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An agreement that facilitates cyber security

By the STAR Staff

Aspart of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Acting Director of the Office of Innovation and Technology Services (PRITS), Nannette Mar tínez, and the Ombudsman, Edwin García Feliciano, signed an agreement that facilitates the exchange of data in the event of a cyber incident.

The agreement will allow that if an Executive Branch agency reports a potential data breach event, the Ombudsman’s Office will receive that information to provide advice on the notification that agencies should follow the possible data breach.

“In keeping with Governor Pedro Pierluisi’s public policy, we at PRITS have developed several initiatives to prevent cyber incidents. This new effort will allow the Ombudsman’s Office to immediately receive an alert about a possible event that violates cybersecurity and involves the leakage of citizen information,” explained

the PRITS director.

It was reported that according to the Guide for Reporting Cybersecurity Incidents, developed by PRITS, the agencies, corporations, and instrumentalities of the Executive Branch have a standardized method for reporting a cybersecurity event.

The Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Guide is a tool developed by PRITS that allows the Chief Information Technology Officers (CIOs) of the agen cies of the Government of Puerto Rico to report and document all cybersecurity events that have resulted in an incident that represents a violation of security laws, procedures, and policies, or that is a threat or has put the Government’s information or information systems at risk.

This report will be essential to gather relevant information for further analysis based on historical data, activities being conducted, parties involved, and future action plans.

Acting Director of the Office of Innovation and Technology Services (PRITS), Nannette Martínez, and the Ombudsman Edwin García Feliciano.

FOMB questions tax incentives for medical specialists citing irregularities with numbers

By THE STAR STAFF

TheFinancial Oversight and Management Board has ques tioned government motives for enacting an amendment to the Incentives Code that allows medical specialists and subspecialists to qualify for tax incentives as only two people have applied and qualified.

In a letter signed by FOMB General Counsel Jaime El Koury that was addressed to Nelson Pérez Méndez, the deputy executive director of the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, the FOMB said that following the enactment of Act 60 in November 2021, the government certified that it would reduce Commonwealth revenues by about $16 million yearly.

Since that time, the government and the FOMB have had disagreements about the law’s impact. The FOMB advised the government that the FY2023 commonwealth budget would be reduced by $47 million to reflect revenue losses anticipated from Act 60 and requesting more information.

The government in June revised its number stating that the fiscal impact of the Act was roughly $115,000 per year, and not the $16 million cited in its original submission.

The Oversight Board said it was concerned the government has implemented or will implement the law without further review and agreement of the Board.

This revised cost estimate of $115,000 is based on the declaration in Circular Letter 2021-008 from the Department of Health, which states that a Special Certification due to pressing need will apply to two branches of medicine. These are cardio vascular thoracic surgery and cardiothoracic anesthesiology.

As you the government has acknowledged “there have been only two people who have applied and qualified under the Circular Letter, which raises questions regarding the need and purpose of the broad language of Act 60.”

The Board also said the language on the special certifica tions is broad and allows the government to issue them at will. “We therefore continue to maintain that the cost estimate is incomplete,” Koury said.

While the government argues that Act 60 limits the govern ment’s ability to grant tax decrees by requiring that each decree conform to the Certified Fiscal Plan’s revenue requirement and be issued only under exceptional circumstances, the FOMB said the law’s language allowing the certifications to be issued under “exceptional circumstances” remains unclear. The Board said the law could be interpreted as allowing the Economic Devel opment and Commerce Secretary of DDEC to issue certificates

without little justification.

“While the Certified Fiscal Plan’s requirement of revenue neutrality applies to the fiscal implications of the Act itself, it does not address the implications of individual application of the law. The Act therefore exposes the Commonwealth to potential revenue loss significantly beyond the granting of the two identified de crees,” the FOMB said.

Furthermore, Act 60 must be evaluated in combination with other laws enacted in the Commonwealth, the Board said. For instance, Act 52 of 2022, which modified the tax treatment for foreign controlled corporations, allows certain qualified physicians to get tax incentives.

“Given the mutual and potentially compounding effects of Act 52 and Act 60, please be advised that the Oversight Board has determined (that) Act 60 is significantly inconsistent with the Certified

Fiscal Year 2022 Commonwealth Fiscal Plan with regard to the provisions related to medical Professionals” and violates PROMESA, the Board said.

In that regard, the Board also noted that Act 52 is also inconsistent with the fiscal plan with regards to the provision of medical professionals.

If the Government does not submit its administrative guid ance concerning Act 52, the Oversight Board reserves the right to take such actions as it deems necessary including seeking remedies to prevent implementation and enforcement of Act 60, the Board said.

“Please be advised that if the Legislature passes additional laws providing for special tax decrees reducing Commonwealth revenue without complete and effective offsets, the Oversight Board will accomplish offsets and or take any other actions it deems necessary,” the FOMB warned.

CCPA webinar acquaints participants with Fiona recovery support

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

To guide certified public accountants and the community on the financial support available after the impact of Hurricane Fiona, the Certified Public Accountants Association (CCPA by its Spanish initials) held a webinar late last week entitled “Financial Assistance Opportunities and Recovery Process in the Wake of Hurricane Fiona.”

“For us at the CCPA it is very important to promote the eco nomic development of Puerto Rico, which is why it is a priority to hold this type of webinar,” CCPA President Aixa González Reyes said on Friday. “There are few opportunities to bring together in a single activity representatives of different entities, both local and federal, to discuss these issues, and we achieved it in this educational event.”

The event began with a presentation by Vivian Lopéz, contributions specialist in the Treasury Department’s Division of Practice Regulation and Taxpayer Education, who discussed the tax administration measures adopted by the agency. Some of those discussed were related to the filing dates and their postponement; payment of payrolls; collection and garnishment

notices; and exemptions for merchants, among other topics. The measures apply to individual income tax returns; corporations; senior credit and compensatory credit for low-income pensioners; and conduit entities and other legal entities.

José Marchand, the Federal Emergency Management Agen

cy’s preparedness specialist, detailed FEMA’s response plan and the aid it offers. In his presentation, Marchand said the agency handles emergencies in four phases: preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation. As of Oct. 17, the agency has approved more than 645,000 requests for assistance. That represents $487 million in individual disaster assistance grants for homeowners and renters.

Also participating was Vivian Dolagaray, executive vice president of commercial strategy and financing of the Economic Development Bank for Puerto Rico, who presented the bank’s Disaster Relief and Financing Plan. Likewise, she detailed the financing products that the bank offers to support small and midsize enterprises on the island.

Aixa González Reyes, CCPA President

Representing the U.S. Small Business Administration, Luis Rodríguez, a lender relations officer, and CPA Ricardo Martínez, the deputy district director for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, discussed the Disaster Assistance Program they offer for entre preneurs. The assistance is available in the form of low-interest, long-term loans to replace or repair a property; inventory; machinery; accessories; and to improve rental properties and equipment that were damaged or destroyed in a disaster and that have not been compensated.

Jaime El Koury, legal counsel for the Financial Oversight and Management Board

U.S. lawmakers questioned irregular approval of recent Jones Act waivers for Puerto Rico

By THE STAR STAFF

Democratsand Republicans from the U.S. House of Representatives want to know why I.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas waived the Jones Act twice to allow the delivery of fuel to Puerto Rico on foreign-flagged vessels after the cargo was already at sea.

The Department issued the first Jones Act waive on September 28 to allow British Petro leum Products North America transport diesel fuel on a foreign-flagged tanker from Texas. The ship anchored in Guayanilla port but had been barred from delivering its cargo because of the Jones Act, a law that requires the use of U.S.-flagged vessels for cargo delivery between two U.S. points.

The second waiver, which was issued Oc tober 16, allowed Naturgy, which operates a power plant and LNG terminal on the island, to transship LNG from the Dominican Republic. The LNG cargo originated in the U.S. and was originally shipped to the Dominican Republic on a foreign vessel. The cargo was for EcoEléc trica, which was running out of natural gas.

House Transportation and Infrastructure

Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio and com mittee Republicans and Democrats expressed concern about the waivers authorized by Mayorkas’ decision. Maritime Administration Secretary Ann Phillips had described the waiv ers as “novel and problematic” because they were requested after the cargo had already left the U.S.

“We write to express our concerns and disappointment with your recent decision to grant Jones Act waivers for the delivery of fuel to Puerto Rico including to allow the delivery of diesel that was sourced from the mainland United States by British Petroleum Products North America (BPPNA) to Puerto Rico on a foreign vessel on September 28, 2022,” the

lawmakers said in a letter to the Mayorkas and Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “We concur with the Maritime Administration (MARAD) that consideration of a waiver while a vessel is already underway is ‘novel and problematic’ and would like to better understand the reasoning for your decision to issue a waiver for a company that appeared to be gaming the Jones Act waiver process.”

A letter sent by Phillips to W. Richmond Beevers at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in response to the urgent request submitted on October 15 by Naturgy and AES for a U.S.-flag market availability survey required of MARAD as part of the Jones Act waiver process, shows that the procedure was done hastily.

The letter, published at the Department of Transportation Maritime website, noted that the Naturgy waiver was to allow the foreign-flagged METHANE PRINCESS to transport 30,000 cubic meters of liquified natural gas (LNG) from the Dominican Republic to San Juan.

“Although the voyage between the Domin ican Republic and Puerto Rico does not involve transportation between coastwise points, our

understanding is that this fuel was originally transported on October 1, 2022 from Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana by a non-coastwise-qualified vessel to the Dominican Republic, where it has been stored since October 6, 2022. Based on our understanding of relevant CBP administrative rulings, the storage of the fuel in the Dominican Republic has not broken the continuity of the voyage from Louisiana for Jones Act purposes, so that the relevant voyage to consider is from Louisiana to Puerto Rico,” Phillips said.

“MARAD cannot conduct a retroactive market survey of vessel availability for the waiv er request under 46 U.S.C. § 501(b) because the relevant transportation commenced October 1, 2022. However, given the applicant’s state ment that LNG is needed in Puerto Rico under current conditions, CBP requested a two-hour market survey closing at 5:00 p.m. October 15, 2022, to determine whether there are any coastwise-qualified vessels that can deliver 30,000 cubic meters (or any other quantity) of LNG to the EcoEléctrica LNG terminal in Penuelas, Puerto Rico, by October 16, 2022,” Phillips said.

Resident commissioner distances herself from Pierluisi’s

By THE STAR STAFF

ResidentCommissioner Jenniffer González Colón rejected late last week any link with Walter or Eduardo Pierluisi, cousins of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia who were part of a federal government raid related to their con tracts with the Public Housing Administration.

“I have to tell you that the one who runs my campaign is me, the one who has been setting up my campaign committee has been me, and never has any Pierluisi been on my campaign teams, in any of my structures,” González Colón said Friday. “So those sources

seem to me to be malicious, trying to link me with things that I have nothing to do with.”

“I know those people; of course, I know them. They have been linked to the governor’s activities for many years, and in my opinion, they are serious people,” the resident com missioner added. “But to say that they are part of my campaign team, how far are they going to go? No, I am González Colón; I am not Pierluisi.”

“Second, I direct my efforts,” she added. “There are the working committees, which are based at the FEC [Federal Elections Commis sion], so it seems clearer to me. So [regarding] anonymous sources, the source here is me. And I can tell you about my campaign committee in that it is available on the networks just in case.”

The resident commissioner’s statements were in response to press reports that cited sources alleging that Eduardo Pierluisi joined her campaign for the 2024 elections.

“Never. That never happened. I have never been part of my campaign committee,” she said. “I don’t have any gubernatorial campaign structure. I am a resident commissioner, and I have a resident commissioner structure based at the FEC. So anyone who says that is com pletely incorrect.”

Federal agents on Thursday morning went to the offices of Pierluisi Isern Law Office PSC, registered in the name of Walter Pierluisi Isern. They also raided a residence in the Paseo del Bosque complex in San Juan belonging to Edwardo Pierluisi Isern, the governor’s cousin. In addition, the offices of American Manage ment and Administration Corp., a company in charge of the administration of public housing, were raided.

Among the agencies that participated in the raid were the FBI, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment (HUD) and the HUD Office of the Inspector General, among others.

The defense team of the gov ernor’s cousin Walter Pierluisi, Osvaldo Carlo Linares and Edu ardo Ferrer, said federal agents seized their client’s cell phones and computers through search warrants.

“The cell phones were hand ed over with the passwords, the secret numbers, and the comput ers were also searched,” Carlo

Linares said in response to questions from the press. “Access was created so that the agents could enter because it is information that is in the cloud. Everything was provided, as much as they asked for.”

“The information is very limited because we are talking about a raid,” he added. “The raid is not only here, but it involves other prop erties of other people that are not related to these properties here, that is, of third parties.”

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón

New analytical tool for standardized hospital reports launched

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmchaul@gmail.com

Estudios

Técnicos, Inc. (ETI) launched the ETI Hospital Profiler, an innovative analytical and metrics tool with a standardized report designed specifically for the hospital industry.

ETI President and Chief Operating Officer Graham Castillo presented this new service Saturday at the Annual Convention of the Puerto Rico Hospital Association. A sample of the ETI Hospital Profiler is available at: www.hospitalprofilerpr.com. The platform has already been used and evaluated by Julio A. Galíndez, Managing Partner of Galíndez, LLC, who has years of experience working with this industry, and who offered at the event the presentation “How Puerto Rico hospitals compare to U.S. hospitals during these difficult times.”

“The ETI Hospital Profiler is an innovative tool that allows the visualization of metrics and specific data points for the 42 general hospitals on the Island. The analytical tool

provides insights on a variety of topics including demographic and health infrastructure in a hospital’s market area, financial information, and operational efficiency for the market area and by the hospital. The service allows a hospital to compare its performance with that of its industry peers, as well as examine key indicators for its core market area,” Castillo said.

The tool calculates the market area of each hospital facility using geolocation data.

“There’s no need to request or manage customer visitor data, which is an expensive and time-consuming process,” Castillo added.

“This is a sophisticated tool that automates data collection, metrics calculation and performance evaluation. The platform substantially reduces the cost of information collection and analysis and supports the analytical services we provide to our clients. Customers can review their position relative to their peers in terms of volume and market share, visitor trends, population characteristics, competition, financial performance, efficiency indexes, earnings per patient, and

much more,” explained Roberto López, director of the data analysis division at ETI. The main sources that feed the Profiler Hospital are CMS Cost Reports, the U.S. Census and geolocation data from mobile devices, López explained.

Hospital Profiler is a collaborative effort between ETI, the platform’s developers, and Galíndez LLC, one of the most prolific and diverse consulting and accounting firms in the healthcare field in Puerto Rico, which evaluated the platform’s usefulness to the industry.

“Now, with this tool, we will be able to help our hospital customers evaluate their operations, finances and use of patient services. In its history, it is the first time that the hospital sector in Puerto Rico has an analysis tool like this. The advantage is that now, with the ETI Profiler Hospital, they are offered an alternative for the analysis of reliable information, which is reported to the federal government and that will support the decisions that the hospital’s management makes regarding its operation,” said Julio A. Galíndez, Managing Partner of Galíndez LLC.

This new service was developed by the Technical Studies Analytics Division. Estudios Técnicos, Inc. is the leading consulting firm in planning, research, market strategy, social analysis and economic advisory in Puerto Rico. With more than 35 years of operation on the island, it maintains a vision of the future in the services provided by its team of top-level professionals. The use of advanced technology and its multidisciplinary approach make it unique in Puerto Rico.

ETI’s interdisciplinary team of consultants and its Data Analysis division have also developed other useful industry indices, including the Puerto Rico Economic Indicators Viewer, which presents the most relevant data for each sector of the island’s economy; the Puerto Rico Bank Stability Index, and the Financial Stability Index of the Credit Union Industry in Puerto Rico. These tools are freely available on www.estudiostecnicos.com

This report will be essential to gather relevant information for further analysis based on historical data, activities being conducted, parties involved, and future action plans.

Rescheduled coastal cleanup set for next Saturday

By THE STAR STAFF

Aware of the importance of natural spaces for the social, economic and emotional recovery of communities after the impact of major storms such as Hurricane Fiona, leaders of the Scuba Dogs Society (SDS) have doubled down on the work plan of the International Coastal Cleanup 2022, which was rescheduled for Saturday, Oct. 29.

The international event, which this year marks the 20th consecutive edition coordinated by SDS in Puerto Rico, is traditionally held on the third Saturday of September in more than 100 countries. In Puerto Rico, the work scheduled for Sept. 17 had to be postponed because the island was preparing for the scourge of Fiona. Following the devastation caused by the system, which hit the archipelago as a Category 1 hurricane, SDS efforts focused on supporting recovery initiatives spearheaded by its coastal captains in severely affected communities.

Having achieved some stability, the organization and its partners decided to conduct the massive cleanup operation next Saturday. They are preparing for a much more complex

scenario than the pre-hurricane one.

“We can anticipate that there will be more debris on the banks of rivers and streams, as well as at the mouths of rivers on the beaches, due to the floods and all that they dragged in their wake,” said marine biologist Sandra Schleier, the SDS program coordinator.

She noted that coastal captains have already been inspecting their areas and documenting their findings as a precautionary and planning measure. They recognize that they need more hands to complete the work and remove waste with greater caution.

“Because of the type of solid debris that may be encountered, they [volunteers] are asked to wear heavy gloves,” Schleier said.

“The captains will provide guidance on the precautions to be taken according to the profile of the space to be cleaned.”

Irma “Mimi” Ruiz, the interim executive director of SDS, emphasized that it is precisely because of this type of scenario that more volunteers are needed.

“We want to return to our natural spaces safely as soon as possible, recover them, prevent the development of further threats to public health, and fully enjoy their beauty,

which is why this cleanup is so important,” she said. “Nature needs us now as much as we need it.”

Volunteer registration is available at www.scubadogssociety.org for those wishing

to join International Coastal Cleanup 2022. Pre-registered individuals will receive instructions from the organization or their captains.

Ruiz clarified that some captains and organizations have needed to schedule their cleanups for different dates. Still, they are all part of the same event coordinated by SDS. The results will be documented through the Ocean Conservancy’s Clean Swell application, which organizes the event worldwide.

Minors can volunteer. Those 17 years of age or younger must have written authorization and be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Volunteers will be certified for four hours of Green Contact or community service.

The 211 United Way Puerto Rico Information and Referral Center will be available for more information at (787) 268-5353.

“We had originally invented Scuba Dogs Society’s Veinte Tú to clean and care for our beaches and celebrate 20 years of uninterrupted work on this important mission,” Ruiz said. “Today our exhortation is strengthened; the ‘Veinte Tú’ is to help recover our natural spaces and our communities, support ourselves, and take care of the natural resources that sustain us.”

Vulnerable and trapped: A look at those lost in Hurricane Ian

By ELIZA FAWCETT, MITCH SMITH, AVA SASANI, FRANCES ROBLES and EDEN WEINGART

RoseMarie Santangelo had weathered many hurricanes in her decades living near the water outside this city. She thought she was prepared for Hurricane Ian, too.

But like so many other Floridians, Santan gelo, 73, a beloved aunt who had retired from a career in radiation oncology, underestimated this storm.

“She really thought that it wouldn’t hit here,” said Phyllis Santangelo, a niece. “And then when it did take a turn, I think she knew it was going to be bad.”

Ian caused more deaths in Florida — at least 114 — than any hurricane in almost 90 years. Five other people died from the storm in North Carolina, as well as one in Virginia. Like Santangelo, residents became trapped in floodwaters inside their homes. Others stopped breathing when power outages left oxygen machines ino perable. Or they perished in cars as the storm surge rose.

But the storm’s impact, while broadly felt, was not even.

Most of the victims were older adults. Two-thirds of them were 60 or older, and 30 were past their 80th birthdays.

The people who died were concentrated in exposed coastal areas and on barrier islands. Although deaths were reported in 21 counties, nearly half came from Lee County, in southwest Florida.

And a large number of victims — at least 58 — drow ned, as Ian’s size, relatively slow movement and massive storm surge multiplied its threat.

As residents sort through the wreckage in Florida, a look at who died and where revealed how an aging population on the coast proved especially vulnerable to Ian. In many cases, the people who died had preexisting medical problems, waited too long to evacuate and were trapped by floodwaters. In some of the hardest-hit areas, evacuation orders that were delayed amid a shifting storm track added to the confusion.

Many victims had significant medical problems.

As Hurricane Ian neared southwest Florida, Peggy Collson, 67, became increasingly worried about her ability to survive. She lived alone on the island community of Matlacha, in a modest one-story house along the water that had withstood previous hurricanes. But Collson, who received daily care from nurse’s aides and could not walk without assistance, knew she would be at risk.

A few days before the hurricane, she tried to make

arrangements to leave the island, said her brother Jim Coll son, who lives in New York. But she ultimately decided to stay. The morning of the storm, Sept. 28, her fears magnified.

“She was so nervous she was sick to her stomach,” he said.

Peggy Collson drowned. She was found floating in a canal a few blocks from her home.

Evacuating was especially challenging for many older Floridians with health problems, leaving them with limited options.

And there was Santangelo, who had a years-old back injury and often used a walker around her pink twobedroom home.

As the hurricane approached, Santangelo was in touch with family members in her home state of Ohio. But by the afternoon of Sept. 28, she had stopped responding to their calls and text messages. When a neighbor stopped by to check on her the next day, a sheriff’s incident report said, he found her dead on the kitchen floor. She had drowned.

Five of Santangelo’s nieces and nephews came from Ohio to clear out the house. Ten days after the storm, they stood around her candlelit kitchen island, drinking their aunt’s favorite pinot grigio. They planned to spread her ashes around her palm trees.

“She was loved so much,” Phyllis Santangelo said. “She never had children; we were her kids.”

Ian’s death toll was historic, but exact data can be fuzzy.

On Oct. 1, in the immediate aftermath of Ian’s bru tal impact on southwest Florida, a spokesperson for the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said in an email that “we

currently have 23 deaths that are directly or indirectly related to the storm.” She added that the local medical examiner would later determine official causes of death. Two days later, she said the death toll in Charlotte County had risen to 24.

But as of this week, the medical examiner there had linked only eight of those deaths to Hurricane Ian, deciding that most of the rest were not caused by the storm after all.

The difference in the numbers in Charlotte County underscores the subjective science of determining which deaths that occurred during the storm were caused by it, at least in part.

Some findings are obvious, as when a person drowns after their house floods during a hurricane. But some are less clear.

In other Florida counties, medical exa miners added four suicides, a homicide, car crashes and several heart attacks to the state’s official hurricane death toll, determining that circumstances caused by the storm contributed to the deaths.

It is relatively common for death counts to change: In Lee County, the medical examiner decided that six deaths reported by the sheriff were not connected to Ian. Some Florida counties continued to add deaths this week, meaning the current count may not be final.

Some left home, then became trapped.

Ian Conway, 61, a retired pilot, lived in a tan onebedroom house in a mobile home community in Estero, on the banks of the Estero River. Living in a flood-prone area, he had always assured Margot Conway, one of his two daughters, that he would go to a shelter if a serious hurricane came through.

The morning that Hurricane Ian hit, he sent an email to his siblings saying that he was headed to a shelter, Margot Conway said. But he never made it there.

Just before 7 a.m. the next day, a neighbor called her in Washington state. Her father had been found dead from drowning, draped over a bench at the shuffleboard court across the street from his home.

His death was one of several in which people left home, either to seek shelter, make final preparations or assess damage, only to wind up becoming victims.

This past summer, Ian Conway’s health had wor sened. Margot Conway, an emergency room nurse, had urged her father to go into assisted living, but he wanted to live on his own.

Ten days after the hurricane, she spent a quiet moment at the funeral home with her father’s remains, playing his favorite song by The Smiths.

“I got to say goodbye,” she said. “I didn’t think I was going to be able to.”

A woman in Pine Island, Fla., on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. When Hurricane Ian slam med into the southwest Florida coast last month, those who did not evacuate faced conditions so dangerous that rescues were sometimes impossible.

Voters stick to pandemic-era habits, as early turnout surges

replay of 2020, when multiple states did not have final results in close elections for several days. Mail ballots take longer to tally because the envelopes must first be opened, inspected and prepared to be counted. Some states, including the battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, do not allow election officials to begin that process until Election Day, and Michigan allows just two days of processing before Election Day. Wisconsin and Michigan have seen nearly twice as many absentee ballots cast compared with during the 2018 election.

In the 2020 election, Democrats were much more likely to vote absentee and early than Republicans were, leading to the false perception on Election Day — often labeled the “red mirage” — that former President Donald Trump was on track for reelection.

That partisan pattern appears to be holding this year, although some early voting states show the gap narrowing slightly. In par ticular, young voters, who often lean Democratic, are showing a stronger inclination to vote on Election Day, said Tom Bonier, CEO of TargetSmart, a Democratic data firm.

“It’s the youngest voters who are shifting the most,” Bonier said.

Such shifts can make it difficult for analysts and campaigns to look at past patterns, party affiliation and demographics and assess which side is winning.

Bonier pointed to Florida as an example of a state whose early vote totals send mixed signals.

People arrive to vote early at the Franklin County Board of Elections in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 14, 2022. Days into early voting in the 2022 midterm elections, states across the country have seen a surge of voters casting ballots at in-person voting sites and by mail, the latest sign that the 2020 election ushered in a trans formation in the way Americans vote.

By NICK CORASANITI

Daysinto early voting in the 2022 midterm elections, states across the country have seen a surge of voters casting ballots at in-person voting sites and by mail, the latest sign that the 2020 election ushered in a transformation in the way Americans vote.

Through the first five days of early voting in Georgia, inperson turnout is up 70% percent compared with turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, according to the secretary of state’s office. In North Carolina, absentee ballot requests are up 114% percent compared with requests in 2018, according to the board of elections. And in Florida, the total early vote is up 50% percent compared with the early vote in 2018.

Election experts say the signs suggest overall turnout will be strong. But they are quick to caution that it is still early in the voting calendar; many states are less than a week in, and some have not started. With voters’ behaviors so clearly changed by pandemic-era rules, it is unclear whether this rush to vote will lead to record-breaking totals after Election Day on Nov. 8.

Still, one significant shift in how American elections are conducted has become clear: Election Day has become, and will most likely always be, election month.

“There has been a sea change of voter attitudes that has not abated,” said John Couvillon, a pollster who has worked with Republican candidates. “When you do a culture shift like that, you never go 100% back to the way things were, for the simple

reason that people, who out of habit may have been happy vot ing on Election Day, said, ‘Wait a minute — I can vote from the convenience of my kitchen table? This is so much simpler.’”

Nationally, 5.5 million voters had cast ballots as of Thursday, according to Couvillon’s count. Democrats make up 51% percent of those voters and Republicans 30%. Couvillon and other analysts did not have data to compare those numbers to 2018. But he noted it was a slight dip from Democrats’ advantage at this point in 2020 — a presidential election year, which always draws a much higher turnout. Then, 17.3 million votes had been cast, and the partisan split was 55% Democrat and 26% Republican. Some states, such as Arizona, were following a similar trend, he said.

But the tailing off for Democrats is only marginal, and many election experts view the energy in both parties as another sign of a high-turnout election.

“We’re seeing both sides being really energized this time around, which is pretty unique to a midterm cycle,” said Patrick Ruffini, a Republican pollster. “Normally, the out party is just far more energized and enthused about voting.”

Ruffini said he believed the Supreme Court decision eliminat ing federal abortion rights could drive Democrats out to vote against opponents of abortion, although it was not yet clear how many.

Voters are requesting fewer absentee ballots than they did two years ago — an expected adjustment to a safer period in the pandemic and a turnout drop from a presidential election. But requests are still significantly above 2018 levels in many states.

The increase in absentee and mail voting could lead to a

At this point in 2018, Republicans made up a larger share of the 567,000 early voters in Florida than Democrats — by about 7 percentage points. In 2020, Democrats were up 21 percent age points at this point in early voting, when 1.9 million people had cast their ballots. This year, Democrats are leading in early voting in Florida by 3.5 points, and early vote totals are around 845,000 so far.

“A Democratic partisan could look at that and say, ‘Well, look, we’re running way ahead. We were down 7 at this point in ’18, and we’re up 3 now. That’s a 10-point margin swing; good for us,’” Bonier said. “Republicans will look at it and say, ‘At this point in 2020, we were down 21. Now we’re only down 3. Good for us.’”

Michael McDonald, a voter turnout expert at the University of Florida, said his clearest takeaway so far was that there is high interest in the election.

“I think we need to get past this potential Black Friday rush of voting that you get at the very beginning when the doors open,” he said. “But the fact that you’re even seeing it, that tells you that this isn’t going to be a low-turnout election. It’s just the question is going to be how high of a turnout election we’ll get.”

Georgia has perhaps seen the largest early surge. Each day since early in-person voting began Monday, the state has set daily early vote turnout records for a midterm election. As of Friday, 519,300 voters had cast a ballot early in person, compared with 304,800 in the same period in 2018, according to data from the secretary of state’s office.

The state has also seen a surge in absentee ballot requests. The previous record, according to the secretary of state’s office, was roughly 223,000 requests made during the 2018 midterms. This cycle has eclipsed 239,800 requests, and there are likely thousands more still to arrive. Local election officials have encouraged early voting in an effort to alleviate long lines on Election Day.

Trump could harness unresolved legal issues to resist Jan. 6 panel’s subpoena

By CHARLIE SAVAGE and ALAN FEUER

Ifformer President Donald Trump decides to fight the subpoena issued to him Friday by the House committee investigating his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, his lawyers are likely to muster a battery of constitutional and procedural arguments for why a court should allow him not to testify.

In the most basic sense, any legal arguments seeking to get Trump off the hook would merely need to be weighty enough to produce 2 1/2 months of litigation. If Republicans pick up enough seats in the midterm elections to take over the House in January, as polls suggest is likely, they are virtually certain to shut down the Jan. 6 committee, a move that would invalidate the subpoena.

The issues raised by the extraordinary subpoena, which the panel announced at a hearing last week, are too complex to be definitively resolved before a potential change of power in the House, said Mark Rozell, a George Mason University professor and author of “Executive Privilege: Presidential Power, Secrecy and Accountability.”

“We are in a constitutional gray area here where there is no clear guidance as to exactly what should happen,” Rozell said. “That gives the former president some leeway to put forward various creative legal arguments and ultimately delay the process until it doesn’t matter anymore.”

Several former presidents have voluntarily testified before Congress, including Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford. But there is no Supreme Court precedent that says whether Congress has the power to compel former presidents to testify against their will about their actions in office.

There are two historical precedents, but neither generated court rulings. In 1846, the House subpoenaed two former presidents, John Quincy Adams and John Tyler, for an investigation into allegations of misspending by a secretary of state. According to a Congressional Research Service report, Tyler testified and Adams submitted a deposition.

And in 1953, the House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed Truman. But while he later voluntarily testified before Congress on other topics, Truman refused to honor the committee’s

subpoena, claiming that as a former chief executive, he was immune from compelled testimony by the legislative branch. The House let the matter drop.

One open question, then, is whether Truman was right. Should Trump’s legal team choose to argue that he was, one Supreme Court precedent could prove relevant: In 1982, the court ruled that former presidents are immune from being sued for damages over official decisions they made while in office.

In that case, Nixon v. Fitzgerald, the majority reasoned that presidents must be able to perform their constitutional duties without being inhibited by the fear that a decision could risk making them liable to pay civil damages after they leave office. The question in Trump’s case would be whether a president could be similarly hindered by a fear of being forced to testify in front of Congress.

Trump’s legal team could also invoke executive privilege in an attempt to ward off the subpoena. In another case involving Richard Nixon, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in 1974 that a Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandal could not force Nixon, then the sitting president, to turn over tapes of his Oval Office conversations.

Unlike Nixon in 1974, however, Trump is now a former — not a sitting — president, and his claims to executive privilege would be weaker. The current officeholder, President Joe Biden, who has greater authority to invoke or withhold executive privilege, might not support him.

Notably, Biden declined to support an earlier attempt by Trump to invoke executive privilege to keep the Jan. 6 committee from subpoenaing the National Archives for White House records. The Supreme Court, ruling against Trump, declined to block the subpoena, although it did so in a way that left unresolved the scope of an ex-president’s powers under executive privilege.

Still, courts might view forcing a former president to show up at the Capitol and testify under oath differently than obtaining documents. Biden might also be more reluctant to establish a precedent that could help a Republican-controlled Congress subpoena him for testimony.

Trump could also try to mount a procedural argument that the subpoena is invalid.

That tactic has been used by nearly

30 people — among them, former aides to Trump — who have filed lawsuits seeking to quash subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee. Many of these witnesses have argued the panel was improperly constituted and the subpoenas are insufficiently connected to writing laws.

Most of the lawsuits challenging the subpoenas on these — and other — grounds are still working their way through the courts. But in May, a federal judge in Washington dismissed both of the arguments claiming the subpoenas were invalid in a case the Republican National Committee brought against the panel.

That ruling, however, was vacated several months later by the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit after the committee dropped its subpoena for the Republican National Committee.

A Federal District Court judge also rejected claims that the committee’s subpoenas were invalid in the criminal prosecution of Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Trump, who was sentenced to four months in prison Friday for defying a subpoena from the House panel.

In a ruling in the case, Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, noted that

the full House had voted to hold Bannon and others who defied subpoenas in contempt, indicating that the body viewed the committee’s subpoena as valid. Nichols said courts must defer to the House’s interpretation of its own rules, so he “cannot conclude as a matter of law that the committee was invalidly constituted.”

Still, rulings by district court judges are not definitive precedents, leaving much to litigate.

It also remains unclear which route to court a fight over the Trump subpoena could take. Trump might file his own suit asking a judge to quash it. Or he could wait for the House to try to enforce its subpoena.

Aides to Trump have said that he has weighed whether to testify, but only under the condition that it be live and on television. That would deprive the committee of controlling what gets seen or from releasing only selected excerpts.

Rozell said that was not surprising.

“If Trump is going to go out there and make himself vulnerable, he’s going to do it in a public way,” he said. “It’s going to be a Trump show, and he’ll be playing to his own crowd. At that point, legal argument and nuances would be out the window.”

Former President Donald Trump arrives onstage at a rally in Mesa, Arizona, on Oct. 9, 2022. Trump released a lengthy, rambling letter that attacked the Jan. 6 committee’s work and reiterated false claims of widespread voting fraud but did not address whether he would comply with a subpoena.

Your paycheck next year will be affected by inflation. Here’s how.

By ANN CARRNS

You already know that inflation is taking a bigger and bigger bite out of your wallet.

Now, it’s going to affect the size of your paycheck in 2023.

Even if you get a sizable raise next year, you won’t necessarily take home more money. Many ingredients are baked into the recipe that produces your take-home pay, like deductions for taxes and health care benefits, and your contributions to retirement accounts.

Whether you’ll see more money in your paycheck, less or about the same will depend on your circumstances. Here’s a preview of what is changing next year.

Earnings

Employers, eager to attract and keep workers, are planning salary increases of 4% or more next year, according to several employer surveys. Salary.com found that a quarter of em ployers plan to give bigger increases of 5% to 7%.

“That’s a dramatic change,” said David Turetsky, the company’s vice president of con sulting, adding that raises of 2.5% to 3% have been typical for years.

Even so, the increases may fall short of the rising rate of inflation, which was 8.2% in September. So while your pay might increase, your paycheck won’t stretch as far.

“Pay is still not keeping up with inflation,” Nela Richardson, chief economist at the payroll company ADP, said in a company video.

Income taxes

The government tries to shield taxpayers from inflation by annually adjusting the boun daries of federal tax brackets, the income thres holds that determine where higher tax rates apply. If the boundaries weren’t adjusted, more of your income would move into a higher brac ket even if your real income hadn’t kept pace with inflation. Adjustments for next year, which the IRS announced on Tuesday, are significant because inflation has soared. (But note: Some states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, do not adjust their own tax brac kets for inflation.)

A married couple with income of $200,000 in both 2022 and 2023 would see its tax bill fall by almost $900, while a couple with income of $500,000 would see a reduction of more than $3,700, said Tim Steffen, director of tax planning at the wealth management firm Baird.

Tax rates range from 10% to 37%. For next year, the top rate applies to income over

$578,125 for single filers, up from $539,900 this year, and $693,750 for couples, up from $647,850 this year.

Here, in descending order, are the next four brackets for 2023, compared with this year:

— 35%: Begins at income over $231,250 for single filers, up from $215,950, and over $462,500 for married couples, up from $431,900.

— 32%: Begins at income over $182,100 for single filers, up from $170,050, and over $364,200 for couples, up from $340,100.

— 24%: Begins at income over $95,375 for single filers, up from $89,075, and at $190,750 for couples, up from $178,150.

— 22%: Begins at incomes over $44,725 for single filers, up from $41,775, and at $89,450 for couples, up from $83,550.

In addition, the standard deduction, which reduces your taxable income without your having to itemize deductions, will rise to $27,700 for married couples and $13,850 for single filers.

Payroll taxes

The good news for retirees receiving Social Security benefits is that their monthly checks will rise 8.7% next year because of infla tion. But increases in the payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare, the federal health program for older Americans, could affect the paychecks of higher earners in 2023.

Employees contribute to Social Security via a payroll tax of 6.2% of their income, up to a

limit. (Employers pay an equal share.) That limit adjusts each year based on increases in average wages. For 2023, the maximum earnings sub ject to the tax will rise almost 9%, to $160,200 from $147,000 this year, so more income will be taxed. The maximum Social Security tax next year will be $9,932, up from $9,114 this year.

The Medicare portion of the payroll tax is 1.45% of income; unlike the Social Security portion of the payroll tax, the Medicare portion is not subject to a cap on income. (Again, em ployers pay an equal share.) But individuals ear ning more than $200,000 and couples earning more than $250,000 have to pay an extra Me dicare tax of 0.9% on income earned over that threshold. The thresholds for that added Medi care tax are not adjusted for inflation, so more people pay the extra tax each year.

Health insurance

Rising health benefit costs could also off set higher pay, said Jeff Levin-Scherz, popula tion health leader with the benefits consultant WTW (formerly known as Willis Towers Wat son). The reasons for the higher costs, he said, include rising labor costs, the expected end of government coverage for COVID care, more se vere illness stemming from delayed screenings during the pandemic, rising prescription drug prices and deteriorating mental health.

Employers surveyed by WTW expect health benefit costs to rise at least 6% next year, and to continue going up for several years be cause health care providers typically sign multi

year contracts with health insurers.

“It’s not over after this year,” Levin-Scherz said.

More than half of Americans get health coverage through an employer. Workers on average pay more than a quarter of the total premium for family health coverage, while em ployers pay the rest. Employers may shift more of that cost to workers — but probably not all of it, since recruiting and retaining staff remain challenging.

“I’m advising my employer clients to eat the health care costs,” said Allen J. Reynolds, a tax adviser in Sioux City, Iowa. Workers are already struggling to manage costs, he said, in cluding higher mortgage rates, which make it difficult to buy a home: “The employee is get ting hit from all different angles.”

Contributions to 401(k)s

The contribution limit for 401(k)s will in crease next year to $22,500 from $20,500 this year, the IRS announced Friday. (Extra contribu tions for workers 50 and older will also increase, to $7,500 from $6,500 this year.) These contri butions are deducted from your paycheck — but they go into accounts to help you fund your retirement, and employers often match them to encourage saving.

Contributions to health spending accou nts

Inflation has increased those amounts as well. If you have a flexible health spending ac count, which employees contribute to pretax to help cover medical costs, you can contribute an extra $200 next year. The limit for 2023 rose to $3,050 from $2,850 this year, the IRS announ ced this week.

If you have a health savings account, a different type of tax-favored account available with certain high-deductible health insurance plans, you can contribute $3,850 as an indivi dual and $7,750 for family coverage next year. (Extra contributions for people over 55 remain capped at $1,000.)

Taxes withheld

With so many variables, it makes sense to check your withholdings early next year to make sure they are not too high or too low, es pecially if you have had a life change, like get ting married or having a baby, Reynolds said. If you overpay, you’ll get a refund at tax time. If you underpay, you may owe a penalty.

The IRS offers an online withholding es timator to help you make the calculations. You can make changes by submitting a revised W-4 form to your employer.

Shoppers at the Herald Square Target in Manhattan on Aug. 28, 2022. Food infla tion in the United States has remained stubbornly high.

Wall Street ends higher as hopes for less aggressive Fed grow

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stocks surged to close out the trading week on Fri day after a report said the U.S. Federal Reserve will likely debate on a smaller interest rate hike in Decem ber, raising hopes the central bank may be poised to adopt a less aggressive policy stance.

Some Fed officials have begun sounding out their desire to slow down the pace of increases soon, according to a Wall Street Journal report, and how to signal plans to approve a smaller increase in December.

San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly echoed that sentiment and said it’s time to start talking about slowing the pace of the hikes in borrowing costs and doing so should avoid sending the economy into an “unforced down turn” by hiking interest rates too sharply.

In addition, Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans reiterated his stance the Fed should get policy to “a bit above” 4.5% by early next year and then hold it there.

Analysts widely expect the Fed to hike rates by 75 ba sis points for a fourth straight meeting in November. Equities have been under pressure this year as the central bank has embarked on an aggressive rate hike path as it attempts to reign in stubbornly high inflation, increasing worries of a poli cy error that will send the economy into a recession.

“You had the (report) and then you had some confirma tion that 75 seems to be pretty baked in for November here but perhaps there is room to slow and extend... rather than front-load so high and then have to peel off, you kind of ease to your 4.75% or 5% peak,” said Tom Hainlin, senior invest ment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Minne apolis, Minnesota.

“Then maybe just hold there for a while so you are getting a little bit of relief.”

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 748.97 points, or 2.47%, to 31,082.56, the S&P 500 gained 86.97 points, or 2.37%, to 3,752.75 and the Nasdaq Composite added 244.87 points, or 2.31%, to 10,859.72.

For the week, the S&P 500 climbed 4.74%, the Dow gained 4.89% and the Nasdaq rose 5.22%. Each of the three major indexes notched their biggest weekly percentage gains in four months.

The report helped stocks recover from early losses as Snap Inc plunged 28.08% after posting its slowest quarterly revenue growth in five years as advertisers cut spending due to inflation and geopolitical woes.

That weighed on other companies that rely heavily on ad revenue such as Meta Platforms Inc, down 1.16% and Pinter est, off 6.40%.

Also falling after reporting quarterly earnings were Ameri can Express, which lost 1.67% and Verizon Communications, down 4.46%.

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while Verizon’s profit slid 23% and the carrier missed esti mates for wireless subscriber additions.

Next week will bring earnings from names such as Twit ter, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet and Apple Inc.

Despite the recent batch of disappointing results, thirdquarter earnings season has so far has been better-thanfeared, with growth expectations for S&P 500 companies at 3.1%, according to Refinitiv data, up from 2.8% earlier in

the week but still well below the 11.1% forecast at the start of July.

Schlumberger shot up 10.33% to help to lift the S&P 500 energy sector 2.76% after reporting a quarterly profit above expectations.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was 12.15 billion shares, compared with the 11.57 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.

Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 2.59-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.03-to-1 ratio fa vored advancers.

The S&P 500 posted 9 new 52-week highs and 32 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 60 new highs and 322 new lows.

Russia hits Ukraine’s power infrastructure with some of the biggest strikes in recent weeks

By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG

Russian forces pounded Ukraine’s power plants and heating systems Saturday with some of the heaviest missile strikes in weeks, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow pressed ahead with an aerial campaign to bring misery to the coun try’s civilians even as it loses ground on the battlefield.

In a sign that Moscow’s forces in the south were coming under pressure, occu pation officials in the southern province of Kherson told residents of the region’s capital city on Saturday to “immediately” leave be cause of the threat of an attack by Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine endures bitter winters, making its people vulnerable at this time of year to energy disruptions. Ukrainian officials con firmed missile strikes in at least a half-dozen regions Saturday, with the country’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, saying that the barrage was “aimed at critical civilian infra structure.”

The state power company said that while it was trying to restore services, it had imposed energy restrictions in a string of regions, including the capital, Kyiv. The damage from Saturday’s attacks, the com pany, Ukrenergo, said in an online post, was “comparable or may exceed” anything it had seen in the last two weeks.

Not since the first days after the inva sion in late February has the bombing been so widespread and intense as it has been in recent weeks. Missiles and self-destructing drones have slammed into apartment build ings, bustling streets, parks and playgrounds, killing dozens of civilians. The attacks have damaged about 30% of Ukraine’s power

plants, according to officials, causing rolling blackouts across the country.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said late Friday that the recent attacks had a clear goal: “to make the Ukrainian people suffer.”

Ukraine has had increasing success in shooting down missiles and self-destruct ing drones, which are often launched from neighboring Belarus. And on Saturday, as ci vilians sheltered in basements, the country scrambled its fighter jets to try to blast the incoming missiles out of the sky. Ukraine’s air force command later said on the Tele gram messaging app that it had downed 18 missiles.

In Kyiv, the air raid alarms sounded about 7:30 a.m. and were followed quick ly by reports of missiles in the air. One video shared by Ukrainian news outlets appeared to show a fighter jet shooting down a mis sile, although this could not

be independently confirmed. Oleksiy Are stovych, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said five rockets headed toward Kyiv had been intercepted, although there were reports of missile strikes in the surrounding region.

By midmorning, there were reports of strikes across the country. In the city of Lutsk, in western Ukraine, a missile hit a power plant, causing a blackout in part of the city, Mayor Ihor Polishchuk said on Tele gram. The blast wave damaged a private home and injured at least one person, he said.

These broad strikes on infrastructure come as Russian forces have faced setbacks on the front lines.

In a rapid counteroffensive, Ukraine re captured much of Kharkiv province, in the northeast of the country, in September and also has been making gains in Kherson prov ince, in the south. That advance, which be gan in late August, has left thousands of Rus sian troops stationed on the western bank of the Dnieper River in the key city of Kherson exposed.

As a result, a withdrawal from the city across the river would make military sense, according to some experts, and Ukrainian

military authorities on Friday pointed to signs that Moscow had started to move mili tary equipment out of the city.

Vladyslav Nazarov, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern operational command, said at a briefing Friday that while Russia was still trying to hold its occupied areas in the province, Moscow’s forces in Kherson were “quite actively transferring equipment, weapons and even units” to the eastern bank of the river. That claim could not be independently verified.

Russia-backed authorities in the city said last week that they were launching an operation to evacuate civilians to the river’s east bank, and the Russian-installed admin istration in Kherson province on Saturday added a note of urgency to that call.

“Due to the tense situation at the front, the increased danger of massive shelling of the city and the threat of terrorist attacks, all civilians must immediately leave the city,” it said on Telegram. “Take care of the safety of your family and friends! Do not forget docu ments, money, valuables and clothes.”

Ukrainian forces have cut the main road bridges close to the city in order to make it harder for Moscow to resupply its troops.

Local pro-Russian officials have for days been sharing videos and photographs of civilians lining up to cross the river, which is about 1 mile wide near the city, in ferry boats, and they said this week that 15,000 civilians had already left. But there was no independent confirmation that a mass evacu ation has been taking place.

Ukrainian authorities have said the push to move people amounts to deportation and encouraged citizens in the city to remain at home or try to reach Ukrainian-controlled territory.

Kherson is a strategic asset to the Krem lin as the only province whose capital is west of the Dnieper River where it can claim con trol. It also holds symbolic value: It was the first city to fall to Russian forces after the fullscale invasion of Ukraine in late February.

Russian President Vladimir Putin an nounced this month that Russia was an nexing Kherson along with three other provinces, a unilateral move that has been denounced as illegal both by the govern ment in Kyiv and the United Nations Gen eral Assembly.

Damage from part of an intercepted Russian missile in the center of Zaporizhzia, Ukraine, this week.

Boris Johnson is back in Britain, and back in the running for prime minister

time for the Tories to put the country first and vote for Rishi Sunak, the man the markets trust.” Charles Moore, in The Telegraph, wrote that he could see “Boris storming back in different cir cumstances.” But he added: “I don’t see it working right now. True Boris fans will have the courage to tell him to sit this one out.”

David Frost, who negotiated the post-Brexit trade deal with the Euro pean Union for Johnson’s government, urged lawmakers to vote for Sunak. “Boris Johnson will always be a hero for delivering Brexit,” he wrote on Twit ter. “But we must move on. It is simply not right to risk repeating the chaos & confusion of the last year.”

By MARK LANDLER

Boris Johnson returned to Britain Saturday, feeding expectations that he would seek to reclaim his old job after the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Truss last week. His for mer chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, also seemed poised to join the race to replace Truss.

Johnson, who had been vacatio ning in the Dominican Republic, won the backing of his former home secre tary, Priti Patel, a significant endorse ment from a prominent figure on the right wing of the Conservative Party.

Allies of Johnson claimed Saturday afternoon that he had picked up sup port from more than 100 lawmakers. That is substantially larger than the number who have publicly declared for him. But if he were to cross that thres hold, it would significantly raise the odds of him returning to 10 Downing St.

Contenders for party leader are required to have nominations from at least 100 of the 357 Conservative law makers to advance to a second round of voting, among the members of the party in Britain, a group with whom Jo hnson remains popular. Sunak already has 128 votes from party lawmakers, according to an unofficial count by the BBC.

“Boris Johnson has more than 100 backers,” James Duddridge, a Conser vative member of Parliament who is close to him, posted on Twitter, without naming any.

Candidates have until 2 p.m. Mon day to gather nominations. On Mon day, the party will hold two rounds of voting to winnow the field to one or two candidates. If two remain, party members will cast ballots later in the week.

Johnson, who was forced out of office in July after a series of scandals prompted a rebellion of Conservative lawmakers and ministers, trails Sunak in counts of declared lawmakers com piled by the BBC and other news or ganizations. The BBC said Johnson had 53 votes, while Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the House of Commons who has declared her candidacy, had 23.

Other tallies put Johnson’s numbers higher. Reporters for the BBC and The Times of London, citing people close to him, said he was in a position to be on the ballot next week, if he chose to be. Without publicly declared names of backers, however, it was impossible to determine the credibility of that claim.

Crossing the threshold of 100 vo tes would make Johnson the automatic favorite because opinion polls suggest he would beat Sunak in a contest with party members. For Sunak, that would

be a repeat of his experience this sum mer, when he won the most votes among lawmakers, only to lose to Truss among the members.

Much will depend on whether other figures from the right, such as Suella Braverman or Kemi Badenoch, decide to run — and if they do not, who picks up their votes.

Johnson remains popular with the grassroots of the party, which has prompted some Conservative colum nists and commentators to try to stop his candidacy from getting out of the starting gate.

Andrew Neil, a prominent broad caster, wrote in The Daily Mail, “It’s

Other commentators warned that choosing Johnson would deepen fears about Britain’s stability that were stirred by Truss’ tax-cutting plans. The ratings agency Moody’s lowered its economic outlook for Britain to “negative,” citing political instability and high inflation.

Still, Johnson’s supporters view his candidacy as a chance to rebuild the Conservative Party after the chaos and reversals of Truss’ six weeks in office. Some are betting on him because they hope that he can save their seats in a general election, given the huge lead that the opposition Labour Party now holds in the polls.

“I’m backing @BorisJohnson to return as our Prime Minister, to bring together a united team to deliver our manifesto and lead Britain to a stron ger and more prosperous future,” Patel tweeted Saturday afternoon.

Boris Johnson on Saturday at Gatwick Airport near London after returning from a vacation. While he was away, Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned.

To fight lies, Brazil gives one man power over online speech

By JACK NICAS

Brazilianauthorities, grappling with a torrent of online misinformation ahead of the country’s presidential election, granted the nation’s elections chief unilateral power to order tech com panies to remove many online posts and videos — one of the most aggressive ac tions taken by any country to combat fal se information.

Under rules passed Thursday, the elections chief can order the immediate removal of content that he believes has violated previous takedown orders. So cial networks must comply with those demands within two hours or face the potential suspension of their services in Brazil.

The move culminates an increasingly assertive strategy by election officials in Brazil to crack down on divisive, mislea ding and false attacks that have flooded the country’s presidential race in recent days, including claims that candidates are Satanists, cannibals and pedophiles.

But by allowing a single person to de cide what can be said online in the runup to the high-stakes election, which will be held Oct. 30, Brazil has become a test case in a swelling global debate over how far to go in fighting false and misleading reports.

The decision drew outcry from sup porters of right-wing President Jair Bol

sonaro, as well as concern from many internet-law and civil-rights experts, who said it represented a potentially dange rous, authoritarian expansion of power that could be abused to censor legitima te viewpoints and swing the presidential contest.

The elections chief, Alexandre de Moraes, is also a justice on Brazil’s Supre me Court, which has placed him at the center of a separate fight over the court’s increasing authority.

As a court justice, he has ordered investigations into Bolsonaro and jailed some of the president’s supporters for what Moraes said were attacks on the nation’s democratic institutions.

He has been perhaps the nation’s most effective check on Bolsonaro, who for years has assailed the press, the courts and the nation’s elections systems. But in the pro cess, Moraes has raised concerns that his efforts to protect the country’s democracy have instead eroded it.

“It’s a very compli cated balancing act,” said Philip Friedrich, an elections and technolo gy analyst at Freedom House, an American group that promotes the expansion of democra cy. “Trying to protect the integrity of Brazil’s de mocratic institutions and people’s right to free ex pression, while also kee ping people safe online.”

Carlos Affonso Sou za, a law professor at Rio de Janeiro State Univer

sity, said Thursday’s ruling “could go too far, depending on how” Moraes wields his power.

Still, the move was cheered by many in Brazil who see it as a necessary tool to fight an avalanche of false claims from Bolsonaro’s supporters that has only ac celerated in recent days.

The new rules were passed una nimously by seven federal judges who make up Brazil’s electoral court. When he proposed the rules at a court session Thursday, Moraes said complaints about misinformation had increased nearly 17fold compared with past elections.

“There has been a proliferation of not only false news, but of the aggressiveness of this news, this hate speech, which we all know leads to nothing but an erosion of democracy,” he said. “This is precisely why we need a faster way.”

Another judge, Carmen Lucia, said during the hearing that she was worried about the implications of the electoral court’s recent moves to battle misinfor mation. “The return of censorship cannot be allowed under any argument in Bra zil,” she said.

In an interview with a podcast Thurs day, Bolsonaro said election officials were sending Brazil toward a “dictatorial state” and that “after the elections, depending on who wins, we’re going to put an end to this.”

Last year, Bolsonaro asked Brazil’s Senate to impeach Moraes but was rejec ted.

Bolsonaro faces off Oct. 30 against leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a vote that is widely regarded as Brazil’s most important in decades and a key test of one of the world’s biggest democracies.

Under the new internet rules, the elections chief’s expanded powers are effective during election campaigns. The powers will lapse after the presidential vote but will take effect again in future campaigns.

The rules allow Moraes to order so cial networks to immediately take down content that he determines has violated previous decisions by the broader elec toral court.

The electoral court has already ban ned posts that have called Bolsonaro a pedophile, a claim that accelerated in recent days after video emerged of the president saying “there was a spark”

between him and two teenage girls. The court has also ordered the takedown of content that says da Silva is corrupt. Da Silva, who is commonly known as Lula, served time in prison on corruption char ges, which were later nullified.

Camps on both sides have spread lies, but the volume of misleading infor mation on the right has far outweighed that on the left, said Tai Nalon, director of Aos Fatos, a Brazilian fact-checking or ganization that has closely tracked false campaign claims.

Bolsonaro’s supporters have spread the lie that da Silva plans to close chur ches if elected, prompting the former president to release a public letter insis ting that he would not. On Friday, many on the right began posting images falsely claiming they were being directly censo red by election officials.

Bolsonaro has also attacked Brazil’s electronic voting machines as rife with fraud, despite a lack of evidence, and his supporters have spread baseless conspi racy theories that claim the left is plan ning to steal the election.

Da Silva led Bolsonaro by 5 percen tage points after the first round of voting, but in recent days, polls suggested that the gap is narrowing.

Google and Meta, which owns WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, de clined to comment. Da Silva’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

Under the new rules, if a tech com pany repeatedly refuses to comply with Moraes’ orders, he can “suspend access to the services” of the platform in Brazil for up to 24 hours.

Earlier this year, Moraes said he plan ned to block Telegram, the messaging service with millions of users in Brazil, after the company did not follow his or ders to remove the account of a promi nent supporter of Bolsonaro accused of spreading disinformation. (Moraes was acting then in his capacity as a Supreme Court justice.) Moraes reversed that ban several days later after Telegram agreed to changes.

Affonso Souza, the law professor, said that given the two-hour deadline to com ply with Moraes’ orders — and just one hour on the eve of the election — Moraes could conceivably try to block a platform in the final days of the campaign. “That would definitely add fuel to the fire for Bolsonaro’s supporters,” he said.

Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court justice in Brazil who leads the nation’s electoral court, will now have broad power to order tech companies to remove content.

The three blunders of Joe Biden

By ROSS DOUTHAT

Ifthe Democrats end up losing both the House and the Senate, an outcome that looks more likely than it did a month ago, there will be nothing particularly shocking about the result. The incumbent president’s party almost always suffers losses in the midterms; the Democrats entered 2022 with thin majorities and a not-that-favorable Senate map; and the Western world is dealing with a wardriven energy crunch that’s generally rough on incumbent parties, both liberal and conservative. (Just ask poor Liz Truss.)

But as an exculpating narrative for the Biden administration, this goes only so far. Some races will inevitably be settled on the margins, control of the Senate may be as well, and on the margins there’s always something a president could have done differently to yield a better political result.

President Joe Biden’s case is no exception: The burdens of the midterms have been heavier for Democrats than they needed to be because of three notable failures, three specific courses that his White House set.

The first fateful course began, as Matthew Continetti noted recently in The Washington Free Beacon, in the initial days of the administration, when Biden made critical decisions on energy and immigration that his party’s

activists demanded: for environmentalists, a moratorium on new oil-and-gas leases on public lands, and for immigration advocates, a partial rollback of key Trump administration border policies.

What followed in both arenas was a crisis: first a surge of migration to the southern border, then the surge in gas prices driven by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

There is endless debate about how much the initial Biden policy shifts contributed to the twin crises; a reasonable bet is that his immigration moves did help inspire the migration surge, while his oil-lease policy will affect the price of gas in 2024 but didn’t change much in the current crunch.

But crucially, both policy shifts framed these crises, however unintentionally, as things the Biden administration sought: more illegal immigration and higher gas prices — just what liberals always want! And then instead of a dramatic attempt at reframing, prioritizing domestic energy and border enforcement, the Biden White House fiddled with optics and looked for temporary fixes: handing Kamala Harris the border portfolio, turning the dials on the strategic petroleum reserve and generally confirming the public’s existing bias that if you want a party to take immigration enforcement and oil production seriously, you should vote Republican.

The second key failure also belongs to the administration’s early days. In February 2021, when congressional Democrats were preparing a $1.9 trillion stimulus, a group of Republican senators counteroffered with a roughly $600 billion proposal. Flush with overconfidence, the White House spurned the offer and pushed three times as much money into the economy on a party-line vote.

What followed was what a few dissenting center-left economists, led by Larry Summers, had predicted: the worst acceleration of inflation in decades, almost certainly exacerbated by the sheer scale of the relief bill. Whereas had Biden taken the Republicans up on their proposal or even simply counteroffered and begun negotiations, he could have started his administration off on the bipartisan footing his campaign had promised while hedging against the inflationary dangers that ultimately arrived.

The third failure is likewise a failure to hedge and triangulate, but this time on culture rather than economic policy. Part of Biden’s appeal as a candidate was his long-standing record as a social moderate — an old-school, center-left Catholic rather than a zealous progressive.

His presidency has offered multiple opportunities to actually inhabit the moderate persona. On transgender issues, for instance, the increasing qualms of European countries about puberty blockers offered potential cover for Biden to call for greater caution

around the use of medical interventions for gender-dysphoric teenagers. Instead, his White House has chosen to effectively deny that any real debate exists, positioning the administration to the left of Sweden.

Then there is the Dobbs decision, whose unpopularity turned abortion into a likely political winner for Democrats — provided, that is, that they could cast themselves as moderates and Republicans as zealots.

Biden could have led that effort, presenting positions he himself held in the past — support for Roe v. Wade but also for late-term restrictions and the Hyde Amendment — as the natural national consensus, against the anti-abortion absolutism of first-trimester bans. Instead, he has receded and left Democratic candidates carrying the activist line that absolutely no restrictions are permissible, an unpopular position perfectly designed to squander the party’s post-Roe advantage.

The question in the last case, and to some extent with all these issues, is whether a more moderate or triangulating Biden could have held his coalition together.

But this question too often becomes an excuse for taking polarization and 50-50 politics for granted. A strong president, by definition, should be able to pull his party toward the center when politics demands it. So if Biden feels he can’t do that, it suggests that he’s internalized his own weakness and accepted in advance what probably awaits the Democrats next month: defeat.

Cierra la Convención de Hospitales con el reconocimiento a figuras relacionadas con la industria de la salud

POR CYBERNEWS

Con el saldo de haberse establecido un récord único en el ofrecimiento de una gama de crédi tos en educación continua y asistencia que so brepasó los cinco mil participantes, cierran hoy los tra bajos de la Convención de Hospitales de Puerto Rico, celebrada en el Distrito de Convenciones de San Juan.

“El evento más importante de la industria de la salud incluyó talleres y conferencias con valor de 27 créditos en educación continua que incluyó variados temas como los aspectos del sector financiero, la discu sión de medidas regulatorias-legales y actualizaciones de las leyes con los reglamentos en torno a la fuerza laboral. La Asamblea Plenaria trajo como tema la ac tualización de la legislación y ayudas del Gobierno Fe deral, así mismo se discutieron las últimas iniciativas del Gobierno Estatal que impactan a la industria hos pitalaria. Es significativo que se pudo contar en todo momento con el asesoramiento y participación de la Asociación Americana de Hospitales y su representante Rebecca Jolley (ejecutiva de la Región 4), quien viajó a la isla para participar del evento. De los muchos temas discutidos, uno que llamó la atención fue la forma y manera en que nuestros asociados están atendiendo a

la población vulnerable del país”, señaló el licenciado Jaime Plá Cortés, presidente ejecutivo de la Asociación de Hospitales de Puerto Rico.

Este año la Convención de Hospitales incluyó una amplia discusión y participación de los temas relacio nados a otros modelos de prestación de servicios. Las

instituciones de servicios a personas de edad avanzada y hospicios, servicios primarios de salud en el hogar, centro de cirugías ambulatorias, centro de diálisis y otros, marcaron un nuevo temario discutido en toda la convención y por ende, fortalecieron y capacitaron el aspecto académico de los participantes.

En Juncos se pagan los salarios trimestrales más altos de PR, según informe DTRH

POR CYBERNEWS

En el municipio de Juncos se pagan los salarios trimestrales más altos por industrias, según el in forme de Composición Industrial por Municipio, del primer trimestre de 2022, informó el domingo, el secretario del Departamento del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos (DTRH), Gabriel Maldonado-González.

Después de Juncos, le sigue Guaynabo, San Juan, Barceloneta y Maunabo. Por el contrario, los salarios trimestrales promedio más bajos se le adjudicaron a Quebradillas, Lares, Moca, San Sebastián, Adjuntas, Cabo Rojo, Orocovis, Lajas, Las Marías y Guánica.

En Juncos se encuentran varias farmacéuticas, en tre las que resalta AMGEN.

Según el secretario, el salario promedio por traba jador aumentó 323 dólares, lo que supera los 7,307 adjudicados la misma fecha del pasado año.

“Lo cierto es que el aumento que refleja nuestro

informe de Composición Industrial por Municipio re sulta alentador y promueve la inserción y retención de más personas en la fuerza trabajadora. Ello resulta más importante aún en tiempos de múltiples desas tres naturales, una pandemia y la inflación que nos afecta a todos. Estos resultados demuestran la misma tendencia positiva que surgen de otras publicaciones del DTRH y otras entidades y, además, nos permiten comenzar a analizar el impacto positivo del aumento en el salario mínimo que ocurrió en enero de 2022 conforme a la Ley 47-2021”, dijo Maldonado-Gonzá lez en declaraciones escritas.

Varias industrias se destacaron por tener salarios trimestrales promedio más altos. Estas son la gerencia de compañías y empresas, finanzas y seguros, servi cios profesionales y técnicos. Asimismo, se destacaron las industrias de comercio al por mayor, electricidad, agua y gas, información, manufactura, transportación y almacenamiento.

El Lcdo. Jaime Plá Cortés, presidente ejecutivo de la Asociación de Hospitales de Puerto Rico, y el Lcdo. Rafael Alvarado, presidente de la Junta de Directores, comparten con ejecutivos de Perfect Integrated So lutions, Inc, quienes fueron parte de los expositores en la Convención 2022.

Gabriel Maldonado-González, secretario del DTRH

Pam Grier thinks Richard Pryor and Trevor Noah would have been best friends

By KATHRYN SHATTUCK

“Mylife is very Forrest Gumpian,” Pam Grier said halfway through a marathon phone interview, and she has the anecdotes to back it up.

Of performing in a gospel group with Philip Bailey, later of Earth, Wind & Fire, as a teen in Denver.

Of singing backup for Bobby Wo mack and then Sly Stone, alongside Stevie Wonder’s Wonderlove, when Jimi Hendrix walked into the studio to jam — and it was only her first week in Los Angeles.

Of loading her boyfriend Richard Pryor’s injured horse into the back of her Ja guar to take it to the vet.

Grier, a dynamic storyteller, reveals all this and considerably more in “Here Comes Pam,” the fourth season of the TCM podcast “The Plot Thickens,” hosted by Ben Man kiewicz and premiering Oct. 25. She will also appear on TCM on Oct. 19 and 26 to introdu ce a showcase of the ’70s films — including “Coffy,” “Foxy Brown” and “Cleopatra Jones” — that trans formed her into the queen of blaxploitation.

In 20 hours of interviews, Mankiewicz follows Grier, 73, across her New Mexico ranch, where she lives with her rescued horses and dogs when she’s not filming. (She is cu rrently shooting episodes of Amazon’s “Them” in Atlanta, and ticked off coming projects like a “Pet Sematary” pre quel, a limited series based on her 2010 autobiography that she’s developing and a World War II movie she wrote.)

In more difficult conversations, Mankiewicz revisits the sexual and physical assaults in Grier’s girlhood that for a time left her unable to speak.

“I stutter from my attacks,” said Grier, calling to discuss the things that keep her engaged and grounded — among them, green living, her Harley-Davidson and Trevor Noah. “It’s a part of me, and I use it as an instrument as if I was a musician playing several instruments.”

“My pain has been deep. But my joy is infinite.”

These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

1. My Horses: When I was traumatized, my family’s draft horse was very helpful in my rehabilitation. And I love to be surrounded by animals who’ve been rescued. I unders tand the cruelty of people and I want them to know they won’t have that, ever. We have six horses. Nora, a very flirty mare, can tell from how people touch her if they’re terrible or if they’re comforting, calm and loving.

2. My Dogs: I got one from Dr. Jeff at Rocky Moun tain Vet, a puppy-mill Yorkie that had never walked in se ven years — she was just bred. There are these myths: “Oh, don’t adopt a puppy mill dog. They have problems, mental and breeding and physical.” And it could be. But she was jumping over the jumps with the rest of the dogs and horses. She just fit in. I know people who swear by their dogs, that

they save their lives every day, and it’s true. They keep me calm. They bring my blood pressure down.

3. Trevor Noah: I’ve always wanted to be interviewed by him because he’ll go right to my career — right to the brown-nipple movement that I brought to the screen, the confidence of African American women bringing their inte lligence bonded with sexuality. He might say, “You’re from Wyoming. Were there any Black people up there?” “Well yeah, there’s a few.” I gave Richard Pryor some of that infor mation when he was co-writing “Blazing Saddles” with Mel Brooks. You know, if Richard had met Trevor, they would be best friends. That’s the level of his intellect, his humor, his politics.

4. Organic Gardening: You’ve got to do that. Ed Begley Jr. will put you to shame. When you go to his house, he’s going to cook. It’s going to be like that first-picked carrot from your garden — it melts in your mouth. He’s got an organic green thumb. But most people do because of the pandemic and growing their own clean food.

5. Pottery: I’m going to set up a studio, because I star ted taking pottery lessons to learn how to throw clay and work the kilns. There was a place near Santa Clarita, where I was shooting “Bless This Mess,” and I would go to make gifts. I started making platters and bowls for friends, and they cherish them. Of course, they’re not using them. They don’t want to break them because Pam made it and signed it.

6. My Harley-Davidson Motorcycle: Yes, I’m building a Harley. I want it to be Ferrari red, a pretty low rider in a great color. I used to ride motorbikes up into the mountains from Denver to Evergreen with a group of kids. We could rent them for $50 a day, with a driver’s permit. That was always a thrill for me. When I’m on a film, they ground me. So as soon as I finish, I will work on my skills.

7. Conversion Garages: There’s a huge lower-income population, probably over 100 million, that have cars with internal combus tion engines — the hoopties, as we call them in the hood — and you can convert them to electric vehicles from $3,000 to $5,000 in certain garages. There are 12 across the cou ntry. We need to cool off the air above the United States, and 100 million people can not afford expensive cars. But now they can afford to convert what they have.

8. Playing Music: I’ve got a Yama ha keyboard, a Rose piano. I’ve got some drums, my granddad’s bass guitar and lead guitar, and my Marshall amp that he gave to me. People would come to my house and pick up guitars, have a few beers and sing through the night. But I haven’t been able to do it because everything’s in storage. I can’t wait for when I can set up one of the gara ge bays into a bandstand for instruments. I would love to have the Roots come out and play, just start jamming.

9. “Foxy: My Life in Three Acts”: It was going to be a film in 2010 when the book was published but now it’s going to be a limited series. Not to make light, but this will be a very sexy photographed drama where the lenses will accommodate a certain imagery of strength, the struggle of a movement. It’s going to be interesting. It’s going to look hot. It’s going to show some muscle.

10. My New Adobe House: I’ve been working on buil ding a casa for everyone to come and chill. An environment of health and greenness. There’s no hallway. You walk out your door across the courtyard, which is covered and clo sed. You can sit out there and read a book or practice yoga when it’s snowing. It’s a house that is efficient: solar, ther modynamics, my own well. I want to create an environment for me. I want to be able to be cared for in my old age when I get up there. I want to be prepared for not being a part of the problems we’re trying to live through. I want to be a part of the solution.

The actress, whose life is the focus of the TCM podcast “The Plot Thickens,” talks about building her own Harley-Davidson and the necessity of conversion garages.

For the love (and the hate) of the horror remake

By JOSHUA LYON

The 2015 Austrian psychological horror film, “Goodnight Mommy,” is an eerie little gem. I went into the recent remake with apprehension but determined to keep an open mind, primarily be cause of Naomi Watts. I remembered feeling similarly territorial over my bootleg VHS copy of the 1998 film “Ringu” before seeing Watts in its nightmarish 2002 American remake “The Ring.” Michael Haneke’s 2008 retelling of his own 1998 home invasion film “Funny Games” was just as terrifying the second time around with Watts in the lead.

As the end credits rolled on the new “Goodnight Mommy,” I decided the mournful 1970s tune, “Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma,” would have made a better title. No fault of Watts; my issues with Matt Sobel’s film stem from a cloying emphasis on the redemptive power of motherhood, a theme extremely at odds with the original, and how this version baf flingly seems determined to spoil its own twist ending from the start.

But I don’t regret watching the movie. I’m passion ate about horror; if offered a choice between seeing a critically adored drama or a poorly reviewed slasher, I’ll choose the latter almost every time. There’s only so much time in a week, and as I’m constantly reminded, a masked man could behead me at any moment.

Horror remakes surged in the 2000s. “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” “Friday the 13th,” “The Hills Have Eyes” and other seminal 1970s and ’80s classics were dusted off, recast and rewritten. In their podcast “Aughtsterion,” the hosts Sam Wineman and Jordan Crucchiola gleefully cover horror from this era indepth and point out that many of these remakes were crueler than their originals, both in kills and dialogue, and reflected the decade’s cultural sleaze — every thing from TMZ to American Apparel ads to “Girls

Gone Wild.”

The rise of torture porn films, like the “Saw” and “Hostel” franchises, during the same period is now widely seen as an allegoric reaction to Sept. 11, 2001, and the U.S.-led invasion in Iraq, but a grim failure at attempting this theme arrived with a remake of the 1976 film “The Omen,” 30 years after the original played to its decade’s fascination with religion and cults. The rehash had no interest in disguising its intent and showed footage of the burning World Trade Center to signal the impending end of days. Stephen Holden’s New York Times review noted that particular choice “sharpens this remake’s sour tang of exploitation.”

And yet, even after reading that review, I was at the theater later that night. I needed to witness the mess myself, a sort of cinematic rubbernecking, so I could talk about it with authority among friends. I’ll even admit that I couldn’t resist the studio’s marketing gimmick of releasing the film on June 6, 2006.

It’s thrilling when my devotion to the genre pays off and a remake works, like Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 take on “Suspiria.” Rather than try to replicate Dario Argento’s 1977 gorgeous, color-soaked tale of a witchy dance academy, Guadagnino went with a muted palette, allowing his character-centric story to shine. Here were real women operating a coven, not just the minions of a villainous asthmatic ghoul.

On the flip side of classy, but equally cherished in my eyes, is “Piranha 3D” (2010), which transformed a tame “Jaws” rip-off from 1978 into an over-the-top judgment on sordid topless reality TV content. Direc

tor Alexandre Aja served up phallus chomping, a Sap phic underwater ballet set to “The Flower Duet” from Léo Delibes’ opera “Lakmé,” even a cameo by Richard Dreyfuss, aka Hooper from “Jaws.”

I find as much value in a horror remake with a large budget for entrails as I do in one that’s a moody meditation on the transformative power of dance. I treasure this genre because it allows me to define hor ror however I want.

Of course I don’t speak for every horror fan. De spite #horrorcommunity being a popular Instagram and Twitter hashtag, the better term for us is horror crowd, as explained by Phil Nobile Jr., the editor in chief of Fangoria magazine.

“Horror — as an interest, passion or profes sion — has fandoms and sub-fandoms; it has cliques; it has little fiefdoms,” Nobile Jr. wrote in a newslet ter in April. “A community is an idea (or maybe an ideal), a crowd is a mathematical reality.” He made this distinction while ruminating on homophobia and political differences among fans, but the phrasing is comprehensive. Put simply, our opinions are all over the place, and that’s often on display when a remake gets released.

The new “Goodnight Mommy” left me cold in stead of giving me chills, and I’m OK with that. A hor ror remake sparks discourse, lights up social media, fuels podcasts, spurs think pieces. When this happens, for a brief and lovely moment, I soak it all in and na ively do feel part of a horror community before slip ping back into the crowd.

Naomi Watts in the horror remake “Goodnight Mommy.”

The best time to book holiday travel? ‘Basically now.’

By ELAINE GLUSAC

According to the travel industry, it’s time to get ner vous about the holidays, specifically Thanksgiving and Christmas travel.

Travel’s recovery, while good for the economy, means that reservations and rates for everything from flights to hotels, vacation rental homes and rental cars will likely be higher than last year, when the emergence of the omicron variant dashed many holiday plans, and in some cases even higher than in 2019.

“The pent-up demand for travel in 2022 is alive and well as we head into the holidays,” said Diana Hechler, the president of D. Tours Travel, an agency in Larchmont, New York.

Flight patterns

Historically, the holidays were always among the busiest and most expensive times to travel, and some pre dict this year will look more familiar than the past two.

“What we’re seeing from an airfare perspective is a renormalization,” said Scott Keyes, the founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights, a subscription service that finds inexpen sive airfares. “Things look more like 2019 now than at any time since the pandemic began.”

He described it as a “smoothing out” of demand after the bust of the pandemic and the explosion of travel last spring, and a return to regular patterns, including consis tent bumps in prices as the holidays get closer.

In other words, the era of the last-minute flight deal is over.

“The best time to have booked those Thanksgiving and Christmas flights was June and July, and the second best is basically now,” Keyes said.

Based on recent flight searches at the search engine Kayak, the average price for round-trip domestic travel during Thanksgiving week this year is $468, up nearly 50% from last year, and 30% more than in 2019. New York City, Orlando, Florida, and Las Vegas were the most searched cities.

The same data shows an even higher jump at Christ mas, to $574 for the average domestic flight during Christ mas week, up 50% over prepandemic fares.

With more people working remotely, many travelers have more flexibility over when to fly. In that case, you may be able to shave a few dollars off airfares by follow ing the advice of Expedia, the online travel agency. Its data shows that flyers can save 30%, on average, by flying on the Monday before Thanksgiving compared to the prior weekend. Returning home post-feast, Friday, Nov. 25, and Monday, Nov. 28, are the cheapest days to fly, saving 5-10% compared to Sunday, Nov. 27.

Over Christmas week, Expedia found ticket prices are around 20% cheaper on Monday, Dec. 19, and Tues day, Dec. 20, compared to Saturday, Dec. 17.

According to the travel industry, it’s time to get nervous about the holidays, specifically Thanksgiving and Christmas travel.

Based on 33 billion price quotes over the past five years, the booking app Hopper recommends making travel plans no later than Oct. 20. The service predicts that tick ets will rise $10 a day from the end of October through Thanksgiving. The same pattern will take hold for Christ mas week flights beginning in mid-November.

‘The hidden best week’

For bargains, holiday-season travelers should look abroad, particularly in late November, when domestic travel is expensive.

“I like to call Thanksgiving the hidden best week for international travel,” Keyes said. “Essentially, it’s one of the cheapest times to travel for the whole year.”

To illustrate that point, he recently priced round-trip tickets from New York City to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at $567 and to Lisbon for $429. Dublin, he added, was widely on sale from many American airports, with fares under $600 round trip.

“Also, hotels, car rentals, everything will be at lowseason rates,” he added.

Still, it won’t pay to wait to make a decision on trav eling abroad at Thanksgiving. Virtuoso, the consortium of travel agencies, expects bookings to surge for international travel in the next seven weeks as more than half of its in ternational bookings by Americans for Thanksgiving travel in 2019 and 2021 were made in October and November.

Not all foreign travel will be cheaper. Caribbean destinations, for example, often experience a Thanksgiv ing bump.

“Generally, we recommend going against the crowds and avoiding those for the major holidays,” said Jonathan Alder, the CEO at Jonathan’s Travels, a Los Angeles-based agency, who is encouraging clients to consider travel abroad to places like Europe and Japan. “With the yen, euro and pound very low right now, travelers are definitely in store for a far better value than they would get at a

beach destination.”

Rental home holidays

The pandemic gave rise to the trend of renting a va cation home, rather than gathering at a family home, ac cording to vacation rental services.

HomeToGo said holiday rental searches are up 30% compared to before the pandemic. Average nightly rates on the platform are $395 over Thanksgiving and $424 over Christmas and New Year’s Eve, or roughly 60-70% higher than other weeks in November and December.

At AvantStay, which rents out more than 1,000 va cation homes in the United States, Thanksgiving week bookings are up almost six times those made in 2019 and Christmas week reservations are almost quadruple com pared to the same period before the pandemic.

Home-like hotels are riding the intimacy wave, too. While it normally sells out one to two months before the holidays, Deer Path Inn, which is modeled on an English mansion, in Lake Forest, Illinois, booked up six months in advance this year, with Christmas reservations tripling 2019 results, which management attributes to increased family vacations and staycations for locals over the holi days.

‘Festive season’ renewed

In industry parlance, “festive season,” or the holiday period between Christmas and New Year’s when travelers book resort destination vacations, is back this year.

According to Priceline, holiday travelers are bullish on Hawaii, where flight searches are up five times year over year from Thanksgiving through New Year’s. Other popular destinations include Palm Springs, California; St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands; and Jackson, Wyoming.

Even without the huge numbers of Asian travelers visiting Hawaii as they did prepandemic, holiday rates in the Highgate hotel portfolio for properties on Maui and Oahu are 20% above 2019. Rates for Royal Lahaina Maui over Christmas start at $725.

“By this past May, space was already at a premium” in the Caribbean and Hawaii, according to Hechler, the travel adviser with D. Tours Travel.

Management of the Rosewood Bermuda expects the island resort to be three-quarters full Dec. 24-31, an in crease of 20% from last year and, with rates recently start ing at $625, up about $250 a night.

As an expanding list of foreign destinations reopen, many people are forgoing traditional destinations for more adventurous trips.

“Continuing the trend post-COVID lockdown, we’re sending more clients to exotic destinations,” said Avery Harris, the director of marketing for Viking Travel, an agency in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, listing client trips planned to cruise the Nile in Egypt and hike in New Zea land. “People seem to be doing more traveling for the ex perience, rather than traveling to relax and escape.”

By ASHER ELBEIN

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the ocean, and it’s hard not to think of jaws. The deep waters contain many tooth-lined mouths: the bear-trap maws of sharks and dolphins, the slack lips of shoaling and reef fish, the baleen-filter gape of enormous whales. Jawed fish eventually crawled out of the seas millions of years ago and gave rise to the jawboning vertebrates we are today.

But when did such an evolutionary innovation arise? A pair of fossil beds in southern China suggest that the answer may lie tens of millions of years deeper than previously thought. The findings — which include beautifully preserved new species of early fish, the oldest-known ver tebrate teeth and a lot of fish with armor — were published last month across four papers in Nature.

“This is a step change in where we’re thinking about these events in the chro nology of vertebrate evolution,” said Matt Friedman, a paleontologist at the Univer sity of Michigan who was not involved in the research but wrote a perspective article that accompanied the Nature papers.

Jawed fish explode into the fossil record 419-359 million years ago during a period known as the age of fish, or the Devonian. Fish of this era all have “their identities clearly written on their bodies,” said Michael Coates, a paleobiologist at the University of Chicago who was not involved in the new papers. They include ancient groups like jawless fish, lineages of early jawed fish called placoderms, as cendant newcomers like cartilaginous and bony fish and the first fishes to hop onto land.

This sudden diversity of jawed fish — also called gnathostomes — has long led

New fossils are a prequel to ‘Jaws’

jawed fish. Most are of a flat, armored placoderm species named Xiushanosteus mirabilis. Also present is Shenacanthus vermiformis, a cartilaginous fish related to sharks and rays.

Philip Donoghue, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol and an author on one of the papers, says the most remark able specimen from the site is a jawless fish called Tujiaaspis vividus. Thousands of head shields from the species’ family are known from the fossil record, but Tujiaas pis preserves the first known body. It comes with a surprise: a set of paired fins jutting out from the skull. Previously, researchers believed the two sets of fins evolved sepa rately between jawless and jawed fish. “It overturns conventional wisdom on how paired appendages originated,” he said.

The second site, at 439 million years old, preserved more important fossils. One paper describes a collection of spines, scales and head-plates from Fanjingshania renovata, all of them dead-ringers for later examples of cartilaginous fish. Another records a whirl of connected teeth — the oldest yet known from a vertebrate — from a fish named Qianodus duplicis. Both ani mals belong firmly to the branch of jawed fish called the chondrichthyans, the group of cartilaginous fish that include modern sharks, rays and ratfish. (Bony fish like salmon and humans are the other branch.)

The presence of shark relatives at the site suggests that the split between cartilag inous and bony fish had already occurred by the early Silurian, Friedman said. Taken together, both sites push the origin of ver tebrate jaws and teeth back by almost 14 million years.

scientists to suspect that their origins must lie deeper in the fossil record, a period known as the Silurian, said Per Ahlberg, a paleontologist at Uppsala University in Sweden and an author on one of the pa pers. But until recently, the number of use ful Silurian gnathostome fossils could be counted on one hand.

A decade ago, researchers set out to systematically survey the 425-millionyear-old rocks of the late Silurian period in China, said Gai Zhikun, a paleontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and

an author on one of the papers. They were rewarded with complete fossils of early jawed fish.

Encouraged, they delved into older rocks. In 2020, a pair of deposits were found outside of Chongqing. The two fossil beds are separated by a few million years in time, each with a different complement of species.

The 436-million-year-old bed con tains “little fishtank-sized fishes,” Ahlberg said, only a few centimeters long, which represent the oldest-known complete

Jawed fish now seem to have origi nated as early as the Great Ordovician Biodiversification, a period around 485 million to 445 million years ago when ma rine invertebrates ruled. The few known fish from that period are jawless and gen erally unprepossessing, Coates said.

As paleontologists continue to dig deeper into early Silurian rocks in China, they’ve uncovered even more fish species. When it comes to the earliest jawed fish, researchers may soon find that they’ll need a bigger boat.

“It’s highly likely that there will be more discoveries,” Ahlberg said. “It’s an overused phrase, but I mean it: This prom ises to completely revolutionize our un derstanding of the earliest phase of jawed vertebrate evolution.”

An undated illustration provided by Heming Zhang shows from top right: Shena canthus vermiformis, Xiushanosteus mirabilis, Tujiaaspis vividus, Qianodus duplicis and Fanjingshania renovata, five newly discovered jawed fishes.

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LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Small Business Administration)

Plaintiff v. JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE as those unknown persons who may be the holders of the lost mortgage note or have any interest in this proceeding, Defendants CIVIL NO. 3:22-cv-01330-SCC.

ACTION FOR CANCELLATION OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (Segaloal, Inc. d/b/a The Hair Club). SUMMONS BY PUBLI CATION.

TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE

Unknown holders of a pro missory note of $536,000.00 executed on March 28, 2011, by Segaloal, Inc., d/b/a The Hair Club, as acknowledged by affidavit number 2,155 sworn before Héctor R. Crespo Mi lián, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mortgage Deed No. 7 executed on March 28, 2011, before Notary Public Héctor R. Crespo Milián, over the fo llowing properties, described in the Spanish language as:

COMERCIAL: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Unidad de Ofi cina marcado con el número 507 ubicado en el quinto piso del Condominio Centro Inter nacional de Mercadeo, Torre II, gobernado por el Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, y locali zado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, del municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de 1,980.619 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 184.006 metros cuadrados. Su entrada principal se encuentra en el lado Este que la conecta con el corredor común del piso. Colinda por el NORTE, en una extensión de 43’5½”,equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina número 508; por el SUR, en una exten sión de 43’5½”, equivalentes a 13.246 metros, en parte con la escalera de escape comunal y parte con el espacio comunal; por el ESTE, en una exten sión de 45’10”, equivalentes a 13.970 metros, con corre dor común del piso; y por el OESTE, en una extensión de 45’10”, equivalentes a 13.970 metros, con el espacio exterior. Le corresponde una participa ción en los elementos comunes generales del edificio igual a

1.343%. The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is recorded over this property in the Regis try of the Property of Guaynabo, at page 119 (vuelto) of volume 1,469 of Guaynabo, property number 47,138, 6th inscription. This property secures the afo rementioned Deed of Mortgage in the amount of $183,368.42.

COMERCIAL: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Unidad de Ofi cina marcado con el número 508 ubicado en el quinto piso del Condominio Centro Inter nacional de Mercadeo, Torre II, gobernado por el Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, y locali zado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, del municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de 2,992.792 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 278.041 metros cuadrados. Su entrada principal se encuentra en el lado Este que la conecta con el corredor común del piso. Colinda por el NORTE, en una extensión de 43’5½”,equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina núme ro 501, parte con el pozo del elevador de carga y parte con corredor común del piso; por el SUR, en una extensión de 43’5½”, equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina 507; por el ESTE, en una extensión de 74’0”, equivalentes a 22.555 metros, en parte con la escale ra interior de escape comunal, parte con el pozo del elevador de carga, parte con corredor común del piso y parte con un pozo del sistema de aire acon dicionado; y por el OESTE, en una extensión de 74’0”, equi valentes a 22.555 metros, con el espacio exterior. Le corres ponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales del edificio igual a 2.029%.

The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is recorded over this pro perty in the Registry of the Pro perty of Guaynabo, at page 123 of volume 1,469 of Guaynabo, property number 47,139, 8th inscription. This property se cures the aforementioned Deed of Mortgage in the amount of $352,631.58. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on August 26, 2002, by the Honorable Silvia L. Carre ño-Coll , United States District Judge (Docket No. 4 ), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime López Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR

& USVI, 273 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269. This Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general cir culation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Com plaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause aga inst you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 30th day of August, 2022. MA

RIA ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN, ESQ.CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT. By: Viviana Diaz-Mu lero, Deputy Clerk.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO ESTRELLA COMMERCIAL LLC

Demandante V. FRANCISCO NIEVES FREITAS, MARIBEL MALDONADO CASTRO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandada Civil Núm.: N3CI201500074. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI CA SUBASTA.

A: FRANCISCO NIEVES FREITAS, MARIBEL MALDONADO CASTRO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS: Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte de mandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acree dores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o de rechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecu tada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el

cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan con currir a la subasta si les con venga o satisfacer antes del re mate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honora rios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subroga dos en los derechos del acree dor ejecutante a saber: BANCO

POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO: A Cuyo favor aparece una ano tación de demanda, en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia Sala de Fajardo, caso civil #DCE2014-2586 por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Francisco Nieves Freitas; Mari bel Maldonado Castro y la So ciedad Legal de Gananciales Compuesta por ellos, por la suma de $470,612.72 y otras sumas. Anotado el 27 de junio de 2019 en Karibe de Rio Gran de finca # 2,210, Anotación A, finca # 8,003, Anotación B, fin ca # 2,3625, Anotación B, finca # 25,149, Anotación A, finca # 4,572, Anotación A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia ex pedido el día 30 de marzo de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tri bunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continua ción: FINCA 2,210: Dirección Física: #62 San Antonio Street, Pueblo Ward, Rio Grande, PR 00745. RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno compuesta de (0.967) cuerdas, equivalentes a (3,801.086) metros cuadrados, situada en el Barrio Guzman Abajo del municipio de Rio Grande y en lindes por el NOR TE, en (41.98) metros con la Sucesión Perez Villamil; por el SUR, en (62.23) metros, linea trazada a lo largo por el centro de la quebrada o caño con la finca principal de la cual se se grega propiedad de Valentin Villafañe; por el ESTE, en (64.38) metros, con la parcela C que se segrego de la finca principal, perteneciente dicha parcela a Valentin Villafañe y próxima a ser adquirida por Be len Villafañe; por el OESTE, en (87.26) metros, con la carretera estatal que conduce a Rio Grande a Luquillo, numero 187. Finca numero 2,210, inscrita al Folio 103 del Tomo 44 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propie dad de Carolina III. Tipo mínimo para la Primera Subasta la suma de $491,400.00. Tipo mí nimo para la Segunda Subasta la suma de $327,600.00. Tipo mínimo para la Tercera Subasta la suma de $245,700.00. FIN CA 8,003: Dirección Física: M-581 13ST. Alturas de Rio Grande Development Rio Gran

de, PR 00745. URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero 581 del Bloque M de la Urbanización Altura de Rio Grande, radicada en el Barrio Ciénega del térmi no municipal de Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de (367.00 ) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en (13.03) metros con el solar 552 del blo que “M”; por el SUR, en (13.00) metros con la calle 13; por el ESTE, en (28.71) metros con el solar (580) del bloque “M”; por el OESTE, en (27.76) metros, con el solar (582) del Bloque “M”. En el inmueble antes des crito enclava una casa de una sola planta de concreto reforza do y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales. Finca nu mero 8,003, inscrita al folio 50 del tomo 160 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Tipo míni mo para la Primera Subasta la suma de $52,600.00. Tipo míni mo para la Segunda Subasta la suma de $35,066.67. Tipo míni mo para la Tercera Subasta la suma de $26,300.00. La finca antes descrita afecta un grava men preferente que se describe a continuación: ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMERICA ACTUAN DO P/C DE LA ADMINISTRA CION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES.: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito un pagaré por la suma de $26,500.00, intere ses al 8 1/8% anual y a vencer en 33 años, según consta de la escritura #177, otorgada en Rio Grande, el 30 de septiembre de 1975, ante el Notario Miguel Bauza Rolon, inscrito al folio 50 del tomo160 de Rio Grande, finca #8,003, inscripción 1era. Modificada la hipoteca por $26,500.00, inscripción 1era: El importe total adeudado al día 21 de octubre de 1983 que as ciende a la suma total de $26,919.60 que ha venido de vengando intereses a razón del 8 1/8%; dicha deuda hipoteca ria asumida devengara intere ses a razón del 11 7/8% y sera pagadero a principal e intere ses en los siguientes 396 pla zos en o antes de las siguientes fechas: $273.00 el día 21 de noviembre de 1983 y $273.00 el día de cada mes hasta tanto el principal y sus intereses sean totalmente satisfechos excepto el pago final de la deuda total aquí asumida de no haber sido satisfecha con anterioridad, vencerá y será pagadero a los 33 pagos de esta fecha o sea 21 de octubre del 2016. El nota rio da fe haber puesto la nota al pagare de dicha modificación, según consta de la escritura #152, otorgada en Rio Grande, el 21 de octubre de 1983, ante el Notario Miguel Bauza Rolon, inscrito al folio 50 del tomo 160 de Rio Grande, Finca #8,003, nota marginal inscripción 1era. Modificada la hipoteca por $26,500.00, inscripción 1era:

modificada el la forma de pago de los plazos consignados en el pagare y en la hipoteca de la siguiente manera: El importe total adeudado hasta el día de hoy asciende a la suma de $26,470.11 de principal, el cual ha venido devengando intere ses según modificados, a razón del 11 7/8% anual dicha deuda hipotecaria asumida al día de hoy, continuara devengando in tereses desde el día de hoy a razón del 9.5% anual y sera pagadera al principal e intere ses en los siguientes 396 pla zos en o antes de las siguientes fechas: $220.00 el día 14 de mayo de 1989 y $220.00 subsi guientemente el 14 de cada mes, hasta tanto el principal y los intereses sean totalmente satisfechos, excepto el pago fi nal de la deuda aquí asumida, de no haber sido satisfecho con anterioridad vencerá y será pa gadero a los 33 años de esta fecha, o sea el día 14 de abril del año 2022. El notario da fe haber puesto la nota al dorso del referido pagare, según consta de la escritura #42, otor gada en Rio Grande, el 14 de abril de 1989, ante el Notario Abraham Morales Jimenez, ins crito al folio 52 del tomo 160 de Rio Grande, Finca #8,003, ins cripción 4ta. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMERICA P/C FAR MER HOME

ADMINISTRATION; A cuyo fa vor aparece anotación de de manda caso civil # 88-00598, seguido por Estados Unidos de America, Farmer Home Admi nistration Versus Fred Nolasco Torres e Iris Violeta Sanchez y la Sociedad Legal de Ganan ciales Compuesta por Ambos, se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con hipoteca se gún inscripción 1era. Demanda expedida el 22 de marzo de 1988, presentada el 12 de abril de 1988, y anotada el 29 de marzo de 1990, al folio 52 del tomo 160 de Rio Grande, finca 8,003, Anotación A. DORAL

MORTGAGE CORP., A cuyo favor aparece inscrito un paga ré por la suma de $45,500.00, intereses al 7 ½% anual y a vencer el 1 de marzo de 2009, según consta de la escritura #51, otorgada en Fajardo, el 15 de febrero de 1994, ante el No tario Bernardo Colon Barbosa, inscrito al folio 53 del tomo160 de Rio Grande, finca #8,003, inscripción 5ta. FINCA 25,149: Dirección Física: Soledad Street Coner with 1 & 2 Streets, Pueblo Ward, Rio Grande, PR 00745. URBANA: Solar radica do frente a la calle Soledad del Municipio de Rio Grande, Puer to Rico, con una cabida superfi cial de (174.67) metros cuadra dos. En lindes por el NORTE, en (15.10) metros con la calle 1; por el SUR, en (17.88) metros, con Betty Latorre; por el ESTE, en (12.18) metros, con un solar

ocupado por el Sr. Benjamin Baez; por el OESTE, en (9.26) metros con la calle Soledad. Finca numero 25,149, inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 454 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Pro piedad de Carolina, Sección III.

Tipo mínimo para la Primera Subasta la suma de $7,000.00.

Tipo mínimo para la Segunda Subasta la suma de $4,666.67.

Tipo mínimo para la Tercera Su basta la suma de $3,500.00.

FINCA 4,572: Dirección Física: Soledad Street Coner with 1 & 2 Streets, Pueblo Ward, Rio Grande, PR 00745. URBANA : Solar radicado frente a la Calle Soledad del Municipio de Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de (112.295) metros cuadrado. En lindes por el NORTE, en (19.20) metros, con el solar ocupado por la Sra. Do lores Millan: SUR, en (18.80) metros, con un solar ocupado por el Sr. Benjamin Baez; por el ESTE, en (5.75) metros, con otro solar ocupado por el Sr. Benjamin Baez, y por OESTE, en (6.40) metros, con la Calle Soledad. Finca numero 4,572, inscrita al Folio 189 del Tomo 86 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sec ción III. Tipo mínimo para la Primera Subasta la suma de $7,000.00. Tipo mínimo para la Segunda Subasta la suma de $4,666.67. Tipo mínimo para la Tercera Subasta la suma de $3,500.00. FINCA 2,362: Direc ción Física: Soledad Street Co ner with 1 & 2 Streets, Pueblo Ward, Rio Grande, PR 00745. URBANA: Solar radicado en la intersección de las calles #2 y calle Soledad municipio de Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, compues to de (256.00) metros cuadra dos. En lindes por el NORTE, en (25.60) metros con un solar municipal; por el SUR, en (25.60) metros con la calle #2; por el ESTE, en (10.00) metros, con un solar municipal ocupado por Candido Rodriguez; y por el OESTE, en (10.00) metros, con la calle Soledad. Sobre este so lar se ha edificado una casa te rrera construida mitad madera y techo de zinc y mitad concreto con piso y techo del mismo ma terial; mide 20’ de frente por 45, fondo, con la mitad del frente en madera y techo de zinc, y el resto de la casa en concreto.

Tiene sala-comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y 5 dormitorios, con un garaje hacia el fondo, con salida a la calle #2 en blo ques de hormigón, madera y zinc que mide 15’ pies de frente por 25’8 de fondo; una galería de concreto de 17’ de largo por 4’ de ancho hacia la colindancia Norte en la parte de concreto. Finca numero 2,362, inscrita al folio 154 del tomo 46 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propie dad de Carolina, Sección III. Tipo mínimo para la Primera Subasta la suma de $7,000.00.

Tipo mínimo para la Segunda Subasta la suma de $4,666.67. Tipo mínimo para la Tercera Su basta la suma de $3,500.00. El producto de la subasta se desti nará a satisfacer al demandan te hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, en el presente caso civil, a sa ber, asciende al 21 de enero de 2021, la suma de $470,612.72, de principal $216,666.89 de in tereses, la suma de $995.63 de cargos por seguro de propie dad, mas $56,50.00 por con cepto de honorarios de aboga do, según pactados equivalentes al 10% del princi pal del pagare, más costas y gastos. Los intereses se conti núan acumulándose hasta el pago total y solvento del princi pal a razón de $91.38 por día (“per diem”). Los intereses se continúan acumulando, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pa garese las sumas antes men cionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solici tud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (mo neda del curso legal de los Es tados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribu nal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 2 DE DI CIEMBRE DE 2022, PARA LA FINCA (2,210) A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE PARA LA FINCA (8,003) A LAS 1:45 DE LA TAR DE PARA LA FINCA (25,149) A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE PARA LA FINCA (4,572) A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE PARA LA FINCA (2,362) A LAS 2:30 DE LA TAR DE, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Cen tro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Que de ser nece saria la celebración de una SE GUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 , PARA FINCA (2,210) A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE PARA LA FINCA (8,003) A LAS 1:45 DE LA TAR DE PARA LA FINCA (25,149) A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE PARA LA FINCA (4,572) A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE PARA LA FINCA (2,362) A LAS 2:30 DE LA TAR DE en la oficina antes mencio nada del Alguacil que suscribe. Que de ser necesaria la cele bración de una TERCERA SU BASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE DICIEM BRE DE 2022, PARA FINCA (2,210) A LAS 1:30 DE LA TAR DE PARA LA FINCA (8,003) A

LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, PARA LA FINCA (25,149) A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE PARA LA FINCA (4,572) A LAS 2:15 DE LA TAR DE PARA LA FINCA (2,362) A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. Si se de clarase desierta la tercera su basta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totali dad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera su basta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a te nor 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 Honorable Tribunal, se proce derá a otorgar la correspon diente escritura de venta judi cial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposi ciones de Ley. Para conoci miento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para co nocimiento de todos los licita dores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) sema nas consecutivas, con un inter valo 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 cele brarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Co lecturía. Se les informa, por últi mo, que: a. Que los autos y to dos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento incoado estarán de ma nifiesto en la secretaría del tri bunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entende rá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. EX

PIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de octubre de 2022. Jorge A. Ortiz Estrada, Alguacil Regional Interino #622. Sandraliz Martí nez Torres, Alguacil Auxiliar #737, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Fajardo.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CAGUAS Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE AIDA LUZ SEPÚLVEDA NAVARRO COMPUESTA POR VERÓNICA NEGRÓN SEPÚLVEDA

Demandados Civil Núm.: ECD2015-0320. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBAS TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. YO, NATALIA SUÁREZ ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #089, Alguacil del Tribu nal Superior, Sala de Caguas, al público en genial. CERTIFI CO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Sen tencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Honorable Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, en el caso arriba indicado venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor de contado y en mone da legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día PRIMERO (1RO) DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS NUEVE Y CUA RENTA Y CINCO DE LA MA ÑANA (9:45AM) en mi oficina, sita en el Centro Judicial de Ca guas, Puerto Rico, el siguiente inmueble: URBANA: solar nú mero Sesenta y Seis (66) del bloque “C” de la Urbanización Las Carolinas, radicado en el Barrio Bairoa del término mu nicipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico. Area del solar DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y CINCO PUN TO CUARENTA Y CINCO ME TROS CUADRADOS (255.45 m.c.). En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de veinticinco punto sesenta y seis (25.66) metros, con el solar número Sesenta y Siete (67) del bloque “C”; por el Sur, en una distan cia de veinticuatro punto vein tinueve (24.29) metros, con el solar número Sesenta y Cinco (65) del bloque “C”; por el Este, en una distancia de diez punto treinta (10.30) metros, con el solar número Siete (7) del blo que “C”; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de diez punto treinta y tres (10.33) metros, con la calle número Tres (3) de la urbani zación. Enclava una casa dise ñada para una familia. Inscrita al folio Ciento Treinta (130) del tomo Mil Trescientos Noventa y Uno (1,391) de Caguas, finca número Cuarenta y Nueve Mil Doscientos Ochenta y Cuatro (49,284), Registro de la Propie dad de Caguas, Sección Prime ra. Dicha propiedad está afecta

a una (1) hipoteca a favor de la parte demandante, la cual se desglosa a continuación: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pa garé a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Caguas, o a su orden, por la cantidad de $75,000.00, con intereses al 6.50% anual, vencedero el primero (1ro.) de septiembre de 2038, según la Escritura núme ro 85, otorgada en Caguas, el 14 de agosto de 2008 ante la Notario Público Teresa Pache co Camacho, e inscrita al folio Ciento Diecisiete (117) del tomo Mil Setecientos Quince (1,715) de Caguas, finca número Cua renta y Nueve Mil Doscientos Ochenta y Cuatro (49,284), inscripción quinta (5ta.), Regis tro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera y modificada en cuanto a los pagos men suales y su vencimiento, que ahora será el primero (1ro.) de diciembre de dos mil treinta y ocho (2038), según la Escritura número 9, otorgada en Caguas, el 10 de febrero de 2012 ante la Notario Público Teresa Pache co Camacho, e inscrita al folio Ciento Diecisiete (117) del tomo Mil Setecientos Quince (1,715) de Caguas, finca número Cua renta y Nueve Mil Doscientos Ochenta y Cuatro (49,284), inscripción sexta (6ta.). La di rección física de la propiedad es: Urbanización Las Caroli nas, Calle 3 #C-66, Bo. Bairoa en Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725. Se ha ordenado la venta en pú blica subasta de la finca antes mencionada para satisfacer el monto adeudado de la hipote ca y se llevará a efecto por un precio mínimo de $75,000.00 y su producto servirá a la deman dante como abono al importe de la Sentencia que ha obteni do ascendente a $72,300.55 de principal de la primera hipoteca, más los intereses devengados a razón del 6.50% anual, más la suma de $7,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado establecidos en la sentencia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondien tes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Se cretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Todo licitador deberá asumir la parte propor cional de la carga que afecta la propiedad así subastada. Si se declarare desierta la subasta señalada, la misma será nue vamente celebrada el OCHO (8) DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022

A LAS NUEVE Y CUAREN TA Y CINCO DE LA MAÑANA (9:45AM) en el mismo lugar antes señalado por la suma de $49,500.00, equivalente a 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo original pactado para la hipoteca. A su vez, de declararse desierta di cha segunda subasta, la misma será celebrada por tercera y úl tima vez el DIECISÉIS (16) DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS

NUEVE Y CUARENTA Y CIN CO DE LA MAÑANA (9:45AM) en el mismo lugar antes señala do por la suma de $37,500.00, equivalente a la 1/2 parte del tipo mínimo original pactado para la hipoteca. No obstan te, si se declarare desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el proceso y se po drá adjudicar el inmueble a la parte demandante, conforme lo dispuesto en el Artículo 104 de la Ley del Registro de la Pro piedad Inmobiliaria de 2015. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de éstos sin des tinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que la propiedad objeto de ejecución está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes preferentes: Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo teca del actor y a los dueños poseedores tenedores o de interesados en títulos transmi sibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor y con los cuales no hubie se tenido efecto la notificación personal del escrito inicial y del Mandamiento del requerimiento de pago, para que puedan con currir a la subasta si les con viniere o satisficiera antes del remate el importe del crédito de sus intereses, costas y honora rios de abogados asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecu tante. Que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posterio res. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este tribunal, pudiendo ser revisados por cualquier parte durante horas laborables. Y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley en un periódico de los de mayor circulación, y para conocimiento de la parte de mandada y del público en ge neral, y para conocimiento del Departamento de Hacienda y/o al Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) que pueda tener algún crédito por concepto de contribuciones territoriales o de cualquier otra índole, y para su publicación además, en los sitios públicos de costumbre, expido el pre sente Edicto de Subasta bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal

Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, hoy 11 de octubre de 2022. Natalia Suárez Ortiz, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #089, Alguacil Tribunal De Primera Instancia.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

MUHAMMAD

MISBAH UMAR PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. OLIVIA ANN MORZENTI PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2022RF00809. SALA: 701. SOBRE: DIVOR CIO (RUPTURA IRREPARA BLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE. UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. A: OLIVIA ANN MORZENTI 2987 ALBERT DR. GREEN BAY WI 54311

POR LA PRESENTE se le no tifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante, una acción de DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRRE PARABLE) en su contra. La parte demandante es el Sr. Muhammad Misbah Umar, con dirección en: P.O. BOX 2808, CAROLINA, PR 00984; Tel. 520-606-1048; correo electróni co; info@thebestofcreation.net. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general una sola vez y que si no compare ce en el término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, la parte demandante podrá soli citar que se dicte sentencia en rebeldía, declarándose CON LUGAR la demanda. Usted podrá 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. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBU NAL, Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a 17 de octubre de 2022. SRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. f/ CARMEN J. CASTRO SERRANO, SECRE TARIA CONFIDENCIAL DEL TRIB I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO

SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante Vs. JUDITH A. VÁZQUEZ CHESTARO

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00223.

Salón: 908. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JUDITH A. VAZQUEZ CHESTARO. 2403 BROGADPPM DRCÑEARWATER. FL, 33759 (PINELLAS).

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: 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 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.riuz@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 26 de agosto de 2022

. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ CO LLADO, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. LOYDA M. COUVERTIER REYES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. EDWARD HARRY VARGAS APONTE, YAMILLE LINETTE

MALDONADO JIMÉNEZ T/C/C YAMILLE MALDONADO y JUAN B. MALDONADO HERNÁNDEZ T/C/C JUAN BAUTISTA MALDONADO HERNÁNDEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2022CV03717.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A La Parte Demandada: EDWARD HARRY VARGAS APONTE, YAMILLE LINETTE MALDONADO JIMÉNEZ T/C/C YAMILLE MALDONADO Y JUAN B. MALDONADO HERNÁNDEZ T/C/C JUAN BAUTISTA MALDONADO HERNÁNDEZ A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS: SOLAR C, 677 RD, BO. RÍO LAJAS, TOA ALTA, PR 00953, RR 2 BOX 5929, TOA ALTA, PR 00953-8448, RES.

MANUEL A. PÉREZ, 2300

CALLE LOPEZ SICARDÓ, EDF E-27, APT. 227, SAN JUAN, PR 00923, CORREO ELECTRÓNICO: YALIMAL@HOTMAIL. COM.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que se adeu da las siguientes cantidades: $107,510.21 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.5% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2021 hasta su completo pago, más $98.79 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $11,150.00 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: RÚS TICA: Radicada en el Barrio Rio Lajas del término municipal de Toa Alta marcada con la letra C en el plano de inscripción de parcelas de terrenos con áreas de 1391.255 metros cua drados y en colindancias por el NORTE, en 64.539 metros con propiedad de la finca Gi boyeaux; por el SUR y ESTE, en distancia de 37.58 metros y 50.055 metros con la parcela “D” de dicho plano dedicada a uso público; y por el OESTE, en

41.535 metros con la parcela “B”. Edificación: Dichos compa recientes manifiestan que han construido sobre dicho solar la siguiente estructura. Casa terrera construida en concreto reforzado y bloques de concre to y techo de zinc galvanizado con vigas de acero, con me didas de 36 pies de largo, por 24 pies, 8 pulgadas de ancho que consiste principalmente de dos cuartos dormitorios, un baño, sala, comedor-cocina. Dedicada a vivienda de una sola familia. Tiene además una terraza con medidas de 36 pies de largo por 13 pies de ancho y un balcón que mide 18 pies de largo por 4 pies, 8 pulgadas de ancho del mismo material, con un valor de $10,000.00, según consta de la escritura #15, otorgada en Bayamón, el 23 de febrero de 1995, ante el notario Benjamín Cintrón Rodríguez, inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 77 de Toa Alta, finca #3331, inscripción 4ta. Inscri ta al folio 180 del tomo 77 de Toa Alta, Finca 3331, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La hipoteca consta inscrita como asiento abreviado al folio 433 del tomo 556 de Toa Alta, Finca 3331, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. Inscripción 7ma. La primera y segunda modi ficación de hipoteca constan inscritas al tomo Karibe de Toa Alta, Finca 3331, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. Inscripción 8va. y 9na. La demandante es la te nedora por endoso en blanco, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. La parte de mandada 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. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tri bunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo Puerto Rico 009703922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, (787) 708-0566 co rreo electrónico: oficinabelma alonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publi cación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el reme dio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi fir ma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy

16 de septiembre de 2022, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECI BO

ADMINISTRACIÓN DE LOS SISTEMAS DE RETIRO DE LOS EMPLEADOS DEL GOBIERNO Y LA JUDICATURA

Demandante V. MARISOL

ANGUITA OTERO Demandado Civil Núm.: MT2022CV00659.

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: MARISOL

ANGUITA OTERO.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del térmi no de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presen tar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la si guiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dic tará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Gui llermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 00936-6603. Tel. (787) 9190073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Ex pido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 13 de octubre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. CAR MEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR MENORES Y FAMILIA CAGUAS

KARELIN

LOPEZ SANCHEZ

Demandante Vs. MIGUEL ALEXANDER LINARES OROVIO Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2022RF00655.

Sobre: FUNCIONES TUTELA RES, AUTORIZACION TRA TAMIENTO MEDICO, PRIVA CION DE PATRIA POTESTAD Y OTROS. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMERI CA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: MIGUEL ALEXANDER LINARES OROVIO. MIGUEL ALEXANDER LINARES OROVIO. CALLE #16 #518 E/ 5TA Y

7MA PLAYA, LA HABANA, CUBA.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: LCDA. LORRAINE T. MORALES CORREA

Urb. Extensión Reparto Caguax Edificio Ingeprom Suite #103 99 calle 21

Caguas Puerto Rico 00725

Teléfono. (787) 703-1208

abogada de la parte deman dante, con copia de la contes tación a la Demanda de Fun ciones Tutelares, Autorización

Tratamiento Médico, Privación de Patria Potestad y Otros que ha sido presentada por la par te demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, por orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se continuará con los procesos y se dictará sentencia y se concederá el remedio soli citado por la parte peticionaria.

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala Superior de Caguas, a 14 de octubre de 2022. LISIL DA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SE CRETARIA. MADELINE LUGO NAVARRO, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V.

CARLOS

FIGUEROA SALGADO Demandado(a) Civil: BC2022CV00042. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CARLOS FIGUEROA SALGADO. (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 14 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 17 de octubre de 2022. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SARAY SALGADO, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.

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MORTGAGE CORP. Demandante Vs. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHOS DE DORAL BANK; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERÉS

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04902.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRA VIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS).

En este caso la parte deman dante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicial mente el saldo de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su or den por la suma de principal de $105,000.00 con intereses al 6 1/2% anual, vencedero el 1ero de noviembre de 2033 median te la escritura 3 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 31 de octubre de 2003 ante el Notario Lucy Navarro Rosado inscri ta al folio 15 del tomo 563 de Toa Baja, finca número 14109 inscripción 4ta., Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda de Bayamón, y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad

sita en HG-81 JM Schuartz Koff Sreet Levit Toa Baja, PR 00949 que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número ochenta y uno (#81) del bloque HG, situada en la Urbanización Levittown. Sépti ma unidad de planificación, en el barrio Sabana Seca, de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con área de trescientos diez punto cincuen ta (310.50) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros. con solares número treinta y nueve (#39) y número cuarenta (#40), por el SUR, en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros. con José M. Schuartz Koff, por el ESTE, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros. con el solar número ochenta y dos (#82) y por el OESTE, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros, con el solar número ochenta (#80). Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 200 del tomo 233 de Toa Baja, finca número 14,109, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sec ción Segunda. La parte deman dante alega que dicho Pagaré se ha extraviado, según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radi cando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, con co pia al abogado de la parte de mandante, Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón, de PMB 538, 267 Sie rra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edic to, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su con tra concediendo el remedio so licitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TESTIMO NIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribuna, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Aibonito, Puer to Rico, hoy 06 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. WANDA L. TRINIDAD SILVA, SECRETARIA DEL TRI BUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.

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406. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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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.ur, 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.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MÚLTIPLES MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ACTUANDO COMO ENTIDAD JURÍDICA SUCESORA DE ALIANZA HIPOTECARIA, INC. Demandante Vs. BRAUDYS MATOS DE JESÚS Demandado MARÍA ELENA DE JESÚS GARCÍA

Parte Interesada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00534.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE SUBASTA.

A: BRAUDYS MATOS DE JESÚS; MARÍA ELENA DE JESÚS GARCÍA.

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, hago saber a la parte deman dada, BRAUDYS MATOS DE JESUS; MARÍA ELENA DE JESUS GARCÍA, parte intere sada, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 11 de agosto de 2022, por la Se cretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y a mejor postor la si guiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en el sitio de nominado o conocido con el número 9 de la calle número 9, hoy el número de la casa 656 del plano de la Urbanización de dicha sección Norte, del Barrio Santurce de esta ciudad, mi diendo una superficie de ciento sesenta punto cincuenta me tros cuadrados (160.50 m/c).

En lindes por el frente en diez metros (10.0)), con la calle nú mero 9; por la derecha entran do, con veinte metros (20.00), con e solar número 11 de Eu genio Cruz, por la izquierda en una extensión de quince punto noventa metros (15.90), con el solar número siete de Micaela Padilla y por el fondo en una ex tensión de diez metros (10.00), con el solar número diez de la calle 8 de dicho plano de urba nización de Juan Salas. Encla va una casa. Consta inscrita al folio 79 del tomo 203 de San turce Norte, finca número 8204, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerrto Rico, Sección I de San Juan. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al de mandante hasta donde alcance la Sentencia dictada a su favor el da 13 de junio de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $99,714.00 de prin cipal, más intereses al 7.50% anual hasta su total y completo saldo, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudadas y los cuales continuarán au mentando hasta el saldo total de la deuda más la cantidad de $9,971.40 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La venta de la referi da propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen pos teriores que afecte a la mencio na 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 su basta. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su ofer ta en el act mismo de la adju dicación, en efectivo (moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA subasta se llevará a efecto el día 14 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mí nimo de la PRIMERA subasta es de $108,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la mis ma se llevará a efecto el día 21 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la SEGUNDA subasta será de $71,280.00, equivalente a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipu lado para la PRIMERA subas ta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE

LA MAÑANA, en la oficina an tes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA subasta será de $54,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Cuando se declara desierta la TERCERA subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la TERCERA subasta, si el tribunal lo estima convenien te. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Todas las subastas deberán se acordadas y cele bradas según ordenado por el Tribunal. Para conocimiento de Ia 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 consecu tivas, con un intérnalo de por lo menos siete (7) 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 cele brarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Co lecturía. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el remanente Jos acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse é su extinción por el precio de remate. Se les advierte a todos los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipo teca, así como de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, durante las horas laborables, todo esto en virtud del Artículo 102 de la Ley Núm. 210 de 8 de diciembre de 2015, mejor conocida como la “Ley del Registro de la Pro piedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. Expido el presente Edicto en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de octubre de 2022. ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL SUPE RIOR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBAS TAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO

LINA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. BERT RIVERA MARCHAND, JENNIFER FERNÁNDEZ

BETANCOURT; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01041.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que sus cribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Man damiento que me ha sido diri gido por la Secretaría del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Horizontal Property: Apartment number four dash twenty (4-20) of irregular shape located on the second (2nd.) floor of Building number four (4), Los Altos del Escorial Con dominium, located in Parque Escorial, in San Anton Ward, in the Municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. This apartment has an approximate area of one thousand seven hundred forty one point eighty two (1,741.82) square feet, equivalent to one hundred sixty one point eighty two (161.82) square meters.

Its boundaries are as follows:

bye the NORTH, in a distance of twelve point ninety (12.90) meters with apartment number three dash twenty one (3-21); by the SOUTH, in a distance of thirteen point eighty four (13.84) meters with common elements; by the EAST, in a distance of eleven point zero four (11.04) meters with common element; and by the WEST, in a distan ce of eleven point zero four (11.04) meters with common element. The main entrance of this apartment is located on the South boundary and com municates with the hallway and stairwell of the building that lead to the sidewalk. This apartment consist of a living room, a bal cony, a dining room, a family

room, a kitchen, a laundry clo set, two (2) bedrooms with a closet each, a bathroom and an additional lavatory in the hallway and a master bedroom with a bathroom, a walk-in clo set and an additional closet.

This apartment has a part and appurtenant to it zero point four five four seven five zero percent (0.454750%) of the common element of the Condominium. It also has as part and appur tenant as a common element limited to it two (2) parking spa ces, one in front the other, in the parking area identified with the Unit Designation. Dirección Física: 420 Altos de Escorial, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00987. Finca 55,850, inscrita al folio 97 del tomo 1,371 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Carolina. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes poste riores. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguien tes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta en la presente causa de acción: Hipoteca en garantía de un pa garé a favor de Firstbank Puer to Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $64,702.00, con intereses al 9 1/4% anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2037, constituida mediante la escritura número 45, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 1 de marzo de 2006, ante la notario Irmarie Rivera Miran da, e inscrita al folio 163 del tomo 1,407 de Carolina, finca número 55,850, inscripción 4ta.

Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $18,406.99, por concepto de contribuciones sobre ingreso, Certificación de fecha 17 de junio de 2009, presentado y anotado el día 4 de agosto de 2009 al folio 163 del tomo 1407 de Carolina, fin ca número 55,850, anotación

A. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Bert Rivera Marchand y Jennifer Fernandez Betancourt, en la suma de $18,406.79, por concepto de Contribuciones

Sobre Ingresos, seguro social xxx-xx-0909/xxx-xx-1534, se gún Certificación de fecha 17

de junio de 2009, presentado el día 1 de julio de 2009 y anotado al folio 97 del Libro del ELA nú mero 15, Orden 2188. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, contra Bert Rivera Marchand, en la suma de $3,805.08, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 5 de noviembre de 2014, pre sentado y anotado el día 26 de noviembre de 2014 al folio 163 del Libro del ELA número 17, Orden 4041. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico contra Bert Rivera Marchand y Jennifer Fernan dez Betancourt, seguro social seguro social xxx-xx-0909, por la suma de $10,956.14, Em bargo número CAR-18-574, según Certificación de fecha 10 de octubre de 2018, anotado el día 2 de noviembre de 2018, al Asiento 2018-009558-EST del Sistema Karibe. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico contra Jennifer Fernandez Betancourt, seguro social seguro social xxx-xx-1534, por la suma de $856.76, Embargo número CAR-2019-445, según Certifi cación de fecha 10 de octubre de 2018, anotado el día 25 de octubre de 2018, al Asiento 2018-008953-EST del Sistema Karibe. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $125,222.19, más la suma de $49,519.25, que incluye intereses según pactados, car gos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del prin cipal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 5 DE DICIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $174,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes menciona do. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $116,000.00. De decla rarse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes menciona do. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $87,000.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios

públicos conforme a la ley, ex pido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 18 de octubre de 2022 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. SAMUEL GONZÁ LEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. AMALIA PIMENTEL BENÍTEZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02522. (408). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SU BASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace cons tar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Apartamento dos C (2-C). Apartamento de dos dormitorios, un baño, cocinalaundry, sala-comedor y balcón localizado en la esquina Su roeste y en la segunda planta del Condominio Rosa María del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Colinda por el NORES TE, a su lado derecho, con el apartamento dos D (2-D) y en trada principal, en treinta y tres punto noventa y dos (33.92) pies, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y cuatro (10.34) metros; por el SURESTE, colinda con el apartamento dos B (2-B), en veintitrés punto cuarenta y dos (23.42) pies, equivalentes a siete punto catorce (7.14) metros; por el SUROESTE, con patio común y balcón, en treinta y tres punto noventa y dos (33.92) pies, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y cuatro (10.34) metros. El balcón tie ne un área de cuarenta y seis punto treinta y dos (46.32) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cua tro punto treinta (4.30) metros

cuadrados; por el NOROES TE, colinda con patio común, en veintitrés punto cuarenta y dos (23.42) pies, equivalentes a siete punto catorce (7.14) metros. El apartamento tiene un área privada de ochocientos sesenta y nueve punto sesenta y tres (869.63) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ochenta punto ochenta y dos (80.82) metros cuadrados. Le corresponde una participación en los elemen tos comunes de punto ciento diecisiete por ciento (117%).

Dirección Física: Cond. Rosa María, Apto. 2-C, Carolina, PR 00985. Finca 52154, inscrita al folio 224 del tomo 1215 de Carolina, Registro de la Pro piedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Carolina. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes pos teriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $83,639.97, más la suma de $14,561.47, que incluye intere ses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son lí quidas y exigibles. La PRIME RA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $83,675.36. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS TA el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar an tes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $55,783.57. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencio nado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea,

$41,837.68. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, ex pido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 18 de octubre de 2022 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. SAMUEL GONZÁ LEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL.

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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 BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. NOELIA

QUIÑONES TORRES Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04349. Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: NOELIA QUIÑONES TORRES.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 5 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días conta dos a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. MAR THA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

OTONIEL GONZALEZ PEREZ Y SU ESPOSA YOLANDA MUÑOZ MALDONADO Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV01214. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJE CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: OTONIEL GONZÁLEZ PÉREZ Y SU ESPOSA

YOLANDA MUÑOZ

MALDONADO. COND. NORTH COAST VILLAGE, APTO. 553, VEGA ALTA, PR 00962; DIRECCIÓN

POSTAL: PO BOX 192098

CAROLINA, PR 00979 Y PO BOX 6903 BAYAMÓN, PR 00960.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de octubre de 2022. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2022. LCDA LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA.

MARITZA ROSARIO ROSA RIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JUAN CARLOS GONZÁLEZ

MALDONADO COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS JUANA MALDONADO GUZMÁN Y MIGUEL ANGEL GONZÁLEZ RIVERA;

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN CARLOS GONZÁLEZ MALDONADO. CONDOMINIO

ALBORADA APTO. 2131, BAYAMÓN, PR 00956; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: VILLA CAROLINA 111-23

CALLE 79 CAROLINA, PR 00985.

POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 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: 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 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. Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Repre senta a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Bayamón, Puerto Rico a

FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04365.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LU REIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESION DE GUILLERMO ALFREDO GAJATE CUEVAS COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS MARIA DE LOS ANGELES GAJATE SANTIAGO, VERONICA MARIA GAJATE SANTIAGO Y MARIA EUFEMIA SANTIAGO PAGAN; SUCESION DE MERCEDES RIVERA RIOS COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS MARTHA MARY PEDROZA RIVERA Y DELIA ESTELA PEDROZA RIVERA; SUCESION DE LILLIAM PEDROZA RIVERA T/C/C

LILLIAN PEDROZA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS MELIZA BEATRIZ APONTE PEDROZA T/C/C

MELISSA BEATRIZ APONTE PEDROZA Y MARITZA SOFIA HERNANDEZ PEDROZA T/C/C MARISSA SOFIA HERNANDEZ PEDROZA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN LAS SUCESIONES Demandado(a)

Civil: GB2022CV00356. Sala:

201. Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE GUILLERMO ALFREDO GAJATE CUEVAS COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS MARIA DE LOS ANGELES GAJATE SANTIAGO, VERONICA MARIA GAJATE SANTIAGO Y MARIA EUFEMIA SANTIAGO PAGAN; SUCESION DE

MERCEDES RIVERA RIOS COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA MARTHA MARY PEDROZA RIVERA; SUCESION DE LILLIAM PEDROZA RIVERA T/C/C LILLIAN PEDROZA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS MELIZA BEATRIZ APONTE PEDROZA T/C/C MELISSA BEATRIZ APONTE PEDROZA Y MARITZA SOFIA HERNANDEZ PEDROZA T/C/C MARISSA SOFIA HERNANDEZ PEDROZA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN LAS SUCESIONESCOND. BOULEVARD DEL RIO II, APTO. M-1 19, BO. FRAILES, GUAYNABO, PR 00969; - URB. AGUSTIN STAHL, 17 CALLE A, BAYAMON, PR 009563046; -709 RED RIVER CT APT. 6, BRANDON, FL 33511; - MARTHA MARY PEDROZA RIVERA: 3801 A. SOUTH BOILING BLVD. JBMDL, NJ 08641. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de 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 18 de octubre de 2022. En Guay nabo, Puerto Rico, el 18 de oc tubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.

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FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE WARREN ALMODOVAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN H. ALMODOVAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN HAISY ALMODOVAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN H. ALMODOVAR COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS WARREN ALMODOVAR FIGUEROA Y KARLA E. ALMODOVAR TORRES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV08432. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en gene ral que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 1ro de junio de 2022 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 15 de julio de 2022, librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque cer tificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PRO

PIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apar tamento número ochocientos uno (801) localizado en la oc tava planta del Condominio Co lumbia Plaza que radica en la Calle Columbia número cuatro cientos uno de la Urbanización University Gardens de Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial de quinientos se tenticuatro punto setenticinco pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cincuentitrés punto cuarenti dós metros cuadrados y consta de sala-comedor-habitación, cocina, baño, closet y balcón. Colinda por el NORTE, con el patio posterior; por el SUR, con la pared que lo separa del apar tamento número ochocientos dos; y por el OESTE, con el pa tio lateral; por el ESTE, por don

de tiene su acceso de entrada y salida, con un pasillo que lo comunica con el resto del edi ficio. Le corresponde una parti cipación de 2.780% en los ele mentos comunes generales. Le pertenece el estacionamiento #27. FINCA NÚMERO: 30,942, inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 1074 de Río Piedras Norte, sección II de San Juan. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección II de San Juan, la descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente. En la Escritura número 34, otorgada el 23 de agosto de 2002, se omitió hacer mención del estacionamiento número 27, perteneciente al apartamento objeto de ejecu ción, según dicho registro de la propiedad. Dirección Física: Condominio Columbia Plaza Calle Columbia, University Gar dens, Apt. 801, San Juan, PR 00927. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 22 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $85,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes seña lado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $56,666.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el pá rrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mis mo lugar antes señalado el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $42,500.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo esti ma conveniente. Se abona rá dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor.

El Tribunal dictó Sentencia en Rebeldía, condenando a la parte demandada SUCESIÓN DE WARREN ALMODOVAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN H.

ALMODOVAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN HAISY ALMODO VAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN H. ALMODOVAR COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CO NOCIDOS WARREN ALMO DOVAR FIGUEROA Y KARLA E. ALMODOVAR TORRES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PAR TES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN, a pagar a la parte demandante las siguientes su mas: $54,672.43 de principal, más los intereses al 6.125% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y los cuales continuarán en au mento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipu lada de $8,500.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honora rios de abogados. Se dispo ne que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nue vos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá or denar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamien to del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del de mandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen poste rior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fue ra necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan com parecer a la celebración de di cha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titularidad y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante conti nuarán subsistentes. Se enten derá que el rematante los acep ta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas la borables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el pre sente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación

diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2022.

ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUA CIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante V. NANCY CRUZ ANDINO POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GASPAR BULTRÓN RIVERA COMPUESTA CON NAYDA MARIE BULTRÓN CRUZ, AZARYA BULTRÓN CRUZ Y SUCESIÓN DE JONATHAN HOMAR BULTRÓN FIGUEROA COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS; FUIANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B, Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GASPAR BULTRÓN RIVERA Y SUCESIÓN DE JONATHAN HOMAR BULTRÓN FIGUEROA; SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA Y SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR Demandados

Civil Núm.: CN2022CV00245.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A La Parte Demandada: FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B Y C DE LA SUCESIÓN

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsi va a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamien to, excluyéndose el día del dili genciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al (a la) abogado (a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representa ción legal. 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. Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bil bao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. La tinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), le or dena que en el término de trein ta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando las he rencias de la Sucesión de Gas par Bultrón Rivera y Jonathan Homar Bultrón Figueroa. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. 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. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de co bro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma está garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radiado en la Urbanización Villas de Loíza, situada en el Barrio Canóvanas de! Municipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico que se describe en el pla no de inscripción de la Urbani zación con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación que contiene una casa de concreto reforza

do, diseñada para una sola fa milia: Solar número 24 del blo que CC. Área de! solar: 23000 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 me tros con solar 25; por el ESTE, en 23.00 metros con solar 23; por el ESTE, en 10.00 metros con calle 45A; y por el OESTE, en 10.00 metros con solar 13. Afecto a una Servidumbre de 1.5 metros por su colindancia Norte para mantenimiento. Consta inscrita al folio cuarenta y tres (43) de tomo doscientos diecisiete (217) de Canóvanas, finca número diez mil ciento cuarenta y siete (10147), ins cripción primera, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Tercera de Carolina. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: García-Chamorro Law Group, P.S.C., 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 05 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. MA

RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE TEÓFILA NOBOA CERRA COMPUESTA POR YENNIFEL PEÑA NOBOA, JESSENIA ANTONIA PEÑA NOBOA Y JOSE BENJAMÍN CHEVALIER NOBOA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO GIL PEÑA FRÍAS COMPUESTA POR YENNIFEL PEÑA NOBOA, JESSENIA ANTONIA PEÑA NOBOA, RAÚL PEÑA SALCEDO, RUDI PEÑA SALCEDO Y LUIS PEÑA COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS Y FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B Y C DE LA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

DE GASPAR BULTRÓN RIVERA; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B Y C DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JONATHAN HOMAR BULTRÓN FIGUEROA. NAYDA MARIE BULTRÓN CRUZ Y AZARYA BULTRÓN CRUZ, HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GASPAR BULTRÓN FIGUEROA.

Civil Núm.: CA2020CV01977.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A La Parte Demandada: SUCESIÓN DE TEÓFILA NOBOA CERRA COMPUESTA POR JESSENIA ANTONIA PEÑA NOBOA, YENNIFEL PEÑA NOBOA Y JOSE BENJAMÍN CHEVALIER NOBOA COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO GIL PEÑA FRÍAS COMPUESTA POR YENNIFEL PEÑA NOBOA, JESSENIA ANTONIA PEÑA NOBOA, RAÚL PEÑA SALCEDO, RUDI PEÑA SALCEDO Y LUIS PEÑA COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B Y C DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO GIL PENA FRÍAS.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsi va a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamien to, excluyéndose el día del dili genciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al (a la) abogado (a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representa ción legal. 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. Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exporta ción, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declara ción aceptando o repudiando las herencias de la Sucesión de Antonio Gil Peña Frías y la su cesión de Teofila Noboa Cerra.

Se le apercibe que de no ex presar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la he rencia se tendrá por aceptada.

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: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presen tar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma está garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar nú mero 14 de la manzana 137 de la Urbanización Villa Carolina, situada en el barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 312.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar 13 distancia de 24.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar 15 dis tancia de 24.00 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar 11 distancia de 13.00 metros y por el OES TE, con la Calle 406 distancia de 13.00 metros. Contiene una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia. Finca #27896 inscrita al folio 258 del tomo 694 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de arolina sur, Sec ción Segunda. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: García-Chamorro Law Group, P.S.C., 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 11 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. MA

RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

RUTH M. COLÓN LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ MWPR, LLC Demandante Vs. EVELYN RODDRIGUEZ MENDEZ, SU ESPOSO, JESUS RAFAEL ARROYO MORA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; RAFAEL MARZAN T/C/C RAFAEL MARZAN SANTIAGO Demandado(s) Caso Núm.: I1CI201200603.

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

A: EVELYN RODDRIGUEZ MENDEZ, SU ESPOSO, JESUS RAFAEL ARROYO MORA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS; RAFAEL MARZAN T/C/C RAFAEL MARZAN SANTIAGO; Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judi cial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLI CO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus dere chos sobre el bien hipotecado con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hu biesen pospuesto a la hipote ca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de ins trumentos negociables garan tizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecu tado, 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 crédi to, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados ase gurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a sa ber: RG MORTGAGE CORPO

RATION: A cuyo favor aparece una anotación de demanda, de fecha 9 junio 2005, en el en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, caso civil # I1CI200500592, seguido por RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION versus Evelyn Rodriguez Méndez y Jesús Ra fael Arroyo Mora, por la suma de $24,474.82 más intereses etc. Inscrito al folio 5422 del tomo 1536 de Mayagüez, finca #31,863 inscripción 5ta. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia ex pedido el día 7 de septiembre 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 con tinuación: Dirección de la Pro piedad: Apt 7 W-19-B Cond. Rio Cristal, 9310 Calle Balbino Trinta, Mayagüez, PR 006801958: URBANA: PROPIEDAD

HORIZONTAL: Apartamento W guión diecinueve guión B (W19-B) en el segundo piso del Condominio Río Cristal, Grupo número siete (7) localizado en el Proyecto VBC guión ciento ochenta y siete (VBC-187).

Está construido de hormigón armado y bloques de hormigón, teniendo un área superficial de mil diecinueve punto veinticua tro (1,019.24) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a noventa y cua tro punto seiscientos noventa (94.690) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en diecinueve pies diez pulgadas y media (19’10 ½”), equivalen

tes a seis punto cincuenta y ocho (6.058) metros con pared exterior; por el SUR, en die cinueve pies diez pulgadas y media(19’10 ½”), equivalentes a seis punto cincuenta y ocho (6.058) metros con pared exte rior; por el ESTE, en veintisie te pies seis pulgadas (27’6”), equivalentes a ocho punto tres cientos ochenta y dos (8.382) metros con el apartamento sie te W guión diecinueve guión C (7 W-19-C); y por el OESTE, en veintisiete pies seis pulgadas (27’6”), equivalentes a ocho punto trescientos ochenta y dos (8.382) metros con el apar tamento siete W guión veinte guión C (7 W-20-C). Este apar tamento de dos (2) niveles se usará con propósitos residen ciales y consiste de sala, come dor, cocina, lavandería, terraza, pasillo, un cuarto de baño, tres (3) dormitorios con sus respec tivos guardarropas. La puerta principal de entrada queda al Norte. Le corresponde a este apartamento 1.05416% en re lación con los elementos comu nes generales. Consta inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 1053 de Ma yagüez finca número 31,863, Registro de la Propiedad Sec ción de Mayagüez. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 26 de febrero de 2014 en el presente caso civil, a saber, ascendente a la suma de $46,577.41 a1 18 de abril de 2022, lo cual se desglosa en $23,141.82 de principal, $16,815.76 de intere ses, $1,502.14 de cargos por demora, $894.66 por concep to de seguro de la propiedad (“Hazard Insurance”), $925.78 por concepto de deficiencia en la cuenta de reserva (“es crow”) $549.25 por concepto de impuestos sobre la propie dad (“CRIM”), y $2,475.00 de honorarios de abogados pacta dos, más costas, y gastos. Los intereses se continúan acumu lando a razón de $2.76 al día (“per diem”) hasta el pago total de la deuda, para cubrir el prin cipal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanen te luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demanda dos 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 1 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Algua cil, localizada en el Centro Ju dicial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mí nimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $24,750.00.

Que de ser necesaria la cele bración de una SEGUNDA SU BASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $16,500.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $12,375.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que

los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de octubre de 2022.

JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SU BASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRI MERA INSTANCIA, SALA SU PERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. GILBERTO RAMOS VAN-RHYN

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02347. Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Algua cil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 30 de junio de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sen tencia del 24 de agosto de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 2 de septiembre de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 22 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, lo calizada en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Es quina Coll y Toste, Parada 37, San Juan, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar ra dicado en el Barrio Cupey de Río Piedras, término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, mar cado con el Número Diez (10) del Bloque E de la Urbanización Cupey Gardens, con una cabi da superficial de 762.32 metros cuadrados. En linderos por el

NORTE, con el solar número once (11) del bloque E, en una distancia de 34.13 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número trece (13) del bloque A, en una distancia de 25.145 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número nueve (9) del bloque E, en una distancia de 26.77 metros y con la Calle Número siete guión A (7-A), en una distancia de 13.35 metros; y por el OESTE, con el Asilo de Ancianos, en una distancia de 12.96 metros.

Enclava una casa de cemento y bloques para fines residencia les. Inscrita al folio 111 del tomo 238 de Río Piedras Sur, Finca Número 7758, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sec ción IV. La escritura de hipote ca consta inscrita al folio 117 vuelto del tomo 808 de Río Pie dras Sur, Finca Número 7758, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Inscrip ción sexta. La primera escritura de modificación consta inscri ta al folio 59 del tomo 856 de Río Piedras Sur, Finca Número 7758, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Ins cripción octava. La segunda escritura de modificación cons ta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Sur, Finca Número 7758, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Ins cripción décima. Dirección Fí sica: URB. CUPEY GARDENS, E10 CALLE 7, SAN JUAN, PR 00926-7310. Número de Ca tastro: 79-115-043-827-35-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $188,586.34. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MA ÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $125,724.22. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda su basta, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA, el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $94,293.17. 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 ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la par te demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $187,833.07 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.125% anual desde el 1 de octubre de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $170.76 de recargos acumulados, los

cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $13,950.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del présta mo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta pro piedad pesa el siguiente gra vamen posterior que afecta la propiedad que se pretende eje cutar: Aviso de Demanda: Plei to seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Gilberto Ra mos Van-Rhyn, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil Número SJ2022CV02347, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecu ción de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $187,833.07 y otras cantidades, según De manda de fecha 28 de marzo de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Ka ribe de Río Piedras Sur. Ano tación C. Se notifica al acree dor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacio nados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examina dos, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Se cretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, conti nuarán subsistentes; enten diéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mis mos, sin destinarse a su extin ción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los luga res públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en San Juan, Puer to Rico, hoy 18 de octubre de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁ LEZ, ALGUACIL, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPE RIOR.

The Bucks are betting on déjà vu

By SCOTT CACCIOLA

After Khris Middleton spent his first season in professional basketball with the Detroit Pistons and the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBA Devel opment League, he was traded to the Mil waukee Bucks. At the time, he was merely hoping for steady employment.

A few weeks later, when Middleton arrived in Milwaukee for training camp before the start of the 2013-14 season, he was not the only fresh face. He was joined by Giannis Antetokounmpo, a precocious draft pick who proudly professed his love for fruit smoothies and was similarly awe struck to be in the presence of veteran teammates like Caron Butler, O.J. Mayo and Zaza Pachulia.

“They were basketball gods to us at the time,” Middleton said, “just because they’d been so successful in the league for so many years, and we were trying to learn everything we could from them.”

Even then, Middleton was savvy enough to understand that it would take time to build winning habits. Milwaukee went 15-67 that season to finish with the worst record in the league while ranking last in home attendance. The Bucks were not a product that many people wanted to buy.

“It wasn’t going to be an overnight success story,” Middleton said. “We set tled in for the long haul.”

Last Thursday night, as the Bucks christened their new season with a 90-88 win over the Philadelphia 76ers, their days of hard-won habit-building were the stuff of ragged memories. Milwaukee has made six straight playoff appearances, winning a championship in 2021, and figures to be in the mix to win it all again this season.

It helps that Antetokounmpo is one of the best players in the world. After a busy summer that included the release of “Rise,” a Disney+ biopic about his life, and a run in the EuroBasket tournament with Greece’s national team, Antetokounmpo crammed 21 points, 13 rebounds and 8 assists into 36 minutes against the 76ers.

“They know how to play with their star,” Sixers coach Doc Rivers said.

But that only comes with continuity, patience and stability — concepts that are increasingly foreign in pro sports.

Antetokounmpo and Middleton have been with the Bucks since the dark ages. Brook Lopez and Pat Connaughton, two

other members of the team’s core, came to Milwaukee before the start of the 201819 season, which was also Mike Buden holzer’s first season as coach. And 14 of the 17 players on the current roster were with the team last season. One of them, Wesley Matthews, made the go-ahead 3-pointer against Philadelphia.

“I think it helps us to start the season when other teams have new players, new additions, new coaching staff — all those kinds of changes,” Matthews said. “For the most part, we’re the same team. So being in moments like this, we’ve been there be fore.”

Now in his 15th season, Lopez has played for teams where it took time “to figure stuff out,” he said — where play ers needed weeks or even months to feel comfortable in new systems, where train ing camps included exercises designed to enhance chemistry.

“They’re good things, and that’s why people do them,” Lopez said. “But we don’t necessarily need to make people do team bonding or anything like that. It’s very natural around here. We have people hanging out, enjoying each other’s com pany, and we’re all glad to be a part of this.”

Not that the Bucks have been immune to disappointment. In 2018-19, they had the league’s best regular-season record, then lost to the Toronto Raptors in the Eastern Conference finals. It was more of the same the following season: best record, early exit (this time to the Miami Heat in the conference semifinals).

“We were disappointed in ourselves,” Lopez said. “We knew we had more to give and more to achieve as a group. We knew we could be better.”

After a period of uncertainty for the team and collective anxiety for the Mil waukee area, Budenholzer returned as coach, the Bucks bolstered their back court by trading for Jrue Holiday, and An tetokounmpo agreed to a mammoth con tract extension. Several months later, the Bucks were NBA champions for the first time since 1971.

“The fact that the franchise stuck with us and kept the team together shows that they believed in what they were trying to build,” Middleton said. “And we all want ed to stay and get the job done.”

The Bucks have that feeling again af ter losing to the Boston Celtics in the con ference semifinals last season. It hardly

Giannis Antetokounmpo is in his 10th season with the Milwaukee Bucks. The team’s patience with his development has paid off.

helped that Middleton missed the series with a knee injury. And they are not yet whole this season, either: Middleton is re habilitating from wrist surgery, and Con naughton has a strained calf.

Still, the Bucks have their foundation in place.

“We’re not talking about our basic defensive or offensive principles,” Con naughton said. “Everybody already knows them. Instead, we’re talking about how to improve.”

This is a critical season for Milwau kee. Lopez is in the final season of a fouryear deal, and Middleton, who signed a five-year contract with the Bucks in 2019, has a player option for next season. Their futures are uncertain. But nothing lasts

forever, and the Bucks want to capitalize while they can. It has taken a long time for them to reach this stage, to have so much familiarity with one another.

“It’s rare,” Middleton said. “It’s defi nitely rare.”

On Thursday morning, as the team wrapped up a pregame workout, Middle ton was accosted by Joe Ingles, one of the team’s newcomers. After edging Middle ton in a friendly shooting competition, In gles wanted to make sure everyone knew it: “We’ve got 81 more games, and it’s 1-0 to Joe.”

Middleton shook his head and laughed.

“This,” he said, “is one of the reasons I wish we didn’t make any changes.”

Cristiano Ronaldo and the long walk

By RORY SMITH

Manchester United’s starting team appeared first, walking out at Old Trafford shoulder-to-shoulder with its opponent for the evening, Totten ham Hotspur. Then came the substitutes, clutching fluorescent training bibs and bottles of water, followed by two small armies of coaches, assistant coaches and assistants to the coaches.

Only then, once the players had lined up, the replacements had taken their seats and the respective coaching staffs had claimed their territory, did Cristiano Ron aldo emerge, strolling a couple of yards behind midfielder Scott McTominay. It may have been by instinct or it may have been by design, but for that moment the camera was drawn inexorably to him.

Not that it needs much excuse. Four minutes later, as the game was settling into its pattern, there was Ronaldo again, in situ on the substitutes’ bench in the cen ter of the screen. It has become a familiar role for him for much of this season: one of the finest players in the game’s history, reduced to the most important spectator in the stadium.

Strictly speaking, this should not be worthy of note. For much of last season, the first of his second spell at Old Trafford, Ronaldo was the inspiration for and sub ject of what was — initially, anyway — a moderately compelling debate about the balance between individual attainment and collective success.

He scored goals, and plenty of them — 18 in 30 games in the Premier League alone, the most prolific at the club by

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some distance — but his presence at times seemed to inhibit the attempts of first Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and then Ralf Rangnick to imbue the team with a more modern, dynamic sensibility. How then should his contribution be assessed? Were the goals justification for Ronaldo’s inclusion, or was the cause being confused with the cure?

It has been abundantly clear for months where Erik ten Hag, United’s current man ager, stands on that particular conundrum. He has been unstinting in his praise for Ronaldo in public — both in terms of his lasting legacy on the game and his ongo ing usefulness — but his words have been rather drowned out by his actions.

Ronaldo has started only two Premier League games this season. The first in volved being 4-0 down at halftime against Brentford. The second ended in a stale mate against Newcastle. He has instead

spent most of his time facing Omonia Nic osia, Sheriff Tiraspol and Real Sociedad in the Europa League. Few have questioned the wisdom of it.

United’s win against Spurs last Wednesday night in Manchester, England, the product of probably the finest perfor mance yet in ten Hag’s nascent reign, pro vided a compelling illustration as to why. Without Ronaldo, United is stirring. There is an energy, a zest in its performance, a sense of disparate parts gradually bind ing into a distinct unit, the early emergent signs of a genuine style of play.

And yet such is Ronaldo’s fame, his draw, his magnetism that even now his ab sence defines things as surely as his pres ence. His exclusion from the field is a talk ing point. The camera pans to him, seeking to discern his mood, his state of mind, as soon as the opportunity arises. The fans, mindful of what he was, unconcerned by what he might be, sing his name as he trots down the touchline to stretch his muscles, to shake off the gathering rust.

It is not, of course, quite the coda to his glittering career Ronaldo might have anticipated. It is not, in truth, the coda his achievements warrant. There is scant reason to offer sympathy for that: His pre dicament, after all, comes with the not-ir relevant consolation of being the best-paid player at one of the world’s richest clubs.

But it is true too that Ronaldo is trapped by a function of modern soccer’s econom ics. Few players, if any, have done as much as Ronaldo, 37, to turn the game into the financial monster it has become; he has for years been one of the twin spearheads (and prime beneficiaries) of its relentless drive for global growth.

at Valencia, or Lazio, or Galatasaray. After all, his forebears as the world’s best play ers were prepared to accept the ticking of the clock.

The problem, of course, is that he does not need to do so. That he was slowly dis playing signs of his own mortality was clear when he left Juventus a little more than a year ago, and yet Manchester United — a club that regards itself as the biggest in the world — was still willing to sign him, not just for the romance of it but for the brand impact, the exposure, the Instagram followers. There is no reason to believe, when he leaves United, it would be differ ent for his next club.

Ronaldo is, put simply, too valuable, too famous, too much of a draw to be al lowed to drift into the sunset. (It goes with out saying, of course, that Lionel Messi — the impending recipient of contract offers from both Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona — is exactly the same.) Some one, somewhere, will offer him a colossal sum of money to score the occasional goal in the Champions League, or to aid their pursuit of it.

And so this is his lot, as one of the most glorious careers ever does not draw gracefully to a close but is drained of every last drop of glamour, every last ounce of energy, every last lingering camera shot, forced to watch on as the game he once dominated and the stages he once owned move on without him.

A minute or so before the final whistle on Wednesday night, with United’s victo ry secure, Ronaldo lifted himself from his seat, strolled along the side of the field and disappeared into the Old Trafford tunnel. There were still four minutes to play.

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Now, though, he finds himself at the mercy of his own creation. All players, even the very best, reach an end. Their legs weary or their bodies creaking, they look for a slightly more comfortable place to spend their twilight years, somewhere the scrutiny is less glaring or the demands not quite as exacting or the task a touch less mountainous than at the game’s abso lute peaks.

It is easy — and not wholly inaccurate — to accuse Cristiano Ronaldo of not only greed but hubris too, to point out that he would find countless willing suitors if only he would accept a substantial pay cut and a demotion in status. He would be adored

By the time they had elapsed, he had left the stadium, and disappeared off into the night, leaving in his wake only rancor and resentment. The next day, ten Hag decreed that Ronaldo would be banished from training with his teammates for the rest of the week as punishment. He may have played his final game for Manchester United.

That will not be the end of it, though. There will be another club, another team, one with ambitions of gracing the Cham pions League or perhaps even designs on winning it, that cannot quite resist his draw, his power, that will not be able to look away from a star grown too big to fall.

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While interactions with others can be busy and even quite exciting, Venus and the Sun’s move into a secretive sector, is a chance to take stock of deeper feelings. Passions and desires may rise to the surface seeking satisfaction. Shared assets, financial matters and close relationships, could show great promise, but might also require tweaking or bigger changes, if you are to flourish.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Relationships appear buoyant and positive moving forward, and this can encourage you to reach out to others, explore new friendships and perhaps to consider romance, if this appeals, Taurus. Ready for a shift? As Venus and the Sun enter Scorpio, you’ll have an opportunity to transform a relationship, perhaps by starting again or improving on what you have. Change is in the air!

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

As Mars angles towards aquatic Neptune in your sector of goals and ambitions, it can be wise to reexamine a proposal in the light of new information. It may be an excellent opportunity, but if it involves money, then clarity is essential. Plus, your daily habits are the warp and weft of your life Gemini, and the coming weeks are perfect for letting go of those that aren’t working.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Let the good times roll, as a renewed focus on your leisure zone, encourages you to spend today doing those things that you enjoy. This can be both therapeutic and enlivening in so many ways. With Venus and the Sun traveling into Scorpio, creativity and romance might be high on your list of priorities. But any activity that involves self-expression and socializing may be good for you.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

As lovely Venus and the Sun glide into your home zone, the coming weeks may be a time of rest and recuperation. You’ll still be busy, but taking time out when you can for self-care and some pampering, could do you the world of good. Book a massage or two, and be sure to eat good food and get plenty of sleep. Ready to give your place a makeover? You’ll enjoy being creative, Leo.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Interesting courses, new books or anything that enables you to gather information, might call out to you. What you know can be key to uncovering fresh opportunities. If you’re a student, this may be an intense time for studying, but one you might enjoy. The coming weeks are also excellent for networking. You’ll be drawn to those who have influence and power, Virgo.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

The focus on your sector of resources intensifies, and can see you putting the spotlight on your skills and abilities, especially those that could enhance your income. Have an under-used talent? If so, making the most of it may be rewarding. If you’re good at what you do Libra, it might be a lucrative side-hustle. Have items to sell? Something can be worth more than you think it is.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Venus, along with the radiant Sun, enters your sign for a four week stay, enhancing your popularity no end. Your magnetic qualities may be to the fore, so if you want to impress anyone now is the time. Your love life can become more passionate, and this will be welcome, if it’s been through a quiet spell recently. A new bond could move towards greater intimacy, Scorpio.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Although you may appear unruffled by the events going on around you, sensitive influences hint that they are having an impact. It might seem easier to keep quiet, but is it good for you? Venus and the Sun’s move into a secluded sector, suggests that you’d feel happier getting it out of your system. Openly discussing your experience, can reassure others in similar situations, Archer.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

Though you may feel excited and eager to take on new responsibilities, the social whirl can prove a big temptation. From today, there could be so much going on that you’ll need to be discerning regards what to get involved with and what to ignore. One invite might seem too good to pass by. If you say yes to this, you can be enchanted by what happens next, Capricorn.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

The desire to make a dream come true may be enhanced, as the emphasis shifts to Scorpio and a high-flying zone. Don’t hold back! Instead, be open about your skills, as they might be in demand. It’s a good time to sign up for a promotion, and show off your impressive leadership qualities. You’ll be noticed more than usual, so if you want to enhance your social media presence, do it now.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Venus and the Sun enter your sector of travel and exploration, encouraging you to seek out new opportunities. This might involve travel, study or working abroad. Have an online business? You may attract more clients from around the globe. And if you do have a chance to get away, it can be so good for you. Relaxing in a place of natural beauty could be just what you need, Pisces.

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