By THE STAR STAFF
PuertoRico Gov. Pedro R. Pierluisi met with Puerto Rican businessmen and elected officials in the city of Orlando to strengthen initiatives that promote economic growth opportunities in Central Florida and the Island.
He spoke with the mayor of Orange County, Jerry Demings, to explore alternatives to expand the opportunities for collaboration between Puerto Rico and Orlando.
“Orange County has one of the largest concentrations of Puerto Ricans in the state of Florida, which represents 46.8 percent of the population in that area.
That is why our interest is focused on strengthening the initiatives that promote the economic development of the area and its potential impact on our Island. I thank the Mayor of Orange County, Jerry Demings, for always being willing to support our Puerto Rican community” the governor said.
Also, Pierluisi held a meeting with Puerto Rican businessmen who shared their experiences when they decided to expand their businesses in Central Florida. The success stories demonstrated the business op-
portunities that exist in the area for the development of business models between Puerto Rico and Florida.
Meanwhile, the director of PRFAA, Carmen Feliciano, added that “the Puerto Rican community in Orange County has grown exponentially in recent years, we see it every day in our regional office, where we provide essential services to Puerto Ricans who live in the state. For us, knowing first-hand the needs and success stories of the Puerto Rican business community in the area opens spaces for collaboration and exchange of ideas that will strengthen the economy of both parties and benefit Puerto Ricans on the Island and in Central Florida” .
The meeting comes as a prelude to the Expo Puerto Rico event, which will be held in Orlando, Florida from December 5 to 9, aimed at Puerto Rican companies that are interested in expanding. During the event, which is organized by the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC), the aim is to guide Puerto Rican businessmen on the processes necessary to export their products from Puerto Rico to Florida and from Florida to Puerto Rico. Likewise, it will be oriented on job opportunities on the Island.
For11 months, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has denied Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) calls for technical hearings to justify fixing specific power plant units to boost energy reserves, PREPA Executive Director Josué Colon says.
The PREB did not answer requests for comment. However, during a recent PREPA board hearing, Colon said that PREPA needs to have at least 1000MW in reserve to take units out of service for repairs. Repairing units takes time because when taken out of service, others must take their place to avoid blackouts and disruption in service.
“We have 328MW in rotation reserve when we should have 600MG or a minimum of 450MW. That is technical data we continually express to the Bureau. It is not that we want to repair units that are not needed. It is just that to have a reliable operation, we need to have more power generation. Demand reached 3000 MW this year, and if we need to do repairs, it is a simple mathematical equation that we need to have 4000MW of available generation to take out units and repair them,” Colon said.
While PREPA has dire financial problems, it has federal and utility funds to repair the system for the first time since 2014. However, those repairs are being delayed by the energy regulator, which by law, must determine if the repairs comply with the Integrated Resource Plan, the long-term plan detailing the U.S. territory’s energy needs.
Colon told PREPA’s board that units 8 and 10 from the
San Juan Power Plant and Unit 1 of the Cambalache Power Plant and projects that seek to replace peaking and antiquated black-start units are awaiting PREB’s green light for PREPA to proceed with repairs. Unit 1 in Cambalache has been out of service for almost 15 years, and units 8 and 10 from San Juan since 2017.
In November of 2021, PREPA began petitioning PREB for its authorization to do repairs to increase energy produc tion, but Colon said PREB’s delays are stopping PREPA from completing repairs. “PREPA has the funds available without increasing the cost per kilowatt hour. These are projects that take a long time in planning and development, and we need the Bureau to approve them,” Colon said.
The PREB authorized repairs to Unit 7 in the San Juan Power Plant, but PREPA needs to have units 8 and 10 operating to carry on repairs in Unit 7. “That Unit (7) is operating, but I can not take it out because I would be withdrawing megawatts from the system. So that is why it is important to have units 8 and 10 in operation,” he said.
PREPA’s board consumer representative Tomás Torres Placa said PREPA is suffering problems because Unit 1 in Aguirre, which has 450MW, could not come into service. Units 5 and 6 in Costa Sur, which provide another 450MW of energy, are operating in a limited capacity. Torres said that besides approving $16 million in repairs to Unit 7 in the San Juan power plant, PREB had approved $306 million in repairs.
Colon, however, noted that PREPA may be unable to do $100 million of the $300 million in repairs approved by PREB because the energy regulator did not support the entire work
scope. “When you look at the details of what was approved, there are lines that were not approved and that prevents me from doing work,” he said.
PREPA expects Unit 1 from Aguirre to be ready in January and San Juan units 5 and 6, both of which were damaged by Hurricane Fiona. In addition, several units in the Mayaguez power plant are slated to be ready next month.
PREPA has several operating units that need repairs, such as San Juan unit 9; unit 2 in the Aguirre Power Plant and units 5 and 6 in the Costa Sur Power plant, the latter operating but in a limited capacity. The repairs of these units will be hastened when Unit 4 in Palo Seco becomes operational next week.
PREPA is still working on the claims paperwork after the generation system suffered an estimated $150 million in damages from Hurricane Fiona, Colon said.
By THE STAR STAFFThe Secretary of the Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH, for its Spanish initials), Gabriel Mal donado González, together with the Acting Women’s Advocate, Madeline Bermúdez Sanabria, signed a collabora tive agreement to resume efforts that will allow each agency to enforce the duty of employers to comply with the requirement
to enact protocols to handle domestic violence situations and the handling of sexual harassment cases in the workplace.
“Every employer has an obligation to protect their em ployees by fostering safe work environments and having the required guidelines to address situations that may put their workers and visitors to their company at risk,” said Maldo nado González. “Therefore, this alliance with the Office of the Women’s Advocate (OPM, for its Spanish initials), which will be in effect until June 30, 2025, is important because it strengthens prevention and intervention efforts in cases of domestic violence and sexual harassment in the workplace.”
In compliance with the recent approval of Act No. 822022, which amended Act No. 17 of April 22, 1988 (Act 17), which prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace, the DTRH also published the Model Protocol for the Prevention and Handling of Sexual Harassment Cases on its website www.trabajo.pr.gov and the agency’s social networks. Un der the new law, private employers must adopt the protocol published by the DTRH or adopt one equal to or higher than the minimum standards provided under the guidelines issued by the agency.
For his part, Bermúdez Sanabria highlighted the impor tance of this agreement in the fight to eradicate violence. “With this agreement, we strengthen efforts in the fight against violence against women in all scenarios while enacting public policy for their personal and labor empowerment. We thank
the DTRH Secretary and his team for their commitment,” said the acting Women’s Advocate.
The collaborative agreement establishes that the Puerto Rico Occupational Safety and Health Administration (PR OSHA), attached to the DTRH, will be in charge, through routine inspections, of checking employers’ compliance with the enactment of both protocols. In fact, as part of the visits, it will hand out didactic material provided by OPM. It will also coordinate technical assistance for the development of the protocols. After this, employers will be given a deadline, and if they fail to comply, PR OSHA will refer the situation to OPM. This could result in administrative fines.
As part of the enforcement process, DTRH will provide a quarterly report to OPM on employers inspected and their compliance status. Annually the DTRH will receive updated data on the actions taken by the OPM to ensure compliance with these protocols. The agreement establishes the designa tion of the Liaison Officer of the Assistant Attorney General’s Office for Legal Affairs, Investigations, and Complaints, who, among other things, will serve as a liaison between the two agencies.
“At the DTRH, we will be active in guiding employers and employees on the protocols required by law, whose purpose is to ensure compliance with labor protection legislation and other laws enacted for the benefit of our citizens,” said Maldonado González.
NewProgressive Party Sen. Keren Riquelme has introduced a package of bills to stop the exodus of doctors.
Among the measures is a bill that amends Act 107 of 2020, known as the ‘Municipal Code of Puerto Rico,’ to exempt replacements or surgical prostheses from paying the inventory tax. These prostheses are used in trauma surgeries, whether orthopedic or cardiothoracic.
She also introduced a resolution that would make possible the granting of a provisional number to all health providers while they establish their medical office.
On the other hand, another resolution seeks to in vestigate the process for granting credentials, licenses, and provider numbers, among others, to develop a faster and more efficient method for a term that does not exceed 90 calendar days.
“There is no doubt that the medical class of Puerto Rico is going through a difficult time. This is not new. For over two decades, we have faced a crisis of a short age of these professionals. With this initial package of measures, discussed with the doctors themselves, we
try to stop this exodus that does so much damage to our people,” Riquelme said.
She spoke at a recent conclave of doctors at the Capitol, including Health Secretary Carlos Mellado, as well as officials from the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance of Puerto Rico, led by the commissioner, Alexander Adams.
“Reducing the cost that our doctors incur is import ant; that is why we will be filing a bill that exempts all surgical prostheses from paying the inventory tax. That will not only reduce the costs of doing business for doctors; it will also affect the insured’s payments, “ highlighted the Senator.
“On the other hand, one of the biggest complaints from doctors is about the licensing process, which takes too long. The measure that we submit for con sideration seeks to evaluate the possibility of reducing bureaucracy and establishing a fixed period of up to three months to grant all the necessary credentials to practice medicine in Puerto Rico,” said the legislator.
During the meeting, which lasted several hours, Riquelme also discussed the challenges facing the public health system in the face of the reduction in money allocations for the Medicare program.
Healthworkers demonstrated at the Medical Center to denounce the lack of employees at the hospital and demand that the necessary personnel be hired to provide the country’s services.
“For the past two years, the General Workers Union (UGT) has been presenting to the management of the Administration of the Medical Center the demand made by these health workers to recruit the personnel that is necessary for the attention of the high volume of patients and the complexity of the cases that are attended in these medical facilities,” explained Gerson L. Guzmán López, president of the union that represents these workers.
Guzmán López explained that hiring more pro fessionals will alleviate the workload and the multiple responsibilities of the personnel working in the different facilities daily.
“Our claim has also been taken to the legislative forum and the Executive so that the necessary measures are adopted to fill the hundreds of current vacancies,” said the union leader.
Regarding the demands for improvements in working conditions and salary increases, Guzmán López indicated that he hopes to achieve significant changes to the current reality in the continuation of the negotiations that began a few months ago, and that should culminate once the Classification and Remuneration Plan is put into effect in January 2023, according to the expectations expressed by the corporation and the Government.
“In the negotiation carried out up to the present, a special payment was agreed upon for the workers, pending
the implementation of the aforementioned Classification and Remuneration Plan. This payment will be awarded in the next few days. Likewise, the UGT does not rule out developing, together with all the workers we represent, both in ASEM and in the other facilities of the Medical Center, the necessary actions we have set to achieve labor and wage justice for the enrollment,” concluded Guzmán López.
TheSecretary of the Department of Economic Development and Com merce (DDEC by its Spanish initials), Manuel Cidre Miranda, announced the fourth edition of the Puerto Rico Innova initiative, through which it offers the unique opportunity to validate a business idea and transform it into a real and viable company, product or service, minimizing time and investment risks. For the second consecutive year. This initiative has the support and collaboration of the Univer sity of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus.
“Puerto Rico Innova offers partici pants the opportunity to identify those technical, economic and conceptual factors that allow the viability of their business idea, so that they can make the necessary adjustments to realize it. Again, we join forces with the Academy, to continue promoting more innovative local entrepreneurs with the capacity to create business projects with high devel opment potential,” said Cidre Miranda.
This initiative includes several stages, through which participants will be able to develop the skills and competencies
necessary to promote their business idea.
The first stage will begin with the call to all those people who have an innovative business idea, whether new business or existing companies with a new idea that they wish to develop. Participants must complete a participation form and will go through a selection process where the best business proposals will be chosen. These will be evaluated under the criteria of feasibility, commercialization, tech nical and financial capacity. Likewise, business ideas must have an innovative component, either in their processes or in the creation of new products or services.
For her part, Yanmarií Alicea, pres ident of Tuto, LLC, an application to provide mentoring, who won first place in the last edition and won $ 20,000 in seed capital to develop her business, indicated that, “PR Innova gave me the boost I needed to, finally, realize an idea that I have been cultivating for a few years. This project helped me build the foundations of my business and, with the incentive, I can now continue to develop educational technologies for Puerto Rico, which is Tuto’s main goal.”
In the first phase, 100 entrepreneurs will be selected to participate in the
business training program virtually. In this program, participants will have the opportunity to analyze and develop their idea, product or service, study the target market and its consumers, write their business plan, and identify possible sales and distribution channels, promotion, advertising, permits and legal aspects, as well as financing and commercial viability
In the second phase of the program, a selection process will be opened, through a panel, where the 40 best projects that have completed their business plan will be chosen. These entrepreneurs will have access to specialized and individual stra tegic advice and will have a mentor who will assist them in the technical areas of business development.
Finalists who qualify under the re quirements of the DDEC’s Program to Strengthen Innovative SMEs will have the opportunity to apply for an incentive of up to $100,000 or request seed capital of $10,000 through a matching of funds, among other incentives available in the DDEC. Part of the activities of the Puerto Rico Innova program are allowed thanks to the federal grant of the Economic De velopment Administration (EDA), an entity under the umbrella of the Department of Commerce of the Federal Government.
The call will be available until No vember 3, 2022 and you can complete the application through www.refuerzoeco nomico.ddec.com. For more information, you can contact by email programaprin nova@ddec.pr.gov
By JOHN McPHAUL jpmchaul@gmail.com
Afterrevelations that the Authority for Public-Pri vate Partnerships is working on a plan to privatize the Caverns of the Camuy River, the delegation of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) in the Legislature composed of Rep. Denis Márquez Lebrón, and Senator María de Lourdes Santiago, announced the filing of the concurrent resolutions, 62 of the House and 44 of the Senate, so that the Legislature expresses the most energetic rejection of any proposal to privatize the Caverns.
“It is outrageous that once again they intend to pri vatize, as the recipe to correct government deficiencies, the Caverns Park of the Camuy River. The responsibility of the government is to preserve our essential assets, so it merits that the Legislative Assembly strongly reject the delivery of this important asset of the country and the northern area,” said Márquez Lebrón.
The pro-independence legislators specified that the Camuy River Cavern Park is the largest cave system in
the Western Hemisphere and one of the largest in the world, which also has the largest underground river in the world. The caves, they added, cover the municipal ities of Camuy (where it has its entrance to the Park) Hatillo and Lares.
“After the passage of Hurricane Maria, it has not been possible to resume the full operation of the Park, so the deterioration of its infrastructure has continued due to lack of use and maintenance. Consequently, the loss of opportunities that it can offer for citizens in their effort to recover the socioeconomic conditions and activities that depended on the activity of the Park continues, “ said Márquez Lebrón.
For her part, the Senate minority leader of the PIP said that “the pattern that the government and the Fiscal Control Board have designed is evident: they abandon schools, the electrical system and public spaces such as those under the care of the DRNA, to get the pri vatization card out of the sleeve. There is also a lack of understanding that the primary responsibility is the protection of resources, the preservation of the integrity of the natural heritage.”
Aftera hectic primary season, New Yorkers will now head to the polls to decide contests that will have consequences for both state and national politics.
With Democrats looking to hold onto their slim majo rity in Congress and Republicans eager to take control, New York has become a key battleground with more competitive congressional races than nearly any other state.
Voters in New York are also facing choices in four sta tewide races, including a marquee contest for governor, with Gov. Kathy Hochul seeking election to her first full term in office after she succeeded Andrew Cuomo 14 months ago. Her race against Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican challenger, has appeared increasingly close as Election Day nears.
The early voting period began on Saturday and ends Nov. 6. Operating hours vary based on county and polling location.
You can also vote on Election Day — Tuesday, Nov. 8 — when polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
In many cases, early voting locations will be different than your designated Election Day polling site. You can find either by entering your name and address at voterlookup. elections.ny.gov, a state Board of Elections website. If you live in New York City, you can also call 1-866-VOTE-NYC.
Voters who encounter any difficulties can call the attor ney general’s election protection hotline at 1-866-390-2992.
The deadline for requesting an absentee ballot online has already passed, but voters can still apply for one at their local county Board of Elections office until Nov. 7.
Ballots must be returned by mail, with a postmark no later than Nov. 8, or in person at a polling site or a county Board of Elections office by 9 p.m. that day.
If voters have requested to vote by absentee ballot, they cannot cast a ballot on a voting machine. They can still vote in person during the early voting period or on Election Day by using an affidavit ballot. That affidavit will only be counted if the voter’s absentee ballot has not been received.
It starts at the top
At the top of the ballot is the race for governor, a contest in which Republicans have traditionally faced long odds: No Republican has been elected to statewide office in 20 years.
Hochul, a Buffalo-area Democrat, became the first woman to serve as New York’s governor last year when she replaced Cuomo after his resignation.
In a state where Democrats far outnumber Republi cans, Hochul entered the race with a significant advantage. She dominated her primary election and has a significant fundraising lead over Zeldin. For months, she has harped on Zeldin’s close ties to former President Donald Trump, who is unpopular in New York. She has also warned that Zeldin would roll back abortion rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Voters during the primary in Queens, June 28, 2022. The state has become a bellwether for both parties, with significant congressional seats in play and an increasingly close governor’s race.
But polls in recent weeks have shown Hochul’s initial lead over Zeldin — a Republican congressman who has represented eastern Long Island since 2015 — narrowing to the single digits. Recent surveys have found that fears about public safety and inflation have become the chief concerns of likely voters, and Zeldin has made those issues — and crime in particular — the focal points of his campaign.
In Democrats’ mission to maintain control of the House of Representatives, New York was regarded as a party bulwark. But after an erratic redistricting process that ended earlier this year, political analysts now say that Republicans may be poised to flip a handful of Democratic seats.
Of particular interest are three districts in the Hudson Valley currently represented by Democrats. While the party has picked up support in the area in recent years, Republicans are hoping to seize on discontent with President Joe Biden and his party.
In the 17th Congressional District, which includes Poughkeepsie and exurban areas in Putnam, Rockland and Westchester Counties, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who leads the House Democrats’ campaign committee, is facing a strong challenge from Mike Lawler, a Republican assemblyman.
Lawler has garnered millions of dollars in outside help from Republicans, who have spent the money on ads that blame Democrats for inflation and the rising cost of gasoline. He has also pointed to fears over public safety.
Democrats, too, have spent heavily on the airwaves, focusing their messaging on abortion rights and concerns about Republican attacks on election integrity. Maloney has sought to link Lawler to Trump, who lost the 17th District by 10 percentage points.
The battle lines are roughly the same in the neighboring 18th District, where Rep. Pat Ryan, who won a special House election in August, is facing a challenge from Colin Schmitt, a Republican assemblyman.
In the 19th District, Marcus Molinaro, a Republican county executive who lost to Ryan, is running against Josh Riley, a lawyer and first-time candidate who has spent much of his professional career outside the state.
Republicans are also hoping to make pickups in Long Island, where three of the region’s four House seats are open after incumbents stepped aside. Democrats currently hold the two districts that mostly represent Nassau County, which borders New York City, while the two districts further east in Suffolk County are held by Republicans.
In the 4th District, in central and southern Nassau Cou nty, candidates are running to replace Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat who is retiring at the end of the year. Anthony D’Esposito, a Republican town councilman and a former New York City police detective, is facing Laura Gillen, a Democrat and a former town supervisor.
In the 3rd District, to the north, Robert Zimmerman, a small-business owner and well-known Democratic activist, wants to fill the seat currently held by Rep. Tom Suozzi. Zim merman has repeatedly attacked his Republican opponent, George Santos, as being too extreme for the district, pointing to Santos’ support of abortion bans and his attendance at the pro-Trump rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
In the 2nd District, an affluent region on the South Shore of Long Island, Rep. Andrew Garbarino, a Republican, is heavily favored to win reelection against his Democratic challenger, Jackie Gordon, an Army veteran whom he de feated in 2020.
A contest for another open seat lies in the 1st District, which Zeldin has held since 2014 but gave up to run for go vernor. The Democratic candidate, Bridget Fleming, a county legislator and former assistant district attorney, has a significant fundraising lead and was endorsed by a police officers union. Her Republican opponent, Nicholas LaLota, is a former Navy lieutenant who works in the Suffolk County Legislature, and has focused his campaign on rising prices and interest rates.
In New York City, Democrats are also to eager to regain the 11th Congressional District, which encompasses Staten Island and parts of southwest Brooklyn. The race there is a rematch between Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, the Republican who won two years ago, and Max Rose, the Democrat who flipped what had been a conservative stronghold in 2018.
What else is on the ballot?
In the other statewide races, incumbent Democrats are heavily favored. Sen. Chuck Schumer, currently the majority leader, is running for his fifth term. His opponent, Joe Pinion, is a Republican who grew up in Yonkers and until recently hosted a show on the right-wing news network Newsmax.
The New York attorney general, Letitia James, is also running for reelection after suspending her campaign for governor last year. Her Republican opponent is Michael Henry, who works as a lawyer in New York City. The state comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, faces a Republican challenger, Paul Rodriguez, an investor.
either because it could be abandoned or left to managed retreat programs of the kind that took shape after Sandy in Staten Island, where 473 homes in imperiled neighborhoods were torn down.
By GINA BELLAFANTEWhenHurricane Sandy made landfall in New York 10 years ago — flood ing 17% of the city’s total landmass and resulting in 43 deaths, thousands of evacuations and power outages that affected 2 million people — Northeners who had paid only passing attention to Gulf Coast weather events instantly saw how rising sea levels could really mess with them. About 70% of the buildings tagged by the city as severely impaired or outright destroyed were on or very near the coastline. It seemed, in those hellish, chaotic days following the storm, as people mucked out the lobbies of expensive condominiums in Dumbo and walked through the destruction in the Rockaways, that New Yorkers would finally retreat from the harbor. But that is not what happened. Over the past decade, we have gone in a very differ ent direction, populating the waterfront even more enthusiastically, especially along the East River in Brooklyn and Queens. Accord ing to the city’s Department of Buildings, 225 permits have been issued for new apartment buildings in flood zones since Jan. 1, 2013. The effect of that has been to etch a kind of climate denialism into the skyline of one of the country’s most liberal places, punctuat ing how resistant we are to truly meaningful change, even as the city has pledged to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050
and has committed to the principles of the Paris Agreement.
The most significant shift in how we have built after Sandy has been the imple mentation of more stringent rules for floodresistant construction. New buildings now routinely place mechanicals higher up, often on the roof rather than in basements, where they might be gutted in the next ruinous storm. Sometimes lobbies and residential floors are raised above ground level, a standard prac tice in Miami. But older buildings are under no mandate to put these measures in place, which leaves 96.5% of them in the current floodplain unfortified. “At the moment, we don’t have a good framework for planning for the future,” said Brad Lander, the city comptroller.
In the short term, at least, it is in the city’s economic interest to indulge the fetish for the waterfront and allow continued development. As more and more buildings have appeared, the value of real estate in these threatened areas has climbed to around $176 billion, bringing in $2 billion in property taxes each year, during a period when the city’s finances have been destabilized by the pandemic. All of this comes from a new report out of Lander’s office, which also makes clear that the expan sion of the floodplain will put additional land in jeopardy. Without expensive “protective infrastructure,” that property’s value would go down or it would leave the tax rolls entirely,
Whatever self-righteous disapproval New Yorkers may have directed at Texans and Floridians, year after year, hurricane after hurricane, as they rebuilt their houses on ever-higher stilts rather than abandon beach living, the devastation here did little to infringe on our own shoreline romance. Several years ago at a conference on the future of cities, sponsored by The New York Times, former hedge fund investor and en vironmentalist Tom Steyer spoke about the dangers of climate change. Steyer, who has been a major donor to Democratic candi dates who have pledged to avoid the worst scenarios, took questions from the audience, addressing them with deep knowledge and passion. But when someone asked about our compulsion to continue building and living on the water, he essentially responded with a shrug. The love of water was primal; what, really, could be done?
Four years before Sandy, in 2008, an old printing warehouse on the water in the newly developing Brooklyn Bridge Park ar rived on the market as a luxury condominium building. After the storm, many residents were without heat and hot water for several weeks. None of this had much effect on demand to live there. Within the coming years, three new apartment buildings went up along the park — one of them with rental units and the other two with condominiums that sold for many millions of dollars.
This disconnect isn’t limited to luxury development. During Sandy, more than 100 homes in Breezy Point, on the far western tip of the Rockaway Peninsula, were lost to a raging electrical fire caused by the storm. By 2014, dozens of houses in the commu nity had been rebuilt. By 2017, most of the neighborhood had been restored. Today, a modest beach cottage in Breezy Point will run you about $1.5 million.
For much of the 20th century, the urban waterfront was not considered a luxury asset. As the wealthy escaped the summer heat in Newport, Rhode Island, or up on the cliffs of the Hudson, the poor swam — and frequently died — in the East River. So many buildings belonging to the New York City Housing Authority wound up on the water precisely because the land was flood-prone and thus of low value. At some point — presumably
when “coastal” became the default adjective preceding “elite,” when factories converted to creative space, when the industrial waterfront began to seem ripe for high-end domestication — what was once regarded as disadvantage bore a new cachet.
The economy avidly supported these new tastes. In a book released earlier this year, “Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change from 1979 to the Present,” author Eugene Linden, who has warned about global warming for 30 years, points to the failures of an insurance industry that overlooked the threat of climate crisis in the name of writing lucrative homeowner poli cies. As a result, millions around the country moved not away from but into wildfire zones and areas at risk of hurricanes while, at the same time, reinsurers came up with complex financial instruments that could contain and spread risk.
Although an $8 million apartment in a flood zone might seem like a terrible long-term investment, the very wealthy have come up with workarounds to mitigate their vulner ability. Linden has witnessed rich New York ers buy luxury condominiums in waterfront developments simply to keep a foothold in the city as they relocate to Florida to lower their tax burdens. In a few years, as he ex plained, the apartments pay for themselves in tax savings.
“They are fully aware of climate change,” he said of the buyers, “but they’re saving $3 million a year in taxes.” In this equation, whatever depreciation might attach later on hardly matters.
What of the rest of us? The tens of thousands of people who live along the city’s 520 miles of coastline will be left to depend on municipal government’s ability to extract federal funds and complete a full range of projects meant to minimize the damage of storm surge with a sense of urgency that has so far not materialized. Thirty-five NYCHA developments containing more than 60,000 people endured major damage during Sandy. At the Red Hook Houses, which suffered some of the most brutal assault, residents had to wait nearly five years for repairs to boilers and roofs to even begin. The comptroller’s report, which calls the progress on Sandy “plodding,” is not optimistic. The city has been slow to the spend the money it has already been given: A decade later, it has gone through only 73% of the $15 billion in federal money earmarked for recovery and resilience. The next time, Washington might not be so generous.
Firefighters in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, where most of a neighborhood burned in an electrical fire in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 30, 2012.Fewthings trigger New Yorkers as much as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the bureaucracy that runs one of the city’s biggest fixations — the subway. So when the authority hired Sarah Meyer to deal with pas senger complaints as its first “chief customer officer,” she braced for fury.
At the time she was hired five years ago, the usual frustrations — train delays, filthy conditions, crowded stations — had become unbearable, with a barrage of system failures snarling service. Meyer’s appointment provided that rising anger with a target: a petite, redhea ded mom from Manhattan who was more adept with PowerPoint presentations than with irate passengers.
Exhausted from what she described as “the negativity,” Meyer, 39, resigned this summer to spend more time with her two young daughters, having helped improve the way the transit authority interacts and communicates with the public. The authority plans to hire a permanent replacement, but for now, her temporary fill-in, Shanifah Rieara, inherits the challenge of luring people back to a system whose ridership has been greatly diminished by the coronavirus pandemic and may never recover.
And, of course, whoever holds the job must know how to handle this infamously blunt city.
Meyer was harassed endlessly in her role with the transit authority. In one instance at a community meeting in Union Square, she said a pair of local residents likened her to Adolf Hitler in response to the authority’s moving of a bus stop by 200 feet — about the length of a block. During another public meeting, hecklers pelted her with rubber bands and subway tokens. On Twitter, a stream of anonymous strangers called her inept and told her to quit.
“It wasn’t easy,” Meyer said of her time with the authority. “But I had my team, and I had my husband, and I had my family. And I had my mom, who was on speed dial.”
Meyer’s job was to act as a bridge between riders and authority leaders, helping each side communicate with the other. She held many community meetings to devise new ways to reach people. It was a position she regarded as a chance to make a difference in the city she grew up in and loved. Previously, Meyer worked as a consultant for public relations giant Edelman; she took a pay cut to join the authority.
The executive post sprung from New York’s 2017 transit crisis, during which constant subway delays left riders feeling unable to rely
Sarah Meyer, the former chief customer officer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, in Manhattan, Oct. 6, 2022. As the authority’s first “chief customer offi cer,” Ms. Meyer worked to connect the public with the transit system’s overseers.
on the train network. Service grew so dismal that Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency and committed more than $800 million to improvements.
Andy Byford, then the city’s newly ap pointed subway boss, created Meyer’s job at a time when few transit systems had one like it. He said he took inspiration from similar roles in transit systems in Toronto and Sydney, and that he believed a turnaround in New York de pended on convincing the public that someone was listening to them. When Byford, who also focused on basics like signal upgrades and train maintenance, arrived in New York, only 58% of trains ran on time. Today, the rate is nearly 80%.
Under Meyer, the authority shed much of the jargon it had used to communicate with the public — “both directions,” for example, was no longer abbreviated as “B/D” in subway announcements. Conductors were instructed to be more specific about why a train was delayed and for how long. Meyer used simpler language in posters and brochures.
Previously, writers for the authority “were writing for too high of a grade level, so people didn’t understand,” Meyer said.
The authority’s employees made a grea ter effort to be clear and responsive on social media, and in promotional materials, such as those advertising OMNY, the tap-and-go fare system that will soon replace the yellow-andblue MetroCard.
Those tasks might seem simple, but Meyer said the transit authority was often as unyielding as its customers.
“That’s where the real fight begins,” Meyer said of internal meetings where officials and lawyers would decide whether to sign off on her suggestions. She said the authority’s resistance to change was inspired by bureaucratic wariness: “It’s a fear of litigation. It’s a fear of being wrong. It’s a fear of doing things differently.”
The cautious approach could be stifling.
“When you’re in communications at the MTA, on your best day, nobody knows you’re there,” said Jon Weinstein, a former spokesper son for the authority who worked closely with Meyer. “That can grind you down.”
Often when she got her way, the authority would score some victories. In August 2018, a pair of goats were seen trotting on the N line’s tracks near a group of slaughterhouses in Brooklyn. Although many commuters were inconvenienced, the disruption was a chance for Meyer’s team to delight the public with up dates and photographs on social media while assuring people that they were on top of the situation. Jon Stewart, the comedian, and his wife, Tracey, picked up the goats in Brooklyn and helped transport them to a shelter in Watkins Glen, New York.
“Two very baaaaad boys,” the transit system’s Twitter account posted next to an image of the trespassing animals.
Thousands of amused Twitter users liked and shared the announcements. It was a public relations hit.
Along the way, Meyer made fans, inclu ding Russell Jacobs, a teacher at a nonprofit after-school program who sent her a private
message on Twitter when he bought a bundle of 19 MetroCards for his students and none worked. The billing system had flagged the purchase as fraudulent, leaving his students stranded. Meyer fixed it on the spot.
“I can only imagine the kinds of things she had to deal with,” said Jacobs, 32, who lives in Queens. “I could complain all day about the MTA, but I had nothing but pleasant interactions with Sarah.”
The hardest years for Meyer came after Byford left abruptly in early 2020. He had clashed with Cuomo one final time, and soon after, the pandemic gripped New York. Dozens of transit workers died. For the first time in its history, the subway was shut down overnight.
That disorienting time inspired some of the authority’s most effective public outreach. Officials placed signs on the ground that showed passengers exactly how far they should stand from one another. Posters showed them how to properly cover their faces. Digital signs discouraged the public from riding the subway unless they had to. One of Meyer’s proudest achievements was helping oversee pop-up vaccine clinics that inoculated 20,000 people.
“None of us foresaw what was going to happen,” said Byford, who swapped advice with Meyer during the worst of the pandemic. After leaving New York, Byford took a job as London’s transport commissioner. “Sarah and I were living parallel lives on opposite sides of the Atlantic.”
The work took a toll, and it made her realize there was only so much good she could do in a city with seemingly unsolvable problems — homelessness, drug addiction, poverty, crime — that so often found their way underground.
“The times she would get discouraged never had to do with criticism but had to do with the distress one sees in the subways,” said Meyer’s mother, Jean Miller.
An outreach effort at Queensboro Plaza station tested her resolve this summer when she and other authority staff members tried to talk fare beaters into paying or applying for govern ment aid if they could not afford the $2.75 fee to ride. Meyer was holding the station’s gate closed so people could not skip payment, and a man shoved her aside while police officers stood by. “I know where you work,” she remembers him saying after he referred to her with a crude epithet.
“I came to this role with this privileged view that I could fix everything,” said Meyer, who has been doing part-time consulting in communications since her departure from the authority. “I left this role acknowledging that I couldn’t fix everything, and that was a giant mind shift for me.”
of strained relationships. An itinerant life that included a stint living in a storage unit. A personality that was “consumed by darkness.”
Accounts from people who know the man accused of the break-in and violent attack Friday on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, described indications of a troubled individual and growing signs of politically fueled hate.
That man, David DePape, 42, remains in custody and will likely face several charges, including attempted homicide and assault with a deadly weapon, as early as Monday, with an arraignment expected Tuesday, authorities said. The San Francisco district attorney, Brooke Jenkins, said Saturday that DePape had given a statement to the San Francisco Police Department, although she declined to elaborate.
According to law enforcement of ficials, DePape broke into the Pelosis’ San Francisco home in the early morning hours Friday through a back entrance. He was looking for Nancy Pelosi, who was in Washington, authorities have said, and yelled, “Where is Nancy?” In a struggle with Paul Pelosi, 82, over a hammer, DePape struck Paul Pelosi with it at least once as the police arrived and apprehended him, police said.
On Saturday, Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to colleagues that her husband’s condition was continuing to improve and that she thanked them for their support.
“Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop,” she wrote. “We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the lifesaving medical care he is receiving.”
Jenkins said that DePape had sustained “minor injuries” and had been treated at a hospital, but it was uncertain Saturday evening whether he was still receiving medical care.
A precise sequence of the break-in is still emerging, and a portrait of DePape is only beginning to take shape.
People who have known him at various points in his life reveal a shy person who sought to improve the world but also as someone whose life seemed to drift and whose behavior seemed strange at times, even unhinged.
When Linda Schneider, 65, knew DePape for a couple of years starting in 2009, she was running an urban farm for low-income communities in the East Bay area. DePape would help her with her chickens and occasionally housesit for her, she said.
At the time, DePape was living out of a storage unit in Berkeley and making hemp bracelets, said Schneider, who still lives in California. He had been using hard drugs but was trying to straighten his life, she said. She recalled him as being reliable, easygoing and painfully shy.
“He wouldn’t even have a bank account because he was terrified of talking to a teller,” she said.
By 2012, Schneider said she began receiving “very bizarre” emails from DePape in which he equated himself with Jesus Christ. She felt the messages were “somewhat dangerous,” she said, and she stopped communicating with
him.
“This was a guy who didn’t have a lot of internal strength,” she said. “He’d follow anything a little abnormal in front of him.”
Law enforcement of ficials over the weekend were examining what appeared to be DePape’s copious online presence, although they declined to comment publicly on his online accounts.
But a blog written by a user who called himself “daviddepape” contains an array of angry and paranoid postings. The blog’s domain was registered to an address in Richmond, California, in August, and a resident of that town said that DePape lived at that address. From August until the day before the attack on Paul Pelosi, the blog featured a flurry of antisemitic sentiments and concerns about pedophilia, anti-white racism and “elite” control of the internet.
Still, Schneider said that she was stunned and angered when she learned that police had identified DePape as Pelosi’s attacker.
“Who attacks people in their 80s?” she said. “That’s just the epitome of cruelty.”
Inti Gonzalez, who said she con-
sidered DePape a father figure because her mother had a relationship with him when she was growing up, said in a blog post on her website and on her Facebook page that DePape was someone who wanted to have his voice heard, “but the monster in him was always too strong for him to be safe to be around.”
On her blog, Gonzalez said that her mother, Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, met DePape when she was pregnant with Gonzalez. Their romantic relationship lasted only a few years, but DePape stayed around longer to take care of Gonzalez and her two younger brothers, until leaving eight years ago, when she was 13, Gonzalez said.
“There is some part of him that is a good person even though he has been very consumed by darkness,” she wrote.
Taub garnered public attention in 2012 when she spoke out against a ban on nudity proposed by Scott Wiener, the San Francisco supervisor, culminating in a 2013 nude wedding at San Francisco City Hall. DePape, a fatherly influence on Taub’s three children, planned to serve as a best man at the wedding, SFGate reported at the time.
A 2015 SF Weekly profile of Taub described her as “a seasoned 9/11 truther, aficionado of psychedelics and sexual free spirit.” In 2021, Taub, 53, was found guilty by a jury of charges including stalking and attempted child abduction. She is incarcerated at the California Institution for Women.
On Friday, Taub’s home in Berkeley, a large Victorian-style duplex, appeared rundown, with abandoned cars in the driveway and stuffed animals hanging in the trees in the front yard. Two teenage boys appeared to live there, one of whom spoke with FBI of ficials as a crowd of reporters looked on.
A neighbor, Ryan La Coste, 35, said that DePape had been a semi-frequent visitor to the house and continued to stop by after Taub was incarcerated.
“I think he might have been helping out because the kids are still young,” he said.
But mostly, La Coste said, DePape seemed to blend in with the cast of largely transient people who passed through the home.
ago, when Twitter — then a scrappy, young microblogging service — burst into the mains tream, it felt like a tool for challenging authority.
Pro-democracy activists in Libya and Egypt used Twitter to help topple dic tatorships. Americans used it to occupy Wall Street. And in 2013, after George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing an unarmed Black teenager named Trayvon Martin, #BlackLivesMatter took root on Twitter.
These campaigns fueled one of the defining ideas of the 2010s: that so cial media was an underdog’s dream, a tool for bottom-up organizing that would empower dissidents and marginalized groups, topple corrupt institutions and give ordinary people the ability to com municate on equal footing with tycoons and tyrants. Or, as Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei put it in 2010, “Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordi nary people, people who have no other resources.”
That narrative — shaky as it might have been all along — officially ended this past week, when Twitter became the property of the richest man in the world.
Elon Musk, the billionaire industria list whose on-again, off-again bid for Twit ter this year has been marked by chaos and confusion, has now added the com pany to a portfolio that includes Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Company.
The deal, which cost Musk and his investment partners $44 billion, made his tory for several reasons. It was the largest buyout in tech history and the first time in years that a major social media network has been sold to an outsider.
It was also a symbolic bookend to a decade in which social media evolved to be, in many ways, more useful to the powerful than the powerless.
Musk’s takeover may not change Twitter overnight. The platform will still host social movements, political protests and acts of rebellion. But users may find that their “public town square” (as Musk has called Twitter) feels different when it’s
A decade ago, the social media platform was a tool for rebels and those cha llenging authority. But over time, the powerful learned how to use it for their own goals.
controlled by a single, unpredictable bi llionaire.
When it started in 2006, Twitter was dismissed by tastemakers as a novelty app where nerds and narcissists bored their friends with mundane details of their lives.
One early critic called it “the Seinfeld of the internet” — a website about nothing.
But by the early 2010s, it had grown into a global water cooler where millions of people went to make sense of the world around them. Its rapid-fire, 140-character bursts made it a valuable tool for those wanting to steer a conversation, attract at tention to a cause or simply peer into the kaleidoscope of human thought.
On any given day, Twitter was the place to: talk about the news, complain about airline food, flirt with strangers, announce an earthquake, yell at your se nator, cheer for your sports teams, post nudes, make dumb jokes, ruin your own reputation, ruin somebody else’s repu tation, document police brutality, argue about anime, fall for a cryptocurrency scam, start a music career, procrastinate, follow the stock market, issue a public
apology, share scientific papers, discuss “Game of Thrones,” find skillet chicken recipes.
And although it was never the bi ggest social media platform, or the most profitable, Twitter did seem to level the playing field in a way other apps didn’t.
But as Twitter and other social net works grew, powerful people found that these apps could help them extend their power in new ways. Authoritarians disco vered they could use them to crack down on dissent. Extremists learned they could stir up hateful mobs to drive women and people of color offline. Celebrities and influencers realized that the crazier you acted, the more attention you got, and dialed up their behavior accordingly. A foundational belief of social media’s pio neers — that simply giving people the tools to express themselves would create a fairer and more connected society — began to look hopelessly naive.
And when Donald Trump rode a wave of retweets to the White House in 2016, and used his Twitter account as pre sident to spread conspiracy theories, wage culture wars, undermine public health and threaten nuclear war, the idea that the app was a gift to the downtrodden beca me even harder to argue.
Since 2016, Twitter has tried to clean up its mess, putting into effect new rules on misinformation and hate speech and barring some high-profile trolls. Those changes made the platform safer and less
chaotic, but they also alienated users who were uncomfortable with how powerful Twitter itself had become.
These users chafed at the company’s content moderation decisions, such as the one made to permanently suspend Trump’s account after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. They accused the platform’s leaders of bowing to a censorious mob. And some users grew nostalgic for the messier, more freewheeling Twitter they had loved.
Musk has framed his Twitter acqui sition as a move to return the site to its former glory.
“The bird is freed,” he tweeted Thursday night, after the deal had closed.
It’s possible that, as Musk suggests, relaxing Twitter’s rules could revitalize it, or bring lapsed users back to the platform. It’s also possible that it could empower bi gots and trolls, and undo years of work that made the platform safer for users and more attractive to advertisers — or that Musk could back off his plans for radical change. (On Friday, he signaled a possible retreat, saying he will convene “a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints” before reversing bans or ma king other major decisions.)
But whatever happens, it’s safe to predict that with Musk at the helm, Twit ter won’t recapture its onetime identity as a place for rebels and revolutionaries to communicate under the radars of the powerful. That bird has flown.
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Fora long time, pay gaps were discussed in hushed conversations in the bathrooms and halls. Spreadsheets circulated surreptitiously. But a wave of new pay transparency laws means that figuring out how much a job pays is no longer dependent on a handful of fearless colleagues.
Starting Tuesday, companies with at least four workers that post a job that may be performed in New York City will be required to include salary ranges, whether they advertise jobs online, in a job fair flyer or on internal bulletin board. Similar laws for job ads have been enacted in Colorado, California and Washington state. And since 2017, four other states have adopted laws requiring companies to disclose a pay range to job candidates at some point in the interview or negotiation process, according to the National Women’s Law Center. The New York state Legislature has approved a measure similar to the city’s, but Gov. Kathy Hochul has not yet signed it into law.
“On both sides, there’s that awkwardness when you’re talking about compensation,” said Vishal Vakharia, who runs recruiting for Ribbon, a real estate technology company with over 200 employees that started posting its salary ranges this month. “Having it out in the open eliminates that.”
As transparency rules take effect in some of the country’s largest job markets, their proponents hope that pay disparities for women and workers of color will narrow. In 2020, women earned 84% of what men earned, according to Pew Research Center, and the gap was wider for women of color. In the federal government, where pay rates are public, women made on average 93% of what men earned in 2017.
The laws are changing some of the fundamental ways in which companies determine pay and recruit candidates. Some employers realize that they will face a period of disruption as their workers learn what colleagues are making and ask for raises. But many businesses that are already posting salary ranges said that the effects have been potent, exposing disparities and prompting changes in corporate policies.
Monday.com, which makes productivity software, posted salary ranges for its positions in Denver, where it has about 45 workers. The company, which has roughly 400 U.S. employees, is weighing whether it should do so across
the country as it prepares to comply with New York City’s law.
“Well, if this is how the country seems to be trending, let’s get ahead of it and just go for it,” said Mike Lamm, who leads Monday. com’s North American human resources, on a potential policy expansion. “It’s not in place currently, but it’s something we’re considering.”
To Lamm, the new laws offer the opportunity for employers to make sure they’re not setting salaries arbitrarily: “It’s kind of a test for companies in a way.”
When Colorado enacted its rules that require all employers to include salary ranges on internal and external job posts, Tim Meurer worked as a talent acquisition consultant in the state. At most companies, he said, pay was not consistent across positions, partly because recruiters had “an open checkbook” when they made offers. They hired candidates at the lowest price they could get them, regardless of the role’s target range.
Managers expected that revealing salaries for new positions would upset some employees, and they were right. “HR was extremely busy for probably six months where they had to explain exactly why each individual person was paid what they were paid,” Meurer said.
But ultimately, the law changed the system for the best, he said. It forced managers “to really hold people accountable and have documented processes as to why they’re paying
people, why they’re moving people’s compensation, why people are titled the way they were titled,” Meurer said.
New York City’s law has been met with some resistance by employers and recruiters, who argue that it will introduce hurdles in an already tight labor market.
The law will be enforced by the city’s Commission on Human Rights; employers face fines of up to $250,000 if they do not comply after a first offense.
“The transition is hard,” said Kathy Wylde, who runs the Partnership for New York City, a consortium of business interests. “An employee in a low-cost area where the salary range is lower, or where the labor market is different, will see what somebody with the same job title is getting paid in New York City and may feel they’re not getting what they deserve.”
But to many workers and business leaders, the disruptions that result from salary transparency simply confirm the need for the laws.
“Compensation was a black-box exercise historically, shrouded in confidentiality and, therefore, tightly in the control of the employer,” said Allison Rutledge-Parisi, senior vice president of people at Justworks, a human resources technology company.
Studies have shown that people are more likely to apply for roles that include salary ranges. About 60% of job postings on Indeed in-
clude salary information, and those that do see about 30% more people starting applications. Three-quarters of job seekers say they’re more likely to apply for a posting that includes a salary range, according to an Indeed survey from April.
Starting Tuesday, Indeed will no longer share new job postings in New York City that don’t have salary ranges. The company pointed out that job seekers will be able to filter out positions below their pay standard.
Still, salary transparency isn’t a panacea.
Loren Furman, CEO of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, said that some companies in the state have posted wide salary ranges so they have more flexibility in offering salaries based on a candidate’s performance and experience. There is no provision in the New York City, Colorado, California or Washington laws that prevents employers from going outside the advertised range when making a job offer.
Some business leaders worry that forcing companies to be transparent about salary will lead them to offer more compensation in the form of less transparent vehicles such as bonuses or benefits. One study of more than 100 medical device distribution firms found that when pay was transparent, employees were more likely to seek out, and employers were more likely to provide, this less visible form of compensation.
“That’s an argument to make all of those perks transparent,” said Kim Scott, a former Google executive who recommends transparent pay in her book, “Just Work.”
Some employers feel that the shift toward pay transparency in large markets such as New York City’s is overdue. Trey Ditto, who runs a public relations company with about 15 employees in the New York area, has long been frustrated by the awkwardness of salary conversations.
“There was always this song-and-dance,” Ditto said. “The company would say, ‘How much do you want?’ and the candidate would say, ‘How much are you offering?’”
Ditto said his company started sharing salary ranges with candidates three years ago. For all the skepticism from people outside the firm, he said his own employees have benefited because the move allowed him to identify inequities in his salary system.
“A recruiter thought I was crazy,” he said. “In the beginning there were people that were underpaid and people that were overpaid. It took a good two years to work that out.”
New York City joins a handful of states in requiring employers to disclose salary ranges for openings. The goal is to narrow disparities.broad-based rally sent Wall Street to a sharply higher close on Friday as encouraging economic data and a sunnier earnings outlook fueled investor risk appetite ahead of next week’s much-anticipated two-day policy meeting of the Fed eral Reserve.
All major U.S. indexes ended the session up about 2.5% or more, with the S&P and the Nasdaq notching their second straight weekly gains. The blue-chip Dow posted its fourth consecutive Friday-to-Friday advance and its biggest weekly percentage gain since May.
“This has been one of the best months (so far) in the history of the Dow, suggesting the bear market likely ended,” said Ryan Detrick, chief market strate gist at Carson Group in Omaha. “Big monthly moves historically happen at the end of bear markets.”
“This is the second Friday in a row we’ve seen ag gressive buying suggesting investors are growing more comfortable holding over the weekend,” Detrick add ed.
A 7.6% rebound in Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) helped soften the blow of the 6.8% plunge for Ama zon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares, in the wake of the two market leaders’ results.
Solid earnings beats from Chevron (NYSE:CVX), Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) and other companies out side the tech and tech-adjacent megacap group have brightened aggregate earnings estimates for the quar ter.
Analysts now see third-quarter S&P 500 earnings growth of 4.1%, up from 2.5% on Thursday, accord ing to Refinitiv data.
“We’ve seen some high-profile misses from sig nificant large-cap names,” Detrick said. “But under the surface many of the smaller and midsize compa nies have been quite impressive with their earnings results.”
On the economics front, the Commerce and La bor Departments released data that showed robust consumer spending and easing wage growth, respec tively.
Financial markets have now priced in an 84.5% likelihood of a fifth consecutive 75 basis point interest rate hike at the conclusion of the Fed’s Nov. 1-2 policy meeting, and a 51.4% chance the central bank will de celerate to 50 basis points in December, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.
“The door is cracked open on the possibility that we might see a more dovish Fed come December’s policy meeting, whereas a month ago that door was locked and slammed shut,” Detrick added.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 828.52
points, or 2.59%, to 32,861.8, the S&P 500 gained 93.76 points, or 2.46%, to 3,901.06 and the Nasdaq Compos ite added 309.78 points, or 2.87%, to 11,102.45.
Of the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, all but con sumer discretionary stocks, weighed down by Amazon shares, ended the session green. Tech shares enjoyed the largest percentage gain.
Third-quarter reporting season has passed the halfway point, with 263 of the companies in the S&P 500 having reported. Of those, 73% have beaten consensus expecta tions, according to Refinitiv.
Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) jumped 10.7% af ter cutting its spending forecast, while T-Mobile US (NASDAQ:TMUS) Inc’s subscriber forecast hike sent its
shares up 7.4%.
Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange, closing the book on Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Inc chief Elon Musk’s $44 billion pur chase of the company.
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 2.87-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.12-to-1 ratio favored advancers.
The S&P 500 posted 32 new 52-week highs and eight new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 117 new highs and 115 new lows.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.26 billion shares, compared with the 11.53 billion average over the last 20 trading days.
Anew school in portable buildings, a paved road that reaches only half way into the village and a sign in Arabic, English and Hebrew are the only indications of recent improvement in the Bedouin village of Khasham Zana in southern Israel.
Like many other Palestinian Bedouin villages in Israel, it has existed for decades without state recognition of land owner ship claims, leaving residents at constant risk of home demolitions and without ba sic services and infrastructure.
Last year, when an independent Arab party, Raam, made history as the first to join an Israeli governing coalition, it pledged to address the plight of these vil lages.
But when the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett collapsed in June, precipitating Israel’s fifth national election in less than four years on Tuesday, Raam and its leader, Mansour Abbas, had deliv ered on few of their electoral promises. And in places like Khasam Zana, the im pact has been minimal.
Raam’s inclusion in the government was welcomed by many Palestinian citi zens of Israel who saw it as an important step in securing their rights. But now, many Palestinian-Israeli voters say they are disillusioned. Some are questioning how much they can realistically benefit from political engagement in a parliament that, four years ago, passed a controver sial law that enshrined the right of national self-determination as “unique to the Jew ish people” rather than all Israeli citizens.
Palestinians as well as Israeli centrists and leftists condemned the law as racist
and anti-democratic, and it was criticized by the European Union and rights groups including Human Rights Watch.
Tuesday’s elections for the 120-seat Parliament, or Knesset, could see record low turnout among Israel’s 1 million Pales tinian voters who hold Israeli citizenship. They account for about 17% of the coun try’s possible voters, but a public opinion poll in early October for Israeli public tele vision’s Arabic-language Makan channel found that less than 40% of Arab voters planned to take part in the election.
“The frustration is at its highest, maybe because we tried to enter the government and nothing changed,” said Mirvat Abu Hadoba-Freh, 33, a former high school civics teacher now earning a doctorate on political awareness among minority com munities, including Palestinians.
“This election, I hear educated people say they have gotten fed up. They don’t feel like there is anything encouraging them to vote,” she said.
Though the majority of Palestinian citizens of Israel are in favor of integra tion and greater involvement in govern ment, voter turnout has largely been on a downward trend over the past decade, said Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestin ian Center for Policy and Survey Research, a polling organization in Ramallah.
“More and more people say what is
the point in participating if nothing chang es, essentially,” he said. “Obviously, it’s not fair to judge what Mansour Abbas and his party have done in a single year, but that’s what people have to go by and people’s assessment is it wasn’t worth it,” he added, referring to the leader of Raam.
Raam promised to secure the offi cial recognition of Khasham Zana and two other villages — homes to Bedouin, Palestinian communities that were once seminomadic — and said it also intended to prepare a plan to deal with dozens of other unrecognized villages in Israel’s Ne gev Desert.
But that has not happened, and few other improvements have taken place in a village where, besides the school and half-finished road, there is no other infra structure. Though power lines run along side the edges of Khasham Zana, there is no state-supplied electricity, and residents must rely on solar power. There are no sewers or garbage collection. Running wa ter comes from water tanks and pipes that residents installed themselves.
Even before Raam, more Palestinian voters were beginning to question their involvement in the Parliament, said Man sour Nasasra, a professor of politics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, especially as there has been no progress on other
key issues of importance to the Palestin ians, including rising violence within the Arab community and increased attacks and police raids on holy sites.
Those reservations have only in creased with an Arab party in govern ment, he said.
Bennett’s governing coalition needed Abbas and his party to form a coalition, hailed at the time as a sign of national unity. But some Palestinians say they don’t feel they got enough in return for one of their parties’ joining the government.
“The number of Palestinians killed has increased. The number of home demoli tions increased in Abbas’ presence. The number of raids and closures of Al Aqsa increased in Abbas’ presence,” Nasasra said, referring to Al Aqsa Mosque in Jeru salem, the third-holiest site in Islam. “And Abbas couldn’t say one word about it.”
Dr. Kayed al-Athamen, a hematolo gist and community leader from Khasham Zana who supports Raam, acknowledges that the past year’s accomplishments have been minimal. But he still encourages his fellow villagers to vote. He said he ex plains to them that political engagement is a long game and that they cannot be dis couraged because the first Arab party in government was not as successful as they may have hoped.
“We’re not going to solve the Pales tinian cause in the Knesset,” he said. “But if we have four or five parliamentarians, we can make progress in terms of getting services.”
Al-Athamen, 43, is also banking on the idea that even if some Palestinians might not be motivated by progress, they might vote anyway because of the po tential negative consequences of staying away from the polls.
This election could lead to a political comeback for Benjamin Netanyahu, the right-wing prime minister who left office last year amid corruption charges, and to his bringing even more radical figures into government, namely Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right lawmaker.
If Arab voter turnout surpasses 50%, they would constitute an important vot ing bloc that could help decide what the future government looks like, al-Athamen said he tells people. That might include keeping Ben-Gvir out of government, he said.
“If not, then it will be a government for Netanyahu, and the situation for Arabs will be even worse,” he said.
Germany understood the trap of strategic vulnera bility that it had laid for itself in relying so heavily on Russian gas only after Moscow invaded Ukrai ne and turned off the spigot. But whether that lesson has been fully absorbed may be tested elsewhere: China.
As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz prepares for his first visit to Beijing on Thursday, a planeload of executives in tow, Germany’s intelligence chiefs and allies are war ning him against pursuing business as usual with a China that is saber-rattling in the Taiwan Strait. Were tensions to escalate, Europe’s most powerful democracy could be exposed to economic coercion.
More than 1 million German jobs depend directly on China, and many more indirectly. Almost half of all Euro pean investments in China are from Germany and almost half of German manufacturing businesses rely on China for some part of their supply chain.
And Germany’s dependence on China is more com plex than that on Russia: In addition to China’s export market, German industry also relies on China for raw materials and technologies critical for the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. From solar modules to batteries for electric cars, China is crucial.
“When people talk about China, they say, ‘Russia is the storm, China is climate change,’” said Thomas Hal denwang, president of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. “We cannot allow a situation where the Chinese state can influence political events in Germany, possibly through critical infrastructure.”
Yet, Germany is edging in that direction — and at a moment when Chinese President Xi Jinping has just secu red a third term with greater emphasis on China’s security interests and threats from the West, warning of “dange rous storms” on the horizon.
Even so, before his trip, Scholz has been quietly engineering a compromise to allow Cosco, a Chinese state-owned shipping company, to buy a stake of up to 25% in a container-handling terminal in Hamburg port, Germany’s most important.
The investment, down from Cosco’s original proposal of 35%, was opposed by six of his ministries and both the domestic and foreign intelligence chiefs.
They worry that Cosco’s stake could be weaponized by Beijing, whose state-owned companies already hold sway over other critical infrastructure and technology, in cluding a stake in the Wilhelmshaven port and the mobile network of the German railway company, and in 2016 bought what was then Germany’s largest robotics firm, Kuka.
As if to prove their point, German politicians say, Cosco threatened to take its business elsewhere if its bid was turned down. It is the Hamburg port’s biggest client, and already owns stakes in ports in the Netherlands, Bel gium, Spain and Italy. It also owns two-thirds of the port of Piraeus in Greece and even some stakes in ports in the United States.
“The blackmail is already in full swing,” said Nor bert Röttgen, a conservative member of the German
As Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany prepares for his first visit to Beijing on Thursday, the country’s intelligence chiefs and allies are warning him against pursuing business as usual with China.
Parliament’s foreign affairs committee and outspoken China hawk. “It’s another building block of Chinese in fluence in Germany.”
In a terse statement this past week, Cosco cautioned that the Hamburg deal was still uncertain. “There is no assurance that the transaction will take place or when it may take place,” it said.
Scholz, a former mayor of Hamburg whose successor is one of the noisiest advocates for the Cosco bid, has so far been silent on the matter.
The bid has become a test case of the chancellor’s fledgling China strategy — and Germany’s willingness to pay an economic price for more strategic independence.
For decades, Germany’s postwar identity was that of a peaceful exporting nation, thriving on cheap Russian gas imports and ever-growing sales to its largest trading partner, China. That model made it the largest and most influential economy in Europe.
Angela Merkel, Scholz’s predecessor, visited China a dozen times during her 16 years as chancellor, each time accompanied by dozens of executives. Exports to China helped lift Germany out of mass unemployment in the early years of her chancellorship, and cushioned the blow of the financial crisis years later. Unlike in the Uni
ted States, where China’s economic rise led to industrial decline and job losses, in the export nation of Germany, it created growth.
Even before the war in Ukraine, Germany’s China policy was ripe for evolving from the mercantilist soft touch of the Merkel era. In 2019, the Federation of Ger man Industries, or BDI, published a policy paper warning that the country’s liberal, open model was increasingly in competition with China’s “state-dominated economy” and that Germany should protect itself more forcefully from Chinese companies.
The war in Ukraine has only added urgency.
China makes a wide range of factory equipment that it used to buy from Germany. COVID-19 lockdowns and a wave of nationalism have also hurt consumer spending on imports in China. At the same time, Germany has kept buying ever-more Chinese goods.
The result is that Germany’s longtime trade surplus with China vanished late last year and has been replaced by a steadily widening deficit. Many German companies now see China as a competitor at home instead of an op portunity abroad.
“People always talk about how China is a big market — no, China is a huge economy with a small accessi ble market,” said Jörg Wuttke, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. Overall, EU ex ports to China are only slightly larger than those to Swit zerland.
All of that has added to the frustration with Scholz’s apparent tiptoeing around China, and not only from some German businesses.
Scholz’s reluctance to take a tougher line on China, observers say, is likely to be a reflection of uneasiness over the German economy. He is treading carefully to avoid creating a sense of confrontation with China when the country is headed for recession and Europe is already locked in a standoff with Russia.
“We are in a precarious economic situation due to the war,” said Thorsten Benner, director of the Global Pu blic Policy Institute in Berlin. “Part of the hesitation is that Scholz doesn’t want to send shock waves into the system.”
But he and others said Germany’s economic anxieties should not factor into decisions on strategic investments, such as Cosco’s bid in the Hamburg port, out of fear that Chinese business would go elsewhere. European states need to stand together, they say, and Germany cannot be afraid to be the first.
WhenItaly, in a major strategic shift, decided to break its dependence on cheap Russian gas in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the government needed alterna tives.
It scrambled to sign contracts with suppliers in countries such as Algeria and Azerbaijan and sped up its investment in wind and solar energy. But it also decided to purchase two large vessels able to turn ship ments of liquefied natural gas from the United States, Qatar and sub-Saharan nations into gas that could run through onshore pipelines. A single one of them, destined for Piombi no, a seaside port of 32,000 people on the Tuscan coast with a long history of industrial development, would help replace more than 15% of the gas once imported from Russia.
“Piombino’s unit is essential — it is a matter of national security,” former Italian Pri me Minister Mario Draghi said last month. “It is essential for our gas supplies.”
But in a complicated wrinkle for the new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, whose top stated priorities are reducing energy costs and maintaining support for Ukraine, Piom bino Mayor Francesco Ferrari, who is from Meloni’s own Brothers of Italy party, has led vibrant protests against the project.
Elected on a populist wave that supplan ted more than 70 years of left-wing leadership, Ferrari has argued that the so-called regasifi cation vessel would damage the environment and local fish farming, as well as driving away new business and tourism.
As a result, the debate over Piombino may pose the first big test of whether Meloni, who remained vague about the issue throug hout the electoral campaign, can reconcile
her pugnacious, opposition-centric political style with her responsibilities in government on an urgent project with relevance for Italy’s national security and European geopolitics.
“Our priority today is to curb energy bills and accelerate the diversification of our supply sources in any way,” Meloni acknowledged in her first speech to Parliament since being sworn in on Oct. 22, mentioning new gas dri lling off the Italian coast and the construction of more renewable energy plants in southern Italy. But she did not mention Piombino.
Unlike its twin unit on Italy’s Adria tic coast, the vessel intended for Piombino, which would be about 1,000 feet long, can not stay offshore for a series of technical rea sons, authorities say, but must dock inside the town’s tiny port.
“This is not a political clash between parties,” Ferrari said. “Regasification units are necessary in this context in Italy, but we belie ve that its collocation in a different place and in a different way would represent a much lighter burden for other communities than it is for us here.”
Ferrari took to the streets with hundreds of schoolchildren, steel workers, students and older residents on a recent morning in the city center, amid beating drums and banners reading, “No to the regasification unit” and “Enough with poisons in Piombino.”
“They are placing a bomb inside our homes,” said Viviana Barontini, 61, who has joined the marches since May. “What will we do if an accident happens? We have only one way out of town.”
The regional president of Tuscany has approved the project, but Ferrari has vowed to appeal and slow things up, and he has an unusual local political consensus behind him.
“Nobody in Piombino lives far enough
from the unit,” echoed Camilla Bedini, 36, who walked the march with her 4-year-old son on her shoulders. “The port is inside our small town.”
Piombino, a picturesque medieval city center perched on a cliff that was once a ma jor hub for the steel industry, has often found itself on the front lines of the country’s resou rce crises.
For a century, the town lived off its ste el mill. From a 2,200-acre site near the port, the factory produced steel to build railways across the country and employed more than 7,900 people.
In the past decade, the city has suffe red an enormous economic setback and the number of workers is down to 1,640. Blast furnaces ceased operating in 2014, and the Indian steel giant Jindal, which bought the plant, appears unhappy with it.
One of Italy’s first ironworks is now a wasteland of rusted warehouses and conve yor belts, dilapidated buildings and abando ned offices. A series of governments have pledged to reclaim the highly polluted site, including nearby “Monte Puzzo,” the stink mountain, where prosecutors believe waste was dumped illicitly.
Popular discontent with the neglect of Piombino, which became a symbol of resis tance to the Fascists during World War II and was long a stronghold of the left, spurred vo ters to elect their hard-right mayor. But it also spawned a broader distrust of the authorities in general, which has fueled skepticism about the natural gas vessel.
“We have no more trust in the institu tions, in laws and in politics,” said Roberta Degani, one of the main activists in the pro test, shouting from a microphone during the rally.
Yet, Ferrari gave assurances that the town’s protest would not get out of control — residents merely wanted to have a different future, he said.
“We have shipyards interested in our port, and fish farming could grow,” he said. “All of this will stall if the vessel comes here.” It might also affect tourism, with the giant vessel a potential eyesore in the dock.
Recent investment in the port has been substantial. The long, deep dock where the vessel would be anchored was just comple ted, using more than 60 million euros of Eu ropean funds. The idea was to build a facility to scrap large boats.
All those potential businesses are clearly on hold now.
The port also houses several fish farming companies that produce 60% of Italy’s fish, and the entrance to the pipe that provides saline water to the land-based farming ba sins is right next to where the floating unit would go.
“I understand the emergency very well, believe me,” said Claudio Pedroni, owner of Agroittica Toscana fish farming. He said his bills for gas, electricity and oxygen had gone to 350,000 euros (about $349,000) a month from 80,000 euros.
“But we are still concerned about the regasification unit — it’s going to be right there,” he said, looking out of his office win dow in the eastern section of the port, less than a half-mile from the vessel’s proposed location.
Pedroni acknowledged that, under pres sure from fish farmers, Italy’s energy infras tructure company, SNAM, had agreed to pay for independent, real-time monitoring of the sea conditions around the vessel, to ensure that any effect of the industrial process on the sea would be recorded, and to provide warning of any potential threats.
Yet, time is of the essence here. Having the facility in Piombino would allow gas de liveries to jump a bottleneck in central Italy, where work on the infrastructure has su ffered yearslong delays because of protests from other communities, and help the coun try store gas for next winter.
“It is a classic Italian problem,” said Da vide Tabarelli, president of Italian energy research institute Nomisma. “In the Nether lands, they have two vessels that are al ready regasifying, while we are still debating whether to have it or not.”
Slowly, purposefully, on a quiet fall afternoon in Moscow’s Donskoye cemetery, several dozen Russians came forward to read the names of people murdered during Josef Stalin’s Great Terror. Their remains are believed to be scattered among three mass graves, although most of the victims were burned and no one can say for sure which ones they lie in.
“Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov is a poet, writer and playwright,” read a red-haired woman named Olga, 72, with a soft voice, as crows rustled in the ba rren trees overhead. “Special correspondent for Pra vda newspaper. He lived in Moscow. Shot dead on September 10, 1937. He was rehabilitated in 1956,” she continued, using a term meaning his name was cleared. “Buried at Donskoye Cemetery.”
Three weeks after winning the Nobel Peace Prize and nearly a year after the Kremlin moved to liquidate it, Russian human rights organization Memorial was carrying on with its annual tribute to Stalin’s victims — a ceremony known as “Returning the Names.”
It is normally a marathon reading of the names, ages, professions and dates of death of the people killed under Stalin’s reign, conducted for most of the past 15 years in Lubyanka Square, by the headquar ters of what used to be the KGB, the notorious Soviet security services. But this year, Memorial was forced to jury-rig the tribute and break it into small gathe rings, after authorities banned the daylong reading planned for Saturday at Lubyanka, which typically attracts thousands of attendees.
The government cited public safety rules related to the coronavirus pandemic as the reason for cance ling it, as it did in 2020 and 2021. Although Moscow has long moved past such virus-related restrictions, the rules are frequently invoked to prohibit protests or to jail those who express dissent in public.
“The point in returning the names is that we’re naming the victims,” said Yan Rachinsky, chair of Memorial’s board. “But the question inevitably arises: If there are victims of crime, then there are criminals, and there are reasons for the crime. These are no lon ger things that our authorities are ready to discuss.”
As President Vladimir Putin moves to restore what he perceives as the glory of Soviet-era Russia, the Kremlin has grown increasingly loath to discuss crimes committed by the Soviet government or to portray Stalin in a bad light. Putin has only intensified a more heroic portrayal of that era as he has sold his war in Ukraine to ordinary Russians.
In the West, Stalin is remembered mostly for the millions of victims who died of famine, purges and horrible conditions in the gulag. The Kremlin now prefers instead to focus on his role leading the Soviet
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Union to victory over the Nazis in World War II.
There are some signs that it is having an effect: About 56% of Russians said they considered Stalin a “great leader,” according to research from the Levada Center, an independent pollster.
It has been Memorial’s mission since its founding in the late 1980s to keep alive the memory of those who died in the gulags. The reading of the names — centralized in Moscow but carried out in smaller ceremonies across the country — was perhaps the most public display of that effort.
More than 30,000 people were shot in Moscow alone in 1937 and 1938, when the killings peaked, according to Memorial. The group has the names of 5,000 people who were shot and cremated at Dons koye during that time, their ashes dumped into co llective pits. But “no one knows for sure” how many were killed then, said Pavel Parkin, a historian who gave a tour of the cemetery. “It could be 10,000 or 15,000,” Parkin said.
In the cemetery, a makeshift memorial bulging with plaques was constructed by family members who had never had any gravestone upon which to place them. Before leaving a candle in a red glass on the memorial, Olga, who declined to provide her surname for fear of retribution, recited the names of two more victims — her grandfathers.
She finished by saying: “Blessed memory to all those who were innocently tortured. Freedom for all political prisoners and no to war.”
Although Donskoye is the site of the brutal exe cutions, the ceremony is typically held at the Solo vetsky Stone, which was hauled to Moscow from the Solovetsky Islands, on the White Sea, the site of one of the first prison camps of the Soviet Gulag system. It was installed in the square in the spring of 1990 as a monument to victims of Soviet repression, including those tortured and killed in the secret services head quarters on Lubyanka Square.
For the mourners who came to Donskoye, the small memorial ceremony was an important cathar sis.
Svetlana Anatolyevna, 70, read the names she was given and then made one addition: her maternal grandparents, whose fate is still entirely unknown. But she did not know their names: Her mother was taken to an orphanage at the age of 3 or 4 in 1938, and was later told that her parents were killed during the Great Terror.
“We all come here to read very brief information about a person, name of birth and date of death,” said Evgeniya, 38, Svetlana’s daughter. “It is not a lot of information, but it has become a very important ritual for me. We read what was hidden for a long time. I do this for myself and for my family, because this is a such a common story.”
The government’s attempts to liquidate Memo rial are “inhumane,” Svetlana said, and constitute an attempt to “trample on true history.” She said they were still looking for information about her mother’s parents.
“We know we’re unlikely to get help,” she said. “It’s just — my soul bleeds that so many people have died.”
Iwritefrequently about the Reconstruction period after the Civil War not to make predictions or analogies but to show how a previous generation of Americans grappled with their own set of questions about the scope and reach of our Constitution, our government and our democracy.
The scholarship on Reconstruction is vast and comprehensive. But my touchstone for thinking about the period continues to be W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Black Reconstruction,” published in 1935 after years of painstaking research, often inhibited by segregation and the racism of Southern institutions of higher education.
I return to Du Bois, even as I read more recent work, because he offers a framework that is useful, I think, for analyzing the struggle for democracy in our own time.
The central conceit of Du Bois’ landmark study — whose full title is “Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880” — is that the period was a grand struggle between “two theories of the future of America,” rooted in the relationship of American labor to American democracy.
“What were to be the limits of democratic control in the United States?” Du Bois asks. “Was the rule of the mass of Americans to be unlimited, and the right to rule extended to all men regardless of race and color?” And if not, he continues, “How would property and privilege be protected?”
On one side in the conflict over these questions was “an autocracy determined at any price to amass wealth and power”; on the other was an “abolition-democracy based on freedom, intelligence and power for all men.”
The term “abolition-democracy” began with Du Bois and is worth further exploration.
Abolition-democracy, Du Bois writes, was the “liberal movement among both laborers and small capitalists” who saw “the danger of slavery to both capital and labor.” Its standard-bearers were abolitionists like Wendell Phillips and radical antislavery politicians like Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stephens, and in its eyes, “the only real object” of the Civil War was the abolition of slavery, and “it was convinced that this could be thoroughly accomplished only if the emancipated Negroes became free citizens and voters.”
It was also clear, to some within abolition-democracy, that “freedom in order to be free required a minimum of capital in addition to political rights.” In this way, abolitiondemocracy was an anticipation of social democratic ideology, although few of its proponents, in Du Bois’ view, grasped the full significance of their analysis of the relationship between political freedom, civil rights and economic security.
Opposing abolition-democracy, in Du Bois’ telling, were the reactionaries of the former Confederate South who sought to “reestablish slavery by force.” The South, he writes, “opposed Negro education, opposed land and capital for Negroes, and violently and bitterly opposed any political power. It fought every conception inch by inch: no real emancipation, limited civil rights, no Negro schools, no votes for Negroes.”
Between these two sides lay Northern industry and capital. It wanted profits, and it would join whichever force enabled it to expand its power and reach. Initially, this meant abolition-democracy, as Northern industry feared the return of a South that might threaten its political and economic dominance. It “swung inevitably toward democracy” rather than allow the “continuation of Southern oligarchy,” Du Bois writes.
It’s here that we see the contradiction inherent in the alliance between Northern industry and abolitiondemocracy. The machinery of democracy in the South “put such power in the hands of Southern labor that, with intelligent and unselfish leadership and a clarifying ideal, it could have rebuilt the economic foundations of Southern society, confiscated and redistributed wealth, and built a real democracy of industry for the masses of men.”
This — the extent to which democracy in the South threatened to undermine the imperatives of capital — was simply too much for Northern industry to bear. And so it turned against the abolition-democracy, already faltering as it was in the face of Southern reaction.
“Brute force was allowed to use its unchecked power,” Du Bois writes, “to destroy the possibility of democracy in the South, and thereby make the transition from democracy to plutocracy all the easier and more inevitable.”
In the end, “it was not race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own.” What killed Reconstruction — beyond the ideological limitations of its champions and the vehemence of its opponents — was a “counterrevolution of property,” North and South. Why is this still a useful framework for understanding the United States, close to a century after Du Bois conceived and developed this argument? As a concept, abolition-democracy captures something vital and important: that democratic life cannot flourish as long as it is bound by and shaped around hierarchies of status. The fight for political equality cannot be separated from the fight for equality more
broadly.
In other words, the reason I keep coming back to “Black Reconstruction” is that Du Bois’ mode of analysis can help us (or, at least, me) look past so much of the ephemera of our politics to focus on what matters most: the roles of power, privilege and, most important, capital in shaping our political order and structuring our conflicts with one another.
E l Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) anunció ayer do mingo que la nueva temporada de caza de aves acuáticas comenzará en noviembre y terminará en enero.
La caza en Puerto Rico está regulada por la Ley 241 de 1999 (Nueva ley de vida silvestre) y el Reglamento 6765 de febrero de 2004 (Reglamento para regir la conserva ción y el manejo de vida silvestre, las espe cies exóticas y la caza), así como el Tratado internacional de aves migratorias y el Có digo de regulaciones de los Estados Unidos (“Migratory Bird Hunting”).
Sólo se permitirá la caza de aves acuá ticas los días sábado, domingo, lunes y días feriados. Los días que se permitirá la caza comienzan el 12 de noviembre, y los si guientes días: 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 y 28.
Los días de casa permitidos en diciem bre son el 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 y 19 y en enero será permitido la caza de aves acuáticas los días 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 y 30.
La caza está permitida desde media hora antes de la salida del sol hasta la puesta
de sol. Sin embargo, en las áreas de cacería administradas por el DRNA sólo se permite la cacería desde media hora antes de la sali da del sol, hasta las 12 del mediodía.
El DRNA señaló que no se permitirá la caza durante el Día de Acción de Gracias y advirtió que aplicarán las regulaciones es tatales y federales a toda la Isla, excepto las aves que se detallan en este comunicado de prensa.
El límite diario de caza es de seis patos, de los cuales solamente uno puede ser de la especie conocida como pato oscuro (Anas rubripes); 8 becacinas (Gallinago gallina go) y; seis gallaretas común -cresta roja- de nombre científico Gallinula chloropus.
Además, hay un límite máximo de pose sión de aves permitidas para la cacería que puede poseer o tener en custodia una perso na, ya sea consigo o en su medio principal de transporte o en su domicilio o lugar de alojamiento personal o transitorio:
18 patos, de los cuales no puede poseer más de tres patos oscuros;
18 gallateras comunes;
24 becacinas.
Están vedadas para la caza las especies chiriría caribeña, quijada colorada, domini co, chorizo, zaramago, gallatera inglesa o
azul, gallinazo americano o nativo.
Por otra parte, solamente pueden uti lizarse municiones no tóxicas autorizadas por el Servicio Federal de Pesca y Vida Sil vestre (USFWS). Sólo se permite 50 cartu chos de estas municiones por cazador. Los casquillos de los cartuchos y todo desper dicio sólido generado en la cacería deben ser recogido y disponer de ellos en un lugar apropiado.
La reglamentación federal prohíbe la posesión de cartuchos con municiones de plomo en áreas de cacería de aves acuáti cas. Mientras, las embarcaciones a utili zarse deben cumplir con las disposiciones establecidas en la Ley 430 de 2000 (Ley de navegación y seguridad acuática). Sobre los perros cobradores (“retrievers”), estos tienen que estar sujetados con correas mientras se encuentran fuera de la zona de cacería.
El Refugio de Vida Silvestre de Boquerón tiene acceso limitado, así como su propia hora de cierre, estacionamiento y lugar de caza. Mientras, la Reserva Natural de Hu macao tiene sus propias medidas de control de entrada y horario. Asimismo, la Reserva Nacional de Investigación Estuarina Bahía de Jobos tiene sus propias restricciones y los ca zadores deben coordinar su actividad con el
personal de la Reserva.
Los cazadores de aves acuáticas deben adquirir previo a su actividad un sello de caza acuática del DRNA, el cual está disponible en la Oficina de Recaudaciones ubicada en la sede central del DRNA en Río Piedras y en las oficinas regionales. Igualmente, debe obtener el sello de aves migratorias (“Federal Duck Stamp”) en las oficinas del Servicio Postal fe deral, el cual deberá ser adherido firmado al sello del DRNA.
La agencia ambiental añadió que los ca zadores deben tener consigo su licencia, re gistro del arma a utilizarse y los dos sellos.
Los cazadores pueden encontrar más in formación sobre este aviso en la página de in ternet del DRNA, en: http://www.drna.pr.gov
La galletera común se encuentra en la lista de cacería que puede poseer o tener en custodia una persona.
L os cuatro estudiantes que formaron el equipo que representó a Puerto Rico en las competencias de la Convención de la Organización Nacional Futuros Agriculto res de América, conocida por sus siglas FFA, que culminó este fin de semana en Indianá polis del Estado de Indiana obtuvieron dos premiaciones significantes. Los estudiantes que pertenecen al Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez, conocido por sus siglas CROEM, coparon las “Medallas de Bronce” en la categoría de Diseño Paisajista.
“En un ambiente donde acuden 70,000 (mil) personas de los 50 estados y territorios, con la participación de los mejo res estudiantes de agricultura nuestro equi po compuesto por Javier Delgado Pérez, Isa bel Cortés Carrero, Ainely Campos Borrero y Verónica Vélez Guzmán se destacaron logrando obtener la “Medalla de Bronce” en la categoría individual y para sorpresa, nuestros muchachos lograron también obte ner la “Medalla de Bronce” en la categoría
grupal. En esta ocasión la competencia de la Convención midió en forma individual los conocimientos específicos sobre el tema de Diseño Paisajista, logrando obtener la “Me dalla de Bronce”. Más tarde en la misma competencia y bajo un riguroso panel de jueces nuestros estudiantes lograron tam bién una distinción importante en la catego ría de Diseño Paisajista a Nivel Grupal con el anuncio que se nos otorgó “Medalla de Bronce”, señaló el agrónomo William Villa nueva, profesor de agricultura en CROEM.
“Para estas competencias, los estu diantes estuvieron todo un año preparándo se. Ellos ganaron en las competencias de Campo en la Región Oeste de la FFA, más tarde, esos mismos estudiantes dominaron en las competencias estatales en Puerto Rico, lo que nos llevó a representar a la isla en la Convención Nacional con resultados excelentes. Cabe señalar que esta Conven ción trajo a la ciudad de Indianápolis unas setenta mil personas (70,000), siendo uno de los eventos más importantes para la ense ñanza de la agricultura como medio susten table en todos los Estados Unidos”, indicó el
agrónomo William Villanueva.
La escuela CROEM, especializada en ciencias, matemáticas y tecnología fue fundada por el Dr. Ramón Claudio Tirado en el 1968 y está ubicada en la antigua Base de Radares de la Fuerza Aérea del Ejército de los Estados Unidos en el Cerro Las Mesas de Mayagüez. En la actualidad doscientos cin cuenta estudiantes participan del proyecto que requiere hospedarse permanentemente en las facilidades del Centro. por su calidad de enseñanza CROEM obtuvo la posición número #1 en la última evaluación realiza da por el Departamento de Educación a las escuelas públicas del país.
Estudiante y profesor de CROEM son escogidos para representar a Puerto Rico en el “Foro Internacional de Sobre la Excelen cia en la Investigación”
Por otro lado, el director de CROEM, profesor Milton Tomassini Del Toro confir mó que el secretario de Educación Lcdo. Eliezer Ramos Parés les acaba de comunicar que la estudiante Karina Miranda Casiano y al profesor Edwin Benvenutti Justiniano han sido seleccionado como representantes de
Puerto Rico para participar en el “Foro Inter nacional de Sobre la Excelencia en la Inves tigación” que auspicia la Sociedad de Ho nor de Investigación Científica (Sigma Xi).
“Nos sentimos muy honrados que una estudiante destacada en la Feria Cien tífica y su profesor del Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez hayan sido escogidos para representar a nuestra Isla en el prestigioso “Foro Interna cional de Sobre la Excelencia en la Investi gación”, el cual reúne a los más destacados estudiantes y profesores en el ámbito de la investigación científica. En este evento programado para esta próxima semana en Alexandria, Virginia se reunirán científicos, ingenieros, estudiantes, artistas y partida rios de la ciencia de todo el mundo quienes participarán en debates y demostraciones de excelencia en la empresa de investiga ción. Ellos han sido invitados a presentar, conectarse y colaborar en diversas ideas a través de simposios, paneles, talleres y se siones de “networking”, informó el profe sor Milton Tomassini Del Toro, director de CROEM.
Henever mellowed.
Jerry Lee Lewis, who died late last week, was an unrepentant pioneer of rock ’n’ roll: a white Southerner who steeped himself in Black music, a two-fisted boogie-woo gie piano player, a blues growler, a country yodeler, a devout gospel singer and a performer who might slam his foot onto the keyboard or set his piano on fire. His personal life was turbu lent, marked by barnstorming, excess, addiction and divorce. And his music, even when he was making it within the Nash ville country establishment in the 1960s and 1970s, chafed at confinement. His piano erupted with tremolos and glissandos; his voice leaped, curled, soared and whooped.
His most indelible songs were the early bombshells he recorded for Sun Records in the 1950s: music that reflected and melded the church music he grew up on, the country music he heard on Grand Ole Opry broadcasts, and the blues and the rhythm and blues he soaked up by sneaking into Haney’s Big House. He didn’t write many songs, but once he made his name, songwriters geared material to him. And once he chose to perform something, he showed it little respect and no mercy.
Here are 10 memorable Jerry Lee Lewis songs from a re cording career that spanned nearly 60 years:
“Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On” (1957)
Brash ambition defines Lewis’ first hit, with its pounding boogie-woogie beat, its cocky dance instructions — “All you gotta do, honey, is kinda stand in one spot and wiggle around just a little bit” — and its sudden, volcanic piano solo.
“Great Balls of Fire” (1957)
The definitive Jerry Lee Lewis song, written by Otis Black well, is a two-minute lesson in bedrock virtuosity and rowdy freedom. Lewis’ left hand nails down the beat while his right flings syncopated chords against it or sweeps down in sudden glissandos. His voice is unbound by anything his fingers are do ing; it quavers, rattles off quick syllables and trampolines into falsetto. When he sings, “Kiss me baby — mmm, feels good!,” it’s pure self-satisfied bravado.
“High School Confidential” (Live, 1964)
Recording at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany, where
the Beatles had woodshedded, Lewis’ youthful energy was stoked by a screaming, whistling crowd. It sounds like he’s will ing to smash every note on the keyboard, and the song starts fast and only accelerates from there.
“She Was My Baby (He Was My Friend)” (1964)
Lewis’ Louisiana roots are unmistakable in this swagger ing bit of New Orleans-style R&B, complete with horn section and showy right-hand filigree. Lewis seems more amused than forlorn as he sings about a stolen girlfriend and — adding insult to injury — a stolen car.
“Another Place Another Time” (1968)
By the late 1960s, Lewis was being marketed as a country performer, and he proved his honky-tonk bona fides with songs like “Another Place Another Time.” The tight quaver in his voice and his frayed tone as he sings about “sleepless nights” are clas sic country, but the way he stretches some words and holds back others until the last moment is still his own.
“I Can Still Hear the Music in the Restroom” (1975)
Tom T. Hall wrote this song, talk-sung by a hard-drinking honky-tonk patron who’s driven to tears by a song: “Jerry Lee did all right until the music started,” Lewis sings, dropping his name into the song as he often did. But even as he wallows in heartbreak, he still lets loose some yodels and splashy piano in the chorus.
“That Kind of Fool” (1975)
In a country song tailored to Lewis’ wild-man reputation, he sings about a faithful, temperate life. “Old Jerry Lee should have been that kind of fool,” he yodels, after explaining that he’s incorrigible; years later, he’d sing it with Keith Richards.
“Who Will the Next Fool Be” (1979)
Written by Charlie Rich, “Who Will the Next Fool Be” had been widely covered by soul singers before Lewis recorded it on his self-titled 1979 album, with a studio band that includ ed Elvis Presley’s guitar mainstay, James Burton. Lewis sings to bring out the resentful streak behind the bluesiness of the song; after spotlighting band members, he takes an assertive piano solo, then whistles nonchalantly through the outro.
“Over the Rainbow” (1980)
Lewis turned a standard from “The Wizard of Oz” into a country waltz, using the scratchiness in his road-worn voice to make that rainbow seem very distant. But with a string section playing it straight, his piano was still irrepressible, strolling ca sually behind the beat and cascading through his solos.
“Rock and Roll” featuring Jimmy Page (2006)
On “Last Man Standing,” his triumphant, million-selling 2006 album of all-star duets, Lewis carries Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” back to Louisiana with ad-libbed lyrics as well as his piano style. He trades licks with Jimmy Page himself, eas ily holding his own. “I’m not quite as young as I used to be,” Lewis said when I interviewed him in 2006. “But I can still play pretty good.”
Jerry Lee Lewis in the late 1980s. His music, even when he was making it within the Nashville coun try establishment in the 1960s and 1970s, chafed at confinement.Twodays after the death of Sacheen Lit tlefeather, her estranged sister was an grily scrolling Twitter.
She was furious, she said in an inter view this week, at the outpouring of praise for Littlefeather, the actress and activist who be came famous when Marlon Brando sent her to the 1973 Oscars to refuse his best actor award and denounce Hollywood’s treatment of Na tive Americans.
“I was reading what all these people were saying: ‘Oh, rest in peace and she was a saint, and she sacrificed herself,’” the sis ter, Rozalind Cruz, said. The sisters had been estranged for about 13 years for a variety of reasons, Cruz said, but at that point she still believed her family had Indian ancestry.
Then she saw tweets by writer Jacque line Keeler, a citizen of Navajo Nation who has stirred controversy with her efforts to ex pose what she calls “pretendians.” Keeler was disputing Littlefeather’s claims that her father was White Mountain Apache and Yaqui.
Cruz replied to Keeler on Twitter on Oct. 4 that her grandmother was of “Yaqui and Spanish” descent. Cruz herself had tried to enroll in the White Mountain Apache Tribe. But over the next few weeks, Cruz said, Keeler showed her genealogical research that traced her father’s family back to Mexico in 1850 and said there was no evidence of Native ancestry.
Cruz and the middle sister of the family, Trudy Orlandi, were both persuaded by the research. Last Saturday, less than a month af ter their sister’s death at age 75, The San Fran cisco Chronicle published an opinion column by Keeler under the headline, “Sacheen Little feather was a Native American icon. Her sis ters say she was an ethnic fraud.”
The column unleashed an intense re sponse in Native American circles on social media.
Some condemned Littlefeather, saying she had fabricated an identity to promote her Hollywood career. But others strongly object ed to Keeler’s investigation, saying it ignored the complicated ways Native identity can be formed, particularly for those who do not meet the formal criteria for tribal membership. En rollment typically requires proof of tribal ties, often described in terms of one’s percentage of “Indian blood,” or “blood quantum.”
“What many people don’t understand about Native existence is that some Natives aren’t enrolled,” Laura Clark, a journalist who
is Muscogee and Cherokee, wrote in Variety in response to Keeler’s column.
“Some Natives are reconnecting with their tribes,” Clark wrote. “Some Natives don’t have enough ‘Indian blood’ to register because of blood quantum minimums. And some Natives have had their tribes nearly erased to the point that organized citizenship records simply don’t exist.”
Shoshone poet nila northsun, a friend of Littlefeather’s from their college days in the 1970s, said this week that she was not sur prised that Keeler had failed to find tribal af filiations in family records.
Native Americans, she said, might have hidden their backgrounds to avoid discrimina tion or were misidentified.
“It’s what you feel in your heart, and what your belief system is,” said northsun, who lowercases her name. “Just because she’s not enrolled or can’t be identified in records doesn’t mean she’s not Indigenous.”
In an interview Wednesday, Keeler re jected such assertions, saying she and vol unteer researchers had reviewed records for hundreds of Littlefeather’s relatives. None identified as Native American, nor did they live with or marry members of any Apache tribe or anyone identifying as Yaqui, accord ing to a summary of the research she pub lished on Substack.
It was not known if Littlefeather had ever tried to enroll in a tribe. The Pascua Ya qui Tribe in Arizona said in a statement that Littlefeather was not an enrolled member of the tribe, and neither were her parents.
“However,” the tribe said, “that does not mean that we could independently confirm that she is not of Yaqui ancestry generally, from Mexico or the Southwestern United States.”
The White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona did not immediately release a state ment.
Littlefeather was born Marie Cruz in 1946 and said in interviews over the years that her father, Manuel Ybarra Cruz, was White Mountain Apache and Yaqui and had abused her and her mother, Geroldine Cruz, who was of French, German and Dutch lineage.
Rozalind Cruz, 65, of Big Arm, Mon tana, and Orlandi, 72, of San Anselmo, Cali fornia, have strongly disputed their sister’s ac counts of their father’s alcoholism and abuse. He died in 1966 at age 44, when Littlefeather was 19.
By age 26, Littlefeather was fully identi fying as Native American when she protested at the Oscars, wearing a buckskin dress, moc
casins and hair ties. She spent the next five decades as an activist in the Native American community and was married to Charles John ston, a member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma, who died last year.
She became a revered figure for some. In August, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it had apolo gized to Littlefeather, calling her treatment at the Oscars, where she was booed, “unwar ranted and unjustified.”
In a statement Thursday, the Academy Museum, which hosted an event honoring Lit tlefeather in September, said that it was aware of claims going back decades about her back ground but that “the Academy recognizes selfidentification.”
Cruz said that her father, who was deaf and communicated with sign language or a chalkboard, had never told her about Native American relatives.
She said she had grown up knowing she had Spanish and Mexican heritage but also believed for most of her life that she was “probably about a quarter” Native American because of her older sister’s professed identity.
Cruz said she had even applied last No vember to become a member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe but was denied be cause the tribe could not find records to sup port her claim. But that all changed after her sister’s death. She recalled telling Keeler on the phone: “You’re right. She’s a fraud. She’s
a phony.”
Keeler’s research to prove that people are faking Indian identities has prompted blowback from critics who said that her work casts a cloud of suspicion over all Indigenous people.
It suggests that “Native people need to create a system where they have to prove who they say they are,” said Andrew Jolivétte, the director of Native American and Indig enous studies at the University of California San Diego, who describes himself as Creole of Opelousa, Atakapa Ishak, French, African, Irish, Italian and Spanish descent.
“Why do American Indians have to do that and not other people?” he added.
For Keeler, to be Native American or American Indian is to be part of a clearly de fined political group that existed before Euro pean colonial contact.
“We’re not just an identity,” she said. “We are actually a political class. We are citi zens of nations. We are sovereign.” Her goal, she said, is to stop non-Indians from profiting off false claims of being Native American.
“We want real change and we want real justice, and that’s not going to happen when it all comes down to actors playing us,” she said.
For her part, Cruz said she had no re grets.
“All I did was, I put a pebble out there,” she said. “And I let the water rip.”
Sacheen Littlefeather at an event in September in her honor at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. She was joined by Bird Runningwater, the co-chairman of the Academy’s Indigenous Alliance.surveyed more than 900 people. More than half of those surveyed said they preferred visiting “active” or former war zones. About 30% said that once the war in Ukraine ends, they wanted to visit the Azovstal steel plant, where Ukrainian sol diers resisted Russian forces for months.
The growing popularity of dark tour ism suggests more and more people are resisting vacations that promise escap ism, choosing instead to witness firsthand the sites of suffering they have only read about, said Gareth Johnson, a founder of Young Pioneer Tours, which organized trips for Joyce and Faarlund.
Tourists, he said, are tired of “getting a sanitized version of the world.”
A Pastime That Goes Back to Gladi ator Days
The term “dark tourism” was coined in 1996, by two academics from Scotland, J. John Lennon and Malcolm Foley, who wrote “Dark Tourism: The Attraction to Death and Disaster.”
er the destinations are local or as far away as Chernobyl.
In recent years, as tour operators have sprung up worldwide promising deep dives into places known for recent tragedy, media attention has followed and so have questions about the intentions of visitors, said Dorina-Maria Buda, a profes sor of tourism studies at Nottingham Trent University.
Stories of people gawking at neigh borhoods in New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina or posing for selfies at Dachau led to disgust and outrage.
Were people driven to visit these sites out of a “sense of voyeurism or is it a sense of sharing in the pain and showing support?” Buda said.
By ERIKA SOLOMONNorth Korea. East Timor. NagornoKarabakh, a mountainous enclave that for decades has been a tin derbox for ethnic conflict between Arme nians and Azerbaijanis.
They’re not your typical top tourist destinations.
But don’t tell that to Erik Faarlund, the editor of a photography website from Norway, who has visited all three. His next “dream” trip is to tour San Fernando in the Philippines around Easter, when people volunteer to be nailed to a cross to com memorate the suffering of Jesus Christ, a practice discouraged by the Catholic Church.
Faarlund, whose wife prefers sun ning on Mediterranean beaches, said he often travels alone.
“She wonders why on earth I want to go to these places, and I wonder why on earth she goes to the places she goes to,” he said.
Faarlund, 52, has visited places that fall under a category of travel known as dark tourism, an all-encompassing term that boils down to visiting places associ ated with death, tragedy and the macabre.
As travel opens up, most people are using their vacation time for the typi cal goals: to escape reality, relax and re charge. Not so dark tourists, who use their vacation time to plunge deeper into the bleak, even violent corners of the world.
They say going to abandoned nu clear plants or countries where genocides took place is a way to understand the harsh realities of current political turmoil, climate calamities, war and the growing threat of authoritarianism.
“When the whole world is on fire and flooded and no one can afford their energy bills, lying on a beach at a fivestar resort feels embarrassing,” said Jodie Joyce, who handles contracts for a genome sequencing company in England and has visited Chernobyl and North Korea.
Faarlund, who does not see his trav els as dark tourism, said he wants to visit places “that function totally differently from the way things are run at home.”
Whatever their motivations, Faar lund and Joyce are hardly alone.
Eighty-two percent of American trav elers said they have visited at least one dark tourism destination in their lifetime, according to a study published in Sep tember by Passport-photo.online, which
But people have used their leisure time to witness horror for hundreds of years, said Craig Wight, associate profes sor of tourism management at Edinburgh Napier University.
“It goes back to the gladiator battles” of ancient Rome, he said. “People coming to watch public hangings. You had tourists sitting comfortably in carriages watching the Battle of Waterloo.”
Wight said the modern dark tourist usually goes to a site defined by tragedy to make a connection to the place, a feeling that is difficult to achieve by just reading about it.
By that definition, anyone can be a dark tourist. A tourist who takes a week end trip to New York City may visit ground zero. Visitors to Boston may drive north to Salem, Massachusetts, to learn more about the persecution of people accused of witchcraft in the 17th century. Travel ers to Germany or Poland might visit a concentration camp. They might have any number of motivations, from honor ing victims of genocide to getting a better understanding of history. But in general, a dark tourist is someone who makes a habit of seeking out places that are either tragic, morbid or even dangerous, wheth
Most dark tourists are not voyeurs who pose for photos at Auschwitz, said Sian Staudinger, who runs Austria-based Dark Tourist Trips, which organizes itin eraries in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe and instructs travelers to follow rules like “NO SELFIES!”
“Dark tourists in general ask mean ingful questions,” Staudinger said. “They don’t talk too loud. They don’t laugh. They’re not taking photos at a concentra tion camp.”
‘Ethically Murky Territory’
David Farrier, a journalist from New Zealand, spent a year documenting travels to places like Aokigahara, the so-called suicide forest in Japan, the luxury prison Pablo Escobar built for himself in Colom bia and McKamey Manor in Tennessee, a notorious haunted house tour where peo ple sign up to be buried alive, submerged in cold water until they feel like they will drown, and beaten.
The journey was turned into a show, “Dark Tourist,” that streamed on Netflix in 2018 and was derided by some critics as ghoulish and “sordid.”
Farrier, 39, said he often questioned the moral implications of his trips.
“It’s very ethically murky territory,” Farrier said.
But it felt worthwhile to “roll the cameras” on places and rituals that most people want to know about but will never experience, he said.
Visiting places where terrible events
unfolded was humbling and helped him confront his fear of death.
He said he felt privileged to have visited most of the places he saw, except McKamey Manor.
“That was deranged,” Farrier said.
Buda said dark tourists she has in terviewed have described feelings of shock and fear at seeing armed soldiers on streets of countries where there is on going conflict or are run by dictatorships.
“When you’re part of a society that is by and large stable and you’ve got ten into an established routine, travel to these places leads you to sort of feel alive,” she said.
But that travel can present real danger.
In 2015, Otto Warmbier, a 21-yearold student from Ohio who traveled with Young Pioneer Tours, was arrested in North Korea after he was accused of stealing a poster off a hotel wall. He was detained for 17 months and was coma tose when he was released. He died in 2017, six days after he was brought back to the United States.
The North Korean government said Warmbier died of botulism but his fam ily said his brain was damaged after he was tortured.
Americans can no longer travel to North Korea unless their passports are validated by the State Department.
Even ghost tours — the lighter side of dark tourism — can present dilemmas for tour operators, said Andrea Janes, the owner and founder of Boroughs of the Dead: Macabre New York City Walking Tours.
In 2021, she and her staff ques tioned whether to restart tours so soon
after the pandemic in a city where re frigerated trucks serving as makeshift morgues sat in a marine terminal for months.
They reopened and were surprised when tours booked up fast. People were particularly eager to hear the ghost sto ries of Roosevelt Island, the site of a shuttered 19th century hospital where smallpox patients were treated.
“We should have seen as historians that people would want to talk about death in a time of plague,” Janes said.
Kathy Biehl, who lives in Jefferson Township, New Jersey, and has gone on a dozen ghost tours with Janes’ compa ny, recalled taking the tour “Ghosts of the Titanic” along the Hudson River. It was around 2017, when headlines were dominated by President Donald Trump’s tough stance on refugees and immi grants coming into the United States.
Those stories seemed to dovetail with the 100-year-old tales of immi grants trying to make it to New York on a doomed ship, Biehl said.
It led to “a catharsis” for many on the tour, she said. “People were on the verge of tears over immigration.”
Part of the appeal of dark tourism is its ability to help people process what is happening “as the world gets darker and gloomier,” said Jeffrey S. Podoshen, a professor of marketing at Franklin and Marshall College, who specializes in dark tourism.
“People are trying to understand dark things, trying to understand things like the realities of death, dying and vio lence,” he said. “They look at this type of tourism as a way to prepare them selves.”
Faarlund recalled one trip with
his wife and twin sons: a private tour of Cambodia that included a visit to the Killing Fields, where between 1975 and 1979 more than 2 million Cambodians were killed or died of starvation and dis ease under the Khmer Rouge regime.
His boys, then 14, listened intently to unsparing and brutal stories of the tor ture center run by the Khmer Rouge. At one point, the boys had to go outside, where they sat quietly for a long time.
“They needed a break,” Faarlund said. “It was quite mature of them.”
Afterward, they met two of the survivors of the Khmer Rouge, fragile
men in their 80s and 90s. The teenag ers asked if they could hug them and the men obliged, Faarlund said.
It was a moving trip that also in cluded visits to temples, among them Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, and meals of frog, oysters and squid at a roadside restaurant.
“They loved it,” Faarlund said of his family.
Still, he can’t see them coming with him to see people reenact the cru cifixion in the Philippines.
“I don’t think they want to go with me on that one,” Faarlund said.
Forty-three years ago, two young psy chologists, Lauren B. Alloy and Lyn Y. Abramson, reported the results of a simple experiment that led to a seminal idea in psychology.
Their aim was to test the “helpless ness theory,” that depressed people tend to underestimate their ability to influence the world around them.
Alloy and Abramson categorized college student volunteers as depressed and nondepressed, based on self-reported symptoms, and provided each person with a button and a light that flashed occasion ally. They then asked the volunteers to as sess how much control they had over the light when they pressed the button.
What they discovered was surpris ing. The depressed people, it turned out, had a more accurate reading of their abil ity to affect outcomes. Thus was born the hypothesis of “depressive realism” — the idea that at times depressed people have
a more realistic view of their conditions, because they are free of the optimistic bias of their cheerful peers.
This idea, summarized in the origi nal paper as “sadder but wiser,” has been taught to decades of Intro Psych students and cited more than 2,000 by other schol ars. It also percolated through our culture, introducing the idea that depression, for all its pain, may also provide its sufferers with some gifts.
A study published this month in the journal Collabra: Psychology by Amelia S. Dev and others calls that conclusion into question.
Recreating the original experiment, in which subjects must assess whether their button-pushing affected the light, the new research team found no association be tween depressive symptoms and outcome bias. In one sample, the patients with more depressive symptoms overestimated their control; in the second, depressive symp toms did not predict any particular bias.
“Across two samples, we find no evi
dence that depressive symptoms is tied to greater realism,” the study said.
Don A. Moore, one of the authors of the new study, said that the team had coalesced around the question of whether “positive illusions” can enhance perfor mance, and that this had led them back to the 1979 study.
“Its impact has been huge, and it’s been pervasive in so many aspects of re search and pop culture that it can be hard to wind it back up,” Moore, a psychological researcher and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, said of the original study.
Under the influence of this theory, many psychologists taught that “a little bit of self-delusion is helpful for getting through life,” he said. “You have to believe in your self a little more than reality warrants.”
“What we knew,” he said, “made us wonder whether that effect would hold up.”
Already, a 2012 meta-analysis of 75 studies on depressive realism had found that the overall effect of depressive real ism was small, and that results were influ enced by the study’s methodology. But it remained such a well-established notion that “we faced skeptical reviewers along the way,” Moore said.
“If you’re trying to disprove a false positive that has made its way into the lit erature, that is an uphill climb,” he said.
Alloy, one of the two psychologists who designed the original experiment, said in an interview that she did not believe the new work constituted a major challenge to depressive realism, because the research team failed to directly replicate the original 1979 experiment.
“When they say they did a direct rep lication of our study, they did not,” Alloy, a professor of psychology at Temple Univer sity, said. “It’s not a major challenge. The original findings still hold.”
She said differences in the design of the two experiments may account for the
variance in results. The new team did not find an “illusion of control” among the nondepressed subjects, as the 1979 team did, which she said was unusual and made it difficult to interpret any results.
The new team repeatedly asked sub jects to assess the probability of the bulb lighting if they pushed the button through out the experiment, rather than waiting un til the end, as the original researchers did. Also, she said, the new researchers pre screened subjects for symptoms of depres sion, rather than screening them on the day of the experiment, so their mood may have shifted in that time.
She also said the research team rec reated only the second of the four experi ments in the 1979 paper, which had the least robust findings.
Finally, she took issue with the re searchers’ characterization of depressive realism, which she said occurred only un der certain conditions.
“It simply isn’t true that depressed people are more accurate in their percep tion of the world,” she said. “That is too broad and general a statement.” Subsequent studies identified conditions under which depressive realism was present, which led to “more nuanced, sophisticated conclu sions,” she said. “What’s out there in the public might not have kept up with that.”
Over the four decades since Alloy and Abramson published their paper, the “sadder but wiser” idea has not guided emerging treatments. Clinicians have gravitated to cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps depressed patients identify distortions in their thoughts.
“We would do a disservice to the client by accepting that what they say is a reality, rather than through a gentle So cratic process, to ask them to explore and examine their pattern of thinking,” said Allen Miller, a clinical psychologist at the Beck Institute, who was not involved in the study.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC
Plaintiff V. ISIA YADIRA
Defendant(s)
Civil No.: 3:19-cv-01973. (FAB). FORECLOSURE OF MORT GAGE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: ISIA YADIRA AYALADE JESÚS. 734 Road, Solar 5, Km. 6.3, Arenas Ward, Cidra, Puerto Rico 00739 and THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On May 25, 2022, this Court entered Default Judg ment in favor of Plaintiff, against Defendant. On July 18, 2022, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that Defendant has failed to pay the sums of monies adjudged to be paid under the judgment. In the Judgment, the Court stated that Defendant has defaulted on the repayment obligation to GITSIT Solutions, LLC, and ordered to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of $196,863.67, plus interest at the rate of 7.25% per annum from July 1, 2017 until the debt is paid in full. The Court also ordered Defendant to pay GITSIT Solutions, LLC late charges in the amount of 5% of each and every monthly installment not received by the person entitled to enforce the mortgage note within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Furthermore, the Court ordered Defendant to pay GITSIT Solu tions, LLC all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $21,687.80, to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed by the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Ave nue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
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NORTE, en cuatro alineaciones que suman 37.458 metros con
un camino municipal; SUR, en una distancia de 25.092 metros con el solar 15; ESTE, en una distancia de 32.718 metros con el solar identificado como solar 6 y OESTE, en una distancia de 32.380 metros con el solar 4. Property recorded at page 49, volume 417 of Cidra, pro perty number 15171, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas. WHE
REAS: The property is subject to the following lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Doral Financial Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $216,878.00 con intereses al 7¼% anual y vencimiento 1 de septiembre de 2036. Constitui da por la Escritura 167 otorga da en San Juan el 11 de agosto de 2005 ante la notario Marga rita M. Pérez Rosich, e inscrita al folio 49 del tomo 417 de Ci dra, finca 15171, inscripción 3ª. MODIFICADA en cuanto a su vencimiento, siendo ahora su nuevo vencimiento el 1 de julio de 2036, según consta de la escritura 368 otorgada en San Juan el 10 de julio de 2006 ante el notario Eder Enrique Ortiz Ortiz. Inscrita el 22 de octubre de 2021 al Tomo Digital Kari be, finca 15171 de Cidra, Nota Marginal. Senior Lien: None. The above-described property is subject to the following junior lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $23,500.00 con intereses al 9.95% anual y vencimiento 1 de noviembre de 2020. Constituida por la Escritura 93 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de octubre de 2005 ante la notario Angelik Rodríguez Maldonado, e inscri ta al folio 49 del tomo 417 de Ci dra, finca 15171, inscripción 4ª. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferen tial lien to the one being fore closed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the suc cessful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the res ponsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acqui red free and clear of all junior liens.
WHEREAS: For the pur pose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $216,878.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuc cessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second
Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $144,585.33. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the afo rementioned mortgage deed, or $108,439.00 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmo biliaria del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHE
REAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW
THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appoin ted Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will on the DECEMBER 2, 2022 AT 9:45 AM. SALE will tae pla ce at: Rondaro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698745, -66.1125007) in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set herei nabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on the DE CEMBER 9, 2022 AT 9:45 AM, at the address indicated above. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuc cessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the DECEMBER 16, 2022, AT 9:45 AM, located at the address in dicated above. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 25 day of September 2022. JOEL RON DA FELICIANO, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC
Demandante Vs EDITH BERTHA HERNANDEZ CARRASQUILLO
T/C/C EDITH BERTA HERNANDEZ CARRASQUILLO
T/C/C EDITHBERTA HERNANDEZ
CARRASQUILLO T/C/C
EDITH B. HERNANDEZ CARRASQUILLO T/C/C EDITH HERNANDEZ DE CARRION T/C/C EDITH
B. HERNANDEZ T/C/C
EDITA B. HERNANDEZ T/C/C EDITH CARRION; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandado (a)
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV03772. Sala: 508. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: EDITH BERTHA HERNANDEZ CARRASQUILLO
T/C/C EDITH BERTA HERNANDEZ CARRASQUILLO
T/C/C EDITHBERTA HERNANDEZ CARRASQUILLO T/C/C EDITH B. HERNANDEZ CARRASQUILLO T/C/C EDITH HERNANDEZ DE CARRION T/C/C EDITH B. HERNANDEZ T/C/C EDITA B. HERNANDEZ T/C/C EDITH CARRION; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA.
EL SECRETARIO (A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o repre sentando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los tér minos de la Sentencia, Senten cia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recur so de revisión o apelación den tro del término de 60 días con tados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de octubre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. MAR THA ALMODOVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. KAREN MICHELLE COLON SANTANA
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01014. Sala: 604. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Al guacil que suscribe por la pre sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cum plimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epí grafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América el 22 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: APT. 1301, CONDOMINIO TORRES DE ANDALUCIA II, TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00926 y que se des cribe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 1301. Apartamento localizado en la décima tercera (13) planta del Edificio dos (2), Condominio Torres De Andalucía, situado en la Calle Marginal Oeste de la carretera estatal número 181 (Expreso Trujillo Alto), kilómetro 1, Hectómetro 2, Barrio Saba na Llana, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, con área de 908.89pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 84.4 metros cuadrados. Consta de sala, comedor, 3 dormitorios, cocina, lavandería, baño y clo sets. En lindes por el NORTE, con el patio delantero; por el SUR, por donde tiene su ac ceso de entrada y salida con pasillo que lo comunica con el resto del edificio con el cuarto de contadores de agua, cuar to de conserje, elevadores, cuarto de contadores eléctri cos, cuarto de incineración y cuarto de transformadores; por el ESTE, con el patio late ral izquierdo; y por el OESTE, con el patio lateral derecho. Le corresponde una participación equivalente a 0.2685% en los
elementos comunes generales del Condominio y un espacio de estacionamiento identifi cado con el número del apar tamento. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Tomo móvil de Sabana Llana, finca número 25,203, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del in mueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $57,450.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscri be el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda su basta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $38,300.00. Si tam poco hubiere remate ni adjudi cación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $28,725.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca núme ro 128 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de mayo de 2004, ante el Notario Juan Piza Ramos y consta inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 1035 de Saba na Llana, finca número 25,203, inscripción Decimo Cuarta (14ta), en el Registro de la Pro piedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. Dicha subasta se lleva rá a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $41,893.82 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2018, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, Karen Michelle Colón Santana, adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equiva lentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritu ra de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do equivalentes a $5,745.00. Además, Karen Michelle Colón Santana, se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $5,745.00 para cubrir cualquier
otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipo teca y una suma equivalente a $5,745.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondien tes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SE CRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes entendiéndo se que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca des crita anteriormente, pesa el gra vamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación: Hipoteca en ga rantía de un pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financia miento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 26 de mayo de 2012, constituida mediante la escritura número 313, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de mayo de 2004, ante el notario Irma J. Plnadeball Moreno, e inscri ta al folio 1 del tomo 1036 de Sabana Llana, finca número 25,203, inscripción 15ta. Sujeta a Condiciones bajo el Progra ma (no expresa), no podrá ven der, donar permutar o de otro modo transferir por el término de 8 años. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desco nocidos, no inscritos o presen tados que sus acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hi poteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmi sibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamen te con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus inte reses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado ase gurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anterior mente se adquirirá libre de car
gas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Or den de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en ge neral se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por es pacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribu nal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2022. ERIK F. OSUNA ACE VEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPE RIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. TANYA MILAGROS CEDEÑO GONZALEZ;
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2021CV00570. Sala: 201. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Al guacil que suscribe por la pre sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cum plimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE VEGA BAJA, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque cer tificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA DE VEGA BAJA, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, títu lo e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: J-1 (1007) CALLE CAMINO VERDE, URBANI ZACION CAMINO DEL SOL, VEGA BAJA, PUERTO RICO 00693 y que se describe a
continuación: URBANA: Solar J-l de la Urbanización Camino Del Sol, localizado en el Barrio Algarrobo del término munici pal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 1,144.9366 metros cuadrados. En lindes: NORTE, en una distancia de 41.891 metros con solares pertenecientes a Urbanización Estancias de Tortuguero; SUR, en una distancia de 30.893 me tros con Solar J-2; ESTE, en 21.195 metros con el Solar I-8 y en 15.00 metros con Calle 110; OESTE, en 26.087 metros con el Solar J-7. Está afecto en su colindancia Norte a Servidum bre Pluvial a favor del Municipio de Vega Baja; y parcialmente en su colindancia Este a Servi dumbre de La Puerto Rico Tele phone Company con un ancho de 1.52. En dicho Solar hay construida una estructura en hormigón para vivir una familia. La propiedad antes relaciona da consta inscrita al Folio 156 del Tomo 443 de Vega Baja, finca número 32,247, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del in mueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $258,300.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que sus cribe el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda su basta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $172,200.00. Si tam poco hubiere remate ni adjudi cación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA.
Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $129,150.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 295 otorgada en Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de julio de 2006 ante el Notario Melvin E. Rodriguez Torres y consta inscrita al Folio 2841 del Tomo 459 de Vega Baja, finca nú mero 32,247, inscripción 4ta., Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta. Di cha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcial mente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $240,589.88 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2012, más intere ses al tipo pactado de 7.25% anual que continúan acumu lándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte
co-demandada Tanya Milagros Cedeño González adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los crédi tos accesorios y adelantos he chos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equiva lentes a $25,830.00. Además, la parte co-demandada Tanya Milagros Cedeño González se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $25,830.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la es critura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $25,830.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimien to, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado ta les sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al Proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE VEGA BAJA, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematan te los acepta y queda subro gado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de tí tulo efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta me diante este procedimiento que se relacionan a continuación; Embargo Federal Tanya Ce deño González, seguro social xxx-xx-6028, dirección 751 Ca lle Araguez, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, 00693, por la suma de $33,924.25, notificación núme ro 359146819, Certificación de fecha 10 de mayo de 2019, pre sentado y anotado el día 11 de julio de 2019, al Asiento 2019005430-FED del Sistema Kari be. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus acreedores de cargos o de rechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endo so o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterio ridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados
para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedan do subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licita dores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de ce lebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía. Este Edicto será publica do dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el pre sente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribu nal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2022.
ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍ GUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA, SALA SUPERIOR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
JANETH MARCELA
COLLAZO CASTRO;
RICARDO LUIS RIVAS TORRES
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2019CV04349. Sala: 505. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JANETH MARCELA COLLAZO CASTRO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta
blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de octubre de 2022. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁN CHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. BAUTISTA REO PR CORP. Plaintiff, v. SYLAR CORPORATION, AMERICAN TOOLS, INC., ARMANDO CEPEDA CHEMBI, HIS WIFE SYLVIA CEPEDA BENAVIDES, AND THE LEGAL CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CEPEDACEPEDA Defendants Civil No. 16-3109 (RAM). Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES; FORECLOSURE OF MORT GAGE AND OTHER COLLATE RAL. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: SYLAR CORPORATION; AMERICAN TOOLS, INC.; ARMANDO CEPEDA CHEMBI, HIS WIFE SYLVIA CEPEDA BENAVIDES, THE LEGAL CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CEPEDACEPEDA; AND GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On August 14, 2017, Partial Final Default Jud gment (the “Partial Judgment”) was entered in favor of plaintiff Bautista Cayman Asset Com pany now Bautista REO PR Corp. (“Bautista”) against de fendants Sylar Corporation, Ar mando Cepeda Chembi, his wife Sylvia Cepeda Benavides and the legal conjugal partners hip Cepeda-Cepeda (jointly, the “Co-Defendants”). Under the Partial Judgment, this Court concluded that the Co-Defen dants had defaulted on their loan obligations, had failed to pay the amounts due therein, further concluding that, as of May 1, 2017, Defendant owed the sum of $2,053,978.38, which would continue to accrue interest until payment is made in full. On September 7, 2022, this Court entered an Order for Execution of Judgment (the “Order of Execution”), designa ting Mr. Joel Ronda Feliciano as Special Master (the “Special Master”) for the execution of the Partial Judgment pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 53(a)(1)(C). On
September 9, 2022, this Court entered, in accordance with the Order of Execution, a Writ of Execution (the “Writ of Execu tion”). The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested par ties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Buil ding, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHE REAS: pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Partial Jud gment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution, the un dersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash, or certified or bank manager check without appraisement or right of redemption to the hig hest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Fede ral Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property, described in the Spanish lan guage (the “Property”) : RÚSTI CA: Parcela de terreno número veinticuatro guión B-24, (24-B), localizada en la Urbanización Industrial Minillas Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de una cuerda y nue ve mil doscientos treinta y cua tro cien milésimas de otra (1.9234 cds), equivalentes a siete mil quinientos cincuenta y nueve punto ochenta y siete doce metros cuadrados (7,559.8712). Ésta en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar nú mero veinticuatro guión A (24A), en distancia de ciento siete punto trece metros (107.13); por el SUR, con solar número veintitrés A (23-A), en distancia de treinta y nueve punto sete cientos noventa y siete (34.797) y cincuenta y ocho punto ciento sesenta y tres metros (58.163); por el ESTE, en distancia de noventa y nueve punto tres cientos (99.300) metros en arco, con Calle C; y por el OES TE, con los solares treinta y tres (33) y número veintitrés B (23B), en distancia de cuarenta punto treinta y tres (40.33), se senta (60.00) y veintitrés punto seiscientos noventa y cuatro (23.694) metros. Enclava edifi cación identificada como Pro yecto T-100-8-0-70, según la escritura número 2, otorgada en San Juan Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 1992, ante el no tario Luis A. Morales Rosado, e inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 186 de Bayamón Sur, finca nú mero 67,532, inscripción 1ra. Property number 67,532, recor ded at page 146 of volume 1,537 of Bayamón Sur, Puerto Rico Property Registry, First Section of Bayamón. WHE
REAS: The Property is encum bered by its origin by the fo llowing senior liens: i) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewer Authority (ii) Easement in favor
of the PR Railway Light & Power Company (iii) (iii) Ease ment of way of sewerage in fa vor of the People of Puerto Rico to the benefit of the Hospital of the District of Bayamón. By itself: (i) Mortgage securing a mortgage note in favor of Doral Mortgage, LLC, or to its order, in the principal amount of ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY THOUSAND DO LLARS ($1,730,000.00), bea ring an annual interest rate of 8.50%, due on December 30, 2016, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 753 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on December 30, 2009 before Notary Public Gadiel O. Rosario Rivera, and recorded at page 81 of the reverse volume 1,586 of Bayamón sur, Property No. 67,532, 3rd recordation, as abbreviated seat, the lines ex tended on November 8, 2011 by virtue of Act 216 of December 27, 2010. (ii) Notice of com plaint presented on December 8, 2016, issued in the United States District Court for the Dis trict Court of Puerto Rico, Civil Case Num. 16-3109, for Collec tion of Monies, Foreclosure of Mortgage, and Other Collateral followed by Bautista Cayman Asset Company against Sylar Corporation, American Tools, Inc., Armando Cepeda Chembi, his wife Sylvia Cepeda Benavi des and the United States of America, in the principal amou nt of $1,975,964.14 plus addi tional amounts, annotated on June 13, 2017 at the Karibe Volume of Bayamón Sur, Pro perty 67,532, Annotation “A”. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferen tial liens to the one being fore closed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancella tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on De cember 1, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $1,730,000.00. In the event said first auction does not pro duce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the on December8, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $1,153,333.34, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini mum bid for the first public sale.
If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the on December 15, 2022, at 9:30 a.m., the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of
$865,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the Property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified or bank ma nager checks, except in case the Property is sold and adjudi cated to Bautista, in which case the amount of the bid made by Bautista shall be credited and deducted from its credit; Bautis ta being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured inde btedness that remains unsatis fied. If the third auction is deser ted, Bautista may proceed to coordinate the execution of a deed of conveyance with the Special Master within twenty (20) days of the public sale, to take title of the Property in full satisfaction of the Partial Judg ment. WHEREAS: said sale to be conducted by the Special Master pursuant to the Order of Execution. Compliance with all foreclosure proceedings are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico pur suant to article 107 of the Re gistry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (30 L.P.R.A. § 6144), and the corresponding deed of conve yance and possession to the Property will be executed and delivered by the Special Master after delivery of such Order of Confirmation. Once the Proper ty is adjudicated in payment of the credit guaranteeing the mortgage, and the price does not exceed the value thereof, all junior liens must be canceled provided that said junior credi tors be notified of the public sale of said property. For further information, reference is made to the Partial Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 24, 2022. By: Joel Ronda, Special Master. Ronda Legal Services, LLC ronda joel@me.com 787-565-0515.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MON.
Demandados CIVIL NUM.: DCD2015-3147.
SALA: 501. SOBRE: COBRO
DE DINERO, EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDI NARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL; y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscri tos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubie sen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas intere sadas en, o con derecho a exi gir el cumplimiento de instru mentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito eje cutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la su basta si les convenga o satisfa cer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de aboga dos asegurados, quedando en tonces subrogados en los dere chos del acreedor ejecutante: Estado Libre Asociado De Puerto Rico “Programa Home”, A cuyo favor aparece una hipo teca por la suma de $20,000.00 de principal, sin intereses y vencedero en 10 años, según consta de la escritura número #345, otorgada en San Juan, el día 14 de mayo de 2008, ante el notario Pedro R. Cintrón Ri vera, e inscrita al folio 108 del tomo 187 de Cataño, finca nú mero #3,527, inscripción 6ta. Postergación: Postergada esta hipoteca de la inscripción 6ta., en beneficio de la Modificación de Hipoteca por la inscripción 9na, para que tenga rango pre ferente, según consta de la es critura #434, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de noviembre de 2014, ante la no tario MARÍA I. GARCÍA MANTI LLA, inscrita al margen de la inscripción 6ta. al tomo Karibe de Cataño, finca #3527 Autori dad Para El Financiamiento De La Vivienda De Puerto Rico: A cuyo favor aparece una hipote ca por la suma de $11,000.00 de principal, sin intereses y vencedero el día 14 de mayo de 2016, según consta de la escritura número #346, otorga da en San Juan, el día 14 de mayo de 2008, ante el notario Pedro R. Cintrón Rivera, e ins crita al folio 108 del tomo 187 de Cataño, finca número #3,527, inscripción 7ma.Poster gación: Postergada la hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma., en bene ficio de la hipoteca modificada por la inscripción 9na, para que esta última tenga rango prefe rente, según consta de la escri tura #435, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de noviembre de 2014, ante la no
tario MARÍA I. GARCÍA MANTI
LLA, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Cataño, finca #3527, al margen de la inscripción 7ma. Autoridad Para El Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico: A cuyo favor aparece unas Condicio nes Restrictivas bajo el Progra ma “Protegiendo Tu Hogar”, por haber concedido la suma de $6,047.04 para subvencionar el pago mensual de hipoteca: En tre las cuales no podrá vender, donar, permutar o de cualquier otro modo transferir la propie dad sin el previo consentimien to de la Autoridad, por un térmi no de 5 años, según consta de la escritura #121, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de julio de 2012, ante la no tario FRANCÉS SANABRIA
MONTAÑEZ, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Cataño, finca #3,527, inscripción 8va. Que en cumpli miento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedi do el día 14 de octubre de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tri bunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: UR BANA: Solar de Manglar dese cado ubicado en la zona urba na de Cataño, con una cabida superficial de 96.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 9.40 metros, con Compañía Popular de Trans porte; por el SUR, en 9.40 me tros, con Calle Amparo; por el ESTE, en 10.20 metros, con José Figueroa y por el OESTE, en 10.20 metros, con Marcelino Fonseca. Enclava una edifica ción diseñada para una familia, construida de madera y techa da de zinc. Inscrito al folio 152 del tomo 76 de Cataño, finca número #3,527 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción Cuarta de Bayamón. La propiedad objeto de ejecución ubica en: Amparo, BM2, Cataño Pueblo, Cataño, PR. El produc to de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 18 de abril de 2017 y notificada el 27 de abril de 2017, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $50,390.04 adeudada al 1ro de julio de 2015, la cual se desglo sa en $45,271.40 por concepto de principal; $152.89 por con cepto de intereses acumulados; los cuales continúan acumulán dose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este plei to, $329.55 por concepto de ‘’Escrow Advances’’ y la suma de $4,636.20 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios ga rantizados hipotecariamente.
La adjudicación se hará al me jor postor, quien deberá consig nar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del algua cil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el
día 18 DE ENERO DE 2023 A
LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el en el cuarto piso del Centro Judicial de Ba yamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
El precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la cantidad de $46,362.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SU BASTA será de $30,908.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo es tipulado para la PRIMERA su basta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $23,181.00, equivalen tes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo míni mo estipulado para la PRIME RA 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 diciem bre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propie dad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se proce derá a otorgar la correspon diente escritura de venta judi cial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposi ciones de Ley. Para conoci miento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para co nocimiento de todos los licita dores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) sema nas consecutivas, con un inter valo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de cele brarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Co lecturía. Los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipo tecados con posterioridad a la
inscripción del crédito del eje cutante, o los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hi poteca ejecutada y las perso nas interesadas en, o con dere cho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables ga rantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito eje cutado pueden concurrir a la subasta si les convienen o sa tisfacer antes del remate el im porte del crédito, de sus intere ses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor eje cutante. Se les informa, por últi mo, que: a. Que los autos y to dos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento incoado estarán de ma nifiesto en la secretaría del tri bunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entende rá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsisten tes. Se entenderá, que el rema tante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presen te EDICTO, en Bayamón, Puer to Rico, hoy día 20 de octubre de 2022. Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ba yamón.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ
Peticionario EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01828.
Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DO MINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN / CITA CIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SS. NOTIFICACIÓN / CITACIÓN al colindante del área Norte: Familia Flor Alvara do, por no conocer su paradero, ni última dirección conocida a pesar de los esfuerzos realiza dos, a los que tengan cualquier derecho real sobre el inmueble, así como a las personas ignora das o desconocidas y ausentes a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción de dominio solici tada del inmueble que se des cribe más adelante tendrán el término improrrogable de vein te (20) días a partir de la última publicación de este edicto para exponer la que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticio naria para adquirir su dominio
sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el kilómetro uno punto cuatro (1.4 KM) de la Carretera Estatal quinientos doce (512) del Barrio Cayabo, del término municipal de Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. Compuesto de DOSCIENTOS NOVENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO OCHO MIL CUATROCIENTOS SETENTA Y DOS METROS CUADRADOS (299.8472 MC).
Colinda por el NORTE, en die cinueve punto treinta y ocho metros lineales (19.38 ml) con terrenos de Flor Alvarado; por el SUR, en dos alineaciones que suman veinte punto se tenta y ocho metros lineales (20.78 ml) con la Sucesión Se rallés; Por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones que suman trece punto cincuenta y dos metros lineales (13.52 ml) con terrenos de la Sucesión Serallés; y por el ESTE, en una alineación de quince punto cuarenta y ocho metros lineales (15.48 ml) con la Carretera Estatal quinientos doce (512). Usted deberá pre sentar su oposición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: htts://unired.rama judicial.pr, salvo que se repre sente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su oposición en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, de no hacer oposición dentro del término antes expresado, éste podrá obtener que se apruebe el expediente de dominio y se ordene inscribir el dominio de la finca antes descrita.
LCDA. FABIOLA DE JESÚS VEGA RUA 22, 396 Urb. Perla del Sur 2449 Calle Marginal Ponce, P.R. 00717 Teléfono: (787) 359-9417 dejesusvegaiaw@gmail.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2022. LUZ
MAYRA CARABALLO GAR CÍA, SECRETARIA. DORIS
A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA RE GIÓN JUDICIAL DE CAROLI NA SALA SUPERIOR LA SUCESIÓN DE LYDIA ESTHER TORRES
CASTRO, COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ ÁNGEL NEGRÓN TORRES, EDGARDO NEGRÓN
TORRES Y LYMARI NEGRÓN TORRES Demandantes V. DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03341. Sala: 402. Sobre: CANCE LACIÓN DE HIPOTECA RE PRESENTADA POR PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO. EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SS.
A: DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION; HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE. ULTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: 1451 FD ROOSEVELT, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 009202717 O SEA, LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA. De: SUCESIÓN DE LYDIA ESTHER TORRES CASTRO, COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ ÁNGEL NEGRÓN TORRES, EDGARDO NEGRÓN
TORRES Y LYMARI NEGRÓN TORRES. DIRECCIÓN DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: PO BOX 213, TRUJILLO ALTO, PUERTO RICO 00977.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y notifica que una de manda ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la demanda y la radique en autos dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto y no tifique a la abogada de la parte demandante
JAHNNY RODRÍGUEZ MALAVÉ
RÚA Núm. 22,499
Urb. Costa Sur E-41 Calle Miramar Yauco, Puerto Rico 00698 Teléfono (939) 202-5102 lcda.rodriguezmalave@gmail.com de no contestar el tribunal po drá dictar sentencia concedien do lo solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRI BUNAL en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de octubre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regio nal. Keila García Solís, SubSecretaria.
La propiedad objeto de este pagaré extraviado es la Finca número 10256. inscrita al Sis tema Karibe, inscripción 1era. y última.
Número de Catastro : 115-027- 710-17-001. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de HOUSING INVESTMENT CORP., o a su orden, $21,600.00, intereses al 7 3/4 % anual, vencedero 1 de marzo de 2004 y otras condicio nes. pagaré suscrito bajo el afi dávit 911 de 17 de septiembre de 1974 ante el Notario Público Joaquín Pedraza, según consta de la escritura 811, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 17 de
diciembre de 1974, inscrita la hipoteca al Folio 241 del Tomo 202 de Trujillo Alto, finca núme ro 10256.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO MARIA ESTHER TORRES SOTO; CARMEN LYDIA RIVERA TORRES; JOSÉ ENRIQUE RIVERA TORRES
Demandante V. EXPARTE
Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00874. Sala: 401. Sobre: EXPEDIEN TE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de octubre de 2022. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 21 de octubre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JACQUELYNE GONZÁLEZ QUINTANA, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC
COMPUESTA POR ANTONIO NIEVES, CARMEN NIEVES, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE EN REPRESENTACIÓN
DE VANESSA NIEVES MORALES Y POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GERARDO
NIEVES MERCADO; SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MORALES HERNÁNDEZ COMPUESTA POR ANTONIO NIEVES, CARMEN NIEVES MORALES, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE VANESSA NIEVES MORALES Y POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MORALES HERNÁNDEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandado(a) Civil: AI2022CV00142. Sobre: EJECUCIón DE HIPOTECAIN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: SUCESIÓN DE GERARDO NIEVES MERCADO COMPUESTA POR ANTONIO NIEVES, CARMEN NIEVES, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE VANESSA NIEVES MORALES Y POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GERARDO NIEVES MERCADO; SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MORALES HERNÁNDEZ COMPUESTA POR ANTONIO NIEVES, CARMEN NIEVES MORALES, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE VANESSA NIEVES MORALES Y POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DE LA
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de octubre de 2022. En COMERÍO, Puerto Rico, el 26 de octubre de 2022.
ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVE RA, SECRETARIA. CARMEN L. APONTE FLORES, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS SUCESIÓN DE VÍCTOR RENZO ORTIZ ALGARÍN
Causante
Peticionaria Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03537. Sala: 704. Sobre: DECLA RATORIA DE HEREDEROS. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: A TODA PERSONA CON DERECHO A HEREDAR A: VÍCTOR RENZO ORTIZ ALGARÍN, FALLECIDO EL (18) DE AGOSTO DE (2021); Y A VÍCTOR RENZO ORTIZ, FALLECIDO EL (31) DE DICIEMBRE DE (2011). Por la presente se le notifica que la peticionaria ha presen tado ante este tribunal una Petición de Declaratoria de Herederos del causante Víctor Renzo Ortiz AIgarín, en la que se solicita se declare únicos y universales herederos a su hermana Annette Morales Al garín. Se llama a toda persona que se crea con igual grado o mejor derecho a heredar a la aquí nombrada para que com parezcan a reclamar dentro
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días conta dos a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 21 de octubre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. MAR THA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C
Civil Núm.: KCD2017-0334. (504). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO. EDICTO ANUNCIAN
DO SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en ge neral que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 31 de agos to de 2017 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 7 de junio de 2022, librado por este ho norable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Algua cil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Propiedad Horizon tal: Apartamento número 1104,
ubicado en el piso once del Condominio Golden View Pla za, localizado en el Sub-Barrio Sabana Llana del barrio Río Piedras del Municipio de San Juan, con una cabida superfi cial de 598.66 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 55.617 metros cuadrados. Contiene dos habi taciones, sala-comedor, cocina y baño. Colinda por el NORTE, en 26’4” con el apartamento 1105; por el SUR, en 26’4” con espacio exterior y con área de escalera; por el ESTE, en 22’3” con espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en 22’3” con pasillo de acceso. Este apartamento tiene asignado el estacionamiento número 110. En los elementos comunes tiene un 0.00477% de participación. FINCA NÚ MERO: 34,375, inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 1062 de Sabana Llana, sección V de San Juan.
DIRECCIÓN FISICA: COND. COND. GOLDEN VIEW PLA ZA, APT. 1104, SAN JUAN, PR 00924. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de San Juan, PR. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balan ce de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $48,151.42 de princi pal, más intereses convenidos al 6.375% 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 ven dido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión ju dicial a los nuevos dueños den tro 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 procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deu dor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lan zamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Por la presente se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, perso nas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subas ta 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 Subasta, si eso fuera nece sario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Su basta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas
y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas la borables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el pre sente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cerca na del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 25 de octubre de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MU LERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03606.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en ge neral que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 10 de diciem bre de 2021 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 8 de febrero
de 2022, librado por este ho norable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Algua cil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dos del bloque EE en el plano de inscripción de la Urba nización Reparto Apolo, situado en el barrio Caimito del término municipal de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de cuatrocientos cuarenta y tres metros dieciséis centímetros cuadrados, colinda por el NORTE, en veintinueve metros con el solar marcado con el número tres; por el SUR, en treinta metros treinta y tres centímetros con el solar mar cado con el número uno; por el ESTE, en quince metros con la calle número nueve; y por el OESTE, en catorce metros no venta y cuatro centímetros con el paseo público del bloque EE de dicha urbanización. En este solar se ha construido una casa de concreto diseñada para fi nes residenciales. FINCA NÚ MERO: 2,353, inscrita al folio 15 del tomo 62 de Río Piedras Sur, sección IV de San Juan.
Nota Aclaratoria: La descrip ción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. En la Escritura número 177, otorgada el 29 de marzo de 2006, consta lo siguiente; URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dos mil ciento seis (#2106) del bloque EE en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Reparto Apolo, situado en el barrio Caimito del término municipal de Río Pie dras, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dirección Física: BO. CAIMITO URB. REPARTO APOLO, SOLAR #2106, BLO QUE EE, CALLE ONFALA, RIO PIEDRAS, PR 00969. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SU BASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 22 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MA ÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $150,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes seña lado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $100,000.00. De no haber
remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el pá rrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mis mo lugar antes señalado el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $75,000.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Tribunal dictó Sentencia declarando con lugar la demanda y, por consiguiente, ordenó a la par te demandada SUCESIÓN DE MYRNA ELISA AROCHO MAR TÍNEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS SONIA MARGARITA ARO CHO MARTÍNEZ, MILAGROS IVETTE AROCHO MARTÍNEZ Y VÍCTOR FELIPE AROCHO MARTÍNEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HE REDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN, a pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $110,251.90 más intereses, los cuales continúan acumulán dose anualmente al tipo conve nido de 5.25% hasta el saldo total de la obligación, cargos por demora; costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados según pactados; más cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. Se dis pone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nue vos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá or denar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamien to del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del de mandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen poste rior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fue ra necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas
con algún interés puedan com parecer a la celebración de di cha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titularidad y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante conti nuarán subsistentes. Se enten derá que el rematante los acep ta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas la borables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el pre sente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2022. Erik F. Osuna Acevedo, Alguacil Auxiliar. Pedro Hieye González, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior De San Juan.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA REVERSE
Demandante
Y ESCALERAS
NADDIA
ESCALERA
NADDIA
ESCALERA
POR
FULANO
MUNICIPALES;
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03025. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE
TECA - IN REM. MANDAMIEN TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Or den: “ORDEN: Examinada la demanda radicada por la par te demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la inter pelación judicial de la parte de mandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dis pone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2787 y su equivalente el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 2020. Se Ordena a los herederos de los causantes a saber, Lissette Penton Betan court, Manuel Jesus Penton Betancourt, Julio Penton Betan court, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, herederos de nombres desconocidos a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días conta dos a partir de la fecha de la no tificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participa ción que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Naddia Emilia De Las Mercedes Betan court y Escaleras t/c/c Naddia Emilia Betancourt Escalera t/c/c Naddia Betancourt Esca lera. Se le Apercibe a los here deros antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante, y por ende, la parte demandante podrá con tinuar la causa acción, dado por entendido que las partes interpeladas han aceptado la herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Ci vil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785 y su equivalente el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil, edición 2020. Se Ordena a la parte deman dante a que, en vista de que la sucesión del causante Naddia Emilia De Las Mercedes Betan court y Escaleras t/c/c Naddia Emilia Betancourt Escalera t/c/c Naddia Betancourt Esca lera, incluyen como herederos a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, proceda a notifi car la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de octubre de 2022. F/ LIZARDO W. MATTEI ROMÁN, JUEZ.” Por Cuanto: Se le ad vierte a que dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que
les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes Naddia Emilia De Las Mercedes Betancourt y Escaleras t/c/c Naddia Emi lia Betancourt Escalera t/c/c Naddia Betancourt Escalera. Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primera Instancia de este Tribunal, expido el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en Carolina, Puerto Rico hoy día 25 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APON TE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. RADAMÉS
TORRES SANTIAGO Demandado Civil Núm.: MZ2021CV00844. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO.
A: RADAMÉS TORRES SANTIAGO - URB QUINTO CENTENARIO 774
CALLE REINA ISABEL, MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO 00682-6024.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orflaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu nal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día17 de octubre de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2022. LCDA.
NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. GLENDA
L. AVILÉS CASTILLO, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE COME
RÍO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO
RAFAEL TORRES COLON, COMPUESTA
POR SUS HIJOS HILDA
TORRES AVILES, PEDRO
RAFAEL TORRES AVILES, ANTONIO MANUEL
TORRES AVILES Y SARA TORRES AVILES; HILDA ROSA AVILES ORTIZ, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO
A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE PEDRO
RAFAEL TORRES COLON; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CR2022CV00083.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO
RAFAEL TORRES COLON, COMPUESTA
POR SUS HIJOS HILDA TORRES AVILES, PEDRO RAFAEL TORRES AVILES, ANTONIO MANUEL TORRES AVILES Y SARA TORRES AVILES; HILDA ROSA AVILES ORTIZ, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO
A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE PEDRO
RAFAEL TORRES COLON; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”); BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, POR TENER AVISO DE DEMANDA ANOTADO
A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $57,927.10.
Yo, ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ SAN TIAGO, Alguacil de este Tribu nal, 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 SA
BER: Que el día 2 DE DICIEM
BRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Co merío, Comerío, Puerto Rico,
venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se or denó por la vía ordinaria al me jor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Comerío durante horas labora bles. Que en caso de no produ cir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 9 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propie dad a venderse en pública su basta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Solar marcado con el número Uno (1) del Bloque “B” del RESIDENCIAL NUEVO BARRANQUITAS, radicado en el Barrio Quebrada Gran de y Quebradillas del término municipal de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de DOSCIENTOS NOVENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO CERO CERO (299.00) METROS CUADRA DOS. En lindes: por el NORTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Mariano Villaronga y del Hotel Barranquitas; SUR, con la Calle número Tres (3); ESTE, con el solar número Doce (12); y por el OESTE, con el solar núme ro Diez (10). Enclava una casa dedicada a vivienda en cemen to. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 1ro del tomo 243 de Barranquitas, finca número 8,307, inscripción novena. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Residencial Nuevo Barran quitas, Solar 1, Bloque B, Ca rretera 152 Int., Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $57,927.10 de principal, intereses al 9.45% anual, des de el día 1ro de julio de 2018, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $7,100.00, es tipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están liquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí nima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $71,000.00 y de ser nece saria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equi valente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $47,333.33 y de necesitarse una tercera su basta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $35,500.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca
a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad 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 im porte de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Esta dos Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose 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 encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Aviso de Demanda, del día 31 de julio de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Co merío, en el Caso Civil Número CR2019CV00240, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipo teca, seguido por Banco Popu lar de Puerto Rico contra Hilda Rosa Avilés Ortiz, por la suma de $57,927.10, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 4 de septiembre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Barranquitas, finca 8,307, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, Anotación A. Pendiente de cancelación al Asiento 2022-115994-BA01. La propiedad a ser vendida en pú blica subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes pos teriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipo tecarios 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 totali dad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abo no total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitado res, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Comerío, Puerto Rico, a 15 de septiembre de 2022. ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYA GÜEZ
IRMA ESTHER CARBONELL LOPEZ Demandante V.
AUTORIDAD DE ENERGIA ELECTRICA DE PUERTO RICO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO
Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONE DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV01489.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM
PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO
Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. 1. En este caso la parte demandante ha radica do una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $107,000.00 al 7 1/2% de inte reses, vencedero el 1 de octu bre de 2034. Dicho pagaré fue suscrito 118, otorgada el día 24 de septiembre de 2004, ante el notario Raúl Caballero Melén dez, e inscrita al folio 1352 del tomo 1536 de Mayagüez, finca número 21,372, inscripción sexta (6ta sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación RÚSTICA: Solar marcado con la letra D localizado en el barrio Quemado de Mayagüez, con una cabida de 1,148.63 me tros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, con calle o faja de uso público; por el SUR, con terrenos de la finca principal; por el ESTE, con el solar E y en parte con terrenos de Manuel Diaz ; por el OESTE, con solar C. Finca Número 21372 inscrita al folio 209 tomo 753 Maya güez, Registro de la Propiedad Sección de Mayagüez. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que pue de examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés
en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódi co de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico y se le requiere para que radique en este Tribu nal su contestación y notifique con copia de ella al abogado de la parte demandante la LCDA.
LIZBET AVILES VEGA, RUA: 12536, Urb. Los Sauces, Calle Pomarrosa #222, Humacao, PR 00791, Tel: 787-354-0061, Email: lizbet_aviles@yahoo. com y lcdalizbetaviles@gmail. com; dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación res ponsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electró nica: https://unired.ramajudi cial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio apercibiéndole que de no ha cerlo así dentro del término in dicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio soli citado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribu nal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2022.
LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRI ZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. ALEXANDRA M. LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE CAGUAS ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. JOHN DOE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ESMERALDO GARCÍA MALDONADO; RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE SUSANA AGUAYO CANDELARIO; DOLTON DOUGLAS ARCHER SOBERS GRAYS, LILLIAN JANETTE GARCÍA
AGUAYO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00897.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA (VÍA ORDINARIA). ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. EDICTO.
A: RICHARD ROE
COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE SUSANA AGUAYO CANDELARIO. URB. ESTANCIAS DE MONTEVERDE #10, GURABO, PR 00778; 10 URB. ESTANCIAS DE SIERVAS DE MARÍA, GURABO, PR 00778; PMB 402 PO BOX 3040, GURABO, PR 00778; PMB 57 PO BOX 1283, SAN LORENZO, PR 00754.
POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este empla zamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entien de procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, Del gado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 2741414. DADA en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 19 de octubre de 2022.
LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO
Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PA GARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SS.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de octubre de 2022. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 25 de octubre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRUNILDA HERNÁNDEZ MÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
NAL
COLOME, HILDA AURORA RODRIGUEZ
COMO HILDA AURORA MENDOZA SANCHEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, DAMARIS CLAUDIO MARCANO Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03213.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a ven der en pública subasta al me jor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 11 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:00 DE LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: Propiedad A: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Cedros del término municipal de Caro lina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número 8 en el plano de se gregación aprobado en el caso 88-20-C-10 OPL, con una ca bida de 1394.010 metros cua drados, o sea, equivalentes a 0.356 cuerdas. Colindando por el NORTE, en una distancia de 45.80 metros con lote número 9 del plano; por el SUR, en una distancia de 45.70 metros, con lote número 7 del mismo plano y viraje público en radio; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 30.00 metros con camino públi co; y por el OESTE, en 34.00 metros con Anacleto Sosa. Consta inscrita al folio 84 del tomo 1125 de Carolina, finca número 48868, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción II de Carolina. Propiedad B: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el barrio Cedros del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número 9 en el plano de se gregación aprobado en el caso número 88-20-C-101-OPL, con una cabida superficial de 1604.429 metros cuadrados, o su equivalencia a 0.408 cuer das, colindando por el NORTE, en una distancia de 44.50 me tros con el lote número 10 del mismo plano; por el SUR, en una distancia de 45.80 metros con el lote número 8 del mis mo plano; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 40.26 metros con camino público y por el OES TE, en una distancia de 35.50 metros con Anacleto Sosa. Consta inscrita al folio 1125 del tomo 91 de Carolina, finca
A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO Y CUYA IDENTIDAD SE DESCONOCE AL PRESENTE.
número 48869, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción II de Carolina. Propiedad localizada en: Lote 9, Km. 13.4 Carr. 853, Barrio Cedros, Caro lina, PR 00979. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o preferentes: Se gún figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posterio res a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Propiedad A: HI
POTECA constituida por Mario Rodríguez Colome y su esposa Hilda Mendoza Sánchez en garantía de pagaré a favor de Citibank, N.A. por la suma de $50,000.00, respondiendo esta finca por $24,500.00, con inte reses a razón de 2.250% sobre la tasa de interés preferencial, sin exceder el 20% anual, y vencimiento a la presentación.
Constituida por la Escritura 79 otorgada en San Juan el 19 de abril de 2007 ante el notario Leslye Llenera Reyes, e ins crita al folio 33 del tomo 1379 de Carolina Sur, finca 48868, inscripción 9ª. Propiedad B: HI POTECA constituida por Mario Rodríguez Colome y su espo sa Hilda Mendoza Sánchez en garantía de pagaré a favor de Citibank, N.A., o a su orden, por la suma de $50,000.00 respondiendo esta finca por $25,500.00 con intereses a ra zón de 2.250% sobre la tasa de interés preferencial, sin exceder el 20% anual, y venci miento a la presentación. Cons tituida mediante la escritura 79 otorgada en San Juan el 19 de abril de 2007 ante el notario Leslye Llerena Reyes, e ins crita al folio 32 del tomo 1379 de Carolina Sur, finca 48869, inscripción 13ª. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $216,800.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:00 DE LA TAR DE, y se establece como míni ma para dicha segunda subas ta la suma de $144,533.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo estable cido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudica ción en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma
de $108,400.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:00 DE LA TAR DE. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $178,345.12 de principal, intereses al tipo del 5.12500% anual según ajusta do desde el día 1ro. de diciem bre de 2015 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $21,680.00 por con cepto de honorarios de aboga do y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipo tecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hi poteca. La venta en pública su basta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afec te la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace sa ber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o perso nas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas la borables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el perió dico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos se manas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones, así como para su pu blicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2022. Héctor L. Peña Rodríguez, Alguacil De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Carolina, Sala Superior.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. FELICITA RAMÍREZ TORRES; SUCESION DE JULIÁN SERRANO CLAUDIO, COMPUESTA POR CARLOS SERRANO RAMÍREZ Y JULIÁN XAVIER SERRANO RAMÍREZ; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES HEREDEROS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm: CG2022CV02519.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EM PLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICA CIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tri bunal correspondiente y notifi que con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda.
Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incu rrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualida des vencidas correspondientes a los meses de diciembre de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora corres pondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascen dente a $29,860.93 de princi pal el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $27,737.78 y un balance diferi do por la suma de $2,123.15, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.25% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y su mas que surjan de la faz de la
obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, inclu yendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandan te presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: UR BANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villas de Castro situado en el Barrio Tomas de Castro del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número catorce (14) del Bloque “R” con un área de tres cientos cincuenta y dos punto treinta y nueve (352.39) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle trece (13), en trece punto diez (13.10) metros; por el Sur, con el solar número siete en trece punto diez metros (7) (13.10); por el Este, con el solar quince en veintiséis punto noventa (15) (26.90) metros; y por el Oeste, con el solar trece (13) en veintiséis punto noven ta (26.90) metros. Enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrita al fo lio ciento ochenta y seis (186) del tomo mil ciento dieciséis (1116) de Caguas, finca núme ro treinta y ocho mil doscientos nueve (38,209), Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas l. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Senten cia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de Julián Serrano Claudio se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edic to en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han acep tado la herencia del causante Julián Serrano Claudio y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Art. 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 82785. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Vionnette Espinosa Castillo, Secretaria Auxiliar.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LUNA COMMERCIAL II, LLC
Plaintiff Vs. JAIME RODRIGUEZ TORRES, NELIDA OTERO TORRES
A/K/A NELIDA OTERO AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP
Defendants Civil No.: 17-1005. (GAG). Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORT GAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. UNITED STATES OF AME RICA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMON WEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, SS.
To: JAIME RODRIGUEZ TORRES, NELIDA OTERO TORRES a/k/a NELIDA OTERO AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP
Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $149,053.30 in principal, accrued interest in the amount of $117,016.60 as of July 16, 2019 which continue to accrue until full payment at the rate of $37.22 per diem until full payment of the debt, pro perty tax charge in the amount of $105.58, and any additional disbursements made by plain tiff on behalf of defendants in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs and attorney’s fee; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Mas ter was ordered to sell at pu blic auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the hig hest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federico Dege tau Federal Building, Chardón Street, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Clerk, to be applied to the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following properties: PROPER TY A: URBANA: Solar número veintiséis (26) de la manzana doscientos trece (213) de la Urbanización Villa Carolina, Quinta Sección del Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, de trescien tos noventa y seis (396) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Princi pal Campo Rico, distancia de veinticuatro (24) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número veinticinco (25), distancia de veinticuatro (24) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número uno (1), distancia dieciséis punto cincuenta (16.50) metros, y; por el OESTE, con la calle quinien tos tres (503), distancia dieci séis punto cincuenta (16.50) metros. Enclava una casa de concreto para una familia. Ins crito al folio 36 del tomo 831 de Carolina, finca número 33406, Registro de la Propiedad Sec ción Segunda (II) de Carolina. Physical address: Lot 213-26, 503 St. & Campo Rico Ave., Carolina, Puerto Rico 00985.
Property “A” is subject to the following Senior liens: MORT GAGE: To secure a mortgage note in favor of the BEARER in the original principal amount of $15,000.00, with interest at the rate of 7 1/2% per annum, due on demand, constituted by deed #127, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 28, 1986, before Notary Public William A. Power, recorded at overleaf of page 41 overleaf of volume 831 of Carolina, proper ty number 33,406 of Carolina, 6th inscription. Property “A” is subject to the following Junior liens: MORTGAGE: To secu re a mortgage note in favor of WesternBank Puerto Rico, or to its order, for the principal amou nt of $20,000.00, interest at the rate of 11.99% per annum, due on demand, constituted in virtue of deed 406, executed in Carolina, Puerto Rico, on June 25, 2007, before Notary Public Juan Manuel Casanova Rivera, recorded at page 93 of volume 1344 of Carolina, pro perty number 33,406, 10th and last inscription. PROPERTY B: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Carolina, Quinta Sección, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe con el número Doscientos Tre ce (213) de la Manzana dos (2), con un área de Trescientos Veinticuatro puntos Cero Cero (324.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el Solar número uno (1) en una distancia de veinticuatro puntos cero cero (24.00); por el SUR, con el Solar número tres (3), en una distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) me tros; por el ESTE, con la calle número quinientos ocho (508), en una distancia de trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros; y, por el OESTE, con el Solar número veinticinco (25), en una distan cia de trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros. Contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrito al folio 36 del tomo 830 de Carolina, finca número 33,364, Registro de la Propiedad Sección Se gunda (II) de Carolina. Physical address: Lot 213-2, 508 St., Villa Carolina Development, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00985. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclo sed upon, including but not limi ted to any property tax liens (ex press, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibi lity for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acqui
red free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 2TH ,2022, AT THE 10:15 A.M. for “Property A” and 10:30 A.M. for “Proper ty B”. The minimum bid that will be accepted for “Property A” is the sum of $95,000.00. The minimum bid that will be accepted for “Property B” is the sum of $100,000.00. In the event said first public auc tion does not produce a bidder and the property(ies) is/are not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on the DECEMBER 9TH, 2022 AT 10:15 A.M. for “Property A” and 10:30 A.M. for “Property B”. The minimum bid that will be accepted for “Property A” is the sum of $63,333.33. The minimum bid that will be accep ted for “Property B” the sum of $66,666.67, which amounts to 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said se cond auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property(ies), a THIRD AUC TION will be held on the DE CEMBER 16TH, 2022 AT 10:15 A.M. for “Property A” and 10:30 A.M. for “Property B”. The mini mum bid that will be accepted for “Property A” is the sum of $47,500.00. The minimum bid that will be accepted for “Pro perty B” the sum of $50,000.00, which amounts to ½ of the mi nimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which, along with all documents rela ted to the instance case, can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico during regular busi ness hours. In San Juan, Puer to Rico, on October 21, 2022.
AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, SPE CIAL MASTER.
Demandado
Núm. deCaso: CG2021CV02592. EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de octubre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 21 de octubre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL INTERINA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ARMANDO IZQUIERDO ZIPPERLE, JACQUELINE MARIE IZQUIERDO ZIPPERLE, ARMANDO JUAN IZQUIERDO FONALLEDAS, PURITERE MORLEY IZQUIERDO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
A: MARIA VICTORIA ORTIZ BELFORT, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION MARIA TERESA BELFORT
RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MARIA
FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC Demandante V. SUCESION ARMANDO IZQUIERDO MELLAN T/C/C ARMANDO IZQUIERDO COMPUESTA POR ERNESTO
Y JULIÁN XAVIER SERRANO RAMÍREZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE JULIÁN SERRANO CLAUDIO.
Demandado(a)
Civil: GB2021CV00760. Sala:
201. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN
SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
T/C/C ARMANDO
IZQUIERDO. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de enero de 2019. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 21 de octubre de 2022. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional Ii. Diamar González Barreto, Secretaria Auxiliar.
GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO. NOMBRE COMER CIAL PARA REGISTRAR. AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA IN TERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo
la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Depar tamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro
Número de Expediente: 244090-99-1. Propietario: Transform SR de Puerto Rico LLC. Dirección: 3333 Beverly Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60179. Actividad Empresa rial: Home improvement and appliance services. Renuncia a elementos no registrables: NOTIFICACIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este registro de berá presentarse en el Depar tamento de Estado de Puerto Rico dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este aviso.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
Demandante Vs JORGE A. SOCCA Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01663. Sala: 0505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JORGE A. SOCCA.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 21 de octubre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. E. Diomarys Alcántara Félix, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V. CANDIDA ROSA RODRIGUEZ MELENDEZ, R-G MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE Demandadas Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05824. (906). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, S. S. A: CANDIDA ROSA RODRIGUEZ MELENDEZ COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARÉ a favor de R-G MORTGAGE CORPORATION, o a su orden, por la suma $100,530.00, con intereses al 7.50%, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2018, constituida mediante la escritura número 830, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de julio de 1993, ante el notario Armando J. Martínez Vilella, e inscrita al Sector #84 de Monacillos Este y el Cinco, finca número 1,289, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Quinta Sección de San Juan.
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 publica ción del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se repre sente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y no tificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. 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 fir ma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 21 de octubre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Margarita Muñiz Méndez, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JOAQUÍN QUIÑONES FERNÁNDEZ, T/C/C JOAQUÍN
POR MARÍA LASANTA IGNACIO NARTISA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV04802. Salón: 506. Sobre: EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE JOAQUÍN QUIÑONES FERNÁNDEZ, T/C/C JOAQUÍN QUIÑONES COMPUESTA POR MARÍA LASANTA IGNACIO NARTISA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.
Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULE
RO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte rés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en
autos el día 6 de julio de 2022. Los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría du rante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera su basta a celebrarse, se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no pro ducir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SU BASTA el día 14 DE DICIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epí grafe con fecha de 5 de octubre de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte de mandada de epígrafe en el in mueble que se describe a conti nuación: URBANA: Solar en el Barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras, termino municipal de San Juan, marcado con el nu mero cincuenta y siete guion R (57-R) de la Urbanización Ve nus Gardens, con una cabida de trescientos treinta y ocho punto cero cero (338.00) me tros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en veintiséis punto cero cero (26.00) metros, con el so lar número cincuenta y ocho (58) del propio bloque; por el Sur, en veintiséis punto cero cero (26.00) metros, con el so lar cincuenta y seis (56) del mismo bloque; por el Este, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la Avenida A; y por el Oeste, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la ca lle catorce (14). Enclava una casa. Finca número 17,063, inscrita al folio 120 del tomo 395 de Sabana Llana. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. Direc ción de la Propiedad: Calle Cu pido 729 Urb. Venus Gardens, San Juan PR 00926. La subas ta se llevará a cabo para satis facer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte deman dante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $$232,668.04 por concepto de principal, la cual incluye los in tereses acumulados al 28 de febrero de 2019, y los cuales continúan acumulándose, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados, y los cuales conti núan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del présta mo para costas, gastos y hono rarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que co rrespondan a intereses y car gos por demora posterior a di cha fecha, y la suma
equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, esti pulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deu da; más cualquiera suma de di nero por concepto de contribu ciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pac tadas en la escritura de hipote ca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 561 otorga da el día 11 de mayo de 2009, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Raul Rivera
Burgos y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 17,063, Registro de la Propiedad de Sabana Llana, Sección V de San Juan. Por la presente se notifica a los acree dores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a fa vor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su or den, por la suma principal de $375,000.00, con intereses al 4.25% anual, vencedero el día 21 de agosto de 2090, consti tuida mediante la escritura nú mero 562, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de mayo de 2009, ante el notario Raúl Rivera Burgos, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Lla na, finca número 17,063, ins cripción 15ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la pri mera subasta del inmueble an tes descrito será la suma de $250,000.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $166,666.66; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para
la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $125,000.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de
recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 24 de octubre de 2022. Edwin E. López Mulero, Alguacil Auxiliar, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De San Juan.
UNITED STATES FOR DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff Vs. JOSE ORLANDO RIVERA GARCIA, BRENDA EUNICE OCASIO GONZALEZ
AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED BETWEEN THEM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendants Case No.: 3:19-cv-02037. (ADC). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE (IN REM). NOTI CE OF SALE.
TO: JOSE ORLANDO RIVERA GARCIA, BRENDA EUNICE OCASIO GONZALEZ
AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED BETWEEN THEM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AA-42, CALLE MARGARITA SUR, URB. LEVITTOWN, TOA BAJA, PR 00949. THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On June 28, 2022, this Court entered Default Jud gment in favor of Plaintiff, aga inst Defendants. On September 9, 2022, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judg ment, stating that Defendant has failed to pay the sums of monies adjudged to be paid under the judgment. The In the Judgment, this Court stated that Defendant has defaulted on the repayment obligation to LIME HOMES, LTD, and ordered to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of $132,274,83, plus inter est 4.55200% per annum from January 1st, 2018, accrued late charges, all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $15,030.40, to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed by the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the par ties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Char dón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
WHERAEAS, Pursuant to the terms of the aforemen
JANE DOE COMO
tioned judgment and the or der of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendant will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 42 del bloque AA en la Urbanización Levittown, barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de 310.50 metros cua drados. En lindes: NORTE, en 23.00 metros con el solar 43; SUR, en 23.00 metros con el solar 41; ESTE, en 13.50 me tros con la Calle Margarita Sur (según plano Calle 409); OES TE, en 13.50 metros con los so lares 27 y 28. Sobre este solar enclava una casa de cemento y bloques para una familia. Pro perty Number 6686, recorded at page 151 of volume 101 of Toa Baja, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Baya món. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following lien: EMBARGO FEDERAL en con tra de José Rivera García e Ivette Collazo, con número de seguro social xx-4919 por la suma de $9,463.94. Número de notificación 234256216. Anota do el 3 de noviembre de 2016 al asiento 2016-009801-FED del Tomo de Embargos Federales de Karibe. EMBARGO FEDE
RAL en contra de José Rivera García, con número de seguro social xx-4919 por la suma de $33,871.43. Número de noti ficación 234256416. Anotado el 9 de noviembre de 2016 al asiento 2016-009802-FED del Tomo de Embargos Federales de Karibe. Senior Lien: None.
The above-described property is subject to the following junior lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage LLC, o a su orden, por la suma de $150,304.00 con intereses al 5.50% anual y vencimiento 1 de agosto de 2040. Constituida por la Escri tura 281 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de julio de 2010 ante el notario Heriberto Soto Mainar di, e inscrita al folio 204 del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, finca 6686, inscripción 13ª. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder ac cepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential lien to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibi lity for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acqui red free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the pur pose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $150,304.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the above-
described property be unsuc cessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $100,202.67. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the afo rementioned mortgage deed, or $75,152.00 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmo biliaria del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW
THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appoin ted Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will on the 9 OF DECEMBER OF 2022 AT 9:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United Sta tes District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardón Ave nue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set herei nabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on the 16 OF DECEMBER OF 2022 AT 9:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court located at the address indica ted above. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 23 OF DECEMBER OF 2022 AT 9:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court located at the address indicated above. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 26 day of September 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, APPOIN TED SPECIAL MASTER.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC.
Demandante V. THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.; JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES
501. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY; JOHN DOE
Y JANE DOE COMO
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2022.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. ALBERTO RAMÓN
El Alguacil del Tribunal que sus cribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Man damiento que me ha sido dirigi do por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor 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 Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmue ble que se describe a continua ción: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Colinas de Cupey, situado en los Barrios Cupey y Caimito del término municipal de San Juan (antes Río Piedras), Puerto Rico, que se describe con el número 70 del Bloque B, tiene un área de trescientos sesenta y cuatro metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, con la calle número cinco, distancia de ca torce metros; por el SUR, con terrenos de Ciudad Interameri cana, distancia de catorce me tros; por el ESTE, con el solar número setenta y uno, distancia de veinte y seis metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número sesenta y nueve, distancia de veinte y seis metros. Enclava una vivienda de concreto para una sola familia. Dirección Fí sica: Colinas de Cupey, B 70 Calle 5, San Juan, PR 00926. Finca 6,936, inscrita al folio 251 del tomo 208 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Quinta de San Juan. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso.
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02235. (508). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). EDIC TO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes poste riores. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguien tes gravámenes preferentes a la hipoteca que se ejecuta en la presente causa de acción: Hipoteca en garantía de un pa garé a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $6,500.00, con intereses al 8 ½% anual, vencedero a la pre sentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 72, otorga da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el
día 19 de junio de 1975, ante el notario Fred H. Martínez, e inscrita al folio 252 vuelto del tomo 209 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 6,936, inscripción 2da. NOTA: Esta hipoteca tiene nota de cancelada mediante Instancia de fecha 28 de mar zo de 2003, ante el notario Charles Candelaria Farrulla, bajo Affidavit número 7266 y a Orden de fecha 14 de octubre de 2002, dictada por el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KICD00-3452, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puer to Rico, Alberto Ramón Reyes Fransechi y su esposa Militza Ortiz Pérez, demandantes, versus Fulano de Tal, por ha berse declarada extinta la deu da, anotada el día 18 de sep tiembre de 2003, sin que esté firmada por el Registrador. E. Que la Propiedad se encuentra afecta los siguientes graváme nes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta en la presente causa de acción: Sentencia de fecha 16 de diciembre de 2003, dictada en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KCM02-0945 sobe Cobro de Dinero, seguido por la Asociación Recreativa Resi dentes Colinas de Cupey, Inc., versus Alberto Reyes Frances chi; Militza Ortiz Pérez, ambos por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Ganan ciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $902.31, más otras sumas, anotada al folio 56, Demanda 163, del libro de Sentencias 2. Sentencia de fecha 23 de septiembre de 2013, dictada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KCM2013-2153, sobre Cobro de Dinero, seguido por la Aso ciación Recreativa Residentes Colinas de Cupey, Inc., versus Alberto Ramón Reyes Frances chi; Militza Ortiz Pérez, ambos por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Ganan ciales compuesta entre ellos, por la suma de $4,181.25, más otras sumas, anotada el día 3 de diciembre de 2014, al folio 70, Demanda 207, del libro de Sentencias 3 de San Juan IV. F. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte de mandante el importe de la sen tencia que ha obtenido ascen dente la suma de $87,280.43 de principal, más los intereses al 5.5% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguros adeudados y los cuales conti nuarán en aumento hasta el to tal de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $14,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en vir tud de la escritura de hipoteca. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se ce lebrará el día 29 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del
Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia de San Juan, por el tipo mínimo de $140,000.00.
De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes menciona do. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $93,333.33. De decla rarse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mis mo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $70,000.00.
Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un pe riódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos con forme a la ley, expido la presen te bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 24 de octubre de 2022 en San Juan, Puerto Rico.
PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SE BASTIÁN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs SUCESION DE WANDA IVONNE VEGA DENDARIARENA, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS Y SU VIUDO JUAN AQUINO HERNANDEZ; JUAN AQUINO HERNANDEZ Demandados Civil Núm.: SS2019CV00512. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO ENMENDADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $265,482.97
intereses al 6.24% anual, des de el día 1ro de enero de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $30,000.00, es tipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipote cada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: RUSTICA: Sita en el BARRIO POZOS de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, com puesto de 3.00 cuerdas, igual a 11,791.20 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el Norte, con Da vid Rivera y Carretera No. 497; por el Sur, con faja verde que la separa del Río Sonador; por el Este, con remanente de la finca, o sea, Eustaquia Rivera; y por el Oeste, con Francisco Rivera y José Luis Irizarry. La hipoteca por $100,000.00 se encuentra inscrita al folio 175 vto del tomo 546 de San Se bastián, inscripción 11a, 14a y 17a; Hipoteca por $50,000.00 se encuentra inscrita al folio 176 del tomo 546 de San Se bastián, inscripción 13a; Hipo teca por $150,000.00 inscrita al folio 176vto. del tomo 546 de San Sebastián, inscripción 15a, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca núme ro 18317. POR LA PRESEN TE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alega ción responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamien to, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.rama judicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se in dica. Si usted deja de presen tar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550
San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387
E-mail: asurillo@lawpr.com Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, lnc., 164 D.P.R. 689,696 (2005) y a tenor con las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil· de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021), debe rá aceptar o repudiar la heren cia de la causante Wanda lvon
ne Vega Dendariarena, dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por acep tada. Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte deman dante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de octubre de 2022. Sarahí Re yes Pérez, Secretaria Regional. Nathalie I. Acevedo Quiñones, Sec Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala Superior de BAYAMON.
Demandante V. JOSE MIGUEL
PEÑA CARO
Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022RF01252 (4005). Sobre: DIVORCIO (Rl). NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que 19 de octubre de 2022 , este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de octubre de 2022. En BAYAMON , Puerto Rico, el 19 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. Fdo. GRENDA L VELEZ RODRI GUEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
T/C/C MILITZA ORTIZ DE REYES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
The Philadelphia Phillies served sharp notice in the World Series opener Friday that they are here for far more than purely ornamental reasons.
Houston, which entered as heavy fa vorites and previously had faced nothing it couldn’t handle this postseason, took note. Then the Astros came out in Game 2 looking like a team that had spent a long night contemplating how they let things get away in Game 1, and decid ed they were not going to let it happen again.
Working quickly, aggressively and decisively, the Astros plated three firstinning runs Saturday night, seemingly before the last notes of the national an them had been sung. Phillies starter Zack Wheeler had barely finished tying the laces in his cleats before Jose Altuve, Jer emy Peña and Yordan Alvarez knocked him off balance and the Astros were well on their way toward pocketing a 5-2, se ries-evening win.
Now, thanks to that and Framber Val dez’s dazzling 6 1/3 innings, the venue shifts back to Philadelphia for Game 3 on Monday evening with a very different tone.
“This team has a short memory on bad occurrences and bad games,” Hous ton manager Dusty Baker said. “You can’t bring yesterday into today or else it will continue.”
They didn’t, and it didn’t. The Astros became the first team in World Series history to start a game
with three consecutive extra base hits. In doing so, it appeared as if they sim ply couldn’t wait to erase the memory of the five-run lead they blew in their 6-5, 10-inning Game 1 loss.
Altuve, the team’s slumping leadoff man, ripped the first pitch of the game, a 96 mph sinker, into the left-field corner for a double.
Up stepped Peña, the team’s rookie shortstop, who laced the second pitch of the game, an 82 mph curveball, into left for another double.
Then came Alvarez, the team’s mighty designated hitter, whose plate appearance seemed to take forever by comparison. He fouled off Wheeler’s first pitch, a 96 mph fastball, and then ripped into the second pitch, a 92 mph slider, drilling it the same way Altuve and Peña did, into left for a third consecutive double.
“And I was pulling for a fourth, ac tually,” Baker said of the three doubles. “Try to score as many runs as you can. Because you know Wheeler is one of the tougher guys in baseball.”
So for those scoring at home, two pitches into the bottom of the first inning, the Astros led 1-0. Four pitches in, they led 2-0.
The Astros knew that Wheeler fea tures a hard cutter and a hard fastball, “so we really hit hard,” outfielder Chas McCormick said of his team’s approach. “We were not going to sit on soft stuff.”
Their third run of the first inning was produced by sheer aggressiveness. Alva rez tagged and advanced to third base on Kyle Tucker’s fly ball to center. The ball was shallow enough to make it a risky decision, but Phillies center fielder Matt Vierling’s throw was strong and wide and Alvarez was safe. It paid off enormously when the next batter, Yuli Gurriel, hit what should have been an inning-ending ground ball to shortstop. But Edmundo Sosa, Philadelphia’s normally sure-hand ed infielder, bounced the throw past Rhys Hoskins at first base and Alvarez crossed the plate, making it 3-0.
Within all of that, the headline news of the night for the Astros was their sec ond baseman’s breakout. Altuve, playing in his 88th postseason game, had been uncharacteristically quiet this month. He was 4 for 37 (.108) with no homers and just one extra-base hit (a double).
That Houston won each of its first seven postseason games despite silence from its leadoff hitter is a tribute to the powerful Astros. But they all know based on his past that it is only a matter of time until Altuve starts hitting, and when that happens, it makes life easier for all of them.
With a double and two singles in Game 2, Altuve only heightened his teammates’ anticipation.
“When you see Altuve with three
hits tonight, he might go completely off now,” McCormick said. “Not to put pres sure on him or anything, but it would be something else if he could go off.”
Third baseman Alex Bregman, who belted a two-run homer in the fifth in ning, tossed a vote of confidence in Al tuve’s direction as well.
“I feel like he’s the same guy every day,” Bregman said. “He comes to the park excited and ready to compete. He’s an unbelievable leader and gives us real confidence as a team.”
Clearly, Altuve was frustrated. When he lofted a high fly ball to center field in the ninth inning of Game 1 with two outs and the score tied 5-5, he slammed his bat into the ground and jogged most of the way to first base. When the ball fell cleanly into a sort-of Bermuda Triangle in the outfield for a single, it was apparent he could have made it to second base had he been running hard. Instead, he stole second and then one batter later, Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos made the play of the game on a Peña fly ball. It was a running and diving catch that set the Phillies up to win.
Altuve rarely shows frustration, but he did then, which Baker addressed be fore Game 2.
“I mean, he can’t be happy, but he’s happy we’re winning,” Baker said. “He might be the strongest dude in this build ing mentally. He’s probably had to be most of his life. So I just know that any minute now he’s one hit away from a hot streak.”
That hit came on the first pitch of Game 2, then came two more — includ ing one base hit on a swing at a pitch at eye level. That lightened the mood and Altuve was visibly laughing.
“His track record speaks for itself,” Baker said afterward. “I mean, he swung the bat great today. It was a good feeling to get him to lead off like he’s been do ing all year in the first inning. Boy, it was great to see.”
Altuve said that he has gone through phases during this extended October slump. Early, he hit more and studied more video. When that didn’t work, he said, he started hitting “less and less.”
“So I think that lately, the less I get on my mind, it’s going to be better,” Altuve said. “So just try to simplify everything.”
There are many things to like about J.T. Realmuto, the catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. He is a Gold Glove winner and perhaps the most pro ductive hitter at baseball’s most demand ing position. He hits for average and pow er, runs exceptionally well and has helped lead his team to the World Series.
John Middleton, who pays Realmuto more than $23 million per year, is happy to list a few more.
“He’s a good human being, a really positive presence in the locker room, works his tail off, leads by example, and he’s a guy who’s just loved,” said Middle ton, principal owner of the Phillies. “And his family’s an old wrestling family — probably the greatest wrestling family in the country. So, I have to like him.”
Middleton wrestled at Amherst Col lege before going into the family tobac co business, which he sold for nearly $3 billion in 2007. In Realmuto’s family, the business was — and is — wrestling. His mother, Margaret, is the oldest of 10 children, and her younger brother, John Smith, is among the most decorated U.S. wrestlers in history.
Smith, 57, is the only American to win six consecutive Olympic or world compe titions: gold medals at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics and four world cham pionships. Realmuto, 31, was just 1 year old when Smith triumphed in Barcelona in 1992, but his family’s example made a powerful impression; two other uncles, Lee Roy and Pat Smith, were NCAA Di vision I champions, as were two cousins, Mark and Chris Perry.
“Being so close to them, and seeing those guys at Thanksgiving and Christ mas and being around them all year long, watching them have that much success on a national stage, it just makes it kind of realistic for you as a child,” said Realmuto, who was born in Del City, Oklahoma, just like Uncle John. “And then, you set those goals and they’re not just dreams; you’re seeing somebody right in front of you ac tually reach those goals. It makes it a little more realistic for you.”
Invariably, the first attribute base ball people mention about Realmuto is his athleticism, which he showed off in Philadelphia’s National League Division Series against Atlanta when he hit the
first inside-the-park homer by a catcher in postseason history. He led the Phillies in stolen bases, with 21 in 22 tries, and continues to excel on defense despite be ing drafted as a shortstop by the Miami Marlins in 2010.
“I’m not familiar with baseball, other than Jake,” John Smith said of Realmuto, whose given name is Jacob Tyler, “but it’s just amazing that he never played this po sition. I guess they do that sometimes, but wow, I can’t imagine. If you’re a freestyle wrestler in the Olympics, and all of a sud den they tell you to go Greco, you’ve got no chance.”
Phillies manager Rob Thomson men tioned several high-profile catchers from his time as a New York Yankees coach:
Jorge Posada, Russell Martin, Ivan Rodri guez. Realmuto, he said, was probably more athletic than — and as physically talented as — any of them. He moves his feet well, Thomson said, and gets a quick release from a strong, accurate arm.
Realmuto was a three-sport star at Carl Albert High School in Midwest City, Oklahoma, winning two state titles in football (he was the quarterback) and baseball. In the winters, he played bas ketball but wrestled from age 4 through eighth grade — plus countless informal
matches with his many cousins.
“There’s certain skills that you devel op when you’re young, and you still have it, whether it’s strength in your legs and your hips,” Smith said. “Wrestling has a tendency of strengthening those hips and your legs and your torso, and I think, more importantly, you also develop a level of competitiveness that’s more important than all of it.”
Realmuto gave up wrestling because his friends played basketball, he said, and also so he could maintain his weight for football and baseball. But he said that his earlier wrestling experiences prepared him well for other sports.
“It’s probably the hardest sport to do, in my opinion, mentally as far as go ing through a wrestling season, cutting weight all year long, not getting to eat. It’s just hard on your body and hard on your mind,” Realmuto said. “Once you can get through a wrestling season, I feel like you can pretty much do anything in sports.”
Realmuto rose quickly through Miami’s farm sys tem and reached the ma jors in 2014. He broke out
as a star two years later, when he hit a career-high .303, but never experienced a winning season with the Marlins, who eventually traded him and other core players such as Giancarlo Stanton and Christian Yelich. Former catcher A.J. Ellis, a teammate in 2017, could tell that Real muto yearned to win.
“I had many fun conversations with him and Yelich, particularly those two, where they would just ask me so many questions about playing for the Dodgers, what it was like to play in the playoffs. You could just tell they were just so hun gry for an experience different than what they were getting at the time,” said Ellis, who played in three postseasons for the Dodgers. “I knew that at some point in their career — whether via trade or free agency — they wanted to experience Oc tober baseball. And that’s what happens when you kind of dedicate yourself to wards team goals and team experiences: A lot of the individual stuff gets taken care of.”
The Marlins traded Realmuto in Feb ruary 2019 for a three-player package headlined by the Phillies’ top prospect, pitcher Sixto Sánchez, who has missed the past two seasons with shoulder injuries. Middleton and Dave Dombrowski, the Phillies’ president of baseball operations, then risked losing Realmuto in free agency after the 2020 season, especially with the New York Mets lurking as a suitor.
Philadelphia’s fans, it is safe to say, would not have reacted well to their catcher signing with their most bitter rival.
Realmuto helped guide the Phillies through the National League playoffs, proving himself as an indispensable player who picked the right sport — and the right team.
“I can’t imagine this team without him,” Middleton said. “And I really don’t want to think about the Mets with him.”
By JARED BEASLEY
Makoshi is a gargantuan man who stands 5 feet tall.
You most likely know him. You may have taken a photo with him. For years, his photograph has hung from the rafters at the Javits Center convention hall, where exuberant New York City marathoners pick up their race packets.
The image of his 30th New York City Marathon finish, with his arms raised high in victory, is an enduring photo of the race.
For the Japanese community in New York City, he is more than that. He was a cultural fixture for 45 years. The 70-year-old Makoshi ran Nippon, the iconic midtown restau rant, where he was a paragon of manners; his way quiet, easy, unassuming.
Those who have run with him in Central Park saw an other side. They knew a fierce competitor with 328 New York Road Runner finishes, 35 New York City Marathons and five “runner of the year” awards. In 2010, he ran 31 races in one year alone. He made it look effortless.
What he sees in the photo at the Javits Center is a personal reminder that great things can come from humble beginnings.
Makoshi arrived in New York after being recruited to the restaurant business by chance, and he became one of the city’s most beloved restaurant hosts and runners because of his humility and tenacity.
In 1975, he was working at a hotel cafe in Tokyo when he served Nobuyoshi Kuraoka. Kuraoka, a restaurateur, rec ognized his nametag — Makoshi’s great-grandfather Kyohei Makoshi had been a member of the House of Representatives and the renowned president of Nippon Beer. He saw an op portunity. If this 22-year-old was anything like his great-grand father, a man whose business went on to hold a monopoly on the beer trade until World War II, Kuraoka wanted him to run his premier restaurant in New York.
Opened in 1963, Nippon is the oldest surviving Japanese restaurant in Manhattan. It has been called Japan’s unofficial ambassador, a frequent destination for dignitaries, celebrities, Japanese prime ministers and even the emperor. It was also the first in Manhattan to serve sushi and fugu, the highly poi sonous puffer fish.
Makoshi began working there in 1977. He couldn’t have found New York on a map, he admits, and he surely did not expect to fall in love with the city. Central Park changed all that. “Without it, everything would have been different,” he said.
His love for Central Park deepened a handful of years
after arriving in Manhattan when he watched runners of vari ous nationalities charging toward the New York City Marathon finish line. “If I can do that, I can do anything,” he recalled thinking.
He decided to start training. Unable to find shoes small enough to fit him, he ordered them online from Japan. He finished his first New York City Marathon in 1984 but looked nothing like his ebullient photo in the Javits. His head was down, anguished, defeated.
“I will never make this stupid mistake again,” he said to himself. He was disgusted. He was humiliated. He was done.
He signed up again the next year and has only missed one New York City Marathon since. (The race was canceled in 2012 because of Hurricane Sandy and in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.)
He got serious in his 50s. In 2005, at 53, he broke 3 hours for the first time on a flat course in New Jersey. The next year, he ran the Boston Marathon, finishing in 2:57.
He broke 3 hours that fall in New York, too, and along the way passed 35-year-old Lance Armstrong as the two charged up First Avenue. Having recently discovered Red Bull, Makoshi popped one, ran another 2:57 and beat Arm strong by 2 minutes.
It was a watershed moment for Makoshi. Here he was, an amateur running alone, beating one of the best athletes in the world who had been paced by running legends. “Noth ing is impossible in the marathon,” he said. “That’s what I love about this sport.”
It’s that attitude that kept Makoshi hopeful when dark days hit the restaurant. Kuraoka died in 2018, and the pan
demic shut down the restaurant in 2020. Many long-standing Japanese restaurants, including Riki and Kodama, closed for good. Nippon appeared to be next.
Not used to asking for help, Makoshi started a GoFund Me page called the “Never Give Up Fund.” If it had been anyone other than Makoshi, it might not have worked. He was able to raise $150,000, got a permit for outdoor seating and reserved the space with planters. “We didn’t know day to day if we would make it,” he said. “But runners don’t give up.”
By 2022, the restaurant was on its feet again, and Mako shi made the tough decision to move back to Japan, fulfilling a promise that if and when the time was right, he and his wife would go back so they could be with her family.
In November, he will return for his 36th New York City Marathon and see it from a new perspective — the way many of the 50,000 runners do — as a tourist.
He’ll fly in this time and come up the escalators at the Javits and see himself 10 feet tall. He’ll pose for pictures and stop by the old restaurant as a customer. He’ll open his wal let and offer to pay and see the pained photo of him finishing the marathon in 1984, a photo he has kept in his wallet for almost 30 years.
Then, on the morning of Nov. 6, the horn will blow and echo across the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge — and for a few fleeting hours, it will feel like nothing ever changed. He’ll drink in all five boroughs before turning right at 90th and into the Central Park.
Under the last bits of fall foliage, he’ll run by the reser voir and down Cat Hill. He’ll be home.
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Feel you are duty-bound to hold your tongue regarding a key issue? As feisty Mars rewinds, you may realise how much it’s costing you in terms of your sense of justice being done. Talking this over with those involved might be contentious and awkward, but can clear the air. You could also find that decluttering the office space and clearing paper piles brings a real sense of relief.
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