Tuesday Oct 3, 2023

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PRASA tenders $247 million in water infrastructure projects

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo announced new tenders for infrastructure projects in some 20 municipalities Monday.

About $247 million in projects will be invested in Añasco, Mayagüez, Hormigueros, Rincón, Cabo Rojo, Caguas, Guaynabo, Ponce, Aguas Buenas, Vieques, Dorado, Carolina, Peñuelas, San Juan, Guaynabo, Trujillo Alto, Hatillo, Camuy, Río Grande, Canóvanas, Luquillo and Loíza.

“These works that are about to be tendered will benefit thousands of Puerto Rican families throughout the island …,” Pagán Crespo said in a written statement. “We will continue identifying opportunities to improve the Authority’s infrastructure.”

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8. Improvements to the health system in the San Carlos de Dorado community and elimination of the Monte Elena pumping station for $13.5 million.

9. Design and construction of the line that supplies Roberto Clemente Avenue in Carolina for $1.6 million.

10. Design and construction of the Peñuelas sanitary sewage plant, with an approximate investment of $10.8 million.

11. Design and construction for the acquisition and installation of phase four emergency electrical generators for the eastern region, with an approximate investment of $8.2 million.

12. Rehabilitation of the Hatillo Camuy filtration plant, with an approximate investment of $40.6 million.

13. Design and construction for replacement and renewal of pipes in the eastern region, with an approximate investment of $6.6 million.

PRASA will pay for the works out of its own funds, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds, and the State Drinking Water Revolving Fund Program, she said.

The bidding notices for the improvement projects are as follows:

1. Construction of a new dam for raw water inflow into the Añasco River, which supplies the Miradero de Mayagüez filtration plant, with an estimated investment of $10.5 million.

2. Design and construction of structures, including the Mayagüez customer service office, the Lajas filtration plant, and the Lluberas, Santa Marta and Sabana water towers, with an investment of $510,000.

3. Improvements and repairs to the Vieques sanitary sewage plant for $31.7 million.

4. Design and construction of a submersible, pressure-sustaining pump and extension of the distribution network to the Pajita Falcón water tower in the Mulita sector of Aguas Buenas for $2.4 million.

5. Phase III of the elimination of the old Las Carolinas sanitary sewage plant and pump station located in Caguas for $16.9 million.

6. Design and construction of the drinking water distribution tank in the Sonadora sector of Guaynabo, with an approximate investment of $1.2 million.

7. Repair of structures in the southern region, including the commercial office of Ponce, El Tuque and the Magueyes well, with an approximate investment of $250,000.

14. Improvements to the El Yunque filtration plant in Río Grande, with an approximate investment of $45.6 million.

15. Completion of removal of sand movers at the Puerto Nuevo sewage plant in San Juan, with an approximate investment of $41.6 million.

16. Design and construction of the Morovis Sur filtration plant, with an approximate investment of $7 million.

17. Design and construction for the installation of drinking water pipes on highways PR-691, PR-6659, PR-659 in Dorado, with an investment of $8.1 million.

About $247 million in projects will be invested in Añasco, Mayagüez, Hormigueros, Rincón, Cabo Rojo, Caguas, Guaynabo, Ponce, Aguas Buenas, Vieques, Dorado, Carolina, Peñuelas, San Juan, Guaynabo, Trujillo Alto, Hatillo, Camuy, Río Grande, Canóvanas, Luquillo and Loíza.

Genera PR defends salary increases in public hearings

By THE STAR STAFF

Genera PR, the company contracted to operate the island’s electric power plants, defended on Monday the granting of “exorbitant” salary increases as the chairman of the Energy Committee in the island House of Representatives, Jesús Hernández Arroyo, questioned the conformity of the salaries with established standards.

“In the resolution issued by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, on September 22, following the request for an increase in the labor budget by Genera PR, it stipulated that Genera PR has allocated more funds for personnel than the Bureau approved for that end,” Hernández Arroyo said during a public hearing at the Capitol. “And that is unacceptable, and can be considered reckless and in breach of the June 25 resolution with the Bureau. The resolution

establishes that Genera PR did not provide data such as the salary reference points used to justify the salary levels reflected. Likewise, a review of the salaries and benefits that Genera PR is providing to its employees reveals exorbitant increases in salaries compared to their previous salaries at the Electric Power

Authority. Genera PR has increased most salaries by 10 to 20 percent, but in other cases, salaries have increased by up to 200 percent. Additionally, in most cases, it makes an additional allocation for annual bonuses, some of up to $200,000.”

Katiushka Bolaños, Genera PR’s vice president of regulatory affairs, defended the salaries and insisted that the proposed budgets were in line with what was required. She said there was no non-compliance since the company began recruitment processes to operate efficiently starting July 1.

“We were not in non-compliance with what the Energy Bureau presented since it was precisely subject to a review that was requested,” Bolaños said. “An increase was not requested, what was requested was to restore what Genera PR requested for fiscal year 2024.”

Genera PR CEO Brannen McElmurray clarified that the proposed workforce budget is $79.5 million, similar to the previous fiscal year and within the established limits.

“We have focused on greater efficiency in hiring,” he said.

McElmurray also highlighted that Genera PR has 706 employees, compared to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s 1,036 previously. Additionally, he emphasized an average salary increase of some 15% for all Genera employees.

Hernández Arroyo questioned the lack of data and the salary justifications, highlighting a review that revealed significant salary increases.

The discussion of salaries and bonuses at Genera PR is part of a broader review of contractual agreements between the company and the Puerto Rico government.

High winds from Philippe possible in eastern PR early this morning

By THE STAR STAFF

Atropical storm warning was issued for Barbuda on Monday as Tropical Storm Philippe crawled west-northwest with the possibility of tropical storm conditions clipping Puerto Rico’s eastern flank early this morning.

The center of Philippe had become exposed Monday morning with convection and heavy rainfall displaced to the south and southeast of the center as high northwesterly vertical wind shear persisted.

The initial intensity was holding steady at 45 knots, according to Monday morning’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) advisory, consistent with data from Air Force Reserve reconnaissance showing a large area of 40-45-knot surface winds.

Heavy rains were expected to continue Monday, with a risk of flooding in portions of the Leeward Islands.

The center of Philippe was forecast to pass near, or just

northeast of, the northern Leeward Islands through Monday night, producing heavy rain across some parts, the NHC said. The storm was poised to cause flooding and dump several inches of rain across Antigua and Barbuda through today, forecasters said.

A tropical storm warning was in effect for Barbuda, and a tropical storm watch was in effect for Antigua. Up to 6 inches of rain was predicted, forecasters said, warning that the rain could cause scattered flash floods.

Other parts of the Leeward Islands could also see up to 4 inches of rain, they said.

“Notably, a very strong rain band on the southern side of Philippe will be very close to moving over the northern Leeward Islands, and it could turn out that rainfall and flooding would be the main hazard of the storm,” forecasters said.

While the storm’s strength was not expected to change over the next day or so, it could begin to intensify more significantly

by the middle of the week.

The Atlantic hurricane season started June 1, and runs through Nov. 30.

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) uninsured bondholders have until Nov. 30 to decide if they want to join the utility’s plan of adjustment, according to an Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) filing.

The deadline is exclusively for holders of uninsured PREPA bonds that are not part of the settlement agreement reached with all holders of uninsured utility bonds in January of this year, according to the Sept. 29 notice.

Failure to sign the plan support and settlement agreement and to tender the bonds for assignment of a new Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures (CUSIP)

number will result in the loss of the opportunity to settle, the document said.

After Nov. 30, new CUSIPs will be assigned on Dec. 1 to replace the original CUSIPs by which the existing PREPA bonds are identified, according to the notice.

“The assignment of such alternative identifying CUSIPs does not change or cause a reissuance of the uninsured bonds or change the prepetition nature of claims arising from the uninsured bonds in any way,” the filing noted.

The new alternative identifying CUSIPs will mirror the attributes of the original PREPA securities, the document indicated.

The final hearing on PREPA’s confirmation plan is to take place in March 2024.

House Energy Committee Chairman Jesús Hernández Arroyo

A photo provided by NOAA shows Tropical Tropical Storm Philippe crawling southwestward in the Atlantic on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (NOAA via The New York Times)

A hunger for solutions

Symposium on food security illuminates the public health dimension

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

More than being delightful and tasty, food is important for our survival and well-being, and while it may seem like there is an abundance of food on the planet for all of us to feast on, sometimes economic and societal situations can make food hard to get to or grow in the necessary quantities.

Puerto Rico imports most of its food instead of growing and raising it -- in fact, 80% of the food consumed on the island is imported. This in and of itself is a problem because if for whatever reason food can’t be shipped to the island for a period, that means Puerto Rico would be at an 80% disadvantage in terms of its food supply, and for a population of over 3 million people, that can be quite significant. There’s no need to go as far as a national catastrophe happening; often the day before a storm approaches, stores become flooded with people trying to grab as much non-perishable food as possible.

To discuss those and other issues, the Puerto Rico Food Bank hosted a symposium on island food security recently at the Sila M. Calderón Center for Puerto Rico in San Juan. The first panel took a critical look at poverty in Puerto Rico historically and how the island compares to other parts of the United States.

The first panel, which also defined what food security is and how exactly it relates to poverty, was hosted by Estela M. Reyes, director of advocacy at the Puerto Rico Youth Institute; Mari Jo Laborde, executive director of the Puerto Rico Food Bank; José Caraballo Cueto, a professor of business administration studies at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus; and Angela Díaz, executive director of the nonprofit Nurturing Puerto Rico. Díaz offered some rather interesting takes on food security on the island.

“There are diverse programs that are being created from universities and from communities themselves; there is a lot of investigation that is being done,” she told the STAR. “Nurturing Puerto Rico is also joining with initiatives that already exist at a federal and global level, to spotlight the subject of the food crisis.”

When it comes to public policy creation, Díaz believes there is a lot of room for growth.

“The reason why we need to do better in this department is because there are four dimensions to this situation: food availability, access to food, use and consumption of food, and the most important part being health, because currently we are suffering a health crisis on the island,” she said.

During the first panel, people who work for nonprofits and serve food to clients shared their experience of arriving at people’s houses to deliver food only to find that the people who have limited means for buying food have a 65-inch TV sitting in the living room. Does a portion of Puerto Rico’s population, then, lack a significant measure of financial literacy?

“It is a very common perception that we here in Puerto Rico don’t know how to properly choose what to do with our money; however, it is important to note that we don’t know the circumstances that each person is in,” Díaz said. “Culture and mental health are big factors that determine how a person behaves and eventually lead to people doing certain things.”

“We’ve been experiencing emergencies for six years in a row basically -- hurricanes, pandemic, earthquakes, you name it,” she

added. “That stuff provokes a change in how we behave and what we eat. During recent years the basic food basket items in many communities have begun to change, because they don’t find the food items they were used to. Perhaps those food items have gotten more expensive as well, therefore they end up looking for substitutes for those food items. All of that in a sense is forcing people to behave differently as Puerto Ricans, as Caribbean islanders, who ate a specific number of things.”

Her capacity for empathy notwithstanding, Díaz does believe that knowledge of nutrition is something the island is currently lacking.

“We have very little knowledge about the effect food has on our bodies,” she said. “Fifty percent of Puerto Rico’s population has some sort of chronic disease. That already determines how people eat; sicknesses dictate how you should feed yourself. In the end there are many different factors that describe why a person eats something or why they choose one food over another. It is not as simple as many of us make it seem.”

Regarding agriculture on the island, Díaz believes “there are many projects on the island that are being done; perhaps they are small, however I would say there is a culture of emerging agriculture which is especially true for the younger generations. Young people are garnering interest in agriculture. The youth also have a larger environmental conscience; there is a greater awareness of what we eat and young people especially have a bigger interest in their health.”

Laborde, who heads the Puerto Rico Food Bank, said there are “three points that need to be taken into consideration when we talk about food security: One, it exists; two, it is in our hands to keep working for it; and three, collaborations.”

Nino Correa Filomena, Puerto Rico’s director of emergency management and disaster administration, shared some practical advice with the STAR on food security at the household level: “It is not wise to simply go to the supermarket the day before an atmospheric event and buy everything you need on the same day,” he said.

“Every time you go to the grocery store, buy some emergency food,” he said. “That way, whenever an emergency does happen, there is no need to rush to the supermarket at the last minute.”

Gobierno de Puerto Rico DEPARTAMENTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AMBIENTALES

AVISO AMBIENTAL

INTENCIÓN DE RENOVAR PERMISO DE INYECCIÓN SUBTERRÁNEA

El peticionario, Standard Refrigeration Co., lnc., cuya dirección postal es P.O. Box 2079, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00970-2079 representado por el presidente Ing. Juan S. Quintana, ha solicitado al Departamento de Recursos Naturales (DRNA) el Permiso de Operación UIC-0565-0024 para un sistema de inyección subterránea {SIS) Clase VC-1, bajo las disposiciones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada 42 USC 300f et seq. (LFAPS).

El SIS consiste de una planta de tratamiento Clearstream Modelo 1500N, que tiene como componentes un tanque recibidor, un tanque de aereación, un difusor de burbujas, un clarificador y un sistema de infiltración por goteo con un área de percolación de 3,250 pies cuadrados, en el cual se inyectaran 1,300 galones por día para la disposición de aguas sanitarias exclusivamente, provenientes de los baños de la instalación. El referido SIS estará ubicado en las instalaciones en Standard Refrigeration Co, Inc. localizado en la carretera PR-1, Km 24.8 Barrio Quebrada Arenas en San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de renovar el Permiso de Operación para la instalación antes mencionada en conformidad con los requisitos del RCIS y de la LFAPS.

Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA, ha preparado el borrador del permiso de operación forma tal que el público interesado pueda someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.

Copia de la solicitud del permiso de operación que sometió el peticionario ante el DRNA, el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes estarán a la disposición del público para ser examinados, a petición del interesado mediante el envío de un correo electrónico a la siguiente dirección: inyeccionsubterranea@drna.pr.gov o visitando el ACA, cuya oficina está localizada en el Piso 3 Ala A del Edificio de Agencias Ambientales Cruz A. Matos, Carretera PR-8838, Km 6.3, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Copia de dichos documentos pueden adquirirse en el ACA, entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 4:00 p.m. de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la siguiente dirección: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Avenida Ponce de León, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926.

Las partes interesadas o afectadas pueden enviar sus comentarios por escrito al Sr. Ángel R. Meléndez Aguilar, Gerente Interino del ACA, o solicitar una vista pública por escrito a la Secretaria del DRNA, a la dirección postal o correo electrónico antes indicado. Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vista pública deberán ser sometidos al DRNA no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública deberá señalar la razón o las razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de la misma. De realizarse una vista pública los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emite o deniega el permiso, si la Secretaria determina que dicha vista es necesaria o apropiada.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de septiembre de 2023.

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Este anuncio se publica conforme a lo requerido por la Ley Núm. 4162004, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley sobre Política Pública Ambiental”; los reglamentos aprobados a su amparo; y las leyes y reglamentos federales aplicables. El costo del aviso es sufragado por la entidad peticionaria.

Angela

Díaz, at left, the executive director of the nonprofit Nurturing Puerto Rico, noted that the island has “been experiencing emergencies for six years in a row basically -- hurricanes, pandemic, earthquakes, you name it. That stuff provokes a change in how we behave and what we eat.”

(Photo by Richard Gutiér-

Anaís Rodríguez Vega Secretaria

Emergency Alert System/Wireless Emergency Alerts test slated for Wednesday

By THE STAR STAFF

An islandwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on cell phones, as well as radio and television, will be conducted Wednesday, according to the government.

The Telecommunications Bureau (NET) of the Public Service Regulatory Board announced Monday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will carry out the test at approximately 2:20 p.m.

NET Commissioner Rafael Otaño Casanova said the coordinated effort by FEMA, the FCC, EAS participants, wireless communication service providers, emergency managers and other stakeholders in emergency response preparedness seeks to foster preparedness for any unexpected situation, minimize confusion and maximize the public safety value of the test.

“The purpose of the test is to ensure that communication systems continue to be effective means of warning the public about emergencies,” Otaño Casanova said. “We urge citizens, companies and the media to review and update their emergency plans to ensure that in the event of a real emergency they can respond in a timely manner to save life and property.”

The test consists of two parts, testing the capabilities of the WEA and EAS to alert the population that an emergency

The coordinated effort by federal agencies, Emergency Alert System participants, wireless communication service providers, emergency managers and other stakeholders in emergency response preparedness seeks to foster preparedness for any unexpected situation, minimize confusion and maximize the public safety value of the test.

is occurring.

As part of the exercise, in the case of WEA, once issued, the test will target all cell phones in Puerto Rico. The test message will be displayed in English or Spanish, depending on the language setting of the wireless phone. Meanwhile, the EAS test will be sent to radios and televisions. WEA-compatible phones that are turned on, within range of an active cell tower, and whose wireless service

provider participates in WEA, should be able to receive the test message. The message that will appear on the phones will read: “This is a test of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.”

The EAS test is scheduled to last about a minute and will be conducted with the participation of radio and television broadcasters, cable systems, satellite radio and television providers, and wired video providers.

The message citizens will receive in the test is similar to the test messages that the EAS sends monthly and with which the public is familiar. The audio reads: “This is a national test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, covering the United States from 14:20 p.m. to 14:50 p.m. ET. This is just a test. No action is required from the public.”

Book on successful women to be presented Oct. 12

By THE STAR STAFF

The stories of 21 women who lead various companies in Puerto Rico are captured in the book “Women Who Lead: Reframing Perspectives,” which will be presented on Oct. 12 with an economic support component for an equal number of nonprofit organizations with service programs for women of all ages.

The founder and CEO of Women Who Lead, Frances

Ríos, said the book -- published in English to reach other markets -- is a compendium of 21 chapters that aims to raise awareness about the gaps in the professional world and the strategies that the co-authors share when narrating their experiences to get ahead in their careers and businesses.

“We’ve all had to rethink our perspectives at some point,” Ríos said. “This is the first book that gives visibility to 21 women who are referents of various economic sectors in Puerto Rico. It is about knowing through their testimonies the common challenges they have faced and how they have managed to overcome them to succeed in their professional careers … .”

She said the 21 co-authors are presidents, partners, founders, CEOs and market leaders with fascinating stories, who after overcoming obstacles for simply being women, turned their stories into something bigger than themselves individually and today serve as a guide for others.

Ríos noted that, despite the progress, in Puerto Rico there are still many challenges for women in the world of work.

“If there were no lack of equity in Puerto Rico, the numbers would tell another story,” she said. “Of the top 200 local companies, 85% are led by men. When we go to their direct reporting groups, in most cases, women do not exceed 20% in leadership positions and in many cases they do not exist. This despite the fact that women represent

51% of the population and that it is she who decides 85% of purchases at home.”

Ríos added that the co-authors stand out in different economic lines such as finance, manufacturing, insurance, architecture, retail trade, law, maritime industry, construction, advertising, public relations, academia, human resources, hospitality, automotive and nonprofit, among others.

The co-authors of the book are: Melissa Rivera Roena (ManpowerGroup Puerto Rico), María Soto (Walmart), CPA Doris Barroso (RSM Puerto Rico), Lizette Vélez-Rivé (Saldaña, Carvajal & Vélez-Rive), Milagros Cabrera (The Retail Group), Frances Berríos (Colegio de Peritos Electricistas), Camalis Flores (Risk One), Olga Ramos (Boys & Girls Club), Alexandra Caraballo (Lopito Ileana & Howie), Agnes Suárez (Agnes Suárez Risk Management & Consulting), Maricelis Rivera Santos (Access All Services), Iliette Frontera (Boston Scientific), Gladys Nieves (EDP University), María Betancourt (DNV Consulting), Clarivette Díaz (Puerto Rico Terminals), Ilia Ríos (V Architecture), Brenda Abad (Pepe Abad), Debbie Alonso (Mayagüez Resort), Lisette Villavicencio (VA Contractor), Flávia Tejada (Mentor Group), Josely Vega (Universal).

“This book is not just for women,” Ríos said. “Every man who wants to promote female talent in their companies, organizations, even at home, should read this book to understand the challenges that women face in growing their careers and businesses.”

Telecommunications Bureau Commissioner Rafael Otaño Casanova

Women Who Lead CEO Frances Ríos

McCarthy faces test as Gaetz moves to oust him for working with Democrats

By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership position is in peril after his most outspoken Republican critic, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, said Sunday that he would follow through on threats to try to remove McCarthy from the job.

Gaetz’s announcement came a day after McCarthy, in a stunning reversal, turned to Democrats to help him steer a 45-day stopgap spending bill through the House. The backlash was almost immediate, as Republican hard-liners left the Capitol on Saturday complaining that McCarthy had sold them out by working with Democrats. They questioned whether he deserved to keep his job.

“I think we need to rip off the BandAid,” Gaetz said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, promising in the next few days to bring up a measure called a “motion to vacate.” The move prompts a snap vote on whether to keep the speaker in his post. “I think we need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy.”

Gaetz’s move is the culmination of a monthslong power struggle between McCarthy and far-right members of his party, who sought to deprive him of the speaker’s gavel in January and shut down the House floor this spring to protest a bipartisan deal McCarthy struck with President Joe Biden to raise the debt ceiling.

The possibility that McCarthy might face calls for his ouster has loomed over him since he took the job. Because of a concession he offered to right-wing holdouts in exchange for the speakership, any single lawmaker can call for a removal vote.

But on Sunday, McCarthy shrugged off the threat, predicting that Gaetz’s effort to remove him would fail. He said Gaetz was motivated by a petty grudge rather than a substantive dispute.

“I’ll survive,” McCarthy said during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “You know this is personal with Matt.” He accused Gaetz of being “more interested in securing TV interviews than doing something.”

“So be it, bring it on,” McCarthy added. “Let’s get over with it and let’s start governing. If he’s upset because he tried to push us into a shutdown and I made sure the government didn’t shut down, then let’s have that fight.”

For several weeks, Gaetz has threatened to topple McCarthy. He complained that the speaker had reneged on several promises he made to Republican hardliners to win their support to become speaker, including demands for deep spending cuts. In Sunday’s CNN interview, he accused McCarthy of lying to his GOP members during spending negotiations and making a “secret deal” with Democrats concerning future funding for Ukraine. He and dozens of other conservative Republicans oppose more aid to Ukraine.

“Nobody trusts Kevin McCarthy,” Gaetz said, predicting that the only way McCarthy would remain speaker by week’s end is “if Democrats bail him out.”

Although most House Republicans still support keeping McCarthy on as speaker, Gaetz’s plans pose an existential threat to his tenure because of the slim majority the GOP holds in the chamber. If Democrats were to vote against McCarthy — as is almost always the case when

a speaker of the opposing party is being elected — Gaetz would need only a handful of Republicans to join the opposition to remove him, which requires a simple majority vote.

To avoid that fate, at least some Democrats would have to either vote to keep McCarthy in office, skip the vote or vote “present” — neither for or against. That would lower the threshold for a majority and make it easier to defeat Gaetz’s motion.

It is not clear whether Democrats would help McCarthy. They are angry that he recently announced that the House was opening an impeachment inquiry into Biden, despite lacking evidence of wrongdoing. Most Democrats regard McCarthy as an untrustworthy figure who has spent months catering to the whims of his right wing.

He has turned to Democrats only when his back is against the wall, as he did in the spring to avoid a federal debt default and again Saturday to keep the government open.

Gaetz expressed confidence that he would eventually rally enough votes among Democrats and Republicans to oust McCarthy as speaker, even if his

opening attempt this week fails.

“I might not have them the first time, but I might have them before the 15th ballot,” Gaetz said on ABC’s “This Week.” It was a pointed reference to the number of attempts it took McCarthy to secure his speakership in January. He added, “I am relentless, and I will continue to pursue this objective.”

Gaetz did not say whom he would like to see replace McCarthy as speaker. He argued that it would be unfair to speculate while the House’s second-highestranking Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, is being treated for cancer.

“I want to see how Steve Scalise comes out of that,” Gaetz said.

That left open the possibility that the top post in the House could remain vacant for some time, with McCarthy forced out and nobody else able to muster the votes to replace him.

The situation has left mainstream Republicans in competitive districts fuming.

Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., accused Gaetz of being “duplicitous” and engaging in a “diatribe of delusional thinking.”

In an interview on ABC that aired just after Gaetz’s appearance, Lawler accused Gaetz of breaking faith with the House GOP when a majority of the chamber’s Republicans did not share his animus toward McCarthy. He also argued that the move would undermine all of the work Republicans had done to advance their conservative policy agenda.

“This will all be torpedoed by one person who wants to put a motion to vacate for personal, political reasons,” Lawler said, noting, “We have to work together as a team.”

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Newsom names Emily’s List president as Feinstein successor

and looked forward to working with her on behalf of California. “I am singularly focused on winning my campaign for Senate,” she added.

Newsom’s chief spokesperson, Anthony York, indicated Sunday that the governor would not demand that his appointee stay out of the 2024 Senate race.

In a post on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, York agreed with Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., who said “there shouldn’t be any strings attached” to the appointment. That leaves open the possibility that Butler — a prolific fundraiser at Emily’s List — could still enter the primary for the permanent Senate seat.

Butler, whose appointment was first reported by Politico, did not comment Sunday night.

She becomes the first openly LGBTQ senator to represent California. Scott Wiener, a Democratic state senator, celebrated the appointment Sunday night.

“LGBTQ people are being viciously attacked in the United States right now, and elevating a Black lesbian to the U.S. Senate is a powerful statement,” said Wiener, a gay leader from San Francisco who has championed legislation protecting LGBTQ rights.

It is not clear whether Butler will run to serve a full six-year term. However, her appointment would bring a clear contrast to Feinstein, a wealthy centrist who grew up in an affluent San Francisco family, graduated from Stanford University and prized political compromise throughout her career.

By SHAWN HUBLER

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sunday night that he has chosen Laphonza Butler, the president of Emily’s List and a former labor leader, to fill the Senate vacancy left by the death of Dianne Feinstein. Butler, 44, has been a fixture in California politics for nearly 15 years, as a former leader of the state’s largest labor union and an adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris. In 2021, she became the first Black woman to take the helm at Emily’s List, the fundraising powerhouse dedicated to electing female candidates and supporters of reproductive rights.

Feinstein died at 90 Thursday in Washington, and her body was flown over the weekend back to San Francisco, where a memorial service has been scheduled for this Thursday.

“As we mourn the enormous loss of Senator Feinstein, the very freedoms she fought for — reproductive freedom, equal protection and safety from gun violence — have never been under greater assault,” Newsom said in a statement. “Laphonza will carry the baton left by Senator Feinstein, continue to break glass ceilings and fight for all Californians in Washington, D.C.”

In choosing Butler, who is expected to be sworn in Wednesday, Newsom followed through on a pledge he made more than two years ago to name a Black woman to the Senate if a vacancy were to emerge.

But by the time of Feinstein’s death, three high-profile Democratic members of Congress had already entered the 2024 race to succeed her. Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee have all been campaigning statewide in California for months.

Newsom, who is also a Democrat, told NBC News last month that he preferred not to influence next year’s primary election by giving one candidate an advantage. Instead, he said, he would pick an interim replacement. His statement drew pushback from political allies of Lee, 77, who is Black and wants to serve in the office long term. She is trailing the other two candidates in fundraising and polling.

Over the weekend, as speculation gathered around the governor’s choice, members of the Congressional Black Caucus posted a letter to the governor, voicing “strong support for Congresswoman Barbara Lee for that appointment.” Advocacy organizations pushed for Lee as well.

“Barbara Lee, and Black women, are not mere caretakers, but the voting and organizing center of the national Democratic Party,” Aimee Allison, the founder of She the People, an organization that helps elect women of color in politics, said in a statement this past week.

On Sunday night, Allison said she was pleased with Newsom’s appointment of Butler and called it “a promise kept.”

Lee said in a statement that she wished Butler well

Born in Magnolia, Mississippi, Butler, whose father died when she was 16, told The New York Times in 2021 that their household was supported afterward by her mother, who worked, among other jobs, as a security guard, gas station cashier, home-care worker and teaching assistant. Butler attended a historically Black college, Jackson State University.

Before taking the job at Emily’s List, she spent nearly two decades at the Service Employees International Union, where she organized nurses and janitors before moving in 2009 to California, where she rose to eventually lead the largest union in California, a branch of SEIU representing 325,000 home-care workers. Her accomplishments in California included the passage of a $15 minimum wage.

Butler left SEIU to become a political consultant, working at a firm with some of Newsom’s top advisers, and was a senior strategist for Harris when she ran for president. At Emily’s List, she championed diversity, pushing the organization to support nonwhite candidates.

She moved from California to the Washington, D.C., area when she became president of Emily’s List in 2021, and she will re-register as a voter in California, where she still owns a home, according to Newsom’s administration. Butler and her wife, Neneki, have a school-aged daughter.

At the time she took the job at Emily’s List, she told the Times that she relished “the opportunity to work for women like my mom.”

“What daughter doesn’t want to continue her mother’s journey?” she said.

Laphonza Butler has been a fixture in California politics for nearly 15 years as a former leader of the state’s largest labor union and an adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris.

After seven weeks in burn unit, another Maui fire victim dies

By MIKE BAKER

As thousands of people rushed to flee the raging wildfire that swept through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, a flaming branch crashed to the roadway ahead of Laurie Allen’s car as she tried to escape. With the fire closing in, she knew that her only hope was to get out and run — through the inferno.

One hand held her important documents; the other clasped the hand of her landlady. They sprinted through the flames — the papers incinerating, their grasp faltering in the searing heat. Allen eventually emerged, running into a firefighter who enveloped her to extinguish the fire.

That night, as the blaze continued raging through Lahaina, Allen was raced to a burn center two islands away in Honolulu, part of a desperate effort to save her life. But after a series of surgeries and meticulous skin grafts, after weeks of encouragement and prayers and raw hope, the multiple infections that set in could no longer be kept at bay on a body that had been so extensively burned.

On Friday, seven weeks after the Aug. 8 fire, Allen became the 98th death in a disaster that was already the deadliest U.S. wildfire of the past century.

“There are no words to express how deeply I will miss her,” her husband, Perry Allen, said in a text message Saturday sharing news of her death.

On the afternoon of the fire, Perry Allen had been working at a resort north of the burn area. He was able to speak by phone with his wife and make a plan as she prepared to flee. But for hours afterward, he had no idea what had happened to her. Cellphone service was faltering, and Laurie Allen did not show up at the meeting place they had agreed to. With the fire still burning, police were blocking roads into town, prohibiting anyone from driving in to search.

Then a voice message pinged on his phone: Doctors at the hospital in Wailuku had a woman with severe burns, but they did not know who she was. The woman, who was being flown to a burn unit in Honolulu, had only been able to mutter Perry Allen’s name and his phone number.

Her fingernails and toenails were painted purple, they said. He knew it was his wife.

When he managed to reach Honolulu the following day, Allen said, his wife had a tube in her throat but was able to com-

municate with an alphabet board, pointing to letters to spell out words. As soon as he arrived, he said, she spelled out the names of their landlady, Conchita, and her son, Danilo.

“What do you know?” Allen asked her. He saw tears welling up in her eyes. Conchita Sagudang, 75, and Danilo Sagudang, 55, were later listed among the fire’s confirmed fatalities.

The fire had spread rapidly on the afternoon of the disaster, as it erupted in dry grasses more than a mile from the waterfront and was pushed down the hillside by potent winds.

Some people were able to flee just in time; others found themselves trapped by downed power lines. Many sought refuge in the ocean for hours. Survivors have reported having little warning about the extent of the threat until flames were suddenly upon them.

From the early days, it was clear that dozens of people had died. Officials are continuing to work through a list of people who were reported missing.

Fire often does its work slowly on the body. Deep burns can destroy the underlying nerve endings and the body goes into shock, limiting the level of pain — in the initial stages. Over the first few days at Straub Medical Center in Honolulu, Laurie Allen was able to breathe on her own and put aside the alphabet board to talk with her husband.

She recounted the harrowing flight from the fire. She had delayed her own evacuation, she told him, until the Sagudangs could gather their things and join her. When they were ready, she followed their two cars down the road until the falling tree branch forced them to abandon their cars and climb into hers. But she couldn’t find a way forward either.

They decided to make a run for it. She made it. The Sagudangs did not.

She expressed her sorrow that her husband’s treasured art collection could not be saved. He urged her to keep fighting, to not, after all that, give up now. She seemed to know the odds were against her, Perry Allen said. If she didn’t make it, she told him, he should continue on with a good life.

“Even in this total dire situation, we both just felt really blessed,” he said.

The couple had been together for two decades but only married a couple of years ago. They had been drawn to Lahaina, he said, for its beauty and sunshine and the historic downtown that was a remnant of

old Hawaii. They cycled almost every night to watch the sunset from the harbor.

Laurie Allen loved the water, snorkeling and kayaking whenever she could. She went to church three days a week, her husband said, and would sometimes stop at the side of the road to strike up relationships with homeless people, helping some of them get into permanent housing.

“That’s the kind of stuff she would do,” he Allen said.

In the hospital, doctors warned the couple that there would be a long path to any recovery, and no guarantees: 73% of her skin had third-degree burns.

Such extensive burning is often not survivable, but medical workers told Perry Allen that they were holding out hope. With the development of new techniques and skin substitutes, burn care has advanced over the decades, giving people in the most dire situations a shot at survival. And Laurie Allen had shown resilience in being able to breathe on her own.

“We’ve got a fighting chance here,” the surgeon told them.

The staff at the medical center was handling nine burn patients from Lahaina, the most from one fire in the unit’s history. Laurie Allen required constant attention.

Within days, the pain came roaring

back. And as doctors began the slow work of grafting healthy skin onto her wounds, she was placed under round-the-clock sedation. At times, she would become alert enough to nod or blink answers before doctors pushed her down into sleep again. The conversations with her husband largely ended, although he spent days caressing her forehead and brushing her hair — two small areas he was able to touch.

Nurses spent hours cleaning and bandaging wounds to stave off infection. There was a series of surgeries to remove dead skin and graft replacements. The only skin from her own body available for grafting was on her abdomen, so doctors tried working with donor skin and experimental protective barriers. Surgeons told Perry Allen that they would normally wait to do procedures in two-week intervals but were forced to try making them happen every week.

It was a fight from the very beginning. Infections began to spread on her body, and some of the skin grafts could not take hold, Perry Allen said. A planned surgery was canceled. Some of her vital organs began to fail.

“Once they found that out, that changed the game,” he said. “She was getting weaker.”

He telephoned some of his wife’s family members to travel in to say goodbye.

The Best Western Pioneer Inn destroyed by wildfires in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii on Aug. 10, 2023. Laurie Allen had to run through a wall of flame to escape the August wildfire. Doctors went to extraordinary lengths to try to save her.

Crypto goes on trial, as Sam Bankman-Fried faces his reckoning

By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN

Ayear ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was a fixture on magazine covers and in the halls of Congress, a touslehaired crypto billionaire who hobnobbed with movie stars and bankrolled political campaigns.

Today, the founder of the failed FTX digital currency exchange is set to leave the jail where he has been confined for more than seven weeks and stand trial in a Manhattan courtroom on federal charges of fraud and money laundering, capping one of the largest and swiftest corporate collapses in decades.

The charges against Bankman-Fried, 31, have put the rest of the crypto industry on trial with him. He has emerged as a symbol of the unrestrained hubris and shady deal-making that turned cryptocurrencies into a multitrillion-dollar industry during the pandemic. The demise of FTX in November helped burst that bubble, sending other high-profile companies into bankruptcy and provoking a government crackdown.

The trial will offer a window into the Wild West-style financial engineering that fueled crypto’s growth and lured millions of inexperienced investors, many of whom lost their savings when the market crashed. Lawyers on both sides of the case are expected to lay bare the culture of scams and risk-taking that surrounded FTX and to dissect the often-misleading publicity campaigns that helped drive years of crypto hype.

“It’s a fraud that was enabled and supercharged by crypto, and by crypto’s unique aspects,” said Lee Reiners, a crypto expert who teaches at Duke Law School. “It wouldn’t have been possible in any other context.”

Jury selection begins Tuesday in U.S. District Court, with the trial expected to last six weeks. Camera crews and reporters are expected to swarm the courthouse, and author Michael Lewis has a widely anticipated book about the case coming out that day, featuring behind-the-scenes details of Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall.

Bankman-Fried, who faces seven cri-

minal counts, is accused of orchestrating a yearslong fraud that siphoned billions of dollars from customers to finance political contributions, venture capital investments and luxury real estate purchases. He has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he could receive what would amount to a life sentence.

He faces an uphill battle. Three of his closest advisers have pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against him. Prosecutors have accumulated millions of pages of digital evidence, including text transcripts, financial records and emails, and they plan to introduce about 1,300 exhibits at the trial. The judge, Lewis Kaplan, has repeatedly sided with the prosecution in procedural disputes, rejecting expert witnesses the defense had hoped to call and allowing the government to use evidence that Bankman-Fried had contested.

For the past month and a half, Bankman-Fried has also had to prepare his case from a jail cell in Brooklyn, after Kaplan revoked his bail, ruling that he had tried to interfere with witnesses.

“It doesn’t appear that there’s any sort of path to victory” for Bankman-Fried, said Renato Mariotti, a former federal pro -

secutor.

Also looming over the trial is the question of whether Bankman-Fried, who is unusually garrulous for a criminal defendant, will testify — a high-risk move that defense lawyers tend to discourage.

“It will surely be painful for him to remain quiet if he believes or convinces himself that the government is mischaracterizing his transactions and his closest associates are making up stories about him,” said Daniel Richman, a law professor at Columbia University and a former federal prosecutor. The downside is “he might not respond well to forceful cross-examination.”

A representative for Bankman-Fried declined to comment. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, the division that is prosecuting Bankman-Fried, also declined.

Known for his signature outfit of Tshirts and shorts, Bankman-Fried rose to prominence as a rare good guy in the loosely regulated world of crypto. He founded FTX in 2019 and raised $2 billion in venture funding, promising to work with regulators to write new rules for the industry. He was also a prolific political donor, contri-

buting more than $5 million to support Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential run.

Then, over four frantic days in November, FTX and its sister hedge fund, Alameda Research, imploded, with customers unable to withdraw more than $8 billion in deposits. The companies filed for bankruptcy, and Bankman-Fried was charged with counts including securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. A count accusing him of violating campaign finance law was eventually dropped, along with a handful of other charges, though all could be revived at a second trial next year.

Many of his closest allies have turned on him. Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and Bankman-Fried’s on-and-off girlfriend, pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the prosecution. She was joined by two co-founders of FTX, Gary Wang and Nishad Singh, who admitted to conspiring with Bankman-Fried to defraud customers. A fourth high-level executive, Ryan Salame, also pleaded guilty, without agreeing to cooperate.

After his arrest, Bankman-Fried was confined to his parents’ house in Palo Alto, California, where he entertained guests and had a pickleball court installed in the yard. In August, Kaplan revoked those privileges and sent him to the Metropolitan Detention Center after he shared some of Ellison’s private writings with The New York Times.

As the trial approaches, the defense has faced setbacks. Bankman-Fried has had trouble getting access to documents from jail, his lawyers say, because of a spotty internet connection and battery problems with a laptop he was given.

Kaplan has mostly dismissed those complaints. Last month, he rejected the defense’s attempt to stop prosecutors from citing evidence related to FTX’s bankruptcy filing and Bankman-Fried’s resignation from the company. The judge said those events were “intertwined inextricably” with the charges. And in a ruling Sunday, he said he might limit the defense’s ability to argue that some of the decisions made at FTX involved lawyers.

“The issues in this case are pretty straightforward,” Kaplan said at a court hearing last week.

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, exits the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Feb. 9, 2023. The FTX founder’s uphill court battle starts Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, after he has come to symbolize everything that went wrong with the cryptocurrency industry.

Discover Financial Jumps 7% After Agreeing With FDIC to Improve Consumer Compliance

Shares of Discover Financial Services climbed 7% on Monday after the bank agreed to improve its consumer compliance and related corporate governance as part of a consent order with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC).

The stock was the top percentage gainer on the benchmark S&P 500 in early trading, outperforming both the broader markets and the financial sector.

“Discover Bank has been taking significant steps to strengthen the organization’s compliance management system and address the other issues identified in the consent order,” the lender said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.

In late July, Discover revealed it had received a proposed consent order from the FDIC in connection with consumer compliance.

At the time, the bank’s shares tanked after it also disclosed a regulatory review over some incorrectly classified credit card accounts from around mid-2007 unrelated to the FDIC consent order.

The company then decided to pause share repurchases as well.

As the regulatory review on the misclassification is ongoing, additional enforcement actions or other supervisory activity from the FDIC and other regulators remain possible, Discover said in filing on Friday.

Strong upcoming earnings results could reverse the decline in mega-cap technology and growth stocks, which have been hammered by the rise in Treasury yields and are trading at their cheapest levels in six years by one measure, according to Goldman Sachs strategists.

The so-called Magnificent Seven group of megacap stocks -Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Alphabet, Nvidia, Tesla, and Meta Platforms - have fallen 7% over the last two months, compared with a 3% decline in the broad S&P 500, as Treasury yields jumped more than 60 basis points to 16year highs.

Those declines have pushed mega-cap forward priceto-earnings ratios down by a collective 20% over the last two months, leaving them trading at their largest discount to the market based on long-term growth since January 2017, Goldman Sachs said in a note dated Oct. 1. At the same time, the group is expected to post sales growth of 11% in the third quarter, compared with a 1% improvement for the S&P 500, the firm noted.

The mega caps in aggregate have beaten consensus sales growth expectations 81% of the time and have outperformed in two-thirds of earnings seasons since the fourth quarter of 2016, Goldman’s strategists said.

“The divergence between falling valuations and improving fundamentals represents an opportunity for investors,” they wrote.

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timent for equities overall has flatlined, which historically has been a contrarian indicator of more gains ahead, Savita Subramanian, equity and quant strategist at BofA Global Research, wrote in a note Monday.

The average recommended allocation to equities in balanced funds remained unchanged at 53% in September, below the benchmark of 60%, Subramanian noted. Falling sentiment has historically been a signal of broad gains over the following 12 months, she noted.

The S&P 500 has dropped nearly 5% over the last 10 trading days but remains slightly more than 11% up since the start of the year.

“We expect the S&P 500 to rally into year-end, with more upside in the equal-weighted index,” Subramanian wrote.

Their rising stock prices ballooned valuations, however, and some investors say the megacaps could be vulnerable if climbing bond yields keep pressuring stocks. The so-called Magnificent Seven stocks trade at an average price-to-earnings ratio of 31.8 based on earnings estimates for the next 12 months, according to LSEG Datastream. That far surpasses the S&P 500’s ratio of 18.1.

Ukraine downplays uncertainty over US support after funding bill passes with no aid

By MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG

Ukraine’s government said Sunday it was confident that the United States would continue to support it in its war with Russia, even after the House passed a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown that did not include any additional money for Kyiv.

The White House and leaders of both parties in the Senate had pushed for more Ukraine funding to be included in the bill, which passed late Saturday. Members of both parties said they were confident that further financial commitments would be agreed to, but the failure to do so on Saturday highlighted the decreasing willingness of some Republicans to fund Kyiv’s war effort.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine made the case for continued U.S. support during a visit to Washington last month, and his office suggested Sunday that it was not unduly concerned.

“All key partners of Ukraine are determined to support our country until its victory in this war,” Andriy Yermak, head of the president’s office, said in a post on the Telegram messaging app, adding that the Ukrainian government meets with both Republicans and Democrats. “The Ukrainian delegation returned from the United States of America with clear confidence that there are no changes in support.”

Although the stopgap bill did not contain additional support for Ukraine, it continues funding at current levels for 45 days and will not immediately affect the pipeline of U.S. military aid. The Pentagon still has the authority to draw about $5.6 billion in arms and equipment from existing stockpiles, and the bill keeps in place a program to send money to Ukraine for purposes including training troops.

President Joe Biden welcomed passage of the stopgap bill, but said Sunday there was “an overwhelming sense of urgency” to secure additional funding for Ukraine, which he promised to deliver.

Biden, who has sought an additional $24 billion for Ukraine — on top of about $113 billion in military, humanitarian and economic aid that Congress has approved — said leaving that money out of the bill had put Ukrainians in danger. “I can’t believe those who voted for supporting Ukraine, an

overwhelming majority in the House and Senate, Democratic, Republican, will for purely political reasons let more people die needlessly in Ukraine.”

The Ukrainian government was “actively working with American partners” to ensure that the new budget includes more aid for Ukraine, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, Oleh Nikolenko, said in a statement on Facebook.

“Support for Ukraine remains unwaveringly strong within the U.S. administration, in both parties and chambers of the U.S. Congress, and most importantly, among the American people,” he added.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy signaled on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that he is willing to make a deal to keep military assistance flowing to Ukraine, but that such an agreement would depend on Congress making significant changes to border security, including the way that migrants make asylum claims.

Republicans who support Ukraine make up the majority of GOP members in Congress, and one of them, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, predicted on “Face

the Nation” that senators would draft an assistance proposal with $60 billion or more to assist Kyiv “through the next fighting season.”

Zelenskyy has sought to set the war in a long term perspective, and argued in an address Sunday that Ukraine was at a “crossroads of history.”

“No one should and no one will manage to ‘switch off’ our resilience, endurance, grit and courage on either scheduled or emergency basis,” he said. “They have no ‘expiration date,’ ‘end date,’ or final point after which we would stop resisting and fighting, except for one — our victory.”

On Sunday, a nationwide moment of silence for fallen soldiers was held across the country — a tradition that Zelenskyy said would be observed each year. At 9 a.m. local time, church bells rang and people stopped in the streets of the capital.

Ukraine does not disclose military casualty figures, but U.S. officials said in August that the country had suffered close to 70,000 killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded. The toll, which the officials said is dwarfed by Russian losses, has continued

to rise as Ukrainian forces wage a counteroffensive to retake land in the south and east of the country.

After months of bloody combat, little ground has changed hands this year and Ukraine has not achieved a decisive breakthrough.

At the same time, Ukraine has intensified attacks on occupied Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, in an attempt to disrupt Moscow’s supply lines. Russia’s defense ministry said Sunday that air defenses intercepted two Ukrainian missiles over the occupied peninsula. Falling debris damaged warehouses, but there were no casualties, the Russian state news agency Tass reported, citing the Moscowappointed governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov. The claim could not be independently confirmed.

Ukraine has also stepped up a campaign of drone attacks on military targets in Russia. Five Ukrainian drones were intercepted Sunday over the city of Smolensk in western Russia, the regional governor, Vasily Anokhin, said on the Telegram messaging app. Another was downed in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia, Tass reported, prompting temporary flight restrictions at Sochi Airport.

Here’s what else is happening:

— Russian shelling killed one person Sunday in the northeastern Kharkiv region, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. Separately, Ukraine’s air force said that it had shot down 16 out of 30 exploding drones that Russian forces launched overnight. One person was injured when industrial infrastructure in the central region of Cherkasy was hit and a grain warehouse caught fire, according to officials. Russian attacks also wounded four people in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson overnight, a spokesperson for the regional military administration, Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, said on national television.

— British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pushed back on remarks by his defense secretary suggesting that Britain was considering training Ukrainian troops inside Ukraine. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps had raised the possibility in an interview with The Telegraph newspaper. But Sunak on Sunday told Sky News that the idea was “not for the here and now.”

Injured Ukrainian soldiers arrive for treatment at a frontline stabilization point hospital in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Sept. 29, 2023.

Russia may be planning to test a nuclear-powered missile

By RILEY MELLEN

Satellite imagery and aviation data suggest that Russia may be preparing to test an experimental nuclear-powered cruise missile — or may have recently tested one — with a theoretical range of thousands of miles.

Movements of aircraft and vehicles at and near a base in Russia’s remote Arctic region are consistent with preparations that were made for tests of the missile, known as the Burevestnik or SSC-X-9 Skyfall, in 2017 and 2018, according to a New York Times analysis.

U.S. surveillance planes have also been tracked in the area over the last two weeks, and aviation alerts have warned pilots to avoid nearby airspace.

Russia previously conducted 13 known tests between 2017 and 2019, all of which were unsuccessful, according to a report from the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit group focused on arms control. And mishaps can be deadly. A missile launched in 2019 crashed and eventually exploded during a recovery attempt, killing seven people, according to U.S. officials.

“It is exotic — it is dangerous in its testing and development phase,” said Daryl G. Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association. Whether the Burevestnik has been tested again since 2019 isn’t clear, but even with a successful launch, the missile would still be years away from “operational deployment,” Kimball added.

In previous tests, the missile failed to fly a distance anywhere close to the designed range, estimated to be around 14,000 miles. U.S. officials assessed that during its most successful test flight, lasting just more than two minutes, the missile flew 22 miles before crashing into the sea. In another test, the missile’s nuclear reactor failed to activate, causing it to go down only a few miles from the launch site. For a test to succeed, the missile’s nuclear reactor would need to initiate in flight, so that the missile can cover much more ground.

According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative report, the missile is a “second-strike, strategic-range weapon,” intended to be launched after a wave of nuclear strikes have devastated targets in Russia. The

missile could carry a conventional warhead but, in practice, would likely carry a nuclear payload, albeit a smaller one than most other nuclear-capable weapons. If used in wartime, the missile could have the potential to destroy large urban areas and military targets, experts say.

While Russia has shared little about the Burevestnik’s specific design, President Vladimir Putin has said it is nuclear-powered. The missile is thought to be launched by a solid-fuel rocket motor before a small nuclear reactor activates in flight, theoretically allowing the missile to stay aloft indefinitely.

The Burevestnik is one of six strategic weapons, along with others such as the Kinzhal ballistic missile and the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, that Putin introduced in a 2018 speech. He asserted that the weapons could overpower and outmaneuver existing U.S. defenses. Addressing the West, he said, “You have failed to contain Russia.”

Visual evidence of testing preparations

includes before-and-after satellite images.

Imagery taken on the morning of Sept. 20 shows numerous vehicles present on a launchpad at the base, including a truck with a trailer that appears to correspond to the dimensions of the missile. A weather shelter that typically covers the specific launch site had been moved about 50 feet. By the afternoon, the trailer was gone and the shelter was moved back to its original position.

Additional imagery captured on Sept. 28 shows the launchpad active again, with a similar trailer present and the shelter again drawn back.

On Aug. 31, Russian authorities issued an aviation notice for a “temporary danger area,” advising pilots to avoid part of the Barents Sea off the coast and 12 miles from the launch site, known as Pankovo. The notice has since been extended several times and, as of Sunday, was scheduled to be in force through Friday. Russia issued a similar notice before a Burevestnik test in 2019.

Additionally, two Russian aircraft specifically used for collecting data from missile launches were parked about 100 miles south of the launch site in early August, at the Rogachevo air base, according to analysis of satellite images by Bellona, a Norwegian environmental organization. The aircraft are owned by Rosatom, the Russian atomic energy company. They remained at that base at least through Sept. 26, according to additional satellite imagery. During Burevestnik tests in 2018, aircraft of the same type were also in the vicinity.

A U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft, an RC-135W Rivet Joint, also flew at least two missions off the coast of the Arctic island where the launch site is, on Sept. 19 and Sept. 26, according to the tracking platform Flightradar24. The two missions represented a slight uptick from usual known activity.

The highly secretive nature of the Burevestnik missile initiative and the remote launch location make it difficult to determine if a test is forthcoming or if the weapon may have already been recently retested — or perhaps both. While launch tests of the Burevestnik have been conducted at the Arctic base in the past, Russia could also test just the missile’s rocket motor or a component of the missile itself.

The White House declined to comment on the Times’ findings.

Experts said the missile is dangerous not only in its ability to carry a powerful nuclear warhead but in its potential to release harmful radioactive emissions if the missile were to explode or malfunction during a test.

If put into use, the Burevestnik would be considered part of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, making it subject to a nuclear arms reduction treaty that Moscow signed in 2011. That agreement limits the total number of warheads and delivery vehicles the country can deploy.

But with the treaty, known as New START, set to expire in February 2026, the missile could contribute to “the leading edge of an uncontrolled arms race” if no new agreement were to replace the expiring treaty, Kimball said.

Ultimately, he said, a test of the missile would be a “sign that Russia is moving in the wrong direction.”

A satellite image of the Russian Arctic, where activity around a missile launch site suggests Russia is preparing to test a nuclear-powered missile with a theoretical range of thousands of miles.

Huge anti-government crowds march in Poland before critical election

By ANDREW HIGGINS

Huge crowds marched through Poland’s capital, Warsaw, on Sunday, converging around a giant flag commemorating a 1944 uprising against Nazi Germany, as opponents of the governing party sought to rally voters for a critical general election that they see as the last chance to save the country’s hard-won democratic freedoms.

The Warsaw city government, which is controlled by the opposition, put the crowd at a million people at its peak. But statecontrolled television, which mostly ignored the event, instead broadcasting a preelection convention by the governing Law and Justice party, estimated fewer than 100,000 had turned out, citing police sources.

The march was the biggest display of anti-government sentiment since Poland’s Solidarity trade union movement rallied against communism in the 1980s. It set the stage for the final stretch of an increasingly nasty election campaign. Poland, bitterly polarized on everything from relations with the rest of Europe to abortion rights, will hold a general election Oct. 15 that will decide whether the conservative Law and Justice party secures an unprecedented third term in a row in government.

In a speech peppered with references to Poland’s past struggles for liberty, Donald Tusk, the main opposition leader, appealed for patriots to cast out a right-wing nationalist government that he said was pitting Poles against Poles, defiling the legacy of national

heroes who had resisted foreign occupation.

He promised to end what he called “the Polish-Polish war” stoked by the governing party’s denunciation as traitors Poles who deviate from traditional Catholic values or look to the European Union for help against discrimination and government meddling in the judiciary.

“Change for the better is inevitable,” he said.

Billed as “the march of a million hearts,” the event featured Polish and EU flags, as well as a few American ones waved by Poles with family in the United States.

Before leading a huge crowd in singing the Polish national anthem, which starts with the words “Poland has not yet perished,” Tusk said the opening line “has never had such a strong and authentic ring as it does today.”

Seeking to reclaim patriotism from Law and Justice, which presents itself as a protector of Polish values and sovereignty against EU bureaucrats in Brussels and accuses Tusk of being a stooge for Germany or Russia or, at times, both countries, the

opposition leader said: “They are not Poland. We are Poland!”

Speaking to his own supporters at a preelection party convention in the southern city of Katowice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Law and Justice’s chair and Poland’s de facto leader, mocked Tusk as “such an idiot” whose victory would lead to the country’s enslavement by foreign powers.

He claimed that Tusk’s term as prime minister, from 2007-14, had made “Poland subordinate to external forces,” especially Germany and Russia. Law and Justice, he said, needed “mobilization, faith, determination and work” to “ensure that Tusk’s system does not return to Poland.”

Recent opinion polls give Law and Justice around 38% of the vote, compared with 30% for Tusk’s Civic Coalition, an alliance of centrist and center-left forces, with smaller left and far-right parties trailing far behind. The gap narrowed sharply over the summer, but after a full-throated media campaign demonizing Tusk and his supporters as enemies of the Roman Catholic Church, Law and Justice picked up support, particularly in areas that rely on the party-controlled state broadcasting system.

No party is expected to win a majority in the vote, and the shape of the next government will depend on which of the frontrunners — Law and Justice or Civic Coalition — can find allies to form a coalition.

As Tusk spoke to supporters in Warsaw,

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki addressed the Law and Justice convention in southern Poland, hammering the party’s favorite theme that the opposition serves German and Russian interests.

“Tusk was their handmaiden,” he claimed, referring to energy deals struck between Berlin and Moscow while Tusk was Poland’s prime minister before taking a job in Brussels as president of the European Council — another strike against him, in the governing party’s view.

Worried about competition from Konfederacja, a far-right group that has been vocal about reducing Poland’s assistance to Ukraine, Law and Justice has sent mixed messages in recent weeks about its policy toward Kyiv. It has insisted that it would not do anything to reduce the flow of weapons to fight Russia’s invading forces, while suggesting recently that it might do just that.

Less than two weeks ago, Morawiecki told a national broadcaster that Poland was “no longer transferring any weapons to Ukraine, because we are now arming ourselves with the most modern weapons.” Polish President Andrzej Duda later walked back Morawiecki’s remarks, clearly made for electoral reasons but still unsettling for Poland’s foreign partners.

Desperate to hang on to voters in rural areas, an important base of support, Law and Justice has vowed to halt the import of cheap Ukrainian grain and protect Polish farmers from the damage this has caused to their income. The grain was meant to just transit through Poland, but some of it was siphoned off for sale on the domestic market.

Preelection promises by the Polish government, along with those of Slovakia and Hungary, to halt all deliveries of Ukrainian grain did not stop the leader of a Polish farm lobbying group, Agrounia, from speaking Sunday in support of the opposition.

Law and Justice’s preelection shifts and maneuvers have confused and annoyed fellow European countries that previously viewed Poland as a solid anchor of the West’s support for Ukraine, particularly those such as Germany that Warsaw has repeatedly chided for not being steadfast enough in helping Kyiv.

Janusz Michalak, 71, a retired logistics manager who joined the march with his wife, Alicija, said he had lived through communism and worried that Law and Justice — through cynical maneuvers to win support, the tight control of state broadcasting and the demonization of its political foes — want “us silent under their boot like the communists did.”

“If we don’t change this government, democracy dies in Poland,” he added.

A huge crowd gathered in Warsaw on Sunday in a display of antigovernment sentiment ahead of an election this month.

Against the wall, McCarthy does the right thing

By DAVID FIRESTONE

Only an extremely shallow man would repeatedly wait until the last possible moment to do the right thing, no matter how obvious that thing might be. But in today’s Washington, the Republican Party usually doesn’t do the right thing at all, so House Speaker Kevin McCarthy deserves some credit for putting his job on the line Saturday to end the threat of a government shutdown.

Not a huge amount of credit. The deal he put together Saturday (which he had opposed for weeks) only lasts for 45 days, after which Congress will still struggle to perform its most fundamental task of paying for a year’s worth of government operations. And there is no excuse for the damage this deal could do to Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression, by leaving out the military aid that the Biden administration was planning to send.

But if his gamble succeeds, McCarthy may finally do the country a service by proving that bipartisanship works, effectively shutting up the braying band of rightwing extremists who have been agents of chaos since the moment the current House took office in January. They opposed the deal to prevent a credit default during the debt-ceiling crisis in May, but McCarthy and a bipartisan coalition prevailed. He appeared to join them for a while in rejecting that deal during the shutdown crisis, but just hours before the government was set to

close its doors Saturday, he put a stopgap measure on the House floor that drew the votes of most Republicans and all but one Democrat. The hard-liners were left in the cold.

The sin of working with Democrats has now led the loudest extremist, Matt Gaetz of Florida, to promise a vote this week to remove McCarthy as speaker. If McCarthy can survive that vote — and he will probably need the votes of a few Democrats to do so — the wrecking-ball caucus will have to slink into the shadows of defeat. No one would be more pleased with that outcome than the core of House Republicans, who are profoundly weary of being shouted down by the Matt Gaetzes of the world.

“The problem is, we are being dragged around by 20 people when 200 of us are in agreement,” Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, told Carl Hulse of The New York Times a few days ago. “As long as we let those 20 drag us around, we are going to get these kinds of results. At some point in time, you’ve got to say, ‘We’re done.’”

For a while, it didn’t look like McCarthy had the spine to say that. He betrayed the debt-ceiling deal he had personally negotiated with President Joe Biden, allowing House appropriators to begin setting two-year spending targets far below the levels he had agreed to. He backed a different stopgap measure that would have shredded the social safety net and revived Trump-era policies like building hundreds of miles of border wall and denying asylum rights to many desperate migrant families. But that measure failed on the floor Friday when the extremists voted it down, saying it didn’t go far enough in cutting spending and vowing never to support any kind of stopgap measure.

And so, having demonstrated to the country that his own caucus was incapable of keeping government open, McCarthy finally agreed with Simpson and said he was done. He put a bill on the floor that he knew would draw bipartisan support, one that included important disaster aid and did not slash safety net spending, and he dared his challengers to come after him. “If someone wants to make a motion against me, bring it,” he said Saturday after the bill passed with a vote of 335-91. “There has to be an adult in the room.”

Did he do it for pragmatic reasons, knowing that a shutdown would be blamed on Republicans and could hurt their chances of holding on to the House in 2024? That was the argument made to him by some of the most vulnerable House Republicans, including those in New York state. Or did he do it because in some deep place in his heart — a place most despised by the hardliners — he actually didn’t want a shutdown that would stop the paychecks of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, including those in the military, and damage the economy at a vulnerable moment?

I’m going to be a bit cynical and bet on the former explanation. But the reason doesn’t matter as much as

his willingness to buck the nihilist wing of the party, which has been taking dictation from Donald Trump to shut down the government in order to stop the two federal prosecutions he is facing. (A shutdown, however, would not have had any effect on those prosecutions, which are covered by a permanent allocation to the special counsel’s office.)

The question now is whether McCarthy’s actions will cost him his job. Will the hard-liners follow Gaetz and vote to remove him? If he loses five Republicans, there will be another unpleasant round of roll-call votes for a new speaker, just as there was in January, and the House will be unable to function until one is chosen. But the wrecking crew has no apparent candidate that will win the votes of the full caucus, and it’s not clear how long they can hold out.

Will a few Democrats step in to save him? McCarthy is profoundly untrustworthy, having repeatedly broken various promises to both parties. He is the man who refused to allow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to address the House last month, a morally repugnant act that reflects his party’s growing appeasement of Russia. One Democratic senator said that McCarthy wouldn’t even allow administration officials to meet with House members to explain how urgent the aid to Ukraine would be. (There will probably be a separate effort to restore that aid.)

McCarthy is also fully behind the House’s laughable effort to impeach Biden, and has supported expanding onerous work requirements for low-income people receiving federal benefits, as well as Trump’s cruel immigration policies.

Most Democrats are going to have a hard time casting a vote for such a speaker. But he did keep the government open, at least for a few more weeks, and he told Gaetz and his band where they could go. At a moment like this, that may be enough to let him keep his job.

COSSEC celebra el mes del cooperativismo

POR EL STAR STAFF

SAN JUAN – La Corporación para la Supervisión y Seguro de Cooperativas (COSSEC), celebra el mes del cooperativismo reafirmando su compromiso con el sector y resaltando su aportación en el desarrollo económico de la Isla, siendo una institución financiera que promueve el bienestar de las comunidades y la cercanía con sus socios.

Precisamente, con esta visión, COSSEContigo es una iniciativa de la corporación que resalta sus valores fundamentales donde se han visitado más de 97 cooperativas por toda la Isla para estrechar relaciones que beneficien a todo el sector y las comunidades a las que sirven.

“A través del tiempo hemos visto como las cooperativas al igual que con otras entidades han enfrentado grandes desafíos económicos y sociales. No obstante, el cooperativismo se destaca como un modelo

POR EL STAR STAFF

MOROVIS – La alcaldesa de Morovis, Carmen Maldonado González, expresó hoy públicamente su endoso al presidente del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Jesús Manuel Ortiz, para que asuma la candidatura a la gobernación por dicha entidad política, en papeleta con Pablo José Hernández para la comisaría residente de Puerto Rico en Washington. En una columna de opinión publicada en las redes sociales, titulada ‘El buen camino popular’, la también exvicepresidenta del PPD señaló que “sin duda alguna, este cuatrienio ha sido particularmente duro en términos de cómo el Partido Popular Democrático ha manejado su realidad electoral: no se ganó la gobernación ni la comisaría residente de Puerto Rico en Washington, pero se logró una menguada mayoría tanto en la Cámara como en el Senado. Donde sí tuvimos un amplio y contundente triunfo fue en las alcaldías, con 41 de las 78 municipalidades. Toda esta realidad nos obligó a sentarnos a analizar qué aprendimos de ese proceso y cómo conectamos de manera más efectiva con las necesidades del electorado”

Maldonado señaló que concluido su término como vicepresidenta del PPD, aspiró a presidir la organización, presentó sus ideas, visitó todos los comités municipales y llevó su mensaje. “Me sometí a la voluntad del pueblo popular con la promesa de aceptar de buena fe y con humildad, la determinación de la base popular. La noche de la primaria, examinando

sólido y sostenible que promueve los valores para el desarrollo de las comunidades. Hemos tenido grandes logros brindándole la confianza a nuestros socios quienes han escogido las cooperativas como instrumentalidades financieras. Así que durante este mes queremos resaltarlo”, indicó la presidenta ejecutiva de COSSEC, Mabel Jiménez, quien a su vez felicitó a todos los que componen el sector cooperativista en su mes.

La Presidenta Ejecutiva, asimismo, resaltó que mediante más de 97 cooperativas Puerto Rico cuenta con 1.1 millones de socios.

“Con un enfoque en los valores de la confianza, el compromiso, la integridad, la ayuda mutua hemos logrado desde COSSEC asegurar, facilitar mediante nuestra ejecutoria de supervisión y fiscalización establecer la comunicación directa con todos y todas para asegurar el desarrollo socioeconómico y la solvencia de las cooperativas”, puntualizó Jiménez.

los resultados preliminares con mi equipo de trabajo, viendo que la proyección era clara, felicité al compañero Jesús Manuel Ortiz como nuevo presidente del PPD y anuncié mi determinación de aspirar a la reelección en nuestro pueblo de Morovis”.

La alcaldesa expuso que “con gran satisfacción puedo decir que Jesús Manuel ha resultado ser un gran presidente: organizado, conciliador y estratégico en sus decisiones. Ha logrado atraer a correligiona-

En una actividad que reunió a miembros cooperativistas, el gobernador de Puerto Rico, Pedro R. Pierluisi, hizo entrega de la proclama que decreta a octubre el mes del cooperativismo.

rios y líderes que en principio no apoyaban su candidatura, sumando y multiplicando. Puso en acción sus palabras y comenzó remozando las facilidades de la sede central, como una metáfora visual de una nueva manera de hacer las cosas. Logró lo que pocos esperaban en el campo financiero: recaudar más de $110,000 en un radiomaratón cuando hacía tiempo no se ejercían esos esfuerzos, superando las expectativas. Jesús Manuel y su equipo han continuado la reorganización del PPD, con la meta de ponerlo en carrera para las elecciones del próximo año”.

El 16 de octubre se abren las puertas a la radicación de candidaturas a nivel interno del PPD, para luego completar el proceso con la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones en diciembre. “Nadie puede discutir eso, Jesús Manuel Ortiz ha logrado lo prometido y más. Ha manejado sorprendentemente bien las controversias que han surgido. A mi entender, va por muy buen camino, por el bien del Partido Popular, que es el bien de la gente y el bien del País entero. Aunque se han mencionado varios compañeros para la candidatura a la gobernación, una primaria en verano del año que viene será un error, por innecesaria. Porque el buen camino hay que continuarlo, yo endoso entusiastamente a Jesús Manuel Ortiz para que sea nuestro candidato a gobernador en las próximas elecciones. La papeleta de Jesús Manuel Ortiz para la gobernación con Pablo José Hernández a la comisaría residente, es el buen camino popular que debemos ofrecerle a Puerto Rico”.

Endosan a Jesús Manuel para Gobernador y a Pablo José para Washington, alcaldesa Carmen Maldonado lo pone por escrito

Time stands still in Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris lair

By ROGER COHEN

Jester, troubadour, agent provocateur, Serge Gainsbourg rhymed his way through life in a fog of Gitanes smoke, making music of every genre. Jane Birkin, his great love, was a “baby alone in Babylon.” Asked once on a TV show how he would like to die, Gainsbourg shot back: “I would like to die alive.”

Now, 32 years after his death in Paris at age 62, Gainsbourg feels very much alive at the Maison Gainsbourg, his Left Bank home that opened to the public last month, along with a museum nearby. Nothing has moved — not the Steinway piano, the Gitanes pack, the Zippo lighter, the empty bottle of Château Pétrus, the typewriter or the framed spiders.

All the walls are draped in black fabric. Gainsbourg preferred black, he once said, “because in psychiatric hospitals the walls are all white.”

This eerie exercise in preservation — giving the impression that Gainsbourg has sidled out moments earlier — is the act of love of his daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, now a renowned actress, singer and movie director. “To stop time on March 2, 1991, was a way to refuse the fact that my father was dead,” she said in an interview. “I would go to the house from time to time, and mope and hurt and brood from terrible loss.”

Serge Gainsbourg was the son of Russian Jews who fled their homeland after the 1917 revolution and settled in Paris. As a teenager he wore the Yellow Star that the Nazis and the collaborationist French Vichy government imposed on Jews. He and his family survived World War II in hiding.

If, as he followed his pianist father into a postwar life of Paris cabarets, Gainsbourg quickly showed contempt for pieties, moralizing and conformism, he had good reason: He knew well, having been marked for death as a Jew, the limits of the French Republic’s motto of liberty, equality and fraternity.

His house, which is already sold out to visitors through the end of the year, although occasional sales of newly released tickets are promised before then, is dark and cluttered, a lair. In a whisper, Charlotte Gainsbourg, 52, accompanies visitors through an intimate audio guide delivered via headphones. We learn that she was not allowed to play the Steinway, only an upright piano. The large collection of police badges arrayed on a table were coaxed from cops her father invited in. Antique dolls on a bed upstairs terrified her. When her head first

brushed the crystal ball hanging from the chandelier in her father’s bedroom, she knew she had grown.

This, until they split in 1980, was the home of Gainsbourg and Birkin, Charlotte’s parents, whose erotic lovemaking duet “Je T’aime … Moi Non Plus” was a groundbreaking hit in 1969. It was banned in Britain and Italy, and Gainsbourg attributed its success to the Vatican, which called the song “obscene.” An earlier recording with another of Gainsbourg’s loves, Brigitte Bardot, was played once on French radio before Bardot’s then-husband, Gunter Sachs, threatened a lawsuit. It was finally released in 1986.

If the song was explicit, it also bore the imprint of Gainsbourg’s lyricism. “You are the wave, me the naked island,” Birkin murmurs.

Gainsbourg was a bard who never shied away from the Eros and violence that, through melancholy eyes, he saw at the heart of life, and serenaded with what the French newspaper Le Monde once called “an imperious languor.” A haunted troublemaker who drank and smoked his way to an early death, he trod a fine line between provocation and outright taboo, offering a relentless invitation to confront hypocrisies.

“To be an artist you need a lot of sincerity, which comes at a very high price,” Gainsbourg said toward the end of his life.

“I can’t imagine my father surviving our current times,” Charlotte Gainsbourg said. “Perhaps he would have adapted. But our culture is scary. Everything is calculated, pondered, and you run the risk of being canceled at any moment and no longer being able to express yourself. That is what is frightening for an artist.”

As it happened, I moved to the Rue de Verneuil, where Gainsbourg lived, in the summer of 1991, a few months after his death, for my first tour as a Paris correspondent. I watched in some wonder as adoring declarations (interspersed here and there with antisemitic bile) formed a canvas of graffiti across the length of his home.

Soon the Gainsbourg spell had me. I listened to the songs, filled with dark irony and fatalism, that had made him such a disruptive force in French society over the preceding decades.

He was the haggard minstrel of shameless lovemaking attuned to the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s. He was the subversive with a permanent stubble, hated by French conservatives for daring, in 1979, to turn La Marseillaise, the national anthem, into a reggae hit, “Aux Armes Et Caetera.” Paramilitary veterans forced Gainsbourg to cancel a concert in Strasbourg in 1980, a foretaste of the rise of the French extreme right.

He was the Jew who in “Yellow Star,”

from the 1975 album “Rock Around the Bunker,” mocks his executioner-inflicted badge as a prize (“I’ve won the Yellow Star”), or perhaps a sheriff’s emblem, before concluding: “Difficult for a Jew, the law of struggle for life.” He was the outsider with an uncanny eye and level gravelly delivery; as another outsider, I had much to learn.

A single song, “Le Poinçonneur des Lilas” (or the ticket-puncher at the Porte des Lilas Metro station), released in 1958, propelled Gainsbourg to fame. Described by writer Boris Vian as “the essence itself of musical and lyrical art,” it evokes the desperate life of the “man you meet but don’t look at” in a place where there is no sun. He makes “holes, little holes, always little holes, holes for second class, holes for first class,” and dreams at last of holding a gun to “make myself a little hole” that will land him forever in a big one.

A life of struggle, and sometimes a fight for survival itself, was the world that Gainsbourg first knew with his immigrant parents. He would never forget it. In myriad genres — rock, reggae, Afro-Cuban, pop, funk — he went on to explore themes of love and loss, often with deadpan humor. He in turn influenced countless musicians, from hip-hop to indie.

In the cluttered house, cigarette butts are piled in an ashtray. They made me think of Gainsbourg’s “God Smokes Havanas,” recorded in 1980 with Catherine Deneuve.

In it, Gainsbourg sings (in an inadequate translation of the beautiful French):

God is a smoker of Havanas

He told me himself

Smoke carries you to paradise

I know it, my love.

The living room in Serge Gainsbourg’s home in Paris, as it was when he died in 1991 and now open to the public, on Sept. 19, 2023.

A photo of Serge Gainsbourg and his wife Jane Birkin at their home in Paris, as it was when he died in 1991 and now open to the public, on Sept. 19, 2023.

Gobierno de Puerto Rico

DEPARTAMENTO DE RECURSOS

NATURALES Y AMBIENTALES

AVISO AMBIENTAL

INTENCIÓN DE EMITIR PERMISO

CONSTRUCCIÓN-OPERACIÓN PARA UN SISTEMA DE INYECCIÓN SUBTERRÁNEA

El peticionario, Jorge Castrodad (Río Abajo Management- Proyecto Comercial Cayey), cuya dirección postal es PO Box 1804, Cidra, Puerto Rico 00739-1804, ha solicitado a la Oficina Regional de Guayama (ORG) del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), el permiso de construcción-operación, UIC23-18-0028, para un (1) sistemas de inyección subterránea (SIS) Clase VC-1, bajo las disposiciones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada 42 USC 300f et seq. (LFAPS).

El SIS #1 consiste en un (1) tanque séptico con una capacidad de 5,480 galones conectado a un pozo filtrante con un área de percolación de 224 pies cuadrados. El SIS será utilizado para inyectar un flujo (Q) de 181 galones por día (gpd) de aguas residuales exclusivamente de naturaleza doméstica (sanitarias) que se generen en el Proyecto Comercial, localizado en el Bo. Beatriz, Carretera PR1, Km 53.7, Cayey, Puerto Rico.

Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de renovar el permiso de operación para la instalación antes mencionada en conformidad con los requisitos del RCIS y de la LFAPS.

Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA, ha preparado el borrador del permiso de operación de forma tal que el público interesado pueda someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.

Copia de la solicitud del permiso que sometió el peticionario ante el DRNA, el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes estarán a la disposición del público para ser examinados, a petición del interesado mediante el envío de un correo electrónico a la siguiente dirección: inyeccionsubterranea@drna.pr.gov o visitando la Oficina Regional de Guayama (ORG), cuya oficina está localizada en el Bo. Algarrobos, Carr. PR-3 Km 136.0, Guayama, Puerto Rico.

Copia de dichos documentos pueden adquirirse en la ORG, entre las 7:30 a.m. y las 4:00 p.m. de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la siguiente dirección: Oficina Regional de Guayama, 2000 Ave. Los Veteranos, Guayama, Puerto Rico 00784.

Las partes interesadas o afectadas pueden enviar sus comentarios por escrito a la Sra. Vanessa Del Moral Rosario, Directora Interina de la ORG, o solicitar una vista pública por escrito a la Secretaria del DRNA, a la dirección postal o correo electrónico antes indicado. Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vista pública deberán ser sometidos al DRNA no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública deberá señalar la razón o las razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de la misma. De realizarse una vista pública los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emite o deniega el permiso, si la Secretaria Interina determina que dicha vista es necesaria o apropiada.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de septiembre de 2023.

When Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce collide with prime-time TV

preparing to take the field.

“Oh, and yeah, she’s here: Taylor is in the house,” play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico said while NBC showed Swift hugging someone in a luxury suite. Tirico then added, “Hi, Swifties, we’ll be with you all night.”

Given Swift’s megafame and penchant for writing songs about her romantic relationships, her dating life has long been a subject of scrutiny. But the frenzied curiosity of the past week was rare even for Swift.

Este anuncio se publica conforme a lo requerido por la Ley Núm. 416-2004, según enmendada, conocida como la “Ley sobre Política Pública Ambiental”, los reglamentos aprobados a su amparo; y las leyes y reglamentos federales aplicables. El costo del Aviso Público es sufragado por la entidad peticionaria.

By MATT STEVENS

The game on Sunday night between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets was not expected to be must-see TV, at least from a football perspective.

The Chiefs were the reigning Super Bowl champions and were led by the NFL’s best player. The Jets were flailing after their 39-year-old would-be savior tore his Achilles tendon minutes into the season.

But many millions of people tuned in anyway: America’s most breathlessly covered situationship — between Kansas City’s All-Pro tight end, Travis Kelce, and pop music’s biggest star, Taylor Swift — was playing out on prime-time television.

“They are two of the biggest media entertainment entities,” said Nora Princiotti, a football writer for The Ringer who also co-hosts a popular music podcast that often focuses on Swift.

The game was surprisingly competitive with the Chiefs beating the Jets 23-20. And the telecast also offered a spectacular collision of the nation’s most-watched prime-time show and the ardent fans of a pop star at the height of her powers.

Maria Taylor, the host of NBC’s pregame show Sunday night, opened her monologue with an unsubtle nod to a Swift song, “Enchanted.” Over the next hour, anchors called attention to a Swift look-alike, and cameras showed fans wearing Swift T-shirts.

The network also featured a collage of photos of Swift at last week’s Chiefs game against the Chicago Bears, and around 7:42 p.m., cameras showed Swift at MetLife Stadium.

About 10 minutes later, NBC aired a mashup of TikTok videos, photos and scenes from Kelce’s podcast, unspooling football storylines as well as the week’s celebrity buzz. Then the “Sunday Night Football” broadcast officially began with mentions of Jets and Chiefs players

Fox Sports said the Chiefs-Bears game last weekend that Swift attended was the week’s most-watched telecast on any network, with 24.3 million viewers powered in part by a strong female audience. Fox cameras frequently panned to her reaction after Kelce, the game’s leading receiver, touched the ball.

On Sunday, NBC showed Swift several times but focused primarily on the football game. Network officials had said it was important to satisfy its regular audience, even though they knew that some viewers would be mostly interested in the 12-time Grammy winner.

“We’re aware we could be reaching new eyeballs,” Rob Hyland, the coordinating producer of “Sunday Night Football,” said Friday.

Just before Sunday night’s game began, NBC ran yet another teaser for the contest — this one narrated by television host Carson Daly — explaining the stakes of the football matchup with at least a half-dozen call-outs to titles of Swift songs.

When the Chiefs quickly scored a touchdown in the first quarter, the cameras turned to Swift’s celebration even though Kelce was not involved with the play. During the commercial break that followed, NBC aired, for a second time, a high-gloss commercial for Swift’s Eras Tour concert movie that hits theaters this month.

Later in the evening, NBC showed a “Cornelia St.” sign in Manhattan (Swift wrote a song about the street); Donna Kelce, the tight end’s mother, got more screen time with Swift; and Melissa Stark gave a sideline report about the spike in Kelce jersey sales.

The Chiefs and a publicist for Swift did not respond to a request for comment.

But with Swift’s Eras Tour briefly on pause, her concert movie forthcoming and Kelce’s commitment to his football podcast as his Hall of Fame-caliber career wanes, a supercharged dose of crossover publicity on national television was probably a welcome boost, even for the already famous.

Kelce led the Chiefs with six receptions but had a quiet night by his standards. Swift gave celebratory fist bumps as the final seconds ticked off the clock.

Taylor Swift, with seemingly red drink, and Ryan Reynolds at the Chiefs-Jets game on Sunday night.

Anaís Rodríguez Vega Secretaria

DogTV is TV for dogs. Except when it’s for people.

By AUSTIN CONSIDINE

The talent was beginning to lie down on the job. Temperatures had surpassed 90 degrees on a July afternoon in Ramapo Mountain State Forest in northern New Jersey, and the actors were hot and literally panting. If they had to perform much longer, the director might face a mutiny.

The director, Ron Levi, threw up his hands.

“Tell them union is eight-hour work,” he called out. “What do you mean they’re done?”

A horror story overheard at a recent Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists rally? Not exactly. The director, for starters, was joking. As for the actors … they didn’t get the joke anyway.

The stars — Beasley, Darby, Fuji and Whidbey — are among the four-legged leads on DogTV, a pay-television service designed especially for dogs who are stuck at home alone. In the coming weeks, the Ramapo footage would be recolored, edited and scored for its colorblind, easily distracted and narratively challenged viewers — optimized, the makers of DogTV say, to engage and soothe a growing audience of bored and anxious dogs around the world.

It wasn’t your typical set visit. But then that’s also why I was there: to see, as my boss had phrased it, “how the Snausage is made” for a network whose primary audience can’t operate a remote. One thing I was learning was that when you have canine cast members, they — not the crew, not the guild — ultimately call the shots. Everyone agreed to call it a wrap.

“These dogs are the best we ever worked with, and they can deliver you the goods,” Levi, who is also a founder of DogTV, said as the dogs were led by their trainer, Chrissy Joy, back to their air-conditioned van for fresh water — and, presumably, some well-earned belly scratches.

“But I get it,” Levi added. “It’s very hot today, and we’ve got to be mindful.”

These are boom times for DogTV. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic some 23 million households adopted pets, according to a 2021 survey by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — a huge new potential audience to target.

Americans working from home were also watching a lot of TV — often, apparently, with their pets. In response, DogTV began offering a bunch of new human-targeted videos, notably featuring tips from experts on how to

train all of these new pets. Subscriptions to its streaming app have grown by about 388,000 since mid-2020, the company said. (DogTV is also available through many cable and satellite providers.)

“People were at home and started to ask us about content for them as well,” Levi said. “It’s like, OK, you’ve got a new dog; what do you do with it?”

Now DogTV is hoping to fill a new role, as more workers return to the office, and their new dogs, many of whom have never known life without a human at home full time, are dealing with intense separation anxiety. The network is producing content custom made for such anxiety — among dogs and, increasingly, their guilt-ridden humans.

Full disclosure: I am one of those guiltridden humans. I became a DogTV subscriber around 2013, as the single dogfather of my beloved mutt Sailor. A few years later, after Sailor departed for that great dog park in the sky, I canceled my subscription.

When, in 2021, my partner and I got a new rescue puppy named Evie, I resubscribed, only to find that DogTV had grown by leaps and bounds. Sometimes I would come home tired from work only to realize that I had just been zoning out to DogTV on the couch for 20 minutes. The basic concept was the same — short, simple videos, mostly for dogs — but the

creativity and production values had exploded. I wanted to know more about this world I unexpectedly found myself enjoying, even if I had to take it on faith that my blasé new shelter dog was enjoying it, too.

That’s when I reached out to Levi.

DogTV relies on teams of directors, camera operators, composers, editors and dogs. But if DogTV has a single mad wizard behind the curtain, it is Levi. Before DogTV, he worked in human TV in Israel, including as a writer for that country’s version of “The Amazing Race.” He doesn’t miss it. “This is totally better because the dog is really the director,” he told me. “He teaches you also to be a little bit modest.”

During an editing session at a Manhattan studio in August, Levi, who is also the chief content officer, acknowledged tailoring the content in recent years to appeal more to humans. That wasn’t true of just the new “Tips & Tricks” videos or of reality shows like “Farm Girl,” starring Joy and her dogs. Just as a good children’s show must be semi-tolerable, if not enjoyable, to adults, TV for dogs must bow to a simple truth: The primary viewers aren’t the ones who shell out $9.99 a month.

Given this, Levi’s ideal balance is for videos that appeal 80% to dogs and 20% to humans. The squeaky toy sound effects are for dogs. The shoots in Sicily, Italy — that stuff is for humans.

When it comes to the channel’s twolegged fans, I’m apparently not alone. Actor Billy Bob Thornton described watching DogTV with his daughter and two Cavalier King Charles spaniels as “kind of a Zen moment” during a 2016 appearance on “Live With Kelly.” And although I’ve never watched while partaking in certain forms of herbaceous relaxation, there is ample evidence on social media indicating that some DogTV subscribers do.

Who was DogTV really for, anyway?

To answer that question was partly to consider whether the dogs get much out of it. Guagliardo said DogTV had helped his dogs considerably when he began leaving them home alone for the first time since the start of the pandemic as he resumed in-person meetings. He could tell, he said, because he often comes home to “a present” on the floor if he accidentally leaves them home without it.

Kate Senkier of Nashville, Tennessee, said her two dogs, Piper and Puddles, the latter of whom she got immediately after the pandemic began, started off as devoted “Gilmore Girls” fans before they discovered DogTV. Now whenever she goes upstairs to work, she said, they “sit on the couch and look at me and wait for me to turn the TV on.”

I have watched Evie watch DogTV, and sometimes she seems to care. Usually, I can’t tell. In a study commissioned by DogTV, Nicholas Dodman, a professor emeritus of animal behavior at Tufts University, near Boston, found that dogs visibly watched DogTV around 14% of the time it was on. That was more than they watched Animal Planet and significantly more than they did CNN. (Luckily, dogs aren’t the ones who pay for journalism, either.)

But CNN provided perhaps the best analogy for the way Dodman thought dogs might experience DogTV. In general, dogs understand their world primarily by smell, then by sound, then by sight. It isn’t clear how much dogs merely listen to DogTV, Dodman said, but it stands to reason that they do, just as humans will listen to TV in the background.

“If we had CNN on while we were cooking breakfast — you know, you’re busy with the frying pan and stuff — and then someone says, ‘There’s going to be an earthquake,’” he said, you might suddenly look up and pay attention. Dogs, he reasoned, might be doing the same. Maybe they are always half listening.

That made abundant sense. I just wasn’t sure what it said about humans like me and Billy Bob Thornton who become so fully absorbed.

DogTV hopes to tap into a huge new audience of pandemic puppies, but also makes sure to try to appeal to viewers who can actually operate a remote.

The San Juan Daily Star Tuesday,

Nobel Prize awarded to COVID vaccine pioneers

another. Their problem was that the immune system sees mRNA as a piece of an invading pathogen and attacks it, making the animals sick while destroying the mRNA.

But eventually, the scientists solved the mystery. The researchers discovered that cells protect their own mRNA with a specific chemical modification. So the scientists tried making the same change to mRNA made in the lab before injecting it into cells. It worked: The mRNA was taken up by cells without provoking an immune response.

At the time, scientists were largely uninterested in taking up that new approach to vaccination. Their paper, published in 2005, was summarily rejected by the journals Nature and Science, Weissman said. The study was eventually accepted by a niche publication called Immunity.

Women account for less than 7% of Nobel laureates, a total that has produced criticism for the institute that awards the prizes. When will the other Nobel Prizes be announced?

The prize for physiology or medicine is the first of six Nobel Prizes that will be awarded this year. Each award recognizes groundbreaking contributions by an individual or organization in a specific field.

— The Nobel Prize in physics will be awarded Tuesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Last year, John Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger each won for independent works exploring quantum weirdness.

By BENJAMIN MUELLER

Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, who together identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA that laid the foundation for vaccines against COVID-19 that have since been administered billions of times globally, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday.

Their discovery “fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system,” the panel that awarded the prize said, adding that the work “contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.”

Karikó, the daughter of a butcher in Hungary who became an mRNA specialist, and Weissman, a physician and virologist searching for an HIV vaccine, met over a copy machine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998.

Their work soon transformed vaccine

technology.

Karikó, who had come to the United States two decades earlier when her research program at a Hungarian university ran out of money, was preoccupied by mRNA, which provides instructions to cells to make proteins. Defying the decades-old orthodoxy that it was clinically unusable, she believed that it would spur many medical innovations.

At the time, Weissman was desperate for new approaches to a vaccine for HIV, which had long proved impossible to defend against. He wondered if he and Karikó could team up to make an HIV vaccine.

It was a fringe idea that, when they began their research, seemed unlikely to work. The mRNA was delicate, so much so that when it was introduced to cells, the cells instantly destroyed it.

Initially, Weissman and Karikó were flummoxed.

Countless experiments with mice failed. They wandered down one blind alley after

But two biotech companies soon took notice of the work: Moderna, in the United States, and BioNTech, in Germany. The companies studied the use of mRNA vaccines for flu, cytomegalovirus and other illnesses. None moved out of clinical trials for years.

Then the coronavirus emerged. The strikingly effective vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech use the modification Karikó and Weissman discovered.

Some 400 million doses of the PfizerBioNTech vaccine and 250 million doses of the Moderna vaccine have now been administered in the United States. Hundreds of millions more have been given globally. The use of mRNA has enabled both vaccines to be updated against new variants.

Karikó is the 13th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine since 1901, and the first since 2015. Women represent a small fraction of the total of 227 people who were awarded the prize, a reflection of how women are still largely underrepresented in the field of science and scientific awards, including the Nobel Prizes.

— The Nobel Prize in chemistry will be awarded Wednesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Last year, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless shared the prizes for work on click chemistry.

— The Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded Thursday by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Last year, Annie Ernaux earned the prize for work that dissected the most humiliating, private and scandalous moments from her past with almost clinical precision.

— The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. Last year, the prize was shared by Memorial, a Russian organization; the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine; and Ales Bialiatski, a jailed Belarusian activist.

— Next week, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be awarded Monday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Last year, Ben Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig shared the prize for work that helped to reshape how the world understands the relationship between banks and financial crises.

All of the prize announcements will also be streamed live by the Nobel Prize organization.

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman at an awards ceremony in 2022 in Japan.

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Demandados

Civil Núm.: RG2022CV00167.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, 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 Fajardo, 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 Fajardo, el 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE, 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 radicado en la URBANIZACIÓN RIO GRANDE ESTATES, situada en el Barrio Zarzal del término municipal de Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, identificado con el número, bloque, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: NUMERO DEL SOLAR: SEIS (6) DEL BLOQUE CUATRO GUION Q (4-Q).

AREA DEL SOLAR: CUATROCIENTOS SEIS PUNTO CERO CERO (406.00) METROS CUADRADOS. EN LINDES por el NORTE, con faja de área verde, en una distancia de catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros; por el SUR, con la Calle número Quinientos Doce (512), en una distancia de catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros; por el ESTE, con eI Solar número Siete (7) del mismo bloque, en una distancia de veintinueve punto cero cero (29.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con los Solares número Tres(3) y número Cinco (5) del mismo Bloque, en una distancia de veintinueve punto cero cero (29.00) metros. Enclava una casa. Finca número 23,304, inscrita al folio 126 del tomo 389 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 3,045 del tomo 560 de Rio Grande, Finca 23,304, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III, inscripción 3ª. Propiedad localizada en:

URB. RIO GRANDE ESTATES, 11924 CALLE REINA CATALINA, RIO GRANDE, PUERTO RICO 00745. 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: $240,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 15 de julio de 2095. 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 $160,000.00, 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 Fajardo, el 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $106,666.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $80,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $124,326.14 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $15,884.85 en intereses acumulados al 31 de agosto de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.92% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,994.96 en seguro hipotecario; $5,845.00 en tarifas de servicio; $638.81 en seguro; $375.00 de tasaciones; $240.00 de inspecciones; $20.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $16,000.00, 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de julio de 2023.

JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #266.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. CRISTIAN EDWIN COLÓN CRESPO, AILIN VÁZQUEZ VÁZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. TD2016-174 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 17 de enero de 2017 y notificada el 8 de febrero de 2017, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 15 de agosto de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 21 de agosto de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 24 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:30 de la mañana en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ciales, en la Calle Lino Corretjer (al lado del Cuartel de la Policía) Ciales, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Finca situada en Barrio Monte Llanos del término municipal de Morovis, Puerto Rico, Solar Remanente: Cabida de 2.097 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con Filomena Marrero (Rodulfa Meléndez, según surge

de la Certificación Registral); por el SUR, con camino municipal y Jerónimo Corrada; por el ESTE, con Jerónimo Corrada; y por el OESTE, con Parcela C en el plano de inscripción por este acto segregado. Enclava una estructura. Este es el Remanente de la finca luego de segregado los solares que surge al margen de esta finca. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 10 del tomo 51 de Morovis, Finca 3534. Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. La hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Morovis, Finca 3534. Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Inscripción vigésimo segunda (22da).

Dirección Física: Carr. 619, Km. 0.4, Bo. Monte Llanos, Morovis, PR 00687. Número de Catastro:38-138-000-010-20-998. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $117,300.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 31 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:30 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $78,200.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 7 de noviembre de 2023, a las 10:30 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $58,650.00. 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 ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma $105,323.98 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6% anual, desde el 1 de enero de 2016 hasta su completo pago, más $1,427.72 por recargos adeudados desde el día 1 de febrero de 2016 hasta su total pago, más la cantidad estipulada de $11,730.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del estudio de título registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a) Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Christian Edwin Colón Crespo y su esposa Ailin Vázquez Vázquez, ante el Tribunal

de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ciales, en el Caso Civil Número TD2016-174, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $105,323.98 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 17 de junio de 2016. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Morovis. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Ciales, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de septiembre de 2023. Gerardo E. Reyes Meléndez, Alguacil Confidencial Placa #109.

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FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C

FANNIE

CECILIA MARCELINO

CANDELARIO, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GUILLERMO

LIZALDO RIVERO

T/C/C GUILLERMO

LIZARDO RIVERO Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DEL INTERÉS DE LA MENOR

ANGÉLICA LIZARDO

MARCELINO, CESAR

GUILERMNY LIZARDO

MARCELINO, JOANY

LIZARDO MARCELINO, KERLIN LIZARDO

MARCELINO, Y CÉSAR

MANUEL LIZARDO

MARCELINO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV05253.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO

PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 21 de abril de 2021, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 1 de junio de 2022 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Solar de forma rectangular que mide doce metros de frente por veintiún metros de fondo, marcado con el número diecisiete de la manzana GZE de la urbanización Puerto Nuevo del barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de doscientos cincuenta y dos metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, SUR, ESTE y OESTE, con terrenos de la Everlasting Development Corporation, dando su frente al Este con la calle denominada cincuenta y tres A de la urbanización. Enclava una casa que contiene marquesina, sala, comedor, tres dormitorios, losetas en toda la casa y balcón, baño y verja con portones de hierro.

FINCA NÚMERO: 7,214, inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 196 de Monacillos, sección III de San Juan. Dirección Física:

BARRIO MONACILLOS, URB.

PUERTO NUEVO LOTE 17

BLOQUE GZE (510 CALLE ARTÁRTICO), SAN JUAN PR

00920. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $102,400.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $68,266.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 6 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $51,200.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $63,724.85 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 5.7500% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/

deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 19 de septiembre de 2023.

EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL

GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN SEBASTIÁN SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ RAMÓN

PÉREZ HERNÁNDEZ, COMPUESTAS POR:

MARGARITA PÉREZ

CABÁN, JOSÉ PÉREZ

CABÁN Y JAVIER PÉREZ

CABÁN, JOHN DOE

COMO HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE DICHA SUCESION,

CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.)

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM.: SS2022CV00843. SALA: 0002. 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 San Sebastián, San Sebastián, 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 28 de agosto 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: RÚSTICA: Porción de terreno radicado en el Barrio Culebrinas de San Sebastián, identificado como Solar, según el Plano de Inscripción compuesto de mil novecientos treinta y tres punto treinta metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el remanente de la finca principal; por el SUR, por el OESTE, con terrenos de don José Ríos Mártin; y por el ESTE, con la carretera número 119 que conduce de San Sebastián a Las Marías. Casa de vivienda: localizada frente a la carretera 119, a la altura del kilómetro 36.7 construida en materiales de bloques, cemento y varillas de acero. Contiene un área de ocupación de 192.50 metros cuadrados, un área de construcción cerrada de 159.25 metros cuadrados y un área de construcción abierta de 235.00 metros cuadrados, consiste de dos plantas, consistente la primera planta de: sala, comedor, cocina, dos baños, tres cuartos dormitorios, family, un balcón abierto al frente y laundry y consiste la segunda planta de sala, cocina, comedor, family, dos baños, tres cuartos dormitorios, laundry un balcón al frente y lado izquierdo. Dicha propiedad inmueble se encuentra equipada con todos los muebles y accesorios propios de una casa de vivienda. Bajo la primera planta de esta casa de vivienda se forman unos bajos los que son utilizados como marquesina, con un valor de $120,000.00, mediante la escritura número 9, otorgada en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de mayo de 2003, ante el notario José Alberto Quiñones Torres, inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 446 de San Sebastián, finca número 15,766, inscripción 8va. Inscrita en la finca 15,766, al folio 236

del tomo 299 de San Sebastián. Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con 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: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 16 de diciembre de 2022, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, en el caso civil número SS2022CV00843, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Sucesión de José Ramón Pérez Hernández, compuesta por Margarita Pérez Cabán, José Pérez Cabán, y Javier Pérez Cabán, John Doe como heredero desconocido de dicha Sucesión; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), por la suma de $107,295.48, anotado el día 30 de marzo de 2023, al tomo Karibe de San Sebastián, finca número 15,766, anotación A. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 5 de julio de 2023, archivada en autos y notificada el 20 de julio de 2023 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $107,295.48 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 6.625% desde el 1ro de junio 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 $15,500.00 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 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023

A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA,

en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de San Sebastián, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $155,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $103,333.33, 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 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $77,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al proce-

dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de septiembre de 2023. LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.

LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Small Business Administration)

Plaintiff V.

JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE as those unknown persons who may be the holders of the lost mortgage note or have any interest in this proceeding,

Defendants CIVIL NO. 23-01031 JAG. ACTION FOR CANCELLATION OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (MFC Investment, Inc. d/b/a Vernet). SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.

TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE

Unknown holders of a promissory note of $416,000.00 executed on December 18, 2009, by MFC Investment, Inc. d/b/a Vernet, as acknowledged by affidavit number 18,094 sworn before JaimeSantosMirabal, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mortgage Deed No. 11 executed on December 18, 2009, before Notary Public Jaime Santos Mirabal, over the following property, described in the Spanish language as:

PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL:

Urbanizacion Industrial Caguas

Oeste de Caguas. Lote: Nave Cuatro: con un area de construccion bruta de cinco mil cuatrocientos sesenta y seis punto cuarenta y dos pies cuadrados (5,466.42 p/ c) y un “Mezzanine” de dos mil setecientos cincuenta y ocho punto cincuenta y seis pies cuadrados (2,758.56 p/c). Colindando por el SUR, con la pared entre las naves tres y cuatro; por el NORTE, con la pared exterior del lado Norte; par el ESTE, con puerta de acceso al area de estacio-

namiento y a la zona de carga y descarga; par el OESTE, con pared exterior del lado Oeste, con puerta de acceso a pasillo comun y a los servicios sanitarios. El local tiene acceso al estacionamiento, el cual consta con rampa de acceso y estacionamiento para impedidos, areas de carga y descarga y tendra uso industrial y/o comercial. Como parte esencial del local se incluye el usa en comun de los estacionamientos para automoviles en las areas alrededor del edificio. Participacion en los elementos comunes: Corresponde a este local en los gastos de conservacion, administracion, ganancias y derechos y en los elementos comunes generates del Condominio, un porcentaje de veinticinco punto siete por ciento (25.07%).

Estacionamientos: Bordeando el edificio antes descrito en su colindancia Este, que es el frente y en las colindancias Norte y Sur se encuentran los espacios de estacionamientos de uso comun. En la parte Este, cada uno de los cuatro locales (naves) ubicados en el edificio, tienen facilidades para carga y descarga. Elementos comunes generales, areas y facilidades comunes generales: Las areas y facilidades comunes generates que pertenecen en comun proindiviso a los titulares de los locales en proporcion que se indica son los siguientes: El terreno donde enclava el edificio segun descrito y las verjas. Los estacionamientos sobre el terreno, asi como tambien las vias de accesos o “drive way” existentes alrededor del edificio. Los cimientos de techo, paredes maestras, columnas, vigas, paredes de carga y que sostienen y/o dividen las areas y facilidades comunes del edificio. Las escaleras que dan acceso al edificio. Las tubenas de aguas potable. Las tubenas de desague pluvial de los techos.

Las tubenas de descarga sanitaria. Las tubenas y cables de alimentacion electrica primaria y secundaria y dos subestaciones electricas. Las tubenas y sistemas de alarmas de fuego.

Las tubenas y gabinetes con manguera para apagar incendios. El pasillo posterior, los servicios sanitarios comunes y el area de almacenaje para efectos de limpieza y mantenimiento. Las aceras. Las areas verdes. Las verjas alrededor de la propiedad. En el elemento comun denominado “techo” no se pueden instalar equipos que excedan una carga de quince libras par pie cuadrado, de igual manera en el “Mezzanine” de cada local no se puede instalar equipos que representen una carga en exceso de las cien libras par pie cuadrado. The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is duly recorded at the Karibe System ofCaguas,

property number 63,170, fourth inscription. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on 08/23/2023 by the Honorable Jay A. GarciaGrecjon/, United States District Judge (Docket No._4), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime Lopez Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de Lean Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269:his Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 24th day of August, 2023. ADA I. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ., Clerk Of The Court. By: Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE UTUADO.

ANDREA PAOLA MEJÍAS TORRES

Demandante v. ABDIER GUILBE JIMENEZ

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: UT2023RF00209.

SOBRE: CUSTODIA; PATRIA POTESTAD; FILIALES Y ALIMENTOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América Presidente de los Estados Unidos Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. SS.

A: ABDIER GUILBE JIMENEZ

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. 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. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Lcdo. Orville Omar Valentín Rivera, P.O. Box 2335, Utuado, PR 00641. Tel. (787) 597-0063; ovalentin@studiovalentin.com. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 14 de septiembre de 2023. Diane Alvarez Villanueva, Secretario General. Abigail D Maldonado Caquias, Secretaria Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN COMPU-LINK (COMPULINK CORPORATION DBA CELINK)

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ALBERTO LUIS CHAVES GORBEA T/C/C ALBERTO L. CHAVES GORBEA T/C/C ALBERTO CHAVES GORBEA, COMPUESTA POR ALBERTO L. CHAVES LUGO; WILLIAM CHAVES LUGO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06847. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: ALBERTO L. CHAVES LUGO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DEL FINADO ALBERTO LUIS

CHAVES GORBEA T/C/C

ALBERTO L. CHAVES

GORBEA T/C/C ALBERTO

CHAVES GORBEA. POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Primera Demanda Enmendada del caso del epígrafe solicitando la ejecución de hipoteca re-

lacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de The Money House, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $325,000.00, más intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 3.259% anual, y vencedero el 4 de abril de 2087. La Hipoteca Revertida se encuentra inscrita al folio 333 del tomo 412 de Santurce Sur, finca número 5,060 inscripción 6ta. La hipoteca grava la propiedad que describe que describe a continuación: “URBANA:

PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL:

Apartamento tres-B del edificio gobernado por el Régimen de la propiedad Horizontal por el nombre de “El Laurel” sito en el número seiscientos cincuenta y uno (número 651) de la Calle Roosevelt, Miramar, Santurce, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento está localizado en el extremo Este del tercer piso del edificio y colinda por el NORTE, con patio del solar en que radica el edificio principal en colindancia con un solar de don José Vicente Cintrón; por el SUR, con patio del solar en que radica el edificio principal en colindancia con la Calle Roosevelt; por el OESTE, con los “lobbies” principal y de servicio del edificio y en parte con el pozo de los ascensores del edificio y en parte con la chimenea del incinerador del mismo; y por el ESTE, con patio del solar en que radica el edificio principal en colindancia con terrenos de la Sucesión de Gabriel Guerra y Don Francisco Marcos Purón. Este apartamento tiene una cabida superficial de mil doscientos noventa y cinco pies cuadrados con noventa y seis centésimas de pie cuadrado, equivalentes a ciento veintiún con treinta y seis metros cuadrados. Se compone este apartamento de una sala-comedor que contiene un closet y de donde se tiene acceso a la cocina y de donde se tiene acceso también a un pasillo interior que contiene dos closets y que, da acceso a su vez a un baño, a dos habitaciones con sus closets y a un dormitorio principal que contiene un closet y un baño. De la sala tiene acceso por su lado Sur a un balcón que tiene una superficie de 184.13 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 17.11 metros cuadrados y de la cocina se tiene acceso por el lado Oeste a un lobby de servicio donde está ubicado un baño para servicio. La puerta de entrada del apartamento está localizada en la esquina Suroeste de la sala y da acceso a un, vestíbulo que contiene la escalera principal y el elevador principal del edificio, que sirven de medio acceso al apartamento, conectando las varias plantas con el vestíbulo principal, localizado

en la planta terrera, de donde se tiene acceso, a través del patio Sur de la propiedad, a la Calle Roosevelt. Para los fines de calcular el porcentaje que corresponde a cada titular de cada apartamiento (así surge) en los elementos comunes y de los gastos del Condominio, se valúa la totalidad del edificio en la suma de quinientos cincuenta y nueve mil dólares y de un valor a este apartamento de veintiocho mil quinientos dólares. Corresponde de esta forma al titular de este apartamento el derecho exclusivo a su apartamiento (así surge) y a una participación en un condominio indiviso con los demás en los elementos comunes del inmueble equivalentes a cinco y diez centésimas por ciento (5.10%) del total del valor conjunto del inmueble así como de sus gastos comunales. Este porcentaje no podrá ser variado sin la anuencia de los titulares que representen la totalidad del valor de los apartamientos (así surge) del edificio”. Dirección física: 651 Calle Roosevelt, Apartamento 3 B, Condominio El Laurel, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Finca Número 5,060, inscrita al folio 30 del tomo 160 de Santurce Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de San Juan. Se les APERCIBE y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Genevieve López Stipes, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 30 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. INTERPELACIÓN: Se les ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de TREINTA (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Alberto Luis

Chaves Gorbea t/c/c Alberto L.

Chaves Gorbea t/c/c Alberto

Chaves Gorbea a saber: Alberto L. Chaves Lugo; William

Chaves Lugo; Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos nombres desconocidos. Se les APERCIBE que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de TREINTA (30)

días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les APERCIBE que luego del transcurso del término de TREINTA (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante Alberto Luis Chaves Gorbea t/c/c Alberto

L. Chaves Gorbea t/c/c Alberto Chaves Gorbea, y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, según enmendado. Se ORDENA a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de Alberto Luis Chaves Gorbea t/c/c Alberto L. Chaves Gorbea t/c/c Alberto Chaves Gorbea incluye a: Alberto L. Chaves Lugo; William Chaves Lugo; Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos nombres desconocidos; proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 25 de septiembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, LUZ E., SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE JORGE

RODRIGUEZ REYES Y SUCESION DE CARMEN

IRIS MALDONADO

TORRES, COMPUESTAS

POR SUS HIJOS

REBECCA RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, JORGE

LUIS RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, DIANA RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, EDWIN RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, ROSAI RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, HIRAM RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, GLORIA RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, REYNALDO RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO Y JOEL RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE

TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE JORGE RODRIGUEZ REYES Y CARMEN IRIS MALDONADO TORRES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2022CV06538.

(504). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: A LA PARTE DEMANDADA; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICODEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA, POR TENER EMBARGO ANOTADO A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $6,254.71.

Yo, EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en la oficina del Alguacil de Subastas en el Cuarto Piso, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 1RO. DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la URBANIZACIÓN LOMAS VERDES, situado en el Barrio Minillas de Bayamón. Número del

solar: 42 de la Manzana Dos guión G (2-G): Área del solar: TRESCIENTOS UNO PUNTO TREINTA (301.30) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número Cuarenta y Tres (43), distancia de veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número Cuarenta y Uno (41), distancia de veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros; por el ESTE, con los solares números Tres (3) y Cuatro (4), distancia de trece punto diez (13.10) metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número Veintiuno (21), distancia de trece punto diez (13.10) metros. Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para una familia, que consiste principalmente en sala-comedor, tres cuartos dormitorios, cocina, un baño y balcón. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera, finca número 11,134, inscripción quinta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Lomas Verdes, Calle Elodea, Solar 42, Manzana 2-G, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $87,400.08 de principal, intereses al 4.00% anual, desde el día 1ro. de abril de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $9,720.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $97,200.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $64,800.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $48,600.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico-, Departamento de Hacienda, por la suma principal de $6,254.71, contra Jorge Ro-

dríguez, seguro social número xxx-xx--7913, Caso número SJU-22-027, Certificación del día 16 de febrero de 2022, anotado el día 8 de marzo de 2022 al Asiento 2022-002244-EST del Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 27 de septiembre de 2023. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE SALINAS

ORIENTAL BANK Y BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO

AGENTE DE SERVICIO Demandante V.

SUCESION DE JULIA SOLIVAN DE LEÓN COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA

IRMA IVONNE POLANCO SOLIVAN; SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL LUIS POLANCO

MONTAÑEZ COMPUESTA

POR SUS HEREDEROS

CONOCIDOS IRMA

IVONNE POLANCO SOLIVAN, ALANYS POLANCO MUNET Y ANGEL LUIS POLANCO

MUNET, SUCESION DE DIANE MARIE POLANCO SOLIVAN COMPUESTA

POR SUS HEREDEROS

CONOCIDOS STEPHANIE

PIÑA POLANCO Y JORGE MARTINEZ

POLANCO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS Y/O

PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES

Demandado(a)

Civil: GM2023CV00053. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: IRMA IVONNE POLANCO SOLIVAN COMO HEREDERA CONOCIDA DE LA SUCESION DE JULIA SOLIVAN DE LEÓN Y LA SUCESIÓN DE

ÁNGEL LUIS POLANCO MONTAÑEZ; STEPHANIE PIÑA POLANCO Y JORGE

MARTINEZ POLANCO COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DIANE MARIE POLANCO SOLIVAN; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE TODAS LAS SUCESIONES.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de agosto 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 de 25 de septiembre de 2023. En SALINAS, Puerto Rico, el 25 de septiembre de 2023. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA L. RAMOS POMALES, SECRETARIA CONFIDENCIAL II.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.

Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE MIGNA RIVERA GARCIA COMPUESTA POR JAVIER

EFRAIN SANTIAGO RIVERA; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); ARNALDO ISMAEL ALTORAN

RODRIGUEZ (TITULAR REGISTRAL)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: HU2023CV01313. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A LA PARTE CO-DEMANDADA: A) ARNALDO ISMAEL ALTORÁN RODRÍGUEZ (TITULAR REGISTRAL), A LA SIGUIENTE DIRECCION: URB. EXTENSION VERDEMAR #840 CALLE 32 HUMACAO, PR 00791.

B) FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGNA RIVERA GARCÍA, A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES:

(A) PO BOX 54 HUMACAO, PR 00792-0054; B) PO BOX 54 PUNTA SANTIAGO, PR 007410054; (C) URB. EXTENSION VERDEMAR #840 CALLE 32, HUMACAO, PR 00791.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de La Sucesión de Migna Rivera García, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $84,487.24 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de abril de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.25% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además, La Sucesión de Migna Rivera García adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $8,636.30. Además La Sucesión de Migna Rivera García se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $8,636.30 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $8,636.30 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 12, otorgada en Humacao, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de enero de 2022, ante la notario Heidy Aleyi Ortíz Rodríguez, de la finca

número 13,483, inscrita al Folio 215 del Tomo 324 de Humacao, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Migna Rivera García. Los co-demandados miembros de la Sucesión de Migna Rivera García se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de Migna Rivera García, se incluye a los herederos conocidos y herederos desconocidos de Migna Rivera García, denominados Fulano y Fulana De Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. 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/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 29 de septiembre de 2023, en Humacao, Puerto Rico. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA, CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs.

MIGUEL ALEJANDRO

REYES PEREZ T/C/C

MIGUEL A. REYES

PEREZ T/C/C MIGUEL REYES PEREZ, SU

ESPOSA YVELISSE

DIAZ RODRIGUEZ Y LA

SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02545.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR

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

A: YVELISSE DÍAZ

RODRÍGUEZ Y LA

SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON

MIGUEL ALEJANDRO

REYES PÉREZ T/C/C

MIGUEL A. REYES PÉREZ

T/C/C MIGUEL REYES

PÉREZ CONDOMINIO

EL ROBLE, URB. VILLA

CAROLINA, BLOQUE 9

MANZANA 101, CALLE 107, CAROLINA, PR 00985.

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-MAlL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

En Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 27 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA.

KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA

FEDERAL NATIONAL

MORTGAGE

ASSOCIATION T/C/C

FANNIE MAE

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS

AUGUSTO ROBERT

RUIZ COMPUESTA

POR SUS HEREDEROS

CONOCIDOS JUDITH

DEL CARMEN ROBERT

MARTÍNEZ T/C/C JUDITH

SALAZAR T/C/C CARMEN

ROBERT MARTINEZ, JOSE ROBERT T/C/C

JOSE EDUARDO ROBERT

COLON, CARLOS

RAFAEL ROBERT

COLON, FRANCES MARIE

ROBERT PAGAN, MARIA ANGELLIE ROBERT

PAGAN T/C/C MARIE

A. ROBERT PAGAN, LILLIAM DEL CARMEN

ROBERT PELLOT T/C/C

LILLIAM DEL CARMEN

ROBERT PELLOT

RAFAEL ROBERT

LYONS; SUCESION DE LILLIAM DEL CARMEN

ROBERT COLON T/C/C

LILLIAM DEL CARMEN

ROBERT COLON

COMPUESTA POR MARIA

COLON; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL

COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES Demandados

Civil Núm.: AG2019CV00660. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS AUGUSTO ROBERT RUIZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS JUDITH

DEL CARMEN ROBERT

MARTÍNEZ T/C/C JUDITH

SALAZAR T/C/C CARMEN

ROBERT MARTINEZ, JOSE ROBERT T/C/C

JOSE EDUARDO ROBERT

COLON, FRANCES MARIE

ROBERT PAGAN, MARIA ANGELLIE ROBERT

PAGAN T/C/C MARIE

A. ROBERT PAGAN Y RAFAEL ROBERT LYONS; SUCESION DE LILLIAM DEL CARMEN ROBERT COLON T/C/C LILLIAN DEL CARMEN ROBERT COLON; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES. BARRIO

PUEBLO, PARCELA F (15 TOMAS GONZALEZ), MOCA PR 00676; HC-01 BOX, 16980, AGUADILLA, PR 00603; JUDITH DEL CARMEN

ROBERT MARTÍNEZ

T/C/C JUDITH SALAZAR

T/C/C CARMEN ROBERT

MARTÍNEZ: 2485

HANKINSON LANE, FATE, TX 75189;

RAFAEL ROBERT LYONS: 2818 TOLWORTH AVE., ORLANDO, FL 32837, Y; MARÍA ANGELLIE ROBERT

PAGÁNDOTELAS

T/C/C MARIE A. ROBERT PAGÁN, 3722

WOODBURY HILL LOOP, LAKELAND, FL 33810 Y 3151 ORANGE GROVE CT., LAKELAND FL 33810. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el Inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualesquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. De ser el demandado un heredero de una sucesión, se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días, en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, L.P.R.A. sec 11,021. 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

RUA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYABO, PR 00970

TEL.: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

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Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 28 de septiembre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NATHALIE I. ACEVEDO QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. BERNARDA CINTRON SOLIS; JOSÉ EDUARDO

RÍOS CINTRÓN T/C/C

JOSÉ RÍOS CINTRÓN; JOSÉ MANUEL RÍOS CINTRÓN

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02518. (604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número ocho guión BF, de la Urbanización Extensión Country Club en el Barrio Sábana Llana de Río Piedras, hoy San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos cincuenta punto cero cero metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en veinticinco metros, con el solar número nueve; por el SUR, en veinticinco metros, con el solar número siete; por el ESTE, en catorce metros, con el solar número cuarenta; y por el OESTE, en catorce metros con la calle número cuarenta y tres. Enclava una casa de concreto. Inscrita al folio 131 del tomo 130 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Quinta de San Juan, finca número 5,673. Dirección Física: 907 Calle Sara Isabel Spencer, Ubr. Country Club, San Juan, PR. 00924. B. Que los autos y

todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Citifinancial Services of Puerto Rico, Inc., haciendo negocios como Citifinancial, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $35,000.00, con intereses al 14.24% anual, vencedero el día 19 de julio de 2021, constituida mediante la escritura número 161, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de julio de 2006, ante la notario Lourdes M. Collazo Algarín, e inscrita al folio 66 del tomo 1,024 de Sábana Llana, finca número 5,673, inscripción 14ta. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $63,401.09, más la suma de $5,404.20, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, pactados con en el pagaré y en la escritura de Hipoteca de la parte demandante pactados en el pagaré y en el contrato de hipoteca. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan, por el tipo mínimo de $64,500.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $43,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $32,250.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y

para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 27 de septiembre de 2023 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. JUAN A. SANTANA GARCIA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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 505 CIVIL ARMANDO ENRIQUE FIGUEROA ROJAS Demandante V. ORIENTAL BANK Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV02850. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN JMONTALVO@ DELGADOFERNANDEZ.COM

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 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 25 de septiembre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 25 de de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. EUFEMIA D. ALCÁNTARA FÉLIX, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

HUMACAO SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 205

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO

AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Demandante V.

JOSEPH BARLIA FORMA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: HU2021CV00510.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

ANDREA DEL MAR RUIZ HASSAN HASSANDELMAR7@YAHOO.COM

KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZ KENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: JOSEPH BARLIA FORMA; DIRECCION; D3 COND LAS VILLAS EN PALMAS II HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO 00791.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 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 de 25 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 25 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA.

KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SAN JUAN

IVAN MUNDO

CARRASQUILLO

Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE ALBERTO PACHECO

MATHEUS, COMPUESTA

POR X, Y Y Z COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV07676. Sala: 207. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.

A: SUCESIÓN DE ALBERTO PACHECO

MATHEUS, COMPUESTA POR X, Y Y Z COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN. APT. 616, COND. CARIBBEAN TOWER 670 AVE. PONCE DE LEON, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00907. Por Ia presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar Ia demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de Ia publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunaI-electronico, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de Ia misma al (a Ia) abogado(a) de Ia parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en Ia demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en eI ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de Ia Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para Ia Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de Ia Unidad Familiar y para Ia Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen Ia ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, eI inicio de procesos para Ia privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de Ia) menor. (ArtIculo 33, incisos b y f de Ia Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Los abogados de Ia parte demandante son:

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE

DEMANDANTE: LCDO. ROBERTO L. VARELA RÍOS

RUA: 17459 Licenciadonotariopr.com

Ave. San Patricio 764

San Juan, PR 00921

TEL: (787) 478-7718 info@licenciadonotariopr.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy, 28 de septiembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

LUISA M. COPLIN PERREAUX

Parte Demandante V.

JOSÉ W. NIEVES TORRES

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2023RF01350.

Sala: 702. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE DE LOS NEXOS DE CONVIVENCIA). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.

UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SR. JOSÉ WILBERTO NIEVES TORRES.

Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda del epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación al Lcdo. Héctor E. Pabón Vega, PO BOX 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, teléfono 787-2826734, hpabonvega@grmail. com, abogado de la parle demandante, dentro de los treinta días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico; Sala de San Juan, 21 de septiembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

JESSICA COLÓN TORRES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA

INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO

ROMINA FIGUEROA DIAZ

Demandante Vs. MATTHEW COLEMAN LIEBE

Demandados

Civil Núm.: HU2023RF00479. DIVORCIO-RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIEN-

TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A LA PARTE DEMANDADA: MATTHEW COLEMAN LIEBE. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda de divorcio por la causal de Ruptura Irreparable contra la parte demandada MATTHEW COLEMAN LIEBE. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite a usted por edicto y que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Se le emplaza y requiere que dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda presentando 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 y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas del LCDO. ÁNGEL MIGUEL GARCÍA PRADO, GARCÍA-PRADO & ASOCIADOS, C.S.P., AL 28 CALLE MUÑOZ RIVERA, NAGUABO PR 00718, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 25 de septiembre de 2023, en Humacao, Puerto Rico. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. NICSIA MARITZA MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS HR MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Demandante Vs. SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02962.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE! PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. Se le notifica por medio de! presente edicto que se ha presentado en este tribunal una demanda en solicitud de cancelación de un pagaré extraviado a favor de! SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, o a su orden, por !a suma de $8,332.37, sin intereses, vencedero al 1 de septiembre de 2023, según consta de la escritura número 561 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día10 de septiembre de 2011, ante el Notario Humberto Soto Mainardi, inscrita al folio 73 del Tomo 993 de Carolina I, inscripción 11ra, sobre la siguiente propiedad: Urbana: Solar #17 del bloque 30 de la Urbanización Villa Asturias, radicada en el barrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, con un área de 493.243 metros cuadrados, en lindes por e! NORTE, en 28.00 metros con los solares 1 y 2 del bloque 30; por el SUR, en un arco de 9.722 metros con la calle 31; por el ESTE, en 33.866 metros con el solar 18 del bloque 30 y por el OESTE, en 24.841 metros con el solar 1. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 8 del Tomo 396 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, sección primera. Por la presente se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de 30 días contados a partir del diligenciamiento del emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al Cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Deberá enviar copia de su alegación responsiva a la abogada de la parte demandante, cuya información es la siguiente: Lcda. Lisdaira Serrano Martínez RUA 17356 273 Ave. Ponce de León Plaza 273, Ste.700 Hato Rey PR 00917

lisdairaserrano@gmail.com

Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del tribunal, hoy 25 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MYRIAM I. FIGUEROA PASTRANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGEITE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs. MIRELLYS BREVO ROSARIO Demandado

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV03436. Salón: 505. 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: MIRELLYS BREVO ROSARIO1 RES SIERRA LINDA, APT 83, BAYAMÓN, PR 00957-2050. 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: httrs://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá 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 a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Edwin Serrano cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993 3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@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 22 de agosto de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 22 de agosto de 2023. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MI-

LITA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. ANN M CASTILLO GARCIA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV03537. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: ANN M CASTILLO GARCIAURB COUNTRY CLUB 885 CALLE HALCON P2, 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 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 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de agosto de 2023. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 23 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIAM MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TRUJILLO ALTO EN CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. JOSHUA J MARTINEZ OLIVO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TJ2023CV00204. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOSHUA J MARTINEZ OLIVOCIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA

Z15 CALLE 27, TRUJILLO ALTO PR 00976.

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 TRUJILLO ALTO EN CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 día de agosto de 2023. En TRUJILLO ALTO EN CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 23 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE VEGA BAJA

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs LOURDES CABALLERO ORTÍZ, LA SUCESIÓN DE EDUARDO VÁZQUEZ COLÓN COMPUESTA

POR KAIRA TAIMÍ VÁZQUEZ MELÉNDEZ T/C/C KAIRA T. VÁZQUEZ

MELÉNDEZ,

EDWARD

JEORGE RYAN VÁZQUEZ CABALLERO, MICHELLE VÁZQUEZ VÁZQUEZ, EDUARDO VÁZQUEZ CABALLERO, PREFERRED MORTGAGE CORPORATION, POPULAR FINANCE, INC., DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”), JOHN DOE Y MARY DOE

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: VB2021CV00476.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE Y ASOCIADO DE PUERTO

RICO; SS., Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

A: LOURDES

CABALLERO ORTÍZ, LA SUCESIÓN DE EDUARDO VÁZQUEZ COLÓN COMPUESTA

POR KAIRA TAIMÍ

VÁZQUEZ MELÉNDEZ

T/C/C KAIRA T. VÁZQUEZ

MELÉNDEZ, EDWARD

JEORGE RYAN VÁZQUEZ

CABALLERO, MICHELLE VÁZQUEZ VÁZQUEZ, EDUARDO VÁZQUEZ

CABALLERO, JOHN DOE Y MARY DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDUARDO

VAZQUEZ COLON.

El Alguacil que suscribe, anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de VEGA BAJA, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, de contado y por moneda del curso legal de los Estados

Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la)

Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar de forma irregular marcado con el número cuatro del bloque C (C-4), en el Plano de Inscripción final del Proyecto Villa de Los Pescadores, localizado en el Barrio Yeguada del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial

de cuatrocientos treinta punto dieciséis (430.16) metros cuadrados, en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar siete, en trece punto ochenta y siete metros lineales; por el SUR, con la Calle número dos, en veintitrés punto noventa metros lineales; por el ESTE, con el solar número tres, en veinticinco metros lineales; y por el OESTE, con el solar número cinco en diecinueve metros lineales.Enclava una estructura residencial de una Planta construida de hormigón reforzado y bloques de hormigón. Dicha unidad consiste de tres dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, baño y marquesina. Inscrita al folio “170” del tomo “319” de Vega Baja. Finca “25,655”. Dirección física: 145 Calle Colirrubia, Villa Los Pescadores, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico 00693. En relación a la finca a subastarse se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $85,600.00, según acordado entre las partes Don Eduardo Vázquez Colón, Lourdes Caballero Ortiz y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos adquirieron el inmueble mediante compraventa a Blanco Enterprises, Inc. por precio de $47,700.00. El negocio se dio mediante la escritura número “286”, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de mayo de 1991, ante el notario José E. Valcourt Cruz, finca número “25,655”, inscripción 2da. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 1RO DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, SALA DE VEGA BAJA. En relación a la propiedad a subastarse, la cantidad mínima de licitación en la Primera Subasta será la suma de $85,600.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA EL DIA 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $57,066.67. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA EL DIA 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $42,800.00. Dicha Subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: la suma principal de SETENTA Y CINCO MIL

TRESCIENTOS CINCO DOLARES CON NOVENTA Y NUEVE CENTAVOS ($75,305.99), más

intereses a razón del SIETE PUNTO CINCUENTA por ciento (7.50%) anual desde diciembre de 2015, hasta el presente, OCHO MIL QUINIENTOS SESENTA DOLARES ($8,560.00), para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más la cantidad de CUATRO MIL CIENTO CUATRO DÓLARES CON NOVENTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($4,104.96) de “piggy back” suma la cual no acumula intereses y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago. condenándola, además, al pago de cualquier adelanto que haya hecho la parte Demandante. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuaran subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Se informa que la propiedad objeto de ejecución se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Expedido en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 14 de septiembre de 2023. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA-

MÓN FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESION RAFAEL

ROSADO RAMOS T/C/C

RAFAEL ROSADO

COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION MARIA

ELENA CORTES VARGAS

T/C/C MARIA E CORTES

VARGAS T/C/C MARIA

ELENA ROSADO T/C/C

MARIA E CORTES-VARGA COMPUESTA POR SU HERMANA MARIA CORTES VARGAS; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02445.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION RAFAEL ROSADO RAMOS T/C/C RAFAEL ROSADO; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION MARIA

ELENA CORTES VARGAS

T/C/C MARIA E CORTES

VARGAS T/C/C MARIA

ELENA ROSADO T/C/C

MARIA E CORTESVARGA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (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: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá 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.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP

Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido

R.U.A. 15,622

TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309

Telephone: (954) 343 6273

Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com

Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. VICTOR MANUEL PÉREZ DÍAZ, MYRIAM CRUZ MUÑIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA

POR AMBOS, R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE

Demandadas

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV05146. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ A favor de R&G Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $12,500.00 con intereses a razón del 10.00% anual y con vencimiento el 31 de octubre de 2007, así resulta de la escritura número 1,447, otorgada en San Juan, P.R., el 31 de octubre de 1997, ante el Notario Radamés Becerra Saavedra, inscrita al Sistema Karibe, finca 31,623 de Bayamón, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Primera Sección de Bayamón. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente 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/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar 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. Los abogados de la parte demandante son. ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393

BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP

Suite 209 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 21 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE LUIS

ALBERTO PEREZ

MERCADO COMPUESTA

POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM.: PO2023CV00074.

(406). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: SUCESION DE LUIS

ALBERTO PEREZ

MERCADO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL;; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”);

Yo, MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO

SABER: Que el día 1RO. DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS

11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los docu-

mentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Ponce durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 260 en el plano de inscripción parcelación del SECTOR TALLABOA ALTA III, radicada en el Barrio Tallaboa del término municipal de Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 256.225 metros cuadrados. En linderos: Norte, con calle de la Comunidad; por el Sur, con parcela 258; Este, con la parcela 259; y por el Oeste, con la parcela 223. La propiedad se encuentra inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 237 de Peñuelas, finca número 8517, inscripción primera. Registro de la Propiedad Sección II de Ponce. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 5ta., en cuanto a que se amplía por la suma de $156.83 para un nuevo principal que será ahora de $49,356.83, el interés que será al 9.99% anual y plazos mensuales de $432.78 comenzando el día 29 de junio de 2012, vencedero el día 29 de abril de 2019, según la escritura número 206, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de mayo de 2012, ante el Notario Público Javier B. Sepúlveda Rivera, inscrita al folio 192 del tomo 237 de Peñuelas, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección II de Ponce, finca 8517, inscripción 8va. Modificada nuevamente la hipoteca de la inscripción 5ta., modificada también en la inscripción 8va. y ahora en cuanto a que se cancela parcialmente en la suma de $2,198.70 para un nuevo balance de $47,158.13, el interés será al 7.625% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de septiembre de 2049, según la escritura número 304, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de septiembre de 2019, ante el Notario Público Javier B. Sepúlveda Rivera, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Peñúelas, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección II de Ponce, finca número 8,517, inscripción 9na. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: La Moca, 260 Lot. Tallaboa Alta 3 Sect., Peñuelas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $45,867.44 de principal, intere-

ses al 7.625% anual, desde el día 1ro. de julio de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $7,380.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado más recargos acumulados, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $47,158.13 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $31,438.76 y de necesitarse una tercera subasta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $23,579.07. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 21 de septiembre de 2023. MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #560, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.

Camuy outslugs Cayey to capture its first Double A title

By THE STAR STAFF

The Arenosos de Camuy became the champions of the Double A Superior Baseball League on Sunday night, defeating the Toritos de Cayey 12-6 at Pedro Montañez Stadium in Camuy.

For the fourth consecutive year, the tournament champion was decided in a seventh game. Camuy ended a long wait since the founding of the franchise in 1957 and Cayey fell short in its bid to win back-to-back titles for the first time.

“We were on the brink of elimination seven or eight times,” Arenosos manager-player Dennis Pérez said after the game. “This is a team with character and a lot of desire. We are enjoying this national championship and we are very grateful.”

Camuy grabbed the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning thanks to a five-run burst. The Toritos led 3-1 going into the stanza, but everything changed after a costly error by third baseman Nelson Molina on a grounder by Noel Cuevas, which resulted in the Arenosos’ second run. Then a single by Víctor Claudio tied the game. A single by Pérez combined with an error

by outfielder Christian Torres helped load the bases, and a double by Bryan Collazo gave Camuy a 6-3 lead.

In the sixth inning, Camuy extended its lead to 9-3 and then added three more runs in the eighth to make it 12-3. The Toritos tried to rally, but mustered only three runs for the final tally.

Claudio went 3 for 4 in the game with three RBIs and a run scored. He was named Most Valuable Player of the series. Additionally, Cuevas had two hits and scored four runs.

Left-hander Henry Iglesias got the win in relief, working 4.1 innings. He allowed two hits and a run with four strikeouts. Christian Bonilla took the loss, allowing five runs on five hits in 1.2 innings.

After the game, Puerto Rico Baseball Federation President Dr. José Daniel Quiles presented the championship trophy to manager Ángel Sotomayor. He was accompanied by the federation vice president, Carlos Príncipe, and executive director, Efraín Williams.

Ohio high school football coach resigns after team used ‘Nazi’ as play call

By JESÚS JIMÉNEZ

Ahigh school football coach in the Cleveland area resigned last week after he and his team repeatedly used the word “Nazi” as a play-call reference during a game on Sept. 22, school officials said.

The coach, Tim McFarland, who led Brooklyn High School’s football team, and his players used the term in the first half of a game against Beachwood High School, Robert Hardis, the superintendent of the Beachwood schools, said in a statement. Brooklyn High School, from the southwest Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn, was playing as the visiting team in Beachwood, Ohio, a predominantly Jewish suburb southeast of Cleveland.

After Beachwood High School officials, including the athletic director and the head coach, learned what was happening on the field late in the first half of the game, they notified game officials, Hardis said.

McFarland acknowledged that his team had been using the word “Nazi” as a play call, apologized and said his team would use another word for its play call in the sec-

ond half of the game, Hardis said.

“We informed the officials that should this continue, we would pull our players from the field,” Hardis said. “To our knowledge, ‘Nazi’ was not used during the second half. Late in the game, it was also reported by our team that several Brooklyn players used a racial slur freely throughout the night.” He did not specify what the slur was.

Theodore Caleris, the superintendent of the Brooklyn City Schools, said in a statement last Tuesday announcing McFarland’s resignation that the coach had expressed “his deepest regret about the matter, and offers his sincerest apologies to the Beachwood and Brooklyn School communities.”

He added, “While to the district’s knowledge the language was not directed to any single individual, the Brooklyn City Schools acknowledges that using such offensive language in the first place was utterly and absolutely wrong.”

McFarland did not respond to a phone message and an email Tuesday requesting comment.

It was unclear who had decided to use the term in the play call for the Sept. 22 game. It was also unclear whether the play-

ers or other members of the coaching staff would face discipline.

Michael Becker, the Brooklyn High School athletic director, did not immediately respond to a phone message and email Tuesday requesting comment.

The episode happened at a time when antisemitic incidents have been on the rise. The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy group, said in a report that the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States in 2022 was the highest since 1979, when the organization began recording such acts, including online harassment, speech and physical attacks.

Caleris said the Brooklyn City Schools had been contacted by the Anti-Defamation League, which offered to serve as a resource to “promote understanding and tolerance.”

The Anti-Defamation League of Cleveland said in a Facebook post on Sept. 24 that “there is no room in sports for Holocaust references and racial slurs.” It added, “Student athletes

should be put in a position to best reflect their school’s commitment to inclusive, fair play.”

Brooklyn High School’s football team also drew criticism from city officials in Beachwood.

Mayor Justin Berns of Beachwood and the City Council said in a joint statement Sunday that “Brooklyn’s behavior violates the norms and expectations of conduct that should be taught to every student.”

The mayor added, “We commend Beachwood’s football team, which took the right action by calling out this behavior while continuing to hold themselves to high standards of conduct.”

It was the first Double A Superior Baseball League title for the Arenosos de Camuy in the 66-year history of the franchise.

Tim Wakefield, pitcher who helped Boston break the curse, dies at 57

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Tim Wakefield, a right-handed knuckleball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox who in 2004 played a critical lateinnings relief role in the team’s winning its first World Series championship in 86 years, died Sunday. He was 57.

The Red Sox announced his death and said the cause was brain cancer.

“He not only captivated us on the field but was the rare athlete whose legacy extended beyond the record books to the countless lives he touched with his warmth and genuine spirit,” John W. Henry, principal owner of the Red Sox, said in a statement.

In 2010, near the end of his career, Wakefield won MLB’s Roberto Clemente Award, which recognizes a player’s community and charitable work.

Wakefield was part of a small tribe of pitchers — Hoyt Wilhelm, Phil Niekro, Charlie Hough and R.A. Dickey, among them — who had long careers throwing the knuckleball, which, when thrown properly, takes a slow, darting, fluttery path to home plate.

“You’re better off trying to hit Wakefield when you’re in a drunken stupor,” Jason Giambi, a longtime first baseman for the Oakland A’s and the New York Yankees, told The New Yorker in 2004.

Wakefield was deeply ingrained in the fiery Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. During the 2003 American League Championship Series, he surrendered the gameending home run in Game 7 to Yankees third baseman Aaron Boone in the 11th inning.

But a year later, when the two teams

met again in the ALCS, Wakefield pitched three innings of scoreless relief in extra innings in Game 5, putting Boston in position for David Ortiz to single in the winning run in the bottom of the 14th.

“Last year was last year,” Wakefield told Jackie MacMullan, a columnist for The Boston Globe, adding, “I was just trying to keep us in the game for as long as possible.”

The Red Sox went on to win the series (peeling off four in a row), then swept the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series, the team’s first since 1918.

Wakefield pitched 17 seasons with

the Red Sox after two with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He had a career record of 200180 with an ERA of 4.41. He ranks second in career Red Sox victories, with 186, second to the 192 of Roger Clemens and Cy Young.

Timothy Stephen Wakefield was born Aug. 2, 1966, in Melbourne, Florida.

He took a circuitous path to becoming a knuckleballer. He was drafted by the Pirates as a first baseman in 1988 but didn’t show much hitting prowess. While playing at the Pirates’ Class A minor league team, a coach, Woody Huyke, watched Wakefield throw knucklers, which he thought were better than the ones that ballplayers toy with for fun.

Two days later, Huyke told The New Yorker, “we had an organizational meeting because, you know, he was on the bubble as an infielder. I said, ‘Before you let him go, I’d like to see him on the mound, ’cause he’s got a good knuckleball.’ So they kept him around. They told him, ‘Either you pitch or go home.’”

He was called up by the Pirates in 1992, won eight of his nine decisions, with a 2.15 ERA, and pitched two complete victories in the National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves (who won the series in seven games). But he began struggling with the knuckleball, leading to a subpar 1993 season with Pittsburgh, and poor results in the minors

in 1994. The Pirates released him, and the Red Sox signed him in early 1995.

In June of that season, Wakefield took a no-hitter against the Oakland A’s into the eighth inning, but a single by Stan Javier with one out ruined the gem. He nonetheless won, 4-1, using his knuckler for all but four of his 114 pitches.

“Soon Tim Wakefield’s legions will organize,” Dan Shaughnessy, a Globe columnist, rhapsodized. “They will sit together in the center field bleachers and crack their knuckles between pitches. They will be the Loyal Order of Knuckleheads.”

He had a 16-8 record with a 2.95 ERA that season, perhaps his best, and he was with the Red Sox to stay.

Following his retirement after the 2011 season, Wakefield and Dickey were featured in a documentary, “Knuckleball!” (2012). Directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, the film also focused on Niekro and Hough.

After the film’s release, Wakefield told The Newport Daily News that a young knuckleballer’s chances of being drafted by a major league team were nearly impossible because of the emphasis on a pitcher’s speed.

“They may sign him as a free agent,” he said. “There’s always that doubt, because of the nature of the pitch, and I felt like I had to prove myself year after year.”

He joined NESN as an analyst for Red Sox games in 2012 and was inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame four years later.

Last week, former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling revealed on his podcast that Wakefield and his wife, Stacy, had cancer. The Red Sox issued a statement saying, “Unfortunately, this information has been shared publicly, without their permission. Their health is a deeply personal matter they needed to keep private as they navigate treatment and work to tackle this disease.”

In addition to his wife, Wakefield’s survivors include his children, Trevor and Brianna.

Wakefield said he learned to throw the knuckleball from his father.

“Dad comes home from work, and I’m, you know, ‘Let’s go play catch,’” he told The New Yorker. “He was tired, and he wanted to go inside. So the knuckleball was his way of trying to tire me out, ’cause I didn’t want to have to catch it — it’d go by me and I’d have to go pick it up. It was kind of a subtle way of Dad saying, ‘Time to go, let’s quit.’”

Tim Wakefield on the mound in 2011 in a game against the Yankees. Jason Giambi said of Wakefield’s knuckleball, “You’re better off trying to hit Wakefield when you’re in a drunken stupor.”

Sudoku

How to Play:

Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules:

Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Crossword

Answers on page 30

Wordsearch

Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Heightened imagination and ingenuity could bring new ideas for advancing yourself in money and business affairs. Practical information attained from outside sources merges with insights to bring useful information your way. Consider everything carefully before taking action. Be open to the advice of others. Whatever you do, today shows promise of being successful and fortunate.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Social events, especially those unrelated to business, could bring exciting new contacts. Relationships with partners should be mutually beneficial, particularly when the people you’re dealing with are friends. If you’ve been considering entering a new business partnership, this is the day to start discussing it seriously. Romantic partnerships begun or moved forward now should also go very well.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

our efficient and practical abilities are operating at a very high level. A long-term goal that you’ve been working toward could finally be reached today, bringing good fortune and open acknowledgement. Your efforts may be so appreciated that you could be asked to continue doing what you’re doing. In other words, major advancement could be in the works.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Your strong business head and practical skills couple with imagination and innovation to bring advancement your way. Information received from far away could prove especially valuable now. Relationships with friends and neighbors should be warm, cordial, and cooperative. Love relationships also prove rewarding. This evening blow off a little steam by going out.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Business colleagues or prospective partners could visit today. The meeting promises to be cooperative, rewarding, and fruitful. Any partnership formed now shows promise of being a step in the right direction. You might fantasize about how you’re going to spend all the money you’re going to make. This is fine as long as you postpone actually spending it until you have the money in your hands.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

A social event in your neighborhood, perhaps in your home, could bring practical information your way that you can put to use to advance your business. You could meet some valuable contacts. Information received from neighbors can prove enlightening. You should feel optimistic, enthusiastic, and motivated. Whatever you start now should bring success and good fortune your way.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Your business and financial interests could suddenly take a turn for the better. Any difficulties you’ve been having may disappear as if by magic. Whatever your work, either related to career or projects of your own, it should suddenly run a lot more smoothly. You should be feeling physically strong and energetic. Optimism and enthusiasm permeate your thoughts.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

You feel mentally and physically great, and your business and financial interests may take a sudden turn for the better. A contract could be involved. Love matters should also be going very well, and children could bring you great pleasure. This is a good time to make future plans and pursue your most cherished ambitions.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You can overcome difficulties with business and money through the help of someone older. Helpful advice makes a future course of action seem clearer and more practical than before. Your practical abilities are heightened. You’re less likely than usual to let strong emotions interfere with using them. A previously unused intuitive ability could also help you now.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

Today a piece of information for which you’ve been searching could suddenly become known. You might use your business and money-management skills to help a friend or a group with which you’re affiliated. You’ll have some good pointers to impart. Gratitude, if not financial compensation, should be forthcoming. Put your nose to the grindstone and get going!

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Efforts to advance your career that you’ve made over the past few weeks could finally bear fruit. Success and good fortune are strongly indicated where business and money are concerned. Worries over finances disappear. You could receive public recognition of some kind, particularly from higher-ups. Some benefit through contracts or legal papers is also indicated. This is a satisfying, profitable time.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

A long-awaited vacation or move you’ve been hoping to make could finally be possible today. Before you go, there may be some paperwork to take care of. Thoughts of business advancement may play in your mind, and you might consider taking a course or two to increase your marketability and help you get closer to achieving your goals.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29

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