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The island Health Department has reported some 16 deaths associated with the havoc caused by Hurricane Fiona last weekend.
Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López on Saturday cited the contents of the Fatalities Surveillance Report associated with Hurricane Fiona.
Of the 16 cases, he said, one of the fatalities was a direct result of the atmospheric event, three were indirect deaths, and 12 remain under investigation.
“The first Surveillance report contains fatalities by health region, as well as some variables,” the secretary said in a written statement. “As death certificates are registered with the Demographic Registry, and the deaths are confirmed to be associated with Hurricane Fiona, we will be able to have a clearer picture.”
He said all fatalities would remain under investigation until the death certificates are registered with the Demo graphic Registry.
According to the report, Hurricane Fiona directly caused the death of a 58-year-old Bayamón man. The three deaths classified as indirectly caused by the hurricane are those of a 50-year-old man from the Mayagüez region, a 56-year-old man from the Caguas region, and a 74-year-old woman from the Caguas region.
The Department’s Office of Epidemiology and Investiga tion will issue the Surveillance Report with new data every day between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. through the official emer gency portal of the Government of Puerto Rico (PREPS by its English acronym) and on the website of the Department of Health. The PREPS portal also reported that 67% of the
island’s hospitals had energy as of Saturday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “Reference Guide for the Certification of Deaths Related to Disasters” explains that in a case confirmed as death directly caused by Hurricane Fiona, the death certificate must establish Hurricane Fiona, or its equivalent, as a fac tor in the cause of death. These could be deaths caused by burns, crushing, drowning, electrocution, falls, inhalation of gasses or smoke from a fire, and radiation or chemical poisoning, among others.
Fatalities indirectly caused by Hurricane Fiona occur when unsafe or unsanitary conditions are present during any phase of a disaster. These may result from the acute exac erbation of chronic diseases, loss or interruption of public services, cleanup after a disaster, escaping or fleeing from a disaster, evacuation, failure or interruption of transportation services, or use of temporary shelters or supplies.
As part of the registration process, the Health chief noted that the Institute of Forensic Sciences (ICF) and funeral agents have three days to deliver a death certificate to the Demographic Registry.
Mellado López stressed that health professionals should review the Reference Guide and complete all the boxes on the death certificate. For mortality data related to a disaster, such as Hurricane Fiona, to be adjudicated, physicians must enter the name and type of event in the form.
According to Law 24, the registration or inscription of a death certificate begins when the medical practitioner certifies the cause of death and the funeral agent completes the data.
The Demographic Registry does not accept death cer tificates that are not fully documented in all their parts or classified by the corresponding professional.
with due diligence.
Association of Puerto Rico (AAPR by its Spanish initials) President Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz demanded on Sunday that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, LUMA Energy and the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority notify mayors when they will finally provide water and electricity to the island’s most affected municipalities.
Hernández Ortiz likewise demanded that the central government provide greater communication with municipalities that they have forgotten.
“It is unacceptable that our people have to continue paying for the inefficiency of the agencies,” he said. “Right now our mayors are the ones that are supplying diesel and using their generators so that some communities can have access to essential services such as water.”
Hernández Ortiz spoke on behalf of all the mayors in the AAPR, who have requested help from the government through Form 113, and who he said have been working
“All the mayors, especially those in the central south, are without electricity and almost without water,” Hernández Ortiz said. “It is absurd that communication regarding these resources fails at times when people have so much need.”
The head of the AAPR, which groups the island’s Popular Democratic Party mayors, requested a detailed accountability report, as well as details on where the 113 pending requests stand, which he added should be acted upon with a sense of urgency.
“A week is not tolerable,” Hernández Ortiz said. “This response has been a disaster and the agency logistics have not been adequate. Today I speak on behalf of all the mayors who live day by day with the affected communities and who try to work with the government bureaucracy, but already … it is becoming almost impossible.”
The Villalba mayor added that for the AAPR “it is important that they begin to work with solidarity and work for a common good, without looking at political colors and that the aid from the central government be for everyone equally.”
Dueto the damage caused by Hurricane Fiona, many people have had to use tolls they did not have to use before because of landslides or destruction.
They have also had to deal with emergencies using vehicles with expired tags.
Given those circumstances, independent Sen. José Vargas Vidot asked Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Sunday not to charge tolls or fines for expired tags until the emergency in Puerto Rico is over.
“I spoke with the governor to stop charging tolls to all
Puerto Ricans in light of the disastrous passage of Hurricane Fiona. Likewise, it is inconceivable that fines be imposed for expired license plates at the current time, with citizens enduring the absence of electricity and water service, and even the shortage of diesel fuel,” Vargas Vidot said. “In an emergency like the one we are going through, this would be the fairest thing to do.”
During a tour of the municipality of Salinas, citizens told the senator that due to the collapse of a road they now have to pay a toll of $1.83, which they did not have to pay before.
“We are facing an emergency where lives and property
have been lost,” Vargas Vidot said. “This is not the time for the government to benefit and profit from citizens’ situations by charging tolls in an emergency, and that is what you are doing. It is the same logic as the IVU [sales and use tax]. It is not being charged because the government determined it should not profit from necessity. The same happens with expired tags, many because they cannot be renewed due to many fines. Suppose that out of necessity you have to move in that vehicle, in a country where there is no collective transportation. In that case, it should not be penalized, period.”
As of press time, the governor had not confirmed to Vargas Vidot what action would be taken to solve the problem.
Secretary Gabriel Maldonado González announced
Sunday that unemployment insurance is available for workers affected by Hurricane Fiona who meet the requirements established by law.
“We know that many workers are facing the difficult situation of losing their jobs because of the ravages caused by the passage of Hurricane Fiona,” the official said in a written statement. “[Governor] Pedro Pierluisi, and his in-
teragency component, are joining efforts to assist workers who may benefit from unemployment insurance, as well as to seek alternatives to support those who do not qualify for such assistance.”
Maldonado González said it is of the utmost importance that all displaced workers who meet the requirements for unemployment insurance apply for the assistance by accessing https://trabajo.pr.gov/.
“While those who do not qualify, please stay tuned to our updates as we expect that we will soon be able to grant Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA),” he added.
In the case of Unemployment Insurance, the claimant will be able to receive, for a period of up to 26 weeks, an incentive of up to a maximum of $240. As part of the eligibility requirements, in general terms, the claimant must have lost their employment through no fault of their own and worked for an insured employer registered with the Department of Labor and Human Resources. They must also be registered for a job search at any of the DTRH Employment Service offices at the One-Stop Centers and be ready to accept a new job when offered. They also must have had income for at least two quarters in the past 18 months.
Mayors Association of Puerto Rico President Luis Javier Hernández OrtizMayor Miguel “Ricky” Méndez Pérez had previously announced that if LUMA brigades did not show up a week after Hurricane Fiona hit his municipality, he would activate local units to restore electrical service in the northwestern coastal town.
He is not the first mayor to make such an announcement.
On Sunday morning, Méndez Pérez gave the order for bri gades from the municipality and retired personnel from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to begin work to repair disabled power lines in Isabela. Such action had been taken following the approval of the amended Municipal Code 107 of 2020, which states in article 1. 018, subsection (v), that “if a state of emergency is declared, as described in the preceding subsection, the Mayor or his representative may carry out all the necessary steps and work to normalize or reestablish the electric power system, as well as the facilities for the supply and treatment of water and wastewater, after prior written notification to the Electric Power Authority and/or the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, as applicable.”
“I have been telling LUMA for more than a year that we can be contractors and work together with them because of situations in which we have been without electricity,” the mayor said. “Mr. José Pérez said they were going to prepare an agreement and have never done it; they have never reached it. We have been offering to be contractors for LUMA, but they do not communicate. As soon as the hurricane passed, we called their representatives and told them we were ready to collaborate, but nothing happened; they didn’t move.”
The mayor then decided to take matters into his own hands.
“We went out to the street and did a Facebook Live of what we were doing, and LUMA personnel arrived to take pictures of us. … Immediately, the police arrived, and they filed a complaint against us,” Méndez Pérez said. “That is against the law because [the Municipal Code] says I can collaborate with LUMA and PRASA.”
“LUMA’s attitude is threatening, in total contempt of the people,” the mayor charged. “Days have passed without electrical service; there are communities without water service because of
the lack of electricity [to power the pumps].”
“If I have to make an agreement with LUMA, I will do it,” added the mayor of a town with some 50,000 inhabitants, 90% of whom are without basic service. “It has been very difficult for me to work with LUMA; the communication is abysmal, and we need to solve the electricity problem.”
“They don’t communicate, and they don’t say anything. We don’t know anything about what LUMA is doing about the prob lem. We have seen very little LUMA equipment,” Méndez Pérez continued. “They tell me I can’t work on the lines, to cease work immediately, and obviously, I haven’t stopped. I’m still working.”
“We have a brigade of six people and have already restored several sectors,” the mayor noted. “People are happy and applaud us; they are waiting for us in the streets because they don’t see LUMA brigades. They see the municipality.”
“LUMA has to be empathetic with the people. We are suf fering; people need electrical service,” Méndez Pérez insisted. “Let them give themselves body and soul to help the people.”
The letter from the private consortium that operates the island’s electricity transmission and distribution (T&D) system states that “LUMA requests that the municipality refrain from repairing any asset of the T&D System.”
“LUMA does not approve or authorize repairs to the T&D System performed by personnel not employed by and under the
supervision of LUMA,” the letter continues. “If the municipality performs any repairs to the T&D System, LUMA is not responsi ble for any damage caused to the T&D System, nor for damages suffered by customers or persons.”
Finally, the letter urges the Municipality of Isabela “to support the restoration efforts planned by LUMA.”
For the mayor, that amounts to additional abuse.
“Do they think that with a police complaint against this pub lic servant, they will solve something?” Méndez Pérez said. “Let LUMA make their allegations to the thousands of townspeople who are in the dark and that because of the mediocrity of this company, no one knows when they will restore our service.”
The complaint against the mayor, No. 2022-10-037-004512, was filed by agent Ángel L. Concepción, badge number 33700.
Lawmakers: Towns can provide power, water service repair
Also on Sunday, the New Party Progressive Party minority leader in the island House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez, and Rep. José Enrique “Quiquito” Meléndez reminded the island’s mayors that Law 107-2020, the Municipal Code of Puerto Rico, was amended to provide city halls with powers to repair electrical systems, as well as drinking water systems, in their respective municipalities.
“This was a measure that facilitated the restoration of the electrical network after the onslaught of Hurricane Maria in September 2017,” Meléndez said in a written statement. “It is the mayors who best know the needs of their municipalities, who know where there are those ‘pockets’ without electricity and the areas that need to be rehabilitated to energize them. They have, with Law 107-2020, the power to assist in the reconnection of the electricity system. This power is available to the 78 mayors of Puerto Rico.”
One week after the passage of Hurricane Fiona, a Cate gory 1 hurricane, hundreds of thousands of families still do not have electric power service.
In January 2018, Méndez and Meléndez filed House Bill 1380, which amended the Puerto Rico Autonomous Municipalities Act to establish that power.
The island House of Representatives late last week approved an allocation of $1 million to each of the 78 municipalities to bring direct aid to those most affected after the impact of Hurricane Fiona on Sept. 18.
“We have joined forces and, in a non-partisan effort, approved $78 million for direct aid to all the victims through the municipal ities, who have been the first line of response to this emergency,” House Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez said.
However, dozens of nonprofit organizations won’t have the resources to help the communities most devastated by Fiona since the delegations of the New Progressive Party, Citizen Victory Movement, Puerto Rican Independence Party and the Dignity Project voted against Senate Joint Resolution 300, which assigned $22.5 million to those entities.
“We regret that in an exercise of political pettiness, the minority delegations decided to vote against giving resources to nonprofit organizations that provide direct aid to the citizens most affected by this catastrophe,” Hernández Montañez said.
The lower chamber also endorsed House Resolution 832, which asks President Joe Biden to extend the Major Disaster Declaration he issued to include all 78 municipalities on the island, thus providing more resources from the federal government to combat the devastation caused by Fiona. Late last week, the municipalities of Arecibo, Barceloneta, Cabo Rojo, Loíza, Manatí, Camuy, Guánica, Lajas, and Sabana Grande were added to the declaration list.
Meanwhile, a state of emergency was declared due to the lack of a robust structure for fuel distribution in Puerto Rico. The Department of Consumer Affairs was ordered to prioritize the areas of greatest need, such as hospitals, senior centers, super markets, telecommunication towers and pharmacies, to supply them with diesel.
The legislative leader also sent letters to LUMA Energy, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, and the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), requesting them to submit work plans certified by municipality to restore water and electricity, the number of brigades and equipment assigned for such purposes and the estimated date on which both essential services will be
restored. In the case of PRASA, also requested was the logistics plan for delivering electrical and diesel generators to drinking water plants and pumps.
Isabela Mayor Miguel Méndez Pérez Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Rafael Hernández MontañezTheFinancial Oversight and Management Board objected late last week to filing a debt adjustment plan in 60 days for the bankrupt Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) as suggested by mediators while it litigates and engages in talks to settle disputes over the power utility’s $9 billion debt.
The oversight board said the suggestion was not practical given its disputes with bondholders and that it needed time to negotiate with other creditors, such as unions and retirees, before filing a nonconsensual plan.
On Sept. 17, the oversight board announced it was walking out of the mediation talks to restructure PREPA’s $9 billion debt due to “substantial disagreements with the mediation parties.” The board then asked the Title III bankruptcy court to restart litigation of several disputes with the bondholders. The litigation will focus mainly on whether the bondholders’ security interest securing their bond claims is limited to about $8.8 million that PREPA has in accounts the bond trustee created per a 1974 trust agreement governing the issuance of the bonds.
The bondholders then asked the court to dismiss the bank ruptcy case, which began in 2017, and to appoint a receiver for PREPA.
Following a request from U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is overseeing all of Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy cases, the mediators presented a schedule to continue negotia tions during the litigation proposed by the oversight board and the creation of a new debt adjustment plan.
The mediators said they believe the mediation will benefit if the court requires the oversight board to file in 60 days a proposed plan of adjustment, or “toggle plan,” and a related disclosure statement that contemplates alternative plan treatment depending on the outcome of the primary lien and claim disputes.
They also said it would enhance the mediation if the litigation takes place as part of the oversight board’s request for confirmation of the debt plan and a confirmation hearing consistent with an expedited litigation schedule. The hearing should take place no
later than June 2023, they said.
The oversight board on Friday said the mediators’ suggestion was problematic for several reasons. First, the bondholders claim they are owed $8 billion without the interest accumulated after the bankruptcy filing and $10.5 billion with interest.
“If any material portion of the $8 billion claim is not allow able, it dramatically impacts what PREPA will pay for all other allowed claims,” the oversight board said. “There are too many potential outcomes of the Bondholders’ ultimately allowable secured and unsecured claims for there to be a ‘toggle plan.’ We would need multiple toggles!”
While the oversight board said the court may set a dead line for filing a plan, it noted that the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, does not provide for the court to predetermine the plan’s contents, including that it be a “toggle plan.”
The board insisted that the purpose of the requested litigation is to determine the bondholders’ and current expense claimants’ rights, which will help it strike deals with those creditors or other groups. The “current expense” claims are those in which fuel line lenders and PREPA’s retirement system said they should be paid before the bondholders.
“Because mediation has taken a staged approach focusing solely on the Bondholders’ claims, the Oversight Board has not had the opportunity to complete its negotiations with PREPA’s unions or retiree system or to meaningfully engage with other creditor constituencies,” the board said. “The Oversight Board should be given the opportunity to reach consensus with other parties before it files a nonconsensual plan.”
The oversight board said it chose the litigation schedule as no debt plan was practicable. Nonetheless, the board said, it could commit to filing a proposed adjustment plan within 45 days of either a restructuring support agreement with a significant creditor constituency or the Title III court’s adjudication of the bondholder’s debt claim.
The oversight board also asked the court to stay litigation involving the appointment of a receiver for PREPA.
The board said it agrees with the mediation team’s suggestion that it should have authority to file reports recommending that the court pause pending litigation to enable negotiations to proceed.
However, it objected to the mediators’ suggestion that all oversight board members should attend all the mediation sessions.
“We understand the Mediation Team might desire to have the Oversight Board attend negotiations so it can respond more quickly to counter-proposals. That is understandable, but the circumstances must be considered,” the board said. “The Oversight Board acts in a deliberative manner with access to its advisors and other experts to consider new points and data raised by creditors, AAFAF [the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority], the Legislature, and the unions. The Oversight Board’s members consider and debate opposing positions. Thus, the Oversight Board sometimes requires more time to act in the best interest of Puerto Rico and all its people and stakeholders.”
The board also objected to a suggestion that it appoint a lead negotiator as it would result in delays and additional costs.
Regarding a mediation team request for the oversight board to set up a data room for economic analyses and financial pro jections, among other things, the board said it was unnecessary because it has already provided such information to creditors.
By THE STAR STAFFHouse Government Committee Chairman Jesús Manuel Ortiz asked Public Safety (DPS) Secretary Alexis Torres on Sunday to confirm the existence of a protocol that would allow first responders to perform their duties on the street but at the same time ensure that they have access to fuel on a
priority basis.
Although he made the request for all first responders, the lawmaker pointed out the situation of thousands of police officers
who, after 10- and 12-hour shifts, many times under the sun at intersections that have no traffic lights due to the lack of electric ity, have to wait in long lines to access fuel for their vehicles or generators in their homes, due to the shortage and high demand for fuel caused by Hurricane Fiona.
“In emergency or disaster situations, such as the one currently being experienced in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona, it is im portant to have a uniform process that allows first responders to carry out their work, which is of vital importance to the people, but at the same time ensures access to necessities, such as fuel, quickly and efficiently,” Ortiz Gonzalez said in his letter to DPS. “This protocol should establish express service lines and priority shifts at all gas stations on the island.”
“The whole country is going through situations, but these first responders do not have the time to be able to meet their basic needs since most of the time they are working,” the legislator said. “Therefore, we want to know if the DPS has taken into ac count the needs of its employees and to confirm if there is such a protocol and if not, to establish a plan to put it into effect as soon as possible.”
U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain
House Government Committee
Chairman Jesús Manuel Ortiz
TropicalStorm Ian, which formed late Friday over the central Caribbean Sea, is expected to intensify rapidly Sunday, potentially be coming a very strong hurricane near western Cuba before threatening Florida as a major hurricane this week, forecasters said.
Forecasters said that Ian, which was about 540 miles southeast of the western tip of Cuba, was expected to become a hurricane by late Sunday and a major hurricane by late Monday or early Tuesday.
“Ian is going to be a large and powerful hurricane in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and spread its impacts over a large portion of the Florida Peninsula,” Jamie Rhome, acting direc tor of the National Hurricane Center, said in a briefing Sunday.
A hurricane warning was in effect Sunday morning for areas in western Cuba, which could see “life-threatening storm surge and hurricaneforce winds” beginning Monday, the Hurricane Center said.
“Efforts to protect life and property should be rushed to completion,” it said Sunday.
The Florida Keys could get 2 to 4 inches of rain, with some areas getting up to 6 inches through Tuesday evening, the Hurricane Center said, adding that flash and urban flooding could occur across the Keys and Florida Peninsula. Flash flooding and mudslides are also possible in high terrain in Jamaica and Cuba.
At a Sunday news conference, a day after declaring a state of emergency for all of Florida’s 67 counties, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida emphasized the continued uncertainty of the storm’s path.
“Just don’t think if you’re not in that eye, that somehow you don’t have to make preparations,” he said. He cautioned residents to anticipate possible power failures, fuel disruptions and evacuation orders.
While satellite imagery of Ian may not currently look “overly impressive,” that will change as the storm unfolds and become “a little unsettling as that satellite really builds out,” Rhome warned.
“A lot of people are going to run to the stores when they see that, so I stress that you use the rest of today to finalize your preparation while it’s calm,” he said.
“The surge vulnerability along the west coast of Florida is very extreme,” Rhome said, adding, “I’m telling you, it doesn’t take an onshore or direct hit from a hurricane to pile up the water.”
Kevin Guthrie, director of the Florida
Division of Emergency Management, said at the news conference that as of Sunday afternoon, the division had 360 trailers loaded with meals and water ready to distribute to residents.
President Joe Biden approved an emergen cy declaration for 24 Florida counties that will unlock direct federal assistance.
The storm’s center is expected to pass southwest of Jamaica on Sunday evening, with maximum winds near 50 mph, the Hurricane Center said. Ian is then expected to pass near or west of the Cayman Islands early Monday before moving near or over western Cuba late Monday, forecasters said.
Ian is expected to generate 3 to 6 inches of rain in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, and 6 to 10 inches in western Cuba, with up to 12 inches possible, the center said.
As of Sunday afternoon, a hurricane war ning was in effect for Grand Cayman and the Cuban provinces of Isla de Juventud, Pinar del Rio, and Artemisa. A tropical storm watch was in effect for Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, and a tropical storm warning was in effect for the Cuban provinces of La Habana, Mayabeque and Matanzas.
This hurricane season is Nicole Sigismondi’s first time preparing for it alone with her two chil dren, ages 7 and 15; her fiancée died almost a year ago. When she went to buy water Friday night, it was sold out.
“There was nothing left at Walmart,” she said. “That was a little unsettling.”
During Hurricane Irma in 2017, parts of her house flooded and was without power for three weeks, she said. She and her family had to walk about 1 mile through water before someone could pick them up in a car, which a tree then fell on.
Hurricane paths can often change suddenly, which was the case five years ago when Irma moved toward her area in Pasco County, Florida, north of Tampa.
“The hope is that you get lucky, but you hope it doesn’t hit anybody else,” Sigismondi said. “You don’t wish bad on them.”
Ian is the ninth named storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. A storm is given a name after it reaches wind speeds of at least 39 mph.
The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June through November, had a relatively quiet start, with only three named storms before Sept. 1 and none during August, the first time that had happened since 1997. Storm activity picked up in early September with Danielle and Earl, which formed within a day of each other.
In early August, scientists at the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued an updated forecast for the rest of the season, which still called for an above-normal level of activity. In it, they predicted that the season — which runs through Nov. 30 — could see 14 to 20 named storms, with six to 10 turning into hu rricanes with sustained winds of at least 74 mph.
Three to five of those could strengthen into what NOAA calls major hurricanes — Category 3 or stronger — with winds of at least 111 mph.
Last year, there were 21 named storms, after a record-breaking 30 in 2020. For the past two years, meteorologists have exhausted the list of names used to identify storms during the Atlantic hurricane season, an occurrence that has happened only one other time, in 2005.
The links between hurricanes and climate
change have become clearer with each passing year. Data show that hurricanes have become stronger worldwide during the past four decades. A warming planet can expect stronger hurricanes over time and a higher incidence of the most powerful storms, though the overall number of storms could drop because factors like stronger wind shear could keep weaker storms from forming.
Hurricanes are also becoming wetter be cause of increased water vapor in the warmer atmosphere; scientists have suggested storms like Hurricane Harvey in 2017 produced far more rain than they would have without the human effects on climate. Also, rising sea levels are contributing to higher storm surge — the most destructive element of tropical cyclones.
An undated photo provided by CIRA/NOAA shows a satellite image of Tropical Depression Nine, which became Tropical Storm Ian late Friday, Sept. 23.our very eyes, and people are being displaced,” said Rep. Troy Carter, D-La., whose home state has lost more than 2,000 square miles of coast — roughly the size of Delaware — since the 1930s. The coastal restoration funding “is a grand-slam home run,” he said.
Escalating climate threats have prompted a continuing debate among policymakers and experts about how best to guard against devas tating damage, between those who prioritize building infrastructure like sea walls — some times called “gray infrastructure” — and those who favor nature-based solutions, or so-called green infrastructure.
Some scientists and climate organizations see the climate law as a clear signal that the gov ernment is giving priority to natural solutions.
“You are seeing a lot more attention and acceptance of greener options,” said Charles Lester, the director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “It’s a spectrum of ways of re sponding to shoreline change, and this funding is causing us to think more completely and more holistically about all the different pieces of these puzzles.”
grass and oyster beds. It also said the funding should be used to protect fisheries and for projects that protect communities from extreme storms and climate change.
Some examples include adding sand or restoring dunes to provide a buffer for the reced ing shoreline. Wetland restoration also helps absorb stormwaters and carbon dioxide — a chemical in the atmosphere known for warming the planet — and contribute to biodiversity. The flow of water can also be slowed by restoring sea grass and oyster beds.
Amy Hutzel, the executive officer for California’s State Coastal Conservancy, the state’s leading nature-based restoration agency, said she was pleased that the climate law focused on nature-based projects, which can reduce the impact of wind and wave patterns along the coast, as opposed to building levees and sea walls.
The moment a city constructs a levee or a sea wall, it “is immediately deteriorating,” Hutzel said. “When you work with nature, you are building a system that the natural processes are maintaining.”
By STEPHANIE LAIClaireArre, a marine biologist, waded through the sand in search of an Olym pia oyster on a recent sunny afternoon, monitoring the bed her organization had built to clean up the surrounding watershed and contemplating all that could be done if she could get her hands on federal funding to expand the work.
Arre’s project aims to combat climate change using nature instead of human-en gineered construction, and it is one of many across the nation’s 254 coastal counties that is eligible for billions in federal funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, the sprawling climate, health care and tax bill signed last month by President Joe Biden.
The measure could “have a direct result in getting our next restoration project off the ground and sharing the beneficial impacts here into another area,” said Arre, the director of marine restoration for Orange County Coast keeper, a nonprofit group, as she meticulously scanned the site, surrounded by sandbars and cliffs, pickleweed and docked boats.
The group hopes to expand to nearby Huntington Harbour, and it has been seeking funding to do so.
A little-noticed section of Democrats’ climate legislation, which made the largest federal investment in history to combat the
warming of the planet, injects $2.6 billion over five years into coastal communities across the country through grants to fund projects that prepare and respond to hazardous climaterelated events and disturbances. The program makes up less than 1% of the total climate investment in the law, but it is widely regarded as a significant step and the latest sign of a shift by the federal government toward funding nature-based climate solutions.
Officials from coast to coast have long sought funding to restore natural habitats that are essential to beach communities, as floods wreak havoc in the East and rising sea levels increasingly threaten the West. By 2050, sea levels are expected to rise by 1 foot or more on average, increasing as much in that time as they have in the past century.
Scientists expect the impact of climate change to be far more damaging in the future. Rising sea levels have been exacerbated by flooding and cataclysmic rainstorms, called “megastorms,” that could upend San Francisco and cities across the globe. Along the East Coast, sea-level rise and flooding from rain fall have been threatening cities in Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida, among others. Cities are facing a number of obstacles like repairing destroyed roads and drains or retreating inland. And paying for such measures presents yet another challenge.
“Our coastal areas are shrinking before
Tom Cors, a government relations official at the Nature Conservancy, said the resilience funding in the climate law, in combination with resources in the infrastructure law passed last year, represented the most significant influx of money for green infrastructure, the latest move in a shift that began about a decade ago.
The bipartisan infrastructure measure added $3 billion to the federal pot for proj ects related to habitat restoration and climate resilience, but funding has yet to be disbursed as the application process is still underway, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Nearly half of it is earmarked for “high-impact natural infrastructure projects.”
And in 2020, Biden signed legislation that mandated that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the main civil engineering agency of the government that has historically favored gray infrastructure, consider nature-based solutions during an early planning stage of some projects.
The funding from the new climate law will be distributed to NOAA, which is expected to provide funding through contracts, grants and other agreements to local, state and tribal governments, nonprofits and institutions of higher education. The law specified that the money should go to projects that support natural resources in coastal and marine communities, including wetland restoration or restoring sea
Some scientists argue that such an approach can be more cost-effective than human-made projects. A New York City study in Queens showed that using gray infrastructure would be twice as expensive as incorporating both gray and green projects.
But nature-based solutions, while attrac tive, can be difficult to execute, Lester noted.
Gray infrastructure has traditionally been preferred by homeowners along the coast who are willing to part with their beach access if it means creating concrete fixtures that can safe guard their homes, as well as city officials who are skeptical about the effectiveness of green infrastructure. Proponents of gray infrastructure also argue that green projects need constant maintenance, whereas gray infrastructure can be easier to maintain.
In Pacifica, California, homeowners like Mark Stechbart, a retiree, have been calling for more gray infrastructure to offset the sea-level rise that is threatening their properties. The coastline in his Northern California community does not have the right conditions for green infrastructure, Stechbart said, leaving the city with two options: go gray or go inland.
“Gray infrastructure, at least around here, is the only thing that works,” Stechbart said in an interview. “Either we have a town that functions or we don’t.”
He added, “There are some areas where if you don’t maintain and improve shoreline protections, a major hotel goes in the water.”
Part of the seawall protecting San Francisco’s Embarcadero from the bay, June 21, 2021. A little-noticed section of Democrats’ climate legislation injects $2.6 billion over five years into coastal communities’ projects preparing for hazar dous climate-related events.TheEnvironmental Protection Agency will establish a new national office of environ mental justice, the Biden administration’s latest effort to rectify the disproportionate harm caused by pollution and climate change in communities of color and in low-income cities, towns and counties.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan, the first Black man to run the agency, announced the creation of the office alongside environmental justice and civil rights leaders on Saturday in Warren County, North Carolina, the site of a toxic dump where protesters were arrested 40 years ago, giving rise to the environmental justice movement.
“From day one, the president and EPA have been committed to not just making progress on environmental justice and civil rights, but to ensure that environmental justice and civil rights are at the center of everything we do, that we enshrine it in a way that outlasts any of us,” Regan said in a telephone interview on Friday.
Regan said he intended to ensure that all new air, water and chemical safety regulations, many of which affect the profits of electric utilities as well as automakers and other major manufac turers, would now be inscribed with provisions that try to mitigate the impact of environmental damage to poor and minority communities. That could include stricter pollution controls.
“When you look at the way EPA does this risk analysis to determine the level of stringency for protecting communities, we will take into account communities and how they have been impacted over time,” said Regan, who has crisscrossed the country, visiting communities that bear a disproportionate amount of air and water pollution. “And how those regulations in the past may not have been as protective of some communities, as we are positioned to do moving forward.”
Dollie Burwell, who was arrested at the Warren County dump in 1982 and is sometimes called the mother of environmental justice, said she saw the creation of the office “as another milestone to those of us who made sacrifices and went to jail, that somebody’s listening.”
The new national office will combine three smaller midlevel offices of environmental justice, civil rights and conflict prevention and resolution into one high-level office with a Senate-confirmed assistant administrator who reports directly to Regan. It will be staffed by 200 people, in Washington and across the agency’s 10 regional offices — up from 55 people who today carry out the agency’s environmental justice and civil rights work. That will put the expanded environmental justice office on equal
footing with the EPA’s national offices of air, water and chemical pollution, which together make up the agency’s central mission of reducing pollution and protecting public health.
“I’m excited to see the merging of the offices of environmental justice and civil rights,” Burwell said. She said that she saw the structural change at the EPA as a single step among many that the administration must still take in order to achieve President Joe Biden’s environmental justice promises. “As a person who attended segregated schools, I expect incremental achie vements,” she said.
The EPA is working now on new rules to reduce pollution from auto tailpipes, factory and power plant smokestacks, dumping into waterways and leaks from oil and gas wells. All could be shaped by the considerations of environmental justice, Regan said.
With an annual operating budget of $100 million, the new office will oversee the implementation of a $3 billion climate and environmental justice block grant program that was created after passage last month of the nation’s first major climate law. The new law also includes a broader $60 billion investment in environmental justice.
Biden, who prevailed in the 2020 Demo cratic primaries with help from Black voters, is the first president to elevate environmental justice, the idea that all people have an equal right to protection from environmental and health hazards. He established a 25-member White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, the first of its kind, and called on all federal agencies to ensure disadvantaged
communities receive 40% of the benefits from federal investment in clean air and water, flood prevention, cleanup of Superfund sites, renewa ble energy and other improvements. In May, the Justice Department announced the creation of an office of environmental justice, charged with investigating and prosecuting violations of environmental laws.
Not all environmental justice activists have given Biden high marks. Wes Gobar, a leader with the Movement for Black Lives, criticized a deal struck last month by Democratic leaders
with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. Under that arrangement, Manchin supplied the pivotal vote to pass the climate legislation in exchange for a promise that the Senate would pass a separate bill this month to make it easier for oil and gas pipelines to win federal permits. It remains unclear if the permitting bill will pass.
“This deal exchanges the health of Black lives across the country in exchange for fossil fuel profits,” Gobar said. “This was an unacceptable trade-off. Our movement is pushing Congress, particularly the Congressional Black Caucus, to reject this choice.”
“We’ve seen a lot of structural changes on environmental justice in the Biden, Obama and Clinton administrations, but we need to see the results,” Gobar said. “And it won’t make up for this side deal — for cutting the federal government’s ability to protect Black communities.”
Republicans have also pushed back against the administration’s efforts to elevate environmental justice.
At a House hearing this year on legislation intended to codify many environmental justice initiatives, called the Environmental Justice For All Act, Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Climate Crisis, said, “It’s just a dangerous trajectory for us to continue to force this conspiracy of racism on all of these decisions.”
“It’s not going to yield results,” he added. “Let’s work on things that will actually solve problems for communities of color, for econo mically distressed communities and others.”
“Regulations in past as of communities,” said Michael S. Regan, the E.P.A. head.
Thecenterpiece of the student debt-relief plan that Presi dent Joe Biden announced last month is his decision to cancel up to $20,000 per borrower in federal loans. But the more far-reaching — and, over time, more expensive — ele ment of the president’s strategy is his blueprint for a revamped income-linked repayment plan, which would sharply reduce what many borrowers pay every month.
It could, however, have unintended consequences. Uns crupulous schools, including for-profit institutions, have long used high-pressure sales tactics, or outright fraud and deception, to saddle students with more debt than they could ever rea sonably hope to repay. By offering more-generous educational subsidies, the government may be creating a perverse incentive for both schools and borrowers, who could begin to pay even less attention to the actual price tag of their education — and taxpayers could be left footing more of the bill.
“If people are taking out the same or more amount of debt and repaying less of it, then it’s just taxpayers bearing the brunt of it,” said Daniel Zibel, chief counsel at the National Student Legal Defense Network, an advocacy group.
Experts are particularly concerned about how the new subsidies could be manipulated by for-profit colleges, many of which have a record of persuading people to take on high debt for degrees that often fail to deliver the kind of earnings boost the schools advertise.
Sharon Arnold, 44, a first-generation college student, en rolled at the University of Phoenix in 2009 because she viewed higher education as a pathway out of her $12-an-hour service job. She was drawn in by the school’s online programs for wor king adults and ads promoting its career-placement services.
Pell Grants and federal loans covered her tuition, but the bachelor’s degree she earned four years later in human services management did not improve her job prospects. Though she was reluctant to take on more debt, career counselors urged her to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree. She said she was told that it would increase her earning power and that the school had partnerships with major employers that gave its graduates hiring preference.
But once again, her job hunt was fruitless. Arnold, who lives on the outskirts of Oklahoma City, now earns $16 an hour
working in hospitality and owes the government $126,000 in student loans more than a decade after she first enrolled at Phoenix. The debt has prevented her and her husband from being approved for a mortgage to buy a house.
Arnold’s alma mater has long been in the crosshairs of wat chdogs for what they have said is a pattern of deceptive claims. The University of Phoenix has paid more than $127 million over the past two decades to settle government lawsuits over illegal tactics, such as tying its recruiters’ pay to the number of students they enrolled and running deceptive marketing campaigns that falsely claimed partnerships with big companies.
The University of Phoenix is on a list of 150 schools that the Education Department said showed strong signs of “subs tantial misconduct.” (The list is included in a legal settlement the department reached in June that will, if finalized, cancel $6 billion in federal student loan debt for 200,000 borrowers, inclu ding Arnold.) The school is among more than a dozen on that list that are still operating. It remains eligible for federal student
loans and relies on them for nearly all its revenue.
Andrea Smiley, a spokesperson for the University of Phoenix, said the school was “proud of all of our 1 million gra duates, and we employ several student support initiatives, inclu ding a tuition price guarantee, academic and career coaches, career services for life, and 24/7 online support, among other efforts.”
She added that the school “adamantly” disagreed with any implication that it has ever acted improperly. The University of Phoenix did not comment on the Biden administration’s loan cancellation plan.
Experts say Biden’s new plan could increase schools’ in centives to saddle students with unreasonable amounts of debt.
“Debt cancellation and income-driven repayment can’t stand alone,” said Sarah Sattelmeyer, a higher-education project director at think tank New America. “We need to pair these things with a really strong accountability structure.”
Past efforts to rein in poorly performing institutions have been derailed by lobbying, litigation and shifting political tides. The government’s most forceful hammer — a regulation put in place during the Obama administration known as the “gainful employment” rule, which threatened to cut off federal aid funds to for-profit schools whose students earned too little to pay off their loans — was scrapped in 2019 by Betsy DeVos, the educa tion secretary under President Donald Trump.
Around 45 million people owe the government $1.6 tri llion in student loans, with the average balance hovering around $37,670. Right now, borrowers who choose an income-linked payment plan must typically fork over 10% of their discretionary income, defined as all earnings above 150% of the poverty level.
Biden wants to raise that floor and shelter earnings of up to 225% of the poverty level, slash the repayment rate for un dergraduate loans to 5% of income and stop charging interest to borrowers who make their monthly payments. As with existing income-driven plans, any remaining balance would be forgiven after at most 20 years of payments.
Collectively, those changes will allow millions more bo rrowers to pay little or nothing on their loans. But whatever goes unpaid will ultimately be absorbed by the government — a risky proposition in a system already rife with abuses.
With what can be billions of dollars at stake, schools accu sed of misdeeds are highly motivated to fight back, and cutting off even the most egregiously bad actors can take years. The go vernment relies on independent accrediting agencies to vouch for a school’s quality, but schools that lost have their accredi tation — a drastic action intended to be a death knell — have sometimes managed to retain their eligibility for federal funds.
Jonathan Glater, a law professor at the University of Cali fornia, Berkeley, said that the government’s options for dealing with schools’ misconduct had never been “prophylactic — they operate after the fact.”
“It would be great,” he added, “to have a regulatory sche me that could actually prevent harmful conduct, and it’s kind of surprising that there’s not more clamoring for that.”
tumble, d , already in bear market territory, fell 1.72% and 1.85, respectively.Britain, Sweden, Switzer land, Norway and other countries also hiked rates this week. But the Fed’s signal that it expects high U.S. rates to persist through 2023 sparked the rout in equity and bond markets.
Investors are trying to get a handle on inflation and how high rates will go, said Andrzej Skiba, head of the BlueBay U.S. fixed income team at RBC Global Asset Management.”There’s unease in the market about having confidence that we know how inflation will develop and that yields will indeed peak in the mid-high 4s,” he said, referring to a Fed projection of the fed funds rate at 4.6% in late 2023. Dollar soars and bonds plunge as recession fears grow.
Nasdaq Composite , already in bear market territory, fell 1.after the Federal Reserve made another big interest rate hike and sharply increased its outlook for how high it expects to raise rates in coming months.@jeffmarkscnbc Stocks took a beating this week as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by another 75 basis points, the third consecutive hike of that magnitude.The S &P 500 fell 2. 72% and 1.85, respectively. The Fed also said it now ex pects its benchmark rate to be a full percentage point higher by the end of the year than it had predicted in June. Brit ain, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and other countries also hiked rates this week.4% at the end of the year, up from the 3. But the Fed's signal that it expects high U.”I wish there were a painless way to do that.S. European stocks fell just as sharply or more after preliminary data there suggested business activity had its worst monthly contraction since the start of 2021.
rates to persist through 2023 sparked the rout in equity and bond markets.” The S&P 500 fell 1. The one bright side is that this vicious selling is creating bargains and opportuni ties for those with a long-term mindset. Investors are trying to get a handle on inflation and how high rates will go, said Andrzej Skiba, head of the BlueBay U.S. The Dow Jones In dustrial Average also fell 1. fixed income team at RBC Global Asset Management. (Anything below a minus 5% indicates the market is oversold. "There's unease in the market about having confidence that we know how inflation will develop and that yields will indeed peak in the midhigh 4s," he said, referring to a Fed projection of the fed funds rate at 4. The Nasdaq composite wlost 1. But such moves also put the brakes on their economies, threatening recessions as growth slows worldwide.
6% in late 2023. "People have been reflecting on that uncertainty and it might mean more tightening ahead, it might mean even more tightening of financial conditions that the markets have to go through. The major indexes are on pace for their fifth weekly loss in six weeks. If the 2-Year yield continues to soar, then that may mean more pain lies
ahead for equities." The euro fell for a fourth straight day, sliding 1.49% to $0.02% from 3.9689 after data showed the downturn in the German economy worsened in Septem ber. Under the hood this week, all sectors lost ground, with energy leading to the downside followed by consumer dis cretionary and real estate. Crude oil prices tumbled to their lowest levels since early this year on worries that a weaker global economy will burn less fuel.
The dollar index rose 1. It is trading at its highest level since 2007.6%. The Japanese yen weakened 0.52% from 3. dollar index advanced to the 113 level, notching its best week since March 2020.68% to 143.34 per dollar, but failed to notch its first weekly gain in more than a month. The Fed is raising rates to fight the worst inflation in 40 years. dollar has been moving sharply higher against other currencies.
Canadian officials Sunday mobi lized the military to help east ern Canada after what forecast ers called “a historic storm” slammed coastal towns, washing away entire homes and blocking roads in Nova Scotia.
Waves about 40 feet or higher hit the eastern shore of Nova Scotia and southwestern Newfoundland, forecast ers said.
The storm covered playgrounds in water, ripped coastal houses from their foundations and knocked over large trees. One person who was reported to have been swept into the ocean was rescued, police said, while another re mained missing and search efforts re sumed Sunday morning.
The Canadian military was being mobilized to help Nova Scotia and would remain ready to help other prov inces, said Anita Anand, the country’s minister of national defense.
Canadian forecasters said Saturday that an unofficial reading indicated that Fiona was “the lowest-pressured landfalling storm on record in Canada” with a recorded pressure of 931 millibars.
Fiona, which had been down graded to a post-tropical cyclone from a Category 3 hurricane Friday, was among the strongest storms known to make landfall and hit Canada, said Dan Kottlowski, a senior meteorologist and lead hurricane forecaster at Accu Weather.
“By the time it made landfall, Fiona was not technically a hurricane,” Kot tlowski said. “But it still carried the
same wind and damage and hit with the ferocity of a strong Category 2 hur ricane.”
More than 230,000 customers re mained without power in Nova Scotia as of Sunday afternoon, according to Nova Scotia Power.
Many public schools in the area canceled classes for Monday, officials said. Officials encouraged residents to remain in their homes, if safe, Sunday afternoon as repairs continued.
Port aux Basques, a community of about 3,600 people on the southwest ern tip of Newfoundland, was inundat ed by more than 3 feet of storm surge, with large pounding waves, according to a government update Sunday. The tide gauge recorded a maximum to tal water level at just under 9 feet, or 2.73 meters — breaking a previ ous record of 2.71 meters set in 2017. At least 20 homes were de stroyed and 200 were damaged. More than 200
residents were evacuated, said Cpl. Jolene Garland, a spokesperson for the Newfoundland Royal Canadian Mounted Police. By Sunday morning, the weather had cleared enough that search efforts could continue for a missing 73-year-old woman, she said.
“The woman was last seen inside the residence just moments before a wave struck the home, tearing away a portion of the basement,” according to police.
René Roy, editor-in-chief of Wreck house Weekly, a local newspaper, said that he lived in the east end of town, which was evacuated as the storm bore down Saturday, and was staying with a cousin on the west end, about 120 paces from the harbor.
“This thing is an absolute howit zer,” Roy said. “This is as bad as any one here has ever seen. It’s not just the wind we’re worrying on, that’s going to knock out power, that’s going to tear off shingles and so on. We’re used to that. But what we’re not used to is 30-, 40-, 50-foot waves coming up onto the roads, moving houses 60 feet or just completely vaporizing them.”
In Nova Scotia, the greatest effects
were in Cape Breton on the east end of the province, where downed power lines and debris littered the streets, Tim Houston, the premier of Nova Scotia, said at a news conference Saturday.
Fiona was forecast to cross Labrador and the Labrador Sea on Sunday evening into Monday and weaken, the Canadian Hurricane Center said in an advisory.
Fiona, which formed as a tropical storm Sept. 15, battered parts of the Caribbean in the past week, including Puerto Rico, which experienced wide spread power outages. As of Sunday afternoon, nearly 770,000 people in Puerto Rico were still without electric ity, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks interruptions.
At least four deaths have been at tributed to Fiona: two in the Dominican Republic and one each in Puerto Rico and Guadeloupe, where the storm hit a week ago.
Forecasters were also monitoring other weather systems in the Atlantic on Saturday, including Tropical Storm Ian, which could threaten Florida as a major hurricane this week.
The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June through Novem ber, had a relatively quiet start, with only three named storms before Sept. 1 and none during August, the first time that had happened since 1997. Storm activity picked up early this month with Danielle and Earl, which formed within a day of each other.
The links between hurricanes and climate change have become clearer with each passing year. Data shows that hurricanes have become stronger worldwide over the past four decades. A warming planet can expect stronger hur ricanes over time and a higher incidence of the most powerful storms — although the overall number of storms may drop, because factors like stronger wind shear could keep some weaker storms from forming.
Last month, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra tion issued an updated forecast for the rest of the season which still predicted an above-normal level of activity.
A tree leans on a house in Sydney, Nova Scotia, after the remnants of Fiona, as a post-tropical cyclone, inundated the Canadian Maritimes on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022.
Super Typhoon Noru was on course to slam into the densely populated main island of Luzon in the Philippines on Sunday night, with forecasters warning of heavy rains and winds that could cause de vastating flooding and landslides.
Noru, which is called Karding locally, is likely to make landfall Sunday night east of Manila, in Quezon or Aurora provinces, with peak winds of about 120 mph, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.
Noru reached “super typhoon category after a period of explosive intensification,” the agency said. Low-lying, exposed areas along the country’s eastern seaboard were warned of a very high risk of storm surge as high as 9 feet.
By Sunday afternoon the storm’s eye was about 70 miles east of the coastal city of In fanta in Quezon province, the state weather bureau said. As the typhoon moves over Lu zon overnight, some parts of the province — home to some 64 million people, including
in metropolitan Manila and outlying subur bs — were expected to experience heavy to intense rains. Luzon makes up the northern third of the country.
Mario Lastares, 34, who sells citrus fruits at the Zapote market in Bacoor city, south of Manila, said he would pack up early, go home and start to fortify his little shanty by the river. He planned to stay behind to pro tect belongings but have his family go to a community shelter nearby.
“We don’t want another Ondoy,” he said, referring to a storm also known as Ketsana, which dumped heavy rains across Manila in 2009, causing extensive flooding and hundreds of deaths. Coincidentally, this week’s typhoon was likely to hit a day shy of the 13th anniversary of Ketsana’s landfall in the Philippines.
Lastares said he remembered that many were caught unprepared by Ketsana, with neighbors using empty plastic gallons and containers as flotation devices. “We were lucky to have survived that,” he said.
The Office of Civil Defense said Sunday afternoon that less than 1,000 people had
been preemptively evacuated but that local authorities had been working overtime to move people to safety.
Some flights were canceled, and schools in Manila and surrounding areas were to be closed Monday.
The Philippines is in the Pacific typhoon belt and is struck by an average of 20 storms a year, some of which are devastating. The most powerful storm to hit the country in recent history, Haiyan, was also a super typhoon with winds of at least 150 mph. It ravaged the central Philippines in 2013, cau sing gigantic storm surges and flooding that left more than 6,000 dead.
The terms typhoon, hurricane and cyclone all refer to tropical cyclones; the term applied to a given storm depends on where it originates. Typhoons develop in the northwestern Pacific and usually affect Asia. Hurricanes form in the North Atlantic, the northeastern Pacific, the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico.
In the Atlantic, major hurricanes are de fined as tropical cyclones with maximum sustained winds of 111 mph or higher and
are defined as either Category 3, 4 or 5 storms. But in the Asia Pacific region, the re are variations in how individual countries grade typhoons.
The links between tropical storms and climate change are becoming more appa rent. Although warming may not lead to more such storms, researchers have found that it has increased the frequency of ma jor ones because a warmer ocean provides more of the energy that fuels them.
Emergency crews preparing boats and other gear on Sunday in Quezon City, the Philippines, ahead of a storm’s landfall.
By MARC SANTORA and ANNA LUKI NOVA
As military officers across Russia race to enlist hundreds of thousands of men to fight in Ukraine, the Kremlin is also looking to bolster its flagging re cruitment efforts by dragooning Ukrainians in occupied territories to fight against their own nation.
In two regions, Kherson and Zapori zhzhia, the Russian occupiers are begin ning to round up men to fight even as they are also forcing residents to vote in a sham referendum on joining Russia. All men ages 18 to 35 have been forbidden to leave and ordered to report for military duty, accor ding to witnesses and Ukrainian officials, who say that many men are now in hiding or looking to escape.
Since President Vladimir Putin decla red a “partial mobilization” last week that is sweeping up hundreds of thousands of Russians, Moscow’s forces in Ukraine “don’t let men out,” said Halyna Odnorih, a coordinator in the city of Zaporizhzhia for people who have escaped occupied regions. “Many people are calling us and asking whether we could help them to eva cuate. But unfortunately we can’t.”
The drive to compel Ukrainians to fight against other Ukrainians is part of a broader effort by Moscow to mobilize hundreds of thousands of new fighters as its forces su ffer huge casualties and struggle to hold off Ukrainian advances in the east and south.
It also shows how the Kremlin is de fying international condemnation and pus hing forward with efforts to cleave Ukraine. Voting in staged referendums continued Sunday in four occupied regions amid a backdrop of violence and repression, a likely prelude to an announcement of an
nexation by Moscow that Ukrainian offi cials warned could come as soon as next week. After that, analysts warn, the Kremlin could declare the areas Russian territory and protected by the might of its full arse nal, including the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Putin had resisted ordering a mobiliza tion for months, but his decision undersco red the Kremlin’s concerns over high ca sualties — U.S. officials estimate that over 80,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in the war — as well as its com mitment to a prolonged struggle to bend Ukraine to its will. Thousands have been arrested for protesting the call-ups in Russia in the face of harsh laws against dissent.
Forced conscription also continues
in the two other occupied regions where Russian officials are staging referendums, Luhansk and Donetsk, eastern areas that have been partially controlled by Moscow since 2014. In both, many men volunteered to fight for Russia before its full-scale inva sion began in February. But as casualties rose — and many fighters were dispatched to the front with little training or support — a large-scale conscription effort has been instituted to replenish the ranks.
Currently, Russia controls nearly all of Luhansk, a large portion of Kherson and less than half of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia. It is also stepping up conscription in Cri mea, the southern peninsula that it illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, according to human rights groups and witnesses.
Those groups say the Russian military has been disproportionately conscripting Crimean Tatars, an ethnic minority group that has faced persecution by Russian offi cials “with the apparent goal of completely silencing dissent on the peninsula,” accor ding to a 2017 Human Rights Watch report.
Alim Aliev, a co-founder of rights or ganization Crimea SOS, said that 80% of summons to the Russian army in Crimea were issued to Crimean Tatars.
“It’s a new type of repression,” he said. “We advise people not to come to the public gatherings, not to take the no tifications and not to come to the military committees.”
Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior advi ser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, called the conscription cam paign in Crimea “a real ethnic genocide and an enormous tragedy for the entire nation.”
“Forcing citizens to a war in the oc cupied regions is nothing more than Moscow’s attempt to cleanse the territory of a disloyal population,” he said Sunday.
The recruitment of unwilling soldiers carries obvious risks for Russia. Military analysts have said that conscripts from Lu hansk and Donetsk were part of the forces whose stunning collapse in the northeas tern Kharkiv region this month allowed for Ukraine’s most successful offensive ope ration of the war.
The Ukrainian intelligence service said last week that Ukrainian recruits sent by Russia to fight in Kherson have “refused to take part in combat missions.” Citing in tercepted communications and interviews with relatives, the agency said that Rus sian commanders had threatened to send conscripts “to the front line without wea pons if they refuse to follow orders.”
Russian recruits take a bus near a military recruitment center in Krasnodar, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a partial mobilization of reservists to beef up his forces in Ukraine.Inthe internet age, it’s almost impossible to get away with anything. (See: Adam Levine.)
And yet, some people still manage to pull off solo flights of destruction worthy of a megalomaniacal supervillain.
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, long entwined, continue on vile parallel paths: They would rather destroy their countries than admit they have lost.
They have each created a scrim of lies to justify lunatic personal ambition. And while it should be easy to see through these lies, both cult-of-personality leaders are able to con and bully enough people to remain puissant.
As our ancestors did, the Ukrainians are fighting an abusive overlord, against all odds, for democracy. It’s especially inspiring as a split screen with Trump and his MAGA forces trying to bulldoze democracy and rip away women’s rights. The Ukrainians are battling for a luminous ideal — unlike Trump and Putin, who are smashing a luminous ideal for their own benefit, driven by their dread of being called losers.
Both thugs are getting boxed in, Trump by a bouquet of investigations into his chicanery and Putin by an angry public pushback against his bloody vanity war.
America has its own history of lying itself into wars, in Vietnam and Iraq, for example, and then prolonging the killing of young soldiers as a sop to male politicians’ egos. Now it’s Russia’s turn.
Putin has doubled down on his unprovoked invasion of a neighbor — red-washed as a “special military operation” by the Kremlin. Now he has conscripted 300,000 men to join the front lines, commandeering school buses to drag the men to training camps — a move that sent draft-age men fleeing across the border and flocking to airports, amid tears and howls from women and children.
As Ian Bremmer noted on Twitter, Google searches in Russia for “How to break your arm” have skyrocketed.
The Washington Post said that 1,300 people were arrested at protests across Russia on Wednesday and Thursday. The Times reported that anti-draft protesters blocked a highway during a protest in Dagestan in southern Russia.
“When we fought in 1941 to 1945, that was a war,” a man yelled in a video that went viral. “And now it’s not war; it’s politics.”
Pressured by allies and humiliated by his awful judgment in thinking that swallowing Ukraine would be a cakewalk, Putin seems ever more unhinged. The bodies of critics and oligarchs dying in “accidents” and “suicides” are piling up around him, like a scene in “Goodfellas.” He is ruining countless lives in concentric circles, from former friends, to Russian citizens yanked into a war they don’t believe in, to Ukrainians willing to die for freedom.
George W. Bush thought he could see into Pootie-Poot’s soul, and Hillary Clinton thought she could have a reset with him. But no one can deal with someone so inhumane.
On Friday, Russia began sham referendums in Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine to decide whether the territories want to be incorporated into the Russian state.
Ominous in balaclavas and hoisting guns, Russian soldiers forcing reluctant Ukrainians to vote stood next to election workers in Ukraine in what The New York Times called “a legally bogus pretext to gobble up their country,” recalling staged votes in 2014 in Crimea.
Of course, the United Nations, where world leaders gathered this past week for the General Assembly, has been toothless as Russia has pursued an illegal war reeking with criminal actions. But the United States has sent repeated warnings to Russia about severe consequences if it uses nuclear weapons.
“As we assemble here,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, “Ukrainian and international investigators continue to exhume bodies outside of Izium, a city Russian forces controlled for six months before they were driven out by a Ukrainian counteroffensive. One site contains some 440 unmarked graves. A number of the bodies unearthed there so far reportedly show signs of torture, including one victim with broken arms and a rope around his neck.”
Both Putin and Trump are famous for accusing everyone else of their own sins.
Speaking at the U.N. on Thursday, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said, “We have no doubt that Ukraine has finally turned into a Nazi-style totalitarian state where standards of international humanitarian law are trampled underfoot with impunity.”
Trump also constantly projects. And now he’s using telepathy. He told Fox’s Sean Hannity that he did not stash any classified papers at Mar-a-Lago because he merely had to think about declassifying them and it would be done. The Wizard of Id.
Just when you thought he couldn’t go lower, Trump said “Hold my Diet Coke.” He shared an image of himself sporting a “Q” pin, for QAnon, and has been reposting more QAnon garbage on his store-brand social media site.
It would be poetic justice to think the walls were closing in on Putin and Trump at the same time, because at some point, all this will become unsustainable. Losers, refusing to admit defeat. saboteurs
S AN JUAN – LUMA Energy estableció el domingo sus proyecciones para la reconexión de clientes, un 46 por ciento de la totalidad de los abonados para esta semana, que podría alcanzar un 91 por ciento para el viernes, 30 de sep tiembre.
En específico, para este lunes, 26 de septiembre, podrían elevar entre 850 mil abonados a 950 mil abonados, lo que representaría de un 57 a 64 por ciento.
Según su calendario, para el miércoles, 28 de septiem bre, podrían energizar desde 950 mil a un millón, 150 mil
abonados, para un 64 a 77 por ciento.
Y, para el viernes, 30 de septiembre, de un millón, 150 mil a un millón, 350 mil abonados, de un 77 a 91 por ciento de abonados reenergizados.
Los datos fueron ofrecidos durante una mesa redon da donde participa el director ejecutivo de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE), Josué Colón, Danny Hernández de LUMA Energy, directores de plantas generatrices, entre otros.
Por otro lado, se explicó que los celadores interesados en participar de los procesos de reconexión deben solicitar una dispensa y contactar a LUMA Energy para corroborar su preparación como celador para solicitar empleo.
POR CYBERNEWSSAN JUAN – El secretario de salud, Carlos Mellado
López, hizo el domingo un llamado al Colegio de Médicos Cirujanos de Puerto Rico para que a través de este organismo, que agrupa a todos los médicos en Puerto Rico, se aseguren de que los profesionales de la salud, encargado de certificar muertes en la isla, sigan los protocolos correspondientes, conforme a la Guía de Referencia para la Certificación de Muertes relacionadas a desastres provista por el Registro Demográfico y los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés).
“El médico que certifica la muerte tiene una enor me responsabilidad, ya que debe establecer la causa de muerte y también, tiene la responsabilidad de abundar en las circunstancias en que se produjo la muerte. El cer tificado de defunción es la fuente primaria de las estadís ticas oficiales de mortalidad. Ante esto y reconociendo la importancia de que tengamos la estadística correcta estamos haciendo un llamado, tanto al gremio médico, como a hospitales y agentes funerarios a que comple ten adecuadamente el Formulario RD-77 ante el Registro Demográfico”, sostuvo Mellado López en declaraciones escritas.
OROCOVIS – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia dijo el domingo que es mejor tener el 56 por ciento de los clientes de LUMA Energy con servicio, en comparación con otros huracanes, esto a una semana del paso del huracán Fiona.
“Ya tenemos más de 800 mil abonados con servicio, es más, estamos hablando del 56 por ciento de los abonados de LUMA y Energía Eléctrica tienen su servicio eléctrico ahora mismo. Yo lo que quiero es que siga aumentando ese núme
ro, cuanto antes, mejor. Sobre el agua, tenemos a un 51 por ciento con agua y lo que se vislumbra es que esa cantidad siga aumentando”, dijo el gobernador en un aparte con la prensa.
“Yo no voy a estar satisfecho hasta que la mayoría de la población tenga ambos servicios, luz y agua”, añadió.
“Tener a cinco días del huracán al 56 por ciento de los clientes con energía es sustancialmente mejor que todos los huracanes anteriores, Georges, Hortensia, María”, expresó.
Las expresiones del mandatario se dieron tras una visita programada a los municipios de Orocovis y Villalba en la que lo acompañó varios congresistas. en huracanes
Según explicó, al completar el certificado, el médi co deberá hacer énfasis en los incisos veinticuatro (24) y veinticinco (25). En el inciso 24, indicará la causa de muerte; mientras en el 25, incluirá otra condición sig nificativa que contribuyó a la muerte, pero que no está relacionada a la causa básica del deceso. También, de berá completar los incisos treinta y dos (32) y treinta y cinco (35) en los que establecerá si existe relación con el evento catastrófico.
Las Guías del CDC son claras y específicas en cuan to a la definición para clasificar las muertes directa o indirectamente. Las muertes son clasificadas de acuerdo a la siguiente definición:
Una muerte por desastre directamente relacionada se define como una muerte directamente atribuible a las fuerzas del desastre o por las consecuencias directas de estas fuerzas, como colapso estructural, escombros vo ladores o exposición a radiación o sustancias químicas.
Una muerte por desastre indirectamente relaciona da ocurre cuando las condiciones inseguras o insalubres están presentes durante cualquier fase de un desastre (es decir, antes del evento o preparación para el desastre, durante el evento del desastre o después del evento du rante la limpieza después de un desastre) y contribuyó a una muerte.
El Registro Demográfico y la Junta de Licenciamien to Médico emitieron dos cartas, por separado, haciendo hincapié en la necesidad de que todos los certificantes cumplan con las disposiciones en las Guías emitidas por los CDC.
El secretario recordó que “la consistencia en los cer tificados de defunción posibilita la generación de esta dísticas fiables y precisas que nos permitan identificar las causas más frecuentes asociadas al huracán Fiona”.
There’ssomething unusual about Ti West’s latest film, “Pearl,” now in theaters. The movie is a 1918-set prequel to “X,” West’s homage to ’70s grindhouse, but that isn’t strange. It’s not the gruesome story of a young woman who tries to slaughter her way from farm life to silver-screen stardom. It’s not the Dou glas Sirk style with a slasher sensibility.
What’s peculiar is that both “Pearl” and “X” were released just six months apart, a bonanza for any fil mmaker. It’s a twofer for the actress Mia Goth, too: In “Pearl,” she plays the unhinged title character; in “X” she plays Maxine, a porn starlet, and another role.
There’s more: West announced last week that Goth would reprise her role as Maxine in “MaXXXine,” the third film in West’s trilogy, which will be set in ’80s Los Angeles.
It’s not unheard-of for a director to have two films come out in one year. Alfred Hitchcock did it with “Rear Window” and “Dial M for Murder” in 1954. Ida Lupino, Steven Soderbergh, and Spike Lee did it, too.
But for a genre guy like West, an indie director best known for slow-burn horror like “The House of the Devil” and “The Sacrament,” it’s unicorn territory. The same for Goth.
“It was my first leading role in a movie, and then it snowballed into two leading roles in two films,” Goth said in a phone interview. “It’s become the most crea tively fulfilling experience.”
In a video interview, West talked about the ge nesis of “Pearl” and what it means to have a doublefeature year. These are edited excerpts from two con versations.
Q: How does it feel to join the two-films-in-ayear club?
A: It’s very strange, but it’s cool. I’m super grateful to [the distributor] A24. When I first pitched it to them, I was like, “X” can come out and then we can annou nce “Pearl,” and it can come out soon after — that will be so fun. We’ll never get that opportunity ever again, because this is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
And credit A24: They loved that about it. It felt like such a vanguardy thing for them to do. I’m very proud of both movies, and I’m proud of how the mo vies are totally different in that you don’t need to see “X” to appreciate “Pearl.” They enrich each other, but they are stand-alones.
Q: It’s not just that you have two films in one year. It’s that the films are related.
A: There’s all sorts of details that all relate to both movies in a fun, world-building sort of way. It would not have been that interesting to make another movie where, like, a new crop of people come to this farm
Ti West in Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. With “X” and “Pearl,” the writer and director has released two re lated horror movies in the last six months, with a third on the way. The filmmaker discusses his quick building of a little horror universe.
and are killed or something. There wouldn’t have been enough movie there.
Q: It was almost a three-film year for you. A: I’ve been downgraded already. [Laughs] It was impressive but now — ‘You made two movies and wrote a third, but it’s a shame you couldn’t get a third one out.’
Q: Why did you want to make a trilogy?
A: They’re all connected in their own way. The joke I made was like, ‘We had to go back into the Biff Tannen timeline and fix everything, like in “Back to the Future,” so we could set up the third movie.’ You want the extra context for the third movie to land the way I’m hoping it does.
Q: Where did the idea for “Pearl” come from?
A: When we were making “X,” we were going to New Zealand because there was effectively not a pan demic happening because they’d secured the borders. We had a crew, and we were about to build these lo cations in the middle of nowhere. I thought, when we
make this movie, we’re just going to tear it down and go home. What if we made two movies back to back?
I was thinking we could make a prequel to “X” because I had an idea about young Pearl. We cranked out a script in two weeks, and we made it better later. That was enough for me to say: This will be cheaper than the first movie and, I think, a good script. A24 agreed.
Q: “Pearl” marries a Technicolor style with a slasher story. What did you like about that mix?
A: I wanted to have an aesthetic that was radically different from “X.” Originally, I thought we could do it in this German Expressionist, black-and-white way. That would be cheaper, because we wouldn’t have to paint anything. But the idea of doing it in this Golden Age of Hollywood style seemed more appropriate for her character.
The idea of mixing that almost Disney aesthetic with demented, psychological issues — I had never seen that before. A24 was like, ‘Don’t worry about the slightly cheaper option, let’s do the right thing.’
Q: You took a foray into the Western genre in your last movie, “In a Valley of Violence.” Why did you come back to horror?
A: I had made a whole bunch of horror movies in a row. And you know, it’s quite traumatic making a mo vie. You have to really want to do it for two years. So I did a western and then I was doing television shows and I enjoyed that. I felt really sharp, and it was a good time to make a movie again.
Q: What’s a sequel or prequel that you enjoy?
A: “Evil Dead 2.” It’s the same as the first movie, but just completely redefined. It leans into who Sam Raimi was at the time as a filmmaker. His brain is what made that movie. Without him, that movie doesn’t exist.
Q: Halloween is right around the corner. Are you a Halloween guy?
A: I like that people who don’t watch horror mo vies are a little more open to it in October. It’s fun when someone who ordinarily wouldn’t watch “Night mare on Elm Street 4” is like, ‘Well, it’s on TV and I’m curious to see how they get out of this.’
Afterthe success of a limited pilot program for online passport renewal this summer, the U.S. State Depart ment says it plans to fully launch an online passportrenewal option for the general public early next year.
The shift, which for many will eliminate the need for piles of paperwork and hours spent waiting in line at passport offices, is meant to offer relief after the pandemic created two years of extensive delays and backlogs for passport seekers.
The online renewal option was created after a Decem ber executive order from President Joe Biden, who demand ed the federal government “design and deliver services in a manner that people of all abilities can navigate.”
An initial pilot program was launched in February for federal government employees and contractors. After that closed, a second program opened Aug. 2 for 25,000 mem bers of the public; it closed to applicants Aug. 12. State De partment officials say they plan to initiate a third pilot pro gram for a limited number of applicants later this month, and although they don’t yet have a specific date for launching the system for all Americans, they say they intend to do so by early next year.
The majority of U.S. passports can currently be re newed by mail, but the process requires applicants to print and manually fill out multiple documents, and then send them in along with printed photographs (which must meet sizing and resolution standards) and a check or money order to cover fees.
For some people — applicants younger than 16, for ex ample, or those applying for a first-time passport — neither
A shift to online passport renewals will eliminate piles of paperwork and hours waiting in lines. But you’re still going to be waiting.
the mail nor online is an option. The same goes for those renewing a document that was lost or stolen, or updating an expired passport that was issued more than 15 years ago. In those cases, applicants must appear in person at a passport acceptance facility such as a U.S. Post Office.
For time-crunched applicants who need their docu ments in six weeks or less, the options are even more limited. Last-minute passports can only be obtained after an appoint ment at one of the State Department’s 26 official passport centers and passport agencies, where passports can be re newed in person and obtained the same day for a $60 expe diting fee.
How bad are current wait times?
Since 2020, shuttered passport offices and personnel cuts at the State Department have bogged down the system, with wait times for passport renewals stretching as long as 18 weeks. A slashed number of in-person appointments make options for emergency or last-minute travel documents elu sive. Some travelers have flown across the country in order to have their passports renewed in person; Americans abroad have reported paying shady brokers in order to get an inperson slot at a consulate to update their passports or register the birth of a child.
Wait times for those needing updated documents have improved since early in the pandemic, but continue to lag: Routine passport service, which once took as little as six weeks, is currently estimated to take between seven and 10 weeks. Expedited service, which costs an additional $60, and before the pandemic would have taken up to three weeks, is now estimated to take between four and six weeks.
Will I get my passport quicker by using the online option?
Currently, processing times for online renewal remain the same as those sent via snail mail. But although there’s no guarantee that online renewal will shorten wait times, it will cut down on paperwork and streamline the process, both for applicants and State Department officials, who continue to work their way through a backlog of nearly 2 million passport applicants that started piling up in early 2020.
On its website, the State Department urges applicants not to renew online if they are traveling internationally in six weeks or less, as their current passport will become invalid as soon as they submit their renewal application.
To join the pilot program for online passport renewal, applicants must create an account at MyTravelGov, a process that requires a valid email address. Once logged in, the page will eventually contain a link to the online passport-renewal system, which will require entering your passport number and uploading a digital photo. Currently, with the pilot pro gram closed, there is no such link, and a link that reads “How to renew your passport” takes you to a form with information for renewing by mail.
And the technology of the system itself, some travel ad visers say, leaves room for improvement.
“The system is designed to take the nightmare part of passport renewal out of it and have people be able to do it from the comfort of their homes. It will be the future. But as it’s designed right now, it’s a little bit clunky,” said Anthony Berklich, a travel adviser and founder of the travel platform Inspired Citizen.
There are multiple steps, and applicants must create a password, then enter a separate passcode sent via email, which can be confusing. And after going through all the steps, some applicants, Berklich added, received error mes sages telling them they were ineligible for online renewal de spite meeting all the requirements.
How do I know if I can renew online?
To qualify for online renewal, you must currently have a passport that is or was valid for 10 years, and it’s OK if your passport has expired. But you can’t renew documents online that are too new or too old, so if you have more than one year left on your passport (meaning it was issued after 2013), you can’t renew online. Same goes for expired passports that were issued more than 15 years ago, in 2007 or earlier.
You must also be at least 25 years old and must not be changing your name or gender on the document. And you must be able to upload a digital photo and pay fees using a credit or debit card or ACH payment, and live in the United States. Lost or damaged passports also cannot be renewed online.
How much does it cost to renew online?
Passport renewal fees are the same whether you renew online or via traditional methods: $130 for an adult and $135 for a minor. An additional $60 fee for expedited service also remains the same.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. LIME HOMES. LTD.
Plaintiff, v. AURIEL RIVERA
VAZQUEZ, SARAI
TORRES ALVELO AND THE CONYUGAL PARTNERSHIP
COMPOSED BY THE TWO Defendants
CIVIL NO: 18-1447 (SCC). RE: Mortgage Foreclosure and Co llection of Monies. AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: AURIEL RIVERA VAZQUEZ, SARAI
TORRES ALVELO and the Conjugal Partnership composed by them, and all parties that may have an interest in the property
WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $126,500.00 of principal balance of the mortga ge note, plus interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum since April 1st, 2017, over said balance. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenants of 28 U.S.C. sec 1691. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the ins tallment is due. The defendant also owes Plaintiff pursuant to the provisions or dispositions of all of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. Advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortga ge deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the origi nal principal balance as liquida ted amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees.
The record of the case and of the proceedings may be exa mined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by in ternet accessing https://ecf.prd. uscourts.gov. WHEREAS: Pur suant to the terms of the afo rementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendants will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número trece (13) del proyecto de renovación urbana conocido como Vista Alegre, localizado en el Barrio Pájaros de la municipalidad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de cuatrocientos seis punto treinta y seis (406.36)
metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar treinta y siete (37), en quince punto cuarenta y siete (15.47) metros y terrenos de Juan Toro Pérez, en dieciocho punto trein ta y seis (18.36) metros; por el SUR, con la calle A, en dis tancia curvilínea en seis punto treinta y siete (6.37) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número doce (12), en dieciocho punto noventa y tres (18.93) metros; y por el OESTE, el solar número catorce (14), en treinta y uno punto noventa y dos (31.92) metros. The property is iden tified as land number 14,919, recorded at page number 126 of volume number 331 of Ba yamón, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Bayamón
I. Physical Address: Colinas de Vista Alegre, 13X Calle A, Bayamón, PR 00956. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be unders tood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, inclu ding but not limited to any pro perty tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood fur ther that the successful bidder accepts then and is subroga ted in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward their cance llation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. NOW THEREFO RE, public notice is hereby gi ven that the appointed Special Master on the will celebrate the judicial sale in the dates and time set forth below, in front of Federico Degetau Federal Buil ding and Clemente Ruiz Naza rio United States Courthouse gates, at 150 Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1st, Floor in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein. The proceeds of said sale will be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the FIRST public sale shall be held on October 12th, 2022, at 3:00 pm. The mi nimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $127,784.98 and no lower offers will be accepted. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public sale shall be
held on the October 19th, 2022, at 3:00 pm and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,189.99. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the pro perty, a THIRD public sale shall be held on the October 26th 2022, at 3:00 pm and the mini mum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $63,892.49. WHE REAS: The sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 17th of August of 2022. Beatriz Váz quez Solís, Special Master.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC
Demandante V. CARMEN MARIA MORALES VELEZ Y YADIRA LISSETTE GUZMAN-MORALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2018CV00313. 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.
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 Utuado, 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 Utuado, el 5 DE OC TUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipoteca do objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: UR BANA: Solar marcado F-1 de
la urbanización Palmas del Sol radicado en el Barrio Pueblo del término municipal de Lares, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 276.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes NORTE, en 23.00 me tros con el lote marcado F-2; SUR, en 23.00 metros con el lote marcado Park A; ESTE, en 12.00 metros con la Calle Numero 5 y por el OESTE, en 12.00 metros con el lote mar cado Park A. Enclava una resi dencia de un nivel la cual esta compuesta de sala, comedor, cocina, tres cuartos, un baño y una marquesina. Afecta a una servidumbre de teléfono de 5` de ancho a favor de Puer to Rico Telephone Company que discurre por el frente del solar. FINCA 18029 INSCRITA AL FOLIO 88 DEL TOMO 377 DE LARES, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE UTUADO. Propiedad localizada en: URB. PALMAS DEL SOL 65 CALLE 4F1, LARES, PR 00669. Se gún figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: a. CONDICIONES RESTRICTIVAS del programa gubernamental denominado “Home Investment Partnership Program” por un término de 10 años, según consta de la escri tura 32 otorgada en San Juan el 6 de diciembre de 2003 ante el notario Elba Millan Guerra, e inscrita al folio 88 del tomo 377 de Lares, finca 18029, inscrip ción 1ª. Según figuran en la cer tificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: a. HIPO TECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $15,000.00 sin intereses y vencimiento 6 de diciembre de 2011. Constituida por la Escritura 639 otorga da en Lares el 6 de diciembre de 2003 ante el notario José Rubén Vélez Marrero, e inscri ta al folio 88 del tomo 377 de Lares, finca 18029, inscripción 3ª. b. HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de PJ Esta do Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $20,000.00 sin intereses y vencimiento 10 años. Constitui da por la Escritura 34 otorgada en San Juan el 6 de diciembre de 2003 ante el notario Ruth Noemi Morillo Limardo, e inscri ta al folio 88 del tomo 377 de Lares, finca 18029, inscripción 4ª. Se entenderá que todo li citador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los pre ferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere,
continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas car gas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $36,355.00, 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 Utuado, el 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $24,236.66, dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido origi nalmente. Si tampoco se pro duce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $18,177.50, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Utuado, el 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $24,991.10 de principal, in tereses al tipo del 5.00% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de diciembre de 2017 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totali dad, más la suma de $3,305.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las canti dades que se adeudan men sualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escri tura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen poste rior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUN DA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efec tos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la cele bración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás cons tancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser exa minadas por los (las) interesa dos (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos
semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones, así como para su pu blicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 02 de septiembre de 2022. JOSÉ RIVERA PÉREZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ISMAEL SERRA NO CARDONA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS. CASITAS BLANCAS, LLC Demandante vs. SUCESION DE WILFREDO LUGO GONZALEZ, compuesta por su hijo WILFREDO LUGO PABON; FULANO DE TAL y ZUTANO DE TAL, como herederos desconocidos con posible interés; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)
Demandados CIVIL NÚM. CG2021CV02880 (802). SOBRE: COBRO DE DI NERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: Público en General A: A LA PARTE DEMANDADA
Yo, EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR, Alguacil de este Tribu nal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 17 de oc tubre de 2022 a las 9:15 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Ca guas, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efec tivo, giro postal o cheque certifi cado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia. Los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Caguas durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adju dicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la ven
ta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 24 de octubre de 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 31 de octubre de 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pú blica subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marca do con el número Veintisiete (27) del Bloque “M” del plano de inscripción de la URBANI ZACIÓN EXTENSIÓN REPAR TO VILLA BLANCA, radicado en el Barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de TRESCIENTOS TREINTA Y SIETE PUNTO CINCUEN TA (337.50) METROS CUA DRADOS. Colindando por el NOROESTE, en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros, con los solares números Cuarenta (40) y Cuarenta y Uno (41) del Bloque “M” del mencionado pla no; por el SURESTE, en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros, con la Calle número Diez (10) del mencionado plano; por el NORESTE, en veinticinco pun to cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número Veintiocho (28) del Bloque “M” del men cionado plano; y por el SU ROESTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero. 25.00) metros, con el solar número Veintiséis (26) del Bloque “M” del mencionado pla no. En dicho solar enclava una edificación de casa de una sola planta, para dedicarse a vivien da. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 78 del tomo 1776 de Caguas, Sección Primera, finca número 9,659, inscripción novena. Modificada la hipoteca relacionada en la inscripción 9na., en cuanto al principal que será ahora por la suma de $144,642.89, con intereses al 5.125% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de sep tiembre de 2049, según la escritura número 126, otorga da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de agosto de 2019, ante la Notario Público Ana E. Gorbea Padró, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Caguas, Sección Pri mera, finca 9,659, inscripción 10ma. Rafificada y consentida la modificación de la hipoteca antes relacionada, compare ciendo la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, según la escri tura número 175, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de noviembre de 2019, ante la Notario Público Ana E. Gor bea Padró, anotado como nota marginal 10.1 tomo Karibe de Caguas, Sección Primera, finca 9,659. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Villa Blanca, 65 (antes 27-M) Calle Topacio, Ca
guas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satis facer a la parte demandante la suma de $143,438.86 de prin cipal, intereses 5.125% anual, desde el día 1ro. de abril de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $13,300.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí nima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $144,642.89 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $96,428.59 y de ser nece saria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $72,321.45. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes, entendiéndo se que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subas ta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 7 de septiembre de 2022. EDGARDO ALDEBOL
MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SONJA EMIYANLLERLINE TAVERAS RAMOS; RAFAEL ACOSTA MEDINA
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02041. (401). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SONJA EMIYANLLERLINE TAVERAS RAMOS;
subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 14 de julio de 2022. ALG. IVELISSE FIGUE
ROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA DE MAYA GÜEZ.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ
REVERSE MORTGAGE
FUNDING, LLC
Demandante Vs. AIDA LUZ ITHIER GONZÁLEZ, T/C/C AIDA L.
ITHIER GONZÁLEZ, T/C/C
AISA ITHIER GONZÁLEZ;
Y A LOS ESTADOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: MZ2020CV00639.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: AIDA LUZ ITHIER GONZÁLEZ, T/C/C AIDA L. ITHIER GONZÁLEZ, T/C/C
AISA ITHIER GONZÁLEZ;
Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.
Yo, ALG. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ma yagüez, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en ge neral con interés sobre la pro piedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en gene ral, por la presente CERTIFI CO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONS TAR: Que el día 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; mi ofici na, sita en el Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez , Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor pos tor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 31 de agosto de 2021. Los au tos y todos los documentos co rrespondientes al procedimien to incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría du rante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera su basta a celebrarse, se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 20 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudica ción, se celebrará una TERCE RA SUBASTA el día 27 DE OC TUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 15 de ju nio de 2022, procederé a ven der en pública subasta y al me jor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte de mandada de epígrafe en el in mueble que se describe a conti nuación: RÚSTICA: Solar marcado con el número treinta en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Río Hondo del Barrio Rio Hondo del Barrio Río Hondo del termino munici pal de Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con ochocientos cuatro diez milésimas de otra, equivalente a trescientos diez y
seis punto veintitrés metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número treintiuno de la Comunidad. Por el SUR, con la parcela número veintinueve de la comunidad.
Por el ESTE, con la Calle nú mero tres de la comunidad. Por el OESTE, con un desague plu vial número uno de la comuni dad. Finca número 26,018 ins crita al folio 25 del tomo 887 de Mayagüez. Registro de la Pro piedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez. Dirección de la Propiedad: 12 calle Santiago Mari Ramos Urb. Brisas de Rio Hondo Mayagüez PR 00680. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde al cance, el importe de las canti dades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sen tencia dictada a su favor, a sa ber: de $81,048.79, con interés al 3.543% anual , por concepto de balance principal del présta mo más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumu lándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los docu mentos del préstamo para cos tas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclama ción judicial y que correspon dan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $7,000.00, equiva lente al 10% de la suma princi pal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la es critura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigi bles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue cons tituida mediante la escritura nú mero 410 otorgada el día 15 de julio de 2009, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Laura Mía Gonzalez Bonilla y consta inscrita al folio 9411 del tomo 1536 de Mayagüez, finca número 26,018, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez, Sec ción de Mayagüez. Por la pre sente se notifica a los acreedo res que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo
gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de The Secretary of Housing and Ur ban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $105,000.00, con intereses al 3.543% anual, vencedero el día 9 de enero de 2086 (así surge), constituida mediante la escritu ra número 411, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de julio de 2009, ante la no tario Laura Mía González Boni lla, e inscrita al folio 9412 del tomo 1536 de Mayagüez, finca número 26,018, inscripción 7ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera su basta del inmueble antes des crito será la suma de $70,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca an tes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $46,666.67; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho in mueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $35,000.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no
satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá dili genciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerra dura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este des alojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edic to de acuerdo con la ley, me diante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Es tado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) luga res públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribu nal y la Colecturía, y se le notifi cará además a la parte deman dada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última di rección conocida. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y compare cencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez , Puerto Rico, a 6 de julio de 2022. ALG. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUA CIL PLACA #924, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MAYA GÜEZ.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYA GÜEZ
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE HERMINIA FLORES LUGO, T/C/C HERMINIA FLORES COMPUESTA POR SALVADOR ORTIZ FLORES, BILLY ORTIZ FLORES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE SALVADOR ORTIZ CREITOFF T/C/C SALVADOR ORTIZ, T/C/C SALVADORE ORTIZ, COMPUESTA POR SALVADOR ORTIZ FLORES, BILLY ORTIZ FLORES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: CB2019CV00279.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESIÓN DE HERMINIA FLORES LUGO, T/C/C HERMINIA FLORES COMPUESTA POR SALVADOR ORTIZ FLORES, BILLY ORTIZ FLORES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE SALVADOR ORTIZ CREITOFF T/C/C SALVADOR ORTIZ, T/C/C SALVADORE ORTIZ, COMPUESTA POR SALVADOR ORTIZ FLORES, BILLY ORTIZ FLORES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.
Yo, JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZA RIO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ma yagüez, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en ge neral con interés sobre la pro piedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en gene ral, por la presente CERTIFI CO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONS TAR: Que el día 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven
der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 6 de mayo de 2022. Los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría du rante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera su basta a celebrarse, se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no pro ducir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SU BASTA el día 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 13 de ju lio de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte de mandada de epígrafe en el in mueble que se describe a conti nuación: RÚSTICA: Porción de terreno sita en el Barrio Mirade ro del término Municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de diez céntimas de cuerda. En lindes por el NOR TE, con terrenos de Alfredo Martínez; por el SUR, con la carretera número ciento dos (102); por el ESTE, con terre nos de Juan Soto Pérez; y por el OESTE, con un solar de Rei naldo Soto. Contiene una casa de bloques, madera y zinc y un garaje de hormigón. Finca nú mero 8,393, inscrita al folio ochenta y dos (82) del tomo doscientos setenta y seis (276) de Cabo Rojo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción de San Germán. Dirección de la Propiedad: SR 102 KM 16.9, La Garita Sec. Miradero Wd Cabo Roo PR 00623. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcan ce, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte deman dante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $60,712.31, con interés al 4.613% anual, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo el cual incluye intereses y otros gastos acumulados, y los cua les continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $12,000.00 equivalente al 10%
de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para cos tas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumu lados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquie ra suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hi poteca, todas cuyas sumas es tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipo teca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida me diante la escritura número 93 otorgada el día 6 de julio de 2017, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Denisse M. Llorens Alicea y consta ins crita al tomo Karibe de Cabo Rojo, finca número 8,393, Re gistro de la Propiedad de Cabo Rojo, Sección de San Germán. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscri tos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a fa vor del Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $120,000.00, con intereses al 4.613% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2089, constitui da mediante la escritura núme ro 94, otorgada en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de julio de 2017, ante la notario Dennise M. Llorens Alicea, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Cabo Rojo, fin ca número 8,393, inscripción 6ta y última. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la pri mera subasta del inmueble an tes descrito será la suma de $120,000.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $80,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho in mueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para
mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 14 de julio de 2022. ALG. IVELISSE FIGUE ROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL
PLACA #924, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA DE MAYA GÜEZ.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST HB2 Demandante Vs. LAURA EDIVIA ROSARIO DOMINGUEZ T/C/C/ LAURA E. ROSARIO
DOMINGUEZ; SUCESIÓN DE CONFESOR RUIZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C CONFESOR RUIZ COMPUESTA POR LAURA EDIVIA ROSARIO DOMINGUEZ T/C/C/ LAURA E. ROSARIO DOMINGUEZ, JULIO
RUIZ VEGA, EDNA RUIZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2020CV00033.
Sala: 206. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SU BASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: LAURA EDIVIA ROSARIO DOMINGUEZ T/C/C/ LAURA E. ROSARIO DOMINGUEZ; SUCESIÓN DE CONFESOR RUIZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C CONFESOR RUIZ COMPUESTA POR LAURA EDIVIA ROSARIO DOMINGUEZ T/C/C/ LAURA E. ROSARIO DOMINGUEZ, JULIO RUIZ VEGA, EDNA RUIZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.
Yo, ALG. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ma yagüez, a los demandados,
acreedores y al público en ge neral con interés sobre la pro piedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en gene ral, por la presente CERTIFI CO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONS TAR: Que el día 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 27 de agosto de 2021. Los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS TA para la venta de la susodi cha propiedad, el día 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes in dicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 28 de junio de 2022, proce deré a vender en pública su basta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: “UR BANA: Solar número C-Cinco (C-5) del proyecto residencial denominado Paseo Los Robles II, sito en el Barrio Algarrobo; Carretera Estatal Número Cien to Cuatro (104), kilómetro 1.4, Interior, del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. En el solar enclava una vivienda construida toda en hormigón; para una sola familia. Este solar está sujeto a servidumbres en equidad establecidas mediante la escritura número Once (11) de doce (12) de marzo de mil novecientos noventa y seis (1996) ante el Notario Luis M. Polanco Ortiz. El solar número C-Cinco (C-5) tiene una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos cin cuenta y tres metros cuadrados con treinta y siete céntimos (453.37) de otro metro cuadra dos. El solar colinda por el NORTE, en quince metros li neales con cincuenta céntimos (15.50) de otro metro lineal con la Calle Uno (1) de Paseo Los Robles II y en un arco de cinco metros lineales con cincuenta (5.50) céntimos de otro con la
intersección de las Calles Uno y Tres de Paseo Los Robles II; por el SUR, en diecinueve (19.00) metros lineales con el solar C-Seis (C-6) de Paseo Los Robles II; por el ESTE, en veinte metros lineales con cin cuenta (20.50) céntimos de otro metro lineal con la Calle Tres (3) de Paseo Los Robles II; por el OESTE, en veinticuatro me tros lineales con el solar C-Cua tro (C-4) de Paseo Los Robles II. El antes descrito solar está gravado por servidumbre a fa vor de Puerto Rico Telephone Company; de cinco pies de an cho y la cual discurre a través de las colindancias Norte y Este del solar.” Finca número 39,981 inscrita en el folio 1 del tomo 1,450 de Mayagüez, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez. Direc ción de la Propiedad: 1509 Epi fanio Vidal St. Paseo Los Ro bles, Mayagüez PR 00682. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcan ce, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte deman dante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $298,358.78, con interés al 5.560% anual , por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados al 31 de enero de 2020 anual los cuales continúan acumulándo se, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $39,750.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para cos tas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumu lados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquie ra suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hi poteca, todas cuyas sumas es tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipo teca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida me diante la escritura número 239 otorgada el día 7 de septiembre de 2010, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Fernando E. Doval Santiago y consta inscrita al folio 177 del tomo 1503 de Mayagüez, finca número 39,981, Registro de la Propiedad Sección Mayagüez.
Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscri tos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad
al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secre tario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $397,500.00, con intereses al 5.560% anual, vencedero el día 22 de diciem bre de 2087, constituida me diante la escritura número 240, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de septiembre de 2010, ante el notario Fernando E. Doval Santiago, e inscrita al folio 177 del tomo 1503 de Ma yagüez, finca número 39,981, inscripción 6ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la pri mera subasta del inmueble an tes descrito será la suma de $397,500.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $265,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $198,750.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri
rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 14 de julio de 2022. ALG. IVELISSE FIGUE ROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA DE MAYA GÜEZ.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. VICTOR RAÚL RIVERA ALMODOVAR, CLARIBEL CRUZ LÓPEZ T/C/C
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CB2021CV00540.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI
BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
El Alguacil del Tribunal que sus cribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Man damiento que me ha sido dirigi do por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cabo Rojo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORI
ZONTAL: Apartamento residen cial identificado como AB-1 de forma irregular, constituido por un nivel, localizado en la Prime ra Planta del Edificio A del Con dominio Serenity By The Sea, situado en la Carretera número 308, Kilómetro número 5.2 en el Barrio Miradero del Municipio de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el área total del apartamento es de ciento catorce punto trein ta y nueve metros cuadrados.
En lindes: NORTE, con apar tamento número AA-1 y área común lobby, en una distancia de 15.12 metros lineales; SUR, con el apartamento número AC-1, en 15.12 metros linea les; ESTE, con elemento exte rior, en una distancia de 8.92 metros lineales; OESTE, con elemento exterior, en una dis tancia de 8.92 metros lineales.
Consta el mismo de dos habi taciones con sus respectivos closets, sala-comedor, sala fa miliar, cocina, dos baños, área de almacenar, laundry y balcón.
Los baños están equipados con bañera, lavamanos y servicio sanitario. Se incluye bidet en el baño del cuarto principal. La puerta de entrada está situada en su lindero Norte, y por ella se sale a la escalera y al área de circulación del proyecto. Le corresponde el 1.220353 por ciento de participación de los elementos comunes generales.
Le corresponde el uso de los estacionamientos identificados con los números 7 y 28 en el Plano de Inscripción. Dirección Física: Apt. AB-1 Cond. Sereni ty By The Sea, Cabo Rojo, PR 00623. Finca 28,017, inscrita al folio 112 del tomo 829 de Cabo Rojo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso.
C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los
preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes pos teriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $179,827.98, más la suma de $68,287.50, que incluye intereses según pactados, car gos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del prin cipal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 14 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia de Cabo Rojo, por el tipo mínimo de $255,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 21 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mis mo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subas ta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $170,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subas ta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 28 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $127,500.00.
Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un pe riódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos con forme a la ley, expido la presen te bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 21 de julio de 2022 en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.
MARLENE VIDAL IRIZARRY, ALGUACIL SUPERVISOR.
LEGAL NOTICE M&T 32842 N3CI2008-00382
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FA JARDO SALA SUPERIOR LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD.
Demandante V.
MIGUEL ANTON CONWAY DAY, SOL EDNITA GONZÁLEZ CORREA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: N3CI2008-00382.
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 Instan cia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, en el caso de epígrafe procede rá 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 che que de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia el DÍA 12 DE OC TUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Sala Superior, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Cond. Riomar Village, Apt. 2203 Bo. Mameyes Carr. 968, Río Gran de, PR 00745 y que se des cribe a continuación: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Apartment number 2203: Re sidential apartment of irregu lar shape located on the third (3rd) floor of Module 22 of the Riomar Village Condominium located on road PR-968, in the Mameyes Ward of the muni cipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico, with an approximate area of 1330.85 square feet, equal to 124.11 square meters of another. lts boundaries are as follows: North, in a distance of 17’ 4’ with a common exterior area; South, in a distance of 32’-3’ with a common exterior area and apartment 2303; East, in a distance of 55’-3’ with a common exterior area; West, in a distance of 55’-3’ with a common exterior area. This apartment consists of a foyer, one air conditioning unit room, linen/closet, living room, dining room, covered terrace, kit chen, pantry, laundry area, one bathroom, master bedroom, walk in closet and a master bathroom. The entrance door of this apartment is located on its West side and opens to the outside of the building. It is en titled to two parking spaces as limited common elements iden tified with the numbers 2203 in the plans of the condominium. This apartment has a participa tion of 0.4396% in the general common elements and in the limited common elements of the condominium. La propie dad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el folio 223 del tomo 533 de Río Grande, finca nú mero 28,591, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del in mueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $279,200.00. Si no hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscri be el DÍA 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MA ÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $186,133.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se cele brará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el DÍA 26 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pacta do para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $139,600.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constitui da mediante la escritura núme ro 131, otorgada el día 31 de julio de 2003, ante el Notario Mireya Ocasio García y consta inscrita en el folio 223 del tomo 533 de Río Grande, finca nú mero 28591, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sec ción Tercera, inscripción terce ra. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto sa tisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $258,133.22 por con cepto de principal, más intere ses al tipo pactado de 4.500% anual desde el día 1 de diciem bre de 2007. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los car gos 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 $27,920.00 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $27,920.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $27,920.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses se gún provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulari dad del inmueble 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 de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según
las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes pos teriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedi miento que se relacionan más adelante. 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 cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los due ños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipote cariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, ho ras 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. HIPOTECA: Consti tuida por Miguel Anton Conway Day y su esposa, Sol Ednita González Correa, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de CITI BANK, N.A. o a su orden, por la suma de $25,000.00, con intereses al 2.5% anual sobre prime rate y vencedero en 25 años, según escritura número 129, otorgada en Guaynabo, el 24 de julio de 2003, ante la notario Mireya Ocasio García. Inscrita al folio 224 del tomo 533 de Río Grande. Inscripción cuarta. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Anotado contra Conway Con sulting Group LLC & Conway Miguel Single MBR, seguro social patronal 66-0656412, por la suma de $296.83, según no tificación número 742513311, presentada el 10 de febrero de 2011, al asiento 4 de la página #121 del Libro de Embargos Federales número 3. Fecha de Renovación 26 de enero de 2011. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en gene ral se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de cir culación 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 subasta bajo mi firma en Fajardo, Puer to Rico, hoy día 13 de mayo de 2022. JORGE A. ORTIZ
ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIO NAL PLACA #622. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUA CIL AUXILIAR #737.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS. Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC DEMANDANTE VS. Sucesión de Juan Valentín Marrero de Jesús t/c/c Juan V. Marrero de Jesús t/c/c Juan Valentín Marrero t/c/c Juan Marrero de Jesús t/c/c Juan V. Marrero t/c/c Juan Marrero compuesta por Nayda Lizette Cardona Cardona, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos; Centro de Recaudación de Impuestos Municipales; y a los Estados Unidos de América
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NÚM.: CG2021CV02673.
SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca In Rem. EDICTO DE SUBAS TA.
Al: Público en General A: SUCESIÓN DE JUAN VALENTÍN MARRERO DE JESÚS T/C/C JUAN V. MARRERO DE JESÚS T/C/C JUAN VALENTÍN MARRERO T/C/C JUAN MARRERO DE JESÚS T/C/C JUAN V. MARRERO T/C/C JUAN MARRERO COMPUESTA POR NAYDA LIZETTE CARDONA CARDONA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Yo, Angel Gomez Gomez, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte rés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 13 de octubre de 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana en mi ofici na, sita en el Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la pro piedad inmueble que más ade lante se describe y cuya venta
en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 18 de mayo de 2022. Los autos y to dos los documentos correspon dientes al procedimiento incoa do, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas labo rables. Que en caso de no pro ducir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrar se, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la su sodicha propiedad, el 20 de octubre de 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana; y en caso de no pro ducir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 27 de octubre de 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes in dicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 16 de julio de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la par te demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Lote identificado como Lote “J-6”, si tuado en la Urbanización Villa Victoria en el Barrio Tomás de Castro de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de doscientos once puntos dos mil quinientos sesenta y ocho metros cuadra dos (211.2568 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con el lote “J-5” de la Comunidad, en una dis tancia de dieciocho puntos nue ve mil novecientos veinte me tros; por el SUR, con el lote “J-7”, en una distancia de die ciocho punto nueve mil nove cientos veinte metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle número “6”, en una distancia de once punto mil doscientos treinta y cinco metros; y por el OESTE, con la Avenida Luis Muñoz Marín, en una distancia de once punto mil doscientos treinta y cinco me tros. Enclava una estructura de hormigón para fines residencia les. Finca número 62,713, ins crita al tomo Karibe de Caguas. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ca guas. Dirección de la Propie dad: J-6, 6ST Villa Victoria Dev, Caguas PR 00725. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfa cer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte deman dante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $60,020.59, con interés al 4.685% anual, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo el cual no incluye intereses y otros gastos acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándo se, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y
que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $15,750.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para cos tas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumu lados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquie ra suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hi poteca, todas cuyas sumas es tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipo teca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida me diante la escritura número 3 otorgada el día 13 de enero de 2017 en Cayey, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Zoila Espinosa Vaquer y consta ins crita al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca número 62,713, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I de Caguas. Por la presente se notifica a los acree dores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su or den, por la suma principal de $157,500.00, con intereses al 4.685% anual, vencedero el día 1 de noviembre de 2089, cons tituida mediante la escritura nú mero 4, otorgada en Cayey, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de enero de 2017, ante la notario Zoila Espinoza Vaquer, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca número 62,713, inscripción 4ta. Que la cantidad mínima de lici tación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $157,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hi poteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se orde na la celebración de una se gunda subasta de dicho inmue ble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $105,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la
celebración de una tercera su basta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subas ta, es decir la suma de $78,750.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el im porte de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el mo mento de la adjudicación, en tiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele
brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 15 de septiembre de 2022. Angel Gomez Gomez, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS.
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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. JOSE R. MARTINEZ QUINONES; FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01200. Salón: 802. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM
PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOSE R. MARTINEZ QUINONES; FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 20 PRADERAS
DEL PLATA CAYEY PR 00736.
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 secretaria 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, a la dirección no tificaciones@orf-law.com. EX
TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de agosto de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 12 de agosto 2022.
LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VILMA OYOLA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. SECRETARIO DE DESARROLLO URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS; MULTIPLES MORTGAGE CORPORATION; CELINK; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE
Demandados Civil Núm.: SG2022CV00415.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: CELINK, acreedor del pagaré o la hipoteca objeto de este pleito que surge del Registro de la Propiedad, que pueda ser tenedor o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré hipotecario a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez. Se les notifica que en la De manda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que el 19 de abril de 2012, se otorgó un pa garé a favor de Múltiples Mort gage Corporation, por la suma de $150,000.00 de principal, con intereses al 5.06% anual, y vencedero el 29 de agosto de 2092, ante el Notario Fernando E. Doval, garantizado mediante la escritura de hipoteca núme ro 41, inscrita al tomo 154 del tomo 412 de Lajas, finca 1636, inscripción 11, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. Conjuntamente, el 19 de abril de 2012, se otorgó un paga ré a favor de El Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos, por la suma de $150,000.00 de prin cipal, con intereses al 5.06% anual, y vencedero el 29 de
agosto de 2092, ante el Notario Fernando E. Doval, garantizado mediante la escritura de hipote ca número 42, inscrita al tomo 154 del tomo 412 de Lajas, finca 1636, inscripción 12, Re gistro de la Propiedad de San Germán. El inmueble gravado mediante las hipotecas antes descritas es la finca número 1636 inscrita al folio 154 del tomo 412 de Lajas, Registro de la propiedad de San Germán. La obligación evidenciada por los pagarés antes descritos fue saldada en su totalidad. Dichos gravámenes no han podido ser cancelados por haberse ex traviado los originales de los pagarés. Los originales de los pagarés antes descritos no han podido ser localizados, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas.
Múltiples Mortgage Corpora tion y El Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, son los acreedores que constan en el Registro de la Propiedad. Ce link fue último tenedor conocido de los pagarés antes descritos.
POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este empla zamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
LCDO. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN RUA NÚM. 17682
DELGADO & FERNÁNDEZ, LLC PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750, Tel. (787) 274-1414 / Fax (787) 764-8241
E-mail: jmontalvo@ delgadofernandez.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 13 de sep tiembre de 2022. LIC. NOR
MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. LOIS MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala Superior de CAROLINA.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.
JUAN JOSE FERNANDEZ NEGRON Y OTROS Demandado(a) Civil Núm. CA2022CV01549.
SALA 409. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA OR DINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JUAN JOSE FERNANDEZ NEGRON, ALMA NYDIA COTTO LUGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días conta dos a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de septiembre de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 21 de septiembre de 2022.
LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a). MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA CAO MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION RIVERA SANTIAGO NILDA ISABEL TORRES CRUZ T/C/C NILDA TORRES CRUZ T/C/C NILDA TORRES DE RIVERA T/C/C NILDA I. TORRES CRUZ
T/C/C NILDA ISABEL CRUZ COMPUESTA POR OLIMPIO RIVERA TORRES; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2021CV01086.
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 Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público 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 moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certifica do, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cual quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Solar marcado con el numero diecisiete (17) del bloque DD de la Urbanización Jardines de Humacao, localiza da en el barrio Mabu y/o Anto nio Roig del término municipal de Humacao, con une cabida superficial de trescientos no venta y cinco metros con seis centímetros (395.06) cuadra dos. En lindes por el Norte, en trece (13.00) metros, con la calle C; por el Sur, en trece (13.00) metros, con la calle marginal; por el Este en trein ta metros con cuarenta y cua tro centímetros (30.44), con el solar numero dieciséis (16); y por el Oeste, en treinta metros treinta y tres (30.33) centíme tros, con el solar numero die ciocho (18). Enclava una casa. Consta inscrita al folio 112 del tomo 235 de Humacao, finca 8,528, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Propiedad locali zada en: URB. JARDINES DE HUMACAO, DD-17 CALLE C, HUMACAO, PR 00791. 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: $195,000.00. Fe cha de Vencimiento: 19 de di ciembre de 2086. 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 $130,000.00, 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 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $86,666.67, 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 $65,000.00, 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 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $115,531.90 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $20,402.86 en intereses acu mulados al 1 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumu lándose a razón de 3.85% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $4,986.97 en seguro hipotecario; $5,530.00 tarifas de servicio; $1,653.00 en seguro; $425.00 de tasacio nes; $480.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 de adelantos pendien tes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,000.00, 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 HERNÁN DEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #796.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DEMANDANTE VS. SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA SOCORRO ROBLES ADORNO COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERO CONOCIDO BENEDICTO DELGADO ROBLES; SUCESIÓN DE JULIO DELGADO ROBLES, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS JAZMÍN DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JAZMÍN DELGADO ARRIAGA Y JULIO DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JULIO DELGADO ARRIAGA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ A SUSTITUIR DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: BY2022CV02730.
SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM
PLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.
A: JAZMÍN DELGADO
ARZUAGA T/C/C JAZMÍN
DELGADO ARRIAGA
Y JULIO DELGADO
ARZUAGA T/C/C JULIO
DELGADO ARRIAGA
COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JULIO DELGADO ROBLES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA SOCORRO ROBLES
ADORNO Y LA SUCESIÓN DE JULIO DELGADO ROBLES Y COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES
DEL PAGARÉ A SUSTITUIR
Bo. Sabana Seca Urb. Levittown Solar 2420 Bloque F Calle Amir 2da Sección
Toa Baja, PR 00729
Dirección postal: Urb. Levittown #2446 Calle
Amir Toa Baja, PR 00729
POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de 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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.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 demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Repre senta a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO PR 00970 TEL. 787-751-5290, FAX 787-7516155
En Bayamon, Puerto Rico, a 13
de Julio de 2022. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Sec Regional. Amalyn Figueroa Nieves, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN
Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04205. (502). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JUAN MANUEL RIVERA APONTE; ONEIMARIE RIVERA DE LOS SANTOS.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radi cado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Eje cución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $121,931.02, intereses al 4 1/2% anual, desde el día 1ro de febrero de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $12,823.40 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acu mulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Ocho (8) del Bloque “F” de la URBANIZACIÓN VI LLA ESPAÑA, según el plano de inscripción de dicha Urbani zación, localizado en el Barrio Juan Sánchez del Municipio de Bayamón; Puerto Rico, con un área de TRESCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y OCHO PUNTO DOS CINCO TRES (358.253) METROS CUADRADOS; en lindes por el NORTE, en vein ticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número Nueve (9) del mismo bloque; por el SUR, en veinticinco pun to cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número Siete (7) del mismo bloque; por el ESTE, en trece punto siete cuatro cuatro (13.744) metros, con los sola res números Treinta y Tres (33) y Treinta y Cuatro (34) del mis mo bloque; y por el OESTE, en catorce punto ocho cinco nueve (14.859) metros, con la Calle Salamanca. Sobre el descrito solar ha sido construida una casa de concreto armado y blo ques, para fines residenciales. La escritura de hipoteca se en cuentra inscrita al Sistema Kari be de Bayamón Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón:,
Sección Tercera, finca número 3,294, inscripción novena. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva den tro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este em plazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. 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: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La dirección postal del abogado de la parte deman dante es la siguiente: Lic. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550 San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387
E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com
Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte deman dante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presen te Edicto que firmo y sello en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
MARÍA LEONOR
MIRANDA CRUZ
Demandante V. FIRST BANK DE PUERTO RICO; BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, COMO CUSTODIOS DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE FIRST FINANCIAL CARIBBEAN CORPORATION, HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO H.F. MORTGAGE BANKERS; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE Demandado(a)
Civil: GB2022CV00524. Sala:
201. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE y RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de septiembre de 2022. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 16 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA.
MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONA DO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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 Vs SIXTO PÉREZ PICHARDO; LUCY VEGA MIRANDA; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS
Demandado (a)
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00783.
Sala: 0505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
EL SECRETARIO (A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registra
da y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse deta lladamente 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 diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sen tencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publica ción por edicto de esta notifica ción, dirijo a usted esta notifica ción que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 16 de septiembre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Co llado, Secretaria Regional. E. Diomarys Alcántara Félix, Se cretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC
Demandante V. CARLOS TORRES SANTIAGO
Demandados Civil Núm.: JD2022CV00413. 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: CARLOS TORRES SANTIAGO.
Quede emplazado y notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radi cado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual podrá 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. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su discreción, lo entiende pro cedente. Los abogados de la
parte demandante son: Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC 1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Tel. 877-338-4101 Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com asaez@tmppllc.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 14 de septiembre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GAR CÍA, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. MAGDA BAHAMUNDI TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
E TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante V. CARMEN AIDA CINTRON MORALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV02056. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: CARME AIDA CINTRON MORALES.
Queda emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal se ha ra dicado Demanda sobre Ejecu ción de Hipoteca e su contra. 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 y deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Ma nejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual podrá acce der utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar s alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio d su discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abo gados de a parte demandante son: Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC
1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Tel. 877-338-4101
Fax: 561-338-4077
prservice@tmppllc.com asaez@tmppllc.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma
y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 16 de septiembre de 2022. Luz Mayra Caraballo García, Se cretaria Regional. Mariely Félix Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala Superior de ARECIBO
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLEDY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1
Demandante V. SUCESION DE RAFAL RIVERA LABARCA, ET. ALS.
Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00102.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE SUCESION DE RAFAL RIVERA LABARCA, T/C/C RAFAEL RIVERA LA BARCA, T/C/C RAFAEL RIVERA LAVARCA, T/C/C RAFAEL RIVERA LA VARCA. (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 06 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de septiembre de 2022. En ARECIBO, Puer to Rico, el 16 de septiembre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. PILAR H. MERCADO GONZÁ LEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE BENITO PEREA CRESPO, COMPUESTA POR WILFREDO PEREA LÓPEZ, MARGARITA PEREA LÓPEZ, MIRIAM PEREA LÓPEZ, GILBERTO PEREA COMO HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE CONOCIDO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; SUCESIÓN DE ANA GONZÁLEZ ACEVEDO COMPUESTA POR CARLOS RÍOS GONZÁLEZ, RAÚL RÍOS GONZÁLEZ, SARA RÍOS GONZÁLEZ, MAYRA RÍOS GONZÁLEZ, COMO HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE CONOCIDO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00031. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM. EMPLAZA MIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
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POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solici tando la ejecución de hipoteca relacionada al pagaré suscrito a favor de MCM Holdings lnc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $180,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 3.685% anual, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y des embolsos del litigio, más hono rarios de abogados equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este pagaré fue sus crito bajo el affidávit número 13,526 ante el notario José M. Biaggi Landrón. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 17 otorgada el 24 de abril de 2015, ante el mismo notario público, inscrita al folio 80 del tomo 1,533 de Mayagüez fin ca número 33,568, inscripción 15ta. La Hipoteca Revertida grava la propiedad que se des cribe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 3 del bloque C en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Villa Sultanita, Desarrollo Este, radicado en el Barrio Sábalos del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos setenta y uno punto ochenta (271.80) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 22.33 metros, con el solar número 2 del bloque C; por el SUR, en 25.40 metros, con el solar número 4 del blo que C; por el ESTE, en 10.50 metros, con el solar número 81 del bloque C y en 3.92 metros, con el solar número 80; y por el OESTE, en un arco de 8.93 me tros, con el Camino Bechara. Enclava y le pertenece una es tructura edificada en hormigón y bloques dedicada a vivienda para una sola familia. Finca número 33,568, inscrita al folio 98 del tomo 1108 de Mayagüez, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Maya güez. Se le advierte a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombre desconocido de la Sucesión de Benito Perea Crespo; y a la Su cesión de Ana González Aceve do compuesta por Carlos Rios González, Raúl Rios González, Sara Rios González, Mayra Rios González, como herede ros de nombre conocido, Fula no de Tal y Sutano de Tal como
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It was June 2001, the first half of the first season of a career nobody saw com ing. Albert Pujols was back in Kansas City, Missouri, where he had played two years earlier for a community college that had never produced a major league player. Now, as a St. Louis Cardinals rookie, he was somehow batting .350 with a lot of home runs. But how good was he, really?
“The feeling that day was that you’ve got this whole lineup of 10-year veterans coming at you — Mark McGwire, Jim Ed monds — so don’t let any of those guys beat you,” said Chad Durbin, who started that night for the Royals, recalling a scout ing meeting with a coach. “Jamie Quirk told me, ‘I think your stuff is going to beat Pujols’ — and he didn’t even call him that, he pronounced it wrong. You just didn’t know much about him.”
The education was swift and convinc ing. Pujols singled twice before punishing a curveball for a homer in the ninth inning, spoiling Durbin’s chance for his first career complete game. It was the 20th career home run for Pujols on a journey that has lasted more than two decades.
“That home run off me is old enough to drink; it’s old enough to go order a beer at the bar,” said Durbin, who is 44 and has been retired for nine years. “I was doing good by baseball, though, just trying to help the game out. I did my part.”
Pujols has said he will retire at the end of this season, and last Friday he won his race against the end. He reached 700 ca reer home runs by homering twice against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, joining the most exclusive home run neighborhood of all. Before Pujols, only Babe Ruth (in 1934), Hank Aaron (1973) and Barry Bonds (2004) had reached 700.
“It’s pretty special,” Pujols said after the game. “When it’s really going to hit me is when I’m done, at the end of the season, when I’m retired, and probably a moment or two after that I can look at the numbers.”
Bonds finished his career with the most homers, 762, followed by Aaron at 755 and Ruth at 714. But Pujols, in this age of specialization and supersized bullpens, has homered off more pitchers than any one: 455.
That total is still growing. Both hom ers Friday came off new victims: His 434-
foot shot to left in the third inning came off Dodgers starter Andrew Heaney, and his 389-footer in the fourth inning was off re liever Phil Bickford. Neither had ever faced Pujols before Friday night’s game.
“People ask me all the time: ‘Who’s the toughest hitter you ever faced?’” said Glendon Rusch, 47, who gave up three homers to Pujols in 40 career at-bats. “And I always say Albert. Especially when he was in his prime, he could do the most damage in the most different ways.”
Ruth spread his homers across 216 dif ferent pitchers, and Aaron across 310. Both sluggers retired long before the introduc tion of interleague play in 1997, midway through Bonds’ career. Bonds connected off 449 different pitchers, a mark Pujols reached on Aug. 22 against Drew Smyly of the Chicago Cubs.
“How he’s playing right now, he’s definitely a different Albert Pujols than what I saw when he was with the Angels,” Smyly said. “I never got a chance to face him when he was with the Cardinals early in his career, when he was just the most dominant player out there. But right now it feels as if he’s that guy again.”
Pujols is finishing with a flourish nearly as improbable as his rise at the start. Play ing on a part-time basis in his farewell sea son, his .530 slugging percentage through
Friday is his highest since 2011, the final year of his first stint in St. Louis.
Pujols averaged more than 40 hom ers per year with the Cardinals from 2001 through 2011, slugging .617 overall. Then he left for a $240 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels, and averaged just 23 homers per year with a .448 slugging per centage across the 10-year deal. The An gels released him last May, and he finished the 2021 season with the Dodgers.
Yet while Pujols batted just .256 with the Angels — compared to .328 before that — his presence always loomed for opposing pitchers, especially with runners on base. Pujols, who trails only Aaron and Ruth on the career list for RBIs, with 2,208, drove in at least 93 runs in six of his first eight seasons with the Angels.
“In the Anaheim days, obviously he didn’t hit for average, but I think RBIs are a big thing, and he had over 100 RBIs for a good stretch,” said right-hander Taijuan Walker of the New York Mets. “He was al ways productive. He did his job to drive guys in, and that could be with a sac fly or a double he’d poke the other way. That’s what made it tough.”
Walker added his name to Pujols’ list with career home run No. 587 in Septem ber 2016. Walker, who was then with the Seattle Mariners, had held Pujols to one hit
in 10 at-bats before then, but this was not his day.
“I don’t even know if I got an out — home run, home run, home run, hit the showers,” said Walker, who gave up three in a row and got only two outs in the first inning. “Albert finished it off for me. I think it was a fastball, left-center. It was pretty deep, too. I remember they said he couldn’t get to the fastball up, but he could get to it down, so I was trying to beat him up. And I think a lot of his home runs now are up.”
That was the pitch Smyly tried last month in the seventh inning of a scoreless game at Wrigley Field: a 1-2 fastball at 93 mph, high above the outer half of the plate. Pujols swatted it into the first row of the left field bleachers for homer No. 693, the only run of the game. The pitch was 4.23 feet off the ground, according to Statcast, making it the second-highest pitch hit for a homer in the majors this season.
“Early in the game, though, I threw him a curveball down below the zone — and he hit that off the wall, too,” Smyly said. “He’s just locked in.”
Pujols broke another scoreless tie against the Cubs on Sept. 4 at Busch Sta dium in St. Louis, lifting Brandon Hughes’ fastball for a towering drive over the left field bullpen in the eighth inning. Hughes, a rookie, insisted that Pujols’ resume made no difference to him — “I don’t put a name on a hitter when I’m out there,” he said — but he clearly knew Pujols’ history.
“I’m from Detroit, so we lost to the Car dinals,” said Hughes, who was 10 years old when Pujols led St. Louis to the 2006 World Series title. “I say ‘we,’ because I was a Ti gers fan growing up.”
Pujols homered to right field off Jus tin Verlander in Game 1 of that World Se ries, demonstrating a trait he is known for. Among the many pitchers he has beaten for homers are some of the best to ever take the mound.
“Jim Leyland mentioned this when I was in Detroit with him: ‘Albert Pujols and those guys, they hit really good pitching really well,’” Durbin said, referring to the former Tigers manager. “That’s what I think about with Albert: he hit good, quality pitches re ally hard — and then when you made mis takes, he punished those. And that’s the dif ference between the guys that have a .280 career average with 350 home runs, which is a heck of a career, and a guy like him.”
Albert Pujols hit his 699th and 700th career home runs in the third and fourth in nings of Friday’s game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers.As the announcer at the Stade Océane cycled through Brazil’s team last Friday, before the squad dismantled Ghana, 3-0, a murmur of appreciation greeted each familiar, stellar name. Alisson was granted gentle applause. Thiago Silva earned a respectful, admiring cheer. Raphinha drew a sizzle of anticipation.
And then, leaving just a hint of a dramatic pause, the announcer came to Neymar.
There were, perhaps, mitigating circumstances. The 30-year-old Neymar was, after all, on home turf or some thing very close to it. Le Havre, France, a sleepy port town on the Normandy coast, sits just a couple of hours north west of Paris. The stands were dotted not just with jerseys in Brazil’s bright canary yellow but with the rich, deep blue of his Paris St.-Germain club team, too.
But still, the contrast in his reception and those of his teammates felt telling. Brazil’s squad shimmers with stars. Alisson may be the finest goalkeeper on the planet. Silva is probably the best defender of his generation. Casemiro was part of the most dominant midfield in modern history.
Even among their number, though, Neymar stands out. Their fame is not comparable to his, not really; the excite ment he engenders, the adoration he receives and the won der he instills are of a different order of magnitude. It was Neymar who was picked out on the big screen, again and again, during warmups. It was Neymar who had to sing his national anthem with a camera no more than 6 inches from his face. In a team full of headline acts, he remains the un disputed main event, the leading character, the center of gravity.
For now, at least. As the roar that had met Neymar’s name subsided, the announcer still had one player left to introduce. “Numéro vingt,” he said — “Vinicius Junior.” The cheer that followed was not quite so loud as Neymar’s. It did not last quite as long. But the difference was not so stark as might have been expected.
With two months to go before the World Cup, Tite, the Brazil coach, would not have it any other way. It has been 20 years since Brazil was declared champion of the world; miss out again in Qatar, and the wait for a sixth crown will match the lacuna between the third and fourth.
More troublingly still, in the past four tournaments, it has not really gone close: beaten comfortably by the French in 2006, the Dutch in 2010 and the Belgians in Russia four years ago. The team made the semifinals on home soil in 2014, of course, but the less said about how that particular story ended, from a Brazilian point of view, the better.
That defeat, though, highlighted the problem that has beset Brazil for the past decade. Neymar was missing with an injury as Germany etched a scar on the national psyche in the Maracana in 2014 (joined on the sidelines, not insig nificantly, by Silva). In his absence, Brazil seemed bereft, adrift, unable to conceive of how to win the game without its leading man, the player to whom the team, as much as the country, was in thrall.
He was present in Russia, but he was subdued, his legs weary and his inspiration dulled, easily corralled by Belgium in the stifling heat. Still, though, Brazil continued to look to him, to hope that he might somehow lift himself and carry them with him. If he could not, they did not seem to know who might.
This time around, things should be different. Vinicius, a few months on from scoring the winning goal in a Cham pions League final, is surging, European soccer’s breakout star. His teammates and his nation have rallied around him in the aftermath of the racist abuse he has received in Spain for having the temerity to celebrate his goals; several fans had made their way to the Stade Océane to urge him to keep dancing.
He is not alone. Brazil’s attacking resources run so deep that Tite did not even have to call up Gabriel Jésus and Ga briel Martinelli, Arsenal’s forwards, for his squad; he could afford to introduce Rodrygo, Vinicius’ Real Madrid team mate, with just a couple of minutes to go. Roberto Firmino did not even make it off the bench. For what may be the first time in his international career, Neymar does not need to feel that everything hinges on him.
Perhaps his perfor mance, then, can be ex plained by a newfound sense of freedom. Perhaps he is playing unfettered by the suffocating pressure that he has carried for so long. Perhaps, on what may be the strongest team that Bra zil has boasted since 2002 — a team, certainly, more than capable of ending the country’s wait — he feels more comfortable, more ca pable of expressing himself.
Whatever the reason,
his display against Ghana was that of a man neither willing nor ready to vacate center stage. It would have been enough that he created two of Brazil’s three goals, both of them fin ished off by Richarlíson — Marquinhos scored the other, a thunderous header from a corner — but that was the reward for, rather than the total of, everything he did.
Neymar, it is fair to say, looks different this season. He has now registered 11 goals and 10 assists in 12 games for club and country, a streak of form that makes it feel some how deeply strange that roughly two months ago, not only did PSG appear willing to sell him, but nobody seemed des perately keen to buy the most expensive player in the sport’s history.
The raw numbers, as ever, are merely an illustration. There has been a sharpness, a poise and, perhaps most encouraging of all, an invention to Neymar over the past couple of months. Tite has said he is “flying,” his “speed and execution in perfection sync.” Even Thierry Henry, habitu ally unimpressed, feels he has “come to tell everyone: Don’t forget me.”
Against Ghana, it was there in his delivery, whip-smart and inch-perfect. It was there in the moments he sped up, feinting and shifting his weight and accelerating away from his opponents. And, most of all, it was there in the moments he slowed down. More than once, he found himself with the ball at his feet, in the penalty area, and he seemed to stop, to pause, before picking the right pass, the perfect pass, the one that carved Ghana open.
That has always been Neymar’s gift: picking his mo ments. As the World Cup hovers into view, as that sixth star starts to exert a gravity on Brazil, he seems to have done it again.
Neymar is first among equals as Brazil takes aim at its sixth World Cup title.
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Today’s New Moon in Libra aligns with sassy Jupiter, which may leave you wondering whether you should start something new. Are there too many obstacles to cope with? What would you lose if you did try? Jump in and have a go, especially if there are others who are more than happy to help out. You’ll either succeed, or you’ll gain experience that might be useful in the future.
Want to be happier and more content? A promising lunar phase encourages a lifestyle makeover. If previous efforts have been a disappointment, the New Moon can be a call to try again. You may be inspired by someone’s example or by smart ideas, and be up for the challenge. And just one step in the direction of your wellness plans, could get you excited about reaching your goals.
Have untapped talents? The urge to do something about them could be strong, and might motivate you to showcase them to friends and family, or promote them on social media. This is a peak time for getting noticed by all the right people. But you’ll need to do your bit. Whether you display your work in a gallery, a craft-fair or advertise it online, your courage will bring rewards.
The New Moon in Libra, is perfect for a new beginning on the home front. Whatever changes you make, may be linked to other plans associated with a key goal or ambition. This lunar phase can find you in an optimistic mood and keen to get things underway. These could range from a homely makeover, starting a business, planning a move or even adding to the family, Cancer.
This is a great time to promote your ideas, projects, skills and entrepreneurial plans. A fabulous New Moon that ties in with upbeat Jupiter, can find you very enthusiastic about the possibilities ahead. Whether you’re ready to write your first novel, learn something new or begin an Internet business, make a start, Leo. Although retrograde planets could delay the result, don’t hesitate!
As lively Mercury continues to rewind in your sign, avoid making snap decisions without doing your homework first. With delays and disruptions on the cards, you will need to plan for the unexpected, and be ready to improvise when necessary. Even so, it’s still worth making a move. Plus, the New Moon can inspire you to aim for better money management and more security.
Today’s New Moon in your sign, is the best of the year for you, Libra. It’s an excellent time for initiating projects, starting healthy routines and jettisoning any not so helpful habits. Now is your chance to grasp opportunities that can lead to a happier future. With key planets moving in reverse, it might not all be plain sailing, but with perseverance, you’ll soon be making headway.
Are you trying to come to terms with the pros and cons of a situation? If so, today brings renewed hope. A potent lunar phase in your psychological sector, encourages you to view this issue from a different perspective, and one that could bring about a healing. For now, let your thinking subside and relax into a peaceful state, allowing a deeper wisdom to lead the way.
Is your attitude standing in the way of a team project or community initiative? While you may be keen to get on board, there could be a tendency to look for problems rather than gains. Today’s lunation and its alignment with Jupiter, might be a gamechanger, Archer. Don’t keep your reservations to yourself, talk about them. Once you do, promising solutions can soon emerge.
The opportunity to make a difference to your career and reputation, may be affected by thoughts that stop you in your tracks. Past experiences might lead you to presume it’s impossible, but is it? If you can move beyond this mindset Capricorn, you’ll have a good chance. Today’s lunation encourages you to look to the positive and step out on faith, as you’re very capable of doing this.
Today’s lively lunar phase can put you in something of a quandary, Aquarius. Yet not doing anything might not be an option either. With a New Moon encouraging you to take a step into the unknown, you may think of all the reasons why it’s wiser to stay as you are. It certainly would prove less stressful, but what if this is the chance to make a dream of yours come true?
Are you ready to take the plunge? You may be on the verge of doing something you’ve put off for some time. With Jupiter buoying up the New Moon, something could click into place. Feeling anxious about it? You don’t have to go through this alone. If you need reassurance or support, ask friends. You’ll find that a little help can boost your confidence considerably.
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