on us receiving a high level of visitation,” said José Suárez, chairman of Discover Puerto Rico’s board of directors.
Puerto Rico announced Thursday it has resumed advertising efforts to attract visitors even though tourism revenues suffered little impact after the passage of Hurricane Fiona two weeks ago.
In a statement, the island’s destination marketing orga nization, or DMO, announced the continuation of its paid advertising efforts to attract visitors to the island following a two-week pause forced by Hurricane Fiona’s impact on Puerto Rico and its tourism industry. The firm will invest roughly $2.9 million for the remainder of the calendar year only in advertising that complements the public relations, sales, and promotional initiatives at trade fairs and industry events that continued uninterrupted in the days that followed the Category 1 storm.
To understand the impact of the hurricane on the tourism industry, Discover Puerto Rico said it collected data and commissioned a series of studies measuring both travel intent and the perception left by Hurricane Fiona on travelers. Findings showed that future bookings in short-term rentals decreased during the first week after the hurricane compared to the week before. However, by the second week, they had rebounded and were above pre-cyclone levels. For example, between the week before and after the storm, bookings on short-term rentals for December fell by 2%.
By the second week after the cyclone, bookings were 11% above the pre-hurricane period. Future hotel bookings did not fall at all, but in fact increased during the week following the hurricane. A survey conducted by Strategic Marketing & Research Insights and carried out among potential custom ers after the hurricane showed that the positive perception and the probability of travel within the next 12 months remained at similar levels to previous months. Also, 79% of those surveyed perceived that Puerto Rico was already open to travelers or would be soon. Destination Analysts found that, after the hurricane, 65% of potential travelers still perceived Puerto Rico as an attractive destination. This percentage is lower than what was recorded in March of this year (76%) but higher than the 58% recorded in April 2021, the year in which the industry broke records in lodg ing income, room tax revenues and visitor expenditures.
The resumption of paid advertising began Monday, Oct. 3, and will boost future bookings that already showed a positive trend during the second week following Hurricane Fiona, the DMO said.
“While we recognize that many communities continue to face difficulties brought on by Hurricane Fiona, we see that our island has come a long way in the recovery, and we understand as urgent the protection of the 90,300 jobs generated by the tourism industry in Puerto Rico that depend
“We trust that our Puerto Rican spirit, which we are all proud of and always celebrate, will continue to open the path toward normality and stability,” said Discover Puerto Rico CEO Brad Dean. “It is up to Discover Puerto Rico to redouble our efforts to boost tourism and retain the place we have earned among travelers.”
Days before Hurricane Fiona made landfall in the southwestern corner of the island, Discover Puerto Rico issued a series of alerts to travelers and redirected efforts to guide and provide information about the hurricane to visitors and the industry.
Subsequently, the organization started identifying at tractions, businesses, and points of interest that suffered damage. Once businesses had been consulted and the information grouped, the organization promoted commu nications through its website, on its social channels, and with international and specialized tourism media about the state of the local industry and the areas suitable for receiving visitors.
Similarly, the teams at Discover Puerto Rico that promote events and conventions on the island addressed the concerns of planners and, with their efforts, prevented cancellations. The teams continued their promotions schedule at trade shows in the mainland United States and internationally. Discover Puerto Rico maintained its participation in Brand USA Travel Week, the largest trade fair promoting European travel to the United States and its territories. The marketing team also participated in the Skift Global Tourism Forum and joint promotions with Condé Nast in London and Madrid, among many others.
week before, but, by the second week, they had rebounded and were above pre-storm levels.
Energy on Thursday requested prudence from its customers in the use of electricity after the Costa Sur power plant in Guayanilla faced problems generating energy during the early morning hours.
“As a result of this morning’s loss of generation capacity, generation reserves are at critical levels and are anticipated to remain at a low level until additional generation is con nected,” read a LUMA Energy statement on its social media. “To minimize the impact of generation failure, we urge our customers to conserve energy today, especially during peak hours between 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.”
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said in Salinas later in the day that the recovery from the incident had been satisfactory.
“The situation was corrected very quickly, which is the important thing. Such failures can arise in generation units. We know that they are outdated, not to say almost obsolete, but the important thing is money, homes,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “And we can ask the question directly to the executive director of the Electric Power Authority. But if you’ve been taking advantage of available FEMA funds, you have several projects in progress and some of those repairs and improvements to the plants have been made, while others are pending.”
“But what I can say about today’s incident is that the important thing was how quickly service was restored, because these situations can happen,” Pierluisi said. “The important thing is that it does not take long for the system to recover.”
According to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), at 3:50 a.m. Thursday, the operator of units 5 and 6 of Costa Sur lost control of the two units, causing both to go out of service.
“The Director of Generation Operations is at the plant
to evaluate what happened and return the units to service as soon as possible,” PREPA said on its social media. “This situation caused the activa tion of charge relay blocks in several areas of PR.”
A day earlier, Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez emerged from a House hearing on LUMA’s performance since the elec trical system went down during Hurricane Fiona say ing it is evident that a plan for the restoration of elec tricity and water service was not followed to address the emergency after the storm’s passage.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi emphasized that the failure of two power generation units at the Costa Sur plant in Guayanilla “was corrected very quickly, which is the important thing.”
“That is the most regret table thing,” the House speaker said as he left Wednesday’s public hearing before the Committee on Economic De velopment, Planning, Telecommunications, Public-Private Partnerships and Energy. “Hurricanes Irma and Maria passed and here there should be a protocol aligned with those realities of how to prepare.”
At the hearing, LUMA Energy president & CEO Wayne Stensby could not explain how he handled the process of bringing electrical service to the 215 facilities that the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority established as critical.
Hernández Montañez said it is evident that Stensby has no experience in managing an energy system like Puerto Rico’s.
“I think it is evident from what Wayne Stensby has stated
that he does not have any kind of experience and that he was not prepared to manage an energy system in the tropics, that there was no effective communication either with the mayors or the aqueduct authority, which is a priority, and not even in writing … a plan that he did not execute because he was not in the field,” the legislator said. “He was left in an air-conditioned office handling administrative matters.”
He also criticized Stensby’s insistence on comparing Hurricane Fiona to Hurricane Maria.
“Characterizing this as something extraordinary truly [shows] he does not know anything about Puerto Rico,”
Hernández Montañez said. “It is because this is the way it works in Puerto Rico, as we are in the Caribbean in the path of hurricanes. Every year we will always have the effect of the reality that hurricanes pass through our island.”
the right temperature.”
Mayor Rolando Ortiz Velázquez is calling on citizens from across Puerto Rico to join the ‘Pockets March’ and go to all regional offices of LUMA Energy today starting at 7 a.m. to express their indignation.
“Pockets” are areas without electrical service that are sur rounded by areas where most of the power has been restored.
“We will not move from those offices until the consortium’s management agrees with the mayors on a fair, non-discrimi natory, and uniform plan for the recovery of Puerto Rico,” the mayor said. “It is a criminal act that LUMA Energy is doing with the communities of Puerto Rico. The demonstration of indignation is for all the communities in pockets without light, and for the broken pockets of the humble and needy people who continue spending money on fuel for [home generation] plants, batteries for flashlights, and ice to keep medicines at
Ortiz Velázquez accused LUMA Energy officials of “shame lessly lying to the entire country with alleged percentages of energization.”
“No one believes these figures of over 90%,” he said. “That is why this manipulative, lying and cowardly management must be confronted. They send a poor engineer to give false figures while the top management hides; this country has to be respected, and this Friday is the day!”
At the moment, LUMA Energy has, according to its website, 25 regional offices throughout Puerto Rico.
“Those who fortunately have power, it is time to be in sol idarity with neighbors, friends, or relatives in the dark,” Ortiz Velázquez. “This is not the time for divisions but to unite as a people against a mogul who has no interest in the good of Puerto Rico. It has been proven that they only came to squeeze the pockets of all of us. We will all take to the streets this Friday.”
Mayor William Miranda Torres demanded Thursday that LUMA Energy, the private operator of the island’s electricity transmission and distribution system, respond to the demands of residents of sectors ranging from Barrio Borinquen to the municipality of Cayey and sections of the Río Cañas and Tomás de Castro neighborhoods, which have been without power service for almost 20 days, and provide an official explanation.
At the same time, the mayor shared with members of the House Committee on Economic Development, Planning, Telecommunications, Public-Private Partnerships, and Energy information on the energy status of the municipality, which shows that there are still thousands of families without elec tricity service.
Through a press release, Miranda Torres said “the Rep resentative of the [Puerto Rican] Independence Party, Denis Márquez, requested information on the energy situation of the city, and we shared with him the evaluation we made with a geo-referenced map with all the details of the places that are still without service.”
“I am grateful for representative Márquez’s initiative since, at this time, what I am looking for are allies who can help my people,” the mayor said. “The country’s situation cannot be solved by looking at political colors. Solutions must be sought with speed and unity of purpose; that is what our people need.”
“Thousands of families in sectors of the Borinquen, Beatriz, Río Cañas, and Tomás de Castro neighborhoods have
After
reaching the disbursement of $214 million in aid, Public Housing Administrator Alejandro Sal gado Colón on Thursday announced the extension
Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres
been without electricity since the passage of Hurricane Fiona, without any certain information as to when they will have it,”
Miranda Torres added. “There is a limit to patience, and LUMA hindered the hiring of private brigades that the mayors wanted to hire. Today, 20 days later, families with bedridden people who depend on machines to live continue without electricity.”
Miranda Torres noted that “a week ago, I requested this information so that Caguas families and the municipality could prepare and adjust their budgets.”
“Municipal staff and I have been supporting the LUMA brigades,” the mayor said. “We have worked tirelessly, but the damage to the infrastructure of Caguas has been severe. They have to bring brigades, hire people, activate the people of UTIER [the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union], whatever it takes to prevent the loss of lives in our city.”
Miranda Torres noted further that “Mr. Abner Gómez said this week that 97% of Caguas had been energized.”
“This is not possible when we already know that entire sectors such as Ramona, Naranjito, Buenos Aires, Lajitas, Villa Coquí, Colinas de Villa Coquí, Alturas de Villa Coquí, Borinquen Atravesada, from Colmado Esther, in a tour of the Borinquen and Beatriz neighborhoods to Cayey, do not have power ser vice,” the mayor insisted. “In fact, we have direct contact with almost 16,000 citizens through text and social networks, and in a sample of 1,500 customers, only 70% have electricity. And we have the addresses and phone numbers of those people.”
“We want cagüeños to return to their daily lives,” Miranda Torres said. “The Weather Service is monitoring two new sys tems, and the hurricane season is not over. We must respond to the people of Caguas to be ready until the hurricane season ends. We expect an answer for Caguas.”
of the Rental Assistance Program.
The program, which assists beneficiaries in paying their home rent and their water and electricity bills, has a new allocation of $97 million until September 2023.
“Through this program, we have assisted thousands of Puerto Rican families who have faced economic problems during the past months and during the pandemic,” Salgado Colón said. “Today, we announce this new allocation that will allow us to continue helping many more families who, due to various circumstances, have had difficulty paying their rent, electricity, or water bills.”
To date, 71,372 families have benefited, for which $163.6 million has been disbursed in assistance for the payment of rent, $35.2 million for the cost of electricity, and $15.4 million for the payment of water bills.
“We have already disbursed $214 million in aid to families, and we will continue our efforts to bring this aid to more people,” Salgado Colón said.
Those who have already received assistance are eligible for the subsidy again as long as they have not reached the 18-month assistance cap.
To be eligible, tenants must have incomes below 80 percent of the area median income, as established by the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. To apply for assistance and receive more information, interested persons can access the website www.ayudapara turenta.com. They can also call 787-759-1888 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, except holidays.
AfterPresident Joe Biden announced Thursday that he is erasing prior federal possession convictions for cannabis and beginning the process of loosen ing federal classification of the drug, an island lawmaker urged the government to take similar action.
“It is evident that the current public policy on drugs in Puerto Rico has failed in recent decades. The historical situation in which we find ourselves makes it worthwhile to seek to temper the legislation to the current reality,”
Popular Democratic Party Rep. Héctor Ferrer Santiago said. “It is time to establish a system of civil sanctions that does not lead to the imprisonment of a person for simple pos session of cannabis, and at the same time seek to preserve the legitimate interest in not promoting its consumption. That is why it is important to pass House Bill 1191 of my
authorship.”
Biden on Thursday reportedly said he will pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, a move that senior administration officials said would affect thousands of Americans charged with that crime.
The president also urged governors to take similar steps to pardon state simple marijuana possession charges, a move that would potentially affect many thousands more Americans, according to U.S. media outlets.
Biden asked the Department of Health and Human Services and Attorney General Merrick Garland to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law with the goal of easing a
Rep. Héctor Ferrer Santiagofederal classification that currently places marijuana in the same category as heroin and LSD.
“No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,” Biden said in a video announcing his executive actions. “It’s legal in many states, and criminal records for marijuana possession have led to need less barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities.”
“And that’s before you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences,” the president said on CNN. “While white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people are arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.”
TheJustice Department is investigating several cases related to the sale of solar panel systems.
“Currently, the Economic Crimes Division is litigating
several cases involving construction fraud, financial exploita tion, and misappropriation related to selling and installing solar systems,” Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández in a written statement. “These are some of the most common crimes linked to this situation. One of the cases is in the preliminary hearing stage. The accused is Gabriel López López, owner of Virtuosity Company, who charged over $133,000 but never completed the installation.”
On July 11, prosecutor Ileana Martínez Rosado filed three charges against López. On the same day, Judge Melissa Santiago of the Superior Court in Utuado determined a cause for arrest. She imposed a $30,000 bail on the accused. The contractor remains in an electronic shackle.
“These cases are handled by the prosecutors’ offices of the judicial districts throughout the island, but when they exceed $50,000 or involve a scheme committed in different regions or municipalities, they are referred to the Economic Crimes Division,” the Justice secretary said.
Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli HernándezAnother ongoing investigation is being carried out in coordination with the Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s Aguadilla
Thecrew of the Coast Guard cutter Winslow Griesser and Caribbean Corridor Strike Force agents unloaded 721 pounds (327 kilograms) of cocaine worth $6.5 million in San Juan following the interdiction of a smuggling ship in the Mona Passage.
“I couldn’t be more proud of the Winslow Griesser’s crew, especially our small boat crew, whose skill and professionalism were instrumental in stopping this fast drug smuggling ship,” said Lt. Cmdr. Mark Tatara, commanding officer of the cutter Winslow
Griesser, in a written statement Thursday.
The four men arrested in the case claimed to be citizens of the Dominican Republic and now face federal prosecution in Puerto Rico for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance aboard a vessel subject to U.S. jurisdiction.
The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years and a maximum penalty of life in prison.
An additional charge includes assaulting federal officers with a deadly weapon, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Criminal Investigations Corps related to the same company and its owner.
“It should be noted that Department of Justice prose cutors are in charge of prosecuting criminal cases in which there is intent to defraud; for example, when a person commits to installing the system but does not intend to comply,” said prosecutor Rodney Ríos Medina, director of the Economic Crimes Division.
Cases that are not criminal in nature are handled through civil or administrative channels. In general, complaints related to warranty, malfunction or noncompliance with any of the clauses of the agreed contract are regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs or settled in the courts between private parties. In such cases, the Department of Justice does not intervene.
“However, if any agency or entity believes that it may have before it a case with elements of a criminal nature, it must refer the information to the Police Bureau, which carries out the first stage of the investigation and, subsequently, consults with the Department of Justice for the filing of charges,” Ríos Medina said.
Ian’s wrath made clear that Florida faces some of the most severe consequences of climate change anywhere in the country. But the state’s top elected leaders opposed the most significant climate legislation to pass Congress — laws to help fortify states against and recover from climate disasters and confront their underlying cause: the burning of fossil fuels.
Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott voted against last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law, which devotes some $50 billion to help states better prepare for events like Ian, because they said it was wasteful. And in August, they joined every fellow Republican in the Senate to oppose a new climate law that invests $369 billion in reducing green house gas emissions, the largest such effort in the country’s history.
At the same time, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has blocked the state’s pension fund from taking climate change into account when making investment decisions, saying that politics should be absent from financial calculations.
In the aftermath of Ian, those leaders want federal help to rebuild their state — but don’t want to discuss the underlying problem that is making hurricanes more powerful and destructive.
As Hurricane Ian approached Florida’s coast, the storm grew in intensity because it passed over ocean water that was 2 to 3 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year, NASA data show. Its destructive power was made worse by rising seas; the water off the southwest coast of Florida has risen more than 7 inches since 1965, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Finally, warmer air resulting from climate change increased the amount of rain that Ian dropped on Florida by at least 10%, or about 2 extra inches in some places, according to a study released last week.
Rubio has secured millions of dollars to restore the Everglades as a way to store floodwaters and repair coral reefs to buffer storm surges. One of his House colleagues, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a South Florida Republican, has secured billions for climate resiliency.
But none of the top Republicans in the state have supported legislation to curb the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change.
With its sun and offshore wind, Florida could be a leader in renewable energy, said Rep. Kathy Castor, a Democrat who repre sents Tampa. Instead, it imports natural gas that it burns to produce electricity.
“To not admit that climate change is real and we need to address it bodes nothing but a harm for the future for Florida and the nation,” said Charlie Crist, a former Repu blican Florida governor who won a House seat as a Democrat and is now challenging DeSantis’ reelection.
Hurricane Ian is far from the first time Florida has felt the impacts of climate change. In Miami, the rising ocean means streets and sidewalks regularly flood during high tide, even on sunny days. In the Florida Keys, officials are looking at raising roadbeds that will otherwise become impassable.
Yet the state’s leaders have long resisted what scientists say is needed to stave off a catastrophic future: an aggressive pivot away from gas, oil and coal and toward solar, wind and other renewable energy sources.
“Attempting to reverse-engineer the U.S. economy to absolve our past climate sins — either through a carbon tax or some ‘Green New Deal’ scheme — will fail,” Rubio wrote in 2019. “None of those advocates can point to how even the most aggressive (and draconian) plan would improve the lives of Floridians.”
Scott, the former governor of Florida who is now the state’s junior senator, has argued the cost of attacking climate change is just too great.
“We clearly want to and need to ad dress the impacts of climate change,” Scott told NPR last summer. “But we’ve got to do it in a fiscally responsible manner. We can’t put jobs at risk.”
Hurricane Ian could be among the costliest storms to hit Florida, with losses estimated in the tens of billions.
The two senators also voted against last year’s infrastructure bill, which provided about $50 billion toward climate resilience — the country’s largest single investment in measures designed to better protect people against the effects of climate change.
A helicopter carries evacuees from Pine Island, Fla., on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Before Hurricane Ian, the state’s Republican politicians have rejected federal action to cut gre enhouse gas emissions and boost climate resilience.
That bill, which passed the Senate with support from 19 Republicans, included measures designed to help protect against hurricanes. It provided billions for sea walls, storm pumps, elevating homes, flood control and other projects.
Many of those measures were co-writ ten by another coastal Republican, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who called it “a major victory for Louisiana and our nation.” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, also supported the bill. Both states face enormous threats from climate change.
But Rubio called it “wasteful,” while Scott said it was “reckless spending.” Both voted no.
Scott and DeSantis did not respond to requests for comment.
Dan Holler, a deputy chief of staff to Rubio, said the senator opposed the infras tructure bill because it included unnecessary measures, just as he opposed the final ver sion of relief for Hurricane Sandy in 2013 because of what he called extraneous pork barrel spending.
But the larger issue, Holler said, is that those pushing broad measures to wean the nation from fossil fuels have yet to prove to Rubio that such efforts would actually slow sea level rise, calm storms or mitigate
flooding.
Crist sounded almost sympathetic as he discussed the bind that Florida Republicans find themselves in — accepting donations from the oil and gas industry, unwilling to raise the issue of climate change with their most loyal voters, while surveying the da mage it is doing to their state.
The oil and gas industry is not a major source of campaign cash for politicians in Florida, where offshore drilling is prohibited. Rubio has received $223,239 from the oil and gas industry since 2017, which puts the industry at 15th on his donor list, federal records show. Scott has received $236,483 from oil and gas, his 14th most generous industry.
But the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which Scott leads, has received $3.2 million in oil and gas donations this campaign cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, eclipsed only by real estate, Wall Street and retirees. By contrast, the fossil fuel business isn’t among the top 20 industries that have given this cycle to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
“There’s an ‘ideological versus reality’ divide here that must be very excruciating to these Republican politicians,” Crist said.
appeals court panel ruled earlier this week that a program that protects nearly 600,000 young im migrants from deportation is illegal but al lowed those already enrolled to renew their status — in essence keeping the status of the program unchanged but its future uncertain.
The decision from the three-judge pan el on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — one of the country’s most conservative federal appellate courts — affirmed a 2021 lower court decision. The Biden administra tion will need to continue its legal fight to enroll new applicants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The judges sent the case back to U.S. District Court in Houston to consider a new administration policy issued in August to protect the program. The new regulation was intended to go into effect at the end of the month.
Wednesday’s ruling was the latest turn in a series of court rulings and admin
istration actions that over the years has canceled, reinstated or rolled back pieces of the DACA program. It has long seemed
likely that the case would ultimately go to the Supreme Court.
Immigration advocates said the ruling signaled that the only chance for DACA to survive was for Congress to pass a law to protect young immigrants, something it has been unable to do for more than two
“This decision makes 100% clear that the options for preserving DACA in the courts are dwindling and essentially nonexistent at this point,” said Jess Hanson, a staff lawyer at the National Immigration Law Center. “We really need Congress to step up.”
Democrats have been trying to pre serve the Obama-era program for years.
President Barack Obama created DACA through executive action in 2012 after years of inaction in Congress to provide permanent protection to immigrants who were brought to the country as children, a group referred to as “Dreamers.”
It was intended as a stopgap measure
to provide hundreds of thousands of young immigrants protection from deportation. The protection lasts two years at a time and is renewable, but it does not offer a path to citizenship.
Immigrants in the DACA program are on average about 26 years old, with the oldest nearing 40. Most were brought to the country from Mexico; others were born in other Latin American countries and the Caribbean. Many of the DACA recipients have been able to raise families, buy homes and work at jobs in their fields of study, but their status has been precarious for years.
In June 2020, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s decision to terminate the program. The court did not rule, however, on whether the program had been legally adopted. One of President Joe Biden’s first actions in office was to strengthen the DACA program. But the 2021 Texas court ruling renewed the uncertainty surrounding it.
On Wednesday, the judges wrote that while they agree with the lower court that the DACA program is not legal, they “also recognize that DACA has had profound significance to recipients and many others in the 10 years since its adoption.”
The Justice Department was working with the Department of Homeland Security on a response to the ruling.
“I am deeply disappointed by today’s DACA ruling and the ongoing uncertainty it creates for families and communities across the country,” DHS Secretary Alejandro May orkas said in a statement late Wednesday. “I urge Congress to swiftly pass legislation to provide permanent protection to the hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who call the United States home.”
The Democrat-led Congress is running out of time to find a long-term solution, particularly if Republicans regain control of the House in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
Activists have called on Congress for years to enshrine into law the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for young undocumented immigrants.Soonafter the FBI searched Donald Trump’s home in Florida for classified documents, online researchers zeroed in on a worrying trend.
Posts on Twitter that mentioned “civil war” had soared nearly 3,000% in just a few hours as Trump’s supporters blasted the action as a provocation. Similar spikes followed, including on Facebook, Reddit, Telegram, Parler, Gab and Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform. Mentions of the phrase more than doubled on radio programs and podcasts, as measured by Critical Mention, a media-tracking firm.
Posts mentioning “civil war” jumped again a few weeks later, after President Joe Biden branded Trump and “MAGA Republicans” a threat to “the very foundations of our republic” in a speech on democracy in Philadelphia.
Now experts are bracing for renewed discussions of civil war, as the Nov. 8 midterm elections approach and political talk grows more urgent and heated.
More than a century and a half after the actual Civil War, the deadliest war in U.S. history, “civil war” references have become increasingly commonplace on the right. While in many cases the term is used only loosely — shorthand for the nation’s intensifying partisan divisions — observers note that the phrase, for some, is far more than a metaphor.
Polling, social media studies and a rise in threats suggest that a growing number of Americans are anticipating, or even welcoming, the possibility of sustained political violence, researchers studying extremism say. What was once the subject of serious discussion only on the political periphery has migrated closer to the mainstream.
But while that trend is clear, there is far less agreement among experts about what it means.
Some elements of the far right view it literally: a call for an organized battle for control of the government. Others envision something akin to a drawn-out insurgency, punctuated with eruptions of political violence, such as the attack on the FBI’s Cincinnati field office in August. A third group describes the country as entering a “cold” civil war, manifested by intractable polarization and mistrust, rather than a “hot” war with conflict.
But talk of political violence is not relegated to anonymous online forums.
Supporters of Donald Trump rally outside a diner which refused to follow pandemic safety measures for months, inn Holland, Mich. on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021.
At a Trump rally in Michigan on Saturday night, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said that “Democrats want Republicans dead,” adding that “Joe Biden has declared every freedom-loving American an enemy of the state.” At a recent fundraiser, Michael Flynn, who briefly served as Trump’s national security adviser, said that governors had the power to declare war and that “we’re probably going to see that.”
On Monday, federal prosecutors showed a jury in Washington an encrypted message that Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers armed extremist group, had sent his lieutenants two days after the 2020 presidential election: “We aren’t getting through this without a civil war.”
Experts say the steady patter of bellicose talk has helped normalize the expectation of political violence.
In late August, a poll of 1,500 adults by YouGov and The Economist found that 54% of respondents who identified as “strong Republicans” believed a civil war was at least somewhat likely in the next decade. Only about a third of all respondents felt such an event was unlikely. A similar survey conducted by the same groups two years ago found nearly 3 in 5 people feeling that a “civil war-like fracture in the U.S.” was
either somewhat or very unlikely.
“What you’re seeing is a narrative that was limited to the fringe going into the mainstream,” said Robert Pape, a political science professor at the University of Chicago and founder of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats.
The institute’s researchers tracked tweets mentioning civil war before and after Trump announced the search on Mar-a-Lago. In the five preceding days, they logged an average of roughly 500 tweets an hour. That jumped to 6,000 in the first hour after Trump published a post on Truth Social on the afternoon of Aug. 8, saying “these are dark times for our Nation.” The pace peaked at 15,000 tweets an hour later that evening. A week later, it was still six times higher than the baseline, and the phrase was once again trending on Twitter at month’s end.
Extremist groups have been agitating for some sort of government overthrow for years and, Pape said, the most radical views — often driven by white supremacy or religious fundamentalism — remain marginal, advanced by no more than 50,000 people nationwide.
But a far larger group, he said, are the people who have been influenced by Trump’s complaints about the “Washington swamp” and “deep state” forces working against him and his allies.
Those notions, stirred in a smoldering crucible with QAnon conspiracy theories, anti-vaccine views and election denialism, have fueled a growing hostility toward the federal government and rising talk about states’ rights.
Social media platforms are rife with groups and boards dedicated to discussions of civil war. One, on Gab, describes itself as a place for “action reports,” “combat vids” and reports of people killed in action in “the civil war that is also looking to be a 2nd American Revolution.”
In August, a single tweet stating “I think civil war has just been declared” managed to reach over 17 million profiles despite coming from an account with under 14,000 followers, according to Cybara, an Israeli firm that monitors misinformation.
“Ideas go into echo chambers and it’s the only voice that’s heard; there are no voices of dissent,” said Kurt Braddock, an American University professor who studies how terrorist groups radicalize and recruit.
Braddock said he did not believe these posts indicated any planning for a war.
But he worries about what academics call “stochastic terrorism” — seemingly random acts of violence that are, in fact, provoked by “coded language, dog whistles and other subtext” in statements by public figures.
Trump is adept at making such statements, said Braddock, citing Trump’s April 2020 tweet reading “Liberate Michigan!” Less than two weeks later, mobs of heavily armed protesters occupied the state Capitol in Lansing. He also pointed to Trump’s speech before the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, when he encouraged thousands of supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol and, later in the same remarks told them, “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
“The statements Trump makes are not overt calls to action, but when you have a huge and devoted following, the chances that one or more people are activated by that are high,” Braddock said.
A spokesperson for Trump did not respond to requests for comment.
After Biden delivered his speech on democracy, Brian Gibby, a freelance data entry specialist in Charlotte, North Carolina, wrote in a Substack post that he believed “the Second Civil War began” with the president’s remarks.
“I have never seen a more divisive, hatefilled speech from an American president,” Gibby wrote.
Asked by The New York Times to explain his views, Gibby said he believed Biden was “escalating a hot conflict in America.” He worries something will happen around the November elections that will be “akin to Jan. 6, but much more violent,” where armed protest groups from both sides of the political spectrum come to blows.
“Plan ahead, stock up, stay safe, get out of cities if you can,” he wrote.
Arabia and Russia, acting as lea ders of the OPEC+ energy cartel, agre ed on Wednesday to their first large production cut in more than two years in a bid to raise prices, countering efforts by the United States and Europe to choke off the enormous revenue that Moscow reaps from the sale of crude.
President Joe Biden and European leaders have urged more oil production to ease gasoline prices and punish Moscow for its aggression in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of using energy as a weapon against countries oppo sing its invasion of Ukraine, and the optics of the decision could not be missed.
The White House was not happy. “The president is disappointed by the shortsighted decision by OPEC+ to cut production quo tas while the global economy is dealing with the continued negative impact of Putin’s in vasion of Ukraine,” Brian Deese, the direc tor of the National Economic Council, and Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, said in a statement.
The cut of 2 million barrels a day re presents about 2% of global oil production.
By reducing output, OPEC+ was also seeking to make a statement to energy mar kets about the group’s cohesion during the Ukraine war and its willingness to act quic kly to defend prices, analysts say.
At a news conference after the mee ting, the Saudi energy minister, Prince Ab dulaziz bin Salman, said OPEC+ was acting amid signs of a downturn in the world eco nomy that might cause demand for oil to weaken and prices to fall.
“We would rather be preemptive than be sorry,” he said.
The move appeared to have the desi red result: The price of Brent crude, the in ternational bench mark, which had slumped during the summer, rose more than 1.5% after the meeting, extending the gains re corded in recent days and bringing prices back to levels last seen in mid-September. The average price of gasoline in the United States recently began to rise again, tracking the price of oil.
In response to the OPEC+ announ cement, Biden administration officials said that the president would order the Energy Department to release 10 million additional barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in November. Earlier this week, the administration said it had no plans to extend
a six-month effort to release 1 million barrels a day, which was scheduled to finish at the end of this month.
Hours before the OPEC+ meeting, the European Union pushed ahead with an am bitious plan promoted by the Biden adminis tration to cap the price of Russian oil, in coor dination with Group of 7 nations and others.
The EU cap is intended to set the price of Russian oil lower than where it is today but still above the cost of producing it. The U.S. Treasury Department estimates that the program could deprive the Kremlin of tens of billions of dollars annually. But some analysts say the cap would make the logis tics of the oil trade more difficult, driving prices higher. And it relies on the participa tion of non-EU nations that are still buying Russian oil.
In China, one of the biggest consumers of Russian oil this year, the foreign ministry has criticized the concept, warning last month that oil is too important to the global economy to be subject to the planned price controls.
“Oil is a global commodity — ensu ring global energy supply security is vitally important,” Mao Ning, a foreign ministry spokesperson, said on Sept. 5.
And the EU proposal, aimed at pushing down prices, would seem to compete against OPEC+’s action to seek to raise oil prices.
But there is uncertainty about how deep the cut in oil production will go. Be
cause of a lack of investment, most mem bers of OPEC+ regularly fall short of their production quotas and will not need to trim production much if at all. Richard Bronze, the head of geopolitics at Energy Aspects, a research firm, estimates that the actual cut will be only about 1 million barrels a day.
And the weakening global economy could undermine the Russian and Saudiled effort to drive up prices. As economic growth slows, demand for oil would slacken.
Wednesday’s meeting was in person, at the headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vien na, for the first time since March 2020 — a sign of the significance of the announce ment. Among those attending was Russia’s deputy prime minister, Alexander Novak, who has played a key role in fostering coo peration with other major oil-producing countries.
The presence of Novak, who is subject to U.S. sanctions, could come as an emba rrassment to officials in Europe when their citizens face what could be a tough winter because of higher energy prices linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Analysts said that the increasing inter vention in the markets by Washington and the European Union, such as the move to set a price cap for Russian oil, might be pushing OPEC+ into more aggressive moves. Russia wants a higher price to offset the steep dis counts it has had to give to sell its oil.
Some oil producers may see the pri ce cap as a precedent that “might be an at tempt to drive down prices more generally,” Bronze said. Such worries may explain why OPEC+ “is willing to take such a big step and one that will be so unpopular in Wash ington,” he added.
At the news conference, Prince Ab dulaziz denied any collusion with Russia, portraying OPEC+ as a “band of brothers” interested only in preserving the stability of markets. “Where is the act of belligerence?” he asked.
At one point he instructed an assis tant to display a chart showing that crude oil has edged up in price only by a singledigit percentage since January, before Russia invaded Ukraine, while the prices of other energy sources, like natural gas in Europe and coal, have soared.
fell in volatile trading Wednesday after the Fed eral Reserve raised rates by 75 basis points and fore cast more sizable rate hikes ahead in its fight to tame surging inflation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 522.45 points, or 1.7%, to close at 30,183.78. The S&P 500 shed 1.71% to 3,789.93, and the Nasdaq Composite slumped 1.79% to 11,220.19.
The S&P ended Wednesday’s session down more than 10% in the past month and 21% off its 52-week high. Even before the rate decision, stocks were pricing in an aggressive tightening campaign by the Fed that could tip the economy into a recession.
Stocks were volatile as traders parsed through the rate decision and the latest comments from Powell’s press conference. At its highs, the Dow was up more than 314 points.
The Fed raised rates by the widely expected 75 ba sis points and said it expects its so-called terminal rate to reach 4.6% to fight persistently high U.S. inflation. That’s the rate at which the central bank will end its tightening regime. The central bank also indicated that it plans to stay aggressive, hiking rates to 4.4% by next year.
“You can only steer the ship towards the storm for so long, but eventually there comes a time when you need to batten down the hatches and with the Fed’s third con secutive 75 basis point rate hike over the past four months, market participants should be looking for cover to weather the upcoming storm,” said Charlie Ripley, senior invest ment strategist at Allianz Investment Management.
Treasury yields popped on the news. The 2-year rate, which hit its highest level since 2007, popped up to 4.1%. The 10-year rate jumped to about 3.6% at the highs of the day.
All major S&P 500 sectors finished the session in neg ative territory, led to the downside by consumer discre tionary, communication services, materials and a slew of growth names. Travel and entertainment stocks also took a hit along with beaten-up big technology stocks Apple, Amazon and Meta Platforms.
Stocks wavered on Wednesday but finished the ses sion deep in the red after the Federal Reserve announced another 75 basis point rate hike.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 522.45 points, or 1.7%, to close at 30,183.78. The S&P 500 slid 1.71% to 3,789.93 and the Nasdaq Composite dove 1.79% to 11,220.19.
Even though the Federal Reserve just delivered its third consecutive 0.75 percentage point rate hike to tamp down inflation, markets are looking for any reason for a dovish read, said Kevin Gordon, senior investment research man ager at Charles Schwab.
Ukrainian tanks and howitzers rum bled through the main intersection in this village on their way to the front Tuesday, members of a family stood with shocked faces before the wreckage of their property.
Every building around them was da maged or flattened by war. The family’s two
sturdy brick stores and café-bar lay smashed and looted. Their house was gutted by fire, the motel rooms behind it ransacked.
“I don’t know how to fix this,” the ow ner, Nikolai Zakharchenko, 78, said as he looked at the destruction. “We don’t have the means,” his wife, Veronika, 76, added.
The Zakharchenkos were one of the first families to return to this quiet country village in Donetsk province surrounded by fir forests,
which was retaken by Ukrainian troops less than two weeks ago in a sweeping counte roffensive that has broken Russian control of huge swaths of territory in northeastern Ukrai ne.
Yet amid the euphoria of reclaiming their lands and homes, Ukrainians are only just beginning to understand the scale of the damage the war has wrought after first Rus sian troops attacked and occupied the area, and then Ukrainian forces mounted a counte roffensive last month.
Zakharchenko had brought a bag of keys to the doors of their property, but everything had already been broken open — the windows shattered, the doors blown apart. The family members had fled without possessions but came back to an empty home and destroyed businesses, and they would not be able to stay. Someone — probably Russian soldiers, they guessed — had stolen even the beds, Nikolai Zakharchenko said.
Russian planes bombed the village in March, causing a great conflagration that bur ned for a day and a night, villagers said. But gradually things quieted down, one man, Ole ksandr, 48, said.
The Russians occupied empty hou ses, fixed the electricity and paid residents to clean the streets. They handed out food packets and canned meat to those, like Olek
sandr, who had no work. “They would throw packets to us,” he said. “They had more cans than bullets.”
Then, in September, Ukrainian troops began advancing, and the two armies she lled each other’s positions. The fighting lasted two days, and this time Ukrainian tank and artillery fire destroyed more of the village, Oleksandr said. Most of the Russian troops pulled out, but they left a small force holding positions. Gunbattles raged through the night as the Ukrainians attacked, and the next mor ning they heard Ukrainian voices in the street.
The back-and-forth of the fighting strai ned residents to the limit. Svetlana, a kinder garten teacher, said columns of Russian troops and armor withdrew down the road for more than 12 hours on the night of Sept 9. The Rus sians left some units manning positions in the village, and residents huddled in their cellars for 12 more days as artillery fire whined over head toward the village beyond before the Ukrainians moved in to attack.
“This is a resort village; people come here to relax,” Svetlana said. “But they turned it into a gray zone.”
Her husband, Oleh, 54, a construction worker, butted in with an appeal to the pre sidents of both Russia and Ukraine. “Please calm down,” he said. “Let people live in pea ce. Why do our people have to die?”
The director of the United Nations’ nu clear watchdog was visiting Kyiv on Thursday to continue talks about esta blishing a nuclear safety zone at the Zapori zhzhia nuclear power plant, a goal he said has become “more urgent than ever” since Russia said it would take over operational control of the facility.
The nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, has been entangled in a power struggle between Russia and Ukraine for months. Recurring she lling near the plant, which was seized by Rus sian forces in March but is still run by Ukra inian engineers, has raised concerns about a catastrophic meltdown, and the Kremlin’s announcement Wednesday that it would “na tionalize” the plant has introduced even more
uncertainty.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director ge neral of the International Atomic Energy Agen cy, said in a statement Wednesday that he was traveling to Kyiv to discuss the status of the plant. He was expected to provide updates on the situation at a news conference later Thurs day. He has said he also planned to make a trip to Russia to discuss the matter but did not specify when.
The Zaporizhzhia power plant is close to the battlefront, on a Russian-controlled bank of the Kakhovka reservoir, with Ukrainian forces stationed on the opposite bank. The IAEA has had two staff members stationed there since September to independently assess its safety.
It has called for the establishment of a “safety and security protection zone” around the facility, but it does not have the authority
to order a cease-fire or to demand that Russian forces leave the plant. Grossi said last month that there were active negotiations with both Ukraine and Russia to end military actions in and around the plant, though he has offered few details.
On Wednesday, the Kremlin published a decree from President Vladimir Putin saying that he was nationalizing the facility and that Russia would take over operating it. Russia claims the plant is now in Russian territory and should be under its control after its illegal an nexation of the Zaporizhzhia region and three others this week.
Ukrainian officials Wednesday condem ned the attempted takeover of the plant and said that they would continue to manage it, although as a practical matter it was not clear how that could be implemented while Russia
has control of the plant.
“All further decisions regarding the ope ration of the station will be made directly at the central office of Energoatom,” Petro Ko tin, the head of Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company, Energoatom, said Wednesday.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry urged the Eu ropean Union, the Group of 7 and other allies to impose sanctions on Russia’s state nuclear power company, Rosatom. It further called on member countries of the IAEA to limit coope ration with Russia.
Separately Wednesday, the IAEA said that it had learned that the plant plans to res tart one of its six reactors. In September, the last operating reactor was shut off over safe ty concerns as fighting continued nearby. The plant, at full operation, provided about onefifth of Ukraine’s electricity supply.
Inspecting the damage to the Zakharchenko family’s property in the recently recaptured village of Yatskivka.Longbefore protests started spreading across Iran last month, the hijab — the Islamic headscarf that Iranian law requires women to wear in public, along with loosefitting modest clothing — had been at the center of conflicts over national identity, religious author ity and political power for decades.
Worn by mandate, the veil has long served as a reminder of the Islamic Republic’s power. But now, stripped off and waved in furious protest by young women, it has come to symbolize the gulf between the population’s demands and what the government is will ing, or even able, to provide.
Enforcement of the modesty laws was the apparent reason the country’s morality police arrested Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd ish woman, several weeks ago. The police claimed that Amini had collapsed suddenly from a heart attack during mandatory training on the hijab rules while in custody. But when a video and photo of her in the hospital in a coma, bruises on her face and blood dripping from her ear, were shared online, they quickly went viral — and provoked fury. After she died a few days later, the protests exploded into the largest mass demonstrations Iran has seen for years.
But this was much more than anger over a tragic, scandalous death. The protests, led by women, have galvanized a broad swath of Iranian society to rise up in one of the most significant political move ments that the Islamic Republic has seen since its founding in 1979.
Amini’s death was the spark for the protests. But the tinder that turned them into a conflagration was a series of changes that has been playing out for decades in Iran, leaving the hard-line govern ment increasingly out of step with the demands of the population.
The politicization of the veil began not with the Islamic Repub lic’s law mandating it, but with a far earlier law prohibiting women from wearing it in public.
In 1936, Reza Shah Pahlavi — the father of the shah deposed in the 1979 revolution — barred women from wearing the veil, or hijab, in public, in an effort to Westernize Iran. Women who wore the veil in public could have it forcibly yanked off their heads, which effectively confined many religious women, and those from conser vative families, to their homes, said Mona Tajali, a professor of inter national relations at Agnes Scott College in Georgia and the author of “Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table.”
That law was so unpopular that it lasted only a few years. But it was enough to cement the hijab as a symbol not just of religious identity, but also of battles over national identity.
After the revolution, the hijab once again took center stage in Iranian politics, now as a symbol of the new government’s Islamic identity.
“These ideologies, they play themselves out on women’s bodies,” Tajali said. Unveiled women had symbolized the secular, Western character of the shah’s regime. Now, veiled women would symbolize the Islamic national identity of the new, post-revolution Islamic Republic.
Forced veiling, it’s important to note, was unpopular with many Iranian women from the beginning. One of the first major postrevolution protests occurred when women demonstrated against a mandatory hijab law. It was not until years later, after the Iran-Iraq war had allowed the government in Tehran to consolidate internal power in the face of an external enemy, that new modesty rules were put fully into place.
“Compulsory veiling becomes law, but it also becomes a part
Protesters in Tehran in September, after the death of Mahsa
Amini.
of the central identity of the Islamic Republic,” said Narges Bajoghli, a professor of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University and the author of “Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Re public.”
Veiled women became a visible symbol of the government’s level of control over society — black-clad personifications of state power.
A changing Iran
But the veil requirements may have helped to set Iran on the path to the current protests in an unexpected way: by making con servative families more comfortable allowing their daughters to go to university.
Education opened new opportunities for women to enter pub lic life. And that, in turn, led many to become dissatisfied with the limitations that they found there, such as rules that barred women from holding senior judgeships. “In the mid-1990s and 2000s, there’s a lot of folks from within the religious components of society begin ning to say, ‘We need to rethink these laws because it’s beginning to impact our peers,’” Bajoghli said.
At the same time, the country was going through important po litical changes. In the early days of the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was very popular, and his hard-line faction easily found a wide base of support among the population, Bajoghli said. But his suc cessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who took office in 1989 and is Iran’s current supreme leader, was less popular and less respected as a cleric.
To shore up his power, Khamenei worked to build a base of support among the country’s ultrareligious conservatives. But over time, as Iran has become a younger and more urban country, that base has grown smaller and shattered into competing factions, Ba joghli said.
Today, the ayatollah is 83 years old and reportedly in poor health, raising the prospect of a succession struggle in the near future. And while he is still believed to have the support of Iran’s power ful and heavily armed Revolutionary Guard, as well as many of its paramilitary militias, the reaction to Amini’s death has highlighted the growing dissatisfaction that even elite supporters of the Islamic Republic may have with his hard-line approach.
That has left Iran’s hard-line faction in a political bind: It faces not just a shrinking political base, but also one that is increasingly out of step with society. Authorities have responded with intensifying violence in an effort to crush the dissent, apparently unwilling to al low any alternate vision of Iranian identity.
Mahsa Amini was Kurdish, and the slogan adopted by pro testers, “Women, Life, Freedom,” originated with Kurdish militants. Voiced by the youth of Iran, it conjures a vision of a society that is more equal not just along gender lines, but ethnic ones, as well, Bajoghli said.
The danger of imbuing restrictions on women’s bodies with such potent political symbolism, it turns out, is that women will seize that symbolic power for themselves. For decades, women’s veiled heads have embodied the state’s pervasive authority. But now, the young women of Iran are calling the regime’s authority into question with every uncovered braid.
El Sr. José L. Alsina, representante autorizado de Vivo Recycling, Inc., sometió ante el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (en adelante, DRNA) una solicitud de permiso para operar una instalación de procesamiento y compostaje de desperdicios sólidos no peligrosos, que consisten en paletas de madera, material vegetativo y picadillo de tabaco. Esta instalación está ubicada en Carr. 31, Km. 32.3, Bo. Bairoa, Caguas PR.
El Reglamento para el Diseño y Operación de Instalaciones de Compostaje (en adelante, Reglamento), establece en el Capítulo V, Regla 31, Incisos K y M el requisito de solicitar la renovación de un permiso como condición previa a la operación de una instalación de compostaje, el cual es aplicable a dueños u operadores.
Luego de evaluar los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de renovar el permiso de operación.
Copia de la solicitud de permiso, al igual que el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes al caso, están a la disposición del público para ser examinados en el Área Contaminación de Terrenos del DRNA, ubicado en la Carr. 8838 Km. 6.3, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras, de 8:00 a.m. a 4:30 p.m., de lunes a viernes.
Cualquier persona interesada podrá someter comentarios por escrito sobre el borrador del permiso y podrá solicitar una vista pública. Toda solicitud de vista pública deberá hacerse por escrito y deberá ser debidamente fundamentada y exponer la naturaleza de los planteamientos que se levantarán en la vista. El DRNA podrá celebrar una vista pública de forma discrecional. Toda solicitud deberá ser dirigida al Área Contaminación de Terrenos, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Ave. Ponce de León, San Juan PR 00926, no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Aviso.
Este anuncio se publica conforme a lo requerido por la Ley Núm. 38-2017, conocida como la “Ley de Procedimiento Administrativo Uniforme del Gobierno de Puerto Rico”, la Ley Núm. 416-2004, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley Sobre Política Ambiental”, los reglamentos aprobados a su amparo; y las leyes y reglamentos aprobados a su amparo; y las leyes y reglamentos federales aplicables.
Anaís Rodríguez Vega Secretaria
Aformer police officer armed with a handgun and knife at tacked a child care facility in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing more than 30 people, most of them children, in the deadliest mass shooting in the Southeast Asian na tion ever carried out by a lone per petrator.
The attacker then shot and killed himself, his wife and their 4-year-old child, according to officials. In all, the gunman killed 36 people, including 24 children, a provincial health of ficial said late Thursday, revising the death toll down by one. Here is the latest:
— Witnesses described a scene of terror inside the Child Develop ment Center Uthaisawan, as the at tacker shot and stabbed more than 20
children, some as young as 2, and fa tally stabbed a teacher who was eight months pregnant.
— The gunman was identified as Panya Kamrab, 34, a former corporal who was fired from the police force in
June after being arrested for drug pos session, according to the Royal Thai Police. After attacking the child care facility, he shot at people as he drove away, said Major Gen. Paisan Leu somboon, a regional police spokes person.
— Thailand, a majority Buddhist country of about 69 million, has some of Asia’s highest rates of gun owner ship and gun homicide, although the levels are far lower than those in the United States. The toll in Thursday’s massacre surpassed that of an attack in 2020, when a soldier armed with an semi-automatic rifle killed at least 29 people at a Thai shopping mall.
— The attack occurred in rural Nong Bua Lamphu province, one of the poorest pockets of Thailand, where life revolves around agriculture and is governed by the harsh annual fluctua tion between drought and floods.
By JOSÉ M. SALDAÑA
Ason previous occasions, I had expressed, after the passage of Hurricane Fiona -- the most recent catastrophe in a string of them starting just over a decade ago -- after the largest bankruptcy of any country, after Maria, one of the hurricanes of greatest force and devastation in history that destroyed the decrepit existing electric power system, after the earthquakes in the south of the island, after the deaths and ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic on our fragile health system, after the need for Congress to impose a necessary Financial Oversight and Management Board on us, and now the devastation caused by Fiona, I have to wonder if Puerto Rico is viable.
We are a small island, 100 miles long by 35 miles wide, in the Caribbean Sea. We have no substantive natural resources that we can exploit for effective economic development. Our only natural resource is the beauty of our land, which we have exploited to a limited extent for tourism.
Many point out that the greatest resource for our development is our people, but that in most of the times is a rationalization that is said to conform and to avoid despair. The reality is that most of our people have serious limitations that do not help our development.
We have an average eighth grade schooling that is truly a sixth grade. Despite an investment of more than $3 billion annually in our public education system -- half of which is
federally funded -- our students fail miserably on international tests in the core subjects of Spanish, English, science and mathematics. Barely 50% of those entering public school graduate from high school. We have a labor force participation rate estimated at 42.7 percent. That rate reflects the percentage of people of working age who are employed or actively seeking work. In the United States, it is 63%.
Large sections of our population depend on federal livelihoods such as those provided by the Nutrition Assistance Program, WIC, Medicaid that covers more than 1.6 million beneficiaries, the Head Start program for preschoolers, the Section 8 public housing subsidy program, on construction funds for the operation and maintenance of more than 70,000 public housing units housing 400,000 people on the island.
In cases of natural disasters such as the current ones, we rely heavily on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as well as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help those affected and to rebuild the infrastructure.
So far this year, crime on the island has increased by 12%, making the rate one of the highest in the nation, particularly among young people. The high prevalence of drug traf ficking and the war to control drug points is largely responsible for this. All these situations, together with the recent problems and catastrophes, make us have to ask ourselves if we are viable in the current territorial political status or will be viable as a republic.
Faced with this question or questioning, last Monday we had a reason for hope. United States President Joe Biden, on a visit to the island – to the Ponce area – brought an excellent hopeful message to our people. The president announced that he had made an allocation of $60 million for works aimed at preventing flooding on the island, including the construction of levees and the creation of an alert system.
He also pointed to the creation of a team throughout the federal government that will assist in the recovery of the island’s electricity grid, although that agency has been working on that effort since the beginning of this year.
“I asked Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to lead a federal-wide effort to modernize and recover Puerto Rico’s grid,” Biden said. “To bring all federal resources and additional assistance and support to Puerto Rico.”
“Jill and I have had Puerto Rico in our minds and in our prayers. We have come personally to show you that we are with you, that all Americans are with you,” the president added. “You deserve all the help our country can give you. That’s what I’m determined to do. For Hurricane Maria, Congress approved billions of dollars for Puerto Rico and much of that money has not reached the island initially. We’re going to make sure you get every penny that was promised. And I am committed to seeing that Puerto Rico can be rebuilt faster than in the past, stronger and better prepared for the future.”
In obvious reference to the controversial visit of previous President Donald Trump, who when he came to Puerto Rico on Oct. 3, 2017 after Hurricane Maria, tossed rolls of
paper towels to citizens and was awarded a 10 when evaluating the response of his administration to the devastation caused weeks before by Hurricane Maria, Biden noted that five years later, there are still many reconstruction projects that have not begun. Faced with this situation, the president said he was in Puerto Rico because “you have not been treated very well.”
We hope and trust that these promises and commitments of President Biden will become realities and that our people will know how to take advantage of them, because otherwise I do not foresee our capacity to carry out the immense task of reconstruction that we must undertake in order to be in a position to be viable in a highly competitive world. These promised aids are gifts in good faith from the nation to an unincorporated territory of American citizens, but they need not be necessarily granted. If we were a state, we would have every right to them and more.
It is high time that our people stop the romantic, idealistic dreams and ask ourselves seriously and objectively: What would become of us if we were not part of the United States? What if we were given independence via free association or traditional independence?
My friends, it’s time to think on this well because between now and the elections we will see, on the part of the separatist, socialist and communist parties and movements, attempts to create protests, strikes and revolts to destabilize the current government and try to move us to the socialist republic through what some call free association, which is nothing more than independence.
José M. Saldaña DMD, MPH, is a former president of the University of Puerto Rico.
CAGUAS – El obispo de la Diócesis de Caguas, Euse bio Ramos Morales, criticó el jueves a los directivos de LUMA Energy y del Gobierno de Puerto Rico, por el tiempo que ha tomado restablecer el servicio eléctrico luego del sistema atmosférico Fiona.
“A diecinueve días del paso de la tormenta-huracán Fiona por Puerto Rico, son muchas las personas y co munidades que aún carecen de electricidad, por lo que se ve afectada la salud y su calidad de vida. Ya comien za a apoderarse la indignación y la frustración en diver sas personas y sectores. Sufren los enfermos y ancianos, los niños y familias, a causa de la ineficiencia e insensi bilidad de una compañía que claramente ha priorizado sus intereses económicos por encima del bienestar del país. Aceptar la verdad y la realidad de lo que vive el país se hace urgente para poder enfrentar los problemas y dificultades de todo un pueblo”, dijo Ramos Morales en declaraciones escritas.
“Por una parte, la compañía no tiene el suficiente
personal para enfrentar con diligencia los daños de la red eléctrica ante el paso un fenómeno natural, uno en tre tantos de los que hemos vivido. Pero no solo es la falta de personal, sino también que su plan de logística fracasó. Las supuestas “brigadas por regiones” no hicie ron ninguna diferencia para minimizar el levantamiento de la red eléctrica. Además, dentro de su plan de con tingencia parece que no entraron los asilos de ancianos y otros centros de enfermos o de personas vulnerables. La mayor parte del país apenas sufrió consecuencias por esa tormenta-huracán, pero todos nos quedamos sin energía eléctrica. En la región más afectada, todavía hoy, son muchas las comunidades y barrios que care cen de este servicio, y para algunos se complica porque no se pueden energizar las plantas para bombear agua. No solo hay que pedir responsabilidad y compromiso social a esta compañía; también hay pedirlo a las per sonas responsables de gobierno para que asuman con mayor entereza su compromiso con el país. Sin supervi sión y negándonos a ver la realidad, no podemos echar el país hacia delante. “Fiona” nos ha traído una gran
oportunidad de eva luación, y también de toma de decisiones urgentes. El presiden te de Estados Unidos así lo percibió, lo manifestó y prometió su ayuda. ¡Ojalá que esta compañía y los líderes locales tam bién asuman su res ponsabilidad ante la forma nefasta en que manejaron esta situa ción para devolverle a nuestra gente este vital servicio dentro de un tiempo razonable! Es algo que no ocurrió”, añadió el religioso.
En el municipio de Caguas, los Barrios Borinquen, Beatriz, Río Cañas y Tomás de Castro llevan sin energía eléctrica desde el paso del Huracán Fiona.
ciantes del Viejo San Juan, Juan Fernández en entrevista radial en Radio Isla 1320.
SAN JUAN – Comerciantes del Viejo San Juan ex presaron este jueves entablar una demanda contra LUMA Energy debido a la falta de voltaje, desde antes del paso por la isla del huracán Fiona.
“Estamos muy mal, absolutamente abandonados. En realidad, LUMA Energy en el viejo San Juan tiene pro blemas de voltaje desde hace meses, mucho antes del huracán Fiona. Tenemos medido unos 95 de voltaje en trando. Se han hecho múltiples querellas por residentes y comerciantes, pero LUMA Energy ha hecho caso omi so”, dijo el expresidente de la Asociación de Comer
“Las lámparas parecen estilo Las Vegas, subiendo y
bajando con una fluctuación tremenda y dañando equi pos por completo”, añadió.
Estableció que se ha auscultado la posibilidad de en trar una demanda contra la empresa contratada para la transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica.
“Estamos ahora hablando ya un grupo de comer ciantes con la posibilidad de hacer una demanda a LUMA Energy en conjunto porque hay una ley que pro tege contra daños a equipos, cuando la entrada de bajo voltaje causa esos daños”, señaló Fernández.
“Se supone que recibamos 110 de voltaje y estamos recibiendo 95 o 96 medido. Por debajo de los 110 vol tios se dañan los equipos”, añadió.
sas a favor de los proyectos que limitan el aborto.
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L CAPITOLIO – Durante las vistas públicas de la Comisión de lo Jurídico de la Cámara de Repre sentantes sobre varias medidas a favor y en contra del aborto, el portavoz de la Coalición Provida y Familia, Mario Rosario Maisonet dijo el jueves que obligar a las mujeres a parir podría ser una medida que ayude a mejorar la tasa de natalidad en Puerto Rico.
“¿Usted entiende que para que no siga disminuyen do la tasa de nacimientos, el Estado debe obligar a las
mujeres a parir?”, preguntó el representante Orlando Aponte Rosario, presidente de la Comisión de lo Jurí dico a Rosario Maisonet.
“Esto es una de muchas posibles medidas que po drían ayudar a que Puerto Rico vuelva y resucite, por que cada vez somos menos. Tenemos que promover los nacimientos”, respondió el deponente, quien in sinuó que la realización de abortos en Puerto Rico ha sido un factor contribuyente al cierre de escuelas.
Sus expresiones se dieron como parte de las deposi ciones de varios portavocesde organizaciones religio
Por su parte, la Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Movi miento Internacional en la Región de Puerto Rico pre sentó una ponencia en la cual defendió la interven ción del Estado para “proteger los derechos de quienes no pueden defenderse”.
Asimismo, la organización reconoció la vida desde la etapa de fecundación, por lo que se expresaron a favor del Proyecto de la Cámara 1084 (P.C. 1084), que prohibiría el aborto luego de la detención del latido cardiaco fetal.
By EDUARDO MEDINA
Littlefeather, the Apache activist and actress who refused to accept the best actor award on behalf of Marlon Brando at the 1973 Oscars, drawing jeers onstage in an act that underscored her criticism of Hollywood’s depictions of Native Americans, died Sunday at her home in Marin County, California. She was 75.
Her death was announced in a statement by her family and by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Last year, Littlefeather confirmed on Facebook that she had breast cancer — “stage four, terminal” — that had spread to a lung.
Her death came just weeks after the Academy apolo gized to Littlefeather for her treatment during the Oscars. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in August, she said she was “stunned” by the apology.
“I never thought I’d live to see the day I would be hearing this, experiencing this,” she said.
When Littlefeather, then 26, held up her right hand that night inside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles — signaling to the award presenters, the audience and the mil lions watching on TV that she, acting on Brando’s request, had no desire to ceremoniously accept the shiny golden statue — it marked one of the best-known disruptive moments in the his tory of the Oscars.
“I beg at this time that I have not intruded upon this eve ning, and that we will, in the future, our hearts and our un derstandings, will meet with love and generosity,” Littlefeather said at the podium, having endured a chorus of boos and some cheers from the crowd.
Her appearance at the 45th Academy Awards was the first time a Native American woman had stood onstage at the ceremony, she in a glimmering buckskin dress, moccasins and hair ties. But the backlash and criticism was immediate. John Wayne was so unsettled that a show producer, Marty Pasetta, said security guards had to restrain him so that he would not storm the stage.
Littlefeather told The Hollywood Reporter in August, “When I was at the podium in 1973, I stood there alone.”
Sacheen Littlefeather at an Academy event last month in Los Angeles. She had said that she was “represen ting all Indigenous voices out there” when she refu sed the Oscar on behalf of the actor Marlon Brando.
She was born Marie Cruz on Nov. 14, 1946, in Salinas, California. Her father was from the White Mountain Apache and Yaqui tribes in Arizona; her mother was of French, German and Dutch lineage, according to Littlefeather’s website. After high school she took the name Sacheen Littlefeather to “reflect her natural heritage,” the site states.
Information on her survivors was not immediately avail able.
Littlefeather’s website said she had participated in the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island, which began in 1969 in an act of defiance against a government that the protesters said had long trampled on Native American rights.
Her acting career began in the early 1970s at the Ameri can Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She would go on to play roles in films such as “The Trial of Billy Jack” (1974) and “Winterhawk” (1975).
Littlefeather said in an interview with the Academy that she had been planning to watch the awards on television when, the night before the ceremony, she received a call from Brando, who had been nominated for his performance as Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.”
The two had become friends through her neighbor Fran cis Ford Coppola, who had directed the film. Brando asked her to refuse the award on his behalf if he won and gave her a speech to read just in case.
With only about 15 minutes left in the program, Little feather arrived at the ceremony with little information about how the night would work, she said.
A producer for the Oscars noticed the pages in Little feather’s hand and told her that she would be arrested if her comments lasted more than 60 seconds.
Then Brando won.
In the speech, Littlefeather brought attention to the fed eral government’s standoff with protesting Native Americans then going on at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the site of a massacre by U.S. troops a century earlier.
She later recalled that while she was giving the speech — she never finished it — she had “focused in on the mouths and the jaws that were dropping open in the audience, and there were quite a few.”
The audience, holding “very few people of color,” she recalled, looked like a “sea of Clorox.”
She said that some audience members did the so-called “tomahawk chop” at her and that when she went to Brando’s house later, people shot at the doorway where she was stand ing.
Last month, Littlefeather spoke at a program hosted by the Academy called “An Evening With Sacheen Littlefeather,” in which she recalled the Oscars ceremony and asserted that she had stood up for justice in all the arts.
“I didn’t represent myself,” she said. “I was representing all Indigenous voices out there, all Indigenous people, because we had never been heard in that way before.”
The audience erupted in applause.
“I had to pay the price of admission, and that was OK,” she continued. “Because those doors had to be open.”
After learning that the Academy would formally apolo gize to her, Littlefeather said it felt “like a big cleanse.”
“It feels like the sacred circle is completing itself,” she said, “before I go in this life.”
hit of fresh basil or parsley. Serve it with a big salad of crisp lettuces for crunch. It’s a dish that’s good hot, warm or at room temperature, so you can make this recipe a little ahead of time if that works best for your kitchen flow.
Yield: 3 to 4 servings
Total time: 45 minutes
Ingredients:
1 1/2 pounds eggplant, cut into 1-inch cubes (about 8 cups)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 pound short pasta, such as shells or orecchiette
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling and as needed
12 anchovies, coarsely chopped
8 garlic cloves, 3 grated or finely minced, 5 thinly sliced
1 cup coarse dry breadcrumbs, either panko or homemade
1/4 teaspoon red-pepper flakes, plus more for serving
1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered if large
2 tablespoons capers, drained
1 cup torn fresh basil or parsley
1 lemon, zested and halved
Preparation:
1. Place eggplant in a bowl and sprinkle all over with salt; set aside.
Eggplant pasta with anchovy bread crumbs and capers, in New York, Aug. 4, 2022. Inspired by pangrattato, a classic Italian garnish, this weeknight pasta is topped with umami-rich anchovy bread crumbs.
By MELISSA CLARKMy teenage daughter, Dahlia, likes to snack on flakes of sea salt, nibbling them out of hand like tiny po tato chips. So, I wasn’t exactly surprised to see her standing over a freshly made batch of anchovy breadcrumbs, eating them with a spoon.
Salty and crunchy, with a touch of chile-driven heat and a funky hit of umami, they were meant for the pasta I was making later that night. But I had to agree that they were pretty tasty on their own.
Who needs pasta, Dahlia said. Let’s just eat bowls of breadcrumbs for dinner!
I had a better — or, at least, more momlike — idea. In stead of ditching the pasta, I’d add half of what I usually used and scatter double the amount of crispy breadcrumbs on top. I’d need a sauce to keep the breadcrumbs from sliding off the pasta. Some sautéed eggplant and tomatoes would simul taneously glue things down and round the dish out. And a handful of capers would add just the right tang.
That is how this colorful, garlicky, crumb-topped egg plant pasta came to be.
The toasted, seasoned breadcrumbs themselves are a classic Italian garnish called pangrattato. A thrifty topping popular in southern Italy, breadcrumbs are flavored with some combination of garlic, chile flakes, herbs and ancho vies, then sprinkled over pasta or cooked vegetables in place of more expensive grated cheese.
Usually, a dusting suffices. But for this dish, I prefer an avalanche. The crumbs’ crispness nicely contrasts the soft eggplant and juicy tomatoes, especially if you eat the dish right away. But it’s still excellent at room temperature, when the crumbs have softened and taken on an almost meaty tex ture. Either way, you can’t lose.
One caveat: Don’t use the sawdustlike crumbs in the cardboard cans. They’re too fine to contribute any texture to the dish. Homemade breadcrumbs from a stale, flavorful loaf are ideal. I keep the ends of bread loaves in a cloth sack in the pantry, then grind them up in the food processor when the bag fills up (use the large-holed grating disk first, then whirl them with the blade). But if that seems like a lot of trouble, panko breadcrumbs work nearly as well.
To serve, toss some of the crumbs with the pasta in the pan. Then pass the remaining crumbs around at the table for extra topping — or direct snacking, if that’s how your house hold rolls.
In this colorful dish, there’s as much of the eggplant and tomato topping as there is pasta. They’re all tossed together with loads of garlicky, anchovy-imbued breadcrumbs and a
2. In a pot of well-salted water, cook pasta according to the package directions until about 1 minute shy of al dente. Drain well, reserving some of the pasta water (about 2/3 cup is plenty). Lightly drizzle pasta with olive oil to prevent from sticking together.
3. Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium-high heat, warm 1/4 cup olive oil. Stir in about one-quarter of the chopped anchovies and all of the grated garlic. Cook, stir ring, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in breadcrumbs and sauté until golden, 2 to 3 minutes. Season with a few grinds of black pepper and a pinch of salt. Scrape into a small bowl and set aside.
4. Wipe out skillet (no need to wash it). Add 1/4 cup olive oil and put it back over medium-high heat until oil thins out in the pan. Add enough eggplant to fit in one layer without overlapping. Without moving them around too much, cook eggplant until brown on one side, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir and let them cook on the other side until browned and thoroughly soft, 3 to 7 minutes more. Use a slotted spoon to transfer eggplant to a large bowl. Repeat with remaining eggplant, adding more oil to the pan as needed.
5. Add remaining 2 tablespoons of oil to the skillet and stir in remaining anchovies, the sliced garlic and red-pepper flakes. Cook over medium heat until garlic is pale gold at the edges (don’t let the garlic turn brown), 1 to 3 minutes.
6. Stir in tomatoes and capers. Cook until tomatoes just begin to soften, 3 to 5 minutes. Add eggplant, pasta and 1/4 cup pasta water. Toss well, adding more pasta water if the mixture looks dry.
7. Stir in basil and lemon zest. Squeeze half a lemon all over the pasta and toss. Taste and add more red-pepper flakes, salt or lemon juice to taste. Generously sprinkle breadcrumbs on top of pasta and serve hot, warm or at room temperature.
Many of us regularly wear an ac tivity tracker, which counts the number of steps we take in a day. Based on these numbers, it can be hard to make sense of what they might mean for our overall health. Is it just the over all number of steps in a day that matter, or does exercise intensity, such as going for a brisk walk or jog, make a difference?
In a new study, which looks at activ ity tracker data from 78,500 people, walk ing at a brisk pace for about 30 minutes a day led to a reduced risk of heart disease, cancer, dementia and death, compared with walking a similar number of steps but at a slower pace. These results were recent ly published in two papers in the journals JAMA Internal Medicine and JAMA Neu rology.
For these studies, which included participants from UK Biobank, participants with an average age of 61 agreed to wear activity trackers for seven full days, includ ing nights, at the beginning of the trial. This study represents the largest one to date that incorporates activity tracker data.
“Activity tracker data is going to be better than self-reported data,” said Dr. Michael Fredericson, a sports physician at Stanford University, who was not involved
A woman walks for exercise
in the study. “We know that people’s abil ity to self-report is flawed,” often because people don’t accurately remember how much exercise they did in a day or week.
After collecting this data, research ers then tracked participants’ health out comes, which included whether they de veloped heart disease, cancer, dementia or died during a period of six to eight years.
Researchers found that every 2,000 additional steps a day lowered the risk of premature death, heart disease and cancer by about 10%, up to about 10,000 steps per day. When it came to developing de
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studies. “It can just be in brief bursts here and there throughout your day.”
But the important thing is to aim for walking a little faster than your normal pace. When it comes to the differences between brisk walking and jogging, there wasn’t enough data to determine if one was better than another, and both resulted in better overall health outcomes than did a slower average pace. Still, a 2013 study fol lowed 49,005 runners and walkers and sug gested that brisk walking or jogging similar distances offer similar heart health benefits, although walking a mile takes longer.
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mentia, 9,800 steps per day was associated with a 50% reduced risk, with a risk reduc tion of 25% starting at about 3,800 steps per day. Above 10,000 steps a day, there just weren’t enough participants with that level of activity to determine whether there were additional benefits.
In the past, similar studies have also shown that the benefits of walking start well before the often-touted 10,000 steps a day.
But then the researchers of this study did something new. When they looked at the step rate, per minute, of the highest 30 minutes of activity a day, they found that participants whose average highest pace was a brisk walk (between 80 and 100 steps per minute) had better health outcomes compared with those who walked a similar amount each day but at a slower pace.
Brisk walkers had a 35% lower risk of dying, a 25% lower chance of developing heart disease or cancer and a 30% lower risk of developing dementia, compared with those whose average pace was slower.
To put these numbers into perspec tive, a person whose total daily steps in clude 2,400 to 3,000 that are brisk walk ing could see a sharp reduction in the risk for developing heart disease, cancer and dementia, even without taking many addi tional steps beyond the total daily number.
“It doesn’t have to be a consecutive 30-minute session,” said Matthew Ah madi, a research fellow at the University of Sydney and one of the authors of the
This study is part of ongoing research into just how important exercise intensity is to various health outcomes. These lat est findings suggest that maintaining good health doesn’t necessarily require a lot of high-intensity exercise and that a regular amount of moderate-intensity exercise, such as brisk walking, can offer a high level of protection against developing conditions such as heart disease, cancer or dementia.
When it comes to incorporating more intense exercise into your daily life, Dr. Ta manna Singh, a cardiologist at the Cleve land Clinic, often reminds her patients that everything is relative. “Everybody is starting from a different training status,” she said.
A brisk pace for one person may not be brisk for another, but what matters is the relative effort. At a light exercise intensity, a person can sing a song, while at a mod erate intensity, a person can easily carry a conversation but would struggle to sing. At higher intensities, conversation becomes difficult, if not impossible.
When it comes to brisk walking, “at these moderate levels of effort, you are able to increase your aerobic capacity,” Singh said. In addition to the long-term health benefits, such intensity would also lower blood pressure, moderate blood sug ar levels and lower the risk for heart attacks and strokes.
The key is to walk at an intensity that is manageable but also slightly pushes the boundaries of what is a comfortable pace.
“That constant slow stress on your body is what leads to fitness gains,” Singh said. “If you’re just getting started, this is probably the easiest way to get started and stay committed, consistent and injury-free.”
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Small Business Administration)
Plaintiff v. JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE as those unknown persons who may be the holders of the lost mortgage note or have any interest in this proceeding, Defendants
CIVIL NO. 3:22-cv-01330-SCC. ACTION FOR CANCELLATION
OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (Segaloal, Inc. d/b/a The Hair Club). SUMMONS BY PUBLI CATION.
TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE
Unknown holders of a pro missory note of $536,000.00 executed on March 28, 2011, by Segaloal, Inc., d/b/a The Hair Club, as acknowledged by affidavit number 2,155 sworn before Héctor R. Crespo Mi lián, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mortgage Deed No. 7 executed on March 28, 2011, before Notary Public Héctor R. Crespo Milián, over the fo llowing properties, described in the Spanish language as:
COMERCIAL: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Unidad de Ofi cina marcado con el número 507 ubicado en el quinto piso del Condominio Centro Inter nacional de Mercadeo, Torre II, gobernado por el Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, y locali zado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, del municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de 1,980.619 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 184.006 metros cuadrados. Su entrada principal se encuentra en el lado Este que la conecta con el corredor común del piso. Colinda por el NORTE, en una extensión de 43’5½”,equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina número 508; por el SUR, en una exten sión de 43’5½”, equivalentes a 13.246 metros, en parte con la escalera de escape comunal y parte con el espacio comunal; por el ESTE, en una exten sión de 45’10”, equivalentes a 13.970 metros, con corre dor común del piso; y por el OESTE, en una extensión de 45’10”, equivalentes a 13.970 metros, con el espacio exterior. Le corresponde una participa ción en los elementos comunes generales del edificio igual a 1.343%. The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is recorded over this property in the Regis try of the Property of Guaynabo, at page 119 (vuelto) of volume
1,469 of Guaynabo, property number 47,138, 6th inscription.
This property secures the afo rementioned Deed of Mortgage in the amount of $183,368.42.
HORIZONTAL: Unidad de Ofi cina marcado con el número 508 ubicado en el quinto piso del Condominio Centro Inter nacional de Mercadeo, Torre II, gobernado por el Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, y locali zado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, del municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de 2,992.792 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 278.041 metros cuadrados. Su entrada principal se encuentra en el lado Este que la conecta con el corredor común del piso. Colinda por el NORTE, en una extensión de 43’5½”,equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina núme ro 501, parte con el pozo del elevador de carga y parte con corredor común del piso; por el SUR, en una extensión de 43’5½”, equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina 507; por el ESTE, en una extensión de 74’0”, equivalentes a 22.555 metros, en parte con la escale ra interior de escape comunal, parte con el pozo del elevador de carga, parte con corredor común del piso y parte con un pozo del sistema de aire acon dicionado; y por el OESTE, en una extensión de 74’0”, equi valentes a 22.555 metros, con el espacio exterior. Le corres ponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales del edificio igual a 2.029%.
The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is recorded over this pro perty in the Registry of the Pro perty of Guaynabo, at page 123 of volume 1,469 of Guaynabo, property number 47,139, 8th inscription. This property se cures the aforementioned Deed of Mortgage in the amount of $352,631.58. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on August 26, 2002, by the Honorable Silvia L. Carre ño-Coll , United States District Judge (Docket No. 4 ), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime López Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269. This Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general cir culation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Com
plaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause aga inst you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint.
BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 30th day of August, 2022. MA
RIA ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN, ESQ.CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT. By: Viviana Diaz-Mu lero, Deputy Clerk.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUER TO RICO.
Finance of America Reverse, LLC
Plaintiff v. Carmen Iris Figuereya Montalvo; United States of America
Defendants
CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv2613-ADC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSU RE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: Carmen Iris Figuereya Montalvo; United States of America GENERAL PUBLIC
WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $147,849.28, plus interest at a rate of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Carmen Iris Figuereya Montalvo to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance pre miums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($23,250.00) of the original principal amou nt 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, Federal Office Buil ding, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHE
REAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master, or a person authroized to act in his name and authority, was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without apprai sement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Dis trict of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – 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: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veintisiete (27) del Bloque “AB” del Plano de Ins cripción de la Cuarta Extensión, Primera Etapa de la Urbaniza ción Country Club, situada en el Barrio Sabana Llana del muni cipio de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS
CUARENTA Y SEIS PUNTO
NOVENTA Y SIETE (346.97)
METROS CUADRADOS, en lindes por el NORESTE, en die cinueve metros cincuenta cen tímetros, con la Calle sesenta y cuatro; por el SUROESTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar veintiséis; por el SURESTE, en quince metros veinte cen tímetros, con el solar doce del Bloque “AB” de la Primera Ex tensión; por el NOROESTE, en once metros setenta centí metros, con la Calle trescientos siete; por el NORTE, en cinco metros cincuenta centímetros, con la intersección de las Ca lles sesenta y cuatro y tres cientos siete. Enclava casa.”
Property Number 9,797 filed at page 16 of volume 220 of Sa bana Llana, Registry of the Pro perty of Puerto Rico, Section V of San Juan. The mortgage fo reclosed is recorded on the 7th inscription of Karibe of Sabana Llana volume, property num ber 9,797, Registry of the Pro perty of Puerto Rico, Section V of San Juan. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse Mortgage securing a note in fa vor of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or to its order, for the original prin cipal amount of $232,500.00, plus 5.060% annual interest, due on September 15, 2078, pursuant to deed number 491, issued in San Juan, Puer to Rico, on October 5, 2012, before notary David Cardona Dingui, and recorded at the Karibe volume of Sabana Lla na, property number 9,797, 8th inscription. Other Liens: Notice of Lis Pendens dated Septem ber 9, 2016, issued by the Uni ted States District Court forthe District of Puerto Rico, in the civil case number CV-02613ADC, by Finance of America Reverse, LLC., versus Carmen Iris Figuereya (as it appears) Montalvo and the United States of America, for monies owed and foreclosure of mortgage, in the amount of $108,692.02, plus interest and other amou nts, or the sale of the property at public auction, annotated on April 29, 2021, at the Karibe vo lume of Sabana Llana, property number 9,797, Annotation A.
Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each
bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and pre ferential 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 cancella tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the October 11th, 2022 at 9:15a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $232,500.00. 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 the October 18th, 2022 at 9:15a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $155,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini mum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the the October 25th, 2022 at 9:15a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $116,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Spe cial Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, ex cept 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. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United Sta tes 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 confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 8th day of August of 2022.
By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUER TO RICO.
WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $103,463.00, plus interest at a rate of 3.184% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Ricardo José García Cardona a/k/a Ricardo José García a/k/a Ri cardo J. García Cardona a/k/a Ricardo García Cardona to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance pre miums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($30,000.00) of the original principal amou nt 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, Federal Office Buil ding, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHE
REAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master, or a person authorized to act in his name and authority, was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without apprai sement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – 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: RÚSTICA: Solar ra dicado en la Urbanización Villa Lydia del Barrio Camaseyas de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 2,332.42 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, en alineaciones de 19.52 metros y 22.10 me tros, con Hector Reichard; por el ESTE, en alineaciones de 19.06 metros y 37.30 metros con la Corporación de Reno vación Urbana y Vivienda y en 45.48 metros con el rema
nente de la finca principal; por el SUR, en 3 alineaciones de 29.715 metros con remanente, en 13.00 metros con Carretera
Municipal y en 11.151 metros con Manuel Garraton; y por el OESTE, en alineaciones de 14.869 metros y 16.307 metros con remanente y de 25.249 me tros con remanente de la finca principal. Enclava una estruc tura de hormigón para fines re sidenciales.” Property Number 19,646 filed at page 276 of vo lume 347 of Aguadilla, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Aguadilla. The mort gage deed is recorded at Karibe volume of Aguadilla, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Aguadilla, 6th ins cription. WHEREAS: This pro perty is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Ju nior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Se cretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $300,000.00, due on January 9th, 2100 pursuant to deed number 210, issued in Guay nabo, Puerto Rico, on August 26th, 2013, before notary José García Noya, and recorded, at Karibe volume of Aguadilla, property number 19,646, 7th inscription. 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 pre ferential 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 cancella tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on this 11th day of October, 2022 at 9:25am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $300,000.00. 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 the 18th day of October, 2022 at 9:25am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $200,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini mum bid for the first public sale.
If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 25th day of October, 2022 at 9:25am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $150,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Spe cial Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States
currency or certified checks, ex cept 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. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United Sta tes 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 confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 10th day of August of 2022.
By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master.IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD
Plaintiff V. CARLOS MANUEL REYES RODRÍGUEZ AND CECILIA APONTE ROMÁN AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP REYESAPONTE Defendants
Civil No.: 3:17-cv-01282-JAG. Re: COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: CARLOS MANUEL REYES RODRÍGUEZ AND CECILIA APONTE ROMÁN AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP REYESAPONTE, GENERAL PUBLIC AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $112,326.86 plus interest at a rate of 5.500% per annum since February 1, 2017 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also or dered to pay Plaintiff late char ges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly install ment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The de fendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made un
der the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance pre miums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($8,500.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed un der the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave nue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MAS TER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without ap praisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: Rustica: predio de terreno con cabida de 1,118.74 metros cuadrados, en el kilómetro 1.5 del barrio Buena Vista de Bayamón. Colinda por el NORTE, con la carretera estatal número 829, en 28.86 metros; por el SUR, con Sucesión Correa, en 10.00 metros; por el ESTE, con Juan Báez Dávila, en 56.53 metros; y por el OESTE, en 63.92 metros, con Ángel Rodríguez Capó. The property is iden tified with the number 42243 and is recorded at page num ber 88 of volume number 941 of Bayamón, in the Registry of Property of Bayamón, First Section. WHEREAS, The mort gage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 88 of volume number 1814 (ágora) of Baya món, tenth inscription in the Re gistry of Property of Bayamón, First Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage was modified on June 28,2012 by deed number 654 before notary Néstor Machado Córtes. With a new principal of $120,907.08 and variable inter est. From the (1) payment until the (60)payment, the interest rate will be at 2.50%; From the (61)payment until the (72) pa yment, the interest rate will be at 3.50%;From (73) payment until the (84)payment, interest rate will be at 4.50%; From the (85) payment until the (96) pa yment, the interest rate will be at 5.50%; and from the (97) pa yment until (480)payment, the interest rate will be at 6.50%.
Being July 1,2052 its maturity date. Recorded at page 88 of Bayamón Volume 1814. Ele venth inscription. WHEREAS the property is subject to the fo llowing junior liens: MORTGA GE: Pledged by Carlos Manuel Reyes Rodríguez and his wife, Cecilia Aponte Román, guaran teeing a promissory note in fa vor of POPULAR MORTGAGE INC., or to its order, for the origi nal loan amount of $48,000.00, bearing annual interest at a rate of 7.500%, payable by August 1st, 2022, as per deed number
572, executed in San Juan, on July 20th, 2007, before Vanes sa López Ortiz, Notary Public.
Recorded at page 88 of Baya món Volume 1814. Tenth ins cription. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the hol ders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acqui re the property subject to any and all the senior liens that en cumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder ac cepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, ta cit, implied or legal) shall con tinue in effect it being unders tood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is su brogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens.
WHEREFORE, the FIRST PU BLIC SALE will be held on DE CEMBER 2, 2022 AT 9:35AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $120,907.08. 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 DECEMBER 9, 2022 AT 9:35AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $80,604.72. If said second auc tion does not result in the adju dication and sale of the proper ty, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on December 16, 2022 at 9:35am and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $60,453.54. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens.
For further particulars, refe rence is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14 day of September 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIA NO, SPECIAL MASTER.
M&T
21-04-481425
HU2021CV00110
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HU MACAO SALA SUPERIOR ALBUS INVESTMENT LLC Demandante V.
LAS SUCESIONES DE JOAQUÍN DÍAZ
FONTÁNEZ Y JULIA VÁZQUEZ MESTRE T/C/C JULIA VÁZQUEZ DE DÍAZ COMPUESTAS POR JOSÉ J. DÍAZ VÁZQUEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE JOAQUÍN DÍAZ FONTÁNEZ; JOHN DOE
Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE JULIA VÁZQUEZ MESTRE T/C/C JULIA VÁZQUEZ DE DÍAZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: HU2021CV00110. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUN CIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que le ha sido dirigido al Al guacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de ge rente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MA ÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SU PERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte de mandada de epígrafe en el in mueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb. Villa Universita ria, AC4 calle 23, Humacao, PR 00791-4342 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 4 del bloque ‘AC’ de la Urbanización Villa Universitaria, localizado situado en los Barrios Mariana y Tejas del término de municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, con un área de 445.99 metros cua drados. En lindes por el Norte, en 23.00 metros con el solar número 5 del mismo bloque; por el Sur, en 23.10 metros, con una quebrada Mariana; por el Este, en 18.98 metros, con la calle número 23; y por el Oeste, en 19.80 metros, con el solar número 3 del mismo bloque. Enclava una casa construida de concreto armado y bloques para fines residenciales. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 175 del Tomo 274 de Humacao, fin ca número 10,603, en el Regis tro de la Propiedad de Huma cao. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado será el dis puesto en la Escritura de Hipo teca, es decir la suma de $196,500.00. Si no hubiere re mate ni adjudicación en la pri
mera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscri be el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE
2022 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MA
ÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $131,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se cele brará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 15 DE NOVIEM
BRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:15 DE
LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pacta do para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $98,250.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constitui da mediante la escritura núme ro 53, otorgada el día 4 de mayo de 2009, ante el Notario Alfonso J. Gómez Roubert y consta inscrita como asiento abreviado del Tomo Karibe de Humacao, finca número 10,603, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, ins cripción quinta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Deman dante total o parcialmente se gún sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido as cendente a la suma de $172,807.99 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.080% anual des de el día 28 de septiembre de 2018. Dichos intereses conti núan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación; los cargos por servicio y las primas de seguro que continúan acu mulándose hasta el saldo de la obligación; los créditos acceso rios y adelantos hechos en vir tud de la escritura de hipoteca; la suma de $19,650.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado como suma pactada a dichos efectos en el pagaré; la suma de $19,650.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $19,650.00 para cubrir cual quier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipo teca; más intereses según pro visto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedi miento incoado estarán de ma nifiesto en la SECRETARIA
DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SU PERIOR durante las horas la borables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante
los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio de remate. La propiedad está sujeta a los si guientes gravámenes anterio res y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad.
HIPOTECA: Consti tuida por persona jurídica no expresada, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de New York Mortgage Bankers, o a su or den, por la suma de $93,750.00, sus intereses al 7% anual y vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2033, según consta de la escri tura número 4, otorgada en San Juan, el 28 de febrero de 2003, ante el notario Ricardo Soto Goitia. Inscrita como asiento abreviado al Tomo Karibe de Humacao. Inscripción cuarta. El día 21 de abril de 2022 se pre sentó ante el Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala de Humacao, Demanda sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Hipotecario Extra viado, caso civil número HU2022CV00506, mediante la cual se solicita al Honorable Tri bunal que mediante los trámites legales necesarios y aviso a posibles tenedores desconoci dos, ordene la cancelación del pagaré y la garantía hipotecaria antes descritos, que constan en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, el cual grava la pro piedad objeto de reclamación. Surge de un estudio de título efectuado que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta me diante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan ins critos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endo so, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterio ridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se ce lebrarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Hipo teca: Constituida por persona jurídica no expresada, en ga rantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y De sarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos de América, o a su or den, por la suma de $196,500.00, sus intereses al 4.08% anual y vencedero el 20 de enero de 2074, según cons
ta de la escritura número 54, otorgada en San Juan, el 4 de mayo de 2009, ante el notario Alfonso J. Gómez Roubert. Ins crita como asiento abreviado al Tomo Karibe de Humacao. Ins cripción sexta. Presentación: Presentada el 10 de marzo de 2021, al asiento 2021-027124HU01, Demanda de fecha 4 de febrero de 2021, ante el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el caso civil número
HU2021CV00110, seguido por Kondaur Capital Corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as separa te trustee of Matawin Ventures Trust Series 2021-1 v. La Suce sión de Joaquín Díaz Fontánez compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe, La Sucesión de Julia Vázquez Mestre también cono cida como Julia Vázquez De Díaz compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe, Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales, Departa mento de Hacienda y Estados Unidos de América, sobre co bro de dinero y ejecución de hi poteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un ba lance de $172,807.99 y otras cantidades, o la venta en públi ca subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos sema nas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colectu ría. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La pro piedad a ser ejecutada se ad quirirá libre de cargas y gravá menes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según apli que. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2022.
José L. Rodríguez Hernández, Alguacil Regional Interino, Tri bunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Humacao. Jennisa Garciía Morales, Al guacil Auxiliar Placa #796.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
PUERTO RICO TRIBU
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
JUDICIAL DE PON
SALA SUPERIOR
Demandados
Civil Núm.: JCD2003-1212.
Sala: 606. Sobre: cobro de di nero y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA por la via ordinaria. AVI SO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, JUAN ROLAN DO CRUZ ROMÁN, el Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia ex pedido por la Secretaria del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en pública subasta y al me jor postor, quien pagará el im porte de la venta en dinero efectivo, en cheque certificado o en cheque de gerente a la or den del alguacil suscribiente en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en mi oficina localizada en el Cen tro Judicial de Ponce, todo títu lo, derecho o interés que co rresponda a las partes codemandadas sobre los bie nes inmuebles que se descri ben a continuación: A. PRO
PIEDAD A – FINCA 6,611: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con un área de catorce cuerdas con trescientas setenta y tres diezmilésimas de cuerda, equi valentes a cincuenta y cinco mil ciento sesenta y ocho punto dos mil doscientos cuarenta y ocho metros cuadrados (55,168.2248 M.C.), situado en el Barrio Tejas de Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico y en lindes por el NORTE, a todo lo largo de una quebrada con José Muñoz; por el SUR, con la parcela “B” a se gregarse; por el ESTE, con la carretera número catorce (14); y por el OESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de E. Díaz Brink.” La propiedad consta ins crita al folio 257 del tomo 266 de Juana Díaz, Finca 6,611, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (1era) de Ponce. DIRECCIÓN
FÍSICA: Carr. 551 Km 0.7 Ba rrio Tijeras, Juana Díaz, PR.
AFECTA POR SU PROCE
DENCIA: Libre de Cargas.
AFECTA POR SI: SERVIDUM
BRE DE PASO a perpetuidad sobre esta finca seis mil seis cientos once (6611) inscrita al folio cincuenta y cuatro (54) del tomo ciento noventa y dos (192) de Juana Diaz como pre dio sirviente a favor de la finca diez mil ciento ochenta y seis (10186) al folio doscientos cin cuenta (250) del tomo doscien tos sesenta y seis (266) de Jua na Diaz como predio dominante sobre una faja tres mil cuatro cientos cuarenta metros cua
drados (3,440.00 m/c), equiva lente a ocho mil setecientas cincuenta y dos diez milesimas de cuerda, con valor de mil do lares ($1,000.00). Según cons ta de la inscripción ocho (8) practicada con fecha de catorce (14) de agosto de mil novecien tos ochenta y cuatro (1984) al folio cincuenta y seis (56) vuelto del tomo ciento noventa y dos (192) de la demarcación de Juana Díaz y en virtud de la es critura numero treinta y seis (36) otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día catorce (14) de abril de mil novecientos ochenta y cuatro (1984)ante el notario Raúl Matos, aclarada mediante la escritura número sesenta y cuatro (64) otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día seis (6) de julio de mil novecientos ochenta y cuatro (1984) por el mismo notario. HIPOTECA: En garan tía de un pagaré a favor de BANCO DE DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO PARA PUERTO
RICO, o a su orden, por la suma de cuatrocientos treinta y cinco mil ($435,000.00), distri buyéndose la responsabilidad hipotecaria entre esta finca y otras más, respondiendo esta por la suma de doscientos no venta mil ($290,000.00), con interés al 9.75% anual, y vence dero a la presentación, según consta escritura treinta y cinco (35), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día cinco (5) de marzo de mil novecientos no venta y siete (1997) ante el no tario Pedro A. Morell Corrada, inscripción décimo quinta (15ta). ANOTACIÓN DE EM BARGO: a favor del Estado Li bre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de dieciséis mil ochocientos veinticuatro dóla res con sesenta y cinco centa vos ($16,824.65). Según surge de la anotación letra A practica da con fecha de ocho (8) de agosto de dos mil ocho (2008) al folio ciento sesenta y nueve (169) del tomo quinientos vein tidós (522) de la demarcación de Juana Díaz y en virtud de Certificación de fecha del trein ta (30) de julio de dos mil ocho (2008) por Humberto Figueroa, Supervisor. El gravamen objeto de ejecución en este procedi miento es la que surge de la Escritura de Hipoteca número 35, otorgada el 5 de marzo de 1997 ante el Notario Público Pedro A. Morell Corrada, en la cual se establece como precio mínimo para la primera subasta la suma de $290,000.00. B.
PROPIEDAD B – FINCA 10,186: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Tejas de Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, con un área de tres mil ciento cincuenta punto ocho mil setecientos dieciocho metros cuadrados (3,156.8718 M.C.), equivalentes a cero punto ocho mil treinta y dos (0.8032) cuer das. En lindes por el NORTE, SUR, ESTE y OESTE con el
17 de diciembre de 2020, me diante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada a pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad ascendiente a $76,116.55 de principal, más intereses acumu lados, que continuarán acumu lándose al 5.75% anual hasta
el saldo total de la deuda, mas $315.76 a cargos por demora, más $8,325.20 de costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La
PRIMERA SUBASTA será ce
lebrada el día 1 DE NOVIEM
BRE DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE
LA TARDE en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ma yagüez, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $83,252.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBAS
TA el 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TAR DE, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $55,501.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudi cación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBAS
TA el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo míni mo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $41,626.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento incoado estarán de ma nifiesto en la Secretaría del Tri bunal durante horas laborables.
Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entien de que cualquier carga y/o gra vamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continua rá subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cual quier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propie dad para ejecutar se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de car gas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo teca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de ins
trumentos negociables garan tizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecuta do, 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, que dando subrogados en los dere chos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y con signado el precio correspon diente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente es critura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o ti tular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el ad judicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo due ño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si trans curren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior proce dimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la fin ca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO
DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edic to bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En MAYAGÜEZ, Puer to Rico, hoy 14 de septiembre de 2022. Alg. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, Alguacil Placa #924, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Mayagüez.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD.
Plaintiff V. AMERICO MARTINEZ ROMERO, MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ AND THE CONYUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY AMERICO MARTINEZ AND MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ
Defendants Civil No.: 15-2723. JAG. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE. NOTICE OF SALE. To: AMERICO MARTINEZ ROMERO, MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THE TWO, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $663,971.78 of principal balance, plus in
terest at a rate of 6.25% per annum since December 1st, 2008. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges in the amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or ins tallments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant owes Plaintiff all of the advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortga ge deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% ($68,900.00) of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attor ney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested par ties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementio ned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or cer tified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Car los Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: URBANA: Solar Marcado con el número cuarenta y cuatro (44) de la Urbanización Campos de Mon tehiedra, localizada en el Barrio Caimito de Rio Piedras, termino municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superfi cial de setecientos veintisiete puntos nueve mil quinientos cuarenta y cuatro (727.9544) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle Jun cal, en una distancia de vein titrés punto doscientos treinta y nueve (23.239) metros; por el Sur, con terreno de Acisclo González, en una distancia de veintitrés punto novecientos dos (23.902) metros; por Este, con el lote número cuarenta y tres (43), en una distancia de treinta y uno punto cero trein ticuatro (31.034) metros; por el Oeste, con los lotes cuarenta y cinco (45) y cuarenta y seis (46) en una distancia de trein ta y uno punto ochocientos veintinueve (31.829) metros. Enclava en este solar una es tructura de concreto reforzado y bloques de hormigón, para fines residenciales. number 21335, recorded at page 53 of volume 756 of Rio Piedra Sur, Registry of the Property of San Juan, Section IV. Phy sical Address: 744 Juncal St. Los Campos I, De Montehie dra, Barrio Caimito, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens
with holders thereof. It is un derstood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is un derstood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (ex press, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the suc cessful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibi lity for the same and the bid pri ce shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on OCTOBER 12TH, 2022, AT 3:15 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $689,000.00. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the pro perty is not adjudicated, a SE COND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the OCTOBER 19TH, 2022 AT 3:15 PM and the mini mum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $459,333.33. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the OCTOBER 26TH 2022 AT 3:15 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $344,500.00. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United Sta tes District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 6th of July of 2022. BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ SO LÍS, SPECIAL MASTER.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS ALBERTO BURGOS RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C LUIS
A. BURGOS RODRÍGUEZ, ELISA MARIE CAPÓ OJEDA T/C/C ELISA CAPÓ OJEDA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA REPRESENTADO POR EL SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y
DESARROLLO URBANO
(HUD)
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02075. (703). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: ELISA MARIE CAPÓ
OJEDA T/C/C ELISA CAPÓ OJEDA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA CON LUIS ALBERTO BURGOS RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C
LUIS A. BURGOS RODRÍGUEZ A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES
CONOCIDAS E
INFORMADAS: URB.
VILLA BLANCA, 29
CALLE DIAMANTE, CAGUAS PR 00725-1917, Y VILLA BLANCA, SOLAR
28 DEL BLOQUE H, CAGUAS PR 00725-1917.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeu da las siguientes cantidades: $98,949.27 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.125% anual desde el 1 de diciembre de 2021 hasta su completo pago, más $94.41 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $12,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del présta mo. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 28 en el bloque H del plano de inscrip ción de la Urbanización “Repar to Villa Blanca” radicada en el Barrio Bairoa de Caguas, con un área superficial de 450.00 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE: en 30.00 metros con el solar número 27 del bloque “H’ del mencionado plano; por el SUR: en 30.00 metros con el solar número 29 del bloque “H” del mencionado plano; por el ESTE: en 15.00 metros con el número 7 del bloque “H” del mencionado plano; y por el OESTE: en 15.00 metros con la calle número 3 del mencio nado plano. Inscrita al folio 111 del tomo 324 de Caguas, Finca 8930. Registro de la Propie dad de Caguas, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Ca guas, Finca 8930. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Inscripción novena. La escritura de modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Caguas, Finca
8930. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Inscrip ción 9.1. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del refe rido pagaré objeto de la presen te acción. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema
Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la deman da, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contes tación a la abogada de la par te demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 7080566, correo electrónico: ofi cinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le ano tará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, conce diendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tri bunal, hoy 28 de septiembre de 2022 en Caguas, Puerto Rico. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secre taria. Yaritza Rosario Placeres, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING LLC Demandante V. FERNANDO
MAISONET LAUREANO Demandado(a)
Civil: VB2021CV00660. Sala: 502. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO.
MAISONET LAUREANO. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia
Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de septiembre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 29 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MA RRERO BRACERO, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECI
Demandante V. JOSÉ MANUEL
Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01449. (402). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR DINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
Queden emplazados y notifi cados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. 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 y deberá presentar su alega ción responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá 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 discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abo gados de la parte demandante son:
Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero T.S .P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC 1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Tel. 877-338-4101 /
Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com /
asaez@tmppllc.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 29 de septiembre de 2022. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria Regional. Yanitza Iglesias Mal donado, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO IBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
DE TAL & MENGANO MÁS CUAL, MÁS TODO POSIBLE TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO
Demandado(a)
Civil: GB2021CV00463. Sala: 201. Sobre: PAGARÉ EXTRA VIADO Y CUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION; AURORA BANK; NELIDA RÍOS MARRERO FULANO
DE TAL & MENGANO MÁS CUAL, MÁS TODO
POSIBLE TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de septiembre de 2022. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 16 de septiembre de 2022. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sán chez, Secretaria. Maireni Trinta Maldonado, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs PAULA SOTO
LEYVA, FIRST FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION, JOHN DOE
Demandado
Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01750.
Salón: 601. Sobre: CANCE
LACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRA VIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN
CIA POR EDICTO.
A: PAULA SOTO LEYVA, FIRST FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION, JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES
DESCONOCIDOS
DEL PAGARÉ, A SER NOTIFICADO POR EDICTO POR CONDUCTO DEL LCDO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZ RUA NÚM.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP SUITE 209 500 CALLE DE LA TANCA SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00901 TEL.: (787) 523-2670 FAX: (787) 5232664 RDÍAZ@BDPRLAW. COM.
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Suite 209 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que 29 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representado usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de septiembre de 2022. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 30 de septiem bre de 2022. Luz Mayra Cara ballo García, Secretaria Regio nal. Hilda J. Rosado Rodríguez,
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ
ROLANDO GIL RODRIGUEZ
Demandante V. RAUL JESUS NOY ANCHIA, SU ESPOSA YEIDIE DEL ROSARIO TROGOLO VELEZ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV01397.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES.
YO, ALG. IVELISSE FIGUE ROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, al público en general, POR LA PRESEN
TE HAGO SABER: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia del Secreta rio de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Esta dos Unidos, en mi oficina, en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala de Mayagüez, el día 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, la siguiente propiedad: CABA ÑA SIETE: Esta unidad está localizada en el lado ESTE, de la propiedad y colinda por el NORTE, con los jardines comu nales y con las aceras comu nales de acceso a las demás cabañas; por el SUR, con los jardines comunales y con las aceras de acceso Este; por el ESTE, con los jardines comu nales y de ahí con la cabaña número seis (6); y por el OES TE, con los jardines comunales y de ahí al edificio central. Esta unidad consta de una estructu ra independiente de hormigón y bloques de hormigón de dos plantas, con una cabida su perficial de mil dieciocho punto sesenta (1108.60) pies cuadra dos, equivalentes a noventa y cuatro punto setenta y dos (94.72) metros cuadrados. Se compone este apartamento en su primera planta de una salacomedor, cocina, baño, área de servicio, terraza con área de setenta y siete (77.00) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a siete punto dieciséis (7.16) metros cuadrados, un dormitorio con closet y el pozo de escaleras.
La puerta principal está loca lizado en la sala y abre hacia la terraza ya mencionada, y de ahí al área comunal. Existe una salida de servicio desde la coci
na, a través del patio de servi cio. La segunda planta contiene dos cuartos dormitorios, cada uno con closet y balcón, un baño y un closet para ropa de cama. Le corresponde una par ticipación de punto cero ciento ochenta y nueve (.0189%) por ciento en los elementos comu nes del Inmueble, así como de sus gastos comunales y de los elementos comunes limitados.
Consta inscrito al folio 285 del tomo 247 de Cabo Rojo, Re gistro de la Propiedad de San Germán, finca número 7,421.
La dirección física es: Cabaña 7 Agueybana Cluster, Villa Tai na Cabo Rojo, PR 00623. Los tipos mínimos fijados para la ejecución del bien inmueble an tes mencionado lo es la suma de $140,000.00 para la Primera Subasta; $93,333.33 para la Segunda Subasta; $70,000.00 para la Tercera Subasta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde sea posible, el importe de la sentencia dictada el pa sado 28 de enero de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, ascenden te a las siguientes cantidades: $36,105.00 de principal, más $133.39 de intereses acumu lados hasta el 2 de julio de 2019, más los que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más la suma de $288.90 en recargos, más la cantidad de $14,000.00 por costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogados pactados. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 10
DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para ésta será el de las dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se ce lebrará una TERCERA SUBAS TA el día 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta subasta será la mitad del precio mínimo pactado para la primera subasta. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera su basta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuere mayor. Todas las subastas deberán ser acorda das y celebradas según lo or denado por el Tribunal. La su basta antes indicada se llevará a cabo en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.
El inmueble NO consta afecto por el siguiente gravamen pre ferencial. El inmueble antes
relacionado consta afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: a. AL ASIENTO 2019-118554SG01 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 6 de noviem bre de 2019, Aviso de Deman da de fecha 20 de agosto de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Mayagüez, en el Caso Civil número MZ2019CV01397, por concepto de Cobro de Di nero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Oriental Bank, versus Raúl Noy Anchia y su esposa Yeidie Del Rosario Trogolo Véle, por la suma de $36,105.00 más intereses y otras sumas. b. Em bargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, con tra Raúl J. Roy Anchia y Yeidi Trogolo Vélez, seguro social xxx-xx-4259, por la suma de $158,944.89, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, Embargo número ARE-761, Certificación de fecha 9 de junio de 2017 y presentado el día 13 de junio de 2017 y anotado al Asiento 2017-005357-EST del Sistema Karibe. c. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico contra Raúl J. Roy Anchia y Yeidi Trogolo Vélez, seguro social números xxx-xx-7761 y xxx-xx-4259, por la suma de $171,402.64, por concepto de Contribucio nes Sobre Ingresos, Embargo número ARE19-7761, Certifi cación de fecha 20 de julio de 2018 y presentado el día 10 de septiembre de 2018 y anotado al Asiento 2018-007048-EST del Sistema Karibe. Se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsisten tes; entiéndase que el rema tante los acepta y quedan su brogados en la responsabilidad del mismo sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Para la publicación de este edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana, durante dos semanas conse cutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, libro el presente en Mayagüez, Puer to Rico, hoy día 22 de agosto del 2022. Alg. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, Alguacil Placa #924, Al guacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Mayagüez.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD
Plaintiff V.
THE ESTATE OF RAFAEL CABELLO-COLON CONSTITUTED BY A.C.C.M AND RUBI MARIE CABELLO-COLON AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE Defendants
Civil No.: 3:16-cv-03149. PAD.
Re: COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: THE ESTATE OF RAFAEL CABELLOCOLON CONSTITUTED BY A.C.C.M AND RUBI MARIE CABELLO-COLON AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE, GENERAL PUBLIC, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $243,878.40 plus interest at a rate of 6.000% per annum since February 1, 2015 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also or dered to pay Plaintiff late char ges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly install ment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to in surance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($24,775.04) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The mortgage was modified on August 25, 2012 by deed number 619 before notary Magda V. Alsina Figue roa for a new principal sum of $247,750.49, and maturity date September 1, 2052; beginning on October 1, 2012 with an interest rate at 6.000%. The modification deed is recorded at page 72 of Carolina Volu me 1499, fifth inscription. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Offi ce of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and a at the office of the appointed special master at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 1 del bloque GG de la Urbaniza ción Los Colobos Park, ubicado en el Barrio Canovanillas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área super ficial de 389.53 metros cuadra dos. En lindes por el NORTE, con futuro desarrollo, en dis tancia de 13.569 metros; por
el SUR, con la Calle Número 102, en una distancia de 11.254 metros y un arco de 2.90 me tros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 2 del bloque GG, en una distancia de 28.00 metros y por el OESTE, con la Calle Número 101, en una distancia de 16.073 metros y 8.168 me tros y un arco de 2.90 metros.
En este solar enclava una casa de concreto y bloques para vivienda. TRACTO: Se segre ga de la finca número 48901, inscrita al folio 94 del tomo 1441 de Carolina. The proper ty is identified with the number 59892 and is recorded at page number 94 of volume number 1469 of Carolina, in the Regis try of Property of Carolina, Se cond Section. WHEREAS, the mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recor ded at page number 94 of vo lume number 1469 of Carolina, third inscription in the Registry of Property of Carolina, Second Section, third inscription. Po tential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the proper ty. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as suffi cient the title that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFO
RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on DECEMBER 22, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $247,750.49. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on DECEMBER 29, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $165,166.99. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on JANUARY 5, 2023 at 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $123,875.25. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cance ling 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 aforemen tioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 26 day of September 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, SPECIAL MASTER.
LIME HOMES, LTD
Plaintiff V. CARMINA AMÉRICA
BARNES PAGÁN A/K/A CARMIÑA AMÉRICA
BARNES PAGÁN A/ KA CARMIÑA BARNES PAGÁN AND THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES
GARRIGA A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ
GARRIGA; JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS THE UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES
GARRIGA A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ GARRIGA
Defendants Civil No.: 3:16-cv-02980-ADC.
Re: MORTGAGE FORECLO
SURE. NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: CARMINA AMÉRICA BARNES PAGÁN A/K/A CARMIÑA AMÉRICA BARNES PAGÁN A/ KA CARMIÑA BARNES PAGÁN AND THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES GARRIGA A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ GARRIGA, JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS THE UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES GARRIGA A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ GARRIGA, GENERAL PUBLIC, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, PUERTO RICO INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICES AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $251,530.05 plus interest at a rate of 4.500% per annum since March 1, 2012 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue un til the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the install ment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plain tiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($30,200.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s
fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The re cords of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Offi ce of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records.
WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and a at the office of the appointed special master at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Condominio Almendro Terra ce de Santurce Norte. Apar tamento número B-2 Tiene una cabida total de 1,867.0 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 569.207 metros cuadrados dividido en dos plantas o nive les comunicados entre sí por una escalera la cual conduce también a una escalera la cual conduce también a una azotea localizada sobre el segundo piso de este apartamento, para el exclusivo de éste como área privada individual. La primera planta consta de una terraza al descubierto, sala, comedor, vestíbulo, cocina, closets, me dio baño, estacionamiento bajo techo o marquesina doble para uso exclusivo e individualizado de este apartamento con ac ceso directo al patio interior común del condominio. La segunda planta consta de 3 cuartos dormitorios, dos baños y laundry. Pertenece también a este apartamento como área privada para uso individual de este apartamento entre el pe rímetro exterior de la edifica ción y la colindancia del solar en que enclava el edificio. La puerta principal de entrada a este apartamento comunica al patio interior común del condo minio, el cual a su vez comuni ca con la vía pública a través de la vía o camino de acceso. Colinda este apartamento por el Este, con el apartamento C-2; por el Oeste, con el apar tamento A-2; por el Norte, con la colindancia Norte del solar en que enclava el edificio; por el Sur, con el patio interior co mún y la marquesina doble del apartamento C-2. Correspon de al anteriormente descrito apartamento una participación de 16.86% en los elementos comunes del inmueble. The property is identified with the number 32,223 and is recorded at page number 171 of volume number 864 of North Santurce, in the Registry of Property of San Juan, First Section. WHE REAS, the mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant procee ding is recorded at mobile page of volume number 1,098 of North Santurce, fifth inscription in the Registry of Property of
San Juan, First Section. WHE REAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: TAX LIEN: Annotated on this pro perty as belonging to Augusto Quiñones Garriga and Carmiña Barnes Pagán, for the sum of $246,255.14, certification dated August 18, 2004, issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Department of Treasury. Anno tated to mobile volume 1107 of Santurce North Seventh ins cription. TAX LIEN: Annotated on this property, as belonging to Augusto Quiñones Garriga and Carmiña Barnes Pagán, for the amount of $251,521.68, accor ding to certification dated Sep tember 23, 2008, issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Department of Treasury. Anno tated to mobile volume 1107 of Santurce North. Seventh ins cription. TAX LIEN: Annotated on this property as belonging to Augusto Quiñones Garriga, for the sum of $246,255.14, certi fication dated August 18, 2004, issued by Internal Revenue Service ofPuerto Rico. Annota ted on page 3, order number 10 of the Tax Lien Register San turce North, number 110, on September 1, 2004. TAX LIEN: Annotated on this property, as belonging to Augusto Quiño nes Garriga, for the amount of $251,521.68, according to certification of Tax Lien Regis ter dated September 26, 2008, issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Department of Treasury. Annotated on page 16, order number 64 of the Tax Lien Register of Santurce North number 110. LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. vs Car mina América Barnes Pagán a/k/a Carmiña América Barnes Pagán a/ka Carmiña Barnes Pagán and the estate of Au gusto Quiñones Garriga a/k/a Augusto Quiñonez Garriga; John Doe and Jane Doe as the unknown members of the esta te of Augusto Quiñones Garriga a/k/a Augusto Quiñonez Ga rriga before the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, docket number 3:16-cv-02980-ADC regarding foreclosure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstan ding balance of $251,530.05, as per complaint dated Nov ember 15, 2016. Recorded at the Karibe system for North Santurce, notation D. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is unders tood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and prefe rential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same
and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens.
WHEREFO
RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on DECEMBER 22, 2022 AT 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $302,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on DECEMBER 29, 2022 AT 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $201,333.33. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on JA NUARY 5, 2023 at 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $151,000.00. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 26 day of Sep tember 2022. Joel Ronda Feli ciano, Special Master.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN MMG I PR CR LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CARMEN CASTRO SANCHEZ COMPUESTA POR ISRAEL GUZMAN ARROYO POR SI Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTARIA; ISRAEL ALEJANDRO GUZMAN CASTRO; JAVIER ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; DANIEL ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; MANUEL ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; LEARSI ALEJANDRA GUZMAN CASTRO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO, DIVISION DE CAUDAL RELICTO Y CENTRO RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Demandado(s) Caso Núm.: KCD2013-0303. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI CA SUBASTA
A: SUCESION DE CARMEN CASTRO SANCHEZ COMPUESTA POR ISRAEL GUZMAN ARROYO POR SI EN CUANTO LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTARIA
ISRAEL ALEJANDRO GUZMAN CASTRO; JAVIER ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; DANIEL ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; MANUEL ISRAEL GUZMAN CASTRO; LEARSI ALEJANDRA GUZMAN CASTRO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO, DIVISION DE CAUDAL RELICTO Y CENTRO RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puer to Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acree dores 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 ejecu tada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación re gistral, para que puedan concu rrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor eje cutante a saber: DORAL BANK: A cuyo favor aparece una ano tación de demanda, expedida el 3 de junio 2009, en el en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, caso civil # KCD2009-2150, seguido por Doral Bank versus Israel Guzman Arroyo, Carmen Castro Sánchez y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Compuesta por Ambos, por la suma de $73,868.14 y otros suma. Anotado el 24 de julio de 2020, en el Sistema Karibe de Sabana Llana, Finca 35,892. Anotación A. Que en cumpli miento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedi do el día 26 de agosto de 2022, 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: COND PUERTA DEL SOL 2000 APT 1101 San Juan PR 00926.
PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Condominio Puerta del Sol de Sabana Llana, Apartamento 1101, Cabida: (1,408.13) pies cuadrados. Apartamento resi dencial (1101) rectangular loca lizado Enel piso número once (11) del Condominio Puerta del Sol que ubica en la Carretera
Estatal Numero 181, del barrio Sabana Llana de Rio Piedras, Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,408.13 pies cuadrados, siendo sus medidas lineales sesenta y seis de largo (66’0”) por veintidós pies con nueve pulgadas (22’9”); en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veintidós pies nueve pulga das (22’9”) con terrenos donde enclava el edificio; por el SUR, en una distancia de veintidós pies nueves pulgadas (22’9”) con terrenos donde enclava el edificio; por el ESTE, en una distancia de sesenta y seis pies (66’0”) con terrenos don de enclava el edificio; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de sesenta y seis pies (66’0”), con el pasillo central del piso y la escalera. La puerta principal del apartamento tiene acceso al pasillo central del piso. Esta unidad residencial consta de los siguiente: sala, comedor, baño, pasillo con closet, biblio teca, laundry, cocina, tres (3) cuartos con closet, dormitorio “Master” con “Walk-in” closet y baño. El apartamento tiene un porciento de participación en los elementos generales de punto cero cero nueve cero seis dos nueve. (.0090629%).
A este apartamento le corres ponde como elemento común limitado el estacionamiento número 145. Consta inscrita en Karibe de Sabana Llana, Finca número 35,892; Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan Sec ción Quinta. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfa cer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dicta da a su favor, el día 14 de agos to de 2013 en el presente caso civil, cuya deuda asciende a la suma de $68,486.65 por con cepto de principal, $38,007.71 de intereses al 25 de mayo de 2020, los cuales se continúan aumentando hasta el pago to tal de la obligación a razón de $13.01 per diem, $2,179.44 de cargos por demora, $2,617.02 de deficiencia en la cuenta plica(“Escrow Deficiency”)más costas, gastos y $7,840.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado. Los intereses se continúan acumulando, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pa garse las sumas antes mencio nadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa soli citud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la men cionada 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 Tri bunal.
LA PRIMERA SUBASTA
NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judi cial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mí nimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $78,400.00.
Que de ser necesaria la cele bración de una SEGUNDA SU BASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $52,266.67, 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 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $39,200.00, 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 tota lidad 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 men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad 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 eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, 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 documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que se entenderá
que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de septiembre de 2022.
Pedro Hieye González, Algua cil, División De Subastas, Tribu nal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De San Juan.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD
Plaintiff V. FERNANDO SIERRA ARCHILLA, SHARON LYNETTE FRANCO MUÑOZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEM
Defendants
Civil No.: 3:21-cv-01015. RAM.
Re: COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: FERNANDO SIERRA ARCHILLA, SHARON LYNETTE FRANCO MUÑOZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEM, GENERAL PUBLIC, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $96,384.84 plus interest at a rate of 7.500% per annum since August 1, 2012 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue un til the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the install ment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plain tiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($9,250.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The re cords of the case and these proceedings may be examined
by interested parties at the Offi ce of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the SPECIAL MASTER Joel Ronda at 441 Calle E, Frailes Indus trial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following
property: RUSTICA: Solar radi cado en la Urbanizacion Vista mar III, Vistamar Plaza, situada en el Barrio Sabana Debajo de Carolina, marcado con el número 1212, con un área de 294.25 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la ca lle Gerona, distancia de 9.02 metros y 5.94 metros; por el Sur, con la Avenida Norte, Vis tamar Plaza, distancia de 13.00 metros; por el Este, con el so lar número 1213, distancia de 23.00 metros; por el Oeste, con el solar número 1211, distan cia de 18.72 metros. Contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. The property is identified with the number 13,114 and is recorded at page number 99 of volume number 346 of Carolina, in the Registry of Property of Carolina, First Section. WHEREAS the mort gage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 27 of volume number 955 of Carolina, ninth inscription in the Registry of Property of Carolina, First Sec tion. WHEREAS the mortgage note and deed were modified by the parties on March 7, 2011 via deed number 32 for the Modification and Extension of Mortgage executed before Notary Ileana Quintero Aguiló.
The parties established as the new unpaid principal balan ce the amount of $97,700.00, maintained the interest rate as 7.50% and extended the loan’s maturity date to March 1, 2041.
The modification deed is recor ded at page number 27 (over leaf) of volume number 955 of Carolina, eleventh entry in the Registry of Property of Caroli na, First Section. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: LIS PEN DENS: Civil matter pursued by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Fernando Sierra Archilla and his wife, Sharon Lynette Franco Muñoz, before Puerto Rico Superior Court at Carolina, docket number FCD2007-2150 regarding collection of monies and foreclosure, claiming pay ment of mortgage with an outs tanding balance of $90,568.59, as per complaint dated Nov ember 21, 2007. Recorded at
page number 27 (overleaf) of volume 955 of Carolina, entry number A. LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by DLJ Mortga ge Capital, Inc. vs. Fernando Sierra Archilla, Sharon Lynette Franco Muñoz and the conjugal partnership that exists between them, before the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, docket number 3:21-cv-01015-RAM regarding collection of monies and fore closure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $96,384.84, as per complaint dated January 11, 2021. Recorded at page num ber 27 (overleaf) of volume 955 of Carolina, entry number A. Recorded at the Karibe system for Carolina, Notation B. STATE TAX LIEN in favor of the Com monwealth of Puerto Rico in the amount of $707.74, certification issued July 2, 2018, recorded at the Karibe system, entry number 2018-005358-EST. Po tential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the proper ty. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as suffi cient the title that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFO
RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on DECEMBER 22, 2022 AT 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $92,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on DECEMBER 29, 2022 AT 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $61,666.67. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on JA NUARY 5, 2023 at 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $46,250.00. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 27 day of Sep tember 2022. Joel Ronda Feli ciano, Special Master.
TheNew York Yankees’ eventful 2022 regu lar season ended Wednesday evening with a 4-2 loss to the Texas Rangers. After a charmed first half and troublesome second half, the Yankees finished with a 99-63 record, their highest win total since 2019.
While some Yankees had strong individu al seasons, like pitchers Gerrit Cole and Néstor Cortes Jr., the regular season will likely be re membered most for superstar outfielder Aaron Judge’s historic season. He dazzled teammates, opponents and fans alike with stellar hitting that came close to winning a triple crown and on Tuesday set a new American League singleseason home run record with 62.
Having secured one of the AL’s top two seeds, the AL East-winning Yankees earned the luxury of a first-round bye in the postseason. So while the best-of-three wild-card round plays out this weekend, the Yankees will be resting tired limbs, practicing, debating roster compo sition, and watching and strategizing for their potential opponent. They won’t play a game, though, until Tuesday, the day of the first sched uled game of their AL Division Series against the winner between the Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays.
The last time the Yankees had five days without a game was in mid-March, when their spring training exhibition schedule began. (The Yankees’ All-Star break in mid-July was only three days.) Baseball is a sport that is played nearly every day for months. The 162-game regular season began April 7, and the World Se ries, should it go the maximum seven games, is scheduled to conclude Nov. 5.
But during the negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement this past win ter, Major League Baseball team owners and players agreed to expand the postseason format to 12 teams from 10, and thus the schedule needed some tweaking. The wild-card round went from a single-elimination game to a bestof-three series, and two first-round byes were created in each league as a reward for the best two division winners.
The result is that the Yankees — along with the Houston Astros in the AL and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves in the Na tional League — will experience a decidedly unbaseball-like pause from games before their playoff games begin.
An argument could be made either way for the five days off: It could be beneficial for a banged-up team (the Yankees) or it could be
detrimental for a team (Atlanta) or player (Hous ton’s José Altuve, for example, hit .444 over his final 14 games) locked into a rhythm right now. The hottest team, not necessarily the best, has won the World Series in recent seasons.
“Hopefully it’s a good thing, right?” Yan kees manager Aaron Boone said this week of the five days.
Boone said he was confident his team could weather the break because of modern advances across baseball. Nothing can simulate a late-game situation in which the score is tied, a packed stadium is roaring, nerves are frayed and the opposing team’s closer is firing 98 mph fastballs. But virtual reality training devices or high-speed pitching machines, for example, can re-create some of those aspects and help players prepare to a degree.
“Where we are as a sport, as far as things you’re able to replicate and do behind the scenes, training wise, the quality of technology that you have to be able to see different pitches, velocity and breaking balls,” Boone said.
And, he said, the Yankees will have their hitters face as much live pitching as possible in the interim period and have their pitchers throw as much live batting practice as possible. He added, “I feel like the five days, we should be able to stay fairly sharp. And hopefully benefit from the rest that comes with that, on the heels of a 162-game season.”
Added starting pitcher Jameson Taillon:
“It’s going to help that we have a lot of veter ans on our team, who know how they need to
prepare and how their timing needs to be on the hitting side and the pitchers what kind of aggression you need through your bullpens and stuff. I really think that experience is going to help us. These guys know, regardless of the cir cumstances. They’ll be ready.”
Given the injuries the Yankees sustained in the second half of the season, particularly to the bullpen of late, they could use the extra days to buy more recovery time for the play ers.
Clay Holmes, the Yankees’ All-Star closer who has battled regression and injuries of late, has resumed throwing after receiving a corti sone shot in his sore right shoulder and is ex pected back for the ALDS. Wandy Peralta, a key
left-handed reliever, is working to return from a back injury. Frankie Montas (shoulder inflam mation) and Ron Marinaccio (shin stress reac tion) may not return until the AL Championship Series, if the Yankees advance that far.
Despite so many pitchers dealing with injuries (Zack Britton, Chad Green, Michael King, Jonathan Loáisiga) and inconsistency (Ar oldis Chapman), the Yankees’ bullpen was one of the best in baseball in terms of ERA during the regular season. Heading into the postsea son, Boone said that he had some “really good options” and that “it’s probably not going to be those traditional roles” so he expected to mix and match.
As far as position players, second base man Gleyber Torres (illness) could use the time to finish recovering after missing the final hand ful of games. Matt Carpenter, who was a big lift to the Yankees’ lineup before he fractured his foot in early August, has been pushing hard to return in time to be a key left-handed bat and bench option. The Yankees are also keeping an eye on outfielder Andrew Benintendi (broken hand bone) as he ramps up his hitting.
Cole, who made his final start of the regular season Tuesday night against the Rang ers, will have to wait an entire week before his Game 1 start in the ALDS. He said the Yan kees were indifferent about this period without games.
“We’ve got to make the best of the five days,” he said, adding later, “We have strategies in place for staying sharp or getting extra rest. And I think there’s probably an opportunity for a good handful, if not more, of the guys in the room to just put their feet up for a few days and take a load off, which I know is helpful in cer tain situations as well.”
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Aaron Judge took the day off as the Yankees closed their regular season with a 4-2 loss to the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.Roseman, the Philadelphia Eagles’ general manager, is the NFL’s boldest, cagiest wheelerdealer.
He’s part Wolf of Wall Street and part pool-hall hustler, with a little bit of repo man and flea-market thrifter sprinkled in. He knows his opponents’ desires and weaknesses, and he has built a Super Bowl contender out of other teams’ mistakes.
The Eagles are the NFL’s only remaining undefeated team, having started the 2022 season with four convincing victories. Some of their top-tier talent, including quarterback Jalen Hurts, is homegrown. Other key players, like offensive linemen Jason Kelce and Lane Johnson and defenders Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham, have been in Philly longer than soft pretzels. The Eagles would not be 3-to-1 NFC favorites to reach the Super Bowl, however, had Roseman not plucked four stars away from teams that should never have parted with them:
Wide receiver A.J. Brown: The Tennessee Titans overreacted to a sudden offseason escalation in receiver salaries and feared that they would not be able to sign
their top receiver to an extension. Roseman just happened to have an extra first-round pick available on draft day to trade for Brown, who has caught 25 passes for 404 yards and one touchdown for the Eagles this season.
Roseman got that extra 2023 pick from the New Orleans Saints, who had sent it as part of a deal to move up in this year’s draft order. More on that in a moment.
Cornerback James Bradberry: The previous New York Giants administration signed so many veterans to bloated contracts that the new regime was forced to hold an estate sale just to reach salary-cap compliance. Roseman waited until the Giants dragged Bradberry to the curb, then loaded the former Pro Bowler onto the bed of his pickup for one year and $7.25 million. Bradberry has two interceptions this season, one of them for a touchdown.
Edge rusher Haason Reddick: The Arizona Cardinals spent three seasons failing to find a position for the multitalented Reddick to play after drafting him in 2017. Reddick finally settled in as an edge rusher and recorded 12.5 sacks in the final year of his contract. The Carolina Panthers signed him to a one-year deal to demonstrate his sudden improvement was no fluke. Reddick proved it with 11 more sacks in 2021, yet the bumbling Panthers chose not to offer an extension. The Eagles swooped in with a three-year, $45-million offer. Reddick has recorded 3.5 sacks and forced
three fumbles.
Cornerback Darius Slay: Slay, a Pro Bowl defender and locker-room leader for the Detroit Lions in the late 2010s, grew disenchanted when Matt Patricia, the former Lions coach, decided that the best way to create a winning culture was by clashing with the team’s best players. A bargainhunting Roseman sprung Slay in exchange for third- and fifth-round picks in the 2020 draft. Slay reached the Pro Bowl again in 2021 and has two interceptions this year.
Roseman has been making daring moves like these since he regained personnel control of the Eagles from Chip Kelly, the team’s former coach, after the 2015 season. Not all of his trades and signings pay off. A few have been nearly disastrous. When Roseman does make a mistake, however, there’s always a contingency plan: His exit strategy from a bad trade is usually more trades.
Roseman’s riskiest gamble came in 2016, when he traded two first-round picks and a second-rounder (plus change) for the right to draft quarterback Carson Wentz. Wentz showed early promise and led the Eagles to 11 wins before getting injured in December of the 2017 season, which ended with Philadelphia’s winning the Super Bowl. One year later, Roseman signed Wentz to a four-year, $128 million contract.
Wentz turned out to be a form of malware: superficially innocuous and
helpful but capable of turning an offense into a smoldering paperweight with his mistakes and turnovers. With the Eagles’ offense growing increasingly glitchy, Roseman selected Hurts in the second round of the 2020 draft, a stunning move for a team with so much invested in its young starter.
After the Eagles fell to 4-11-1 in 2020, Roseman spotted the quarterbackneedy Indianapolis Colts wandering into his showroom with their checkbook open. The Colts drove off the lot with Wentz in exchange for a third-round pick in 2021 and what became a first-rounder in 2022.
The Eagles traded the third-round pick they acquired for Wentz to the Dallas Cowboys for the rights to move up and select receiver DeVonta Smith, now an Eagles starter. The first-round pick was the one dealt to the Saints for the pick that netted Brown from the Titans and a 2023 firstrounder. (The Saints then traded that same pick to the Washington Commanders, who selected receiver Jahan Dotson, who now catches passes from Wentz, whom the Colts quickly soured on.)
Thanks to Roseman’s labyrinthine maneuvers, the Eagles are simultaneously built to compete for a Super Bowl this year and equipped with extra draft picks to reinforce the roster in the future. They can either surround Hurts with more talent if he keeps developing into one of the league’s best young quarterbacks or start from scratch if he falters. Roseman has blended the Eagles’ short- and long-term goals like an expert mutual-fund manager.
Few other decision makers in the riskaverse, ego-driven NFL are as willing to orchestrate bold trades or MacGyver out of their own blunders as readily as Roseman, who uses his competitors’ foibles to his advantage. The Eagles are always willing to grab veterans from a rebuilding team seeking to shed salaries or headaches, collect draft picks from a team seeking a quick fix or just earn a quick mid-round brokerage fee from bringing those two parties together.
As a result, the Eagles have bounced from a regime change to a Super Bowl victory to a lost season and back into contention in the time it takes some organizations to even formulate a coherent plan.
Roseman’s tactics are risky, but the rewards have proven to be worth it. And if the latest Eagles roster experiment somehow explodes, Roseman is sure to find trade partners willing to make offers on the salvage.
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Your perspective on a situation could make a big difference to the way that you deal with it. With Mercury entangled with potent Pluto for the third time over recent weeks, something needs to change. And whether you make this decision or are pushed into it, this can only lead to something better that brings fresh opportunities. Hesitating to let go, Aries? Now is the time!
Has something come to an end? It’s time to set it free, as you’ll pave the way for you to do new things that you’ve dreamed of for some time. If you are mentally or emotionally attached though, it might not be so easy. And yet with upbeat Jupiter in your sector of spirituality, taking the first step can give you the courage to make a new start. And the sooner the better, Taurus.
Trying to control the uncontrollable may be a futile exercise, Gemini. No matter how much you want things to stay as they are, the current blend of energies suggests change can be unavoidable. And yet there’s no need to tackle this alone, as you only need to reach out and others will be there to assist. You do need to make the decision to move on from here, though.
You are stronger than you realize, and this may be shown over coming days, when a potent blend of energies involving your sector of relating, can bring a crucial issue to a head. You also have far more control than you think. Yet any decisions you make could prepare the way for a major transformation in a key relationship. What would be your best outcome, Cancer? Aim for this.
Recent influences have encouraged you to listen to your instincts. Over coming days, trust them if they encourage you to release something that no longer works. It may be the moment of truth when you can’t put this matter off any longer. And deep down, you likely know this. Whether it’s a job or an ongoing situation that’s draining you, from here on the only way is up, Leo.
If your confidence in yourself has been diminished, then the current Mercury/Pluto tie can harden your resolve to get back on track. This is the third time that this communicative planet has tied up with Pluto, and now you’re ready for a change that will clear the air and help get things moving. You have a better idea of what you want, and of how to make it happen.
When life feels intense, your emotions can act as a catalyst that brings about a breakthrough. This is the situation you could find yourself in over coming days. A matter that needs a solution may reach a point where you become determined to find answers, no matter what. Something might shift around home or property matters Libra, and you’ll be so relieved that is has.
Mercury’s tie to Pluto can encourage you to think your way out of a situation, even though this might not have helped in the past. If matters have reached a fever pitch, it’s possible that a decision that seems rational isn’t in your best interests. Trusting your instincts may be wiser, as key strands could be too tangled to unravel with your mind alone. A deeper dive is required.
It’s time to think the unthinkable, and embrace the solution that you’ve resisted for some while. Take things step-by-step Archer, and test the ground as you go, and you could find everything gradually clicks into place. It might require a leap of faith, but slowly things will ease for you once dedicated action is taken. The current line-up will give you the strength to persevere.
Reached the point of no return regarding an issue? This may be a reason to feel positive. A decision to relax your grip rather than keep fighting, could prove helpful. Taking your focus off this matter and getting involved in other things, might allow answers to show up when you least expect them to. A friend’s suggestion or a lucky coincidence can give you what you need.
Is your outlook more intense than usual? Take heart Aquarius, as this may mean positive change is imminent. You’ll have a chance to heal something that’s bothered you for a while. And with Saturn angling towards innovative Uranus, the solution could show up almost by accident. A shift in perspective might bring an end to something that has been draining you.
Current energies may be testing, but are also pushing you to do something that could make life so much more pleasant. If you’ve felt limited and hemmed in by the company you keep, you’ll be very eager to connect with those who really are on your wavelength. These are the people who will cheer you on, and help you accomplish your brightest dreams. No need to feel guilty, Pisces.
