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Parties in PREPA bankruptcy case to weigh in on proposal for simultaneous mediation, litigation & creation of a new DAP

By THE STAR STAFF

U.S.

District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain gave parties in the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) bankruptcy case until Friday to provide their views on a proposal by mediators for simultaneous mediation, litigation and the creation of yet another debt adjustment plan.

Last week, the Financial Oversight and Management Board walked out of the mediation to restructure PREPA’s $9 billion debt due to “substantial disagreements with the mediation parties,” leaving the power utility without a clear resolution in its Title III bankruptcy process. On Tuesday, the judge asked the mediation team to establish a schedule to continue negotiations during litigation proposed by the oversight board, including certain claim disputes.

The team of mediators submitted certain terms and conditions for mediation that would proceed in parallel with the court’s schedule for the consideration of various litigation issues that had been stayed pending the prior conduct of the mediation.

The mediators said they believe the mediation will be greatly enhanced if the litigation schedule adopted by the court provides for the oversight board’s filing within 60 days of a new proposed plan of adjustment and related disclosure statement, which was dubbed the Toggle Plan, that contemplates alternative plan treatment depending on the outcome of the primary lien and claim disputes.

They also said the mediation will be enhanced if the

litigation of the disputes takes place in the context of the oversight board’s request for confirmation of the debt plan, and a hearing on the board’s request to confirm the plan that is consistent with an expedited litigation schedule, to be held no later than June 2023.

“The Mediation Team understands that such a timetable, and the simultaneous conduct of the Mediation, will require extensive work, including, as recommended in the Proposed Amended Terms and Conditions Order, additional financial advisor assistance to the Oversight Board,” the mediators said. “However, the Mediation Team believes that focusing the Mediation Parties on a schedule for PREPA’s actual emergence as promptly as practicable from this Title III Case provides a critically important context to the Mediation.”

The mediators also said the expiration date of the mediation is December unless the mediation team seeks an extension.

PREPA has been in bankruptcy since 2017. After a prior debt deal agreement fell through, the oversight board has been attempting since April to reach a deal with creditors through a mediation process that included the Ad Hoc Group of PREPA bondholders, the monolines, the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union, PREPA’s retirement system, the Unsecured Creditors Committee and the Fuel Line Lenders.

The litigation that the oversight board is seeking will focus on whether the bondholders’ security interest securing their bond claims is limited to money PREPA deposits in accounts the bond trustee created pursuant to a 1974 trust agreement governing the issuance of the bonds. Court Laura Taylor Swain

Towns left out of major disaster declaration can still apply for aid

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

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) spokesman Orlando Oliveras gave assurances Thursday that the list of municipalities included in the major disaster declaration approved by President Joe Biden is not final and will include those left out.

“The people of Puerto Rico declared the 78 municipalities for emergency work. Although only 55 municipalities were included in the declaration, and we understand the discomfort of our mayors, this does not mean that this deter mination is final,” Oliveras said. “We are work ing hard with the government of Puerto Rico to continue with this damage analysis to add more municipalities to the presidential declaration.”

“I want to clarify that all 78 municipalities were declared for the emergency category, which should still be the priority,” the FEMA official added. “In due course, we will be working with that.”

The second item on the daily press confer ence was the lack of power and what LUMA Energy and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Au thority (PREPA) have done to ensure everyone has their service restored as quickly as possible.

PREPA Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz said “there will be times when there are lines available to deliver generation, and at other times there will be generation available, and there will be no lines,” he said. “Units are working in San Juan and Palo Seco, as well as the Black Start units in Daguao [Naguabo], Cambalache and Mayagüez. The San Fermín solar farm is also in service.”

“This is the energy production scenario: in the transmission and distribution network, all the plants are interconnected; since Wednesday night, both Ecoeléctrica and AES began nor malization,” the PREPA chief continued. “The process continues as normal, and the expec tation is that there will be an EcoEléctrica unit and an AES unit in service by nightfall. If that happens, we will be injecting 400 megawatts.”

Colón Ortiz added that “the processes have already begun, and the combined cycle units are normalizing their equipment to continue.”

“If that happens without disruption, we will be entering units from the four main power plants in the south so that LUMA can continue connecting customers,” he said.

Picking up from the PREPA official’s re marks, Daniel Hernández, LUMA’s renewable energies director, said “we were talking about the importance of keeping all the plants inter connected. All the generation to connect cus tomers comes from Mayaguëz, Cambalache, Palo Seco and San Juan.”

“We have 475,000 customers in service

and are working with PREPA, EcoEléctrica and AES to energize critical loads,” he said.

Hernández noted that a hospital, for example, is a critical load site and represents one customer compared to 10,000 residences.

The engineer added that “[on Wednesday] we were talking about substations. There are 129 available to be energized; all have some critical load, but they are all across the island.”

“The next step is to get more customers connected,” Hernández said. “When those EcoEléctrica and AES plants come in, we start the next step, energizing transmission lines to reach the substations. The important thing is that everyone is reassured that PREPA and LUMA are working in harmony to ensure that the majority of customers have service as soon as possible.”

There was a discrepancy between the number of customers with service reported by Preps (the website recently launched by the government for all information about the emergency) and what PREPA said. A reporter asked if there were customers losing power or if some were energized while others were being disconnected. Colón Ortiz assured reporters that that was not the case.

“Generation has continued to rise. It may be that the platforms are not aligned, but this one [the PREPA platform] is real-time, and we can see more customers connected,” he said. “Currently, the substations do not give me au tomatic readings; we are going up manually, and the number will likely vary. But the actual generation, the demand, has been increasing. We are not taking away customers.”

“Our priority is critical load, hospitals and critical infrastructure,” said Hernández from LUMA. “In this process, substations near critical loads will also return, and they will also benefit. But we also have to ensure that

hospitals and water pumps have service. The rest of the system will ramp up quickly as we add generation and repair lines. We expect to have thousands more customers connected.”

More people have water service

The main issues with the water supply can be understood as turbidity and broken pipes, said Doriel Pagán Crespo, the execu tive president of Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), in her daily briefing. However, more customers have service than did on Wednesday.

“We have 67% of customers in service, 890,000 people,” she said. “We have 559 generators for almost 400,000 customers served by this equipment.”

The effort now, she added, will be to con nect those municipalities with fewer customers on-line, such as Jayuya, Lares, Aguada, Moca, Rincón, Aguadilla, Las Piedras, Lajas, San Germán and Las Marías.

“These municipalities have trouble be cause irrigation canals were obstructed by

debris, and we have already cleaned them,” Pagán Crespo said. “The expectation is to be able to increase production.”

There have been other situations, such as plants not having a working generator while LUMA works to restore power, flooding of facilities, or broken equipment. Repairs are underway, the PRASA chief said.

There is no diesel or fuel shortage

Some citizens have taken to social media to complain that gas stations around the island don’t have regular fuel, making them purchase premium because “there’s no product.” Con sumer Affairs (DACO by its Spanish acronym) Secretary Edan Rivera Rodríguez denied that there is a product shortage.

“It is important to note that there are sufficient fuel supplies in Puerto Rico: regular for 16 days, premium for 29 days and diesel for 17 days. The market continues to return to normal,” he said. “There have been particular situations in the distribution of some of these products that are being addressed, and there is a peak in demand that is being met as the [tanker] trucks arrive at the gas stations.”

“In the central mountainous area, there have been distribution problems, but as the days go by, it is normalizing,” the DACO secretary added. “But there are and will be sufficient supplies. On Saturday morning, a ship arrives with more than 300,000 barrels of diesel, and there will be no problem with the product.”

Rivera Rodríguez also called on citizens not to hoard fuel.

“Consume the products normally as cir cumstances allow,” he said. “If you normally don’t fill the tank of your car, don’t do it now; there’s enough product for everybody.”

As for telecommunications, no representa tive from the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Bureau was present at the press conference, but it was acknowledged that 30 percent of cell towers are out of service due to a lack of power.

Feds warn about disaster relief fraud

Also on Thursday, U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow of the District of Puerto Rico urged the public to report alleged fraud schemes related to disaster relief operations and federal funding for victims of Hurricane Fiona by calling the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) hotline (1-866-720-5721) or NCDF’s online portal for complaints at http://www.justice. gov/disaster-fraud/ncdf-disaster-complaint-form.

“The U.S. Attorney’s Office will vigorously prosecute those who commit disaster-related fraud, including those who deliberately attempt to delay or disrupt the delivery of critical supplies to those who need them, such as water, gasoline, diesel fuel and other materials, so they can unfairly enrich themselves,” Muldrow said in a written statement.

“We also take this opportunity to thank our first respond ers and those who have selflessly helped their neighbors and others in need,” he added. “It is that spirit of resilience and compassion that characterizes Puerto Rico.”

In coordination with its federal and local law enforce ment partners, Muldrow said, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will investigate and prosecute hurricane relief schemes. The NCDF hotline can receive and enter complaints into a centralized

system that can be accessed by all U.S. attorneys, as well as the litigation and law enforcement components of the Department of Justice to identify, investigate and prosecute fraud schemes.

Muldrow also served warning to any “unscrupulous individuals and organizations and predators who use the tragic event to prey on those in need and who seek to illegally profit from the natural disaster at the expense of the good and hardworking residents of Puerto Rico.”

Joseph González, the special agent in charge of the FBI San Juan Field Office, added that “[d]isaster fraud and related acts of corruption hurt those who are most in need at the time of greatest need.”

“This should shock everyone’s conscience and move any one who witnesses such acts to immediate action,” González said. “The FBI is on alert and we encourage anyone who has information about disaster fraud and/or any related act of corruption to call 787-987-6500 or leave a lead online by visiting Tips.FBI.Gov. Don’t let criminals steal Puerto Rico’s opportunity to recover from the devastating effects of Hur ricane Fiona.”

Fiscal board agrees to release $22 million to towns as requested by CRIM

By THE STAR STAFF

TheFinancial Oversight and Management Board has approved a request from the Municipal Rev enue Collections Center (CRIM by its Spanish acronym) to release some $22 million to Puerto Rico’s municipalities as part of the year-end liquidation process.

The oversight board did so to allow the towns to deal with the ravages left by Hurricane Fiona over the weekend.

Specifically, CRIM requested approval to disburse any funds collected by CRIM on behalf of the munici palities in excess of the amounts it previously advanced to the municipalities during fiscal year 2022, and to settle any deficiencies for over-advanced amounts.

“We have analyzed the supporting materials submitted with CRIM’s request and identified that 73 municipalities have surplus balances totaling $44.4 million,” the oversight board said in a letter to CRIM Executive Director Reinaldo Paniagua dated Sept. 21. “Additionally, 5 municipalities have deficit balances totaling $1.2 million.”

In prior fiscal years, CRIM and the oversight board worked collaboratively to ensure that municipalities satisfied any outstanding statutory debts, including the payment of any past due PayGo amounts from prior years, prior to CRIM disbursing any excess funds owed to the municipalities as required under Act 107-2020.

“However, given the recent events impacting the municipalities in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona, CRIM has requested the Oversight Board allow a deferral of the settlement of statutory debts and a partial disburse

ment of up to 50% of the surplus year-end liquidation proceeds of any amounts collected by CRIM in excess of the amounts it previously advanced to the munici palities during FY2022,” the board wrote.

“Although we have identified certain municipal ities that have past due and unpaid PayGo balances, we understand that the current challenges the island is facing in the wake of Hurricane Fiona must be ad dressed immediately. It is our understanding that CRIM will complete the liquidation process under its normal

processes in the ordinary course and as required un der Act 107-2020,” the board continued in the letter.

“Accordingly, after careful consideration, the Oversight Board approves CRIM’s request to partially disburse up to 50% ($22.2 million) of excess proceeds to expedite the deployment of these funds to the municipalities in order to service their communities and residents.”

On Thursday morning, island mayors asked the government to release funds to them so they could deal with the emergency caused by the hurricane.

John McPhaul contributed to this report.

Reinaldo Paniagua, executive director of the Municipal Revenue Collections Center

Drenched by Hurricane Fiona, islanders band together

By LAURA N. PÉREZ SÁNCHEZ

Fiveyears after Hurricane Maria turned her neighborhood into a river of mud, María Cortés Dávila prepared once again to face the implacable waters with a broom.

This time, it was the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona, a storm with weaker winds that nonetheless managed to thrust more than 1 million people in darkness, trigger mudslides, flood neighbor hoods and paralyze the island. The storm, now headed toward Bermuda, left something else in its wake: a massive cleanup job — and a deepening sense among residents here that recovery from this, and future storms, is largely up to them.

“When these communities get flooded, we are like an island,” she said. “Surrounded by water.”

By 5 a.m. Tuesday, Hurricane Fiona’s floods had started to recede. Cortés Dávila put on a blue T-shirt, shorts and knee-high rubber boots and awoke her three children, mother and grand mother to begin the first of many long cleanup days in what has, for many Puerto Ricans, become a dreaded storm season ritual.

“This would happen every 15 years, but now we’re having these floods way too often,” Cortés Dávila said as the baking sun bore down on her neighborhood in Toa Baja, west of San Juan, helping to clear the water that had rushed into the first floor of her home.

Since Hurricane Fiona struck Sunday as a Category 1 storm that dumped about 30 inches of rain on parts of the island, Puerto Ricans have emerged from their battered and damp homes and shelters to evaluate the damage. Most people remain without electricity and water, bringing back painful memories of the havoc that Hurricane Maria, a near Category 5 storm, wrought Sept. 20, 2017.

On Wednesday, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said he expected a “large part of the population” to have power and water restored by the end of the day, although the number of customers getting service back has increased only gradually. More than 70% of the island’s 1.5 million electrical customers still did not have their power back in the afternoon.

The governor has been joined since Tuesday by the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Deanne Criswell, with whom he planned to visit remote towns in Puerto Rico’s central mountainous regions. Criswell said she had already seen some significant damage — and residents taking matters into their own hands.

“I saw neighbors helping neighbors,” she said. “I met a woman named Ana who opened up her own home and her own driveway to help create a path for the community. With the bridge that was washed away, her home became that pathway to help get food and water to the rest of her community.”

Pierluisi asked the White House on Tuesday to approve a major emergency declaration, allowing more federal aid to flow to the island. He said crews were sending supplies to remote communities left with little to no road access. Around the island, diggers and other heavy machinery came out. So did water trucks that drew long lines of residents with empty containers.

For Cortés Dávila, Hurricane Maria had been worse: Back then, the floods reached the second stories of homes and forced dramatic rooftop rescues in the middle of the night.

She pointed at a wall with a fresh horizontal stain left by mud, about 8 feet high. “That’s the mark left by this flood,” she said. Parallel to it — but 4 feet higher — was another brownish, by now almost imperceptible line. “And that’s the mark from Maria,” she added. “We keep collecting marks.”

Hurricane Maria and the slow response that followed deeply scarred Puerto Ricans and left them with little faith that authorities would help in a time of need.

After Maria, Cortés Dávila, 42, a lifelong resident of the Villa Calma 2 community in Toa Baja, vowed never again to be caught unprepared by a disaster. By 2019, she and her neighbors had founded a community nonprofit out of an abandoned school to offer workshops and prepare emergency plans.

Villa Calma 2, a community of 125 houses, sits in a vast plain that was once a sugar cane plantation, surrounded by irrigation canals that flow into the La Plata River, which passes nearby on its final stretch before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. About 925 more families live in similarly low-lying communities. Hurricane Fiona, like Hurricane Maria, caused the La Plata River to breach its banks.

“After Maria, I didn’t know anyone. I didn’t know who to ask for help,” Cortés Dávila said. “I would get on Facebook and see that this foundation was going to a community to help, and I would just write to them, to let them know my community also needed that aid.”

Now, she and her neighbors from the Asociación de Comu

nidades Unidas Tomando Acción Solidaria, the aid group they founded to help their communities be self-sufficient in the face of adversity, are the people others reached out to for assistance.

Cortés Dávila has been involved in her community since she was a young woman. As a teenager, she taught catechism at a local Catholic parish and later organized arts and crafts classes for older adults. In the years since helping to found the community association, she and her neighbors have built an industrial-grade kitchen from which they fed people during the coronavirus pan demic — and now plan to do so again after Hurricane Fiona.

On Tuesday, the first day of cleanup, Cortés Dávila went to her sister’s home and, with her family’s help, wiped out the mud with brooms and shovels. Some of them wore gloves. There was no running water.

From there, they moved on to Cortés Dávila’s house, where neighbors also lent a hand. They piled ruined appliances — the washer, the dryer, the grill — into a corner. An ever-growing brigade of friends arrived and split up to go to the house across the street.

There, Laritza Rolón Echevarría, 24, and her partner, José Rodríguez Marrero, 27, had lost their home — again.

The couple had been living downstairs with their three young children; the back terrace contained the construction materials, furniture and cabinetry they were hoping to install upstairs. Like many in the neighborhood, they had hoped to move to higher ground to avoid losses from rising floodwaters.

Cortés Dávila said she was tired from the recurring tragedies. She would like to move away, she said, to a house where she could offer her family a safe place whenever a hurricane threatens with powerful wind and heavy rain. But she said there were no real housing options for people like her and her neighbors.

“This house I’ve built little by little, with a lifetime of work and getting personal loans that I’ve repaid,” said Cortés Dávila, who planned to install a ladder on the side of her house to reach her rooftop. “I don’t owe it to anyone.”

After so many hours of hard labor, her eyes welling with tears, she confessed her deep fear of the floods.

“I don’t know how to swim,” she said. “But I can’t show it. I need to be strong for my family and community. But, the truth is, I do get afraid.”

With the help of her family, María Cortés Dávila cleans her home on Sept. 20, 2022, after Hurricane Fiona dumped rain on Toa Baja. (Erika P. Rodríguez/The New York Times)

The political backdrop of Letitia James’ lawsuit against Trump

By BLAKE HOUNSHELL

Democratshave spent six years waiting for someone to hold former President Donald Trump accountable for what they see as a lifetime of evading consequences for his actions.

On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit accusing the former president, his family business and three of his children of inflating the value of his assets by billions of dollars.

Announcing the lawsuit at a news conference in downtown Manhattan, James tried to minimize the politics at play.

She rattled off statistics to highlight the breadth of the three-year investigation: interviews with more than 65 witnesses; millions of documents; a complaint more than 200 pages long, with examples from more than 23 assets. Her office found more than 200 false valuations, she said, calling it evidence of a scheme that she characterized as “astounding.”

But James, a Democrat, also trotted out a catchphrase that had the whiff of the kind of branding that has made Trump a survivor over his four decades in business and politics.

Claiming money that you do not have, James said, is not “the art of the deal” but rather “the art of the steal” — a reference to Trump’s 1987 memoir that established him in the public ima gination as an icon of Manhattan’s high-flying real estate sector.

A new batch of Trump’s legal woes in the headlines is cer tain to be unwelcome news for the Republican Party, which has steadily distanced itself from the former president’s tangles with the Justice Department over the classified documents he kept at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after his presidency ended.

And those headlines are something of a political gift to De mocrats, who have been desperate to tie Republican candidates up and down the ballot to a former president who remains deeply unpopular among the public at large.

But Trump and his allies are clearly hoping they can deflect whatever political fallout James’ lawsuit inspires by drawing on past legal battles — all of which, so far, the longtime real estate baron has survived with the agility of an alley cat.

James’ political ambition has long been a focus of Republicans seeking to depict her investigation into Trump as tainted. James, who was elected to the office in 2018 and is running for reelection in November, contemplated a run for governor this year. She pulled

back after it became clear that Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York was in a strong position heading into her Democratic primary — which she went on to win by nearly 50 percentage points.

As state attorney general, she lacks the authority to criminally charge Trump in this case (although she referred the findings to prosecutors). But in 2018, during her campaign for her office, James said she believed that Trump, who was then the president, “can be indicted for criminal offenses.”

Legal experts criticized those remarks at the time as a breach of law enforcement protocol.

And Trump called James, who is Black, a “racist” — and dismissed her entire investigation using a stock phrase he emplo yed throughout the Russia investigation and two congressional impeachment inquiries: “witch hunt.”

During an interview this summer, James said, “This has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with the law.”

In the same appearance — during a live taping of “Pod Save America,” a political podcast run by former aides to former Presi dent Barack Obama — she said, “We all know that he used funny numbers in his financial documents,” adding, “And he got caught.”

In January, James filed a 115-page motion to compel Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to comply with a subpoena, which they ignored. The document laid out many of the allegations that

were detailed in Wednesday’s complaint.

Judges have sided with James on several occasions, rejec ting the assertion from Donald Trump’s lawyers that she has a political vendetta.

James has amassed what former prosecutors describe as a compelling set of facts, although many caution that proving in court that the Trump Organization knowingly provided fraudulent valuations could be difficult.

Trump has survived dozens of lawsuits, investigations and political hard knocks over the years through sheer force of will and a willingness to shade or misrepresent the facts — and she has given him ample material to work with.

On Wednesday, Trump and his allies said little of substan ce in response to the allegations, but they immediately brought out the same playbook that was used to convince his supporters that Republicans like former FBI Director James Comey, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and a good chunk of his former top aides are all political hacks who are out to get him.

The Twitter account of his political committee, Save America, called James “an unhinged, left-wing political activist.”

Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. posted, “This is all about politics,” while his younger brother, Eric, called it “a joke” and accused James of “working for the DNC.”

A lawyer for Donald Trump, Alina Habba, said in a state ment, “Today’s filing is neither focused on the facts nor the law — rather, it is solely focused on advancing the attorney general’s political agenda,” but the statement did not dispute any specific facts in the complaint.

Whatever the underlying truth of the Trump Organization’s finances, Trump’s image as a successful businessperson has long been integral to his political appeal.

Some political analysts credit his star turn in “The Appren tice,” the NBC reality show that beamed him into living rooms across America and helped turn him from a Manhattan real estate mogul into a national figure, with his stunning political upset over Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016.

For that reason alone, James’ lawsuit carries political risks for Trump as well as legal ones.

If her lawsuit is successful, the Trumps will be barred from operating a business in New York, effectively chasing them out of the state that gave rise to their empire.

Letitia James, the New York attorney general, holds a press briefing in Manhattan on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. New York’s attorney general tried to downplay the politics hanging over the lawsuit, while allies of former President Donald Trump did the opposite.

By RUTH IGIELNIK

TheAmerican public’s views of former President Donald Trump have remained remarkably stable across a number of differ ent measures in recent months, even as he faces multiple investigations and as he remains a central figure in the midterm elections, according to the most recent New York Times/Siena College poll.

Voters held nearly identical views from those earlier in the summer, on whether they had a favorable view of Trump, whether they thought he had committed serious federal crimes, and whom they would support in a hypothetical 2024 Trump-Biden matchup,

Overall, 44% of voters viewed Trump fa vorably, and 53% viewed him unfavorably. The

by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol. It was also fundamentally similar to levels of support Times/Siena polls and other surveys found in recent years.

The public’s view of Trump’s fight against the election results also remained largely un changed, with 54% in the most recent survey saying his actions posed a threat to democracy and 38% saying he had just exercised his right to contest the election.

And roughly half of voters said they thought Trump had committed serious federal crimes, while 38% thought he had not. That was similar to the responses from July, when respondents were asked more specifically about Trump’s actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election.

Trump has often boasted about the loyalty

Many of Trump’s signature policy proposals have remained fairly popular among the public, the September poll found. Half of all respondents favored a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, including more than 15% of those who said they would vote for Biden in 2024. And a majority said they agreed more with the Republican Party than with the Democratic Party when it came to illegal immigration.

Trump has signaled another run for presi dent. In a hypothetical rematch in 2024 with President Joe Biden, 45% said they would sup port Biden, while 42% said they would support Trump. (Biden’s margin of victory in the 2020 election was 4.4 percentage points.)

In 2020, Trump made gains among Hispanic voters, a group that has historically

for Trump in 2024 if he ran again.

“I don’t know too much,” he said. “When the race starts getting closer, I’ll start paying atten tion, but right now he’s just at the forefront for me.

“I have a few reservations about supporting him because of the document issue, but I like to see what the other side is going with.”

There were signs in the poll that views on Trump were more complex than they are some times made out to be. Across all measures asked, 30% of voters consistently held views that could be considered pro-Trump, such as planning to support him if he runs in 2024 and saying that his actions after the 2020 election were justi fied. Thirty-nine percent of voters consistently held a series of views that could be described as anti-Trump.

However, nearly 30% appeared to hold seemingly conflicting views about him and his actions — either by expressing a mix of sentiments

For instance, 14% of respondents said that they both planned to support him and believed his actions after the 2020 election went so far as

House passes overhaul of electoral count, moving to avert another Jan. 6 crisis

By CARL HULSE

TheHouse earlier this week took the first major step to respond to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, voting mostly along party lines to overhaul the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act, the law that former President Donald Trump tried to exploit that day to overturn his defeat.

The bill was the most significant legis lative answer yet to the riot and the months long campaign by Trump and his allies to invalidate the 2020 presidential election, but it also underscored the lingering partisan divide over Jan. 6 and the former president’s continuing grip on his party.

It cleared a divided House, passing on a 229-203 vote. All but nine Republicans opposed the measure, wary of angering Trump and unwilling to back legislation cowritten by Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., a leader of the House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 and what led to them.

The partisan division could complicate future negotiations with the Senate, which is moving ahead with its own bipartisan version of the legislation that differs from the House bill in some significant respects. Lawmakers now say they do not expect final approval before Congress returns for a lame-duck session after the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

The legislation is aimed at updating the law that governs Congress’ counting of the electoral votes cast by the states, the final step under the Constitution to confirm the results of a presidential election and historically a mostly ceremonial process. Democrats said that the aftermath of the 2020 election — in which Trump and his allies’ attempts to throw out legitimate elec toral votes led to the violent disruption of the congressional count by his supporters Jan. 6 — made clear that the statute needed to be changed.

“These are common-sense reforms that will preserve the rule of law for all elections moving forward,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., chair of the Rules Committee. “Time is running out before the next election.”

One key provision in the bill, which is also contained in the Senate proposal, would clarify that the role of the vice president, who by law presides over the counting of the ballots as president of the Senate, is strictly ministerial. After the 2020 election, Trump and his advisers tried but failed to

persuade Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to accept electoral votes from states where Trump was falsely claiming victory.

The measure also would raise the thres hold substantially for Congress to consider an objection to a state’s electoral votes, requiring that at least one-third of the House and Senate sign on to such a challenge, up dramatically from the one member of each chamber that is now required. The Senate proposal has a lower threshold, requiring one-fifth of the House and Senate to agree.

Members of both parties have raised objections in recent elections, although none have been sustained by a majority of the House and Senate. The House bill would also more narrowly define the grounds for an objection to those with a defined cons titutional basis.

“Ultimately, this bill is about protecting the will of the American voters, which is a principle that is beyond partisanship,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., who leads the Administration Committee and introduced the measure with Cheney. “The bottom line is if you want to object to the vote, you’d better have your colleagues and the Cons titution on your side.”

Passage of the bill comes as the Jan. 6 committee is wrapping up its work after a summer of high-profile hearings and prepa ring an extensive report, which is expected to include recommendations for how to

confront the threats to democracy raised by the riot and Trump’s drive to overturn the election. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chair of the panel, said the next and likely final hearing would take place Sept. 28.

“We have substantial footage of what occurred that we haven’t used; we’ve had significant witness testimony that we haven’t used,” Thompson said in an interview. “This is an opportunity to use some of that material.”

The legislation was also a direct response to Trump’s efforts to orchestrate the submission of fake slates of electors in states won by Joe Biden. It would require that states choose their electors under laws in place before the election, a provision intended to prevent states from reversing course if they do not like the result. And the bill would allow candidates to sue state officials if they failed to submit their electors or certified electors that did not match the election results.

It also would lay out the circumstances in which a federal judge could extend an election following a catastrophe and force election officials to count ballots or certify an election if they refused to do so.

Republicans said the legislation re presented a renewed Democratic attempt to exert more federal control over elections that are usually the responsibility of state officials and courts.

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., called it “another attempt to federalize elections at the expense of states.” Other Republicans accused Democrats of rushing the legislation to the floor without review by the appropriate committees or engaging Republicans.

Lawmakers said the legislation’s close

association with Cheney led House Repu blicans to abandon it in large numbers. Her aggressive criticism of Trump prompted Republicans to remove her from a party leadership position in May last year, and she lost her reelection primary last month.

But Cheney noted strong support for the measure from conservative jurists and analysts and called on Republicans to embrace it.

Leaders of the bipartisan group behind the Senate bill, which was made public in July, were surprised by the sudden House action on the legislation just days after it was introduced and after months with few details on how the House was proceeding. Backers of the Senate bill said the House ap proach could lead to more election lawsuits, a prospect that could increase Republican opposition. But they remained hopeful the bills could be reconciled.

“Failure is not an option,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., a member of the Democratic leadership and the Jan. 6 pa nel. “We’ve got to put a piece of reform on the president’s desk. We’ve got to protect democracy.”

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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) gives a con cession speech to supporters after being defeated by Harriet Hageman in the primary, in Jackson, Wyo., on Aug. 16, 2022.

What’s next for profits? Cars shed light on a key inflation question.

supply recovers, that process has been hal ting, and the new-car market illustrates why the path toward lower profits that help slow inflation could be a long one.

That’s because three big forces that are playing out across the broader economy are on particularly clear display in the car market. Supply chains have not completely healed. Demand may be slowing down, but it still has momentum. And companies that have grown used to charging high prices and raking in big profits are proving hesitant to give those up.

The auto market split into two seg ments that are now diverging — new cars and used cars.

Some dealers believe that there is still unmet demand for used vehicles after seve ral years in which families have struggled to find cars. They also doubt supply will come roaring back, because so few cars were pro duced in 2020 and 2021. That is giving them the confidence and ability to avoid discoun ting too much.

“We’re pricing our vehicles just about every day based on market dynamics,” said Bill Feinstein, who helps run Honda dea lerships selling new and used cars in New Jersey and New Hampshire. “Demand con tinues to be strong, and the consumer ap pears to be still relatively intact.”

By JEANNA SMIALEK

In a recent speech pointedly titled “Brin ging Inflation Down,” Lael Brainard, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair, zoomed in on the automobile market as a real-world example of a major uncertainty looming over the outlook for price increases: What will happen next with corporate profits.

Many companies have been able to raise prices beyond their own increasing costs over the past two years, swelling their profitability but also exacerbating inflation. That is especially true in the car market. While dealerships are paying manufacturers more for inventory, they have been charging customers even higher prices, sending their profits toward record highs.

Dealers could pull that off because demand has been strong and, amid disrup tions in the supply of parts, there are too few trucks and sedans to go around. But — in line with its desire for the economy as a whole — the Fed is hoping both sides of that equation could be on the cusp of chan ging.

“With production now increasing, and interest-sensitive demand cooling, the re may soon be pressures to reduce vehicle margins and prices in order to move the higher volume of cars being produced off dealer lots,” Brainard explained during her remarks.

The Fed has been raising interest ra tes to make borrowing for big purchases — cars, houses, business expansions — more expensive. The goal is to cool demand and slow the fastest inflation in four decades. Whether it can pull that off without inflic ting serious pain on the economy will hinge partly on how easily companies surrender their hefty profits.

If companies begin to lower prices to compete for customers as demand abates, price increases might slow without costing a lot of jobs. But if they try to hold on to big profits, the transition could be bumpier as the Fed is forced to squeeze the economy more drastically and quash demand more severely.

“There has been a giant shift in bar gaining power between consumers and cor porations,” said Gennadiy Goldberg, senior U.S. rates strategist at TD Securities. “That’s where the next adjustment has to come — corporations have to see some pain.”

On Wednesday, the Fed made its third supersize increase, bringing interest rates to a range between 3% and 3.25%. The central bank also projected that rates could rise to 4.4% this year and could peak at 4.6% in 2023.

The example of the auto industry offers reasons for hope but also caution. While there are signs that price increases for used cars are beginning to moderate as

New-car production was upended as the pandemic shut down factories making semiconductors and other parts, and it is only limping back. Freshly minted vehicles remain extraordinarily scarce, according to dealers and data, and several industry ex perts said they didn’t see a return to normal levels of output for years as supply problems continue. Prices are still increasing swiftly, and dealer profits remain sharply elevated with little sign of cracking.

Ford Motor Co. said Monday that it would spend $1 billion more on parts than it was planning to in the third quarter be cause some components had become more expensive and harder to find.

By contrast, the supply of used cars has rebounded after plunging in the pande mic, and prices have begun to depreciate at a wholesale level, where dealers buy their stock. But, so far, those dealers aren’t really passing those savings along to consumers. The price of a typical used car has stabi lized around $28,000, up 9% from a year ago, based on Cox Automotive data. Offi cial used-car inflation data is easing, but only slightly.

Why consumer used-car prices — and dealer profits — are taking time to moderate is something of a mystery. Jonathan Smoke, chief economist at Cox Automotive, said dealers might be basing their prices on what they paid earlier in the year, when costs were higher, for the cars sitting on their lots.

“Dealers are feeling it,” Smoke said of the price moderation. “But because they price their vehicles based on what they pay for them, the consumer isn’t seeing the price discounts yet.”

But dealers and industry analysts agre ed that higher Fed interest rates could help change that.

The central bank has been lifting bo rrowing costs at the fastest clip since the 1980s. As financing a car purchase becomes more expensive, price-sensitive auto shop pers in the used market may begin to pull back more notably, forcing used-car dealers to charge less.

New cars may be a different story, however, because supply and demand re main so out of whack.

At Feinstein’s Honda dealership in New Jersey, 50 to 100 new cars are typica lly for sale on the lot. That’s an improvement from the worst pandemic shortages, when sometimes only five or six were available, but measly compared with the 1,000-car inventory that it would have had before the pandemic. Customers, meanwhile, remain desperate for new vehicles.

“Everything indicates right now that the consumer has been able to bear the rate increases,” Feinstein said.

John Murphy, an equity analyst at Bank of America who studies the automo bile industry, said the supply-and-demand imbalance for new vehicles could last into 2024 because of lingering parts and labor shortages and rolling lockdowns in China.

The Fed could raise rates so much that it snuffs out demand, but given how much pent-up car-buying appetite exists, Murphy thinks it would take a lot.

“You probably would have to go far ther on rates than they have so far, or even than they are expected to go,” he said. “The re may be a point at which you have enough pain that you see a pause on demand.”

New vehicles on a hauler at Jack Cooper Transport in Kansas City, Kan., on Nov. 30, 2021

Technology and financial stocks pulled Wall Street’s main indexes lower for a third straight session on Thursday, as investors worried that the Federal Re serve’s aggressive approach to rein in inflation could trigger a recession.

The Fed lifted rates by an expected 75 basis points on Wednesday and signaled a longer trajectory for policy rates than markets had priced in, fuelling fears of further volatility in stock and bond trading in a year that has already seen bear markets in both asset classes.

“Going forward, the market is going to be hypersensi tive to any sort of Fed comments and data coming up. I would expect more volatility as the market digests them, but at the same time we’re cautiously optimistic,” said Brian Klimke, director of investment research at Cetera Financial Group.

“Valuations are a lot better than they were at the start of the year, earnings estimates have been lowered that makes it easier to beat. So, a lot of the bad news is factored in right now ... we are creating a market where there are potential upside surprises now.”

As of Friday, the S&P 500’sestimated earnings growth for the third quarter is at 5%, according to Refinitiv data. Excluding the energy sector, the growth rate is at -1.7%.

The S&P 500’s forward price-to-earnings ratio, a com mon metric for valuing stocks, is at 16.8 times earningsfar below the nearly 22 times forward P/E that stocks com manded at the start of the year.

Shares of megacap technology and growth companies such as Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) fell between 1% and 4% as benchmark U.S. Treasury yields hit an 11year high.

Rising yields weigh particularly on valuations of com panies in the technology sector, which have high expected future earnings and form a significant part of the market-cap weighted indexes such as the S&P 500.

The S&P 500 tech sector (.SPLRCT) has slumped 28% so far this year, compared with a 21.2% decline in the benchmark index.

“The higher interest rates imposed yesterday and the more hawkish tone delivered by the Fed will weigh on stocks in general and likely more on rate-sensitive sectors,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Re search.

“I definitely see the market testing the June lows and there is an increased likelihood that new lows will be set as indicated by the rise in the two-year yield, and the widening of the inversion of the two-year and 10-year yield curve.”

The S&P 500 is now 3.5% away from its mid-June low, its weakest point of the year.

At 11:55 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) was down 75.94 points, or 0.25%, at 30,107.84, the S&P 500 (.SPX) was down 25.33 points, or 0.67%, at 3,764.60, and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) was down 134.38 points, or 1.20%, at 11,085.81.

What’s driving the protests in Iran?

By CORA ENGELBRECHT and FARNAZ FASSIHI

The anti-government protests that have erupted in cities across Iran in response to a young woman’s death in the custody of the country’s morality police have struck a national nerve.

The demonstrations have spread to dozens of cities, and multiple casualties have been reported. The government said Thursday that 17 people, including two security officers, had been killed since the unrest began last weekend. Rights groups say the toll is likely to be higher.

The protests have included large numbers of women, who initially took to the streets in rare displays of defiance of the government and its enforcement of the country’s hijab law, which mandates covered hair and loosefitting clothing for women.

The demonstrations have become widespread, with demands broadening to reflect ordinary Iranians’ anger over their living conditions after years of U.S.-led sanctions that have hobbled the econo my, as well as widespread corruption and economic mismanagement.

What’s fueling the protests? And what are the implications for authorities?

A young woman’s death ignited long-simmering anger.

Mahsa Amini, who also went by the name Jina, was with her family last week on a visit to Tehran from her home in the northwestern province of Kurdistan when she was arrested on an accusation of vio lating the hijab law.

The law came into effect in 1981, after the Islamic Revolution. It has long been challenged by many women in Iran, and is commonly flouted across the country.

Amini, 22, died three days after her detention while in the custody of the mo

rality police, who enforce the country’s strict Islamic rules. Iran’s security forces issued a statement saying that Amini had collapsed from a heart attack at the de tention center while receiving training on hijab rules. Her family disputed this claim, saying she was perfectly healthy before her arrest, according to news re ports.

Her death quickly struck a national nerve and gave a human face to the pub lic’s long-simmering anger over the reli gious laws.

Many women ripped off and burned their head coverings to protest the hijab law, videos posted to social media and by the BBC’s Persian service showed, even in the conservative and religious city of Mashhad in the northeast. One widely circulated video, from the city of Kerman, in the southeast, showed a woman cutting her hair in front of a roar ing crowd.

As anger has gripped the country, more and more Iranians have joined the demonstrations, turning the crisis into an outlet for broader frustrations with the government.

Many have called for a scrapping of the far-reaching religious restrictions, which govern how people dress, how they socialize in their homes and what they drink and eat. Even some con servatives have taken up that call, arguing that criminal izing violation of the rules and imposing them

by force has backfired and fueled resent ment toward religion.

Analysts also say that years of eco nomic decline have stretched the pa tience of many Iranians, who have peri odically taken to the streets in protest in recent years.

Iran’s economy has been at rock bot tom for years. U.S.-led sanctions in re sponse to the country’s nuclear and mis sile programs have made it much harder for Iran to sell its oil and cut access to the global financial system, and corruption and economic mismanagement are rife. Iranians have long been subject to everrising inflation, food shortages and supply disruptions, and a scarcity of jobs.

Authorities are answering with practiced force.

Many embittered Iranians have di rected their hostilities toward the heart of the country’s system of government: the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Footage showing protesters chanting for his death and the downfall of his son Mojtaba, seen as a potential successor, have coursed through social media.

In the northern city of Rasht, protest ers took over a street, chanting “Death to the dictator!” and “Death to the oppres sor, be it the shah or the supreme leader!”

The government has struck back with a brutal and systematic crackdown, us ing well-rehearsed tactics seen in previ ous anti-government uprisings. Videos on social media show protesters facing off against large deployments of riot police officers, who have targeted them with gunshots and water cannons and beat them with batons. Plainclothes officers from the feared Basij militia have also been sent against the protests.

In the northwestern province of Kurd istan alone, at least 17 protesters have been killed, according to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, which has post ed names and photos of victims online.

At least 733 people have been in jured and more than 600 people arrested across the Kurdish province, according to Hengaw, another rights group.

The figures issued by the government did not include details of where casual ties had occurred.

The protests have showed no signs of easing. On Thursday, the Revolution ary Guard, Iran’s powerful security force, issued a statement describing what was occurring as sedition and saying that pro

testers must be crushed to teach other people a lesson.

Since the start of the protests, the government has significantly curbed the three main operators providing mobile in ternet service, severely disrupted internet in areas where protests are taking place and blocked platforms such as WhatsApp and Instagram, according to NetBlocks, an internet watchdog, and Iranian digi tal experts. Protesters had been making heavy use of those platforms to galvanize support and track unfolding events.

In Tehran, power was cut at night, casting the streets into total darkness in some of the central and downtown neigh borhoods where protests had been more intense, according to several residents.

Iranian women have long fought for their rights, and been punished for it.

This is not the first time the theocracy at the helm of the Iranian government has cracked down on women protesting for greater rights.

Iranian women have been challeng ing the hijab rule since its inception in 1981 and testing the limits of what they could get away with. As younger genera tions of women came of age, they be came bolder in removing headscarves in public and calling for an end to mandato ry hijabs. It’s part of a wider push among Iranian women on issues such as divorce, child custody and the right to work and travel without a male guardian’s approval and against other discriminatory laws.

In 2017, a 31-year-old mother, Vida Movahed, stood on a utility box in down town Tehran, removed her hijab and waved it before a crowd on a stick. More women started to follow her lead, giving way to the so-called Girls of Revolution Street protest, which was later quashed by the government.

In 2019, a 29-year-old woman named Sahar Khodayari set herself on fire after she was arrested after sneaking into a men’s soccer match. The Iranian govern ment, under pressure from international soccer authorities, later changed the law and allow women to attend matches, but they are relegated to cordoned-off areas.

That same year, Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian lawyer who defended women who removed their headscarves, was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes on charges of “collud ing against the system” and “insulting” Khamenei.

Protesters in the streets of Tehran on Wednesday.

Russia begins calling up more troops

most terrible nights in its history, ” Alexan der Garmazhapova, the head of the antiwar Free Buryatia Foundation, wrote on Facebook. He said he had received “hun dreds of messages asking how to leave for Ulaanbaatar,” the Mongolian capital.

It is not known how many people have received summonses. A woman from Dages tan, one of Russia’s poorest regions, who had already lost one of her sons in the war with Ukraine, told a New York Times reporter that three buses carrying newly mobilized soldiers had left her town. She sent videos showing armored personnel carriers driving along the potholed roads, although their authenticity could not be immediately verified.

In Ulan-Ude, the regional capital of Buryatia, draft papers “were distributed to houses and apartments all night,” according to a report from Arig-Us, a local independent television station. The local news media re ported that new recruits had gathered at a military facility a short walk from a sports complex where funerals are held for soldiers who die in Ukraine.

By VALERIE HOPKINS

Aday after President Vladimir Putin announced a call-up that could see 300,000 civilians swept into mili tary service, thousands of Russians across the country had reportedly received draft papers and were being bundled into buses Thursday for training — and soon, possibly, to the front lines in Ukraine.

In mountainous eastern Siberia, the Russian news media reported that school buses were being commandeered to move troops to training grounds, and teachers were writing “povestki,” or draft papers. Vi deos circulated on social media purporting to show new conscripts saying tearful goo dbyes before boarding buses.

The call-ups reportedly began within hours of a recorded video announcement by Putin in which he raised the stakes in the war and escalated his confrontation with the West despite Russia’s humiliating setbacks on the battlefield. By declaring for the first time that Russian civilians could be pressed into service in Ukraine, Putin risked a public backlash but said the move was “necessary and urgent” because the West had “crossed all lines” by providing sophis ticated weapons to Ukraine.

Despite the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent, protests erupted Wednesday night across Russia in response to Putin’s move, with at least 1,312 people arrested, accor ding to the human rights watchdog OVDInfo. Many Russians sought to travel to other countries to escape being called up to fight as men across the country reported to draft offices.

Russian officials said the call-up would be limited to people with combat expe rience. But Yanina Nimayeva, a journalist from the Buryatia region of Siberia, wrote on Thursday that her husband — a father of five and an employee in the emergency department in the regional capital — had been called up despite never having served in the military. She said he had received a summons to an urgent meeting at 4 a.m. in which it was announced that a train had been organized to bring reservists to the city of Chita.

“My husband is 38 years old, he is not in the reserve, he did not serve,” Nimayeva said in a video addressed to the regional leader, Alexei S. Tsydenov of Putin’s United Russia party. In a sign of how the call-up is deepening discontent with Putin’s govern ment, Nimayeva continued: “I understand that we have plans. Our republic needs to

gather 4,000 soldiers. But some parameters and principles of this partial mobilization must be respected.”

Others also voiced anger at the gover nment.

“Buryatia experienced today one of the

Farther northeast, in the city of Neryun gri, one video showed four buses lined up at a stadium. Similar videos showing new recruits gathering appeared on social media from across the country — including Vladi vostok in the far east, Pskov and Belgorod on the Ukrainian border, the working-class Mos cow suburb of Lyubertsy, and Chechnya and Dagestan in the Caucasus.

Russians were receiving draft papers a day after Putin escalated the war and announced a mobilization of up to 300,000 more soldiers.

By ROGER COHEN

PresidentVladimir Putin of Russia, in a speech this week that was a reminder of how easily the war in Ukraine could spread, doubled down on his nuclear threat, accused the West of seeking to “destroy” his country, and suggested that Ukrainians are mere pawns of the “military machine of the collective West.”

Hours later, addressing the U.N. Gene ral Assembly, President Joe Biden denounced Putin’s “overt nuclear threats” against Europe, describing them as “reckless.” The West, he said, would be “clear, firm and unwavering” in its resolve as it confronts Putin’s “brutal, need less war” in Ukraine.

“This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state, plain and simple,” Bi den said. He continued: “Whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you believe, that should make your blood run cold.”

Seven months into the war, its resolu tion appeared more distant than ever and its reverberations more dangerous. Perhaps not since the Cuban missile crisis six decades ago have U.S. and Russian leaders confronted each other so explicitly and sharply on the danger of nuclear war.

In a videotaped address to the nation, Pu tin effectively conceded that the war he started Feb. 24 has not gone as he wished. By calling up roughly 300,000 reservists to fight on what he called a 620-mile front, without mentio ning the original pretense of demilitarizing and “de-Nazifying” Ukraine, he acknowledged so mething he had consistently denied: the reality and growing resistance of a unified Ukrainian nation.

But Putin cornered is Putin at his most dangerous. That was one of the core lessons of his hardscrabble youth that he took from the furious reaction of a rat he cornered on a stairwell in what was then Leningrad.

His speech at once inverted a war of ag

gression against a neighbor into one of defense of the “motherland,” a theme that resonates with Russians steeped in the Kremlin’s version of their country’s history, and warned the West in unmistakable terms — “this is not a bluff”

— that the attempt to weaken or defeat Russia could provoke nuclear cataclysm.

“Russia won its defensive wars against Napoleon and Hitler, and the most impor tant thing Putin did here from a psychological perspective was to claim this, too, is a defen sive war,” said Michel Eltchaninoff, the French author of “Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin.” “It was an aggressive war. Now it’s the defense of the Russian world against the Western at tempt at dismemberment.”

That “Russkiy Mir,” or imagined world im bued with some inalienable Russian essence, grew in size as Putin suggested in the speech that the country’s nuclear arsenal could be used to defend eastern and southern areas of Ukraine captured since the war began that Moscow may soon claim as its own.

Putin said Russia would support imminent referendums in four regions of Ukraine on

whether to join Russia. This method, descri bed this week by President Emmanuel Macron of France as “simulacra” of referendums, was used in Crimea in 2014 to justify Russian an nexation.

It seems likely that the referendums, in Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south — which the United States and Western allies have denoun ced as “sham” votes — would also lead to Rus sian annexation. At that point, the Ukrainian counteroffensives underway in the east and south to recapture territory seized by Russia, could, in Moscow’s view, be called an attack on Russian soil, justifying any retaliation, even nuclear riposte.

“If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will of course use all means at our disposal to defend Russia and our people,” Putin said.

His speech, which may of course be a bluff despite his denial, nevertheless placed before the West a dilemma that has been in herent in its policy from the start of the war: How far can intense military and logistical sup port of Ukraine — effectively everything short

of NATO troops on the ground — go without setting off nuclear confrontation?

As Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, has said, the United States and its Western allies have been trying to use “all means pos sible” to help Ukraine “without creating an uncontrollable escalation.” But the risk of that escalation, in effect the start of World War III, just grew, because what constitutes a strike “in side Russia” may now be defined differently by Putin.

How the West will react to this new risk threshold is unclear, although leaders were unanimous in denouncing Putin’s threats.

“I believe the nuclear threat is a bluff but it gives Putin a means to terrify the West, and accentuate divisions about providing arms be cause some may now view that as too dan gerous,” said Sylvie Bermann, a former French ambassador to Russia.

Full of anger and venom, portraying Ukraine as the headquarters of neo-Nazis and the West as a giant engine of “Russophobia,” Putin appeared as deluded about the neighbor he attacked as he was in his Feb. 24 speech that announced the war.

He has downsized Russia’s military am bitions in Ukraine — upended by the Russian defeat in Kyiv and recent battlefield setbacks in the northeast — without downsizing his obses sions over Russian humiliation at the breakup of the Soviet Union three decades ago.

On Wednesday, as in February, he accu sed Ukrainian authorities, falsely, of genocide against ethnic Russians. He boasted of nuclear weapons that are “more advanced” than in the West. He made wild allegations about the threat to Russia, alluding, for example, to “sta tements by some high-ranking representatives of leading NATO states about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction — nuclear weapons — against Russia.”

There is no evidence of this.

Putin “claimed he had to act because Russia was threatened. But no one threatened Russia and no one other than Russia sought conflict,” Biden said.

The Russian attempt to rebuild the imperium lost at the dissolution of the Soviet Union finds itself at a treacherous crossroads. After multiple military setbacks, Putin spoke from relative weak ness.

“The situation is very dangerous because Pu tin is in a trap,” Bermann said.

A Ukrainian soldier near the city of Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 17, 2022.

By PAMELA PAUL

School’s

in session. Workers have been summoned back. Campuses are open for protests and counterprotests, invitations and disinvitations. And a nasty round of midterms is upon us.

That’s plenty of fodder for argument, and that’s leaving out perennial sources of conflict like who was supposed to load the dishwasher. Who wants to pick a fight first?

Because fight it out we will. In a country riven by discord, the extent of disagreement among people, their political representatives and their media outlets feels simultaneously intransigent, untenable and entirely inevitable. Not only are we bad at agreeing with one another; we’re also terrible at arguing with one another.

Part of the problem may be that we’re not arguing over the right things. Part of the problem may be that we’re not arguing well. And part of the problem may be that we’re not arguing enough.

A little high school debate club might help.

Bo Seo, a 28-year-old two-time world debating champion, says the problem of polarization isn’t so much that we disagree but rather that “we disagree badly: Our arguments are painful and useless.” We spend more time vilifying, undermining and nullifying those we disagree with than opening or changing their minds. If more people took

their cues from the world of competitive debate, he argues in a recent book, it would be easier to get people to reconsider their views or at least consider those of others.

Let’s consider his argument. In his book, “Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard,” Seo, now a second-year student at Harvard Law School, says what we need is to disagree more but to do so constructively. In debate, he writes, rebuttal — arguing back — is “a vote of confidence not only in ourselves but in our opponents, one that contained the judgment that the other person was deserving of our candor and that they would receive it with grace.” Approaching arguments with reason, logic, respect and empathy can help people handle opposing views.

While that may not work on Twitter, where character assassination and chasing likes win over good-faith argument, or in electoral debates, which have become little more than sponsored advertisements or opportunities to loom menacingly over one’s opponent, it may work in real life. But you have to keep in mind a few key principles.

First, know when to engage. Arguments, Seo reminds us, are “easy to start and hard to end.” For a dispute to go well, it should be real, important and specific. You need to have a point to make, not just an emotional conflict or complaint to air. If someone has hurt you, figure out why; that becomes a real basis for argument.

Next, pause to consider how important that point is and whether it’s worth arguing over. Finally, stick to the specific dispute at hand so that the argument doesn’t expand or spiral. If the disagreement really is over the dishwasher (and look, there’s often cause), don’t let it become a referendum on your marriage.

Once you’ve decided to argue, Seo says, know what it is you’re arguing about. To begin, determine the fact, judgment or prescription that you would like someone else to accept. Let’s say it’s “Jen is a team player.” In order to make that claim, add the word “because” and give your reason (“because she involves everyone in the department”). From there, you offer substantiation and evidence to back it up. (“She always goes around the room.” “She checks in with her crew weekly.”) That’s making your case.

Importantly, showing how someone else is wrong isn’t the same thing as being correct yourself. In debate, tearing down the other team doesn’t necessarily prove your team is in the right nor is it likely to convince anyone who didn’t agree with you in the first place. “No amount of no is going to get you to yes,” one of Seo’s coaches once told him.

Finally, never let a bully dictate the terms of debate. If faced with a brawler — someone whose aim is, as Seo puts it, “not to persuade but to silence, marginalize and break the will of their opponents” — your only hope is to restore the structure of the debate. In other words, see above.

Some say competitive debate is a flawed model for healthy discourse, whether for domestic disputes or political disagreements. In an essay in The Dublin Review, novelist Sally Rooney, a former champion debater, characterized formal debate as overly aggressive and possibly immoral. “For the purposes of this game, the emotional or relational aspects of argument are superfluous,” she wrote. Novelist Ben Lerner, who also spent years as a debater, an experience he drew from in his 2019 novel, “The Topeka School,” told me he had to unlearn the idea “that every conversation ended with a winner and a loser.”

Whatever the shortcomings of school debate, our prevailing models for arguing — cable news and courtrooms — certainly don’t offer much hope. As Mark Oppenheimer, a former religion reporter for The New York Times and the author of a memoir about debate, told The New Yorker in 2010, “the sound-bite culture has ruined it all.” And that was 12 long years ago.

But Seo thinks we idealize a past of civil disagreement. “Those were times when people weren’t able to speak,” he told me recently. “The disagreements were there; they just weren’t visible. What we’re doing right now is unprecedented, which is to allow a diversity of people to speak.” Avoiding difficult conversations, he says, can “shade into contempt and otherness.”

The best place for those disagreements may be outside our current public forums for debate — places that offer a chance to meet people where they are rather than to perform in front of an audience. Rather than annihilate a classmate in a large lecture hall, invite him to coffee. Take a conversation offline, which removes the incentives to escalate. You can’t deplatform your uncle at Thanksgiving, Seo points out.

After the long hibernation of COVID and a few especially brutal years of online discourse, we could all use a little practice having face-to-face disagreements again. That much, at least, is inarguable. argue well

POR CYBERNEWS

El Servicio de Conservación de Re cursos Naturales (NRCS) del USDA y la Agencia de Servicios Agrícolas (FSA) del USDA informan a nuestros agricultores y collaboradores que todas las oficinas en Puerto Rico están abier tas para ayudar a nuestros agricultores con la recuperación del huracán Fiona, excepto el Centro de Servicio de Coro zal, la oficina de la FSA de Arecibo y la Oficina de campo de NRCS de Juana Díaz.

El Centro de Servicio de St. Croix, USVI, está abierto para negocios como de costumbre.

El personal de Corozal, Juana Díaz NRCS y Are cibo FSA están trabajando desde otras oficinas o tra bajando remoto para ayudar a nuestros agricultores.

Por favor, háganos saber si tiene daños en las ope raciones agrícolas o prácticas de conservación como resultado del huracán Fiona. Para obtener ayuda, contáctenos en:

PUERTO RICO NRCS: ARECIBO: 787-817-2473 | 939-759-4912 | Linnette. Rosado@usda.gov

CAGUAS: 787-743-2743 | 787-360-4438 | Norber to.Valentin@usda.gov

COROZAL: 939-759-4922 | Christian.Vargas@usda. gov | 939-759-4904 | Abiud.Mulero@usda.gov

JUANA DÍAZ: 787-309-9376 | Nicis.Vega@usda. gov | 939-759-4925 | Zahira.Vega@usda.gov | 939759-4896 | Omar.Baez@usda.gov | 939-759-4908 | Mariangelis.Roig@usda.gov

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UTUADO: 787-894-1480 | 939-759-4899 | Miche lle.Catoni@usda.gov

SAN JUAN STATE OFFICE: 787-281-4836 | 787-4057368 | Luis.Cruz-Arroyo@usda.gov | 787-370-2703 | Javier.Cruz@usda.gov

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| 787-897-2430 | silma.olavarria@usda.gov | leslie.romero@usda.gov | alba.rivera@usda. gov | brenda.negron@usda.gov | angel.men dez@usda.gov

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UTUADO – 787-894-4657 | 787-894-2416 | 787894-1480 | jang.negron@usda.gov | yajaira.guz man@usda.gov | leslie.romero@usda.gov | yvonne. nieves@usda.gov | maria.perez@usda.gov | william. cuebas@usda.gov

USDA Área del Caribe

Agencia de Servicios Agrícolas (FSA) Puerto Rico 654 Muñoz Rivera Ave., Ste. 829 Hato Rey, PR 00918 www.fsa.usda.gov/state-offices/Puerto-Rico 787-294-1613

Agencia de Servicios Agrícolas (FSA) USVI 4401 Estate Sion Farm, Suite 2 Christiansted, VI 00820 www.fsa.usda.gov/state-offices/Virgin-Islands 340-773-9146 x100

MAYAGÜEZ: 787-396-8781 | 939-759-4921 | Javier. Torres@usda.gov SAN SEBASTIÁN: 787-896-3565 | 939-759-4895 |

BARRANQUITAS/ COROZAL – 787-857-3940 | 787-857-4101 | george.torres@usda.gov | patricia. dones@usda.gov | carlos.vazquez@usda.gov CAGUAS – 787-743-2203 | 787-745-3805 | ana. felix@usda.gov | sandra.blas@usda.gov | carlos. vazquez@usda.gov | daniel.sosa@usda.gov | patri cia.dones@usda.gov

Servicio de Conservación de Recursos Naturales PR y USVI 654 Muñoz Rivera Ave., Ste. 604 Hato Rey, PR 00918-4868 www.pr.nrcs.usda.gov 787-766-5206 CYBERNEWS

EL CAPITOLIO – La senadora Ana Irma Rivera Las sén, portavoz del Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC), solicitó el jueves al secretario de Agricultura, Ramón “Pirul” González Beiró, que extienda el tér mino que tienen los(as) agricultores(as) para reportar sus daños y enviar la “Declaración Post Pérdida” que activa el seguro en protección de sus inversiones.

“Cumplir con tan corto plazo es claramente impo sible para muchos de nuestros(as) agricultores(as) que todavía no han podido llegar a sus tierras por estas

LARES/ ARECIBO – 787-897-4610 | 787-897-2755

haber quedado gravemente saturadas por las lluvias. El término máximo de 5 días está a punto de vencer, por lo que exigimos al Secretario de Agricultura que lo extienda inmediatamente para que estos(as) no va yan a perder los beneficios que les provee la póliza de seguro”, manifestó la senadora en declaraciones escritas.

La Ley 166 del 11 de agosto de 1988, estable ció la Corporación de Seguros Agrícolas para pro veer seguros que protegieran la inversión de los(as) agricultores(as), de las instituciones crediticias que fi nancian empresas agrícolas y las que hace el Gobier

no en la agricultura a través de programas de incenti vos. Esta Ley fue enmendada por la Ley Núm. 99 de 2 de julio de 2002 para requerir un seguro obligatorio a los(as) agricultores(as) que reciben subsidios estatales.

No obstante, la activación de esta cubierta exige que los(as) agricultores(as) completen un formula rio denominado “Declaración Post Pérdida” (CSAPR-122, rev. 03/2022) y lo envíen por correo certifi cado dentro de 48 horas a partir del descubrimiento del daño o del restablecimiento de las comunicacio nes, y no más tarde de 5 días de haber ocurrido los daños.

Solicitan al Secretario de Agricultura que extienda término para que agricultores reporten daños y reciban beneficios del seguro de inversiones

Centros de servicio del USDA en el Caribe están abiertos para ayudar a los agricultores

‘Moonage Daydream’ review: David Bowie’s sound and vision

By A.O. SCOTT

Theusual way of making a documen tary about a famous, no-longer-living popular musician is to weave talkinghead interviews (with colleagues, journalists and random celebrities with nothing better to do) around video clips of the star onstage and in the studio. The story tends to follow a standard script: early struggles followed by triumph, disaster and redemption. Movies like this clog the streaming platforms, cate ring to eager fans and nostalgic dads.

Brett Morgen’s new film about David Bowie is something different. Titled “Moona ge Daydream” after a semi-deep cut from Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars,” and showing in IMAX as well as other formats, it’s less a biography than a seance. Instead of plodding through the chronology of Bowie’s life and

career, Morgen conjures the singer’s presen ce through an artful collage of concert foo tage and other archival material, including feature films and music videos. There are a lot of great songs, and thanks to Morgen’s dexterous editing, Bowie himself seems to provide the narration, a ghostly effect (he died in 2016) that resonates with some of his ideas about time, consciousness and the uni verse. He is not so much the subject of the film as its animating spirit.

“Does it matter? Do I bother?” he asks at the beginning, musing on the transience of existence. For anyone who grew up fo llowing the iterations of his persona and the evolution of his music, the answer, at least as far as the movie is concerned, is empha tically yes.

Morgen, who has made documenta ries about the Chicago 7, Kurt Cobain, Jane Goodall and Hollywood producer Robert

Evans, subordinates the dry facts of history to the mysteries of personality. “Moonage Day dream” is interested in what it felt like to be

David Bowie, and also, as a corollary, what it felt like, especially in the 1970s and ’80s,

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to be interested in him. Context and eva luation — the sources and influences of his music; its relation to what was happening in the wider world — are left to the viewer to supply or infer. The work, and the artist’s presence, are paramount.

For the most part, this approach works. Although Morgen bends and twists the time line when it suits him, he traces an arc from the early ’70s into the ’90s, beginning in the Ziggy Stardust years and immersing the audience in Bowie’s otherworldly charisma at that moment. His bright-orange hair, his brilliantly inventive fashion sense, his frank bisexuality and his almost casual mastery of divergent musical idioms made him an irre sistible puzzle for the media and an idol to the restless and curious young.

Appearing onstage in dresses, flowing suits and shiny space gear, he undid gender conventions with insouciant ease. He chan ged his look and his sound from one album to the next, leading critics to question his authenticity and interviewers to wonder about his true self.

That mystery seems more easily sol ved now than it might have back then, and “Moonage Daydream” explains some of Bowie’s process and a lot of his thinking. The combined effect of the present-tense voiceover and the earlier interviews is to empha size Bowie’s essential sanity. Perhaps more than most of his peers, he seems to have ap proached even excesses and transgressions with a certain intellectual detachment, ta king an Apollonian perspective on an essen tially Dionysian form.

His postwar childhood is dealt with quickly. He notes the coldness of his parents’

marriage, and the influence of his older half brother, Terry Burns, who introduced young David to jazz, outlaw literature and modern art. Mainly, though, “Moonage Daydream” tacks away from Bowie’s personal life, edi ting sex and drugs out of its version of rock ’n’ roll.

His first marriage, to Angie Barnett, isn’t mentioned at all. His second, to Iman, marks a transition from restless solitude to contented middle age. The emphasis, in both the narration and the images, is on Bowie’s work. His explanations of changes in style and genre are illuminating, and illustrated by shrewd musical selections. You don’t hear all the obvious hits — where was “Young Americans”? — but you do get a sense of his range and inventiveness, and a taste of some less-well-remembered songs. I was glad to be reminded of the anthemic “Rock ’n’ Roll With Me.”

Watching Bowie move through the phases of his career, from the avant-garde to the unapologetically pop, it’s clear, at least in retrospect, that his creative life was a se ries of experiments in an impressive varie ty of media. Morgen devotes some time to Bowie’s painting and sculpture, and to his acting, in films such as “The Man Who Fell to Earth” and “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawren ce” and in a Broadway production of “The Elephant Man.”

Bowie was a pretty good actor, and also — this is shown rather than said — an exceptionally good dancer. His devotion to his work and the pleasure he took in it are the themes of “Moonage Daydream.” It’s a portrait of the artist as a thoughtful, lucky man. And perhaps surprisingly, given the mythology that surrounds so many of his contemporaries, a happy one.

Caguas

ante la emergencia provocada por el Huracán Fiona

Protección, Seguridad y Servicios

• Teléfono: 787-745-4115, ext. 4222

• Policía Municipal: 787-745-4115 ó 787-745-2020

• Manejo de Emergencias: 787-743-1510

• Emergencias Médicas: 9-1-1

• Oficina de la Mujer: 787-704-2020 ó 787-567-5055

• Servicio al Ciudadano: 787-653-8833, ext. 1600, 1619, 1650

• Movilidad Ciudadana: 787-653-8833, ext. 1746, 1748

Centro de Recuperación para Negocios

• Préstamos de emergencia, orientación de ayudas disponibles y recopilación de información de daños para los comerciantes.

• Tercer piso del Centro de Gobierno Municipal

• Información: 787-653-8833, ext. 2900 ó 2901

Centro de Recarga Energética

Para residentes de Caguas. Se solicitará ID con foto. Máximo de 2 equipos por familia.

• Prioridad de recarga:

1 - Equipo médico, 2 - Celular, 3 - Laptop

• Quinto piso Lincoln Center (antigua Bowlera)

• Horario: 8:00 a.m. a 4:00 p.m.

• Información: 787-296-9292

Centro de Recopilación de Información de Daños y Orientación sobre Servicios en la Emergencia y Primeras Ayudas

Reportar daños a la propiedad.

Si tiene acceso al internet:

• llenar formulario provisto en el siguiente enlace: https://caguas.gov.pr/caguas-activate

Si desea hacerlo personalmente:

• Sala Carmita Jiménez, Centro de Bellas Artes

• Horario: 8:00 a.m. a 4:00 p.m.

Oasis

• Frente a la urbanización Altos de la Fuente, en la carretera #1.

• Frente al Monumento al Africano en la carretera PR 183.

• PR 798, entrada al sector La Liga, en Río Cañas.

Busca más información en www.caguas.gov.pr

David Bowie as seen in “Moonage Daydream.” Bowie himself seems to sup ply the film’s narration, via the director Brett Morgen’s dexterous editing.

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IGNORADAS, Arnaldo Sotomayor Figueroa, 34 Adam St., Bridgeport, Connecticut 06607; Rosa Idalia Sotomayor Figueroa, 7914 Woodgrove Circle, Tampa, Florida 33615; Orlando Sotomayor Figueroa, 38 Hubbard Rd., Hartford, Connecticut 06114; Zulma Ivette Sotomayor Figueroa, 5028 White Sanderling Court, Tampa, Florida 33619; Duvar Esteban Sotomayor Figueroa, 85 Glendale Ave. 1 Floor, Hartford, Connecticut 06106; Juan Ángel Sotomayor Figueroa, 5028 White Sanderling Court, Tampa, Florida 33619; Norberto Sotomayor Figueroa, 85 Glendale Ave. 1 Floor, Hartford, Connecticut 06106; Ángel Luis Acosta Rodríguez, HC 01 Box 4512, Coamo, PR 00769, Jorge Rodríguez Santiago, HC 01 Box 4417, Juana Díaz, PR 00795, Carmen Miriam Terán Ortiz; María Amparo Torres; Iván E. Correa Torres; Delia A. Correa Torres; Neida R. Correa Torres; Pedro O. Correa Torres; Carlos M. Correa Torres, Luis A. Correa Torres; Fernando Lugo; Wilson Soto y Carmen Nydia Guzmán Rodríguez.

Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente arriba mencionado, con el fin de

justificar e inscribir a favor de la Prornovente, el dominio que tiene sobre la siguiente finca: “RUSTICA”: Predio de terreno radicado en el barrio Los Llanos del término municipal de Coa mo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de CUATRO MIL CUATROCIEN TOS CATORCE PUNTO DOS MIL SEISCIENTOS TREINTA Y SIETE METROS CUADRA DOS (4,414.2637 m.c.), equi valentes a UNO PUNTO MIL DOSCIENTOS TREINTA Y UNO CUERDA (1.1231 CDA.).

En lindes por el NORTE, en nueve distancias que suman ciento cuarenta y uno punto cuatro mil trescientos setenta y ocho metros (141.4378 m), con Quebrada; por el SUR, en cin co distancias que suman ciento setenta y uno punto cinco mil setecientos treinta y tres metros (171.5733 m.), con la carretera estatal número catorce; por el ESTE, en nueve distancias que suman setenta y cuatro punto nueve mil novecientos treinta y cuatro metros (74.9934 m.), con terrenos propiedad de Fer nando Lugo; y por el OESTE, en dos distancias que suman doce punto cero, setecientos treinta y seis metros (12.0736 m.), hoy, con terrenos propie dad de Jorge Rodríguez Santia go, antes Wilson Soto. Alega la parte Peticionaria que adquirió la finca descrita mediante es critura número 6, otorgada en Coamo, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de enero de 1981, ante el No tario José A. Valero Zayas. Es abogado de la peticionaria, el LIC. JORGE M. DIAZ RODRI GUEZ, PO Box 852, Naranjito, P.R. 00719-0852, teléfono y “fax” número 1- 787-869-4042, jorgemdiazrodriguez@gmail. com. Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión por tres veces durante el término de veinte días en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que los que tengan algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito, las personas ignora das a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, y en general, a todos los que desearen oponer se, entre ellos los colindantes y dueños anteriores, puedan efectuarlo dentro del término de veinte días a partir de la última publicación del presente edicto. Por tanto, libro la presente en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de agosto de 2022. Eliza beth Gonzalez Rivera, Sec Re gional. Jackeline Vega Colon, Sec Aux.

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

GUAS ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante V. GREGORIO ROSADO TORRES, EMMA RUTH SEDA FIGUEROA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01000. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SU BASTA. El que suscribe, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, hago saber a la parte deman dada, GREGORIO ROSADO TORRES, EMMA RUTH SEDA FIGUEROA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL que en cumplimiento del Man damiento de Ejecución de Sen tencia expedido el 1 de agosto 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 postal, a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección físi ca: [Urb. Hacienda Borinquen A5 Calle Almendro, Caguas, PR 00725] y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Hacienda Borinquen, situada en el Barrio Tomás de Castro, jurisdicción de Caguas, Puer to Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urba nización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar 5 Bloque A, Área del solar: 510.87 MC. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 2.15 metros, 20.07 metros y 2.58 metros en arco con la “State Road PR 789”, por el SUR, en una distancia de 7.34 metros en arco con la Calle Almendro de la Urbani zación, por el ESTE, en una distancia de 36.55 metros con el Solar 6 del Bloque A de la Urbanización, y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 29.16 me tros, con el Solar 4 del Bloque A de la Urbanización. Enclava estructura dedicada a vivienda. Finca número 64501, inscrita al tomo digital Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sec ción Primera. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca en garantía de un pa garé a favor de World Mortgage

Corporation, h/n/c World Mort gage Bankers, o a su orden, por la suma de $289,000.00, con intereses al 6.00% anual y vencimiento 1 de septiembre de 2036. Constituida mediante la escritura 239 otorgada en San Juan el 31 de agosto de 2006 ante el notario Félix J. Santiago García. Inscrita el 18 de febrero de 2022 al Tomo Karibe, finca 64,501 de Caguas, inscripción 2da. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será ce lebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 13 de junio de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte deman dada pagar a la parte deman dante la cantidad ascendiente a En dicha sentencia, se deter minó que la parte demandada, adeuda a la parte demandante la suma de $216,820.46 de principal, más $7,516.44 a in tereses acumulados, que conti nuarán acumulándose al 6.00% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $519.84 a cargos por demora, más $3,522.58 a otros cargos, más $28,900.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será cele brada el día 11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de CA GUAS, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $289,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBAS TA el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MA ÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $192,666.67.

Si no hubiese remate ni adjudi cación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $144,500.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi

miento incoado estarán de ma nifiesto en la Secretaría del Tri bunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entien de que cualquier carga y/o gra vamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continua rá subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cual quier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propie dad para ejecutar será adquiri da libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de car gas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo teca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de ins trumentos negociables garan tizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecuta do, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando subrogados en los dere chos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y con signado el precio correspon diente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente es critura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o ti tular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el ad judicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo due ño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si trans curren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior proce dimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la fin ca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edic to bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En CAGUAS, Puerto

Rico hoy 1 de septiembre de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓ MEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGUEZ.

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Parte Demandante Vs. BRENDALY IRIZARRY RIVERA OMAR GONZALEZ LOPEZ, ANNETTE VANESSA DAVILA SOTO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada CIVIL NUM. MZ2018CV00034. SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HI POTECA POR LA VIA ORDI NARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Maya guez, Oficina de Subasta; a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secreta ría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el in mueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SEN TENCIA por $81,675.89, de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho princi pal y computados al 4% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5.00% computa do sobre cada mensualidad de principal e interes por la suma de $417.72, por concepto de cargos por demora devengados hasta el dia primero de noviem bre de 2017, a razón de $16.71, más la suma de $8,627.50 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pacta da en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: UR BANA: Solar identificado con el número Dieciséis del Bloque “D” en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Villas de

Lavadero de Hormigueros, localizada en el Barrio Lava dero del término municipal de Hormigueros, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS PUNTO QUINCE (300.15) ME TROS CUADRADOS. Colinda por el NORTE, distancia de veintitrés (23.00) metros con el solar D guion quince (D-15); por el SUR, en una distancia de veintitrés (23.00) metros, con el solar D guion diecisiete (D-17); por el ESTE, en una distancia de trece punto cinco (13.05) metros, con Calle Número seis (6); y por el OESTE, en distan cia de trece punto cinco (13.05) metros con el solar número D guion siete (D-7). Enclava es tructura de hormigón reforzado y bloques de concreto con las facilidades usuales para resi dencia de una familia. Inscrita al folio uno (1) del tomo treinta y cinco (35) de Hormigueros, finca número seis mil nove cientos noventa y dos (6,292).

Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. Dirección Física: 16-D St., Villas de Lavadero, Hormigueros, PR 00660.La pri mera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 4 de octubre de 2022, a las 2:00 de la tarde, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $86,275.00 sin admi tirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subas tado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 11 de octubre de 2022, a las 2:00 de la tarde, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $57,516.66.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda su basta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 18 de octubre de 2022, a las 2:00 de la tarde, y el tipo mínimo para esta ter cera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la pri mera subasta, o sea, la suma de $43,137.50. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certifi cado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se de clarase desierta la tercera su basta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adju dicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo es timase conveniente, por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el mon to del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cual quier licitador que la propiedad

queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contri buciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes al crédi to del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las per sonas interesadas en, o con de recho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que sur gen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus in tereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posterio res. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en gene ral y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo me nos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas la borables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Mayaguez, Puerto Rico a 23 de agosto de 2022. Alg. Ivelisse Figuroa Vargas, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MAYAGUEZ.

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dicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la ven ta, el comprador tendrá dere cho a la devolución del depósi to de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Además, se noti fica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desco nocidas que puedan tener de rechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referi da propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen pos terior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fue ra necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan com parecer a la celebración de di cha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titularidad y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante conti nuarán subsistentes. Se enten derá que el rematante los acep ta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas la borables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el pre sente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 28 de julio de 2022. Wi lliam Lugo Guzman, ALGUACIL #720, SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE ORO COVIS

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C

FANNIE MAE

Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CARLOS MANUEL NUÑEZ

VAZQUEZ T/C/C CARLOS MANUEL NUÑEZ VAQUEZ T/C/C CARLOS M. NUÑEZ

VAZQUEZ COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA CARMEN LYDIA FIGUEROA BETANCOURT T/C/C CARMEN L. FIGUEROA BETANCOURT, POR SI; SUCESION DE VICTOR NUÑEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN LAS SUCESIONES

Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00063.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA - IN REM. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SE GUNDA Y TERCERA SUBAS TA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Oro covis, Puerto Rico, por la pre sente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cum plimiento con la Sentencia dic tada en este caso con fecha 12 de julio de 2022 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 31 de agos to de 2022, librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Algua cil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 12 en el plano de mensura del proyecto Sapia ra dicado en el Barrio Cacao, del término municipal de Orocovis, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 4.4082 cuerdas, equivalentes a 17,325.977 metros cuadrados.

En linderos: NORTE, con la finca #11 y terrenos de Eugenio Guzmán; SUR, con carretera municipal que la separa de la finca 12-A; ESTE, con terrenos de Eugenio Guzmán; OESTE, con carretera municipal que la separa de la finca 13 y 12A. FINCA NÚMERO: 12,958, inscrita al folio 7 del tomo 227 de Orocovis, Registro de Ba rranquitas. Dirección Física: BO. CACAO, CARR. 564, KM. 3.0, (PARCELA #12 PROYEC TO SAPIA) OROCOVIS, PR 00720. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIME RA SUBASTA habrá de cele brarse el día 6 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Orocovis. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma

de $30,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A

LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señala do en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $20,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el pá rrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mis mo lugar antes señalado el día 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A

LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $15,000.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Honora ble Tribunal dictó Sentencia In Rem declarando Con Lugar la demanda determinando que hay un balance pendiente de pago ascendente a la suma de $22,280.45 de principal, más intereses y recargos que se continúan acumulando confor me al contrato de préstamo. Di cha cantidad es el balance de principal al momento de la radi cación de la demanda. Por mo tivo del descargo concedido, o inminente a uno o varios de los demandados, el presente re clamo es In Rem, pues el des cargo no afecta la exigibilidad del gravamen hipotecario, con forme ha sido resuelto por el Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos en Johnson v. Home State Bank, 501 U.S. 78, 111 S. Ct. 2150, 115 L. Ed. 2d 66, 59 USLW 4609 (1991). Se dis pone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nue vos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá or denar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamien to del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del de mandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efec to, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo ten drá derecho a la devolución del

monto consignado más no ten drá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (ju dicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la ven ta, el comprador tendrá dere cho a la devolución del depósi to de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Además, se noti fica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desco nocidas que puedan tener de rechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referi da propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen pos terior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fue ra necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan com parecer a la celebración de di cha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titularidad y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante conti nuarán subsistentes. Se enten derá que el rematante los acep ta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas la borables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el pre sente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTI

MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 9 de septiembre de 2022.

HÉCTOR I. COLÓN MALDO NADO, ALGUACIL, SALA SU PERIOR DE OROCOVIS.

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M&T 19-07-208574 CA2019CV03751

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA SALA SUPERIOR FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE

ASSOCIATION T/C/C

FANNIE MAE

Demandante V. MARÍA F. VILLANUEVA CORTÉS T/C/C MARÍA

VILLANUEVA CORTÉS

Y DESIREE OLABARRIA VILLANUEVA T/C/C DESIREE OLAVARRÍA

VILLANUEVA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03751. 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 INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epí grafe 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 17 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA SALA SUPERIOR , todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Colinas De Fair View, 4K 222 ST, Trujillo Alto PR 00976 y que se descri be a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbaniza ción Fair View, sección sépti ma localizada en el barrio Las Cuevas de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urba nización con el número, área y colidancias que se relaciona a continuación: Número del solar: 7 de la manzana 4-P. Area del solar: 403.00 metros cuadra dos. Colidancias por el Norte, con la calle número 222, en una distancia de 15.50 metros; por el Sur, con los solares número 28 y 29, en distancia de 15.50 metros; por el Este, con el solar número 6, en una distancia de 26.00 metros; y por el Oeste, con el solar número 8, en una distancia de 26.00 metros. En clava Edificación. NOTA: En la descripción de esta propiedad en el tomo de inscripción surge que su colindancia Oeste, es con el solar 8, sin embargo, en las escrituras de compraventa e hipoteca surge el solar número 5 como su colindancia Oeste. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 136 del Tomo 257 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 12,861, en el Re

gistro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $126,538.76. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que sus cribe el día 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $84,359.17. Si tampoco hu biere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebra rá una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 31 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera su basta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $63,269.38. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constitui da mediante la escritura núme ro 383, otorgada el día 31 de mayo de 2004, ante el Notario Ricardo J. Ramos González y consta inscrita en el Folio 45 del Tomo 766 ágora de Trujillo Alto, finca número 12,861, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, inscripción cuarta. Compare cen María Villanueva Cortés (soltera), Desiree Olabarria Villanueva y Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, para modificar hi poteca de la inscripción cuarta por la suma de $109,000.00, en cuanto a: amplían por la suma de $17,538.07 para un principal que será de $126,538.76; en cuanto al interés, comenzando el 1 de julio de 2011 con inte reses al 2.00% anual, a partir del 1 de julio de 2016 al 3.00% anual, a partir del 1 de julio de 2017 al 4.00% anual y a partir del 1 de julio de 2018 hasta su vencimiento, el 1 de junio de 2042 con intereses al 4.50% anual; el tipo mínimo acordado entre las partes será la cantidad de $126,538.76, según surge de la escritura número 147, otorgada en San Juan, el 29 de julio de 2011, ante el notario Carlos E. Bermúdez Monroig. Inscrita al folio 45 del tomo 766 de Trujillo Alto. Inscripción sép tima. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $107,280.54 por concepto de principal, más inte reses al tipo pactado de 4.00% anual desde el día 1 de octubre de 2017. Dichos intereses con tinúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos

por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $10,900.00 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $10,900.00para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $10,900.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al Proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA

DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI

CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA

SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de tí tulo efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de car gos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo teca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmi sibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamen te con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus inte reses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado ase gurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Y para conocimien to de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edic to de acuerdo con la ley por es pacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribu nal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edic tos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre

de cargas y gravámenes pos teriores 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 subas ta bajo mi firma, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2022. HÉC TOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1 Demandante Vs. SUCESION CARMEN TORRES DIAZ T/C/C CARMEN TORRES COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2021CV01131. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 2 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se des cribe a continuación: RÚSTICA:

DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

Parcela marcada con el núme ro trescientos noventa y siete (397) del Plano de Parcelación de la comunidad rural Punta Santiago en el Barrio Punta Santiago de Humacao, con un área de novecientos veintisiete punto cero cuatro (927.04) me tros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con parcela numero tres cientos noventa y ocho (398) de la comunidad; por el Sur, con ampliación de Punta San tiago (Existente); por el Este, con Parcela numero trescientos noventa y cinco (395); y por el Oeste, con calle número seis (6) de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio 200 del tomo 409 de Hu macao, finca 18,186, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao.

La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca 18,186 de Humacao, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, inscripción 2ª. Propiedad locali zada en: COMM. PUNTA SAN TIAGO, 397 CALLE CASABE, HUMACAO, P.R. 00741. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $94,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 13 de noviem bre de 2087. 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 de mínima subasta la suma de $94,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi ofi cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Hu macao, el 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $63,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima 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 $47,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará

en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $64,452.42 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $9,434.25 en intereses acumu lados al 23 de febrero de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulán dose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $3,590.62 en seguro hipotecario; $3,960.00 en tarifas de servicios; $353.00 en seguro; $525.00 de tasacio nes; $340.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 en honorarios de abo gado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $9,450.00, para gastos, cos tas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) in teresados (as). Y para su publi cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia rio de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de agosto de 2022. JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTE RINO. JENNISA GARCÍA MO RALES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #796.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Small Business Administration)

Plaintiff v. JOHN DOE AND

RICHARD ROE as those unknown persons who may be the holders of the lost mortgage note or have any interest in this proceeding, Defendants

CIVIL NO. 3:22-cv-01330-SCC.

ACTION FOR CANCELLATION OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (Segaloal, Inc. d/b/a The Hair Club). SUMMONS BY PUBLI CATION.

TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE

Unknown holders of a pro missory note of $536,000.00 executed on March 28, 2011, by Segaloal, Inc., d/b/a The Hair Club, as acknowledged by affidavit number 2,155 sworn before Héctor R. Crespo Mi lián, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mortgage Deed No. 7 executed on March 28, 2011, before Notary Public Héctor R. Crespo Milián, over the fo llowing properties, described in the Spanish language as: COMERCIAL: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Unidad de Ofi cina marcado con el número 507 ubicado en el quinto piso del Condominio Centro Inter nacional de Mercadeo, Torre II, gobernado por el Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, y locali zado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, del municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de 1,980.619 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 184.006 metros cuadrados. Su entrada principal se encuentra en el lado Este que la conecta con el corredor común del piso. Colinda por el NORTE, en una extensión de 43’5½”,equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina número 508; por el SUR, en una exten sión de 43’5½”, equivalentes a 13.246 metros, en parte con la escalera de escape comunal y parte con el espacio comunal; por el ESTE, en una exten sión de 45’10”, equivalentes a 13.970 metros, con corre dor común del piso; y por el OESTE, en una extensión de 45’10”, equivalentes a 13.970 metros, con el espacio exterior. Le corresponde una participa ción en los elementos comunes generales del edificio igual a 1.343%. The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is recorded over this property in the Regis try of the Property of Guaynabo, at page 119 (vuelto) of volume 1,469 of Guaynabo, property number 47,138, 6th inscription. This property secures the afo rementioned Deed of Mortgage in the amount of $183,368.42.

COMERCIAL: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Unidad de Ofi cina marcado con el número 508 ubicado en el quinto piso del Condominio Centro Inter nacional de Mercadeo, Torre II, gobernado por el Régimen de

Propiedad Horizontal, y locali zado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, del municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de 2,992.792 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 278.041 metros cuadrados. Su entrada principal se encuentra en el lado Este que la conecta con el corredor común del piso. Colinda por el NORTE, en una extensión de 43’5½”,equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina núme ro 501, parte con el pozo del elevador de carga y parte con corredor común del piso; por el SUR, en una extensión de 43’5½”, equivalentes a 13.246 metros, con la Oficina 507; por el ESTE, en una extensión de 74’0”, equivalentes a 22.555 metros, en parte con la escale ra interior de escape comunal, parte con el pozo del elevador de carga, parte con corredor común del piso y parte con un pozo del sistema de aire acon dicionado; y por el OESTE, en una extensión de 74’0”, equi valentes a 22.555 metros, con el espacio exterior. Le corres ponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales del edificio igual a 2.029%. The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is recorded over this pro perty in the Registry of the Pro perty of Guaynabo, at page 123 of volume 1,469 of Guaynabo, property number 47,139, 8th inscription. This property se cures the aforementioned Deed of Mortgage in the amount of $352,631.58. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on August 26, 2002, by the Honorable Silvia L. Carre ño-Coll , United States District Judge (Docket No. 4 ), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime López Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269. This Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general cir culation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Com plaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause aga inst you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 30th day of August, 2022. MA RIA ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN, ESQ.CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT. By: Viviana Diaz-Mu lero, Deputy Clerk.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA MÓN SALA SUPERIOR FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE EDNA IRIS NALES PEREZ COMPUESTA POR PEDRO EMIR ROSA NALES, EDNARIS MAIRIM ROSA NALES Y JANICE ANDREA FUENTES NALES COMO ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES HEREDEROS Y MIEMBROS DE SU SUCESIÓN

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2018CV04191. Salón Núm.: 505. Sobre: CO BRO DE DINERO Y EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, MARIBEL LANZAR VE LÁZQUEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha del 21 de junio de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tri bunal Superior de Bayamón en relación con la Sentencia Su maria en Rebeldía dictada en 28 de junio de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos el 28 de junio de 2019, y publicada la Notificación de Sentencia Por Edicto en 3 de julio de 2019, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Edifi cio uno punto uno (1.1) Aparta mento: uno guión dos cero uno (1-201). Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento de una (1) planta, tres (3) habitaciones en el Con dominio Bosque Sereno, situa do en la Avenida Las Cumbres, en el Barrio Cerro Gordo, Baya món, Puerto Rico, con un área de mil cuarenta y siete punto cero cero (1,047.00) pies cua drados, equivalentes a noventa y siete punto treinta (97.30) me tros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con pared exterior; por el SUR, con pared exterior; por el ESTE, con pared exterior; y por el OESTE, con la pared medianera que comparte con el apartamento uno guión dos cero dos (1-202) y escalera.

Tiene puerta de entrada en el lado Oeste que conduce a un pasillo común y tiene puerta en el lado Sur, que conduce al balcón del apartamento. Consta dicho apartamento de sala comedor, cocina, closet de alacena, closet de calenta dor de agua, balcón, closet de lavandería, un (1) baño, dos (2) dormitorios con sus respectivos closets, un (1) dormitorio princi pal con su closet y baño. A este apartamento le corresponden punto cincuenta y siete (.57%) de titularidad en los elementos comunes. A este apartamento le corresponden los estaciona mientos números ciento once (111) y doscientos setenta (270). Consta inscrita al folio 98, del tomo 1875 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 77,303, Re gistro de la Propiedad de Ba yamón, Sección I. Condiciones Restrictivas a través del Progra ma Bono de Vivienda: La Auto ridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, ha concedido a los compradores la suma de $7,950.00 para gastos de cierre, por lo que impone las siguientes condiciones restric tivas: No podrá vender, donar, permutar o de cualquier otro modo transferir la propiedad sin el previo consentimiento de la Autoridad dentro de un periodo de 10 años a partir de la fecha de la escritura relacio nada en la inscripción primera. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de Baya món. d. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Com pany. e. Condiciones restricti vas. Dirección de la propiedad: Condominio Bosque Sereno, Apartamento 1-201, Bayamón, Puerto Rico 00956. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que proce dan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de las subastas. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la pro piedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SU BASTA: Se celebrará el 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRE CIO MÍNIMO: $154,969.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se ce lebrará el 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $103,312.66. TERCERA SU BASTA: Se celebrará el 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRE CIO MÍNIMO: $77,484.50. Las subastas se llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco de mandante de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada, a saber,

la suma de $140,365.98 adeu dada por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 25 de septiembre de 2018, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $499.20, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y comple to de la obligación, las sumas adeudadas por concepto de seguros y/o contribuciones, la suma de $139.25 por concepto de adelantos (Corp Advances), más la suma de $15,496.90, por concepto de costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situa da en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribunal de Ba yamón, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de Améri ca, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en pri mer término los gastos del Al guacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma con venida, en tercer término los intereses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pac tados hasta su total y completo pago, en cuarto término, las su mas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de la subasta y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada. Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. El inmueble anteriormente descrito se encuentra afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, Civil Número BY2018CV04191 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Eje cución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria de fecha 16 de no viembre de 2018, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Deman dante) Vs. EDNA IRIS NALES PEREZ (Demandada). Por la misma se reclama el pago de la suma de $140,365.98, más intereses y otras sumas, o en su defecto la venta en públi ca subasta, anotado al Tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 77,303, Anotación A, el

cual se refiere al caso del epí grafe en la presente causa de acción. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe es tán disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, durante horas laborables. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publi cará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Co lecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Bayamón, Puer to Rico, a 7 de septiembre de 2022. MARIBEL LANZAR VE LÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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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 Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00660. Sala: 409. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que sus

Parte Demandante Vs. PETER EUGENE GONZÁLEZ MATTAS, LUZ DAMARIS ROSARIO HERNÁNDEZ T/C/C LUZ D. ROSARIO HERNÁNDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE ROGELIO ESPINO MAYSONET T/C/C ROGELIO ESPINO MAISONET COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs PABLO ROMAN CARRASQUILLO

Demandado(a) Civil: HU2022CV00285. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA

POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: PABLO ROMÁN CARRASQUILLO.

P/C LCDA. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA.

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 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 12 de septiembre de 2022. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 14 de septiembre de 2022. IVELISSE C. FONSECA

RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, SECRE TARIA 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 607-609

CONDADO ST., LLC.

Demandante LA SOCIEDAD INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGADORES PROFESIONALES, INC.

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01381.

Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LA SOCIEDAD

INTERNACIONAL DE

INVESTIGADORES

PROFESIONALES, INC.

EL SECRETARIO (A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los diez (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 sep tiembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. MAR THA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V. LIAXA MORALES AYUSO T/C/C Demandado(a)

Civil: CA2022CV00575. Sala: 409. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.

A: LIAXA MORALES

AYUSO T/C/C LIAZA

MORALES AYUSO. (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 9 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re

solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de septiembre de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 14 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APON TE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETA RIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALI CEA, 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 ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs EDUIN A. SURIEL GÓMEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01478. (801). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO ORIDINARIO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO POR SUMAC.

A: EDUIN A. SURIEL GÓMEZ.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de septiembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 15 de septiembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SONIA N. ORTIZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CABO ROJO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO

AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Demandante Vs. GRENDA C. BONILLA Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2021CV00670. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO.

A: GRENDA C. BONILLA - 132 PUERTA DEL COMBATE CABO ROJO, PUERRTO RICO 006229634 / PO BOX 6511 MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO 00681-6511.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu nal, en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 de agosto de 2022. En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el 2 de agosto de 2022. LIC. NOR MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs. LESTER VEGA ALVARADO Demandado Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00546. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO.

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. A: LESTER VEGA ALVARADO - URB SANTA TERESITA 6206 CALLE SAN ANDRÉS PONCE, PUERTO RICO 007304455.

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 remedio solicitado en la demandada 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 al abo gado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose. aguilar@or-flaw.com y a la di rección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de agosto de 2022. En Pon ce, Puerto Rico, el 5 de agosto de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARA BALLO GARCÍA, SECRETA RIA. SANDRA GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC.

Demandante V. ENRIQUE LUIS PIÑERO NORAT, EVELYN CELINIA COLON VAZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, ISLAND FINANCE OF PUERTO RICO INC., HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO ISLAND MORTGAGE, JOHN DOE Demandadas Civil Núm.: BY2022CV03342. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZA

MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UN IDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.

A: ENRIQUE LUIS PIÑERO NORAT, EVELYN CELINIA COLON VAZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARÉ COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DE PAGARÉ A FAVOR DE ISLAND MORTGAGE, O A SU ORDEN, POR LA SUMA $163,000.00, CON INTERESES AL 5.75%, VENCEDERO EL DIA 1 DE MARZO DE 2034, CONSTITUIDA MEDIANTE LA ESCRITURA NÚMERO 86, OTORGADA EN SAN JUAN, PUERTO R1CO, EL DIA 26 DE FEBRERO DE 2004, ANTE EL NOTARIO ARSENIO COMAS RONDÓN, E INSCRITA AL FOLIO 191 DEL TOMO 229 DE BAYAMÓN NORTE, FINCA NÚMERO 239, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE PUERTO RICO, TERCERA SECCIÓN DE BAYAMÓN.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publica ción del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se repre sente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y no tificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE

DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm. 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Suite 209 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901

Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribu nal, hoy 14 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA

SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

SUCESION DE DOMINGA LOPEZ SILVA TAMBIEN CONOCIDA COMO DOMINGA LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ

COMPUESTA POR LYDIA LOPEZ SILVA, JULIO LOPEZ SILVA Y MILAGROS LOPEZ SILVA Demandante V. SUCESION DE FELIX RODRIGUEZ FUENTES

TAMBIEN CONOCIDO COMO FELIX RODRIGUEZ

TAMBIEN CONOCIDO COMO FELIX RIVERA

FUENTES, COMPUESTA

POR FULANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS X, Y, Z Demandado(a) Civil: FA2022CV00119. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE FELIX RODRIGUEZ FUENTES

TAMBIEN CONOCIDO COMO FELIX RODRIGUEZ

TAMBIEN CONOCIDO COMO FELIX RIVERA FUENTES, COMPUESTA

POR FULANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS X, Y, Z.

(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 31 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 FA JARDO, Puerto Rico, el 14 de septiembre de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA.

LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC COMO AGENTE DE MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC

Demandante V.

GABRIEL FIGUEROA

Demandado(a) Civil: JD2021CV00387. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (R.60). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: GABRIEL FIGUEROA

PARA SER NOTIFICADO POR EDICTO.

P/C LCDO. JOSE F. AGUILAR VELEZ. JOSE. AGUILAR@ORF-LAW. COM.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de noviembre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de septiembre de 2022. En Juana Díaz, Puer to Rico, el 14 de septiembre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABA LLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. MARÍA C. COLÓN SANTIAGO, 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. ELLERY M. ANTONGIORGI SUAREZ

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV01077. Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ELLERY M. ANTONGIORGI SUAREZ.

(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 14 de septiembre de 2022. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 14 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MA RRERO BRACERO, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs. DANNY LUNA FIGUEROA, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA Demandada Civil Núm.: CT2022CV00082.

Salón: 702. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO / INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CON TRATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE

SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: DANNY LUNA FIGUEROA, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA - URB. JARDINES DE CATAÑO Z30 CALLE 11, CATAÑO, PR 00962.

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 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Ba yamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de septiembre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 14 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HU MACAO SOLYMAR TORRES NAVARRO Demandante Vs. ELVIN ALEXIS JR OCASIO SANCHEZ Demandado Civil Núm.: HU2022RF00348.

Salón: 301. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE).

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: MELVIN ALEXIS JR

OCASIO SANCHEZ. DIRECCIÓN: BO. EMAGAYUA SECTOR PLAYA KM 1.2, MAUNABO, PUERTO RICO 00707; Y SU DIRECCIÓN POSTAL ES: HC01 BOX 3122, MAUNABO, PUERTO RICO 00707.

POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda que se acom paña con este Emplazamiento, dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, excluyéndo se el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al abogado (a) de la parte De mandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electró nica: http://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se repre sente 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 remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente.

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379 Calle Cesar González Hato Rey, San Juan, PR 00918 Tel (787) 766-0949 / Fax (787) 771-2425

Email: vazquezyasociadospr@ gmail.com

Se le apercibe que de no ha cerlo, se podrá dictar Senten cia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la de manda, sin citarle ni oírle más.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA

Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2022. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL AUXILIAR. NICSIA M. MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs SUCESION DE ANDRES AGUSTIN SANCHEZ FUENTES COMPUESTA POR ANDRES SANCHEZ,

FULANA DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: AG2022CV00181.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: SUCESION DE ANDRES AGUSTIN SANCHEZ FUENTES COMPUESTA POR ANDRES SANCHEZ, FULANA DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 09 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 Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 15 de de septiembre de 2022. SA RAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRE TARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRE TARIA.

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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 BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Parte Demandante Vs. ENRIQUE GONZÁLEZ

POLANCO, MARIA CRISTINA DÁVILA LUGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, JOHN DOE Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06127. Salón De Sesiones: 908. So

bre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA

VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO POR SUMAC.

A: JOHN DOE COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARÉ.

EL SECRETARIO (A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 14 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 esta. 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 diez (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 16 de septiembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 16 de sep tiembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. JANE VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA TRI BUNAL CONFIDENCIA I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. EDWIN RODRIGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ; DAMARIS SUHAIL VELAZCO VARGAS Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandado Civil Núm.: GU2022CV00047. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, S.S. A: EDWIN RODRIGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ POR SI Y EN REP DE LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON DAMARIS SU HAIL

VELAZCO VARGAS.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del térmi no de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presen tar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la si guiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dic tará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Gui llermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 00936-6603. Tel. (787) 9190073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Ex pido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 7 de septiembre de 2022. LUZ MA YRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS MTGLQ INVESTORS LP Demandante Vs SUCESION DE EDGARDO JOSE PRIETO RODRIGUEZ Y LA DE MARIA ISABEL AGOSTINI VELEZ COMPUESTA POR EDGARDO JOSE, CARLOS RAFAEL Y ATHEL Y MERCEDES TODOS DE APELLIDOS PRIETO AGOSTINI, HONORALBE SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: GR2019CV00371.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CARLOS RAFAEL PRIETO AGOSTINI Y ATHELY MERCEDES PRIETO AGOSTINI, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE

EDGARDO JOSE PRIETO RODRIGUEZ Y DE MARIA ISABEL AGOSTINI VELEZ.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 14 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 15 de septiembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRE TARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINO SA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. HUMBERTO MALAVE NUÑEZ, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA Demandados

Caso Núm.: CY2022CV00226.

Salón Núm.: 702. Sobre: CO

BRO DE DINERO ORDINA RIO / INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

QUE COMPONE CON HUMBERTO MALAVÉ

NUÑEZ - BO. GUAVATE 21400 SECT INOCENCIA

CRUZ, CAYEY, PR 007369407.

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. ramaiudicial.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 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notiflcaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Ca guas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de septiembre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 16 de septiembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRE TARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINO SA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB AS TRUSTEE OF WV 2017-1 GRANTOR TRUST

Demandante Vs. DAVID PACHECO PEREZ, AILEEN

CASTRO MARRERO, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, SECRETARIO DE DESARROLLO

URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE ESTADOS UNIDOS (HUD) Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2022CV00376.

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 Bayamón, 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 Bayamón, el 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 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:

URBANA: Urbanización Forest View de Bayamón Sur. Solar: 44 de la manzana B. Cabida: 318.26 metros cuadrados. Linderos: por el NORTE, con los solares 50 y 51, distancia de 13.77 metros; por el SUR, con la calle Sofia, distancia de 13.00 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar 45, distancia de 23.57 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar 43, distancia de 23.97 metros. Existe una casa con concreto para una sola familia. Inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 1878 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 21280, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Bayamón. Propiedad localizada en: B44 Forest View, C Sofia, Baya món, PR 00956. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o preferentes. Se gún figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecu tante: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Deve lopment, o a su orden, por la suma de $4,305.95 sin intere ses anual y vencimiento 1 de marzo de 2035. Constituida por la Escritura 32 otorgada en San Juan el 21 de agosto de 2006 ante el notario Jorge Eduardo Martínez Landrón, e inscrita al folio 215 del Tomo 1878 de Bayamón Sur, finca 21280, inscripción 14ª. 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 $119,050.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 31 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $79,366.67, 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 $59,525.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 7 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $107,617.85 de principal, intereses al tipo del 4.625% anual según ajustado desde el día 1ro. de mayo de 2021 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $11,905.00 por concepto de ho norarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente 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 pu blicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públi cos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de septiembre de 2022. Edgardo Elías Vargas Santana, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #193, Alguacil De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Cetro Judicial De Bayamón, Sala Su perior.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE LAS PIEDRAS CARMELO CORREA FUENTES Y EUGENIA SANTIAGO MENDEZ

Demandante Vs. LA COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO LAS PIEDRAS; CARMEN M. PENA CARRION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERES

Demandados Civil Núm.: LP2022CV00139. 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 pagaré: Pagaré a favor de La Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Las Piedras, o a su orden, por Veinte Mil Dólares ($20,000.00), con intereses al seis punto setenta y cinco por ciento (6.75%) anual, vencede ro el primero (1ro) de octubre de dos mil doce (2012), según consta de la escritura número catorce (#14), otorgada en Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, el día veintiséis (26) de septiembre de dos mil dos (2002), ante la Notario Publico Kata Michelle Declet Estrada, inscrito al folio #6vto del tomo #283 de Las Piedras, finca #5368, inscrip ción 6ta. y esta garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propie dad sita en Carretera 189 R 921 Km 0.7 Barrio Sabana Las Piedras, PR 00771, que se des cribe como sigue: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno compuesta de quinientos punto cero cero (500.00) metros, situada en el Barrio Collores del término mu nicipal de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, que colinda por el NOR TE, con Félix Figueroa; por el SUR, con camino vecinal del Barrio; por el OESTE, con Ro gelio Ortiz; y por el ESTE, con Miguel Gomez. Enclava casa.

Inscrita al folio 6 del tomo 283 de Las Piedras, finca número 5,368, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La parte deman dante alega que dicho Pagares se ha extraviado, según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría 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 electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal Supe rior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jorge Garcia Rondón, de PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 den tro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra conce diendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edic to por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de septiembre de 2022. Ivelisse C. Fonseca Rodríguez, Secre taria Regional Auxiliar. Ivelisse M. Monclova Cruz, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE LAS PIEDRAS CARMELO CORREA FUENTES Y EUGENIA SANTIAGO MENDEZ

Demandante Vs. LA COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO LAS PIEDRAS; CARMEN M. PENA CARRION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERES

Demandados Civil Núm.: LP2022CV00139. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRA VIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: CARMEN M. PEÑA CARRION (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 pagaré: Pagaré a favor de La Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Las Piedras, o a su orden, por Veinte Mil Dólares ($20,000.00), con intereses al seis punto setenta y cinco por ciento (6.75%) anual, vencede ro el primero (1ro) de octubre de dos mil doce (2012), según consta de la escritura número catorce (#14), otorgada en Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, el día veintiséis (26) de septiembre de dos mil dos (2002), ante la Notario Publico Kata Michelle Declet Estrada, inscrito al folio #6vto del tomo #283 de Las Piedras, finca #5368, inscrip ción 6ta. y esta garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propie dad sita en Carretera 189 R 921 Km 0.7 Barrio Sabana Las Piedras, PR 00771, que se des cribe como sigue: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno compuesta de quinientos punto cero cero (500.00) metros, situada en el Barrio Collores del término mu nicipal de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, que colinda por el NOR TE, con Félix Figueroa; por el SUR, con camino vecinal del Barrio; por el OESTE, con Ro gelio Ortiz; y por el ESTE, con Miguel Gomez. Enclava casa. Inscrita al folio 6 del tomo 283 de Las Piedras, finca número 5,368, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La parte deman dante alega que dicho Pagares se ha extraviado, según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría 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 electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal Supe rior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jorge Garcia Rondón, de PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 den tro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra conce diendo el remedio solicitado en

la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edic to por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de septiembre de 2022. Ivelisse C. Fonseca Rodríguez, Secre taria Regional Auxiliar. Ivelisse M. Monclova Cruz, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS ABIGAIL

VAZQUEZ CINTRON Demandantes Vs. EDUCOOP T/C/C COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE LA ASOCIACION DE MAESTROS DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02594. (802). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESI DENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADOS DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE.

Por la presente se emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presen tado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la can celación del Pagaré suscrito a favor de Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de la Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $20,000.00, con vencimien to el 01 de septiembre de 2010, y habiéndose constituido por la escritura número 48 otorgada en San Juan, el 17 de agosto de 2000, ante el Notario Públi co Ana Cristina Diaz Velazco, inscrita al folio móvil 1577 finca 22320 de Caguas, inscripción 6ta. Representa a la parte de mandante la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: ENEL M. PEREZ MONTE RUA 9019 Reina Isabel 175, La Villa de Torrimar Guaynabo PR 00969 Tel.: (787) 646-9168 lcdaenelperez@gmail.com Se le apercibe que si no com parecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del tér mino de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dicta rá sentencia concediendo el re medio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y

Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio soli citado sin más citarle ni oírle. Dado en Caguas, a 13 de sep tiembre de 2022. Lisilda Martí nez Agosto, Secretaria. Lili Ro dríguez Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. BEATRIZ CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, NILDA CELESTE CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUCESIÓN

DE TEODORO CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ

COMPUESTA POR MARIO CRUZ ALMODÓVAR, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; JUANA MARÍA CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, LIDIA IVETTE CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, TOMÁS CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, ANDRÉS CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUCESIÓN

DE ANGEL MANUEL CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR MARÍA ANGELI CRUZ CUADRA, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE REINERÍA RODRIGUEZ DE JESÚS COMPUESTA POR BEATRIZ CRUZ RODRIGUEZ, SUCESIÓN DE TEODORO CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, JUANA MARIA CRUZ RODRIGUEZ, TOMAS CRUZ RODRIGUEZ

Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL MANUEL CRUZ RODRIGUEZ Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2021CV00854. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE REINERÍA RODRIGUEZ DE JESÚS COMPUESTA POR BEATRIZ CRUZ RODRIGUEZ

JUANA MARIA CRUZ RODRIGUEZ, TOMAS CRUZ RODRIGUEZ,

SUCESION DE TEODORO CRUZ RODRIGUEZ

COMPUESTA POR MARIO CRUZ ALMODOVAR, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL Y LA SUCESION DE ANGEL MANUEL CRUZ RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR MARIA ANGELI CRUZ CUADRA, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL. VILLA UNIVERSITARIA BGL2 CALLE 35, HUMACAO PR 00791-4365: CALLE 5 E-16, URB CASTELLANA GARDENS, CAROLINA PR 00983.

VISTA la Moción Solicitando se dicte Orden de Interpelación a los miembros de la SUCE SIÓN DE REINERÍA RODRÍ GUEZ DE JESÚS, compuesta por BEATRIZ CRUZ RODRÍ GUEZ, JUANA MARÍA CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, TOMAS CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, a los miembros de la SUCESIÓN DE TEO DORO CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ compuesta por MARIO CRUZ ALMODOVAR, FULANO Y FU LANA DE TAL y a los miembros de la SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL MANUEL CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ compuesta por MARÍA ANGELÍ CRUZ CUADRA, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, se declara HA LUGAR y de conformidad con el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, antes Art. 959 del Código Civil de 1930, se dicta Orden para que expresen si han de aceptar o rechazar formalmente la he rencia del causante REINERÍA RODRIGUEZ DE JESÚS en el término de treinta (30) días, dispuesto en ley. Se advierte a los miembros de la Sucesión de REINERÍA RODRÍGUEZ DE JESÚS, compuesta por BEATRIZ CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, JUANA MARÍA CRUZ RODRÍ GUEZ, TOMAS CRUZ RO DRÍGUEZ, a los miembros de la SUCESIÓN DE TEODORO CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ compues ta por MARIO CRUZ ALMODO VAR, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL y a los miembros de la SU CESIÓN DE ANGEL MANUEL CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ compues ta por MARÍA ANGELÍ CRUZ CUADRA, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, que al haberse pre sentado el pleito en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipote ca en contra de los causantes mencionados, de no recibirse contestación en el término de treinta (30) días a partir de la notificación de esta orden, la herencia se tendrá por acepta da y los herederos responden por la deuda reclamada. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de septiembre de 2022. Ivelisse C. Fonseca Rodríguez, Secre taria Interina. Norie I. Mercado Laboy, Sub-Secretaria.

For Roger Federer, London is a sensible end to a long career

By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY

It was in London where Roger Federer be came a genuine star: strolling onto Centre Court at Wimbledon in 2001 with a pony tail and nondesigner stubble and then coolly and stylishly ending the long reign of Pete Sam pras with a fourth-round upset.

So, it seems fitting, or at least symmetrical, that Federer will end his competitive tennis ca reer in London, too, playing one last doubles match in the Laver Cup on Friday night, surely alongside his friendly archrival Rafael Nadal.

It of course would have been a fuller circle for Federer’s final act to have come at Wimble don. But that would have meant playing bestof-five sets on often-slick grass, and though his spirit is still willing, his 41-year-old, postopera tive knees are not.

Instead, the end will come indoors at O2 Arena in a team event Federer conceived with his agent, Tony Godsick, and launched in bet ter, healthier days in 2017, when he was in the midst of the surprising late-career revival that cemented his place among the exceptional athletes of this age or any other.

Though it was far from a sure thing, he endured with excellence: breaking into the top 20 as a teenager and becoming the oldest No. 1 in the history of men’s tennis at age 36 in 2018.

On Wednesday at a news conference at the O2 Arena ahead of the Laver Cup, Fe derer was asked how he hoped people would remember him and what made him proudest about his career.

“Longevity” was the answer.

“I was famous for being quite erratic at the beginning of my career,” he said. “And then to become one of the most consistent players ever is quite a shock to me, as well.”

Federer said he felt back then that he

Roger Federer, with his Europe teammates, is making the Laver Cup in Lon don the last competitive tournament of his career.

could compete for any title for “15-plus years.”

“That has been a privilege,” he said. “I think looking back, that has a special meaning to me because I always looked to the Michael Schumachers, Tiger Woods, all the other guys that stayed for so long at the top that I didn’t understand how they did it. Next thing you know, you’re part of that group, and it’s been a great feeling.”

Federer did it with a unique blend of im provisational talent and carefully conceived structure.

He had an undeniable gift for the game, including supreme hand-eye coordination and what Marc Rosset, the most successful male Swiss player before Federer, rightly identified as exceptional “processing speed” that allowed Federer more time to create great shots on the fly and then finish them with an extra flourish.

But Federer also learned how to manage his time, build an excellent support team and maintain his positive energy. He scheduled judiciously and took genuine breaks from the grind of the tour while also relaxing while play ing on the tour. Many an opponent can recall a pleasant chat with Federer in the locker room shortly before a match and that he could then don his game face in an unsettling hurry.

In an interview in 2019, he explained his recipe for success.

“As much as I take things very serious, I am very laid back, so I can really let go very quickly. I truly believe this is a secret for a lot of the players and for the young guys is to be able, when you leave the site, to say: ‘OK, I’m going to leave it behind,’ ” he said. “‘I still know I’m a professional tennis player, but I’m relaxing. I’m doing it my way, whatever helps me decompress.’”

Federer punctuated this by clenching his left fist.

“Because if you are constantly like this, that’s when you burn out,” he said, looking at his fist.

Federer, by design and by embracing the process, never did burn out. Instead, his body gave out after multiple knee surgeries and long cycles of rehabilitation. He said he still had hope at Wimbledon this year, when he made a surprise appearance for a ceremony honoring the 100th anniversary of Centre Court, that he could return to play there at least “one more time.”

But shortly after that emotional visit, he said he received the results of an MRI scan on his right knee that made the reality clear.

“I was already walking on thin ice for a long time,” he told the Swiss press this week.

He called the decision “bittersweet” when he announced it last week, and then broke down the bitter and the sweet Wednesday.

“The bitterness is you always want to play forever,” he said. “I love being out on court. I love playing against the guys. I love traveling. I never really felt like it was that hard for me to do.”

He said he enjoyed the winning and learned from losing.

“It was all perfect,” he said. “I love my career from every angle. That’s the bitter part.

The sweet part was that I know everybody has to do it at one point. Everybody has to leave the game. It’s been a great, great journey. For that, I’m really grateful.”

Asked for the highlights, Federer pointed to the upset of Sampras in 2001, his first major title at Wimbledon in 2003, his first and only French Open title in 2009 and the Australian Open victory in 2017 that launched his come back.

But he knows the lowlights are intrin sically part of the story, too: defeats like the 2008 Wimbledon final against Nadal and the 2019 Wimbledon final against Novak Djokov ic, which as it turned out, was Federer’s last chance to win a 21st major singles title.

“I’m probably famous for having some tougher losses, as well,” he said. “But then also dealing with them and seeing it as an opportu nity to get better, to grow from it. I’m happy I don’t have flashbacks to tough moments in my career.” He added: “I’m happy that my brain allows me to think this way, because I know it’s not easy to push sometimes defeats and those things away.”

Passed in the Grand Slam singles title count by Nadal and Djokovic, who both hold a head-to-head-edge over him, Federer is no longer an obvious pick as the greatest player of this golden era. But he was clearly that player at one stage: in 2009 when he broke Sampras’ then-existing record by winning his 15th major at Wimbledon.

“Anything after that was a bonus,” he said. “Obviously the last few years have been what they have been, but I’m very happy that I was able to win another five slams from 15 on. For me it was incredible. Then I made it to over 100 titles, and all that stuff has been fantastic. Then just my longevity is something I’m very proud of. Don’t need all the records to be hap py; I tell you that.”

For major milestones, MLB trusts but verifies

By DAVID WALDSTEIN

The baseball that Aaron Judge sent screaming into the left-field bleachers at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday for his 60th home run of the season was different from his other 59 home run balls this year.

It was a special ball, prepared just for him, and the rest of the balls he swings at this year will be similarly distinct. They will not be juiced with extra bounce, nor will they have raised laces or anything else that could affect their flight pat terns.

But they will be marked with something so secret, and so subtle, that Major League Baseball will not reveal exactly what it is.

It is all part of MLB’s authentication program, an elab orate system designed to ensure that game memorabilia is verified as genuine, and it was first put into action for Judge in the ninth inning of the New York Yankees’ win Sunday in Milwaukee, which was his first trip to the plate after he had reached 59 home runs.

From that point, all the balls that Judge swings at for the rest of the season, as he looks to pass Roger Maris’ Yankees and American League single-season record of 61, set in 1961, will contain two special markings.

One is a coded stencil visible to the naked eye. The oth er is a covert marking that requires special technology to see. The ball that was retrieved by a fan and given to Judge after the Yankees’ dramatic win Tuesday night against Pittsburgh, was examined and determined to be the right ball.

“It had the correct markings,” said Dean Pecorale, the authenticator for MLB who put his stamp of approval on the ball and several other items that Judge asked to have authen ticated.

The same goes for Albert Pujols, the St. Louis Cardinals slugger who has 698 career home runs. As Pujols closes in on 700, MLB officials have attached the same kind of covert marking to every ball that will be pitched to him for the rest of the season to ensure that no nefarious actors can falsely claim they have a milestone-setting ball.

“It allows us to verify some of the biggest moments in baseball history,” said Michael Posner, MLB’s senior direc tor for authentication and e-commerce. “How often does a player hit 700 home runs or set the American League home run record, passing the greats of Ruth and Maris?”

The basic program, in which former law enforcement officers witness game-used items as they come off the field and affix a coded hologram sticker to them, is not just for record-setting events. It is in operation at every major league game, and has been for two decades. It just cranks into over drive when a major record or milestone is within reach.

In addition to the secret markings on the balls, MLB has assigned an extra authenticator to shadow Judge and Pujols. Pecorale, a former New York City police officer whose first time authenticating at Yankee Stadium was in 2011 when Derek Jeter collected his 3,000th hit, had one assignment Tuesday: Judge.

“There was a time when players didn’t really understand the program,” Pecorale said. “But most do now. Aaron defi nitely gets it. He comes and looks for us.”

MLB’s authentication squad was established after a widespread racket of phony autographs and memorabilia was uncovered with the help of Tony Gwynn, a Hall of Fame outfielder for the San Diego Padres. Gwynn, who could spot a counterfeit autograph as quickly as a hanging slider, noticed in the late 1990s that some items purported to be signed by him were forgeries.

That led to an FBI investigation, Operation Bullpen, which determined that roughly three-quarters of all auto graphs on the market were fake. The investigation resulted in dozens of convictions and prompted MLB to begin its au thentication unit so that teams and players could verify their memorabilia and in some cases turn it into a solid amount of cash — at least some of which is used to support charities.

The system relies on roughly 230 former law enforce ment officers, hologram stickers and a chain of custody that might stand up to the most skeptical criminal court judge. Typically, two authenticators take up positions, one next to each dugout at every ballpark for every game. When a ball is taken out of play, it goes to an authenticator, like Billy Vanson, another retired New York City police officer, who worked Saturday’s New York Mets-Pittsburgh Pirates game at Citi Field. Vanson spent most of his 25-year career at the 108th Precinct.

Now his precinct is a camera well next to the Mets’ dug out. The ball that comes out of play is tossed to Vanson, who applies a hologram sticker and records exactly when it was used before putting it in a bag.

“You watch the game in a completely different way as an authenticator,” Vanson said Saturday. “You have to pay very careful attention.”

When the stakes are lower than Judge’s home run binge, a ball taken out of play and authenticated in the third inning of a normal game can often be purchased at the team store

by the seventh. Using information encoded on the hologram, a fan can identify the pitcher, the batter, the kind of pitches thrown and the velocity of each one.

During Saturday’s game, a fan paid $250 for second base. After the third inning, when the bases are routinely changed, an authenticator met the grounds crew by the tun nel and applied the sticker to the back of the used base. It was handed to a team official, who presented it to the fan in the stands. Before the game, Vanson authenticated Pete Alonso’s shin guard, at the Mets player’s request.

That is the daily routine. But when players like Judge and Pujols are within range of a major record or milestone, the secret markings are applied to two dozen balls for use exclusively in those players’ at-bats.

“We mark the balls before the game with a combination of letters or numbers and a covert marking that you cannot see with the naked eye, and will not work under a black light,” Posner said. “It is a very specific thing, and it is hard to possess the technology to see it.”

The coded balls are given to the ball people, who deliver three at a time to the home plate umpires. The umpires toss them to the pitcher in sequence, and they are taken out of play after Judge and Pujols have finished their at-bats. (That will go on for the rest of the season, regardless of whether they have passed their milestones.)

After Judge’s 60th home run, a Yankees security guard met the fan who caught the ball and took him to meet Judge. The ball was handed to Judge, who turned it over to Peco rale. The secret markings were verified, proving the ball was authentic. (The fan received four autographed baseballs and an autographed bat in the exchange.)

At that point, the authenticators’ job is done. They do not care if the item is kept by the player, sold at auction or sent to the Hall of Fame.

“We are agnostic to all of those things,” Posner said. “It is about recording history in the moment. No one can falsely claim they have the batting gloves from that 62nd home run. They can say it, but if they can’t produce the properly num bered hologram, then we know they aren’t telling the truth.”

Home run balls like this one, which was hit in a game between the Yankees and the Milwaukee Brewers on Sa turday, are authenticated as real and then get a special hologram with encoded data.

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Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

With stubborn energies on the go, you could hold out for what you want, but it might be your loss in the end. Edgy lunar ties with Uranus and Saturn, may make it harder to find a compromise that is suitable, but it is possible. You’ll do best when you’re ready to meet others halfway and can be flexible. You might have a few non-negotiable issues, but are they worth arguing over, Aries?

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

The realization that this is the time to let something go, may intensify over coming days. And with the Moon making awkward angles, this could be the start of a whole new phase. But first it helps to consciously tackle any blocks. Where do you continuously find yourself coming up short? This might be down to stuck emotions which one released, leave you free to succeed, Taurus.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Are you your own worst enemy when it comes to taking on board a challenge? The question is not so much whether you can do it, but why you hold yourself back? A powerful line-up suggests that accepting this opportunity could be character building, as it will encourage personal growth. Once you have overcome any reservations, you’ll realize you had it in you all along.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Need something to get you going? A focus on the sign of Virgo, could inspire you to look further afield for ways to enjoy a pick-me-up. Perhaps an exotic herbal tea with extra zest or a new recipe using ingredients that you haven’t sampled, can do it. You might even be drawn to a self-improvement book that combines wisdom with ways to keep fit, happy and energized, Cancer.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Who do you believe most? You may be surrounded by people whose opinions contradict each other. Some might downplay your chances of success, while others could be talking up all your good points, leaving you eager and willing to challenge yourself. Trust your abilities and past experience. You need a breakthrough, and it will only come by diving in and having a go.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

The Moon’s awkward angle with Uranus and Saturn, encourages you not to keep pushing for a result and driving your stress levels up in the process. You need to work smarter Virgo, and that involves knowing when to stop and take a break. Today may be one of those days when less is more. Taking time out to refill your creative well and relax your mind, could work wonders.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

This is one of those times when you’ll need to be sociable, but might not feel like it. You may have other things on your mind that make small talk something to avoid. If you’re caught in a situation that’s playing on your mind, then a chat may be the answer. It needs to be with someone you trust, and with whom you can share your deepest fears. Doing so could be freeing!

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

The coming days may involve some intense conversations, that could be make or break. If you have dithered over a decision or wondered if you’re doing the right thing, you’ll be ready to do what it takes to find closure. If it means a little tough love or moving on from a difficult situation, you’ll be ready. And once done, you might wonder why you didn’t do it sooner, Scorpio.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Finding it hard to break out of a difficult situation? If so, it might help to take a philosophical approach to sorting this out, Archer. The Moon in a far-reaching zone, highlights the awkward angle between Saturn and Uranus. This influence suggests that viewing your problem from a fresh perspective can help you see solutions that you wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

You love a challenge, but if there’s one matter running in the background that’s hard to crack, you might be at your wits end. Today’s line-up highlights the potential for letting it all go. The issue may not vanish, but your attitude to it can change, and it’s this that will make all the difference. You’ll have an easier and lighter association with it, that might help it resolve itself.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may feel you’re pitted against other people, and this includes family members. But with the Moon in your relationship zone, you might decide to air any grievances by letting them know how you feel. At the very least, it can leave you feeling better, Aquarius. As Mercury retro aligns with the Sun though, take care with travel and financial arrangements to avoid disappointment.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

You could find yourself thinking about a friend and wondering how they are, Pisces. If so, the cosmos positively encourages you to connect, and to do so soon. If you’ve missed the chance for an evening filled with conversation that allows both of you to bare your soul and feel better for it, then reaching out to them now, can prove a very positive experience for both of you.

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