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Legislator: Power generation under a single private operator would violate the law

By THE STAR STAFF

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in the process.

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composed of New Fortress Energy, Peak Energy and Black & Veatch is presumably the preferred proponent for the public-private partnership (P3) that seeks to operate the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) legacy plants, the STAR has learned.

But a lawmaker said putting all 18 power plants under a single private operator might violate a lo cal law.

PREPA is divided into two entities, one consisting of transmission and distribution (T&D) and the other of its power plants. LUMA Energy operates PREPA’s T&D system as part of a 15-year concession that went into effect in the summer of 2021, following a one-year transition period. LUMA Energy also controls the customer service area.

Meanwhile, PREPA owns and operates the power generation assets, but local laws require that some 18 power plants be put under private management, a process conducted since 2020 by the Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A).

P3A Executive Director Fermín Fontanés Gó mez, at a House budget hearing earlier this week, confirmed the agency already has a preferred pro ponent to operate PREPA’s generation assets. He did not mention the name of the preferred proponent.

He said that if the P3 committee does not ap prove the preferred proponent, the agency has the option of going to other proponents that participated

Independent Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz, who chairs the Economic Development, Planning, Telecommunications, Public-Private Partnerships and Energy Committee, recently told the STAR that Encanto Power LLC was the preferred proponent.

Encanto Power was incorporated in Puerto Rico in 2020. Its authorized representative is Daniel Iturregui. New Fortress, one of the consortium members, has a subsidiary in Puerto Rico called NFEnergia that in 2018 obtained the five-year contract to supply gas to San Juan’s Units 5 and 6 for PREPA.

Torres Cruz said giving control of the power plants to one firm is a violation of Act 120 of 2018, the law that established the processes to put the power utility under private management.

The law says that PREPA’s generation assets “may not be sold or otherwise disposed of or assigned” to a “single contracting party under a partnership contract or a sales contract.” The law also says that “under no circumstances, may the transactions under this law be used to constitute and authorize a monopoly in power generation.”

In that regard, Torres Cruz said, the Legislature instructed P3A board members Eduardo Ferrer Ríos and Liza Ortiz Camacho to oppose the legacy power plants P3.

The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, meanwhile, recently authorized some $290 million in improve ments to the existing plants.

Public-Private Partnership Authority Executive Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez

PREPA bondholders: Loss of secured status would violate basic principles of municipal finance

By THE STAR STAFF

If the Puerto Rico Electric Power Author ity (PREPA) and the Financial Oversight and Management Board were allowed to eliminate the secured status of some $8.3 billion in bondholder claims, it would be a taking of property without just compensation and would go against recognized principles in municipal finance, bondholders argued this week.

That is the answer filed by the U.S. Bank National Association, the trustee for the Trust Agreement for PREPA bonds, bondholders and monolines, as it rejected the oversight board’s claims that the bonds are virtually unsecured. The document included the Ad Hoc Group of PREPA Bondholders, Assured Guaranty Corp., Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., National Public Finance Guarantee Corp., and Syncora Guarantee Inc. (PREPA bondholders collectively) which together own or insure over $5 billion in outstanding PREPA bonds by principal amount.

“PREPA’s pledge of all revenues of the system is consistent with how revenue pledges are commonly used in municipal finance, where they are generally understood to create a lien on present and future revenues to secure the repayment of bonds,” the bondholders argued. “Indeed, given the massive cost of municipal projects relative to project revenues at any given moment in time, revenue pledges could not work any other way.”

After talks between the oversight board and PREPA bondholders failed as part of the

If Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bondholders prevail against a Financial Over sight and Management Board challenge of the secured status of power authority bonds, consumers will end up paying more for electrical service.

process to restructure some $9 billion in debt, the board is challenging the secured status of the bonds. If the bondholders prevail, con sumers will end up paying high power costs.

The bondholders argued that PREPA borrowed billions of dollars from bond holders under its 1974 Trust Agreement to finance capital improvements to Puerto Rico’s electrical generation and distribution system, among other purposes. To facilitate the massive scale of those borrowings, PREPA

and the commonwealth government had to assure bondholders that they would be repaid from the revenues generated by that system over the decades required to repay the debt.

In the Trust Agreement, PREPA exer cised its statutory authority to provide for its bondholders’ repayment by making mutually reinforcing covenants with the bondholders and their trustee for the purpose of making the bonds an attractive investment. Those covenants obligate PREPA to, among other

things, set rates, send bills and collect reve nues sufficient to pay PREPA’s debt. And those revenues must, after providing for necessary expenses, be credited to special funds ear marked for bondholders’ repayment. These covenants together ensure bondholders’ rights to a dedicated stream of special revenues to satisfy PREPA’s bond debt through its maturity.

“Those are not empty promises,” the bondholders said.

The bondholders noted that PREPA has neglected to collect revenues owed to the company that could be used to pay bonds in violation of the Trust Agreement. PREPA has failed to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in accounts receivable from munic ipalities, instrumentalities and agencies as required under the Trust Agreement. It has accumulated a $420 million excess liability for payments made to municipalities in lieu of taxes. And it has an accounts receivable balance of over $200 million from public instrumentalities.

In addition, PREPA has failed to raise rates to levels required to ensure revenues sufficient to pay current expenses and debt service, the bondholders say.

“Further, PREPA has deposited $148.3 million from the General Fund in the Gov ernment Development Bank of Puerto Rico [GDB],” the bondholders argued. “PREPA has not sought the return of those funds in order to pay bondholders as required under the Trust Agreement, even though GDB has misappropriated PREPA’s monies in violation of the automatic stay.”

San Juan mayor raises minimum wage for municipal employees

By THE STAR STAFF

As of Nov. 1, some 720 employees of the Municipality of San Juan will benefit from an adjustment in their salary, after the decision of Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo to raise the minimum wage in the capital city from $8.25 to $10 per hour.

Romero Lugo’s determination, which was confirmed by ordinance, has the effect of benefiting in particular some 396 general, cleaning and beautification workers, who will receive an increase of $1.75 per hour in their wages, which

is equivalent to an increase of over 20 percent of their current compensation.

“Our general workers, operations and beautification staff who work hard from dawn to dusk on our streets and parks deserve this adjustment in their hourly pay,” the mayor said. “I appreciate the effort of each of them in doing their job on a daily basis, which is why we are taking this measure of salary justice.”

Romero Lugo said the annual budgetary impact of the new minimum wage will be about $1,899,851.67, from municipal funds.

San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo

Mayor defends public-private partnership to manage Camuy Caverns

By THE STAR STAFF

National Park.

Camuy

Mayor Gabriel Hernández Rodríguez defended on Tuesday the possibility of putting the oper ation and management of the Parque las Cavernas de Camuy under a public-private partnership (PPP).

As the STAR reported at the time, officials first discussed the idea in 2016 because the caves needed a makeover.

The Río Camuy caverns are part of an extensive network of natural limestone caves and underground waterways carved out by the Río Camuy, the third-largest underground river in the world. They were officially discovered in 1958.

During public hearings this week, Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez said the agency was working on a proposal to put the caves under a PPP. He said the agency was conducting a feasibility study after the proposed PPP for the caves was submitted to the agency in April.

The mayor said he supports the idea as long as the park’s rehabilitation and development with private funds creates jobs at the local level and boosts tourism in Camuy and in other municipalities of the northern zone.

Because the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources does not have the staff to maintain the facilities and

Former

The Río Camuy caverns are part of an extensive network of natural limestone caves and underground waterways carved out by the Río Camuy, the third-largest underground river in the world.

conduct tours, the park has been closed longer than it has been operating over the past five years. Furthermore, in the 38 years under the agency’s jurisdiction, only 25% of the 256 acres of land that make up the park have been developed.

“I favor any PPP that represents a benefit for Camuy and the northern part of Puerto Rico,” Hernández Rodríguez said in a radio interview (Red Informa tiva). “That represents greater economic development and more tourists who visit us to continue growing the northern area.”

The mayor in the past has expressed an interest in managing the facilities as a municipal corporation, but as he indicat ed, rehabilitating the facility would cost millions of dollars, which the municipality does not have.

Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Ángel Matos García charged that the P3A is privatizing the Camuy Caverns behind the backs of the people and Camuy. At a House Treasury Committee hearing, Fon tanés acknowledged that the agency was evaluating a PPP for the Camuy Caverns

“This government intends to privatize the island’s natural resources after privat izing the highways, airports and docks,” Matos García stated. “Furthermore, in this new environmental crime against our resources, the government intends to privatize this national park to hold weddings, dances, concerts, carnivals and bullfights.”

“With the desire for profit, they prefer to assassinate a national heritage that is part of the tourist offer to residents and visitors,” the lawmaker added.

Later on Tuesday, Natural and Environ mental Resources (DNER) Secretary Anaís Rodríguez Vega denied any plan for pri vatization of the Camuy River Caves Park.

“We are going to wait for the study of feasibility and convenience of reha bilitation, operation and management of the Park, carried out by the Public-Private Partnerships Authority, and see the anal ysis that is made of this valuable natural resource,” Rodríguez Vega said in a written statement. “It should be clear that there is no talk of a sale or privatization.”

“As head of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER), my ministerial duty is to ensure the effective protection and conservation of each of our natural resources, including those under the national parks program,” the official added.

Association president Román Espada dies

By THE STAR STAFF

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Román Espada, an attorney and former president of the Puerto Rico Bar Association, died on Tuesday.

No cause of death was reported.

Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez expressed sorrow over the death of the 61-year-old attorney known for his work in defense of human rights.

“It is with sadness that we receive the news of the death of Mr. Edgardo Román Espada. The legal community, which benefited from his service as president of the Bar Association, today regrets his departure,” Oronoz Rodríguez said in a written statement. “On behalf of the Associate Justices, the civil service of the Judicial Branch, and myself, I extend a hug in solidarity and condolences to his family and friends.”

Edgardo Román Espada

Román Espada served as Bar Association president from 2018 to 2020.

Mayor: Peñuelas returning to its feet despite slowness of LUMA, ACT

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

Whilelauding the work done by municipal staff, Peñuelas Mayor Gregory Gonsález Souchet acknowledged Tuesday the slowness with which

several island agencies, including LUMA Energy and the Highways and Transportation Authority (ACT by its Spanish initials), have responded to various situations in the southern coastal town.

“I call on the governor to intervene and instruct the agencies to get to work in Peñuelas,” Gonsález Souchet said in a written statement. “We still have hundreds of families without power service and we are waiting to resume the work of removing the rockslide that occurred before the passage of Fiona on the PR-386 highway, which is closed for several kilometers.”

A month after Hurricane Fiona passed through the island, Gonsález Souchet announced that the cleaning and maintenance of the town is at 90%. He said that figure includes the collection and removal of vegetation, the removal of other debris and the cleanup from landslides, work that is being carried out by municipal public works brigades. Despite this effort, the municipality still has communities without electrical service and is still waiting for government agencies to do power restoration work.

“Ninety percent of the tasks that we can do as an administration are completed throughout the town,” the mayor said. “After the passage of Hurricane Fiona through the area, the municipal brigades took to the streets to meet the needs of Peñuelanos, which included maintenance of highways, and distribution of water and food, among other things.”

weather conditions make it difficult for us to be faster and more agile,” Gonsález Souchet added.

The tasks carried out by the municipal brigades include the collection and removal of downed trees, and branches and brush debris from roads and from power and telephone lines. It also includes removal of mud and soil from landslides and collaboration with LUMA Energy personnel to make way and provide access to the brigades to carry out repair work on the electric power system.

As an example of the work conducted, the mayor noted that “in the Rucio and Korea communities we have almost all the work completed.”

“In Korea, in addition to the cleanup work, awnings were installed in two residences and we are in communication with both families to identify permanent solutions to this situation. In Korea, the collapse that affected the Maldonado family was dealt with and we continued the work without interruption to fix Highway PR-387 where it enters the community,” Gonsález Souchet said. “Today, Tuesday, we worked on cleaning up the collapse that occurred at a residence, which due to the rains had to be postponed.”

The mayor also detailed the work done in the Quebrada Ceiba community, in which “the creek was cleaned and the cleaning work was completed in its entirety.”

Peñuelas Mayor Gregory Gonsález Souchet

“There are situations that due to their complexity and

“Little by little we are raising up our town to return to ordinary life after the onslaught that Fiona inflicted on Peñuelas,” he said.

School year to be extended due to Hurricane Fiona

By THE STAR STAFF

EducationSecretary Eliezer Ramos Parés confirmed on Tuesday the extension of the school year due to the passage of Hurricane Fiona.

“The original calendar ended on June 6 with all the dates of final exams and everything, but that calendar will be extended minimally until June 9 considering adding about six days within the additional calendar that were not there before,” the official said in a radio

interview.

“With that we would serve about 600 schools with the loss of school days because of Fiona,” he added.

Ramos Parés noted that “there are about 200 [schools] that could be still facing an additional week from June 9, with the potential for replacement, since we are in October and there is time to adjust the planning, so that those four or five additional days that we need to add can be replaced by alternative methods such as extended hours.”

Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés

Time remains for families to file Child Care Tax claim

By THE STAR STAFF

Families

in Puerto Rico have until Nov. 17 to claim credits for dependent children and work for tax year 2021.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Tuesday that more than 222,000 families have claimed the Child Tax Credit (CTC), but another 75,000 may still be entitled to those benefits that were extended for another year by President

Joe Biden.

While in the United States the expansion of the CTC has helped reduce the youth poverty rate by 6%, Pierluisi said that in Puerto Rico it fell by 2% in 2021, but he believes that there is potential for it to be reduced by 7%.

“Our message is clear. There is time to obtain this benefit of the expanded CTC this year, if you register by November 17,” said Gene Sperling, an adviser to President Biden who is in charge of supervising the operation

of the American Rescue Plan Act from the White House.

The governor and Sperling were on an online forum convened by the Youth Development Institute to encourage residents of Puerto Rico to access the CTC. Puerto Rico suffered the consequences of another hurricane last month..

The program is now open to anyone with dependent children, as long as their income does not exceed $75,000, or $150,000 for couples.

Voters see democracy in peril, but saving it isn’t a priority

By NICK CORASANITI, MICHAEL C. BENDER, RUTH IGIELNIK and KRISTEN BAYRAKDARIAN

Votersoverwhelmingly believe American democracy is under threat, but seem remarkably apathetic about that danger, with few calling it the nation’s most pressing problem, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll.

In fact, more than one-third of independent voters and a smaller but noteworthy contingent of Democrats said they were open to supporting candidates who reject the legitimacy of the 2020 election, as they assigned greater urgency to their concerns about the economy than to fears about the fate of the country’s political system.

The doubts about elections that have infected Ame rican politics since the 2020 contest show every sign of persisting well into the future, the poll suggested: Twentyeight percent of all voters, including 41% of Republicans, said they had little to no faith in the accuracy of this year’s midterm elections.

Political disagreements appear to be seeping into the fabric of everyday life. Fourteen percent of voters said political views revealed a lot about whether someone is a good person, while 34% said it revealed a little. Nearly 1 in 5 said political disagreements had hurt relationships with friends or family.

“I do agree that the biggest threat is survival of our democracy, but it’s the divisiveness that is creating this threat,” said Ben Johnson, 33, a filmmaker from New Orleans and a Democrat. “It feels like on both sides, people aren’t agreeing on facts anymore. We can’t meet in the middle if we can’t agree on simple facts. You’re not going to be able to move forward and continue as a country if you can’t agree on facts.”

The poll showed that voters filtered their faith in de mocracy through a deeply partisan lens. A majority of voters in both parties identified the opposing party as a “major threat to democracy.”

Most Republicans said the dangers included President Joe Biden, the mainstream media, the federal government and voting by mail. Most Democrats named former Presi dent Donald Trump, while large shares of the party’s voters also said the Supreme Court and the Electoral College were threats to democracy.

Seventy-one percent of all voters said democracy was at risk — but just 7% identified that as the most important problem facing the country.

These ostensibly conflicting views — that voters could be so deeply suspicious of one another and of the bedrock institutions of American democracy, while also expressing little urgency to address those concerns — may in part reflect long-standing frustrations and cynicism toward government.

Still, among voters who saw democracy as under threat, the vast majority, 81%, thought the country could fix the

problem by using existing laws and institutions, rather than by going “outside the law,” according to the poll. Those who said violence would be necessary were a small minority.

“If we’re just talking about freedom, having freedom, and that we get to have a say in our choices, then I think we still have that,” said Audra Janes, 37, a Republican from Garnavillo, Iowa. She added, “I think that we need to stop trying to rewrite the Constitution and just reread it.”

Overall, voters’ broader frustration with a political system that many view as dangerously divided and corrupt has left them pessimistic that the country is capable of co ming together to solve its problems, no matter which party wins in November.

The poll’s findings reinforce the idea that for many Americans, this year’s midterm elections will be largely defined by rising inflation and other economic woes — lea ving threats to the country’s democratic institutions lurking in the back of voters’ minds.

The deep distrust of elections, especially among Republicans, points to lingering fallout from the lies and conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election that have been fueled by Trump and his supporters.

Days after early voting began, about 4 in 10 Repu blican voters said they did not trust that the 2022 results would be accurate — even though polls show their party is favored to win control of the House and could also take back the Senate.

Thirteen percent of Democrats and 26% of indepen dents shared a similar mistrust of this year’s eventual results.

Republican voters’ suspicions about the electoral process were underscored by their deep mistrust of mail ballots. While 72% of Democrats and 48% of independents said voting by mail presented no threat at all to democracy, 55% of Republicans called the practice a major danger.

“I just don’t believe in the people who tally it,” Teresa Fogt, 61, a Republican from Sidney, Ohio, said of election officials, arguing that the 2020 election was rigged and that Democrats would try to steal other offices this year.

She added: “It’s hard for me to believe that more of

America’s citizens would vote for Joe Biden than Donald Trump. Joe Biden is an idiot. I don’t know him personally, and he probably is a good person, but as a president, he’s an idiot.”

Democratic voters cited the economy and inflation as their top concerns, prioritizing them over democracy and other issues such as abortion access. Some, however, viewed the problems as going hand in hand.

“What the issue is, where you’re seeing the anger, is the shrinkage of the middle class,” said Jeffrey Valfer, 49, a Democrat from Patchogue, New York. He added: “Once you delve into really addressing whatever we need to do to rebuild the middle class of this country, then that should fix a lot of the issues that you’re seeing. It should fix a lot of concerns about our democracy.”

Independent voters were far more worried about issues other than democracy, and some were willing to look past candidates’ election-denying stances if their views aligned on other policies.

“I don’t believe that their opinion on whether or not the election was quote-unquote stolen is important,” said Michael Sprang, 47, a senior electronics technician and independent from Jackson, Michigan. “I’m far more con cerned about their stance on policies that actually matter.”

He added: “I’m more concerned about how you feel about the Second Amendment. How do you feel about the First Amendment? How do you feel about the state of the economy?”

The Times/Siena survey of 792 registered voters nation wide was conducted by telephone using live operators from Oct. 9 to Oct. 12, 2022. The margin of sampling error among registered voters is plus or minus 4.0 percentage points.

A New York Times/Siena College poll found that other pro blems have seized voters’ focus — even as many do not trust this year’s election results and are open to anti-democratic candidates.

Mail ballots are being prepared in Phoenix on Oct. 7, 2022.

Family

friendship face new strains amid America’s growing political divide

By CHARLES HOMANS and ALYCE McFAD DEN

Thepast two years of American politics have cost Emory Liggett at least two close friends.

The first was a Democrat who objected to Liggett’s continued insistence that the 2020 election had been stolen from Donald Trump, a parting of ways that seemed understandable enough to him. But the second one — a friend with whom Liggett, a 73-year-old retired gemstone dealer in North Carolina, had trav eled to jewelry shows for 20 years — came as a shock.

“I thought he was a good conserva tive Republican,” said Liggett, a Republican himself. “One day he says, ‘I don’t want to talk to you anymore.’ And I said, ‘Why?’ And he says, ‘Because I don’t believe in this Republican GOP MAGA’ ” stuff, using a far sharper expletive.

As a new poll suggests, the increasingly stark ideological divides of American politics have come with personal consequences. Nearly 1 in 5 voters — 19% — said that politics had hurt their friendships or family relationships, according to a poll conducted last week by The New York Times and Siena College.

For all the concern over violent political rhetoric and outright political conflict in the United States, the ruptures that people described were typically quiet ones made more in sorrow than anger, as people with years of common experience came to the conclusion that they no longer even agreed on enough facts to have coherent arguments.

“There’s a great deal of hurt,” said Paul Lucky, 73, a child-care provider and a self-described left-leaning Demo crat who lives near Sacramento, California, and who spoke of a strained relationship with his Republican son.

Close to half of the voters in the survey also acknowl edged making judgments about other people based on their politics. Forty-eight percent of those polled said that knowing a person’s political views told them either a lot or a little about whether someone was a good person.

Democrats and independents were somewhat more likely than Republicans to say that politics had taken a toll on their relationships. Twenty percent of Democrats and 21% of independents said so, compared with 14% of Republicans. But in interviews, people across the ideological spectrum told similar stories of estrangement: conversations broken off with siblings and children, decadeslong friendships that have gone quiet. Most dated to the early days of Trump’s presidency and have not abated since its end.

The personal effects of political disagreements di verged sharply by race, reflecting closer partisan divides within some groups than others. While 20% of white and Hispanic voters reported their relationships having been hurt by politics, only 7% of Black voters did.

In discussing politics with his family of “die-hard

Democrats,” William Robertson, a Republican from Acworth, Georgia, who is Black, said he had opted for diplomacy. “I will just very gently put my views out there and give them something to think about,” said Robertson, who is 60 and self-employed. “We can agree to disagree.”

In interviews, several voters pointed to Facebook as an aggravating factor, a space where relationships and politics seemed to collide unavoidably.

“It’s like you’re walking down the street and you see someone holding up a stupid sign, but the person holding up that sign is someone you care about,” said Nelson Aquino, 40, a Democrat and an information technology project manager near Orlando, Florida. “You want to be like, ‘Put down that sign and go home.’ And you start having these arguments.”

For Earlette Bleasdale, a retired customer service manager in Garland, Texas, Facebook was once a means of staying in touch with a family spread across a sprawling state. “It’s real easy to post pictures and stuff,” she said.

But during the Trump presidency, Bleas dale, 63, a registered Democrat in a family of Republicans, couldn’t resist needling them about the president. “On Facebook, it’s so easy to post memes, post opinions,” she said. “People I wouldn’t normally talk politics with, now we’re talking politics.”

She said that both of her brothers and her brother-in-law had blocked her on the platform. “Some of my friends have blocked me, too,” Bleasdale said. “Nothing like screaming and yelling at each other, but there’s no contact.”

Richard White, a building engineer in Des Plaines, Illinois, and a Republican in a mostly Democratic family, said that the politics of recent years had “really taken a toll on mine and my father’s relationship.” He said he lamented the lack of open debate about politics in his social circle and the way that snap judgments had been substituted for both argument and understanding.

“Once I tell people that I voted for Trump, without even hearing the back story behind it” — he did not support him in the 2016 primary — “right away I’m a racist, I’m a Nazi,” White, 49, said.

Some voters said they had tried to repair relationships by belatedly excising politics from them. After phone calls with his son ended in angry hang-ups, Lucky “made an ef fort to not talk about politics,” he said. “The decision that I made was that he’s more important” than politics, he added.

Liggett, too, held out hope that he might salvage the relationship with his old friend from the trade-show circuit.

“It’s just that it won’t be until after the election before we even start being friendly again,” he said.

And, of course, there was the next election, too.

“It’ll get better for a while,” he said. “Until 2024 comes around.”

Paul Lucky, a Democrat who said he has had a strained relationship with his son because of their political differences, at home in Antelope, Calif., Oct. 17, 2022. Some voters said they had tried to repair relationships by belatedly excising politics from them.

5 takeaways from the Georgia governor’s debate: Kemp and Abrams came ready

By REID J. EPSTEIN and MAYA KING

Georgia

Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, and Stacey Abrams, the Democrat he narrowly beat in 2018 who is challenging him again in 2022, have spent the past four years preparing for a rematch.

Monday night’s debate in Atlanta, the lone time during this year’s campaign for Georgia governor that the candidates were scheduled to appear onstage together, was a demonstration of the political animus the two have had toward each other. Kemp and Abrams came versed in the other’s record — Abrams on Kemp’s tenure as governor (and, before that, secretary of state and state senator), and Kemp largely on statements Abrams has made as a candidate and as Georgia’s top Democratic political organizer.

The debate, which also included a low-polling Libertarian candidate, Shane Hazel, was a substantive hour that allowed Kemp and Abrams to demonstrate the stark differences between them. Few undecided voters who watched would be confused about how either would seek to govern.

Each candidate survived the debate without committing any major errors, although Abrams did at one point apologize for “my outburst” after interrupting Kemp.

Here are five key takeaways from the debate: Biden makes things awkward for everybody. Republicans across the country are painting President Joe Biden’s America as an inflation-and-crime-scarred hellscape that can be saved only by conservative policies. But not in Georgia. Kemp described his state, after nearly four years of his leadership, as a place with a thriving economy, new businesses moving in and fully funded police departments that ably address local crime.

Democrats everywhere else are making a case that things are pretty good right now. Trillions of dollars of new federal spending kept the economy afloat and are helping keep people employed. But not in Georgia.

Abrams ticked through a laundry list of local ills she attributed to Kemp, including spiking crime, rising home prices and the Chinese government’s buying up of large segments of the state’s farmland.

“We live in a state of fear,” she said. “And this is a governor who, for the last four years, has beat his chest but delivered very little for most Georgians.”

For each candidate, taking the opposite tack from their national party comes with some risk. Kemp’s sunny-days-arehere approach runs counter to the message Republican voters are hearing in their siloed media environment. But Abrams, who is trailing in the polls, is foreclosing receiving any help from Biden or national Democrats by stressing to voters that things are terrible.

Abrams is ready to talk about race.

Abrams would be the first Black female governor of any state if elected, and she has not been shy about talking about

the role race plays in Georgia’s politics. Early in the debate, an exchange over crime and policing gave her an opportunity to underline that dynamic.

Kemp has aimed to tie Abrams to the movement to defund the police ever since she endorsed police reform at the height of protests against police brutality in the summer of 2020. During the second round of the debate, when candidates can ask one another questions, he asked her how many members of law enforcement in Georgia had endorsed her campaign. She answered by suggesting that Kemp’s support came from long-entrenched power centers in the state.

Kemp would be happy to discuss the pandemic.

It almost didn’t matter what the question was — Kemp tried to make the answer that he reopened Georgia’s businesses and schools sooner than any other state in 2020.

Asked about racial disparities, the local economy, expanding Medicaid or what to do about a state budget surplus, Kemp reminded viewers that he rushed to open the state’s economy before federal public health experts — and even, at the time, President Donald Trump — thought it was prudent.

Kemp said Georgia was the first state to reopen the “small parts” of the state that had closed during the pandemic. “Our recovery’s been as good as any state in the country. We have had two record years of economic development, because of our business environment, working with the General Assembly, to make sure that we’re putting Georgians first and Georgia businesses and Georgia workers first.”

Kemp and Abrams really do not agree on gun policy.

In a debate heavy on policy discussions, one about firearms provided a cleareyed look at each candidate’s position.

Kemp signed a law in 2022 that allows anyone in the state

to carry a firearm without a license. Abrams has made that law one of her foremost criticisms of the governor’s policy agenda, saying it endangers Georgians and could lead to more mass shootings like that of 2021, where a gunman killed eight people when he opened fire in several Atlanta-area Asian spas. Kemp defended the law, saying it helps vulnerable people defend themselves, including Black Americans and women, two groups he cited.

“The criminals are the only ones that do have the guns,” he argued, railing against “local governments that are holding up concealed-weapon permits.”

He went on to argue that every person who purchased a firearm was subject to a federal background check — a point that Abrams was quick to correct, interjecting to say that purchases of guns at private sales and gun shows did not require background checks. She later apologized to Kemp for the interruption.

Yes, a Libertarian named Shane Hazel is running, too.

We’ve seen it before, we’ll see it again: A little-known candidate made a memorable appearance during a debate that was almost entirely about the others onstage.

Add Georgia’s Shane Hazel to a list that includes the Rent-Is-Too-Damn-High guy and the time Jim Webb casually mentioned he killed someone.

Before his prime-time debut, Hazel was last seen taking 28% in a 2018 Republican primary for a suburban Atlanta House seat. He spent his speaking time Monday calling for Georgia to adopt a purist Libertarian philosophy: ending public education, eliminating virtually all police functions, legalizing drugs and stopping property taxes. It was a performance that often befuddled Kemp and Abrams as he made references to “Austrian economics” that few unversed in Libertarian principles would catch.

Yet, Hazel could play an outsize role in the election. Georgia law requires a winner to receive at least 50% of the vote. If Hazel draws enough votes from the two leading candidates — and, more plausibly, from Kemp — it could force them into a December runoff and an extra month of campaigning. If another debate takes place then, it won’t include Hazel.

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Kanye West to buy Parler, joining crowd of right-wing social media

By TIFFANY HSU and JENNY GROSS

Kanye West, the rapper, fashion designer and fire brand increasingly known for divisive cultural and political commentary that has been called racist, appears set to become the owner of a social media servi ce known for its right-wing audience.

The parent company of Parler, which bills itself as a platform for uncancelable free speech, said earlier this week that West, who now goes by Ye, would acquire the site for an undisclosed sum of money.

In buying Parler, Ye will help “continue the fight against censorship, cancel culture and authoritarianism,” George Farmer, CEO of Parler’s parent company, Parle ment Technologies, said in a statement. The deal was an nounced a little over a week after Twitter and Instagram restricted Ye’s accounts in response to antisemitic remarks that he posted.

The announcement adds another shot of name re cognition to the crowded cluster of social media alterna tives that have emerged in recent years to take on Twitter and Facebook, which critics have long argued unfairly censor conservative voices.

Former President Donald Trump recently started Truth Social, which advertises itself as a platform that “en courages an open, free and honest global conversation.”

Jason Miller, Trump’s former spokesman, began running Gettr, a similar service, last year. And for the past six months, Elon Musk has been locked in a battle to take over Twitter, saying he wants to transform the site by bet ter promoting free speech.

“In a world where conservative opinions are consi dered to be controversial, we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves,” Ye said in a state ment released by Parlement.

The new social media sites, many of which cater to right-wing audiences, offer refuges for users chafing aga inst the more mainstream platforms’ moderation policies. They have also increasingly become breeding grounds for conspiracy theories and misinformation.

Parler, which was started in 2018 and is based thou sands of miles from Silicon Valley in Nashville, Tennessee,

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has been among the most notable alternatives. Backed by right-wing activist and heiress Rebekah Mercer, it was once the most downloaded app on Apple’s App Store, fashioning its resistance to stringent content rules into a selling point and drawing millions of Trump’s fans.

Early last year, Apple, Amazon and Google had kic ked Parler off their platforms after the app hosted calls for violence around the time of the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill. Apple and Google later restored the site to their app sto res, but it has struggled to maintain a large user base since.

The company said last month that it had more than 16 million users, though it did not disclose how many used it regularly. Twitter has more than 230 million daily users.

For Ye, who has been at the center of several cul tural firestorms in recent weeks that led to accusations of racism and antisemitism, Parler’s appeal may be the free dom to post what he wants.

“Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again,” said Farmer of Par lement, who is the son of a member of the British Parlia ment. “Once again, Ye proves that he is one step ahead of the legacy media narrative.”

In recent years, Ye made the jump from music to fas hion, forging partnerships with Adidas, Gap and Balencia ga. He also has a stake in Skims, the shapewear business co-founded by his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.

But some of those partnerships have been falling into disarray.

Last month, Ye notified Gap that he was ending their partnership involving the Yeezy Gap apparel line. Mark Breitbard, the head of the Gap brand, wrote in a note to employees that Gap and Ye had not been “aligned” on how to work together to deliver their shared vision.

This month, Ye disrupted a show for his YZY label at Paris Fashion Week by wearing a T-shirt featuring the words “White Lives Matter,” a phrase that the Anti-Defa mation League has called hate speech. In response, Adi das said it was reviewing its partnership with him.

Ye wrote on Instagram after the fashion show that “my one T-shirt took allllll the attention.” Much of the re action was negative. Sean Combs, the rapper and music executive, posted a video urging his audience not to wear or buy the shirt.

Ye then suggested on Instagram that Jewish people were controlling Combs. Instagram removed the posts and restricted Ye’s account.

Days later, after returning to Twitter following a nearly two-year absence, Ye published series of posts that hinted at violence toward Jewish people. He also wrote that “you guys have toyed with me and tried to blackball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.” (Musk replied to another post, in which Ye complained about being si lenced on social media: “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!”)

Twitter soon locked Ye’s account and prevented him from posting for an undisclosed period.

On Monday, a Parler account in Ye’s name went online. Within a few hours, he had amassed more than 8,000 followers. He had no posts.

Data.ai, which monitors app store activity, estima ted that Parler downloads across Apple’s iOS platform and Google Play dropped to 21,000 in the third quarter of the year from 58,000 in the first quarter. Twitter, by compari son, had 4.5 million downloads in the third quarter.

Parler had 700,000 monthly average users in the middle of the year, compared with 2.8 million iPhone users on Truth Social, Data.ai estimated.

Despite high-profile backers, research suggests that the alternative social platforms have struggled to gain trac tion with most Americans. Only 6% of adults regularly seek out news from at least one of seven major alternative social media sites, according to a report this month from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center; in addition to Par ler, they are BitChute, Gab, Gettr, Rumble, Telegram and Truth Social.

Of the 10,188 people surveyed, just 38% had heard of Parler, Pew found.

Dan Wang, a strategy professor at Columbia Busi ness School, said Parler was an “incredibly niche” player.

“Kanye West is a wealthy person and has a lot of re sources, but not on the scale of being able to buy actually influential social media platforms,” Wang said.

Kanye West in New York on Sept. 12 2022. The rap per and fashion designer has agreed to buy Parler, the social media platform’s parent company said on Mon day, Oct. 17, 2022.

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stock indexes rose on Tuesday as strong results from Goldman Sachs calmed wor ries of a substantial hit to profit from rising interest rates, but a rise in government bond yields pushed megacap growth stocks lower.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc gained 2.5% after reporting a smaller-than-expected drop in quarterly profit due to a slowdown in investment banking, which was cushioned by a boost in net interest in come.

The investment bank, which is reorganizing its business into three units, wrapped up earnings from big U.S. banks on a largely positive note, even though several lenders raised the loan loss provi sions in anticipation of troubled times ahead.

“The markets are breathing a sigh of relief that earnings are coming in better than expected, par ticularly the banks and the financials, which have been very strong, especially versus expectations,” said David Sadkin, president at Bel Air Investment Advisors.

“But the Fed is still hiking, we’re still in the tightening cycle. If I had to guess, this is more of a short-term bear market rally, and we’ll see more volatility in the weeks ahead.”

The benchmark 10-year Treasury note reversed early declines to rise for the fourth straight day, while big technology and growth names like Apple Inc, Amazon.com and Nvidia Corp cut back gains.

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Microsoft Corp, however, gained 0.2% after a report it was laying off under 1,000 employees this week, becoming the latest U.S. technology com pany to cut jobs or slow hiring amid a global eco nomic slowdown.

Over the last two months, all the three major U.S. stock indexes have lost more than 12% as in vestors worry that the U.S. Federal Reserve’s war on inflation may hobble the economy.

Analysts now expect profit for S&P 500 com panies to have risen just 2.8% from a year ago, much lower than an 11.1% increase expected at the start of July, according to Refinitiv data.

Meanwhile, a report said ratings agency Fitch has slashed U.S. growth forecasts for this year and next and was set to warn that the Fed’s interest rate hikes and inflation will drive the economy into a 1990-style recession.

While economic indicators point to a likely re cession, latest data showed U.S. factory output rose in September, indicating that the manufacturing sector remains on reasonable footing despite rising interest rates.

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Netflix slid 1.7% ahead of its earnings report after markets close, with all eyes on the videostreaming company’s subscriber growth, which is seen falling in the third quarter.

Salesforce Inc jumped 4.52% after a media report that activist investor Starboard Value LP has picked up stake in the enterprise software firm.

Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 2.70-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 2.05-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq. The S&P index recorded three new 52-week highs and two new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 58 new highs and 66 new lows.

Drones embody an Iran-Russia alliance built on hostility to the US

By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

TheIranian-made drones that Russia sent earlier this week to divebomb Ukraine’s capital delivered the most emphatic proof yet that Tehran has become a rare, in creasingly close ally to the Kremlin, offering both weapons and international support that Russia sorely lacks.

There is no deep love between Russia, newly a pariah for attacking another country, and Iran, for decades one of the most strate gically isolated nations in the world. But the two authoritarian governments, both chafing under Western sanctions, share a view of the United States as their great enemy and a threat to their grip on power.

“This is a partnership of convenien ce between two embattled dictatorships,” said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Both countries are deep in crisis, stru ggling economically and politically. Iran is attempting to quell street protests that pose the most serious challenge in years to the go vernment, while Russia is trying to manage rising dissension over a faltering war effort and an unpopular draft.

The emergence of a Moscow-Tehran alliance has multiple international implica tions, potentially dimming prospects for a new agreement to rein in Iran’s nuclear pro gram and raising the pressure on Israel, Iran’s sworn enemy, to take Ukraine’s side in the war.

The relationship between Russia and Iran has been developing for years. Russian President Vladimir Putin deployed his air force to Syria starting in 2015 to prevent the collapse of the regime of President Bashar Assad, a longtime ally of Tehran. Russia and Iran worked in lock step militarily, with Rus sian warplanes providing cover for Iranian militiamen and Iranian proxy forces fighting on the ground.

Syria was one example of the effort by both to find ways to sap American stren gth and prestige wherever they could in the world, and Ukraine provides a similar oppor tunity on an even larger, more visible scale.

After its 1979 revolution, Iran formula ted foreign policy around the slogan “Neither East Nor West,” equally wary of the Soviet Union and the United States. Now, the Is lamic Republic is choosing sides, analysts said, and images of Iran’s exploding drones accurately hitting their targets advertise it as a regional power to be taken seriously.

A drone believed to be an Iranian Shahed-136 nearing its target in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday.

In Tehran, the spokesperson for the Ira nian foreign ministry denied Monday that his country was selling weapons to Russia, even as social media outlets linked to Iran’s Revo lutionary Guard, which developed the lum bering yet lethal drones, boasted about them.

“There is no doubt that the drones used by Russia’s military are Iranian,” said a post on Sepah Cyberi, a Telegram channel affilia ted with the Guard, while the country’s cybe rarmy chief, Ali Akbar Raefipour, gloated on Twitter that Iran’s Shahed drone was now “the most talked about weapon in the world.”

Iran does not want to highlight the wea pons sales because Ukraine is generally more popular than Russia among ordinary Iranians, and the Islamic Republic casts itself as a de fender of underdogs in world affairs, said Ma hmoud Shoori, deputy director of the Institute of Iran and Eurasia Studies in Tehran and an expert on Iran-Russia relations.

But at the same time, “Iran also wants to show the world that it has a military su perpower as an ally and it has the capacity to sell weapons to such a power,” he said in a telephone interview. “It shows the West’s policies of maximum pressure to isolate Iran have not worked.”

Aside from weapons, the two have found some common ground on energy, oil and gas. Russia has worked on Iran’s Bus hehr Nuclear Power Plant for decades, but extensive delays and multibillion-dollar cost overruns have turned it into a sore point in relations.

Russian forces have run low on pre cision-guided ballistic and cruise missiles, Western analysts say, and as a result, the war has reversed the usual pattern of major powers’ selling arms to smaller ones. Una ble to buy weapons elsewhere — except, perhaps, from North Korea — Moscow has turned to Iran.

The drones carry smaller payloads and are much slower than such missiles, making them far easier to shoot down. But they are also much cheaper, so Russia can launch them in bunches, overwhelming air defenses and allowing some to reach their targets.

“They can be used by Russia to target electricity, fuel, etc., and to attempt to eco nomically exhaust Ukraine over time,” said Michael Kofman, director of Russia studies at CNA, a defense research institute in Arling ton, Virginia.

Iran or its proxies have been accused of using drones for attacks on adversaries in its own region, such as Saudi Arabia.

For Iran, Russian use of its drones sends a message to its domestic audience, inclu ding those who have been protesting against restrictions on women’s rights and personal freedom for weeks.

The government is trying to show Ira nians that it is “not in a position of weakness, and has not been cowed by external pressure and threats,” said Ali Vaez, the Iran project director for the International Crisis Group, an independent research institute.

The Washington Post reported Sunday that Iran would also sell short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, weapons far more deadly than the drones. Analysts used to laugh off Iranian missiles as cheap knockoffs of Soviet or North Korean weapons, but no longer.

In recent years, Iran has made “lots of advances and has really improved their tar geting ability,” said Afshon Ostovar, an asso ciate professor of Middle Eastern politics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

It is not clear how Saudi Arabia, Iran’s primary regional adversary, will react to the Kremlin’s drawing closer to Tehran. The Sau di government and Moscow have joined for ces recently in trying to raise oil prices, irking Washington and fueling inflation.

In Israel on Sunday, a cabinet minister, Nachman Shai, said on social media that Iran’s military assistance to Russia removed “any doubt where Israel should stand in this bloody conflict. The time has come for Ukrai ne to receive military aid, as well, just as the USA and NATO countries provide.”

The Israeli prime minister’s office decli ned to comment.

Since the start of the war in February, Israel has not provided Ukraine with arms despite frequent Ukrainian requests for airdefense systems, and has been wary of cri ticizing Russia too strongly. Russia has given Israel a relatively free hand to strike Iranian targets in Syria, and the Israelis are also concerned about the Kremlin’s obstructing Jewish emigration.

In a sign of brewing tensions, Dmi try Medvedev, a former president and now deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, warned on social media Monday against any “reckless” supply of Israeli military aid to Ukraine. “It will destroy all interstate re lations between our countries,” wrote Med vedev.

The European Union is closely monito ring the use of drones, said Josep Borrell Fon telles, its foreign policy chief. The bloc had already been weighing further action against Iran for its violent crackdown against domes tic dissent in recent weeks. Ukraine on Mon day called for further sanctions.

The drone sales provoked more ques tions about the prospects for a nuclear deal under which Western sanctions against Iran would be lifted in exchange for Tehran’s greatly reducing its capacity to enrich the uranium needed for nuclear weapons. ThenU.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the original 2015 pact, which included Rus sia and other world powers, and President Joe Biden has been keen to negotiate a new one.

The Russians are now seen as per haps the least enthusiastic about the deal as it would return significant amounts of Ira nian oil and gas to the international market, competing with Russia’s own sales and po tentially driving down prices. Nor is it clear how willing Iran’s ruling mullahs would be to return to accepting limits on their nuclear program.

Putin made a rare overseas trip in July in order to cement the alliance with Iran as a counterweight to being isolated from the West. Since then, the challenges facing both his and Iran’s governments have grown sig nificantly.

“In their view, the West is either irre concilably hostile or unreliable,” Vaez said of Iran. “I think in this conflict in Ukraine, they see an opportunity for consolidating the relationship with the East as a way of trying to neutralize the pressure they face from the West, be it economic, military or political.”

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Death toll in military jet crash in southern Russia rises to 14

By RANDY PENNELL and VICTORIA KIM

Russianauthorities have raised the death toll in the crash of a Russian mi litary jet to 14, the state-run Tass news agency reported Tuesday.

The jet crashed into the courtyard of a large apartment building during a training mission on Monday, emergency officials said. Three children were among those killed.

The warplane, a Su-34, crashed in Yeysk, a port and resort town across the Sea of Azov from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, military officials told Russian news outlets. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the jet had been on a training flight when one of its en gines caught fire and it plunged into a resi dential area.

The Russian Emergency Ministry wrote on the messaging app Telegram early Tues day that rescue efforts were complete. An additional 19 people were injured, the mi nistry said.

The crash set off a fire that burned for

three hours, according to the ministry.

Anna Minkova, the deputy governor of the Krasnodar region, wrote on Telegram that some of the victims had suffered severe burns.

The pilots ejected themselves, accor ding to Russia’s state-run news agency, Tass.

The fire engulfed several floors of the building, which was nine stories tall, the re gional governor, Veniamin Kondratiev, said on Telegram. He said initial reports indicated that 17 apartments had been damaged but added later that the extent of the damage was still being assessed.

The Russian Investigative Committee, the country’s main investigation agency, said on Telegram that forensic specialists had been sent to the scene to determine the cau se of the crash.

In May, an Su-34 crashed through the roof of a two-story home in Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine. The residents, who were in the basement, survived. The pilot also sur vived after ejecting.

Strikes damage power stations, forcing Ukrainians to conserve energy

By MEGAN SPECIA

From towns near frontline battlefields to high-rises in the capital, Ukrai nians were trying to conserve energy as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy war ned on Tuesday that Russian attacks over the past eight days had destroyed 30% of Ukraine’s power stations and caused “massive blackouts across the country.”

The latest strikes have increased the likelihood of a miserable winter, with resi dents having to do without basic services such as heat and water. The World Health Organization has warned of the potential for a spiraling humanitarian crisis, given that a lack of access to fuel or electricity “could become a matter of life or death if people are unable to heat their homes.”

The United Nations’ human rights body has said that deliberate strikes on such civilian targets could constitute a war crime. Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians in his nightly address on Monday to reduce their electricity use during peak hours to “enable the whole country to go through

this period more stably,” and many resi dents and businesses have been doing their part.

In his statement on Tuesday, he did not specify which power stations had sus tained significant damage. On Tuesday, blasts hit a district on the eastern shore of the Dnieper River in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capi tal, according to the mayor, along with ci ties in the north and center of the country.

The strikes on Ukraine in recent wee ks have targeted both electrical infras tructure and thermal power plants. Many cities and towns rely on a centralized sys tem to heat homes, pumping water from these thermal plants though pipes that re ach houses and large apartment comple xes across the region.

If the plants are damaged — or the pipes — it could threaten heating across a wide area. Those who rely on electric heaters also risk facing a winter without proper warmth in their houses because of rolling blackouts.

The attack on Kyiv killed three people and knocked out electricity and water in

parts of the city, officials said, and came one day after Russia struck the city with exploding Iranian-made drones, appa rently targeting electricity and heating facilities.

In Kyiv, lights flickered just after 9 a.m., and residents living in the city’s eas tern reaches said they had heard an ex plosion. The mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, said that an “object of critical infrastructure” had been struck. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a senior official in Zelenskyy’s office, said that at least three strikes had hit an ener gy site, resulting in “serious damage,” without elaborating.

By midmorning, people in Kyiv were lining up at stores to fill bottles with fresh water, and electricity suppliers warned that the city would experience blackouts while repairs were underway.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said that it had launched long-range strikes on Tues day targeting “the military control and energy systems of Ukraine” and depots storing foreign-supplied military weapons and equipment, and that “all the assigned

targets had been neutralized.” It was not possible to verify the claim.

Even as Russia’s forces lose ground on the battlefield to Ukrainian cou nteroffensives in the east and south, Moscow has stepped up its aerial bom bardment of Ukrainian cities, including many, like Kyiv, that lie far from the front lines.

Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians in his nightly address on Monday to reduce their electricity use during peak hours to “enable the whole country to go through this period more stably,” and many residents and businesses have been doing their part.

On social media, shops, banks and other major retailers have posted pho tos of the measures that they are taking to reduce energy use, such as turning off illuminated signs. In the capital, some billboards are no longer lit up at night, and streetlights are being partly turned off. Still, towns and cities across Ukraine are dealing with rolling blac kouts or going without power entirely.

Footage shows an apartment building engulfed in flames after a Russian warplane crashed into the building’s courtyard in Yeysk, a port town east of Crimea.

Strikes spread in France, piling pressure on Macron

By CONSTANT MÉHEUT and CATH ERINE PORTER

It started several weeks ago at refiner ies. Then it spread to nuclear plants. And finally, on Tuesday, railway workers, some teachers and even high school students across France, at least for the day, joined a snowballing strike that has become the biggest test so far of President Emmanuel Macron’s sec ond term.

The widening strike came on the heels of a large march against rising costs of living held in Paris on Sunday and increases pressure on Macon’s gov ernment, which is already embattled in Parliament, where opposition parties are refusing to pass the budget.

Macron is now struggling to mollify anger on three fronts — in factories, on the streets and in Parliament — before it coalesces into a major episode of social unrest. That could threaten his agenda, including plans for a contentious pen sions overhaul, as he seeks a direction for his new term.

The original strikes at refiner ies have left more than a quarter of the pumps across the country fully or partly dry. While Macron promised that the situation would return to normal this week, with his government issuing back-to-work orders, lines at gas stations around Paris continued Tuesday, adding to the frustration among drivers and oth er commuters.

However, while left-wing politi cians and striking union leaders called for mass mobilization and painted the rising sentiment in the country as an “autumn of discontent,” Tuesday’s strike was less disruptive than expected.

Many bus and train trips were can celed, but the scene at the busy SaintLazare train station in Paris felt no more hectic than normal. If anything, the rail way staff on hand to answer questions outnumbered commuters.

Bruno Verlay left his home three hours earlier than usual to make sure he was on time for his job as a security guard in the city’s financial district. But in the end, he found the trip smooth.

“I am so used to strikes,” said Ver lay, 58, “I’m immune.”

Many high school students also joined the protest, with some in Paris

blockading the entrance of their schools. Students at the Hélène Boucher high

school, in the east of the capital, bar ricaded themselves behind large green garbage cans and were holding signs de nouncing recent changes in education policy, warning that students’ lives had become more precarious, or protesting police violence.

“More teachers, less cops!” they chanted Tuesday morning.

The strike Tuesday — which orga nizers planned to coalesce into a large march in Paris — coincided with efforts this week by Macron’s government to get its budget through Parliament. The last legislative elections in June left Ma cron short of an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the lower and more powerful house of Parliament.

Legislators are threatening to vote down the spending bill. So Macron’s government is likely to use special con stitutional powers to push it through without a vote. Olivier Véran, the gov ernment’s spokesman, said it would “probably” do so Wednesday.

Étienne Ollion, a sociologist at the Polytechnique engineering school who specializes in French parliamentary life, said the mechanism, allowed under Ar ticle 49.3 of France’s 1958 Constitution, was “a bit of an authoritarian measure.” Although the mechanism had been used 60 times since its introduction, he said, Macron’s lack of a parliamentary major ity and the current climate of social un rest could make it a more delicate move.

“It could have an effect on the mobilizations,” Ollion said, referring to the strikes and protests, adding that protesters might see such a move as “an attempt to avoid confronting the reality of the situation, that is one of political difficulties.”

Using these constitutional powers would also allow members of the oppo sition to put forward no-confidence mo tions, which leftist and far-right groups in Parliament have already promised to do.

But Ollion said the risk of a gov ernment collapse “is relatively limited,” because the main center-right oppo sition seems reluctant to join in a noconfidence motion and because the left and far right appear unwilling to back one another’s.

Gare de Lyon, one of Paris’s main train stations, on Tuesday. Rail strikes appeared less disruptive than had been expected.

Outside the Total refinery in Gonfreville-l’Orcher, just outside of Le Havre, France, on Thursday, union members burned wood pallets, hoisted flags and voted to continue a strike.

The triumph of the Ukrainian idea

By DAVID BROOKS

Thewar in Ukraine is not only a military event, it’s an intellectual event. The Ukrainians are winning not only because of the superiority of their troops. They are winning because they are fighting for a superior idea — an idea that inspires Ukrainians to fight so doggedly, an idea that inspires people across the West to stand behind Ukraine and back it to the hilt.

That idea is actually two ideas jammed together. The first is liberalism, which promotes democracy, individual dignity, a rule-based international order.

The second idea is nationalism. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a nationalist. He is fighting not just for democracy but also for Ukraine — Ukrainian culture, Ukrainian land, the Ukrainian people and tongue. The symbol of this war is the Ukrainian flag, a nationalist symbol.

There are many people who assume that liberalism and nationalism are opposites. Liberalism, in their mind, is modern and progressive. It’s about freedom of choice, di versity and individual autonomy. Nationalism, meanwhile, is primordial, xenophobic, tribal, aggressive and exclusio nary.

Modern countries, by this thinking, should try to tamp down nationalist passions and embrace the universal

brotherhood of all humankind. As John Lennon famously sang, “Imagine there’s no countries/ It isn’t hard to do/ Nothing to kill or die for/ And no religion too.”

Those people are not all wrong. Nationalism has a lot of blood on its hands. But it has become clear that there are two kinds of nationalism: the illiberal nationalism of Vladi mir Putin and Donald Trump, and the liberal nationalism of Zelenskyy. The former nationalism is backward-looking, xenophobic and authoritarian. The latter nationalism is forward-looking, inclusive and builds a society around the rule of law, not the personal power of the maximum lea der. It’s become clear that if it is to survive, liberalism needs to rest on a bed of this kind of nationalism.

Nationalism provides people with a fervent sense of belonging. Countries don’t hold together because citizens make a cold assessment that it’s in their self-interest to do so. Countries are held together by shared loves for a par ticular way of life, a particular culture, a particular land. These loves have to be stirred in the heart before they can be analyzed by the brain.

Nationalism provides people with a sense of meaning. Nationalists tell stories that stretch from a glorious if broken past forward to a golden future. Individuals live and die, but the nation goes on. People feel their life has significan ce because they contribute these eternal stories. “Freedom is hollow outside of a meaning-providing system,” Yael Ta mir writes in her book “Why Nationalism.”

Democracies need nationalism if they are to defend themselves against their foes. Democracies also need this kind of nationalism if they are to hold together. In his book “The Great Experiment,” Yascha Mounk celebrates the growing diversity enjoyed by many Western nations. But he argues they also need the centripetal force of “cultural patriotism,” to balance the centrifugal forces that this diver sity ignites.

Finally, democracies need this kind of nationalism to regenerate the nation. Liberal nationalists are not stuck with a single archaic national narrative. They are perpe tually going back, reinterpreting the past, modernizing the story and reinventing the community.

Over the past decades this kind of ardent nationalism has often been regarded as passé within the circles of the educated elites. I suspect there are many people in this country who are proud to wear the Ukrainian flag but wouldn’t be caught dead wearing an American flag becau se they fear it would mark them as reactionary, jingoistic, low class.

The first problem with this posture is that it opened up a cultural divide between the educated class and the millions of Americans for whom patriotism is a central part of their identity. Second, by associating liberalism with the

cosmopolitan global elite, it made liberalism seem like a system used to preserve the privileges of that elite. The populist class backlash combined with an anti-liberal bac klash, imperiling democracies across the globe. Third, it opened the door for people like Trump to seize and hijack American patriotism.

Liberal nationalism believes in what liberals believe, but it also believes that nations are moral communities and the borders that define them need to be secure. It believes that it’s sometimes OK to put Americans first — to adopt policies that give American workers an edge over workers elsewhere. It believes it’s important to celebrate diversity, but a country that doesn’t construct a shared moral culture will probably rip itself to shreds.

American nationalism has characteristically been a li beral nationalism. From Alexander Hamilton to Walt Whit man to Theodore Roosevelt, it has often been a song in praise of a liberal revolution, a liberal constitution and a diverse, liberal society. Trumpian nationalism doesn’t flow from that traditional American nationalism but is a repu diation of it.

Ukraine’s tenacity shows how powerful liberal na tionalism can be in the face of an authoritarian threat. It shows how liberal nationalism can mobilize a society and inspire it to fantastic achievements. It shows what a re newed American liberal nationalism could do, if only the center and left could get over their squeamishness about patriotic ardor and would embrace and reinvent our natio nal tradition.

Yael Tamir makes the essential point: “Self-centered individualism must therefore be replaced with a more co llectivist spirit that nationalism knows how to kindle.”

Gobernador ordena para la semana que viene un estimado de daños causados por Fiona

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SAN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi

Urrutia dijo el martes, que ordenó completar para la próxima semana, un estimado de daños y pérdidas económicas causadas por el paso -hace un mes- del huracán Fiona por Puerto Rico para la Agencia Fede ral de Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés).

“Entiendo que la fecha límite, al momento, es 21 de octubre. En o antes del 21 de octubre se tienen que someter las solicitudes que estén pendientes. Esa fecha se puede extender, pero esa es la fecha pertinente al mo mento… Las directrices que estoy dando es que debe mos levantar un estimado, aunque sea preliminar, un estimado global de todos los daños y pérdidas que enten demos que causó Fiona para algún momento la semana que viene”, dijo el goberna dora a preguntas de la pren sa.

“Esa es la directriz que di, yo espero que la puedan

cumplir y como dije, ya han recibido, Laboy me indi ca que ya tiene información de estimados de daño de los 78 municipios y de alrededor de 40 agencias del gobierno. Al momento ya se ha recibido información, es cuestión de recopilarla y si se somete al gobierno federal FEMA, que entonces se haga la salvedad de que nos reservamos el derecho de revisarla si tene mos que ajustarla porque llegue nueva información de algún daño”, añadió.

Asimismo el mandatario aseguró que su estimado pre liminar de daños causados por el paso del huracán Fio na, rondan los 10 mil millo nes de dólares.

“Bueno, el que yo he dado bien preliminar es de alre dedor de 10 mil millones de dólares que incluye daño y pérdida económica. Pero otra vez, eso es preliminar”, afirmó el gobernador.

“Bueno, yo lo que dije, va mos a tratar de levantar ese estimado porque me están llegando preguntas de uste des mismos, de la prensa, así como puede ser de la misma ciudadanía, de cuál es el es timado. Entonces yo estoy

diciendo vamos a tratar de tener uno para tenerlo ya para la próxima semana. Laboy está fuera de Puerto Rico, una actividad organizada por FEMA, por cierto y. Pero el regresa mañana en la mañana ya a sus labo res y por eso le pedí pues que le dé prioridad a esto”, añadió.

El gobernador participó de reunión virtual con Gene Sperling principal asesor del presidente de Es tados Unidos, Joe Biden, el Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud, FEMA y otras agencias federales en relación al Crédito por Menor Dependiente, así como otras ayudas federales disponibles para familias que están en proceso de recuperación tras el paso del hu racán Fiona.

“Ahora en Puerto Rico todas nuestras familias que tienen menores dependientes son elegibles, o sea para recibir estos créditos y estamos hablando de mí nimo para este año que todavía se pueden radicar las planillas, estamos hablando de un mínimo de 3,000 dólares por menor dependiente. Esto puede ser hasta un abuelo que está cuidando aún a un nieto porque los padres no pueden hacerlo. Puede cualificar para solicitar estas ayudas. Y ahora mismo hay una planilla corta que se puede utilizar para hacerlo. Esa planilla se puede radicar hasta el 17 de noviembre”, mencio nó.

Explicó que ya en Puerto Rico unas 220,000 fa milias han solicitado estos créditos contributivos y se estima que puede ser que falten alrededor de 75,000 familias.

Autoridades atienden llegada de 100 indocumentados a Isla de Mona

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SAN JUAN – La secretaria del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), li cenciada Anaís Rodríguez Vega, en torno a indo cumentados que arribaron a la Isla de Mona in formó el martes, que en la mañana, agentes del Cuerpo de Vigilantes destacados en la Reserva Na tural Isla de Mona, identificaron a más de 100 in documentados que arribaron a la playa Sardinera de la reserva.

“El Cuerpo de Vigilantes del DRNA, alertó al

Coast Guard y a Border Patrol, quienes estarán coordinando el traslado de los indocumentados a Aguadilla. El Cuerpo de Vigilantes y personal del DRNA, atienden las necesidades de emergencia de estas personas mediante el suministro de agua y alimentos; el grupo está en buen estado de salud.

Igualmente, el DRNA ha incrementado la vi gilancia a través del Cuerpo de Vigilantes”, dijo Anaís Rodríguez Vega en declaraciones escritas.

El grupo se compone de 38 hombres, 2 niños de 6 y 7 años; 60 mujeres, 3 ellas embarazadas; y 3 niñas de 5, 6 y 13 años.

muertos y 149 hospitalizados en informe preliminar COVID-19

SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de CO VID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) re portó el martes 5 muertes y 149 personas hospi

talizadas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,193.

Hay 133 adultos hospitalizados y 16 menores.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 28 de septiem bre al 12 de octubre de 2022.

La tasa de positividad está a 13.28 por ciento.

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Ralph Macchio will always be ‘The Karate Kid.’ He’s finally fine with that.

By NICHOLAS CANNARIATO

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Daniel LaRusso in “The Karate Kid” made Ralph Macchio famous for life. For decades, people have been telling him where they were when they saw the 1984 pop corn flick or how its underdog story affected them.

Such all-encompassing fame, however, came with a down side.

As he tried to move on in his acting career, he couldn’t qui te leave the role behind. Sometimes, he said, he even felt stifled by it, no longer the freewheeling but vulnerable 22-year-old who se character in the movie learned the impor tance of balance, in life and in martial arts.

Nearly four decades later, he has written a memoir, “Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me,” about the making of the mo vie, and how it has shaped — and

Having wrapped his fifth season reprising the role in “Co bra Kai,” Netflix’s surprisingly popular sequel series, Macchio seems to have made peace with, and even embraced, what he calls “the wonderful gift.”

Looking back, he writes, the original film is “a prime exam ple of when Hollywood gets it all right. It teaches and inspires through pure entertainment.”

On a sunny rooftop terrace in lower Manhattan one recent morning, Macchio — a not at all 60-looking 60, even with his sunglasses off — displayed the natural relatability that has been a hallmark of his career. It’s something he shares with Daniel La Russo, “the every-kid next door,” he ex plained, who “had no business winning anything.”

Growing up on Long Island, Mac chio would watch MGM movie musi cals with his mom. Soon enough, he was taking tap-dancing lessons in bet ween Little League games and working Saturdays with his dad. (His brother took more to the family laundromat and pump-truck businesses.)

Along with roles in school plays and dance recitals, Macchio started auditioning for commercials, leading to two Bubble Yum spots. After his first movie, “Up the Academy,” and a one-season stint on ABC’s “Eight Is Enough,” he landed the career-chan ging role of the “lost puppy” Johnny Cade, opposite his fellow teen idols C. Thomas Howell and Matt Dillon, in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Outsiders.”

Back home, Macchio, then 21, got called for another audi tion. The screenplay was based on an article about a bullied kid who learned martial arts for self-defense. It was set to be directed by John G. Avildsen, who had made the underdog classic “Roc ky.”

“I recall connecting to the father-and-son elements and heart in the story right off the bat,” Macchio writes of his first reading of the screenplay. But he “found some of the high school story line characters a bit corny and stereotyped.”

One other thing bothered him: the title. He thought it soun ded ridiculous. “I mean, can you imagine?” he writes. “If I ever did get this part and the movie hit, I would have to carry this label for the rest of my life!”

To Robert Mark Kamen, who wrote the movie’s screenplay, Macchio was the natural choice: He mixed a “pugnacious attitu de” with emotional vulnerability.

“He was sharp. He was smart,” Kamen said in a phone in terview. “And if he got in a fight, he had nothing to back it up but being a wise guy. It was exactly who the character was.”

movie on the horizon, Macchio got a chance to stretch, as the struggling son of the drug dealer played by Robert De Niro in the Broadway drama “Cuba and His Teddy Bear.”

“It was all moving pretty fast,” he recalled in the interview. “I just wish I soaked it in a little more. Here I am, toe to toe with De Niro every night.”

In a phone interview, De Niro said he admired Macchio’s levelheadedness and work ethic. It was “easy to like him persona lly, and then also relate to him in what we were doing,” he said. “We had something already to work off.”

But behind the scenes, Macchio’s personal frustrations were mounting — moments that are among the book’s most revealing.

One night the famed film director Sidney Lumet was in the audience. Backstage after the performance, Lumet said he was planning a film to be called “Running on Empty,” and was inter ested in him playing “a significant role” in it, Macchio recalls in the book.

The problem was that the time Lumet was slated to shoot “Running on Empty” for one studio directly conflicted with the production schedule for “The Karate Kid Part III” at another.

“The ‘Running on Empty’ ship was set to sail,” Macchio wri tes, “and I was consigned back to my original port of call.” (River Phoenix was nominated for an Oscar in the part.)

On another night, Warren Beatty was the surprise visitor to Macchio’s dressing room. The young actor shared his frustra tions; Beatty counseled him, suggesting he find balance between his commercial successes and his other ambitions. “Don’t look down on those movies,” Macchio writes, recalling what Beatty said. “You need that as much as you want this (meaning the De Niro play).”

One bright spot was his being cast in 1992’s “My Cou sin Vinny,” alongside Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei. Macchio’s daughter was born that same year, and his son would arrive three years later.

Still, he writes of the ’90s, when “planning the growth of our family on Long Island … my career had little to no growth of its own. The future was looming and unknown, and the unknown was daunting to me.”

Then, in 2018, came “Cobra Kai,” the vision of the creators Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg.

Macchio would play Daniel LaRusso once again, except this time he’d be a middle-aged family man, though still open to a rivalry with Johnny Lawrence and the Cobra Kai dojo, albeit one with a bit more complexity this time.

The new series, he said, understands what made “The Ka rate Kid” such a favorite: “Fathers and sons, bullying, redemption, overcoming the obstacles, finding your way, falling forward, skin ning your knees, scraping your hands, getting up, figuring it out.”

His new memoir, “Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me,” sees the ’80s star making peace with the role that has brought him back into circulation thanks to “Cobra Kai.”

Then the ’80s started tilting toward the ’90s. Macchio felt he was aging out of the character, but the character wasn’t aging out of him — at least as far as the entertainment industry was concerned.

In 1986, with “The Karate Kid Part II” in theaters and a third

In the book, Macchio acknowledges that in “Cobra Kai” “the tone at times is different,” but “a common ground it shares with the movie is in its heart.” It’s that kind of emotional openness the screenwriter, Kamen, saw in the actor decades ago.

After the interview was over, Macchio stepped into the ele vator, heading to the building’s lobby. Others got in as well. One recognized him, and asked for a picture.

“I’m just the elevator guy,” he said, with a grin.

By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special to The STAR

María

Rosa Silva is a model, entrepreneur, lecturer and television personality. The former beauty queen is also one of the most respected names in the local fashion industry.

One of the best known faces in the Puerto Rico fashion scene, Sil va was recently recognized as “Fashion Icon 2022” by the West Fashion Week organization.

Known professionally as María María, the Santurce native has a career that spans over four decades. Her image has been all over the news media and fashion publications on the island since the early 1980s. Those were the golden years of fashion in Puerto Rico, said the business woman who was trained by and later worked with three of the most beloved and respected Puerto Rican modeling gurus: Anna Santisteban, Grace Fonte cha and Rose Pérez.

Her life as a top fashion model was meant to be. It all began before winning several beauty pageants locally and globally, including the “Miss Latin America” crown in 1983, “Miss World Puerto Rico” in 1984 and “Miss Photo Model of the World” in

“I had been taking ballet lessons since I was very little,” Silva said. “But at 15 years old, I was 5 foot 10 and taller than ev erybody, everywhere. …

In ballet class boys were shorter, so I had no partner to dance

It was her mother who then suggested modeling

María María: Glamour and vision

school, a move that changed her life forever. Soon she was modeling in “Destellos de la Moda” (an early version of the current fash ion events), at the Caribe Hilton’s La Rotis serie Lunch Fashion Shows, and individual shows for booming designers and big cosmetic companies all over town.

Even though she always had modeling jobs which back then paid very well, María María studied for a ca reer in nursing and graduated with flying colors.

“I knew modeling would not be forever,” she said. “I wanted a job that would provide stability and a way of life after the runways.”

And yet she never worked a day as a nurse in her life. Modeling did provide.

She has modeled for runway giants such as Carlota Alfaro, Luis Fuentes, Fernando Pena, Sonia Rivera, Carolina Herrera, Harry Robles, the late Osvaldo Morales, Nono Maldonado, Heriberto Vázquez, Án gel Lòpez and David Antonio. Her work has not gone unnoticed inter nationally, as she has modeled in cities all over the States, in Turkey and Germany, and in Paris.

Having worked as a model and behind the scenes hand in hand with many designers, María María has the inside scoop into the world of couture. Yet it is her discretion that wins her the respect and admira tion of an industry that trusts her with the coordination and hosting of some of the most important fashion events in Puerto Rico.

Herself a role model and inspiration for thousands of young models in training, we asked her about her own role models.

“Oprah Winfrey,” she said without hesitation. “She’s ac complished so much! In the fashion world? Iris Apfel. I love her attitude, her positivity and mental clarity at 102 years. Her fashion sense is fabulous! Everything looks great on her.”

To this day a beacon of elegance, María María is a highly respected fashion consultant who produces her own television show, “Contigo Siempre.” She regularly lec tures about style, fashion trends, professional modeling, plus-size fashions, corporate etiquette, public speaking, self-esteem, table manners, makeup techniques, social etiquette and other women’s issues. In May she was listed as one of the “Best Dressed Women” by San Juan Moda.

For corporate events and more information: Maríamaría_tv @contigosiempretv13 and @curvy modelsbymm.

The Spanish beach town that keeps calling you back

By ALEXANDER LOBRANO

Coming out of the pretty little train station in Sit ges on a sunny Sunday morning, I took a deep breath and started laughing. Ever since I first visited this Spanish seaside town a half-hour south of Barcelona by train 40 years ago, it’s a destination that’s unfailingly made me happy.

After almost 2 1/2 years away because of the pandemic, it was an ecstatic relief to be back. Fortu nately, almost nothing had changed in my absence. Fuchsia blazes of bougainvillea tumbled over the fencing along the train tracks, and the square in front of the station was still shaded by fat palms and wispy tamarind trees. Across the street, pigeons pecked at the breakfast crumbs on the sidewalk around the cafes and bars, and yellow-and-red Catalan flags fluttered in the breeze from the railings of balconies overhead.

Pulling our clattering roller bags behind us, Bru no, my French spouse, and I stopped once or twice on our way to our rental apartment to gape anew at the spectacular Modernismo mansions along the Car rer de Illa de Cuba, as we’ve been doing for 25 years. These are joyous eruptions of Catalan art nouveau ar chitecture — the houses are lavishly decorated with mosaics, tiles, wrought iron and molding, often with floral motifs, and many of them have towers, turrets and other fanciful features.

They were mostly built by the Americanos, as the locals called the Sitgean emigrants who made their for tunes in Cuba or Puerto Rico and then returned home, many of them at the end of the Spanish-American War. The 69 mansions that survive are landmarked and pro tected today, and several of them have become hotels.

For me they’ve always epitomized the admirable way Catalan culture is receptive to creative anarchy as seen in the works of an architect like Antoni Gaudí, an artist like Salvador Dalí, or even a chef like Ferran Adrià. And in Sitges, they also signal the town’s longstanding tolerance of human differences, including its acceptance of gay travelers, which might be branded as eccentric, or worse, elsewhere.

In my 20s, I loved the bars and clubs of this lively resort and would stay up late dancing, smoking harsh black-tobacco Ducados cigarettes and drinking Span ish brandy on the rocks, finally heading home alone or accompanied on the pearled gray edge of dawn to sleep for a few hours. Now half of a married couple, I’ve discovered that the shaded sun beds for rent on the beach of Saint Sebastian are a perfect perch for reading punctuated by people-watching and swim ming in the Mediterranean.

Rainy days are almost welcome, too. I love revis iting the Museu Cau Ferrat, which was once the atelier

of Santiago Rusiñol, one of Spain’s best-loved Impres sionist painters, and the adjacent Palau de Maricel, the extravagant home of the American industrialist Charles Deering, heir to the International Harvester Company and Rusiñol’s patron. The Maricel Museum is the third museum in this perched seaside cluster, and it displays a large collection of Rusiñol’s paintings.

Sitges as a watering hole was born from a script similar to many of Europe’s other most charming sea side resorts. It was originally a fishing village that was discovered by artists at the end of the 19th century, and then taken up by the Barcelonan bourgeoisie, who built fanciful mock-Tudor villas that expressed their Anglophilia in the woodsy Vinyet neighborhood. It thrived as a liberal bolthole during the years that the dictator Francisco Franco was in power. But after the initial tourist boom of the ’60s, everything sort of stopped. Sitges never became a convention town like Cannes or a millionaires’ playground like St.-Tropez, which means unlike so many other seaside resorts, it still remains affordable today.

Tourism may be its largest industry, but Sitges hasn’t lost its authenticity. The tone of the town is found in its side streets, where you come across busi

nesses that have vanished in most other places — no tions shops for knitters and home sewers, stationery stores, toy shops, along with neighborhood tapas bars where everyone knows each other.

When the glossy black fideuà arrived, the waiter at Costa Dorada served us tableside with a charming theatricality, wielding two stainless steel spoons with a nearly mechanical speed and precision. It was deli cious in a perfectly primal way — it’s the Mediterra nean on a plate, and we nodded eagerly when asked if we wanted to be served a second time.

After the table had been cleared, we declined dessert and ordered espressos, so it was puzzling when the waiter arrived with two Champagne flutes and an open bottle of Cava. When I held up my hand to stop him, he explained the pour was being offered by the family at the table next to us. I turned to thank them and a smiling woman said, “Enjoy! We weren’t going to finish it.”

I thanked her and told her how much I’d missed Sitges. “Welcome back!” she replied, reminding me that beyond its beautiful beaches, architecture, restau rants and nightlife, the best thing about Sitges is the Sitgeans.

Visitors at the Plaça del Baluard, the entrance to the old town in Sitges, Spain, in August 2022. Sitges, just south of Barcelona, has 17 beaches and a quiet, timeless charm that draws all kinds of visitors to return year after year.

How can I tell if I’m depressed or burned out?

By DANI BLUM

Q: I’m tired all the time and feel unproductive at work. How do I know if I’m depressed or burned out?

The exhaustion, when it hits, is all-consuming. Your inbox chimes and you want to fling your phone across the room. You’re sick of your apartment; you can’t stand to leave your apartment. You fumble for the right word: You tell friends you are tired or fried or just done.

How do you know if this wave of weariness signals a case of burnout or full-blown depression? We asked ex perts for ways to tell the difference be tween the two, and how to alleviate the symptoms of both.

What’s the difference between burnout and depression?

The concept of burnout comes from workplace psychology, said An gela Neal-Barnett, a psychology pro fessor at Kent State University and au thor of “Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman’s Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic and Fear.”

Typically, therapists associate burnout with work, although researchers are also studying parental burnout, when care givers feel chronically exhausted. Burn out has become pervasive in the cultural lexicon, especially during the pandemic.

On TikTok, the trend of “quiet quitting,” or doing the bare minimum at a job, has gone viral, as people share stories about feeling burned out by long hours and a punishing “hustle culture.”

Workers can become burned out when they feel like they don’t have con trol over their day-to-day lives, getting bogged down in the minutiae of their tasks. People who are burned out may feel depleted and cynical about their jobs; they can resent their assignments and co-workers. They might feel irritable and ineffective, like they just can’t get anything done. For people who interact with others in their jobs, like health care workers or people in the retail and ser vice industries, they might start to lose empathy, thinking of patients or custom ers as just another number or a rote task

Clinicians and researchers offer advice on how to tell the difference between depression and burnout, and what to do about both.

to complete. There are also a litany of physical symptoms that can come with the unending stress of burnout: insom nia, headaches, gastrointestinal issues.

The World Health Organization includes burnout in the International Classification of Diseases, its diagnostic manual, characterizing it as an “occu pational phenomenon,” not a medical condition.

Depression, however, is a clinical diagnosis. People with depression of ten experience anhedonia, the inability to enjoy activities they once treasured. “You can be reading a book you used to love and now you hate it,” said Dr. Jessi Gold, a psychiatrist at Washington Uni versity in St. Louis. “Or you love watch ing Bravo, but now it doesn’t make you laugh anymore.” With burnout, you might not have energy for your hobbies; with depression, you might not find them fun or pleasant at all, said Jeanette M. Bennett, an associate professor who studies the effects of stress on health at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

As with burnout, people with de

pression may sleep too much or too little, and may struggle to focus. People with depression may isolate themselves from others; they may feel like it takes a lot of energy to shower or eat. Depres sion can induce an overwhelming sense of sadness and hopelessness. In severe cases, people with depression may start having thoughts that they are worthless or that life is not worth living. These symptoms tend to last for at least two weeks, Gold and Neal-Barnett said.

A key differentiator is that burnout gets better when you step away from work, said Dr. Rebecca Brendel, presi dent of the American Psychiatric Asso ciation. When you take vacation time, or a mental health day, you feel at least slightly recharged. Depression doesn’t go away if you change your circumstanc es. “There’s not that bounce-back effect,” she said. “It takes more than that.”

A complex combination of genetic and environmental factors can contrib ute to depression. People who endure a traumatic event, or go through a major life change, are at higher risk for devel oping depression; so are people who have family members with depression. Burnout itself can also be a risk factor for depression, Neal-Barnett said.

And you can experience burnout and depression at the same time. “Given the effects of COVID, given racism as a public health crisis in this country, it’s important for us to be watchful of that combination,” Neal-Barnett said.

What to do if you think you are burned out

Taking a mental health day or a “sad day” off work, if you’re able to, can offer a reprieve from your symptoms. If you feel constantly burned out, you might want to consider a career change — which is easier said than done, Gold acknowledged. “Being able to say, ‘This is a bad workplace, that’s it, I quit,’ is a privilege beyond privilege,” she said. There are smaller ways to set boundar ies, like turning off notifications from your work email or Slack at certain hours. If there’s one meeting you con sistently dread, try to block off five or 10 minutes right after to do something

that can help you relax, Gold suggested. “Being able to have some control is a preventer from burnout,” she said.

You can also try to accentuate the elements of your job that you find meaningful. Maybe that means mentor ing a more junior colleague, Gold said, or offering to hand off responsibilities you enjoy less to a co-worker in favor of helping them with a project you’re more interested in.

Exercise can help relieve work-re lated tension, as can carving out even a few minutes to decompress — without your phone, Bennett said. “If you sit on a computer for your job, and then you’re on your phone while you’re commuting, and then you come home and watch whatever Netflix series you’re into — all of that is stimulation,” she said. Your brain needs a break so that it can help buffer against stress — which means stepping away from screens, but also giving yourself a few moments of quiet, sitting with your thoughts, without dis tractions.

If you are struggling to cope with burnout, consider speaking with a men tal health professional.

What to do if you think you are depressed

Reach out to a mental health pro vider, who can help develop a plan to treat and address your symptoms.

In the meantime, start small and simple. If you tell yourself you’re going on a five-minute walk, you’ll probably end up walking for longer than that, Gold said. “But it’s hard when you’re exhausted and sad to make yourself do anything.” Getting out of the house won’t alleviate all your symptoms, but any kind of movement can help you feel a bit better, she said.

You can write down coping mech anisms that have been helpful for you — calling a friend or going for a quick run — and keep the list on your desk or on your dresser for when you need them. Pay attention to what works for you, Gold said. “If you don’t like mind fulness, don’t force it,” she said. “Do the things that actually help you feel better in the moments when you feel bad.”

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SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HI POTECA. EDICTO DE SUBAS TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO. SS..A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público Gene ral: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido diri gido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Coamo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Cer tificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala de Coamo, el 7 de noviembre de 2022, 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 des cribe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno en la Urba nización Extensión Jardines de Coamo, situada en el Ba rrio San Ildefonso del término municipal de Coamo, Puerto Rico, marcado con el numero cuarenta y siete (47) del Bloque F con un área superficial de TRESCIENTOS DIECISIETE PUNTO VEINTICINCO ME TROS CUADRADOS (317.25 M/C). En lindes por el NORTE, en once punto setenta y cinco metros (11.75 m.) con el solar número quince F (15-F); por el SUR, en once punto setenta y cinco metros (11.75 m.) con la Calle número nueve (9); por el ESTE, en veintisiete metros (27.00 m.) con el solar número cuarenta y ocho (48) del Bloque F; y por el OESTE, en veintisie te metros (27.00 m.) con el so lar número cuarenta y seis (46) del Bloque F. Inscrita al folio 260 del tomo 146 de Coamo, finca 8,369, Registro de la Pro piedad de Barranquitas. Propie dad localizada en: EXTENSION JARDINES DE COAMO, F-47 CALLE 9, COAMO, PUERTO

RICO 00769. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferen tes: Nombre del Titular: N/A.

Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito eje cutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $148,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 1 de octubre de 2089. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los pre ferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas car gas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $148,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesa ria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Coamo, el 14 de noviembre de 2022, a las 2:00 de la tarde, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $99,000.00, 2/3 par tes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se es tablece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $74,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Coamo, el 21 de noviembre de 2022, a las 2:00 de la tarde. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $71,711.33 de principal, más los intereses, los recargos y demás créditos contenidos en la escritura de hipoteca reverti da. La venta en pública subas ta 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 sa ber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que

cualquier persona o perso nas 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 la borables 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 cir culación 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 pu blicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públi cos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Coamo, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de septiembre de 2022. Juan O Burgos Burgos, Alguacil Re gional. Rodolfo Lara Martinez, Alguacil.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS

GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC Demandante Vs. MIGUELINA LEBRON SCHETINI T/C/C MIGUELINA LEBRON SCHETTINI

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2018CV03054.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO 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 Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Es tados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título,

participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Calle Eugenio Maria de Hostos del Municipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico, mar cado con el número 8 con una cabida superficial de 165.24 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 20.40 metros con el solar de Manuel Váz quez, viuda de Pacheco; por el SUR, en 20.40 metros con el solar de Rafael Acevedo; por el ESTE, en 8.20 metros con la Calle Eugenio María de Hostos y por el OESTE, en 8.00 me tros con solar Domingo Díaz. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa. Finca #4359, inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 124 de Ca guas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. Propiedad localizada en: 8 Ca lle Euigenio Maria De Hostos, Caguas, PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los pre ferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas car gas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $54,590.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $36,393.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda su basta, se establece como míni ma para la TERCERA SUBAS

TA, la suma de $27,295.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala de Caguas, el 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $47,031.74 de principal, intereses al tipo del % anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de mayo de 2017 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $5,459.00 por concepto de honorarios de abo gado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipo tecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hi poteca. La venta en pública su basta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afec te la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace sa ber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o perso nas 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 Secretaria del Tribunal durante horas la borables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el perió dico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos se manas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones, así como para su pu blicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de octubre de 2022. NATALIA SUÁREZ ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #089.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SOUTH SIDE CAPITAL LLC

Demandante V. INMOBILIARIA L.A., INC.; HEALTHCARE CONSULTING SERVICES, INC.; JOSÉ A. LÓPEZ

ALEJANDRO, TANIA CARCASE MOURE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado Civil Núm.: KCD2011-1722. (802). Sobre: INCUMPLIMIEN TO DE CONTRATO, COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE PRENDAS E HIPOTECA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRI CA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPÍGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscri be, por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumpli miento del Mandamiento, expe dido el 9 de febrero de 2022 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, para que proceda a vender en pública subasta la propiedad inmueble embargada, para sa tisfacer las cantidades adeuda das a la parte demandante con forme a la Sentencia dictada en el presente caso, a saber, la suma de $171,767.00 de princi pal, intereses pactados y com putados sobre esta suma al tipo anual de 0.5% sobre la tasa de interés preferencial que de tiempo en tiempo fije el Citi bank, N.A., Nueva York hasta su total y completo pago, contri buciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y la suma de $43,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; la suma de $626,558.69 de principal, inte reses pactados y computados sobre esta suma al tipo de 11% anual y, la suma de $799,383.33 de principal, inte reses pactados y computados sobre esta suma al tipo anual de 2% sobre la tasa de interés publicada de tiempo en tiempo por The Wall Street Journal, contribuciones, recargos y pri mas de seguro adeudadas y la suma agregada de $155,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; canti dades que están aseguradas por la Propiedad Embargada. Procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o en cheque de ge rente a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Uni dos de América, el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LA(S) 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el

Tribunal de Humacao, todo títu lo, derecho o interés que co rresponda a la parte demanda da sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: UR BANA: Apartamento número nueve (9). Apartamento resi dencial localizado en el tercer piso de la Sección Oeste del Edificio Cedar (“Cedar West”) del Condominio conocido como “The Woods at Palmas del Mar”, situado en el Barrio Can delaria Abajo del Municipio de Humacao, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de MIL NOVECIENTOS NOVENTA Y SEIS PUNTO VEINTE Y CUANTRO (1,996.24)

PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CIENTO OCHENTA Y CINCO PUNTO CINCUENTA Y DOS (185.52)

METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de cuarenta y tres pies y tres pulgadas (43’3”), con pared que lo separa de elemen tos comunes exteriores del Condominio; por el SUR, en una distancia de cuarenta y tres pies y tres pulgadas (43’3”), con pared que lo separa de elemen tos comunes exteriores del Condominio; por el ESTE, en una distancia de sesenta y tres pies y seis pulgadas (63’6”), con pared que lo separa de ele mentos comunes exteriores del Condominio; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de sesenta y tres pies y seis pulgadas (63’6”), con pasillo común que conduce al exterior y aparta mento número diez (10). La puerta de entrada de este apar tamento está situada en su lin dero Oeste. Consta principal mente de sala-comedor, cocina, tres (3) habitaciones dormitorios, dos y medio (2 1/2) baños, laundry, terraza y dos (2) balcones. Le corresponden dos (2) espacios de estaciona miento marcados con el núme ro nueve (9). Le corresponde dos puntos seis mil novecientos siete por ciento (2.6907%) de participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio. Fin ca número 27,376, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Humacao, Re gistro de la Propiedad de Hu macao. Dirección Física: The Woods at Palmas del Mar, Con dominio Cedar West, Sección Oeste, Apartamento número nueve (9), Humacao, Puerto Rico, 00791. La propiedad des crita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Ser vidumbre de paso a favor de la finca 9764 de Humacao; Servi dumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Servi dumbre a favor de la finca 9775; Servidumbres a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Com pany; Servidumbre a favor de la

LEGAL NOTICE AVISO A ACREEDORES DE DON JUAN JOSE DONESTEVEZ DE PARA SOBRE FORMACIÓN DE IN VENTARIO EN SEDE NOTA RIAL ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U. ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

Finca 17117; Servidumbre a favor de Palmasol S.E; Servi dumbre a favor de las parcelas CC y DD inscritas a los folios 116 y 120 del tomo 512 de Hu macao; Servidumbre a favor de la finca 23255; Arrendamiento a favor de Bluewater Palmas, LTD; Servidumbre a favor de la finca 26403 de Humacao; Ser vidumbre a favor de la Finca 26406; Servidumbre a favor de las parcelas A, B, F, KK, G, AA, BB, CC de la Finca 26118; Ser vidumbre a favor de la Finca 26118; Servidumbre a favor de la Finca 26118, Finca 13750, Finca 16910 y Finca 26391; Servidumbres Recíprocas entre las Finca 13763, 13762, 13761, 10151 y 26118; Servidumbres Recíprocas entre las Fincas 10151, 13760, 13759, 13758, 13757, 26396, 8781 y 13754; Servidumbre a favor de la Finca 26453; Servidumbre a favor de la finca 26118; Servidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de Ener gía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre a favor de la finca 26454; Servidumbre a favor de la Finca 26452; Servidumbre a favor de la 26438; Servidumbre a favor de las Parcels AB y Par cela C; Servidumbre a favor de la Finca 26458; Servidumbre a favor de la Finca 26407; Servi dumbre a favor de la Finca 26471; P.D.M. Utility Corpora tion; Derecho de Retracto a fa vor de Palmas del Mar Proper ties Inc; Condiciones Restrictivas; Régimen de Pro piedad Horizontal Condominio The Woods at Palmas del Mar. Goza de servidumbre de paso inscrita en las fincas 10151 y 26313 de Humacao. Por sí: HI

POTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco Popu lar de Puerto Rico, o a su or den, por la suma de $500,000.00, con interés al 9%, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #2, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de enero de 2009, ante la Notario Público Elaine Villanueva Martínez, ins crita al tomo Karibe de Huma cao, inscripción 2da. ANOTA

CIÓN DE DEMANDA: Es objeto de esta anotación, el Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Prendas e Hipoteca por incumplimiento de pagos de varias obligacio nes hipotecarias. DEMANDAN

TE: Banco Popular de Puerto Rico; DEMANDADO: Inmobilia ria L.A., Inc.; Healthcare Con sulting Services, Inc.; José A. López Alejandro, Tania Carca se Moure y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales com puesta por ambos, Cantidad Adeudada $1,597,709.55, por concepto de principal más inte reses, según Demanda expedi da por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao en el caso Civil #KCD-2011-1722, el día 1 de agosto de 2011, ins crito al tomo Karibe, Anotación A de fecha del 17 de diciembre

de 2021. ANOTACIÓN DE EM

BARGO: Es objeto de esta ano tación la Sentencia y la moción sobre ejecución y solicitud de embargo radicada por la parte demandante, para anotar em bargo por la cantidad de $500,000.00. DEMANDANTE: PR Asset Portfolio 2013-1 Inter national Sub I, LLC DEMANDA DO: Inmobiliaria LA, Inc; Healthcare Consulting Servi ces, Inc; José A. López Alejan dro, su esposa Tania Carcase Moure y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos. CANTIDAD ADEU DADA: $500,000.00. Manda miento expedido por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao en el caso Civil #KCD-2011-1722, otorgada el 27 de marzo de 2014, inscrita a la Anotación B del tomo Karibe, inscrita el 29 de diciembre de 2021. SENTENCIA: Del 11 de mayo de 2015, Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala de Huma cao, caso HACI201401616 por Palmas del Mar Homeowners Ass. vs. José A. López Alejan dro, por $1,411.87, presentada el 30 de octubre de 2015, al fo lio #10, libro #10, orden #28. El 30 de julio de 2014, se presentó en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, la Orden y Man damiento de Anotación de Em bargo expedidos por el Honora ble Tribunal para que el Honorable Registrador de la Propiedad anote en sus libros el embargo sobre la propiedad descrita anteriormente. Dicho embargo fue presentado al Asiento 5 del Diario 922 y que dó anotado en Karibe, el 29 de diciembre de 2021, finca #27,326 de Humacao, Anota ción B. El precio mínimo fijado para la subasta será la cantidad de $500,000.00, cuantía origi nal del embargo. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer al de mandante, SOUTH SIDE CAPI TAL LLC hasta donde alcance, los importes adeudados, los cuales se detallaron anterior mente, hasta el pago total de las deudas, más costas, des embolsos y honorarios de abo gado. Se entiende que todo lici tador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso, acepta como bastante la titula ción que da base a las mismas. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anterior mente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se en tiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferen te, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, conti nuará subsistente, entendién dose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los docu mentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán

de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan du rante las horas laborables.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le no tifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posterio res, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en las fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalado, y se les invita a que concurra a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, an tes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honora rios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subroga dos en los derechos del Acree dor ejecutante, siempre y cuan do reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subroga ción. Y PARA SU PUBLICA CIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) luga res públicos del Municipio don de se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un pe riódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y median te correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el pre sente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 6 de septiembre de 2022. Bene dicto Velázquez Félix, Alguacil Regional Interno, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior De Humacao. Wilnelia Ri vera Delgado, Alguacil Auxiliar #249.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESIÓN RAMON VIZCARRONDO LEDESMA T/C/C RAMON ANTONIO VIZCARRONDO LEDESMA T/C/C RAMON ANTONIO VIZCARRONDO LEDESMA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS FRANCISCA LOPEZ T/C/C FRANCISCA LOPEZ PADIN, RAMON VIZCARRONDO LOPEZ Y ROSA MARIA VIZCARRONDO LOPEZ; TODAS PARTES DESCONOCIDAS, RECLAMANDO POR, A TRAVES, BAJO O CONTRA VIZCARRONDO LEDESMA T/C/C RAMON ANTONIO VIZCARRONDO LEDESMA QUIENES NO SON CONOCIDOS, SI VIVOS O MUERTOS, IRRESPECTIVAMENTE SI DICHAS PARTES DESCONOCIDAS

PUEDEN RECLAMAR UN INTERESA COMO CONYUGE, HEREDERO LEGATARIO, CESIONARIO U OTRO RECLAMANTE; POSEEDOR DESCONOCIDO A; POSEEDOR DESCONOCIDO B; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Demandados

Civil Núm.: FCD2014-1026. Sa lón Núm.: 403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SU BASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESI DENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLAN CO, Alguacil del Tribunal Supe rior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, al público HAGO SA BER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 30 de diciembre de 2015 por la Secretaria de este Tribunal, en el caso de epí grafe, venderé en pública su basta y al mejor postor con di nero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con si milar garantía, todo título, dere cho o interés de la parte de mandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad pertene ciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continua ción: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Calle José De Diego del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, compuesto de ciento se tenta y dos metros cuadrados con setenta centímetros y en lindes: por el NORTE, en dieci nueve metros ochenta y cinco centímetros con solar municipal ocupado por Ángel Luis Mundo; por el SUR, en diecinueve me tros ochenta y cinco centíme tros con solar municipal ocupa do por Ángel Fidalgo Díaz; por el ESTE, en ocho metros con ocho metros setenta centíme tros con la Calle José De Diego; y por el OESTE, en ocho me tros setenta centímetros con otro solar municipal ocupado por Santiago Cardero. Enclava una casa terrera de madera te chada de zinc. Número 55,032 (antes 5,156), inscrita al folio 19 del tomo 1,294 de Carolina. Re gistro de la Propiedad de Puer to Rico, Sección I de Carolina.

La finca 55,032 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la su basta objeto de este edicto: Hi poteca en garantía de un paga ré a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $101,000.00 con intereses al 8% anual, vence dero a la presentación, consti tuida mediante la escritura nú mero 237, otorgada en San

Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de noviembre de 1999, ante la no tario Luz E. Vela Gutiérrez, e inscrita al tomo veintiocho (28) de Carolina, finca número 5,156, inscripción 1era. La pro piedad está afecta a los si guientes gravámenes: a. Hipo teca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage Inc., o a su orden, por la suma prin cipal de $101,000.00, con inte reses al 8% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida me diante la escritura número 237, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de noviembre de 1999, ante el notario Luz E. Vela Gutierrez, e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 1,292 de Carolina, finca número 55,032, inscrip ción 2da. b. Hipoteca en garan tía de un pagaré a favor del Departamento de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su or den, por la suma principal de $101,000.00, con intereses al 8% anual, vencedero a la pre sentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 238, otor gada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de noviembre de 1999, ante la notario Luz E. Vela Gutiérrez, e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 1,292 de Carolina, finca número 55,032, inscrip ción 3ra. c. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 25 de agosto de 2014, expedido en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número FCD2014-1026, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Sucesión Ramón Vizcarrondo Ledesma, compuesta por here deros desconicodos, Francisca López Padin; Estados Unidos de América, por la suma de $178,448.30, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 28 de agosto de 2014, al folio 209 del tomo 1,518 de Carolina, fin ca número 55,032, Anotación

A. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por la hipoteca de $202,372.18 y $10,100.00 para pago de costas, gastos y hono rarios de abogados, total o par cialmente. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto sa tisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico total o parcialmen te el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 17 de junio de 2015 archivada en autos el 25 de ju nio de 2015. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe asciende a las siguien tes cantidades: $202,372.18.

Dicha cantidad continuará acu mulándose a razón del 4.25% hasta el completo pago de la deuda. La demandada adeuda, además, una cantidad equiva lente a $10,100.00 por concep to de costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado. El precio mínimo de licitación con rela ción a la antes descrita propie dad y la fecha y hora de cada

subasta es como sigue: PRI MERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MA ÑANA. Tipo mínimo: $101,000.00, suma pactada entre los contratantes en la es critura de constitución de hipo teca. Si no se produce remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará la SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo Mínimo: $67,333.33 dos terce ras (2/3) partes del precio pac tado entre los contratantes en la escritura de constitución de hipoteca. Si tampoco se produ ce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MA ÑANA. Tipo Mínimo: $50,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado entre los contra tantes en la escritura de consti tución de hipoteca. Las subas tas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judi cial de Carolina , advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consig nará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en pri mer término los gastos del Al guacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hasta la suma conve nida, en tercer término los inte reses devengados hasta la fe cha de la subasta, en cuarto término las sumas establecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribu ciones, seguros y en quinto tér mino la suma principal adeuda da conforme con la sentencia dictada. Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente lue go de pagarse las sumas men cionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solici tud y orden del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gra vámenes anteriores y los prefe rentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán sub sistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquie ra derechos que tengan sobre

el inmueble, deberán compare cer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancela ción de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posterio res. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeu dada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abo nará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secre taría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina durante horas labora bles. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés ins crito con posterioridad a la ins cripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitado res y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación ge neral en el Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fija rá además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspa so al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanza miento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta y para ello procederé a romper candados de ser necesario. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin ne cesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. El Registrador de la Pro piedad cancelará, libre de dere chos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y proce

derá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en su basta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta ac ción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina. En Carolina, Puer to Rico, a 26 de septiembre de 2022. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL #830, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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CRISTOBAL ALONZO CONTRERAS RESTITUYO Demandante V. LYDIA ANTONIETA PEÑA MINAYA

Demandado(a) Civil: SJ2022RF00708. Sala: 705. Sobre: DIVIORCIO (R.I). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.

A: SRA. LYDIA ANTONIETA PEÑA MINAYA.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de agosto de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 14 de octubre de 2022.

GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ CO LLADO, SECRETARIA. CAR MEN J. CASTRO SERRANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

MÓN REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC.

Demandante Vs. CARIBBEAN FINANCIAL SERVICES, CORP.; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04618.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM

PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación respon siva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.com, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP

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TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273

Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y se llo del Tribunal, en Bayamón, hoy día 7 de octubre de 2022.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁN CHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIO

NAL. MILITZA MERCADO RI VERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA RE GIÓN JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante Vs. IVAN MIRANDA RIOS

Y OTROS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV08520.

Salón: 906. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: FULANA DE TAL POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES QUE COMPONE CON IVAN MIRANDA RIOS. VILLA ANDALUCIA O5 CALLE ALORA, SAN JUAN PR 00926.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: httrs://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuzc@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu nal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de octubre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Margarita Muñiz Méndez, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.

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

DLJ MORTGAGE

CAPITAL, INC.

Parte Demandante Vs. ROSA MARIA AGUIAR SANTANA, REINA MARIA AGUIAR SANTANA POR SI Y COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ROSA MARÍA SANTANA MARCANO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE ROSA MARÍA SANTANA MARCANO, CENTRO

DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02520.

705. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR DINARIA Y COBRO DE DI NERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE ROSA MARÍA SANTANA MARCANO.

POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tri bunal correspondiente y notifi que con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda.

Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva. al PO 80X 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732-7970; Teléfono: 787843-41668. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número men cionado en el epígrafe. Se ale ga en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Con trato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades ven cidas correspondientes a los meses de junio de 2021, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además, adeuda a la parte de mandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hi potecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $77,230.78 más los intere ses sobre el principal al 3.500% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipo tecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma pactada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Regis tro de la Propiedad correspon diente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de

esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número b guion once (B-11) dd plano de inscrip ción del proyecto de vivienda a bajo costo denominado VBC guión uno guión A (VBC-1-A), radicado en el Barrio Caguitas del término municipal de Ca guas, con una cabida superfi cial de doscientos cincuenta y dos punto cero cinco (25.2.05) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar nú mero 8 guión doce (B-12): por el Sur, con el solar número B guión diez (B-10): por el Este, con la calle T: y por el Oeste, con un canal que le separa del proyecto de PR tres guión die cinueve (3-19). lnscrita al folio ciento noventa (190) del tomo mil cuarenta y seis (1,046) de Caguas. finca número treinta cinco mil seis cientos sesenta y seis (35,666) del Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas Sección Primera (1ra). SE LES

APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Senten cia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, miembro de la Sucesión de Rosa Maria Santana Marcado se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de trein ta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a ex presarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o repudia ción de la herencia, se presumi rá que han aceptado la heren cia del causante Sucesión de Rosa Maria Santana Marcano y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. sec 11021. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Caguas, Puer to Rico. A 12 de septiembre de 2022. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Vilma Oyola Rivera, Sub-Secretaria.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. VIRGINIA RODRÍGUEZ SOLIVAN Demandado(a) Civil: SA2022CV00175. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: VIRGINIA RODRÍGUEZ SOLIVAN.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de octubre de 2022. En Salinas, Puerto Rico, el 11 de octubre de 2022. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. SANTA MELÉNDEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. SHELLIA LAVONIA

JENKINS WARD; FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE CECIL EDWARD WARD

Demandado(a) Civil: VB2022CV00237. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SHELLIA LAVONIA

JENKINS WARD; FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CECIL EDWARD WARD. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada

en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de octubre de 2022. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 12 de oc tubre de 2022. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Carmen Meléndez Hernández, Secreta ria Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA WILMINGTON SAVINGS FNND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2019-HB1

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE EDNA MARGARITA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS T/C/C EDNA RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C EDNA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS COMPUESTA POR ARIADNA MARGARITA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS, DANIEL GANBAROA RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02376.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA - IN REM. EMPLA ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL

COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDNA MARGARITA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS T/C/C EDNA RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C EDNA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitan do la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de Senior Mortgage Bankers a su orden, por la suma principal de $204,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 5.060% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gas tos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $20,400.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este paga ré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 6599, ante el notario Georgina Chevere Mourino. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escri tura número 953 otorgada el 26 de octubre de 2011, ante el mismo notario público, inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 1,020 de Carolina, finca número 11,181, inscripción 7ma. La Hipoteca Revertida grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número tres del Bloque “L” de la Urbaniza ción Castellana Garden Barrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos metros quince cen tímetros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de trece metros cinco centíme tros con el Solar L-diez; por el SUR, en trece metros cinco centímetros con la Calle cator ce; por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros con el Solar L-cuatro y por el OESTE, en veintitrés metros con el Solar L-dos. A lo largo de la colindancia Norte existe una servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company y a lo largo de su co lindancia Este hay otra a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Flu viales de Puerto Rico. Contiene una casa de concreto armado y bloques de concreto de una Solar planta que consiste de sala-comedor, cocina, tres dor mitorios, dos baños, marque sina y balcón. Finca número 11,181 (antes 22,972) inscrita en el folio 156 del tomo 295 de Carolina, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I Carolina. Se aperci be y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema

Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. De no contestar la de manda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secreta ria del Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala de Carolina, y no tificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Adriana M. Vega Hernández, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos sesenta (60) días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación dia ria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, conce diendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 07 de octubre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Maricruz Aponte Ali cea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOT ICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA WILMINGTON SAVINGS

FNND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2019-HB1

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE EDNA MARGARITA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS T/C/C EDNA RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C EDNA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS COMPUESTA POR ARIADNA MARGARITA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS, DANIEL GANBAROA RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02376.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA - IN REM. EMPLA

ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitan do la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de Senior Mortgage Bankers a su orden, por la suma principal de $204,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 5.060% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gas tos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $20,400.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este paga ré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 6599, ante el notario Georgina Chevere Mourino. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escri tura número 953 otorgada el 26 de octubre de 2011, ante el mismo notario público, inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 1,020 de Carolina, finca número 11,181, inscripción 7ma. La Hipoteca Revertida grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número tres del Bloque “L” de la Urbaniza ción Castellana Garden Barrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos metros quince centí metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de trece metros cinco centímetros con el Solar L-diez; por el SUR, en trece metros cinco centíme tros con la Calle catorce; por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros con el Solar L-cuatro y por el OES TE, en veintitrés metros con el Solar L-dos. A lo largo de la co lindancia Norte existe una ser vidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company y a lo largo de su colindancia Este hay otra a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puer to Rico. Contiene una casa de concreto armado y bloques de concreto de una Solar planta que consiste de sala-comedor, cocina, tres dormitorios, dos baños, marquesina y balcón.

Finca número 11,181 (antes 22,972) inscrita en el folio 156

del tomo 295 de Carolina, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I Carolina. Se apercibe y advierte a uste des como personas descono cidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Admi nistración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acce der utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. De no contestar la demanda radican do el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SER VICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Adriana M. Vega Hernández, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, den tro de los próximos sesenta (60) días a partir de la publica ción de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de cir culación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solici tando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 07 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. MA RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE JUANA DÍAZ BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. CHARLES TIRADO DIAZ, SANDRA E. RODRÍGUEZ BURGOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: JD2022CV00374. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: SANDRA E. RODRÍGUEZ BURGOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD. LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTA Y CHARLES TIRADO DIAZ.

POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la pre sente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publi cación por Edicto de este Em plazamiento presente su con testación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala de Juana Díaz, P.O. Box 1419, Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico 00795-1419 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 006812342, Teléfonos: (787) 8329620 y (845) 345-3985, Abo gada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en con tra suya, concediendo el reme dio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 11 de octubre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABA LLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ CO LÓN, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022CV03248. Sala: 505. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE; GOLDEN MORTGAGE CORP.; GOLDEN FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.

HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO GOLDEN MORTGAGE BANKERS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 2022. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Vivian J. Sanabria, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRLMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LOÍZA U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF CVI CGS MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST I

Demandante V. MARÍA ANTONIA PARÍS ESCALERAS; NOEL AVILÉS GONZÁLEZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: LO2022CV00106.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, S. S. A: MARÍA ANTONIA PARÍS ESCALERAS Y NOEL AVILÉS GONZÁLEZ.

Queden emplazados y notifi cados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alega ción responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se

represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abo gados de la parte demandante son:

Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074 TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC 1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077 prsevice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 26 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍ GUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA MÓN SALA SUPERIOR FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V. LUIS MARIO MILIAN JIMENEZ; JANILU SOBRADO FIGUEROA Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04373.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, S.S.

A: LUIS MARIO MILIAN JIMENEZ, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES MILIANSOBRADO.

A: JANILU SOBRADO FIGUEROA, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES MILIANSOBRADO.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto, radicando el original de la con testación ante el Tribunal y sala que se menciona en el epígrafe de este edicto con copia a la parte aquí demandante. Se le

apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. El abogado de la parte demandante es: LCDA.

MELISA FIGUEROA CASTRO, 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, VIG Tower, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 722-1932.

Expido este edicto bajo mi fir ma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 07 de octubre de 2022. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria General. Nélida Ocasio Ortega, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA LINA VIZCARRONDO SÁNCHEZ

Demandante Vs. RAMÓN GARCÍA EDUA Demandado Civi Número: CA2022RF00560.

Sobre: DIVORCIO. (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ES TADOS UNIDOS DE NORTE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: SR. RAMÓN GARCÍA EDUA. DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA.

Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la solicitud del epígrafe. Se le em plaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio y que notifique con co pia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. María Pagán Hernández, P.O. Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, telé fono 787-282-6734, abogada de la parte demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguien tes a la publicación de este Edicto. Podrá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración eje Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal como se explicó anteriormente. Si de jare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en re beldía concediéndole el reme

dio solicitado en la demanda.

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y se llo de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 26 de agosto de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Ro driguez, Sec Regional. Amelia Z Garcia Briones, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE HERNÁN ROMÁN SASTRE T/C/C

HERNÁN F. ROMÁN SASTRE, Y OTROS Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05208. Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: NILDA ROMÁN

CRUZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, Y SUCESIÓN DE HERNÁN ROMÁN CRUZ COMPUESTA POR JONATHAN ROMÁN, JEAN PAUL ROMÁN, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE HERNÁN ROMÁN SASTRE T/C/C HERNÁN F. ROMÁN

SASTRE Y/O DE LA SUCESIÓN DE NILDA CRUZ DE ROMÁN T/C/C

NILDA CRUZ RIVERA T/C/C NILDA A. CRUZ

RIVERA.

Quedan emplazados y notifica dos de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM en sus contras. Se les notifica para que comparezcan ante el Tribunal dentro del tér mino de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus dere chos convenga, en el presente caso. Se les apercibe y notifica que si no contestan la deman da radicada en su contra, radi cando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contes tación a la parte demandante: GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Yadira López González Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-

7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se les anotará la re beldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, confor me se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Se ORDENA a los herederos de los referidos causantes a saber: NILDA ROMÁN CRUZ, FULANO DE TAL y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCI DOS, y SUCESIÓN DE HER NÁN ROMÁN CRUZ COM PUESTA POR JONATHAN ROMÁN, JEAN PAUL ROMÁN, FULANO DE TAL y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCI DOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE HERNÁN ROMÁN SASTRE t/c/c HERNÁN F. ROMÁN SAS TRE y/o DE LA SUCESIÓN DE NILDA CRUZ DE ROMÁN t/c/c NILDA CRUZ RIVERA t/c/c NILDA A. CRUZ RIVERA, a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la noti ficación, ACEPTEN o REPU DIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los referidos causantes. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expre sarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en tomo a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por acep tada. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a hoy 14 de octubre de 2022. GRISEL DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. WANDA MALAVÉ MARTÍ, SE CRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE FLOIRAN RODRÍGUEZ FONT Y OTROS

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2022CV01264.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM (HIPOTECA REVERTIDA). EMPLAZA MIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FLOIRAN RODRÍGUEZ FONT, T/C/C FLOIRAN ANTONIO

A: ARIADNA MARGARITA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS; DANIEL GANBAROA RODRÍGUEZ COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDNA MARGARITA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS T/C/C EDNA RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C EDNA RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solici tando la ejecución de hipoteca relacionada al pagaré suscrito a favor de Preferred Mortgage Corp., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $180,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo comen zando en 4.603% anual, obli gándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original.

Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 24,322 ante el notario Lesbia Hernández Mi randa. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 452 otor gada el 31 de agosto de 2017, ante el mismo notario público, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Las Piedras, finca número 14,752, inscripción 5ta. La Hipoteca Revertida grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: PASEO DE LOS ARTESANOS: Solar número ciento treinta y siete (137): URBANA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Ba rrio Montones del Municipio de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 363.40 Metros Cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con el solar número 136 en distancia de 28.21 me tros; por el SUR, con el solar número 138 en distancia de 25.00 metros; por el ESTE, con la calle Eustaquio Hernández Lozada, en distancia de 12.08 metros y distancia en arco de 2.02 metros; y por el OESTE, con los solares números 143 y 144, en distancia de 4.45 me tros y distancia de 9.49 metros.

Contiene esta propiedad una estructura de dos plantas en hormigón, con cocina, salacomedor, salón familiar, tres habitaciones, dos baños y me dio y marquesina doble. Finca Número 14,752, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 276 de Las Piedras.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Huma cao. Se le advierte que de no contestar la demanda dentro de los próximos sesenta (60) días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación dia ria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, conce diendo el remedio solicitando

en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. SE NOTIFICA, que este Tribunal ha emitido Orden de Interpelación Judicial dirigida a los herederos de la Sucesión de Floiran Rodríguez Font, t/c/c Floiran Antonio Rodríguez y de la Sucesión de Luz Colón Co lón, t/c/c Luz Delia Colón Colón, esto es Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herede ros de nombre desconocido.

De conformidad, se ORDENA a los herederos antes mencio nados a que: Dentro del tér mino legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente In terpelación, que será publicada una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la heren cia. Se APERCIBE que: De no expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a su aceptación o repu diación de herencia se presumi rá que han aceptado la misma y por consiguiente, responden por la cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 y 1587 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 2020. Se apercibe y advierte, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Aten ción: Lcda. Vara A. Santiago Durieux, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, PR 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 14 de octubre de 2022. IVELISSE C. FONSE CA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETA RIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SUB- SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE MEDICOS Y OTROS PROFESIONALES DE LA SALUD (MEDICOOP)

Demandante V. CARMEN MELECIO FELICIANO

Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05392. (802). Sobre: COBRO DE DI

NERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: CARMEN MELECIO FELICIANO. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le notifica que se ha radi cado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero en la que se alega adeuda la suma de $10,283.17 más costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su ale gación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamien to, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.rama judicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. La dirección postal del aboga do de la parte demandante es la siguiente: Lda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550, San Juan, PR 00922-1550

Teléfono: (787) 625-9999

Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presen te Edicto que firmo y sello en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de octubre de 2022. GRISEL DA RODRíGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JACKELINE ESQUILÍN LUGO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. ANGEL NOEL SANTOS PAGAN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: DCD2013-1217.

(703). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: ANGEL NOEL SANTOS PAGAN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, POR TENER EMBARGOS ANOTADOS A SU FAVOR POR LAS SUMAS DE $17,531.53; $13,543.27; $12,981.55; $2,219.80; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, POR TENER EMBARGO ESTATAL LEY #12 ANOTADO A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $9,793.48.

Yo, MARIBEL LANZAR VE LÁZQUEZ, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 10 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Bayamón, en el Cuarto Piso, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se or denó por la vía ordinaria al me jor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón durante horas labora bles. Que en caso de no produ cir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1RO. DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MA ÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propie dad a venderse en pública su basta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Montecasino en el Barrio Mucarabones de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscrip ción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continua ción, número del solar J guión cincuenta y dos (J-52), área del solar de cuatrocientos uno pun to siete cinco metros cuadrados (401.75 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar cincuenta

y uno (51) en una distancia de treinta punto ocho cero cua tro metros (30.804 m.); por el SUR, con el solar cincuenta y dos (52) en una distancia de treinta y uno punto cero cero cuatro metros (31.004 m.); por el ESTE, con Calle Hato Tejas Principal en trece punto cero cero dos metros (13.002 m.); y por el OESTE, con Ca lle Mirto en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros. Enclava una casa. La escritura de hi poteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 52 del tomo 379 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón III, finca número 18,988, inscripción 3ra. La di rección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Montecasino, Solar J-52, Calle Mirto, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandan te la suma de $100,972.59 de principal, intereses al 7 1/4% anual, desde el día 1ro. de oc tubre de 2012, hasta su com pleto pago, más la cantidad de $12,000.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acu mulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $120,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segun da subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $80,000.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la canti dad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $60,000.00. Si se de clara desierta la tercera subas ta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adju dicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo lici tador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán sub sistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipo tecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Embargo Federal a favor de los Estados Unidos de América, por la suma prin cipal de $17,531.53, contra F. Hernández Bautista & A. San tos ALV, seguro social número XXX-XX-9980, Notificación 671 491 110, presentado el día 12

de julio de 2010, anotado al folio 71, Asiento 1 del Libro de Contribuciones Federales, Número 5, Registro de la Pro piedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. Embargo Federal a favor de los Estados Unidos de América, por la suma prin cipal de $13,543.27, contra

Angel Santos-Joyería Oriany, seguro social patronal número 66-0268113, Notificación 859 347 012, presentado el día 19 de abril de 2012, anotado al folio 56, Asiento 5 del Libro de Contribuciones Federales, Número 6. Registro de la Pro piedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. Embargo Federal a favor de los Estados Unidos de América, por la suma prin cipal de $12,981.55, contra Angel Santos-Joyería Oriany, seguro social patronal número 66-0268113, Notificación 859 347 112, presentado el día 19 de abril de 2012, anotado al folio 57, Asiento 1 del Libro de Contribuciones Federales, Número 6. Registro de la Pro piedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. Embargo Federal a favor de los Estados Unidos de América, por la suma principal de $2,219.80, contra Angel Santos-Joyería Oriany, seguro social patronal número 660268113, Notificación 859 347 212, presentado el día 19 de abril de 2012, anotado al folio 57, Asiento 2 del Libro de Con tribuciones Federales, Número 6. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. Embargo Estatal, (Ley #12) a favor del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $9,793.48, contra Angel A. Ruiz Rivera & A. San tos, Certificación de fecha 4 de junio de 2010, anotado el 21 de junio de 2010, al folio 40, Orden número 156 del Libro de Embargos Estatales Número 2 (Ley #12). Registro de la Pro piedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a to das las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que po drán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta acep tada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, debe rá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El ex ceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL,

expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Baya món, Puerto Rico, a 14 de oc tubre de 2022. MARIBEL LAN

ZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V.

JOSE H. ABILLEIRA;

INTELIHOMES, CORP.

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01639. Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSE H. ABILLEIRA.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de octubre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍ

GUEZ COLLADO, SECRETA RIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTÓS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION RUBEN FRANCISCO DEL ROSARIO CERVONI T/C/C

RUBEN FRANCISCO DEL ROSARIO HIJO T/C/C RUBEN DEL ROSARIO CERVONI T/C/C RUBEN DEL ROSARIO COMPUESTA POR SYLVIA DEL ROSARIO SNAFELIU, MARISA DEL ROSARIO SNAFELIU, MARIA DEL ROSARIO SNAFELIU, RUBEN DEL ROSARIO FIGUEROA, MATILDE DEL ROSARIO DIAZ; NOEMI DIAZ RIVERA T/C/C NOEMI DIAZ DEL ROSARIO EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2021CV01737.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, 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 Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Carolina, 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 Certifi cado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala de Carolina, el 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, 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 hipote cado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: UR BANA: Apartment number one thousand two hundred twelve (1212). Residential apartment marked One Thousand Two Hundred Twelve (1212) on the Twelfth (12th.) Floor of Mar bella del Caribe Condominium West Tower at kilometer zero point six (0.6) of State Road Number One Hundred Eighty Seven (187), Isla Verde, Ca rolina, Puerto Rico, with an approximate area of One Thou sand Four Hundred Seventy Six

RODRÍGUEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LUZ COLÓN COLÓN, T/C/C LUZ DELIA COLÓN COLÓN.

Point Forty Three Square Feet (1476.43 Sq. Ft.), equivalent to One Hundred Thirty Seven Point Sixteenth Square Meters (137.16 Sq. Mts.), bounding: On the North with exterior ele ments of the building, with the empty space over the recrea tional area with Apartment One Thousand Two Hundred Eleven (1211), with common corridor and with Apartment Number One Thousand Two Hundred Fourteen (1214). On the South, with the exterior elements of the building and with the empty space over the common terra ce located over the sale spa ces. The apartment consists of living-dining room, kitchen, two (2) bathrooms, three (3) bedrooms, four (4) closet, walkin closet and a balcony on its North side. The apartment has a main door connecting with the common corridor on the floor from where access may be gai ned to the exterior of the buil ding and to the public street by the elevators and stairway. This apartment is equipped with a stainless steel sink, range with over, kitchen cabinets, water heater and central air conditio ning. Se le asigna el área de estacionamiento número Tres cientos Sesenta y Cinco (365).

Inscrita al folio 237 del tomo 552 de Carolina Norte, finca 27,648, Registro de la Propie dad de Carolina, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta ins crita al folio 139 del tomo 972 de Carolina Norte, finca 27,648, Registro de la Propiedad de Ca rolina, Sección I, inscripción 5ª.

Propiedad localizada en: 5347 AVE. ISLA VERDE, APT. 1212

COND. MARBELLA DEL CARI BE, CAROLINA, PR 00979. Se gún figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anterio res o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $727,500.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 4 de agosto de 2086. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, 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 $727,500.00, 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 Carolina, el 12 DE DICIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00

DE LA MAÑANA, y se esta blece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $485,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $363,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑA NA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $404,218.23 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $64,344.96 en inte reses acumulados al 4 de no viembre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.501% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $16,946.29 en seguro hipotecario; $5,145.00 en tarifas de servicio; $543.00 en seguro; $400.00 de inspec ciones; $317.00 en preserva ción; $1,280.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $72,750.00, para gas tos, costas y honorarios de abo gado, esta última habrá de de vengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta 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 mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, 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 intere sados 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 es pacio de dos semanas conse cutivas 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. Expe dido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de octubre de 2022. José R. Cristóbal, Alguacil Regional. Héctor L. Peña Rodríguez, Al guacil Placa #278.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA MMG I PR CDGY, LLC Demandante V. DOMINGA ESCRIBANO SANCHEZ POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE CARLOS MANUEL NEGRON PABON COMPUESTA ADEMAS POR ALEXIS NEGRON ESCRIBANO, SUCESION DE JUAN CARLOS NEGRON ESCRIBANO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE CARLOS MANUEL NEGRON PABON, ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: CN2020CV00188.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA (IN REM). AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SU BASTA.

A: DOMINGA ESCRIBANO SANCHEZ POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE CARLOS MANUEL NEGRON PABON COMPUESTA ADEMAS POR ALEXIS NEGRON ESCRIBANO, SUCESION DE JUAN CARLOS NEGRON ESCRIBANO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE CARLOS MANUEL NEGRON PABON, ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE

INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puer to Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acree dores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o de rechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecu tada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación 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 ho norarios de abogados asegu rados, quedando entonces su brogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINAN CIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO: A cuyo fa vor aparece inscrito un pagaré por la suma de $5,000.00, sin intereses y a vencer el 15 de mayo de 2015, según consta de la escritura #334, otorgada en San Juan, el 25 de mayo de 2007, ante el Notario Pedro R. Cintrón Rivera, inscrito al folio 118 del tomo 384 (ágora) de Canóvanas, finca # 15,710, inscripción 4ta. ORIENTAL

BANK: A cuyo favor aparece una anotación de demanda, en el Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala de Rio Grande, caso civil # FBCI2014001657, Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Oriental Bank versus Car los Manuel Negrón Pabón t/c/c Como Carlos Manuel Negrón y su esposa Dominga Escribano Sánchez y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, por la suma de $88,093.71, y otras sumas. Anotado al folio 88 del tomo 436 de Canóvanas, finca 15,710 anotación A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 23 de agosto de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continua ción: Dirección de la Propiedad: Com. Villa Borinquen Calle 1 D24 Canóvanas, PR 00729:

RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el numero D-24, en el pla no de parcelación de la Comu nidad rural Villa Borinquén. del barrio Torrecillas Altas, del tér mino municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de doscientos noventa y siete pun

to ochenta y dos (297.82) me tros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la numero D-23, de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela D-26 de la comu nidad; por el ESTE, con la calle número #1 y la parcela número D -25 de la comunidad y por el OESTE, con la calle #4 de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio 118 del tomo 384 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, fin ca número 15,710. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, ascenden te a la suma de $117,808.41 al día 25 de mayo de 2022, lo cual se desglosa en $86,432.10 de principal, $5,084.71 de inte reses, $515.32 de cargos por demora, $41.82 de seguro (“FPI”) de cargos por seguro de la propiedad, $760.80 de cargos de deficiencia de cuen ta plica (“negative escrow”) $24,973.66 balance de quiebra, más costas, y otros gastos, en adición a la suma de $8,144.30 por concepto de honorarios de abogados, disponiendose que si quedare algun remanente, luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con dere cho previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referi da 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 algua cil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA , en la oficina del referido Al guacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mí nimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $88,159.44. de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efec to el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $58,772.96, 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 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11 :45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $44,079.72,

equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. EX PIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de octubre de 2022. Héctor L. Peña Rodríguez, Alguacil, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior De Carolina.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE PONCE

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. HOME MORTGAGE CORPORATION; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV02237. Sala: 602. Sobre: CANCELA CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRA VIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: HOME MORTGAGE CORPORATION, persona que puedan ser tenedor o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré hipotecario a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez. Se les notifica que en la De manda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que el 20 de mayo de 1994, se otorgó un pa garé a favor de Home Mortgage Company, o a su orden, por la suma de $82,311.00 de princi pal, con intereses al 8% anual, con vencedero el 1 de junio de 2024, ante el Notario José L. Arias Juárez. En garantía del pagaré antes descrito se otorgó la escritura de hipoteca número 517, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de mayo de 1994, ante el Notario José L. Arias Juá rez, inscrita al folio 264 vuelto del tomo 1716 de Ponce, finca número 53491, inscripción 3, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección l. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca núme ro 53491 inscrita al folio 263 del tomo 1716 de Ponce, Registro de Ponce, Sección l. La obliga ción evidenciada por el pagaré antes descrito fue saldada en su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el ori ginal del pagaré. El original del pagaré antes descrito no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. Home Mortgage Company es el acreedor que consta en el Re gistro de la Propiedad. Oriental Bank fue último tenedor cono cido del pagaré antes descrito.

POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este empla zamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación

responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

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Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 12 de octubre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARA BALLO GARCÍA, SECRETA RIA. BRENDA L. SANTIAGO LÓPEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. JOSE H. ABILLEIRA; INTELIHOMES, CORP. Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01639. Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOSE H. ABILLEIRA. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de octubre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Mildred J. Franco Reventós, Sec Auxiliar.

The NBA’s bumpy road to a new season

By SOPAN DEB

The NBA began a new season Tues day under a cloud of scandals and drama that has distracted from the basketball and that has challenged the progressive image the league has long cultivated.

“I think right now the best thing that can happen is the season start on the court,” said Chris Mullin, a Hall of Fame former player.

Last season’s finals teams — Golden State and Boston — are navigating inter nal crises. Two teams in top media mar kets — the Brooklyn Nets and the Los An geles Lakers — are trying to integrate their stars.

And a situation in Phoenix has brought the league’s leaders and image under scrutiny. The majority owner of the Suns and the WNBA’s Mercury, Robert Sarver, was found to have used racial slurs and engaged in sexist behavior over many years, but the league’s punishment — a $10 million fine and one-year suspension — was immediately criticized by players and fans as being too light. Soon, under public pressure, Sarver said he would sell the teams.

Though there are still many things for fans to be excited about, such as a new rule to speed up games and the improved health of some injured stars, several issues are lingering as the season gets underway.

How will Draymond Green’s punch affect Golden State?

After defeating the Celtics in six games to win the NBA championship in June, Golden State looked poised for a strong campaign in pursuit of a repeat. Then TMZ posted a video of forward Draymond Green punching his teammate Jordan Poole during a practice this month.

“I don’t think anyone could watch that and not say that it’s upsetting,” said Mullin, who spent most of his 16-year career with Golden State and is now a broadcaster for the team. “It’s unacceptable behavior.”

After Green was fined and agreed to stay away from the team for about a week, Golden State welcomed him back and publicly put on a “Nothing To See Here” face. Green apologized privately and

publicly, and Poole said Sunday that they would coexist professionally.

But Golden State has been criticized for not levying a harsher punishment, like a suspension for some regular-season games. coach Steve Kerr said criticism was “fair.”

Mullin said that for the team to sur vive the incident, Green would need to show “genuine effort to make amends on a daily basis.”

Suns owner Sarver’s misconduct casts a shadow.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was left fielding rare, pointed criticism from top players after announcing Sarver’s punishment last month. An independent investigation determined that Sarver had treated female employees unfairly over several years, among other instances of workplace misconduct.

“I’ve always looked at Adam as a great leader of an organization, but I’ve never conflated who Adam Silver works for,” Jay Williams, an ESPN analyst and former NBA player, said, referring to the team owners.

Though the investigators enumerated many examples of Sarver’s use of racial slurs and mistreatment of women, they

said there was “no finding that Sarver’s conduct was motivated by racial or gen der-based animus.” Silver stood by the re port when asked about that finding.

Some of the league’s top players, in cluding Lakers forward LeBron James and Suns guard Chris Paul, criticized Silver as being too lenient on Sarver. Eventually, it wasn’t the league and its team owners who pushed Sarver out: Sarver said he would sell the Phoenix basketball franchises amid pressure from players, fans and sponsors like PayPal, which said it would discon tinue its partnership with the Suns if Sarver returned after his suspension.

Celtics coach Ime Udoka’s suspension is a mystery.

The Celtics unexpectedly found them selves appointing an interim coach just months after coach Ime Udoka — whose rise had seemed to many to be a feel-good success story — led them to the NBA Finals.

On Sept. 22, the team suspended Udo ka for a year under mysterious circumstanc es vaguely described as involving violations of team rules. According to two people with knowledge of the situation who were not authorized to discuss it publicly, Udoka had a relationship with a female subordi nate.

The players seemed stunned, and the team’s decision to say so little about what happened has had painful consequences: Many people on social media have specu lated about which women on the Celtics’ staff might have been involved with Udo ka.

Boston named Joe Mazzulla, 34, one of Udoka’s assistants, as the interim head coach for the season. The Celtics are still expected to be one of the top contenders in the Eastern Conference, but the sudden change in leadership may be difficult for a team with young stars still trying to estab lish themselves.

The trade rumors of the summer aren’t over yet.

The talk of the summer was a surpris ing trade request in June from Nets forward Kevin Durant, who said he was unhappy with the team’s discipline and direction. Nearly two months after he asked out of Brooklyn, Durant and the Nets “agreed to move forward with our partnership,” leav ing behind a trail of trade rumors.

“I want to be in a place that’s stable and trying to build a championship cul ture,” Durant said on the team’s media day last month. “So, I had some doubts about that.”

Last season was rough for the Nets, who were swept by Boston in the first round of the playoffs and were often with out guard Kyrie Irving because he refused coronavirus vaccinations. That meant he could not play in home games for most of the season because of New York City rules. He, too, was involved in trade rumors this summer.

Irving said that he had some options to move on from the Nets, but he ultimately decided to pick up his player option for the 2022-23 season. Several media reports linked him to the Lakers, who have an unhappy star of their own: guard Russell Westbrook.

Westbrook, a nine-time All-Star and the 2016-17 MVP, spent the summer be ing the constant subject of trade rumors af ter the Lakers shockingly missed the 2022 playoffs. The specter of a trade looms over the team.

The Boston Celtics stand for the singing of the national anthem before playing against Golden State during last season’s N.B.A. finals. Both teams have been navigating internal crises.

A new rule and stars’ returns could up the excitement

On the court, fans can look to two key changes that could lead to more enjoyable games: a new rule to reduce transition take fouls and the returns of several stars who had been injured.

Intentional fouls to stop fast breaks —

also known as take fouls — will now be fur ther penalized with an automatic free throw. These fouls have become more prevalent in recent years and have been criticized for how they impede potentially exciting plays.

According to the NBA, there were an aver age of 1.4 transition take fouls per game last season for a total of 1,722. The players that were fouled the most this way: Atlanta’s De jounte Murray, then with the San Antonio

Spurs (28); Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetok ounmpo (27); and the Lakers’ James (22).

The new rule could free up James just as he is closing in on a milestone: passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the top spot on the NBA’s career scoring list. James is 1,325 points behind Abdul-Jabbar, which makes it likely that he will attain first place this sea son.

James, 37, is the marquee star in a

league that arguably depends on star power more than other professional sports leagues.

Several elite players who were missing for most or all of last season are expected to be healthy and available as the season gets underway, including Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans; Paul George and Kawhi Leonard of the Los Angeles Clippers; Ben Simmons of the Nets; and Anthony Da vis of the Lakers.

Benzema wins Ballon d’Or after years of waiting his turn

this new “elite” panel represented the “real connoisseurs” of the game.)

Perhaps most significantly, the voting cri teria were clarified: The magazine instructed its jurors that individual attainment over the previous season should outweigh team success, and that a player’s broader career should not be relevant at all. Ferré hoped that measure — clearly directed at what might be regarded as legacy voters for Messi and Ronaldo — would make the Ballon d’Or an “open competition, rather than a preserve.”

At first glance, of course, it is possible to believe that those changes made a differ ence in determining the outcome. It is, after all, only the second time since 2008 that a player other than Messi or Ronaldo has been anointed as the best on the planet. (Ben zema’s Real Madrid teammate Luka Modric was the other exception, in 2018.) It is the first time since 2006 that neither man has at least been on the podium. Ronaldo, after a disappointing year at Manchester United, finished 10th. Messi, last year’s winner, did not even make the shortlist.

hat-trick in the competition’s round of 16 to send Real Madrid through at the expense of Paris St.-Germain, and it was Benzema who scored another in the first leg of the quar terfinal with Chelsea. When that advantage seemed to have been wasted in the return fix ture, it was Benzema who lifted Real Madrid once more, scoring the extra-time goal that sealed its place in the semifinal.

There, he not only scored twice in a diz zying first encounter with Manchester City, but nervelessly converted the penalty that completed yet another extraordinary Real comeback at the Santiago Bernabéu. Ben zema did not win the Ballon d’Or because Messi and Ronaldo finally fell to earth. He did so because, over the past year or so, he has reached their celestial level.

By RORY SMITH

At last, the eternal understudy has taken center stage. Karim Benzema spent much of his career as a glittering sup porting act for Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo and, more recently, Kylian Mbappé. Now, two months short of his 35th birthday, he has the trinket that marks him as a star in his own right: a Ballon d’Or.

Benzema, for months regarded as the overwhelming favorite to win the 2022 edi tion of the award given to the world’s best soccer player, collected his prize Monday at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Sadio Mané, who led Senegal to victory in the Africa Cup of Nations, finished second, with Manches ter City’s Kevin De Bruyne third. Benzema

had described winning one as his “dream since childhood”; he has had to wait a little longer than he might have anticipated to see it come true.

France Football, the magazine that has awarded the Ballon d’Or, the most illustrious individual prize in soccer since 1956, had announced that the voting for this year’s edi tion would be subject to what Pascal Ferré, the publication’s editor, referred to as a “little makeover” in order to retain its relevance and burnish its accuracy.

Rather than offering 176 journalists from around the world a vote on the final winners, only those from the top 100 nations in FIFA’s global rankings would decide the men’s award, and the top 50 the women’s prize.

(Ferré, more than a little disparagingly, said

And yet that assessment risks not only turning Benzema’s triumph into a subplot in a story of Messi and Ronaldo’s fall, but also ignoring the context for his victory. Whatever changes France Football had announced, whatever criteria it had emphasized, so re markable was Benzema’s season that it is hard to imagine a way in which he might not have won.

The blunt measures, of course, are the trophies — his fifth Champions League, an other Spanish title — and the goals: 27 in La Liga, 15 in just a dozen games in Europe. Even those numbers do not, though, capture his impact. Benzema may not have been the decisive player in the Champions League fi nal, an honor that fell to his teammate Viní cius Júnior, but he had unquestionably been the defining figure in Real’s journey to the final in Paris.

It was Benzema who scored a quick-fire

Even with Ferré’s changes, the Ballon d’Or remains an inherently curious phenom enon, most clearly illustrated by the absence of the best player in the summer’s women’s European Championship, England’s Keira Walsh, even from the shortlist for the wom en’s award, won instead by Barcelona’s in jured star Alexia Putellas for the second year in a row.

But Benzema’s victory is warranted, and perhaps overdue, recognition for a player who gave much of his peak career in the ser vice of an even brighter star.

Benzema’s victory, coupled with the ab sence from the top three of the two players who have traded this award between them for more than a decade, suggests that era is now over, although an unexpected World Cup win for either might allow them one last hurrah.

It does not, though, herald the dawn of a new age. Benzema will be 35 in December. His has been a glorious autumn, but it is an autumn nonetheless. The future lies with the other names on the list, with Erling Haaland and Mbappé and Phil Foden and Vinicíus. Their time will come, and soon. For now, though, today belongs, at last, to Benzema.

Karim Benzema is the first French player to win the Ballon d’Or since Zinedine Zidane in 1998.

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Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Ready to take advantage of an opportunity? The coming days can see you willing to use charm to impress key people, and get the desired outcome. Where dating is concerned, a lively aspect encourages a bolder approach, if there is someone you are keen to get closer to. In the past you may have thought of this person as a friend. Now you might sense there’s a romantic edge.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

The Sun/Venus tie-up in Libra, further encourages the theme of harmony, and of spending every day in a way that leaves you happy and at ease, rather than stressed out because you can’t cope. With Mars in the picture too, and in reverse, you may also question if you are being paid what you are worth. Today’s aspects can encourage you to work towards making many changes for the better.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

You’ll fare best today when you keep active, such as walking in nature, enjoying an outing, being creative or being with a loved one. If you do have difficult tasks to accomplish, a lively line-up between Venus, the Sun and Mars can give you courage and confidence to overcome challenges and head towards success. Don’t try to do it all solo, as getting others involved brings success.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Get moving on those small but significant personal goals that might not seem much, but could have quite an impact, Cancer. Keen to initiate a spiritual practice, such as learning meditation or keeping a daily dream diary? You’ll have the motivation and desire to make a start. On the home front, tasks like clearing out packed drawers or overfilled closets can bring a sense of triumph.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

This can be a busy day of get-togethers, calls, outings and generally keeping touch. And the Sun’s link to Mars in your sector of communication, may enhance your curiosity, and find you making short journeys and attending to business and admin. You could be the star of the show at one event though, as with luscious Venus in the mix, you might have an audience of admirers, Leo.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

You could get involved in petty matters, but perhaps the best use of the day is to focus on securing an opportunity that might be lucrative, Virgo. If you have the right skills, be sure to promote them, as a positive blend of energies gives you the confidence to move forward. Keen to supplement your income? With some creative thinking, you can start a successful side-hustle.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Your words can impress, persuade and get you noticed, Libra. As the Sun and Venus align with Mars, you’ll know just what to say to promote your ideas and skills. And if you are an authority on any subject, this is the time to flaunt your knowledge and teach others, if you have the inclination. Want to explore new terrain? New places and faces may boost your spirits no end.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Have a life-coach, therapist or someone you can confide in? A Sun/Venus/Mars alignment may encourage you to discuss something. The cause might not be what you think it is. And if you can’t see how to deal with it, it’s surprising how helpful a fresh perspective could be. Linking with someone who may see what you can’t, might be an eye-opener in so many ways, Scorpio.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Attending an event? You may get more than you bargained for, as new connections and upbeat opportunities can leave you feeling enriched. Whether this occurs online or in real life, it could pay to reach out, swap advice and stories, and get a feel for what’s occurring in the circles in which you move. You might need your diplomatic qualities if discussing edgy issues today.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

If you have an announcement to make, this is the time to go ahead, as key planets in a prominent position suggest that it will be well received. Need to motivate and inspire others? Your words can certainly do that, and if someone is lacking confidence or feeling down, you could give them the boost they need. Is something bugging you? It’s best to let it go, rather than letting it fester.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

As lovely Venus merges with the Sun in your knowledge zone, you’ll see the bigger picture regarding ideas that you have been dreaming up. Now is the time to share them, and get the support you need to make them happen. But you’ll also be inclined to get out and enjoy life. And if there is someone you would like to spend time with, this is a good day to make it happen.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

With love and passion in the mix, this could be a delightful day when a budding relationship crosses the line between platonic and intimate. Conversations may be deep, and feelings intense. This might be a time when an issue that’s been difficult to resolve, is peacefully discussed and solutions found. If this involves family, then it can encourage a positive change of heart.

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