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Senate panel investigates debts owed by insurers to hospitals

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he Senate Health Committee, chaired by Rubén Soto Rivera, held a public hearing Tuesday to address the debts owed by insurers to hospitals in Puerto Rico.

“Every day I become more convinced that it is urgent to reform the payment system for health institutions and providers to improve these services in Puerto Rico and do justice to the professionals in this field,” the senator said.

Insurance Commissioner Alexander AdamsVega said his office is actively conducting an audit to investigate outstanding claims for payments to health care providers.

“During the first phase, which includes six insurers and health services organizations, it turned out that the total claims pending payments, as of July 31, 2022, were $226,368,828,” the commissioner said. “Of this amount, $101,961,593 were claims pending payments to hospitals that represented some 206,956 claims for services provided.”

Currently, the Insurance Commissioner’s office’s investigation is in Phase 2, in which they are auditing seven insurers with outstanding payments as of Dec. 31, 2022 totaling $16,302,747. Of this amount, $5,489,324 represents claims pending payment to hospitals.

On the one hand, regarding complaints from hospitals for non-compliance with the Timely Payment Law, which regulates the claims and payment process between insurers and health organizations, they discovered that Triple-S Salud Inc. maintained internal appeal processes to address disputes over payment of claims not contemplated by law.

The insurance commissioner told a Senate panel that his office’s audit of seven insurers has found that outstanding payments include $5,489,324 in claims pending payment to hospitals.

“As a result of our investigation, an administrative order was issued to the insurer in which it was fined and ordered to desist from internal appeal procedures contrary to the Prompt Payment Law requiring it to temper its dispute processes in the law,” Adams Vega said.

Triple-S senior vice president of technology and plan management, Carmen González, noted that she pays all of her contracted suppliers in Puerto Rico around $182 million per month. She added that some 30 percent of the payments issued by Triple-S are made to hospitals.

González said 9.5 out of every 10 claims received are processed automatically in less than 30 days, through computerized systems that have been configured to comply with contracts. In addition, six percent of the institutional claims received are pending evaluation of the required documentation, and once received, it takes 10 days to issue payment.

Hurricane Tammy still exerting rainy influence in Puerto Rico

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lthough Hurricane Tammy is far from Puerto Rico, its residual moisture is affecting the local climate, the National Weather Service reported Tuesday.

The moisture is expected to favor convective rain development, mainly in eastern areas and local offshore islands, driven by westerly winds.

Toward the weekend, an increased chance of showers and storms exists, thus increasing the risk of flooding.

Despite the distances, Tammy’s remnants will gen-

erate northerly swells that will affect the local Atlantic waters and Caribbean passages.

Boaters and beachgoers should exercise caution.

Today through Thursday, northerly winds will bring temporary showers, especially north of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

St. Thomas has been one of the hardest hit areas.

Despite the interaction between a drier, cooler air mass and Tammy’s moisture, consistent, if light, rain is forecast with possible afternoon thunderstorms in southern Puerto Rico.

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Governor: Proposed tax relief would outweigh any benefit from Crudita II repeal

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia insisted on Tuesday that he does not oppose legislation that would eliminate the tax on petroleum derivatives, known as La Crudita II. However, he said there is no certainty that the repeal would positively impact the economy.

The governor said it remains to be seen whether businesses will lower the prices of products if the tax is repealed.

However, he said, the tax reform bill he sent to the Legislature recently would benefit workers and companies.

He said that under his reform proposal, people would see their checks increase. In the same way, small and midsize companies that do not have exemptions are suddenly going to pay

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much less in taxes.

“Corporations in Puerto Rico pay more than all corporations in the United States and much of the world,” Pierluisi noted. “What I say, looking at the numbers, is that the impact on the economy is greater, the positive impact on the economy and for the benefit of all the people of Puerto Rico is greater with the tax relief bill that I sent and that is now in the Legislature.”

“Now it’s not that I’m ever going to reject a tax relief bill,” the governor added. “I’m just going to ask for advice. I recognize that if La Crudita is eliminated, it would be, well, eliminating that excise tax. It

remains to be seen how it benefits the people in general.”

Pierluisi said that if both bills reach La Fortaleza, he will evaluate them with the advice of his agency heads.

“At that time, if they come to my office I will make a clear decision …” he said. “I repeat that the positive impact of the tax reform is greater than the impact of eliminating La Crudita could have. I am simply saying that the fiscal impact of the tax relief is aimed primarily at the working middle class, and non-exempt people and corporations, and that is the bulk of that relief. I have said that it is more positive when you look at it, from the point of view of the impact on the economy, than eliminating La Crudita II. But I recognize that the relief of La Crudita II would also be positive.”

NPP House leader blasts PDP tax reform proposal

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ike so much “legislative nonsense that penalizes the people” is is how the New Progressive Party (NPP) minority leader in the island House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, described the Popular Democratic Party’s (PDP) replacement for House Bill 1839, the so-called tax reform, on Tuesday.

“It is painful to know that the Popular Party in its effort not to lower people’s taxes, has created legislative nonsense that is not viable at all and that, moreover, is designed to penalize the people,” Méndez Nuñez said.

“The NPP delegation in the House rejects the

changes introduced by that group to House Bill 1839 and we reiterate that the PDP is the biggest obstacle that the people and our small and midsize businesses have to receiving a reduction in taxes.”

“The PDP removed the language eliminating the sales and use tax [IVU by its Spanish acronym] at the docks, thus refusing to lower the tax burden on individuals,” the former House speaker pointed out. “Meanwhile, they don’t want to do anything to mitigate the inflation-driven increase in the cost of living.

On the contrary, the amendments they introduced make it virtually impossible to lower taxes to match cost-of-living hikes. First of all, they force the Treasury Department to go to the

Legislature every year to ask for ‘permission’ to match benefits with increases in the cost of living, something highly bureaucratic and unrealistic.”

Méndez Nuñez said that among other amendments that do not have the endorsement of the NPP are the elimination of the option for bona fide farmers to take advantage of a tax decree. The replacement bill also empowers lawyers to certify Alternate Basic Contribution expenses, without requiring them to have academic preparation in accounting.

Another highly questionable aspect of the bill, Méndez Nuñez said, is the creation of a “distinction” in the tax paid for cocktails made with rum in relation to drinks made with other

types of alcohol.

The bill also amends the language for beneficiaries of passive income exemptions to impose a fixed period of residence of 15 years before enjoying those benefits. That prevents Puerto Ricans who move back to the island from enjoying the benefits, Méndez Nuñez said.

“Another example of the PDP’s tax punishment of people,” he said. “If a Puerto Rican, for example, who moved to Florida due to Hurricane Maria, decides to return to his homeland, he will not be able to take advantage of the tax benefits of the passive income exemptions before he lives here for 15 more years. That kills the concept of ‘We are all Law 22,’ because it penalizes our people again.”

Incest-pregnancy case to go to trial

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ustice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández announced late Monday that Judge Héctor López determined cause for trial against Alexis Alicea Torres of Lajas, accused of sexually abusing and impregnating his daughter.

“This case has shocked the people because of the abhorrent acts committed against a minor precisely by those who had a duty to care for her, guide her and protect her,” Emanuelli Hernández said in a written statement. “The process is being

carried out focused on the victim and her recovery, with the highest degree of empathy and a high sense of justice.”

The accused, who was arrested on Aug. 14, will face trial on charges of incest, sexual assault, child abuse and threatening witnesses.

The judge also found cause for trial against Liz Rodríguez González, the teenager’s stepmother, for three counts of child abuse under Article 59 of Law 246-2011.

The arraignment will be held on Nov. 6, with the trial scheduled to begin on Dec. 4.

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Mental illness treatment receives a long-awaited boost Governor inaugurates ASSMCA Mental Health Center in Bayamón, announces construction of psychiatric hospital with $87 million investment

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hile mental health might not have been at the center of attention in years past in many places, Puerto Rico included, a number of governments, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, have taken it into consideration and placed it higher on the list of public policy priorities.

Puerto Rico is currently also taking mental health more seriously, as earlier this month the Capitol changed the colors it displays at night to green in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. And on Tuesday, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, alongside the director of the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services inaugurated (ASSMCA by its Spanish initials), Dr. Carlos Rodríguez Mateo, and Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López, inaugurated the new Puerto Rico Mental Health Center (PRMHC) at Dr. Ramón Ruiz Arnau University Hospital in Bayamón.

The center will provide outpatient, residential and community services to children, youth and their families as part of the public policy established to address and prevent severe emotional disorders, risky behaviors, controlled substance use, adjustment problems, and adaptation issues at home, school and in the community.

With an investment of $1.3 million, sourced from state and federal funds, the PRMHC is affiliated with the ASSMCA and features five new programs to address and treat mental health, substance use, and abuse. The programs cater to the outpatient, intensive outpatient, and residential care levels for the age group of 0 to 20 years, as established under Puerto Rico’s Mental Health Law 408-2000. The new services will employ 120 specialized professionals.

“My administration and I are firmly committed to providing a dignified quality of life for our people, and we are taking cutting-edge steps every day to strengthen and expand access to quality mental health services,” Pierluisi said. “Specifically, through the services and programs we are inaugurating today, we seek to ensure that our children and young people, as well as their families, receive the necessary early intervention to address diagnoses and substance dependence, allowing them to achieve their full development and overall well-being, and contribute to the society we all aspire to.”

Rodríguez Mateo, the ASSMCA administrator, stated that after the closure in 2020 of the ASSMCA Mental Health Center in Bayamón due to the pandemic, on Tuesday a specialized public mental health center was inaugurated to provide psychiatric services for trauma, crisis events, and globally competitive addiction treatment. In addition to creating jobs for the medical profession, it integrates families and communities into the treatment.

“Mental health is everything, as without it, there is no physical well-being,” Rodríguez Mateo said. “After traumatic and shocking events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and a pandemic, our children and young people need specialized help more than ever. Through the renovated facilities of the Puerto Rico Mental Health Center by ASSMCA in Bayamón, we have launched first-rate programs for this population, with a public health approach that includes families and communities as support networks. We are proud to inaugurate a project that

facilitators, educational therapists, recreational therapists, occupational therapists and a substance abuse counselor.

Meanwhile, the Intensive Outpatient Treatment Services program focuses on providing clinical services in the community to strengthen and maximize clinical services for children and youth, aimed at enhancing the provision of clinical services. This program aims to bring services to the homes of families in need and is available to participants who do not have immediate access to acute services such as hospitalization or residential treatment.

The Trauma-Informed Treatment Program integrates specialized trauma services to adThe newly renovated Puerto Rico Mental Health Center in Bayamón dress the needs of children and youth, and is will provide outpatient, residential and community services to chil- complemented by the Specialized Substance dren, youth and their families as part of the public policy established Treatment Program for Adolescents and the to address and prevent severe emotional disorders, risky behaviors, Specialized Recreational Active Care Project, controlled substance use, adjustment problems and adaptation issues which provides community support services at home, school and in the community. (Photo courtesy of La Fortaleza) for identifying traumatic symptomatology, community education, and care coordination will serve all of Puerto Rico and be of great benefit to society, for early childhood populations. in accordance with Governor Pierluisi’s public policy.”

Additionally, with the new structure, services for the The PRMHC began operating five mental health and treatment of substance use disorders for children and adoaddiction treatment programs starting Tuesday, which can be lescents were expanded through specialized units for the requested directly by parents, guardians, or referred by school treatment of adolescents and young adults with disorders. personnel or community representatives, as well as those This will provide outpatient treatment services, integrating working with human behavior. The treatment offered is based primary care and psychosocial services to impact the popon evidence-based models, such as the System of Care Model ulation. The expansion will increase and strengthen access and Wraparound Strategies, and Intensive Home-Based Care, to treatment services for the population with controlled among others. substance use disorders and mental health issues.

Interventions are carried out by professionals in the field of The governor also announced that the inauguration of human behavior, with the main goal of promoting, strengthening the PRMHC in Bayamón is accompanied by the construction and restoring the adaptive functioning of children, youth and their of the new Puerto Rico Psychiatric Hospital, which will have families in their homes, schools and communities. This includes 257 beds. The new hospital will strengthen the mental health reducing vulnerabilities and risky behaviors, stabilizing symp- services offered by the commonwealth, providing appropritoms, and regulating their behavior and thoughts. In addition, ate infrastructure in compliance with hospital construction the programs will offer primary caregivers crisis management codes and standards for mental health. strategies, establishing safety plans and connecting them with Some $87 million has been allocated for the project, with other support systems. $85 million coming from the Community Development Block The Residential Service Program for Adolescents with Con- Grant Disaster Mitigation program and $2 million in commontrolled Substance Use Problems provides 24-hour services seven wealth funds for design and permit expenses. days a week to adolescents ages 13 to 17. It consists of 24 beds divided into two clinics for males and females with substance use issues. Services offered include social work, individual, group and family psychotherapy, recreational and occupational therapy, educational assistance, pharmacotherapy, psychiatric treatment, pediatric assessments, psychoeducational therapy and nursing services. The program includes psychologists, social workers, service supervisors, nursing supervisors, nurses, patient service assistants, service

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Henríquez files gubernatorial candidacy under Dignity Project

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da Norah Henríquez, who ran for resident commissioner under the Dignity Project emblem in the most recent election, filed her candidacy for governor Tuesday at the State Elections Commission.

San Sebastián Mayor Javier Jiménez Pérez also announced his intention to run for governor, so he and Henríquez will face each other in primaries next February.

Among her priorities, Henríquez said, is strengthening the public education system.

“There are many people who have their children in the public education stream, which right now does not meet their needs and they cannot have economic mobility,” she said.

Henríquez stated that she also would prioritize public safety, and the energy crisis and power outages plaguing the island.

“Puerto Rico is without security and we need to restore that,” she said. “We have the electricity problem; not only is this a problem that affects families in Puerto Rico, but also small and midsize businesses.”

In the 2020 elections, as the Dignity

Project candidate for resident commissioner, Henríquez obtained 95,873 votes – the most for any of that party’s candidates.

Henríquez said she spoke with Jiménez and “we agreed that the primaries, far from weakening the party, were going to strengthen it, and that we were going to do another type of promotion to give the people a better option.”

Dignity Project President César Vázquez, who supports Jiménez’s candidacy, said a primary would harm the party.

Henríquez said Vázquez has not spoken with her.

Henríquez left the Dignity Project governing council in 2021 due to differences with the leadership.

She said Joseph Ortiz will be her campaign director.

“He is a serious, committed man, with an extensive and impeccable career, and who shares my vision of Puerto Rico,” the gubernatorial candidate said in a written statement.

Henríquez has a Juris Doctor from the Faculty of Law of the University of Puerto Rico and a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a dual major in sociology. In addition, she has worked as a family therapist and was certified as a conflict mediator.

Supermarket chain to release study focused on energy costs in food sector

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he supermarket chain Selectos will release on Friday a study commissioned by economist José Caraballo Cueto, which measured the impact of current and future energy costs on food and the commercial sector in Puerto Rico, Selectos Executive Director Mayreg Rodríguez said Tuesday.

The findings of the study “Impact of Energy Costs on Puerto Rico’s Trade” will also be analyzed by a panel of experts on energy and food security issues during the company’s 30th annual convention.

“In our interest to contribute to improving food security in Puerto Rico, we wanted to commission a study that would measure what we perceive in our stores about the high impact of the cost of energy on the food sector to contribute to the country’s discussion and the search for solutions,” Rodríguez said.

Rodríguez noted that Caraballo Cueto in his research made the correlation between Puerto Rico’s

energy cost and retail sales, the price of refrigerated products and that of meat and seafood in general.

Caraballo Cueto, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Río Piedras Campus, contemplated not only the current scenario of energy costs in commerce and food, but also the future tax increases that are projected in the debt adjustment plan of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), which is in federal bankruptcy court for consideration.

A forum to discuss the results of the study will be composed of Caraballo Cueto; Dr. David Sotomayor, a soil science professor at the UPR the Mayagüez Campus; engineer Johann Gathmann, a representative of the Green Building Council; and Ariel Torres, chairman of the Supermercados Selectos board of directors.

“The findings we will present are really impactful for our sector and food security,” Rodríguez said.

Caraballo Cueto added: “We can already say that the results show that the energy cost for the com-

mercial sector of Puerto Rico is the second highest when compared to the commercial cost in the states.”

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Emmer drops speaker bid after right-wing backlash

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ep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 House Republican, dropped his bid for speaker Tuesday hours after securing his divided party’s nomination, after a swift backlash from the right, including former President Donald Trump, left his candidacy in shambles.

Emmer’s abrupt exit signaled that Republicans were as far as ever from breaking a deadlock that has left Congress leaderless and paralyzed for three weeks. It made Emmer the third Republican this month to be chosen to lead the party, only to have his bid collapse in a seemingly endless cycle of GOP grievances, personality conflicts and ideological rifts.

Republicans have now succeeded in repudiating all three of their top leaders over the past few weeks.

The chamber has been frozen for the better part of a month as Republicans feud over who should be in charge, even as wars rage overseas and a government shutdown approaches.

Emmer began Tuesday with a scant victory, winning an internal party nominating contest by a vote of 117-97 over a right-wing rival, Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana. The margin reflected that House Republicans were still deeply at odds.

Then immediately after Emmer’s nomination, about two dozen right-wing Republicans indicated that they would not vote for him on the floor, denying him the majority he would need to succeed in a vote of the full House. And as he met with holdouts to try to win them over, the former president issued a scathing statement on social media expressing vehement opposition to Emmer, calling him a “Globalist RINO” — short for “Republican in name only” — whose elevation would be a “tragic mistake.”

“I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “RINO Tom Emmer, who I do not know well,

is not one of them. He never respected the Power of a Trump Endorsement, or the breadth and scope of MAGA—MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” A majority of those opposed to Emmer were members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus and loyal to Trump. Any candidate for speaker can lose only a handful of votes and still win the speakership because Republicans hold such a small majority in the House.

Only hours later, Emmer decided to drop his bid, according to a person familiar with his thinking who divulged it on the condition of anonymity before it was officially announced.

The Republican disarray underscored a new ethos that has gripped the House GOP: Dozens of members have abandoned the old norms of respecting the winner of the party’s internal elections, and instead are acting according to their individual preferences, ideologies and allegiances.

Some hard-right Republicans consider themselves a distinct political party from their more mainstream, businessminded colleagues, whom they accuse of being in a “uniparty” with Democrats.

The House has been in a state of uncertainty and chaos since Oct. 3, when rebels forced a vote to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker. Eight Republicans backed that move along with Democrats, who remained united behind their own leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Republicans have cast aside two previous winners of their closed-door nominating process — Reps. Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio — before settling on Emmer.

Emmer began Tuesday by besting six other candidates vying for the job during a series of closed-door votes.

Johnson, a conservative lawyer who is a favorite of the party’s right wing, endorsed Emmer after his loss, and said he was trying to persuade his colleagues to unite around him.

But old rivalries helped to tank Emmer’s speakership bid. Feelings remained raw from a contentious race for

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) arrives for a closed-door meeting where House Republicans were trying to find consensus on nominating a new speaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) his current post against Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana.

“I can’t go along with putting one of the most moderate members of the entire Republican conference in the speaker’s chair,” Banks said. “That betrays the conservative values that I came here to fight for.”

Some on the right opposed to Emmer were citing his vote in favor of codifying federal protections for same-sex couples. Others railed against Emmer’s vote in favor of a stopgap spending bill put forward by McCarthy, the speaker at the time, to avert a government shutdown. Still others said he was insufficiently loyal to Trump, because he voted to certify the results of the 2020 election won by President Joe Biden.

Emmer had attempted to mollify Trump by calling him over the weekend and praising him, according to the former president. But Trump made clear he had not been won over.

“I believe he has now learned his lesson, because he is saying that he is Pro-Trump all the way, but who can ever be sure?” Trump wrote. “Has he only changed because that’s what it takes to win? The Republican Party cannot take

that chance, because that’s not where the America First Voters are. Voting for a Globalist RINO like Tom Emmer would be a tragic mistake!”

The current free-for-all left more mainstream members of the party fuming.

“Our conference has been essentially at war with itself,” said Rep. Brandon Williams of New York, who represents a district won by Biden. He called the situation “disheartening” and reminiscent of the movie “Groundhog Day.” “Most of the country’s concerned about inflation, what they’re experiencing at the grocery store, and they would like to see Congress stand up and act like adults,” Williams said.

A former college ice hockey player and coach, Emmer, 62, currently holds the job of “whip,” the chief vote counter for the party. He has allies among both the conservative and the establishment wings of the party. He served two terms as the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, helping Republican candidates around the country win elections and making inroads across the conference in the process.

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Menéndez pleads not guilty to plotting to be an agent of Egypt

By TRACEY TULLY

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en. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., pleaded not guilty earlier this week to a new federal charge that accused him of illegally plotting to be an agent of Egypt while serving as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

It was Menendez’s second not-guilty plea in a month after he and his wife, Nadine Menendez, were accused of being at the center of a broad web of political corruption. The couple has been charged with accepting bribes in exchange for the senator’s efforts to increase aid and weapons sales to Egypt while also working to quash criminal investigations for associates in New Jersey.

The bribery-related charges were first announced last month by federal prosecutors in Manhattan; a revised indictment, made public on Oct. 12, included the new charge of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government.

Nadine Menendez, 56, pleaded not guilty to the new conspiracy charge last week, but Bob Menendez was granted permission to appear Monday, instead, so that he could be present in Washington for legislative business.

His appearance Monday took less than five minutes, and he left the courthouse in lower Manhattan without addressing questions from reporters.

Two hours later, Menendez released a statement saying that he had “done nothing wrong,” and remained confident he would be “found innocent” once all the facts were presented.

“I have been, throughout my life, loyal to only one country — the United States of America, the land my family chose to live in democracy and freedom,” Menendez, 69, said.

“The government is engaged in primitive hunting, by which the predator chases its prey until it’s exhausted and then kills it,” he added. “This tactic won’t work.”

Three New Jersey businesspeople, including Wael Hana, a U.S. citizen born in Egypt who founded a halalcertification company based in Edgewater, New Jersey, have also pleaded not guilty to participating in the corruption scheme.

Investigators found bars of gold bullion and $550,000 in cash during searches of the Menendezes’ home in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and of a safe-deposit box.

Prosecutors have asked a judge to seize their home and a Mercedes-Benz convertible that the government says was

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Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) arrives at Federal District court in Manhattan on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023.

Menendez was expected to plead not guilty on Monday to a new federal charge that accuses him of illegally plotting to be an agent of Egypt while serving as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. given to them as a bribe.

Last week, Judge Sidney Stein refused to permit Hana to remove the electronic monitor he is required to wear as a condition of his release on a $5 million bond.

Stein called the request premature, noting Hana’s $25 million in assets and his extensive connections to the Egyptian government, and, specifically, to Egyptian intelligence officers.

“So while we hope that Hana does not intend to flee the United States,” Stein said, “were he to try to do so, common sense alone would tell you he might well have the assistance of folks to get him a passport, so the mere surrender of his travel documents is not sufficient.”

Bob Menendez, who until last month was chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has remained defiant in the face of the federal charges, ignoring calls from dozens of onetime allies who have urged him to resign.

Stein has set May 6 as a trial date; defense lawyers and prosecutors agreed last week to pause the speedy trial clock until then to provide enough time to review the roughly 7.7 million pages of discovery records collected from 50 electronic devices analyzed during the investigation.

Paul Monteleoni, an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said that would give the parties time to review discovery material, file motions, prepare for trial “and potentially to discuss the disposition of the case.”

On Monday, a coalition of 25 organizations, including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Center for American Progress, Project on Government Oversight, and Public Citizen, sent a letter to Menendez requesting that he resign.

“These allegations paint a damning picture of a senator who seemingly repeatedly placed his own personal interests above the United States’ national security and democratic process,” the letter stated.

But the senator, who had been planning to run for reelection to a fourth full term next year, has given no indication that he intends to step down. A fundraiser he held last weekend at an exclusive beachfront resort in Puerto Rico drew few donors, but he has roughly $8.6 million in campaign cash, which could be used to pay legal costs. A separate defense fund he set up over the summer has raised $275,000 from about 30 individuals and organizations, Senate records show.

The fund returned a $5,000 donation last month from a New Jersey law firm run by Donald Scarinci, a longtime friend of Menendez’s. Scarinci said he was unsure why the donation was rejected, but indicated that it might have been because it came from his company, not his private bank account.

“Bob has been my personal friend for a lifetime,” Scarinci said in an email. “As his friend, I am there for him in his time of need. I fully intend to contribute to his defense fund.”

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At least 7 dead as ‘super fog’ blankets New Orleans, causing pileups

A dense “super fog” hovered over New Orleans on Monday, shrouding the area in an impenetrable mist that prompted the authorities to close sections of three major interstate highways. (Louisiana DODT via The New York Times)

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dense “super fog” hovered over New Orleans on Monday, shrouding the area in an impenetrable mist that led to traffic pileups involving dozens of vehicles and leaving at least seven people dead, authorities said.

At least 158 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes,

which began just before 9 a.m. on Interstate 55 northwest of New Orleans, the Louisiana State Police said, noting that fog had been a “contributing factor.” An additional 25 people were injured, some of them critically, police said.

After the accidents, which involved vehicles in both northbound and southbound lanes, some vehicles caught fire, according to police. A tanker truck carrying “hazardous

liquid” was being removed, police said, adding that it was possible that “additional fatalities could be located.” The State Police urged anyone with a missing family member to contact the agency.

Aerial images posted to the State Police’s Facebook page show several pileups on Interstate 55, including some cars and trucks that appeared to be charred.

The thick fog came from a combination of moisture in the air and smoke from sporadic marsh fires across the Mississippi River Valley toward Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said Tyler Stanfield, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in New Orleans.

“It was the perfect storm,” Stanfield said.

While super fog is uncommon, it’s not an unheard-of phenomenon. New Orleans typically experiences super fog twice a year. It is usually fueled by marsh fires, which have become more frequent in the area this year because of drier conditions, Stanfield said.

The fog began to set in around 3 a.m. Monday and became dense around sunrise, he said. Visibility for drivers was down to as low as one-eighth of a mile.

The State Police closed parts of Interstates 10, 55 and 310 on Monday morning and warned that, because of the heavy fog, “drivers should avoid the area if possible and use alternate routes.” Interstates 10 and 310 South later reopened, but portions of Interstate 55 remained closed Monday evening.

By the afternoon most of the fog had cleared, with the last of it lingering in the suburbs west of New Orleans, Stanfield said.

Killing of Detroit synagogue leader not related to antisemitism, police say suspect as of yet,” he said.

White emphasized that Woll’s killing did not appear to uthorities in Detroit said earlier this week that they had be related to antisemitism.

“We’re confident with the information that we have right identified “some persons of interest” in the killing of Samantha Woll, 40, the president of a downtown synago- now that this is not,” he said, adding, “We do have another gue who was found stabbed to death outside her home early Sa- working theory that we’re looking at where the evidence has taken us to, and we’re going to exhaust that.” turday.

The death of Woll, a widely known and admired leader in Detroit Police Chief James White said at a news conference that he was “just short of calling one of the people a civic and political circles in Detroit, shocked the city last weesuspect, but we are working to that end.” kend. She lived in the Lafayette Park neighborhood, a historic “We are confident we’re on the right track, but I’m not district just blocks from downtown, and was believed to have prepared to tell you the relationship between her and the returned home from a wedding at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday.

At about 6:30 a.m., police responded to a 911 call and found Woll outside, unresponsive and with multiple stab wounds. A trail of blood led to her home, where police believe the crime occurred.

There were no signs of forced entry. White said Monday that Woll had been outside “quite a while” before her body was found. He added that detectives were combing through video evidence from residential cameras nearby.

He urged people in Detroit to come forward with any information that could lead to an arrest and cautioned that the The Detroit police indicated there is a person of interest investigation was still underway, so he was unable to provide in the investigation. more details to the public.

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“There are some facts that are known only to our suspect,” he said.

Woll was memorialized at a service Sunday, attended by hundreds of people who knew and admired her for her work in bridging religious and cultural communities in Detroit.

At her funeral, Rabbi Asher Lopatin, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC, noted the diverse crowd in attendance, which he said represented what Woll was about. “We have in this room, Muslims and Hindus, Catholics and Christians and Jews and all kinds of races, and everyone loves Sam and was affirmed by Sam,” he said.

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UAW expands strike to a Ram plant in Michigan

By NEAL E. BOUDETTE

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n a major escalation of its six-week strike at the three large U.S. automakers, the United Auto Workers union earlier this week told 6,800 workers at a large Ram pickup truck plant in Michigan to walk off the job.

Union workers at the Sterling Heights plant, which is owned by Stellantis, the parent of Ram, Chrysler and Jeep, joined the strike Monday morning.

Shutting down production at the plant, the largest Stellantis factory in the United States, suggests there are still big gaps in contract negotiations between the automakers and the UAW, which is seeking raises of 40% over four years, better retirement benefits and other changes.

The union’s strategy in this strike is a departure from its past practice of striking all locations of one automaker before beginning negotiations with the next automaker. This time, the union started with a strike at one plant at each of the three carmakers — Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Stellantis — and has expanded them to other factories and warehouses to increase the pressure on companies that it said were not doing enough to improve their offers.

The new approach has kept the automakers off balance because they don’t know when or where the union will walk out next. It is also a way for the union to play the companies off one another.

The union’s president, Shawn Fain, has

Shoppers look over Dodge Ram trucks for sale at a dealership in Jackson, Mich., Sept. 14, 2023. The United Automobile Workers union on Monday, Oct. 23, added a large Ram pickup truck plant that employs 6,800 workers in Michigan to its strikes against the three large U.S. automakers. offered side-by-side comparisons of the three companies’ offers on wages, retirement benefits and other negotiating terms in online videos.

On Friday, General Motors put forward a more lucrative contract proposal. By calling for the strike at the Sterling Heights plant, the UAW is trying to pressure Stellantis into at least matching the terms that GM offered.

“Stellantis has the worst proposal on the table regarding wage progression, temporary worker pay and conversion

to full-time, cost-of-living adjustments, and more,” the UAW said in a statement Monday.

In its offer, GM proposed raising workers’ wages 23% over four years.

That would lift the wage for all full-time workers from $32 an hour to more than $40, giving them a base pay of about $84,000 a year, not including overtime or profit-sharing bonuses.

The walkout at the Ram plant is the first escalation in the strike since the UAW called 8,700 workers to leave their jobs at Ford’s largest plant, in Louisville, Kentucky, on Oct. 11. That plant produces the Super Duty version of the popular F-150 pickup truck and the Ford Expedition, a full-size SUV. In a statement, Stellantis said the company was “outraged” by the expansion of the strike, noting that it made a comprehensive new proposal to the union Thursday morning and was waiting for a counterproposal from the UAW. “Our very strong offer would address member demands and provide immediate financial gains for our employees,” the company said. “Instead, the UAW has decided to cause further

harm to the entire automotive industry as well as our local, state and national economies.”

UAW members were already on strike at one other Stellantis plant, a factory in Toledo, Ohio, that makes the Jeep Wrangler and the Jeep Gladiator. The union has also struck 20 Stellantis spareparts distribution warehouses around the country.

Ram is one of the most important of Stellantis’ many auto brands, because of the popularity and higher prices that pickup trucks command in the United States. The plant, about a 25-mile drive north of downtown Detroit, makes Ram 1500 pickup trucks, the brand’s top-selling vehicle. In the first six months of this year, Stellantis reported about $12 billion in profit, more than GM and Ford combined.

Wes Lutz, the owner of Extreme Dodge, a car dealership in Jackson, Michigan, said he had been watching the inventory on his lot dry up over the past six weeks and had struggled to replace parts on his customers’ vehicles.

The Ram 1500 is the bestselling model at his dealership. Jeep models, some of which were targeted in the initial walkout, are also popular. Lutz said he was selling everything he had while getting a “slow drip” of new inventory.

“I think it’s getting to a crucial time now,” Lutz said. “Another month and the faucet is going to be completely turned off.”

Stellantis is a relatively new company, formed by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot, the French automaker, in January 2021. The combined company is based in Amsterdam and has its U.S. headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, near Detroit.

Altogether, about 40,000 workers at Ford, GM and Stellantis are on strike across the country. In addition to the Stellantis locations, the union is on strike at Ford plants in Michigan, Kentucky and Chicago, and two plants in Michigan and Missouri and 18 warehouses owned

by GM. The three automakers combined employ about 150,000 UAW members.

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Wall Street Surges to Close Higher, Powered by Upbeat Earnings, Guidance W all Street ended higher on Tuesday as a spate of solid corporate earnings and upbeat forecasts stoked investor risk appetite and sparked a broad

rally.

All three major U.S. stock indexes advanced, with interest rate sensitive megacaps providing much of the upside lift as benchmark Treasury yields held steady, comfortably below their recent spike to 5%.

Third quarter earnings season has shifted into high gear, and this week nearly a third of the companies in the S&P 500 are expected to post results.

“The earnings season is only now just getting into full swing with a third of the companies reporting this week,” said Thomas Martin, senior portfolio manager at GLOBALT in Atlanta. “Prior to yesterday and today, the earnings reports were a bit on the disappointing side, and so this was the first couple of days we’ve had some more upbeat and better earnings.”

Indeed, of the 118 S&P 500 companies that have reported so far, 81% have beaten analysts’ expectations, according to LSEG. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 204.97 points, or 0.62%, to 33,141.38, the S&P 500 gained 30.64 points, or 0.73%, to 4,247.68 and the Nasdaq Composite added 121.55 points, or 0.93%, to 13,139.88.

Of the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500, utilities enjoyed the largest gain, while energy was the sole loser, weighed down by softening crude prices.

Verizon surged 9.3% after raising its annual free cash flow forecast, while General Electric rose 6.5% after the conglomerate lifted its full-year profit forecast.

Coca-Cola hiked its annual sales outlook, sending its stock up 2.9%, while 3M rose 5.3% on the heels of its upbeat quarterly report.

The dollar retained its bid as a result and continued to probe the 150 yen level many suspect the Bank of Japan will be keen to protect against with open-market yen buying. But the buck did slip back on the euro as the European Central Bank meets this week to assess its 10 interest rate hikes over 15 months.

The ongoing anxiety in the bond markets, however, prevented a return to risk assets more broadly and stocks continued to fall around the world first thing on Monday, with China’s blue-chip CSI300 index dropping to its lowest in 4-1/2 years as the property bust there continues to smolder.

Geopolitical angst is never far from the surface in China. Shares of Foxconn Industrial Internet slumped 10% on reports its parent Foxconn, the Taiwan-based firm which is a major supplier of Apple’s iPhones, was the subject of tax audits and land use probes in China.

Aerospace firm RTX jumped 7.2% after its results topped expectations.

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On the economics front, business activity in the U.S. has ticked higher this month, according to S&P Global’s advance “flash” purchasing managers’ indexes (PMI).

Calling the PMI a “goldilocks” report, Martin said it was “generally a good report” with prices moderating and “okay” employment.

On Thursday, the Commerce Department is due to release its first take on third quarter GDP, which is seen showing a robust acceleration to 4.3% from 2.1% in the second

quarter.

On Friday, the Commerce Department is expected to follow with its closely watched Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) report, which analysts expect will provide further evidence that inflation is slowly cooling down toward the Federal Reserve’s average annual 2% target rate.

“The question is, can the Fed thread the needle - can they get inflation to moderate to an acceptable level before things deteriorate significantly for the U.S. consumer?” said Bill Merz, head of Capital Market Research at U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Minneapolis.

If that happens, Merz added, the odds increase that the U.S. economy will avoid a recession.

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Death toll climbs in Gaza as Israel intensifies airstrikes

By NADAV GAVRIELOV

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he Israeli military said Tuesday that it had stepped up its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian officials said that hundreds of people had been killed, adding to the devastating toll as Israel faces pressure to delay a ground invasion in response to the Oct. 7 assault by Hamas.

Israel said it had struck more than 400 targets in the past 24 hours — on top of more than 320 a day earlier — in some of the most intense aerial attacks on Gaza in recent days. The Gaza Health Ministry, which is controlled by Hamas, said that it had recorded the highest single-day death toll of the war: at least 704 people killed in dozens of strikes on homes, a refugee camp and other places. It was not possible to independently verify the toll.

The intense strikes came as U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said at a meeting of the Security Council that the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas — which he described as “appalling” — cannot justify “the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”

The attacks by Hamas, which Israeli officials said killed more than 1,400 people and led to the abduction of more than 200 others, “did not happen in a vacuum,” Guterres said, adding that Palestinians had been subjected to 56 years of “suffocating occupation.”

His comments prompted fierce backlash from Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., Gilad

Erdan, who called on Guterres to resign in a post on social media.

Israeli military officials say they are well prepared for a ground assault in Gaza, but it remains unclear when and if such an invasion will occur. U.S. officials have said Israel’s military is not yet ready with a plan for a successful invasion, and have also urged Israel to give more time for hostage negotiations and aid deliveries.

During the delays, Israel has intensified its bombardment from the air. The Hamasrun Gaza Health Ministry said more than 5,700 people, nearly half of them children, had been killed since Israel began its response to the Oct. 7 attack.

Here is what else to know: — One of the two Hamas hostages released Monday, Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, told reporters in Tel Aviv, Israel, that she had “gone through hell.” The other released hostage was identified by Israel as Nurit Cooper, 79. Last week, Hamas set free an Israeli American mother and her daughter, but it and other groups are believed to still be holding about 220 people captured during the Oct. 7 raid.

— Six hospitals across the Gaza Strip have had to shut down because they are out of fuel, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. While some aid convoys have made it into Gaza, humanitarian groups have called for fuel to be added to the food, water and medicine being sent in. But Israel has

Flowers are left on the graves of Sgt. Yam Goldstein and her father, Nadav, during their funeral in Shefayim, a kibbutz in central Israel, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. balked at deliveries of fuel because it says Hamas could use it for military purposes.

— Secretary of State Antony Blinken also addressed the U.N. Security Council, calling for humanitarian pauses to allow aid to reach Gaza and civilians to evacuate. He also urged council members to use their influence to prevent Iran from spreading the war to additional fronts in the region, given its support of Hamas, Hezbollah and other militia groups.

Blinken confirmed in his address to the Se-

curity Council that least 33 Americans were among the 1,400 people killed in the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.

— President Emmanuel Macron of France visited Israel to continue the diplomatic push to free hostages, deliver more aid to Gazan civilians and prevent the conflict from spreading. Macron also expressed solidarity with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, adding that the fight against terrorism “must be merciless, but not without rules.”

13 law enforcement officers killed in ambush in Mexico

By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA

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n armed group ambushed and killed more than a dozen law enforcement officers in southwestern Mexico earlier this week, including a local security secretary and a police chief, adding to a soaring number of deadly attacks against police in the region.

The slaughter, in Coyuca de Benítez in the Mexican state of Guerrero, left 13 security officials dead on Monday, including the municipality’s security secretary, Alfredo Alonso López, and the director of municipal police, Honorio Salinas Garay, according to a spokesperson for the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office.

Guerrero is now the second most dangerous state in Security officials recovering evidence at the site where Mexico for law enforcement officers, with more than 34 13 security officials were killed in an ambush by uniden- killed in 2023, according to Common Cause, a Mexicotified assailants in Coyuca de Benítez, in the state of Gue- based organization tracking the killings of police officers in rrero, Mexico, on Monday. the country. The group said more than 340 police officers

had been killed this year in the nation, and more than 400 killed last year.

“We demand justice and zero impunity,” Common Cause said in a statement.

While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office promising to make Mexico safer, he has downplayed the violence in the nation and blamed the problem on his predecessors. But the clashes between rival drug organizations have prompted criticism, including from the United States.

López Obrador has said much of the violence in the nation is because of the United States’ inability to prevent guns from being trafficked south into Mexico. Leaders from both countries discussed the roots of such violence during high-profile meetings in Mexico City this month.

Guerrero, a state plagued by turf wars between drug cartel organizations, has particularly been dangerous for law enforcement officers. Alonso López’s predecessor as security secretary in Coyuca de Benítez, David Borja Padilla, survived an assassination attempt in December 2022.

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Israel says it will destroy Hamas. But who will govern Gaza?

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s Israeli soldiers have massed to enter the Gaza Strip in force, the defense minister has promised them, “You see Gaza now from a distance; you will soon see it from inside.”

Yet despite this vow from the minister, Yoav Gallant, it is not clear when Israel will mount a ground invasion. And if the government appears hesitant to enter Gaza — more than two weeks since the Hamas attack that killed more than 1,400 Israelis — there are good reasons to be.

What lies ahead is a kind of sustained urban warfare that the country’s military forces have not encountered for nearly a decade, and in pursuit of a political end that remains unclear aside from vanquishing Hamas, which controls Gaza, so that it can never again threaten Israeli citizens.

By itself, that is a tall order that will require the Israelis to establish control over Gaza for themselves, and one which will cost significant amounts of blood, treasure and international outrage over civilian deaths.

And hovering over everything is the political conundrum of what happens to Gaza after the war ends. Once in, how does Israel get out? Once it has dismantled Hamas, if it can, to whom will it hand the keys? If Hamas no longer governs Gaza, who will?

For the moment, Israeli officials say, those questions are not their immediate concern. But they will be unavoidable, even if Gaza becomes the responsibility of a new Israeli government.

“In truth, there are no good options for an Israeli ground offensive in Gaza,” Tom Beckett, a retired lieutenant general of the British army and executive director of the Middle East for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, wrote in a brief analysis.

“No matter how successful the operation proves in defeating Hamas as a military organization, Hamas’ political imperative and the population’s support for the resistance will continue,” he wrote. “Israel either reoccupies Gaza to control it or, by withdrawing after an offensive, cedes ground to people for whom the resistance is existence.”

Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli army spokesperson, has said that the military “is focused on the objectives of the war as defined by the political echelon: the rout of Hamas and the elimination of its leaders after the slaughter they perpetrated on Shabbat.

“This organization will not rule Gaza military and politically.”

But somebody must. That is one weakness of the Israeli strategy, because Hamas represents a political and religious idea that cannot be dismantled, and it is an organization that has thrived on its reputation among Palestinians for embracing armed struggle and “martyrdom” against Israel.

“Even if militarily defeated, Hamas cannot be neutralized,” said Lina Khatib, director of the Middle East Institute at SOAS University of London. “That the existence or legitimacy of Hamas is linked to its military success is false. It can be militarily defeated and remain politically relevant,” she said. “It can present any defense as heroic martyrdom for the sake of the liberation of the Palestinian people.”

For Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war

Israeli soldiers taking part in an artillery drill in southern Israel on Monday. studies at King’s College London, Israel’s challenge is “to align its military means with its political ends.” However competent a military, he said in an interview, a political goal that is too ambitious will result in frustration or failure.

Examples abound, including U.S. military victories in Iraq and Afghanistan in the name of broad and ambitious political goals, like democratization and gender equality, that have resulted in failure. Easy conquests ended in long, vicious counterinsurgency campaigns against local militias and radical Islamist fighters who knew the territory, who lived among the population and who did not obey the Geneva Conventions or the rules of war.

And the governments established by the Americans required huge and continued amounts of Western cash and military support to survive.

Freedman wrote about some of his concerns in The Financial Times. The Israelis, he said in a subsequent interview, risk a similar fate. “They have set themselves an ambition that is extremely hard to meet, because even if they deliver Hamas a heavy blow, they can’t stop its regeneration,” he said. Israel cannot occupy Gaza indefinitely and doesn’t want to, he said, adding, “And it can’t push the population into Egypt, which wants nothing to do with Gaza either.”

So without a clear political strategy, Freedman said, “it’s hard to see if this goes anywhere.”

In August 2014, after a serious Israeli-Hamas conflict, ideas were floated about what to do with Gaza, in a confidential options paper provided to the Times. It stated, presciently, that “a return to the status quo ante will produce a new war” and that the Palestinian Authority is “too weak and divided to govern.”

The best solution, the paper suggested, was authorizing United Nations forces to control Gaza’s borders while Palestinian militias are disbanded and disarmed and the Israeli

and Egyptian blockade of Gaza is gradually lifted. In 2014, the paper presumed that Hamas would still control Gaza but might agree to moderate its behavior in return.

The paper also pointed out that the existing U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, founded in 1948, retains a legal mandate to patrol Gaza, even though it left in 1996 after the Oslo Accords. Under a reconfigured mandate, UNTSO could both patrol Gaza’s borders and help disarm militias, while another existing international committee would coordinate donor aid.

Nine years later, the paper may serve as a starting point.

If Hamas and similar groups are destroyed in Gaza, as Israel vows, perhaps UNTSO could help keep the peace inside Gaza, too, as a kind of supplementary police force while the status and credibility of the Palestinian Authority are somehow resurrected there.

The 2014 discussion was real, said Robert Serry, a Dutch diplomat who served as the U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. “We had hoped that the Palestinian Authority could be brought back,” he said.

While that may be as unrealistic now as then, each time “we allowed the situation to go back to the status quo,” with a fragile cease-fire and “minimum arrangements to keep Gaza afloat,” Serry said.

Now, he said: “I hope Israel learns a lesson. If they keep ignoring the Palestinian question, it will from time to time explode, it’s just a question of when.”

In the current conflict, Israel will need to control what’s left of Gaza and garrison Israeli forces there until a political solution of some kind allows them to leave, which will stretch the army, especially if Hezbollah opens a second front from southern Lebanon or if there is a surge of violence in the occupied West Bank between Israeli settlers and Palestinians.

Of course, if Gaza’s urban centers are smashed and the ground operations lead to the displacement of large parts of the population, it will be easier for the Israeli military to control Gaza without fully occupying it, said Khatib of SOAS. “It’s a tactic of war used by other regimes in the Mideast,” she said, citing President Bashar Assad of Syria and his scorched-earth tactics against his opponents there.

Beckett agreed. “Brutality can reduce the numbers required for a counterinsurgency,” he wrote, citing the crushing of resistance in 1982 at Hama by the former Syrian president, Hafez Assad. His son, “Bashar Assad, supported

by Russia, has applied indiscriminate brutality throughout the Syrian civil war,” he added.

While the world is appalled by the Hamas killings and will likely give Israel more time than in the past to defeat Hamas, there are already calls for Israel to obey the Geneva Conventions and the rules of war, including from President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The inevitable deaths and wounding of civilians will, as it has always done, eventually bring significant pressure on Israel to negotiate a cease-fire, pressure, especially from Washington, that could become too much to bear before Israel has accomplished its stated military goal.

Israel is already trying to prepare its supporters around the world, and especially in the United States, to resist that kind of pressure to stop its operation before Hamas is dismantled.

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Jamaica fears brain drain as teachers leave for US schools

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keef Saunders loves his job teaching history to high school students in Jamaica’s capital. But he is getting ready to leave for the United States, where a teaching job with a much bigger paycheck in North Carolina awaits him.

“I have four kids to support, a mortgage, bills for food, water, electricity,” said Saunders, 49, who teaches at a Kingston high school. He said he plans to start out earning about $50,000 a year in United States, doubling his current salary after working as a teacher in Jamaica for the last 28 years.

“When an opportunity like this comes up, you go for it,” he said.

Saunders is joining an exodus of thousands of teachers from Jamaica in the last two years, primarily for jobs in the United States, Canada and Britain, as schools in those countries step up recruiting of foreign educators to address increasingly severe staff shortages.

In the United States alone, nearly half of all public schools have been operating without a full teaching staff, according to the U.S. Department of Education, as enrollment in teacher preparation programs plunges.

But the race to fill vacant teaching positions is creating havoc in the education system of Jamaica, the largest English-speaking country in the Caribbean, reflecting how school staffing challenges in rich countries are spawning a brain drain in parts of the developing world.

The scope of the outflow of teachers from Jamaica became clear last year, when more

An English language and literature class at Campion College in Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 19, 2023.

than 1,500 Jamaicans left their jobs in the first nine months of that year. The crisis seemed to wane somewhat this year when only 427 teachers had announced plans to resign from the start of the year through mid-August.

But just before classes were to begin in September, an additional 400 teachers submitted their resignations in less than two weeks, stunning education officials and school administrators. Overall, the sudden rush for the exits meant that Jamaica has lost about 10% of its teachers in just the last two years.

“You can imagine what anxiety that created in the system,” said Fayval Williams, Jamaica’s education minister. “School boards have to be scrambling.”

Adding to the stress on teachers who remain in Jamaica, administrators in parts of the country had to place even more students into already overcrowded classrooms.

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“They’re going wherever the U.S. dollar is being paid,” said Baston, who has worked in education for 40 years. “It’s not like ‘I got my papers, yay, I’m off to North Carolina.’ Very often the teacher is weeping when they say they are migrating.”

In the United States, foreign teachers get J-1 visas, which allow them to work temporarily in the United States, like au pairs or camp counselors. Nearly 5,800 teachers obtained such visas last year, up from about 2,800 in 2017, according to the State Department.

States in the Southeast, including North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, are among the top destinations. Guilford County Schools, North Carolina’s third-largest school district, hired 42 international teachers this year, the largest such group in the district’s history. Thirtytwo are from Jamaica.

Jamaica is especially coveted for such recruiting, which is often carried out by U.S. companies that specialize in locating and hiring foreign teachers.

Jamaica has a large pool of skilled Englishspeaking teachers, making them well-suited for working in other English-speaking countries or in places like the United Arab Emirates or Japan, where English proficiency is prized. The Caribbean country also boasts an array of respected teaching training institutions.

Tuan D. Nguyen, an associate professor at Kansas State University and an expert on educator shortages, said the influx of teachers from abroad is one key way to address teacher vacancies in the United States, which have increased sharply since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vacancies shot up to 55,000 positions this year compared with about 36,000 last year, Nguyen and other scholars determined, finding

that more teachers in the United States are leaving the profession than ever before.

The reasons include stagnating or declining salaries in much of the country, a surge in job-related stress during the pandemic and laws in many states that make teachers unsure of what they can say in classrooms because of new legal limits on conversations about racism and other contentious topics.

Nguyen said the rush to hire foreign teachers was without precedent during recent times. “There’s the moral and ethical issue of what this means,” he said. “If we’re taking teachers from these other countries what happens to students in those countries? They also need teachers. We need to consider the net effect.”

Devon Thompson, 28, a Spanish teacher who in 2021 took a job in Macon, Georgia, said he was motivated not only by low pay but by the dysfunction he saw around him in Jamaica: overcrowded classrooms without airconditioning and teachers who were being “thrown under the bus by administrators.”

But Macon, where he estimates that about 40 other Jamaican teachers have also recently found jobs, came with its own challenges, like bad behavior and students ill-prepared to advance to higher grades.

“The level of disgust that we have in how education is created in our country — it’s the same way American teachers feel about their own system,” Thompson said, citing the low morale he’s seen among teachers in both countries.

Still, he said he felt Jamaica could do more to retain teachers, starting with raising pay, an issue that the main teachers union has consistently been agitating for.

“I get that we’re not a first-world country so we can’t get certain things,” he said. “But it’s not that we don’t have the money. We’re just not using it wisely.”

Others disagree, noting that Jamaica already spends more than 5% of its gross domestic product on public education, which is relatively high compared with regional peers, according to the World Bank.

For Jamaican teachers who are undecided about leaving their country for work, the issue often boils down to money.

Donovan Edwards, 47, a high school science teacher from St. Catherine, near Kingston, said he needs to make improvements to his home and pay for his daughter’s university studies.

He is planning on moving to Britain.

“I’ve seen a lot of teachers who are retired and they are in poverty,” Edwards said, explaining that after 22 years of teaching he was still earning less than $24,000 a year. “I reached my breaking point.”

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With war in Israel, the cancel culture debate comes full circle

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG

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athan Thrall’s searing new book, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,” struck me as important even before the obscene massacres and mass kidnappings committed by Hamas this month lit the Middle East on fire. Today, with people still struggling to understand the contours of this deeply complicated conflict, the book seems essential.

An expanded version of Thrall’s widely praised 2021 New York Review of Books article of the same name, the book follows a Palestinian man named Abed Salama as he searches for his 5-year-old son after a deadly school bus crash in the West Bank, a search hindered

by Israel’s restrictions on Palestinian movement. Thrall, the former director of the Arab-Israeli project at the International Crisis Group, uses his reported account of the Salama family’s tragedy to offer a panoramic look at life under Israel’s occupation. He is deeply concerned with Palestinian grief, but he also writes rich portraits of Israelis, including Beber Vanunu, founder of a settlement in the West Bank, and Dany Tirza, architect of the separation wall that cuts through the territory.

The day before Hamas’ attack on Israel, DAWN, an organization founded by the slain Saudi dissident Jamal

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Khashoggi to promote democracy in the Middle East, published an interview with Thrall. In it, Thrall was asked about his depictions of Israelis, and whether he had qualms about “humanizing the occupation.”

“I was very glad to be asked that question,” Thrall told me. “Because that was absolutely the ambition of the book, to depict real people” rather than villains and saints.

Because I admire “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” so much, I agreed to moderate a talk with Thrall this Thursday in Brooklyn. But I’ve been shocked to learn that several of his other events, both in the United States and in Britain, have been canceled, either because of security fears or because it’s considered insensitive, right after the killings and abductions in Israel, to dwell on the plight of Palestinians.

“How does one promote a program on this subject to a largely Jewish audience when people on all sides are being bombed, killed and buried?” Andrea Grossman, whose Los Angeles nonprofit called off an event with Thrall, said in The Guardian. American Public Media, which distributes content for public radio stations nationwide, even pulled ads for the book. “We aim to avoid any perception of endorsing a specific perspective,” an APM spokesperson said in an email, insisting that airing sponsorship spots for Thrall’s book would be “insensitive in light of the human tragedies unfolding.”

Thrall is not alone; in recent weeks several literary and cultural events by pro-Palestinian speakers or groups have been either scrapped or relocated. On Friday, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen was supposed to speak at 92NY, a major literary venue in Manhattan formerly known as the 92nd Street Y. That afternoon, however, the talk was abruptly called off, apparently because of an open letter Nguyen had signed about the “violence and destruction in Palestine,” as well as because of his past support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. (The talk ended up happening instead at a downtown bookstore.) The Boston Palestine Film Festival moved online, nixing its live screenings. A Hilton hotel in Houston canceled a conference of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, citing “security concerns.”

Part of me shudders to view the unfolding catastrophe in Israel and Gaza through the provincial lens of America’s cancel culture debate. In some ways, that debate has now come full circle, because proPalestinian voices were being censored long before the phrase “cancel culture” existed, one reason the left was unwise in recent years to prevaricate about the value of free speech. But if someone as evenhanded as Thrall

now finds his talks being dropped, we’re in an especially repressive period. And in a time of war, particularly a war shrouded in fiercely competing narratives, free speech is more important than ever.

I don’t like the fact that the statement Nguyen signed gestured only vaguely at Hamas’ slaughter of Israeli civilians. In calling off his Friday evening appearance, 92NY, a Jewish organization, was playing by rules much of the left established, privileging sensitivity to traumatized communities ahead of the robust exchange of ideas. And supporters of Israel are hardly alone in creating a censorious atmosphere; particularly on college campuses, it is Zionists who feel silenced and intimidated. A professor at the University of California, Davis, is facing investigation by the university for a social media post calling for the targeting of “Zionist journalists,” which said, “They have houses with addresses, kids in school,” and included emoji of a knife, an ax and three drops of blood.

Nevertheless, a commitment to free speech, like a commitment to human rights, shouldn’t depend on others reciprocating; such commitments are worth trying to maintain even in the face of unfairness. “Art is one of the things that can keep our minds and hearts open, that can help us see beyond the hatred of war, that can make us understand that we cannot be divided into the human versus the inhuman because we are, all of us, human and inhuman at the same time,” Nguyen wrote on Instagram.

If the statement he signed didn’t live up to his own words’ generous spirit, 92NY would have been a good place to ask him why. The moments when dialogue is most fraught and bitter is when leaders most need to model it.

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AN JUAN – El San Juan National Historic Site ha comenzado diversos proyectos para mejorar la experiencia del visitante y la preservación del sitio histórico, según se informó este martes.

Entre los proyectos, se incluyen la pintura de la Plaza Principal El Morro, restauración de la muralla cerca del parque Las Palomas, y nuevas instalaciones de iluminación en el Paseo del Morro.

“Queremos agradecer a nuestros visitantes que visitan el parque mientras estos proyectos están en curso. Nuestra misión es preservar y proteger estos recursos”, dijo la superintendente Myrna Palfrey, en declaraciones escritas.

Además, el sendero natural a Garita del Diablo está siendo rehabilitado, los baños de El Morro serán completamente renovados, y la explanada El Morro

tendrá una rehabilitación en sus terrenos norte.

Para más detalles sobre el San Juan National Historic Site y sus eventos, los visitantes pueden acceder a las plataformas de medios sociales o visitar la página del parque en la dirección web proporcionada.

El San Juan National Historic Site comprende el Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Castillo San Cristóbal, entre otros. El parque está abierto todos los días de 9:00 de la mañana a 5:00 de la tarde, con ciertas excepciones.

La entrada al San Juan National Historic Site cuesta 10 dólares para visitantes de 16 años o más, y es gratuita para aquellos de 15 años o menos. Además, en 2023, haabrá días específicos en los que no se cobrará la entrada.

Estos días incluyen el 16 de enero, 22 de abril, 4 de agosto, 23 de septiembre y 11 de noviembre, con motivo de celebraciones y aniversarios especiales.

Abogado Kenneth Sanabria oficializa su candidatura PPD a la Cámara por Aguadilla y Moca POR EL STAR STAFF

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GUADILLA – El actual legislador municipal de Aguadilla por el Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Kenneth Sanabria Domenech, oficializó hoy su intención de aspirar a la Cámara de Representantes por el Distrito 17, Aguadilla y Moca, cuando entregó los documentos requeridos ante los funcionarios designados en la sede popular en Puerta de Tierra.

“He asumido el reto de rescatar la Cámara de Representantes por el distrito 17, me parece que en este momento existe un vacío total de los asuntos legislativos en beneficio de los residentes de Aguadilla y Moca. Esa es la razón principal por la que doy ese paso al frente”, expresó Sanabria Domenech.

El candidato, que se ha destacado en la práctica

privada de la profesión, ha estado inmerso en la política partidista desde muy temprana edad. Al momento es Portavoz del PPD en la Legislatura Municipal de Aguadilla y fue el legislador con la mayor cantidad de votos en la elección del año 2020 en dicho Municipio.

Conforme a la actual redistribución electoral, el distrito 17 está compuesto por el Municipio de Aguadilla, excluyendo el barrio Guerrero y por Municipio de Moca, sin la participación de los Barrios Plata y Cerro Gordo. “La dinámica legislativa requiere mucho detalle y conocimiento. También es vital el trabajar en equipo. Siendo legislador municipal ahora, y habiendo sido asesor en el Senado previamente, tengo la experiencia para hacer el trabajo efectivamente”, finalizó Sanabria.

Departamento de Justicia presenta cargos mujer por presentar recetas falsas para obtener más de 150 tabletas de percocet POR EL STAR STAFF

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AN JUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, informó que la División de Delitos Económicos formuló cargos contra una mujer que presentó recetas falsas a una farmacia de Aibonito, donde logró obtener, de forma ilegal, más de 150 tabletas del medicamento controlado Percocet.

La fiscal Jahnny Rodríguez Malavé presentó cinco cargos contra Marilyn Matos Santiago de apropiación

ilegal de identidad, posesión y traspaso de documentos falsificados y violación a la Ley de Sustancias Controladas.

El caso se originó a raíz de un referido del Departamento de Salud como parte de una alianza investigativa entre esa agencia y el Departamento de Justicia.

Conforme a la investigación inicial de la inspectora del DS, Maruxa Díaz Pagán, los hechos ocurrieron entre los meses de agosto y septiembre de 2022. La imputada entregó a la farmacia las recetas falsas que alegadamente

le prescribió un médico, logrando que despacharan el medicamento. Sin embargo, la investigación reveló que el doctor había fallecido previamente.

La jueza del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Aibonito, Jenny Marie Malavé Núñez encontró causa por los cinco delitos formulados por la Fiscalía y se le fijó una fianza de $100,000. La defensa se allanó a la determinación del tribunal.

La vista preliminar fue señalada para el próximo 10 de noviembre.

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From ‘Goodfellas’ to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: How Scorsese has rethought violence

A scene from “Killers of the Flower Moon.” As Mollie Burkhart, Lily Gladstone, second from left, unleashes a howl of pain reflected in the overall aesthetics of the Martin Scorsese movie.

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f all the haunting images and disturbing sounds that permeate Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” none is more upsetting than the guttural cry from Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone), a tortured wail of rage and grief that escapes her reserved visage when tragedy strikes. And it often does: “Killers of the Flower Moon” tells the true story, adapted from the book by David Grann, of how Mollie’s Osage community was decimated by murderous white men, who killed dozens of her tribe members for rights to their oil-rich land.

Mollie’s howl of pain is not quite like any sound heard before in a Scorsese film.

But in many ways, Scorsese is emulating her jarring cry in the ominous aesthetics of “Killers of the Flower Moon” and of his 2019 feature, “The Irishman.”

The movies have much in common: their creative teams, expansive running times, period settings, narrative density and epic scope. But what most keenly sets them apart from the rest of Scorsese’s work is the element by which the filmmaker is arguably most easily identified: their violence. In these films, the deaths, which are frequent, are hard and fast and

blunt, a marked departure from the intricately stylized and ornately edited set pieces of his earlier work.

“The violence is different now, in these later movies,” Thelma Schoonmaker, his editor since 1980, noted recently. “And often it’s in a wide shot. It’s hardly ever a tight shot, which is very different from his earlier movies, right?”

It certainly is. Wide shots, for those unfamiliar with the lingo of cinematography, are spacious, open compositions, often full-body views of characters and their surroundings (frequently used for broad-scale action or establishing shots).

Medium-wides are slightly closer, but they still allow us to observe multiple characters and their surroundings. The “tight shots” that Schoonmaker references as more typical of Scorsese’s earlier work are the medium shots, close-ups and extreme close-ups that place the camera (and thus the viewer) right in the middle of the melee.

Take, as an example, one of Scorsese’s most effective sequences, the murder of Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) in his 1990 crime drama, “Goodfellas.” When Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) and Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro) kill Batts, it’s dramatized in a flurry of setups and rapid-

fire edits: from a three-shot of Tommy’s initial punch, to an overhead shot of Batts hitting the floor, a low-angle composition (from Batts’ point of view) of Tommy pummeling him with his fists, then an alreadydollying camera that tracks Henry (Ray Liotta) as he goes to lock the bar’s front door. Scorsese cuts back to Tommy landing more punches, then cuts to Jimmy contributing a series of kicks, with a quick insert of a particularly nasty one landing on Batts’ brutalized face. We then see, briefly, Tommy holding a gun, Henry reacting to all of this in shock, more kicks from Jimmy and more punches from Tommy, as blood spurts from Batts’ face.

It’s a signature Scorsese scene, combining unflinching brutality, dark humor and incongruent music (the jukebox is blasting Donovan’s midtempo ballad “Atlantis”). It’s a tough, ugly bit of business — and it’s also pleasurable. There is, in this sequence and much of Scorsese’s crime filmography, a thrill to his staging and cutting that is often infectious.

He’s such an electrifying filmmaker that even when dramatizing upsetting and difficult events, we find ourselves swept into the visceral virtuosity of his mise-enscene. It’s this duality, the discomfort of enjoying the actions of criminals or killers

or vigilantes, that makes his pictures so potent: Jake LaMotta’s beatings in “Raging Bull,” the high-speed execution of Johnny Boy in “Mean Streets” and particularly the gun-toting rampage of Travis Bickle at the end of “Taxi Driver” are all the more disturbing because of the spell Scorsese casts.

That’s not how the violence works in “The Irishman” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.” When people die in these films, it’s grim, nasty, divergent in every way from the dirty kicks of “Goodfellas” or “Casino” (1995). In “The Irishman,” Sally Bugs (Louis Cancelmi) is dispatched in two setups, one wide and one medium, bang bang bang; the deaths of Whispers DiTullio (Paul Herman) and Crazy Joe Gallo (Sebastian Maniscalco) are likewise framed wide, hard and fast — simple, bloody, done. One of the film’s most upsetting scenes, when Frank (De Niro) drags his young daughter to the corner grocery store so she can watch him beat up a shopkeeper, is staged with similar simplicity: Scorsese keeps the scene to a single wide shot as Frank goes in, drags the man over his counter, smashes him through the door, kicks him, beats him and stomps on his hand. Scorsese cuts away only once — to the little girl’s horrified reaction.

Scorsese carries this sparseness into “Killers of the Flower Moon.” An early montage of Osage people on their deathbeds concludes with the murder of Charlie Whitehorn (Anthony J. Harvey), who is killed in two cold, complementary medium-wides. Another character is hooded on the street, dragged into an alley and stabbed to death, with all of the action in two wide shots; a third is knocked down in one wide shot, then thrashed to death in a low-angle medium. The mayhem is over before it even starts.

Perhaps Scorsese was ready to dramatize violence as he remembered it, rather than how he had seen it in the movies. Or perhaps, at age 80, he is acutely aware of his own mortality, and that awareness is affecting how he sees and presents death in his own work. Scorsese ends “The Irishman” with Frank literally picking out his own coffin and crypt; side characters are all introduced with onscreen text detailing their eventual deaths (“Frank Sindone — shot three times in an alley, 1980”). It’s coming for everyone, Scorsese seems to insist, not in a razzledazzle set piece, but in a sudden moment of brutality, shrouded in a cold, endless silence.

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Five international movies to stream now

Amed Bozan in “The Conference.”

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his month’s picks include a comedic Swedish slasher, a Tunisian noir, an Austenian take on the Indian wedding melodrama and more.

‘The Conference’ This Swedish slasher, arriving on Netflix right on time for Halloween, is about one of the great horrors of modern life: work retreats. A group of municipal employees gathers at a resort to get back in touch with nature, build team spirit and discuss plans for a controversial project that requires the appropriation of local farmland. The strained smiles of the leaders of the project — and their circular corporate-speak whenever any colleague raises ethical qualms — are sinister in their own way. But when the resort staff and guests are killed one by one in spectacularly disgusting fashion, the group’s ability to work together — and traverse zip-lines and make do-it-yourself rafts — acquires life-and-death stakes. Director Patrik Eklund crafts a lean thriller out of this premise, serving up sharp satire about corporate greed with a generous splattering of blood and gore.

(Stream it on Netflix.)

‘Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation’ The premise of this Tunisian thriller by Youssef Chebbi is mesmerizing in its own right: In Tunis, a young detective, Fatma (Fatma Oussaifi) investigates a string of increasingly inexplicable cases of self-immolation. But historical context deepens the genre pleasures of “Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation” into a political parable. In 2010, a Tunisian street vendor lit himself afire in public to protest harassment by authorities

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in a tragic spectacle that set off the Arab Spring. Taking inspiration from that moment, Chebbi crafts a beguiling take on the classic, hard-boiled police procedural. Many of his flourishes are familiar (although rendered with great visual originality), like the puzzle-solving detectives prowling an industrial urban landscape depicted in stark chiaroscuro. The mystery at the heart of the film, however, burns unquenchably: It illuminates no answers or evidence, but only a people’s blazing desire for self-determination. (Rent it on Amazon.)

‘The Foolish Bird’ If you saw and liked the film “Stonewalling,” by directors Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka, which was released in theaters earlier this year, their 2017 movie “The Foolish Bird” — newly streaming on the Criterion Channel — is a must-see. Like its successor, “The Foolish Bird” is a somber, delicately crafted drama about the nexus of ruthless capitalism and patriarchal violence that ensnares young women in China. Here, a shy and bullied high schooler, Lynn (Yao Honggui), charts a difficult coming-of-age in the shadow of sexual violence in a small Hunanese city. The recent rape and murder of a girl has shaken the town, but it doesn’t dampen the yearning of Lynn and her friend May to break free of their restrictive, impoverished home lives. They start selling stolen phones to make some extra cash but find themselves repeatedly — and in some instances, brutally — fenced in by a world where it seems like masculinity, rather than money, is the real currency. (Stream it on Criterion Channel.)

‘Back Home’ In this gentle French drama, a man, Thomas (Niels Schneider), returns to his hometown after 12 years away and confronts a family in disarray. His mother is on her deathbed; his father still has not forgiven him for leaving; and his sisterin-law, Mona (Adèle Exarchopoulos), whose husband died under mysterious circumstances, struggles to raise her 6-year-old son. Grief hangs over the house and the adjoining farm, which debt has chipped away over the years. Thomas feels his way through this emotional fog, finding his way back into the family through his young nephew, Alex (Roman Coustère Hachez).

Jessica Palud’s film is remarkably simple yet dense with feeling, thanks to an ensemble of sensitive performances. Exarchopoulos exudes both sensuality and suffering, and Schneider simmers with love and hurt, but Coustère Hachez is the standout: His precociousness and mischief perfectly embody the ways in which children can usher in the future when adults are too mired in the woes of the past. (Stream it on Tubi.)

“Aachar & Co.”

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‘Aachar & Co.’ Boxy vintage cars, creaky dial-up phones and women traded off in marriage like cattle: Set in the 1960s and ’70s in the South Indian city of Bangalore (now Bengaluru), this period drama by Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy (she also stars) combines nostalgic charm with a whip-smart satire of fusty old patriarchal traditions.

When the film opens in 1960, the fearsome Madhusudhan Aachar (Ashok), an engineer with a temper, is the envy of his neighbors with his government job, big house and 10 children. Three are boys who he hopes (or rather, demands) become engineers like him, and seven are girls he hopes to match with successful husbands. As the film zips through the next two decades, a multitude of weddings, unexpected deaths and births shift the family’s fortunes, as do changing attitudes about marriage and women’s social roles. Narrated with great wit and charming irony and brimming with gags (three neighborhood gossips, nicknamed BBC for their initials, appear every now and then like a Greek chorus), “Aachar & Co.” is a clever, Austenian take on the great Indian wedding melodrama.

(Stream it on Amazon.)

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This store-bought spice blend makes everything taste better

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of just-fried chicken karaage, or to gently awaken it in a warm pool of olive oil before tossing with noodles.

Whether you keep that red-capped bottle next to your salt and pepper shakers is up to you, but your world will certainly be better for it.

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t Sushi Yoko in Norcross, Georgia, as at Japanese restaurants across the world, each booth has a red-capped bottle of shichimi togarashi, the seven-spice blend that makes food taste spicy, savory, nutty and electric all at once.

This combination delivers an exciting interplay of dried red chile, orange peel, sesame seeds (both black and white), sansho peppercorns, seaweed and often ginger. It enhances food without overpowering it, which is why everyone should keep a bottle in the pantry.

“Shichi” means seven, and “togarashi” refers to the Japanese red chile that grounds the mix. The six other ingredients depend on the brand and, when made at home, on the cook. Some variations might include poppy seeds, hemp seeds and yuzu peel. A successful shichimi togarashi (sometimes called nanami togarashi) offers a kaleidoscope of tastes, each turn of the tongue showing off a new combination.

Sushi Yoko’s chef, Tomonori Nakamura, likes to dust it over yakitori but wants his customers to use it on whatever they like.

A bowl of his tempura udon wouldn’t be complete without a sprinkle of shichimi, which, at his diner-like restaurant, you can find next to the salt and pepper shakers and soy sauce decanter.

Rie McClenny, whose debut cookbook “Make It Japanese” (written with Sanaë Lemoine) comes out this month, uses it as a finishing spice for soba, deviled eggs and tonjiru, a pork and vegetable soup flavored with miso. It lends a layered spiciness, she said, with pops of mildness from sesame and citrus, and soothing warmth from sansho pepper.

McClenny first saw an application of shichimi togarashi in a non-Japanese setting as an intern at a restaurant in the Manhattan neighborhood of NoLIta. The spice blend was added to melted butter, which then coated fried chicken wings to astounding results. “It opened my eyes,” she said.

Though shichimi togarashi is classically used in Japanese cuisine as a finishing spice, there are many ways to extend its multidimensional flavors beyond a lastminute sprinkle. In this easy weeknight

Shichimi togarashi, beloved in Japanese cuisine, is more than just a final seasoning; its multidimensional savoriness can transform your cooking, too. recipe, lime juice and a touch of soy sauce accentuate the citrusy, savory spice, especially once reduced to a sticky pan sauce for slicking pork chops. A dusting of shichimi tastes even more brilliant when bloomed in the pork’s fat; maple syrup carries all seven of its flavors, as does a final gloss of butter.

It’s “Japan’s go-to spice,” the chef Brendan Liew writes in his cookbook “Tokyo Up Late.” I’ve been known to sprinkle shichimi togarashi over chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven and a platter

Maple-soy pork chops with shichimi togarashi Shichimi togarashi is a citrusy, savory Japanese seven-spice blend featuring ground red chiles, roasted orange peel, black and white sesame seeds, sansho pepper, seaweed and often ginger. You can extend those sharp, multilayered flavors with lime juice, maple syrup and a touch of soy reduced to a sticky pan sauce that slicks quick-cooking pork chops in this easy recipe. Try to find bone-in loin chops with nice fat caps around the curved outer edges for richness and succulence. Serve with white rice and green beans, or alongside a big crunchy salad.

Yield: 2 to 4 servings Total time: 25 minutes

Ingredients: 4 bone-in (1/2-inch-thick) pork chops Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper Zest and juice of 1 lime 2 tablespoons maple syrup 2 teaspoons soy sauce 1 teaspoon shichimi togarashi (see Tip), plus more for serving Neutral oil, such as canola or grapeseed 2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter 1. Cut two shallow slits into the fat cap of each pork chop to help the chops stay flat as they cook. Season the chops with salt and pepper. (If you have time and want to ensure juicy meat, refrigerate to dry-brine for at least 30 minutes or up to 24 hours.)

2. In a bowl, stir the lime juice, maple syrup, soy sauce, shichimi togarashi, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 3 grinds of pepper to combine.

3. Heat a large skillet over mediumhigh. Add enough oil to lightly coat the bottom. Working in batches as needed, add the chops and cook until browned and crusty, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate to rest.

4. Add the lime juice mixture to the pan, still over medium-high, and let it bubble up and cook, stirring constantly, until syrupy, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Off the heat, add the butter and stir until combined. Add the chops back to the pan and turn to coat in the sauce. Transfer to plates, pouring any leftover sauce over the meat.

Sprinkle with the lime zest and additional shichimi togarashi, if you’d like.

Tip: You can find a bottle of shichimi (sometimes labeled nanami) togarashi at a Japanese or Asian grocery store; it’s easy to buy online, as well. But to make your own with other pantry ingredients, stir together 1/2 teaspoon ground cayenne,1/4 teaspoon ground ginger and 1/4 teaspoon sesame seeds (black or white, or both), plus a couple grinds of black pepper. For fullspectrum flavor, you could also include a pinch of sumac for sourness, a fleck of crushed dried seaweed for savoriness and a dash of poppy seeds for sweet nuttiness.

These aren’t traditional ingredients by any means, but they get you close when you’re in a pinch.

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ELSA ROMAN MÉNDEZ, JOSÉ MANUEL FLORES DELGADO PARTE PETICIONARIA

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CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2023CV08364.

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

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

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

Luego de mensurada el 20 de junio de 2023 por el agrimensor Fernando Santiago Rosario la descripción actual de la propiedad es la siguiente: Solar con residencia construida en madera con techo de zinc, sobre columnas ubicado en el barrio Tortugo del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 137.463 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en varias alineaciones de 4.837 metros y 6.930 metros con acera que da acceso hacia la carretera PR-873; por el Sur en una alineación de 12.290 metros con terreno el cual se desconoce

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

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

LEGAL NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN. ST – 2022 – CV – 00242 ACTION FOR DEBT AND FORECLOSURE OF REAL PROPERTY MORTGAGE.

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO, Plaintiff, v.

AMERICO CORREA and THE TOWERS CONDOMINIUM HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION,

Defendants.

SUMMONS.

To: Americo Correa Jard De Country Club CN7 Calle 151

Carolina, Puerto Rico 00983

Within the time limited by law (see note below) you are hereby required to appear before this Court and answer to a complaint filed against you in this action and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment by default will be taken against you as demanded in the Complaint, for

DEBT AND FORECLOSURE OF REAL PROPERTY MORTGAGE. PURSUANT TO COURT ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION ENTERED BY HON. JUDGE DENISE M. FRANCOIS ON August 18th, 2023.

Witness my hand and the Seal of this Court this 18th day of August, 2023.

TAMARA CHARLES Clerk of the Court By: /s/ Donna D. Donovan, Deputy Clerk Richard H. Dollison, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff, FirstBank Puerto Rico Law Offices of Richard H. Dollison, P.C. 5143 Palm Passage, Ste. B28/29 P.O. Box 6135 St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. 00804 NOTE: This defendant, if served personally, is required to file his/her answer or other defenses with the Clerk of this Court, and to serve a copy thereof upon the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty one (21) days after service of this summons, excluding the date of service.

The defendant, if served by publication or by personal service outside of the jurisdiction, is required to file his/her answer or other defense with the Clerk of this Court within thirty (30) days after the completion of the period of publication or personal service outside of the jurisdiction, and to serve a copy thereof upon the attorney for the plaintiff, and in the case of any form of mailing requiring a signed receipt, within 30 days from the date of receipt as indicated by the signed receipt.

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

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

Dated: September 20, 2023 Centro Legal, Attorneys for the Petitioner By: Jennifer Morales Wisconsin State Bar No. 1115510

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 ANGEL LUIS OYOLA MERCADO, LYMARI COLON MARTINEZ, THE CONYUGAL PARTNETSHIP COMPOSED BY ANGEL LUIS OYOLA MERCADO AND LYMARI COLON MARTINEZ; DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY OF PUERTO RICO

Defendants Civil No.: 16-03093-JAG. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: ANGEL LUIS OYOLA MERCADO, LYMARI COLON MARTINEZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THE TWO, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY OF PUERTO RICO AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $253,938.03 of principal balance, plus interest at a rate of 6.50% per annum since March 1st, 2015. Such interes will continue accrue until debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenets od 28 U.S.C. sec 1691. An additional deferred balance of $30,294.18 does not accrue interest at this time. In addition, the defendant owe Plaintiff late charges in the amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. Defendants also owe Plaintiff all of the advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. Defendant also owe the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% ($27,500.00) of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of LEGAL NOTICE the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. STATE OF WISCONSIN : CIRHato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by CUIT COURT : MILWAUKEE accessing the electronic court COUNTY FAMILY COURT records by internet accessing BRANCH. https://ecf.prd.uscourts.gov.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the LEGAL NOTICE In RE the marriage of: Michelle Abraham IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- terms of the aforementioned Demandante, TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned -andTRICT OF PUERTO RICO SPECIAL MASTER, was ordeEliezer Jose Hernandez LIME HOMES, LTD. red to sell at public auction for Demandado Plaintiff V. US currency in cash or certified Case no. 2023FA004118.

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

(787) 743-3346

check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Desarrollo El Valle, Segunda Fase Residencial Prados Urbanos, localizado en el Barrio Cañabon del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción con el número, área y colindancias a continuación. Solar número 28 del bloque K, área del solar 412.50 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con terrenos propiedad de Los Prados Urbanos S. en C. por A., S.E., en una distancia de 15.00 metros; por el Sur, con la calle Paseo de la Palma Real, en una distancia de 15.00 metros; por el Este, con el solar número 27 del bloque K, en una distancia de 25.70 metros; y por el Oeste, con el solar número 29 del bloque K, en una distancia de 25.70 metros. En dicho solar enclava una casa construida en concreto y bloques de hormigón para fines residenciales, la cual consta de cuatro cuartos dormitorios, dos y medio baños, doble marquesina, sala, comedor, cocina, family room y demás dependencias.

Servidumbre Telefónica. Franja de terreno de un metro con cincuenta y dos centímetros de ancho por quince metros de largo por su colindancia Sur. The property is identified as land number 58075, recorded at page number 63 of volume number 1699, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Caguas I. Physical Address: Los Prados (Desarrollo El Valle) K-28, Caguas, PR 000725. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following junior liens and/or attachments described in English: Mortgage: As guarantee of promissory note to benefit of Doral Bank, or on its order, for the amount of $68,750.00, interest ay 6 ½ % annual, due date on February 1, 2036, as stated deed number 7, authorized in San Juan, on January 17, 2006 before Lisa Margarita Santiago Ruiz, Public Notary, registered at page 63 of volume 1699 of Caguas, land 58075, inscription 3rd. Tax Lien: In favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Department of Finance, for the amount of $58,340.93, constituted by Certification dated January 24, 2008, presented on March 10,2008 and annotated to page 63 of volume 1699 of Caguas,

The San Juan Daily Star land 58078, Annotation A, and also annotated at page 95, order 368, of the book 44 of Tax Liens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Tax Lien: In favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Department of Finance, for the amount of $47,402.03, constituted by Certification dated August 13 2009, presented on September 15, 2009 and annotated to page 63 of volume 1699 of Caguas, land 58078, Annotation B and also annotated at page 120, order 471, of the book 44 of Tax Liens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof.

It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, AT 2:30 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $275,000.00. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13T, 2023 AT 2:30 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $183,333.33.

If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 2:30 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $137,500.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above.

For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of October 2023. Beatriz Vazquez Solis, Special Master.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V.

JUAN SANTANA GONZALEZ, MADELINE ROSA FIGUEROA, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTERSHIP COMPOSED

BY THEM

Defendants Civil No.: 17-1927. JAG. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: JUAN SANTANA GONZALEZ, MADELINE ROSA FIGUEROA, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTERSHIP COMPOSED

BY THEM , AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $174,873.74 of principal balance of the mortgage note, plus interest at a rate of 7.00% per annum since January 1st, 2015, over said balance. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenants of 28 U.S.C. sec 1691.

In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant also owes Plaintiff pursuant to the provisions or dispositions of the all of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by internet accessing https://ecf.prd. uscourts.gov. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendants will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 15 del bloque VI-AK de la Urbanización jardines de Country Club, situado en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área de 300.38 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE,

The San Juan Daily Star con 22.25 metros con el solar número 14; por el SUR, con 25.25 metros con el solar número 16; por el ESTE, en 13.50 metros con la calle número 41; y por el OESTE, en 13.50 metros con el solar número 2.

Contiene una casa de concreto armado y bloques para fines residenciales. The property is identified as land number 10,074, recorded at page number 183 of volume number 262, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Carolina I. Physical Address: AK – 41 St. Jardines de Country Club Development, Carolina, PR 00983. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: WHEREAS: For the purpose of the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH, 2023, AT 3:15 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $176,758.90 and no lower offers will be accepted. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13TH, 2023, AT 3:15 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $117,839.26. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023, AT 3:15

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $88,379.45. WHEREAS: The sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of OCTOBER 2023. BEATRIZ VÁZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

ANTULIO DELGADO CARDONA; AIDA ANTONIA DE LA ROSA GARCIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CI2022CV00238.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, GERARDO E. REYES MELÉNDEZ, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #109, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ciales, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 23 de agosto de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $103,751.63 de principal, dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 25 de mayo de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el mismo dia, y publicada mediante edicto el día 30 de mayo de 2023 en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Ciales, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: Descripción: Rustica: Situada en el barrio Cialitos, termino municipal de Ciales, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 4.00 cuerdas, equivalentes a una hectárea, cincuenta y siete áreas y veintiuna centiáreas de terreno, conteniendo una casa vivienda de maderas, techada de zinc y en lindes al Norte, Sur, Oeste y Este, con terrenos de la finca principal de la cual se segrega.

Finca #4696, inscrita al Folio

243 del Tomo 81 de Ciales, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ciales, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $103,751.63 de principal, a razón de 3.50% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $121,425.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $80,950.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $60,712.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ciales.

De Estudio de Título realizado, no surgen gravámenes preferentes y/o posteriores. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se

le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores.

Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Ciales, Puerto Rico, a 12 de octubre de 2023. GERARDO E. REYES MELÉNDEZ, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #109.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE V.

VIRGENMINA GARCÍA ORTIZ Y LA SUCESIÓN DE RAÚL TRINIDAD GARCÍA COMPUESTA POR RAÚL SELAIC TRINIDAD GARCÍA; CARLOS ABDIEL TRINIDAD GARCÍA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE WADY OMAR TRINIDAD GARCÍA, COMPUESTA POR: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y ZUTANA DE TAL, EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM. VB2022CV00437.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA . AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA

SUBASTA. Yo, Luis Ortiz Rosa, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 4 de agosto de 2023 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $59,625.08 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 16 de marzo de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el 20 de marzo de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: Alturas de Vega Baja W-6 Calle U, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico 00693. URBANA: Solar número seis (6) del bloque “W” de la Urbanización Alturas de Vega Baja, barrio Pugnado Afuera de Vega Baja, con un área de 388.8513 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Noreste, en 18.05 metros, con el solar #7; al Suroeste, en 11.02 metros, con la calle U; al Sureste, en 25.02 metros, con el solar #5; al Noroeste, en 20.25 metros, con la calle S y al Oeste, en 5.40 metros en arco con las calles S y U. Sujeto a servidumbre de paso de cinco pies de ancho en parte a su lado Noreste y para el sistema eléctrico. En el inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 150 de Vega Baja, finca #7,356, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. Inscripción Primera. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $59,625.08 de principal, 9.95% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $2,102.82 de cargos por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $75,000.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $50,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudi-

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cación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $37,500.00. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 1 de noviembre de 2023, a las 11:00 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 8 de noviembre de 2023, a las 11:00 de la mañana.

De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 15 de noviembre de 2023, a las 11:00 de la mañana.

La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbres y condiciones restrictivas. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público

en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 16 de octubre de 2023. Luis Ortiz Rosa, ALGUACIL

13.34 metros; al Este, con el espacio exterior en distancia de 9.32 metros y al Oeste, con el espacio exterior en distancia de 9.32 metros. Consta el mismo de tres habitaciones, con sus respectivos “closets”, una salacomedor, cocina, dos baños, LEGAL NOTICE área de almacenar, “laundry” y ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO terraza. Los baños están equiDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- pados con bañera, lavamanos NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA y servicio sanitario. Se incluye CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA- bidet en el baño del cuarto prinMON. cipal. El área del primer nivel BANCO POPULAR DE del apartamento es de 114.45 metros cuadrados. Los lindePUERTO RICO ros del segundo nivel de este DEMANDANTE V. apartamento son los siguienJUAN MARCOS tes: al Norte, con azotea en una VELAZQUEZ RAMIREZ distancia de 11.23 metros; al T/C/C JUAN M. Sur, con el apartamento 2132 VELAZQUEZ RAMIREZ en distancia de 5.37 metros; al T/C/C JUAN CARLOS Este, con el espacio exterior en distancia de 5.90 metros VELAZQUEZ RAMIREZ una y al Oeste, con el espacio exDEMANDADO terior en una distancia de 5.90 Civil Núm. BY2019cv03260. metros. El segundo nivel de Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO este apartamento consta de un Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la área privada de terraza techaVía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENda y un área privada de terraza TA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, descubierta de 53.13 metros Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana, cuadrados. Las mejoras a esta Alguacil Supervisor de la Diviárea están regidas por la escrisión de Subastas del Tribunal tura matriz y el Reglamento de de Primera Instancia, Sala de Condómines. Estas áreas coBAYAMON, a los demandados lindan con el área de azotea, la y al público en general les nocual se le asigna en uso y distifico que, cumpliendo con un frute a este apartamento, sienMandamiento que se ha librado do responsabilidad del titular el en el presente caso por el Semantenimiento de dicha área cretario del Tribunal de epígrafe de azotea y teniendo la oblicon fecha 20 de enero de 2022 gación de permitir la entrada a y para satisfacer la cantidad dicha área en la eventualidad adeudada de $127,123.48 de de existir elementos comunes principal, mediante Sentencia generales que requieran mandictada en el caso de autos tenimiento periódico. Ambos el el 25 de octubre de 2021, niveles están conectados por notificada y archivada en auuna escalera localizada en tos el 26 de octubre de 2021 el interior del apartamento la y publicada mediante edicto cual conecta ambos niveles. El en el periódico “The San Juan área total del apartamento es Daily Star” el 4 de noviembre de 167.58 metros cuadrados. de 2021, procederé a vender La puerta de entrada de este en pública subasta, al mejor apartamento está situada en su postor en pago de contado y en lindero Sur y por ella se sale a moneda del curso legal de los la escalera y al área de interior Estados Unidos de América, del proyecto. Este apartamenmediante efectivo, giro o cheto tiene una participación de que certificado a nombre del 0.6637% en los elementos coAlguacil de este Tribunal todo munes generales del proyecto. derecho, título e interés que Le pertenece el uso y disfrute hayan tenido tengan o puedan a dos espacios para estacionatener los deudores demandamientos, marcados con los núdos en cuanto a la propiedad meros 193 y 194. Consta inscrilocalizada en el Municipio de ta al folio 211 del tomo 664 de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el bien Toa Baja, finca 30617, Registro inmueble se describe a conde la Propiedad de Bayamón, tinuación: Cond. Lago Playa, Sección II. Con el importe de Apt. 2131-F, Toa Baja, PR dicha venta se habrá de satis00949. URBANA: PROPIEDAD facer a la parte demandante HORIZONTAL: PENTHOUSE: las cantidades adeudadas, en Apartamento residencial #2131 el caso de epígrafe, que se de forma irregular, constituido desglosan de la siguiente forpor dos niveles localizado en ma: $127,123.48 de principal, la tercera planta del módulo 6.125% de intereses, los cua21 de Lagoplaya El Condomiles continúan acumulándose nio que está situado en el bahasta el saldo total de la deuda; rrio Sabana Seca del término $1,242.94 de cargos por demomunicipal de Toa Baja, Puerto ra, los cuales continúan acumuRico. Consta de dos niveles, lándose hasta el saldo total de siendo sus linderos del primer la deuda; más costas, gastos y nivel los siguientes: al Norte, honorarios de abogado. El tipo con el apartamento 2032 en mínimo para la subasta será distancia de 12.55 metros; al la suma de tasación pactada, Sur, con el apartamento 2132 para la cual será la cantidad de y área común, en distancia de

22 $175,000.00. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $116,666.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio pactado: $87,500.00. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 2 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 9 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana.

De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 16 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana.

La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMON. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su

extinción el precio del remate.

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, a 16 de octubre de 2023. Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana, ALGUACIL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE V.

MARIANELA LÓPEZ SANTIAGO

DEMANDADA Civil Núm. BY2019CV06081.

Sobre: accion in rem Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMON, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 9 de junio de 2023 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $154,940.37 de principal, mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 26 de enero de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el 27 de enero de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: 131 Condominio Brisas de Panorama, Bayamón, PR 00957. URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento identificado con el número 131, el cual está localizado en el tercer piso del Módulo Uno del Condominio Brisas de Panorama, ubicado en el barrio Cerro Gordo de Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Contiene un área superficial de 1,199.42 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 111.47 metros cuadrados. En lindes: al Noreste, en una distancia de 10.40 metros con elementos exteriores; al Suroeste, en una distancia de 8.71 metros con elementos exteriores y otra en 1.68 metros con recibidor y escaleras; al Sureste, en una distancia de 11.15 metros con el apartamento 232 y elemen-

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tos exteriores y al Noroeste, en una distancia de 6.73 metros con el apartamento 132 y otra distancia de 4.93 metros con recibidor y escaleras. Su puerta principal de acceso se encuentra en su lado Suroeste, la cual se comunica con el recibidor y área de escaleras del tercer piso. Contiene tres dormitorios, dos baños, walk-incloset en el dormitorio principal, sala-comedor, terraza, cocina, laundry y un closet en cada uno de los otros dos dormitorios. Le corresponde el 1.50% en los elementos comunes generales.

Le pertenece el uso y disfrute de un espacio de estacionamiento para dos automóviles, uno detrás de otro, marcados con los números 131. Consta inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 1831 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 75,238, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $154,940.37 principal, 3.75% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $725.31 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado.

El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, para la cual será la cantidad de $164,449.13. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $109,632.75. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio pactado: $82,224.57.

La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 2 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 9 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 16 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMON. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para co-

nocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, a 16 de octubre de 2023. Elias Vargas Santana, ALGUACIL .

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE V.

SUCESIÓN DE DULCE MARÍA CASTRO RIVERA compuesta por: FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORALE SECRETARIA DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE

ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

DEMANDADOS Civil Núm. BY2019CV03564 (702). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMON, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 2 de diciembre de 2021 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $60,809.46 de principal, mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 12 de febrero de 2020, notificada y archivada en autos el 27 de septiembre de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: Urb. Santa Rosa 16-5 Calle 8, Bayamón, PR 00956.

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número cinco (5) del bloque 16 en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Santa Rosa, radicada en el barrio Juan Sánchez, municipalidad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de 341.55 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, en 22.77 metros con el solar cuatro; al Sur, en 22.77 metros con el solar seis; al Este, en 15.00 metros con la calle ocho y al Oeste, en 15.00 metros con el solar treinta. Enclava una casa. Consta inscrita al folio 101 del tomo 376 de Bayamón Sur, finca #16764, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $60,809.46 principal, 3.5% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $254.28 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, para la cual será la cantidad de $94,940.00. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $63,293.33.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio pactado: $47,470.00.

La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 2 de noviembre de 2023, a las 10:15 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 9 de noviembre de 2023, a las 10:15 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 16 de noviembre de 2023, a las 10:15 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMON. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Avi-

so para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, a 16 de octubre de 2023. Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana, ALGUACIL. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 406 - CIVIL SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

FULANO DE TAL T/C/C PAPO CRUZ, POSIBLE HEREDERO DE ÁNGEL LUIS CRUZ CRUZ T/C/C ANGEL CRUZ CRUZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2023CV01535.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍA OFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM MARINILDA RIVERA VARGAS MRIVERAVARGAS@YAHOO.COM

A: FULANO DE TAL T/C/C PAPO CRUZ COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS CRUZ CRUZ T/C/C ÁNGEL CRUZ CRUZ, MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE ÁNGEL LUIS CRUZ CRUZ T/C/C ÁNGEL CRUZ CRUZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 16 de octubre de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 16 de octubre de 2023.

CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 1 SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

MARLON VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2023CV00494.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA LAWOFFICES. GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL.COM

A: MARLON VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO - PARA SER NOTIFICADA POR EDICTO POR CONDUCTO DE LA LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDIA.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 16 de octubre de 2023. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 16 de octubre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. VANESSA RODRÍGUEZ MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

ANA LYDIA ORTIZ ORTIZ, MANUEL ELÍAS BLANCO ORTZ, JOSÉ FRANCISCO

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BERENS MORTGAGE tración de Casos (SUMAC), al Expedido bajo mi firma y se- lentes a 4.00% de la suma de ción diaria general de la Isla de A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD cual puede acceder utilizando llo del Tribunal, en San Juan, aquellos pagos con atrasos en Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza ROE, DEMANDADOS, BANKERS, INC; la siguiente dirección electróni- Puerto Rico. Hoy 31 de agosto exceso de 15 días calendarios y requiere que dentro de los Demandantes V. PERSONAS R&G MORTGAGE de la fecha de vencimiento; los sesenta (60) días siguientes a de 2023.

Griselda Rodríguez ca: https://unired.ramajudicial.

REVERSE MORTGAGE BLANCO & RIERA, DESCONOCIDAS Y DE CORPORATION, pr, salvo que se represente por Collado, Secretaria Regional. créditos accesorios y adelantos la publicación de este edicto FUNDING LLC INC., ELÍAS L. BLANCO derecho propio, en cuyo caso Dalia Rodríguez Estrada, Se- hechos en virtud de la escritu- excluyendo el día de la publica- IGNORADO PARADERO HOY FEDERAL Demandante V. OLALLA, LUSCINDA QUE PUEDEN SER DEPOSIT INSURANCE deberá presentar su alegación cretaria De Servicios A Sala. ra de hipoteca; y las costas, ción de este edicto conteste(n) SUCESION VICTOR gastos y honorarios de aboga- la demanda radicando el origiresponsiva en la secretaría del BLANCO OLALLA, IVÁN TENEDORES DE O CORPORATION LEGAL NOTICE MANUEL GONZALEZ do equivalentes a $5,942.30. nal de la contestación en este tribunal. Se le apercibe que SUÁREZ BLANCO, ELÍAS TENER ALGÚN INTERÉS (FDIC); FEDERAL RIVERA Y OTROS si usted deja de presentar su ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Además la parte demandada Tribunal y enviando copia de la D. BLANCO CHINNI, EN EL PAGARÉ DEPOSIT INSURANCE se comprometió a pagar una Contestación de la Demanda Demandado(a) alegación responsiva dentro DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCRISTIAN BLANCO Caso Núm.: BY2023CV01112.

CORPORATION (FDIC); del referido término, el tribu- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA suma equivalente a $5,942.30 a las oficinas de CARDONA & HIPOTECARIO, BANCO Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HICHINNI, EMMANUEL SCOTIABANK PUERTO nal podrá dictar sentencia en CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA- para cubrir cualquier otro ade- MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, POPULAR DE PUERTO lanto que se haga en virtud de P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.

POTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIBLANCO CHINNI RICO. RICO, HOY ORIENTAL rebeldía en su contra y conce- MÓN SALA SUPERIOR la escritura de hipoteca y una Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, DENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE der el remedio solicitado en la (Nombre de las partes que se le Demandados ORIENTAL BANK BANK; FULANO DE TAL Y suma equivalente a $5,942.30 P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, notifican la sentencia por edicto) demanda, o cualquier otro, si Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV07259. SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. COMO AGENTE DE MENGANO MAS CUAL el tribunal, en el ejercicio de FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDO para cubrir cualquiera otros Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel EL SECRETARIO(A) que susSala: 901. Sobre: CUMPLISERVICIO DE THE FRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM Demandados adelantos que se hagan en vir- (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625- cribe le notifica a usted que su sana discreción, lo entiende MIENTO ESPECÍFICO Y SENCivil Núm.: BY2023CV05349. procedente. Dado bajo mi finna MONEY HOUSE, INC. tud de la escritura de hipoteca 7001, Abogado de la Parte De- el 24 de agosto de 2023, este A: JOHN DOE COMO TENCIA DECLARATORIA. EMDemandante Vs. número 158, otorgada en Caro- mandante. Usted deberá pre- Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, POSIBLE MIEMBRO DE Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE y sello del Tribunal y por Orden PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. HIPOTECA REPRESENTADA del mismo hoy 16 de octubre de LA SUCESION DE JULIO lina, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de sentar su alegación responsiva Sentencia Parcial o Resolución ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- LA SUCESION DE VICTOR POR PAGARÉ HIPOTECAmayo de 2019, ante el notario a través del Sistema Unificado en este caso, que ha sido debiANDINO CLEMENTE RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE MANUEL GONZALEZ RIO EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA RE- COMPUESTA POR JUAN Carlos Martínez Olmo, de la de Manejo y Administración de damente registrada y archivada LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL RIVERA T/C/C VICTOR M. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- GIONAL. M. BONILLA, SUBfinca número 24,173, inscrita al Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede autos donde podrá usted ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LUIS ANDINO; FULANO Y Folio 130 del Tomo 422 de Toa acceder utilizando la siguiente en GONZALEZ RIVERA T/C/C RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE SECRETARIA. enterarse detalladamente de DE PUERTO RICO, SS. FULANA DE TAL COMO Baja, Registro de la Propiedad dirección electrónica: https:// los términos de la misma. Esta VICTOR M GONZALEZ LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL A: LUSCINDA LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO POSIBLES HEREDEROS de Bayamón, Sección Segun- unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, notificación se publicará una T/C/C VICTOR GONZALEZ BLANCO OLALLA. DE PUERTO RICO, SS. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DESCONOCIDOS DE LA da. Por razón de dicho incum- salvo que se represente por sola vez en un periódico de JANE DOE COMO CALLE CUEVILLAS, #59, A: FULANO DE TAL, Y DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL SUCESION; CENTRO plimiento, y al amparo del dere- derecho propio, en cuyo caso circulación general en la Isla cho que le confiere el Pagaré, deberá presentar su alegación de Puerto Rico, dentro de los PENTHOUSE, SAN JUAN, POSIBLE MIEMBRO DE MENGANO MAS CUAL/ GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRILA SUCESION VICTOR Se emplaza y notifica a us- BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- DE RECAUDACION DE el demandante ha declarado responsiva en la secretaría 10 días siguientes a su notificaPR 00907.

INGRESOS MUNICIPALES tales sumas vencidas, líquidas del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte ción. Y, siendo o representando MANUEL GONZALEZ tedes que se ha presentado CIA SALA DE SAN JUAN Por la presente se les notifica (CRIM) y exigibles en su totalidad. Este que si dejare(n) de contestar usted una parte en el procedique se ha presentado en este RIVERA T/C/C VICTOR una demanda en este caso, IVANA Demandados Tribunal ha ordenado que se la Demanda en el período de miento sujeta a los términos Tribunal la Demanda de epíen la cual en síntesis, la parM. GONZALEZ RIVERA RIVERA CORCHADO Civil Núm.: BY2023CV05058. le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto tiempo antes mencionado, po- de la Sentencia, Sentencia grafe. Se le emplaza y requiete demandante alega que se Demandante Vs. T/C/C/ VICTOR M. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO que se publicará una sola vez drá dictarse contra usted(es) Parcial o Resolución, de la cual extravió un pagaré hipotecario re para que notifique a: Lcdo.

ELENA CORCHADO, GONZALEZ. Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA en un periódico de circulación Sentencia en Rebeldía, conce- puede establecerse recurso de que estaban en poder de “R&G Miguel Simonet Sierra y Lcdo.

(Nombre de las partes que se le UBALDO RIVERA Y (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZA- general. Quedan emplazados diéndose el remedio solicitado revisión o apelación dentro del Mortgage Corporation”, y soliciJulián E. Sucre Concepción; notifican la sentencia por edicto) MIENTO POR EDICTO Y MAN- y notificados de que en este sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). término de 30 días contados a ANTONIO SILVA Monserrate, Simonet & Gier- EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- ta que se ordene la cancelación BLANCO ORTIZ, ANA MARÍA BLANCO ORTZ

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bolini, LLC, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogado de la parte Demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MYRIAM RIVERA VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

cribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 16 de octubre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 16 de octubre de 2023.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BA-

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante Vs.

de la hipoteca que lo garantiza.

El pagaré fue librado por el Sr. Esteban Bonet Romero también conocido como Esteban R. Bonet y como Esteban Bonet, y su esposa, la Carmen Rosado, también conocida como Carmen Rosado Bonet, Carmen R. Bonet y como Carmen Bonet, a favor de “Berens Mortgage Bankers, lnc”, o a su orden, por la suma de $30,400.00, más intereses y créditos accesorios, vencedero el 1 de noviembre del 2004, según consta de la escritura #1,053, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de octubre de 1974, ante el Notario Público Luis León.

La referida escritura consta inscrita al folio 144 del tomo 69 de Toa Baja, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda (Il) de Bayamón, finca #5,149, inscripción 5ta. Pueden ver la demanda en su totalidad en este Tribunal. Los abogados de la Parte Demandante lo son: Sandra De L. Tous-Chevres y Raúl J. Tous Bobonis, Urb. San Francisco, Calle Diamela 1789, San Juan, PR 00927-6330, teléfonos 7518834, a quien deberá notificar la contestación de la demanda dentro de los próximos 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los próximos 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis-

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023RF00885.

Sobre: FILIACION E IMPUGNACIÓN DE FILACIÓN. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.

DAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A La Parte CoDemandada: FULANO Y A: UBALDO RIVERA. FULANA DE TAL COMO CONDOMINIO CAPARRA POSIBLES HEREDEROS CLASSIC, APARTAMENTO DESCONOCIDOS DE 381 GUAYNABO, PUERTO LA SUCESION JULIO RICO 00966.

ANDINO CLEMENTE, Por la presente se le emplaza A LAS SIGUIENTES y se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante DIRECCIONES: (A) URB. LOS OLIVOS #4 CALLE este Tribunal una Demanda en la cual se solicita el siguiente BETANCES, BAYAMON, remedio en su contra: CUSPR 00961-6205; (B) TODIA. Dentro del término de COMUNIDAD VILLA treinta (30) días desde la puKENNEDY BARRIO blicación del presente edicto SABANA SECA B-22 usted, la parte demandada, deberá presentar su alegación CALLE ORQUIDEA TOA responsiva notificando copia BAJA, PR 00949. de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante y presentan el original a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de la misma en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se le anotará la rebeldía y se podrá dictar sentencia en su contra, concediendo los remedios solicitados, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de La Sucesión de Julio Andino Clemente, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $55,896.88 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de abril de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equiva-

Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Julio Andino Clemente. Los co-demandados miembros de La Sucesión de Julio Andino Clemente, se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785.

Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que La Sucesión de Julio Andino Clemente, se incluye a los herederos y herederos desconocidos de Julio Andino Clemente denominados Juan Luis Andino; Fulano y Fulana De Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circula-

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy de de 2023, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional.

Sandra I. Báez Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.

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JOSE RAMON SANTIAGO AGOSTO Y OTROS

partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 23 de octubre de 2023. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA A PETICIÓN DE LA LCDA. GLORIA E ROLON ROMERO. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 23 de octubre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

Demandante V.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO JOHN DOE Y OTROS DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2023CV00258. SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O ORIENTAL BANK RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ Demandante Vs. EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICASUCESION DE ÁNGEL CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR ANDRÉS SANTIAGO EDICTO ENMENDADA

GLORIA E ROLON ROMERO GLORIAROLON@GMAIL.COM BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO POPULAR CENTER, 209 AVE MUÑOZ RIVERA, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918 JOHN DOE NO CONSTA, ADJUNTAS, PUERTO RICO, 99999 RICHARD ROE NO CONSTA, ADJUNTAS, PUERTO RICO, 99999

RODRIGUEZ Y SUCESIÓN DE LILLIAM RODRIGUEZ ARROYO T/C/C MILKA LILLIAM RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MIRTA LILLIAM RODRIGUEZ ARROYO T/C/C MILTA LILLIAM RODRIGUEZ, COMPUESTAS POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS ANA MARILYS SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C ANA MARILIS SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ Y ÁNGELO

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SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; lado en la cual el precio mínimo ta de la referida propiedad se MORALES; FULANO DE del tipo mínimo pactado en la gravamen posterior que afecte TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL celebrará en este caso, será el mencionada finca, a cuyo precio mínimo aceptable como COMO HEREDEROS SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN serán dos terceras (2/3) partes verificará libre de toda carga y TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL escritura de hipoteca, la suma la oferta en la Primera Subasta, de $46,400.00. De no haber efecto se notifica y se hace del tipo mínimo pactado en la gravamen posterior que afecte DESCONOCIDOS Y/O COMO HEREDEROS LILLIAM SANTIAGO eso es el tipo mínimo pactado remanente o adjudicación en saber la fecha, hora y sitio de escritura de hipoteca, la suma la mencionada finca, a cuyo PARTES CON INTERÉS en la Escritura de Hipoteca DESCONOCIDOS RODRÍGUEZ; FULANO de $88,866.66. De no haber efecto se notifica y se hace esta segunda subasta por el la Primera, Segunda y Tercera DE TAL Y SUTANA DE remanente o adjudicación en saber la fecha, hora y sitio de Y/O MIEMBROS CON tipo mínimo indicado en el pá- Subasta, si eso fuera necesa- EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; para la propiedad, la suma TAL COMO HEREDEROS esta segunda subasta por el la Primera, Segunda y Tercera INTERES DE DICHAS rrafo anterior, se celebrará una rio, a los efectos de cualquier ESTADOS UNIDOS DE de $150,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en TERCERA SUBASTA en el mis- persona o personas con algún AMÉRICA SUCESIONES DESCONOCIDOS Y/O tipo mínimo indicado en el pá- Subasta, si eso fuera necesaesta primera subasta por dicha rrafo anterior, se celebrará una rio, a los efectos de cualquier mo lugar antes señalado el día interés puedan comparecer Demandados Demandados PARTES CON INTERES TERCERA SUBASTA en el mis- persona o personas con algún 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A a la celebración de dicha Su- Civil Núm.: PO2021CV00791. suma mínima, se celebrará una Civil Núm.: BY2022CV00669.

EN DICHAS SUCESIONES mo lugar antes señalado el día interés puedan comparecer LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en basta. Se entenderá que todo Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00478.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Ponce, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 1ro de agosto de 2023, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 28 de septiembre de 2023 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado 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: RÚSTICA: Parcela macada con el número setenta y uno (71) en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Cristina del Barrio Amuelas, del término municipal de Juana Díaz, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con dos mil setecientos veintiocho diezmilésimas de otra, equivalente a mil setenta y dos metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, con la calle número seis de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela ciento dos de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la calle número uno de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la parcela número setenta y dos de la comunidad. FINCA NUM. 9,469, inscrita al folio 182 del tomo 249 de Juana Díaz, sección I de Ponce. Dirección Física: Lot 71, Las Trinitarias St. Cristina Comm. Juana Diaz, PR 00795. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Ponce. 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 $133,300.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes seña-

13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 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 $66,650.00. 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 estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $103,382.94 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.8750% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos 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 ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también 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 Subas-

a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, 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 TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 13 de octubre de 2023.

MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE ROBERTO ORTIZ ORTEGA Y SUCESIÓN DE ANGELITA FEBUS TAÑON COMPUESTAS POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS ARELIS ORTIZ FEBUS, ROBERTO ORTIZ FEBUS Y MORAIMA ORTIZ FEBUS; SUCESION DE VIVIANA MORALES FEBUS COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS LUIS RAUL ORTEGA MORALES, YULIANA ORTEGA MORALES T/C/C JULIANA ORTEGA MORALES, ANTONIO ORTEGA MORALES E IRIS BETHZAIDA ORTEGA

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 11 de agosto de 2023, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 2 de octubre de 2023 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado 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: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número ciento cincuenta y cuatro en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Guadiana del barrio Guadiana del término municipal de Naranjito con una cabida superficial de trescientos cincuenta punto cero cero metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número ciento cincuenta y tres de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número ciento cincuenta y cinco de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la calle número cuatro de la comunidad; por el OESTE, con la parcela número ciento sesenta y ocho de la comunidad. FINCA NÚMERO: 9,527, inscrita al folio 44 del tomo 139 de Naranjito, Registro de Barranquitas. Dirección Física: COMUNIDAD GUADIANA, LOTE 154, NARANJITO, PR 00719. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Bayamón. 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 $69,600.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes

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 $34,800.00. 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 estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $55,287.92 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 7.0000% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos 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 ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también 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

licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, 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 TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2023. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Ponce, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 18 de octubre de 2022, enmendada nunc pro tunc el 10 de agosto de 2023, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 5 de octubre 2023 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado 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: RÚSTICA: Parcela número diez (10) situada en el Sector Quebrada del Agua del Barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, con una cabida superficial de mil quinientos veintiocho punto ochocientos treinta y uno (1528.831) metros cuadrados, y en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y uno punto cero veinticinco (31.025) metros, con la parcela A, dedicada a uso público que la separa de la caLEGAL NOTICE rretera municipal de Quebrada ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO del Agua; por el SUR, en seis DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU(6.00) metros, con la finca prinNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA cipal de la cual se segregó; por SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE el ESTE, en cincuenta y siete BANCO POPULAR DE punto cuatrocientos dieciocho PUERTO RICO Y SUN (57.418) metros, con la parcela número nueve (9); y al OESTE, WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. COMO en seis (6) alineaciones distintas que suman setenta y uno AGENTE DE SERVICIO punto quinientos treinta y siete Demandante Vs. (71.537) metros, con un camino SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR privado. Hoy día la parcela A es TOMÁS MATÍAS VÉLEZ parte de la carretera municipal COMPUESTA POR SU Quebrada del Agua. En dicha VIUDA MYRTA DALIA parcela enclava una estructura de cemento, la cual consta al VÁZQUEZ ROMÁN día de hoy de tres (3) cuartos T/C/C MIRTA DALIA dormitorios, sala, comedor, coVÁZQUEZ ROMÁN, POR cina y servicio sanitario. FINSÍ; SUS HEREDEROS CA NÚMERO: 2,105, inscrita CONOCIDOS JOLIMALIS al folio 199 del tomo 1121 de sección II de Ponce.

MATÍAS T/C/C JOHMALIS Ponce, Dirección Física: BARRIO CAMATÍAS VÁZQUEZ, JUAN NAS, SECTOR QUEBRADA, MATÍAS VÁZQUEZ, PARCELA 10, PONCE PR 00732. Se anuncia por medio JORGE MATÍAS VÁZQUEZ, JOMYRVA de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse MATÍAS VÁZQUEZ, el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE HÉCTOR MATÍAS LEÓN, 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MARALPHY MATÍAS LEÓN ÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el T/C/C RALPHI MATÍAS edificio que ocupa el Tribunal LEÓN Y JUDITH MATÍAS Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Ponce. Siendo LEÓN; FULANO DE ésta la primera subasta que se

DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $100,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 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 $75,000.00. 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 estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $183,543.58 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 7.00% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos 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 ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho

The San Juan Daily Star a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial.

No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a los Estados Unidos de América por éstos contar con un pagaré a favor del “ Secretary of Housing and Urban Development” por la suma de $225,000.00, intereses al 7% anual y a vencer el 2 de febrero de 2092, según consta de la escritura #138, otorgada en Sn Juan, el 27 de marzo de 2009, ante la Notario Ana V. Piñero Pares, inscrito al folio 200 del tomo 1121 de Ponce, finca #2,105, inscripción 7ma. 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 posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con ALGÚN interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, 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 TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 13 de octubre de 2023. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

JUANA ALEJANDRO DIAZ; JOSE MANUEL GARCIA TORRES; LA SUCESION DE ROBERTO ALEJANDRO DIAZ COMPUESTA POR CARMEN JULIA ALEJANDRO DIAZ T/C/C CARMEN J. GONZALEZ Y JUANA ALEJANDRO DIAZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV04303.

Sala: 701. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS. SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en AC-10 CALLE PRAGA, URBANIZACION CAGUAS NORTE, CAGUAS, PR 00725-2263 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número diez del Bloque “AC” de la Urbanización Caguas Norte, situada en el Barrio Bairoa de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veintidós metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en catorce metros, con los solares número ocho y doce; por el SUR, en catorce metros, con la calle número veinticuatro; por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número nueve; y por el OESTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número once. Enclava una casa residencial para una faLEGAL NOTICE milia. La propiedad antes relaESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO cionada consta inscrita al Folio DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- 260 del Tomo 969 de Caguas, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA finca número 33,230 (antes CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA- 7,651), Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección PrimeGUAS SALA SUPERIOR

ra. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $118,150.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $78,766.67.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $59,075.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 330 otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de junio de 2006, ante el Notario Sergio Ortiz Atienza, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 225 del Tomo 1,671 de Caguas, Finca número 33,230, inscripción 9na y última, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $97,418.07 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2018, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.45% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada, Juana Alejandro Díaz, José Manuel García Torres y La Sucesión de Roberto Alejandro Díaz adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,815.00. Además, la parte co-demandada, Juana Alejandro Díaz, José Manuel García Torres y La Sucesión de Roberto Alejandro Díaz se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,815.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,815.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de

manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravamen anterior y/o preferente según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad.

Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de octubre de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

VIRGILIO GUZMAN GORDIAN, POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE GLORIA GRAU SANTIAGO; LA SUCESION DE GLORIA GRAU SANTIAGO COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00467.

Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: #5 CALLE 2, COMUNIDAD CERRILLO, PONCE, PUERTO RICO 00731 y que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número cinco en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Cerrillos, Barrio Cerrillos del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos dos punto treinta metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número dos de la comunidad; por el SUR, con calle número dos de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número seis de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número cuatro de la comunidad. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 203 del Tomo 2060 de Ponce, finca número 59,506, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Primera.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $128,663.79.

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Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $85,775.86.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $64,331.89. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 39 otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de enero de 2007, ante el Notario Carlos A. Surillo Pumarada, inscrita al folio 203 del tomo 2060 de Ponce, inscripción cuarta, modificada en cuanto a su principal que será de $128,663.79, en cuanto a su pago mensual de principal e interés será por la cantidad de $845.23, en cuanto a su vencimiento que será el primero (1ro) de diciembre de 2048, y en cuanto al tipo mínimo en caso de ejecución que será de $128,663.79, según consta de la escritura de modificación de hipoteca número 756, otorgada el día 19 de diciembre de 2018, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante la Notario Público Maricarmen Carrillo Justiniano, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Ponce, finca 59,506, inscripción quinta, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Primera. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte co-demandada, ascendente a la suma de $126,137.07 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2020, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.875% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, Virgilio Guzmán Gordian, por sí y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria de la Sucesión y La Sucesión de Gloria Grau Santiago adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $13,400.00. Además, Virgilio Guzmán Gordian, por sí y en

la cuota viudal usufructuaria será publicado dos veces en de la Sucesión y La Sucesión un diario de circulación general de Gloria Grau Santiago se en el Estado Libre Asociado de comprometió a pagar una suma Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos equivalente a $13,400.00 para semanas consecutivas. Expido cubrir cualquier otro adelanto el presente Edicto de subasta que se haga en virtud de la es- bajo mi firma y sello de este Tricritura de hipoteca y una suma bunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, equivalente a $13,400.00 para hoy día 19 de octubre de 2023. cubrir intereses en adición a los MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, garantizados por ley. Por razón ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA de dicho incumplimiento, y al #560, ALGUACIL DE SUBASamparo del derecho que le con- TAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA fiere el Pagaré, el demandante INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDIha declarado tales sumas ven- CIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUcidas, líquidas y exigibles en su PERIOR. totalidad. Que los autos y todos LEGAL NOTICE los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO estarán de manifiesto en la DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONTRIANGLE REO PR, CE, SALA SUPERIOR durante CORP. las horas laborables. Se entenDemandante V. derá que todo licitador acepta ANTARTICA ICE PLANT como bastante la titulación del CORP.; CARLOS E. inmueble y que las cargas y PERDOMO CHEYNE, gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al SU ESPOSA EREIDA crédito del ejecutante continua- FRANCO ECHEVARRIA Y rán subsistentes entendiéndoLA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE se que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res- BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el AMBOS precio de remate. La propiedad Demandados no está sujeta a gravámenes Civil Núm.: DCD2014-2531. anteriores y/o preferentes se- (702). Sobre: REGLA 35.4 DE gún surge de las constancias PROCEDIMIENTO CIVIL; COdel Registro de la Propiedad en BRO DE DINERO Y EJECUun estudio de título efectuado CIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO a la finca antes descrita. Por DE SUBASTA. la presente se notifica a los AL PUBLICO EN acreedores desconocidos, no GENERAL; A LA inscritos o presentados que PARTE DEMANDADA sus derechos sobre los bienes Y A LOS TENEDORES hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del DE GRAVÁMENES ejecutante o acreedores de carPOSTERIORES. gos o derechos reales que los YO, EDGARDO ELÍAS VARhubiesen pospuesto a la hipo- GAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL teca del actor y a los dueños, AUXILIAR PLACA #193, Alposeedores, tenedores de o guacil del Tribunal de Primera interesados en títulos transmi- Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, sibles por endoso o al portador al público en general, POR garantizados hipotecariamen- LA PRESENTE HAGO SAte con posterioridad al crédito BER: CERTIFICO Y HAGO del actor que se celebrarán las SABER: Cumpliendo con un subastas en las fechas, horas Mandamiento de Subasta de y sitios señalados para que Bienes Muebles Embargados puedan concurrir a la subasta del Secretario de este Tribunal, si les conviniere o se les invita venderé en pública subasta al a satisfacer antes del remate el mejor postor en moneda legal importe del crédito, de sus inte- de los Estados Unidos, en la reses, otros cargos y las costas dirección abajo indicada, el día y honorarios de abogado ase- 10 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, gurados quedando subrogados A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en los derechos del acreedor los bienes muebles que se desejecutante. La propiedad objeto criben en Inventario de Bienes de ejecución y descrita anterior- Embargados, y que se descrimente se adquirirá libre de car- ben a continuación: 1. Plangas y gravámenes posteriores ta eléctrica Kane Caribbean una vez el Honorable Tribunal Inc. (John Deere Series 400 expida la correspondiente Or- 6076AF030 RG6076A571375); den de Confirmación de Venta 2. Henry VogtMacherer Co. Judicial. Y para conocimiento No.38485 Serial 38485, año de licitadores del público en ge- 1992; 3. Pick up GMC color neral se publicará este Edicto oro, tablilla 709-033, Marbede acuerdo con la ley por es- te 036612785; 4. Finger Yale pacio de dos semanas en tres Lifttruck Serie #AS1011963116 sitios públicos del municipio en Modelo GLC070VXNGSF092; que ha de celebrarse la venta, 5. Tanque donde se almacetales como la Alcaldía, el Tribu- na el hielo; 6. Máquina para nal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto preparar las bolsas de hielo;

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Hielera de 1 puerta; 12. Hielera de 2 puertas. Los bienes muebles antes identificados fueron embargados el pasado 16 de abril de 2023, mediante Orden y Mandamiento de Embargo de este Tribunal, y entregados al Sr. Miguel Matías, representante de la parte demandante.

La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde sea posible, el importe de la sentencia dictada el pasado 29 de septiembre de 2014, la cual los balances han sido actualizada al 21 de septiembre de 2023, por las siguientes cantidades: $38,002.94 de principal, más $63,243.62 de intereses acumulados hasta el 21 de septiembre de 2023, más los que continúen acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más la cantidad de $4,540.56 por recargos. Conforme lo ordenado por el Tribunal, la subasta antes indicada se llevará a cabo en la siguiente dirección física: 140 calle 3A, Hermanos Dávila, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Los bienes muebles antes relacionados se encuentran libres de cargas y gravámenes. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsistentes; entiéndase que el rematante los acepta y quedan subrogados en la responsabilidad de este sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad para ejecutar se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Para la publicación de este edicto en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez, y para la colocación del mismo en tres sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, libro el presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de octubre del 2023. Edgardo Elías Vargas Santana, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #193, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Bayamón.

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MARITZA RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ, MARIBEL RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ Y LA SUCESION DE

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ HUMACAO PR 00791 Y/O Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta Artículo 1578 del Código Civil en cuyo caso deberá radicar del apartamento y un área de de San Juan. Se apercibe y ad- de Puerto Rico de 2020, según el original de su contestación almacenaje del apartamento.

MARTINEZ COMPUESTA PO BOX 1405 CIDRA PR AMÉRICA vierte a ustedes como personas enmendado. Se ORDENA a la ante el Tribunal correspondien- así como la azotea del edificio Demandados POR MARILYN 00739. desconocidas, que deberá pre- parte demandante a que, en te y notifique con copia a los para uso exclusivo del titular SANCHEZ RODRIGUEZ EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02592. sentar su alegación responsiva vista de que la sucesión Ro- abogados de la parte deman- de este apartamento. Sobre el Sala: 409. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN Y POR EDDIE SANCHEZ cribe le notifica a usted que el DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EM- a través del Sistema Unificado berto Rampolla Brigantty t/c/c dante, LCDA. MARJALIISA área de almacenaje y la parte 16 de octubre de 2023, este de Administración y Manejo de Roberto Rampolla y Roberto COLÓN VILLANUEVA A su di- superior de la escalera interior RODRIGUEZ Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Demandantes Vs.

DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE GLORIA CHICLANA VILLEGAS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV01141.

Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE HERENCIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE GLORIA CHICLANA VILLEGAS.

Se le notifica a usted que ha sido radicada ante este Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Superior de San Juan, una Demanda sobre División de Herencia. Usted deberá presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días desde la última publicación de este edicto, sirviéndole copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. Teresa Pacheco Camacho, con oficinas en la Calle Santiago Vivaldi Pacheco, Número 24-B, Yauco, Puerto Rico, dirección postal: P.O. Box 5004, PMB 200, Yauco, Puerto Rico 00698-5004, teléfono número 787-267-5784, fax número 787-267-6328, correo electrónico teresa©pachecocamacholawfirm.com, abogada de los Demandantes. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo así, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, la entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo firma y sello de este Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de octubre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR. YADIRA DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Vs

FELICIANO COLON, MARGARITA

Caso: HSCI201700137. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 19 de octubre de 2023. Lic. Collazo Torres, Baldomero A. bcollazo@lawpr.com. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 19 de octubre de 2023.

Ivelisse C. Fonseca Rodríguez, Secretaria. Dalissa Reyes De León, Secretaria Auxiliar.

E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE ROBERTO RAMPOLLA BRIGANTTY T/C/C ROBERTO RAMPOLLA Y ROBERTO RAMPOLLA BRIGANTTY T/C/C ROBERTO RAMPOLLA Y LUCIA NIEVES ORTIZ T/C/C LUCY NIEVES.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitando la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de The Money House Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $255,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total LEGAL NOTICE y completo pago a razón de la ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO tasa de interés de 3.68% anual, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- la cual será ajustada mensualNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA mente, obligándose además SALA DE CAROLINA al pago de costas, gastos y COMPU-LINK desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en CORPORATION una suma de $25,500.00, equiDBA CELINK valente al 10% de la suma prinDemandante Vs. cipal original. Este pagaré fue LA SUCESIÓN DE suscrito bajo el affidávit número ROBERTO RAMPOLLA 2,602 ante el notario Rosa E. BRIGANTTY T/C/C Permuy Calderón. Lo anterior ROBERTO RAMPOLLA surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número T/C/C ROBERTO RAMPOLLA BRIGANTTY 23 otorgada el 28 de enero de 2009, ante la misma notario T/C/C ROBERTO público, inscrita al folio 5 del RAMPOLLA Y LA tomo 824 de Trujillo Alto, SecSUCESIÓN DE LUCIA ción Cuarta de San Juan, finca número 28,273, inscripción 6ta.

NIEVES ORTIZ T/C/C LUCY NIEVES, AMBAS La hipoteca grava la propiedad que describe que describe a COMPUESTAS POR continuación: “RÚSTICA: SoROBERTO RAMPOLLA lar número Veinticuatro (24), T/C/C ROBERTO parcela de terreno en el Barrio Carriazo del término municipal RAMPOLLA NIEVES, de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con JUAN RAMPOLLA cabida de NOVECIENTOS SENIEVES, MARÍA SENTA y SIETE punto CERO MERCEDES RAMPOLLA QUINIENTOS VEINTISIETE NIEVES, FRANCISCO (967.0527) metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el Norte, con el RAMPOLLA NIEVES, solar número VEINTE (20); por Y FULANO DE TAL el SUR, con camino dedicado a Y SUTANO DE TAL uso público; por el ESTE, con COMO POSIBLES el solar número VEINTICINCO HEREDEROS NOMBRES (25); y por el OESTE, con el solar número VEINTITRES (23)”.

DESCONOCIDOS; Finca número 28,273, inscrita CENTRO DE al folio 1 del tomo 586 de Trujillo RECAUDACIÓN DE Alto. Registro de la Propiedad

A: MARGARITA FELICIANO COLON DIRECCIONES: URB PALACIOS DEL MAR A-26 CALLE ADRIATICO INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajuducial.pr, salvo que se represente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Genevieve López Stipes Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 60 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. INTERPELACIÓN: Se les ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de TREINTA (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Roberto Rampolla Brigantty t/c/c Roberto Rampolla y Roberto Rampolla Brigantty t/c/c Roberto Rampolla y Lucia Nieves Ortiz t/c/c Lucy Nieves a saber: Roberto Rampolla t/c/c Roberto Rampolla Nieves, Juan Rampolla Nieves, María Mercedes Rampolla Nieves, Francisco Rampolla Nieves, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos nombres desconocidos de Roberto Rampolla Brigantty t/c/c Roberto Rampolla y Roberto Rampolla Brigantty t/c/c Roberto Rampolla y Lucia Nieves Ortiz t/c/c Lucy Nieves. Se les APERCIBE que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de TREINTA (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les APERCIBE que luego del transcurso del término de TREINTA (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia de los causantes Roberto Rampolla Brigantty t/c/c Roberto Rampolla y Roberto Rampolla Brigantty t/c/c Roberto Rampolla y Lucia Nieves Ortiz t/c/c Lucy Nieves y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el

Rampolla Brigantty t/c/c Roberto Rampolla y Lucia Nieves Ortiz t/c/c Lucy Nieves a saber: Roberto Rampolla t/c/c Roberto Rampolla Nieves, Juan Rampolla Nieves, María Mercedes Rampolla Nieves, Francisco Rampolla Nieves, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos nombres desconocidos de Roberto Rampolla Brigantty t/c/c Roberto Rampolla y Roberto Rampolla Brigantty t/c/c Roberto Rampolla y Lucia Nieves Ortiz t/c/c Lucy Nieves; proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 18 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUB - SECRETARIA.

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RAFAEL ENRIQUE ROSAS ACEVEDO Demandante Vs.

CITIMORTGAGE, INC; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2023CV03066.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIQOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: CITIMORTGAGE, INC. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, 451 TH STREET S.W., WASHINGTON DC 20410.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio,

rección: PO. Box 7970 Ponce, PR. 00732. Tel: 787-843-4168.

En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario a favor Citimortgage, lnc, o a su orden, por la suma de ciento cuarenta y dos mil dólares ($142,000.00) (no se indica intereses ni fecha de vencimiento), según consta de la escritura número cuarenta y nueve (49), otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día veintisiete (27) de febrero de dos mil seis (2006) ante el notario Mariano S. Najerauriola y cuya obligación está inscrita al folio sesenta y tres (63) del tomo mil novecientos noventa y cinco (1925) de Ponce Norte, finca número sesenta mil trescientos treinta y cuatro (60,304). Inscripción séptima (7ma). Que, la propiedad sobre la cual se constituyó dicha hipoteca es la siguiente: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Condomio Patio Señorial Apartments. Apartamento residencial número PH guión tres A (PH-3 A), para uso residencial enmarcado en una forma irregular que mide treinta y cinco pies (35) cero (0) pulgadas por treinta y ocho (38) pies siete (7) pulgadas, con un área de aproximadamente mil quinientos noventa y uno punto ochocientos ochenta (1,591.880) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento cuarenta y siete punto novecientos sesenta y seis metros cuadrados (147.966) que está ubicado en el tercer piso del edificio A del Condominio Patio Señorial Apartments, radicado en el Barrio Machuelo del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Colinda por el Norte, en una distancia de treinta y ocho (38) pies siete (7) pulgadas, con la calle Capellán, antes Calle K de la urbanización Las Monjitas y con la carretera Puerto Rico número ciento treinta y nueve (139), por el Sur, en doce (12) pies seis (6) pulgada con el área de estacionamiento del Condomio Patio Señorial Apartments, por el Este, en veintinueve (29) pies cero pulgadas (0) con el apartamento PH guión dos A (PH-2 A), y por el Oeste, en treinta y cinco (35) pies cero (0) pulgadas con el apartamento número PH guión cuatro A (PH-4 A) del Condominio Patio Señorial Apartments. Este apartamento se compone de tres (3) niveles: Sobre el primer nivel de este apartamento se encuentra ubicado su segundo nivel y sobre el segundo nivel se encuentra ubicado la parte superior de la escalera interior

esta la parte más alta del techo del edificio. En los cuales en el primer nivel se encuentra la entrada principal y acceso a la escalera exterior. sala, comedor. cocina, medio baño, un balcón cubierto y la escalera interior que da acceso al segundo nivel. En el segundo nivel se encuentran tres (3) dormitorios, dos (2) baños, un (1) walk in closet, el área del laundry, un balcón cubierto y la escalera que da acceso al tercer nivel.

En el tercer nivel se encuentra el área de almacén y el area de terraza que ubica en la azotea del edificio. Este apartamento tiene alarmas contra incendios instaladas en todos los cuartos, pasillo y cocina y un extintor de fuego. Esta área de terraza se considera de uso exclusivo para este apartamento a tenor con el reglamento vigente de la Ley de propiedad Horizontal.

Bajo este apartamento se encuentra el apartamento número doscientos dos guión A (202-A) del Condominio Patio Señorial Apartments. Su puerta principal da acceso a un vestíbulo interior del piso tercero y la escalera exterior conduce al primer piso del edificio A y da acceso al area de entrada del condominio. Este apartamento incluye calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina, le corresponde a este apartamento y este su titular los estacionamientos PH guión tres A uno (PH-3A 1) y PH guión tres A dos (PH-3A2).

Le corresponde a este apartamento una participación en los elementos generales de dos punto ciento veintiún (2.121) porciento. Se considera del tercer nivel solo el área cerrada y techada de la escalera y de almacén para el computo del por ciento de participación en los elementos comunes generales.

Catastro: Trescientos sesenta y cinco guión cero setenta y seis guión cero cuarenta y cuatro guión treinta y siete guión cero doce (365-076-044-37-012).

Inscrita al folio sesenta y uno (61) del tomo mil novecientos veinticinco (1925) de Ponce Norte, finca número sesenta mil trescientos cuatro (60304), Registro de Ponce l. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a día 16 de octubre de 2023.

Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional. Loyda Torres Irzarry, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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The stratospheric rise of Lionel Messi’s pink jersey

By KEVIN DRAPER and RORY SMITH

To streamline the process, the company sourced the pink, recycled polyester fabric for the jerseys as close as possible to the factories in Southeast Asia that would make them. Orders for other details like logos and crests were expedited at other facilities, sometimes leapfrogging the production of apparel for other Adidas teams. To cut down on shipping times, the first batches of the Messi jerseys were sent out in small shipments, almost as soon as they came off the production line.

The frantic production effort worked.

Initially, Adidas had told its retailers to begin selling jerseys with a promise of delivery by Oct. 15. But the first editions arrived in the United States by July 18.

They were sent straight to Miami, where demand was highest.

They sold out almost instantly.

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ll of a sudden, after a single summer, the pink jersey is everywhere. It has become almost impossible to acquire, yet there it is, paradoxically, on the backs of thousands of fans thronging American stadiums, hanging from market stalls in Bangkok and Buenos Aires, Argentina, a vivid flash on almost every field where children gather to play soccer in England.

That the jersey has become, apparently overnight, the hottest piece of sports merchandise on the planet is a simple, capitalist equation: the result of an irresistible combination of one of the most recognizable and beloved athletes of his generation; a distinctive, exotic color; and the ruthless efficiency of textile factories in Southeast Asia.

Somehow, though, few people saw it coming. Tor Southard was better placed than most, but even he was caught unaware. As Adidas’ senior director for soccer in North America, he had been receiving emails from colleagues for nearly a year asking if the company’s biggest star, Lionel Messi, would be joining Inter Miami, also a client of Adidas.

As far as he knew, it was just a rumor. Like the rest of the planet, Southard learned it was true only on June 7, the day Messi announced his intentions in a rare interview with two Spanish news outlets.

For many, the immediate question was the soccer one. Six months after winning the World Cup with Argentina, why was Messi, the finest player of his generation and arguably the best of all time, leaving the elite clubs and competitions of Europe to join a team that ranked among the worst in the comparative backwater of America’s top league, Major League Soccer?

For Southard, and for Adidas, there was a rather more pressing matter. Within a couple of days of Messi’s announcement, the company had received almost 500,000 requests from stores and suppliers for jerseys in Miami’s soft, electric pink. It is a specific fabric and a specific shade: Pantone 1895C. “It’s not like it

Within days of Lionel Messi’s announcement that he would join Inter Miami, stores and suppliers had asked Adidas for nearly half a million jerseys. was white, and we had inventory we could repurpose,” Southard said.

Even if they could not foresee quite what a phenomenon the jersey would become, and quite how many people would clamor to get their hands on one, Southard and his colleagues had some sense of what was about to happen.

Adidas was going to need more of that fabric. A lot more.

‘No. 1 priority’ On the day Messi announced he would sign for Inter Miami, Adidas had a stock of Inter Miami jerseys in stores and storage facilities around the United States. It did not last. The shirts sold out so quickly that Southard said it seemed the inventory simply “evaporated.”

Getting the fabric to make more — and fast — was just the first step. Although Adidas would not start selling official Messi jerseys until his contract was formally signed on July 15, it placed orders for vast rolls of the pink fabric needed to make them within 24 hours of his interview on Spanish television in the first week of June.

The risk, of course, was that the deal

could still collapse. “It’s a trade-off you make for speed,” Southard said.

In ordinary circumstances, retailers order jerseys as many as nine months in advance. Major sportswear brands, like Adidas and Nike, generally prefer to produce large batches of team gear, rather than manufacturing to meet demand, as fast fashion chains tend to do.

Given the number of what the industry terms “chase buys” — a sudden influx of orders in unanticipated volumes — for Messi’s Inter Miami jersey, Adidas knew its usual playbook would not work.

It had learned that from experience.

In 2021, when Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United, one of the handful of retailers Adidas works with, Fanatics, asked for 1 million more jerseys. A year later, after Messi helped Argentina win the World Cup, Adidas had to produce and ship an extra 400,000 Argentine national team shirts in the span of three months.

Getting pink jerseys bearing Messi’s name and No. 10 into the market, Southard said, immediately became Adidas’ “No. 1 priority, globally.”

‘Everyone has a hookup’ On a street corner in Miami’s wealthy Brickell neighborhood one evening last month, two young men had set up a pop-up Messi store, their racks groaning with Inter Miami jerseys in pink and an alternate version — black with pink trim — that the team wears on the road. This was the work of the imaginatively titled Messi Miami Shop.

The name sounds official. The online store looks it, too. It sells two versions of the Messi jersey, as most sportswear manufacturers now do: a “player version” made with high-quality material and an athletic cut, and a “replica” designed for fans whose bodies might not have the precise dimensions of an elite athlete.

The Messi Miami Shop is not, though, affiliated in any way with Messi, Inter Miami or Adidas. (It is, though, a shop.) Its jerseys had come, instead, from a contact in Thailand, purchased for $10 apiece.

“This is Miami,” one of the sellers said.

“Everyone has a hookup.” And a markup: The stall was selling the jerseys at $25 for a children’s edition and as much as $65 for an “authentic” inauthentic adult version of the team’s black jersey.

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From page 27 The sellers, who declined to give their names for reasons that should be obvious, had sold around 30 in a couple of hours, they said. But they are not the only ones hustling.

A few nights earlier, outside Exploria Stadium in Orlando, Florida, a different group of hawkers were doing their own brisk business in Messi jerseys. Messi was not playing that night — he missed several weeks of the season because of an injury — but Inter Miami was in town, and plenty of fans were prepared to pay $40 for a pink jersey bearing his name, even if it had shoddy stitching and was plucked from a backpack.

Despite all of Adidas’ attempts to get its official Messi jerseys into stores as quickly as possible, the clamor for them — any version of them — has proved so great that counterfeits have flooded the global market to meet the shortfall.

Although the company says it has now largely caught up with the backlog of orders, it has found that it is still selling jerseys far faster than it can produce them, and not just in the United States.

In Buenos Aires, where Messi’s status as a national treasure was sealed by victory in the World Cup, there are

pink jerseys for sale in store after store and kiosk after kiosk along Calle Florida, one of the Argentine capital’s teeming shopping streets, and in the stalls of the bustling San Telmo Market. At some vendors, the fakes go for about $50.

In Europe, where tribal affiliations to local clubs run deep, Miami jerseys are suddenly commonplace. At a training session for elementary school children last month in Manchester, England, the usual concentration of Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool gear was flecked with a half dozen pink Inter Miami jerseys, each bearing Messi’s name.

It is difficult to overstate the scale of demand. Official sales have surpassed every benchmark Adidas could have imagined, Southard said: more than the frenzy that accompanied David Beckham’s move to the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007; beyond the rush prompted by Ronaldo’s return to Manchester United in 2021; beyond the clamor for Messi’s Argentina shirt in the aftermath of Qatar 2022.

Inter Miami is now the bestselling Adidas soccer jersey in North America, ahead of all five of the storied European clubs that the brand traditionally regards as the crown jewels of its portfolio: Manchester United, Real Madrid, Juventus, Bayern Munich and Arsenal.

Since July, Fanatics, which dominates sports apparel

in the United States, has sold more Messi jerseys than for any other soccer player, and any athlete at all except Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts. No player, in any sport, has ever sold more jerseys on the site in the first 24 hours after switching teams than Messi did in July.

His cinematic arrival in MLS — with a late game-winning goal in his debut on July 22 — came too late to salvage Inter Miami’s season. The club will miss the playoffs, which start today. Messi will not play in pink again until next year.

But that has done little to quell his impact. Inter Miami’s games drew record crowds from the moment he arrived.

The team’s ticket prices for next season have soared. Adidas is confident that it has enough of the next edition of Messi’s jersey — due out in February — in production to meet demand.

For many fans and retailers, it cannot come a moment too soon. The jersey has become so coveted, so scarce, that even Beckham himself — one of the most famous soccer players of his generation, a worldwide celebrity and, as part-owner of Inter Miami, Messi’s boss — has found it hard to get hold of one.

More than once, he has wanted to send a pink Messi jersey to a friend or an associate as a gift, only to be told that he will have to wait, just like everyone else.

Mary Lou Retton is released from hospital, daughter says Kelley said on Instagram on Oct. 14 that her mother had made “truly remarkable” progress and that she was relying less on machines to help her breathe.

By JESÚS JIMÉNEZ

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ary Lou Retton, a decorated Olympic gymnast, has been released from a hospital, one of her daughters said Monday, about two weeks after her family reported that the gold medalist had a rare form of pneumonia and was in an intensive care unit “fighting for her life.”

“We still have a long road of recovery ahead of us, but baby steps,” McKenna Lane Kelley, Retton’s daughter, said on Instagram, noting that her mother was at home. “We are overwhelmed with the love and support from everyone. Grateful doesn’t scrape the surface of the posture of our hearts.”

It was unclear when Retton, 55, was discharged from the hospital. It was also unclear where Retton had been hospitalized. Her family did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday afternoon.

This month, Kelley said her mother had been in the ICU for more than a week with a “very rare form” of pneumonia, and that she was “not able to breathe on her own.”

Kelley asked for donations on social media to help pay for the hospital bills of her mother, who Kelley said did not have

MLB PLAYOFFS League Championship Series (Best-of-7) Sunday, Oct. 15 Result American League Rangers 2, Astros 0

Mary Lou Retton, who won the individual all-around gold medal in women’s gymnastics at the 1984 Olympics, in 2009. health insurance. More than 8,300 donors have raised more than $450,000 online for Retton, who, at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, became the first American woman to win the all-around gold medal or any individual Olympic medal in gymnastics. Her performance made Retton one of the most popular athletes in the United States at the time.

More specific information about Retton’s condition has not been disclosed, but Retton’s daughters have been sharing updates about their mother on social media.

Monday, Oct. 16 Results American League Rangers 5, Astros 4 National League Phillies 5, Diamondbacks 3 Tuesday, Oct. 17 Result National League Phillies 10, Diamondbacks 0 Wednesday, Oct. 18 Result American League Astros 8, Rangers 5 Thursday’s Results National League Diamondbacks 2, Phillies 1 American League Astros 10, Rangers 3

Friday’s Results American League Astros 5, Rangers 4 National League Diamondbacks 6, Phillies 5 Saturday’s Result National League Phillies 6, Diamondbacks 1 Sunday’s Result American League Rangers 9, Astros 2 Monday’s Results National League Diamondbacks 5, Phillies 1 (series tied 3-3) American League Rangers 11, Astros 4 (Texas wins series 4-3) Tuesday’s Game National League Arizona Diamondbacks at Philadelphia Phillies (8:07 p.m.)

World Series Friday’s Game 1 (all times EST) TBD at Texas Rangers (8 p.m., FOX)

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(Mar 21-April 20)

A phone call from a partner could have you suddenly playing the role of salesperson. You might have a project you want to pitch, you might need to sell your way of doing something, or you might actually have to sell a product.

Whichever it is, you’re likely to succeed. You’re especially quick and expressive today. Your powers of persuasion are high.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Your intellect and way with words have served you well in the past. Now all signs indicate that you’ll progress more rapidly toward your goals.

Advancement is definitely on the horizon. You might decide to increase your marketability by signing up for a course of some kind, perhaps an advanced degree. All systems go!

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Money and creativity are successfully joined today. You might make money from a completed project, or you could receive some money to finance a project. Others might share in your efforts, but you’re the mind behind the whole thing. Your intellectual powers are particularly strong. You’re better than usual at expressing your ideas.

Today you’re likely to be especially sharp. Your intellectual powers are operating at a high level.

A wealth of new ideas may come to you from all sides, without and within. You’re more talkative than usual and want to share your ideas with others. Optimism and enthusiasm define you today.

You may feel inspired to make certain changes in your home. Your imagination is especially acute, so it’s easy to visualize how the rooms will look afterwards. You could seek others’ opinions, too. Now you need to sell your family on the idea. Don’t worry - you can do it. Your persuasive powers are at an all-time high.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

If you’ve been considering writing or teaching, today is the day to get started. Your imagination is intense, you’re inspired, and your way with words is sharper than usual. You could also sell anything. If you want to pitch a project to someone, do it now. Many ideas may be running through your mind. It would be a shame not to set them down on paper.

Contact with a lot of friends may take place today. Invitations to social events could come your way. Your relationship with your friends is congenial. You could be introduced to new friends. Some of the people you meet could be from distant states or foreign lands or involved in unusual occupations. This could prove an exciting, stimulating day.

Today’s intense celestial energy will help you make progress toward your goals. Your mind will be quick and receptive and your writing and speaking abilities especially acute. You might feel that you could sell anything to anyone if you wanted to. Make the most of this intellectual power. Start new projects now. If you do, success is more than likely.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may want to take a more judicious approach to your shopping sprees. Try spending the afternoon looking and trying on but not buying. That way, you’ll have time to reflect on whether or not you really want and need the items. This could help cut out a lot of impulse spending.

Your wallet will be fatter and happier.

Your creative impulse should be high today. You might decide to try some writing. You may have a particular subject in mind to write about. You could also take a class in a subject that interests you, or do a little research on your own.

You might consider some long-distance travel for pleasure as much as for learning. The sky’s the limit.

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Today you have a quick intellect and intensified persuasive powers. Acute mental powers are joined with personal power to bring about career and financial success. Any projects you start or complete today are destined for success followed by public recognition of some kind.

This is a great omen for your future.

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Intense, vivid dreams spark your mental processes. You could wake up wondering why you dreamed what you did and what it has to do with what’s going on in your life. Dream books can be helpful. What do the symbols mean to you? The symbols, or even the story itself, could set in motion a mental chain of events resulting in a new project of some kind. Make

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