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OCIF orders liquidation of Nodus International Bank

tutes a summary emergency action that seeks to:

* Address an imminent danger to the security of the industry of international banking entities operating from Puerto Rico’s jurisdiction.

* Protect the public interest by guaranteeing full and strict compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to the licenses issued by the OCIF and the agreements reached by the OCIF with its regulated entities.

* Avoid causing or potentially causing irreparable damage to the interests of Nodus and the people and entities with funds or securities in the institution, as well as to the creditors of that entity.

By THE STAR STAFF

The Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions (OCIF by its Spanish acronym) on Tuesday issued an order to appoint a receiver and revoke the operating license of Nodus International Bank Inc. (Nodus).

The decision sought to protect Puerto Rico’s financial system and international banking center against irreparable harm, OCIF Commissioner Natalia Zequeira Díaz said in a prepared statement.

The OCIF said “it will not allow or tolerate financial entities holding licenses issued by the government to operate outside the law or ignore the clear mandates of the applicable statutes and regulations.”

Nodus is an international banking entity (EBI) organized with a license issued by the OCIF to operate under Law 52 of Aug. 11, 1989.

OCIF’s complaint and order appoint an independent liquidator to take possession and control of the assets and liabilities of Nodus to complete its liquidation and dissolution in an orderly manner, complying with the intent and letter of the current liquidation plan. To this end, among other things, the complaint and order has the effect of revoking Nodus’ EBI license and provides for Nodus to continue under the jurisdiction of OCIF as an EBI until OCIF is sufficiently sure that all matters necessary to culminate with the liquidation plan are completed.

According to the complaint and order, it consti-

Through the liquidation plan, Nodus agreed to cease operations and continue operating under its license for the sole and exclusive purpose of liquidating its assets for the benefit of its depositors. However, according to the complaint and order, Nodus has paid directors and shareholders remunerations inconsistent with the liquidation plan and has carried out transactions not authorized by the administrator with related persons representing conflicting interests that have placed Nodus in a dangerous position.

For all of those reasons, the complaint and order immediately appoints the administrator of the liquidation plan, the firm Driven Advisors PSC, to serve as trustee so that an independent third party takes control of the liquidation process.

According to the complaint and order, the receiver shall, among other things:

* Take possession of the assets and liabilities, books, records, documents, and files of Nodus, including assets and funds that are currently located abroad.

* Collect all loans, charges and fees owed to Nodus.

* Pay the obligations and debts of Nodus, after having made payment of the necessary expenses of the receivership.

* Supervise the dissolution and liquidation of the international banking entity.

Following the due process of law in these cases, the complaint and order grants Nodus until Oct. 13 to respond in writing and summons the banking entity to a hearing at the OCIF on Oct. 17.

Commissioner of Financial Institutions Natalia Zequeira Díaz

‘Letting things happen’

PDP accuses NPP of using public funds for political campaigns

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

The beginning of another election year is closer than it seems. This weekend

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia of the New Progressive Party (NPP) kicked off his reelection bid for 2024, and while the reception was positive and many attended the event, it was inevitably going to draw the attention of rival parties, the most obvious one of course being the Popular Democratic Party (PDP).

It is not uncommon for the PDP to denounce the NPP for things they consider unethical or impractical, but the timing for this one is quite ironic. According to the PDP, the government is taking advantage of public campaigns that are funded primarily by the commonwealth government to advertise NPP campaigns.

Government messages have been commonplace since modern government systems in the West have existed. However, PDP President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González, alongside mayors and other party members, announced Tuesday that they believe that since these campaigns are paid for with public funds, the government is illegally using public funds for political party campaigns. The reason for saying this, according to the PDP, is because the current administration is using a political phrase for government messages which should have nothing to do with political campaigns, as government messages are separate from political campaigns. The alleged illegality was denounced on Tuesday

via a press conference at PDP headquarters in San Juan.

“During the 2020 election the NPP presented a commercial showing governor Pedro Pierluisi and the resident commissioner, Jennifer González, where the governor uses the slogan: ‘Making things happen’” Ortiz González said. “Over the past few months, we have seen an entire publicity campaign in all sorts of media ]outlets and social media, in which the government uses the slogan. This is evidently a clear violation of Article 13 of the Political Campaign Financing Law, because this can be considered a political message, which is in turn covered by public funds.”

According to the PDP, the political slogan is being used by numerous agencies and used all over government announcements, including in the written press, TV commercials and billboards. Two of the agencies mentioned by the PDP president were the Administration for the Care and Integrated Development of Children and The Department of Transportation and Public Works. During the press conference a plethora of written press government announcements were shown where the slogan was positioned right alongside the Puerto Rico government logo.

“It’s not just the fact that they are tricking the island, it’s about crossing the thin line between political campaigns and being a civil servant,” Ortiz González said.

In short, the PDP believes that the current administration has been taking advantage of public funds to run a political campaign. If there is substance behind the accusation, then killing two birds with one stone might not have been the best choice for the NPP, especially after the powerful presence of

the NPP in the governor’s announcement to run again, as the opposing party has filed an application for both a complaint and an investigation against the governor and the administration’s communications office. The complaint is being sent to the Office of the Electoral Comptroller.

On top of this, the PDP is sending a letter to the Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico asking it to intervene in the disbursement of public funds used in the referenced campaigns. The party is also asking the administration to return all funds used for campaigns where the phrase “Making Things Happen” appeared, and via this complaint they are also asking all agency managers to stop the usage of the phrase in government announcements or agencies.

“What we are denouncing in this specific case is how a campaign slogan used in two different political campaigns, Pedro Pierluisi’s run for governor and Jenniffer González’s run for resident commissioner, two years later they integrate that phrase into a state government message, and how that message is also used in governor’s social media as of recently where he not only uses the slogan, but also places the NPP logo, which is the palm tree, right there,” said PDP Secretary General Gerardo “Toñito” Cruz. “There is no doubt. They are using public funds to speed up the governor’s political campaign.”

“The country is not dumb,” Ortiz González said. “If they think they’re going to trick people with their slogan, then they are gravely mistaken. The people know that instead of making things happen the government is LETTING things happen, letting things happen in education with plenty of schools in the south not being repaired, letting things happen in families, where there is a

low employment rate, … and the Office of the Women’s Advocate, with a great lack of resources to combat the increase in gender violence.”

Another problem cited by the PDP president was that the “constant presence of agency leaders at political events only sends a negative message to the people of the island,”

“The NPP has never learned that the government is one thing, and the political party is another,” Ortiz González said. “The constant presence of agency leaders at political events is something else we need to denounce at a later date. This government is not just for NPP followers, it’s for everyone, for independence party followers, PDP followers and anyone who has a political belief or doesn’t.”

Pierluisi said later on Tuesday that the complaint by the PDP leadership about the use of the phrase “Making Things Happen” is ridiculous.

“These people are desperate; how ridiculous they are,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “Making things happen comes from my own State Message. And my campaign motto was ‘Be Part of It.’ They didn’t even investigate my campaign motto, which was that we all be part of what I proposed, what we are doing. And making things happen, it is my own expression in the State Message that is being repeated by everyone in my administration and on the street.”

“This has nothing to do with my political campaign,” Pierluisi added. “In due course I will have announcements that have not even started and I will have another motto that will not be the same as the one they mentioned. So that complaint is ridiculous and it makes me feel sorry for them.”

Popular Democratic Party President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González (Photos by Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star)

Some of messages in print media that the Popular Democratic Party says are in violation of the island’s Political Campaign Financing Law.

Debt audit commission says latest PREPA debt deal is unsustainable

By THE STAR STAFF

After Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón proposed using surplus government funds to cancel the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) debt to avoid rate hikes, a report by the Citizen Commission for the Comprehensive Credit Audit analyzing the latest PREPA debt deal found that it is unsustainable for the economy.

The report, titled “New Payment Proposal to PREPA Bondholders: Unsustainable for the People of Puerto Rico,” notes that although the payments to bondholders will be less than in previous deals, they would still hurt businesses and consumers.

“The proposed increases over 35 years could hinder a recovery that manages to get the country out of more than 15 years of economic stagnation,” Citizen Commission President José Alameda said. “A small business that consumes 1500 kWh [kilowatt-hours] of energy would pay $35.39 monthly. A supermarket that consumes 110,000 kWh monthly would pay an additional $1,509 on its bill just to pay bondholders. The increases also make it difficult to rebuild the electrical system in Puerto Rico, which is already in a critical state.”

The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico presented its third amendment to the debt adjustment plan (PAD by its Spanish acronym) for PREPA in August of this year. The latest proposal seeks to reduce PREPA’s bond debt from $8.3 billion to $2.3 billion, representing a 72% reduction. However, the burden of the payments still falls directly on consumers through increases in their electricity bills.

According to the report, the people of Puerto Rico will be paying for the new bonds until 2059; that is, over the next 35 years, an extremely long time for an electrical system that is in such poor condition. The interest that will be paid on the bonds reaches just over 7%, a high rate that weakens PREPA’s finances. Although the new bonds are for around $2.3 billion, the island would actually pay more than double that, or $5.15 billion when adding in interest

payments. That number also does not include the possible costs for the CVIs, or the million-dollar payments in fees or commissions, so that the final price could be much higher, to the apparent detriment of the people of Puerto Rico, the Citizen Commission report noted.

“One of the big problems of this PAD is that through a scam, it makes invisible the real payment that the vulture funds would receive,” said Eva Prados Rodríguez, a spokesperson for the Citizen Commission. “The PAD stipulates, for example, that the central government will allocate $400 million to pay creditors for their legal fees and financial advice. It is also striking that the five vulture funds that support the PAD committed to purchasing around $1.6 billion of the new bonds to be issued. In exchange, these funds will collect 8.25% of the total of these bonds in commissions, which implies a payment of around $124 million, plus additional fees of approximately $74 million.”

José Rivera Santana, a planner and spokesperson for

Philippe to dominate weather for next few days, but no tropical storm winds expected

By THE STAR STAFF

According to the National Weather Service, Tropical Storm Philippe will dominate the weather pattern in Puerto Rico for the next few days into the weekend.

Although forecasters were not expecting tropical storm conditions, Philippe’s influence will still be felt

across the forecast area due to the presence of plenty of tropical moisture and, later in the week, its feeder bands extending toward the islands.

On Tuesday, forecasters expected the eastern twothirds of the forecast area to have elevated flood risk.

Tropical storm winds stirred the waters just to the east of Vieques early Tuesday and were expected to be to the north and clear of the Caribbean on Tuesday evening.

the Citizen Commission, said “our analysis is that a central government payment of $670 million in cash for fees and commissions to bondholders, in addition to new bond issues, is a diversion of funds necessary to avoid pension cuts, address the retiree crisis and urgently rehabilitate the electrical system itself.”

“PREPA pensioners are particularly affected by this PAD, as it does not articulate a clear funding source for pensions, raising concerns about pension payments and future increases to the bill,” he said. “Before the central government uses resources from the General Fund to pay bondholders of unsecured debt, it must urgently address the Retirement System crisis to avoid new increases.”

“The report concludes that the third amendment to PREPA’s PAD is unsustainable in the long term, as it continues to put the ]payment of debt to bondholders above the payment of pensions, the reconstruction of our deteriorated electrical system, and economic development of the country, which is why Puerto Rico must oppose this plan, ensuring a better future for its people,” Rivera Santana said.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, criticism continued of González Colón’s proposal to use government funds to cancel PREPA’s debt. The resident commissioner and gubernatorial hopeful said the island Treasury’s coffers have $8 billion in surpluses that could be used to pay the $2.6 billion owed to PREPA.

John Mudd, a bankruptcy lawyer, said on social media that once the PAD is confirmed, it cannot be changed.

“The new bonds have acceleration clauses that ban the early payment of a debt,” he said.

He said the PAD is expected to be confirmed by the federal Title III bankruptcy court next year, long before the November election.

Former oversight board member Justin Peterson wrote on social media that “@JGO_2024 @Jenniffer has always been somebody who will say anything, take any position to win an election.”

“Not a leader, and not taken seriously in Washington either,” he posted. “By the way, $2.5 bln won’t achieve a consensual deal that ends bankruptcy at @AEEONLINE either.”

José Alameda, president of the Citizen Commission for the Comprehensive Credit Audit

Physicians & Surgeons Association to ask PR Supreme Court to reconsider ruling

By THE STAR STAFF

Physicians and Surgeons Association of Puerto Rico (CMCPR by its Spanish initials) President Dr. Carlos Díaz Vélez announced Tuesday that he will request a reconsideration before the Puerto Rico Supreme Court after it determined that making membership in the association compulsory for doctors on the island is unconstitutional.

“Convinced that the requirement of compulsory membership that is required as a condition to practice the profession of medicine, is a measure of social protection that can coexist in our legal system with the constitutional right to free association and that both rights are not canceled, but complement each other, we will ask the Supreme Court for a reconsideration,” Díaz Vélez said at a press conference.

“The Association is not satisfied with the decision announced yesterday, Oct. 2, 2023, so it will request reconsideration before the Supreme Court itself,” he added. “The majority opinion does not take into account the deplorable state of the public entities that supervise the functioning of the health system.”

“A licensing board, far from being redundant, is a complementary and supportive function of the maintenance of the health system performed by the CMCPR, and is a fundamental one, which is increasingly evident not only in natural disaster scenarios, but in essential aspects such as continuing education, the medical foundation and research, educational and social protection functions, that has no parallel in any other professional association of those that exist in Puerto Rico,” Díaz Vélez said.

“Health is a supreme value and a right of each person and has a social dimension that far exceeds the ultra-individualistic visions that seek to place medicine and its practice, and its

professional organization, as an appendix element of a complex ecosystem that is under siege from the market,” he continued.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the requirement of compulsory membership in the Physicians & Surgeons Association to practice medicine on the island is unconstitutional.

“The statutory requirement of compulsory membership to legitimately practice medicine in Puerto Rico is unconstitutional,” Associate Justice Rafael Martínez Torres wrote in his opinion.

In a concurring opinion, Associate Justice Edgardo Rivera García wrote that “[t]he absence of compulsory membership does not affect in any way the structuring of the regulatory model

in medicine. Demanding this requirement, which unnecessarily undermines the right not to associate without complying with the requirements for it, represents an impermissible outcome in our constitutional order.”

The controversy originated when Dr. Héctor Luis Delucca Jiménez filed a lawsuit against the Physicians & Surgeons Association and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Delucca Jiménez argued that compulsory membership infringed on his right to freedom of association and expression.

In contrast, Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez expressed in her dissenting opinion that voluntary membership is not effective. She argued that although the Medical Licensing and Disciplinary Board has the power in law to regulate the profession, it needs the association and compulsory membership to do so properly.

“In summary, I have evaluated the constitutionality of the requirement of compulsory membership of the Association in the light of strict scrutiny, taking into consideration the two pressing interests of the State. First, despite sharing duties and powers related to the regulation of the profession with the Board, the reality is that the Board cannot regulate the profession on its own in an effective and viable manner. Although in theory it is empowered by law to regulate the profession, it does not constitute the least onerous, effective and viable measure, and it needs the Association and compulsory membership to fulfill its duties,” Oronoz Rodríguez wrote. “Second, the Association has multiple duties and powers aimed at fulfilling the compelling interest of safeguarding public health that it does not share with the Board. In addition, I stressed that an attempt has already been made to allow voluntary membership in the surgeons profession, but this had a detrimental effect on the ability of the Association to discharge its responsibilities.”

PDP mayors in DC to address rise in construction costs, slow pace of CDBG-DR project approvals

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Mayors Association President

Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, along with Guayama Mayor O’brain Vázquez and Naguabo Mayor Miraidaliz Rosario Pagán traveled to Washington, D.C. this week for a meeting with Justo Robles, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) director of intergovernmental affairs, in order to generate solutions to increasing construction costs and the slow pace of approval of projects financed with federal Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds.

“It is important to review inflation in the fixed cost estimates required by FEMA for the permanent reconstruction works from Hurricane Maria, which is why the Mayors Association presented complete information on the projects that are affected in each municipality by the increase in the costs

of construction materials and equipment,” Hernández Ortiz said.

Among the most important things that happened in the meeting with the FEMA official, the mayors said, was that the agency committed itself to evaluating the fixed costs and taking into consideration the recommendations of the Mayors Association in achieving a uniform review of the projects to facilitate getting the projects up and running.

It is a cause of concern for the mayors as well as for the developers because of the time that the reconstruction work has taken. Costs have increased between 20% and 40% meanwhile, causing particular challenges.

“We have held meetings with the Builders Association and its president, architect Vanessa de Mari, and they share the same concern about the high costs if they delay the construction of new projects because no one assigns prices for more than 30 days and the materials are then

delayed,” Hernández Ortiz said. “Ultimately, this is a domino problem that affects us all.”

The Mayors Association will continue to

follow up with FEMA to achieve viable results after the conversations that are taking place in the U.S. capital.

Carlos Díaz Vélez, center, president of the Physicians & Surgeons Association of Puerto Rico (Photo by Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star)

Puerto Rico Mayors Association President Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, center, led a delegation of Popular Democratic Party mayors to Washington, D.C. this week to generate solutions to increasing construction costs and the slow pace of approval of projects financed with federal Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funds.

House ousts McCarthy from speakership

Here’s what else to know:

— McCarthy’s critics took to the floor to savage him for what they characterized as a failure to wring steeper spending cuts out of the Biden administration and a lack of leadership. “Chaos is Speaker McCarthy,” Gaetz declared. “Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word.”

— In the days leading up to the vote, Democrats had wrestled with whether to help McCarthy survive, or at least to stay out of the effort to oust him. But in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday morning, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, instructed fellow Democrats not to do so, citing Republicans’ “unwillingness to break from MAGA extremism.” Democrats were not participating in the floor debate over whether to oust the speaker.

— There is no clear replacement for McCarthy. “I think there’s plenty of people who can step up and do the job,” said Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee, one of the rebels who voted to push McCarthy out, adding that he did not know who he had in mind for the job instead.

— The proceedings that played out Tuesday have taken place only once before in the House of Representatives, in 1910. Back then, progressive Republicans tried to remove then-Speaker Joseph Cannon, a conservative known as “Uncle Joe,” for refusing to bring their priorities to the floor for a vote. He survived that vote, but was weakened as a result.

By CATIE EDMONDSON

The House on Tuesday voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, a move without precedent in modern history that left the chamber without a leader and plunged it into chaos.

Democrats joined with a small group of hard-liners in McCarthy’s own party to strip the California Republican of the speaker’s gavel in a 216-210 vote. It was the culmination of a bitter power struggle between McCarthy and members

of a far-right faction who tried to block his ascent to the speakership in January and have tormented him ever since, trying to stymie his efforts to keep the government funded and the nation from defaulting on its debt.

Before the vote, a surreal Republican-against-Republican debate played out on the House floor as members of the hard-right clutch of rebels railed against their own speaker and verbally sparred with McCarthy’s defenders. Democrats sat silently.

A tense scene played out on the floor as lawmakers voted to oust the speaker the same way they vote to elect one: by sitting on the House floor and rising one by one in an alphabetical roll-call by conducted by the clerk.

A vacancy in the speaker’s chair essentially paralyzes the House until a successor is chosen, according to multiple procedural experts. That promises to tee up another potentially messy speaker election at a time when Congress has just over 40 days to avert another potential government shutdown.

In the hours before the vote, McCarthy, an inveterate optimist who prides himself on never giving up, was characteristically sanguine, saying he was confident about his ability to survive and defending his decision to work with Democrats to avert a government shutdown, which precipitated the bid to remove him.

“If you throw a speaker out that has 99% of their conference, that kept government open and paid the troops, I think we’re in a really bad place for how we’re going to run Congress,” he said Tuesday morning. In a closed-door meeting underneath the Capitol, he told Republicans he had no regrets about his speakership, and was interrupted several times by raucous standing ovations.

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), surrounded by reporters, walks to the House floor at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 2, 2023.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to reporters after a Republican conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday morning, Oct. 3, 2023.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) exits the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. The House on Tuesday voted to oust McCarthy from the speakership, a move without precedent in modern history that left the chamber without a leader and plunged it into chaos.

Trial in Menéndez corruption case is scheduled for next May

if Menendez runs for reelection, of voters going to the polls while he is on trial, without knowing what verdict, if any, the jury might return.

In court Monday, a prosecutor said the government expected the trial to last four to six weeks, assuming all five defendants were still part of the case.

Menendez, who has stepped down as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had been preparing to run for reelection but has not indicated whether, in the face of bribery charges, he still intended to seek a fourth full term. If he were to pursue his party’s nomination, he would almost certainly face a crowded field of opponents.

Menendez, 69, has called the claims against him false and said he will be cleared of any wrongdoing. He has also rejected pressure from many fellow Democrats who are urging him to resign from the Senate.

born in Egypt, and Nadine Menendez “worked to introduce Egyptian intelligence and military officials to Menendez for the purpose of establishing and solidifying a corrupt agreement,” the indictment said.

Bob Menendez, his wife, Hana and the two others — Fred Daibes, a real estate developer, and Jose Uribe, who works in the trucking industry — have all pleaded not guilty.

On Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Monteleoni, told Stein that the amount of documents and other materials the government will be producing to the defense is “quite voluminous.”

“Our investigation was lengthy and extensive, and it’s ongoing,” Monteleoni said.

By BENJAMIN WEISER

Afederal judge in Manhattan on Monday said Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who faces charges of wide-ranging corruption, will stand trial May 6 next year, along with his wife and three businesspeople who were indicted with him.

The date would place the trial just one month before the June 4 New Jersey state primary and raises the specter,

Judge Sidney Stein of U.S. District Court, made it clear Monday that he wanted the government and the defense to prepare their cases expeditiously in order “to effectuate the defendants’ speedy trial rights.”

Menendez, his wife, Nadine Menendez, 56, and the three businesspeople were accused in what prosecutors described as a scheme to use the senator’s influence to increase U.S. aid and military sales to Egypt in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars, bars of gold bullion and a Mercedes-Benz convertible.

One of the businesspeople, Wael Hana, a U.S. citizen

He also noted that the government may file a superseding or revised indictment but said such action would not materially affect the trial schedule. Prosecutors often file such indictments when they want to add new defendants or charges in a case — but Monteleoni did not elaborate on what such a new indictment might include in Menendez’s case.

Bob Menendez was not in court Monday. His lawyer, Seth Farber, wrote to the judge last week, noting that “because of the need for Senator Menendez to be present in Washington, D.C., on Monday for potential Senate votes and other Senate business, there is particular justification for excusing his personal appearance.”

Stein granted the senator’s request but denied similar requests by Nadine Menendez and Hana.

Illinois governor tells Biden migrant influx is ‘untenable’

By MITCH SMITH

J.B. Pritzker, the influential Democratic governor of Illinois, called out President Joe Biden earlier this week for a federal response to the migrant crisis that he said was suffering from “red tape,” disorganization and a lack of funding.

“Unfortunately, the welcome and aid Illinois has been providing to these asylum seekers has not been matched with support by the federal government,” Pritzker said in a three-page letter to the president that described how his state’s largest city, Chicago, had been overwhelmed as more than 15,000 migrants arrived in Illinois over 13 months.

“Most critically,” added the governor, whose state will host the Democratic National Convention next summer, “the federal government’s lack of intervention and coordination at the border has created an untenable situation for Illinois.”

The letter from Pritzker, usually a staunch ally of the president, reflected the fast-growing impatience of state and local Democrats who are scrambling to keep up with the busloads of migrants arriving in places like Chicago and New York City.

White House officials said Monday that top aides to Biden spoke with Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson about the migrant situation over the weekend, and that more than $46 million in federal grants had been sent to help the city and state this fiscal year.

In a statement, Angelo Fernández Hernández, a White

House spokesperson, emphasized the administration’s efforts to contact migrants eligible to apply for work authorization and to speed permit processing for those who apply.

“Meanwhile, House Republicans continue to block the reform the immigration system needs,” Fernández Hernández said, adding that “we will continue to work closely with Illinois and states and cities across the country.”

In the places absorbing the largest numbers of migrants, local officials have struggled to keep up. After crossing the southern border, thousands have made their way to Democratled Northern cities with a push from officials in Texas, including Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican. But those buses account for only a fraction of the arrivals, with others arranging travel on their own or through nongovernmental organizations.

In Chicago, where new arrivals, many from Venezuela, have filled police station lobbies and park buildings, city leaders reached a $29.3 million contract last month that calls for housing migrants in winterized tents. In Denver, officials activated an emergency operations center last week to respond to the growing number of arrivals.

The influx has been most acute in New York, where Gov. Kathy Hochul said in August that “this crisis originated with the federal government, and it must be resolved through the federal government.” Mayor Eric Adams added to the criticism last month by warning that the arrival of more than 110,000 migrants “will destroy New York City.”

When the first busloads of migrants headed north, Democratic officials focused their critiques on border-state Republicans. But in recent months, there has been a growing chorus of Democratic discontent with Biden’s administration in large, liberal cities that usually represent friendly venues for the president.

Though Democrats in New York and Illinois cheered last month when Biden agreed to speed up temporary work authorization for Venezuelans who arrived before the end of July, Pritzker called Monday for federal officials to waive application fees for that authorization and to quicken the review of applications.

“We ask that the White House and the administration continue to look for ways to ‘cut the red tape’ and speed up the work authorization process by all means necessary, including instituting a mass blanket fee waiver,” wrote Pritzker, whom some Democrats have eyed as a potential future president.

The governor listed a number of other grievances with the federal response — a lack of data collection, a muddled chain of command, insufficient funding — and complained that some of his state’s requests “have been largely ignored.” Pritzker also asked Washington to coordinate busing efforts, saying “the federal government must stop abdicating responsibility.”

“There is much more,” the governor said, “that can and must be done on a federal level to address a national humanitarian crisis that is currently being shouldered by state and local governments without support.”

Wael Hana, a co-defendant of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, arrives at Federal District Court in New York on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023.

Trump’s fraud trial starts with attacks on attorney general and judge

By BEN PROTESS, JONAH E. BROMWICH and KATE CHRISTOBEK

The trials of Donald Trump began earlier this week in a New York courtroom, where the former president arrived to fight the first of several government actions — a civil fraud case that imperils his company and threatens his image as a master of the business world.

The trial’s opening day brought Trump face-to-face with one of his longest-running antagonists: New York Attorney General Letitia James, who filed the case against him, his adult sons and their family business. If her office proves its case, the judge overseeing the trial could impose an array of punishments on Trump, including a $250 million penalty.

Outside the courtroom, Trump fired a fusillade of personal attacks at James and the judge, Arthur Engoron. He called the judge “rogue” and James “a terrible person,” even suggesting that they were criminals.

Inside, Trump sat in uncomfortable silence as James’ lawyers methodically laid out their case. The attorney general’s office accused the former president of inflating his riches by more than $2 billion to obtain favorable deals with banks and bragging rights about his wealth.

“Year after year, loan after loan, defendants misrepresented Mr. Trump’s net worth,” Kevin Wallace, a lawyer for James, said during opening statements. Exaggerating for a television audience or Forbes Magazine’s list of the richest people is one thing, he said, but “you cannot do it while conducting business in the state of New York.”

Wallace cast doubt on the value of some of Trump’s signature properties, including Trump Tower in Manhattan, laying the groundwork for a reckoning of the former president’s net worth.

The trial, expected to last more than a month and to include testimony from Trump, coincides with the former president’s latest White House run. After James’ civil case ends, Trump will face four criminal trials that touch on a range of subjects: hush-money payments to a porn star, the handling of classified documents and his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.

James’ case, which will be decided by the judge rather than a jury, has struck a nerve with the former president. Her claims portray him as a cheat rather than a captain

of industry and undercut an image he constructed while he catapulted from real estate to reality television fame and ultimately the White House.

For now, though, government scrutiny has only bolstered Trump’s political fortunes. He is polling far ahead of his Republican rivals and has used the cases against him to make fundraising appeals, casting himself as a martyr under attack from Democrats including James and Engoron.

The trial will enable Trump to bring the campaign to the courthouse steps, where he can deliver impassioned defenses and pointed attacks while his lawyers inside the courtroom grapple with accounting and financial arcana.

On Monday, Trump sat at the defense table, arms crossed and scowling, while occasionally rolling his eyes at the judge and yawning during the duller portions of the proceeding. But he came out swinging on his way into the courtroom, telling reporters that James was out to get him because he is performing so well in the polls.

“You ought to go after this attorney general,” he said, without specifying who or how. He said that Engoron should “be disbarred” and that the case against him was “a witch hunt, it’s a disgrace.”

One of Trump’s lawyers, Alina Habba, echoed some of his harshest claims during her opening statement, saying that James ran for her office to “get Trump.”

She argued, as Trump nodded along, that his company was simply “doing business” and that “there was no intent to defraud, period, the end.” She spoke as if she were addressing a jury, or a television camera, rather than Engoron.

Her statement, which she said he had not planned, altered the tenor of what had begun as a dry proceeding. It prompted squabbles between the defense team and the judge.

The substance of Trump’s defense is that his annual financial statements were merely estimates, and that valuing real estate is more art than science. The banks to which Trump submitted his statements, his lawyers argued, were hardly victims: They made money from their dealings with Trump and did not rely on his estimates.

“There was no nefarious intent,” said Trump’s lead lawyer, Christopher Kise. Any difference in valuation “simply reflects the change in a complex, sophisticated real estate development corporation.”

“Banks and insurers know that the statements are estimates,” he added. “They

are not designed to be absolutes.”

Trump is starting the trial at a significant disadvantage. Engoron ruled last week that the former president had persistently committed fraud, deciding that no trial was needed to determine the claim at the core of James’ lawsuit.

As an initial punishment, Engoron revoked Trump’s licenses to operate his New York properties, a move that could crush much of the business known as the Trump Organization.

At trial, James is seeking more from Engoron, asking that he impose the $250 million penalty and that the former president be permanently barred from running a business in New York. The trial will determine what penalty Trump must pay and whether he will be banished from the world of New York real estate that made him famous.

James’ witness list includes Trump supporters and critics alike: Trump and his sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., are on the list, as is Michael Cohen, his former fixer turned nemesis. During Wallace’s opening statement Monday morning he played a video of Cohen saying that it was his job to reverse engineer the value of each of the company’s assets to arrive at Trump’s preferred net worth.

In the afternoon, Trump’s former accountant, Donald Bender, testified that it was the Trump Organization’s responsibility to ensure that the financial statements were in line with generally accepted accounting principles — and that they sometimes did not follow those principles.

Wallace, in his opening statement, cited inflated values of three key Trump properties in New York: the triplex apartment in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue; 40 Wall St. in the heart of the financial district; and his Seven Springs estate in Westchester County.

According to Wallace, Trump based the value of the triplex on its size, saying it was 30,000 square feet. In reality, the apartment was about 11,000 square feet.

“For years, Donald Trump falsely inflated his net worth to enrich himself and cheat the system,” James said in a statement Monday, adding, “No matter how rich or powerful you are, there are not two sets of laws for people in this country.”

As he left the courtroom Monday afternoon, Trump passed James in the front row. He glared at her. Soon after, his son Eric walked by and shook her hand.

A protester outside Trump Tower ahead of former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in Manhattan, Oct. 2, 2023. The former president is accused in a civil lawsuit of inflating his net worth to win favorable terms on loans. He has said he is being persecuted.

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A deal between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of entertainment companies, would allow the American film and television business to swing back into motion. Hollywood’s creative assembly lines have been at a near-standstill since May, when screenwriters went on strike. The actors joined them on picket lines in mid-July.

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The Writers Guild of America, which represents 11,500 screenwriters, reached a tentative agreement with studios last week. Although the Writers Guild and studio alliance remained at odds for most of the summer, they reached a deal in three days of marathon negotiations, leading many people in Hollywood to hope that restarted talks with SAG-AFTRA would proceed apace.

The financial damage done to the entertainment industry and the many businesses that depend on it has been significant. The toll on the economy of California alone exceeds $5 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom has said.

As with the final Writers Guild talks, several top Hollywood executives participated directly in the Monday session with SAG-AFTRA. Attending were Ted Sarandos, co-chair of Netflix; David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery; Donna Langley, chair of the NBCUniversal Studio Group; and Disney CEO Bob Iger. The executives are expected to re-

Streaming remains the biggest sticking point for actors in the SAG-AFTRA union, which set up a picket line outside Fox Studios last week.

S&P 500 Ends at Lowest Since June 1 as Data Fuels Rate Worries

Wall Street closed lower on Tuesday after evidence of a cooling economy exacerbated worries that the Federal Reserve’s campaign to rein in decades-high inflation may cause a deep downturn.

All three major indexes fell as data showed U.S. job openings in February dropped to the lowest level in nearly two years, suggesting that the labor market was cooling, while factory orders fell for a second straight month.

Data on Monday had also pointed to weakening U.S. manufacturing activity.

“The number of job openings has decreased, which makes people worry that hiring is going too slow, and that will be bad for the economy. That feeds into recessionary fears,” said Sal Bruno, Chief Investment Officer at IndexIQ in New York.

Bank stocks took a hit after JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jaime Dimon warned in a letter to shareholders that the U.S. banking crisis is ongoing and that its impact will be felt for years.

Bank of America and Wells Fargo & Co dropped more than 2%, and the S&P 500 banks index fell 1.9%.

Of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes, seven declined, led lower by industrials, down 2.25%, followed by a 1.72% loss in energy.

The S&P 500 declined 0.58% to end the session at 4,100.68 points, closing lower for the first time in a week.

The Nasdaq declined 0.52% to 12,126.33 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.59% to 33,403.04 points.

Caterpillar Inc, viewed as bellwether for the industrial sector, fell 5.4%.

Heavyweight chipmaker Nvidia lost 1.8%, weighing more than any other stock on the S&P 500’s decline. Healthcare and utilities, which many investors expect to hold up better during an economic slowdown, were among the few S&P 500 sector indexes gaining on Tuesday.

Trading in interest rate futures shows bets are now tilted toward a pause by the Fed in May, with odds of a 25-basis point rate hike at 42%, compared with nearly 60% before the data, according to CME Group’s Fedwatch tool.

So far in 2023, the S&P 500 has gained nearly 7% and it remains down about 15% from its record high close in January 2022.

Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc slumped 23.2% after the satellite launch company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on failing to secure long-term funding.

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc shares tumbled 23.5% after the movie theater chain said it agreed to settle litigation and proceed with converting its preferred stock into common shares.

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delayed the filing of its annual financial report.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was relatively light, with 10.3 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 12.8 billion shares over the previous 20 sessions.

Across the U.S. stock market, declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by a 2.2-to-one ratio.

The S&P 500 posted 14 new highs and one new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 64 new highs and 238 new lows.

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

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

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

UN approves Kenya-led security mission to help Haiti stamp out gangs

By FRANCES ROBLES and FARNAZ FASSIHI

The U.N. Security Council earlier this week approved a yearlong multinational security mission for Haiti, led by Kenya, aimed at cracking down on rampant gang violence that has unraveled life for many on the Caribbean nation.

The 15-member council voted to authorize a mission that would guard critical infrastructure such as airports, ports, schools, hospitals and key traffic intersections, and carry out “targeted operations” along with the Haitian National Police. Kenya has pledged at least 1,000 security personnel, and several other nations are expected to offer other resources.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Haiti from October last year until June, as gangs took over large patches of the country, particularly Port-au-Prince, the capital, according to the U.N. Many neighborhoods have cleared out as people have fled widespread murders, kidnappings and extortion.

Gangs aligned with political parties have strengthened their grip on the country since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. No municipal, legislative or parliamentary elections have been held in years, creating a power vacuum. One goal of the Kenyan-led mission is to create the conditions for a safe election.

The council voted 13 in favor of the resolution, with Russia and China abstaining.

Haiti’s foreign minister, Jean Victor Généus, called the resolution a “glimmer of hope” for people who have been suffering too long. “This is more than a simple vote,” he said. “This is, in fact, an expression of solidarity with a population in distress.”

The resolution’s passing signified an increasingly rare moment when the council was able to act. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, divisions among the body’s five permanent members, each with veto power, have impeded the council from passing resolutions and taking actions.

Russia and China’s abstentions suggested that neither country endorsed the resolution but they were not going to block it. Diplomats said that negotiations had been tense with the two countries for several weeks, with the text being rewritten multiple times, but that, ultimately, a consensus was reached.

Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, said that although Russia did not have any objections “in principle,” the resolution was “rushed” and “shortsighted.”

The idea for the Security Council to authorize deploying a multinational force to Haiti was proposed by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in the aftermath of the breakdown of law and order in the country and gangs’ taking over ports and fuel depots, U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said Monday.

Unlike a U.N. peacekeeping mission, where the bluehelmeted forces are under the control of the U.N. Depart-

ment of Peace Operations, the multinational force in Haiti will be overseen by Kenya, although its forces are there with U.N. authorization, which gives the intervention the backing of international law.

It is unusual for the Security Council to authorize multinational or third-country forces to enter a conflict. In 2007, the council authorized forces from the African Union to enter Somalia to help combat extremist terrorist groups.

As a technical matter, Kenya did not require the U.N. vote but had said it would not proceed without international backing.

“We have stepped up to create a new way for preserving global peace and security, answering the repeated calls of a member state facing a multidimensional crisis amid alarming spiraling gang violence,” said Jeffrey DeLaurentis, a former U.S. ambassador who serves as the United States’ senior adviser for Security Council affairs.

The Biden administration has pledged $100 million to the mission and another $100 million from the Defense Department in the form of intelligence, airlifts, communications and medical assistance.

About a dozen countries said they would join the mission, including Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda.

Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, had urged the international community to take action a year ago. But human rights advocates who consider Henry’s appointment illegitimate criticized the move to authorize an outside force as yet another measure by the international community to prop up a corrupt and unelected government.

“Historically, interventions haven’t made things better, and historically made things worse,” said Alexandra Filippova, a senior staff attorney at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, a legal advocacy group.

Two leading Haitian American groups, the National Haitian American Elected Officials Network and the Family Action Network Movement, wrote to the Biden administra-

tion opposing the Kenya plan for Haiti, saying it will serve to “exacerbate its current political crisis to a catastrophic one.”

Past U.N. missions to Haiti have ended in more misery: A yearslong peace keeping force, authorized in 2004, brought cholera to the country more than a decade ago, killing more than 9,000 Haitians. Human rights groups said many U.N. soldiers fathered babies and abandoned them.

And at home, Kenya’s security forces have been criticized for human rights abuses, as well as corruption, excessive force, extrajudicial killings and arbitrary arrests.

Kenya’s U.N. ambassador, Martin Kimani, told the council that his country would collaborate closely with Haiti’s allies and the other nations in the Caribbean. “We now invite member states to contribute as active participants, providing personnel, funds, vital equipment and logistical support to the multinational security support mission,” Kimani said Monday.

U.S. officials said the current proposal, which was cosponsored by the U.S. and Ecuador, calls for strong human rights protections, with an oversight mechanism to prevent abuses, especially sexual exploitation.

U.N. diplomats said that negotiations to pass the resolution started in late August, after Kenya came forward to lead the mission. It took weeks of intense talks to get China and Russia on board after they formed a unified front opposing two major parts of the resolution.

A key factor in getting Russia and China on board was Kenya’s leadership of the force and an overall desire at the council to be more responsive to African voices and demands, diplomats said. Russia and China both have strong economic, military and political ties to Africa. The support for the resolution from Caribbean countries added more momentum.

Russia and China wanted a six-month mandate instead of a year, which U.S., European and other members of the council rejected, saying it would set up the enterprise for failure because it would not give the Kenyan forces enough time to turn things around, diplomats said.

The passing of the resolution at the council is noteworthy given the deepening divisions among the permanent five members — the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia — since the war in Ukraine started. The council has been unable to act to stop the aggression in Ukraine because of Russia’s veto.

A U.N. diplomat said the timeline for Kenya to dispatch forces to Haiti was still unclear, but it would at least be several months away.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said that despite the recent struggles of the Security Council to take action, Monday’s vote showed that “we can work together to achieve common goals.”

When it comes to making sure the Kenyan-led force doesn’t engage in abusive behavior, Thomas-Greenfield added: “The U.S. will engage on these issues very very aggressively. We have learned from the mistakes of the past.”

Gang members at a protest after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, in Port-au-Prince, July 26, 2021.

By EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA and SIMON ROMERO

Rescuers in northern Mexico recovered the bodies of 10 people who died after the roof of a Roman Catholic church collapsed during Sunday Mass in Ciudad Madero, an oil-refining city on the Gulf of Mexico. Among the youngest victims were three children, including a 1 1/2-year-old boy.

The roof collapsed during a collective baptism, according to the Diocese of Tampico. About 60 people were injured, and more than 23 of them were hospitalized Monday morning, the Tamaulipas state security spokesperson’s office said. One of those hospitalized died later Monday, the spokesperson said.

About 100 people were inside the Santa Cruz church at the time of the collapse, officials said.

“I felt I would not be able to see my beautiful family again,” Josefina Ramírez, a survivor, said in a post on Facebook describing the moments after the roof caved in while she was attending her goddaughter’s baptism. “I cannot explain how we got out.” Ramírez later told The New York Times that her 3-year-old goddaughter and the rest of her relatives survived the roof’s collapse.

In the moments after it gave way, survivors

used chairs to break windows in desperate efforts to get outside as some screamed that children were still trapped inside, according to local news reports.

Among the victims were family members of Oziel Rocha. His cousin Briana Yamile Rodríguez, 27, and her husband — two surgeons from Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas — had gone to the ceremony with their 8-year-old son, Mauricio. The three died instantly after the roof collapsed, said Rocha, who identified their bodies.

“She was a great woman, she was a great

doctor, she was a great mom,” he said of his cousin.

Rodríguez’s sister Vanessa, 18, was one of those rescued from under the rubble. She was taken to a nearby hospital and underwent spinal surgery but died shortly after. “She came out of surgery and passed away,” Rocha said.

By Monday morning, the rescue work had concluded and no more casualties were expected, said Jorge Cuéllar, the Tamaulipas security spokesperson, in an interview.

“I’m a faithful believer that we all die at the time that God decides,” the Rev. Ángel Vargas,

the priest who was delivering mass at the time that the roof collapsed, said in televised comments. “Some are now gone and others of us remain,” he added. “Those who are gone, rest in peace. Those who remain, we’ll surely suffer the rest of our lives.”

It was not immediately clear why the church’s roof collapsed.

“Experts are going to come in to determine the reasons this unfortunate accident occurred,” Cuéllar said. “One can infer that it is because of lack of maintenance. However, what is important and official is the report to be made by the experts.”

Onlookers gathered around the site early Monday to pray as rescue workers using dogs, thermal-sensing equipment and saws to cut through debris worked intently to find possible survivors. In addition to the Red Cross, public agencies, including the state police, state civil defense office and the National Guard were involved in the rescue operation.

“My solidarity with all the families who have lost their loved ones and with the community for this unfortunate accident,” Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villareal said on social media. Tamaulipas security and civil protection agencies, he added, have sent officials to help rescue survivors, retrieve bodies and remove debris from the area.

Church collapse in Mexico kills 11 during collective baptism Tropical Storm Philippe passes British Virgin Islands, moves northwest

By JUDSON JONES

Tropical Storm Philippe, a weather system that was swirling in the Atlantic Ocean, started to cause flooding and dropped heavy rain across the northern Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands early Tuesday, forecasters said.

Here are three things to know about Tropical Storm

Philippe:

— The center of Philippe was passing the U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday afternoon. It is expected to produce rainfall in the British Virgin Islands, Leeward Islands and U.S. Virgin Islands into Wednesday morning and could cause flash flooding. While the storm will move north later Tuesday, the strongest winds and heaviest rains are likely to fall in the islands southeast of the center of the storm, the National Hurricane Center said.

— A tropical storm warning is in effect for the British Virgin Islands. The government of Antigua and Barbuda discontinued its tropical storm warning, the hurricane center said. People in the northern Leeward Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico should monitor the progress of Philippe, meteorologists said.

— Philippe is not expected to intensify much in the next couple of days but could strengthen later this week. Preparations are underway.

All schools in Antigua and Barbuda were closed Tuesday and would remain so until Wednesday, said Daryll Matthew, the

minister of education and sports for the country.

“We will be doing a full assessment throughout the day,” Matthew said. “However, all indications suggest that not much damage has been done.”

Schools were also closed Tuesday in the French Caribbean territories of St. Martin and St. Barts, according to The Associated Press.

LIAT, a Caribbean airline, canceled several flights Monday in Antigua, St. Maarten, Tortola, St. Lucia and St. Vincent because of Philipe, the airline said in a news release. The airline does not fly on Tuesday and Wednesdays, and it will not be flying Thursday because of a planned blackout period for the week, which is unrelated to the storm, an airline representative said Tuesday.

We’re over halfway through the Atlantic hurricane season.

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

In late May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that there would be 12 to 17 named storms this year, a “near-normal” amount. On Aug. 10, NOAA officials revised their estimate upward, to 14 to 21 named storms.

There were 14 named storms last year, after two extremely busy Atlantic hurricane seasons in which forecasters ran out of names and had to resort to backup lists. (A record 30 named storms took place in 2020.)

In the Atlantic, El Niño increases the amount of wind shear,

or the change in wind speed and direction from the ocean or land surface into the atmosphere. Hurricanes need a calm environment to form, and the instability caused by increased wind shear makes those conditions less likely.

At the same time, this year’s higher sea surface temperatures pose a number of threats, including the ability to supercharge storms. That unusual confluence of factors has made it more difficult to predict storms.

There is consensus among scientists that hurricanes are becoming more powerful because of climate change. Although there might not be more named storms overall, the likelihood of major hurricanes is increasing.

Climate change is also affecting the amount of rain that storms can produce.

In a warming world, the air can hold more moisture, which means a named storm can hold and produce more rainfall, like Hurricane Harvey did in Texas in 2017, when some areas received more than 40 inches of rain in less than 48 hours.

Researchers have also found that over the past few decades storms have slowed down, sitting over areas for longer.

When a storm slows down over water, it can absorb more moisture. When the storm slows over land, it can release more rain over a single location. In 2019, for example, Hurricane Dorian slowed to a crawl over the northwestern Bahamas, resulting in a total rainfall of 22.84 inches in Hope Town during the storm.

A church roof fell in Ciudad Madero on Mexico’s Gulf Coast as dozens of parishioners were at Sunday Mass.

Vatican assembly puts the church’s most sensitive issues on the table

By JASON HOROWITZ

Throughout his decade as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis has allowed debates on previously taboo topics and set in motion subtle shifts toward liberalizing changes that have enraged conservatives for going too far and frustrated progressives for not going far enough.

This month, starting today, Francis’ desire for the church to discuss the concerns of its faithful, even the most sensitive topics, will culminate at the Vatican in an assembly of bishops from around the world that will allow, for the first time, lay people, including women, to attend and vote.

The issues under discussion will include priestly celibacy, married priests, the blessing of gay couples, the extension of sacraments to the divorced and the ordination of female deacons.

Detractors are wary of the very nature of the assembly, known as a synod, and have criticized it as a bureaucratic talkathon or as an insidious Trojan horse for progressives to erode the church’s traditions under the cloak of collegiality.

Supporters see a chance to put into practice the pope’s bottom-up view of the church as an inclusive institution that upends the traditional hierarchy and forces bishops to listen to and work with their flock more.

For them, more than any single issue on the table — and more even than culture war favorites like abortion, same-sex marriage or euthanasia, which were left off it — it is the process of bishops and lay people working and voting together that amounts to the most potentially transformative change.

“It is an amazing moment,” said Renée Köhler-Ryan, the dean of the School of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, who will be a voting participant in the meeting, one of the first women ever to do so.

Still, many church watchers say, it remains to be seen whether the gathering becomes an instrument for the transformation

that traditionalists dread or another opportunity for the papal punting that has left the church’s liberals disappointed.

It may end up as neither, and in any case, it is only the first phase of a two-year process. The participants will reconvene in Rome in October 2024, after which the pope is expected to issue a document endorsing or rejecting any recommendations.

“Hopes and fears for the synod are overinflated to the point where it’s hard to see a resolution or an outcome from either this October or next October that doesn’t leave at least one large part of the church feeling not just disappointed but deceived,” said Stephen P. White, a fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a think tank in Washington.

There are other reasons the assembly — formally called the Synod on Synodality, essentially a working meeting on how to work together — may disappoint.

It follows two years spent canvassing local churches to better understand the concerns of rank-and-file faithful around the globe. But, as White pointed out, only a tiny fraction, perhaps a few percent, participated in the canvassing process.

Many of the issues to be discussed are contentious because the faithful themselves had put them on the table, Köhler-Ryan said, adding that she hoped the inclusion of lay people would lend a more quotidian perspective — a “kind of grittiness” — to the synod. But, she noted, her vote was not part of a democratic process because the decisions rested with the pope alone.

“The big question becomes,” she said of the issues,

“how does the synod deal with them?”

The answer is slowly and in secret. “This is not a TV program where they talk about everything,” Francis said last month. He has conceded that the process may appear obscure.

“I am well aware that speaking of a ‘synod on synodality’ may seem something abstruse, self-referential, excessively technical and of little interest to the general public,” Francis said in August. But, he added, it “is something truly important for the church.”

Some participants were coming with the hope of important shifts.

The Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and an advocate for LGBTQ+ Catholics who was personally invited by Francis to participate, said he hoped the assembly would listen to their experiences.

“That’s enough of a change, because in many parts of the world, they’re not listened to,” he said, pointing out that many are kicked out of parishes for being gay or have to worship under church leaders who support laws criminalizing homosexuality.

Helena Jeppesen-Spuhler, who works for the Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund, a Catholic relief agency, will also participate in the assembly. She said the church required change to survive, adding that she would “pragmatically” argue for women to be ordained as deacons as a first step to becoming priests and bishops (which was, she acknowledged, a bridge too far for now).

“That’s what I’m carrying here to this assembly, to the worldwide church,” she said, arguing that the focus on women in all of the continental surveys showed that there was a desire for such a change, and “I really see a chance.”

But she also recalled the disappointment and frustration in 2019, at a previous synod, when Francis balked at allowing some ma-

rried men to become priests and women to become deacons, despite receiving an overwhelming vote of support from bishops.

“The question is, ‘Will he do that probably again?’” she said. Or perhaps a “consultation from all over the world and the reports from all over the world” would demonstrate the support he needed to follow through.

That is the conservative nightmare.

On Monday, five of the church’s most conservative cardinals made public a letter they had sent Francis asking for a clarification on his thinking about the ordination of women, the blessing of gay unions, and whether the synod had the power to change doctrine, among other points.

Later in the day, the Vatican released a response, dated Sept. 25, written in Spanish and bearing Francis’ signature, that seemed to reverse a 2021 Vatican note that came down hard against the blessing of gay unions because “God cannot bless sin.”

In Francis’ new letter, he clearly upheld the church position that marriage could exist only between a man and a woman, but added that priests should exercise “pastoral charity” when it came to requests for blessings. Instead of acting as naysaying judges or following new protocols — such as those in liberal parts of the German church that support same-sex blessings — priests should be open to “channels beyond norms” and the possibility that “there are forms of benediction, requested by one or more persons, that do not transmit a mistaken conception of marriage.”

Advocates for gay Catholics welcomed the response as a major step forward, while conservatives suggested that Francis had dodged the issue.

Francis said that while it wasn’t always wise to respond to such direct questions, he wanted to because of the upcoming synod.

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, a former leader of the church’s doctrinal office whom Francis dismissed from his position but surprisingly invited to take part in the synod, has warned that the assembly could be used as a “hostile takeover.”

Officials running the synod have sought to defend it from accusations of politicization.

“We have no agenda,” Cardinal JeanClaude Hollerich of Luxembourg, a Jesuit who is the relator general for the synod, said in June. “There was not a conspiratorial meeting with some people to come up with how we could add some progressive points of the church. That is the very bad imagination of some people.”

A Mass at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Odessa, Texas, on April 23, 2023.

Why MAGA wants to betray Ukraine

By PAUL KRUGMAN

So the federal government wasn’t shut down over the weekend, although we may have to go through this whole drama again in six weeks. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., ended up doing the obvious: bringing a funding bill to the floor that could pass only with Democratic votes, because the hard-liners in his own party wouldn’t agree to anything feasible. And the bill didn’t include any of the spending cuts Republicans have been demanding, except for one big, bad thing: a cutoff of aid to Ukraine.

Democrats appear to have agreed to this bill because they expect to get a separate vote on Ukraine aid; President Joe Biden has indicated that he believes he has a deal with McCarthy to that effect. I hope they’re right.

But why did things turn out this way? Michael Strain of the right-leaning (but mostly not MAGA) American Enterprise Institute has called the fiscal confrontation the “‘Seinfeld’ shutdown” — that is, a shutdown about nothing. That’s a good line, but if we’re going to do popular culture references, I think it might be better to call it the “Network” shutdown, as in people shouting, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

Nothing short of a coup can satisfy this inchoate rage.

But McCarthy evidently thought he could reduce the backlash against his deal with Democrats by betraying, or at least pretending to betray, Ukraine. That’s clearly something MAGA wants. But why?

Whatever anti-Ukraine voices such as Elon Musk may pretend, it’s not about the money.

Right-wing hard-liners, both in Congress and outside Congress, claim to be upset about the amount we’re spending supporting Ukraine. But if they really cared about the financial burden of aid, they’d make the minimal effort required to get the numbers right. No, aid to Ukraine isn’t undermining the future of Social Security or making it impossible to secure our border or consuming 40% of America’s gross domestic product.

How much are we actually spending supporting Ukraine? In the 18 months after the Russian invasion, U.S. aid totaled $77 billion. That may sound like a lot. It is a lot compared with the tiny sums we usually allocate to foreign aid. But total federal outlays are currently running at more than $6 trillion a year, or more than $9 trillion every 18 months, so Ukraine aid accounts for less than 1% of federal spending (and less than 0.3% of GDP). The military portion of that spending is equal to less than 5% of America’s defense budget.

Incidentally, the United States is by no means bearing the burden of aiding Ukraine alone. In the past, Donald Trump and others have complained that European nations aren’t spending enough on their own defense. But when it comes to Ukraine, European countries and institutions collectively have made substantially larger aid commitments than we have. Notably, most of Europe, including France, Germany and Britain, has promised aid that is higher as a percentage of GDP than the U.S. commitment.

But back to the costs of aiding Ukraine: Given how small a budget item that aid is, claims that aid to Ukraine somehow makes it impossible to do other necessary things, such as securing the border, are nonsense. MAGA types aren’t known for getting their numbers right or, for that matter, caring whether they get their numbers right, but I doubt that even they really believe that the monetary costs of helping Ukraine are insupportable.

And the benefits of aiding a beleaguered democracy are huge. Remember, before the war, Russia was widely viewed as a major military power, which a majority of Americans saw as a critical threat (and whose nonwoke military some Republicans exalted). That power has now been humbled.

Ukraine’s unexpectedly successful resistance to Russian aggression has also put other autocratic regimes that might have been tempted to engage in wars of conquest on notice that democracies aren’t that easy to

overrun. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Russia’s failures in Ukraine have surely reduced the chances that China will invade Taiwan.

Finally, what even Republicans used to call the free world has clearly been strengthened. NATO has risen to the occasion, confounding the cynics, and is adding members. Western weapons have proved their effectiveness.

Those are big payoffs for outlays that are a small fraction of what we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, and let’s not forget that Ukrainians are doing the fighting and dying. Why, then, do MAGA politicians want to cut Ukraine off?

The answer is, unfortunately, obvious. Whatever Republican hard-liners may say, they want Russian President Vladimir Putin to win. They view the Putin regime’s cruelty and repression as admirable features that America should emulate. They support a wannabe dictator at home and are sympathetic to actual dictators abroad.

So, pay no attention to all those complaints about how much we’re spending in Ukraine. They aren’t justified by the actual cost of aid, and the people claiming to be worried about the cost don’t really care about the money. What they are, basically, is enemies of democracy, both abroad and at home.

A Ukrainian Marine walking outside the village of Makarivka, Ukraine on July 26, 2023. “The answer is, unfortunately, obvious. Whatever Republican hardliners may say, they want Putin to win. They view the Putin regime’s cruelty and repression as admirable features that America should emulate,” Paul Krugman writes.

Gradúan a 156 bomberos en la segunda academia del año

POR CYBERNEWS

S AN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi

Urrutia, el secretario Departamento de Seguridad Pública (DSP), Alexis Torres, y el comisionado del Negociado de Bomberos de Puerto Rico (NCBPR), Marcos Concepción Tirado, graduaron el martes a 156 bomberos.

Esta es la segunda graduación de la Academia de Bomberos este año.

“Mi compromiso con los bomberos es incuestionable y cada uno de ellos y ellas puede dar fe de que he estado ahí para apoyarlos siempre”, sostuvo el gobernador en declaraciones escritas.

El primer ejecutivo añadió que, “Yo les felicito a todos ustedes por escoger esta carrera tan digna y admirable, una carrera al servicio de su pueblo y de la seguridad de nuestra gente”.

Es también la cuarta academia desde el 2021 y ya está vigente la nueva convocatoria para reclutar 300 bomberos adicionales.

Para el secretario del DSP “este es un día muy importante para el Negociado del Cuerpo de Bomberos de Puerto Rico… Reconozco la valentía y sacrificio de los bomberos cada vez que atienden una emergencia con el firme compromiso de salvar vidas. Gracias por decirle sí a Puerto Rico”.

El secretario sostuvo que el Departamento continúa con el reclutamiento activo de bomberos.

Mientras, el comisionado del Negociado del

Cuerpo de Bomberos comentó que estar frente a la segunda clase graduanda este año es motivo de orgullo y dijo estar convencido de que estos nuevos servidores públicos están adiestrados para brindar un servicio de excelencia.

“Un bombero es más que un respondedor en situaciones de emergencia. Un bombero es un amigo de la comunidad, un educador en prevención y un ser humano especial que decide servir con orgullo y honradez a su pueblo. Pertenecer al Negociado del Cuerpo de Bomberos es más que un título, es un llamado. Cada vez que respondan a una emergencia, serán la esperanza de muchos. Su valentía y capacidad para actuar bajo presión, en especial bajo fuego, determinará el desenlace de muchas historias”,

añadió Concepción Tirado.

El Albergue Olímpico en Salinas fue sede nuevamente la Academia por espacio de 12 semanas, en las cuales los cadetes se adiestraron en diversas disciplinas como control de incendios, primeros auxilios, bombero forestal, rescate vehicular y materiales peligrosos operacional. Cabe destacar que es la segunda clase que toma la certificación en lenguaje de señas.

Durante la ceremonia el gobernador hizo entrega de una proclama como parte de la celebración de la Semana de la prevención de Incendios al secretario de Seguridad Pública, al comisionado del Negociado del Cuerpo de Bomberos, y al comisionado auxiliar de Prevención de Incendios, Joseph McDevitt.

Inician campaña para orientar sobre nueva Ley que reconoce la Violencia

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – La Oficina de la Procuradora de las Mujeres comenzó a principios de esta semana, una campaña de orientación para promover la Ley 74 que tipifica la violencia económica como una modalidad de violencia doméstica, informó la procuradora interina, Madeline Bermúdez.

“Orientaremos con una campaña a través de nuestras redes sociales y las de las agencias de gobierno sobre esta nueva Ley para que las mujeres conozcan cómo proceder ante esta modalidad de violencia doméstica. Exhortamos a las entidades privadas a que se unan en la difusión de este importante mensaje”, manifestó Bermúdez el lunes en declaraciones escritas.

Esta Ley, que enmienda la Ley 54 del 15 de agosto de 1989, conocida como “Ley para la Prevención e Intervención con la Violencia Doméstica”, define la violencia económica como una conducta ejercida con el fin de menoscabar la capacidad financiera presente o futura, la estabilidad económica o la seguridad habitacional y de vivienda a través de amenazas, coerción, fraude, restricción o privación de

acceso o uso de cuentas, activos, información financiera, tarjetas de identificación o crédito, dinero o asistencias gubernamentales. También incluye el uso indebido de los recursos económicos de la persona para beneficio propio e impedir el acceso a cursos formales de estudios para perjudicar el desempeño académico de la víctima.

El nuevo estatuto enmienda a su vez, el Artículo 2.1 de la Ley 54 y permite que disposiciones relacionadas a la violencia económica sean incluidas en las órdenes de protección.

Algunos ejemplos de violencia económica son: el impago de rentas o hipotecas, el control de las cuentas, prohibirle a alguien trabajar, amenazas de desalojo, forzarle a endeudarse o la interferencia en el trabajo con ánimos de afectar la reputación. La finalidad de este tipo de violencia es ejercer poder y control sobre la persona, colocándola en una posición de dependencia económica, afectando su autonomía.

“Para más información se pueden comunicar con nuestra línea de orientación 24/7, libre de costo al 787-722-2977”, finalizó Bermúdez.

Gabriela Wiener does not care if you don’t see her writing as literature

By MARÍA SÁNCHEZ DÍEZ

When Peruvian writer Gabriela Wiener was a child, she dreaded school trips to museums in Lima, the capital.

As her class approached the display cases containing the pre-Columbian ceramic statues known as huacos retratos, she would start shaking. The figurines’ faces, which are believed to represent notable members of the Mochica culture, had an undeniable resemblance to hers.

Mockery and insults would inevitably follow: “There’s Gabriela,” she remembered her classmates would shout. “Indian face, huaco face.” To look Indigenous, to be brown and not white in Peru in the 1980s, meant to be ugly, undesirable — or at least that is what she felt for a long time.

“Colonialism is not something that just happened in the past. It continues to pulse in our lives, our beds, our families, our society,” Wiener said in Spanish during a recent visit to New York, standing in front of one of these statues at the Metropolitan Museum.

Gabriela Wiener in New York, Sept. 21, 2023. The Peruvian author, whose latest book, “Undiscovered,” investigates the 19th-century European explorer that shares her last name, wants to “decolonize” everything — starting with her body and her family.

Several decades and several books later, the huacos retratos are no longer vessels of painful childhood memories for Wiener, perhaps the most irreverent and daring voice of the new literary generation of Latin American women. The sculptures have become an instrument to “decolonize” herself and reclaim her identity, she said; the metaphor is the backbone of her novel “Undiscovered” — “Huaco Retrato,” in Spanish — out by HarperVia, in a translation by Julia Sanches.

“Undiscovered” explores a conflict central to Wiener’s identity. She is brown, a proud “chola,” to use the derogatory Peruvian term for people of Indigenous ancestry. But she also is probably a descendant of Charles Wiener, an Austrianturned-French explorer who traveled to Peru in the 19th century and became known for almost finding Machu Picchu: He came as close as Ollantaytambo, where the locals told him about the abandoned Incan city. Wiener mentions it by name in his notes, but he never reached the ruins.

Charles Wiener left behind a trace of colonial violence and pillage that the novel examines, mixing fact with fiction. What is known about the historical Charles Wiener is that when he left Peru for France, he took thousands of pre-Columbian artifacts — including huacos retratos — that helped build the Ethnographic Museum collection in the French capital. In a book he wrote about his expeditions to Peru, Charles Wiener also describes buying a child named Juan and taking him to Europe.

In exchange, he left behind a son he had with an Indigenous woman — the beginning of the mixed-race lineage that would, according to the story passed down by the family, lead to Gabriela Wiener. Reconstructing the steps of the patriarch

and intertwining personal and official history, Gabriela Wiener unmasks her ancestor as the force that shaped many of her wounds.

“The book talks about all imperialisms from a place of everyday, intimate life, from experience,” Wiener said.

The conclusion? She wants to decolonize it all: the status of whiteness as a proxy for beauty, the mythology around Charles Wiener in a clan that is still proud of its Europeansounding last name, the family secrets.

In addition to race, sex has also been at the center of Wiener’s work. In 2008, working as a journalist, Wiener wrote “Sexographies,” a collection of first-person gonzo stories that explored, no holds barred, various aspects of sexuality. She wrote openly about her taste in pornography and her experiences donating eggs, about female ejaculation, about a sexual encounter with a porn star and about visits to swingers clubs.

Before polyamory went mainstream, before the term “ethical nonmonogamy” caught on in dating apps, Wiener was already speaking openly about the complex polyamorous relationship she had with her longtime husband, poet Jaime Rodríguez Zavaleta, and a Spanish woman.

Wiener, who has lived in Spain since 2003, has also written about the immigrant experience in “Llamada Perdida” (“Missed Call,” unavailable in English) and alternative approaches to pregnancy and maternity in “Nueve Lunas” (“Nine Moons,” published in English by Restless Books).

“Gabriela is always pushing the boundaries and trying to ensure that these topics and issues are not taboo,” Peruvian novelist and journalist Daniel Alarcón said. “She is always ope -

ning doors for us.”

Alarcón, host of the Spanish-language “Radio Ambulante” podcast, featured Wiener in an episode about ugliness, during which the writer unpacked what it meant for her to feel unpretty. In, it she cataloged all her perceived imperfections.

“My crooked teeth. My black knees. My fat arms. My sagging breasts. My small eyes circled by two black bags. My shiny and grainy nose. My black, witchy hair.”

The inventory went on and on.

What happened afterward is exactly what Wiener had hoped for: “A lot of women came to tell me that it had liberated them from their own physical complexes,” she said. “That’s what happens. You create something and it can become something that mobilizes things.”

This unconventional and kamikaze approach to writing has prompted critics at times to label her work not as literature, but as “testimony,” she said. But she couldn’t care less what literary critics think, she said. “I feel less and less ‘a real writer’ every day. And proudly so.”

For Wiener, the political is woven into her writing, but also goes beyond, into activism.

She is an outspoken anti-racist feminist, and in her opinion columns in Spanish newspapers (and occasionally in The New York Times), she has furiously denounced, among other things, Spain’s colonialism. She pointed out, for example, that Oct. 12 — the day that commemorates the arrival of Columbus on the American continent — is the main national holiday in Spain.

In 2020, she participated in a protest in which activists spilled red paint, to symbolize the “bloody genocide” of Indigenous people in the Americas, over the statue of Christopher Columbus that looms over a namesake square in Madrid. When, during this interview, Wiener learned that Manhattan has its own statue of Columbus — a 76-foot monument in the middle of Columbus Circle — she insisted on stopping by.

“There he is, offending and hurting people, so plump, in the middle of everything, in an absolutely central, untouched place,” she said, looking up.

Then, she tried to climb the pedestal, as a group of office workers and tourists stood by, eating their lunch in the sun.

Major directors, minor running times

Pedro Almodóvar, the resident romantic surrealist of Spanish cinema, seems to have less lofty goals for “Strange Way of Life,” his featherweight dollop of fashion-cowboy whimsy presented and costumed by venerable Parisian label Saint Laurent. (It’s not the brand’s first foray into film; they backed perennial French provocateur Gaspar Noé’s demented 2019 short, “Lux Aeterna,” which also had its premiere at Cannes.)

The plot, such as it is, rests purely on gestural melodrama, with a “Brokeback Mountain” twist: A stoic sheriff, Jake (Ethan Hawke), and his onetime fellow gunslinger and secret paramour, Silva (Pedro Pascal), are reunited after 25 years apart. The passion between them — also telegraphed by handsome young doppelgängers in lusty flashbacks — still burns, but it’s complicated by the criminal urges of Silva’s violent, petulant son (George Steane).

Almodóvar’s gaze is more like a series of fun-house mirrors here, passing through classic dime-store-novel narrative, the macho-man canon of midcentury Technicolor Westerns and the winky camp of queering it all in circa-2023 couture. (Pascal’s kelly-green jacket, the production notes take pains to point out, is a tribute to one James Stewart wore in 1952’s “Bend of the River,” although its bedazzlement tilts more Ibiza disco than dusty frontier).

By LEAH GREENBLATT

If it’s epic cinema you seek this fall, many marathons await: Martin Scorsese’s sprawling Oklahoma murder ballad, “Killers of the Flower Moon” (3 hours, 26 minutes); Ridley Scott’s lush and bloody biopic, “Napoleon” (2 hours, 37 minutes); the ambitious, Jennifer Lawrenceless “Hunger Games” prequel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (2 hours, 37 minutes). Even “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” that musical behemoth slinking from stadiums to screen, commands a rigorous 2 hours, 48 minutes.

Flip the telescope, though, and movies are also getting very, very small. In the discombobulated midst of a strike and a festival season, stand-alone shorts — a category generally confined to film-nerd niche or career steppingstone — have suddenly emerged as the passion projects of several name-brand auteurs. Why well-established

Andeno Co

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directors would pivot to a format not exactly famed for its commercial viability feels like something of a mystery, but the presence of enthusiastic benefactors may offer a clue: a vaunted French fashion house, a streaming giant, a Soderbergh.

The participation of Netflix provides an unusually broad platform for Wes Anderson, who has perhaps most committed to the bit; “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” serves as the quixotic centerpiece of his four-part collection inspired by the endlessly adaptable British novelist Roald Dahl and unrolled on the site over consecutive days in late September.

“Henry Sugar,” about a wealthy wastrel (Benedict Cumberbatch) who finds his purpose in the mystical thirdeye teachings of an eccentric yogi (Ben Kingsley), seems designed to fit Anderson’s gifts as a jewel-box maximalist. The starry cast runs full force with his nesting-doll plots and deadpan drolleries; the color palette comes saturated in a Pantone riot of blues, pinks and egg-yolk yellows; and the tone flips nimbly from tender to absurd, more Dahl sweetness than arsenic.

At 39 minutes, “Henry Sugar” is easily the longest and most elaborate in the series, and the only one to get a limited release in theaters (with admissions priced accordingly, between $5 and $8). It’s also probably the closest to a sure-thing Oscar nominee, a recognition that may or may not extend to the lovely but evanescent “Asteroid City,” Anderson’s winsome feature-length dip into retrofuturism from earlier this year.

For all the novelty of watching two midlife male movie stars declare their love and linger in bathtubs, “Strange” feels teasingly incomplete at 30 minutes, galloping off before it’s hardly begun. It seems smart, then, that it’s being paired theatrically with Almodóvar’s other recent English-language experiment, the more substantial 2020 short “The Human Voice,” featuring Tilda Swinton as a woman undone by her departing lover. (It opens Wednesday.)

The luxe artifice of those films feels several galaxies removed from Godfrey Reggio, a former-monk-turnedavant-garde-documentarian whose pointed social consciousness and wordless, kaleidoscopic catalog has made him a sort of gnomic godhead for devoted cinephiles and stoners alike. But Hollywood still finds its way to a Santa Fe octogenarian’s door: Steven Soderbergh, a fan since 1983’s seminal “Koyaanisqatsi,” is listed as executive producer on the 52-minute “Once Within a Time,” and will travel to several cities to promote it. (Reggio is also the subject of a Museum of Modern Art retrospective with his longtime collaborator, Philip Glass, that runs through Wednesday, where the new short plays daily before releasing more widely in theaters.)

Set to a clamorous Glass score, “Once Within a Time” unleashes a whirling torrent of images, churned into a daguerreotype steampunk fever dream: merry-gorounds, mushroom clouds, screaming chimpanzees in VR headsets. Mike Tyson appears as a benevolent wizard, and climate activist Greta Thunberg as a stern bobblehead. “Is it the sunset or the dawn?” an interstitial card demands, as sand runs through a monolithic hourglass; both hope and apocalypse are heavily implied. At 83, Reggio probably knows more than most about the tyranny of time; on screen at least, if not in life, new rules can be applied.

The Wes Anderson short film “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” features Benedict Cumberbatch, left, and Ben Kingsley, center.

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to 3 scientists for work on electrons

By EMMA BUBOLA and KATRINA MILLER

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier on Tuesday for their experiments that “have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules.”

Electrons’ movements in atoms and molecules are so quick that they are measured in “attoseconds,” and the experiments conducted by the three scientists demonstrated that attosecond pulses could be observed and measured, the awarding committee said.

Eva Olsson, the chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, said at a news conference Tuesday that attosecond science “allows us to address fundamental questions” such as the time scale of the photoelectric effect for which Albert Einstein received the 1921 Nobel in physics.

An attosecond is a millionth of a trillionth of a second. The number of them in one second is the same as the number of seconds that have elapsed since the universe came into existence, 13.8 billion years ago, according the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the physics prize.

“Now that the attosecond world has become accessible” the Nobel committee wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, “these short bursts of light can be used to study the movements of electrons.”

Who are the winners?

Agostini is an emeritus professor at Ohio State University.

Krausz is director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany and a professor of experimental physics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

L’Huillier is a professor at Lund University in Sweden.

Why did the committee say they were receiving the prize?

“Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier have demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure the rapid processes in which electrons move or change energy,” the awarding committee said.

The laureates’ contributions have enabled the investigation of processes so rap-

id that they were “previously impossible to follow,” it added.

What impact has their work had?

“Through their experiments, this year’s laureates have created flashes of light that are short enough to take snapshots of electrons’ extremely rapid movements,” the committee said in a news release.

“Anne L’Huillier discovered a new effect from laser light’s interaction with atoms in a gas,” the committee said.

“Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz demonstrated that this effect can be used to create shorter pulses of light than were previously possible,” the committee added.

The three laureates’ work will pave the way for potential applications in areas including electronics and medicine, Olsson said.

According to the awarding committee, attosecond pulses can also be used to identify different molecules, such as in medical diagnostics.

Who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2022?

The prize went to John Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger for independent works exploring quantum weirdness.

Who else has received a Nobel Prize in the sciences this year?

On Monday, the prize in physiology or medicine went to Katalin Karikó and Dr.

Drew Weissman for a chemical modification to messenger RNA. Their research led to the successful development of the COVID-19 vaccine and saved millions of lives.

Karikó is the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize in this category.

When will the other Nobel Prizes be announced?

— The Nobel Prize in chemistry will

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

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

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

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

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

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier were pictured onscreen as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced them as the recipients of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm on Tuesday.

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The San Juan Daily Star

LEGAL NOTICE

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

HOMES, LTD.

Plaintiff, v. ENRIQUE

MANUEL ESPINOSA

NUÑEZ

Defendants

Civil Action Num.: 19-cv-1989 (JAG). Matter: Foreclosure of Mortgage. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: ENRIQUE MANUEL ESPINOSA NUÑEZ: AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: On July 19, 2023, Default Judgment was entered and grated on same day, in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal amount of $197,578.80, plus interests at a rate of 6.5% per annum since March 1, 2016, which continues to accrue until the debit is paid in full, a deferred principal balance that does not accrue interest of $5,465.05, late charged on the amount of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment is due, all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($21,150.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150 or 400 – Federal 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 Spanish:

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número catorce (14) del bloque “G” en la Urbanización El Álamo, en el Barrio Frailes de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos setenta y cinco metros cuadrados (375.00 m.c.), en lindes por el NORTE, en quince metros (15.00 m.), con la franja verde; por el SUR, en quince

metros (15.00 m.), con la calle número dos (2); por el ESTE, en veinticinco metros (25.00 m.), con el solar número “G” trece (G-13); y por el OESTE, en veinticinco metros (25.00 m.), con el solar número “G” quince (G-15). Enclava una casa. The property is recorded at Page 85 of Volume 240 of Guayanbo, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and lot number 14,822, First Section of Guaynabo. The deed of mortgage and deed of modification are recorded at Page 203 of Volume 1244 of Guaynabo, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and lot number 14,822. Property address:

Urbanización El Alamo, Calle Jacinto 14-G, Guaynabo, P.R. 00969. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: NONE. Junior Liens: NONE. Other Liens: NONE. 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 preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the October 16, 2023 at 9:30 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $208,144.59. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the October 23, 2023 at 9:30 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $138,763.06, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum 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 October 30, 2023 at 9:30 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $104,072.29, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The undersigned Special Master shall

not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master 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. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the 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, this 29 day of August of 2023. Pedro A. Vélez Baerga, Special Master, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE

CARMEN MARTINEZ GONZÁLEZ Y SANDRA NANNETTE GONZÁLEZ MARTÍNEZ PETICIONARIAS VS. EX PARTE

CIVIL NUM.: PO2023CV01388.

SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: John Doe y Richard Roe, posibles interesados en la Propiedad que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Solar radicado en el barrio Machuelo Abajo de esta ciudad de Ponce, con una cabida superficial de mil punto cuatro mil quinientos cuarentidós (1,000.4542 mc) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto dos mil quinientas cuarenticinco (0.2545 cdas) cuerdas,

en lindes por el NORTE, con la Urbanización La Rambla,; por el SUR con la carretera catorce (14); por el ESTE con Rosalía Santiago Martínez; por el OESTE con la Sucesión Benito Vázquez Rosado. Existe una estructura de madera y planchas de hierro galvanizado dedicada a taller. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. Los interesados incluyen a colindantes desconocidos, anteriores dueños desconocidos y posibles herederos de dueños anteriores desconocidos de la Propiedad antes mencionada. Por la presente quedan notificados que Carmen Martínez González y Sandra Nannette González Martínez, han radicado en este Tribunal una Petición de Expediente de Dominio sobre la propiedad antes descrita, alegando que adquirieron la propiedad mediante, compraventa junto a Israel González Negrón, una y herencia intestada de su anterior dueño Israel González Negrón, otra y que el periodo de posesión de la propiedad de las peticionarias y todos los anteriores dueños sobre pasa un término de 30 años de posesión y por ello solicitan Orden para que Ordene al Registrador de la Propiedad de Ponce I que inscriba dicha finca a nombre de las Peticionarias. Se apercibe que si transcurrido Veinte (20) días desde la publicación de este Edicto, no ha habido reparos u oposición contra la demanda interpuesta, este Tribunal dictará Sentencia de acuerdo a lo solicitado en la misma. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso

deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Copia de la contestación deberá ser notificada al Licenciado Salvador Márquez Colón a su dirección en: 485 Ave. Tito Castro, Ponce, PR. En cumplimiento de una orden dictada por este Tribunal expido el presente bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 26 de julio de 2023. CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL, CENTRO JUDICIAL, PONCE, PUERTO RICO. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. *

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T/C/C MORAYMA EDLYS

CARRASQUILLO SANTA

Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandada

Civil Núm.: E2CI2007-0477. (201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: JOSE A. DE JESUS CLAUDIO T/C/C JOSE ALBERTO DE JESUS CLAUDIO, SU ESPOSA MORAYMA E. CARRASQUILLO SANTA

T/C/C MORAYMA EDLYS

CARRASQUILLO SANTA

Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada y, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL, y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o de-

rechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: EMBARGO

FEDERAL.: En el Libro de Embargos Federales número 5, en la paina 81, asiento 3 anotado el día 16 de marzo de 2011, con el número de notificación 762176011, embargo contra Jose A. De Jesús, seguro social xxx-xx-6821, por la suma de $16,587.76. EMBARGO FEDERAL.: Asiento 2016-006367FED Karibe, anotado el día 1 de julio de 2016, con el número de notificación 199046416, embargo contra Jose A. De Jesús, seguro social xxx-xx-6821, por la suma de $8,387.47. EMBARGO FEDERAL.: Asiento 2021009335-FED Karibe, anotado el día 17 de diciembre de 2021, con el número de notificación 444832621, embargo contra Jose A. De Jesús, seguro social xxx-xx-6821, por la suma de $9,069.37. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 21 de agosto de 2023 - {250 Fecha mandamiento}, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Urb. Hacienda Florida B-4 Calle 1, San Lorenzo PR 00754.

URBANA: Parcela de terreno radicada en la Urbanización

Haciendas de Florida, localizada en el Barrio Florida, San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico marcado con el numero 4 del bloque “B” con un área de 300.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 12.500 metros, con la calle numero 1 de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en 12.500 metros, con el solar numero 39 del mismo bloque; por el ESTE, en 24.00 metros, con el solar numero 5 del mismo bloque; y por el OESTE, EN 24.00 metros con el solar numero 3 del mismo bloque. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 452 de San Lorenzo, finca numero 19,648; Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda Caguas Guayama. El producto de la subasta se destinará a sa-

tisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor ascendente a $74,405.01 por concepto de principal, mas los intereses al 6.125% anual equivalentes a $18,284.11 de intereses devengados hasta el 25 de abril de 2023 y los cuales siguen acumulándose hasta su total pago la suma de $1,669.66 por concepto de cargos por demora hasta la misma fecha y los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta su total pago, la suma $574.12 por concepto de deficiencia en la cuenta de reserva (“Negative escrow”), y la cantidad liquida y estipulada de $9,900.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado más cualquier partida pactada y/o adelanto adicional y realizado por la demandante, conforme a los términos pactados y garantizadas en la escritura de hipoteca y pagare, costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado ascendentes al 10% del principal según pactado, disponiéndose que si quedare algun remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con interes previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023

A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $99,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $66,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del

Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $49,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de septiembre de 2023. ALEJANDRO URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXI-

LIAR PLACA #997, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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Demandante V.

DEBORAH MARTINEZ

BULLARD; SUCESION

DE CARLOS MARTINEZ

COMPUESTA POR

CARLOS MARTINEZ

BERRIOS; CARLOS

BULLARD MARTINEZ; MICHAEL MARTINEZ

BULLARD T/C/C

MICHAEL BULLARD

MARTINEZ; DEBORAH

MARTINEZ BULLARD

Y ESTHER MARTINEZ

T/C/C ESTHER MARTINEZ

BULLARD; ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandada

Civil Núm.: ECD2010-1795. (402). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: DEBORAH MARTINEZ

BULLARD; SUCESION DE CARLOS MARTINEZ

COMPUESTA POR

CARLOS MARTINEZ

BERRIOS; CARLOS

BULLARD MARTINEZ; MICHAEL MARTINEZ

BULLARD T/C/C

MICHAEL BULLARD

MARTINEZ; DEBORAH

MARTINEZ BULLARD

Y ESTHER MARTINEZ

T/C/C ESTHER MARTINEZ

BULLARD POR SI Y EN SU CUOTA VIUDAL

USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada y, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL, y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les

convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: PRAMCO CV9, LLC: A cuyo favor aparece una anotación de demanda, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas caso civil #ECD2010-1795 (402), por concepto de cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Pramco, CV9, LLC versus Deborah Martinez Bullard y la Sucesión de Carlos Martinez compuesta por Carlos Martinez Berrios; Carlos Martinez Bullard t/c/c Carlos Bullard Martinez; Michael Martinez Bullard t/c/c Michael Bullard Martinez; Deborah Martinez Bullard y Esther Martinez t/c/c Esther Martinez Bullard y Estados Unidos de América, por la suma de $55,092.53 y otras sumas. Anotado al folio 209 del tomo 1769 de Caguas, finca #23,117, Anotación A. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 27 de septiembre de 2018 - {250 Fecha mandamiento}, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Calle San Ramón, J-7, Urbanización Mariolga, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 7 del bloque J, del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Mari-Olga, localizada en el Barrio Turabo del municipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un are de 549.13 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 42.29 metros con el solar numero 6; por el SUR, en 33.90 metros con el solar numero 8; por el ESTE, en 14.15 metros con la calle numero 11; y por el OESTE, en 16.69 metros con la Urbanización Dr. Mimoso. Enclava edificación. Inscrita al folio 241 del tomo 711 de Caguas finca numero 23,117; Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera de Caguas. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor ascendente a

$44,574.48 por concepto de principal, mas los intereses al 6.500% anual equivalentes a

$5,405.38 de intereses devengados hasta el 7 de agosto de 2023 y los cuales siguen acumulándose hasta su total pago, más cualquier partida pactada y/o adelanto adicional y realizado por la demandante, conforme a los términos pactados y garantizadas en la escritura de hipoteca y pagare, costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado ascendentes al 10% del principal según pactado, dispo-

niendose que si quedare algun remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con interes previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023

A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas,, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $57,700.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $38,466.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $28,850.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda

aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de septiembre de 2023. ALEJANDRO URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #997, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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JIMENEZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y LA ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO A MENORES

Parte Demandada CIVIL NUM.: SJ2022CV06743.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO.

ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de

manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $79,529.96 por concepto de principal, el cual se compone de $68,336.55 de primer principal y la suma de $11,193.41 de balance diferido, más los intereses sobre la suma de $68,636.55, al 7.50% annual desde el primero de septiembre de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgos, recargos por demora computados al 5%, a razón de $24.95 sobre cada mensualidad de $498.98 y hasta su total pago, más la suma de $7,680.00 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como

sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD

HORIZONTAL: Residential apartment number one thousand one (1001) is irregular in shape located in Condominium Los Almendros Plaza, which is located in Sabana Llana Ward of the Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total superficial area of nine hundred seventeen point eighteen (917.18) square fit. Measuring thirty eight (38) lineal feet and 11 ½ inches in width at its northern wall; thirty one (31) lineal feet and six (6) inches and 51/2 half inches plus seven (7) lineal feet and six (6) inches in width at its southern wall; twenty five (25) lineal feet 1 inch length at its western wall; and seventeen (17) lineal feet 1 inch plus eight (8) lineal feet in length at its eastern wall. It is bounded on the North and West by the exterior walls of the building; on the South by the corridor; and on the East by the apartment number one thousand two (1002) and janitors and storage room. The main entrance faces corridor. This unit consists of a living dining room, three bedrooms with closet each, one bathroom. A hallway with a linen closet and kitchen. The bathroom includes a bathtub, wash a basin and toilet and the kitchen a two part cabinet with space for refrigerator, space for a stove and breakfast counter. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales el cero cuatro cero uno dos cinco por ciento (040125%) y a su vez le corresponde idéntico porciento en los gastos de operación y mantenimiento del condominio.

Le corresponde en forma exclusiva, permanente e inseparable el estacionamiento número cuarenta y siete (47), debidamente demarcado y numerado de conformidad con el plano de área de estacionamiento. Inscrita al folio noventa y tres (93) del tomo seiscientos uno (601) de Sabana Llana, finca número veinticuatro mil cuatrocientos setenta y dos (24472), Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan V. Dirección Física: 1001 Los Almendros Plaza I, San Juan, PR 00924. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $76,800.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea, la suma de $51,200.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $38,400.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor.

Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante.

Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a

las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, expedido el presente en San Juan, Puerto Rico a 20 de septiembre de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CARLOS ENRIQUE CINTRON SANTIAGO, COMPUESTA POR CARLA CINTRÓN Y ANA LIZ ALBIZU

MERCED JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE CARLOS ENRIQUE CINTRÓN SANTIAGO, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICPALES, ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO A MENORES

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02767.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala 410, Cuarto Piso, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $47,867.72, de balance principal, el cual se compone de un primer principalpor la suma de $46,891.71 y un balance diferido de $976.01, más los intereses adeudados sobre la suma de $46,891.71 y computados al 6.75% annual desde el primero de noviembre de 2021 hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad; cargos por demora devengados desde el primero de diciembre de 2021, más la suma estipulada de $89,279.30 para honorarios de abogado,

pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RÚSTICA: Parcela número cuatrocientos noventa y cinco (495) de la Comunidad Rural San Antonio del Barrio Higuillar de Dorado, área cero cuerdas con novecientos cinco diez milésimas de otra, equivalente a trecientos cincuenta y cinco punto setenta (355.70) metros cuadrados. Lindes: Norte, parcela cuatrocientos noventa y seis (496); Sur, parcela cuatrocientos noventa y cuatro (494); Este, con área rocosa y servidumbre de la A.A.A. de Puerto Rico; Oeste, Calle dieciséis (16). Inscrita al folio ciento noventa (190) del tomo ciento cuarenta y uno (141) de Dorado, finca número seis mil setecientos cuarenta y siete (6,747), Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, sección IV. Dirección Física: Lote 495 Calle 16, Comunidad San Antonio, Dorado PR, 00646. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $82,793.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $55,195.33. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $41,396.50. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM

sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 19 de septiembre de 2023.

EDWIN ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN. *** LEGAL NOTICE

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COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante Vs. MIGUEL A. SANTIAGO

ALVARADO, FULANA DE TAL AMBOS POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE DE LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES QUE

AMBOS COMPONEN

Demandado

Civil Núm.: NJ2023CV00082.

Salón: 403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: MIGUEL A. SANTIAGO

ALVARADO, FULANA DE TAL AMBOS POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE DE LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES QUE

AMBOS COMPONEN. HC 73 BOX 4881 NARANJITO, PR 00719-9121; BO.

ANONES CARR. 809 KM

1.9 INT NARANJITO, PR 00719.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz

López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO

MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de agosto de 2023.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIO-

NAL. KATHERINE SANTIAGO

RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA

AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. JOKSAN COLON DAVILA

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: TJ2023CV00254. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

Civil Núm.: CN2019CV00011.

Salón Núm.: 409. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.

ESTADO

A:

JOKSAN COLON DAVILASECT PUEBLO SECO 75 CALLE 5, TRUJILLO ALTO PR 00976.

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

MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TRUJILLO ALTO EN CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de agosto de 2023. En TRUJILLO ALTO EN CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 23 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY

ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALINEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. LUIS ÁNGEL DE LEÓN ORANGEL; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA

Demandados

U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, Alguacil Auxiliar del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha del 29 de junio de 2023, por la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Carolina en relación con la Sentencia Sumaria en Rebeldía dictada el 9 de mayo de 2023, notificada el 11 de mayo de 2023, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Estancias De Cambalache también conocida como Vistas De Río Grande, en el Barrio Cambalache del término Municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: catorce (14) del Bloque N (N-14). Área del solar: quinientos noventa y seis punto noventa y tres (596.93) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto mil quinientos diecinueve (0.1519) cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de quince punto veintisiete (15.27) metros lineales, con terrenos para la Futura Ruta PR sesenta y seis (PR-66); por el SUR, en una distancia de quince (15.00) metros lineales, con la calle número uno (1) de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de cuarenta y uno punto cero siete (41.07) metros lineales, con el solar número trece (13) del mismo Bloque; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de treinta y ocho punto cuarenta y cuatro (38.44) metros lineales, con el solar número quince (15) del mismo Bloque. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa en concreto para fines residenciales. El expresado solar se halla afecto a la siguiente servidumbre: Servidumbre telefónica: Franja de terrenos de cinco pies (5) de ancho que discurre a lo largo de su colindancia Sur. Consta inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 331 de Canóvanas, Finca Número 14,267, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. Dirección de la propiedad: Urbanización Vistas de Río Grande I, N-14 (125 Calle Flamboyán), Río Grande, Puerto Rico 00745. Sujeta a condiciones bajo el Programa Mi Nuevo Hogar, la cual concedió la suma de

$3,436.94, por el término de 10 años. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la finca 7,900 de Río Grande. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. d. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de las subastas. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la propiedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $212,100.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 6 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $141,400.00. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 13 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $106,050.00. Las subastas se llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco demandante de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas por la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada, a saber, la suma de $187,220.47 adeudada por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 10 de diciembre de 2018, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $468.58, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, las sumas adeudadas por concepto de seguros y/o contribuciones, la suma de $91.00 por concepto de adelantos, más la suma de $21,210.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribunal de Carolina, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los inte-

reses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pactados hasta su total y completo pago, en cuarto término, las sumas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de la subasta y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada. Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. El inmueble anteriormente descrito se encuentra afecto a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: (i) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $10,000.00, con intereses al 5 1/2% anual, vencedero el día 1 de noviembre de 2041, constituida mediante la escritura número 226, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de octubre de 2011, ante el notario Antonio R. Escriba Oliver, e inscrita al folio 2 del tomo 416 de Canóvanas, finca número 14,267, inscripción 5ta. (ii) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Departamento de Hacienda, contra Luis A. De León Orangel/Wildelia Otero González, cuenta número 00000-9971/000-00-5929, por la suma de $7,012.61, embargo número CAR-2019-396, Certificada el día 9 de octubre de 2018, anotado el día 12 de octubre de 2018 al Asiento 2018008348-EST del Sistema Karibe. (iii) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Departamento de Hacienda, contra Luis A. De León Orangel, cuenta número 00000-9971, por la suma de $12,989.17, embargo número CAR-2019-391, Certificada el día 9 de octubre de 2018, anotado el día 22 de octubre de 2018 al Asiento 2018-008349EST del Sistema Karibe. (iv) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Luis A. De León Orangel, seguro social, xxx-xx-9971, por la suma de $9,575.98, número embargo CAR-22-1469, Certificado el día 21 de abril de 2022, anotado el día 21 de mayo de 2022 al Asiento 2022-004140EST del Sistema Karibe. (v) ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, Civil Número CN2019CV00011 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria de fecha 10 de enero de 2019 de 2019, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Demandante) Vs. Luis Ángel De León Orangel, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Departamento de Hacienda (Demandada). Por la misma se reclama el pago de

la suma de $187,220.47, más intereses vencidos y otros cargos anotado el día 29 de enero de 2019, al Tomo Karibe de Canóvanas, Finca Número 14,267, Anotación “A” y última, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, el cual se refiere al caso del epígrafe en la presente causa de acción. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción. Se le notifica al Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y al Departamento de Hacienda de Puerto Rico en relación con los gravámenes posteriores inscritos a su favor para que comparezcan a reclamar cualquier derecho que en ley se les reconozca y se les advierte, además, que habrá de solicitarse la cancelación de sus derechos en el Registro de la Propiedad, una vez celebrada la venta en pública subasta. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, durante horas laborables. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 21 de julio de de 2023. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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DE

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Parte Demandante Vs HÉCTOR LÓPEZ VILLANUEVA Y OTROS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: AU2023CV00403.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO.

A: JANNETTE

LÓPEZ MIRANDA

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del

Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-2650334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Aguada, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de septiembre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA MUNICIPAL DE AGUADA. NOEMÍ ROMÁN BOSQUES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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A: SANDRA IVETTE SOTO MERCADO. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc-

ción electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA-

MÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA FELÍCITA

GONZÁLEZ ROSARIO

COMPUESTA POR EDNA

RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ

Y LA SUCN DE ELVIS

SERAFIN RODRIGUEZ

GONZALEZ COMPUESTA

POR ELVIS MANUEL

RODRIGUEZ BAEZ Y

MARISOL RODRIGUEZ

BAEZ Y FULANO DE TAL; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA

Demandada

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV04044.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA

POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM-

PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS

ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER-

TO RICO, S.S.

A: LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA FELÍCITA

GONZÁLEZ ROSARIO

COMPUESTA POR EDNA

RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ Y LA SUCN DE ELVIS

SERAFIN RODRIGUEZ

GONZALEZ COMPUESTA

POR MARISOL

RODRIGUEZ BAEZ Y FULANO DE TAL.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar

la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 00936-6603. Tel. (787) 9190073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 08 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NOELIA MATÍAS SALAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 705

SYLVIA

MEDINA ALMARANTE

Demandante V.

PREFERRED MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CG2023CV02292.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

ZILMARIE DELGADO PIERAS

ZILMARIED@HOTMAIL.COM

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y

JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y

CUALQUIERA PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro

de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 26 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO SILVA CANCEL, COMPUESTA POR SU ESPOSA ROSA TIRADO

LUGO T/C/C ROSA

AGRIPINA TIRADO LUGO, PEDRO SILVA DE TAL, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE y ROSA TIRADO LUGO

T/C/C ROSA AGRIPINA

TIRADO LUGO EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: LJ2023CV00040.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: LA SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO SILVA CANCEL, COMPUESTA POR SU ESPOSA ROSA TIRADO LUGO T/C/C ROSA

AGRIPINA TIRADO LUGO, PEDRO SILVA DE TAL, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE Y ROSA TIRADO LUGO

T/C/C ROSA AGRIPINA

TIRADO LUGO EN SU CARÁCTER PERSONAL.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando la herencia de LA SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO SILVA CANCEL, COMPUESTA POR SU ESPOSA ROSA TIRADO LUGO T/C/C ROSA AGRIPINA TIRADO LUGO, PEDRO SILVA DE TAL, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 00936-6603. Tel. (787) 9190073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 18 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO ORIENTAL BANK PARTE DEMANDANTE V. JOHN DOE COMO MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ANTONIO ACOSTA BURGOS; RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA ELBA CALDERON MONSERRATE

PARTE DEMANDADA CASO NÚM.: AR2023CV00843. ACCIÓN CIVIL DE: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE COMO MIEMBRO

DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ANTONIO ACOSTA BURGOS. BRISAS DEL MAR II, 24 BROMELIA, ARECIBO, PR 00612; URB. HERMANAS DAVILA, L 10 CALLE 4, BAYAMÓN, PR 00959; URB. LOS ALMENDROS, EC16 CALLE ROBLES, BAYAMÓN, PR 009613409.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la mismas al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se la apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2029, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menos fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA #18,682, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414, jmontalvo@ delgadofernandez.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 25 de septiembre de 2023. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JACQUELYNE GONZÁLEZ

QUINTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL

GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO ORIENTAL BANK

PARTE DEMANDANTE V. JOHN DOE

COMO MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL

ANTONIO ACOSTA

BURGOS; RICHARD

ROE COMO MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA

ELBA CALDERON MONSERRATE

PARTE DEMANDADA CASO NÚM.: AR2023CV00843. ACCIÓN CIVIL DE: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO.

A: RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA ELBA CALDERON MONSERRATE.

BRISAS DEL MAR II, 24 BROMELIA, ARECIBO, PR 00612; URB. HERMANAS DAVILA, L 10 CALLE 4, BAYAMÓN, PR 00959; URB. LOS ALMENDROS, EC16 CALLE ROBLES, BAYAMÓN, PR 009613409.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la mismas al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o

cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se la apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2029, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menos fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA #18,682, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414, jmontalvo@ delgadofernandez.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 25 de septiembre de 2023. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JACQUELYNE GONZÁLEZ QUINTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CZ2022CV00004. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DELIA I. CABÁN DÁVILA DELIALIBRO@YAHOO.COM

A: JOHN DOE, SUCESION MOISÉS RODRÍGUEZ TORRES, FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL Y A LAS

PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION SOLICITADA EN LA DEMANDA O EN SU DEFECTO LOS ORGANISMOS PUBLICOS AFECTADOS.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE

2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 27 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO.

GLENDA LEE

BORDOY DAVILA

Demandante Vs. JUAN CARLOS GARCIA OJEDA también conocido por JUAN CARLOS GARCIA

Demandado

CIVIL NUM: AR2023RF00786.

SOBRE: DIVORCIO R.I. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JUAN CARLOS GARCIA OJEDA t/c/p JUAN CARLOS GARCIA O sea la parte Demandada arriba mencionada.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentarla en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de

esta al LCDO. FERNANDO H. PADRON JIMENEZ, PO BOX 2833, ARECIBO P.R. 006132833 TLF. (787) 816-6732. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 12 de septiembre de 2023. Vivian Y Fresse Gonzalez, Secretaria. Noemi Dina Juarbe, SubSecretaria.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 101 SALA

SUPERIOR ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V.

MARY A.

TRINIDAD RIVERA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: MV2022CV00131.

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

KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: MARY A.

TRINIDAD RIVERA.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los

autos de este caso, con fecha 27 de septiembre de 2023. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JANETTE GONZÁLEZ VARGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. ROBERTO M BREBAN VAZQUEZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CZ2022CV00121.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60, COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: ROBERTO M BREBAN

VAZQUEZ. BO. CIBUCO

CARR 159 R 818 KM 2.1

COROZAL, PR 00783 / PO

BOX 951 COROZAL, PR 00783-0951.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 27 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

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Demandante V.

MISAEL RIVERA SANCHEZ Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2023CV00370.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60, COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: MISAEL RIVERA SÁNCHEZ.CARR 829 BO.

BUENA VISTA, BAYAMÓN, PR 00957 / RR BOX 2726, BAYAMON, PR 00957. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 27 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2023. LAURA I.

SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA SALÓN DE SESIONES CIVIL 401

ENDEAVOR

CAPITAL PR LLC

Demandante V. SOL AND ROK LLC

Y OTROS Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CA2023CV01773.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD COMERCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

LUIS G. PARRILLA HERNANDEZ LPARRILLA@FERRAIUOLI.COM

A: SOL AND ROK LLC, SOLMON M. CHOWDHURY, SU ESPOSA ROKEYA BEGUM Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE ELLOS.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En CAROLINA , Puerto Rico, el 27 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. DENISSE MINERVA TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 701 SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Demandante V. FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN RITA Y EN LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN R. CRUZ

MEDINAI Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2023CV00044. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS JCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW.COM

A: JUAN R. CRUZ Y GERARDO CRUZ PUJOLS COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE CARMEN RITA PUJOLS T/C/C CARMEN RITA PUJOLS MACHIN Y LA SUCESION DE JUAN RAMON CRUZ MEDINA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES. BARRIO FLORIDA PR-928 KM 4.1 SAN LORENZO PR 00754. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 26 de septiembre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 26 de septiembre de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA SALÓN DE SESIONES CIVIL 407

E.M.I. EQUITY

MORTGAGE, INC.

Demandante V. LILLIAM RODRIGUEZ RIVERA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2023CV00722.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE EJECUCIONES@CM-PRLAW.COM CENTRO DE MEDIACION DE CONFLICTOS CMC-CAROLINA@PODERJUDICIAL.

PR

LILLIAM RODRIGUEZ RIVERA HC-01 BOX 3605 MOROVIS, PUERTO RICO 00687

LILLIAM RODRIGUEZ RIVERA URB VISTAMAR, K-650 CALLE JORGE VAZQUEZ SANES (PONTEZUELA), CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO, 00983

A: LILLIAM

RODRIGUEZ RIVERA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 29 de septiembre de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 29 de septiembre de 2023. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. ROSA M. VIERA VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK

COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.

Demandante Vs. ISAAC MARIO BARRETO CASTRO E ITZIA; MARIE DELGADO POU

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV04949.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER-

TO RICO.

A LA PARTE CODEMANDADA: ISAAC MARIO BARRETO CASTRO, A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: (A)

BAYAMON GARDENS

APT. 2109 BAYAMON, PR 00956; (B) URB.

FLAMBOYAN GARDENS

A3 CALLE 3 (APT. 2109) BAYAMON, PR 00959; (C) RR 2 BOX 4019 GUAYNABO, PR 00953; (D) BARRIO

ESPINOSA CARR. 2 KM 26.7 DORADO, PR 00646; (E) EL PRADO #401 CALLE ITALIA SAN JUAN, PR 00917; (F) URB. HACIENDAS DEL DORADO H-2 CALLE

GUAYACAN TOA ALTA, PR 00954.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $150,841.38 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $16,161.60. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $16,161.60 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $16,161.60 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 943, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de noviembre de 2019, ante el notario Alejandro J. Mues Arias, de la finca número 9,617, inscrita al Folio 100 del Tomo 192 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se

le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 2 de octubre de 2023, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN. ST – 2022 – CV – 00242 ACTION FOR DEBT AND FORECLOSURE OF REAL PROPERTY MORTGAGE. FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO, Plaintiff, v. AMERICO CORREA and THE TOWERS CONDOMINIUM HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, Defendants. SUMMONS.

To: Americo Correa Jard De Country Club

CN7 Calle 151 Carolina, Puerto Rico 00983

Within the time limited by law (see note below) you are hereby required to appear before this Court and answer to a complaint filed against you in this action and in case of your failure to appear or answer, jud-

gment by default will be taken against you as demanded in the Complaint, for

DEBT AND FORECLOSURE OF REAL PROPERTY MORTGAGE. PURSUANT TO COURT ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION

ENTERED BY HON. JUDGE DENISE M. FRANCOIS ON August 18th, 2023.

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

TAMARA CHARLES

Clerk of the Court

By: /s/ Donna D. Donovan,

Deputy Clerk Richard H. Dollison, Esq.

Attorney for Plaintiff, FirstBank Puerto Rico

Law Offices of Richard H. Dollison, P.C.

5143 Palm Passage, Ste. B28/29

P.O. Box 6135 St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. 00804

NOTE: This defendant, if served personally, is required to file his/her answer or other defenses with the Clerk of this Court, and to serve a copy thereof upon the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty one (21) days after service of this summons, excluding the date of service. The defendant, if served by publication or by personal service outside of the jurisdiction, is required to file his/her answer or other defense with the Clerk of this Court within thirty (30) days after the completion of the period of publication or personal service outside of the jurisdiction, and to serve a copy thereof upon the attorney for the plaintiff, and in the case of any form of mailing requiring a signed receipt, within 30 days from the date of receipt as indicated by the signed receipt.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN-

CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE

PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE SALÓN DE SESIO-

NES SALÓN 504 CRIMINAL Y TRÁNSITO COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO ORIENTAL

DEMANDANTE V. MARIA DE LOS A HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ DEMANDADO(A)

CASO NÚM.: PO2022CV01123.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO

- REGLA 60, COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR

EDICTO.

JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERA

JRG@GONZALEZMORALES.COM

JUAN ÁNGEL SANTOS BERRÍOS

SANTOSBERRIOSLAW@GMAIL. COM

RICARDO ANDRES ACEVEDO BIANCHI ACEVEDOBIANCHI@GMAIL.COM

A: MARIA DE LOS

A HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 25 de septiembre de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 25 de septiembre de 2023.

CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIANDO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE GUAYANILLA EN SÁBANA GRANDE.

LUZ CELENIA

PAGANPEREZ

PO Box 560807

Guayanilla, PR 00656

Tel. (787)835-2799

Peticionaria Vs.

Ex-parte

Civil Núm.: GY2023CV00004.

SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, a Juan Borrelí, Josefina Irizarry, Rafael Borrelí y Ermitania Gil y/o sus herederos, a todo el que tenga derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Expediente de Dominio, a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitada, así como los colindantes, causahabientes o herederos y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse. Por la presente se le notifica que comparezca, si creyera que le conviene, a este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de veinte (20) días a partir de

la publicación de este Edicto, el cual se publicará por tres (3) veces y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por los peticionarios para adquirir el dominio de la siguiente propiedad: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno situado en el Barrio Quebrada Honda del término municipal de Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de Veintiséis Mil Seiscientos Cuarenta y Uno punto Nueve Mil Cuatrocientos Treinta y Nueve Metros Cuadrados (26,641.9439 m.c.) equivalentes a Seis punto Siete Mil Setecientos Ochenta y Cuatro Cuerdas (6.7784 cdas.), y en colindancias por el Norte, con Luis Rodríguez Pagán; por el Sur, con Sucesión Delfina Pérez; por el Este, Luis Rodríguez Pagán y en parte con Eligio Pagan; y por el Oeste, con Sucesión Juan Santiago. Contiene una estructura dedicada a vivienda. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegación a la representación legal de prominentes, Lcdo. Joseph Brocco Santiago, P.O. Box 608, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico 00624-0608, Teléfono 787-836-3020. CARMEN G.

T!RÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SYLVIA ENID FARIÑA RAMOS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CA2023CV02243.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA

POR EDICTO. JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOS JLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM

A: SYLVIA ENID FARINA

RAMOS T/C/C SYLVIA

E. FARIÑA RAMOS

T/C/C SYLVIA FARIÑA RAMOS. PMB 189 PO BOX 6017, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00984 /

C-320 MIRAFLORES DEL YUNQUE, RIO GRANDE, PUERTO RICO 00745. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una

sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 02 de octubre de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 02 de octubre de 2023. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN NORMA CUEVAS LOPEZ Y OTROS

Demandantes Contra MARANGELY CUEVAS TORRES

Demandada

Civil Número: SS2023CV00617. Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HERENCIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: MARANGELY CUEVAS TORRES CON DIRECCIÓN Y DOMICILIO DESCONOCIDO EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

En calidad de miembro de la sucesión Cuevas López , y parte indispensable en este caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a la demanda sobre partición de herencia a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Sebastián, enviando copia a la parte demandante a través de su abogado, LCDO. MILTON D. RIVERA ADAMES, RUA 11480, URB. VILLA RITA, CALLE 2 B4, SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685, Tel. (787) 810-7577, Correo electrónico: estudiolegalrivera2@gmail.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de haber sido emplazada, se le anotará la rebeldía

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

en su contra, y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de septiembre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA LEBRÓN ROSADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIDRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA SALÓN DE SESIONES CIVIL 402 MWPR, LLC

Demandante V. MARIA STELLA

RESTREPO DE TORRES

T/C/C MARIA STELLA Y OTROS Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CA2023CV01774. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCISCO J. FERNÁNDEZ CHIQUÉS FFC@FFCLAW.COM

A: MARÍA STELLA

RESTREPO DE TORRES

T/C/C MARÍA STELLA RESTREPO POSADA POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ENRIQUE TORRES GUZMAN EN SU CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; GLORIA TORRES RESTREPO COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ENRIQUE TORRES GUZMÁN; KENIA TORRES COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ENRIQUE TORRES GUZMÁN; LOURDES TORRES RESTREPO COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ENRIQUE TORRES GUZMÁN; SELENA TORRES COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ENRIQUE TORRES GUZMÁN Y A JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ENRIQUE TORRES GUZMÁN, POR CONDUCTO DEL LCDO. FRANCISCO J. FERNÁNDEZ CHIQUÉS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 28 de septiembre de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 28 de septiembre de 2023. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. LOURDES T. DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

Demandante Vs. LUIS ALBERTO GARCIA RIVERA Y SU ESPOSA GLORIA DE LA ROSA MEDINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CM2022CV00623.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: LUIS ALBERTO

GARCIA RIVERA Y SU ESPOSA GLORIA DE LA ROSA MEDINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, POR TENER EMBARGO

ANOTADO A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $76,565.40.

Yo, LUIS E. ROMAN CARRERO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que

más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 31 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Camuy durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 7 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Solar número Diez (10), radicado en el Barrio Yeguada del término municipal de Camuy, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de CUATROCIENTOS NOVENTA Y DOS PUNTO TRES CUATRO CUATRO CINCO (492.3445) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE y SUR, con el remanente de la finca principal; por el ESTE, con José A. Vega; y por el OESTE, con terrenos dedicados a uso público. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 1465 del tomo 412 de Camuy, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Segunda, finca número 10,547, inscripción cuarta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Solar #10, 485 Rd., 10.5 Km. Barrio Bajuras Yeguada, Camuy, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $185,639.44 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.875% anual, desde el día 1ro. de noviembre de 2014, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $20,900.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $209,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la canti-

dad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $139,333.34 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $104,500.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Embargo Federal a favor de los Estados Unidos de América, por la suma principal de $76,565.40, contra Luis García y Dania Suárez, seguro social número xxx-xx--2418, Notificación 348685719, Certificación de fecha 2 de abril de 2019, Renovación de fecha 19 de septiembre de 2028, anotado el día 6 de mayo de 2019, al Asiento 2019-003546-FED del Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Segunda. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Camuy, Puerto Rico, a 25 de septiembre de 2023. WILFREDO

OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL MWPR, LLC

DEMANDANTE V. YARALIZ

ROMAN FIGUEROA DEMANDADA

CIVIL NÚM.: AR2022CV01848.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: YARALIZ ROMAN FIGUEROA; Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada y, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL, y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO.: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito una hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré por la suma de $40,000.00, sin intereses y a vencer el 23 de julio del año 2017, según consta de la escritura #88, otorgada en San Juan, el 23 de julio de 2007, ante el Notario Miguel Bauza Rolón inscrito al tomo Karibe de Barceloneta, finca #15,883, inscripción 3ra. AUTORIDAD

PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA.: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito una hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré por la suma de $11,500.00, sin intereses y a vencer el 23 de julio del año 2013, según consta de la escritura #89, otorgada en San Juan, el 23 de julio de 2007, ante el Notario Miguel Bauza Rolón inscrito al tomo Karibe de Barceloneta, finca #15,883, inscripción 4ta. SENTENCIA.: Del 21 de abril de 2015 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, caso civil #CCD2014-0360, seguido por RNPM, LLC vs Yaralis Roman

Figueroa, por $80,583.41 mas intereses y otros gastos, anotado a; folio 125 Libro de Sentencias #2 de Manatí, el 8 de junio de 2015. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 6 de septiembre de 2023, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Apt. B 1102, Condominio Marina III, Barceloneta, PR 00617. URBANA: Apartamento 1102. Propiedad Horizontal. Apartamento residencial localizado en el segundo piso (tercer nivel) del edificio B del Condominio Marina III Barceloneta sito en el barrio pueblo del término municipal de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, con un área aproximada de 895.941 pies cuadrados, equivalente a 83.266 metros cuadrados y lindes al NORTE, en 46’4” con áreas comunes, pasillo y escaleras; al SUR, en 46’4”, con el apartamento 1002; al ESTE, en 17’10” con la calle Juan De la Torre; y al OESTE, en 21’3”, con área de estacionamiento. Consta de sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, 3 dormitorios, 2 baños, ropero, (closet) y lavandería (laundry). Le pertenece el uso exclusivo como propiedad privada de un área de estacionamiento bajo techo identificado con el #1102 en el plot plan localizado en el primer nivel del edificio con un área superficial de 475.642 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 44.205 metros cuadrados que incluye área de estacionamiento para 2 vehículos y área de almacenaje, siendo sus colindancias; al NORTE, con el estacionamiento #1103; al SUR, con el estacionamiento #1002; al ESTE, con la calle Juan de la Torre y al OESTE, con área de estacionamiento. El área total de este apartamento, incluyendo el estacionamiento privado es de 1,371.583 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 127.471 metros cuadrados. Su puerta principal de entrada está situada en su lindero Norte. Este apartamento tiene una participación en los elementos comunes generales de 2.7666%. Consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Barceloneta, finca número 15,883; Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor ascendente a $80,583.41 de principal, $44,119.41 de intereses al 21 de septiembre de 2022, los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 6% anual hasta el pago total de la deuda, $3,821.52 por concepto de cargos por concepto de seguro sobre la propiedad, $5,100.00 por concepto de cargos de preservación de la pro-

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piedad, más cualquier partida pactada y/o adelanto adicional y realizado por la demandante, conforme a los términos pactados y garantizadas en la escritura de hipoteca y pagare, costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado ascendentes al 10% del principal según pactado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con interés previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS

11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $100,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 8

DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $66,666.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $50,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo

102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de septiembre de 2023. Wilfredo Rodríguez Carrión, Alguacil Confidencial #135, Alguacil De La División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Manatí.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MÚLTIPLES MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Demandante V. FIRSTBANK DE PUERTO RICO; BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO CUSTODIOS DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV04249. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS,

EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: JOHN DOE / RICHARD DOE. Quedan notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados en la que se solicita la cancelación por la vía judicial de un Pagaré hipotecario extraviado a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $18,000.00 e intereses al 10.00% anual y vencimiento el día 1ro de marzo de 2006, mediante la Escritura Número 45 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el notario público Roberto Combas Martínez. El descrito Pagaré hipotecario grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Lote número tres: Parcela de terreno identificada con el número tres, la cual está localizada en el Barrio Piñas del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,144.333 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.2911 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de Tomás Rivera; por el SUR, con camino municipal Los Andinos; por el OESTE, con la parcela identificada como el número cuatro y por el ESTE, con la parcela identificada como el número dos. Enclava edificación, la cual se describe de la siguiente manera: casa de bloques y hormigón que mide 45 pies de largo por 25 pies de ancho, alzada en columna de 8 pies de alto, consta de 3 cuartos dormitorios, dos baños, sala, comedor, cocina, balcón, marquesina y laundry room, diseñada para una familia, con un valor de $20,000.00, mediante Escritura Número 7, otorgada en Toa Baja, el 29 de marzo del año 1982, ante Raúl Rivera Rivera e inscrito al folio 30 del tomo 162 de Toa Alta, finca número 8712, inscripción 2a. Inscrita al folio 30 del tomo 162 de Toa Alta, finca número 8712, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. Se les advierte que el presente Edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y se le requiere para que contesten la Demanda de epígrafe dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de su contestación en el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección: BUFETE APONTE & CORTES LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO PO Box 195337 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919-5337 Tel. (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661 / Email: emarengo@apontecortes.com Usted deberá presentar u alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y

Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma sello del Tribunal, hoy día 19 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. M. BONILLA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO NORA IVETTE BIRRIEL CÁCERES Demandante V. SUCESIÓN ÁNGEL MANUEL BIRRIEL RODRÍGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR IVONNE BIRRIEL RÍOS; ÁNGEL BIRRIEL RÍOS Y NEREIDA BENÍTEZ, EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; SUCESIÓN RAMÓN BIRRIEL RODRÍGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR

JOSÉ RAMÓN BIRRIEL CALO, NILSA MARÍA BIRRIEL CALO, EDGARDO BIRRIEL CALO Y CANDELARIA

CALO BIRRIEL, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA Demandados

Civil Núm.: RG2023CV00430.

Sala: 301. Sobre: ADJUDICACIÓN, PARTICIÓN Y LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: SUCESIÓN ÁNGEL MANUEL BIRRIEL RODRÍGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR NEREIDA BENÍTEZ, EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDA! USUFRUCTUARIA.

DIRECCIÓN: BARRIO

CARMELITA, 83 CALLE

9, VEGA BAJA, PUERTO RICO 00693.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se le notifica que una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere

para que conteste la misma dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de su contestación en el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la siguiente

dirección:

BUFETE APONTE & CORTES

LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO PO Box 195337

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919

Tel. (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661

Email: emarengo@apontecortes.com

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 15 de septiembre de 2023. Wanda I. Seguí Reyes, Secretaria Regional. Sheila Robles Hernández, Sub-Secretaria.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

FRANCISCO

RIVERA BURGOS

Demandante V. BERENS MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC., JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV05167. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: BERENS MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC., JUAN Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe.

En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Berens Mortgage Bankers Inc., por la suma de $20,000.00. El pagaré por fue suscrito el día 13 de

marzo de 1973, ante el notario Jose Garrido Monge, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura número 90, inscrita al folio 231 vuelto del tomo 252 de Bayamón Sur, 2da inscripción, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la URBANIZACIÓN LOMAS VERDES, situada en el BARRIO MINILLAS de BAYAMÓN, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: NUEVE (9) DE LA MANZANA “DOS K” (2-K); Área del solar: TRESCIENTOS UN METRO CUADRADO CON TREINTA CENTESIMAS DE METRO CUADRADOS. En lindes; por el NORTE; con el solar número ocho (8), distancia de veintitrés metros; por el SUR; con un paso peatonal, distancia de veintitrés metros; por el ESTE; con la Calle veintitrés, distancia de trece metros con diez centímetros; y por el OESTE; con el solar número treinta y nueve (39), distancia de trece metros con diez centímetros. FINCA: #11063 inscrita al folio 230 del tomo 252 de BAYAMÓN SUR, Registro de la Propiedad de BAYAMÓN I. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, y notifique con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Zilmarie Delgado Fieras, 33 Calle Resolución, Suite 302, San Juan, PR 00920-2727; Tel. (787) 782-6500, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

He announces baseball games in Spanish. It is not his first lang uage.

By JAMES WAGNER

Bill Kulik is a longtime Spanish language radio broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies. But listeners tuning in wouldn’t always know that.

Instead of calling baseball’s championship by its Spanish name, “La Serie Mundial,” he calls it the World Series. He recently described a player’s up-and-down career as “a roller coaster” instead of “una montana rusa,” the proper phrase in Spanish. And when saying something was quite funny, he said “bien funny.”

This is the distinctive linguistic world of Kulik, a broadcaster nicknamed El Gringo Malo (The Bad Gringo), whose on-air persona is irreverent and even silly. Although most of what Kulik says in front of a microphone is in Spanish, he sprinkles in generous doses of English and Spanglish, a blending of the two languages.

Of the 16 teams — out of 30 in the MLB — with some form of a Spanish language broadcast, the Phillies’ is unlike any other, largely because of Kulik.

He was born in New Jersey, and took only one Spanish class, in high school, he said, but he first learned the language while spending nine childhood years in Colombia and Argentina, where his family lived because of his father’s work with a chemical manufacturing company.

Many listeners cheer Kulik’s style. He is, after all, in his 19th season as a member of the Phillies’ Spanish broadcasting team. But his twist has irritated some Spanish speakers and raised questions about language and culture in a country with roughly 63 million Latinos.

Kulik — whose radio partner, Oscar Budejen, is a native Spanish speaker — makes mistakes in Spanish, stumbles over a pronunciation or sometimes makes literal interpretations that don’t quite mean the same. He turns to English to better convey certain thoughts or facts.

He deliberately uses Spanglish, he said, in part to better connect with the many Puerto Ricans in the Philadelphia area and with newer generations of Latinos in the United States who have grown up speaking both languages.

“There is no way we are going to appease everybody,” said Kulik, 61. “Oscar is going to give you more of the old school and the Gringo Malo is going to bring you the new school. And hopefully in between, you’re going to like our broadcast because we’re going to be different.”

Of the 6 million people in the Philadelphia region, an estimated 11% are Latino, with

Puerto Ricans representing the largest group. As the number of Latinos in the United States has soared, the percentage of Latinos age 5 and older who speak English proficiently at home has also grown, while the percentage who speak Spanish at home has declined, according to the Pew Research Center.

“El Gringo speaks Spanish very well and at times when he uses English, I see it as normal since I’m bilingual,” Yolanda Fernández, who listens to Kulik’s broadcasts, told The New York Times. “I’m Puerto Rican. We speak Spanglish by nature.”

But another Phillies fan, Elvis Abreu, who is from the Dominican Republic, said Kulik’s Spanish has made him tune in less to his radio broadcasts.

“It’s bad,” he said. “If you’re broadcasting a baseball game for a Hispanic community, you have to bring the message to the people very clearly about the plays and the game in Spanish because the channel is obviously in Spanish.”

Because baseball was popularized in the United States and then spread to Latin America, several terms used in Spanish are borrowed from English. A home run, for example, is formally a “cuadrangular,” but many Spanish speakers say “jonron.” Left field is technically “jardín izquierdo,” but many still opt for the former. Kulik does all this, too, and more.

“The light switch just turns on and off, and I generally just go with it,” he said.

Kulik has been going with it for decades. After many years in Boston working in marketing, cable television and producing a local baseball show in English, he pitched the Boston Red Sox on a Spanish language radio broadcast to appeal to the city’s growing Latino community.

In 2001, he established a broadcast company called the Spanish Béisbol Network, initially thinking he would only serve as a producer but eventually transitioning into an on-air role.

He earned his nickname in 2003, when he pointed out that Sammy Sosa, a Dominican and a star hitter for the Chicago Cubs, was cheating when he was caught using a corked bat. That’s when the other announcer, defending Sosa, jokingly called him Gringo Malo.

Two years later, Kulik moved to Philadelphia, where he now not only calls the games but buys the Spanish language radio rights from the Phillies and procures advertisers and airtime for all 162 regular-season games.

Over the years, Kulik said, he has leaned on his broadcast partners for help cleaning up his calls. “Oscar comes in,” he said, and “gives the purest Spanish explanation of what just happened.”

Budejen, who is from Venezuela and joined Kulik in 2021, said both men understand and respect their roles. “The objective is that it’s the Phillies in Spanish,” he said. “But we use Spanglish because of the dynamic that exists in the group. And when it’s needed to do the translation, I translate. I have no problem with that.”

Robert Brooks, the Phillies’ manager of broadcasting since before Kulik’s arrival, said he used to get phone calls from people complaining about the way Kulik spoke Spanish. He would explain that it was Kulik’s idea to establish the Spanish radio network and there wouldn’t be a Spanish broadcast without him.

“He’s giving them what they want, even if it’s not the way they want it,” Brooks added. “I appreciate the fact that he stumbles through it, and when you’re speaking Spanglish to Span-

ish speakers, every once in a while, you’re going to get dinged, and you’ve got to be able to roll with that, and he’s good with it.”

Some listeners said they enjoyed Kulik’s broadcasts and his attempts to chronicle games in his less-than-perfect Spanish.

“I love that someone who has such difficulties speaking Spanish accepts the challenge to teach people about baseball speaking how he can,” said Gustavo Beitler, who listens from Uruguay and became a Phillies fan because of a cousin who lives in the United States. “For him, it would be easier to broadcast a game just in English. So it takes effort to do this.”

Martín Altuve, a listener in Venezuela, said “it wasn’t ideal” to use English or Spanglish on a Spanish language broadcast beyond baseball terminology but “it’s accepted.”

“Here in Venezuela, I’m not speaking Spanglish where a lot of people don’t speak English,” he said. “But at the baseball level, and with friends who understand what I’m saying, sure I use it. I say ‘leadoff’ and ‘closer.’”

José Tolentino, a Mexican and a former Spanish language broadcaster for the Los Angeles Angels, said a baseball program is entertainment, not an English or Spanish class.

“People want to be sitting down in their living room with a guy that knows the game,” he said. “If Spanglish is your language, there’s a market and there’s a certain comfort. Yeah, some people aren’t going to understand some parts and some people aren’t going to understand the others.”

Tolentino added: “I’m very proud that I speak very good Spanish. My dad would kill me if I didn’t speak good Spanish. But baseball is American. You can say ‘jonron’ and ‘cuadrangular.’”

On Tuesday, the Phillies will start postseason play, hoping to get further than last year, when they lost to the Houston Astros in the World Series.

Kulik will be there every step of the way, calling the “beisbol” games.

MLB PLAYOFFS

Wild Card Round

Today (All times EST)

American League

• Texas Rangers at Tampa Bay Rays (3:08 p.m., ABC)

• Toronto Blue Jays at Minnesota Twins (4:38 p.m., ESPN)

National League

• Arizona Diamondbacks at Milwaukee Brewers (7:08 p.m., ESPN2)

• Miami Marlins at Philadelphia Phillies (8:08 p.m., ESPN)

Bill Kulik, a Phillies Spanish language radio broadcaster, from his broadcast booth in Philadelphia.

Notebook and pen in hand, a Swiftie watches the NFL and learns

By EMMANUEL MORGAN

During one of the cutaway shots of 12-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift at Sunday night’s football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets, Zainub Amir, one of the singer’s ardent fans, grinned.

“It’s like I’m watching the Eras Tour on TV, except it’s football,” Amir, 27, said from a bar in New York City’s midtown Manhattan, referring to the singer’s record-breaking concert run that crashed ticket-selling websites.

Amir arrived at the bar — she had briefly contemplated buying tickets for the game at nearby MetLife Stadium — armed with a notebook and a pen to watch Swift support Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, her new rumored love interest.

The game itself, the marquee weekly broadcast of America’s most powerful sports league, initially held no importance to Amir. But when Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco scored the first touchdown, Amir yelped in excitement and posted about it on social media.

Because of Swift and Kelce’s rumored relationship, which set off a cultural and economic frenzy last weekend, Amir joined the cadre of Swift fans educating themselves about football.

She spent the past week studying its rules and star players. She vaguely knew of Kelce beforehand; Swift, who often writes songs about her relationships, had mainly dated musicians and actors.

When Swift entered the NFL domain, her cavalry of devoted fans crashed into a product many of them rarely interact

with.

“Her fans aren’t just consumers of Taylor Swift, they kind of also are Taylor Swift in a way,” said Jordan Pellerito, a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri who teaches a course on Swift.

“They’re kind of endeared by the dedication to understanding what she’s interested in, which right now is football.”

When news of Swift’s planned attendance at the Jets game broke Wednesday, ticket sales for the contest nearly doubled within a 24-hour span, according to the ticket exchange company StubHub. NFL games accounted for 83 of the most 100 viewed telecasts last year, according to the TV ratings firm Nielsen, and the league is enjoying record profits.

But Swift’s 94.5 million followers on X,

formerly known as Twitter, nearly triples that of the NFL’s, and her connection with Kelce is netting the league a new cohort of fans.

“It’s sort of a gift from the heavens for this all to happen, but it’s our job now to ensure that these fans coming in will stay,” said Tim Ellis, the NFL’s chief marketing officer.

Amir, who manages a Swift social media fan account — @SwiftNYC — with 333,000 followers, said she did not care about NFL games other than the Super Bowl, during which she mainly paid attention to the commercials and socialized. But Amir, who works in product sales at Bloomberg, had been a Swift fan since 2008.

She attended six of her Eras Tour concerts this year and remembers blasting Swift’s “Welcome to New York” for two hours the day she signed the lease to an Upper West Side apartment in 2017. When Swift’s relationship with Kelce appeared serious, Amir began studying.

“To understand why Taylor Swift may appreciate Travis Kelce as a person or appreciate the sport, I need to understand what she’s reacting to, and part of that is understanding football as a sport,” Amir said. “If I have no idea what’s going on, I’m not sure why she might be cheering.”

Amir watched videos on YouTube and TikTok and read news articles about football daily, asking male colleagues for clarification. She filled about six notebook pages with explainers on how points are scored, among other things,

and also created nicknames to remember certain positions.

The quarterback, of course, is Swift. Ball carriers such as running backs and wide receivers are Swift’s band because “they’re part of creating such a beautiful product for the tour and helping Taylor do her best.” She envisions the defense as Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West who in 2009 ran onstage and interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech in protest at the MTV Video Music Awards.

On Sunday, during a surprisingly competitive game, Amir soon began commenting on the action. She chastised Jets quarterback Zach Wilson for overthrowing a receiver in the end zone (“Oh, my God, that is so bad”). And she experienced a traditional rite of passage — questioning the ability of the officials. (“I would be mad, too,” she said when Jets coach Robert Saleh angrily reacted to a questionable penalty call.)

She also immediately recognized why Swift had a solemn facial expression when the game was tied at the start of the fourth quarter.

“It’s good that I understand football now because she looks so serious,” Amir said.

Amir had said before the game that she might not continue following the NFL if Swift and Kelce break up, but later remarked that the intense nature of the contest got her “invested.”

After the Chiefs held on for the win, she posted to her followers: “watching and learning football tonight as a fandom has been so fun omg I’m still at a nyc sports bar having a time.”

Zainub Amir, who attended six of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tours concerts this year, watched the Chiefs-Jets game from a Manhattan bar.

Sudoku

How to Play:

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

Sudoku Rules:

Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

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

Crossword

Answers on page 30

Wordsearch

Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Some fascinating new neighbors may move in. They could be in law, education, or travel, they could be from a foreign land - or they could be both. A friend could introduce you to these people. An impromptu welcome party could result, so you and everyone else have a chance to get to know each other.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Have you been looking for some new ways to earn extra money? Today might find you studying all the latest statistics and economic trends to point you in the right direction. Research online could be beneficial, although you might not know where to look. You should still make some inroads that sound interesting.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Passion is on your mind today. You’ll want to get together with a romantic partner. Don’t be surprised if the evening turns into a long, involved, and very intimate conversation, revealing secrets that you thought you’d never repeat to anyone. You could learn some rather surprising things as well, though nothing that changes your feelings.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Do you want to surprise your partner with a gift? Perhaps there’s something that your beloved has wanted for a long time but hasn’t bought. This would make a wonderful surprise, and should be greatly appreciated. Expressions of gratitude could be followed by a long conversation that brings you closer together.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Do you want to surprise your partner with a gift? Perhaps there’s something that your beloved has wanted for a long time but hasn’t bought. This would make a wonderful surprise, and should be greatly appreciated. Expressions of gratitude could be followed by a long conversation that brings you closer together.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Discussions of spiritual or psychic matters could result from exposure to an author on such subjects. You might attend a lecture by this person or perhaps see a documentary on the topic. You might not be convinced about what this person has to say and want to check it out with research of your own. But isn’t that the point - to get you to learn on your own?

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

A long-awaited letter or call might come today from a friend who lives in another state or a foreign country. This could open the lines of communication to a degree they haven’t reached for a long time. You and your friend have grown considerably since you were last close, so it’s almost like a whole new friendship. Enjoy getting to know each other again.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Are you interested in investing? This is a good day to read financial pages, study stock reports, and consult with people who know about these things. You’re probably considering a number of possibilities. Learn about them in detail before taking any action. This is a great day to collect information.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Communication with business and romantic partners should be more warm, open, and honest than usual. Take advantage of this to get misunderstandings out of the way, explain things that might seem confusing, and develop empathy with those around you. You could come out of this more united in all of your relationships.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

Your tasks should go smoothly and quickly today, particularly paperwork. Others are willing to lend a hand if you need it, and you might be called upon to assist another with a task beyond his or her ability. The atmosphere is unusually pleasant, so the day could just fly by. In the evening, go to a bookstore that’s holding a lecture or book signing.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

A rush of communication heightens love and romance today. Feelings and memories are willingly shared. Either you or your partner could reveal something that the other didn’t know, which could strengthen the bond between you. Some of what’s exchanged might be a little surprising, but your relationship should be much better for all the open, honest, and loving communication.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

A number of interesting visitors could come to your home today. At least one could be from a foreign country, and some could be in the educational field. You can expect some interesting conversations, and you might learn some fascinating facts on a subject that’s new to you. You could enjoy learning this so much that you look for books on the subject tomorrow.

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