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House leaders announce series of disaster relief actions

By THE STAR STAFF

Speaker

of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez announced a series of legislative actions on Wednesday to deal with the damage caused by Hurricane Fiona’s passage across the island earlier this week.

After providing aid to the 40 House districts over the previous 72 hours, Hernández Montañez called on the private sector, nonprofit organizations, and Puerto Ricans residing in the mainland United States to send aid to hur ricane victims on the island.

“I want to clarify this because there has been a bit of doubt about this reality: Puerto Rico needs help,” said Hernández Montañez, who was accompanied by fellow House lawmakers Deborah Soto Arroyo and Ángel Matos García, and Capitol Superintendent César Hernández. “We were able to verify firsthand the pressing need of our citizens in communities that lost everything after the impact of Hur ricane Fiona on the island.”

Hurricane Fiona swept through the southwestern part of Puerto Rico on Sunday afternoon and night, causing massive devastation and leaving more than 1.1 million customers islandwide without power.

Given the emergency, the House speaker said, the lower chamber will set up a collection center that will be available starting today, to assist those affected by the storm. It will be in the drive-thru, “or servi carro,” mode, on the south side of the Capitol from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

According to the legislators, the most needed supplies are awnings, drinking water, canned food, nonperishable food, baby formula, over-thecounter medications, clothing for children and adults, bedding, battery-powered fans, flashlights, batteries, diapers for children and adults, portable stoves, bottled gas, and personal hygiene items, among other supplies.

Hernández Montañez also announced that the House would resume its legislative session Fri day, to pursue the approval of an allocation of $20 million so that nonprofit organizations have the necessary resources to bring aid directly to the victims.

The legislative leader will also seek the approval of a resolu tion asking President Joe Biden to

issue a major disaster declaration so that the U.S. territory receives more federal resources to mitigate the emergency. A letter has already been sent to Biden by the House of Representatives for those purposes, he said.

Likewise, the House wrote to Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Ur rutia and the Financial Oversight and Management Board asking them to instruct the Office of Management and Budget to make $1 million per municipality available for an effective emergency response.

Lawmakers also wrote to Aqueduct and Sewer Authority Director Doriel Pagán Crespo asking for electrical generators and diesel supplies to ensure there is water service for the island’s southern, central and western regions.

“This must be the number one priority,” Hernández Montañez stressed. “People do not have water, and it is essential that these generators get there to operate the pumping stations, the filtration plants, and the wastewater treatment plants.”

The House also asked Mental Health and Anti-Ad diction Services Administration Director Carlos Rodríguez Mateo to mobilize his resources to help victims emotionally.

In a joint effort with the private sector, professional associations, and business groups, the legislators are plan ning to travel to Washington, D.C. next week to demand that Congress approve a supplementary aid package of emergency funds for Puerto Rico to deal with the hurricane’s aftermath.

“We will ask for money to mitigate the damage in flooded areas, to encourage the private sector and small businesses to continue operating, and to help workers keep their jobs,” said Hernández Montañez, who also called on Congress for assistance to address the Medicaid fiscal cliff.

Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Rafael Hernández Montañez called on the private sector, nonprofit organizations and Puerto Ricans residing in the mainland U.S. to send aid to victims of Hurricane Fiona on the island.

Governor takes encouragement from FEMA administrator’s visit

By ALEJANDRA M. JOVER TOVAR Special to The STAR alejandra.jover@gmail.com

Thevisit of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell to Puerto Rico highlighted Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia’s agenda for Wednesday’s press conference held at the State Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Adminis tration (NMEAD by its Spanish acronym) office in San Juan.

Criswell commended the work she’s seen between agencies, municipalities, public safety officials, and other organizations in response to the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona.

“This storm is personal to FEMA. We have hundreds of employees who call Puerto Rico home. I had an opportunity to visit our staff in all of our warehouses, and they suffered personal damages,” Criswell said, reading from written remarks. “Puerto Ricans, you are resilient, and I know you will come back stronger. We’re going to rebuild with FEMA and community organizations.”

“Some of you may remember that I was here weeks ago to see firsthand the recovery efforts after Hurricane Maria,” she added. “Now, I’m standing with you during the incredibly difficult aftermath of Fiona. Some of you feel you hit the reset button. … Those feelings are valid, but I can tell you you’re not alone. FEMA will be here in the months to come to take the steps on the road to recovery.”

Pierluisi reminded reporters that he sub mitted a request to the Biden administration on Tuesday for a major disaster declaration.

“I am confident that we will have a response from the federal government to begin that process as soon as possible,” he said.

As for the floods still affecting Puerto Rico, the governor said “we are already beginning to do damage assessments including places where there were projects underway to include

new damage from flooding or landslides due to flooding.”

“We will do an aerial inspection of affected areas in Utuado and surrounding towns. We will then go to Jayuya to coordinate assistance in the mountain area,” he said. “The entire FEMA team, along with municipal teams, are attending to the emergency. Part of their function is to continue distributing water and food through municipalities, non-profit organizations, and private government.”

Asked about the people who received help under Hurricane Maria and if they would be el igible to receive it now, Criswell said “the major disaster declaration that the governor requested includes individual assistance, and we will work with families who have storm damage to make sure they receive the resources they need or to make the temporary repairs that would be permissible if they were eligible.”

“We will consider each family’s situation,” the federal official said. “If the family has new damage from this storm, they will receive ad ditional assistance.”

On the same subject, Pier luisi added that “because of the nature of this hurricane, where we had and have had more rain damage than wind damage, the important thing is that people document the damages and as soon as the emergency man agement team comes together with FEMA or they go to one of the centers and request it; it does not matter if they have had a similar situation in the past.”

“It does not matter if the area is flood-prone or [if the applicant] has problems with the property title,” he said. “Of

course, if there is applicable insurance, they have to apply for the insurance to compensate them. If anything, that would be the only thing they would have to do. But we will go case by case and on the personal property side, I don’t see any obstacles in the way.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is working with federal, commonwealth and local partners as they begin responding to Hurricane Fiona. EPA will work with other federal agen cies under FEMA as it coordinates the federal response with the island government. FEMA has initially tasked EPA with helping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to assess drinking water and wastewater infrastructure.

EPA Regional Administrator Lisa F. García said “we are working with other federal agen cies to help ensure recovery is swift and will mobilize more resources as needed in the coming weeks.”

“Five years after Hurricane Maria made landfall, EPA’s work in the Caribbean is focused

on long-term recovery, including solid waste management, drinking water, and wastewater infrastructure issues,” García said. “We will work to couple those ongoing efforts as we respond to the impacts from Hurricane Fiona.”

NMEAD chief to press corps: Tell us what you know about need in remote areas

NMEAD Interim Commissioner Nino Cor rea Filomeno said 12 communities around the island are isolated due to damage to bridges or roads. Still, he said, they aren’t without commu nication and are receiving the help they need.

“We urge you, as members of the press, to tell us about any report of an isolated area because we’re ready and working with every community,” Correa Filomeno said. “There’s a hundred nonprofit and faith-based organiza tions willing to help and with nothing to do, so instead of just reporting it, please let us know so we can help those people.”

The governor pointed out that 55 munic ipalities received 10 inches or more of water, wreaking havoc with potable water service.

“What has happened is that those runoffs have been enormous and have caused such turbidity in the water intakes that it would be irresponsible for the executive president [of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Doriel Pagán Crespo], to provide water when it is not safe,” Pierluisi said.” We are being responsible; services will continue to increase, but we have to act as we are doing.”

Pagán Crespo added: “We have 58% of our customers with service. We have contin ued with the recovery of all the intakes and dams flooded by runoff; we are still working on cleaning and accessing some of our plants; today, we estimate that the recovery process will continue.”

“We have had some damage in some facil ities, such as broken pipes and broken service lines, but we will keep working,” she said. “The environment is already more favorable for us to continue increasing activity.”

“We will consider each family’s situation,” said the top administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “If the family has new damage from this storm, they will receive additional assistance.”

The head of State Bureau Emergency Management Administraaround the bridges or roads,

Remarks about power service restoration lead to significant confusion at press conference

By ALEJANDRA M. JOVER TOVAR Special to The STAR alejandra.jover@gmail.com

DuringWednesday’s government press conference on recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Fiona, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia reiterated his asser tion that most of the island would have power and water service today, a prognostication that confused reporters.

Abner Gómez, the head of public safety & crisis man agement at transmission and distribution system operator LUMA Energy, said that 395,206 customers had service after some units were synchronized on Tuesday night. However, when pressed about the governor’s expectations to provide service to most of the island, the LUMA official clarified that “perhaps I wasn’t understood.”

“What I meant was that most areas that weren’t greatly affected by the hurricane could expect to have power progressively,” Gómez said.

That triggered a deluge of questions from reporters, with officials trying to field the questions.

Gómez said “we have had a lot of challenges on the transmission lines; we have four helicopters flying over head, and there has been damage to some insulators that are not major.”

“Tuesday, a line was able to turn on the Aguirre power plant; this will help us to provide more energy,” he said. “We are focused on transmission; there are important lines that we have identified with EcoEléctrica and Costa Sur.”

When pressed about providing a percentage of how many customers could expect to get their power back given that the situation is growing increasingly desperate, Gómez reiterated that “I want to be responsible; we have to be focused on the fact that we have our people on the street doing repair work all the time.”

“LUMA is working 24 hours a day; we are focused at a general level on transmission because if not, the rest is in vain,” he said. “We have found substations that are underwater, and until that water goes down, we can’t do anything.”

The LUMA official couldn’t provide a number of sub stations affected or how many people would have power by the day’s end.

When a reporter asked how long it had been since Wayne Stensby, LUMA Energy’s CEO, had power in his building, Gómez answered, visibly bewildered by the question, that “that’s not the matter at hand.”

“We’re at the point of emergency response; those ques tions are personal, and I have no answer to that,” he said

LUMA engineer Daniel Hernández was present at the press conference and said that when Hurricane Maria happened in 2017, he was in charge of substations.

“We see the same thing in terms of flooding. Until those waters recede, we can’t energize,” he said. “We have the personnel and equipment, but it’s a waiting game.”

Gómez added that “[w]hat we are going to do is that we have specialized teams to take care of these issues.”

“Right now, if we don’t have transmission working,

“LUMA is working 24 hours a day; we are focused at a general level on transmission because if not, the rest is in vain,” said an official from the private operator of the island’s electricity transmission and distribution system.

nothing can be done. … Transmission and distribution go hand in hand,” he said.

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Execu tive Director Josué Colón Ortiz, meanwhile, provided an update on the status of generation units.

“During the night [Tuesday], we had problems with the hydraulic and combustion system at San Juan Unit 9,” he said. “The engineers worked all night, and we could synchronize it in the early morning.”

About other units, Colón Ortiz said, “yesterday, one unit in Cambalache and one in Mayagüez were operating in island mode to energize the Superaqueduct.”

“When we proceeded to join both systems during the night, we were able to complete the mission. When we were in the process of adding more loads, a lightning rod caused an explosion, taking the units out of service. LUMA and PREPA worked continuously to take care of the issue, and we synchronized with Palo Seco and San Juan,” the PREPA chief said. “The system is now united in Mayagüez, Cambalache, San Juan, Palo Seco, and Aguirre. All the Mayagüez units are in service. Now there are 300 more megawatts of generation. We are connecting loads and joining little by little.”

Earlier, Pierluisi insisted that his priorities regarding power restoration efforts had not changed.

“They readjusted expectations,” the governor said. “In many towns on the island, there is significant dam age. What I said [Tuesday] and what I reiterate is that a large part of the population throughout the island will have their service by the end of today [Wednesday]. We will continue day by day. I am not satisfied; I want it to continue increasing.”

“They’re being cautious, and with my approval, we do not want to turn on generating units and connect them [prematurely] and then have severe damages,” Pierluisi said, echoing statements from LUMA and PREPA officials. “This is being done in a planned way.”

Lawmaker calls for order allowing generators in apartments

Earlier on Wednesday, Rep. Ángel Matos García, the Popular Democratic Party majority leader in the island House of Representatives, asked the governor to activate an executive order to allow apartment residents to use electricity generators.

The legislator noted that after the passage of Hurri cane Maria in 2017, then Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares signed an executive order allowing apartment residents to use electricity generators with the permission of the Environmental Quality Board.

“There are thousands of people who live in condo miniums and ‘walk-ups’ who don’t have electricity and don’t have generators in their apartments and as of now don’t know when they will get electricity back,” Matos García said. “Although the personnel of LUMA Energy originally said service would be reestablished within days, yesterday they reversed their calculation. [Therefore], it is important to reactivate this order that permits residents in apartments to use electrical generators.”

The legislator referred to Executive Order 2017-047, which was signed after Hurricane Maria to permit apart ment residents to use generators.

“Faced with the failure of LUMA Energy, we have to give tools to the country since there is no certainty when the electricity will return,” he said.

Chamber of Commerce points out urgent need for an expedited return to business after storm

By THE STAR STAFF

ThePuerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (PRCC) visited the municipalities of Santa Isabel, Ponce and Guayanilla on Wednesday, where they were able to verify the million-dollar losses in the commercial and agricultural sectors.

The impact of the rains, winds and floods caused by Hurricane Fiona’s passage on Sun day dealt a heavy blow to families, businesses and farms, among other sectors, mainly in the southern and western regions of the island.

Agriculture was one of the sectors that suffered the most as farms lost all their crops, including green mangoes, local mangoes, bananas, papayas, peppers and pumpkins. The affected farms also supply the island’s small supermarkets and chain stores.

“The loss of the crops and harvests is a double blow to our economy since it forces us to import more goods to replace the harvests that were lost, which in turn increases costs and the harvest cycle begins again,” PRCC Executive Director Liza García Vélez said.

Throughout the gastronomic route of Guayanilla, the experience was very different from that of Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 hur ricane that ravaged the island in 2017. Fiona brought about 38 inches of rain over two days and the surge from the sea entered businesses, causing damage mainly to equipment and in many cases the loss of all the inventory.

“The high cost of recovery for PYMES [the Spanish acronym for small and midsize busi

nesses] is a critical factor in resuming operations quickly and this affects not only the businesses but also the reopening of services to the com munities and the activity that occurs around them such as entertainment, sports and direct services that cannot be generated by the government,” PRCC President Cameron McKenzie said.

After the visit, the business owners said that among their most pressing needs are electrical generators, hotspots for Wi-Fi, diesel fuel, gasoline for smaller generators, water, and inventory and equipment losses. The PRCC along with the Department of Eco nomic Development & Commerce and other organizations seek to understand the needs of each business through the following form: https://primexpr.wufoo.com/forms/situacian-

inmediata-huracan-fiona/ where in the first question users must select Chamber of Com

merce. Anyone unable to fill out the survey or wishing to discuss any other topic can write to lgarcia@camarapr.net by email or through WhatsApp to 787-529-7451.

“Our call to businesses is to quantify the damages that include cleanup and recovery processes, those who are insured, follow the steps for claims, access incentives and provide data on losses,” McKenzie said. “That helps us make visible the real losses they have. Our call to the government is that we must speed up and execute in order to reopen businesses as soon as possible. The more days that pass, the economic loss is irreparable. The Electric Power Authority and [transmission and distri bution system operator] LUMA must energize the country urgently, because as a business operation and a tourist and business destina tion, it is impossible to enter the world market in the dark.”

New York scrambles to send aid to Caribbean battered by Hurricane Fiona

By HURUBIE MEKO

Almost exactly five years after Hurricane Maria devas tated Puerto Rico, organizations and officials in New York are responding to another storm that has unleashed heavy rains, flash floods and mudslides on the island and the nearby Dominican Republic since Sunday.

Hurricane Fiona doused parts of Puerto Rico with more than 30 inches of rain between Sunday and Monday. About 1,000 people were rescued across the island, where many streets disappeared beneath coursing muddy rivers. At least one person died in Puerto Rico and in the Dominican Repu blic, where heavy rains and gale winds triggered mudslides in the eastern region of the neighboring nation.

Puerto Rico is home to about 3.3 million people, while the Dominican Republic has a population of roughly 10.7 million. New York City has some of the largest populations of each group outside of their native lands, with about 708,000 people of Dominican origin and roughly 660,000 people of Puerto Rican origin, according to census data.

As New Yorkers scrambled to aid Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, Hurricane Fiona continued onto the Turks and Caicos Islands as a Category 3 storm Tuesday. The storm is expected to turn north and approach Bermuda by late Thursday.

So far, the relief effort has moved quicker and been better coordinated than the response five years ago, said Marjorie Velázquez, a city councilor from the Bronx. In a 2018 report, the Federal Emergency Management Agency

A street flooded after the passing of Hurricane Fiona in Barrio Playita, a neighborhood in Salinas, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 19, 2022.

acknowledged breakdowns in communication, lack of ade quate supplies and staffing issues that led to failures in the response to Hurricane Maria.

Five years ago, there weren’t enough volunteers to distribute supplies arriving at Puerto Rican ports, Velázquez said. Now organizations in New York City are working directly with groups on the island, she said. On Sunday, President Joe Biden declared an emergency in Puerto Rico, mobilizing FEMA.

In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that 100 New York state troopers would be deployed to Puerto Rico

in the coming weeks. She added that the state was in contact with the president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, to arrange aid. And Eric Adams, New York City’s mayor, an nounced that a team of emergency management specialists would be deployed to Puerto Rico on Tuesday.

The American Red Cross is assessing damage in the region and delivering supplies to shelters, said Katie Wilkes, a spokesperson for the organization.

The New York City-based Diaspora for Puerto Rico is working to repair homes in Puerto Rico and make them hurricane resilient. Surey Miranda, a co-founder of the nonprofit, said it was partnering with Stronger Than Maria, a local organization.

Miranda said her group was also working to raise money for items like solar lamps, rechargeable fans, portable power stations and solar batteries.

“We’re trying to make sure that we’re not overflowing people or organizations with supplies that they may not be looking for,” Miranda said. She added that relief efforts in New York were being led in many cases by people displaced by Hurricane Maria.

Velázquez was able to connect with family members in Puerto Rico and make sure they were all safe Monday, after trying to reach them for more than a day, she said. However, they lost power even before the storm hit the island, she said, and have now lost running water.

Velázquez said she was determined not to see a repeat of the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. “We’re going to get it right this time,” she said.

Migrants who were flown to Martha’s Vineyard sue Florida governor

By EDUARDO MEDINA and REMY TUMIN

The migrants who were flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last week filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and other state officials who orchestrated the flights to Massachusetts, saying that they had engaged in a “fraudulent and discriminatory scheme.”

The complaint, which was filed in federal court in Boston, states that the Florida officials induced the migrants to board the two planes from Texas by falsely promising them that there would be “work opportunities, schooling for the children and immigration assistance” when they arrived at their destination.

Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, the executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, an organization providing legal assistance to the migrants, said in a statement that “no human being should be used as a political pawn in the nation’s highly polarized debate over immigration.”

Taryn Fenske, a spokesperson for DeSantis, a Republican, said in a statement that the complaint was “political theater.”

“The transportation of the immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard was done on a voluntary basis,” Fenske said. “The immigrants were homeless, hungry, and abandoned — and these activists didn’t care about them then.”

The migrants are seeking unspecified damages from their suit, which also names Jared Perdue, the secretary of Florida’s Department of Transportation, as a defendant. They are also seeking to stop the practice of transporting migrants across states lines “by fraud and misrepresentation.”

The lawsuit came less than a week after the unexpected arrival by plane of roughly 50 Venezuelan migrants in Martha’s Vineyard, where residents and volunteers scrambled to get them food, clothing and shelter as the moneyed summer resort became an unlikely arena in the fight over illegal immigration.

DeSantis’ office took responsibility for the flights the following day. The complaint states that Florida spent about $615,000 chartering the planes.

The episode marked the latest escalation from Republican officials, who have shipped busloads of migrants to liberal bas tions like Washington and New York to signal their protest to the rise in illegal immigration under President Joe Biden. More than 2 million unauthorized immigrants have been arrested along the southern border this fiscal year, a record, according to Customs and Border Protection data released Monday.

Many of the migrants who have sought asylum and work in the United States in recent months are fleeing Venezuela, which is in political and economic turmoil.

On Monday, the county sheriff in San Antonio, opened a criminal investigation into the operation, but he did not specify which laws might have been broken.

Oren Sellstrom, the litigation director for Lawyers for Civil Rights, said Tuesday that “the perpetrators who approached our clients in Texas gained their trust by offering individuals who were in desperate situations basic life necessities.”

When they finally arrived to Martha’s Vineyard, he said, “those individuals disappeared and it became clear it was all a political stunt.”

Migrants have said in interviews that a well-dressed woman in San Antonio who introduced herself as Perla offered to take them to “sanctuary” in Massachusetts. But Sellstrom said that there were at least four people who made “false representations.”

The complaint states the migrants were given a “shiny, red folder” that included a brochure titled “Massachusetts Refugee Benefits” and other “official-looking materials” that were created by Florida officials.

Before the flight, the complaint states, the migrants were told that they were going to Boston or Washington, D.C. But before landing, they were told of their new drop-off location, the complaint states: an island south of Cape Cod.

Justice Dept. charges 48 in brazen pandemic aid fraud in Minnesota

The case is the largest brought by the Justice Depart ment as it scrambles to address waves of fraud involving pandemic-era programs that sent billions of dollars of aid into the economy, often with few strings attached and little oversight.

The Labor Department’s inspector general’s office has opened 39,000 investigations. At the Small Business Ad ministration, about 50 agents have been sorting through 2 million potentially fraudulent loan applications. And while the sheer volume of cases all but ensures that some cases will go unaddressed, the prosecutions in Minnesota signal that the Justice Department is moving aggressively on others.

The indictments said the defendants spent their money on real estate in the United States, Kenya and Turkey, as well as on cars and luxury goods. The Justice Department is seek ing to seize many of those purchases, including more than 20 cars, more than 40 properties, guns, cryptocurrency and a Louis Vuitton duffel bag.

Prosecutors said Tuesday that many defendants had been arrested or had turned themselves in. They said some had left the country, but declined to say how many.

Bock pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon in U.S. court in Minneapolis and was released to await trial. Kenneth Udoibok, her lawyer, said afterward that “we still maintain that she was unaware of any fraudulent activities.”

By DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD

TheJustice Department said earlier this week that it had charged 48 people with running a brazen fraud against anti-hunger programs during the coronavirus pandemic, stealing $240 million by billing the government for meals they did not serve to children who did not exist.

The case, in Minnesota, is the largest fraud uncovered in any pandemic-relief program, prosecutors said, standing out even in a period when heavy federal spending and lax oversight allowed a spree of scams with few recent parallels.

The Minnesota operation, prosecutors said, involved faked receipts for 125 million meals. At times, it was espe cially bold: One accused conspirator told the government he had fed 5,000 children a day in a second-story apartment.

Other defendants in the case seemed to put minimal effort into disguising what they were doing, using the website listofrandomnames.com to create a fake list of children they could charge for feeding. Others used a number-generating program to produce ages for the children they were suppos edly feeding, which led the ages to fluctuate wildly each time the group updated its list of those nonexistent children, court papers said.

But their scheme — details of which were reported in The New York Times in March — still pulled in millions of dollars per week, prosecutors said in court papers, because government officials had relaxed oversight of the feeding program during the pandemic and because the other defen

dants had help from a trusted insider.

That insider was Aimee Bock, the founder of a nonprofit group, Feeding Our Future, that the state of Minnesota relied on as a watchdog to stop fraud at feeding sites. But Bock did the opposite, the indictments said: When pandemic-relief programs flooded the programs with money, she exploited her position to bring in nearly 200 new feeding operations she knew were submitting fake or inflated invoices.

Even when the government of Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, raised questions, Bock rebuffed them by filing a lawsuit and accusing state officials of discriminating against her group’s largely East African clientele.

“In effect, Feeding Our Future operated a pay-to-play scheme in which individuals seeking to operate fraudulent sites under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future had to kick back a portion of their fraudulent proceeds,” one indictment said, according to a copy obtained by the Times.

“The subjects in this case weren’t interested in feeding our future,” Michael Paul, a special agent for the FBI, said at a news conference Tuesday, when the charges were announced. “They were interested in feeding their own gluttony.”

The defendants were indicted on charges that included wire fraud, bribery involving federal programs and money laundering. Prosecutors said the conspirators laundered money by routing the funds they stole through a web of shell companies. Prosecutors initially announced charges against 47 people, then charged another Tuesday evening before she left using a one-way ticket to Ethiopia.

The state blocked Feeding Our Future from receiving more aid money after the FBI served search warrants in the case in January. The nonprofit group sought to dissolve at the time, but Attorney General Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Democrat, blocked the move. Ellison asked a judge to supervise the group while he investigated whether it broke state charity laws. That investigation appears to be continuing.

As described by prosecutors, the participants targeted two federal food aid programs, which were administered through state governments. They were intended to feed children in after-school programs and summer camps. But when the pandemic hit, Congress rejiggered the programs to reach millions of children stuck at home, pouring in bil lions of dollars more and changing the rules to let families pick up meals to go.

As funding went up, however, oversight went down. State officials, for instance, no longer had to check on feed ing sites in person.

That left one last line of defense: the so-called watchdog sponsors, like Feeding Our Future. Those nonprofit groups served as conduits for money, from the states to individual feeding sites, and they were supposed to be on guard against fraud.

But the system also gave those watchdogs a reason not to bark. They could keep 10% to 15% of the money that flowed through them.

In this case, the indictments said, Bock’s group kept the money flowing to increase its own cut.

“The defendants exploited the COVID-19 pandemic — and the resulting program changes — to enrich themselves,” the indictments say.

U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger delivers remarks regarding the charges being filed in the Feeding our Future fraud case at The United States Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022.

Special master expresses skepticism of Trump’s declassification claims

By ALAN FEUER and CHARLIE SAVAGE

that to do so now would telegraph its legal strategy to the government.

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judge expressed skepticism earlier this week about the efforts by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to avoid offering any proof of his claims that he had declassified sensitive go vernment documents that were seized from his Florida estate last month.

The statements by the judge, Raymond J. Dearie, who is acting as a special master reviewing the seized materials, were an early indication that he may not be entirely sym pathetic to the former president’s attempts to bog down the judge’s evaluation with timeconsuming questions over the classification status of some of the documents.

“My view is, you can’t have your cake and eat it too,” Dearie said at a hearing called to determine the process he would use to do a sweeping review of materials seized from Trump.

Dearie, who had been suggested for the role by Trump’s legal team, was referring to a set of sometimes confusing arguments made by that team as it seeks to limit or delay the Justice Department’s criminal investigation.

Days after the extraordinary search of Trump’s estate, Mar-a-Lago, the former president made public statements claiming that he had in fact declassified some of the seized records, suggesting that the Justice Department had no case against him for illegally retaining sensitive government material. But neither he nor his lawyers have ever made those same assertions in court — or in court papers — where they could face penalties for lying.

Instead, they have danced a fine line between suggesting that, as president, Trump had the authority to declassify the docu ments, while remaining silent on the issue of what he actually did — or did not do. At the same time, Trump’s lawyers have pursued another line of argument, telling Dearie that he should not simply take the Justice Department’s word that some of the seized records are classified, as prosecutors claim.

At his first hearing as special master, Dearie seemed to cut through this confusing web, telling Trump’s lawyers in direct terms that he was likely to deem the documents classified — unless they offered evidence to the contrary.

That prompted one of the lawyers, James Trusty, to say that Trump’s legal team might in the future offer that sort of evidence — in witness statements, for example — but

While Dearie was open to the notion that Trump’s lawyers might at some point mount a declassification defense, he seemed displeased that they were casting doubt on the government’s assertions about the clas sification status of the documents without backing up their claims with evidence.

In addition to the documents case, Trump is facing several civil and criminal investigations into his business dealings and political activities.

Dearie was appointed as a special master last week by a federal judge in Florida, Aileen M. Cannon, who ordered him to perform by Nov. 30 a series of tasks related to the documents. He is responsible for settling the classification status of about 100 of the records seized from Mar-a-Lago. He has also been given the job of reviewing a larger trove of about 11,000 documents and determining if any are protected by either attorney-client or executive privilege.

Almost everything about Dearie’s appointment is unusual — including the fact that he held the hearing Tuesday in his own courtroom in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn even though the lawyers arguing before him were based in Washington and Florida, where Trump initially requested a special master.

“I realize that I’ve dragged you all to Brooklyn, New York,” the judge said as the hearing began, adding that he hoped to keep such inconveniences at a minimum.

It was also somewhat unusual that Dearie’s work was moving forward even as the Justice Department waited to get a ruling from an appeals court that could directly affect the case. On Friday, prosecutors asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Atlanta, to allow them to resume using the 100 classified documents in their investi gation of whether Trump had illegally kept national defense information at Mar-a-Lago or obstructed repeated efforts by the gover nment to retrieve the records.

On Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers filed their own papers to the same appeals court, making some of the same arguments they had made before Dearie. They claimed, for example, that the Justice Department had not proved that the documents it had dee med as classified continued to be classified and hinted that Trump might in fact have declassified them.

“The government again presupposes

that the documents it claims are classified are, in fact, classified and their segregation is inviolable,” the lawyers wrote. “However, the government has not yet proven this cri tical fact. The president has broad authority governing classification of, and access to, classified documents.”

But apparently undercutting that argu ment, Trusty told Dearie at the hearing that he wanted some of his legal partners to get expedited top secret security clearances so that they, too, could view the documents. Trusty said he already had a top-secret clea rance from another case.

Complicating the matter even further, Julie Edelstein, a lawyer for the Justice De partment, told Dearie that a handful of the documents at issue were so secret that even Trusty’s clearance might not be enough.

Trusty responded that “it was kind of astounding” that the government would seek to keep Trump’s legal team from seeing some of the classified material in the case. They needed to see it all, he said, to deter mine whether the government had acted properly by removing it during the search of Mar-a-Lago.

Much of the hearing was devoted to more mundane matters of scheduling, as Dearie sought to move the document review along at a brisk pace. He told the parties that they needed to agree by Friday on a vendor that would handle the task of digitizing the large trove of material so that the government

can share it with Trump’s lawyers.

In a letter to Dearie submitted Monday, Trusty said that the schedule set forth for the review was a bit aggressive. Dearie had ordered both sides in the case to inspect the records and offer their thoughts about whether the documents were privileged or unprivileged, or belonged to the government or Trump, by Oct. 7.

“We respectfully suggest that all of the deadlines can be extended to allow for a more realistic and complete assessment of the areas of disagreement,” Trusty wrote.

In court on Tuesday, Dearie acknowled ged Trusty’s concerns but said he would push the case forward.

“We are going to proceed,” he said, “with what I call responsible dispatch.”

Former President Donald Trump speaks at his first rally since his home was sear ched by FBI agents, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Sept. 3, 2022.

Health panel recommends anxiety screening for all adults younger than 65

By EMILY BAUMGAERTNER

and postpartum patients.

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of medical experts earlier this week recommended for the first time that doctors screen all adult patients younger than 65 for anxiety, guidance that highlights the extraordinary stress levels that have plagued the United States since the start of the pandemic.

The advisory group, called the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, said the gui dance was intended to help prevent mental health disorders from going undetected and untreated for years or even decades. It made a similar recommendation for children and teenagers earlier this year.

The panel, appointed by an arm of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, has been preparing the guidance since before the pandemic. The recommen dations come at a time of “critical need,” said Lori Pbert, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, who serves on the task force. Americans have been reporting outsize anxiety levels in response to a con fluence of stressors, including inflation and crime rates, fear of illness and loss of loved ones from COVID-19.

“It’s a crisis in this country,” Pbert said. “Our only hope is that our recommenda tions throw a spotlight on the need to create greater access to mental health care — and urgently.”

From August 2020 to February 2021, the percentage of adults with recent symp toms of an anxiety or a depressive disorder increased from 36.4% to 41.5%, according to one study cited by the task force.

The guidance was issued in draft form. The panel will finalize it in the coming months after reviewing public comments. While the panel’s recommendations are not compulsory, they heavily influence the stan dard of care among primary care physicians across the country.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation is intended to help iden tify warning signs during routine examinations.

In response to the recommendations, mental health care providers emphasized that screening programs are useful only if they lead patients to effective solutions. At a time when the country is “short on men tal health resources on all levels — psychia trists, psychologists and therapists — that’s a real concern,” said Dr. Jeffrey Staab, a psychiatrist and chair of the department of psychiatry and psychology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

“We can screen lots of people, but if that’s all that happens, it’s a waste of time,” said Staab, who is not on the task force.

Psychiatrists, while pleased with the attention on mental health, also underscored that a standardized screening is only the first step toward a diagnosis, and that providers will need to guard against assuming that a positive screening result indicates a clinical disorder.

For many Americans, the screening

could simply reveal a temporary period of distress and a need for extra support.

“When providers say, ‘You must have a disorder, here, take this,’ we could face an overprescribing problem,” Staab said. “But the opposite scenario is that we have lots of people suffering who shouldn’t be. Both outcomes are possible.”

Rising mental health issues are not unique to the United States. Anxiety and de pression increased by 25% globally during the first year of the pandemic, according to the World Health Organization, and has only partially improved since.

About one-quarter of men and about 40% of women in the United States face an anxiety disorder in their lifetimes, according to the task force, although much of the data is outdated. Women have nearly double the risk of depression compared with men, stu dies show, and the recommendation paid special attention to screenings for pregnant

Physicians typically use questionnai res and scales to survey for mental health disorders. According to the recommenda tions, positive screening results would lead to additional assessments at the provider’s discretion, depending on underlying health conditions and other life events.

Some primary care physicians expres sed concern that adding an additional res ponsibility to their wide-ranging checklist for brief patient appointments is implausible.

Pbert said that those providers should “do what they already do on a daily basis: Juggle and prioritize.”

She also said the task force’s rigorous review of available studies revealed that people of color are often underrepresented in mental health research, which, if not addres sed, could contribute to a cycle of inequity.

Mental health disparities are rampant in the United States, where Black patients are less likely to be treated for mental health conditions than are white patients, and Black and Hispanic patients are both more fre quently misdiagnosed. From 2014 to 2019, the suicide rate among Black Americans in creased by 30%, data shows.

Standardizing screening for all patients could help combat the effects of racism, im plicit bias and other systemic issues in the medical field, Pbert said.

The task force panel did not extend its screening recommendations to patients 65 and older. It said there was no clear eviden ce regarding the effectiveness of screening tools in older adults because anxiety symp toms are similar to normal signs of aging, such as fatigue and generalized pain. The pa nel also said it lacked evidence on whether depression screening among adults who do not show clear signs of the disorder would ultimately prevent suicides.

The task force will accept public com ments on the draft recommendation through Oct. 17.

How to read the Fed’s projections like a pro

By JEANNA SMIALEK

Federal Reserve officials released both an interest-rate decision and a fresh set of economic projections on Wednesday, estimates that Wall Street was keenly awaiting as it tries to unders tand what the next phase of the central bank’s fight against rapid inflation will look like.

Officials raised borrowing costs by three-quarters of a percentage point, their third-straight jumbo increase, taking their official interest rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%. But they also penciled in additio nal increases for the rest of this year and next, projecting that rates would reach 4.4% by the end of the year and climb to 4.6% by the end of 2023.

Here’s how to read the numbers re leased Wednesday.

The dot plot, decoded

When the central bank releases its Summary of Economic Projections each quarter, Fed watchers focus obsessively on one part in particular: the so-called dot plot.

The dot plot shows the Fed’s 19 po licymakers’ estimates for interest rates at the end of 2022, along with the next se veral years and over the longer run. The forecasts are represented by dots arran ged along a vertical scale.

Economists closely watch how the range of estimates is shifting, because it can give a hint at where policy is hea ding. Even so, they fixate most intently on the middle dot (currently the 10th). That middle, or median, official is regularly quoted as the clearest estimate of where the central bank sees policy heading.

The Fed is trying to wrestle down the fastest inflation in 40 years, and to do that, officials believe that they need to lift interest rates enough to slow spen ding, crimp business investment and ex pansion, and cool off a hot job market. The central bank has been moving rates up quickly, and as inflation has remained stubbornly rapid, expectations for future increases have also climbed.

In June, the median official expec ted interest rates to close out the year between 3.25% and 3.5%. That has now

changed, with the median official expec ting rates to climb to 4.4% by year-end and to 4.6% in 2023. After that, they ex pect that rates will begin to come down, so that they are 3.9% by the end of 2024 and 2.9% in 2025.

The most important trick for reading this dot plot? Pay attention to where the numbers fall in relation to the longer-run median projection. That number is so metimes called the “natural” rate, and it most recently stood at 2.5%. It represents the theoretical dividing line between easy and restrictive monetary policy.

What the Fed is saying here is that rates are going to go further into eco nomy-restricting territory — and that they will stay there through 2025.

Unemployment projections will be key

Much of Wall Street is fixated on a critical question: Will the Fed accept a much-higher jobless rate in its bid to counter rapid inflation? Page two of the economic projections holds some preli minary answers.

The Fed has two jobs. It is suppo sed to achieve maximum employment and stable inflation. Unemployment has been very low, employers are hiring vora ciously, and wages are shooting higher, so officials think that their full employment goal is more than satisfied. Inflation, on the other hand, is running at more than three times their official target.

Given that, the central bankers are now single-mindedly focused on bringing price gains back under control. But once the job market slows, joblessness begins to rise and wage growth moderates — a series of events officials think is necessary to getting back to slow and steady price gains — the really difficult phase of the Fed’s maneuvering will begin. Central bankers will have to decide how much joblessness they are willing to tolerate, and may have to judge how to balance two goals that are in conflict.

Fed chair Jerome Powell has already acknowledged that the adjustment pro cess is likely to bring “pain” to busines ses and households. The Fed’s updated unemployment rate projections will show how much he and his colleagues are pre

pared to tolerate.

The new projections reinforced that, at least to some degree. Unemployment is being seen as rising to 4.4% in both 2023 and 2024, up from 3.7% currently. That’s higher than Fed officials previously saw it climbing.

“These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation,” Powell said last month. “But a failure to restore price sta bility would mean far greater pain.”

Watch the growth outlook

The road toward higher unemplo yment is paved with slower growth. To force the job market to cool and inflation to moderate, Fed officials believe they have to drag economic growth below its potential level — and how much it is ex pected to drop can send a signal about how punishing the Fed thinks its policies will be.

Many experts think that the eco nomy is capable of a certain level of growth in any given year, based on fun damental characteristics like the age of its population and productivity of its com panies. Right now, the Fed estimates that longer-run sustainable level to be about 1.8%, after adjusting for inflation.

Last year, the economy was growing much more strongly than that — it be gan overheating. Now, to bring inflation down, it needs to slow below that rate

for some time, the logic goes. That’s why the Fed sees growth dipping to 0.2% this year and staying at 1.2% next in its pro jections. We ran the economy hot, and now it thinks we need to run it cold.

Pro tip: Ignore the inflation estimates

The inflation estimates in the Fed’s projections typically do not offer a lot of insight.

That’s because the Fed’s forecasts predict how the economy will shape up if central bankers set what they consider “appropriate” monetary policy. To qua lify as “appropriate,” by definition, mo netary policy must push price increases back toward the Fed’s 2% annual average goal over the course of a few years. That means Fed inflation forecasts always con verge back toward the central bank’s goal in economic estimates.

True to form, the new forecasts show headline inflation falling back to 2% by 2025.

If there is a glimmer of utility here, it is how long the central bank sees it ta king to wrestle prices back to its target level. Fed officials think that core inflation — the figure that strips out food and fuel costs to get a sense of underlying price patterns — will remain at 2.1%in 2025.

The upshot? It will be a long road back to normal, even in an ideal world.

A key to controlling emissions: More buildings in a city’s unused spaces

In April the latest report of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said one of the most effective ways to cut the carbon emissions of cities was to stop the relentless expansion of urban sprawl by promoting infill housing, the carefully planned creation of extra housing in underutilized parts of cities to reduce car dependence and improve the efficiency of infrastructure and energy use.

Meyrick is adamant that the biggest benefits of infill housing come with neighborhoodscale developments like the Elephant Park project built by developer Lendlease, rather than scattering new houses and units through backyards and other empty city spaces.

Large-scale infill developments have reinvigorated cities from New York to Milan over the past two decades, Meyrick said, “but they have generally been driven by the need for housing, and now they need to be much more recognized and promoted as a weapon against climate change.”

incentives to encourage the owners of 30 to 40 properties to work together.

“You need a whole new process of governments proactively intervening to help it happen,” Newman said, “and that can cause conflict between different levels of government. In Australia we have found that the state government might be interested but then a local council stops everything because it controls the planning rules, and it’s not at all interested in being innovative.

“The hard truth is that we can’t afford to waste more time if we are going to make the changes we need to get to net zero,” he said, referring to emissions goals, “and stop building new homes 30 miles from where they are needed.”

By PETER WILSON

Justsouth of the River Thames in the heart of London, the whine and hammering of construction mingles with the laughter of children playing in a park behind Elephant and Castle, one of the city’s largest and ugliest road junctions.

This is Elephant Park, a 3-acre plot of fountains, swings and slides and open space at the center of a large redevelopment that has seen the brutalist architecture of a 1,200-home public housing estate replaced by a new neighborhood that by 2026 will hold about 2,924 apartments and town houses.

About 2,000 units are already occupied, and the residents who walk their dogs in the park or watch their children playing seem happy to chat about the normal issues surrounding regeneration projects, such as the fate of the previous residents and whether the gentrification will drive away noisy youths who still loiter in the park after dark.

One resident walking her dog complai-

ned recently that her rent is becoming unaffordable, before quickly adding that she is delighted to have a supermarket and gym in the same building as her one-bedroom apartment, with rail and Underground stations right next door and shops, bars, a yoga studio, a library and medical facilities sprinkled through the development.

But another debate is drawing extra attention to Elephant Park: the role of large-scale urban renewal projects like this in fighting climate change.

“It is an absolutely exemplary example of what we need to be doing to make cities greener, and we need to be doing it quickly and all around the world,” said Kate Meyrick, a Britishborn urban consultant based in Brisbane, Australia, who studies urban developments.

“The developers were primarily just trying to make a great place for people to live, and they have achieved that with a really interesting mix of spaces and services,” she said. “But a byproduct is that they have also created real climate benefits.”

Hélène Chartier, the Paris-based director of urban planning and design at C40, a network of 96 of the world’s leading cities, agreed that the greatest climate benefits of infill housing come at neighborhood scale. She said there should be urgent public investment and revamped planning rules to support such developments.

Planning officials from Melbourne, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand, to Paris have focused on the concept of five-minute neighborhoods or 15-minute cities, meaning denser housing in which people live closer to the facilities they need instead of traveling for hours between separate areas to sleep, work or go shopping.

Peter Newman, a professor of sustainability at Curtin University in Australia, who has taught at universities in eight countries, including at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, says many cities are trying to stop urban sprawl by allowing property owners to build in their backyards, “but tackling it one block of land at a time doesn’t work.”

“You knock down the trees in the backyard to build, but you can end up still being very dependent on your car,” he said. “Until now the only way to avoid eating up the greenfields around cities has been developing brownfields or big urban sites like former factories, but eventually you run out of them.”

The answer, Newman said, is precinctlevel redevelopment in “the greyfields”, or low-density suburbs of aging houses, a process that requires innovative planning reforms and

It was local government resistance that led the California state Assembly to pass a bill in August promoting the development of infill housing on commercial-zoned land. A dire housing crisis in the state has pitted local authorities against the state, where legislators, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials are mounting a broad effort to address the so-called NIMBY-ism — “Not In My Backyard” — of homeowners, communities and entire municipalities to block more condensed development.

Dr. Dan Silver, a physician and executive director of a southern Californian conservation group, the Endangered Habitats League, said the infill housing bill was needed because “no matter how important it is to stop urban sprawl there will always be some people who don’t want their own neighborhood changed.”

“It’s controversial because the state is taking away some of the authority of local governments, but while you do need local input, having too much local control means you can’t deal with a macro problem like trying to save the planet,” Silver said.

Vanesa Castan Broto, a professor of climate urbanism at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., said greater urban density can easily go wrong if not developed in partnership with local communities, and many local governments around the world lack the capacity to properly coordinate that process.

Richard Blyth, head of policy at the U.K.’s Royal Town Planning Institute, said the planning departments of many British local councils had been gutted over the past decade.

“Planning agencies are hardly going to be able to adjust to changing lifestyles or a huge challenge like climate change if they have lost so many resources that they are struggling to function at all,” he said.

Elephant Park, a newly built park part of the Elephant and Castle redevelopment project in London.

Wall Street slumps in wake of Fed rate announcement

WallStreet’s main indexes see-sawed before slumping in the final 30 minutes of trading to close lower on Wednesday, as investors ab sorbed the Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike and future policy commentary.

At the end of its two-day meeting, the Fed lifted its policy rate by 75 basis points for the third time to a 3.003.25% range. Most market participants had expected such an increase, with only a 21% chance of a 100 bps rate hike seen prior to the announcement.

However, policymakers also signaled more large in creases to come in new projections showing its policy rate rising to 4.40% by the end of this year before top ping out at 4.60% in 2023. This is up from projections in June of 3.4% and 3.8% respectively.

Rate cuts are not foreseen until 2024, the central bank added, dashing any outstanding investor hopes that the Fed foresaw getting inflation under control in the near term.

With the mix of the expected and the slightly-un expected, respectively in the form of the size of the rate hike and the path for future increases, markets swung back and forth in the aftermath of the 2 p.m. ET an nouncement as investors digested the news.

Declines accelerated in the final 30 minutes of trad ing though.

“Markets were already braced for some hawkish ness, based on inflation reports and recent governor comments,” said Yung-Yu Ma, chief investment strategist at BMO Wealth Management.

“But it’s always interesting to see how the market re acts to the messaging. Hawkishness was to be expected, but while some in the market take comfort from that, others take the position to sell.”

According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 (.SPX) lost 66.25 points, or 1.72%, to end at 3,789.68 points, while the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) lost 205.16 points, or 1.80%, to 11,219.89. The Dow Jones Industrial Aver age (.DJI) fell 524.24 points, or 1.71%, to 30,181.99.

The S&P 500 has lost 19% so far this year on worries of a central bank-induced recession amid recent warn ings of slowing demand from delivery firm FedEx and an inverted U.S. Treasury yield curve.

“I think a recession is very likely. The Fed regards a recession as regrettable, but necessary to fight inflation,” Grisanti said.

The CBOE volatility index, also known as Wall Street’s fear gauge, rose to 27 points, inching closer to a more than two-month high.

Focus will also be on new economic projections, due to be published alongside the policy statement at 2 p.m. ET (1800 GMT) on Wednesday.

Goldman Sachs cut its forecast for 2023 U.S. GDP late on Friday as it projects a more aggressive Fed and sees that pushing the jobless rate higher than it previ ously expected.

“We think a 100 bps hike would unnerve Wall Street ... and would increase the likelihood that the FOMC will eventually overtighten and lessen the possibility of achieving a soft landing,” Sam Stovall, chief investment

strategist at CFRA, wrote in a note.

At 9:48 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 107.48 points, or 0.35%, at 30,714.94, the S&P 500 was down 13.16 points, or 0.34%, at 3,860.17, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 42.42 points, or 0.37%, at 11,405.99.

A rebound in industrial stocks after a sharp drop on Friday helped cap losses on the indexes.

Putin calls up more troops as his war effort falters

By VALERIE HOPKINS and ANTON TROIANOVSKI

President Vladimir Putin of Russia ac celerated his war effort in Ukraine on Wednesday, announcing a new cam paign that would call up roughly 300,000 reservists to the military while also directly challenging the West over its support for Ukraine with a veiled threat of using nu clear weapons.

In a rare address to the nation, Putin stopped short of declaring a full, national draft but instead called for a “partial mo bilization” of people with military expe rience. Although Moscow’s troops have recently suffered humiliating losses on the battlefield, he said that Russia’s goals in Ukraine had not changed and that the move was “necessary and urgent” because the West had “crossed all lines” by provid ing sophisticated weapons to Ukraine.

The videotaped speech was an appar ent attempt to reassert his authority over an increasingly chaotic war that has under mined his leadership both at home and on the global stage. It also escalated Russia’s tense showdown with Western nations that have bolstered Ukraine with weapons, money and intelligence that have contrib uted to Ukraine’s recent successes in re claiming swaths of territory in the north east.

Putin accused the United States and Europe of engaging in “nuclear blackmail” against his country and warned that Russia

People fleeing from Kupiansk and surrounding villages carry their belongings onto a bus that will transport them to a filtration center in Kharkiv, where inter nally displaced Ukrainians are processed before being moved further west in the country, in Shevchenkove, Ukraine, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022.

had “lots of weapons” of its own.

“To those who allow themselves such statements about Russia, I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and some compo nents are more modern than those of the NATO countries,” he said.

Putin also reaffirmed his support for referendums hastily announced Tuesday that have set the stage for him to declare that occupied Ukrainian territory has be come part of Russia. That annexation could potentially come as soon as next week.

Pro-Kremlin analysts and officials have said that at that point, any further Ukrainian military action on those terri tories could be considered an attack on Russia itself. Putin did not spell that out but warned that he was ready to use all of the weapons in Russia’s arsenal to protect what the Kremlin considered Russian ter ritory.

“If the territorial integrity of our coun try is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Rus sia and our people,” he said. “This is not a bluff.”

In announcing a call-up of soldiers, Putin was also responding to those in Rus sia who support the war but have criticized the Kremlin for not devoting the resources and personnel necessary to wage an allout fight. Putin had previously avoided conscription in an effort to keep the war’s hardships as distant as possible from or dinary Russians, but the recent battlefield setbacks, and the drumbeat from pro-war nationalists for a more robust effort, ap parently changed the calculation.

In a subsequent speech, Russian De fense Minister Sergei Shoigu put the num ber of new call-ups at 300,000 people, all of them with some military experi ence. The mobilization makes it manda tory by law for reservists who are offi cially called up to report for duty, or face fines or charges. Shoigu said that students would not be called up to fight and that conscripts would not be sent to the “spe

cial operation zone,” the term the Kremlin uses to refer to the war, though observers were skeptical of that claim.

Ukrainian officials called Putin’s re marks a sign of desperation.

“Referendums and mobilization in the Russian Federation will not have any consequences, except for accelerating the collapse and revolution in Putin’s Rus sia,” said Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelen skyy.

President Joe Biden, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday morning, opened his speech by condemn ing Putin and accusing Russia of violating the U.N. charter.

“Let us speak plainly: A permanent member of the United Nations Security Council invaded its neighbor,” Biden said, adding later, “This war is about extinguish ing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state.”

The number of Russian troops in Ukraine — including Russia-aligned separatists, members of private security companies and volunteers — does not currently exceed 200,000, according to estimates by military analysts and experts. If the partial mobilization is successful, the new recruits would more than double that amount, making it easier for Russia to defend hundreds of miles of front lines in Ukraine. However, observers say, most high-ranking personnel have already been deployed, and those called up will need further training and weapons.

War in Ukraine is in the spotlight at UN

By FARNAZ FASSIHI

The world’s “blood should run cold” over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Pres ident Joe Biden told dozens of global leaders during the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, a few hours after Russia undertook a significant expansion of its war effort.

“This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state,” Biden said, recounting what he said was “horrify ing evidence” of Russian war crimes.

“If nations can pursue their imperial ambitions without consequences,” he said, the post-World War II order crumbles. “We

will stand in solidarity to Russia’s aggres sion,” Biden said.

Biden also accused President Vladimir Putin of Russia of making “irresponsible nuclear threats” and declared that “a nucle ar war cannot be won and must never be fought.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine was set to address the assembly in a prerecorded speech later Wednesday, the second day of leaders’ speeches. He was expected to renew his call for U.N. mem ber states to support Ukraine with weapons, cash and humanitarian aid.

While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been a central focus for many speakers so

far, issues including the food and energy crises and climate change are also receiving significant attention from leaders.

Other highlights:

— Kenya’s newly elected president, William Ruto, made his debut address to the U.N. General Assembly, inviting develop ment in his country. Like other African lead ers, he called on the U.N. Security Council to expand representation from the continent.

— Iran’s hard-line conservative presi dent, Ebrahim Raisi, told the leaders that his country was a fighter against injustice even as his government was cracking down on anti-government protests.

— A small set of world leaders are

meeting behind closed doors for what they are calling a “frank and informal exchange” on climate issues.

— Biden also addressed two other thorny geopolitical matters: Iran and Chi na. He implicitly threatened to use force if necessary to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons but said that he wanted to prevent conflict. He also said the United States did not want to escalate its rivalry with China. “The United States will conduct itself as a reasonable leader,” he said.

— European nations are calling for an independent monitor to put a spotlight on the Kremlin’s crackdown on critics and po litical opposition.

Hurricane Fiona strengthens as it moves north toward Bermuda

Another weather system in the Atlantic developed into Tropical Storm Gaston on Wednesday, beco ming the seventh named storm of the 2022 hurricane season. That storm was 775 miles west of the Azores in the North Atlantic early Wednesday, with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph.

Gaston, which posed no imme diate threat to land, was forecast to begin to weaken Thursday, the Hurri cane Center said.

Fiona’s effects were still noticea ble Tuesday in the Dominican Repu blic, where flash flooding continued after heavy rains that were expected to drop up to 20 inches in some pla ces, and in Puerto Rico, where most people remained without electricity and running water.

As of Tuesday afternoon, por tions of Puerto Rico were forecast to receive up to 35 inches of rain since Sunday. Authorities there said they had restored power to more than 300,000 utility customers, but nearly 1.1 million customers were still without power as of Wednesday morning, according to poweroutage. us, which tracks interruptions.

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

As Hurricane Fiona moved north toward Bermuda as a Category 4 storm Wednesday, officials instructed residents to prepare for powerful wind, rain and flooding.

Fiona, the strongest storm so far of the Atlantic hurricane season, stren gthened into a Category 4 storm early Wednesday, after battering the Turks and Caicos Islands, drenching parts of the Dominican Republic and lea ving more than 1 million customers without electricity in Puerto Rico this week.

The storm was about 650 miles southwest of Bermuda as of 2 p.m. Eastern time, the National Hurricane Center said. It had maximum sustai ned winds of 130 mph.

The Bermuda Weather Service issued both a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch for the island,

with tropical storm conditions expec ted and hurricane conditions possible by Thursday night or early Friday. The forecast called for 2 to 4 inches of rain, the Hurricane Center said.

Fiona’s center will approach Ber muda late Thursday and Atlantic Ca nada late Friday, forecasters said. Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and western Newfoundland could get 3 to 6 inches of rain, with up to 10 inches possible in some areas, the center said.

Officials in Bermuda were pre paring for the storm Wednesday. The government urged residents to make sure they had food, medicine and wa ter on hand, and to secure their ho mes, property and boats.

Schools, government services and offices will operate Thursday but not Friday, Michael Weeks, Bermuda’s minister of national security, said at a news conference Wednesday,

although another assessment would be made Thursday. Emergency shel ters would be open.

“Hurricane Fiona is a serious Ca tegory 4 storm,” Weeks said. “Our hu rricane seasons in recent years have been getting busier and more active.”

People living in low-lying and coastal areas of Bermuda were vulne rable to dangerous surf and surge con ditions. “Stay out of the water,” Weeks said.

Forecasters did not anticipate that Fiona would threaten the East Coast of the United States, but the Hurricane Center said that the storm could gene rate swells causing life-threatening surf and rip currents there Wednesday and Thursday.

The storm battered the Turks and Caicos on Tuesday, causing power ou tages and displacing at least 163 people, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or fatalities.

Officials in Puerto Rico said Tues day that two-thirds of the island’s water and sewer customers — more than 760,000 — still did not have service because of a lack of power to pumps or turbid water at filtration plants.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said it would take at least a week for his government to estimate how much damage Fiona had caused. The rain in parts of central, southern and southeastern Puerto Rico had been “catastrophic,” he said at a news conference.

At least four deaths have been attri buted to Fiona: two in the Dominican Republic and one each in Puerto Rico and Guadeloupe, which was struck by the storm Saturday.

The Dominican Republic’s eastern provinces, home to one of the largest tourism industries in the Caribbean, took the brunt of the storm early Monday. Fio na brought 90 mph winds and heavy rain that set off mudslides, shuttered resorts and damaged highways, officials said.

Damage from Hurricane Fiona at Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday.

Tropical Storm Gaston strengthens in the Atlantic

Gaston could cause swells in the Azo res later this week, which could generate life-threatening surf and rip-current con ditions, the hurricane center said.

The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June through November, had a relatively quiet start, with only three named storms before Sept. 1 and none during August, the first time that had hap pened since 1997. Storm activity picked up in early September with Danielle and Earl, which formed within a day of each other.

Gaston is one of two storms cu rrently in the Atlantic; the other, Fiona, strengthened into a Category 4 hurrica ne on Wednesday and was moving north toward Bermuda after battering parts of the Caribbean.

major hurricanes — Category 3 or stron ger — with winds of at least 111 mph.

Last year, there were 21 named storms, after a record-breaking 30 named storms in 2020. For the past two years, meteorologists have exhausted the list of names used to identify storms during the Atlantic hurricane season, an occurrence that has happened only one other time, in 2005.

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Tropical Storm Gaston strengthened over the North Atlantic early Wed nesday, a day after becoming the seventh named storm of the 2022 hurri cane season.

The storm was about 775 miles west of the Azores in the North Atlantic and posed no immediate threat to land, the National Hurricane Center said. As of 11 a.m. ET, Gaston was moving northeast at 16 mph and had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph.

In early August, scientists at the Na tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Admi nistration issued an updated forecast for the rest of the season, which still called for an above-normal level of tropical storm activity. In it, they predicted the season — which runs through Nov. 30 — could see 14 to 20 named storms, with six to 10 turning into hurricanes that sustain winds of at least 74 mph. Three to five of those could strengthen into what NOAA calls

The links between hurricanes and cli mate change have become clearer with each passing year. Data show that hurri canes have become stronger worldwide during the past four decades. A warming planet can expect stronger hurricanes over time, and a higher incidence of the most powerful storms — though the ove rall number of storms could drop, becau se factors like stronger wind shear could keep weaker storms from forming.

Hurricanes are also becoming wetter because of more water vapor in the war mer atmosphere; scientists have sugges ted storms like Hurricane Harvey in 2017 produced far more rain than they would have without the human effects on clima te. Also, rising sea levels are contributing to higher storm surge — the most des tructive element of tropical cyclones.

Norway’s $1.2 trillion investment fund sets 2050 climate target

By PETER EAVIS

Thehuge government fund that invests Norway’s oil revenue said earlier this week that it was going to step up its efforts to persuade companies to slash their carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

It’s the first time that the $1.2 trillion fund has set a date by which companies it invests in should be at “net zero,” meaning they either emit no carbon or offset their emissions by re moving equivalent amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. The 2050 target aligns the fund, which has stakes in more than 9,000 companies around the world, with BlackRock and many other large asset managers.

To limit the warming of the atmosphere to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, compared with prein dustrial levels — the main goal of the Paris climate agreement — scientists calculate that

emissions have to reach net zero by 2050.

“If you don’t have proper climate ambi tions, you don’t have a business,” Nicolai Tan gen, CEO of Norway’s fund, said in an inter view before the release of its climate strategy.

“With the way things work now, you will not get loans from the bank, you won’t have co verage on the insurance side, you won’t have any clients and you won’t have any people working for you.”

Norway’s fund, like other big investors, is calling on companies to come up with cre dible plans to reduce their emissions. Many large companies have set net-zero plans, but sometimes they lack detail and ambition. In such cases, funds often press management teams and boards to do more. On Tuesday, Norway’s fund said it would sell companies it deemed to be laggards, saying that it would “divest from companies with unmitigated cli mate risks, especially where engagement has

failed or is unlikely to succeed.”

Norway’s fund is adding pressure even as investors face challenges to their climate activism.

Over the past year, soaring oil and na tural gas prices have revived the profits and stock prices of energy companies, unders coring that extracting fossil fuels can still be a winning business financially. In addition, shortages of oil and gas, the result largely of Russia’s actions and the war in Ukraine, have led to calls for energy companies to produce more, not less.

And climate initiatives by large asset ma nagers also face growing political opposition from Republicans, who say big investment firms are using their heft to press for progres sive policies.

“From Wall Street banks to massive asset managers and Big Tech companies, we have seen the corporate elite use their economic

power to impose policies on the country that they could not achieve at the ballot box,” Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, said this summer.

Still, large investment funds may decide to keep their stakes in the companies that emit the most carbon for many years. As sha reholders, they can push for more ambitious climate plans and help bring about the biggest reductions in emissions. Large oil companies in theory also have enough money to invest in technologies that can help slash emissions, like the currently very expensive attempts to suck carbon out of the air.

“The big integrated energy companies are really the solution here,” Tangen said.

Norway’s fund intends to continue to in crease its investments in renewable energy companies and projects. But Tangen said the fund was struggling to find attractive inves tments in this field.

In an image provided by NOAA, Tropical Storm Gaston, which formed in the Atlantic on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022.

The US touts big investments for Mexico, testing its nationalist policies

energy companies have complained about the less favorable treatment they face on issues like pricing, emissions standards and contract terms.

The United States has challenged Mexi co on their behalf, taking initial steps toward bringing a trade dispute under the countries’ free-trade agreement. The action could ulti mately result in the United States imposing tariffs on Mexico if the issue is not otherwise resolved.

Still, in remarks Tuesday, López Obra dor was optimistic about the discussions, sa ying the United States had adopted a more respectful approach.

“I was very struck by the proactive, friendly attitude of the secretary of com merce,” who said “nothing about punishing Mexico for its energy policy,” López Obra dor said during a news conference. “The word ‘tariff’ or ‘sanction’ wasn’t even used.”

more secure, and incentives for consumers to purchase clean cars with parts made in countries with which the United States has a trade agreement, such as Mexico.

While Democrats and Republicans have protested U.S. jobs being sent to Mexi co, many economists have argued that the country’s economy is complementary to that of the United States, given its large pool of lower-wage workers that can do more labor-intensive jobs that aren’t economical in the higher-wage United States.

One argument in favor of a closer U.S.Mexico partnership is that it would allow North America to produce better-quality and lower-cost products that could better compete on the international market with products made in China.

Assembly lines at the Poly factory in Tijuana, Mexico, on June 29, 2021. Biden administration officials on Sept. 12, 2022, touted the benefits that a coming wave of investment in American manufacturing could have for Mexico, saying that new factories making semiconductors, clean cars and other products in the United States could look to Mexico for raw materials and assembly.

By ANA SWANSON

Biden administration officials on earlier this week touted the benefits that a coming wave of investment in U.S. manufacturing could have for Mexico, sa ying that new factories making semiconduc tors, clean cars and other products in the United States could look to Mexico for raw materials and assembly.

In meetings with President Andrés Ma nuel López Obrador and other high-ranking Mexican officials on the economic rela tionship, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo discussed how the countries could together capitalize on newly passed legislation that will direct tens of billions of dollars of new investments toward U.S. facilities in the se miconductor and green technology indus tries in the coming years.

Economists say that Mexico is missing out on billions of dollars of potential foreign investment as companies look to diversify their operations beyond China and East Asia over supply chain problems spurred by the pandemic.

But the nationalist policies of Mexico’s president have spooked investors, econo

mists say, and foreign investment levels have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels at a time when foreign companies — particu larly American — are looking for near-sho ring opportunities like Mexico to relocate their factories closer to home.

U.S. officials pointed to the deep inte gration of the countries’ auto industries as a platform for manufacturing clean cars. Rai mondo said that, with semiconductors, the opportunity for Mexico would be in testing, packaging and assembly, which she said was a $60 billion industry in China and Taiwan but only $3 billion in North America.

“This is a big door opening for Mexico, for the Mexican economy,” Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs, said in translated remarks.

Yet, even as leaders from both countries expressed optimism about their future part nership, an ongoing trade dispute over the Mexican government’s interventions in the energy market continues to cast some dou bts over Mexico’s reliability as a destination for foreign investment.

López Obrador has tried to strengthen the dominance of Mexico’s state-owned energy companies in what he describes as a push for energy sovereignty. But some U.S.

Officials from both sides said Monday that the dispute was being handled under that formal process. But Tatiana Clouthier, the Mexican secretary of economy, said in a news conference that the topic was dis cussed Monday afternoon as part of a twohour conversation between the Mexican president and his U.S. visitors.

Raimondo said the two sides didn’t discuss the energy conflict “extensively,” but added, “What businesses are seeking is predictability, fairness and transparency. And I think that that is true of every business everywhere in the world.”

The remarks followed a day of highlevel meetings at the National Palace and economic ministry in Mexico City that also touched on cybersecurity, regional compe titiveness, efforts to address climate chan ge and supply chain resilience in areas like pharmaceuticals, among other issues.

But the excitement of the meeting cen tered around the opportunities that will arise as Biden officials disburse billions of dollars in the coming months to try to revitalize U.S. manufacturing.

The CHIPS Act, which devotes $50 bi llion to semiconductor manufacturing and research, and the Inflation Reduction Act, which offers $369 billion of incentives to mitigate climate change, are aimed at stimu lating U.S. domestic investment.

But both have provisions that could benefit Mexico, including funding for the United States to work with partner countries to make the semiconductor supply chains

The United States and Mexico have a vibrant trade in the raw materials and in puts that go into a variety of products, and many companies have designed their supply chains to run back and forth between the countries, taking advantage of natural resou rces, worker skills or favorable government policies.

Still, the economic partnership between the two countries has not always been as smooth as some have hoped. At the onset of the pandemic, U.S. automakers protested Mexico’s shutdowns of its auto parts facto ries. Mexican cartels have also expanded their reach, muscling into licit trades for li mes and avocados.

The spat over energy has added to ten sions, and some businesses have found it easier to continue importing products and parts from Asia, despite the greater distance.

Officials have not given any timeline for when the energy dispute might be resolved. In July, the Biden administration said it be lieved Mexico’s actions violated the terms of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agree ment, which went into effect two years ago and bars its members from discriminating against one another’s businesses. Canada subsequently joined the United States in sa ying that Mexico’s actions violated the agre ement.

If the dispute is not resolved by early October, the United States, under the trade agreement, is allowed to request a panel of trade and legal experts to examine the issue. And if the panel rules in favor of the United States, U.S. officials say they could impose tariffs on Mexico, though their goal is to re solve the dispute before that point.

The border crisis could still be Biden’s opportunity

By BRET STEPHENS

What is the best way to honor and preserve the American tradition of welcoming immigrants? Treating them as stage props, as Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida did last week by flying some 50 unsuspecting Venezuelan refugees to Martha’s Vineyard, isn’t it — even if progressive reaction was beyond parody: If Edgartown feels stressed by having to host a few dozen unexpected guests for a day, how are the residents of places along the border supposed to feel about the thousands coming in uninvited every day?

Yet however crass DeSantis’ stunt, it succeeded politically because it responded to a see-no-problem, admit-no-fault, disavow-the-consequences and blamethe-last-guy border policy. Maybe it’s time for the administration to start working on something better.

To understand the current state of play, consider Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent exchange about immigration with NBC’s Chuck Todd:

Todd: “Would you call the border secure?”

Harris: “I think that there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do. The first request we made, pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship. The border is secure. But we also have a broken immigration system, in particular over the last four years before we came in and it needs to be fixed.”

Todd: “We’re going to have 2 million people cross this border for the first time ever. You’re confident this border is secure?”

Harris: “We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation including ours and our administration.”

Was this some sort of bold semantic attempt to redefine the concept of “secure border”? In the calendar year 2019 (the last prepandemic year of the Trump administration) there were roughly 921,000 “encounters” between customs agents and migrants at the southern border, according to government data. In calendar year 2021, that number jumped to about 2 million. In 2022, by the end of August, it had already reached about 1.6 million. Many of these encounters lead to immediate deportation, but other migrants are released to await hearings they may never attend while hundreds of thousands more slip across the border undetected.

The administration likes to blame turmoil in Central and South America, particularly Venezuela, for the recent surge. But the Venezuelan refugee crisis has been years in the making. COVID unmistakably worsened conditions throughout Latin America, but

that’s not a convincing explanation, either: There has been economic, political and social misery in the region for centuries, and previous surges in migration, but nothing on the scale we’re seeing now.

A better explanation is that the Biden administration came to office loudly advertising the fact that it was not Donald Trump, which is why the surge began almost to the day Biden took office. “Sensing a change in tone and approach after Mr. Trump’s defeat, migrants are once again fleeing poverty, violence and the devastation left by hurricanes and heading north toward the United States,” The Times’ Zolan KannoYoungs and Michael D. Shear reported in March 2021.

This was not an accident of policy. It was an intention. Biden ran for president promising to end Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. In office, he immediately signed an executive order suspending wall construction. He proposed legislation promising a path to citizenship. His administration has fought to end Title 42, the most effective tool border agents have to immediately deport the migrants they apprehend. The overall message raised migrant expectations through the roof, setting off a predictable crisis at the border within a week of Biden’s taking office, as The Times’ Kirk Semple reported at the time.

This is political malpractice on multiple levels.

The crisis at the border strains frontline communities to the breaking point. It strains faith in the rule of law. It makes a mockery of the legal immigration system, and the people who play by its exacting rules. And it makes a mockery of people like Harris and others making fools of themselves by trying to defend a visibly failed policy.

The crisis is an invitation to nativist demagogy. It was Trump’s ticket to the White House and might be DeSantis’, too. It alienates thoughtful Republicans who believe in the benefits of managed migration but are trumped, so to speak, by the argument about lawlessness. And it undermines the case for the path to citizenship, since opponents of the legislation can plausibly argue that the path does less to solve an illegal immigration problem than it does to create incentives for a new one.

The crisis is a failure of liberalism, classic and contemporary. It calls into question the ability, or willingness, of a Democratic president to solve a basic law-and-order issue when it conflicts with progressive pieties. And it raises a more profound question of maintaining a civic identity in a country where too many people aren’t even citizens.

There’s a solution to this. It requires us to be much more hardheaded at our borders — like by finishing the wall — so we can be more softhearted toward those

trying to cross them. It’s not too late for the president to seize the chance to get this right.

María

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Migrants being processed in Yuma, Ariz., on the border between the United States and Mexico, in July.

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SAN JUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Edu cación, Eliezer Ramos Parés dijo que al momento se prevé que 149 de las 863 escuelas sean las que podrán retomar las clases el jueves.

“Región San Juan, Región Humacao, Región Baya món y Región Arecibo. Estamos dejando afuera la Región de Mayagüez y la de Región de Ponce, que fueron las más impactadas. En esta selección, estamos mirando el impacto por municipio, para comenzar a convocar per sonal. Así que hoy hay personal en estas 149 escuelas. Se convocó básicamente a la totalidad del personal para hacer una inspección mucho más profunda, obtener de talles y esta tarde tomar decisiones si esas 149 escuelas pueden y están hábiles para abrir mañana”, dijo el secre

tario en conferencia de prensa.

“Hemos hecho un llamado a la empatía, a todos los supervisores y los gerentes. A tomar en considera ción las condiciones individuales de nuestro personal e igualmente, de las familias a las que nos toca atender”, añadió.

“A medida que la luz y el agua lleguen, vamos a ir sumando escuelas. Ya el día de mañana, haríamos el mis mo ejercicio. Mi meta, es que en una semana el sistema esté estabilizado”, sostuvo.

De acuerdo al secretario, “la meta no es que el sis tema mañana esté abierto en su totalidad. Va a depender de las circunstancias de cada comunidad y cada escuela. No queremos tampoco que no haya higiene, que no haya agua, que no haya luz, así que todos esos elementos los estamos considerando, igual la capacidad que tenga esa

comunidad de recibir estudiantes. Así que vamos poco a poco”.

Presidenta no de de

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S AN JUAN – La presidenta ejecutiva de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcan tarillados, Doriel Pagán Crespo contestó la inquietud de miles de abonados sobre porqué en este momento no tienen servi cio, a diferencia del 2017 con el paso del huracán María.

“Para (el huracán) María a siete días teníamos un 40 por ciento de servicio. Nosotros no tardamos un tiempo razona ble para aquella emergencia. Hoy estamos diciendo, a prácticamente 4 días (del paso del huracán Fiona) que tenemos un 58 por ciento. Cada evento atmosférico no se compara. Pero hemos visto, que el (meteo rólogo) ha utilizado el término de que ha sido un evento catastrófico y que el nivel de lluvia, en el caso del huracán María fue más localizado y en este caso ha sido ge

no reciben el servicio por varias razones.

“Hemos notado y es normal que cuan do nos clientes han estado un periodo de tiempo sin servicio, el consumo al princi pio es prácticamente el doble, porque se están llenando cisternas y el proceso de recuperación inicial es más lento.

En el caso de los clientes que se su plen del Embalse La Plata está operando a capacidad y poco a poco le llegara el servicio a sus abonados. En Guaynabo, la represa de Aguas Buenas funciona por gravedad y la de Santa Rosa está operan do con generador, por lo que no opera a capacidad.

Pagán Crespo mencionó que a pesar de que la Planta Sergio Cuevas está operando al 100 por ciento, hay sectores que todavía

neralizado. Hemos estado con la alcaldesa de Salinas (Karilin Bonilla) y ella misma nos decía que para el huracán María esto no pasó aquí. Y así ha estado pasando en muchos lugares de Puerto Rico. Por eso he mos tenido el impacto que hemos recibido y eso se traduce en nuestro servicio y en nuestras plantas de filtración”, dijo Pagán Crespo en conferencia de prensa.

“Pero el hecho de que las plantas es tén operando al 100 por ciento no significa que el 100 por ciento tenga servicio toda vía”, expresó la funcionaria.

Al momento hay 740 mil clientes con servicio.

DORADO – Personal de varias unidades especializadas del Negociado de la Policía de Puerto Rico, mediante una labor de rescate, localizaron sin signos vitales en la ma ñana del miércoles, en el Río La Plata en Dorado a Miguel Jalli Bartel, de 62 años, quien fue visto por última vez 18 de septiembre, luego de salir de su turno de trabajo de la fábrica Pan American Grain de este municipio.

Según la Uniformada, luego de que se reportara una querella de persona desaparecida y se cursara por las redes sociales, un vehículo arrastrado por la corriente del río junto a la imagen de Jalli Bartel, el CIC de Vega Baja entrevistó a familiares y comenzó la búsqueda junto al personal de la Superintendencia Auxiliar en Investigaciones Criminales (SAIC), así como de Las Fuerzas Unidades de Rápida Acción (FURA).

Se informó que el helicóptero de FURA, localizó el

cuerpo del hombre, en un solar yermo, colindante al Río La Plata a unos 300 pies aproximadamente del vehículo Toyota Tercel color verde que se encontraba sumergido.

Esta labor de rescate e investigación fue realizada por el coronel Roberto Rivera, director del SAIC, el coronel José Rodríguez Rivera, director de FURA y del teniente Reinal do Jiménez, director del CIC de Vega Baja. Este esfuerzo fue compartido con agentes de la Unidad de Rescate de Toa Baja y Dorado, y de la Motorizada, entre otros.

The new, improved James Cameron wants to reintroduce you to ‘Avatar’

I felt pretty good about the creative decisions that were made back then. We spent a lot of time and energy improving our process in the decade-plus since. But there’s certainly noth ing cringeworthy. I can see tiny places where we’ve improved facial-performance work. But it doesn’t take you out. I think it’s still competitive with everything that’s out there these days.

Q: Even with everything you had ac complished before making “Avatar,” were there still elements that you had to fight the studio to keep in it?

By DAVE ITZOFF

Thepop cultural landscape looked con siderably different in 2009. Television shows were still largely watched on television sets. “TiK ToK” referred to a hit song by Kesha. And the Marvel Cinematic Uni verse consisted of only two movies released the previous year.

Instead, the multiplexes were about to be dominated by “Avatar,” James Cameron’s science-fiction epic about a battle for natu ral resources between human colonists from Earth and the native Na’vi people of a distant moon called Pandora. “Avatar” went on to become one of the most successful films of all time, grossing more than $2.8 billion world wide and winning three Academy Awards.

Cameron, the decorated filmmaker of “Titanic,” “True Lies” and “The Terminator,” went off to prepare the next entries in his new franchise. Now, as he puts the finishing touches on the first of four planned sequels, “Avatar: The Way of Water” (which 20th Cen tury Studios will release Dec. 16), nearly 13

years have gone by and much has changed.

To help reacquaint audiences with “Avatar” — and with the 3D filmmaking that dazzled audiences in 2009 — the first movie is being rereleased in theaters Friday. It’s a strategy that is, of course, intended to prime ticket buyers for the impending follow-up, but also to remind them of what was special about the original.

As Cameron said of “Avatar” in a video interview last week, “We authored it for the big-screen experience. You let people smell the roses. You let people go on the ride. If you’re doing a flying shot or a shot underwa ter in a beautiful coral reef, you hold the shot a little bit longer. I want people to really get in there and feel like they’re there, on a journey with these characters.”

Calling from his studios in Welling ton, New Zealand, the 68-year-old Cameron spoke about seeing “Avatar” through new eyes, how the world has or hasn’t changed since its release, and whether this onetime king of the world has maybe — just maybe — chilled out a little bit. These are edited ex

cerpts from our conversation.

Q: Have you watched the original “Av atar” recently? What was that experience like?

A: It was a real pleasure to watch it, in its fully remastered state, a few weeks ago with my kids, because they had only ever seen it on streaming or on Blu-ray. “Oh, yeah, it’s that movie that Dad made back then.” And they got to see it in 3D, at good light level and projection levels, for the first time. And they were kind of like, “Oh. All right. Now I get it.” Which, hopefully, will be the general audience reaction. Young film fans never had the opportunity to see it in a movie theater. Even though they think they may have seen the film, they really haven’t seen it. And I was pleasantly surprised, not only at how well it holds up but how gorgeous it is in its remas tered state.

Q: Did you see details that you wished you could change?

A: I don’t think that way. It’s such an in tense process when you’re editing a film, and you have to fight for every frame that stays in.

A: I think I felt, at the time, that we clashed over certain things. For example, the studio felt that the film should be shorter and that there was too much flying around on the ikran — what the humans call the banshees. Well, it turns out that’s what the audience loved the most, in terms of our exit polling and data gathering. And that’s a place where I just drew a line in the sand and said, “You know what? I made ‘Titanic.’ This building that we’re meeting in right now, this new halfbillion-dollar complex on your lot? ‘Titanic’ paid for that, so I get to do this.” And after ward, they thanked me. I feel that my job is to protect their investment, often against their own judgment. But as long as I protect their investment, all is forgiven.

Q: What do you think has changed about the movie industry in the years since its release?

A: The negative factors are obvious. We’ve got a turn of the world toward easy ac cess in the home, and that has to do a lot with the rise of streaming in general, and the pan demic, where we literally had to risk our lives to go to the movie theater. On the positive side, we see a resurgence of the theater ex perience. People are craving that. We’re still down about 20% from pre-pandemic levels, but it’s slowly building back. Partly it’s been because of a dearth of top titles that people would want to see in a theater. But “Avatar” is the poster child for that. This is the type of film that you have to see in a theater.

Q: Does knowing that audiences want that blockbuster experience put more pres sure on you?

A: I’ve always thrived in that scenario. The danger has been that there are so many big movies coming out all the time and we were always jostling for place. That’s why I

Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and Jake (Sam Worthington) in the original “Avatar.”

recommended to Fox that we push “Titanic” till Christmas, because we’d have a clear playing field in January and February, and that worked out beautifully. The same strategy worked well with “Avatar.” And of course we’re going into the same date with “The Way of Water.” But we’re not jostling as much now because there aren’t as many big tentpoles.

There’s a sense of responsibility to do the best job we can and make it a moneymaker. But I don’t how that translates artistically to any decision I make on the movie. I don’t say, ‘Hmmm, let’s put that plant over there because we’ll make more money.’ It doesn’t work that way. When it’s good enough, you kind of know.

Q: “Avatar” had a prominent message about taking care of the environment and the resources it has provided. In the years since its release, do you feel like that message has been heeded?

A: I’m not going to feel guilty because my movie didn’t save the world. I certainly wasn’t the only voice back then, and I’m certainly not the only voice now, telling people that they have to change. But people don’t want to change. We love to burn energy. We love to eat our meat and dairy. Asking people to fun damentally change their behavior patterns, it’s like asking them to change their religion. We’re seeing this ongoing series of greater and greater manifestations of the consequences, like with these heat waves in China and North America and Europe, the flooding in Pakistan, which is horrific. And eventually we will change or we’ll die out.

“Avatar” is not trying to tell you what to do specifically. It’s not telling you: Go vote for so-and-so, buy a Prius, put down the cheese burger. It’s just reminding us of what we’re losing. And it puts us back in touch with that childlike state of wonder about the natural world. As long as that beauty still resonates

within us, there’s hope.

Q: Are you concerned that in the time between the original and the sequel, audi ences will have lost their connection to the story or its characters?

A: I think I could have made a sequel two years later and have it bomb because people didn’t relate to the characters or the direction of the film. My personal experience goes like this: I made a sequel called “Aliens,” seven years after the first movie. It was very well received. I made a sequel called “Ter minator 2,” seven years after the first movie. It did an order of magnitude of more, in rev enue, than the first film. I was a little con cerned that I had stretched the tether too far, in our fast-paced, modern world, with “Avatar 2” coming in 12 years later. Right until we dropped the teaser trailer, and we got 148 million views in 24 hours. There’s that scarceseen-but-wondered-at principle, which is, “Wow, we haven’t seen that in a long time, but I remember how cool it was back then.” Does that play in our favor? I don’t know. I guess we’re going to find out.

Q: In the era of the original “Avatar,” we learned that you possess a baseball cap bearing the letters “HMFIC” (a boastful if family-unfriendly personal description). Did that get any use on the making of “The Way of Water”?

A: I would either wear that hat on the first day of a new shoot, or I would wear my T-shirt that says “Time becomes meaningless in the face of creativity.” Just to shake up the studio a little bit. I don’t think I (wore) the HMFIC hat on the new “Avatar.” This is the kinder, gentler me. This is the mellow, Zen nice guy, sensitive to everybody’s needs and emotional requirements. No microaggressions here. Which is usually good for about the first two weeks.

With drought, ‘Spanish Stonehenge’ emerges once again San Juan

central, open oval 16 feet across, was en tered through a corridor 5 feet wide and 69 feet long. “The builders obviously wanted it dark and mysterious, maybe to highlight the amazing light of the equinox when it en tered,” Castaño said.

Among the items recovered during the dig were pots, arrows, bows, axes, flint knives, ceramics, pendants and a holepuncher made of copper. The researchers discovered a Roman coin, but no human re mains. The crew restored some of the fallen menhirs to their rightful places, reinforced the corridor with concrete and made sketch es of any engravings they found.

Overmaier’s research on the site was never published during his lifetime. He be came a citizen of Spain in 1924 and, at the start of the Spanish Civil War, went into exile in Switzerland, where he died in 1946. Four teen years later, two German archaeologists, Georg and Vera Leisner, adapted his notes into a monograph.

By FRANZ LIDZ

Like the skeleton of an extinct sea mon ster, the Dolmen of Guadalperal has re surfaced from the depths of the Valde cañas reservoir in western Spain, where Europe’s persistent drought has caused wa ter levels to plummet and submerged monu ments to come to light. The remnants of this Bronze Age sepulcher, nicknamed the Span ish Stonehenge, are now fully exposed for only the fifth time since the area was delib erately flooded in 1963 as part of a rural de velopment project.

Dolmens were single-chambered tombs that often combined religious cer emony with precise sun sightings. The one that just reappeared in Spain dates to the fourth or fifth millennium B.C., which makes it as much as 2,000 years older than its Celt ic cousin on the Salisbury Plain in England.

What remains of the Guadalperal com plex is a ring of quartzite, 117 feet in diame ter, surrounding 144 jagged granite standing

stones, many of which are no longer stand ing. The stones, or menhirs — some as tall as 6 feet — buttressed a massive capstone set in a tumulus, or a mound of earth and pebbles. Both the capstone and the tumulus were dis mantled in 1925 during an excavation led by Hugo Obermaier, a Spanish-German anthro pologist and prehistorian.

Primitiva Bueno Ramírez, an archae ologist at the University of Alcalá in Madrid who has studied this dolmen for three de cades, sees the menhirs as frozen fragments of history. She called their reappearance “the past emerging from the waters.”

Angel Castaño, a philologist who lives near the artificial lake and serves as the pres ident of a local cultural association, likens the megalith to a gigantic eye gazing into prehistoric Spain. “It helps you to remember that the place was, for millenniums, a stra tegic gateway connecting the south and the north of the Iberian Peninsula,” he said. “The dolmen overlooked one of the few spots where it was possible to cross the Tagus Riv

er, which divided the west half of Spain from the east. The place was hugely important un til bridges were built a few centuries ago.”

The municipality of Peraleda de la Mata, where the dolmen is situated, has an embarrassment of Paleolithic riches. “The first evidence for agricultural practices and livestock breeding comes from an early Neo lithic site in the area that we excavated sev eral years ago,” said Enrique Cerrillo Cuen ca, a professor of prehistory at Complutense University of Madrid. “We know that com munities around 5,200 B.C. were storing aliments, collecting acorns and harvesting cereals, among other activities.”

Obermaier’s survey of the local ter rain pointed to the presence of a long bar row, an elongated stone monument to the dead. It wasn’t long before his team dug up the dolmen’s entryway, a portal so narrow that the structure could have been built by benevolent giants for a colony of hobbits. The chamber in which the dead presumably would have been interred, which today is a

The publication coincided with a wide-ranging civil engineering scheme, undertaken by Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, that involved the construction of hydroelectric dams. By 1963, the dolmen and vestiges of the Roman city Augustóbriga were buried at the bottom of the Valdecañas reservoir. In all, Bueno and her colleagues have identified 200 underwater Bronze Age and Copper Age sites.

Although an Augustóbriga aqueduct, paved roads and thermal baths were sac rificed to the dam, a second-century A.D. temple, known as Los Mármoles (the Mar bles), was dismantled stone by stone and re assembled on higher ground 4 miles away. The 20th-century inhabitants of the settle ment were relocated, too.

Since resurfacing in the summer of 2019, the Dolmen of Guadalperal has re emerged every July, only to be swallowed by the lake again every September. Castaño and his organization, Raíces de Peraleda (the Roots of Peraleda), support a petition drive to have the government move the cracked and toppling megaliths to a new location on permanently dry land. “The combination of climate change and new electricity policies is very bad news for the preservation of the dolmen, since changes in the environment rapidly weaken the stones,” Castaño said.

The Dolmen of Guadalperal, a megalithic archaeological site exposed by drought at the Valdecañas reservoir in western Spain.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONI TO HÉCTOR ALVARADO CARTAGENA

EX PARTE PARTE

Civil Núm.: AI2019CV00179.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DO MINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PERSONAS

IGNORADAS, Sucesión Juan Santiago Martínez - PO Box 538, Coamo, PR 00769, Sucn. Etanislá Santiago Martínez - Urb. Colinas de Fairview, 4G 54, Calle 216, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976 , Sucn. Miguel Santiago Martínez - Parcela Niágara 18-B, Coamo, PR 00769, Ramonita Santiago Martínez - Parcelas Niágara #68, Coamo, PR 00769, Sucn. Petronila Santiago Martínez - Parcelas Niágara #68, Coamo, PR 00769, Sucn. Carmen M. Santiago Martínez, Sucn. Félix Mateo - HC 2 Box 6045, Coamo, PR 00669, Felix Luis Alvarado Cartagena - PO Box 885, Gurabo, PR 00778, Iraida Alvarado Cartagena, PO Box 885, Guarabo, PR 00778, Isaura Alvarado Caratagena, 1000 Ocean Plaza Dr. Apt. 1301, Luquillo, PR 00773, Nelson Alvarado Cartagena, PO Box 5587, Caguas, PR 00726 y Sucn. Martín Alvarado Cartagena, P/C de Melissa Alvarado Rosado y Maritza Alvarado Rosado, Jardín Dorado 21274, C/ Paraíso, Dorado, PR 00646.

Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expedien te arriba mencionado, con el fin de justificar e inscribir a favor de la Promovente, el dominio que tiene sobre la siguiente finca: “RÚSTICA”: Predio de terreno radicado en el barrio

Pasto del término municipal de Coamo, Puerto Rico, compues

ta de CERO PUNTO DOS MIL TRESCIENTOS CUARENTA

Y NUEVE CUERDA (0.2349 CDA.), equivalente a NOVE

CIENTOS VEINTITRÉS PUN

TO MIL CIENTO SETENTA Y OCHO METROS CUADRA DOS (923.1178 M.C.), colin dando por el NORTE, en una alineación de dieciocho punto setecientos sesenta y seis metros (18.766 m.) con la Su cesión Alvarado Cartagena; por el SUR, en dos alineaciones de uno punto setecientos veinti séis metros (1.726 m.) y vein tidós punto trescientos noventa y ocho metros (22.398 m.), que suman veinticuatro punto cien to veinticuatro metros (24.124 m.), con la carretera estatal qui nientos cincuenta y seis; por el ESTE, en cinco alineaciones de doce punto cien metros (12.100 m.), veintidós punto doscientos veinte (22.220 m.), tres punto, cero, cincuenta metros (3.050 m.), diecinueve punto cero, cero metros (19.00 m.) y dos punto novecientos cincuenta y nueve metros (2.959 metros), que suman cincuenta y nueve punto trescientos veintinueve metros (59.329 m.), con la Su cesión Alvarado Cartagena, y por el OESTE, en dos alinea ciones de dieciocho punto cua trocientos dos metros (18.402 m.) y treinta y cuatro punto tres cientos setenta y seis metros, con la Sucesión de Félix Ma teo Rivera. Alega la parte Pe ticionaria que adquirió la finca descrita mediante documento privado del cual se descono ce su paradero. Es abogado de la parte Peticionaria: LIC. JORGE M. DIAZ RODRIGUEZ, PO BOX 852, NARANJITO, P.R. 00719-0852, TELEFONO: (787) 869-4042, jorgemdiazro driguez@gmail.com. Este Tri bunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión por tres veces durante el término de veinte días en un periódico de circu lación general diaria, para que los que tengan algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito, las personas ignoradas a quie nes pueda perjudicar la inscrip ción, y en general, a todos los que desearen oponerse, entre ellos los colindantes y dueños anteriores, puedan efectuarlo dentro del término de veinte días a partir de la última publi cación del presente edicto. Por tanto, libro la presente en Aibo nito, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de agosto de 2022. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRE TARIA REGIONAL.

Defendant(s)

Civil No.: 3:19-cv-01973 (FAB). FORECLOSURE OF MORT GAGE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: ISIA YADIRA AYALADE JESÚS. 734 ROAD, SOLAR 5, KM. 6.3, ARENAS WARD, CIDRA, PUERTO RICO 00739 AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: On May 25, 2022, this Court entered Default Judg ment in favor of Plaintiff, against Defendant. On July 18, 2022, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that Defendant has failed to pay the sums of monies adjudged to be paid under the judgment. In the Judgment, the Court stated that Defendant has defaulted on the repayment obligation to GITSIT Solutions, LLC, and ordered to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of $196,863.67, plus interest at the rate of 7.25% per annum from July 1, 2017 until the debt is paid in full. The Court also ordered Defendant to pay GITSIT Solutions, LLC late charges in the amount of 5% of each and every monthly installment not received by the person entitled to enforce the mortgage note within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Furthermore, the Court ordered Defendant to pay GITSIT Solu tions, LLC all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $21,687.80, to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed by the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Ave nue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHERAEAS, Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of exe cution thereof, the following pro perty belonging to Defendant will be sold at a public auction: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio Arenas en el término municipal de Ci dra, marcada con el número 5, con una cabida de l021 metros cuadrados con 2663 diezmi lésimas de otro. En linderos NORTE, en cuatro alineaciones que suman 37.458 metros con un camino municipal; SUR, en una distancia de 25.092 metros con el solar 15; ESTE, en una distancia de 32.718 metros con el solar identificado como solar 6 y OESTE, en una distancia de 32.380 metros con el solar

4. Property recorded at page 49, volume 417 of Cidra, pro perty number 15171, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas. WHE REAS: The property is subject to the following lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Doral Financial Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $216,878.00 con intereses al 7.% anual y vencimiento 1 de septiembre de 2036. Constitui da por la Escritura 167 otorga da en San Juan el 11 de agosto de 2005 ante la notario Marga rita M. Pérez Rosich, e inscrita al folio 49 del tomo 417 de Ci dra, finca 15171, inscripción 3ª. MODIFICADA en cuanto a su vencimiento, siendo ahora su nuevo vencimiento el 1 de julio de 2036, según consta de la escritura 368 otorgada en San Juan el 10 de julio de 2006 ante el notario Eder Enrique Ortiz Ortiz. Inscrita el 22 de octubre de 2021 al Tomo Digital Kari be, finca 15171 de Cidra, Nota Marginal. Senior Lien: None. The above-described property is subject to the following junior lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $23,500.00 con intereses al 9.95% anual y vencimiento 1 de noviembre de 2020. Constituida por la Escritura 93 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de octubre de 2005 ante la notario Angelik Rodríguez Maldonado, e inscri ta al folio 49 del tomo 417 de Ci dra, finca 15171, inscripción 4ª. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferen tial lien to the one being fore closed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the suc cessful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the res ponsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acqui red free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the pur pose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $216,878.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuc cessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $144,585.33. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the

same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the afo rementioned mortgage deed, or $108,439.00 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmo biliaria del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appoin ted Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judg ment herein before referred to, will on the October 7, 2022, at 10:05 AM, at Rondapro, 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set herei nabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sale of the pro perty describes in the Notice will be held on the October 14, 2022 at 10:05 AM, at the ad dress indicated above. Should the second judicial sale set he reinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the October 21, 2022 at 10:05, at the address indica ted above. In San Juan, Puer to Rico, this 11 day of August 2022. Joel Ronda Feliciano, Appointed Special Master.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN

MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES AMADOR SUÁREZ

Peticionaria

EX-PARTE Civil #:: BY2022CV03526. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL

POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para ad quirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelan te. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal.

Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticiona ria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guayna bo, PR 00969-5650, Teléfono 787-720-9553. SEGÚN SUS

TÍTULOS: “RÚSTICA: TERRE NO en el barrio Mamey del término municipal de Guayna bo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de MEDIA CUERDA. En lindes por el NORTE: con e camino veci nal; por el SUR: con Sinforiano González Santa; por el ESTE: con Bernardo Hernández y por el OESTE: con don Marcos Centeno.” SEGÚN MENSURA: “RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el barrio Mamey del término Municipal e Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 2,229.599 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.5673 diezmi lésimas de cuerda. En lindes por el NOROESTE: en tres (3) alineaciones que suman 27.15 mi con la calle Domingo Gonzá lez Lugo; por el SURESTE: en dos (2) alineaciones que suman 34.00 metros lineales con finca propiedad del Municipio de Guaynabo; por el NORESTE:

en 3 alineaciones que suman 63.30 mi con solar propiedad de Carlos Hernández y por el SUROESTE: en dos (2) alinea ciones que suman 57.19 mi con terrenos propiedad de la Suce sión Sinforiano Gonzalez San ta y en 17.52 mi con solar de Norma Iris Monroig González. Enclava una estructura”. Se le informa, además, que el Tribu nal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconfe rencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por aboga do y presentar oposición de la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda prime ra mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negri llas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Ci vil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su de fecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término impro rrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación el edicto, el Tribu nal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticio naria, sn más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 31 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA GUAS

ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante V. LUIS ALBERTO VICENTY SANTINI

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2020CV02706.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTA DO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala de Ca guas, hago saber a la parte demandada, LUIS ALBERTO VICENTY SANTINI; Y AL PÚ BLICO EN GENERAL que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia ex pedido el 12 de mayo de 2022,

por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro pos tal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: [Urb. Col. San Francisco Barrio Bayamón, Cidra PR 00739] y que se des cribe como sigue: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Ba yamón de Cidra, Puerto Rico. Está marcado con el número veintidós en el plano de inscrip ción parcial. Tiene una cabida de mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y siete metros y cinco centí metros cuadrados, o sea, tres cientos setenta y una milésimas de una cuerda. Mide y colinda por el NORTE, en setenta y un metros y setenta y cuatro cen tímetros con el solar número veintitrés; por el SUR, en dos alineaciones que suman sesen ta y seis metros y cinco centí metros con terrenos de Domin go Rodríguez; por el ESTE, en diecinueve metros y ochenta y seis centímetros con el rema nente de la finca principal; y por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones en forma de arco que suman treinta y seis metros y noventa y siete centímetros con la calle Ramal número uno y en quince metros y setenta y dos centí metros con el remanente de la finca principal. Inscrita al Folio 239 del Tomo 226 de Cidra, finca número 9,013, inscripción 14ta, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección 2da. La finca antes descrita se encuen tra afecta a los siguientes gra vámenes: (i) Designación de Hogar Seguro a favor de Luis Alberto Vicenty Santini según consta de la Escritura número 87 otorgada en San Juan, el 11 de marzo de 2016 ante el nota rio Jorge Fernando Colón Mun taner. Inscrita el 28 de agosto de 2018 al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 9,013 de Cidra, ins cripción 14ta. (ii) HIPOTECA a favor de The Money House Inc. Por la suma de $137,499.00 con intereses al 4% anual. Con fecha de vencimiento el 1 de abril de 2046. Numero de testimonio: 6248. Tasación: En una cantidad igual a la suma original del principal del Paga ré. En virtud de la escritura 123 otorgada en San Juan, el 11 de marzo de 2016, ante el notario Priscilla M. Santiago Acosta, según inscripción 15ª. (iii) ANO TACIÓN DE DEMANDA radica da el 29 de octubre de 2019 en la Sala de Caguas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia en el caso civil número CG2019CV04059, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecu ción de hipoteca Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, demandante v. Luis Alberto Vicenty Santini, de

LEGAL NOT ICE IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC V. ISIA YADIRA AYALA- DE JESÚS

DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPETDIENTE.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU

NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. AMALIA PIMENTEL

BENÍTEZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02522. (408). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SU BASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN

TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace cons tar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Apartamento dos C (2-C). Apartamento de dos dormitorios, un baño, cocinalaundry, sala-comedor y balcón localizado en la esquina Su roeste y en la segunda planta del Condominio Rosa María del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Colinda por el NORES TE, a su lado derecho, con el apartamento dos D (2-D) y en trada principal, en treinta y tres punto noventa y dos (33.92) pies, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y cuatro (10.34) metros; por el SURESTE, colinda con el apartamento dos B (2-B), en veintitrés punto cuarenta y dos (23.42) pies, equivalentes a siete punto catorce (7.14) metros; por el SUROESTE, con patio común y balcón, en treinta y tres punto noventa y dos (33.92) pies, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y cuatro (10.34) metros. El balcón tie ne un área de cuarenta y seis punto treinta y dos (46.32) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cua tro punto treinta (4.30) metros cuadrados; por el NOROES TE, colinda con patio común, en veintitrés punto cuarenta y dos (23.42) pies, equivalentes a siete punto catorce (7.14) metros. El apartamento tiene un área privada de ochocientos sesenta y nueve punto sesenta y tres (869.63) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ochenta punto

ochenta y dos (80.82) metros cuadrados. Le corresponde una participación en los elemen tos comunes de punto ciento diecisiete por ciento (117%). Dirección Física: Cond. Rosa María, Apto. 2-C, Carolina, PR 00985. Finca 52154, inscrita al folio 224 del tomo 1215 de Carolina, Registro de la Pro piedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Carolina. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes pos teriores. D. 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 $83,639.97, más la suma de $14,561.47, que incluye intere ses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son lí quidas y exigibles. La PRIME RA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022

A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $83,675.36. De declararse de sierta dicha subasta se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TAR DE 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, $55,783.57. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebra rá una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar antes men cionado. El precio para la terce ra subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $41,837.68. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de ca torce (14) días en los sitios pú blicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 7 de sep tiembre de 2022 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL.

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Demandante V. LORENZO BERBERENA PRIETO, SHEILA FRAGOSO CASTRO T/C/C SHEILA C. FRAGOSO CASTRO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS, CARLOS FRANCISCO PAGAN LOPEZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: FBCI201401406. (409). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR DINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBAS TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que sus cribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Man damiento que me ha sido diri gido por la Secretaría del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmue ble que se describe a conti nuación: RÚSTICA: Solar A: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Hato Puerto de Loíza, hoy Barrio Palma Sola, del tér mino municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida su perficial de Dos Mil Cero Vein ticuatro punto Cuatrocientos Treinta y Seis Metros Cuadra dos, equivalente a Cero punto Cinco Uno Cinco Uno cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con camino dedicado a uso público; por el SUR, con solar “B”; por el ESTE, con el remanente de la finca de la cual se segrega y por el OESTE, con terreno pro piedad de la Sucesión de Bar tolo García. Edificación: Se ha construido una casa de treinta y dos pies con tres pulgadas (32’3”) por veintiocho pies con una pulgada (28’1”) con una terraza de madera de catorce pies dos pulgadas (14’2”) por ocho pies tres pulgadas (8’3”).

Un segundo nivel con una es tructura de madera de doce

pies tres pulgadas (12’3”) por dieciséis pies tres pulgadas (16’3”). La primera planta de concreto consta de dos dormi torios, baño y sala-comedorcocina y terraza. La segunda planta consta de una habita ción y un baño, con un valor de $51,000.00, según la escritura número 48, otorgada en Caro lina el 27 de abril de 2004, ante la notario Rosario González Rosa y escritura numero 47 de Acta de Subsanacion, otor gada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el dia 27 de abril de 2004, ante el mismo notario, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Canóvanas, fin ca número 16,172, inscripción 3ra. Dirección Física: Carr. 958 Km 6.5, Solar A, Bo. Palmaso la (Hato Puerco), Canóvanas, PR 00926. Finca 16,172, ins crita al folio 17 del tomo 409 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Carolina. 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 ante riores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandan te el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $77,754.44 por concepto de principal, más la cantidad de $6,429.11, que incluye intereses, 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, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, pactados con en el pagaré y en la escritura de Hipoteca de la parte demandante pactados en el pagaré y en el contra to de hipoteca. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $84,250.00. De declararse de sierta dicha subasta se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:30 DE LA TAR DE 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, $56,166.66. De declararse desierta dicha

segunda subasta, se celebra rá una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar antes men cionado. El precio para la terce ra subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $42,125.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de ca torce (14) días en los sitios pú blicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 7 de sep tiembre de 2022 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL.

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LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante Vs. PEDRO SOLIS NAVARRO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO PEDRO JULIO SOLIS NAVARRO; DAMASA ROSARIO DEL MORAL, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO DAMASA ROSARIO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2022CV00092. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO 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 Man damiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido diri gido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cual

quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número ciento cincuenta y siete (157) en el Plano de Par celación de la Comunidad Rural Cangrejeros de Barrio Candele ro Abajo del término municipal de Humacao con una cabida superficial de cero (0) cuerdas con novecientos sesenta y dos (962) diezmilésimas de otra, equivalentes a trescientos se tenta y ocho (378.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el por el NORTE, con la parcela número ciento cincuenta y seis (156); por el SUR, con la par cela número ciento cincuenta y ocho (158); por el ESTE, con la parcela número ciento setenta (170) ; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número tres (3) de la Co munidad. Consta inscrita al folio 130 del tomo 377 de Humacao, finca número 16,538, Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico en Humacao. Propiedad localizada en: Barrio Candele ro Abajo Com, Humacao, PR 00791. Según la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas preferentes o posterio res a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $20,799.99, 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 ofi cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Hu macao, el 10 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $13,866.66, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda su basta, se establece como míni ma para la TERCERA SUBAS TA, la suma de $10,399.99, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 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 $7,968.13 de principal, intere

ses al tipo del 9.420% anual según ajustado desde el día 16 de diciembre de 2020 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totali dad, más la suma de $4,160.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las canti dades que se adeudan men sualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escri tura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen poste rior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUN DA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efec tos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la cele bración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás cons tancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser exa minadas por los (las) interesa dos (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 publica ciones, así como para su pu blicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de agosto de 2022. JOSÉ LUIS RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁN DEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL PLACA #249, ALGUACIL DE SUBAS TAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR.

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Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC

DEMANDANTE VS. Magdalena Reyes Ortiz; y a los Estados Unidos de América

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: CG2021CV02103.

SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca In Rem. EDICTO DE SUBAS TA.

Al: Público en General

A: MAGDALENA REYES ORTIZ; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Yo, Angel Gomez Gomez, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte rés sobre la propiedad que más

adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 12 de octubre de 2022, a las 10:00 de la mañana en mi ofici na, sita en el Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la pro piedad inmueble que más ade lante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 6 de abril de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondien tes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Se cretaría durante horas labora bles. Que en caso de no produ cir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda su basta para la venta de la suso dicha propiedad, el 19 de octu bre de 2022, a las 10:00 de la mañana; y en caso de no pro ducir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 26 de octubre de 2022, a las 10:00 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes in dicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 23 de agosto de 2022, procede ré a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la par te demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dieci séis del Bloque “D” del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización El Retiro, situada en el Barrio Bairoa del Municipio de Ca guas, Puerto Rico, con una ca bida superficial de novecientos noventa y un punto trece me tros cuadrados, en lindes por el NOROESTE, en cincuenta y dos punto cincuenta metros, con el solar quince del Bloque “D”; por el SURESTE, en cin cuenta y dos punto noventa y cinco metros, con el solar dieci siete del Bloque “D”; por el NO RESTE, en diecinueve punto cero cero metros, con la Calle “G” de la Urbanización El Reti ro; por el SUROESTE, en dieci nueve punto cero cero metros, con Felícita Corporation. Finca número 32,527, inscrita al folio 130 del tomo 953 de Caguas.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ca guas. Dirección de la Propie dad: D-16 Calle Agricultura, urb. El retiro, caguas PR 00725.

La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde al cance, el importe de las canti dades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sen tencia dictada a su favor, a sa

adeudadas a la parte deman dante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de 181,416.54 de principal, intere ses pactados y computados sobre esta suma al tipo de 6.0% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudadas, y la suma de $42,000.00 equi valente al 10% de la suma prin cipal original pactada, estipula da para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deu da; más cualquiera suma de di nero por concepto de contribu ciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pac tadas en la escritura de hipote ca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 349 otorga da el día 5 de agosto de 2010, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Laura Mia Gon zalez Bonilla y consta inscrita al folio 145 del tomo 1,583 de Rio Piedras Norte, finca número 4,125, Registro de la Propiedad de Río Piedras Norte, Sección II de San Juan. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipo tecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del eje cutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hu biesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, posee dores, tenedores de o interesa dos en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantiza dos hipotecariamente con pos terioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios se ñalados para que puedan con currir a la subasta si les convi niere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honora rios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecu tante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop ment, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $420,000.00, ven cedero el día 10 de abril de 2084, constituida mediante la escritura número 350, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 5 de agosto de 2010, ante la notario Laura Mia Gonzalez Bonilla, e inscrita al folio 145 del tomo 1583 de Rio Piedras Nor te, finca número 4,125, inscrip ción 11va. Que la cantidad mí nima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $420,000.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta

do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $280,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $210,000.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer

do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 9 de septiembre de 2022. Edwin E Lopez Mule ro, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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URBAN FINANCIAL OF AMERICA, LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE GERMAN

QUINTERO TORRES T/C/C GERMAN QUINTERO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; DAVID RUIZ VALENTÍN, LUZ MARÍA MELÉNDEZ

MARRERO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; OFICINA DE HERENCIA Y DONACIONES DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: ISCI201301759. Sobre: Cobro de Dinero. EDIC TO DE SUBASTA. Al: Público en General.

A: SUCESIÓN DE GERMAN QUINTERO TORRES T/C/C GERMAN QUINTERO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; DAVID RUIZ VALENTÍN, LUZ MARÍA MELÉNDEZ MARRERO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES

MUNICIPALES; OFICINA DE HERENCIA Y DONACIONES DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, ALG. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ma yagüez, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en ge neral con interés sobre la pro piedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en gene ral, por la presente CERTIFI CO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONS TAR: Que el día 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 10 de noviembre de 2015. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, esta rán de manifiesto en la Secreta ría durante horas laborables.

Que en caso de no producir re mate ni adjudicación en la pri mera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SU BASTA para la venta de la su sodicha propiedad, el día 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes in dicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 6 de junio de 2022, procede ré a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la par te demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubi cado en: Lot 1 SR 109 KM 6.1 Espino Ward, Añasco PR 00610, y que se describe a con tinuación: RUSTICA: Solar nú mero 1 radicado en el Barrio Espino de Añasco, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 420 metros cuadrados que colinda por el Norte, con el área a ser destinada a uso público y el re manente de la finca; por el Sur, con el Solar número 2 y con el remanente de la finca; por el Este, con el remanente de la finca y por el Oeste, con el área a ser dedicada a uso público y el Solar número 2. Finca núme

ro 5,156 inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 15 de Añasco del Re gistro de la Propiedad de Puer to Rico, Sección de Mayagüez. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde al cance, el importe de las canti dades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sen tencia dictada a su favor, a sa ber: $96,957.20, por concepto de balance principal del présta mo más intereses acumulados al 31 de julio de 2014, y los cua les continúan acumulándose anualmente; más la cantidad de $15,450.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para cos tas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumu lados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquie ra suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hi poteca, todas cuyas sumas es tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipo teca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida me diante la escritura número 57 otorgada el día 30 de abril de 2012, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Samuel Soto Alonso y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Añasco, finca número 5,156, Registro de la Propiedad de Añasco Sección de Mayagüez. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipo tecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del eje cutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hu biesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, posee dores, tenedores de o interesa dos en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantiza dos hipotecariamente con pos terioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios se ñalados para que puedan con currir a la subasta si les convi niere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honora rios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecu tante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $154,500.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 20 de abril de 2082, constituida mediante la escritura número 58, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de abril de 2012, ante el notario Samuel Soto Alonso, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, finca número 5,156, inscripción 12da. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del in

mueble antes descrito será la suma de $154,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hi poteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se orde na la celebración de una se gunda subasta de dicho inmue ble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $103,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera su basta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subas ta, es decir la suma de $77,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el im porte de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el mo mento de la adjudicación, en tiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua

les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá dili genciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerra dura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este des alojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edic to de acuerdo con la ley, me diante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Es tado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) luga res públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribu nal y la Colecturía, y se le notifi cará además a la parte deman dada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última di rección conocida. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y compare cencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 6 de julio de 2021. ALG. IVELISSE

FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUA CIL PLACA #924, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MAYA GÜEZ.

LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUER TO RICO.

Finance of America Reverse, LLC.

Plaintiff VS. Nilda Luz Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilsa Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Luz Santiago a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago a/k/a Nilda Santiago a/k/a Nilsa Santiago; United States of America Defendants

CIVIL ACTION NO.: 17-cv1627. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Nilda Luz Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilsa Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Luz Santiago a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago a/k/a Nilda Santiago a/k/a Nilsa Santiago; United States of America

GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $86,409.11,

plus interest at a rate of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Nilda Luz Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilsa Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Luz Santiago a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago a/k/a Nilda Santia go a/k/a Nilsa Santiago to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance pre miums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($17,100.00) of the original principal amou nt to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Buil ding, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHE REAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the under signed Special Master was or dered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without apprai sement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Dis trict of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property.

URBANA: Solar número seis de la Manzana H, Urbanización Santa Mónica, Barrio Pájaros de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 325.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 5, en 25.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 7, en 25.00 metros; por el ESTE, con la Ca lle número 6, en 13.00 metros y por el OESTE con el solar nú mero 21, en 7.00 metros y con el solar número 20, en 6.00 me tros, con un total la distancia de 13.00 metros.” Property Num ber 19,829 recorded at page 146 of volume 438 of Bayamon Sur, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Baya món. The mortgage being fore closed is recorded at page 37, volume 1,933 of Bayamon Sur, property 19,829, 12th inscrip tion, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Baya mon. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage se curing a note in favor of Se cretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $171,000.00, due on March 30, 2094 pursuant to deed number 84, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 9, 2014, before notary Magaly Rodriguez Batis

ta, and recorded, at page 37 of volume 1,933 of Bayamon Sur, property number 19,829, 13th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancella tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the 11th day of October, 2022 at 9:20am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $171,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the the 18th day of October, 2022 at 9:20am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $114,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini mum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the the 25th day of October, 2022 at 9:20am, and the mini mum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,500.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Spe cial Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, ex cept in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United Sta tes District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 10th day of August of 2022. By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

*** LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. YOLANDA MARGARITA CLEMENTE ARMSTRONG, T/C/C YOLANDA MARGARITA CLEMENTE POR SÍ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ E. ROSICH GARCÍA, T/C/C JOSÉ ENRIQUE ROSICH GARCÍA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES, Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06721.

Sala: 508. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: YOLANDA MARGARITA CLEMENTE ARMSTRONG, T/C/C YOLANDA MARGARITA CLEMENTE POR SÍ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ E. ROSICH GARCÍA, T/C/C JOSÉ ENRIQUE ROSICH GARCÍA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES, Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULE RO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte rés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en

autos el día 24 de junio de 2022. Los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS TA para la venta de la susodi cha propiedad, el 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 12 de agosto de 2022, pro cederé a vender en pública su basta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: UR BANA: Solar marcado con el número Trece (13) de la URBA NIZACION EXTENSION SA GRADO CORAZON (Segunda Sección) según el plano de ins cripción de dicha Urbanización radicado en el Barrio Cupey de Rio Piedras, término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de MIL QUI NIENTOS TREINTA Y CUA TRO PUNTO DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y NUEVE ME TROS CUADRADOS (1534.259). Colinda por el NO ROESTE, en veintidós punto cero cero metros con la calle número cinco de la misma Ur banización; por el NORESTE, veinte punto noventa y siete metros con el solar número Doce de dicha Urbanización; por el Sur, en cuarenta y uno punto setecientos treinta y un metros con el solar número Veintidós de la referida Urbani zación y con terrenos afectados a servidumbre para líneas eléc tricas; por el ESTE, en treinta y nueve punto veintisiete metros con el solar número Cinco de la Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en treinta y ocho punto tres cientos setenta y dos metros con la Parcela A antes descrita. Enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales. Finca Número 22,224 inscrita al folio 185 del tomo 804 de Río Pie dras Sur, Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. Dirección de la Propiedad: 1799 Calle Santa Clara, Urb. Sagrado Corazón, San Juan PR 00926. La subas ta se llevará a cabo para satis facer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte deman dante conforme a la sentencia

dictada a su favor, a saber: de 243,998.23 de principal, más los intereses al 7.00% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y pri mas de seguro adeudados y los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $24,700.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para cos tas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumu lados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquie ra suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hi poteca, todas cuyas sumas es tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipo teca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida me diante la escritura número 18 otorgada el día 11 de abril de 2008, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Jelka L. Duchisni Sanabria y consta ins crita al folio 764 del tomo 867 de Río Piedras Sur, finca núme ro 22,224, Registro de la Pro piedad de Río Piedras Sur, Sección IV de Bayamón. Por la presente se notifica a los acree dores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a fa vor del Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $370,500.00, con intereses al 7.00% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida me diante la escritura número 19, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de abril de 2008, ante la notario Jelka L. Duchisni Sanabria, e inscrita al folio 705 del tomo 867 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 22,224, ins cripción 6ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la pri mera subasta del inmueble an tes descrito será la suma de $247,000.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta

do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $164,666.67; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $123,500.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer

do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 9 de septiembre de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ

MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST HB2 Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CANDIDO ARROYO RICHARDSON T/C/C CANDIDO ARROYO RICHARSON T/C/C CANDIDO ARROYO, COMPUESTA POR RAMONA ROMERO ESCALERA T/C/C RAMONA ROMERO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; RAMONA ROMERO ESCALERA T/C/C RAMONA ROMERO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03196. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE CANDIDO ARROYO RICHARDSON T/C/C CANDIDO ARROYO RICHARSON T/C/C CANDIDO ARROYO, COMPUESTA POR RAMONA ROMERO ESCALERA T/C/C RAMONA ROMERO,

Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁ LEZ, ALGUACIL, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los deman dados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en gene ral, por la presente CERTIFI CO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONS TAR: Que el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 28 de febrero de 2022. Los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS

TA para la venta de la susodi cha propiedad, el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 9 de mayo de 2022, proce deré a vender en pública su basta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: UR BANA: Solar marcado con el número 172 del plano de ins cripción del Proyecto de Vivien da a bajo costo denominado VBC-7, radicado en el Barrio Sabana Llana del término muni cipal de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 112.00 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el Paseo número 4; por el SUR, con el Solar número 182; por el ESTE, con el Solar número 173 (pared medianera); y por el OESTE, con el Solar número 171 (pared medianera). Encla va una estructura dedicada a vivienda, sobre la cual existe una servidumbre por signo apa rente establecida por la Corpo ración vendedora en las partes que divide dicha estructura de las estructuras enclavadas en los solares número 173 y 171 cuyas paredes continuaran sir viendo a esta estructura y per manecen en común proindiviso en toda su actual extensión y espesor, al propietario de esta estructura y a los propietarios de las edificaciones colindan tes. Finca número 12,408, ins crita al folio 51 del tomo 291 de Sabana Llana. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción V de San Juan. Dirección de la Propiedad: #598 Paseo 4 St. Villa Olimpica Dev, San Juan PR 00924. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su fa vor, a saber: de $60,599.21, con interés al 5.060% anual , por concepto de balance princi pal del préstamo más intereses acumulados, y los cuales conti núan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del présta mo para costas, gastos y hono rarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que co rrespondan a intereses y car gos por demora posterior a di cha fecha, y la suma de $14,850.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para cos tas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumu lados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquie ra suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hi poteca, todas cuyas sumas es tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipo teca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida me diante la escritura número 140 otorgada el día 10 de junio de 2010, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Rosa E. Permuy Calderon y consta ins crita al folio 103 del tomo 1076 de Sabana Llana, finca número 12,408, Registro de la Propie dad de Sabana llana, Sección V de San Juan. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipo tecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del eje cutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hu biesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, posee dores, tenedores de o interesa

FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; RAMONA ROMERO ESCALERA T/C/C RAMONA ROMERO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

dos en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantiza dos hipotecariamente con pos terioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios se ñalados para que puedan con currir a la subasta si les convi niere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honora rios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecu tante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su or den, por la suma principal de $148,500.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 2 de julio de 2085, constituida mediante la escritura número 141, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de junio de 2010, ante el notario Rosa E. Permuy Calderon, e inscrita al la vuelta del folio 103 del tomo 1076 de Sabana Llana, finca número 12,408, inscrip ción 9na. Que la cantidad míni ma de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $148,500.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $99,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho in mueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $74,250.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po

drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá dili genciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerra dura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este des alojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edic to de acuerdo con la ley, me diante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Es tado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) luga res públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribu nal y la Colecturía, y se le notifi cará además a la parte deman dada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última di rección conocida. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y compare cencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 9 de septiembre de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUA

CIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRI MERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC

Demandante Vs. DELSIDA AUREA

CASTRO MACHIN, T/C/C DELSIDA A. CASTRO MACHIN; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV08070. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: DELSIDA AUREA CASTRO MACHIN, T/C/C DELSIDA A. CASTRO MACHIN; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVE DO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte rés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 30 de marzo de 2022. Los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS TA para la venta de la susodi cha propiedad, el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1RO DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MA ÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epí grafe con fecha de 1 de junio de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor, todo derecho, título e inte rés que tenga la parte deman dada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado nú mero nueve del Bloque E del Plano de Inscripción de la Urba nización El Senorial, situada en el Barrio Cupey de Rio Piedras,

Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos ochenta metros cuadrados con veinticinco cen tímetros cuadrados, colindando por el NORTE, en trece metros con la Calle once; por el SUR, en trece metros con el solar D dieciseis; por el ESTE, en vein tinueve metros veintiún centí metros con el solar ocho; y por el OESTE, en veintinueve me tros con veinticinco centímetros con el solar diez. Finca número 2371, inscrita al folio 62 del tomo 161 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. Dirección de la Propie dad: 2023 (9-E), Garcia Lorca, (11) St. El señorial, San Juan PR 00926. La subasta se lleva rá a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $288,782.21, la cual no incluye los intereses que continúan acumulándose; una suma líquida estipulada para costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado en caso de re clamación judicial y que corres pondan a intereses y cargos por demora hasta su pago total; más recargos acumulados has ta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de con tribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pac tadas en la escritura de hipote ca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 191 otorga da el día 25 de febrero de 2009, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Raul Rivera Burgos y consta inscrita al folio 222 del tomo 680 de Río Pie dras Sur, finca número 2,371, Registro de la Propiedad de Río Piedras Sur, Sección IV de San Juan. Por la presente se notifi ca a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus dere chos sobre los bienes hipoteca dos con posterioridad a la ins cripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hi poteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o in teresados en títulos transmisi bles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las su bastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que pue dan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a sa tisfacer antes del remate el im porte del crédito, de sus intere ses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegu rados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipote

ca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $468,000.00, con intereses al 3.89% anual, vencedero el día 11 de marzo de 2089, constitui da mediante la escritur anume ro 192, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de febre ro de 2009, ante el notario Raúl Rivera Burgos, e inscrita al folio 221 del tomo 680 de Rio Pie dras Sur, finca número 2,371, inscripción 18va. Que la canti dad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $312,000.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $208,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $156,000.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad

de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 9 de septiembre de 2022. ERIK F. OSUNA ACE VEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE SONIA MARÍA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SENIA MARÍA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SONIA M. VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SONIA VEGA DE CISNEROS, T/C/C SONIA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SONIA MARÍA VEGA, T/C/C SONIA M. VEGA, T/C/C SONIA VEGA COMPUESTA POR DIEGO CISNERO VEGA, FULANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV07649.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: SUCESIÓN DE SONIA MARÍA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SENIA MARÍA

VEGA TORRES, T/C/C

SONIA M. VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SONIA VEGA DE CISNEROS, T/C/C SONIA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SONIA MARÍA VEGA, T/C/C SONIA M. VEGA, T/C/C SONIA VEGA COMPUESTA POR DIEGO CISNERO VEGA, FULANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULE RO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte rés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 26 de mayo de 2022,. Los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS TA para la venta de la susodi cha propiedad, el 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 5 de julio de 2022, procede ré a vender en pública subasta

y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la par te demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 563 del Bloque LC 33 en el Plano de Inscripción de la Cumbre, loca lizado en el Barrio Monacillo del Municipio de Río Piedras, Puer to Rico, con un área de 331.13 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 24.99 me tros, con el solar 564 del Bloque LC-33 del marcado plano; por el SUR, en 24.99 metros, con el solar número 561 del Bloque LC-33 del mencionado plano; por el ESTE, en 13.50 metros, con la Calle denominada Wash ington Street, del mencionado plano; y por el OESTE, en 12.57 metros, con los solares 584 y 585 del Bloque LC-33 del mencionado plano. Enclava una casa. Finca número 3,064, inscrita al folio 218 del tomo 94 de Monacillos Este y el Cinco. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. Dirección de la Propie dad: 563-LC-33 Washington St. La Cumbre Dev, San Juan PR 00926. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de 87,975.10 de princi pal, más los intereses acumula dos al 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contribu ciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y los cuales continuaran en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, mas $24,000 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pacta da, estipulada para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados has ta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de con tribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pac tadas en la escritura de hipote ca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 362 otorga da el día 15 de octubre de 2013, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Zoila Espinoza Naquer y consta ins crita al tomo Karibe de Monaci llos Esta y El Cinco, finca nú mero 3,064, Registro de la Propiedad de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, Sección V de San Juan. Por la presente se notifi ca a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus dere chos sobre los bienes hipoteca dos con posterioridad a la ins cripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hi poteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o in teresados en títulos transmisi

bles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las su bastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que pue dan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a sa tisfacer antes del remate el im porte del crédito, de sus intere ses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegu rados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipote ca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urba no, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $240,000.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, ven cedero el día 22 de abril de 2093, constituida mediante la escritura número 363, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de octubre de 2013, ante la notario Zoila Espinoza Na quer, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Moncaillos Este y el Cinco, finca número 3,064, inscripción 11ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera su basta del inmueble antes des crito será la suma de $240,000.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $160,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $120,000.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po

drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 9 de septiembre de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL

RAFAEL ANTONINI NAZARIO, T/C/C ANGEL R. ANTONINI NAZARIO, T/C/C ANGEL ANTONINI NAZARIO, T/C/C ANGEL R. ANTONINI

COMPUESTA POR JESSICA ANTONINI MONTES, SANDRA ANTONINI MONTES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE SANDRA FELICITA MONTES MENDEZ, T/C/C/ SANDRA F. MONTES MENDEZ, T/C/C SANDRA M. DE ANTONINI, T/C/C SANDRA MONTES, T/C/C SANDRA MONTES MENDEZ, COMPUESTA POR JESSICA ANTONINI MONTES, SANDRA ANTONINI MONTES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV02034. Sala: 506. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SU BASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL RAFAEL ANTONINI NAZARIO, T/C/C ANGEL R. ANTONINI NAZARIO, T/C/C ANGEL ANTONINI NAZARIO, T/C/C ANGEL R. ANTONINI COMPUESTA POR JESSICA ANTONINI MONTES, SANDRA ANTONINI MONTES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE SANDRA FELICITA MONTES MENDEZ, T/C/C/ SANDRA F. MONTES MENDEZ, T/C/C SANDRA M. DE ANTONINI, T/C/C SANDRA MONTES, T/C/C SANDRA MONTES MENDEZ, COMPUESTA POR JESSICA ANTONINI MONTES, SANDRA ANTONINI MONTES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES

DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁ LEZ, ALGUACIL, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los deman dados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en gene ral, por la presente CERTIFI CO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONS TAR: Que el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 1 de julio de 2021. Los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría du rante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera su basta a celebrarse, se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 25 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudica ción, se celebrará una TERCE RA SUBASTA el día 1 DE NO VIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes in dicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 3 de agosto de 2022, proce deré a vender en pública su basta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: 946 SO 15 St. La Riviera Dev, Guayna bo PR 00921, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Ciento Sesenta y Nueve (169) en el Bloque M-Setenta y Ocho (M78) de la Urbanización Exten sión Reparto Metropolitano ra dicado en el Barrio Monacillos del sitio denominado Río Pie dras del término municipal del gobierno de la capital de Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cincuenta (350.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinticinco (25.00)

metros con el solar número ciento sesenta y ocho (168) del Bloque M-Setenta y Ocho (M78); por el SUR, en una distan cia de veinticinco (25.00) me tros con el solar ciento setenta (170) de Bloque M-Setenta y Ocho (M-78); por el ESTE, en una distancia de catorce (14.00) metros con la calle de nominada “C Street” del men cionado plano; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de catorce (14.00) metros con la Urbaniza ción Reparto Landrau. Enclava una casa.” Property Number 12,549 filed at page 233 of vo lume 327 of Monacillos, Regis try of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of San Juan. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcan ce, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte deman dante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: 149,608.86, incluyendo intere ses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2020, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 5.060% por ciento anual, hasta su completo pago; más la canti dad de $22,050.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal ori ginal pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumu lados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquie ra suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hi poteca, todas cuyas sumas es tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipo teca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida me diante la escritura número 73, otorgada el día 22 de marzo de 2013, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Francis co J. Biaggi Landron y consta inscrita folio 101 del tomo 1003 de Monacillos, finca número 12549, Registro de la Propie dad de San Juan, Sección III de San Juan. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipo tecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del eje cutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hu biesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, posee dores, tenedores de o interesa dos en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantiza dos hipotecariamente con pos terioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios se ñalados para que puedan con currir a la subasta si les convi niere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honora rios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecu tante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca

Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urba no, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $220,500.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, ven cedero el día 9 de diciembre de 2097, constituida mediante la escritura número 74, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de marzo de 2013, ante el notario Francisco J. Biaggi Landrón, e inscrita al folio 101 del tomo 1,003 de Monacillos, finca número 12,549, inscrip ción 13ra. Que la cantidad míni ma de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $220,500.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $147,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $110,250.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad

de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 9 de seteimbre de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GON ZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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M&T 42455 SJ2021CV04805

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR LEGACY MORTGAGE

ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE ARMANDO CORDERO PACHECO COMPUESTA POR VILLAMONTE, LA SUCESIÓN LA SUCESIÓN DE JULIO CORDERO ROSADO, LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS CORDERO ROSADO, LA

SUCESIÓN DE WANDA CORDERO ROSADO, LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS CORDERO CARRIÓN Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ARMANDO CORDERO VILLAMONTE; LA SUCESIÓN DE LUCY CARRIÓN HERNÁNDEZ COMPUESTA POR EMMA CORDERO CARRIÓN, JOSÉ CORDERO CARRIÓN, EDNA CORDERO CARRIÓN, ÁNGEL CORDERO CARRIÓN, LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS CORDERO CARRIÓN, LA SUCESIÓN DE MARIO CORDERO CARRIÓN Y LA SUCESIÓN LUZ CANO CARRIÓN; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LUCY CARRIÓN HERNÁNDEZ; SUTANO Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ARMANDO CORDERO PACHECO; MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE CARLOS CORDERO CARRIÓN; PERENCEJO Y PERENCEJA COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE MARIO CORDERO CARRIÓN; JOHN Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LUZ CANO CARRIÓN; JOHN Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE JULIO CORDERO

ROSADO; PERENGANO Y PERENGANA COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LUIS CORDERO ROSADO; DESCONOCIDO A Y DESCONOCIDA A COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE WANDA CORDERO ROSADO Y DESCONOCIDO B Y DESCONOCIDA B COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ARMANDO CORDERO VILLAMONTE

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV04805.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Al guacil que suscribe por la pre sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cum plimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de ge rente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022

A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, todo derecho, tí tulo e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb. Caparra Terrace, 1170 calle 4 SE, San Juan, PR 00921-1736 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar sito en el Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, mar cado con el número cuatro-A de la manzana JQ de la Urbaniza ción Caparra Terrace, con un área superficial de doscientos treinta y siete metros cuadra dos con cincuenta centímetros de otro más de menos, el cual colinda por el Norte, con la calle número setenta y nueve de la urbanización; por el Sur, con el solar número quince de la manzana JQ; por el Este, con el solar número cinco de la manzana JQ; y por el Oeste, con la propiedad cuatro-B de la dicha manzana JQ. Enclava en este solar una casa de concreto armado con techo de azotea y pisos de losas del país de una sola planta, que consiste de una vivienda de tres dormitorios con sus closets, sala y comedor en una sola unidad, cocina con su closet, balcón y cuarto de baño. La propiedad antes re lacionada consta inscrita en el folio 243 del tomo 680 de Mo nacillos, finca número 21,950, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $87,500.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adju dicación en la primera subas ta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la se gunda 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 $58,333.33.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda

subasta se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA.

Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $43,750.00. La hipoteca a eje cutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la es critura número 492, otorgada el día 25 de junio de 2008, ante el Notario Félix R. Figueroa Cabán y consta inscrita en el folio 131 del tomo 985 de Mo nacillos, finca número 21,950, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera, inscripción novena. El pagaré y la escritura de hipoteca fueron modificados por las partes el 28 de noviembre de 2018 median te el documento titulado Loan Modification Agreement. En virtud del mismo, se estableció como nuevo principal adeuda do la cantidad de $78,182.66, se extendió la fecha de venci miento de la obligación al 1 de noviembre de 2048, se redujo la tasa de interés a 10.007% y se difirió la cantidad de $725.73 al final del préstamo -dicha cuantía no generaría intereses. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcial mente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $78,054.62 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 10.007% anual desde el día 1 de septiembre de 2019. Dichos intereses con tinúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. También, se pagará la cantidad de $725.73 denominada como balance diferido que no genera intereses. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equi valentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calen darios de la fecha vencimiento y la suma de $8,750.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondien tes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Se cretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior duran te las horas laborables. Se en tenderá que todo licitador acep ta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estu dio de título que, sobre la finca

descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta me diante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan ins critos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o de rechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endo so, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con poste rioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedan do subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Legacy Mortgage Asset Trust 2019-PR-I vs. Armando Cordero Pacheco por si, y la Sucesión de Lucy Carrión Her nandez, compuesta por Emma Cordero Carrión y Armando Cordero Pacheco, ante el Tri bunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el caso civil número SJ2021CV04805, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecu ción de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $78,054.62 y otras cantidades, según De manda de fecha 30 de julio de 2021. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Monacillos. Anotación A. Y para conocimiento de licitado res del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de ce lebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colec turía. Este Edicto será publica do mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación ge neral en el Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MU LERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC

Plaintiff, Vs. EMMA ISABEL

JIMENEZ VARGAS

Defendant(s) Civil No.: 3:19-CV-01568. (ADC). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND COLLEC TION OF MONIES. DEFAULT JUDGMENT. On June 11, 2019, Plaintiff filed the instant com plaint against EMMA ISABEL JIMENEZ VARGAS, (hereinaf ter “Defendant”); for Defendant’s non-compliance with the terms and conditions of a loan and mortgage deed in the amount of SEVENTY-SE VEN THOUSAND TWO HUN DRED TWENTY-FIVE DO LLARS ($77,225.00), executed on September 29, 2007. Defen dant was served by publication on July 31, 2019, pursuant to, and in compliance with the applicable Federal Rules of Ci vil Procedure. The Defendant failed to appear, plead or an swer the complaint. Accordin gly, on August 26, 2022, the default was entered against them pursuant to F.R.Civ. P. 55 (a). Plaintiff’s motion for judg ment includes all the evidence necessary to prove the allega tions of the complaint. That evi dence and the information in cluded in this case are sufficient for the Court to enter judgment by default pursuant to F.R.Civ.P. 55, and ORDERS, ADJUDGES

AND DECREES: On Septem ber 29, 2007, for value recei ved, a mortgage note payable to FirstBank Puerto Rico, or its order, was executed before No tary Public Carlos Martínez OImo, affidavit number 13,558. The mortgage note in the princi pal sum of $77,225.00 bears interest on its unpaid principal balance at the rate of 5 1/2% per annum until the dept is paid in full. The principal and inter ests due under the mortgage note are payable in monthly ins tallments. The mortgage note provides for the payment of late charges in the amount of 5% of each and every monthly install ments not received by the per son entitled to enforce the ins trument within 15 days after the installment is due, and for the payment of 10% of the original principal balance, or $7,722.50 to cover costs, expenses and attorney’s fees in the event the person entitled to enforce the instrument is required to seek judicial collection. As guarantee of the repayment obligation evi denced by the Mortgage Note, Defendant also executed on September 29, 2007, Mortgage Deed number 203 before No tary Public Carlos Martínez Olmo, to secure the repayment of (a) the indebtedness eviden ced by the mortgage note, (b) an amount of 10% of the origi nal principal balance, or $7,722.50 to cover cost, expen ses and attorney’s fees in the event of judicial collection, (c) an amount of 10% of the origi nal principal balance, or

$7,722.50 to cover any advan ces made under the mortgage deed, and (d) an amount of 10% of the original principal ba lance, or $7,722.50 to cover in terests in addition to those se cured by law. The mortgage is recorded at page 133 of volume 783 of Rio Piedras Sur, property number 9418, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Fourth Section of San Juan. On Ja nuary 27, 2010, the Defendants and FirstBank Puerto Rico, exe cuted a modification deed num ber 37, titled “First Amendment, Amplification of Mortgage, Con firmation of Mortgage Lien and Petition for Entry of Marginal Notation” before notary public Alexandra M. Serracante Cadi lla. The Defendant and First Bank Puerto Rico modified the principal amount, monthly pay ments, and maturity date, beco ming its new principal the amount of SEVENTY-FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUN DRED FORTY DOLLARS AND TWO CENTS ($78,740.02). The annual Interest rate will be 3.50% for the first 24 payments, and on the 25th month and until the maturity rate, the interest will be 5.50%. Principal and in terest will be for the first 24 con secutive monthly payments of $350.03, and the monthly pay ment starting on the 25th month and until the maturity date will be $402.32, commencing on the 1st of February 2010 and ending on the 1st January 2050. The term of the loan will be 40 years, that Is, 480 pay ments instead of 40 years, that 480 payments. The deed of mo dification is recorded pursuant to Law 216 of December 27, 2010, at abbreviated entry and extended on March 12,2013, at page 133 of volume 783 of Rio Piedras Sur, property identified with number 9418, 6th inscrip tion. On September 1st, 2015, the Defendant entered Into a Loan Modification Agreement regarding the Note above. The terms of the Loan Modification Agreement are: The new princi pal balance of the Note will be $77,316.39 The modification effective date will be on Sept ember 1st, 2015; the first modi fied payment will be due on October 1st, 2015, and the ma turity date will be January 1st, 2050. The interest-bearing prin cipal balance will accrue inter est at a rate of 5.000%. A final balloon payment on the Inter est-Bearing Principal Balance of $4,542.26 will be due on the new maturity date. On May 1st, 2017, the Defendant once more entered into a Loan Modifica tion Agreement regarding the Note above. The terms of the Loan Modification Agreement are: The new principal balance of the Note will be $78,549.21 The modification effective date will be on May 1st, 2017; the first modified payment will be due on June 1st, 2017, and the

maturity date will be May 1st, 2047. The interest-bearing prin cipal balance will accrue inter est at a rate of 3.500%. A final balloon payment on the Inter est-Bearing Principal Balance of $42,081.06 will be due on the new maturity date. The mortga ge deed encumbers the proper ty described below in the Spa nish language: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento 7-D. Esta situado en el nivel 7 del edificio, salien do de los elevadores en direc ción Sur. Su forma es la de un rectángulo que mide de frente 44’ 10 1/2”por 25’ 2” de profun didad, al que hay que adicio narle parte del área del balcón de forma rectangular que mide 12 1/2” por 4’ 10” el que suma un área total de 1190.39 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 110.59 metros cuadrados. Limi ta por el NORTE, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento 7-E; por el SUR, con pared medianera que lo se para del apartamento 7-C; por el ESTE, con espacio sobre te rrenos del propio condominio y por el OESTE, con corredor que da acceso de los aparta mentos en este nivel. Este apartamento esta formado por sala-comedor con balcón mi rando hacia el Este, pasillo inte rior, tres dormitorios con sus respectivos closets, dos baños, Iinen closet, cocina-lavandería con sn closet, despensa y clo set de utiles de limpieza. Le corresponde el espacio de es tacionamiento marcado con el número 7-D. Le corresponde en los elementos comunes gene rales el 668%. Recorded at page 262, volume 292 of Río Piedras Sur, property number 9418, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Fourth Section of San Juan. GITSIT SOLU TIONS LLC is the person entit led to enforce the mortgage note pursuant to 19 L.P.R.A. Sec. 601. It was expressly sti pulated in the mortgage note and in the mortgage that default in the payment of the monthly installments or failure to comply with the covenants or agree ments included in the mortgage note and / or the mortgage deed would authorize the per son entitled to enforce the ins trument to declare due and pa yable, and to proceed with the execution or foreclosure of the mortgage. The last payment made by the defendant under the mortgage note was the pay ment due on November 1st, 2017. The Defendant has failed to comply with the terms of the mortgage note and the mortga ge deed and have breached their duties to pay the monthly installments due since Novem ber 1, 2017, until present day.

GITSIT SOLUTIONS LLC has attempted without avail to co llect the indebtedness eviden ced by the mortgage note. The entire principal sum and ac

crued interests and expenses have become due and payable pursuant to the acceleration clause of the mortgage and mortgage deed. After declaring all the indebtedness of the De fendants due and payable, the Defendant owes GITSIT SOLU TIONS LLC and are ORDERED to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of $78,168.41, plus inter est 4.50000% per annum from October 1st, 2017, until the debt is paid in full. The Defendants also owe and are ORDERED to pay GITSIT SOLUTIONS LLC late charges in the amount of 5% of each and every monthly installment not received by the person entitled to enforce the instrument within 15 days after the installment was due, until the debt is paid in full. The De fendants also owe and are OR DERED to pay GITSIT SOLU TIONS LLC all advances made under the mortgage note, inclu ding, but not limited to, insuran ce premiums, taxes and inspec tions, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $7,722.50 to cover costs, ex penses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. If the Defendants do not pay the amount of money ordered to pay or ay part of it within ten (10) days from the date of entry of judgment, the property, pursuant to Plaintiff’s request, and with the purpose of collecting the monies due pursuant to the mortgage note, the mortgage deed and this jud gment shall be sold to its hig hest bidder at a public auction or judicial sale, by the United States Marshal for this district or the Special Master to be ap pointed by this Court. The Uni ted States Marshal or the Spe cial Master shall conduct the sale of the property in accor dance with 28 U.S.C. 2001 and 2002. The amount of $77,225.00. as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall ‘serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produ ce an award or adjudication, two-thirds (2/3) of the amount of the first public sale or $51,483.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudica tion at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $38,612.50, equivalent to half (1/2) the amount set for the first public sale. The United States Marshal or the Special Master shall issue the corresponding notice of sale to be published in a newspaper of general circula tion. Once the order of confir mation of the sale is entered, the United States Marshal or the Special Master will execute the corresponding deed of judi cial sale vesting title of the pro perty to the purchaser, who shall be entitled to the delivery

of the property and its physical possession. Possession may be obtained by evicting the property’s occupant without the need of further order of this Court. Plaintiff may apply to this Court for those additional or ders as it may deem advisable to its interest, in accordance with the terms of this judgment. The Clerk shall issue all writs necessary to enforce and exe cute the judgment. IT IS SO ORDERED. In San Juan, Puer to Rico, on this 13th day of Sep tember, 2022. AIDA M. DELGA DO-COLON, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO ORIENTAL

Parte Demandante V. LUIS A. RODRÍGUEZ

OLIQUE T/C/C LUIS ARMANDO RODRÍGUEZ

OLIQUE

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2021CV00241. Sala: 705. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LUIS A RODRÍGUEZ

OLIQUE T/C/C LUIS ARMANDO RODRÍGUEZ

OLIQUE.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: AGS LEGAL COLLECTIONS, LLC Abogados De Ia Parte Demandante Lcdo. Ricardo A. Acevedo Bianchi - Rua 20637

Lcdo. José R. Gonzalez RiveraRua 13105

Lcdo. Juan A. Santos BerriosRua 9774 P.O. Box 10242 Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792

Teléfono: (939) 545-4300

Email: rab@agslegalpr.com o jrg@ agslegalpr.com

POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva, con copia a Ia representación legal de Ia parte demandante, dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplaza miento, excluyéndose el día su publicación. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudiial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia secretarla del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva

dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en Ia demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de junio de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRE

TARIA. BRENDA L. TORRES PÉREZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU

NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO

ORIENTAL Demandante V. JAIME TORRES ADORNO Demandado(a) Civl: CG2021CV00243. Sala: 705. Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADO.

A: JAIME TORRES ADORNO. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de julio de 2022, este Tri bunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de septiembre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 14 de septiembre de 2022. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Liz Wharton Rosa, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU

NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO

ORIENTAL Demandante V. KERRYLYNN CABEZAS RIVERA

Demandado(a) Civil: CG2020CV02326. Sala: 705. Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADO.

A: KERRYLYNN CABEZAS RIVERA.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de septiembre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 14 de septiembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRE TARIA. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. MILDRED Y. DAUMONT FIGUEROA

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022CV01084. Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MILDRED Y. DAUMONT FIGUEROA. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de septiembre de 2022. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 13 de septiembre de 2022. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secre taria. Ivette M. Marrero Bracero, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST AB1

Demandante

JOSE FRANCISCO MILLS MARTINEZ T/C/C JOSE F. MILLS MARTINEZ T/C/C JOSE F. MILLS-MARTINEZ T/C/C JOSE F. MILLS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00557. Sala: 508. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSE FRANCISCO MILLS MARTINEZ T/C/C

JOSE F. MILLS MARTINEZ T/C/C JOSE F. MILLSMARTINEZ T/C/C JOSE F. MILLS.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia

Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de septiembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 15 de septiembre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Martha Almodóvar Cabrera, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs. EDUARDO ROSARIO NIEVES Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00507.

Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SS.

A: EDUARDO ROSARIO NIEVES- VILLA CAROLINA 204-30 CALLE 513, CAROLINA PR 00985.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo en tiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero y la Lcda. Andrea Del Mar Ruiz-Hassan cuyas di recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@

orf-law.com, andrea.ruiz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Ca rolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de julio de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 15 de julio de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Ro dríguez, Secretaria Regional. Damaris Torres Ruiz, Secreta ria Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. HÉCTOR MIGUEL MARRERO PÉREZ, LILLIAN REYES LÓPEZ DE VICTORIA T/C/C LILLIAM REYES LÓPEZ DE VICTORIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, LA SUCESIÓN DE RAYMOND JOSUÉ VELÁZQUEZ BENÍTEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00720. Sala: 402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBAS TA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 21 de junio de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 19 de agosto de 2022 y el Manda miento de Ejecución del 22 de agosto de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 21 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en la Avenida 65 Infantería, Carretera Número Tres (3), Kilómetro 11.7 (En trada de la Urbanización Man siones de Carolina) Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda

de los Estados Unidos de Amé rica, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización La Marina V, hoy (Quintas de Country Club) radicada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscrip ción Urbanización, con el nú mero, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: 22 del bloque C, con una cabida superficial de 198.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 11.357 metros con la Avenida Iturregui; por el SUR, en una distancia de 10.64 metros con la Calle Número Uno (1); por el ESTE, en una distancia de 18.00 metros con el solar número 21 del bloque C; y por el OESTE, en una dis tancia de 18.00 metros con el solar número 23 del bloque C. Este solar está gravado por su lado Norte y por su lado Sur con una servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de 3.00 metros y por su lado Sur con una a favor de la Puer to Rico Telephone Company de 1.50 metros. Sobre este solar enclava una casa de concreto reforzado destinada a vivienda para una familia. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 281 del tomo 802 de Carolina, Finca Número 38664, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sec ción I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 48 del tomo 956 de Carolina, Finca Número 38664, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. Inscripción cuarta. Dirección Física: Urb. Quintas de Country Club, C22 Calle 1, Carolina, PR 00982-2032. Número de Ca tastro: 20-064-041-281-22-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $132,600.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 28 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TAR DE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $88,400.00. De no ha ber adjudicación en la segun da subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 4 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $66,300.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su

producto satisfacer a la deman dante el importe de la Senten cia por la suma de $105,274.56 de principal, más intereses so bre dicha suma al 6.5% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $1,550.67 de recargos acumu lados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $13,260.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el con trato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Héctor Miguel Marrero Pé rez, Lillian Reyes López de Vic toria también conocida como Lilliam Reyes López de Victoria y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por la Sucesión Raymond Josué Velázquez Benítez compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Departamento de Hacienda por conducto de la División de Caudales Relictos y el Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), ante el Tri bunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2022CV00720

sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecu ción de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $105,274.56

y otras cantidades, según De manda de fecha 10 de marzo de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Ka ribe de Carolina. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los do cumentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expe diente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licita dor acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, conti nuarán subsistentes; enten diéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mis mos, sin destinarse a su extin ción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-

2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los luga res públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de septiembre de 2022. Samuel González Isaac, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Prime ra Instancia, Centro Judicial De Carolina, Sala Superior.

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EDGARDO VAZQUEZ ROSADO E ISIS CRISTINA

PASTRANA LOPEZ

Demandante Vs. CITIBANK NA; DEANNA DAWN VARGAS T/C/C DEANNA D. HERNANDO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES

TENEDORES CON INTERÉS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02900.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRA VIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: DEANNA DAWN

VARGAS T/C/C DEANNA D. HERNANDO. PO BOX 3335 FALLS CHURCH VA 2204 3 (PERSONAS

DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS).

En este caso la parte deman dante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicial mente el saldo del siguiente pagare Citibank N. A., o a su orden, por Trescientos Catorce Mil Dólares ($314,000.00), con intereses al cuatro y tres cuar to por ciento (4 3/4%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de diciembre del dos mil treinta y cuatro (2034), según consta de la escritura número setecientos setenta (#770), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día veinticuatro (24) de noviembre del dos mil cuatro (2004), ante el Notario Público Raúl Rivera Burgos, inscrito al folio #181 del tomo #142 de Carolina Sur, finca #60,383, inscripción 2nda y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad sita en 11 N (455) CALLE REINA DE LAS FLORES, URBANIZACION HACIENDA REAL, CAROLI NA, PR 00987, que se des cribe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número once (11) Bloque “N” de la Ur banización Hacienda Real de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Con una cabida superficial de quinientos cuarenta punto cero cero cero cero (540.0000) metros cuadra dos. Colindando por el NORTE, con el Lote “N” Doce (12), con

treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros; por el SUR, con el Lote “N” Diez (10), con treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros; por el ESTE, con el Lote “N” Dos (2), con Quince metros (15.00) y con el lote “N” Tres (3), con tres punto cero cero (3.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número tres (3), con dieciocho punto cero cero (18.00) metros, todos de la referida Urbaniza ción. Consta de un Nivel, cuatro dormitorios, dos baños, un “fa mily room”, una sala, una coci na, un comedor, “laundry”, una terraza techada y marquesina doble. Inscrita al folio 43 del tomo 1434 de Carolina Sur, fin ca número 60,383, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina Sec ción Segunda. La parte deman dante alega que dicho Pagaré se ha extraviado, según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaria de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de unas obligaciones hipotecarias, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radi cando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alega ción responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puer to Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcda. Edeli Ma rie Placeres Miranda, de PO BOX 192021 SAN JUAN, PR 00919-2021 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebel día y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TES

TIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 06 de sep tiembre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Maricruz Aponte Ali cea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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EDGARDO VAZQUEZ

ROSADO E ISIS CRISTINA

PASTRANA LOPEZ

Demandante Vs. CITIBANK NA; DEANNA DAWN VARGAS T/C/C

DEANNA D. HERNANDO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES

TENEDORES CON INTERES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02900.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRA VIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: CITIBANK NA. CITIBANK CUSTOMER SERVICE P.O. BOX 6500 SIOUX FALLS, SD 57117 (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS).

En este caso la parte deman dante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicial mente el saldo del siguiente pagare Citibank N. A., o a su orden, por Trescientos Catorce Mil Dólares ($314,000.00), con intereses al cuatro y tres cuar to por ciento (4 3/4%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de diciembre del dos mil treinta y cuatro (2034), según consta de la escritura número setecientos setenta (#770), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día veinticuatro (24) de noviembre del dos mil cuatro (2004), ante el Notario Público Raúl Rivera Burgos, inscrito al folio #181 del tomo #142 de Carolina Sur, finca #60,383, inscripción 2nda y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad sita en 11 N (455) CALLE REINA DE LAS FLORES, URBANIZACION HACIENDA REAL, CAROLI NA, PR 00987, que se des cribe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número once (11) Bloque “N” de la Ur banización Hacienda Real de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Con una cabida superficial de quinientos cuarenta punto cero cero cero cero (540.0000) metros cuadra dos. Colindando por el NORTE, con el Lote “N” Doce (12), con treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros; por el SUR, con el Lote “N” Diez (10), con treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros; por el ESTE, con el Lote “N” Dos (2), con Quince metros (15.00) y con el lote “N” Tres (3), con tres punto cero cero (3.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número tres (3), con dieciocho punto cero cero (18.00) metros, todos de la referida Urbaniza ción. Consta de un Nivel, cuatro dormitorios, dos baños, un “fa mily room”, una sala, una coci na, un comedor, “laundry”, una terraza techada y marquesina doble. Inscrita al folio 43 del tomo 1434 de Carolina Sur, fin ca número 60,383, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina Sec ción Segunda. La parte deman dante alega que dicho Pagaré se ha extraviado, según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaria de

este Tribunal. Por tratarse de unas obligaciones hipotecarias, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radi cando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alega ción responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puer to Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcda. Edeli Ma rie Placeres Miranda, de PO BOX 192021 SAN JUAN, PR 00919-2021 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebel día y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TES TIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 06 de sep tiembre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Maricruz Aponte Ali cea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA EDGARDO VAZQUEZ ROSADO E ISIS CRISTINA PASTRANA LOPEZ

Demandante Vs. CITIBANK NA; DEANNA DAWN VARGAS T/C/C DEANNA D. HERNANDO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02900.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRA VIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS).

En este caso la parte deman dante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicial mente el saldo del siguiente pagare Citibank N. A., o a su orden, por Trescientos Catorce Mil Dólares ($314,000.00), con intereses al cuatro y tres cuar to por ciento (4 3/4%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de diciembre del dos mil treinta y

cuatro (2034), según consta de la escritura número setecientos setenta (#770), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día veinticuatro (24) de noviembre del dos mil cuatro (2004), ante el Notario Público Raúl Rivera Burgos, inscrito al folio #181 del tomo #142 de Carolina Sur, finca #60,383, inscripción 2nda y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad sita en 11 N (455) CALLE REINA DE LAS FLORES, URBANIZACION HACIENDA REAL, CAROLI NA, PR 00987, que se des cribe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número once (11) Bloque “N” de la Ur banización Hacienda Real de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Con una cabida superficial de quinientos cuarenta punto cero cero cero cero (540.0000) metros cuadra dos. Colindando por el NORTE, con el Lote “N” Doce (12), con treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros; por el SUR, con el Lote “N” Diez (10), con treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros; por el ESTE, con el Lote “N” Dos (2), con Quince metros (15.00) y con el lote “N” Tres (3), con tres punto cero cero (3.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número tres (3), con dieciocho punto cero cero (18.00) metros, todos de la referida Urbaniza ción. Consta de un Nivel, cuatro dormitorios, dos baños, un “fa mily room”, una sala, una coci na, un comedor, “laundry”, una terraza techada y marquesina doble. Inscrita al folio 43 del tomo 1434 de Carolina Sur, fin ca número 60,383, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina Sec ción Segunda. La parte deman dante alega que dicho Pagaré se ha extraviado, según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaria de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de unas obligaciones hipotecarias, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radi cando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alega ción responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puer to Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcda. Edeli Ma rie Placeres Miranda, de PO BOX 192021 SAN JUAN, PR 00919-2021 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebel

día y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TES TIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 06 de sep tiembre de 2022. LCDA. MA RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. ANDRES VARELA LOZADA

Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04662. Salón: 603. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: ANDRÉS VARELA LOZADA - 355 CALLE FORTALEZA APT. 3 SAN JUAN PR 00901.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presen tar 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 re beldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la de manda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, la Lcda. Natalie Bonaparte cuyas direc ciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonapar te@orf-law.com, a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San

Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 03 de agosto de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Diana C. Pérez Sierra, Secreta ria De Servicios A Sala.

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Demandante Vs. ALEXIS RAMIREZ TOLEDO Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01807.

Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ALEXIS RAMIREZ TOLEDOURB. VALLE ARRIBA HTS, BP9 CALLE 109, CAROLINA 00983-3317.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presen tar 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 re beldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la de manda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente.

El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la par te demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas di recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 ala dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, edwin.serrano@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notiflcaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caro lina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 03 de agosto de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 03 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APON TE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETA

RIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETA

RIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN JOSE

ALBERTO VAZQUEZ

PEREZ COMPUESTA

POR JOSE ALBERTO

VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO, LOURDES MELISSA

VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO, NANCY IVONNE

VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO,

LINNETTE MARIE HERNÁNDEZ

VÁZQUEZ, NELSON

DAMIÁN HERNÁNDEZ

VÁZQUEZ; JOHN DOE

Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; NORMA ALVARADO COLLADO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS E AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00166.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOSE ALBERTO VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO, LOURDES MELISSA

VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO, NANCY IVONNE VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO, LINNETTE MARIE HERNÁNDEZ

VÁZQUEZ, NELSON

DAMIÁN HERNÁNDEZ

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Maury Wills, master of the stolen base, is dead at 89

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN

Maury

Wills, the star Los Angeles Dodger shortstop who revived the art of base-stealing in the 1960s and became one of the most excit ing ballplayers of his time, died Monday night at his home in Sedona, Arizona. He was 89.

His death was announced by the Dodgers.

The chants of “Go, go, go!” resound ed from Dodger fans when the slender Wills took a lead off first base. He was soon off and running — stealing second base, and sometimes third moments later, spurring the usually light-hitting Dodgers to scratch out enough runs to come up winners.

Wills had spent more than eight sea sons in the minors when he joined the Dodgers in early June 1959. But he took over at shortstop and helped bring the team four pennants and three World Se ries championships.

Wills set a modern major league re cord when he stole 104 bases in 1962, eclipsing the record of 96 set by Ty Cobb in 1915 and transforming baseball from the power game that had prevailed since Babe Ruth’s heyday. He set the stage for Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals, who stole 118 bases in 1974, and Rickey Hen derson of the Oakland A’s, who set the current record with 130 steals in 1982.

The Seattle Mariners hired Wills in August 1980 as the third Black manager in major league baseball history, follow ing Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians and Larry Doby of the Chicago White Sox. But Wills’ managerial tenure was brief and unsuccessful. He was later plagued by cocaine addiction.

In his base-stealing prime, Wills was adept at getting a quick jump off the bag, and he was a master of sliding under or around a tag. He took long leads and studied pitchers’ habits intently.

Most of all, it was a mental duel for Wills.

“Stealing is a matter of confidence, even conceit,” he told The New York Times in September 1962. “It’s more than getting a good jump, a big lead. It’s be ing in the right frame of mind. I run with

the thought that the pitcher will make a perfect throw and the catcher will make a perfect throw and I’ll still beat them. I don’t have a doubt.”

A hardly imposing 5 feet, 10 inches and 165 pounds, Wills, known as Mouse to his teammates, was a popular figure among Dodger fans in Los Angeles during the team’s first decade there after leaving Brooklyn.

Early in September 1962, while cov ering the race for California governor be tween the incumbent, Edmund Brown, and Richard Nixon, the Washington col umnist James Reston of the Times wrote, “If, after the season, Maury Wills were to run for governor, neither Brown nor Nix on would have a chance.”

Maurice Morning Wills was born Oct. 2, 1932, in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., one of 13 children of Guy and Mable Wills. His father was a minister who also worked as a machinist at the Washington Navy Yard. His mother worked as an elevator operator.

At Cardozo High School in Washing ton, Wills played football — quarterback on offense, safety on defense and kicker on special teams — and starred in base

ball as a pitcher, winning all-city honors in both sports. He was converted to an infielder after joining the Dodgers’ orga nization in 1951.

In his rookie season with the Dodg ers, the team won the World Series, de feating the Chicago White Sox, who had their own outstanding base-stealer in Luis Aparicio. Wills stole 50 bases in 1960, his first full season, and went on to win the National League’s base-stealing title ev ery year through 1965.

He was named the league’s MVP in 1962. He played on Dodger World Se ries championship teams again in 1963 and 1965 and a pennant-winner in 1966, teams powered by the pitching of Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

Wills was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates after the 1966 season. He later played for the Montreal Expos and then was traded back to the Dodgers in June 1969, finishing his career with them in 1972.

He stole 586 bases (putting him 20th on the all-time major league career list) and had a career batting average of .281, with 2,134 hits — only 20 of them home runs. He was a five-time All-Star and win

ner of the Gold Glove award for fielding in 1961 and 1962. He remained on the Hall of Fame ballot for 15 seasons but was never inducted.

Wills was a baseball analyst for NBCTV’s “Game of the Week” during the 1970s.

Taking over a weak team when he was named the Mariners’ manager, he was probably most remembered in Se attle for being suspended for two games after he was caught illegally ordering the team’s groundskeeper to extend the bat ter’s box by a foot toward the pitcher’s rubber before a game with the Oakland A’s on April 25, 1981. Billy Martin, the A’s manager, believed Wills was trying to give Mariner batters a better chance to connect against his starting pitcher, Rick Langford, before his deliveries broke.

Wills was fired on May 6. He had only a 26-56 record as the Mariners’ manager.

He acknowledged in his memoir, “On the Run: The Never Dull and Of ten Shocking Life of Maury Wills” (1992), written with Mike Celizic, that he strug gled with cocaine addiction, but he be came sober in the late 1980s. He was later a baserunning instructor for the Dodger organization and for other teams.

Wills had six children, all from his first marriage, to Gertrude (Elliott) Wills, whom he married in high school, accord ing to his memoir. That marriage ended in divorce, as did his second marriage, to Angela George.

He is survived by his third wife, Carla; two sons, Barry and Bump; four daughters, Mauricia Wills, Anita Wills, Wendi Wills and Susan Wills-Quam; seven grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren. A number of his siblings also survive him.

Wills’ son Bump was an infielder for the Texas Rangers and Chicago Cubs in the late 1970s and early ’80s.

Though his Dodgers were usually winners, Wills didn’t need to look at the scoreboard to tell when he had fallen short. “I know when I have had a lousy day just by looking down at my uniform,” he told Sports Illustrated in 1965. “If it isn’t dirty, I haven’t scored two runs, I haven’t done my job.”

Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers sliding into third base ahead of the throw to the St. Louis Cardinals’ Ken Boyer in 1965. His base running helped bring the Dodgers four pennants and three World Series championships.

With his 60th home run, Aaron Judge continues march on history

By JAMES WAGNER

Sixty is a big, fat round number. In baseball’s long history, only five players had hit that many home runs in a season. Whether or not they were aided by performance enhancers, they are among the greatest hitters of all time: Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Maris and Babe Ruth. For the first time in over two de cades, a new name has joined that list.

With a 430-foot blast to lead off the ninth inning of Tuesday’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yan kees outfielder Aaron Judge hit his 60th of the year, adding yet another mem orable moment to one of the greatest offensive seasons ever. His home run also started a rally — four batters later, Giancarlo Stanton delivered a walk-off grand slam, giving the Yankees a 9-8 win.

And with 15 games left in the Yan kees’ regular season after the conclu sion of Tuesday’s game, Judge still has plenty of time to threaten Maris’ Ameri can League record of 61 home runs in a season, set in 1961 and considered by some to be the clean home run record. Bonds holds the major-league record, with 73 home runs in 2001, but, like Sosa and McGwire, he has been tied to performance-enhancing drug use dur ing an era before steroid testing began.

There are many ways to illustrate the excellence of Judge’s 2022 season but few would be as telling as this: en tering Tuesday, the next highest home run total this year is 39, belonging to Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber. Accord ing to the Elias Sports Bureau, the last time before this season that a player led the majors by more than 20 home runs was 1928, when Ruth (54) bested Jim Bottomley and Hack Wilson by 23.

“Early on in the year, he would hit a home run and we’re all jumping up and down,” Yankees hitting coach Dil lon Lawson said of Judge. “It isn’t that we’re not excited about it anymore, but it’s just a different form of excitement. You’re like, ‘Wow, again’ and ‘again, oh my gosh’ and ‘again!’ You’re more in awe of it now that it’s sustained and that it’s gone on for this long. He’s been

so consistent, not just on the field but in the clubhouse.”

It is not like Judge hadn’t been a great hitter already. In his five full sea sons before 2022, he had 154 home runs, a .954 on-base plus slugging per centage, three All-Star selections, a 2017 AL Rookie of the Year trophy and was runner-up for the MVP Award that season.

But Lawson said Judge has been even better now because he is con stantly tweaking, focusing especially well on his load — how he readies his body before swinging — and he has been even better at controlling how he hits the ball.

An already elite bat speed coupled with an improved bat path through the strike zone has meant even more home runs — left, right and center — on all sorts of offerings. Judge is hitting the ball just as hard this year as past sea sons (an average exit velocity of 95.8 mph), but making more contact on the barrel of the bat than ever and hitting more fly balls than before.

In other words, Judge has been a terror to opposing pitchers. He is 6-foot-7, 282 pounds and can clobber all types of pitches; for example, he has a whopping MLB-leading .822 slugging

percentage against the most important one of all, the fastball. Lawson said that Judge has not only hammered opposing pitchers’ mistakes but he has also been taking away their successes.

“Some pitchers are really good at not missing into a hitter’s damage zone,” Lawson said. “For righties, that’s mostly down and in, and guys can keep their fastballs up and out away from it. He’s done a really good job of recog nizing who those guys are and picking his times to be like, ‘All right, I’m going to leave my area of strength and I’m go ing to take their strength away.’”

The result is a season for the ages. Based on one advanced statistic — OPS+, which adjusts for the varying siz es in ballparks and compares a player to his peers — Judge has a 213 OPS+, good for top 50 of all time. Another way of saying it: since a 100 OPS+ is league average, Judge is more than twice as good as an average hitter. Mike Trout, a three-time AL MVP, has gotten close but never recorded an OPS+ of 200 or more in a season.

The historic performance is a result of Judge being relentless at the plate, according to his teammate Stanton.

“When the game is out of hand or you already got three hits on the day,

that fifth at-bat is the most important of the day,” he said. “A lot of those subcon sciously you lose your focus maybe. So from my vantage point, I see him giving away the least amount of at-bats. Over 600-700 at-bats in a season, when you have that power and you get two extra at-bats per series, you add that up.”

When asked over the weekend in what ways he had become a better hit ter, as he is also vying for another rare feat of a triple crown, Judge’s answer was simple: “Staying on the field and getting more at-bats.” He was allud ing to his health this season. After bat tling injuries from 2018 to 2020, he has largely avoided the injured list since.

During a game at Yankee Stadium over the summer, Judge clubbed an other home run and his total was in the 40s, and he and Lawson were sitting near the bat rack in the dugout and hav ing a typical debrief: Did the at-bat play out as you were expecting? Were you looking for that pitch?

Then Lawson couldn’t help himself. He complimented Judge, saying, “My kids’ kids are going to be talking about this.” Judge simply smiled. Reflecting on the moment later, Lawson added, “I’ll pass away and there’s going to be gen erations that are gone that will still be talking about Aaron Judge the way that they talk about these Yankees legends.”

Asked repeatedly in recent weeks about his chase of Maris (or Ruth), Judge has often demurred and pointed to his focus on winning. “I’m thinking about we’re coming down the stretch and we’ve got some big games coming up,” he said after smashing his 58th and 59th home runs on Sunday.

Even though Judge publicly down played the possibility of making history, fans and his teammates knew the sig nificance of the number 60. When he was with the Miami Marlins in 2017 and won the National League MVP Award, Stanton hit 59 home runs. He had three games remaining in the regular season to reach 60 and didn’t get there.

“You want to get to the round num ber,” he said recently. “For me, anyway, that was a good one to shoot for.” And on Tuesday, Judge got there, a place very few others have reached.

With his ninth inning home run on Tuesday, Aaron Judge joined Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Maris and Babe Ruth as the only players to hit 60 home runs in a single season.

Federer says he will close career with doubles match at Laver Cup

By ANDREW DAS

Once he decided his competitive career was over, Roger Feder er said, it was just a matter of scripting the perfect ending.

For months, he and those closest to him kept his secret. He had consid ered announcing his retirement before the U.S. Open, he said Wednesday, but knew he would not attend and preferred “a chance to properly say goodbye to the fans.” He had pondered doing so dur ing the tournament, but by then Serena Williams had announced her own retire ment. That meant another month of wait ing.

Finally, last week, Federer told the world his news: He would play one final tournament, at the Laver Cup in London this week, and that would be that. On Wednesday, he said would go out “hap py” but not satisfied, and on his own terms.

“I always feel sorry for players who sometimes retire on the tour, say, ‘I’m go ing to play one more match,’ and then at one point you stand there all alone,” he said.

Federer will instead go out surround ed by the players, family, friends and fans that have meant the most to him in his career. His final match will come Friday, a one-night-only doubles appearance in which he is expected to team up with his longtime friend and foe Rafael Nadal.

“I just thought it was very fitting,” Federer said of finishing his career in London, the city where he won a record eight Wimbledon singles titles.

Federer revealed Wednesday that he had known since the summer that his ca reer as a singles champion was finished, whether he liked it or not. He was about a year into his rehabilitation from his lat est knee injury and he could feel it was getting more difficult. He knew pushing on would take more than he was willing to give and potentially require yet anoth er surgery that he had already decided he would not accept.

“At some point you sit down and go, OK, we are at an intersection here, a crossroad, and you have to take a turn,” he said. “Which way is it?

“I was not willing to go in the direc

tion of, let’s risk it all. I’m not ready for that.” He had, he said Tuesday, “stopped believing” he could rehabilitate his latest knee injury enough to continue at a level he would accept.

“I know my limitations,” Federer said.

Appearing relaxed and calm in a blue blazer and white golf shirt, he ap peared at ease with his decision and in control of his emotions — much to his relief, he admitted — but acknowledged that even he could not be sure how he would perform.

“Obviously, I’m nervous going in, because I haven’t played in so long,” he said. “I hope it can be somewhat com petitive.”

His pairing with Nadal may be the tournament’s worst-kept secret: Both players hinted at reprising their so-called Fedal doubles team in February when they committed to play in the Laver Cup, a Ryder Cup-style event in which com petitors representing a Team Europe and a Team World square off in team play.

Federer’s desire to play only doubles presented a rules problem, though; the competition rules require players to com

pete in at least one singles match, and his opting out required the approval of both team captains as well as tournament and ATP Tour officials, since the cup is a tour event.

Federer, who helped create the Laver Cup as part of his billion-dollar business empire, said Wednesday that he had first sought the permission of the European captain, Bjorn Borg. When Borg agreed, they brought the idea to the World cap tain, John McEnroe, and to tour officials to ensure that his accommodation also had their approval. Federer said that Ital ian star Matteo Berrettini would replace him in the singles matches.

Asked about reports that he was planning to team with Nadal in his own final match, though, Federer was coy since the matchups will not be confirmed until today.

“I don’t know if it’s going to happen,” Federer said, a white lie at best, “but I think it could be obviously a special mo ment.”

Champions are often defined by statistics, and Federer’s rival any player in tennis history: 103 tour singles titles, 20 Grand Slam singles titles, 310 weeks

ranked No. 1. He won a record eight Wimbledon championships, six more at the Australian and five at the U.S. Open in New York, where his matches drew celebrities and fellow athletes and every day fans captivated by his elegance, his poise and his craftsmanship.

In one period at the height of his ca reer, from early 2004 to October 2008, Federer held the No. 1 ranking for an astonishing 237 weeks in a row. His two decades at the top of his sport spanned generations: Federer defeated the likes of Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi as a young pro; traded shots and titles with his Laver Cup teammates Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray for years; and was called an “idol” and “inspiration” last week by the game’s rising star, newly crowned U.S. Open champion Carlos Al caraz, who was born two months before Federer won his first major.

But while his victories defined his ca reer, Federer’s losses helped to human ize it. He will retire with a losing record against the other two defining stars of his era, Nadal and Djokovic, and he was defeated by them in two of the biggest matches of his career, against Nadal in the 2008 Wimbledon final and against Djokovic on the same stage in 2019. Fe derer had held two match points on his serve at age 37 but could not close out his victory.

Federer had, by then, learned to con trol the combustible temper and com petitive streak that had frustrated both coaches and his parents early in his ca reer, funneling his fire into a more mea sured pursuit of perfection. His emotions were never far from the surface, though, at times seeping out in tears, especially early in his career, in victory and defeat.

He will be remembered most, though, for exuding cool: a shot-maker who painted corners and lines like an artist, a dancer whose ability to glide around a singles court masked his power and pre cision, and made tennis, and particularly his tennis, look so easy, so natural.

“When you have a vision of being a champion, you see yourself winning one tournament, or maybe more than one, but not many, many times in a row, or staying as long as I did,” he said. “That was definitely very special.”

Roger Federer said one final doubles match in London this week would serve as his farewell to competitive tennis.

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Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 37Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

You’re inspired to dress as freely and flamboyantly as you like. And if this boosts your confidence and encourages you to be bolder and more fearless, then even better. The Moon’s positive link with healing Chiron, encourages you not to play small by focusing on your issues, but to live life large, and make today count by tapping into your ability for inspirational decisions and actions.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

If you’re suffering from a midweek slump, then try to be kinder to yourself today, Taurus. You’ll benefit from taking some time out and not making too many plans, especially those that involve extra work. And if you have a chance for some pampering and selfcare, this is the ideal opportunity for a spa day or a soothing massage. Add in some healthy meals, and you’re all set.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

The Moon’s pulsing aspect with Chiron, the wounded healer, suggests someone may touch a trigger point. On a normal day, this would cause you to speak your mind. Something different might happen today, Gemini. As quick as a flash, you’ll think up a better way to deal with this. Whatever their perspective or motives, it’s better to part on peaceful terms than feel annoyed.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Put thoughts of failure out of your mind, and aim high today. Don’t let previous efforts that may have disappointed you, stop you in your tracks. A fiery surge from the Leo Moon and its link to uplifting Chiron, encourages you to make that call, apply for that amazing job, and go out of your way to push yourself forward. As long as you keep trying, you’re on the way to better times.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

You’ll realize that you have more power than you think to overcome anything that’s held you back. You don’t have to identify with your thoughts or feelings, both of which fuel your beliefs. You are beyond both! Today, the Moon/Chiron aspect inspires you to test this, Leo. Is something out of reach? A detached and determined approach can help you move out of your comfort zone.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Things are happening in secret, that you may be quietly pleased about. A soothing but positive line-up involving the Moon and Chiron, hints at the chance to mend a relationship that has suffered a setback. If you’re already spoken for, it might mean an in-depth discussion that leaves you more in love than ever. If it’s a developing romance, then making-up could be heaven.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Your social skills, along with today’s line-up, could help smooth over difficulties associated with a team project or even a fun outing. If there are one or two snags to contend with, then it may be down to listening to what others have to say and finding a way to address their concerns. You have a knack of inspiring cooperation in edgy situations, and it won’t let you down, Libra.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

If an opportunity comes up to prove yourself, this is the time to go ahead. There’s no harm in being proud of your abilities and enjoying a chance to show off. In fact, it can do wonders for your confidence. So, if you get asked to do something you know you excel at, snap it up. If this is linked to your job, career or ambitions, then it could be another step on your journey to success.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

While you may be busy with your responsibilities, you could be dazzled by an idea that is just too good to pass by. It might be very different to anything you’ve considered before, and getting involved can give you fresh options to play with. You enjoy the feeling of making new discoveries, and your love of the unknown feeds your soul. Embrace this opportunity, Archer!

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

Need a chance to get your bearings, Capricorn? If you feel adrift in a sea of emotion, then today’s Moon/Chiron aspect can help you regain your poise. Don’t feel you have to suffer alone, as sharing your issues with just one good friend, could help you get a better perspective. Your family or social group may rally round and decide to treat you to a meal or a feelgood outing.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

This isn’t a day to stay in, but to get out and mingle. If you’re invited out to an event or just for a coffee then go, as synchronicities and coincidences abound. Destiny may be ready to make itself known in the next encounter or conversation. If you get a hunch to call someone, go somewhere, or even a spur-of-the-moment nudge to do something, then it pays to follow through, Aquarius.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

You don’t have to go over the top to stay healthy, Pisces. Today’s Moon/Chiron link suggests you can start small, by setting alerts that encourage you to get up from your desk and get in a couple of stretches or even squats. You could start the day by deciding to go for a walk or jog, rather than press snooze and go back to sleep. Small changes to your routines may bring big results.

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