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STAR Exclusive: Caguas Mayor Says Rebuilding City Will Take 7 Years P5

‘But What Is Said Is Said’

Dignity Project President Apologizes to Resident Commissioner After His Remarks About Her Pregnancy Draw Universal Condemnation P4

A Pair of Proposals Under Review for Space Port in Ceiba P6

NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL P 16

The Far Right Gets Its Man of the US House P7

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Judge chides unsecured creditors as PREPA bondholders join forces against debt deal

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.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is presiding over the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) bankruptcy process, in an order this week warned the Unsecured Creditors Committee (UCC) that they must not incorporate objections to the current proposed debt deal for the utility that they have presented before.

Swain reiterated a previous order to the effect that she would not consider any plan of adjustment arguments incorporated from earlier objections.

She had ruled that no objections could be incorporated by reference because the new adjustment plan filed by PREPA in August is different from previous versions, and she wanted to start fresh. The UCC violated that order, she said.

“The Court’s intent … was unmistakably to operate on a blank slate and that any arguments concerning the new PREPA Plan, at any stage, would have to be made anew and within the page-limit and other limitations set by order,” she ruled. “Nevertheless, in its objection to the proposed disclosure statement to the current iteration of the PREPA plan and in violation of the Termination

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Order, the [UCC] on numerous occasions asserts that it is incorporating by reference arguments made in its overruled objection to the disclosure statement to an earlier version of the proposed PREPA plan.”

Meanwhile, PREPA bondholders and insurers that oppose the third amended adjustment plan and hold 49% of PREPA’s debt signed onto a cooperation agreement, according to stipulation dated Oct. 24.

GoldenTree Asset Management, Syncora Guarantee, Assured Guaranty, and some members of the PREPA Ad Hoc Group agreed to inform each other about any substantive discussions with the Financial Oversight and Management Board about any transaction involving PREPA. The agreement comes after BlackRock Financial Management, Whitebox, Taconic, Franklin and Nuveen agreed to support PREPA’s debt plan.

BlackRock Financial Management, Whitebox, Taconic, Franklin and Nuveen agreed to buy $1.6 billion in debt from PREPA as part of its bankruptcy exit plan. In exchange, they would receive $124.4 million in bond commitment and financing fees. National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation has also settled its debt to receive a higher payout.

Green groups join forces for coastal conservation in northwest

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onprofit organizations Para la Naturaleza (PLN) and Conservación Costera Puerto Rico (COCO PR) have signed a collaborative agreement to strengthen coastal conservation in Quebradillas, Isabela and Aguadilla, the organizations said Wednesday.

With this agreement, an environmental interpretation program will be developed and coastal areas of the aforementioned towns will be reforested. As part of the initiative, seven COCO PR environmental interpreters will be certified through the National Association for Interpretation and offered training in first aid and the use of digital tools.

An ambitious coastal reforestation project, which will last three years, has begun with the planting of 2,541 native and endemic trees. Plantings have already been carried out in coastal areas in Quebradillas, Isabela and Aguadilla. In addition, COCO PR will have the technical support of PLN for the management of a nursery in Isabela.

“These actions have contributed significantly to the communities of the western region and the coastal environment,” said Carlos Torres, PLN’s western region superintendent, in

a written statement.

COCO PR President Sigfredo Faría Vega highlighted the community integration in the project.

“About 1,330 plants have been incorporated into coastal areas,” he said. “1,211 propagules of red mangrove were collected and 1,211 native plants were planted.”

An ambitious coastal reforestation project, which will last three years, has begun with the planting of 2,541 native and endemic trees, including in coastal areas in Quebradillas, Isabela and Aguadilla.

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Dignity Project president apologizes to resident commissioner for pregnancy remarks

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ollowing universal expressions of opprobrium, Dignity Project (Proyecto Dignidad) President Dr. César Vázquez Muñíz issued a public apology on Wednesday for comments he made about the authenticity of the pregnancy of Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón, who is vying to be the New Progressive Party (NPP) candidate for governor.

“In a radio interview this morning, I asked if the pregnancy of twins announced by Resident Commissioner Jennifer (sic) González was in her person or by surrogacy. This has generated obvious discomfort, both in the Commissioner and in others,” Vázquez Muñíz said in a written statement. “That was not the purpose and therefore I apologize, particularly to Commissioner Jennifer (sic) González and her husband.”

“My wife, children and grandchildren are my greatest treasure,” he added.

“From that feeling, I wish with all my heart to the Commissioner, her husband and their families that the pregnancy reaches a happy term and that they can complete their happiness by holding the children Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón in their arms and watching them grow.”

Earlier in the day, González Colón re- or if they [the sonogram images] are of place and do not represent Proyecto acted incredulously to Vázquez Muñíz’s [from] another woman,” Vázquez Muñíz Dignidad.” said in an interview on WKAQ 580.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said previous comments.

“The question I’m asking is whether that, despite the apology, what Vázquez “First, I can’t believe what you’re telling me,” González Colón said in a radio she is carrying them in her belly or do Muñíz, who was the Dignity Project interview. “It seems unbelievable to me they go in another woman’s belly,” he candidate for governor in 2020 and has expressed interest in running for the that at this point they have to question added.

In a rare show of unity among the Senate in next year’s elections, said about my pregnancy.”

“He lacks dignity and is a charlatan,” island’s political parties, criticism of the resident commissioner’s pregnancy the resident commissioner added. “The Vazquez Muñiz came even from his own cannot be erased.

“Well, those statements were a lack reason for joy that my family and I have, political party.

Dignity Project Sen. Joanne Marie Ro- of respect for women. Every woman that I am happy, because I fulfilled a wish that my husband and I had to enlarge dríguez Veve censured Vázquez Muñíz deserves respect,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. our family, which we decided to share on Wednesday.

“The resident commissioner’s preg- “Those statements attacked the dignity of with the people of Puerto Rico -- I never thought that a person who calls himself nancy is a matter of her private life on the resident commissioner unnecessarily. which no one is called upon to express They were totally out of line.” religious would be so angry.”

“I think they are very unfortunate In a radio interview of his own an opinion,” Rodríguez Veve said on earlier Wednesday, Vázquez Muñíz her social networks. “Even if you have statements,” Pierluisi added. “And I think questioned whether the pregnancy of the decided to share this process publicly. they are going to have an impact on the NPP pre-candidate for governor should Any opinion or question about a woman’s viability of César Vázquez’s candidacy. pregnancy, including those [women] in If he apologized, then congratulations, disqualify her.

“People are shown a sonogram with political life, is inappropriate and should but what is said is said.”

Meanwhile, Popular Democratic two babies and people are asking ques- never be part of the political debate. The tions, wondering if she is really pregnant statements of Dr. César Vázquez are out Party President Jesús Manuel Ortiz

González weighed in on the matter on his social networks.

“The statements of Dr. César Vázquez of the Dignity Project are inappropriate and regrettable,” he said. “A woman’s pregnancy is not and cannot be the subject of political attacks. It is up to us to promote the debate of ideas and respect in public discourse. I express my strongest rejection and reiterate my best wishes to the [Resident] Commissioner and her family.”

The NPP minority leader in the island House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, described Vázquez Muñíz’s remarks as “extremely offensive.”

“Today all of Puerto Rico witnessed extremely offensive statements made by the leader of the Dignity Project,” Méndez Nuñez said. “We reject Dr. Vázquez’s comments questioning the resident commissioner’s pregnancy.”

“It’s unfortunate that he takes it out on a pregnant woman, questioning her ability to work and, now, whether it’s real or not,” he added. “Every person must repudiate this type of statement which, in addition to denoting a high degree of insensitivity, also shows great prejudice.”

Also on Wednesday, Wilmer Reyes Berríos, an NPP candidate for the Guayama District seat in the island Senate, called for Vázquez Muñiz to apologize to González Colón “for questioning her pregnancy status.”

“Doctor, we invite you to practice clean politics and stay away from dirty or cheap politics,” the Senate hopeful said in a press release. “Do not seek to highlight your image, in the media, attacking the dignity or integrity of women. Respect the figure of a woman! … Have you already forgotten that you were born of one?”

Reyes Berríos urged people to be very attentive “to the very erratic behavior of this man, who seeks to occupy a seat in the Legislature in January 2025.”

“Dr. César Vázquez Muñiz, his comments, so misguided, leave a lot to be desired,” Reyes Berríos said. “That is, they are embarrassing.”

“You who spend all your time with the Bible up and down, and as a good child of God, who accepts your mistakes, ask Jenniffer González for forgiveness,” he added.

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7 years to rebuild In an exclusive interview, the mayor of Caguas tells the STAR about the challenges facing the city’s reconstruction

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

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aguas is one of the most populated municipalities in Puerto Rico, with more than 120,000 residents and many places to visit within it. The small but sprawling city about a half-hour’s drive south of San Juan is known as a capital of gastronomy, with 250 food and beverage establishments.

Obviously, just like many of the island’s municipalities, some of Caguas’ infrastructure suffered the effects of hurricanes Irma, Maria and Fiona. This was inevitably going to impact the status quo of the city, and with so many bureaucratic processes focused on disaster recovery, other parts of infrastructure, such as streets, were inevitably going to be affected.

Recently, the Caguas William Miranda Torres had a message to share with citizens as he discussed multiple projects related to the hurricanes, apart from other infrastructure projects and topics such as security, which, along with tourism, has been high on the list of priorities for Caguas. The municipality recently invested $2 million in security and $1 million on a tourism ad campaign known as “Caguas for Sure!”

To take an even deeper look into some of the issues that perhaps prevent Caguas from being the tourism juggernaut it can be, the STAR conducted a private interview with Miranda Torres, who discussed in greater detail such matters as reconstruction and public security.

“The process of reconstruction started out as something very painful, because of all the requirements that relate to federal funds, advancing throughout that bureaucratic process took four years, all from 2017 to 2021,” Miranda Torres said. “It wasn’t until early 2021 that things started to move forward. It was a very bureaucratic and tedious process; thankfully that’s over.”

“However, we’ve had two major challenges in terms of the island’s reconstruction,” the mayor continued. “One, there are not enough contractors to do everything you have to do on the island, because it’s not just one municipality, there are 78, plus government agencies. We are all fighting over contractors because there are just not enough for the amount of workload we have.”

“Two, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have made it difficult to acquire materials to rebuild the city,” he said “We currently have nearly 1,000 projects to work with, 185 of these were already in construction, while 184 are made possible by FEMA funds, with 47 of these projects already completed. “This is currently running, and in the next few months we’ll continue working on all of these projects.”

“The reality is that Caguas will take around seven years to be rebuilt starting now,” Miranda Torres said.

Why is it going to take so long to rebuild Caguas if the funding is there? the STAR asked.

“There is a key difference that greatly affects construction

Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres discusses the municipality’s public security plan back in July. (Photo by Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star) by government more than private construction,” the mayor said. “If I want to replace a door in my home all I have to do is buy the door and pay someone to hang it, but if I were to do it by the government’s standards, I have to design the door from scratch, then we’ve got to get quotes for it. If I buy that door from one of three suppliers -- one sells me the door for $200, the other for $225 and the last one for $300 -- the one who sold that door for $200 gets mad at me and files a lawsuit against me, so now the door has to wait for me to finish a legal process. That’s how government building works; you have to be extra careful that there are no setbacks in the process.”

The mayor went on to say that their biggest challenge right now in terms of the reconstruction of the city has to do with streets. As of the end of the Caguas fiscal year, the municipality has invested over $10 million in asphalt and has deposited over 148 million pounds of it. However, not all streets are municipally owned streets. All streets and roads around the island whose route numbers are three digits or less are commonwealth streets, not municipal streets. There are currently 22 commonwealth streets.

“I can take care of my own things, but what about things that are not mine? I don’t see the intention to attend to these issues, there are conversations and commitments, but the problem has not been handled,” Miranda Torres said. “I have made myself available to the central government for them to just give me the money and I’ll take care of it myself. Because money is not the problem; the amount of funds that this [central government] administration has to rebuild the island is over $100 billion. I do not recall an administration that has had more money than this one in my entire lifetime. You can clearly see that money means nothing when you don’t have people to manage

that money properly, and these people are not managing the money properly. Managing these funds properly and quickly is something I can achieve, and if they can’t handle everything on their own, I am more than willing to help. They need to let themselves be helped …”

The mayor noted that “I have had two agreements made with the central government related to fixing streets; one of them was related to PR-172, in which the project had some leftover money that was used for other state streets.”

“This is all a big challenge because they are making everything very political,” he said.

Miranda Torres also stated that in general, the central government hasn’t been cooperative with the Municipality of Caguas, not just in terms of reconstruction, but in other aspects as well.

“I had to spend around $2 million to fix parts of state streets because there was no way that people could get to these communities,” the mayor said. “We have had countless meetings with the administration, given them hundreds of documents and estimates, yet they still don’t comply properly.”

The mayor added by way of contrast that other municipalities have cooperated with Caguas very well.

“We are like brothers and sisters,” Miranda Torres said.

“We help each other out in any way we can.”

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Two proposals received for space port in Ceiba

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uerto Rico Ports Authority Executive Director Joel A. Pizá Batiz announced Wednesday that the request for proposals (RFP) process for a space port operator at José Aponte de la Torre Airport in Ceiba concluded with the receipt of two proposals.

Pizá Batiz described the proposals received as a good turnout, considering that the RFP issuance is a new one for Puerto Rico. He noted that 11 aerospace and related services companies had shown interest in participating in the development of an aerospace port on the island for the possible launch of spacecraft, balloons and nanosatellites.

“With the receipt of these two proposals, we enter other phases of the project such as the analysis of each of these proposals, the selection of a preferred proponent, the eventual awarding of the project and the subsequent signing of the contract,” Pizá Batiz said. “We expect that between the summer and September 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will grant the government of Puerto Rico the space port license. With this license, the Authority will have concluded, in concurrence with FAA, the environmental and safety evaluations necessary for such an operation at the Ceiba airport.”

The Ports chief, who is also president of the Aerospace and Aeronautical Industry Council of Puerto Rico, added that “this is a project of multiple benefits due to the potential that this industry has worldwide and, particularly, in Puerto Rico

due to its privileged geographical location, and the necessary infrastructure for the development of the aerospace industry, as well as various incentive programs to attract this type of industry.”

He indicated that Ports should select the preferred proponent for the proposed space port in about a month.

RFI issued for drone facilities at airports Ports also issued a request for interest (RFI) to evaluate the feasibility of establishing and expanding drone facilities and operations at the island’s airports.

Puerto Rico Ports Authority Executive Director Joel A. Pizá Batiz

Ports Authority Director Joel A. Pizá Batiz announced Wednesday that the agency is seeking statements of interest from researchers, developers and manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) and significant components thereof, and drone service providers.

“The preceding intends to evaluate the feasibility of establishing or expanding UAV facilities and operations in Puerto Rico,” the document notes.

Besides overseeing the island’s airports, Ports has access to industrial parks in Mayagüez, Humacao and Ponce. The UAV industry is growing and evolving rapidly. UAVs have a variety of uses, including military weaponry to varied commercial applications in agriculture, mining and resources, construction, energy and utilities, disaster relief, humanitarian relief, search and rescue, fisheries protection, mapping, media and entertainment (including toys), and many other fields.

“Drones are completely reshaping, revolutionizing, and transforming all of these fields, promoting efficiency gains and safety benefits,” the petition notes. “Market researchers and analysts project that the drone industry will grow to over $50 billion in the United States by 2035. Undeniably, this industry can help drive economic growth. For that reason, it represents an attractive opportunity for Puerto Rico, which seeks to create a robust and resilient future by, among other things, developing its economy and fostering an innovation environment that places the island at the forefront of science and technology.”

EPA awards $1 million for San Juan climate change mitigation

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he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $1 million from the agency’s Climate Change Reduction Grants (CPRG) program to the Municipality of San Juan to develop climate action plans with innovative strategies to reduce climate change and build the clean energy economy in the San Juan metropolitan area.

The funding is in addition to the $3 million that the Puerto Rico government will receive for climate action planning through the CPRG program.

The funds going to San Juan and Puerto Rico are part of the first phase of funding for the EPA’s $5 billion CPRG program, which was created by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in history. The EPA recently launched the second phase of the program, specifically $4.6 billion in competitive grants to implement state, local, tribal and territorial programs and policies that reduce climate pollution, advance environmental justice, and deploy clean energy solutions across the country.

“With programs like the Climate Change Reduction Grants, EPA is advancing climate planning and advancing environmental justice for communities overburdened and vulnerable to climate change in partnership with Puerto Rico,” EPA Regional Administrator Lisa F. García said. “We are pleased to provide the

Municipality of San Juan and our partners in Puerto Rico who are experiencing the greatest impacts of climate change with this unique funding opportunity through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to expand resources, create jobs, and build clean energy infrastructure.”

“We will work, with transparency and accountability, on initiatives and projects to transition to a clean energy economy in our San Juan communities and combat the climate crisis,” San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero said while expressing thanks to the president and the EPA for the award.

“Securing this grant and spearheading it for the Metropolitan Statistical Area marks a significant milestone,” added Tamara González, director of the Office of Planning and Territorial Ordering of the Municipality of San Juan. “This environmental planning tool will help us implement the strategies outlined by the Municipality of San Juan, with the aim of improving the quality of life of our citizens in the midst of the challenges of climate change.”

The San Juan Municipal Planning Office will be using EPA funds to lead planning efforts aimed at reducing climate pollution and developing a climate plan in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Planning Board, the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works, and municipalities and communities throughout the metropolitan area. Significant public participation in the plan will be sought, focusing on low-income and disadvantaged San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo communities.

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The far right gets its man of the House

By CARL HULSE

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n the end, Republican hard-liners got their man.

He wasn’t the person whom the most extreme element of House Republicans really wanted — that was Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the godfather of the far right in the House who ultimately was too toxic to ascend to the top post and fell short.

But new Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, a man unknown to most Americans, is a second choice the far right can enthusiastically embrace. He shares the deeply conservative ideology of his mentor Jordan but lacks the confrontational profile or hard-edge style of the Ohioan. In fact, he has little profile at all.

Johnson, a second-tier member of the House leadership first elected in 2016, is the most obscure lawmaker to rise to the helm of the House since Dennis Hastert of Illinois was plucked from near the backbenches in 1998 to become speaker after Rep. Tom DeLay, that period’s version of Jordan, realized he could not succeed Newt Gingrich.

But Hastert, who later was disgraced in a sexual abuse scandal, had developed a reputation for spearheading health care legislation. If Johnson has a reputation at all, it is as a savvy and smooth constitutional lawyer who wrote a brief offering a legal justification for trying to overturn the 2020 election and served as a defender of President Donald Trump against impeachment.

Republicans see the fact that he is virtually unknown outside his Louisiana district as an advantage, giving him a chance to introduce himself to the public on his own terms.

But there should be no mistaking his extremely conservative views on social issues such as abortion rights and same-sex marriage, which Democrats can be expected to aggressively highlight in their efforts to tie more mainstream House Republicans to their new leader in their push to regain control of the chamber.

He is the first head of the arch-conservative Republican Study Committee to take the speaker’s gavel, and though he is not a member of the far-right Freedom Caucus, he shares many of the group’s positions. His strong standing on the right was underscored minutes after his nomination Tuesday night.

Johnson was surrounded by some of the most extreme House Republicans, who shouted down questions about his effort to overturn the election and other policy issues, with one lawmaker, Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, shouting at reporters to shut up.

Johnson is fundamentally more conservative than the ousted speaker, Kevin McCarthy, who despite his frequent partisan attacks realized he needed to cut deals with Democrats to keep the government solvent and operating. He twice this year passed critical legislation with Democratic votes — ultimately sparking the coup that led to his downfall.

Whether Johnson shares that same bipartisan imperative with a mid-November deadline looming for keeping the government open will become clear in the coming weeks. He will need to navigate his way out of a spending impasse that has split House Republicans before he even gets to negotiations with

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is sworn in after his election on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. the White House and Senate leaders who now find themselves dealing with an unknown and untested new partner.

On the plus side for the new speaker, Johnson is certain to enjoy a honeymoon period with those on the right who had a deep distrust of McCarthy and feared he would work with Democrats, as he ultimately did. They are likely to grant him considerable leeway in figuring out the spending morass with just a few weeks remaining before the government runs out of money.

Johnson has proposed the idea of a lengthy stopgap spending bill to allow the House to take up its own funding measures, but they have been snarled by bitter Republican feuds, and it is uncertain whether the House can approve them.

Johnson was far from the first choice of his own colleagues. He was something of a desperation candidate as House Republicans entered a fourth week without a speaker, leaving the institution paralyzed and Republicans looking inept. Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 House Republican, defeated him Tuesday morning in an internal vote for the speaker nomination — an outcome that traditionally would have led to Emmer’s being elected speaker on the House floor.

But the old rules are gone. Hard-right conservatives quickly went to work to deny Emmer any chance of obtaining the necessary votes on the floor and forced him to withdraw in just four hours. That opened the door to a second round of nominations. Again, Johnson did not initially win a majority but finally prevailed after multiple rounds of voting.

Some more mainstream Republicans had stood against Jordan because they believed his allies had been underhanded in their sabotage of Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who defeated Jordan in a vote for the speaker nomination. They vowed that Jordan would never be rewarded for such tactics. But with the party becoming a national laughingstock because of its inability to find a leader, no effort to deny Johnson surfaced, and Republicans rallied to Johnson’s side, even though he had initially lost to Emmer.

The episode proved anew to hard-right Republicans that if they are willing to break party norms and ignore their own majority’s position, they can still prevail — an outcome that Johnson might later find does not always work in his favor as speaker of the whole House.

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Cohen denounces Trump during courtroom face-off

By JONAH E. BROMWICH, BEN PROTESS and KATE CHRISTOBEK

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or five years, Michael Cohen has waged battle with Donald Trump from afar: on social media, on cable television and in the pages of his books.

But on Tuesday, Cohen confronted his onetime boss from the witness stand in a Manhattan courtroom, attacking the former president as a criminal and a cheat and defending his own credibility under a barrage of questions.

Cohen, once Trump’s loyal fixer and now his antagonist, was testifying in a civil fraud case that threatens to upend the former president’s family business and undermine his public image as a businessperson. It was the first time the men had come face to face since 2018, and the reunion was tense: Trump, seated feet away at the defense table, scoffed and shook his head in apparent frustration.

Cohen had been called to testify about Trump’s annual financial statements, which are at the heart of the civil case that New York

Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for President Donald Trump, outside the courtroom for Trump’s civil fraud trial at the State Supreme Court building in lower Manhattan, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. During his testimony Tuesday, Cohen accused his onetime boss of manipulating his net worth as Trump stared blankly ahead. It was their first interaction in five years.

Attorney General Letitia James brought against Trump. Trump, Cohen testified, directed him to “reverse engineer” the statements to reach the former president’s desired net worth.

Although Cohen had leveled similar accusations before, he had not, until now, made them in the presence of the former president, a man he once idolized. Cohen nonetheless began calmly and in a clear voice, his New York accent emphasizing his statements about his role at the family real estate business, the Trump Organization, where he reported directly to Trump.

“I was tasked by Mr. Trump to increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected,” Cohen testified, saying that it was his responsibility to “increase those assets in order to achieve the number.”

Later in the day, the temperature rose when Cohen was cross-examined by one of Trump’s lawyers, Alina Habba. She called Cohen’s credibility into question, noting that he had admitted to lying under oath when he pleaded guilty to federal crimes in 2018, wrongs that he had said

he committed on Trump’s behalf.

“You have lied under oath numerous times, Mr. Cohen — isn’t that correct?” Habba asked, referring to his previous guilty pleas.

“That’s correct,” Cohen said.

Their exchange devolved. Several times, Cohen made legal objections from the witness stand; in a trial, only lawyers trying the case can make objections. At other times, he refused to respond to questions, saying instead, “Asked and answered.” Cohen, who has lost his law license, even cited court cases in his defense.

The cross-examination was expected to continue Wednesday.

The reunion of Trump and Cohen took place on a stage that has become familiar to them both: a courtroom. In the years since their last encounter, Cohen has gone to prison and testified against Trump before Congress and a grand jury. For his part, Trump, who has called Cohen a “rat” and a liar, has been impeached twice, voted out of office and indicted four times.

The buildup to the testimony had the hype of a heavyweight fight. When Cohen delayed, citing a health problem, Trump claimed that Cohen “didn’t have the guts.” Cohen fired back, posting a mocked-up image of himself and the former president captioned “Let’s get you back to your cell.”

During a midday break Tuesday, Cohen acknowledged the tension. “Heck of a reunion,” he said.

And after court ended, Trump gave his own review of the testimony, declaring that Cohen had been “totally discredited” and was a “disgraced felon.”

Cohen’s appearance is expected to kick off a more explosive phase of the trial, which began three weeks ago. James has accused Trump of inflating the value of his assets by billions of dollars to obtain favorable treatment from banks and insurance companies.

Judge Arthur F. Engoron has already ruled that Trump fraudulently misvalued his properties. The trial will determine whether he has to pay a hefty penalty and whether his conduct violated other laws.

With the central claim resolved, the trial had been a tedious proceeding, punctuated

by Trump’s occasional visits, during which he used the camera-lined courthouse hallway as a campaign stop in his run for another term in the White House.

His lawyers have made it clear that they will appeal key rulings by Engoron, who will decide the case. There is no jury. The lawyers have argued that valuations are subjective and that others were to blame.

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In Texas, local laws to prevent travel for abortions gain momentum

By J. DAVID GOODMAN

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n recent months, opponents of abortion in Texas have succeeded in passing a growing number of local ordinances to prevent people from helping women travel to have abortions in nearby states that still allow the procedure.

On Monday, Lubbock County, a conservative hub of more than 300,000 residents near the border with New Mexico, became the largest county yet to enact such a ban. The county commissioners court, during a public meeting that drew occasionally impassioned testimony, voted to make it illegal for anyone to transport a pregnant woman through the county, or pay for her travel, for the purpose of seeking an abortion.

The county, which includes the city of Lubbock and Texas Tech University, joined three other far smaller counties — one along the New Mexico border and two others in the middle of the state — in passing ordinances that were drafted in part by the architect of Texas’ six-week abortion ban, adopted in 2021 even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

Wade last year.

The city of Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle, on Tuesday held an hourslong public hearing to consider a similar ordinance, which would apply to a network of roads and highways that pass through the city of 200,000 and lead toward New Mexico and Colorado, states where many Texas women have traveled for procedures.

“These abortion trafficking ordinances

really are the next stage in an abortion-free America,” said Mark Lee Dickson, an anti-abortion activist who has traveled the state in support of the ordinances. He said he expected several more counties to adopt similar measures in the next few months.

The ordinances have been drafted by Dickson and Jonathan Mitchell, the former solicitor general of Texas who crafted the state’s 2021 abortion ban, and they rely on the same enforcement mechanism as the abortion ban: lawsuits by private citizens. They specifically prohibit the police, sheriffs or other county officers or employees from enforcing the ban — a means of avoiding an immediate court challenge and possible injunction.

Practically speaking, someone would have to learn of a person assisting a pregnant woman with travel out of state for a procedure in order to bring a suit. The ordinances will most likely function like the six-week abortion ban, which attracted few cases but had a chilling effect.

Some legal scholars said the ordinances could run afoul of constitutional protections.

“Even Justice Kavanaugh, in his concurring opinion in the Dobbs decision overruling Roe v.

Wade, noted that a state would be violating the constitutional right to interstate travel if it sought to prohibit women from traveling out of state to seek a lawful abortion,” said Jeffrey Abramson, emeritus professor of government and law at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dickson said the ordinances are enforceable because they apply to someone assisting a

An anti-abortion rally in downtown Amarillo, Texas, Feb. 11, 2023. Lubbock County, home to more than 300,000 near the New Mexico border, has become the fourth and largest Texas county to bar travel assistance for abortions.

pregnant woman with travel — including financial support — and do not prohibit a woman from driving herself or traveling by other means.

“We don’t see this as a travel ban,” he said. “We see this as a prohibition on abortion trafficking.”

In a statement, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, Autumn Keiser, called the ordinances “unnecessary, confusing and fear-inducing barriers to essential health care.”

The Texas affiliates of Planned Parenthood, which have stopped providing abortions in the state, are also fighting a case brought by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, that accuses the organization of defrauding the Medicaid program.

That suit must go to trial, Matthew Kacsmaryk, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump, ruled Monday. Texas is seeking nearly $2 billion.

That Lubbock County commissioners would adopt the travel ordinance — in a 3-0 vote — was not a surprise. Voters in the city of Lubbock approved a ban on abortions in 2021, shortly before the statewide six-week prohibition went into effect. On Monday, a steady stream of residents spoke in favor of the measure, often on religious grounds.

“I come to this from God’s side,” said Tonya Gilliam, who told the commissioners that she had an abortion nearly 50 years ago. “This is very dear to God. Life is everything.”

Other women voiced opposition to the ordinance, and support for abortion rights.

“There are thousands of people out there who couldn’t come, because they have to work, and believe that a woman’s body is her decision,” said

Charlotte Dunham, who told the commissioners that she believed abortion should be legal.

The county judge, Curtis Parrish, said he did not oppose the intent of the ordinance but abstained from the vote after saying he believed the ordinance, “as written, has many legal problems.”

Parrish also said that he wondered what impact the ordinance would really have, given that it only applied to the unincorporated portions of the county and not, for example, to the city of Lubbock. He said a person could still drive a pregnant woman to the airport in Lubbock for a flight to New Mexico for an abortion and not be in violation of the law.

Gilbert Flores, a county commissioner, also abstained from the vote. “I am 77 years old,” he said, describing times in his life when his rights were violated.

“Now, what’s in front of me right now is, do I have the right, do I have the power, do I want the authority to tell these women what to do, violate their rights?” he said. “I have a difficult time with that.”

Another commissioner, Terence Kovar, said he had once helped out in a crisis pregnancy center and that a vote for the ordinance would be in keeping with his anti-abortion views, and those of his constituents.

“This may be a way that mothers think about it,” he said in an interview. “Instead of driving all the way to New Mexico, they come and find one of the local places here to help them get through a troubling time and end up having the kid.”

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Meta accused by states of using features to lure children to Instagram and Facebook

By CECILIA KANG and NATASHA SINGER

harming of young people from its start and sadly it has taken years to hold it and other eta was sued by more than three companies like Google accountable,” said Jeffrey Chester, the executive director of consudozen states earlier this week for mer advocacy at the Center for Digital Demoknowingly using features on Instagram and Facebook to hook children to its cracy. “Hopefully justice will be served but this platforms, even as the company said its social is why it’s so crucial to have regulations.” media sites were safe for young people.

How the investigation started Colorado and Tennessee led a joint lawStates began investigating Instagram’s suit filed by 33 states in U.S. District Court for potentially harmful effects on young people the Northern District of California, saying that several years ago as public concerns over cyberbullying and teen mental health mounted.

Meta — which owns Facebook, Instagram, In early 2021, Facebook announced that WhatsApp and Messenger — violated consumer protection laws by unfairly ensnaring it was planning to develop “Instagram Kids,” a children and deceiving users about the safety version of its popular app that would be aimed of its platforms. The District of Columbia and at users younger than 13. The news prompted eight other states filed separate lawsuits Tuesa backlash among concerned lawmakers and day against Meta with most of the same claims. children’s groups.

In their complaint, the states said that Soon after, a group of attorneys general Meta had “designed psychologically manipufrom more than 40 states wrote a letter to Mark The coordinated suit shows states are prioritizing the issue of children and online lative product features to induce young users’ Zuckerberg, the company’s CEO. In it, they said safety and combining legal resources to fight Meta. compulsive and extended use” of platforms like that Facebook had “historically failed to protect Instagram. The company’s algorithms were dethe welfare of children on its platforms” and ursigned to push children and teenagers into rabbit holes of to- neys general have chosen this path,” the company said in a ged the company to abandon its plans for Instagram Kids. xic and harmful content, the states said, with features such as statement.

Concerns among the attorneys general intensified in SepWhy the case matters tember 2021 after Frances Haugen, a former Facebook em“infinite scroll” and persistent alerts used to hook young users.

It’s unusual for so many states to come together to sue ployee, leaked company research indicating that the company The attorneys general also charged Meta with violating a fedea tech giant for consumer harms. The coordination shows sta- knew its platforms posed mental health risks to young people. ral children’s online privacy law, accusing it of unlawfully cotes are prioritizing the issue of children and online safety and Facebook then announced it was pausing the development of llecting “the personal data of its youngest users” without their combining legal resources to fight Meta, just as states had pre- Instagram Kids. parents’ permission.

“Meta has harnessed powerful and unprecedented techno- viously done for cases against Big Tobacco and Big Pharma That November, a bipartisan group of attorneys general, logies to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare youth and teens,” companies. including Colorado, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, an“Just like Big Tobacco and vaping companies have done nounced a joint investigation into Instagram’s impact — and the states said in their 233-page lawsuit. “Its motive is profit.” in years past, Meta chose to maximize its profits at the expense potential harmful effects — on young people.

Meta said it was working to provide a safer environment for teenagers on its apps and has introduced more than 30 of public health, specifically harming the health of the younRemedies gest among us,” Phil Weiser, Colorado’s attorney general, said tools to support teenagers and families.

Under local and state consumer protection laws, the “We’re disappointed that instead of working producti- in a statement. attorneys general are seeking financial penalties from Meta.

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Third-Quarter US Earnings Estimate Improves Slightly -LSEG T he estimate for U.S. third-quarter earnings has improved slightly this week, with more S&P 500 companies including Microsoft reporting stronger-than-expected re-

sults.

With results in from 146 of the S&P 500 companies, overall S&P 500 earnings are now estimated to have increased 2.6% in the third quarter from a year ago, according to LSEG IBES data Wednesday.

That was up from an estimate on Tuesday for an increase of 1.7%. The forecasts are based on actual results from S&P 500 companies that have reported and estimates for the rest.

The estimate for U.S. third-quarter earnings has improved slightly this week, with more S&P 500 companies including Microsoft reporting stronger-than-expected results.

With results in from 146 of the S&P 500 companies, overall S&P 500 earnings are now estimated to have increased 2.6% in the third quarter from a year ago, according to LSEG IBES data Wednesday.

That was up from an estimate on Tuesday for an increase of 1.7%. The forecasts are based on actual results from S&P 500 companies that have reported and estimates for the rest.

While Alphabet’s shares fell 7% in out-of-hours trading, Microsoft’s surged 5%. Together, both stocks account for nearly 10% of the entire S&P500.

Meta, IBM and Boeing are among the blue chips updating later on Wendesday.

But after the S&P500 staged an impressive 0.7% bounce on Tuesday, futures were back in the red again ahead of the open.

The negativity cut across what was otherwise a more upbeat macro picture and a calmer bond market following recent ructions.

Of the 118 S&P500 companies that have reported so far, 82% have beaten analysts’ expectations and the estimated aggregate annual profit growth is tracking an above-forecast 2.5% - according to LSEG data.

What’s more, the latest U.S. business surveys for October showed activity picked up more steam into the fourth quarter, manufacturing returned to expansion and price pressures continued to ease.

The Goldilocks-like reading of brisk growth without overheated inflation underlined the theme of U.S. exceptionalism given its contrast to euro zone and Japanese business weakness in sister surveys for this month. And the dollar is climbing again as a result.

There was some brightening of the global growth picture, however, after China’s top parliamentary body approved one trillion yuan ($137 billion) in sovereign bond sales to help rebuild areas hit by this year’s floods and improve urban infrastructure to cope with future disasters.

Japan’s government is considering spending around $33 billion for payouts to low-income households and an income tax cut to cushion the blow from rising living costs.

Japanese and Chinese stocks advanced.

But the relatively modest fiscal moves cannot yet dispel deeper anxiety about China’s ongoing property bust and

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worrying geopolitics. Chinese developer Country Garden is deemed in default on a dollar bond for the first time, Bloomberg News reported.

And rising government borrowing and fiscal expansion are hardly what bond investors would be cheering in the United States or Europe right now, where growing worries about debt supply and lax budget policies have seen borrowing costs soar to 16-year highs.

With another 5-year Treasury auction of more than $50

billion due later in the day, U.S. Treasury yields hovered just below recent highs and the benchmark 10-year was at 4.88%.

Congressional dysfunction over electing a House speaker continued after 22 days of hiatus.

Elsewhere, the Bank of Canada is expected to keep its interest rates on hold later - encouraged by signs of ebbing inflation there.

In Europe, Deutsche Bank shares surged 7% after it promised more share buybacks next year and said it may return more capital to shareholders than it had previously envisaged.

But shares in Worldline more than halved after the French payment company cut its full-year targets as the economic slowdown hurt its business in key markets including Germany.

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Gaza health crisis deepens as Israeli strikes continue

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and NADAV GAVRIELOV

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ith just eight aid trucks making it into the Gaza Strip overnight and hospitals increasingly overwhelmed, the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave deepened Wednesday as Israel said it had conducted “wide-scale” strikes and again warned Palestinians in Gaza to flee south before a possible invasion.

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that 12 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals were not functioning and that seven major hospitals were well over capacity, risking patient safety. European Union leaders scheduled to meet in Brussels on Thursday were set to ask for a “humanitarian pause” to facilitate aid deliveries.

Twenty aid trucks had been due to cross into Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt overnight but just eight made it through, the Palestinian Red Crescent and a spokesperson for the Palestinian side of the crossing said. Israel was still inspecting the remaining 12 trucks, according to a local Egyptian official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Israel has wanted to inspect trucks to ensure weapons for Hamas are not embedded in the aid.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza raised the death toll in Israeli strikes since Oct. 7 to more than 6,500 people. Its figures could not be independently verified. More than 1,400 people were killed in the Hamasled terror attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7.

Here is what else to know: — Among the targets of Israel’s latest airstrikes was a Hamas group responsible for blockages that have prevented people in

An injured man is brought into Nasser Medical Center after an Israeli bombing in a residential neighborhood in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Oct 24, 2023.

Gaza from moving to the southern part of the territory, the Israeli military said. Even as Israel calls on people to flee south for their safety, it has continued to hit the south with airstrikes, according to Palestinian officials. Hamas has acknowledged encouraging civilians to reject Israel’s demand to flee their homes, but said it had not put up barricades to force them to stay.

— The potential for the war to spread remained. The Israeli military said Wednesday that an area near the Golan Heights was targeted by attacks that originated in Syria, and that it responded with artillery fire. Israel also said its soldiers had clashed with armed Palestinians overnight in the area of Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

— President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who has often been at odds with his Western allies including the United States, said Hamas was “not a terror organization” but a group “who fight to protect their land and citizens.” While adding that he did not “excuse any acts targeting civilians, including Israeli civilians,” the Turkish president condemned what he called Israel’s brutality against Palestinians.

Otis makes landfall near Acapulco as ‘catastrophic’ hurricane

By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR

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hen Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico as a Category 5 hurricane early Wednesday, it created a “nightmare scenario” for a large portion of the country, weather experts said. But the storm was expected to quickly weaken as it moved over higher terrain.

The storm, which had rapidly intensified and was producing maximum sustained winds of 165 mph at landfall, was moving inland over southern Mexico.

It was expected to dissipate over the southern half of the country by nightfall.

By around 6 a.m. local time, the storm had weakened to a Category 2.

Although a hurricane warning was in effect for Punta Maldonado westward to Zihuatanejo early Wednesday, much of the concern was on the wind, storm surge and intense rainfall.

Forecasters said that Otis would have “extremely destructive winds” near the storm’s eye and that winds would affect the upper floors of high-rise buildings more significantly than those near the ground level.

Life-threatening storm surge will continue along the coast of southern Mexico, forecasters said, and parts of Guerrero and Oaxaca states could experience rainfall totals up to 20 inches through Thursday. That could produce flash flooding along with mudslides in areas of higher terrain.

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‘I went through hell,’ freed Israeli, 85, says of subterranean captivity in Gaza

By AARON BOXERMAN

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n harrowing detail, an 85-year-old Israeli grandmother described her 17-day ordeal as a hostage, offering for the first time a captive’s account of the armed Palestinian group Hamas’ subterranean garrison beneath the Gaza Strip, the conditions in which the group’s hostages are being held and the operatives deployed to tend to them.

The woman, Yocheved Lifshitz, a peace activist from Nir Oz, a kibbutz near the Gaza border, was released Tuesday along with another woman, Nurit Cooper, 79, after negotiations between Israel and Hamas were facilitated by Egypt and Qatar. Only two other hostages out of at least 222 have been released since the Hamas rampage on Oct. 7 left more than 1,400 people dead in Israel.

“I went through hell,” Lifshitz told reporters at a Tel Aviv, Israel, hospital Tuesday, one day after her release. Speaking from a wheelchair, she delivered her remarks in a faltering voice, still visibly tired.

Her account of Hamas’ tunnel network, which she likened to “a spider web,” offered a glimpse of the difficulties facing Israel as it weighs when and how to launch a ground invasion of Gaza. Hamas, which oversees the territory and is designated a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union, has dug an enormous warren of tunnels and underground chambers, in which it is believed to be hiding weapons, fighters and some hostages.

After reaching the tunnels, “we walked for kilometers underground,” Lifshitz said of the complex, which she said included rooms large enough to contain dozens of people.

Hamas was responsible for releasing Lifshitz to the Red Cross on Monday, but it remained unclear if the group or an affiliate organization had captured and detained her.

Despite a weekslong bombing effort by the Israeli military, which has left thousands dead, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, Lifshitz described a seemingly well-organized operation, with operatives given special responsibilities, including doctors, guards and medics.

The militants brought her to a large underground hall where they had gathered 25 people, before five from Nir Oz were separated and placed in a room on their own, Lifschitz said. “We were closely guarded by their guards and a medic. At a certain point a doctor also arrived and made sure that we received our pills and medication,” she said.

Lifshitz said her captors paid special attention to the health of the hostages, providing medication, shampoo and feminine hy-

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giene products. The hostages were fed the same meager provisions their guards ate: a single daily meal of pita bread, two kinds of cheese and cucumber.

“They were very attentive to the sanitary aspect,” she said, “so we don’t get sick on them, God forbid. There was a doctor nearby who would come every two or three days to check in on us. And the medic took the responsibility to bring us medication. If they did not have the exact same medication, they brought us the equivalent.”

In a video documenting Lifshitz’s handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was filmed and released by the armed wing of Hamas, Lifschitz appears to grasp one Hamas member’s hands and repeat the Hebrew word “shalom,” meaning goodbye and also peace.

Her grandson, Daniel Lifshitz, said in a televised interview that his grandmother would remain in the hospital for now, adding that she would “need a lot of time to recover from this, even though she looks strong.”

Israel has historically made the return of captives a national priority. In 2011, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners — including Hamas’ current leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar — in exchange for a single Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.

But the country has never faced a crisis in which so many citizens were being held hostage at one time. Hamas has said it is willing to consider releasing “foreign nationalities under temporary custody, as and when security circumstances permit.”

Before Tuesday’s release of Yocheved Lifshitz and Cooper, the group had allowed the release of only two other captives, dual American Israeli citizens Judith Raanan and her daughter, Natalie. The Raanans, released Oct. 20, have not spoken publicly about their ordeal.

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From page 13 Both Lifshitz’s husband, Oded, 83, and Cooper’s husband, Amiram, 85, are believed to be held in Gaza. Michael Milshtein, a former senior official in Israeli military intelligence, said Hamas appeared to be working under the assumption that releasing the hostages a few at a time would delay, or even scuttle, an anticipated ground invasion of Gaza.

“Hamas understands that there’s pressure from the families, even American pressure,” Milshtein said in a phone interview. “If we were talking about Hamas’ war crimes, now we’re starting to talk just about the hostages,” he said, not-

ing that the window for a ground invasion could eventually close.

Lifshitz said her community was overrun during the terror attack Oct. 7. As Hamas-led combatants broke “into our homes,” she said, “they beat people, they kidnapped some of us, including me. It made no difference if they were elderly or young.”

Her captors, she said, threw her sideways across a motorcycle and drove her out of the kibbutz. They beat her, she said, not enough to break her ribs but enough to make breathing difficult.

The couple’s captivity also reflects the arbitrary nature of who the Hamas-led assailants chose to kidnap as they

rampaged through border towns close to the Gaza border.

Both were left-wing peace activists living in Nir Oz, a broadly liberal community less than 2 miles from the border with Gaza.

On Tuesday, Yocheved Lifshitz was critical of the military and Shin Bet, the domestic security service, who she said had ignored warning signs of the threat to towns near Gaza. The Israeli military’s chief of staff acknowledged after the attack that the military had failed to live up to its mission to protect Israel’s citizens.

Weeks before the assault, Palestinians had rioted and fired explosive balloons near the sophisticated border fence separating Israel from Gaza.

A close look at some key evidence in the Gaza hospital blast

By ARIC TOLER, HALEY WILLIS, RILEY MELLEN, ALEXANDER CARDIA, NATALIE RENEAU, JULIAN E. BARNES and CHRISTOPH KOETTL

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he video shows a projectile streaking through the darkened skies over Gaza and exploding in the air. Seconds later, another explosion is seen on the ground.

The footage has become a widely cited piece of evidence as Israeli and American officials have made the case that an errant Palestinian rocket malfunctioned in the sky, fell to the ground and caused a deadly explosion at al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City.

But a detailed visual analysis by The New York Times concludes that the video clip — taken from an Al-Jazeera television camera livestreaming on the night of Oct. 17 — shows something else. The missile seen in the video is most likely not what caused the explosion at the hospital. It actually detonated in the sky roughly 2 miles away, the Times found, and is an unrelated aspect of the fighting that unfolded over the Israeli-Gaza border that night.

The Times’ finding does not answer what actually did cause the hospital blast, or who is responsible. The contention by Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies that a failed Palestinian rocket launch is to blame remains plausible.

But the Times analysis does cast doubt on one of the most-publicized pieces of evidence that Israeli officials have used to make their case and complicates the straightforward narrative they have put forth.

The hospital blast has become a searing, contested episode in the war that began Oct. 7 after Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, invaded Israel, an attack that the Israeli government says killed more than 1,400 civilians and soldiers, and seized 200 hostages who were taken back to Gaza. Israel has responded to the Hamas attack with a relentless artillery and bombing campaign that has killed 5,700 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, as the Israeli military prepares for a ground invasion.

Burned cars littered the parking lot of the hospital.

Israeli officials and Palestinian militants blame each other for the hospital explosion.

Multiple videos assembled and analyzed by the Times show that militants were firing dozens of rockets from southwest of the hospital minutes before the blast, and the fiery explosion at the hospital is consistent with a failed rocket falling well short of its target with unspent fuel.

The footage also suggests that Israeli bombardment was taking place and that two explosions near the hospital can be seen within two minutes of it being struck. Maj. Nir Dinar, an Israeli military spokesperson, told the Times that military forces were not striking “within a range that endangered the hospital,” but declined to say how far away the nearest strike was.

A week after the hospital tragedy, much remains in question.

The death toll, initially put at 500 by Hamas and then lowered to 471, is believed

by Western intelligence agencies to be considerably lower — but no number has been verified. The hospital itself was not directly struck; whatever caused the explosion actually hit the hospital courtyard, where people had gathered for safety, and a handful of parked cars.

Moreover, the crater left from the impact was relatively small, a fact that Israel has cited in arguing that none of its munitions caused the blast, and could be consistent with a num-

ber of different munitions. Hamas has not produced a remnant of an Israeli munition or any physical evidence to back up its claim that Israel is responsible.

U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday that agencies had assessed that the video shows a Palestinian rocket launched from Gaza undergoing a “catastrophic motor failure” before part of the rocket crashed into the hospital grounds. A senior intelligence official said authorities could not rule out that new information would come to light that would change their assessment but said they had high confidence in their conclusions.

Asked about the Times’ findings, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the Times and U.S. intelligence agencies had different interpretations of the video.

Within an hour of the hospital blast, an information war began. Hamas immediately blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israel Defense Forces soon denied any responsibility and placed the blame on a malfunctioning Palestinian rocket.

Israeli officials released a report about the explosion Oct. 18 and also made public one conversation they said was intercepted between Hamas fighters blaming Islamic Jihad for the blast. Israel also has cited several other pieces of evidence that have not been made public, including logs of military activity, information gleaned from radar systems, other audio intercepts and other videos.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials have pointed to the Al-Jazeera video in media interviews and social media.

The Al-Jazeera video footage was shared three times by the Israel Defense Forces on X, formerly Twitter. In the posts, the Israeli military identified the moving aerial object as a “rocket aimed at Israel” that “misfired and exploded” at nearly the same time as the hospital blast. Spokespeople for the Israeli military also explicitly identified this munition as the misfired rocket that caused the explosion in interviews with CNN and the BBC on Oct. 18 and

in an interview with India Today on Oct. 19.

Numerous media outlets have shown the video footage and several have cited it as evidence that a Palestinian rocket hit the hospital.

But the Times concluded that the missile in the video was never near the hospital. It was launched from Israel, not Gaza, and appears to have exploded above the Israeli-Gaza border, at least 2 miles away from the hospital.

To trace the object in the sky back to Israeli territory, the Times synchronized the AlJazeera footage with five other videos filmed at the same time, including footage from an Israeli television station, Channel 12, and a CCTV camera in Tel Aviv. These different videos provided a view of the missile from north, south, east and west. Using satellite imagery to triangulate the launch point in those videos, the Times determined that the projectile was fired toward Gaza from near the Israeli town of Nahal Oz shortly before the deadly hospital blast. The findings match the conclusion reached by some online researchers.

In addition, the videos show that the projectile in the Al-Jazeera footage was launched after the barrage of Palestinian rockets Israeli officials assessed was responsible for the hospital explosion.

From 6:59 p.m. on Oct. 17, barrages of Palestinian rockets are fired from two positions southwest and northwest of al-Ahli hospital, the videos show. Flames from the Palestinian rockets are visible in the nighttime sky as their engines propel them northeast toward Israel.

More than 25 seconds elapse between the final Palestinian rocket and the hospital explosion.

The Times cannot independently identify the type of projectile that was fired from Israel, though it was launched from an area known to have an Iron Dome defense system. The Israeli military says it doesn’t fire Iron Dome interceptors into Gaza, and indeed the missile seen in the video may not have crossed over into Gaza territory. The Israeli military has stated that the Iron Dome did not shoot any interceptors in the questioned time and area.

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Why we should fear China more than Middle Eastern war

By ROSS DOUTHAT

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ast Thursday, President Joe Biden gave a speech linking the Israel-Hamas conflict and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and framing U.S. involvement as part of a grand strategy to contain our enemies and rivals. “When terrorists don’t pay a price for their terror, when dictators don’t pay a price for their aggression,” he declared, “they keep going. And the cost and the threats to America and the world keep rising.”

Broadly speaking, Biden is correct; the United States has a strong interest in preventing rival powers from redrawing maps or undermining America’s democratic allies. But the difference between the president’s strategic analysis and the kind I’ve tried to offer recently is twofold: the general absence, in Biden’s words, of any acknowledgment of difficult trade-offs and the specific absence of any reference to China as a potentially more significant threat than Russia or Iran.

These absences are not particularly surprising. It’s normal for American presidents to say chest-pounding things like “There is nothing, nothing beyond our capacity” rather than to talk about possible limits on our strength. And since we don’t actually want to be at war with China, it makes a certain sense to avoid lumping

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But presidential rhetoric and policy are inevitably linked, and the China threat that doesn’t exist in Biden’s speech barely exists in his funding request: The administration is asking Congress for over $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel and just $2 billion for the IndoPacific. Likewise, a president’s rhetoric lacunas inform political priorities, at least within his own coalition. If you can’t talk about why we need to worry about Chinese power alongside Russian or Iranian aggression, the people who listen to you may assume there’s nothing to worry about.

So let me explain why I worry about China and why I keep insisting that a strategy of containment in the Pacific should be a priority, even when other threats seem more immediate.

Start with the geopolitical background. It makes sense to talk about China, Iran and Russia as a loose alliance trying to undermine U.S. power, but it is not a trio of equals. Only China is an arguable peer of the United States, only China’s technological and industrial might can hope to match our own, and only China has the capacity to project power globally as well as regionally.

Moreover, China offers a somewhat coherent ideological alternative to the liberal-democratic order.

The Putin regime is a parody of Western democracy, and Iran’s mixture of theocracy and pseudodemocracy holds little broad appeal. But China’s one-party meritocracy can advertise itself — maybe less effectively since Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power but still with some degree of plausibility — as a successor to democratic capitalism, an alternative model for the developing world.

These general strategic realities obviously aren’t as threatening as actual aggression. But the threat China poses to Taiwan, in particular, has different implications for U.S. power from the threat Russia poses to Ukraine or Hamas poses to Israel. Whatever happens in the Ukrainian conflict, the United States was never formally committed to Ukraine’s defense, and Russia cannot realistically defeat NATO. Whatever misery Iran and its proxies may inflict upon the Middle East, they are not going to conquer Israel or drive U.S. power out of the Levant.

But the United States is more committed (with whatever public ambiguity) to the defense of Taiwan, and that expectation has always been in the background

of our larger alliance system in East Asia. And while six experts may give six different opinions, there are good reasons to think that China is open to invading Taiwan in the near future and that the U.S. could join such a war and lose outright.

China hawks tend to argue that losing a war over Taiwan would be much worse than our post-9/11 debacles, worse than letting Vladimir Putin hold the Donbas and Crimea permanently. You cannot definitively prove this, but I think they’re right: The establishment of Chinese military preeminence in East Asia would be a unique geopolitical shock, with dire effects on the viability of America’s alliance systems, on the likelihood of regional wars and arms races and on our ability to maintain the global trading system that undergirds our prosperity at home.

And it’s at home where I fear the effects of such a defeat the most. The United States has experience losing wars of empire — in Vietnam and Afghanistan, for example, where we were extending ourselves without putting our full might into the fray. But we have no experience being defeated in straightforward combat, not guerrilla war, by a great-power rival and ideological competitor.

Whatever anxieties you have about our current political divisions, whether you fear left-wing disillusionment with America or right-wing disillusionment with democracy or both, such a defeat seems more likely than anything to accelerate us toward a real internal crisis. Which is why, even with other foreign crises burning hot, a debacle in East Asia remains the scenario that the United States should be working most intensely to avert.

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Reabren carretera PR-951 entre Canóvanas y Loíza tras inversión de $8.1 millones POR CYBERNEWS

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ANÓVANAS – La carretera PR-951, que conecta Canóvanas y Loíza, fue reabierta tras una inversión de 8.1 millones de dólares, anunció el miércoles, el gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia.

Este proyecto buscaba rehabilitar una carretera afectada por los huracanes Irma y María. “La in-

versión realizada en este proyecto es de $8.1 millones, de los cuales 5.5 millones de dólares son fondos federales y 2.5 millones de dólares son fondos estatales”, dijo el gobernador en declaraciones escritas.

La secretaria del DTOP, Eileen Vélez, destacó la relevancia del proyecto para los residentes del área, resaltando la importancia de tener mejores accesos a sus hogares y áreas de trabajo.

El director ejecutivo de la ACT, Edwin González Montalvo, detalló que los trabajos realizados en la carretera PR-951 incluyeron la rehabilitación del puente sobre el canal Zequeira, y la restauración del ancho de la carretera.

Las alcaldesas de Canóvanas y Loíza, Lornna Soto Villanueva y Julia Nazario Fuentes respectivamente, celebraron la reapertura y subrayaron la relevancia de la carretera para sus municipios.

Hacen llamado a miembros de Proyecto Dignidad a ingresar al PNP POR EL STAR STAFF

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AN JUAN – El expresidente de la Cámara de Representantes, José Aponte, hizo un llamado a los miembros del Proyecto Dignidad que creen en los valores de igualdad, a ingresar a las filas del Partido Nuevo Progresista.

“El PNP representa la lucha por la igualdad de derechos con los ciudadanos estadounidenses que

residen en los estados de la unión. Hoy, reitero nuestro llamado a todos aquellos miembros del partido Proyecto Dignidad a que ingresen a nuestra colectividad, cuya función es lograr la igualdad a través de la estadidad. Somos un partido de valores y respeto, de unión de propósitos detrás de esos valores”.

“Aquí nos encontramos listos para recibir a todos aquellos que entiendan que están viendo que quienes dirigen ese partido no los representan. A

esos que son estadistas, que favorecen la unión permanente y la ciudadanía estadounidense que solo la admisión de Puerto Rico como estado garantiza, únicamente el PNP brinda la herramienta de lucha por esa igualdad. El PNP trabaja, tanto en la Isla como en la capital federal, para alcanzar la estadidad. Radicamos legislación a nivel local, realizamos charlas educativas y trabajamos todos los días por esos valores. Esta es su casa”

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Morgan Freeman would like to tell you the history of everything

By CHRISTOPHER KUO

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organ Freeman’s rich, majestic voice has graced a number of documentaries over the years, about religion, Jewish refugees, even penguins. His next one has a scope and subject that befit a man popularly known as the voice of God: the entire history of life on Earth.

“Life on Our Planet,” an eight-part series that premiered Wednesday on Netflix, takes viewers through billions of years, beginning at the dawn of time. Starting with single cells in a primordial soup and sweeping through the age of the dinosaurs and the development of human civilization, the series charts the rise and fall of countless species. As Freeman narrates, the show depicts the “great battles for survival and the dynasties that would take over the world.”

Produced by Silverback Films in association with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, the show relies on visual effects to conjure up lifelike prehistoric creatures, including woolly mammoths, a four-winged dinosaur called the Anchiornis, and of course the Tyrannosaurus rex. Visual effects make up 30% to 40% of each episode; the remainder consists of footage shot in 45 countries including Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Morocco and the United Kingdom.

Despite the show’s title, this planetary saga frequently dwells on death. In scene after scene, predators stalk their prey: a flying reptile swoops down on an unsuspecting sea turtle, a crocodile eyes a wildebeest, and a squid pounces on a shrimp, the hunts charged with suspense by Freeman’s booming voice.

“The shrimp never saw it coming,” he says, as the squid enjoys its meal.

Morgan Freeman has lent his instantly recognizable voice to numerous documentaries. “When you’re narrating, it’s actually a learning process in itself,” he said.

Death also comes to entire species, with the show’s narrative punctuated by five mass extinctions that together kill off millions of creatures. Each event destroys one group of animals and paves the way for another, progressing from invertebrates to dinosaurs and eventually to mammals.

Freeman, an Academy Award winner, hopes viewers stick around long enough to see the end of the series, when the show depicts the ascendance of humans — the only species capable of bringing about its own mass extinction.

“It was said that God created the heavens and the earth and put man in control,” Freeman said in an interview this month. “That’s a big mistake if God actually did that, because in just a few million years we’ve almost created another extinction-level event.”

In a phone interview from his home in Mississippi, Freeman spoke about the roots of his unmistakable vocal style, his admiration for

David Attenborough and his fears about our planet’s future. Here are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Q: How did you decide to join this project?

A: Well, the planet itself and the history thereof interests me. I call myself a “planetist” because I’m concerned mostly about what’s happening on Earth.

Q: When did you first start getting concerned?

A: Oh, I don’t know when I first did. It sort of creeps up on you, you know, watching how things are going. We all know about the changing climates. That’s a human thing. No animals are causing it. We’re causing it. And it’s happening; we can see it now.

Q: I’m curious about your routine when you’re narrating. What’s your process?

A: There was a script. There was a studio microphone. Some of them require a lot of takes. Because if you read through a paragraph and you slur a word or two, you have to go back and fix that. Particularly in this show, there are a lot of these creatures that have names that are sort of maddening, I guess. I recorded in Mobile, Alabama. I also live down on the Alabama coast, so if I get work while I’m down there I’ll go to a studio that I frequent in Mobile.

Q: How many hours would you spend each day in the studio?

A: If I remember correctly, I was there for over a two-day period. Maybe two to three hours a day.

Q: As you look back on previous documentaries you’ve narrated, which stand out to you?

A: I did “March of the Penguins,” and that was awesome. I really learned quite a bit about

how penguins live and interact.

Q: One of the things that interested me about this series is that it goes to the beginning of time and recreates these creatures using visual effects.

A: Oh heavens yes. When you’re narrating, it’s actually a learning process in itself. So I find these kinds of documentaries very interesting. Part of the joy of doing it is learning all of that. You just absorb it and it goes down inside you somewhere.

Q: What do you feel is different about narrating compared to acting?

A: When you’re narrating the point is to try and to be clear and not speak in a monotone. I guess it’s a trick or gift or something. I seem to be pretty good at it. I’m a big fan of David Attenborough. He has that knack of getting information across.

Q: You’re known for a very distinctive voice. How did you develop that?

A: When I was in school at the Los Angeles Community College, I was taking theater arts classes, which includes voice development. And I had a very good instructor there.

That was the beginning of it.

Q: What does your day-to-day life look like?

A: I get up. Two to three times a week I go to the gym, work out, stretch, play golf every day, weather permitting. Life has a routine: coffee, puzzles and stuff with my lady, and playing golf in the afternoons.

Q: What are you hoping people take away from this show?

A: How tenacious life is. If we can get enough information out in time, things will probably change, but not for a lot of us. The planet itself is what is alive. And we don’t need to be here.

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Why health care workers are burning out

By NOAH WEILAND

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ealth workers feel burnout more frequently than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic, while also struggling with symptoms of anxiety and depression, sleep problems and harassment, according to a federal survey of American workers published earlier this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The results offer a rare glimpse of worker morale before and after the peak of the pandemic.

The research compared data from 2018 and 2022 and underscored a dire staffing crisis in the nation’s health workforce, which limped through the pandemic amid long hours, high turnover, violence in emergency departments, and public vitriol over vaccines, masks and treatments.

Hundreds of thousands of medical workers have left their jobs in recent years.

“Prior to COVID, we knew that many hospitals were understaffed, that health care workers were burning out,” Dr. Debra Houry, chief medical officer at the CDC, said in an interview Tuesday. “I think COVID escalated that, and I think just really strained the system.”

The Toll: Nearly five days of poor mental health a month.

Federal researchers tracked selfreported mental health symptoms among more than 1,000 adult workers in 2018 and 2022, including 226 health care workers in 2018 and 325 in 2022.

Compared with other groups surveyed, health care workers reported a substantial jump in poor mental health days in the month prior, from 3.3 in 2018 to 4.5 in 2022. Less than 30% of health workers last

A nurse takes a moment as medical staff perform surgery on Ivan Sanchez, a patient hospitalized for respiratory failure due to COVID-19, at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston on July 14, 2020. year described themselves as very happy, a decline from 2018. More than a third reported symptoms of depression, while more than half said they had symptoms of anxiety.

And the percentage of health care workers reporting harassment on the job more than doubled, compared with the rate in 2018.

“Hospitals and other health care entities are microcosms of society,” said Rumay Alexander, who teaches nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and advises the American Nurses Association. “Whatever is happening out in the world walks into our health care facilities.”

Nearly half of health care workers

surveyed said they were somewhat or very likely to look for new work, researchers found — an ominous sign for providers struggling to retain staff. Houry said that statistic jumped out at her more than any other in the survey.

Expert Diagnosis: Medical institutions are failing workers.

The survey showed a decrease in the odds of burnout if health workers received help from supervisors, had enough time to do their work and trusted management.

But efforts by medical institutions to address the mental health of their workers have been uneven at best, experts said.

Dr. Amy Locke, chief wellness officer at University of Utah Health, said medical

workers, many of whom are poorly paid, were especially vulnerable to overwork in environments with understaffing and huge financial and moral pressures to perform.

“You get this mentality of, Oh, I can do it. I can do it by myself. And I can do it because people are counting on me,” she said.

Locke, whose institution received a federal grant for health worker wellness, added that financial pressures on health providers were even greater now than preCOVID. “It’s hard for a health system to think, I’m going to pour a lot of money into my people when I need to keep the lights on,” she said.

Who’s Suffering: Nurses and local health workers are particularly vulnerable.

Burnout from work conditions has been especially acute for nurses.

Katie Carroll, a nurse at a hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, said 10 nurses in her unit had left in the past two years or so, around half of the nursing staff. “You’re running around so busy with a frazzled mind that more mistakes can happen, because there’s so much on your plate,” she said.

Local health departments, often the target of public hectoring during the pandemic, have also suffered. Scott Lockard, public health director of the Kentucky River District Health Department, said Tuesday that his 130 employees, who make an average of $23 an hour, were busy regaining their focus and energy.

His department organized a staff celebration over the summer at a local park.

“We’ve done activities around mission, vision, values — to anchor ourselves again,” he said. “So people know why we’re doing what we do.”

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From hunted to hunter: Neanderthals preyed on cave lions, study finds

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tone Age-cartoon enthusiasts will recall that Fred Flintstone polished off racks of brontosaurus ribs and that Wilma Flintstone swanned around in a Siberian mastodon fur coat. As it turns out, the Neanderthals of, say, 46,000 B.C. may have had similar dining habits and tastes in daywear. An academic paper published last week in the journal Scientific Reports proposes that our long-extinct ancestors not only were the first humans to kill and butcher large predators, but that they also used the hides for cultural purposes and perhaps even dressed in them.

Researchers analyzed cut marks and puncture wounds on the remains of two Eurasian cave lions unearthed 34 years apart in present-day Germany. One set of bones — an almost intact skeleton found near Siegsdorf at the foot of the Bavarian Alps in 1985 — is estimated to be about 48,000 years old. The other assemblage — two toe bones and one tiny paw bone that had been embedded in a pelt that later disintegrated— was discovered in 2019 deep within Einhornhöhle, or Unicorn Cave, in the Harz Mountains and dates to approximately 190,000 years ago. Both lions lived during an era when Neanderthals were the only humans that occupied Europe; the first Homo sapiens did not arrive on the continent until roughly 42,000 years ago.

The new study addresses a foundational question in zooarchaeology: Were early hominids the hunters or the hunted?

“The Siegsdorf findings provide the earliest concrete evidence of humans hunting down the formidable lion, the ultimate hunter of the animal kingdom,” said Gabriele Russo, a doctoral candidate in zooarchaeology at the University of Tübingen and the first author of the paper. “This discovery helps to reshape our understanding of other human species’ capabilities and challenges preconceived notions about Neanderthals.”

As recently as the 1990s, Neanderthals were judged by scholars to be rock-brained scavengers too helpless to hunt on their own.

Based partly on the absence of upper limb bones dug up at Neanderthal campsites, the consensus was that they eked by on the less meaty leftovers of other carnivores. But a reappraisal of the evidence showed that the bones that were supposedly missing had

been shattered by the group to get at the marrow.

Neanderthals are now thought to have been more sophisticated and multitalented than imagined. Evidence is mounting that they used a complex language and even, considering the ritual interment of their dead, some form of spirituality. They made sticky pitch to secure their spear points by heating birch bark; stalked bison, wild cattle and straight-tusked elephants; and ambushed hibernating cave bears as the animals woke from their annual slumber.

Until now, no study had demonstrated that Neanderthals intentionally hunted large beasts of prey, much less cave lions, apex predators that ranged widely across northern Eurasia and Alaska from 370,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C. “We have very early indirect evidence of hunting of nonpredators, although there is some debate about what constitutes hunting and when,” said Annemieke Milks, an archaeologist at the University of Reading who collaborated on the paper. “We see evidence that humans were hunting for many hundreds of thousands of years before this, but it’s quite a different type of challenge to hunt dangerous animals.”

Top cats The cave lion, which was as much as 20% larger than lions of today, gained its name not because it lingered in caves but because many intact skeletons have been found in the dens of largely herbivorous cave bears, on which the lions presumably feasted.

The remains of the Siegsdorf cave lion repose in a glass case at the town’s Natural History and Mammoth Museum. In the fall

An undated photo provided by Volker Minkus shows the skull of a cave lion found near Siegsdorf in the Bavarian Alps in 1985, estimated to be about 48,000 years old.

An illustration provided by Julio Lacerda shows an artist’s concept of Neanderthals butchering the hunted cave lion from Siegsdorf. An academic paper published in the journal Scientific Reports proposes that our long-extinct ancestors were not just the first humans to kill and butcher large predators, but that they also used the hides for cultural purposes and perhaps even dressed in them. of 2021, Russo examined the skeleton bone by bone. The presence of cut marks across two ribs, some vertebrae and the left femur had led archaeologists to believe that Neanderthals butchered the big cat after it died.

Russo noticed a deep, previously undocumented gash on the underside of a rib; the gash resembled projectile impact marks that wooden-tipped Neanderthal spears had left on ancient deer vertebrae. The wound channel was angled, which led him to suspect that a spear had entered the left side of the lion’s abdomen and passed through vital organs before striking the rib.

The injury was a hunting lesion, Russo thought.

Based on this finding, Russo persuaded the museum director to loan out the lion’s remains to the State Service for Cultural Heritage Lower Saxony in Hannover for closer inspection. Thomas Terberger, an archaeologist and head of research at the heritage office, had been a supervisor on Russo’s master’s thesis.

Terberger enlisted Milks, a specialist in early hunting weapons. Using a combina-

tion of digital 3D microscopy and micro-CT scanning, Milks and Russo created a ballistic reconstruction. Forensics revealed that the spear had been thrust rather than thrown, and that the rib wound was probably a fatal blow struck while the lion was lying on the ground.

The specimen was an elderly male, and, given modern lion behavior, possibly a solitary rogue that had been cast out of its pride. “An old lone lion may have posed a threat to the Neanderthals or competed for their prey,” Russo said. “Perhaps the Neanderthals saw an opportunity for an easier kill or viewed the lion as a means to prove themselves and decided to hunt it.”

Russo sketched out two hunt scenarios.

In one, the lion was gored by javelins, which softened him up for the kill. “Once the predator was exhausted on the ground, a final stab was delivered to ensure its death,” Russo said.

The second narrative involved Neanderthals waylaying and impaling the creature in its sleep. “Regardless of the hunting method, the lion was subsequently butchered with care, eviscerated and left at the site without breaking the bones,” Russo said.

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Documenting the recipes of Latin America, one Zoom at a time

By CHRISTINA MORALES

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ust as Sandra A. Gutierrez was about to embark on a research trip to the 23 cities throughout Latin America that she planned to cover in her fifth cookbook, the coronavirus pandemic grounded international travel.

It was yet another hurdle for Gutierrez, who had spent four years narrowing down a list of 9,000 recipes to about 500 for “Latinísimo: Home Recipes From the 21 Countries of Latin America,” her encyclopedia-style cookbook, which was released last week in both English and Spanish editions.

Instead of taking the trip, she moved hundreds of preplanned interviews to Zoom and scheduled at least 40 online cooking classes with experts. To perfect sancocho de Domingo, Gutierrez turned to Francisco Castro, a chef in Panama, who taught her how to make the chicken and root vegetable soup, and followed up with dozens of other Panamanian cooks who shared their tips for the dish.

She wanted her book to highlight the home cooking from every country in Latin America, but especially the recipes from nations whose cuisines remain unknown to many Americans. To do so, Gutierrez combed through family recipes rife with measurements like “a little bit of this” and “a little bit of that,” and other idiosyncratic instructions.

She found other dishes from out-of-print cookbooks in libraries, like the one in Cartagena, Colombia, where she dug through old books and talked to other patrons while her husband, Luis Gutierrez, enjoyed a day at the beach. She used her research to uncover commonalities in the recipes she used as references for her own dishes in her book.

“There’s so much more that could’ve been included,” she said, adding that there’s a dearth of modern cookbooks representing Latin American cuisine. “I’m one writer, one author, and none of us can cover the entirety of Latin American food in one book.”

For decades, Gutierrez, who is the author of four other cookbooks including “The New Southern-Latino Table,” has kept a running list of thousands of dishes hoping that one day, she’d be able to use them for a more encyclopedic book.

Born in Philadelphia but raised by her Guatemalan parents in Guatemala City, Gutierrez spent her childhood traveling throughout Central America. For 30 years, she’s lived in Cary, North Carolina, where she worked as the

food editor for The Cary News and taught cooking classes.

As she sorted through her recipes for “Latinísimo,” she decided to organize the dishes by ingredient instead of by country to better illustrate the role of exchanges brought on by colonialism and immigrants who moved to the region.

But with modern habits in mind, she prioritized recipes that are weeknight friendly and include ingredients that busy home cooks can easily find in their grocery stores or online. The Spanish edition of “Latinísimo” contains a glossary that aims to tackle regional differences in the language: Leeks, depending on the country, are known as porro, ajoporro, cebolla larga, puerro and puerrito, for example.

Still, there is much about Latin American cuisine that is confined to the home cook’s kitchen, undocumented by cookbooks, said Maricel Presilla, the author of “Gran Cocina Latina,” which won the cookbook of the year award from the James Beard Foundation in 2013.

“There’s a very important generation of cooks that’s disappearing, and there are recipes that are endangered everywhere that need to be saved,” Presilla said.

Arroz con maiz y crema (cheesy rice casserole with corn) Recipe from Sandra A. Gutierrez Adapted by Christina Morales Sandra A. Gutierrez, the author of “Latinísimo: Home Recipes from the 21 Countries of Latin America” (Knopf, 2023), was born in Philadelphia and raised by her Guatemalan parents in their home country. This recipe, a classic from Guatemala City where she lived, has

been made since the 1950s, when mayonnaise started gaining popularity in Latin America as it became available in grocery stores. Gutierrez says the dish is typically enjoyed alongside buffet dinners with roast chicken or beef tenderloin.

A satisfyingly easy side dish that is rich, cheesy and tangy, this casserole can be prepared and assembled in advance, or easily halved for a smaller crowd. — Christina Morales Yield: 8 to 12 servings Total time: 50 minutes Ingredients: Butter, as needed for greasing 6 (lightly packed) cups/800 grams cooked white rice (preferably medium- or long-grain) 2 cups fresh corn kernels (or frozen, thawed) 1 1/2 cups/340 grams sour cream 1 cup/225 grams mayonnaise 1 cup finely grated Cotija, queso seco or Parmesan 1 cup finely chopped fresh parsley leaves and tender stems 1/2 cup finely chopped scallions 2 large drained, roasted red bell peppers (about 6 ounces), thinly sliced 1 teaspoon fine sea salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 1/2 cups/115 grams shredded Chihuahua, Monterey Jack or other melting cheese Preparation: 1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking dish.

2. In a large bowl, combine the rice, corn, sour cream, mayonnaise, Cotija, parsley, scallions, roasted red pepper, salt and pepper.

Spread the mixture into the prepared baking dish, sprinkle with the shredded cheese and bake until bubbly, about 30 minutes.

3. If you’d like additional color on your casserole, broil the casserole a few inches away from your broiler heat source until golden in spots, about 3 minutes. Let cool a few minutes, then serve hot.

Pasta con palta (creamy avocado pesto pasta) Arroz con Maiz y Crema (Cheesy Rice Casserole With Corn), this recipe, a classic from Guatemala City where the author once lived, has been made since the 1950s, when mayonnaise started gaining popularity in Latin America

Recipe from Sandra A. Gutierrez Adapted by Christina Morales In 2016, Sandra A. Gutierrez began to narrow down a list of 9,000 recipes to about 500 for her encyclopedic Latin American cookbook called “Latinísimo: Home Recipes from

Pasta con Palta (Creamy Avocado Pesto Pasta), a recipe from “Latinísimo: Home Recipes From the 21 Countries of Latin America by Sandra A. Gutierrez. the 21 Countries of Latin America” (Knopf, 2023). She wanted to focus on the dishes people made at home for a readership of novice cooks.

This easy, weeknight recipe from Chile emulates that spirit with the use of Hass avocados –– the main variety produced in the country –– to make a rich and silky sauce that comes together in a blender as the pasta cooks. For best results, sauce and eat the dish immediately to enjoy its velvety texture. — Christina Morales Yield: 4 servings Total time: 30 minutes Ingredients: Fine sea salt 1 pound spaghetti or fettuccine 2 Hass avocados 1/2 cup/2 ounces walnut pieces 2 garlic cloves, chopped 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or more to taste Preparation: 1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high. Cook the pasta according to package instructions until al dente.

2. While the pasta cooks, halve the avocados, discard the pits and transfer the flesh to the bowl of a food processor or blender. Add the walnuts, garlic and oil; process or blend until smooth, scraping the sides as needed. (Patience is key; keep blending until the mixture is fully creamy.)

3. As soon as the pasta is al dente, reserve 1 cup of the pasta cooking water. Drain the pasta then transfer to a large bowl. Using tongs or two large forks, toss vigorously with the avocado sauce, 1½ teaspoons salt, ½ teaspoon pepper and ½ cup of the reserved pasta water.

If the sauce is too thick, toss with more reserved pasta cooking water until the sauce is creamy and glossy. Season to taste with salt and pepper, then serve immediately.

The San Juan Daily Star LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

IVELISSE JANET CALDERÓN ROLDÁN

Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00325.

Sala: 307. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 15 de septiembre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Alturas De San Pedro, situada en el Barrio Florencio del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancia siguientes: Número del solar: Q-63 de la Calle L. Área del solar: trescientos cincuenta metros cuadrados (350.00). En lindes: NORTE, en una distancia de veinticinco metros lineales (25.00), con el solar Q-62; SUR, en una distancia de veinticinco metros lineales (25.00), con el solar Q-64; ESTE, en una distancia de catorce metros lineales (14.00), con la Calle L; OESTE, en dos alineaciones, la primera en una distancia de un metros con ciento cincuenta y seis milímetros lineales (1.156), con el solar Q-73 de la Calle K y la segunda en una distancia de doce metros con ochocientos cuarenta y cuatro milímetros lineales (12.844), con el solar Q-72 de la Calle K. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrita en la finca número 16,067, al folio 92 del tomo 377 de Fajardo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del

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ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de octubre de 2012, constituida mediante la escritura número 312, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 2 de septiembre de 2004, ante el notario Jorge Laborde Corretjer, e inscrita al folio 169 del tomo 436 de Fajardo, finca número 16,067, inscripción 5ta.

Sujeta a Condiciones Restrictivas bajo el Programa La Llave para Tu Hogar, por un término de 8 años. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 7 de agosto de 2023, archivada en autos y notificada el 9 de agosto de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $39,621.06 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 6.125% desde el 1ro de octubre de 2022; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $6,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $65,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2024 A

Thursday, October 26, 2023 LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $43,333.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $32,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá

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que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

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

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

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante Vs.

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

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04884.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de septiembre de 2023. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL RE-

GIONAL. MARIBEL LANZAR (843) del Bloque Q en el plano VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLA- de inscripción de la UrbanizaCA #735. ción Alturas de Rio Grande, compuesto de trescientos ocho LEGAL NOTICE punto ochenta y ocho (308.88) IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- metros cuadrados. En lindes; TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- por el Norte, en doce punto TRICT OF PUERTO RICO ochenta y siete (12.87) metros, con el solar ochocientos setenLIME HOMES, LTD. ta (870); por el Sur, en doce Plaintiff V. punto ochenta y siete (12.87), SAYRA con la calle quince (15); por el ALMODOVAR GUZMAN Este, en veinticuatro (24.00) Defendants metros, con el lote numero Civil No.: 16-03051. SCC. Re: ochocientos cuarenta y dos MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE (842); por el Oeste, en veintiIN REM. NOTICE OF SALE. cuatro (24.00) metros, con el To: SAYRA ALMODOVAR lote numero ochocientos cuaGUZMAN, AND ALL renta y cuatro (844). Enclava PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE una casa. The property is idenAN INTEREST IN THE tified as land number 19,193, recorded at page number 23 PROPERTY. of volume number 282 of Rio WHEREAS: Judgment in favor Grande, in the Registry of the of Plaintiff was entered for the Property, Section of Carolina principal sum of $126,019.89 of III. Physical Address: 843 Q 15 principal balance, plus interest St., Alturas de Rio Grande Dev. at a rate of 5.50% per annum Rio Grande, PR 00745. Potensince March 1st, 2014. Interest tial bidders are advised to verify will continue to accrue until the the extent of preferential liens debt is paid in full. In addition, with holders thereof. It is unthe defendant owes Plaintiff derstood that potential bidders late charges in the amounting acquire the property subject to 5.000% of any and any payto any and all senior liens that ments or installments in arrears encumber the property. It is unover fifteen (15) days since the derstood that potential bidders installment is due. The defenacquire the property subject dant owes Plaintiff all of the to any and all senior liens that advances made by Plaintiff encumber the property. It shall pursuant to the provision or disbe understood that each bidder positions of the mortgage note accepts as sufficient the title and mortgage deed. The defenthat prior and preferential liens dant also owes the Plaintiff an to the one being foreclosed amount equivalent to 10% of upon, including but not limited the original principal balance as to any property tax liens (exliquidated amount to cover the press, tacit, implied or legal) costs, expenses and attorney shall continue in effect it being fees. The record of the case understood further that the sucand of the proceedings may be cessful bidder accepts then and examined by the interested paris subrogated in the responsibities at the Office of the Clerk of lity for the same and the bid prithe United States District Court, ce shall not be applied toward Federal Building, Chardon Ave. the cancellation of the senior Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST accessing the electronic court PUBLIC SALE shall be held records by internet accessing on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, https://ecf.prd.uscourts.gov.

AT 3: 00 PM. The minimum WHEREAS: Pursuant to the bid that will be accepted in the terms of the aforementioned first public sale is the sum of judgment and the order of exe$129,734.76. In the event that cution thereof, the undersigned said first public sale does not SPECIAL MASTER, was ordeproduce a bidder and the prored to sell at public auction for perty is not adjudicated, a SEUS currency in cash or certified COND PUBLIC SALE shall be check, without appraisal or right held on the DECEMBER 13TH, to redemption to the highest 2023 AT 3:00 PM and the minibidder at the Hallway benches mum bid that will be accepted is in front of Courtroom # 1 of the sum of $86,486.84. If said the United States district Court second public sale does not refor the District of Puerto Rico, sult in the adjudication and sale Federal Building Office 150, of the property, a THIRD PU1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon BLIC SALE shall be held on the Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 00918 the following property 3:00 PM and the minimum bid belonging, describe in Spanish that will be accepted is the sum as follows: URBANA: Solar of $64,867.38. Upon confirmaradicado en el Barrio Ciénation of the sale, an order shall ga Baja del Municipio de Rio be issued canceling all junior Grande marcado en el plano liens that are attached to the de inscripción con el numero property referred to above. For ochocientos cuarenta y tres

24 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

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015-PPR1 Plaintiff V.

MIGDALIA ROSADO TORRES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

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

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway

benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno identificado con el numero 4-A, radicado en la Carretera Estatal número 829, Barrio Santa Olaya del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 952.3293 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a .2423 cuerda, colindando por el Norte, con la Calle Municipal existente, en una distancia de 19.236 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad en un arco de 6.289 metros que se extiende hacia el este y otra sección de aproximadamente la mitad en otro arco de 5.498 metros que se extiende hacia el oeste; por el Sur, con el remanente, en una distancia de 17.254 metros, segregado en el caso número 89-15-I-300 BPL; por el Este, con el lote 5-A, en una distancia de 46.401 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad de un arco de 6.289 metros que se extiende hacia el Norte; y por el Oeste, con la calle Municipal, en una distancia de 34.300 metros, con la calle existente, en una distancia de 3.50 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad en un arco de 5.498 metros que se extiende hacia el Norte. Recorded at page 256 of book 1520 of Bayamon, land number 66,838, Registry of the Property, Bayamon Section I. Physical Address: 2 St. A-4, Monserrate Hills, Bayamon, PR 00959. The property is affected to the following junior lien or attachment described below: Lien in favor of the Unites States against Jorge Luis Rivera Rivera, social security number xxx-xx-8980, for the sum of $4,833.16, notificacion number 792035811, annotated on June 21st, 2011, at page 50, book 3, volume 9. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THE-

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REFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, AT 2:45PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $155,656.00.

In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13T, 2023 AT 2:45 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $103.770.67. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 2:45 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $77,828.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of October 2023.

BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

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

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES

RESIDENCIAL CARMEN EDIF. 21 APTO. 197 MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00680.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Añasco, Puerto Rico a 13 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. LUZ NELDY CHICO ACEVEDO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

GOBIERNO DE PUERTO Demandante Vs. RICO. DEPARTAMENTO DE MONSERRATE EXIAS ESTADO. NOMBRE COMERQUINTANA, SU ESPOSA CIAL PARA REGISTRAR. IRMA FELICIDAD LUGO AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA INTERESAR: De acuerdo con RODRIGUEZ Y LA las disposiciones de la Ley SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre BIENES GANANCIALES de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; FULANO DE TAL de Nombres Comerciales del Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del POSIBLES TENEDORES Reglamento promulgado bajo DEL PAGARE CANCELAR la ley citada anteriormente, el Demandados siguiente nombre comercial ha Civil Núm.: AÑ2023CV00258. sido presentado en el DeparSobre: CANCELACIón DE HI- tamento de Estado de Puerto POTECA POR PAGARé EX- Rico para su archivo y registro.

TRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENGRANO TOSTA’O TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMéRICA, EL Número de Expediente: PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. 252159-99-1.

Propietario: UU., EL ESTADO liBRE ASO- THAIMY MEDINA RODRÍCIADO DE P.R., ss.

GUEZ. Dirección: PR 53 SUR A: FULANO DE TAL Y SALIDA 40 BO AGUACATE, SUTANA DE TAL COMO YABUCOA , PR 00767. Actividad Empresarial: “COFFEE POSIBLES TENEDORES SHOP. VENTA DE CAFÉ, FRIDESCONOCIDOS DEL TURAS, POSTRES Y DESAPAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. YUNOS”. Renuncia a elementos no registrables: “ Tosta’o URB. BRISAS DE AÑASCO, CALLE 16 #AA- “. NOTIFICACIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este registro de9, AÑASCO, PR 00610. berá presentarse en el DeparDIRECCIÓN POSTAL: tamento de Estado de Puerto

Rico dentro de los treinta (30) rectangular: en lindes por el días siguientes a la publicación NORTE, en dieciocho punto cero cincuenta (18.050) metros de este aviso. con el solar número seis (6): LEGAL NOTICE por el SUR, en dieciocho punto ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO cero cincuenta (18.050) metros DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- con el solar número cuatro (4); NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA por el ESTE, en veinte (20.00) SALA SUPERIOR DE CA- metros con el solar número dos (2) y por el OESTE, en veinte GUAS (20.00) metros con la calle EDWIN Santa María. Servidumbres: PEREZ APONTE Autoridad de Fuentes FluviaDemandante Vs les; Autoridad de Acueductos JUSTO M. y Alcantarillados, Autoridad de RIVAS MARTINEZ Comunicaciones y Municipio de Demandado Caguas. Se encuentra inscrita Civil Número: CG2022CV01648. al folio ciento setenta (170) del Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- tomo novecientos cincuenta y TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. dos (952) finca número treinta ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- y dos mil cuatrocientos ochenta RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE y dos (32,482) Registro de la LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL Propiedad de Caguas, Sección ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE Primera. Dirección física: Urb. PUERTO RICO, SS. Residencial Bairoa Calle Santa María C5, Caguas PR, 00727. A A) JUSTO M. RIVAS la propiedad NO le afectan graMARTÍNEZ, MAYOR DE EDAD, SOLTERO Y vámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afectan los siguientes CON DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA gravámenes posteriores: HipoY POSTAL EN CALLE teca: En garantía de un pagaré, a favor del Portador, o a su orESPAÑA QA-3 URB. BAIROA, CAGUAS, PR den, por la suma de $12,000.00 de principal, intereses al Prime 00727.

Rate. Vencedero a la presenB) AL PÚBLICO tación. Según la escritura #80, EN GENERAL LAS otorgada en Caguas, el 12 de mayo de 1989, ante el Notario PERSONAS QUE Miguel A. Hernández Sanabria, TIENEN ANOTADOS inscrita al Folio 173 del tomo Y/O INSCRIPCIÓN, 952 de Caguas, Inscripción 6ta DERECHOS Y y última. Mandamiento de ejeGRAVÁMENES cución de Sentencia, de fecha POSTERIORES A LAS 21 de noviembre de 2013, en el caso civil #EDI2011-0092, HIPOTECAS QUE sobre Embargo, Tribunal de POR LA PRESENTE Primera Instancia, Sala de NOTIFICAMOS SU Caguas, para que se anote a EJECUCIÓN. favor de Luz Milagros Crespo CERTIFICO Y HAGO CONS- Montero, sobre la finca #32,482 TAR: Que en cumplimiento con de Caguas, Solar #5-C de la un Mandamiento de Ejecución Urbanización Residencial Baide Sentencia que me ha sido roa, con cabida de 360.00 m/c. dirigido por la Secretaría del Con un valor la transacción de Tribunal de Primera Instancia, $5,154.50. Esta venta se hará Sala Superior de Caguas en el para satisfacer la Sentencia del caso de epígrafe, venderé en caso de epígrafe que condena pública subasta y al mejor pos- a la parte Demandada a pator, por separado, de contado, gar la suma de $19,450.00 de mediante giro postal o cheque principal, interés al 12% anual de gerente a nombre del Algua- comenzando el 4 de noviembre cil del Tribunal y por moneda de de 2012. Los intereses anuales curso legal de los Estados Uni- por mora suman $2,334.00 y dos de América, en la Oficina de el 10% del principal adeudado Alguaciles localizada en el Tri- para costas, gastos y honobunal de Primera Instancia Sala rarios de abogado de la parte Superior de Caguas, el 27 DE Demandante pactados en el NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS contrato de hipoteca. En dicha 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo Sentencia y en la Escritura de derecho, título, participación Hipoteca se fija la cantidad de y/o interés que le corresponda $21,395.00, como precio mínia la parte Demandada y/o cual- mo para adjudicar la Primera quiera de ellos en el inmueble Subasta. De ser necesaria hipotecado objeto de ejecución una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por que se describe a continua- declararse desierta la primera, ción: a. Bien inmueble a ser la misma se celebrará en la subastado: URBANA: Solar Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el marcado con el número cinco Tribunal de Primera Instancia, (5) de la manzana “C” de la Ur- Sala Superior de Caguas, el banización Residencial Bairoa, 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A situada en el Barrio Bairoa del LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y Término Municipal de Caguas, se establece como precio míniPuerto Rico, con una área su- mo para dicha segunda subasperficial de trescientos sesenta ta la suma de $14,263.33. De y uno (361) metros cuadrados, ser necesaria una TERCERA siendo dicho solar de forma SUBASTA por declararse de-

sierta la Segunda Subasta, la FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS misma se celebrará en la OfiFUND, LLC cina de Alguaciles, sita en el Demandante V. Tribunal de Primera Instancia, DIANELLYS Sala Superior de Caguas, el ROQUE PEREZ 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A Demandado(a) LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como precio míni- Caso Núm.: CA2023CV00212. mo para dicha segunda subas- Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ta la suma de $10,697.50. Si se ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN declarase desierta la tercera DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO subasta se adjudicará la finca KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM a favor del acreedor por la totaA: DIANELLYS lidad de la cantidad adeudada ROQUE PEREZ. si ésta es igual o menor que (Nombre de las partes que se le el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima notifican la sentencia por edicto) conveniente. Se abonará dicho EL SECRETARIO(A) que susmonto a la cantidad adeudada cribe le notifica a usted que el si ésta es mayor. Se notifica a 17 de octubre de 2023, este todos los interesados que las Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, actas, y demás constancias del Sentencia Parcial o Resolución expediente de este caso están en este caso, que ha sido debidisponibles en la Secretaría del damente registrada y archivada Tribunal durante las horas labo- en autos donde podrá usted rales para ser examinadas por enterarse detalladamente de los interesados. La propiedad los términos de la misma. Esta a ser ejecutada se adquirirá notificación se publicará una libre de cargas y gravámenes sola vez en un periódico de posteriores. Se notifica ade- circulación general en la Isla más a todo acreedor que tenga de Puerto Rico, dentro de los inscripción con posterioridad 10 días siguientes a su notificaal crédito relacionado en la ción. Y, siendo o representando Sentencia antes mencionada, usted una parte en el procedisi alguno, para que puedan miento sujeta a los términos concurrir a la subasta su les de la Sentencia, Sentencia conviniere o satisfacer antes Parcial o Resolución, de la cual del remate el importe del cré- puede establecerse recurso de dito de sus intereses, costas y revisión o apelación dentro del honorarios de abogados ase- término de 30 días contados a gurados, quedando entonces partir de la publicación por edicsubrogados en los derechos to de esta notificación, dirijo a del acreedor ejecutante. Se en- usted esta notificación que se tenderá que todo licitador acep- considerará hecha en la fecha ta como bastante la titulación y de la publicación de este edicque las cargas y gravámenes to. Copia de esta notificación anteriores y los preferentes, si ha sido archivada en los autos los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu- de este caso, con fecha 18 de tante continuarán subsistentes octubre de 2023. En Carolina, entendiéndose que el rematan- Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre te los acepta y queda subro- de 2023. KANELLY ZAYAS gado en la responsabilidad de ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MAlos mismos, sin destinarse a su RICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, extinción el precio del remate. SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL Y para conocimiento de la parte TRIBUNAL.

Demandada, de los licitadores, LEGAL NOTICE partes interesadas y público general, expido el presente Edicto ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO para su publicación en un perió- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL dico de circulación general en GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA la Isla de Puerto Rico, dos (2) SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS veces por espacio de dos (2) ISLAND PORTFOLIO semanas consecutivas, con un SERVICES, LLC, intervalo de por lo menos siete COMO AGENTE DE (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su pu- FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS blicación en los sitios públicos FUND, LLC correspondientes del municipio Parte Demandante Vs. de Caguas, Puerto Rico. En WALEIRIA J. Caguas, Puerto Rico hoy día RIVERA MEDINA 17 de octubre de 2023. ÁNGEL Parte Demandada GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL Caso Núm.: CD2023CV00017.

PLACA #593.

COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR LEGAL NOTICE EDICTO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA A: WALEIRIA J. RIVERA MEDINA. CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE (Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) CAROLINA SALÓN DE SESIOEL SECRETARIO(A) que susNES CIVIL 406 cribe le notifica a usted que ISLAND PORTFOLIO el 17 de octubre de 2023 este SERVICES, LLC Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, COMO AGENTE DE Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

The San Juan Daily Star 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 de 18 de octubre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, 18 de octubre de 2023. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA. JESSENIA PEDRAZA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

YAMILEX FONTÁNEZ ORTIZ Demandante Vs.

FELIX JUNIOR DELGADO ORTIZ

Demandado Núm. Caso: CG2023RF00706.

Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: FÉLIX JUNIOR DELGADO ORTIZ. 2509 BIATAR AVE. APT 2509E, JPLM, WA 98443.

Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Caguas, el Caso Civil Núm.

CG2023RF00706 sobre DIVORCIO. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la LCDA. IVETTE ROSSANA GARCÍA CRUZ, a la siguiente dirección: PO BOX 373151, CAYEY, PR 0000737-3151.

Teléfono 787-286-9900 Email: garciacruzlaw@gmail.com, Abogada de la Parte Demandante, copia de sus alegaciones y/o contestación a la demanda, original deberán radicar ante este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Si dejare de hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado por la demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 16 de octubre de 2023.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL IN-

Thursday, October 25, 2023

TERINA. YOLANDA TORRES EX PARTE CAMACHO, SECRETARIA AU- Civil Núm.: PA2023CV00220.

XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO BAJO EL ARTICULO 13 LEGAL NOTICE DE LA LEY 118 DE 2020, PROESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO CEDIMIENTO EXPEDITO. EMDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉCENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL SAN JUAN ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PASQUALE DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

CATANZARO ZAPPALA

A: LUISA MARIA GRACIA

Demandante V. CASALS, DIONISIO CADIZ Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV07735.

SOTO, FULANO DE TAL Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O Y MENGANO DE TAL RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ COMO PERSONAS CON EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR POSIBLE INTERÉS. EDICTO. Queda emplazado y notificado ROSA MARGARITA MARRERO de que en este Tribunal HECGARCÍA TOR LUIS LEBRON COLLAZO ROSAMARRERO@GMAIL.COM BENITA ADORNO MORALES A: FIRST FINANCIAL A, la sociedad legal de bienes CARIBBEAN gananciales compuesta por CORPORATION, H/N/C ambos ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre: EXPEH.F. MORTGAGE DE DOMINIO BAJO BANKERS CUALQUIER DIENTE EL ARTICULO 13 DE LA LEY POSEEDOR 118 DE 2002, PROCEDIMIENDESCONOCIDO. TO EXPEDITO. Se le notifica que comparezca ante el TribuDEMANDADOS nal dentro del término de treinta DESCONOCIDOS. (30) días a partir de la publica(Nombre de las partes que se le ción de este edicto y exponer lo notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- que a sus derechos convenga, cribe le notifica a usted que el en el presente caso. Se le notifi19 de octubre de 2023, este ca que deberá presentar su aleTribunal ha dictado Sentencia, gación responsiva a través del Sentencia Parcial o Resolución Sistema Unificado de Manejo y en este caso, que ha sido debi- Administración de Casos (SUdamente registrada y archivada MAC), a la cual puede acceder en autos donde podrá usted utilizando la siguiente direcenterarse detalladamente de ción electrónica: https://unired. los términos de la misma. Esta ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se notificación se publicará una represente por derecho propio, sola vez en un periódico de en cuyo caso deberá presentar circulación general en la Isla su alegación responsiva en la de Puerto Rico, dentro de los Secretaría del Tribunal Supe10 días siguientes a su notifica- rior de Puerto Rico, Sala de ción. Y, siendo o representando Guayama y enviando copia a la usted una parte en el procedi- parte demandante: Lcda. Amermiento sujeta a los términos gie Enid García Santiago, Calle de la Sentencia, Sentencia Francisco G. Bruno #22 Oeste Parcial o Resolución, de la cual Guayama, Puerto Rico 00784, puede establecerse recurso de Teléfono 787-864-4090, amerrevisión o apelación dentro del giegarcia@gmail.com abogada término de 30 días contados a de la parte demandante. Se le partir de la publicación por edic- apercibe y notifica que, si no to de esta notificación, dirijo a contesta la demanda radicada usted esta notificación que se en su contra dentro del término considerará hecha en la fecha de treinta (30) días de la publide la publicación de este edic- cación de este edicto, se le anoto. Copia de esta notificación tará rebeldía en su contra y se ha sido archivada en los autos dictará sentencia en su contra, de este caso, con fecha 20 de conforme se solicita en la Deoctubre de 2023. En San Juan, manda, sin más citarle, ni oírle.

Puerto Rico, el 20 de octubre Expido bajo mi firma y sello del de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍ- Tribunal, hoy día 17 de octubre GUEZ COLLADO, SECRETA- de 2023. MARISOL ROSADO RIA. ELSIE PRATTS MELÉN- RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA, DEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE DEL TRIBUNAL. GUAYAMA. IRIS V. RODRÍLEGAL NOTICE GUEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECREESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TARIA AUXILIAR I. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBULEGAL NOTICE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUA- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUYAMA HECTOR LUIS LEBRON NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCOLLAZO; BENITA CE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONADORNO MORALES CE SALÓN DE SESIONES Peticionarios SALÓN 604 CIVIL SUPERIOR

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CARRASQUILLO SE PUBLICARÁ UNA CARLA MICHELLE LUIS M. VILLANUEVA la Demanda de epígrafe sobre Cancelación de Pagaré ExtraMARRERO SOLA VEZ. MARIANI MARCUCCI VELAZQUEZ viado Por la Vía Judicial. El pa(Nombre de las partes que se le Se les notifique que en la DeDemandado(a) T/C/C CARLA MICHELLE garé hipotecario objeto de esta notifican la sentencia por edicto) radicada en el caso de MARIANI PILLET, POR SÍ Caso Núm.: PO2023CV02032. demanda fue emitido el 1 de di- EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- manda epígrafe se alega que se otorgó Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NO- ciembre de 1998 en virtud de la cribe le notifica a usted que el un pagaré suscrito bajo el testiDE LAS SUCESIONES TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA Escritura de Hipoteca número 16 de octubre de 2023, este monio número 7214, a favor de 1217, otorgada en Mayagüez, Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, DE LUISA HERMINIA POR EDICTO. Puerto Rico ante el Notario Sentencia Parcial o Resolución JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOS o a su orden, por la suma princiPÉREZ LÓPEZ Y CARLOS Francisco J. Biaggi Landrón, en este caso, que ha sido debiJLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM pal de $70,000.00, e intereses MIGUEL MARIANI el señor Wilson Román Piñeiro damente registrada y archivada A: LUIS M. VILLANUEVA a razón del 2% sobre el interés constituyó hipoteca a favor de en autos donde podrá usted enRAMÍREZ preferencial (Prime Rate) en VELAZQUEZ. Westernbank Puerto Rico, o a terarse detalladamente de los Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR POR SI Y COMO POSIBLE TENEDOR DEL PAGARE Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2023CV02121.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARJALIJSA COLÓN VILLANUEVA MCOLON@WWCLAW.COM BANCO POPULAR POR SI Y COMO POSIBLE TENEDOR DEL PAGARÉ POPULAR CENTER BUILDING AVE. MUÑOZ RIVERA 209 HATO REY, PUERTO RICO 00926

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

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 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 23 de octubre de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 23 de octubre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. HILDA ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 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 23 de octubre de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 23 de octubre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. JOAN ROSARIO ALBINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

su orden, en garantía de un pagaré por la suma de $85,000.00 al 5.50% anual y vencimiento el 1 de enero de 2014. Inscrito al folio “51” del tomo “433” de Cabo Rojo Finca “15,026”, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San German. Se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Siendo la parte codemandada una persona desconocida, se exime a la parte demandante del envío por correo con acuse de recibo a los 10 días de la publicación del último edicto a dirección alguna.

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 2 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARACELIS W. CAMACHO ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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 18 de octubre de 2023. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2023.

LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIA. F/DIANA M RIVERA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

CARLOS ENRIQUE REBOLLO MARRERO Y MARIELA LEON VELAZQUEZ Demandante Vs.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; PR ASSET PORTFOLIO 20131 INTERNATIONAL LLC; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

MIGUEL ÁNGEL ROSADO CRUZ; GLADYS Demandados LEGAL NOTICE MORALES VARELA; Civil Núm.: PO2023CV02517.

CARMEN MILAGROS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Sala: 605. Sobre: CANCELAMARTÍNEZ LÓPEZ Y ERIC DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- CIÓN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ NAL CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYADemandantes Vs.

WESTERNBANK PUERTO RICO, HOY BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y JOHN DOE

DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENMON SALON DE SESIONES TE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESFAMILIA Y MENORES - SALA TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE DE BAYAMON SALÓN 4003.

PR, SS.

VERONICA AMADOR COLON

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, PERSONAS Demandados Demandante V. DESCONOCIDAS QUE Civil Número: MZ2023CV01624.

ROBERTO SE DESIGNAN CON Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PACARRASQUILLO ESTOS NOMBRES GARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAMARRERO LEGAL NOTICE FICTICIOS, QUE VIADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Demandado(a) ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE PUEDAN SER TENEDOR Caso Núm.: BY2023RF01095.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE O TENEDORES, O Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE PUEDAN TENER ALGÚN IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR INTERÉS EN EL PAGARÉ PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. HIPOTECARIO A QUE EDICTO. PONCE SAMARIA CARRASQUILLO DIAZ SE HACE REFERENCIA A: JOHN DOE. FIRSTBANK SAMARIA.CARRASQUILLO@GMAIL. Por la presente se notifica que COM MÁS ADELANTE EN EL PUERTO RICO, INC se presentó en esta Secretaría A: ROBERTO Demandante V. PRESENTE EDICTO, QUE

la ciudad de Nueva York, fluctuando concurrentemente con cualquier cambio en dicha tasa desde la fecha de este pagare hipotecario hasta su pago total y definitivo. Vencimiento a la Demanda, garantizado con una hipoteca suscrita mediante la escritura 162 otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de agosto de 2007, ante el Notario Manuel A. Frau Catasús.

La antes descrita hipoteca fue constituida sobre la finca conocida como Finca “Silén”, la cual está dividida físicamente en dos porciones por la carretera PR-3132 denominados Parcela A y Parcela B, siendo objeto de una rectificación de cabida y se segregaron varios predios, cuyos predios segregados están gravados por su origen con la hipoteca garantizada con el pagaré cuya cancelación es objeto de esta acción. Inscrita al tomo Karibe de Peñuelas, fincas 9483 y 9484, inscripción décima (10ma). La obligación evidenciada por el pagaré antes descrito fue saldada en su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original del pagaré. Por la Presente se les emplaza a ustedes como personas desconocidas que puedan ser tenedores o estar interesados en el pagaré extraviado, para que presenten al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose su diligenciamiento. Deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden 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. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Lcdo. Jesús Delgado Vélez RUA 11814 PMB 289 1575 AVE MUÑOZ RIVERA PONCE PR 00717-0211 787-934-3266 delgado.esq@gmail.com Extendido bajo mi firma y el se-

26 llo del Tribunal, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. BRENDA L. SANTIAGO LÓPEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs.

CARLOS A CHEVEREZ ESTERAS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV00529.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TO. A: CARLOS A CHEVEREZ SALA DE FAJARDO

LEGAL NOTICE

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

RAMIRO SANTIAGO DE JESUS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: RG2023CV00289.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: RAMIRO SANTIAGO DE JESUS - BO MALPICA 198 CALLE 15, RIO GRANDE PR 00745.

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

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la 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. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de agosto de 2023.

En FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, el 30 de agosto de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. AMARILIS MÁRQUEZ MÁRQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

ESTERAS - VILLAS DEL RIO CALLE 3 PARA 72, TOA ALTA, PR 00953.

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

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la 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. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de agosto de 2023.

En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 31 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

SEBASTIÁN, PR 00685.

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

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la 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. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de agosto de 2023. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 31 de agosto de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de agosto de 2023. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 31 de agosto de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR

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

RAYMOND R. RAMON FELICIANO

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Demandada DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06026.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Salón: 603. Sobre: COBRO DE SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ISLAND PORTFOLIO

SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

JANET M CORREA RIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SS2023CV00045.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JANET M CORREA RIVERA BO SALTOS CARR 446 KM3 H6 INT, SAN SEBASTIÁN, PR 00685.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de LEGAL NOTICE los treinta (30) días siguientes Parte Demandada ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Civil Núm.: SS2023CV00045. a la publicación de este Edicto.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. Usted deberá presentar su aleEMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- gación responsiva a través del SALA DE BAYAMÓN Sistema Unificado de Manejo y TO. ISLAND PORTFOLIO Administración de Casos (SUA: JANET M SERVICES, LLC MAC), la cual puede acceder CORREA RIVERA COMO AGENTE DE utilizando la siguiente direcFAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS HC 6 BOX 133035, SAN ción electrónica: https://unired.

JANET M CORREA RIVERA

The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, October 25, 2023

A: RAYMOND R. RAMON FELICIANO. URB. COUNTRY CLUB 854 CALLE GOLODRINA SAN JUAN, PR 00924.

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

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la 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. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci-

cio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de septiembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN GERMÁN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 0100

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO Demandante V.

YANCY EMANUEL NIEVES CRUZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: LJ2020CV00095.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. RAFAEL FABRE COLÓN RFABRE@MCMLAWPR.COM

A: YANCY EMANUEL NIEVES CRUZ.

(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 septiembre 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 17 de octubre de 2023. En San Germán, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2023. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE CHERENA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 204-B

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DEL VALENCIANO Demandante V.

NOEL DAVILA ROSARIO

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: JU2020CV00229.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERA JRG@GONZALEZMORALES.COM JUAN ÁNGEL SANTOS BERRÍOS SANTOSBERRIOSLAW@GMAIL. COM RICARDO ANDRES ACEVEDO BIANCHI ACEVEDOBIANCHI@GMAIL.COM

NOEL DAVILA ROSARIO URB. LIRIOS CALA II Y-372, CALLE SAN MARTÍN, JUNCOS, PUERTO RICO, 00777 A: NOEL DAVILA ROSARIO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de abril de 2022, 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 17 de octubre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2023.

LISILDA MARTíNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

MARÍA ELIZABETH

NEGRÓN CORTÉS T/C/C MARÍA E. NEGRÓN CORTÉS T/C/C MARÍA NEGRÓN CORTÉS

gistro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción sexta. La primera y segunda modificación de hipoteca constan inscritas al folio 27 vuelto Parte Demandada del tomo 400 de Canóvanas y Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02699. al margen, respectivamente, (409). Sobre: COBRO DE Finca 5397, Registro de la ProDINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE piedad de Carolina, Sección III. HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR- Inscripción octava. La tercera DINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO y cuarta modificación de hipoPOR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI- teca constan inscritas al tomo DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESI- Karibe de Canóvanas, Finca DENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL 5397, Registro de la Propiedad ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de Carolina, Sección III. InscripDE PUERTO RICO. ción novena y décima, respecA La Parte Demandada: tivamente. La demandante es tenedora por endoso en blanco, MARÍA ELIZABETH NEGRÓN CORTÉS T/C/C por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la MARÍA E. NEGRÓN presente acción. La parte deCORTÉS T/C/C MARÍA mandada deberá presentar su NEGRÓN CORTÉS A SUS alegación responsiva a través ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos CONOCIDAS: URB. (SUMAC), al cual puede acceVILLAS DE LOÍZA, S30 der utilizando la siguiente direcCALLE 20, LOÍZA, PR ción electrónica: https://unired.

00772 Y 974 KNOLLWOOD ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se DR., DAVENPORT, FL represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar 33837-3704. su alegación responsiva en la Queda usted notificado que en secretaría del Tribunal. Se le este Tribunal se ha radicado advierte que si no contesta la demanda sobre ejecución de demanda, radicando el original hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en de la contestación en este Trila que se alega que se adeubunal y enviando copia de la da las siguientes cantidades contestación a la abogada de $120,857.23 de principal, más la Parte Demandante, Lcda. intereses sobre dicha suma Belma Alonso García, cuya al 4.125% anual desde el 1 dirección es: PO Box 3922, de febrero de 2023 hasta su Guaynabo Puerto Rico 00970completo pago, más $128.65 3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) de recargos acumulados, los 789-1826, (787) 708-0566 cocuales continuarán en aumento rreo electrónico: oficinabelmahasta el saldo total de la deuda, alonso@gmail.com, dentro del más la cantidad estipulada de término de treinta (30) días de $8,820.00 para costas, gastos la publicación de este edicto, y honorarios de abogados, así excluyéndose el día de la publicomo cualquier otra suma que cación, se le anotará la rebeldía contenga el contrato del préstay se le dictará Sentencia en su mo, incluyendo pero sin limitarcontra, concediendo el remedio se a gastos de mantenimiento, solicitado sin más citarle ni oírinspecciones y otros adelanle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y tos “corporate advances”. La el sello del Tribunal, hoy, 13 de propiedad que garantiza hipooctubre de 2023, en Carolina, tecariamente el préstamo es Puerto Rico. LCDA. KANELLY la siguiente: URBANA: Solar ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETAradicado en la Urbanización RIA REGIONAL. IDA FERNÁNVillas de Loíza, situada en el DEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETABarrio Canóvanas del MuniRIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. cipio de Loíza (Canóvanas), Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el númeLEGAL NOTICE ro, área y colindancias que se ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO relacionan a continuación, que DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUcontiene una casa de concreto NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA reforzado diseñada para una SALA DE CAROLINA sola familia: Solar #30 del bloFIRSTBANK que S. Área del solar: 230.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes PUERTO RICO por el NORTE, en 10.00 metros Demandante Vs. con la calle #20; por el SUR, en JOHN DOE Y RICHARD 10.00 metros con solares #6 y ROE COMO TENEDORES #7; por el ESTE, en 23.00 meDESCONOCIDOS DEL tros con el solar #31; y por el PAGARE EXTRAVIADO OESTE, en 23.00 metros con Demandados el solar #29. Enclava edificación. Inscrita al inscrita al folio Civil Núm.: CA2023CV03153.

155 del tomo 101 de Canóva- Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE nas, Finca 5397, Registro de la PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPropiedad de Carolina, Sección PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. III. La hipoteca consta inscrita ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉal folio 21 vuelto del tomo 391 RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE de Canóvanas, Finca 5397, Re- LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO

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A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD año 2001, ante Rogelio I. GuzROE COMO POSIBLES mán Lloveras e inscrito al folio 124 del tomo 1380 de Carolina, TENEDORES DEL finca número 56172, inscripPAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. ción 4. Consta inscrita al folio

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, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo.

Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: 787-724-0230. Por la presente quedan notificados los demandados John Doe y Richard Roe, que la parte demandante, ha radicado demanda en este Tribunal alegando la pérdida de un pagaré a favor de Firstbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden y solicitando su Cancelación, por la suma de $30,000.00, con el interés al 12.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2015, identificado por número de afidávit #26 ante el Notario Jorge Enrique Perez Casillas.

Dicho pagaré fue garantizado con hipoteca sobre una propiedad inmueble constituida mediante la Escritura Número 4, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de julio del 2000, ante el Notario Jorge Enrique Pérez Casillas e inscrita al folio 124 del tomo 1380 de Carolina, finca número #56,172, inscripción 3ra., sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Santa Cruz del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero punto tres mil doscientos setenta y cuatro (0.3274) cuerdas, equivalentes a mil doscientos ochenta y siete punto cero cuatro cuarenta (1,287.0440) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con los solares B a segregarse y con el solar Da segregarse, marcado en el plano de inscripción como camino privado a los solares A, B y C a segregarse; por el SUR, con los terrenos de la sucesión Pedro Márquez Bonilla; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Carlos Pizarro Arzuaga y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Francisco Pérez de Jesús y con el solar Da segregarse. Enclava edificación, la cual se describe de la siguiente manera: Casa para uso residencial de una planta, con un valor de $60,000.00 a favor de Cristino Miguel Espinet Cordero, soltero, mediante escritura número 148, otorgada

124 del tomo 1380 de Carolina, Finca número 56,172. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segunda de Carolina. 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 de Carolina, Puerto Rico. A 18 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 603

ELBA IRIS ZAYAS MORENO Demandante V.

FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL; JOHN DOE RICHARD DOE.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 16 de octubre de 2023.

GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUCRECIA PAGÁN MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

SUCESIÓN ANA LUISA MORENO ZAYAS TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO MARÍA LUISA MORENO ZAYAS, COMPUESTA POR LEGAL NOTICE FULANO Y MENGANO DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TAL Y OTROS

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDemandado(a) NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV08123.

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROSobre: SENTENCIA DECLALINA RATORIA. NOTIFICACIÓN BANCO POPULAR DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ERIKA F. MORALES MARENGO PUERTO RICO EMARENGO16@YAHOO.COM Parte Demandante Vs.

A: SUCESIÓN ANA LUISA MORENO ZAYAS, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO MARÍA LUISA MORENO ZAYAS, COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL;

LA SUCESIÓN DE TERESA BOSCH BEDIA T/C/C TERESA BOSCH DE RAMÍREZ T/C/C TERESA RAMIREZ BOSCH COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS SUCESIÓN ARMANDA DESCONOCIDOS; MORENO ZAYAS, JAIME BOSCH BEDIA TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA T/C/C JAMIE BOSCH COMO MARÍA ARMANDA BEDIA POR SÍ Y COMO MORENO ZAYAS, HEREDERO DE TERESA COMPUESTA POR BOSCH BEDIA T/C/C FULANO Y MENGANO TERESA BOSCH DE DE TAL; RAMÍREZ T/C/C TERESA RAMIREZ BOSCH; SUCESIÓN JOSÉ DEPARTAMENTO SANTOS GONZÁLEZ, DE HACIENDA POR COMPUESTA POR CONDUCTO DE LA FULANO Y MENGANO DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES DE TAL; RELICTOS Y CENTRO SUCESIÓN ROSA AIDA DE RECAUDACIÓN DE SANTOS ESTELA, INGRESOS MUNICIPALES COMPUESTA POR (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02703.

(401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE TERESA BOSCH BEDIA T/C/C TERESA BOSCH DE RAMÍREZ T/C/C TERESA RAMIREZ BOSCH.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $40,566.53 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.25% anual desde el 25 de enero de 2023 hasta su completo pago, más $21.71 de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Lote de terreno radicado en el Barrio Carraizo del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, marcado en el plano de inscripción bajo el número 8, con cabida superficial de 900.00 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.2290 cuerdas.

En lindes por el NORTE, en 30.308 metros, con terrenos de Don Ramón Cruz González; por el SUR, en 30.309 metros, con la calle pública de acceso al proyecto de segregación; por el ESTE, en 29.840, con el solar #9 del mismo proyecto de segregación; y por el OESTE, con el solar #7 en el plano de inscripción del proyecto de segregación, distancia de 29.551 metros. Inscrita al folio 113 del tomo 328 de Trujillo Alto, Finca 19398, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 1 del tomo móvil 678 de Trujillo Alto, Finca 19398, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Inscripción quinta. La demandante es tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los herederos para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeri-

dos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento al Artículo 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 2787 entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda.

Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico oficinabelmaalonso@gmail. com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy, 16 de octubre de 2023 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO RINCÓN Parte Demandante Vs

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San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750, designan con estos Tel. (787) 274-1414 / nombres ficticios, que Fax (787) 764-8241 puedan ser tenedor o E-mail: jmontalvo@ delgadofernandez.com tenedores, o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de octubre hipotecario a que se hace de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANreferencia más adelante TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA A: JOHN DOE Y en el presente edicto, que REGIONAL. AMALYN FIGUEDOE JOHN COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS se publicará una sola vez. ROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA Se les notifica que en la De- AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. DESCONOCIDOS DE JOSÉ NELSON VÉLEZ manda radicada en el caso de LEGAL NOTICE epígrafe se alega que el 30 MATÍAS. de enero de 2002, se otorgó ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

(CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV01435.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente 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 de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 octubre de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ. JOSSIE BEBE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BARRANQUITAS

SUCESIÓN JOSÉ NELSON VÉLEZ MATÍAS COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA LISETTE LAMBERTY AGOSTO ORIENTAL BANK T/C/C LISSETTE Demandante V. LAMBERTY AGOSTO BANCO POPULAR DE T/C/C LIZETTE PUERTO RICO; JOHN LAMBERTY T/C/C DOE & RICHARD ROE LISSETTE LAMBERTY Y Demandados JOSENELSON CARLO Civil Núm.: BQ2023CV00128.

VÉLEZ LAMBERTY Y 501. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN GUSTAVO JOSÉ VÉLEZ DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. LAMBERTY, JOHN DOE EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Y DOE JOHN COMO AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO DESCONOCIDOS; LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., ESTADOS UNIDOS DE SS. AMÉRICA; CENTRO A: JOHN DOE Y DE RECAUDACIÓN DE RICHARD ROE, personas INGRESOS MUNICIPALES desconocidas que se

un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $109,100.00 de principal, con intereses al 7% anual, con vencedero el 1 de febrero de 2032, ante el Notario Namyr I. Hernández Sánchez.

En garantía del pagaré antes descrito se otorgó la escritura de hipoteca número 59, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de enero de 2002, ante el Notario Namyr I. Hernández Sánchez, inscrita al folio 248 del tomo 279 de Corozal, Finca número 4799, inscripción 5, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas.

El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca 4799 inscrita al folio 245 del tomo 97 de Corozal, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La obligación evidenciada por el pagaré antes descrito fue saldada en su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original del pagaré. El original del pagaré antes descrito no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. Popular Mortgage, Inc. es el acreedor que consta en el Registro de la Propiedad. Oriental Bank fue último tenedor conocido del pagaré antes descrito. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDO. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN RUA NÚM. 17682 DELGADO & FERNÁNDEZ, LLC PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA BAJA

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

CARLOS R RIVERA OLIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TB2023CV00311.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: CARLOS R RIVERA OLIVERA - URB LEVITTOWN LAKES DU20 CALLE LAGO, GUAYABAL, TOA BAJA PR 00949.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de septiembre de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional.

Militza Mercado Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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PR gymnast takes bronze in pommel horse in Santiago

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elson Guilbe Morales, participating in his first Pan American Games, won a medal in the pommel horse event in Santiago, Chile earlier this week.

“I haven’t processed it yet. It doesn’t feel real,” the 21-year-old athlete said in a written statement. “I have given everything to get this medal.”

His routine earned him 14,133 points and surpassed competitors from the United States.

Alexander Rodríguez assisted Guilbe Morales during the competition.

“After 16 years, I got a medal,” Rodríguez said. “I feel the same pressure [as his teammate].”

Guilbe Morales joins a group of gymnasts from Puerto Rico who have won medals in the pommel horse apparatus. Other members of this group are Mario González, Luis Felipe Tingui Vargas, Luis Rivera and Rodríguez.

“Nelson has a short career, but he shows maturity in his training,” said the veteran Rodríguez, who also offered some words of recommendation: “Maintaining your position is more difficult than winning medals. Be persistent. Always believe in yourself. From now on I wish you success.”

Navas, González, Romano & Miclau stand out The Puerto Rican beach volleyball duo of Allanis Navas and María González advanced to the quarterfinals earlier this week after beating Ecuador. Meanwhile, in aquatics, Kristen Romano and Elizabeth Miclau also secured their spots in the swimming and diving finals, respectively.

González and Navas triumphed in two sets with scores of 21-17 and 21-14 over Karelys Simisterra and Ariana Vilela of Ecuador.

“We started very hard and had a few moments of relaxation,” team captain González said. “We definitely have to work on that for the next game.”

The Puerto Ricans were to face Canada in the quarterfinals, at a time yet to be determined. This is the fourth time that Puerto Rico has competed in women’s beach volleyball at the Pan American Games. In Guadalajara 2011, Yarleen Santiago and Yamileska Yantín earned the first medal for the island in the sport.

Romano, meanwhile, qualified for the

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Nelson Guilbe Morales, second from left, with the bronze medal he earned in the pommel horse.

400-meter medley final with a time of 4 minutes, 52.48 seconds. In diving, Miclau secured her place in the final of the 3-meter springboard event with a score of 234.70.

In other results, swimmer Jarod Arroyo did not advance to the A final of the 400 meter medley after clocking a 4:29.00, but was to compete in the B final.

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 Result National League Diamondbacks 4, Phillies 2 (Arizona wins series 4-3) World Series (Best-of-7) Friday’s Game 1 (all times EST) Arizona Diamondbacks at Texas Rangers (8 p.m., FOX)

Allanis Navas and María González of Puerto Rico beat Karelys Simisterra and Ariana Vilela of Ecuador to advance to the women’s beach volleyball quarterfinals.

Saturday’s Game 2 Arizona Diamondbacks at Texas Rangers (8 p.m., FOX)

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(Mar 21-April 20)

You could have an artistic talent that you haven’t yet tapped. Today events might occur that cause you to want to try. This is a good time, as your inspiration is high. Don’t judge yourself too harshly if your efforts don’t quite fit your expectations. Cut yourself some slack. More experience is needed before you can really fit your vision to your skill.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

A new sort of bond may form with someone you consider a friend. Perhaps you discover a mutual interest or suddenly see your friend in a new light. This can be beautiful, but before you make any commitment, make an effort to get to know the person a little better. Your image of him or her might be clouded by idealism. You might not see the person objectively.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Family members may want to make changes in your home, such as remodeling, redecorating, or refurnishing, but there could be disagreements about the changes needed. Everyone will have a different idea. This isn’t a good day to make such plans. It’s unlikely that any agreement will be reached now. Put off the planning until another time.

Miscommunication with a romantic partner could have you either writing or reading love poetry or a story of some kind. It’s more important that you clear up the misunderstanding with the special person in your life. Cheer up. Don’t let your insecurity get the better of you. All isn’t as bad as it seems. The end of the day could bring a passionate reconciliation.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

A close friend or group with which you’re associated could have money troubles. You might be asked to help, but be careful. It’s doubtful that the person or organization will be able to pay you back. A goal that you’ve been working toward could get stalled, but this isn’t the day to try to jump-start it. You may lack information.

Take a day off and then fix it.

Leo

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(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Family members may want to make changes in your home, such as remodeling, redecorating, or refurnishing, but there could be disagreements about the changes needed. Everyone will have a different idea. This isn’t a good day to make such plans. It’s unlikely that any agreement will be reached now. Put off the planning until another time.

Miscommunication with a romantic partner could have you either writing or reading love poetry or a story of some kind. It’s more important that you clear up the misunderstanding with the special person in your life. Cheer up.

Don’t let your insecurity get the better of you.

All isn’t as bad as it seems. The end of the day could bring a passionate reconciliation.

A close friend or group with which you’re associated could have money troubles. You might be asked to help, but be careful. It’s doubtful that the person or organization will be able to pay you back. A goal that you’ve been working toward could get stalled, but this isn’t the day to try to jump-start it. You may lack information.

Take a day off and then fix it.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

You like people but sometimes you can be very critical. Today you may have a hard time integrating yourself into a group. The group dynamic may not appeal to you. All you want to do is break away. Try to overcome that feeling and observe your resistance. Try to find your place in the group and play along without faking it.

A visitor to your home might bring unreliable information. Don’t take at face value whatever this person says. As far as romance is concerned, your passions are high and your need for intimacy about the same. It’s unlikely that you’ll have any truly romantic encounters today, at least satisfying ones. If the opportunity comes your way, it might be best to make a date for a later time.

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(Aug 24-Sep 23)

A passionate letter or phone call could come from a close friend or romantic partner. The person may be confused and rather emotionally tormented. Be kind! If you’ve been thinking about doing some writing, this is the day. Your imagination is flying high. Let the words flow and don’t get too caught up with grammar and structure now. You can edit later..

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

A passionate letter or phone call could come from a close friend or romantic partner. The person may be confused and rather emotionally tormented. Be kind! If you’ve been thinking about doing some writing, this is the day. Your imagination is flying high. Let the words flow and don’t get too caught up with grammar and structure now. You can edit later.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

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Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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