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Gov’t mental health services, university join forces on behalf of women in recovery

By THE STAR STAFF

The Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (ASSMCA by its Spanish initials) and Ana G. Méndez University (UAGM) have established a collaborative agreement to promote and facilitate participation in the Women’s Residential Rehabilitation Program (PRRM) of ASSMCA to pursue technical studies at the institution of higher education, as part of their recovery process and full integration into the community.

ASSMCA’s PRRM, also known as the Women’s Residential Treatment Center, provides comprehensive rehabilitation services to women, age 18 and older, facing co-occurring substance disorders and other mental health illnesses.

The participants, for the most part, began their substance use at an early age, during adolescence or early adulthood, consequently affecting their lives in different areas such as education and vocation. The PRRM also assists participants in the search for employment by promoting their optimal growth and economic independence.

When signing the alliance this week, ASSMCA Administrator Dr. Carlos Rodríguez Mateo stressed that it “marks the beginning of a new chapter in public policy of treatment and rehabilitation, focused on recovery through the integration of the educational component and the development of technical skills that will serve as tools for the social integration of women in treatment.”

“ASSMCA and UAGM are committed to the well-being and success of each and every person who seeks help in our programs,” Rodríguez Mateo. “Through this agreement, we recognize the value of education in people’s lives, even more so in those facing challenges related to substance use. By strengthening coping skills and providing opportunities for education and later employment, this agreement seeks to minimize the recurrence of problems related to substance use and promote a sustainable recovery, so that they achieve an independent life.”

UAGM President José F. Méndez Méndez, meanwhile, highlighted the value of the effort, with which they reiterate the values of service to the community and the strengthening of the mental health of the human being.

“From our university community, we are excited to support this innovative initiative promoted by ASSMCA, which recognizes the importance of education for the integral development of the human being,” he said. “I am convinced that this will be the first of many other collaborations focused on promoting the integral well-being of our people.”

Through the agreement, participants will receive assistance in the process of completing the application for admission, scholarships and other aid if necessary. Also, the resources and the dates on which the training will be offered will be coordinated, a protocol will be developed focused on making the educational process a structured and organized experience, and spaces and accessibility to virtual and faceto-face classes will be provided to PRRM participants.

They will be provided with the necessary help to achieve their academic achievement so that they can complete the courses and will receive motivation and continuous support to complete the academic objectives established by the university and become certified as a specialist in any of the identified subjects.

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According to studies, the rate of women with addictive disorders has been increasing over the years, approaching men’s prevalence rates of addiction, with women presenting a much more severe clinical profile at the time of being admitted to residential treatment.

Carlos Rodríguez Mateo, fourth from the left, head of the Mental Health and AntiAddiction Services Administration, stressed that a new collaborative agreement between his agency and Ana G. Méndez University “marks the beginning of a new chapter in public policy of treatment and rehabilitation, focused on recovery through the integration of the educational component and the development of technical skills that will serve as tools for the social integration of women in treatment.”

$12.4 million available to farmers, fisherman under incentives program

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, along with Agriculture Secretary Ramón González Beiró, announced Thursday the availability of $12.4 million from the Regional Agricultural Incentives Program to continue revitalizing local farming.

Pierluisi said all island farmers and fishermen can request the aid until Tuesday, Oct. 31. The request can be made through AgroPerfil, a digital platform that provides information in real time.

“In my administration, we have worked tirelessly to strengthen and revitalize the agricultural sector vital to the economy and food on our island,” the governor said. “We emphasized supporting our farmers and providing them with the tools and resources necessary to prosper. These funds allow us to continue supporting actions that promote and help maximize the competitive capacity of agriculture. We are committed to continue working hand in hand with our farmers to guarantee strong and sustainable growth in this industry.”

Under Administrative Order 2023-27A, there are incentives for the beekeeping, poultry, livestock, coffee, pork and fishing industries, as well as for specialized equipment, hydroponics, ornamentals, small businesses, new planting of improved pastures and precision agricultural techniques, for those agribusiness owners who meet the eligibility criteria.

“Once again we make the incentive program available with the mission of achieving efficient and high-quality production, tempered with the current situation of our farmers and modern agricultural trends,” the Agriculture secretary said. “In this direction, we created a new program to promote the planting of cocoa, among other aid that we have in the department, to continue the mission of strengthening our agriculture.”

The Agricultural Precision Techniques Program will have vouchers of $150 per cuerda (.971 acre) for fertilizer for crops such as: avocado, celery, sweet potato, cocoa, squash, citrus, guava, banana, ginger, yam, banana and yuca, among others. Regarding hydroponics, $150 will be awarded for each 100-by-18-foot structure or its equivalent. The maximum per farmer will be $1,500 per year.

Vouchers for $100 will be awarded per cuerda for crops such as peppers, eggplant, pumpkin, coriander, onion, melon, cucumbers, peppers, recao and others, to a maximum of $3,000. For the purchase of fruit production trees, meanwhile, the farmer will contribute only 50% of the cost of the trees approved under the program up to a maximum of $3,000. Citrus trees are incentivized up to $3,712.50.

Mayor of Dorado plans to seek new term

By THE STAR STAFF

Dorado Mayor Carlos López Rivera on Thursday announced his intention to seek a new term as mayor.

Accompanied by figures from the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) such as resident commissioner candidate Pablo José Hernández

Rivera and former Gov. Alejandro García Padilla, López Rivera affirmed that he will

continue “at full speed and with more strength” with his plan called “Vision Dorado 2035.”

The mayor faces an open challenge from Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, who made his campaign announcement weeks before López Rivera.

Although there were references to the House speaker, at no time was he mentioned by name or surname.

Likewise, cocoa will be incentivized with 352 trees per acre up to a maximum of two acres and up to 50 of the grafted cocoa tree up to a maximum of $1,144 per acre.

“This new cocoa program has been created to promote the planting of [a crop] that the farmer can process and sell directly on his farm, which is an agritourism attraction,” González Beiró noted.

The beekeeping industry will have economic aid of up to 50% of the equipment cost, up to a maximum of $3,000 for the purchase and construction of materials, equipment and instruments, among others.

The poultry sector will have 50% of the cost of construction, expansion, installation, improvement or purchase of equipment with a maximum of $12,000 per year in hen, guinea pig, chicken or chicken breeder companies.

The pork industry, meanwhile, will have up to a maximum of $6,000 per farmer for improvements or purchase of operating equipment. Likewise, up to a maximum of 50% for the purchase of young sows or young boars.

Fishermen will have financial assistance of up to 50% of the total equipment, materials and fishing gear cost with a maximum of $12,000 per fisherman.

For the coffee industry, as an incentive to the New Coffee Planting Program, farmers can receive a donation of a voucher of 1,000 coffee trees for a value of $900 per acre and up to a maximum of 20 acres, $150 vouchers for the purchase of fertilizers and $200 for lime carbonate and $100 for pesticides. Financial aid of $50 per pruned acre and a fertilizer voucher of $75 per acre are available for pruning coffee trees. The incentive for the Replanting and Ordered Planting Program will consist of the granting of a purchase order of 60 cents per coffee tree, up to an established maximum.

Among the incentives for specialized equipment is a financial aid offer of up to 50% of the investment made by the farmer with a maximum of $12,000 and strictly for the acquisition of new equipment. For the beef production livestock industry, there is an incentive of $240 per head up to a maximum of 50 heifers.

The Improved Pasture New Planting Program has an incentive of $200 per cuerda up to a maximum of 60 cuerdas, equivalent to $12,000.

For small business owners, the incentive is aimed at providing 50% for the purchase of rabbits, goats and sheep and for the purchase of equipment or construction of structures, up to a maximum of $12. The agriculture chief noted that the raising of young goats and sheep is encouraged at a rate of $100 per head up to a maximum of 10 animals per farmer.

Agriculture Secretary Ramón González Beiró

Dorado Mayor Carlos López Rivera, at lectern

Back to the bureaucratic logjam

Mayors again take on the task of accelerating pace of island’s reconstruction

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

Aquite infamous and controversial subject on the island is the overall post-Hurricane Maria reconstruction and when it is going to happen for real, as it has been nearly six years and residents are still wondering whether some promises will be fulfilled, or when the signs of progress will become readily apparent.

Municipal administrations are becoming desperate for answers, which is why on Thursday the Puerto Rico Mayors Association gathered to discuss some key points related to the current state of the reconstruction of the island. The Mayors Association, which groups municipal chief executives belonging to the Popular Democratic Party, presented a comprehensive survey on the current state of the reconstruction via a press conference exactly one year after the effects of Hurricane Fiona and nearly six years after the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria. Mayors Association President Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, alongside members of the association’s Reconstruction Committee and island Reps. Juan José Santiago Nieves, Jesús “Chui” Hernández Arroyo and Marially González Huertas, presented the survey while also offering some recommendations for rectifying the situation.

“During the past few years, we have been able to secure various agreements to facilitate the process of recovery after an emergency,” said Hernández Ortiz, who is the mayor of Villalba. “For example with the Department of Transportation [DTOP by its Spanish acronym], PRASA [Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority] and the Housing Department, and with LUMA Energy we are currently in the process of the same [type of] agreement.”

“This has happened after many years of trying to make the government understand that we municipal leaders, the first responders, need the resources in order to fix our towns,” he added. “It took us a long time to even get to the point where we could work together with DTOP to get stuff done with the streets.” Hernández Ortiz also noted that LUMA has been difficult to deal with because, he said, the private operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution system didn’t accept that there was a law that allowed mayors to notify PREPA and after five days go in and fix the energy system in their respective towns.

“It was then when many municipalities had to start speeding up the recovery process and reconstruct the energy infrastructure,” the Villalba mayor said. “In fact, in my town we had to restore more than 60 percent of the infrastructure in order to provide power to our residents, and once we were done we had to move on to the municipality of Ponce to help the mayor of Ponce reconstruct

his energy system.”

“We did all of this with threats of jail from the government and from the ex-president of LUMA, who stated that he was not going to comply with the law,” Hernández Ortiz added.

“On the other hand, the point of view of the new president of LUMA is completely different. He does want us to go forward with things like this; he just wants us to manage it with better communication. He recognizes that there is legislation and that municipalities can do it.”

Needless to say there is much to discuss regarding the island’s reconstruction process and how it is being handled, but for the Mayors Association, one of the biggest issues is the existing bureaucracy.

“Especially the famous agreement from 2017 between the government and FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] in relation to the management of disbursements,” noted Vega Baja Mayor Marcos Cruz Molina, “which after an evaluation by our Reconstruction Committee, was determined to be discriminatory, and we faced it.”

Hernández Ortiz pointed out that it was because of that agreement that the island’s recovery was completely paralyzed.

“So we got on a plane and went to Washington, D.C. in March 2021,” he said. “We engaged with the [federal] government and in September of 2021 we were finally able to seal a historic agreement which in a sense facilitated the process drastically.” Even though the recovery process was eased somewhat as a result of that effort, there are still plenty of problems that mayors are facing. For example, there is the overall rise in costs of materials and a lack of manpower, which are considered especially difficult to overcome because of the sparse availability of contractors and a lack of certainty in terms of projects related to Hurricane Maria, which were set back even more by Hurricane Fiona. Also unclear is the status of disbursements related to Hurricane Fiona and the overall slowness in terms of reimbursements for emergency work related to that September 2022 storm.

As part of the presentation, it was stated that in the case of the Department of Education, of the $1.7 billion allocated only $19 million has been spent, which represents 0.11% of the total. In the case of projects, out of 2,023, only 127 have been carried out, for 6.27%. A

similar situation exists with PREPA, where $11 billion has been allocated and there is only $500 million under construction, for 0.45%. With respect to the Housing Department, meanwhile, of $35.6 billion allocated, $7.9 billion has been spent, for 22.19%.

The Mayor’s Association is not inclined to rest on its laurels when it comes to the aforementioned problems. As one of the solutions its members believe they can take into their own hands, they will return once again to Washington alongside officials from the commonwealth Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency to ask for a revision of the costs based on a study of inflationary pricing, which is why island municipalities haven’t been able to execute the bidding process for a great many reconstruction projects.

Mayors Association President Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz recalled how island mayors had to convince LUMA Energy that they had the legal right to perform electrical repair work in their towns in order to “start speeding up the recovery process and reconstruct the energy infrastructure.” (Photo by Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star)

PRIDCO has failed to collect millions in outstanding rent

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Industrial Development and Commerce Company (PRIDCO) has done little to collect rent from its properties.

The Office of the Comptroller issued an opinion on PRIDCO, now known as the Trade and Export Program of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC by its Spanish acronym), following a reorganization mandated by a 2018 law.

The report reveals that as of Feb. 28, 2022, PRIDCO had 224 accounts receivables amounting to $16.2 million for warehouse and lot rent, rent payment plans, and rent from former tenants. A sample of the accounts examined revealed that 200 accounts were delinquent for up to six months, for $14.8 million.

The auditors found that PRIDCO had yet to make any efforts to collect an overdue invoice for $17,136 that had been delinquent for 15 months. In addition, the first collection process from the Treasury Office, corresponding to 54 outstanding invoices in six income accounts for $1 million, was recorded

A comptroller’s report reveals that as of Feb. 28, 2022, the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company, now called the Trade and Export Program under the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, had 224 accounts receivables amounting to $16.2 million for warehouse and lot rent, rent payment plans, and rent from former tenants.

with delays of up to 17 months. The same office had also yet to carry out collection efforts on the rent of two former tenants for $1.5 million.

The situation is attributed to the fact that, in February 2022, the transfer of information from the Great Plains system used by PRIDCO to the DDEC financial accounting system had not been completed. For those purposes, the DDEC needed the uncollected economic resources to meet its operational and administrative expenses.

The audit of two findings indicates that the DDEC did not credit payments of $936,948 from 50 tenants. According to the chief financial officer, those payments had not been credited due to a lack of personnel, and because the official needed to confirm the information contained in the balance sheets.

The report recommends that the DDEC secretary ensure that effective and timely collection efforts are carried out, that the provisions established in the agency’s collection procedure are complied with, and that the necessary personnel be assigned to work on tenants’ accounts.

Census: Median household & family income in PR showed little change in 2022

By THE STAR STAFF

During calendar year 2022, median household income in Puerto Rico increased slightly, by about $76, while median family income fell by $363 from what was reported in 2021, according to the most recent Community Survey data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, which covers calendar year 2022.

“The survey information gives us a recent overview of our society. Several of the indicators contrast, such as the reduction in the unemployment rate, while incomes (in households and relatives) remained unchanged substantially,” said Alberto Velázquez Estrada, manager of statistical projects at the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, in a written statement. “On the other hand, estimates on net emigration showed a reduction for the third consecutive year since the post-hurricane emigration peak of 2018.”

As a local liaison with the U.S. Census Bureau, the statistics

institute shared several findings from the new 2022 survey data: The estimate of median household and family income showed no significant change, going from $24,036 to $24,112 in households, and from $29,907 to $29,544 in families.

This represented a change in household income of 0.3% and -1.3% in families.

In relation to the migratory indicators on Puerto Rico, the estimates for 2022 showed the following changes compared to the most recent year of available information (2021):

About 16,000 people out-migrated to other jurisdictions of the United States in net terms, meaning a decrease compared to the previous year available (2021) when the net balance was close to 27,000 people out-migrating.

Some 26,989 people migrated to the island from the mainland United States, reflecting a slight decrease in migration of -1.4% compared to 2021, where an in-migration of 27,380 people was estimated.

In the other direction, some 42,990 people out-migrated

from Puerto Rico to other jurisdictions in the United States, showing a decrease of 21.4% compared to the figure for 2021, which was 54,669 people.

Compared to the previous year 2021, during 2022 the following selected socioeconomic characteristics about Puerto Rico reflected statistically significant changes:

* The unemployment rate fell from 13.1% to 9.9% while the labor force increased by about 3.4%.

* On the other hand, the percentages related to poverty increased in individuals (40.5% to 41.7%), in those under 18 years of age (54.9% to 57.6%) and in families (36.7% to 38.8%).

* The percentage of grandparents who are responsible for their grandchild under 18 increased about seven points, from 31.8% to 38.8%.

* Among the total population aged 25 and older, the percentages of people with a high school level or higher increased (79.6% to 81.7%), as well as people with a bachelor’s degree level or higher (28.5% to 29.8%).

Another confirmation hearing likely for Family secretary-designate

By THE STAR STAFF

Family secretary-designate Ciení Rodríguez Troche could face another hearing on her appointment, Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago said earlier this week.

“We have not done caucuses of any nomination,” the Senate leader said late Wednesday. “I am going to hold hearings. We have additional questions from the presentation. There may be a second hearing or executive meeting on some issues that are core. This is a very sensitive agency and sometimes we see unpleasant news that we do not like to hear. The fault

is not hers because she has just arrived, but she certainly has a very big responsibility in an agency where constant action is required to address the problems and situations that the most needy people have.”

The Appointments Committee, led by Dalmau Santiago, evaluated the appointment of Rodríguez Troche, who reviewed her professional career and her achievements in the position on an interim basis since last January.

“If this Senate is willing to offer me its consent, I will continue to work tirelessly to strengthen the foundations of the department, and from there we will promote collective welfare

and a respectful, equitable and just society that recognizes, as our Constitution dictates, that the dignity of the human being is inviolable,” the designated secretary said.

Rodríguez Troche indicated that for the first part of her career she worked in community-based organizations in and outside Puerto Rico such as ProFamilia, Community Research Initiative, Chana Foundation and La Fondita de Jesús, among others. Starting in November 2022 she served as Family deputy secretary until January 15 of this year, when she assumed the position of interim secretary until Aug. 17, when she was appointed as secretary.

Romney to retire, calling for a ‘new generation’ beyond Biden and Trump

By ANNIE KARNI

Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who made a historic break with his party when he voted to remove President Donald Trump from office, announced this week that he would not seek reelection in 2024, saying he wanted to make way for a “new generation of leaders.”

He strongly suggested that Trump, 77, and President Joe Biden, 80, should follow his lead and bow out to pave the way for younger candidates, arguing that neither was effectively leading his party to confront the “critical challenges” the nation faces.

“At the end of another term, I’d be in my mid-80s. Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders,” Romney, 76, said in a video statement. “They’re the ones that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in.”

The announcement was in some ways the culmination of a long divergence between Romney, a genteel and wealthy former governor and traditional conservative, and the Republican Party, which has shifted under his feet and embraced a coarser brand of partisanship in recent years.

“There’s no question that the Republican Party today is in the shadow of Donald Trump,” Romney said Wednesday, noting that the far right of the GOP is less concerned with policy and more focused on “resentment and settling scores and revisiting the 2020 election.”

Elected to the Senate in 2018, Romney has struggled to find his place within a party that has veered sharply to the right and in a Capitol where a majority of Republicans remain loyal to Trump — at least publicly. His decision to step down, which he had been weighing for months, came just weeks before the release of a biography of him, “Romney: A Reckoning,” in which Romney reveals that many of his Republican colleagues privately ridicule and disdain Trump.

At one point, Romney recounts how Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader, called him “lucky,” saying that he was able to “say the things that we all think.”

“You’re in a position to say things about him that we all agree with but can’t say,” McConnell told Romney, according

to an excerpt from the book published in The Atlantic on Wednesday. Romney said that “more than a dozen” Republican senators had made similar comments to him expressing envy at his ability to criticize Trump publicly.

Through a spokesperson, McConnell told The Atlantic that he did not recall the conversation and that it did not match his thinking at that time.

In the upcoming book, written by McKay Coppins, Romney also recalled a 2019 visit by Trump to the weekly Senate Republican lunch in the Capitol. The senators were attentive and encouraging during the president’s remarks about what he called the “Russia hoax” and how they would soon be known as “the party of health care,” but burst into laughter after Trump left the room, according to the excerpt.

The book also delves into Romney’s dissatisfaction with the Senate, a place he described as an “old men’s club,” full of performative politics and people obsessed with their own reelection. In the Senate, Romney has joined an array of bipartisan “gangs” seeking to take on major policy issues — including infrastructure, gun safety and overhauling the Electoral Count Act — but rarely sought to lead those efforts.

In the video announcing his retire-

ment, Romney said that neither Biden nor Trump, the current front-runner for the Republican nomination, was addressing the nation’s most critical challenges, including climate change, mounting debt and authoritarian threats from Russia and China, and hinted that they were not fit to lead the nation into the future.

“It would be a great thing if both President Biden and former President Trump would stand aside,” Romney told reporters later on Capitol Hill.

Romney said he received a call from Biden after his announcement, which he described as “very generous and very kind.”

Romney, who sought the presidency twice and describes his career in politics as a moral mission driven by his Mormon faith, hinted that he might still have some role to play in the nation’s political discourse, saying, “I’m not retiring from the fight.” He said he planned to finish out his term, which ends in January 2025.

Utah is a solidly Republican state, so Romney’s departure is highly unlikely to affect the balance of power on Capitol Hill. He had recently told people that he planned to make a decision about seeking reelection by the end of the year and that he was weighing whether he could still play any productive role in Congress. Romney was

also cognizant that he would face a tough primary fight if he decided to run again.

His decision to abandon a career in the Senate followed similar decisions from many moderate House Republicans last year. In the 2022 midterm elections, four House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump declined to run for reelection.

Romney said Wednesday that he was proud of his record working on gun safety legislation and the Electoral Count Act, but that “looking forward, I think it’s going to be more challenging for something like that to occur again.”

Romney had also begun to stir speculation that he was ready to move on from the Senate when he agreed to participate in Coppins’ biography, which is set to be published next month by Scribner.

Coppins is said to have conducted hours of interviews with Romney for the book and was given access to the senator’s emails and diary. The book’s impending release already has his colleagues concerned about their private thoughts and conversations regarding the party’s vengeful presidential front-runner being aired publicly.

Romney has also appeared increasingly concerned about the likelihood that Trump would emerge as his party’s nominee.

In a recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, Romney implored donors and Republican candidates to unite around an alternative to Trump, for fear of delivering him the party’s nomination. “Donors who are backing someone with a slim chance of winning,” he wrote, “should seek a commitment from the candidate to drop out and endorse the person with the best chance of defeating Mr. Trump by Feb. 26.”

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) speaking to reporters after announcing he would not seek reelection, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.

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A fugitive’s capture brings relief to a corner of Pennsylvania

a .22-caliber rifle from an open garage not far from where the van was found. He fled with the gun as the homeowner fired at him with a pistol, and the search immediately intensified, focusing on an 8- to 10-square-mile area of woods and farmland.

A little after midnight, the burglar alarm at a home within the perimeter was triggered, Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police said at a news briefing Wednesday. Search teams found nothing when they responded to the alarm, but they began combing the surrounding area.

Around 1 a.m., Bivens said, an aircraft operated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, one of the federal agencies involved in the search, picked up a nearby “heat signature,” an indication of something giving off more heat than its surroundings. The way it was moving, officials said, suggested that it might be a person.

ferred to SCI Phoenix, a maximum-security prison in Montgomery County, west of Philadelphia.

The escape last month from Chester County was not Cavalcante’s first. After the killing in 2017, in the northern Brazilian town of Figueirópolis, he apparently hid from authorities among the cattle ranches of the Brazilian savanna, and then fled to the United States with a false identity.

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

After nearly two weeks of combing the cornfields and forests of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with hundreds of law enforcement officers and a battery of drones, dogs and helicopters, the capture itself took about five minutes.

A little after 8 a.m. Wednesday, in a densely wooded area of South Coventry Township, a team of officers quietly surrounded Danelo Cavalcante, 34, who had broken out of Chester County Prison, where he was being held after he was convicted of murdering his former girlfriend. He was taken by surprise, officials said, and tried to crawl away through the underbrush, but a search dog caught him.

“Subject is in custody,” an officer radioed to dispatchers at 8:16 a.m. “Confirmed, subject is in custody.”

So ended a search that had unnerved communities all over Chester County, an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, and even rattled people back in Cavalcante’s home country of Brazil, where he is wanted in connection with a 2017 killing.

In the days after Cavalcante’s escape from the jail Aug. 31 — by crab-walking up two walls and pushing through the razor wire on the roof — he had steadily eluded a search that came to include around 500 federal, state and local officers. He had been spotted multiple times, and more than once officials believed they had hemmed him in — only to be caught by surprise when he showed up somewhere else.

“We had confidence it was going to be Cavalcante,” Robert Clark, a supervisory deputy U.S. marshal, said shortly after the capture. “However, over the course of the past 14 days, we’ve had confidence at other times when we thought we were going to apprehend him.”

Officials had believed that Cavalcante was in the area since Sunday morning, when they found a delivery van he stole from a dairy farm and apparently abandoned when it ran out of gas. After more than a week of focusing on an area south of the county jail, the search moved about 30 miles to the north, to a bucolic stretch of stone barns and thick woods south of Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

Late Monday night, the search took on frightening new urgency after Cavalcante stole

Tactical teams began tracking the signal but were stymied by a thunderstorm that rolled through the area overnight, forcing the aircraft to leave. Officers waited out the storm and resumed the search when the aircraft returned.

When they closed in on Cavalcante, he still had the rifle, but he was arrested with no shots fired. Bivens said that Cavalcante had a “minor bite wound” from the search dog, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois named Yoda. Other than that, there were no injuries.

Cavalcante’s elusiveness over the previous 13 days had been unsettling and exhausting for residents in the area, but officials said it was not entirely surprising.

“I don’t know that he was particularly skilled — he was desperate,” Bivens said. “You have an individual whose choice is go back to prison and spend the rest of your life in a place you don’t want to be, or continue to try and evade capture. He chose to evade capture.”

But Bivens added: “I was confident all along, that he would eventually be captured.”

On Wednesday afternoon, the state’s Department of Corrections said Cavalcante had been placed in the agency’s custody and trans-

Living outside of Philadelphia, he had a relationship with Deborah Brandao, a mother of two who was also Brazilian. He turned threatening and abusive, people testified at his U.S. murder trial, and in April 2021 he stabbed her 38 times, killing her in front of her young children. He tried to flee then, too, but was arrested the next day in Virginia and brought back to Pennsylvania to stand trial. In August, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Nine days later, he escaped.

In his brief attempt to flee before his arrest in 2021, Cavalcante had been helped by acquaintances, including a man living with his sister. On Saturday, after stealing the van, Cavalcante went to the houses of two of his former co-workers looking for help, but no one met him. Instead, they notified the police.

Still, Bivens said Wednesday that “there were people who were intent and intended to assist him,” in his flight, but that authorities were able to prevent these potential abettors from getting in contact with him. Bivens included Cavalcante’s sister among them; she was recently detained by immigration authorities for overstaying a visa and is in the process of being deported.

Authorities said that Cavalcante would soon be taken to a Pennsylvania state prison to serve out his life sentence. Prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Tocantins, where Cavalcante has been charged in connection with the 2017 killing, said in a statement that they would hold the first hearing in that case next month, and that Cavalcante would be required to join the hearing via video call.

Tropical storm warnings issued for New England as Hurricane Lee’s winds lash Bermuda

By JUDSON JONES

After spinning across the Atlantic for more than a week, Hurricane Lee is producing tropical storm conditions in Bermuda and hazardous beach conditions along the East Coast of the United States. Lee’s forecast path is becoming much clearer, and weather

conditions will deteriorate in the Northeast United States and Canada on Friday.

In anticipation of the storm, tropical storm warnings were issued Thursday morning for Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts. Hurricane and tropical storm watches have also been issued for most of coastal New England and parts of Canada.

Here are three things to know about Hurricane Lee.

— Tropical storm conditions generated by Lee were reported on Bermuda early Thursday and were forecast to continue through Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm’s center was expected to pass west of the island.

— After the storm passes Bermuda, it is looking more likely that it will turn toward the Gulf of Maine and probably make landfall between Maine and Nova Scotia.

— Because the storm is so large, hazards like heavy rain, wind and flooding are expected to be felt far from the center, regardless of where landfall occurs. Impacts are expected

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in New England and Atlantic Canada as soon as Friday.

It has been nearly two weeks since speculation about the storm’s impact on the East Coast began. On Thursday, the eventual outcome was becoming more apparent, though a small shift east or west would make a significant difference in expected wind speeds, forecasters in Boston said.

As of 11 a.m. Thursday, Lee was about 245 miles southwest of Bermuda and about 750 miles south of Nantucket. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 90 mph, making it a Category 1 hurricane, and was moving north at 14 mph. Weakening was expected to continue over the next two days, the hurricane center said, but it would remain “a large and dangerous cyclone while it approaches eastern New England and Atlantic Canada.”

Hurricane forecasters confidently said Thursday morning that the storm was expected to move north after passing Bermuda. By Friday night and into Saturday, Lee was expected to turn slightly left, bringing the large hurricane close to southeastern New England. A hurricane watch, meaning hurricane conditions are possible within the area, stretched through down-east Maine from Stonington to the U.S.-Canada border.

The Canadian Hurricane Center also issued a hurricane watch Wednesday for part of the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The center said

that its hurricane and tropical storm watches referred to conditions expected Saturday.The storm was expected to turn back to the northeast as it moves toward or across the Gulf of Maine, turning itself back toward Atlantic Canada. Landfall will probably occur late Saturday afternoon or overnight somewhere along the Maine or Nova Scotia shorelines.

Forecasters warned that the growing size of the storm means hazards will extend well away from the center.

The ultimate outcome for locations in New England will depend on how a few different conditions play out over the next few days. The amount of rainfall will vary significantly depending on precisely where the storm comes ashore, and the forecast rainfall amounts are likely to shift until the very last minute.

Anne Strauser, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said that the worst-case scenario for Maine would be if the storm shifts farther west and creates more onshore flow, which could make coastal flooding worse. She said any storm surge that occurred there would vary depending on the tide cycle. Unlike when a hurricane makes landfall in the southern United States, and the tides vary by a few feet, the tide swings in Maine can be from 8 to 18 feet. So a storm surge at low tide might not have much of an effect.

Maine has a long history of extra-tropical

storms creating significant flooding and wind damage, said Donald Dumont, a meteorologist in Portland, Maine. But although Lee is expected to be strong, Dumont said, it isn’t expected to be as bad as one of the area’s most memorable storms: the “perfect storm” in 1991 that sank the Andrea Gail fishing vessel.

Despite this, coastal erosion and flooding are a real concern. Dangerous surf conditions generated by the storm are already affecting much of the Eastern Seaboard.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said Tuesday she was deploying National Guard soldiers to prepare for the storm on Long Island, “out of an abundance of caution.” She warned New Yorkers in coastal areas to watch the forecast and be prepared.

‘It’s just going to get wider.’

As the storm heads north over the next three days, it will weaken as it moves over cooler water. And as it approaches land, it’s likely to transition from a tropical system — one that gets its energy from the ocean — into one similar to Hurricane Sandy’s, which drew energy from competing cold and warm air masses.

While weakening is good, it will not diminish the potential effects of wind, rain and coastal flooding. “This storm is already on the larger side for a hurricane in terms of how wide it is,” Strauser said. “And it’s just going to get wider as it moves north.”

In Canada, officials are concerned that because of Lee’s broadness, it is likely to affect most of the Maritime Provinces and parts of eastern Quebec.

Hurricane-force winds extended up to 105 miles from the center of the storm early Thursday, and tropical-storm-force winds extend to more than double that distance.

Western Nova Scotia faces some of the highest possible impacts from Lee, Environment Canada said. And while New England is no stranger to extreme winds from intense nor’easters, Strauser noted that those arrive in winter — and that it makes a difference. This time of the year, there are still leaves on the trees, and during tropical systems like Lee, the region typically sees more tree damage and, ultimately, more widespread power outages.

A satellite image showing Hurricane Lee off the East Coast on Wednesday.

In show of force, Silicon Valley titans pledge ‘getting this right’ with AI

By CECILIA KANG

Elon Musk warned of civilizational risks posed by artificial intelligence. Sundar Pichai of Google highlighted the technology’s potential to solve health and energy problems. And Mark Zuckerberg of Meta stressed the importance of open and transparent AI systems.

The tech titans held forth earlier this week in a three-hour meeting with lawmakers in Washington about AI and future regulations. The gathering, known as the AI Insight Forum, was part of a crash course for Congress on the technology and organized by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader.

The meeting — also attended by Bill Gates, a founder of Microsoft; Sam Altman of OpenAI; Satya Nadella of Microsoft; and Jensen Huang of Nvidia — was a rare congregation of more than a dozen top tech executives in the same room. It amounted to one of the industry’s most proactive shows of force in the nation’s capital as companies race to be at the forefront of AI and to be seen to influence its direction.

“We all share the same incentives of getting this right,” Altman said after the meeting, which was held in the Senate building’s Kennedy Caucus Room.

Pichai called the event productive, and he stressed the need for the government to balance the “innovation side and building the right safeguards.”

The gathering punctuated a year of rapid developments in AI. Ever since ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot, exploded in popularity last year, lawmakers and regulators have grappled with how the technology might alter jobs, spread disinformation and potentially develop its own kind of in-

telligence.

While Europe has been in the throes of drafting laws to regulate AI, the United States has lagged. But the frenzy has prompted the White House, Congress and regulatory agencies to start responding in recent months with AI safeguards and other measures.

The White House is expected to release an executive order on AI this year and has held multiple meetings with tech executives. This week, it announced that a total of 15 companies had agreed to voluntary safety and security standards for their AI tools, including third-party security testing.

On Tuesday, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing on AI legislation with Microsoft’s president and Nvidia’s chief scientist. And last week, Sens. Richard Blumenthal, DConn., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., announced a framework for AI legislation

that calls for an independent office to oversee AI, as well as licensing requirements and safety standards for the technology.

“This is the most difficult issue that Congress is facing because AI is so complex and technical,” Schumer said in an interview.

On Wednesday, Schumer invited 22 guests, who appeared before dozens of lawmakers in the Kennedy Caucus Room, where hearings on the sinking of the Titanic, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Watergate scandal unfolded.

At a crescent-shaped table extending nearly the length of the room, Schumer was flanked by Sens. Mike Rounds of South Dakota and Todd Young of Indiana, both Republicans. Huang was seated next to Nadella. Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, was next to Musk, who gave the media a thumbs-up and held his hands up in a heart sign.

In the closed-door session, the tech chiefs delivered opening statements and joined a discussion moderated by Schumer. He has acknowledged a tech-knowledge deficit within Congress and had said he would lean on Silicon Valley leaders, academics and public interest groups to teach members about the technology.

Most of the executives agreed on the need for regulating AI, which has been under scrutiny for its transformative and risky effects.

But there was still disagreement, attendees said. Zuckerberg highlighted opensource research and development of AI, which means that the source code of the underlying AI systems are available to the public.

“Open source democratizes access to these tools, and that helps level the playing field and foster innovation for people and businesses,” he said.

Others, like Jack Clark of AI startup Anthropic and Gates, raised concerns that open-source AI could lead to security risks, attendees said. Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have said open source can allow outsiders to get past safety guardrails and spread misinformation and other toxic material.

Musk, who has called for a moratorium on the development of some AI systems even as he has pushed forward with his own AI initiatives, was among the most vocal about the risks. He painted an existential crisis posed by the technology.

“If someone takes us out as a civilization, all bets are off,” he said, according to a person who was in the room. Musk said he had told Chinese authorities, “If you have exceptionally smart AI, the Communist Party will no longer be in charge of China.”

Deborah Raji, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, responded to Musk by questioning the safety of self-driving cars, which are powered by AI, according to a person who was in the room. She specifically noted the Autopilot technology of Tesla, the electric carmaker, which Musk leads and which has been under scrutiny after the deaths of some drivers.

Musk didn’t respond, according to a person who was in the room.

Schumer said that future meetings were likely to be public and noted that he had asked several critics of the tech companies from labor unions and civil society groups to attend. The first meeting was closed to encourage debate that was “unvarnished” and so no one would “play to the press,” he said.

The bipartisan A.I. Insight Forum, organized by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) along with labor union leaders and civil society groups, at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.

Wall Street Ends Higher on Economic Data; Arm Soars in Debut

The S&P 500 ended higher on Thursday as hotter-thanexpected economic data eased worries about a recession without raising fears of a Federal Reserve rate hike next week, while Arm Holdings soared in its stock market debut.

SoftBank’s Arm was valued at nearly $60 billion in a strong Nasdaq debut, with the chip designer’s shares soaring in their first day of trading.

Retail sales rose more than expected in August on higher gasoline prices, while initial claims for state unemployment benefits climbed to a seasonally adjusted 220,000 for the week ended Sept. 9 from 217,000 the week before.

Monthly producer prices for final demand rose 0.7% last month, against expectations of a 0.4% increase. On an annual basis, they increased 1.6% compared with estimates of a 1.2% rise.

“As long as inflation continues to be sticky we believe that the market will face more volatility and trade sideways,” said Alex McGrath, chief investment officer for NorthEnd Private Wealth, adding that falling valuations for risk assets may be “the next shoe to drop” for the U.S. stock market.

Futures tied to the Fed’s funds rate now show a 45% chance of at least one rate hike by December, up from a roughly 31% chance seen a month ago. Markets now anticipate that the Fed will cut rates for the first time in July 2024, compared with expectations a month ago that rates would begin falling by March.

“Today’s economic data confirms the path toward a soft landing, but without being so hot that the Fed thinks they might need to do a couple more rate hikes,” said Ross Mayfield, Investment Strategy Analyst at Baird. “All together, it’s pretty bullish.”

Chip designer Arm’s American Depositary Shares opened at $56.1 apiece compared with the initial public offering price of $51, in a sign of confidence for other companies planning to list their shares.

“The game is back on. Capital markets are open for business,” said Thomas Hayes, chairman at Great Hill Capital LLC. “You’re going to see so many IPOs in the next 12 weeks your head is going to spin.”

Traders see a 97% chance of the Federal Reserve holding rates steady in its Sept. 20 policy meeting and a near 67% likelihood of a further pause in November, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.

Citigroup expects the Fed to hike interest rates by 25 basis points in November, compared with its previous forecast of a September hike.

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After Libya floods, a chaotic scramble for rescuers

By RAJA ABDULRAHIM and ISABELLA KWAI

Ali Elshanti arrived in the flood-stricken city of Derna on Wednesday afternoon, part of an aid convoy he and his friends organized that left the city of Misrata in the west of Libya 15 hours earlier.

What he saw when he arrived looked like something out of a Hollywood disaster film, he said Thursday.

Efforts to respond to the devastation resulting from the collapse of two dams in eastern Libya and the floods that followed, killing thousands, were unorganized and uncoordinated, said Elshanti, 29, a sports broadcaster.

“The situation is still very bad — there is a mismanagement of the crisis,” he said, speaking from inside Derna, where he was helping the Libyan Red Crescent search for survivors — and bodies. “Unfortunately in Libya we suffer from a lack of crisis management. There is none. The operation on the ground is not organized.”

Over the weekend, torrential rains from Storm Daniel burst through two dams near Derna, on Libya’s northeastern coast, destroying much of the city and carrying entire neighborhoods into the sea. The floods damaged many roads and bridges, impeding access to the most stricken areas, with rescue efforts also complicated by the fact that Libya is ruled by rival governments.

Elshanti and others have been critical of the official response to the crisis.

Libyan authorities announced a joint operation room to oversee the response late Wednesday — three days after the dams broke and sent death and destruction through the streets of Derna and other coastal towns. The interior minister of the government in eastern Libya, Essam Abu Zeriba, set out the plan, saying the joint operations room would work in cooperation with the security forces.

The timing was an indication of how the disaster response was hampered in its early days.

“The needs are so huge — it’s very chaotic,” said Salaheddin Aboulgasem, a spokesperson for Islamic Relief, an aid group, who is coordinating volunteers on the ground.

“There is so much to do and so little time to do it,” said Aboulgasem, who is based in Birmingham, England. He added that the first trucks from the organization had arrived in Derna on Wednesday with blankets, food, hygiene kits and mattresses.

But telecommunications were still patchy, he said, and there were small windows to get supplies in.

“We need to understand and appreciate that this is an area that doesn’t have much infrastructure and functioning civil society,” he said.

A call for accountability came late Wednesday, when a top Libyan official demanded an investigation into the collapse of the two dams and the floods that followed.

“We asked the attorney general to open a comprehensive investigation into the events of the disaster,” Mohamed al-Menfi, the head of Libya’s Presidential Council, said in a social media post. He added that “everyone who made a mistake or neglected either in abstaining or taking actions that resulted in the collapse of the dams in the city of Derna” would be held accountable.

The call by al-Menfi’s council, based in the west of Libya, came as the Libyan National Army, the main authority in the divided country’s east, had closed entrances into Derna, allowing in only rescue crews and aid convoys. Libya is split between the internationally recognized government in the west based in Tripoli, the capital, and the separately administered region in the east, including Derna.

Aid convoys of food, medicine, clothes and blankets organized by charities, citizens, businesspeople and clubs continued to stream into the city and other parts of northeastern Libya where the displaced were seeking shelter.

Military vehicles were parked along streets throughout Derna. The previous day the army had urged surviving residents to leave the city, though aid workers have said many have chosen to stay and search for loved ones.

The investigations should “extend to everyone who obstructed international relief efforts or their arrival in the stricken cities,” al-Menfi said.

It was unclear how an investigation would be conducted and how much accountability Libyans could hope to see in a country where infrastructure has been allowed to degrade as rival authorities have focused on jockeying for power for more than a decade.

In a late-night news conference, Abu Zeriba, the eastern interior minister, announced that the number of documented dead was more than 2,700 and that more than 2,500 people were reported missing.

Libyan authorities have previously said the death toll from the flood could be more than 5,000 and that more than 10,000 people remained missing.

The discrepancy between the official numbers and the projected death toll underlined the chaos and disorganization of a catastrophic natural disaster in a country divided by rival governments. Libya has suffered more than a decade of conflict, power struggles and dysfunction in the wake of the Arab Spring revolution that deposed the country’s longtime dictator, Moammar Gadhafi.

On Wednesday night, the mayor of Derna, Abdel-Moneim al-Ghaithi, told Al-Arabiya television that the death toll could reach 20,000, based on the number of districts wiped out.

Libya was poorly prepared for Storm Daniel, which displayed its destructive power last week in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, killing more than a dozen people, before sweeping across the Mediterranean Sea, pummeling its coastline and destroying poorly maintained infrastructure.

A U.N. official also said Thursday that the scale of the crisis was partly the result of the lack of a functional meteorological authority in Libya.

Libya’s government had issued some early warnings before the storm, but residents said the advice was contradictory in some places.

The Libyan government announced a state of emergency in the eastern regions, warning of possible floods, and declared Sunday and Monday as emergency holidays for all public and educational institutions as well as the private sector.

But residents said there were mixed directives. Some said there were calls to evacuate, which no one heeded. Others said they were directed to stay inside their homes.

An aerial view of Derna, Libya, on Thursday. Torrential rains burst through two dams near Derna, on Libya’s northeastern coast, destroying much of the city.

Morocco’s quake zone now fears for its livelihood, too

By VIVIAN YEE and AIDA ALAMI

Before the tourists came to marvel at the valley cradled in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, with its arid red slopes splashed with lush green and its deep-blue lake, the only living to be made was in olive farming, and not much of a living at that.

Then came the modest little hiking lodge and the luxury resort, and the quasi-palace owned by British entrepreneur Richard Branson and the inns set up by the people of the Ouirgane Valley, many of whom are members of the Amazigh ethnic group, more commonly known as Berbers.

As more and more tourists discovered over the past few decades that the area was only an hour’s drive from the city of Marrakech, the residents of villages like Ouirgane got jobs as guides for mule riding and hiking, drivers, servers, hoteliers, restaurateurs and more.

Many were able to move back home from Moroccan cities such as Marrakech and Essaouira, where they had taken jobs to support families in their villages.

It was a success story that Morocco replicated across the country. By 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed the sector, tourism accounted for

about 7% of the kingdom’s gross domestic product and an estimated half-million jobs, a vital source of growth in a largely agricultural country struggling with drought. The industry was just starting to recover from the coronavirus pandemic when the region around Ouirgane was hit by a 6.8-magnitude earthquake, killing more than 2,900 people. Entire villages and towns were destroyed, imperiling the businesses that supported them.

The crisis is also likely to aggravate inequality between urban areas, with their gleaming airports, highspeed trains and sophisticated restaurants, and the rural ones that never received much in the way of support services. After the quake, villages like Ouirgane have suffered from authorities’ slow response and limited aid.

“Tourists come from all over the world and take pictures,” said Khalid Ait Abdelkarim, 36, the manager of Domaine Malika, a stylish boutique hotel perched in the lush hills of Ouirgane.

He wore a welcoming smile, despite having spent the last four nights sleeping outside with his wife and 2-year-old daughter after his mud-brick home collapsed.

A destroyed wall of the Chez Momo II hotel in Ouirgane, Morocco, following the earthquake.

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Since the earthquake, Ait Abdelkarim said, the hotel had received 50 cancellations, leaving a couple of French journalists covering the disaster as the only guests. If the high season, which runs through the fall, was wiped out, Ait Abdelkarim and the hotel’s dozen other workers would face a tough winter at a time when they had all lost their homes to the earthquake.

“There are families where everyone works in tourism,” Ait Abdelkarim said.

It was the same situation or worse at other hotels in the area. A few had been damaged badly enough to close, including Branson’s luxury hotel, Kasbah Tamadot, and Chez Momo II, a guesthouse built by Mohamed Idel Mouden, an Ouirgane native.

Khadija Id Mbarek, who was sitting in a tent next to the remnants of her collapsed home in Ouirgane on Tuesday, said she had saved the money she had made from weaving rugs for years to open a cafe that mostly catered to tourists. She learned to speak Arabic on top of her native Amazigh to communicate with visitors. Serving food and Moroccan mint tea, she earned enough to build a bedand-breakfast.

Everything is gone.

“Actors would come here, foreigners, drivers, tour guides. I had so many friends,” she said. “I worked so hard. Sweated so much. I did everything for my daughters.” She said two of her children — both daughters — had died in the earthquake.

Despite being regarded as a bright spot in North Africa thanks to industries like tourism and electric vehicle manufacturing, Morocco’s economy had been under pressure well before the quake. It slowed sharply between 2021 and 2022 because of drought and higher commodi-

ty prices, which affected imports, according to World Bank data.

“That is an absolutely devastating event for people in rural areas,” said Max Gallien, a political scientist at the Institute of Development Studies in Britain who specializes in the Middle East and North Africa.

In many Amazigh villages deep in the Atlas Mountains, roads were bad, medical care was far away, and schooling limited even before the quake.

Ait Abdelkarim said that a law requiring people in villages such as Asni, where he is from, to build in the traditional Amazigh style, in order to maintain the area’s picturesque rustic look for tourists’ benefit, may have contributed to the devastation. Lifting the requirement would have allowed villagers to build sturdier homes, he said.

“We are not against the tourists taking pictures and coming to Morocco. We even welcome them to our houses. That’s what Moroccan people do,” he said. “But we also deserve good lives.”

Amine Kabbaj, a Marrakech-based architect, said that traditional architecture could meet earthquake-resistant building standards if constructed with expert help.

It is the tourists who keep these villages and other parts of the country afloat. To save revenue and jobs, tour operators and businesses outside the hardest-hit areas were attempting business as usual this week, and often succeeding.

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broadcast an update emphasizing that tourist destinations beyond the earthquake zone, including the ancient city of Fez, the Sahara and the blue-walled city of Chefchaouen, were just fine.

In that spirit, a uniformed staff member at Olinto, a luxurious new retreat set in a gently whispering olive grove near Ouirgane, was manning the front door with seemingly perfect composure Tuesday afternoon, even though he had spent the last few nights in a tent.

“The best way to help Morocco is to visit it,” said José Abete, an American who opened Olinto with his French Italian partner last year. They were preparing to welcome their first guests since the quake, who had not revised plans to stay for 16 days.

Olinto and a neighboring hotel, Domaine Malika, suffered a few cracks and broken objects.

At Chez Momo II, so named because the owner had to rebuild the original Chez Momo to move it out of the way of a dam, the restaurant and two upstairs rooms collapsed in the quake.

It looked as if a landslide had stopped just short of the edge of the pool. In the lobby, the paintings, traditional Amazigh doors and vintage objects that the owner, Mouden, had lovingly collected over the years hung askew.

Mouden, 45, was busy Tuesday serving tea to people passing by and dropping off donated supplies in Ouirgane — his hometown. He was optimistic that the government would help fund rebuilding, given the local importance of tourism.

“Since everyone is damaged, why should I feel bad about it? I like building anyway,” he said. “There was Momo I, there was Momo II, and now there’ll be a Momo III.”

People using a donkey to transport aid to houses in a village in the Atlas Mountains that was hard hit by the earthquake.

Living and dying in 3/4 time

By MAUREEN DOWD

Whenever I take my young researchers on celebrity interviews, I give them the Warning: No matter how well you hit it off, don’t feel bad if you ever run into the stars again and they act as though they don’t know you. That’s usually how it goes. Think of them as elusive, shimmering creatures from another planet.

One of the few exceptions to this rule was Jimmy Buffett.

I don’t think I ever met anyone as warm. He had no airs. One night, Carl Hulse, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, and I were out at dinner with him here — he loved to pump us for the latest info — and an inebriated woman interrupted him and declared, “You’re not Jimmy Buffett!” With that euphoric smile that could light up an arena, he pulled out his driver’s license for her.

Maybe he liked reporters because he started as a journalist, writing for Billboard magazine. He thought of himself as a writer — not only of songs but also of bestselling books; he was one of just a few to scale both the fiction and nonfiction lists at the Times. It was more than that, though. He was blessed with an irresistible Southern, devil-may-care charm. Usually, joie de vivre is a sign you’re not paying attention. But with Jimmy, it was ensorcelling. I went with him to Walter Reed medical

center when he sang for wounded Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. He was able to transport them to a beach with no cares. During the COVID years, he did “cabin fever Zooms” with health care workers from across the country who were Parrot Heads.

We both loved pirates, mermaids, jukeboxes and the glamorous era of Pan Am flight attendants, and we built a friendship on those mythical objects. When I asked him when his birthday was, so I could send him a Pan Am sweatshirt I’d found, he replied: “I’ll give you a hint. Same day as the baby in the manger, but I was not born in a manger. I was born in Pascagoula.” As he was dying, said his brother-in-law, writer Tom McGuane, he was talking about going home to Pascagoula, Mississippi.

His druggie past was not something to emulate, although he said he had no regrets. As he sang in “He Went to Paris,” “Some of it’s magic, some of it’s tragic, but I had a good life all the way.” But in one sense at least, he was a model for how to live: Build your life around what you love. When he was a young scalawag, he found the Life Aquatic and conjured his art from it, making Key West the capital of Margaritaville. He didn’t waste away there; he spun a billion-dollar empire out of a shaker of salt. What could be more American than that?

In the end, having packed a thousand lifetimes into one, he was a model for how to die.

“Well, I have learned one thing from my latest in a series of the ever-appearing speed bumps of life — 75 is NOT the new 50,” he emailed me. “Thinking younger doesn’t quite do it. You still have to do the hard work of, as the Toby Keith song says, ‘Don’t let the old man in.’ And that is my job now, the way I see it.”

restaurant in Austin, Texas, with a friend who was driving me to the airport, to fly home to Key West. On the drive down the Keys, there was a fender bender on the Seven Mile Bridge, west of Marathon, and I was stuck, overlooking Pigeon Key. I sat on the bridge for about an hour and finished the song there. That night, I played it for the first time at my job at Crazy Ophelia’s on Duval Street. The small crowd in the bar asked me to play it again. And I did. So, I guess it is a pretty good three-minute song that has stood the test of time.”

His texts and emails came from many locales in paradise — St. Barth’s, Sag Harbor, Palm Beach, Paris and Cojímar, a small fishing village in Cuba.

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Some stars are such natural performers, they don’t look as though they’re working very hard. Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe never won Oscars. Jimmy was not garlanded with awards. He sent me his thoughts on that last April, on the occasion of “Margaritaville” being enshrined as “culturally significant” in the Library of Congress, sharing what he had told Howard Cohen, a Miami Herald reporter.

Jimmy loved the Library of Congress and visited it often back in the days when he was working on a musical, “Don’t Stop the Carnival,” with Herman Wouk, holed up at Wouk’s house in Georgetown. (The musical had a brief run in Miami in 1997.)

“I have always loved books, reading and libraries, a gift from my mother,” Jimmy said. “The Library of Congress is a monumental treasure you don’t have to dig up; you just walk in the door of American history. ‘Margaritaville’ in the Library of Congress. I just have to giggle, but with pride. I haven’t received many awards in my profession, but I am OK with that. I think the best reward for a performer is to please the audience.”

He offered the story of how he came to write his biggest hit: “I started writing it on a napkin in a Mexican

But in the last couple of years, he often wrote from less exotic places, Boston and Houston, where he was being treated for an aggressive form of skin cancer, Merkel cell carcinoma. (Was there a price for trademarking the sun? Even so, I bet he wouldn’t have changed a thing.) He stayed upbeat on the “juice,” as he called his infusions to treat the cancer, and spoke proudly about his “all-female doctor team dedicated to keeping the old man out” on the road. He would say he had to “go into the pits for some adjustments” and reassure me that he was getting “weller.” He called it an irritation, a Southern fingernail on an English chalkboard.

He said he was burrowing in at his Sag Harbor house with his wife, Janie, and his kids and dogs. His younger sister, Laurie, who also was battling cancer, came around. He loved having his band members over to play music, calling it “therapeutic to me.” He talked about binging on “The White Lotus” and sent the titles of new songs he was working on that were so Jimmy: “Conch Fritters and Red Wine,” “Fish Porn” and “My Gummy Just Kicked In,” which featured a turn by his Hamptons pal Paul McCartney.

Jimmy urged me to keep after the bad guys. “Keep trolling out there; as a longtime fisherman, I can say with some authority, you never know what is going to wind up on the end of your rod. Fins up and see you soon.”

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El Departamento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico implementa el Proceso de Solicitud Competitiva para el Programa para la Fiabilidad y Resiliencia de la Energía Eléctrica (ER2) con el objetivo de mejorar la confiabilidad y resiliencia del sistema de energía eléctrica mediante la financiación de proyectos competitivos que cualifiquen como mejoras del sistema de energía eléctrica.

Tú puedes participar en el proceso competitivo de ER2, para el cual se han destinado $230 millones

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Hasta el 100% de los costos capitales del proyecto para entidades públicas elegibles

Hasta el 60% de los costos capitales del proyecto para entidades privadas elegibles*

¡Envía tu propuesta hasta el 13 de noviembre de 2023!

Para guías del programa y enviar propuestas:

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ARECIBO – El alcalde de Arecibo, Carlos ‘Tito’ Ramírez Irizarry, junto a la directora de Vivienda Municipal, Zulay Medina, visitaron las facilidades donde se realizan las labores de construcción de la nueva égida Sagrado Corazón en la zona del Centro Gubernamental y el Parque de Bombas de Arecibo. En esta visita Ramírez Irizarry, fue recibido por los desarrolladores del proyecto, Ernesto Valle y Franco Cabán. “Este complejo de vivienda es para nuestra gente de bajos recursos de la edad dorada y está compuesto de 120 unidades, siendo una gran fuente de desarrollo para nuestra ciudad. Este proyecto está financiado bajo el Programa de Brecha de CDBG-DR de los Créditos Contributivos de Vivienda por Ingresos Bajos (LIHTC, por sus siglas en inglés)”, detalló el Alcalde. Dicho proyecto ha sido posible gracias a las gestiones del Departamento de Vivienda del Municipio de Arecibo, para que personas participantes de Programa Plan 8 puedan solicitar para este proyecto Sagrado Corazón. “De hecho, informamos la apertura de la lista de espera para participar del programa de oportunidad de asistencia a in-

quilinos financiados bajo la Sección 8 de la ley de Vivienda y Desarrollo Comunitario de 1974. Estaremos en el Coliseo Manuel Petaca Iguina de 8:00 AM a 12:00 PM los martes 12, 19 y 26 de Septiembre de 2023”, señaló Ramírez Irizarry De necesitar información adicional, los interesados pueden comunicarse con Zulay M. Medina Torres, directora del departamento de Vivienda Municipal al 787-699-8550.

El proyecto Sagrado Corazón, iniciado en febrero pasado con la visita del gobernador Pedro Pierluisi, está localizado en la avenida Hostos este, Sector San Luis en el Barrio Pueblo, y se logró con la aportación de $27.9 millones de fondos de recuperación bajo el Programa CDBG-DR, que se suman a $13.3 millones del capital de créditos contributivos AFV ($13.1 millones), para un total de $41 millones.

“Este es un edificio de seis pisos y cada una de las 120 unidades de vivienda constarán de una habitación, equipadas con nevera, estufa y calentador de agua. Particularmente importante es que 27 unidades serán designadas para personas con impedimentos de movilidad y unidades para personas con impedimentos visuales y/o auditivos”, añadió el Alcalde.

PROGRAMA PARA LA FIABILIDAD Y LA RESILIENCIA DE LA ENERGÍA ELÉCTRICA

Nueva égida para Arecibo sigue

*El 40% restante deberá provenir de una fuente alterna a los fondos de energía de CDBG-DR.

Egos! Drama! Desmond Child, a pop hitmaker, is telling his story.

By JIM FARBER

Any fan who’s scanned the credits of some of the most stadium-friendly hits of the last 30 years — Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer,” Aerosmith’s “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” and Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” not to mention fist-pumpers by Kiss, Cher and Katy Perry — will recognize Desmond Child’s name as a writer. Yet barely two minutes went by in a recent interview before the musician emphatically stated that his key contributions to those hits have often been misunderstood, downplayed or even denigrated — at times by his starry collaborators.

“When Steven Tyler wrote his memoir, he completely diminished me by saying, ‘Well, everything was already written,’ and I just added a few words,” Child, 69, said of Aerosmith’s 1987 hit. “When Joe Perry wrote about ‘Dude’ in his autobiography, he said, ‘Well, Desmond just came up with the title.’”

That wasn’t all. After “I Was Made for Lovin’ You,” which Child wrote with Paul Stanley of Kiss, became a smash for that band, he asserted that Gene Simmons “started saying in every interview, ‘We hired guards in front of the studio to keep Desmond Child out,’ because he hated that song so much. Why would you attack a person who put money in your pocket?”

(In an interview, Stanley confirmed the anecdote.)

Such behind-the-scenes ego spats and tea spills provide some of the main drama in Child’s new memoir, “Livin’ on a Prayer: Big Songs Big Life,” helping it double as an insider’s guide to how the sausage is made within the slicker realms of the music business. At the same time, the book, due Tuesday, illuminates the broader dramas in Child’s life growing up with a Cuban-born mother he described as “a cross between Blanche DuBois and Anjelica Huston in ‘The Grifters,’” and as a gay man navigating the music business at a time when it tried to keep LGBT people locked in the closet.

“This book is a coming out in every way,” Child said. “It’s coming out from behind the curtain of the studio, while also making sure everybody knows that I’m gay and Latino and that I’m now living the American dream, from rags to riches.”

The setting for the interview, Child’s apartment, made his riches plain. It’s a full-floor sprawl on New York City’s Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park that’s been gut renovated into an art-deco dream. Holding court there while dressed in rock star black, Child spoke with a bombastic force that mirrors his songwriting. “If you’re Latin and gay, what do you expect?” he said. “To us, bombast is a good thing!”

The result has hardly made Child’s songs critical darlings. “If I listened to critics, I would never write another note,” he proclaimed.

Instead, he aims for the listener, something he learned from his mentor, Bob Crewe, who co-wrote many of the Four Seasons’ hits, as well classics like Labelle’s “Lady Marmalade.” “He taught me to write so that people can sing along,” Child said.

The result has created ear worms so memorable that, to

Child’s detractors, they can feel like uninvited guests who will never, ever leave. His style reflects a lifelong obsession with songs that are “uplifting, happy and bright.”

Child believes his aesthetic formed in reaction to the bleak circumstances of his upbringing in Gainesville, Florida. His mother, who mainly raised him, had talent as a songwriter and poet but found success at neither, instead starting businesses that reliably failed. “To bring in money, she also worked at Burger King and as a nurse’s aide,” Child said. “She was gone all the time. It was a terrible life living in a hot project. It was suffocating.”

So was his mother’s love. “She had no boundaries and didn’t see a difference between me and her,” Child said. She also lied, he said, telling him that her husband when he was born was his father. He wasn’t told the identity of his true father, a stern Hungarian, until he was 18. It didn’t help that his birth father was deeply homophobic, as was his mother.

To escape, and to pursue the career in music he dreamed of, he came to New York at 18, where he found some success with a group called Desmond Child & Rouge, which melded cabaret and rock ’n’ roll. Their two albums on Capi-

tol Records in 1979 didn’t get far. But that same year, “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” went gold. In nearly all his songs since, Child has worked as a collaborator rather than as a song’s sole author. “I love the process of working with an artist,” he said, likening it to “taking an X-ray of their soul.”

When he tried to use his songwriting success to move into producing artists, however, he faced resistance, something he believes reflected the homophobia of the music business at the time. “The idea that the authority figure in the studio would be a gay man didn’t fly,” he said.

Eventually, he started producing female artists, starting with Ronnie Spector, but only, he said, because he threatened to pull his song if the record company didn’t let him run the session. To expand his reach, Child started working with Latin artists, though he was at first seen as an outsider. “I had a lot of people saying, ‘He’s an Americano; why is he butting his nose into our genre?’” he said. “Thank God I did.”

Child went on to cocreate the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame and, last year, “Livin’ la Vida Loca” was added to the National Recording Registry. This millennium, he has scored fewer hits. “If you’re not producing the act, it’s harder to get songs on a record because the producer has his own team,” he said.

In 2020, however, he found himself part of Ava Max’s hit song “Kings & Queens,” when an interpolation of a piece he wrote for Bonnie Tyler in 1986 (part of which he repurposed for Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name”) was included in her recording. Reflecting the world of current pop, her track lists 11 songwriters. Still, he doesn’t mind today’s clown car approach to songwriting. “Look at the credits to a movie like ‘Avatar.’ They go on for 15 minutes,” he said. “Whatever it takes to get the hit.”

By contrast, there are just three credits on “Livin’ on a Prayer,” a point of pride. “That song has stood the test of time,” he said, also citing “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” which will reappear on Dolly Parton’s upcoming rock album. “As time goes on,” Child said, “I feel confident my songs will last.”

Desmond Child at home in New York, July 31, 2023. Child helped write indelible hits by Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Ricky Martin — now he’s written his own life story.

CDC recommends new COVID vaccines for all Americans

By APOORVA MANDAVILLI

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended earlier this week that all Americans 6 months and older receive at least one dose of the latest COVID shots, the last of a trifecta of vaccines intended to prevent another surge in respiratory infections this fall and winter.

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved reformulated COVID vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna. On Tuesday, scientific advisers to the CDC reviewed the data and voted to recommend the shots. Large pharmacies will likely have the new vaccines available later this week.

Vaccines against flu and the respiratory syncytial virus are already on the shelves. The flu vaccine is recommended for everyone age 6 months and older, and the RSV vaccine for everyone 60 and older, in consultation with a health care provider.

In a meeting Tuesday, some advisers to the CDC said that they were unsure about recommending the new COVID vaccines to younger adults or had misgivings about potential side effects, especially in children and young males.

Others worried that endorsing the vaccines for all Americans might undermine messaging about the greater need among those who are at highest risk from COVID, including older adults.

But the committee ultimately voted to endorse the new vaccines for everyone, citing data showing the short- and long-term risks of COVID at any age.

“It’s clear that vaccination is going to prevent serious illness and death across all age groups,” said Dr. Beth Bell, a professor of global health at the University of Washington.

The panel made recommendations only regarding the updated COVID shots by Pfizer and Moderna. The timing and number of recommended doses varies with age and prior immunizations, but most Americans should receive at least one shot, the scientists said.

The guidelines will be extended to include another vaccine by Novavax and any others authorized by the FDA in the coming months. That shot may serve as a suitable alternative for people who cannot receive mRNA vaccines like Pfizer’s and Moderna’s.

“I hope that this will facilitate the availability of the Novavax vaccine once the FDA has reviewed, reviewed and potentially au-

thorized it,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, acting director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax on Tuesday told the CDC panel that they would charge $120 to $130 per dose for the new COVID vaccines. But the shots will be available at no cost to most Americans until December 2024, through private insurers and a new federal program for uninsured people.

For some Americans, the vaccines cannot come soon enough. Hospital admissions and deaths associated with COVID have been steadily rising since July, although the numbers are still low compared with the same period in other recent years.

Many others now view COVID as only a mild threat. Fewer than half of adults older than 65, and just about 1 in 5 American adults overall, opted for the bivalent booster shot offered last fall. (The new shots replace the bivalent booster, which should no longer be used, the CDC said.)

The most vulnerable Americans — older adults, immunocompromised people and pregnant women — ought to receive both the COVID and the flu vaccines, experts said. Adults 65 and older accounted for up to 85% of flu-related deaths in recent years, according to the CDC.

And COVID hospitalizations among adults 75 years and older “are consistently two to three times as high as those in the next youngest age group,” who are 65 to 74, according to data presented by Dr. Fiona Havers, who leads the CDC’s surveillance programs for respiratory disease-associated

hospitalizations.

Most of those hospitalized adults had multiple existing health conditions, Havers said. Rates of hospitalization, a proxy for severe illness, are highest among American Indian, Alaska Native and Black Americans.

“African Americans, even from younger ages, have higher incidence of underlying conditions, which would lead to higher adverse events in terms of hospitalization, ICU and death,” said Dr. Oliver Brooks, chief medical officer at Watts HealthCare Corp. in Los Angeles and an adviser to the CDC. “So definitely the vaccine is needed.”

The new vaccines are designed to target the omicron variant XBB.1.5, which was the dominant virus earlier this year, when health officials were forced to decide on the composition of an upcoming fall vaccine.

XBB.1.5 now accounts for only 3% of cases, but more than 90% of the circulating variants are its close relatives. The new vaccines appear to be effective against all of them, according to data presented at Tuesday’s meeting.

As with the flu vaccine, the greatest benefits of COVID immunization may accrue to those at highest risk. Nonetheless, the shots may help even those at reduced risk recover sooner after an infection or miss fewer days of work, said Dr. Ashish Jha, the former White House COVID coordinator.

People with so-called hybrid immunity — from both infection and immunization — have the strongest protection. But immunity of all types wanes over time, according to

data presented at the meeting.

Most children and adults hospitalized for COVID since January had not received the most recent booster shot, Havers reported.

Even among the relatively young and healthy, COVID poses serious health risks, including long-term effects on the heart and other organs that can emerge and reemerge months to years after the initial illness, Sharon Saydah, a CDC researcher, told the scientific panel.

Saydah presented preliminary estimates from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey suggesting that the highest prevalence of post-COVID symptoms occurs among adults ages 35 to 49: 9% reported health problems at least three months after the first acute illness.

The percentages of those reporting ongoing symptoms decreases over time and are lower with the omicron variant than with previous versions of the virus.

For people who are unable or unwilling to make multiple trips to a clinic or pharmacy to space flu and COVID vaccinations apart, experts recommended getting the shots together. Still, if at all possible, it may be wise to time the shots to provide maximum protection, some experts said.

Influenza typically peaks in February, Jha noted: “I have generally recommended to people who are elderly to wait until October, just so that they still have a lot more protection. You don’t want to get to Halloween and not have taken it, but sometime in October is pretty reasonable.”

A registered nurse prepares the COVID booster at a vaccine and booster event at the Quinn Center in Maywood, Ill., on Sept. 13, 2022. Fewer than half of adults older than 65, and just about one in five American adults overall, opted for the bivalent booster shot offered last fall.

LEGAL NOTICE

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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE PONCE LUNA

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Demandante V.

MIGUEL ANGEL

PEREIRA SUAREZ, OLGA MILAGROS

DIAZ MOLINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandada

Civil Núm.: JCD2015-0687.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y GRANTÍAS PERSONALES. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: MIGUEL ANGEL

PEREIRA SUAREZ, OLGA MILAGROS

DIAZ MOLINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS Y AL PUBLICO

EN GENERAL:

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

POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO:

En el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, caso civil #J CD2015-0687, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca y Prendas, seguido por Banco Popular de PR versus Miguel Ángel Pereira Suarez, Olga Diaz Molina y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $268,249.23, más intereses,

etc. Anotado en tomo Karibe de Ponce, Finca #17,568, Anotación A y Anotado en Karibe de Carolina finca #54,188 Anotación A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 5 de julio de 2023 - {250 Fecha mandamiento}, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: FINCA 54,188: Dirección de la Propiedad: Apt. 2403 Portales de Parque Escorial Cond. Carolina, PR 00982. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número dos mil cuatrocientos tres (2403). Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la cuarta planta del edificio B del Condominio de apartamentos Portales de Parque Escorial situado en la Carretera Número Tres (#3) Kilometro seis punto ocho (6.8) del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una área aproximada de mil cuarenta punto trece (1,040.13) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a noventa y seis punto sesenta y seis (96.66) metros cuadrados. Son sus linderos los siguientes: por el NORTE, en veinticuatro pies diez pulgadas (24’10”) con pasillo, escalera y elemento exterior común; por el SUR, en veinticuatro pies diez pulgadas (24’10”) con pasillo, escalera y elemento exterior común: por el ESTE, en cuarenta y cinco pies siete pulgadas y medio (45’71/2”) con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento número dos mil cuatrocientos cuatro (2,404) y pasillo y elemento exterior común limitado; y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y dos pies diez pulgadas (42’10”) con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento número dos mil cuatrocientos dos (2,402).

Este apartamento goza del uso exclusivo de un área común limitada de doscientos ochenta y ocho punto diez (288.10) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a veintiséis punto setenta y seis (26.76) metros cuadrados que es parte de la azotea, según surgen los planos del Condominio y cuyo acceso es a través de una escalera espiral situada dentro del apartamento. Consta de terraza, sala, comedor, cocina, laundry, dos baños y dos dormitorios. La puerta de entrada esta por su lindero SUR.

Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto cero cinco dos uno uno (0.0005211) en los elementos comunes del Condominio. Este apartamento tiene asignado los espacios de estacionamientos número sesenta y uno (61) y sesenta y dos (62). Finca nú-

mero 54,188 inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 1263 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina Sección Segunda. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, en virtud de la cual se adeuda al 20 de mayo de 2022, para los Prestamos números 25913033 y 259130034 las sumas $125,774.22 de principal; más interese acumulados a razón de $5.250% anual, suma que al 20 de mayo de 2022 ascendía a $9,583.23 y la cual continúa acumulándose hasta el pago total y solvente del principal a razón de $18.09 diarios (“per diem”); mas $11,885.56 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda, en adición a costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte interesada previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravámenes que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE OCTUBRE

2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, precio mínimo es la suma de $160,000.00, según pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca de cada finca, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una

SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE OCTUBRE 2023 A LAS

9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, precio mínimo es la suma de $106,666.67, equivalente a dos terceras partes (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta, en la oficina del referido, Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina Puerto Rico. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día

18 DE OCTUBRE 2023 A LAS

9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, precio mínimo es la suma de $80,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA, en la oficina del referi-

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do Alguacil, localiza en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina Puerto Rico. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de agosto de 2023. Héctor L. Peña Rodríguez, Alguacil, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Carolina.

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

Demandante vs. NELSON VALENTIN PEREZ, su esposa PAULA ESTHER CAMPOS COLON también conocida como PAULA ESTHER CAMPOS de VALENTIN y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados

CIVIL NUM. ISCI201600415 (205). SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: NELSON VALENTIN PEREZ, su esposa PAULA ESTHER CAMPOS COLON, también conocida como PAULA ESTHER CAMPOS de VALENTIN y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos; ISLAND FINANCE PUERTO RICO, por tener Hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $32,116.76; AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO, por tener Condiciones Restrictivas por la suma de $11,768.00; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, por tener Embargo anotado a su favor por la suma de $6,256.28; SANTANDER FINANCIAL, INC., por tener Aviso de Demanda anotado a su favor por la suma de $29,322.27.

Yo, ALG. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS. PLACA #924, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 26 de septiembre de 2023, a las 11:15 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, venderé en

Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Mayagüez durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 3 de octubre de 2023, a las 11:15 de la mañana y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 10 de octubre de 2023, a las 11:15 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como

sigue: RUSTICA: Solar número Uno (1) radicado en el BARRIO FURNIAS del término municipal de Las Marías, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de SETECIENTOS SESENTA Y SIETE PUNTO CINCUENTA Y CINCO (767.55) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela dedicada a uso público para ensanche de la Carretera número Ciento Veinte (120) que de Mayagüez conduce a Las Marías; por el SUR, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, con el solar número Dos (2) del plano de inscripción; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Pablo Pérez. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 4 del tomo 102 de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, inscripción quinta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Barrio Furnias, Carretera 119, Km. 51.8 Interior, Solar Número 1, Las Marías, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $59,048.42 de principal, intereses al 8.25% anual, desde el 1ro. de junio de 2014, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $8,320.00 estipulada para costas, gastos, y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $83,200.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $55,466.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mi-

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tad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $41,600.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta a los guientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de Island Finance Puerto Rico, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $32,116.76, con intereses, al 14.76% anual, vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la Escritura Número 119 otorgada en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de abril de 2004, ante la Notario Público Susan Báez Dixon; inscrita al folio 184, del tomo 184 de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, inscripción sexta. Condiciones Restrictivas a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, a través del Programa “Protegiendo tu Hogar”, por la suma de $11,768.00, sin intereses y vencedero el día 28 de septiembre de 2016, según consta de la Escritura Número 1086 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de octubre de 2011, ante el Notario Público Luis Torres Dávila; inscrita al folio 184 del tomo 184 de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, inscripción séptima. Embargo Federal a favor de Estados Unidos de América, contra Nelson Valentín, Seguro Social Patronal 66-0392458, dirección HC1 Box 2182, Las Marías, Puerto Rico 006709713, por la suma principal de $6,256.28, notificación número 491829508, presentado el día 24 de noviembre de 2008, anotado al folio 109, asiento 4 del libro de Embargos Federales, número 4. Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Aviso de Demanda, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de

Mayagüez, Caso Civil Número I1CI- 2018-00040, seguido por Santander Financial Inc., versus Nelson Valentín Pérez y su esposa Paula Esther Campos de Valentín, por la suma de $29,322.27, más intereses y gastos, anotado el día 8 de febrero de 2018, al tomo Karibe de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, Anotación A. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 5 de septiembre de 2023. Alg. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, Placa #924, Alguacil Tribunal, Sala Superior De Mayaguez.

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Peticionario EX PARTE CIVIL NÚM.: PO2023CV01702. SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO BAJO EL ART. 13 DE LA LEY 118, PROCEDIMIENTO EXPEDITO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.

A: SARAHI SUAREZ DE JESÚS Y RUBEN MEDINA FELICIANO, INMEDIATOS ANTERIORES DUEÑOS., HEREDEROS, DENOMINADOS FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; Y LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA

de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 16 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $135,594.67 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $101,696.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A

LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $189,264.95 más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 6% anual según ajustado desde el día 1ro de agosto de 2012, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del total pago de las mismas, más el 10% del principal, o sea la cantidad de $20,339.20 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, y otros recargos según fue pactado; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de septiembre de 2023. EDGARDO ALDEBOL

MIRANDA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRI-

MERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

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TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR FAJARDO

MICHAEL

MANZANO RIVERA DEMANDANTE V. ISRAEL MERCADO

SANTOS Y OTROS DEMANDADO(A)

CIVIL: RG2023CV00128. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ISRAEL SANTOS MERCADO, SYLVIA

COSME GARCÍA Y LA

SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, ABC BANK COMO SUCESOR EN INTERESES DE WESTERNBANK PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE LOS DEMANDADOS.

DIRECCIÓN: CALLE #8

E-202 COSTA REAL, COND. COSTA DORADA, RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 2 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 5 de septiembre de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 5 de septiembre de 2023.

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SALA SUPERIOR PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. OMAR RAMOS BORRERO

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. GU2022CV00036

SALÓN 504 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: OMAR RAMOS BORRERO -

127 CALLE LORENZA

BIZO, PONCE PR 007168046; LA LUNA 306 CALLE 9, GUANICA PR 00653.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en PONCE, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de AGOSTO de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 9 de AGOSTO de 2023. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. F/Katherine Dennisse López Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE MOCA EN SAN SEBASTIÁN COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN (ANTES COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE AGUADA)

Parte Demandante Vs JULIO C. MÉNDEZ PLAZA, ET AL (Socio Núm. 320444478)

Parte Demandada

CIVIL NÚM. MO2023CV00095

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO

(VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO. A: JULIO C. MÉNDEZ PLAZA

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-2650334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy de 31 de agosto de 2023. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria Regional. Maritza Lebrón Rosado, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS

FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES

ACQUISITION TRUST

2018-HB1

Demandante Vs. MYRNA IVETTE

RODRIGUEZ NEGRON

T/C/C MYRNA

RODRIGUEZ NEGRON

T/C/C MYRA RODRIGUEZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados CIVIL NUM. BY2022CV02918

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público General: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de

Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 11 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación:

“URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Santa Juanita (Sección Doce) situada en el barrio Guaraguao de Bayamón, marcado con el número uno del bloque FS con un área de 490.22 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, distancia de 36.655 metros con propiedad de Don Deogracia Álvarez; por el SUR, distancia de 30.839 metros con el solar número dos; por el ESTE, distancia de 19.678 metros con la calle Columba; y por el OESTE, 10.886 metros con el lote número siete. Contiene una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia”. Finca número 41,412, inscrita al folio 86 del tomo 923 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al tomo Karibe, finca número 41,412 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I, inscripción 5ª. Propiedad localizada en: SEC 12 SANTA JUANITA, FS-1 CALLE COLUMBA, BAYAMON, PR 00956. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A Suma de la Carga: N/A Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano Suma de la Carga: $187,500.00 Fecha de Vencimiento: 27 de mayo de 2089. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma

de $187,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 18 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $125,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $93,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 25 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $83,623.38 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $25,250.44 en intereses acumulados al 16 de junio de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 2.169% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $13,654.89 en seguro hipotecario; $2,599.89 en seguro; $1,830.00 de tasaciones; $422.00 de inspecciones; $907.50 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $18,750.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me-

nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de octubre de 2023.Frances Tous Cintron, Alguacil. Maribel Lanzar Velázquez, Alguacil, Placa 735.

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VACATION OWNERSHIP LENDING, L.P.

Demandante Vs. LUIMAR APONTE

RODRIGUEZ, LETICIA ISABEL CALDERON GOMEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD

LEGAL DE BIENES

GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandados

CIVIL NUM. : VB2023CV00007

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Yo, Freddy Omar Rodríguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de sentencia que se me libró con fecha 16 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: Unit Week Forty Eight (44). Vacation Club Right corresponding to Unit B-311 of Hacienda del Mar Vacation club Régimen, located on the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-311, and includes the right to use such unit during the 44, week of each year until December 31 of the Year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44, Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-311, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners

of vacation club rights in the HACIENDAS DEL MAR, VACATION CLUB REGIME and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, finca 14,147. Consta inscrita al asiento abreviado al tomo de hoja móvil número 78 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra del Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, sección III, Finca 15,067. La finca 15,067 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca: Afecta por sí a hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Vacation Ownership Lending, LP, por la suma principal de $9,275.00, intereses al 15% anual, vencedero el 1ro de febrero de 2009 bajo affidávit número 3624, tasada en $9,275.00 constituida mediante la escritura 99, otorgada el 1r de febrero de 2002 ante la notario Frances R. Ramírez Sánchez, inscrito en tomo de hoja móvil número 78 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 2da. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Vacation Ownership Lending L.P. el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $9,097.82 de principal. El tipo mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: Primera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de octubre de 2023, a las 9:00 de la mañana. Tipo mínimo: $9,275.00. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo inicial, $6,183.00. Segunda Subasta: Se celebrará el día 2 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:00 de la mañana. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en esta el tipo mínimo será la ½ del tipo mínimo inicial, $4,637.50. Tercera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 9

de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:00 de la mañana. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, es decir, dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuere igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta fuese mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete

(7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres

(3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y el cuartel de la policía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1 de septiembre de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodríguez Collazo, Al-

guacil Superior.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE VEGA BAJA VACATION OWNERSHIP

LENDING, L.P.

Demandante Vs. OSCAR ESPINOSA

RAMOS, AMPARO ORESTE CORTEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandados

CIVIL NUM. : VB2023CV00006

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Yo, Freddy Omar Rodríguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de sentencia que se me libró con fecha 12 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de catastro: Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: APARTAMENTO A-605 DE LA SEMANA 20. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-605, and includes the right to use such unit during the 20 week of each year until December 31 of the Year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 20 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-605, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the HACIENDAS DEL MAR, VACATION CLUB REGIME and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt

Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar finca 12659 al folio 140 del tomo 232 de Vega Alta. Consta inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 7de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Finca Número 17,163. La finca 17,163 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca: Afecta por sí a hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Vacation Ownership Lending, LP, por la suma principal de $11,250.00, intereses al 15% anual, vencedero el 1ro de septiembre de 2008 bajo affidávit número 3265, constituida mediante la escritura 1823, otorgada el 24 de agosto de 2001 ante la notario Frances R. Ramírez Sánchez, inscrito en tomo de hoja móvil número 99 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 2da. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Vacation Ownership Lending L.P. el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $6,705.05 de principal. El tipo mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue:

Primera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de octubre de 2023, a las 9:15 de la mañana. Tipo mínimo: $11,250.00. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo inicial, $7,500.00.

Segunda Subasta: Se celebrará el día 2 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:15 de la mañana. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en esta el tipo mínimo será la ½ del tipo mínimo inicial, $5,625.00. Tercera

Subasta: Se celebrará el día 9 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:15 de la mañana. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose

que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, es decir, dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuere igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta fuese mayor.

Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete

(7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres

(3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y el cuartel de la policía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1 de septiembre de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodríguez Collazo, Alguacil Superior.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA.

VACATION OWNERSHIP LENDING, L.P. DEMANDANTE VS. JORGE RIVERA RIVERA, NANCY DELGADO ROSARIO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

DEMANDADO

CIVIL NUM. : VB2023CV00004.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de sentencia que se me libró con fecha 2 de agosto de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de catastro:---Propiedad

Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento A-506 SEMANA 39. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-506, and includes the right to use such unit during the 39, week of each year until December 31 of the Year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 39, Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-506, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the HACIENDAS DEL MAR, VACATION CLUB REGIME and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this vacation right pertains during the above des-

cribed interval on a first come, first come first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar inscrito al folio 20 del tomo 232 de Vega Alta, finca 12654 al folio 115 del tomo 232 de Vega Alta. Consta inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 55 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Finca Número 13,498. La finca 13,498 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca: Afecta por sí a hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Vacation Ownership Lending, LP, por la suma principal de $9,000.00 constituida mediante la escritura 14, otorgada el 14 de enero de 2000 ante la notaria Frances R. Ramírez Sánchez, inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 55 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 2da. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Vacation Ownership Lending L.P. el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $8,353.59 de principal. El tipo mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: Primera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de octubre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana.

Tipo mínimo: $9,000.00. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo inicial, $6,000.00. Segunda Subasta: Se celebrará el día 2 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en esta el tipo mínimo será la ½ del tipo mínimo inicial, $4,500.00.

Tercera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 9 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, es decir, dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se

entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuere igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta fuese mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y el cuartel de la policía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1 de septiembre de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA.

VACATION OWNERSHIP LENDING, L.P.

DEMANDANTE VS. JAMES ALLAN MORROW, SANDRA KAYE MORROW y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales morrow, compuesta por ambos

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM. : VB2023CV00355. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO . EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de sentencia que se me libró con fecha 17 de agosto de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de catastro:---Propiedad

Horizontal: CONDOMINIO

CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta.

APARTAMENTO A-205 SEMANA 43. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-205, and includes the right to use such unit during the 43 week of each year until December 31 of the Year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 43 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-205, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the HACIENDAS DEL MAR, VACATION CLUB REGIME and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities

and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar inscrito al folio 20 del tomo 232 de Vega Alta, finca 12,635. Consta inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 88 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Finca Número 15,606. La finca 15,606 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca: Afecta por sí a hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Vacation Ownership Lending, LP, por la suma principal de $9,000.00, intereses al 14% anual, vencedero el 1ro de abril de 2008 bajo affidávit número 2678, tasada en $9,000.00 constituida mediante la escritura 1006, otorgada el 30 de marzo de 2001 ante la notario

Frances R. Ramírez Sánchez, inscrito en tomo de hoja móvil número 88 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 2da. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Vacation Ownership Lending L.P. el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $5,597.41 de principal. El tipo mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: Primera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de octubre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana. Tipo mínimo: $9,000.00. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo inicial, $6,000.00. Segunda Subasta: Se celebrará el día 2 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en esta el tipo mínimo será la ½ del tipo mínimo inicial, $4,500.00. Tercera Subasta: Se celebrará el día 9 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, es decir, dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su

extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuere igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta fuese mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y el cuartel de la policía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1 de septiembre de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

DEMANDANTE vs. O’TOWERS WHOLESALE, LLC.

DEMANDADA

CIVIL NUM. : VB2019CV00939.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 20 de junio de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígra-

fe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro: .Propiedad

Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO

CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta.

Apartamento: UNIDAD A-201

SEMANA 6. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Unidad A-201 SEMANA 6. Vacation Club Regime located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A201 and includes the right to use such unit during the 6 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 6 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-201 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 18,080 inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $8,185.30 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:00 a.m. La subasta

de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1 de septiembre de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA SALA DE SENCIONES SALÓN 601 CIVIL BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. RAMON CARDONA ACEVEDO Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

CASO NÚM.: AG2023CV00428

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

A: R-G MORTGAGE

CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE Dirección desconocida (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de septiembre de 2023. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 6 de septiembre de 2023. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. F/Nathalie Acevedo Quiñones, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 301-SALA MUNICIPAL ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V MARIBEL

ARROYO MELENDEZ

Demandado

EDWIN OMAR SERRANO PEÑA EDWIN.SERRANO@ORF-LAW.COM

NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERA NATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM

CASO NÚM.: PO2022CV03533

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

A: MARIBEL ARROYO MELÉNDEZ

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de septiembre de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 8 de septiembre de 2023. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. F/Sandra González Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 803 CIVIL ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. WANDA L. BELTRÁN HENRÍQUEZ

Demandado(a)

NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERA NATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM

CASO NÚM.: SJ2022CV10117 SOBRE COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: WANDA L. BELTRÁN HENRÍQUEZ (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el

procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de septiembre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 8 de septiembre de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. F/Karolyn Rivera Navarro, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 903

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., POR SÍ Y COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, QUIEN A SU

VEZ ES SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC., Demandante V. SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

FERNANDO J. GIERBOLINI GONZÁLEZ FGIERBOLINI@MSGLAWPR.COM

CASO NÚM.: SJ2023CV06199

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días

contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de septiembre de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. F/Mildred J. Franco Reventos, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ KEREN ZAIR

DIAZ ROMAN Demandante Vs ANTHONY RODRÍGUEZ GONZALEZ Demandada

CIVIL NUM.: MZ2023RF00460

SOBRE: DIVORCIO RI. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.

A: ANTHONY RODRiGUEZ GONZÁLEZ, URB. BELMONTE CALLE MADRID #52 MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00680 o sea la parte demandada arriba mencionada.

POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica a usted, Sr. Anthony Rodríguez González, que la parte demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Demanda de Divorcio por Ruptura Irreparable que aquí se menciona. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizado la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr. salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretarla 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 solicitando en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Nombre del Abogado:

LOURDES M. ORTIZ PAGAN

RUA: 9103

Dirección: Po Box 593, Cabo Rojo, PR 00623

Té!: (787) 831-1984/ Fax(787)833-5118

Correo electrónico: lourdesm_ ortizpagan@hotmail.com

EXPEDIDO

TRIBUNAL, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico hoy 5 de septiembre de 2023. Lic. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional II. Nilda L. Irizarry Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAY-

NABO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE RUFINO

RÍOS RIVERA T/C/C

JOSÉ JOAQUÍN RÍOS

RIVERA COMPUESTA

POR: CARMEN ALICIA

MONTALVO GARCÍA

T/C/C CARMEN A.

MONTALVO GARCÍA

T/C/C CARMEN

MONTALVO GARCÍA POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL

USUFRUCTUARIA, ROBERTO RÍOS

MONTALVO, RAFAEL

LUIS RÍOS MONTALVO, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE JUAN CARLOS RÍOS MONTALVO

COMPUESTA POR:

JUAN CARLOS RÍOS

MALDONADO, ALEXIS RÍOS MALDONADO, GRISEL RÍOS

MALDONADO, LISANDRA RÍOS MALDONADO, CARLOS JUAN RÍOS

TORRES, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL MANUEL RÍOS

MONTALVO COMPUESTA

POR: FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y

C COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS, HONORABLE

SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE

ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORABLE

SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados

CIVIL NUM. D2CD2014-0063. SALA: 0201. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYNABO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYNABO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: 36 CALLE MARTINEZ NADAL, BARRIO AMELIA, GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO 00965 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número cincuenta de la manzana “O” del plano preparado por la Autoridad Sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico, hoy CRUV, para su proyecto de solares denominado Zenón Díaz Valcárcel PRHA raya once, radicado en el barrio Pueblo Viejo-Amelia del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos sesenta y cuatro punto cuarenta y ocho metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, en once punto cuarenta y ocho metros con el solar O raya quince de la mencionada urbanización; por el SUR, en once punto sesenta y siete metros con la servidumbre de paso de la calle cuatro de dicho proyecto; por el ESTE, en veintidós punto ochenta y nueve metros con el solar O raya cuarenta y nueve de la susodicha urbanización; por el OESTE, en veintidós punto ochenta y un metros con el solar O raya cincuenta y uno del mencionado proyecto. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 45 del Tomo 244 de Guaynabo, finca número 15,020, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $34,800.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 17

DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS

9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. 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 $23,200.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $17,400.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 354 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de mayo de 1991, ante la Notario Teresita Navarro García, inscrita al folio 47 del tomo 244 de Guaynabo, finca número 15,020, inscripción quinta (5ta). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $17,752.57 de principal; 9.50% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $46.80 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYNABO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las

subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de septiembre de 2023. ALG. HUGO BASCÓ MEDINA, ALGUACIL PLACA #807, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYNABO, SALA SUPERIOR.

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Demandante V. LUIS JAVIER DEL TORO ALONSO Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE EJECUCIONES@CM-PRLA W.COM

CASO NÚM.: CG2023CV01053

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: A LA PARTE CODEMANDADA: LUIS JAVIER DEL TORO ALONSO, WIZELIA ENITH TORRES PEREZ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS A SU DIRECCION CONOCIDA: URB.

CAGUAS MILENIO 11 #111 CALLE 8 (CALLE DEL PRADO) CAGUAS, PR 00725 (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE

2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 11 de septiembre de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. F/Eneida Arroyo Vélez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Demandante V. LA SUCESION DE ELSIE LOPEZ GUTIERREZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE EJECUCIONES@CM-PRLA W.COM CASO NÚM.: SJ2023CV04228

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE A: ELSIE LÓPEZ CASTRO (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse

recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 12 de septiembre de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. F/Martha Almodovar Cabrera. Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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Demandante V. PEDRO GONZÁLEZ

RAMOS, LUZ MARÍA

HERNÁNDEZ ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

POR ESTOS COMPUESTA

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. AR2022CV01467

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.

SS. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, hago saber a la parte demandada PEDRO GONZÁLEZ RAMOS, LUZ MARÍA HERNÁNDEZ ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 18 de julio de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $80,000.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URB. JARDINES DE ARECIBO, X-5 CALLE S, ARECIBO, PR 00612, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #5 del bloque X, de la Urbanización Jardines de Arecibo, localizado en el Barrio Hato Abaja del Municipio de Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de 336.0000 metros cuadrados. Lindes por el Norte, en 24.00 metros con el solar #X-6; por el Sur, en 24. 00 metros con el solar #X-4; por el Este, en 14. 00 metros, con la calle S; por el Oeste, en 14. 00 metros con la Urbanización Mirador Vista

Azul. Finca 19387 inscrita al folio 155 del tomo 1145 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida por Pedro González Ramos y esposa Luz Maria Hernandez Ortiz, en garantía de un pagaré, aff#. 15793, a favor de Oriental Bank & Trust, o a su orden, por $80,000.00, al 6%, vencedero el 1 de junio de 2032, según Esc. #78, en Arecibo, a 16 de mayo de 2007, ante Norman E. Colón Baez, inscrita al folio 155 del tomo 1145 de Arecibo, finca #19387, inscripción 4ta, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I. (ii) Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 4ta., a $67,265.31, al 6%, y vence el 1 de junio de 2056, según Esc. #187, en San Juan, a 18 de julio de 2016, ante Juan A. Martínez Romero, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Arecibo, finca #19387, inscripción 6ta, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I. (iii) Nuevamente modificada en cuanto a los pagos de principal e intereses que se estarán difiriendo por $2,220.60, según instancia (así surge), a 22 de abril de 2021, ante Carla M. Nevarez Perez, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Arecibo, finca #19387, inscripción 7ma, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección

I. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 26 de abril de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $64,538.05 de principal, más $1,807.047 de interés al 6.00% anual, al 19 de julio de 2022, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total, $66.65 de escrow balance, $111.06 de cargos por atraso, $2,244.60 de otros cargos, $8,000.00 de costas, gastos 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, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $80,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, 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, $53,333.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $40,000.00. 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 procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal 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 entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada 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 cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días,

el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen.

Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de agosto de 2023. Ángel De J. Torres Pérez, Alguacil.

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Demandante Vs LUIS ALBERTO BURGUERAS REGOJO, MAYRA

SOMOZA LINARES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV03316. (603). Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO POR SUMAC.

A: LUIS ALBERTO BURGUERAS

REGOJO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON MAYRA SOMOZA

LINARES CONDOMINIO MONTBLANC MIRAMAR

APT. 2, CALLE MCKINLEY 656, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00907; 241 CALLE

ELEONOR ROOSEVELT, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918.

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de esta. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic-

to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de septiembre de 2023. En SAN JUAN , Puerto Rico, el 11 de septiembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUCRECIA PAGÁN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. MARIA MERCEDES ARROYO RODRÍGUEZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV01646. (703). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número treinta y siete de la Manzana C del plano del Reparto Flamingo, sito en el Barrio Hato Tejas del Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos setenta y cinco metros cuadrados, colindando por el NORTE, en catorce metros con el Solar número cinco C; por el SUR, en quince metros con la Calle C; por el OESTE, en veinticinco metros con el Solar C treinta y seis; y por el ESTE, en veinticinco metros con el Solar C treinta y ocho. Enclava una casa de concreto para una familia. Inscrita al folio 126 del tomo 367 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Bayamón, finca número 16,319. Dirección fisica: C

B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: 1. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario del Departamento de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda de los Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $27,916.26, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2044, constituida mediante la escritura número 591, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de junio de 2014, ante la notario Magda V. Alsina Figueroa, e inscrita al folio 182 vuelto del tomo 1,887 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 16,319, inscripción 13ra. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $78,009.72, más cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Bayamón, por el tipo mínimo de $82,980.33. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $55,320.22. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA

SUBASTA el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $41,490.17. Y

de 2023 en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL PLACA #193.

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Demandados

Civil Núm.: CN2023CV. Sobre: COBRO DE CUOTAS DE MANTENIMIENTO / REGLA 60. EDICTO. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO

RICO:

A: JULISSA POU CORA.

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante, Asociación de Titulares Los Eucaliptos Inc., ha presentado ante este Tribunal una demanda por la causal de cobro de dinero por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento contra los demandados Julissa Pou Cora y la Sucesión de Frank B. Mangual Guzmán compuesta por la viuda Julissa Pou Cora en su cuota viudal usufructuaria y Sutano y Perencejo de Tal, posibles herederos desconocidos. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Héctor L. Claudio Rosario, 167 Calle Pedro Flores Urb. Monticielo, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725; número de teléfono 787-635-1220/Telefax: 1-267-392-3959; dirección de correo electrónico, bufetehectorclaudio@gmail.com. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que de no contestar la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de éste Edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal, con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello de éste Tribunal, en Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, a 7 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

EUCALIPTOS INC.

Demandante Vs. JULISSA POU CORA, Y OTROS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CN2023CV. Sobre: COBRO DE CUOTAS DE MANTENIMIENTO / REGLA 60. EDICTO. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO:

A: SUCESIÓN DE FRANK B. MANGUAL GUZMÁN COMPUESTA POR LA VIUDA JULISSA POU CORA EN SU CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA Y SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS.

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante, Asociación de Titulares Los Eucaliptos Inc., ha presentado ante este Tribunal una demanda por la causal de cobro de dinero por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento contra los demandados Julissa Pou Cora y la Sucesión de Frank B. Mangual Guzmán compuesta por la viuda Julissa Pou Cora en su cuota viudal usufructuaria y Sutano y Perencejo de Tal, posibles herederos desconocidos. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Héctor L. Claudio Rosario, 167 Calle Pedro Flores Urb. Monticielo, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725; número de teléfono 787-635-1220/Telefax: 1-267-392-3959; dirección de correo electrónico, bufetehectorclaudio@gmail.com. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que de no contestar la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de éste Edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal, con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello de éste Tribunal, en Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, a 7 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

ASSET TRUST 2022-GS1

DEMANDANTE VS. SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR

LUIS CINTRÓN MIRÓ T/C/C HÉCTOR L. CINTRÓN MIRÓ COMPUESTA POR NORMA CINTRÓN ALBINO; HÉCTOR CINTRÓN ALBINO; NORMA ALBINO

SERRANO T/C/C NORMA

ALBINO SERRANO, POR SÍ Y COMO CÓNYUGE SUPÉRSTITE; LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA CINTRÓN ALBINO COMPUESTA POR RODOLFO ROSARIO CINTRÓN; LUEIN ROSARIO CINTRÓN; PATTIYE ROSARIO CINTRÓN; FABIOLA ROSARIO CINTRÓN; PATRICIA ROSARIO CINTRÓN; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS EN AMBAS SUCESIONES; CRIM

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NÚM.: CA2023CV02302.

SALÓN NÚM.: 401. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS EN CUANTO A LA SUCESIÓN HÉCTOR LUIS CINTRÓN

MIRÓ T/C/C HÉCTOR

L. CINTRÓN MIRÓ Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA CINTRÓN ALBINO.

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QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 12 de septiembre

PARA

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POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentin, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: ( 787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número men-

cionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de diciembre de 2022, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de la suma principal de $221,737.74, la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $147,224.54, más un interés de 6.00% anual, desde el 1 de noviembre de 2022, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma principal diferida por la cantidad de $74,513.20 (piggyback), la cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a ($20,825.00), para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”), sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 31 del bloque “FF” en el plano dela Urbanización Lomas de Carolina, localizada en el Barrio Trujillo Bajo de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área de 389.496 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 15.685 metros con el solar 1-FF, por el SUR, en una distancia de 12.185 metros con la calle 10, por el ESTE, en una distancia de 25.00 metros con el solar 30-FF, por el OESTE, en una distancia de 21.500 metros con la calle número 9 y por el SUROESTE, en arco de 5.498 metros con radio de 3.500 metros con las calles 9 y 10. Consta inscrita al folio 176 del tomo 925 de Carolina, finca número #37,477 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Carolina. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la Sucesión de Héctor Luis Cintrón Miró t/c/c Héctor L. Cintrón Miró y la Sucesión de Ana Cin-

trón Albino. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico. A 13 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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A: KRISTAL M HERNANDEZ LUCRE (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 08 de septiembre de 2023. En SAN SEBASTIAN, Puerto Rico, el 08 de septiembre de 2023. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, SECRETARIA. F/LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

By JULIET MACUR

Khalida Popal, the former captain of the Afghanistan women’s national soccer team, woke up on the floor of her apartment near Copenhagen, Denmark, drenched in sweat and shaking.

She had collapsed and couldn’t speak. An ambulance rushed to her.

It was two years ago last month, and the Taliban were taking control of Afghanistan. Female soccer players on the national team that Popal helped create in 2007 were desperate to leave the country, fearing that the Taliban would kill them for playing the sport.

Players were deluging Popal with requests for help, and she felt smothered by guilt. For more than 15 years, much of that period spent in exile, she had encouraged Afghan girls to participate in all areas of society, including sports, jobs and education.

The message was everything the Taliban despised.

“I feel responsible for these girls,” Popal said later. “I’d rather die than turn my back on them.”

So on that afternoon in 2021, Popal had a panic attack and thought she might be dying. But in a show of her resilience, she waved away the medical workers and returned to her desk to continue coordinating an evacuation of players and their families from Kabul, the Afghan capital.

Relying on a network she built through her activism, she helped rescue 87 people, including the senior national team. Months later, an additional 130.

Now Popal is on another mission, one that reached its height at this summer’s Women’s World Cup. She is trying to persuade FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, to let players on the Afghan women’s national team represent their country again after the Taliban barred girls and women from playing sports.

The players, after escaping Afghanistan with Popal’s help, are living in Australia, which hosted this year’s World Cup with New Zealand. Although the team is competing for the Melbourne Victory soccer club, FIFA refuses to recognize it as a national team because the Afghanistan Football Federation claims it does not exist. Under the Taliban, no women’s team does.

“These players dreamed of playing football for Afghanistan, and men just came and took that dream from them,” Popal said. “FIFA is saying, ‘We are sorry that you’ve lost your right to play football, girls, when you have done nothing to deserve it.’ It’s disgusting.”

In an emailed statement, FIFA said it can-

not recognize a national team unless it is first acknowledged by its national federation.

A spokesperson for the Afghanistan Football Federation said the organization could do nothing to help because the women’s national team dissolved when the players fled the country — an assertion the players reject.

Popal, 36, has been sharing the Afghan team’s story with everyone she can. While working for Right to Dream, a soccer nonprofit, and Girl Power, her own nonprofit, she organized a petition, which has been signed by more than 175,000 people since publishing online in late July. More than 100 politicians endorsed a letter she wrote to FIFA with Julie Elliott, a member of Britain’s Parliament, and Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who was shot in the head by the Taliban when she was 15.

“Khalida is reminding the world that we are still here, don’t forget us,” said Fati Yousufi, the Afghan team’s captain and goalkeeper.

“I know a lot of us have said, ‘I want to be like Khalida one day, a strong and powerful woman.’ ”

Anyone who wants to be like Popal should understand that her advocacy for the Afghan team has come with serious sacrifices.

“It has taken a huge toll on her,” said Kelly Lindsey, an American whom Popal recruited to coach the Afghan national team in 2016. “But she won’t stop for a moment to take care of herself. Because if she did that, there would be no time for her to take care of others.”

During the Taliban’s first reign, from when Popal was age 9 to 14, she was stuck in a Pakistani refugee tent city, with soccer as her

only outlet. When her family returned to Kabul in 2002 after a U.S.-led coalition drove out the Taliban, she was eager to grow the sport.

Her mother, Shokria Popal, helped recruit players, often contending with parents who called her a prostitute trying to destroy the culture. From the Popals’ efforts, high school teams were born. Five years later, the Afghanistan Football Federation accepted Khalida’s team as the women’s national team.

The team, which played its official match-

es outside the country, first made national news in 2010 when it played NATO soldiers in Kabul. Speaking to journalists, Popal denounced the Taliban. There was an immediate cost.

Some of her teammates were forced to quit because their families hadn’t known that they were playing. Popal recalled receiving death threats, including from one caller who said he would cut her to pieces.

In 2011, Popal was working as the head of finance and women’s soccer at the otherwise all-male federation when she complained on national television that the women’s team wasn’t getting enough support. She blamed corrupt sports officials for it.

Days later, she said, a truck rammed into the car she was riding in. Uniformed men fired shots through the windows, but she was not physically harmed. Then, when the Afghanistan Olympic committee’s headquarters were vandalized, Popal was among those blamed.

Although she denied involvement, police issued a warrant for her arrest. Hours before the government barred her from traveling, she boarded a plane to India.

Popal was on the run. Multiple times, she changed her phone number and her hotel, but threats found their way to her.

She made her way to Denmark after sportswear company Hummel, the Afghan team’s sponsor, helped her apply for asylum there.

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Khalida Popal at a Washington Spirit soccer match in May 2022 after she received the Lantos Human Rights Prize in Washington, D.C.

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In exile, Popal eventually volunteered as the Afghan national team’s program director, organizing tournament appearances and hiring coaches. She also coordinated surreptitious exits to safe countries for gay players who feared persecution and forced marriages.

But even women who remained with the team were not safe. In 2018, Popal saw federation officials sexually harassing players at a training camp in Jordan. Players told her that they had been sexually abused by those and other officials, including Keramuddin Keram, who was the federation’s president and a powerful politician. Popal reported what she had heard, but for eight months FIFA officials did nothing, according to Popal and Lindsey.

Popal persuaded 10 players to come forward and obtained blueprints of the federation’s headquarters. That paperwork showed Keram had a secret bedroom attached to his office where, players told her, he beat and raped them.

FIFA eventually barred Keram from the sport for life, and the Afghan courts punished him and four others.

News of the case reached other national team players, including those in Haiti, Argentina, Canada and Venezuela. They felt emboldened to speak up about sexual abuse committed by men in their sport, said Jonas Baer-Hoffmann, the general secretary of FIFPRO, the union for professional soccer players that

helped Popal with the abuse case.

“Khalida started a big wave,” he said. “She’s changing the world.”

The Women’s World Cup was ending in a day and Popal was eking out all the publicity she could get for the Afghan team before the world stopped watching.

Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist, helped with that.

After reading in The New York Times about Fati Yousufi and the Afghan team, she wanted to meet the players and help Popal in her efforts.

On a tiny indoor field, with about a dozen television cameras present, Popal listened as Yousafzai and Yousufi gave speeches. She took deep breaths and stared at the ground to fight back tears.

Yousafzai said FIFA needed to change its regulations to let the team compete because playing a sport is a basic human right.

“It is time for people to decide that they are not standing on the Taliban’s side,” she said.

Yousufi was next.

“We are asking them to open the door, open the door for our team, open the door for Afghanistan women,” she said, referring to FIFA. “We don’t want to lose this opportunity.”

Popal never thought she would work alongside someone with Yousafzai’s stature, or that players, like Yousufi, would become forceful leaders worldwide.

“It’s so lonely and tiring to do this on your own, which was

what I did for a long time, but now I see that the new generation gets it,” she said, choking up. “It’s not all on my shoulders anymore.”

Popal is pushing world soccer officials to let the exiled Afghan women’s team represent the country in international competition. In July, she was in Melbourne for the Hope Cup, a game between the Afghan team and a team that represented the area’s migrants and refugees.

Matt Olson did something even Hank Aaron couldn’t do

By VICTOR MATHER

On Tuesday night, Matt Olson tied the Atlanta Braves’ franchise record for home runs in a season, with 51. Trivia time: Whose record did he tie?

Easy one, right? Hank Aaron.

Only that’s the wrong answer: Hank Aaron, the longtime home run king, never hit 50 home runs in a season.

The right answer, as surprising as it seems, isn’t Aaron or one of his fellow Hall of Famers such as Eddie Mathews and Chipper Jones. Olson, in fact, tied the record set by Andruw Jones, the slick-fielding center fielder, who hit 51 in 2005.

That Aaron could get to 755 home runs, breaking Babe Ruth’s mark of 714 and holding that record until Barry Bonds came along, without ever hitting more than 47 in a single season is surely one of the most incredible statistics in the game. Instead, Aaron got to his whopping career total with longevity, durability and consistency.

Longevity: Aaron played in the majors from age 20 to 42. Durability: He had 500 plate appearances in all but three latecareer seasons. Consistency: He had eight seasons with 40 or more home runs, tied for the second most behind Ruth, and 15 seasons with 30 or more, tied with Alex Rodriguez for the most ever.

Aaron played in an era when 50-homer seasons were rare. From 1954 to 1976, the years of his career, there were only five such seasons: two by Willie Mays, two by Mickey Mantle and one by Roger Maris. In contrast, there were 12 in the 1990s, 12 in the 2000s and seven since 2010.

As for Olson, his second season in Atlanta has been a career year. In six seasons in and out of the Oakland A’s lineup, he showed home run power but could not al-

ways keep his batting average up.

When the Braves traded for him last year to replace the popular Freddie Freeman at first base, many fans were concerned. After a forgettable first season (.240, 34 home runs), Olson has quieted the doubters this year.

He has career highs in average (.281) and on-base percentage (.388), and he leads the league in slugging (.619), RBIs (128) and home runs.

(Not that Freeman has been bad for the Los Angeles Dodgers: He leads the league in on-base percentage at .416.)

How many more home runs can Olson hit this year? Going into Wednesday night, the Braves have 17 games to play. Olson is averaging 0.35 homers a game, putting him on a pace to hit six more and reach 57. At the very least, he should get the one homer he needs to surpass Andruw Jones and hold the Braves’ single-season record by himself.

Even if he loses the record to Olson, Andruw Jones, considered among the top defensive outfielders in baseball history, will not soon be forgotten by Atlanta’s fans. This year, he was named on 58% of the ballots for the Baseball Hall of Fame, short of the 75% required but close enough to think he will be enshrined sooner rather than later. In 12 years with the Braves, he hit 368 home runs, fifth on the team list behind Aaron, Mathews, Chipper Jones and Dale Murphy.

While Bonds divided his 762 home runs between the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants, Aaron played only two seasons for a team other than the Braves. So though he did not hit 50 in a season, and sits behind Olson and Andruw Jones on the single-season list, Aaron’s career mark of 733 home runs for a single team looks close to unassailable.

A familiar sight this season: Matt Olson rounding the bases.

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