.

BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL.: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 12 de octubre de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 402 - CIVIL SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

VILMA ESTHER BUJOSA ROSARIO COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUC. DE CESAR BUJOSA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2023CV00014.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS JCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW.COM

Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN DICHAS SUCESIONES.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 12 de octubre de 2023. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 12 de octubre de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

VÉLEZ T/C/C MIRIAM J. CRUZ VELEZ T/C/C MIRIAM CRUZ VÉLEZ T/C/C MIRIAM CRUZ VELEZ T/C/C MINAN CRUZ VÉLEZ T/C/C MIRAN CRUZ-VÉLEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 12 de octubre de 2023. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 12 de octubre de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZáLEZ, SECRETARIa. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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LOCALIZADA EN RUSTICA: PREDIO DE TERRENO DE LOCALIZADO EN EL BARRIO COTO LAUREL CALLE JOBO NÚMERO 42 DEL TÉRMINO MUNICIPAL DE PONCE, PUERTO RICO. CONSTA CON ÁREA DE OCHOCIENTOS TREINTA Y DOS PUNTO SIETE MIL SETECIENTOS SESENTA (832.7760) METROS CUADRADOS. COLINDA POR EL NORTE CON CALLE JOBOS (CALLE MUNICIPAL) POR CI SUR CON PROPIEDAD DE SUCESIÓN MANFRED Y CON ESCUELA JUAN SERRALLES, EN LINDES POR EL OESTE, CON PROPIEDAD DE LA SUCESIÓN IRIZARRY LUGO Y EN LINDES POR EL OESTE CON PROPIEDAD DE LUIS ROSADO VÉLEZ, EN DICHA PROPIEDAD SE ENCUENTRAN 3 ESTRUCTURAS EN RUINAS Y UNA EDIFICACIÓN QUE SE UTILIZA COMO RESIDENCIA.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO en este caso, que ha sido debiDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- damente registrada y archivada NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA en autos donde podrá usted SALA DE FAMILIA DE SAN enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta JUAN notificación se publicará una AURELINA IBED sola vez en un periódico de DE LOS SANTOS circulación general en la Isla Demandante Vs. de Puerto Rico, dentro de los ALFREDO 10 días siguientes a su notificaMARTINEZ FIGUEROA ción. Y, siendo o representando Demandada usted una parte en el procediCivil Núm.: SJ2023RF01230. miento sujeta a los términos Sala: 704. Sobre: DIVORCIO de la Sentencia, Sentencia (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). Parcial o Resolución, de la cual EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- puede establecerse recurso de TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE revisión o apelación dentro del AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE término de 30 días contados a DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, partir de la publicación por edicEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- to de esta notificación, dirijo a DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. usted esta notificación que se A: ALFREDO MARTINEZ considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicFIGUEROA. CALLE to. Copia de esta notificación COLTON 383, VILLA sido archivada en los autos PALMERAS, SAN JUAN, ha de este caso, con fecha 10 de PR 00915. octubre de 2023. En San Juan, Por este medio se le emplaza Puerto Rico, el 10 de octubre e informa que se ha radicado de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍel presente pleito en su contra.

GUEZ COLLADO, SECRETADeberá contestar la demanda RIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO dentro de los próximos treinta REVENTÓS, SECRETARIA (30) días de haberse publicado AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. este edicto, notificando copia a: LCDO. LUIS R. FERNÁNDEZ LEGAL NOTICE RUA 14100 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO CALLE DEL PARQUE 361 DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCOND. MAGDALENA TOWER SUITE 208 NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SAN JUAN, P.R. 00912 SALA DE CAROLINA Tel. (787) 370-6027 MMG 1 PR CDGY, LLC lbarretolaw@yahoo.com Demandante V. pasado lo cual de no contestar

A: SUCESION DE ALMA la demanda radicando el ori- ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ HOMS MADERA T/C/C ginal de la contestación ante (Nombre de las partes que se le RIVERA Y SU ESPOSA notifican la sentencia por edicto) el tribunal con copia a la parte ALMA LUZ HOMS KENIA MELISSA EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- demandante se le anotará reMADERA COMPUESTA CALDERON DEL cribe le notifica a usted que el beldía y se le dictará sentencia POR SUS HEREDEROS CARMEN Y LA 29 de septiembre de 2023, este concediendo el remedio soliCONOCIDOS JOSE HOMS SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, citado sin más citarle ni oírle.

LEGAL NOTICE MADERA, ROBERTO Sentencia Parcial o Resolución En San Juan, Puerto Rico a 2 BIENES GANANCIALES LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO en este caso, que ha sido debi- de octubre de 2023. GRISELHOMS MADERA, VILMA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCOMPUESTA POR ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO damente registrada y archivada DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, HOMS MADERA, MILTON NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUAMBOS; MANUEL en autos donde podrá usted SECRETARIA REGIONAL. HOMS MADERA; CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARE- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANenterarse detalladamente de RAQUEL BURGOS MILLÁN, CALDERON ESCALERA SUCESION DE ANGELA CIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE los términos de la misma. Esta SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS Y SU ESPOSA LAURA ARECIBO SALÓN DE SESIO- PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE HOMS FRATICHELLI notificación se publicará una A SALA. JUANA DEL CARMEN NES 402- CIVIL SUPERIOR PONCE SALÓN DE SESIO- sola vez en un periódico de COMPUESTA POR RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD WILMINGTON SAVINGS NES SALÓN 504 CRIMINAL Y circulación general en la Isla LEGAL NOTICE SUS HEREDEROS LEGAL DE BLENES TRÁNSITO FUND SOCIETY, FSB, de Puerto Rico, dentro de los ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO CONOCIDOS DEBORAH GANANCIALES ROBERT ANTHONY 10 días siguientes a su notifica- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT HOMS, LILLIAN COMPUESTA POR ción.

Y, siendo o representando NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SOLER IRIZARRY SOLELY AS TRUSTEE STROUP, NATALIE AMBOS usted una parte en el procedi- CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN Demandante V. FOR FINANCE OF Demandado(s) DAVIDSON, GORDON miento sujeta a los términos JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE AMERICA STRUCTURED de la Sentencia, Sentencia SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIO- Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01794.

Demandado(a) CLOSE Y ANGELA SECURITIES Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y Caso Núm.: PO2022CV02705. Parcial o Resolución, de la cual NES SALÓN 903 CIVIL STARLING; SUCESION EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ACQUISITION TRUST Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DO- puede establecerse recurso de ORIENTAL BANK DE INGRID HOMS; EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE revisión o apelación dentro del 2019-HB1 Demandante V. SUCESION DE LESTER TO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS término de 30 días contados a SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Demandante V. JORGE L. HOMS FRATICHELLI; DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENRUBÉN ROMÁN TORO partir de la publicación por edicMIRIAM JOSEFINA CRUZ BUFETERUBENROMANTORO@ LOPEZ VELAZQUEZ TE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESto de esta notificación, dirijo a SUCESLON DE RAUL VELEZ TCP MIRIAN Demandado(a) GMAIL.COM TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE usted esta notificación que se CABANILLAS HOMS; SALVADOR MARQUEZ COLON JOSEFINA CRUZ VELEZ considerará hecha en la fecha Caso Núm.: SJ2022CV09019. P.R., S.S. SMARQ97@GMAIL.COM SUCESION DE AWILDA TCP MIRIAM J. CRUZ de la publicación de este edic- Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD to. Copia de esta notificación ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN A: LAURA JUANA DEL HOMS FRATICHELLI; VELEZ Y OTROS CARMEN RIVERA POR SI ROE, POSIBLES SUCESION DE CESAR ha sido archivada en los autos DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Demandado(a) Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑA INTERESADOS BUJOSA VIRUET de este caso, con fecha 10 de Caso Núm.: AR2023CV00124.

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(Nombre de las partes que se le QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. notifican la sentencia por edicto) KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MEEL SECRETARIO(A) que susLÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXIcribe le notifica a usted que el LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. 05 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, LEGAL NOTICE Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplaza-

26 miento, excluyéndose el día de publicación. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días de hacerse la primera publicación de este edicto se le estará enviando por correo certificado una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda al lugar de su última dirección conocida. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le requiere que notifique su contestación a la parte demandante, por conducto de sus abogados, Lcda.

Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira a su dirección Fernández Chiqués LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, Fax (787) 722-3317, Email: ana@ffclaw.com, dentro del término provisto o se le podrá anotar la rebeldía en su contra y se le dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 02 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IDA FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

CARMEN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; MANUEL CALDERON ESCALERA A: MANUEL CALDERON Y SU ESPOSA LAURA ESCALERA POR SÍ Y EN JUANA DEL CARMEN REPRESENTACIÓN DE RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE LEGAL DE BLENES BIENES GANANCIALES. GANANCIALES POR LA PRESENTE, se le COMPUESTA POR emplaza para que presente al AMBOS tribunal su alegación responsi-

EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.

va a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de publicación. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días de hacerse la primera publicación de este edicto se le estará enviando por correo certificado una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda al lugar de su última dirección conocida. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le requiere que notifique su contestación a la parte demandante, por conducto de sus abogados, Lcda.

Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira a su dirección Fernández Chiqués LEGAL NOTICE LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Fax (787) 722-3317, Email: NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ana@ffclaw.com, dentro del término provisto o se le podrá SALA DE CAROLINA MMG 1 PR CDGY, LLC anotar la rebeldía en su contra y se le dictará sentencia en su Demandante V. ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citarle RIVERA Y SU ESPOSA ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI KENIA MELISSA FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Carolina, PuerCALDERON DEL to Rico, hoy día 02 de octubre CARMEN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA BIENES GANANCIALES REGIONAL. IDA FERNÁNDEZ COMPUESTA POR RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AMBOS; MANUEL AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01794.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.

TRIBUNAL. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 02 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IDA FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le requiere que notifique su contestación a la parte demandante, por conducto de sus abogados, Lcda.

Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira a su dirección Fernández Chiqués LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, LEGAL NOTICE PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Fax (787) 722-3317, Email: DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- ana@ffclaw.com, dentro del NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA término provisto o se le podrá anotar la rebeldía en su contra SALA DE CAROLINA MMG 1 PR CDGY, LLC y se le dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en Demandante V. ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI RIVERA Y SU ESPOSA FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE KENIA MELISSA TRIBUNAL. En Carolina, PuerCALDERON DEL to Rico, hoy día 02 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZACARMEN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE YAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA IDA FERNÁNDEZ BIENES GANANCIALES REGIONAL. RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA COMPUESTA POR AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

AMBOS; MANUEL A: KENIA MELISSA CALDERON ESCALERA CALDERON DEL Y SU ESPOSA LAURA CARMEN POR SÍ Y EN JUANA DEL CARMEN REPRESENTACIÓN DE RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE LEGAL DE BLENES BIENES GANANCIALES. GANANCIALES POR LA PRESENTE, se le COMPUESTA POR emplaza para que presente al AMBOS tribunal su alegación responsi-

va a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de publicación. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días de hacerse la primera publicación de este edicto se le estará enviando por correo certificado una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda al lugar de su última dirección conocida. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le requiere que notifique su contestación a la parte demandante, por conducto de sus abogados, Lcda.

Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira a su CALDERON ESCALERA dirección Fernández Chiqués LEGAL NOTICE Y SU ESPOSA LAURA LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO JUANA DEL CARMEN DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Fax (787) 722-3317, Email: ana@ffclaw.com, dentro del LEGAL DE BLENES SALA DE CAROLINA término provisto o se le podrá GANANCIALES MMG 1 PR CDGY, LLC anotar la rebeldía en su contra Demandante V. COMPUESTA POR y se le dictará sentencia en su ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ contra, conforme se solicita en AMBOS Demandado(s) RIVERA Y SU ESPOSA la Demanda, sin más citarle Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01794. ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI KENIA MELISSA Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE CALDERON DEL

Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01794.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE OROCOVIS.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs.

LUIS MANUEL COLON SANTIAGO y su esposa MARIA MILAGROS BURGOS COLON y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos Demandados

A: ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ CIVIL NÚM. AI2023CV00432 (001). SOBRE: Ejecución de RIVERA POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE “IN REM”. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS BIENES GANANCIALES. UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de publicación. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días de hacerse la primera publicación de este edicto se le estará enviando por correo certificado una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda al lugar de su última dirección conocida. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de

PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: MARIA MILAGROS BURGOS COLON, por sí y como co-administradora de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales que constituye con su esposo Luis Manuel Colón Santiago

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria (In Rem) en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $61,091.41, incluye $6,242.64 de principal diferido, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7 1/2% anual, desde el día !ro de marzo de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $7,440.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas

están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: RUSTICA: Parcela radicada en el BARRIO SALTOS del término municipal de Orocovis, con una cabida superficial de MIL DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y SEIS PUNTO TREINTA Y DOS (1,256.32) METROS CUADRADOS; y en colindancias por el NORTE, en cincuenta y tres punto cero cero (53.00) metros, con parte de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el SUR, en cuarenta y uno punto ochenta ( 41.80) metros, con terrenos propiedad de la Iglesia Católica; por el ESTE, en veinte punto cero cero (20.00) metros, con la Carretera Estatal número Quinientos Sesenta y Seis (566); y por el OESTE, en treinta y cuatro punto ochenta y cinco (34.85) metros, con terrenos propiedad de Antonio Blasini. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 217 del tomo 227 de Orocovis, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, finca número 5,588, inscripción séptima. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronicos/a,l vo que el caso sea un expediente fisico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023).

Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que

proceda. La información del (de la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante es la siguiente: Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550 San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387 E-mail: asurillo@lawpr.com Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción.

Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de OCTUBRE de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZALEZ, Secretaria.

SONIA ORTIZ HERNANDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

derará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 12 de octubre de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 12 de octubre de 2023.

KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

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

MARIA D CASIANO ALBINO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SB2022CV00023.

Sobre: COBRO DE DLNERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO A: MARIA D DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCASIANO ALBINO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA BO MOLINA CARR 365 CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE KM 3.8 INT, SABANA CAROLINA SALÓN DE SESIOGRANDE, PR 00637.

NES CIVIL 409 POR LA PRESENTE se le BANCO POPULAR DE emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de PUERTO RICO los treinta (30) días siguientes Demandante V. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF a la publicación de este Edicto. deberá presentar su aleHOUSING AND URBAN Usted gación responsiva a través del DEVELOPMENT (HUD) Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Y OTROS Administración de Casos (SUDemandado(a) MAC), la cual puede acceder Caso Núm.: CA2023CV02275. utilizando la siguiente direcSobre: CANCELACIÓN O ción electrónica: https://unired.

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Gigantes capture their 18th BSNF title

By THE STAR STAFF

T

he Gigantes de Carolina won their 18th Women’s National Superior Basketball (BSNF by its Spanish initials) championship on Monday night by defeating the Atenienses de Manatí, 74-63.

“How proud we are of our Giants! They achieved it once again and our City celebrates its eighteenth national championship,” Carolina Mayor José Carlos Aponte said in a written statement. “We are grateful for the effort that each of the team members made to achieve this important victory. Their sporting discipline and their desire to succeed led them, minute by minute, to defend on their court the historic feat of being the greatest champions of this sport and one more example of what it means to be a true giant.”

“My congratulations to William and José Meléndez, team representatives, to the coach, Carlos Calcaño, his assistants and the

The Gigantes de Carolina defeated the Atenienses de Manatí, 74-63, on Monday night to win their 18th Women’s National Superior Basketball championship.

entire technical team for this historic victory,” the mayor added. “We continue to promote sports among the youth and children of our City and with this important championship, we motivate them to continue investing their time in positive events like this and to overcome all the obstacles that life presents them until they can achieve their goals.”

The team was made up of its captain, Tayra Meléndez, Rodsán Rodríguez, Teana Muldrow, Doniyah Shantell Cliney, Damika Martinez, Brandy Tweed, Gabriela Cardy Rodriguez, Glennys Rosa, Antigonie Sanabria, Elemy Colome, Elymaries Rodríguez, Charity Harris, Selena Lott, Kiara Quiñonez, Valeria Verdejo, Eugene Artau and Jill Towsend.

The celebration culminated with a fireworks show, live music and the official presentation of a special trophy prepared by the Municipality of Carolina to capture the historic moment of the team’s 18th title victory.

Mary Lou Retton crowdfunded her medical debt, like many thousands of others

By SARAH KLIFF

W

hen Mary Lou Retton, the decorated Olympic gymnast, accrued medical debt from a lengthy hospital stay, her family did what countless Americans have done before them: turned to crowdfunding to cover the bills.

On Tuesday, Retton’s daughter started a fundraising campaign on social media for her mother, who she said was hospitalized with a rare pneumonia.

“We ask that if you could help in any way, that 1) you PRAY! and 2) if you could help us with finances for the hospital bill,” McKenna Kelley, Retton’s daughter, wrote in a post on Spotfund, a crowdfunding platform similar to GoFundMe. The public swiftly responded, with thousands donating $350,000 in less than two days, shattering the goal of $50,000.

The United States has the highest health care prices in the world. Each year, 250,000 Americans start crowdfunding campaigns to pay medical bills. The Spotfund post for Retton, 55, did not share many details about her costs but noted that she did not have health insurance. (When another one of Retton’s daughters, Shayla Kelley Schrepfer, was reached by text, she did not respond to a question about why her mother was uninsured.)

Unlike Retton, most patients do not meet their fundraising goals. About 16% of the time, studies have found, crowdfunding campaigns generate no donations at all.

About half of Americans report difficulty paying their medical bills, according to a 2022 Kaiser Family Foundation survey.

The problem tends to be particularly acute among the 27.5 million Americans who do not have health insurance.

Most uninsured Americans have low incomes and about

two-thirds say they cannot afford to buy coverage. Some earn slightly too much for Obamacare’s subsidies or say that, even with the financial assistance, the premiums are still too expensive.

Last year, Nora Kenworthy, an associate professor at the University of Washington Bothell, published the largest study to date of medical crowdfunding, which analyzed nearly a half-million GoFundMe campaigns. Her work showed that the typical fundraiser generates about $1,970, falling far short of the $5,000 to $10,000 patients are typically seeking. The most successful campaign in her data set raised $2.4 million, but such high numbers were rare. Fewer than 12% of campaigns met their goals.

“What is concealed in viral campaigns like this one is that the vast majority of crowdfunding efforts earn much smaller amounts of money,” Kenworthy said. “As competition in this marketplace expands, the rates of success are being driven lower.”

GoFundMe offers tips on how to make campaigns successful, suggesting that campaigns include “high-quality images” of the person in need and that they share “the financial, physical and emotional troubles” that patients are experiencing.

A growing body of research, however, suggests that much of a crowdfunding campaign’s success boils down to factors outside a patient’s control, including race and income, and that crowdfunding often directs resources to those who need them the least.

A 2022 study of cancer patients’ fundraisers found that those run by patients in poor neighborhoods tended to raise the least money, leading the authors to conclude that “online crowdfunding may exacerbate socioeconomic disparities in

cancer care.”

Poorer patients may struggle to generate donations because of bias against them as lazy or undeserving of help, said Jeremy Snyder, a professor of health sciences at Simon Fraser University in Canada and the author of a book on the ethics of crowdfunding.

And richer patients are often boosted by their social networks. “If you have a lot of wealthy friends, or live in a wealthy community, those are a lot more people who can potentially donate,” Snyder said.

Racial and gender disparities also exist in crowdfunding.

Kenworthy and her colleagues analyzed what makes a GoFundMe successful by looking at the 827 highest performing campaigns. She found that young white men coping with unexpected medical crises tend to attract the most support, while Black women were underrepresented among successful campaigns.

Mary Lou Retton in 2016.

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Margot Polivy, champion of women in college sports, dies at 85

By SAM ROBERTS

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argot Polivy, a high school physical education teacher turned lawyer who tirelessly lobbied the federal government to legally guarantee that college athletic departments offer women equal opportunities to participate in sports, died on Oct. 7 at her home in Washington. She was 85.

Her death was confirmed by her sister, Gail Polivy, who said the cause had not yet been determined.

In the 1970s, representing women’s groups on campuses and on Capitol Hill, Margot Polivy (pronounced PAHL-a-vee) fought the male-dominated National Collegiate Athletic Association and helped transform the ambiguous wording of congressional anti-discrimination mandates, which had made no specific mention of sports, into a Hail Mary pass that profoundly expanded the resources available to female athletes in high school and college.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 stated only, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

But once athletes staked a claim to those benefits, with Title IX interpreted to include nondiscrimination in sports, Polivy, a lawyer for the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, partnered with the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education to insist that the regulations being drafted to implement the legislation fulfill the expec-

Margot Polivy worked on behalf of women’s rights groups to ensure that the federal government offered equal opportunities in college athletics. tations of the organizations’ supporters.

Margaret Dunkle, whose 1974 analysis documenting discrimination against female college athletes provided the blueprint for the regulations, said of Polivy in an email, “She was a key player in shaping Title IX’s sports regulations, which opened athletic scholarships for women and set standards to ensure that female teams got the funding and resources needed to excel.”

The women’s groups Polivy represented prioritized amateur student athletics as a form of physical education.

That view stood in contrast to the predominant male model of student sports, which prioritized recruiting, scholarships and winning to generate financial contributions from alumni — and, critics said,

encouraged academic laxity.

Instead of drafting a bill that would have appeased athletic directors by exempting revenue-generating sports like football from the regulations, Polivy, roaming the Capitol deskless, sketched out an alternative — which she wrote on a sheet of paper that rested on the back of Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y. The resulting bill was introduced by Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y. Her alternative gave Title IX proponents what they wanted all along, Michael MacCambridge wrote in “The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America” (2023): “that athletic departments would offer a rough equality of opportunity and reasonably similar resources, especially in scholarships.”

The bill, he said, “in essence reassured colleges that they wouldn’t have to spend as much on gymnastic equipment as they did on football paraphernalia.”

The women’s rights groups had by then grudgingly accepted some of the economic realities behind collegiate athletic programs. Polivy accomplished what she did, MacCambridge wrote, by injecting the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women’s “wide-eyed idealism with a tough-love dose of the realities of the bruising world of politics and the law.”

Margot Polivy was born on April 25, 1938, in New York City. Her father, Charles, sold paint and wallpaper. Her mother, Ruth (Klein) Polivy, was a homemaker.

After graduating from Evander Childs High School in the Bronx, Polivy earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Hunter College in Manhattan. She then

taught physical education at Hunter College High School and received a law degree from New York University School of Law in 1964.

She was then hired as an associate counsel by the Federal Communications Commission, where she oversaw the fairness doctrine, which required equal broadcast time for political candidates.

She worked for Rep. Bella Abzug of New York in Washington from 1971 to 1972 and then started a law firm, which became known as Renouf & Polivy. It was from there that she was recruited by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.

Polivy’s sister is her only immediate survivor. Her life partner, Katrina Renouf, died in 2009.

Polivy “was a tough negotiator and tenacious advocate,” Dunkle said. “At the same time, her New York elbows were tempered by an irreverent and engaging sense of humor that lightened the mood and made getting to yes more likely.”

The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was ultimately subsumed by the NCAA, which took control of women’s sports, and ceased operation in 1982. By the early 1980s, courts were curbing the reach of Title IX. “But if the passage of time did not produce compliance, it did serve at least some constructive purposes,” Polivy wrote in a New York Times opinion essay in 1978. “It allowed an emotional adjustment period, during which all the old arguments about the preference of ‘normal’ girls for passive pursuits have come to be universally recognized for the foolishness they are.”

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(Mar 21-April 20)

A forthcoming social event that you’re planning to host in your home could inspire some minor redecorating today. You might decide to repaint or add some new plants or pictures. Your aesthetic sense is good, so don’t put it off. Do it while your imagination is flowing freely. You’ll be very happy with the results, and they won’t be lost on your guests!

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Don’t be surprised if you feel a powerful affection for someone you’ve met at work. This could be a friendly affection or it could be stronger than that. If the latter, it might not be a good idea to express this emotion overtly. The feeling could pass as quickly as it came, or the person might be emotionally unavailable. Be discreet!

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A very loving message could come to you from a woman, possibly your mother. If this is a letter, it may go on for several pages. If it’s a phone call, the conversation could last for a long time. Try to schedule some free time during the day. Whoever this person is, this contact is going to make a very positive difference in your relationship.

A small sum of money could come today, possibly through the efforts of a woman. You may have been waiting for this for a long time, so expect to feel relieved. You may have some definite plans for the money. Perhaps it’s meant for a specific purpose, or maybe you’ll invest it. Whichever it is, you’ll want to celebrate.

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(June 22-July 23)

Today’s energies will bring good fortune and success. New opportunities to increase status and income could come your way. You could make some new friends at the same time, including someone older than you who could be a potential love partner. This should prove to be a fortunate day for you, from friendship to romance to education to business.

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A powerful feeling of love for someone from far away could strike you today. This might be someone you’re involved with professionally. If this is a romantic attraction, the person probably reciprocates your feelings though is too reserved to express them. Don’t push. Let things develop as they will. The relationship might prove to be lasting if you’re careful!

Love and passion may be on your mind. If you aren’t currently involved, you might be attracted to someone you know through business, so a little caution is advised. Suggest a professional lunch or dinner and then see where it goes.

You might not get what you want today, but you could create new potential for tomorrow!

If you’re single, you might long for a romantic partner today. If you’re attached, you might think of making your commitment more permanent. If you’re married, children might be on your mind. Whatever your situation, and whatever it is you’re searching for now, look your best when encountering current or potential partners. You’ll probably get the response you want!

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Today your imagination should be flowing freely. You could channel this into creative work, or you could come up with some ingenious ways to advance your business interests. The next few days could find your mind in overdrive and working on whatever ideas you come up with today. Write them down. You’ll want to remember them all.

If you’re single, you might long for a romantic partner today. If you’re attached, you might think of making your commitment more permanent. If you’re married, children might be on your mind. Whatever your situation, and whatever it is you’re searching for now, look your best when encountering current or potential partners. You’ll probably get the response you want!

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Today you could meet with a female acquaintance that you know through a group. By the end of the day, this person could turn from casual acquaintance to firm friend. You’ll find that this woman is not only a warm and kindhearted person but also that your backgrounds and interests dovetail closely. The only caution is that this person is tough where business is concerned!

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If you’re single, you might long for a romantic partner today. If you’re attached, you might think of making your commitment more permanent. If you’re married, children might be on your mind. Whatever your situation, and whatever it is you’re searching for now, look your best when encountering current or potential partners. You’ll probably get the response you want!

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For Better or for Worse

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