Tuesday Sep 26, 2023

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Regulator tells PREPA, LUMA & Genera to keep within assigned budgets

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) made changes to the budgets of Genera PR, LUMA Energy and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority over the weekend, with a stern warning that they must operate within their assigned 2024 budgets.

The PREB approved funding for $11 million to LUMA Energy from the fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget for energy efficiency programs to be used for the remaining months of FY24. The regulator reallocated $21.5 million not used from the Operations and Maintenance Reserve to mitigate bill impacts caused by unforeseen fluctuations in fuel costs.

resolution.

Genera provided a roster of accepted and vacant positions with much larger salary increases, with some as high as 200%. In addition, bonuses are included that range from $600 Christmas bonuses for most employees to other bonuses of as much as $200,000, the PREB said.

The energy regulator also sternly reminded Genera it must exercise responsible administration of public funds. Salary increases of the magnitude observed not only demonstrate a lack of financial prudence but also set a concerning precedent that could have a multiplier effect on salary expectations and negotiations throughout the entire industry, it said.

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Genera requested that the PREB reconsider the labor expense reduction that was ordered in a June 25 resolution because, Genera contended, the proposed Genera $79 million budget comprises job positions necessary to meet its contractual obligation of providing power plant operation services, and that if the PREB sustains the decision to reduce that amount, important programs could be put at risk. Genera noted that as of June 28 of this year it had 634 accepted positions, amounting to $49 million in payroll expenses, for former PREPA power plant employees in critical positions and contracted positions that include non-mandatory hires required to support power plant operations for $15.4 million. Genera stated that those positions were not included in earlier GenCo rosters.

Genera also stated that the payroll for already hired Genera employees amounts to $64.3 million and that the budget for pivotal positions for which it is recruiting amounts to $15 million. The private operator asserted that it requires the entire $79.5 million that it requested to guarantee reliable operations. It said the PREB decision to reduce labor expenses also adversely affects Genera’s ability to perform its obligations under the power generation operation and maintenance contracts.

Genera also contended that its proposed budget accounts for a significant reduction compared to PREPA’s GenCo Proposed Budget. Genera asserts that PREPA’s GenCo budget did not account for various vital elements integral to efficient operations, including administrative support, logistics, human resources and other backoffice elements.

The PREB found Genera’s contentions to be unpersuasive. Foremost, Genera has allocated more funds for labor than the PREB approved for that purpose. That, the regulator said, is unacceptable and may be considered imprudent and noncompliant with the PREB’s June 25

The PREB also found that PREPA’s contention that its labor budget should not be reduced in accordance with the PREB’s June 25 resolution to be without merit, but found PREPA’s assertions regarding the necessity of additional funding for reimbursement to Genera for it to perform the remedial actions required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to merit additional funding. The PREB also dismissed contentions that PREPA’s increases in other budget items should be restored.

Genera PR requested that the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, the island’s energy regulator, reconsider the labor expense reduction that was ordered in a June 25 resolution because, Genera said, its proposed $79 million budget includes job positions necessary to meet its contractual obligation of providing power plant operation services.

Rep. Méndez Nuñez: What does PDP have against tax reductions?

By THE STAR STAFF

The New Progressive Party minority leader in the House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, accused the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) majority of not wanting to reduce taxes to individuals and small and midsize businesses given that they aren’t considering House Bill 1839, which reduces tax rates.

The former House speaker also requested the elimination of the sales and use tax (IVU by its Spanish initials) at the island’s docks.

“Today the people of Puerto Rico realize, once again, that the Popular [Democratic] Party in the Legislative Assembly has no intention of reducing tax rates to individuals, the working middle class, as well as SMEs [small and midsize enterprises] and corporations,” Méndez said, assailing “the rejection of House Bill 1839, an executive branch measure that, in effect, lowers taxes on the people while implementing mechanisms to provide relief for inflation.”

“There’s no reason to deny people relief, none,” he said.

“The IVU at the docks is a ball and chain on our SMEs, whose acquisition of products is limited by this tax. Not wanting to eliminate this tax makes products and articles more expensive for the consumer. It is a tax measure that

has to be eliminated,” Méndez insisted. “What the measure seeks is to make the system more efficient, to avoid increases in the distribution chain that are not necessary,

and to lower the price of items to consumers. We demand the elimination of this tax now.”

The former House speaker added that “on June 26, the PDP delegation in the House destroyed any possibility of tax relief for the people when, incredibly, they increased taxes on SMEs that generate over $2 million annually to 36 percent.”

“As if that were not enough, they increased the cost of reform to $655 million, making it unlikely and unsustainable,” Méndez said. “The governor filed another tax relief measure and today we learned that they will not approve it, either. What they want is to perpetuate high taxes. I have, along with my delegation, a commitment to lower [tax] rates for people and we are going to fulfill it.”

The minority leader pointed out that the changes contained in the bill have a total cost of $472 million, with a positive impact on the economy of $367 million, thus increasing collections by $278 million, according to Treasury Department estimates.

The legislation states that households with incomes, whether individual or combined, between $41,500 and $61,500 will see a reduction at a rate of 24%. Those with incomes between $61,500 and $81,500 would also enter the new rate of 24%, thus expanding the base of the tax decrease.

Child violence will be subject of House hearings this week

By THE STAR STAFF

The island House of Representatives will hold hearings entitled “Child Violence and the Impact on Our Communities: Whose Responsibility Is It?” on Wednesday and Thursday, House Vice Speaker Lydia Méndez Silva announced Monday.

“Given the high incidence of child violence on the island, for yours truly and the House of Representatives it

is a priority to promote a dialogue between the government sectors, the Legislature, non-profit entities and citizens in general, to discuss existing public policies, problems in their implementation, the different modalities of child violence and current statistics, in order to present possible solutions and alternatives that allow us to address this social problem,” said Méndez Silva, the House District 21 representative.

The conversation will be held on two consecutive days, with two different panels. On Wednesday, several heads of agencies and/or agency and institution representatives will participate. Each will express themselves from their experience, capacity and jurisdiction on everything concerning the issue of child violence and how it has directly impacted communities.

The second panel will take place on Thursday and will feature the participation of several organizations, associations and households.

“Child violence is a social problem that negatively affects the physical, mental and emotional health and integrity of children and young people under the age of 18,” said Méndez Silva, who chairs the House Community Impact Committee. “It is imperative that we come together as a society to minimize this evil, while protecting the lives of the thousands of children who, on a daily basis, are subjected to patterns of abuse.”

She noted that hearings will also focus on reinforcing and proposing new strategies focused on preventing and

educating the population to combat violence in all its forms on the island, in particular violence against children. A timetable for new public policy advances will also be discussed, the legislator added.

“We trust that this conversation will have good results and will help us refocus the efforts we have worked on for years, to implement an integrated work agenda that includes the agencies concerned, nonprofit organizations and the social component necessary to prevent this situation, which unfortunately, continues to affect so many communities in the country,” Méndez Silva said.

Rep. Lydia Méndez Silva

Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez

RCM chancellor vows to stay on after UPR president asks for her resignation

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Medical Sciences Campus (RCM) Chancellor Ilka Ríos Reyes told the STAR on Monday that UPR President Luis Ferrao Delgado had asked for her resignation “to ensure a healthy institutional climate,” but she declined the request, saying that only the UPR governing board can compel her to step down

Earlier in the day, a coalition of former RCM students and faculty came out in support of Ríos, as a counterbalance of sorts against vociferous protests calling for her resignation.

Protesting students and faculty contend that Ríos poses a danger to the credibility of the university because, they say, as interim chancellor she changed a 15-year-old medical school student’s grade as part of an arrangement made between the RCM and the young student’s parents.

Ríos reached an agreement, similar to one made by former RCM chancellor Segundo Rodríguez, to avoid a lawsuit over the university’s alleged failure to provide the girl with counseling services to which she was entitled as a minor.

The STAR has previously reported, meanwhile, that the established facts of the situation do not establish any wrongdoing by Ríos. A document from the Registrar’s Office shows Ríos allowed the student to drop several courses and did not authorize a change of grades.

For now though, the protests against the chancellor’s appointment show no signs of abating.

“Everyone knows that she manipulated the grades of a student in medical school,” Dr. América Facundo, an associate professor at the UPR School of Medicine, told the STAR on Monday as picketing at the RCM resumed after protesters opted over the weekend not to participate in conflict mediation. “We cannot allow that to happen, because we would lose credibility with the people of Puerto Rico. The people of the island want professionals who have studied hard, not people whose grades have been given to them.”

Previous reporting by the STAR on the incident involving

the 15-year-old medical student noted that university documentation contradicted the assertion that Ríos, who was the interim RCM chancellor last year, changed the student’s grades. Meanwhile, a second probe by UPR refuted a 2022 probe that had concluded the official violated internal processes when she reached a settlement with the medical student, who was a minor and had failed several courses. The report, which was kept hidden but of which the STAR obtained a copy, was conducted by Maritza Miranda López, a notary public and lawyer hired by former RCM Chancellor Carlos Ortiz late last year to determine if there should be disciplinary action taken against Ríos, a source familiar with the situation said. The report is addressed to Ortiz and Alfonso Fernández

Debs, head of the university’s Legal Advisers Office.

Miranda López disagreed with the findings reached by Alondra Fraga Meléndez, a UPR investigator, who concluded in 2022 that Ríos violated internal processes and acted unilaterally when she reached a settlement with the parents of the 15-year-old medical student to avoid a lengthy litigation against the campus for failing to provide psychological and other aid to the student. Fraga Meléndez said Ríos had no authority to reach a settlement because that responsibility belonged to the UPR president. Because of Fraga Meléndez’s findings, Ferrao Delgado asked for Ríos’ resignation, only to appoint her again as chancellor a year later (Ríos assumed the post officially on Sept. 1).

Regardless of those findings, the protesters are still fighting for Ríos’ resignation. Facundo insists that none of the facts in the aforementioned account are true.

“What the second lawyer [Miranda López] said is that it was not the interim chancellor’s job to take action against Ilka Ríos because the conduct which she exhibited was as chancellor, and the boss of the chancellors is the university’s president; he was the one who ordered the investigation,” Facundo told the STAR. “The president asked the interim chancellor to take disciplinary action because of the investigation’s findings ordered by him!”

“As a result of that investigation he fired Ilka Ríos, in fact gave her the chance to submit her resignation so that she wasn’t affected, but in reality she was fired because of the result of this investigation,” the medical school professor said. “We are not ignoring the truth. We know what happened. We are basing our information on the investigation that has already been made.”

The previous RCM chancellor, Rodríguez, had also reached an agreement with the girl, but there was no protest as a result. Facundo said they were two different things.

“He [Rodríguez] acted within the parameters of the law because of the student’s young age, while Dr. Ilka Ríos acted on her own accord -- no communication with the president at all,” she said.

Caguas collects 119,000 pounds of used tires

By THE STAR STAFF

The municipal administration of Caguas carried out a massive collection of 4,492 used tires in the town in an effort intended to help prevent environmental and public health problems.

The initiative, which was carried out with the collaboration of Resource Recycling LLC, is composed of several efforts: collection of tires dropped off at Ángel O. Berríos Sports Complex, route collections by municipal brigades and, in addition, direct deliveries by merchants and citizens to the Resource Recycling plant. The number of tires collected equals 118,764 pounds of material.

Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres noted that “discarded tires are a big problem for the environment

and health.”

“Many people are unaware that improper storage of tires in homes, businesses or around communities is also a source of pollution,” he said.

That is because they are toxic in that they are made of synthetic rubber, and are not biodegradable. Likewise, they promote the spread of rodents and mosquitoes that transmit diseases such as dengue and Zika, among others.

“We are in the most active time of the hurricane season. We hope that we will not have any atmospheric events of direct impact on the country,” the mayor added. “However, we must be clear that we can experience events of a lot of rain such as troughs and tropical waves. So this is the ideal time to take the tires out of circulation and dispose of them safely.”

UPR Medical Sciences Campus Chancellor Ilka Ríos Reyes vowed on Monday to remain in her post after being asked to step down by the UPR president. Meanwhile, protests calling for her resignation showed no signs of letting up. (Photo by Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star).

Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres reminded residents that “discarded tires are a big problem for the environment and health.”

San Sebastián mayor leaves NPP

By THE STAR STAFF

San Sebastián Mayor Javier Jiménez Pérez made his disaffiliation from the New Progressive Party (NPP) official on Monday. The mayor had announced he would leave the NPP and that in 2024 he would not run for reelection. He did not close the doors to seeking other political posts under the banner of another political party, such as the Dignity Project.

“I at this moment present my immediate resignation from all the positions I hold within the New Progressive Party,” Jiménez Pérez said in a letter addressed to Pedro Pierluisi, as president of the NPP, dated Sept. 25.

“This communication serves as the basis for my disaffiliation from the NPP,” the mayor said. The letter was copied to NPP Secretary General Hiram Torres Montalvo.

Jiménez Pérez will continue working for the city as an independent mayor. He resigned from the presidency of the NPP in San Sebastián.

The mayor has harshly criticized Pierluisi’s administration, pointing out that the party “moved away from its roots and ideals.”

He also highlighted in the letter sent to the governor that “today the philosophy of government and lack of respect for its citizens is similar to that of Popular Democratic Party governments.”

Rep. Aponte Hernández calls on statehood-leaning MVC members to join NPP

By THE STAR STAFF

Given the recent public admission that the Citizen Victory Movement (MVC) does not believe in the capitalist system, at-large Rep. José Aponte Hernández on Monday called on the members of that party who treasure statehood to enter the ranks of the New Progressive Party.

“Yesterday, Sunday, what many of us know became public knowledge when the MVC admitted that they are an anti-capitalist movement, against free trade and the development of free enterprise,” Aponte Hernández said. “The central axis of our democracy is the economic system we have. The MVC intends to impose on us a model like that of Cuba. No person who believes in freedom, who

treasures his American citizenship and wants permanent union can serve in that party. No person who seeks equality for Puerto Rico can militate in a community that clearly postulates against everything that statehood represents.”

The former speaker of the island House or Representatives made his statements after the MVC on Sunday marketed its “Anticapitalist Network” with an event held at the Puerto Rican Workers Union in Río Piedras.

“Yesterday’s promotion of the MVC’s Anticapitalist Network, with an activity in which a senator and a representative of that party participated as keynote speakers, makes it clear that there is no room for statehooders, because statehooders believe in freedom of trade; we do not believe in a communist economic system, where a group orders

how things are done for the rest of the population,” Aponte Hernández said. “Such communist economic experiments, as in the case of North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba, have left populations in extreme poverty. No statehooder wants that for Puerto Rico. No statehooder wants a communist regime.”

“The doors of the NPP, the only party that stands for equal rights, freedom and democracy, are open to anyone in the MVC party who believes in statehood, to unite to work for that ideal,” the veteran lawmaker said. “No one who believes in statehood can remain in that party [the MVC] after yesterday’s pronouncement. The Anticapitalist Network of the movement is a clear and forceful admission that its postulates are communist, totally against what statehood represents.”

San Juan school directors meet with legislator to find solutions for overheated classrooms

By THE STAR STAFF

In order to continue coordinating measures to mitigate the historic heat wave experienced in Puerto Rico, San Juan District 4 Rep. Víctor Parés Otero called the school directors in the district he serves to a summit meeting.

“The goal of this meeting was to establish the parameters for supporting the 11 schools in our district in their work to mitigate the effect of the historic heat wave that we experienced without affecting the education of our children, which has suffered since the scourge of hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017,” Parés Otero said in a written statement. “We seek that the installation of fans -- an intermediate step in solving the problem -- be carried out quickly and with the safety needed so that classes are not disturbed.”

The meeting, held Monday at University High School in San Juan, was also attended by personnel from the Municipality of San Juan as well as the Public Buildings Authority and the Office for the Improvement of Public Schools, among others.

“The heat problem is all over the world,” the lawmaker said. “In the United States, about 36,000 schools do not have air conditioning. States such as Pennsylvania have invested over $24 billion in recent weeks to equip around 2,000 schools with these units, as well as to expand the capacity of electrical substations so that they can withstand the new load. We are doing the same thing here. In our district we are going to install air conditioners in all classrooms and we are already working on that, but in what becomes a reality, temporary measures are being taken, such as fans, greater access to drinking water, carrying out some activities that before took place outdoors, in ventilated rooms, among other initiatives.”

Among the school directors who participated in the event were those from the Amalia Marín Castilla and Rafael Hernández Marín schools, among others.

The New Progressive Party legislator announced that he will schedule a follow-up meeting in the coming weeks to evaluate the progress of heat mitigation measures at the schools in the district.

San Sebastián Mayor Javier Jiménez Pérez

Monday’s meeting was attended by the directors of the 11 public schools in House District 4 (San Juan), along with personnel from the Municipality of San Juan, the Public Buildings Authority and the Office for the Improvement of Public Schools, among others.

White House steps up warnings of shutdown impact as deadline nears

By CARL HULSE and ANNIE KARNI

With a potential government shutdown now less than a week away, President Joe Biden and other administration officials over the weekend intensified their warnings of the consequences of closing government agencies as they pressed congressional Republicans to find a way out of their spending stalemate.

Both the president and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made public calls for Republicans to resolve their differences before next Sunday, when federal funding is set to lapse. They noted that a shutdown would mean that members of the military would go without paychecks, air travelers could experience disruptions and a variety of programs safeguarding the public would be shuttered. Yet even after a weekend of private haggling at the Capitol, there was no sign that the GOP was moving toward a resolution.

“A government shutdown could impact everything from food safety to cancer research to Head Start programs for children,” Biden said at a Saturday dinner for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, blaming the situation “on a small group of extreme Republicans” opposed to a spending deal he cut earlier this year with Speaker Kevin McCarthy. “Now everyone in America could be forced to pay the price.”

“Funding the government is one of the most basic responsibilities of Congress,” he said. “It’s time for Republicans to start doing the job America elected them to do.”

On Sunday, Buttigieg warned that training for new air traffic controllers would cease during a staffing crunch that has already contributed to travel delays while the working controllers would not be paid.

“They are under enough stress as it is doing that job without having to come into work with the added stress of not receiving a paycheck,” Buttigieg said on CNN’s “State of the Union” as he made the rounds of Sunday news shows to sound the alarm. “House Republicans need to come to their senses and keep the government running.”

House Republicans gathered on Capitol Hill on Saturday in an effort to chart a path forward this week, but made little progress in coming up with a strategy for overcoming opposition within their own ranks to approving a stopgap spending measure and sending it to the president’s desk in time to keep the government open past next Saturday, the end of the fiscal year.

Instead, after two humiliating procedural defeats on the House floor, McCarthy relented to demands from the far right to bring to the floor a series of full-year spending bills with steep cuts, although it would be impossible to negotiate final versions with the Senate in the next week. Republicans effectively conceded that the exercise was mostly for show, saying they hoped that advancing the measures would show “good faith” that could ultimately persuade Republican hard-liners to back a measure to keep the government open temporarily.

McCarthy is now exploring a 45-day extension of federal spending into November, although he is certain to encounter opposition to that timeline even from Republicans who sup-

port a stopgap funding measure — and appears to have made little, if any, headway in winning over right-wing lawmakers who have said they have no intention of backing such a bill.

With the House tied in knots, Sen. Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., the majority leader, has set in motion a procedure for the Senate to pass its own temporary funding measure this week and send it over to the House with both Democratic and Republican votes. A test vote in the Senate is set for Tuesday. A bipartisan group in the House is also exploring procedural options to bring an interim spending plan to the floor.

But if McCarthy relies on Democrats to pass what is known as a continuing resolution, he is certain to face a challenge to his position from the far right. Appearing on CNN, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said that if McCarthy went in that direction, he would consider voting to oust the speaker.

“That would be something I would look strongly at if we do away with our duty,” said Burchett, who backs deep spending cuts and has said he would not support stopgap legislation under any circumstances.

At a news conference in the Capitol on Saturday, Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, a confidant of McCarthy, argued that Republicans were “ensuring we’re doing everything we can to avoid a government shutdown.”

“We shouldn’t be in a situation where we’re asking our troops to go out there and put their lives on the line and not be paid,” he said. “It would be a failure on our part if we

actually reached that point.”

But he acknowledged that passing a stopgap funding measure was not currently the priority of House Republicans, since holdouts have so far made that impossible. Instead, they are pursuing the strategy put forward by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., a McCarthy critic, to first pass appropriations bills on their own.

Graves insisted that a stopgap funding bill was within the realm of possibility and that members would agree on one in time to stave off a government shutdown.

Even as he told reporters so in the Capitol on Saturday, Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., one of the right-wing holdouts, told reporters that he remained a hard “no” on any continuing resolution.

“I won’t support a C.R.,” Rosendale said as he walked by Graves issuing his assessment. “I have been consistent on that. I have not changed one bit from that.”

Rep. Erin Houchin, R-Ind., responded that “continuing resolution” — a concept that some hard-right lawmakers have made clear they consider unacceptable — was a misnomer for what the party was trying to pass.

“With all due respect to my colleague who said they’re not there yet, what we would be doing is not a continuation. It’s really not a continuing resolution,” Houchin said. “This is a Republican perspective to stopgap and fund the government while we continue our work.”

“House Republicans need to come to their senses and keep the government running,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday.

The wrecking-ball caucus: How the far-right brought Washington to its knees

spring to avert a federal debt default.

“There is a group of Republican members who seem to feel there is no limit at all as to how you can wreck the system,” said Ross Baker, a professor of political science at Rutgers University. “There are no boundaries, no forbidden zones. They go where relatively junior members have feared to tread in the past.”

The faction, personified most vividly by 20 or so emboldened conservatives in the House, has been able to venture there in large part because of the evenly divided Congress, where each party holds a slim majority in one chamber, giving outsize influence to any bloc — in this case, the most extreme on the right.

That group has seized the initiative in the House by being willing to take on Speaker Kevin McCarthy and employ procedural tactics that would have cost them dearly in the past.

Congress relies upon to achieve success.

Last week, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, became the latest to decide that he no longer has a place on Capitol Hill, announcing his retirement from the Senate with a blast of unflattering truth-telling about what has become of his party.

“We have seen for the past decade this kind of rump faction of far-right Republicans who obviously don’t believe in government,” said Matt Dallek, a professor of political management and historian at George Washington University. He called their rise in the House “the fairly logical culmination of an increasingly radical and increasingly extremist Republican Party.”

By CARL HULSE

When it comes to his view of the U.S. government, Rep. Bob Good, a right-wing Republican who represents a Virginia district that was once the domain of Thomas Jefferson, doesn’t mince words.

“Most of what Congress does is not good for the American people,” Good declared in an interview off the House floor as the chamber descended into chaos last week. “Most of what we do as a Congress is totally unjustified.”

Although his harsh assessment is a minority opinion even among his Republican colleagues, it encapsulates the perspective that is animating the hard right on Capitol Hill and, increasingly, defining a historically dysfunctional moment in U.S. politics.

With a disruptive government shutdown just days away, Washington is in the grip of an ultraconservative minority that sees the federal government as a threat to the republic, a dangerous monolith to be broken apart with little regard for the consequences. They have styled themselves as a wrecking crew aimed at the nation’s institutions on a variety of fronts.

They are eager to impeach the president and even oust their own speaker if he doesn’t accede to their every demand. They have refused to allow their own party to debate a Pentagon spending bill or approve routine military promotions — a striking posture, given that unflinching support for the armed forces has long been a bedrock of Republican orthodoxy.

Defying the GOP’s long-standing reputation as the party of law and order, they have pledged to handcuff the FBI and throttle the Justice Department. Members of the party of Ronald Reagan refused to meet with a wartime ally, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, this past week when he visited the Capitol and want to eliminate assistance to his country, a democratic nation under siege from an autocratic aggressor.

And they are unbowed by guardrails that in past decades forced consensus even in the most extreme of conflicts; this is the same bloc that balked at raising the debt ceiling in the

Members of the far-right Freedom Caucus and other right-wing House members see themselves as courageously doing the people’s work. They believe they are reining in government and taking on what they call a corrupt “uniparty” of Republicans and Democrats who conspire with rich donors and special interests to bankrupt the nation and beat down the average American.

Democrats consider them dangerous, out-of-control radicals, and even some of their Republican colleagues regard them as misguided outliers determined to impose their views on their party and the nation. But neither has found a way to overcome their guerrilla tactics, which include jettisoning decades of tradition and openly defying their own party on the House floor.

“The problem is, we are being dragged around by 20 people when 200 of us are in agreement,” said Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee. “As long as we let those 20 drag us around, we are going to get these kinds of results. At some point in time, you’ve got to say, ‘We’re done.’”

The group of far-right members roiling the House varies from vote to vote and issue to issue but typically includes a mix of members of the Freedom Caucus and the 20 Republicans who opposed McCarthy for speaker and demanded concessions for their eventual support. They include Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida; Ralph Norman of South Carolina; Good; Matt Rosendale of Montana; Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia; Dan Bishop of North Carolina; Lauren Boebert of Colorado; and Andy Biggs and Eli Crane, both of Arizona, among others.

Even McCarthy, after two humiliating defeats on the floor last week as he failed to extricate himself and the House from a deepening quagmire over funding the government, finally acknowledged that what he was dealing with represented a significant deviation from long-standing norms.

“This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down,” McCarthy said.

But the phenomenon is hardly new. The right-wing rebels have styled themselves in the mold of former President Donald Trump, who made norm-shattering behavior a virtue among the Republican base and an asset for many lawmakers, who now fear primary elections much more than general ones. The shift in the party has driven off many more mainstream Republican lawmakers capable of cutting the kinds of compromises

The push against federal law enforcement — numerous House Republicans want to restrict federal inquiries into Trump and roll back the powers of the FBI — along with a growing isolationism and a view of the Pentagon as part of the “woke deep state” has alarmed some Republican hawks.

Both parties in Congress have always had their share of rabble rousers; both of McCarthy’s predecessors, Speakers Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Boehner of Ohio, had to contend with a robust contingent of right-wing rebels. But in the past, party leaders have often been able to sideline them, allowing the rabble rousers to make noise but not as much trouble.

But with McCarthy facing both a slim majority and the constant threat of an ouster, the far-right bloc has driven events.

“They are not just throwing up the bombs; they are blowing up the party,” said Sarah Binder, a professor of political science at George Washington University. “It is not really clear how to appease them or secure their votes.”

The situation now has the nation staring at a government shutdown that seems almost inevitable without a move by McCarthy to join with Democrats in approving an interim spending bill to keep the federal funding flowing after next Saturday. But a decision to do so would be all but certain to spark a challenge to his leadership from the very people who have forced the country to the brink.

“The clowns are running the circus here,” said Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Rules Committee. “There are a lot of Republicans who are rational human beings who are horrified by this but don’t seem to have the guts to stand up to it and push back.

“I’m starting to feel nostalgic for Gingrich,” he added, referring to former Speaker Newt Gingrich, who engineered Republicans’ takeover of the House in 1994 after 40 years in the minority and was reviled by Democrats. Gingrich also presided over a shutdown and an impeachment, and Republicans paid a price in the polls and at the ballot box.

These days, those at the center of the House chaos say they don’t fear a political backlash because they are doing what their constituents want.

“People back home are telling me we can’t do this anymore,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., who has pledged to oppose any attempt to temporarily fund the government after Sept. 30, when the fiscal year ends. “We have to quit with the spending. It’s Black folks. It’s white folks. It’s rich and poor alike. They say it in a different way, but it is the same thing, that the government has way outkicked its coverage.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol building as budget negotiations are ongoing, and a government shutdown looms at the Capitol, in Washington, Sept. 22, 2023.

Arriving now: Fast passenger trains from Miami to Orlando

By PATRICIA MAZZEI and NIRAJ CHOKSHI

The fastest train in the country outside of the Northeast began service between Miami and Orlando late last week, connecting two major cities in car-loving Florida and testing whether private passenger rail can thrive in the United States.

Brightline will make the trip in 3 1/2 hours, about 30 minutes faster than the average car ride, reaching speeds of 125 mph. Tickets from Miami to Orlando start at $158 round trip for business class and $298 for first class, with discounts for families and larger groups.

Brightline became the nation’s first private passenger rail to launch in a century when it started its service between Miami and West Palm Beach, where the company’s trains do not reach such high speeds, in 2018.

If Brightline proves profitable in Florida, it could represent a turning point for American passenger rail. The last private intercity passenger train — the Rio Grande Zephyr, which connected Denver and Salt Lake City — shut down four decades ago. Since then, domestic rail travel has mainly been limited to Amtrak, the publicly funded but privately operated corporation, and a smattering of regional commuter and transit lines.

“This is an extraordinary development in U.S. transportation,” said Joseph Schwieterman, a professor at DePaul University, referring to Brightline’s rise. Schwieterman also wrote “When the Railroad Leaves Town,” a book about the decline of American railroads.

The company’s success in the state has been marred by a striking number of pedestrian fatalities on its tracks that continued even as one of its neon-colored trains made the maiden trip to Orlando on Friday morning. A train traveling southbound from West Palm Beach killed a pedestrian on the tracks while the Orlando-bound train made its way north, underscoring questions about the safety of residents near the rail line. Brightline trains have the highest death rate in the U.S., according to an ongoing Associated Press analysis.

Ninety-eight people have been killed

by Brightline trains since 2019, according to the AP. Most of the deaths have been suicides, drivers going through crossing gates or pedestrians running across the tracks. A spokesperson for the Delray Beach Police Department said that the death Friday appeared to be a suicide.

“We have made tremendous investments in the safety of the corridor,” P. Michael Reininger, Brightline’s CEO, said aboard the maiden train, the Brightpink, whose passengers could see police investigators collecting evidence on the southbound tracks as it slowed in Delray Beach. “We’ve worked really hard in terms of outreach to make sure that the local communities are aware of our train service coming. We work with local law enforcement.”

Passenger rail was introduced in the United States two centuries ago and survived several economic and national crises. But rising competition from airlines and highways after World War II devastated the industry. By 1970, railroads were in such dire straits that the federal government created Amtrak to take over passenger rail, allowing the industry to focus on freight.

Amtrak has crushed the competition for travel in the Northeast Corridor that connects Washington, New York and Boston. When it launched its high-speed Acela line along that stretch in 2000, only about 37% of people traveling between New York and Washington made the trip by rail, compared with flying. That share grew to 83% by the 2021 fiscal year.

More than a decade ago, Florida considered the possibility of high-speed rail between Tampa and Orlando, when the Obama administration offered $2.4 billion for the project. But then-Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, rejected the funds in 2011, saying the rail would be too expensive for the state to operate.

Brightline received no federal grants for construction but did get billions of dollars in investment through tax-exempt bonds. Its service could eventually stretch to Tampa and get new stations along Florida’s Atlantic Coast, Reininger said.

This year, Brightline submitted an application for a $3.75 billion federal grant to help it build an ambitious $12 billion electric high-speed railroad from Las

Vegas to Southern California. Brightline says it has finished the first, most difficult phase of that project, which includes completing environmental reviews and securing right of way, most of it along a highway median.

Construction is set to begin before the end of the year, with the aim of having the train running in time for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

For the company, the true test of its business will be whether it can attract enough passengers to turn a profit.

Brightline’s service between Miami and West Palm Beach has so far appealed to both tourists and business types — especially lawyers, real estate agents and medical providers who work in several Florida cities. Now that there is service to Orlando, Brightline President Patrick Goddard said he expects leisure travelers will make up 60% of passengers, including international travelers more comfortable with trains than rental cars.

Because of the pandemic, Brightline paused service throughout most of 2020 and 2021. It carried more than 1.2 million passengers last year but also reported a $260 million loss, driven by startup and development costs, according to a financial disclosure. So far this year, Brightline has carried more passengers than in 2022

and has collected over $38 million in revenue, more than double what it earned over the same period last year.

Experts credit its successful start to factors including support from local officials, lucrative development of the real estate surrounding the company’s stations, booming tourism, robust population growth and persistent highway congestion. With the Everglades to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, there is also limited ability to expand roadways along a substantial stretch of Brightline’s route.

But perhaps the most important reason behind the company’s success so far, experts and Brightline officials said, is that it was able to establish itself mostly on an existing freight railroad, the same one that put Florida on the map more than a century ago. Because of that, Brightline was able to avoid the perilous task of cobbling together a right of way over hundreds of miles.

On Friday, the Brightpink arriving from Miami notably sped up on the final stretch of track from Cocoa to Orlando, where trains can go fastest. Among the passengers on a later train to Miami were Pam and Jeff Landry of Tampa, who bought tickets in advance to ride Brightline on the first day of the service from Orlando.

Erin Lachaal, right, photographs Steve Coffed and their dog, Marvin, before they board a Brightline train bound for Miami at the station in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023.

On day 146, screenwriters reach deal with studios to end their strike

By BROOKS BARNES and JOHN KOBLIN

Hollywood’s bitter, monthslong labor dispute has taken a big first step toward a resolution.

The Writers Guild of America, which represents more than 11,000 screenwriters, reached a tentative deal on a new contract with entertainment companies Sunday night, all but ending a 146-day strike that has contributed to a shutdown of television and film production.

In the coming days, guild members will vote on whether to accept the deal, which has much of what they had demanded, including increases in compensation for streaming content, concessions from studios on minimum staffing for television shows, and guarantees that artificial intelligence technology will not encroach on writers’ credits and compensation.

“We can say, with great pride, that this deal is exceptional — with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership,” the writers guild’s negotiating committee said in an email to members.

Conspicuously not doing a victory lap was the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of studios. “The WGA and AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement” was its only comment.

For an industry upended by the streaming revolution, which the pandemic sped up, the tentative accord represents a meaningful step toward stabilization.

But much of Hollywood will remain at a standstill: Tens of thousands of actors

remain on strike, and no talks between the actors’ union, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the studios were scheduled.

The only productions that could restart in short order would be ones without actors, like the late-night shows hosted by Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert and daytime talk shows hosted by Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Hudson.

The upshot: In addition to actors, more than 100,000 behind-the-scenes workers (directors, camera operators, publicists, makeup artists, prop makers, set dressers, lighting technicians, hairstylists, cinematographers) in Los Angeles and New York will continue to stand idle, many with mounting financial hardship. California’s economy alone has lost more than $5 billion from the Hollywood shutdown, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

SAG-AFTRA has been on strike since July 14. Its demands exceed those of the writers guild and the studio alliance decided to prioritize talks with the writers guild, in part because of the hard line taken by Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA’s

leader. Among other things, the actors want 2% of the total revenue generated by streaming shows, something that studios have said is a nonstarter.

Even so, the deal with the writers guild could speed up negotiations with the actors’ union. Some of SAG-AFTRA’s concerns are similar to ones raised by the writers guild. Actors, for instance, worry that AI could be used to create digital replicas of their likenesses (or that performances could be digitally altered) without payment or approval.

The last sticking point between the writers guild and studios involved AI. On Saturday, lawyers for the entertainment companies came up with language — a couple paragraphs inside a contract that runs hundreds of pages — that addressed a guild concern about AI and old scripts that studios own. The sides spent several hours Sunday making additional tweaks.

The tentative deal came after several senior company leaders joined the talks directly — among them Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO; Donna Langley, chair of the NBCUniversal Studio Group; Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO; and David Zaslav, who

runs Warner Bros. Discovery. Typically, talks took place between union negotiators and Carol Lombardini, who leads the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, an organization that bargains on behalf of the eight biggest Hollywood content companies.

Talks resumed Wednesday after a hiatus of nearly a month, a period when each side insisted that the other was the one refusing to negotiate. Writers guild leaders had come under intense pressure from some of its A-list members, including Ryan Murphy (“American Horror Story”), Kenya Barris (“black-ish”) and Noah Hawley (“Fargo”).

Showrunners like Murphy did not push writers guild leaders to take what was already on the table. Rather, they agitated for an immediate return to negotiations, and cited as a reason the increasing financial hardship on idled Hollywood workers.

Hollywood workers have taken more than $45 million in hardship withdrawals from the Motion Picture Industry Pension Plan since Sept. 1, according to a document compiled by plan administrators that was viewed by The New York Times. Murphy set up a financial assistance fund for idled workers on his shows and committed $500,000 as a starting amount. Within days, he had $10 million in requests.

Studios have also been hurting. This month, Warner Bros. Discovery said that the dual strikes would reduce its adjusted earnings for the year by $300 million to $500 million. The stock prices for Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global have taken a hit. Analysts have estimated that studios will forgo as much as $1.6 billion in global ticket sales for movies that were initially scheduled for release this fall but pushed to next year because of the actors’ strike.

The strike was one of the longest in the history of the writers guild. The last time writers and actors were both on strike at the same time was in 1960.

With a tentative deal in hand, the writers guild suspended picketing. The union, however, encouraged members to join the striking actors’ picket lines, which will begin again today.

Striking members of the Writers Guild of America picket outside Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., on Aug. 3, 2023. The WGA, which represents more than 11,000 screenwriters, reached a tentative deal on a new contract with entertainment companies on Sunday night, Sept. 24, 2023, all but ending a 146-day strike that has contributed to a shutdown of television and film production.

Exclusive-SEC Collects Wall Street’s Private Messages as WhatsApp Probe Escalates -Sources

The U.S. securities regulator has collected thousands of staff messages from more than a dozen major investment companies, escalating its probe into Wall Street’s use of private messaging apps, said four people with direct knowledge of the matter.

Previously, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had asked the companies to internally review the messages in its investigation of Wall Street’s use of WhatsApp, Signal and other unapproved messaging apps to discuss work.

The two-year crackdown into potential breaches of record-keeping rules initially targeted broker dealers, netting regulators over $2 billion in fines.

While Reuters and other media have reported that the SEC’s “off-channel” communication probe has expanded to investment advisers, its move to review thousands of their staff messages has not previously been reported. It marks an escalation of the investigation and raises the stakes for the companies and the executives concerned by exposing their conduct to SEC scrutiny.

“It increases risk,” one source said. “The more information you give the SEC, the more you fuel the beast.”

In the latest phase of the probe of more than a dozen investment advisers, the SEC has in recent months asked for messages on personal devices or applications during the first half of 2021 that discuss business, the sources said. It has targeted a selection of employees, in some cases as many as a dozen, including senior executives.

The firms include Carlyle Group, Apollo Global Management, KKR & Co, TPG, and Blackstone, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter, as well as some hedge funds, including Citadel, said a different person with direct knowledge.

The executives gave their personal phones and other devices to their employers or lawyers to be copied, and messages discussing business have been handed to the SEC, three people said.

That is in contrast to the broker-dealer probes. In those cases, the SEC asked companies to review staff messages and report to the agency how many discussed work. SEC staff reviewed only a sample of messages themselves, according to three sources with knowledge of the previous investigations.

The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because SEC investigations are confidential.

At least 16 firms including Carlyle, Apollo, KKR, TPG, and Blackstone, have disclosed that the SEC is probing their communications. The firms did not provide further details and did not comment for this story. A spokesperson for Citadel declined to comment.

Government investigations are not evidence of wrongdoing and do not necessarily lead to charges.

An SEC spokesperson declined to comment. Chair Gary-

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Finland raced to join NATO. What happens next is complicated.

By STEVEN ERLANGER

Barely a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland cast aside decades of military nonalignment and selfreliance and joined the NATO alliance.

That happened with breathtaking speed, as these matters go, but gaining membership may have been the easy part. Now comes the complicated process of integrating itself into the alliance and its requirement of collective defense — with all of its financial, legal and strategic hurdles.

“Joining NATO is an expensive business, and supporting Ukraine is an expensive business, and there’s no end to that in sight,” said Janne Kuusela, director-general for defense policy at Finland’s Ministry of Defense.

Membership in NATO has long been considered a cheap benefit, given the American nuclear umbrella and the principle of collective defense. But NATO also has extensive requirements of its members — not just spending goals for the military, but specific demands from each country for certain capabilities, armaments, troop strengths and infrastructure as defined by the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

Achieving that will demand some difficult and costly decisions from the government and military officials as they learn to think strategically outside Finland’s borders and adapt its forces and their capabilities to the alliance’s needs.

They will have to decide how to move troops and equipment to Norway, Sweden or the Baltic States in the event they need reinforcements, for instance, or whether to participate in other NATO tasks such as patrols in Kosovo or the Mediterranean.

At the same time, Finnish officials and analysts say, Finland will not alter its intention of defending every inch of its own territory, given its 830-mile border with Russia, a doctrine considered old-fashioned in the age of modern warfare. It sees itself as remaining capable of self-defense for now, so unlike many of the NATO countries that border Russia, Finland is considered unlikely to ask for a rotating presence of allied troops.

“The whole security and foreign-policy establishment believes that no such troops are needed now, but it’s not a categorical no,” said Matti Pesu of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, a research institution.

At the same time, the country is negotiating a bilateral defense cooperation agreement with the United States, the kind of accord Washington has with many countries around the world, making joint exercises easier to plan and quicker to implement. It will cover what kind of U.S. troop presence

Finland would allow and where, and what sort of equipment NATO’s most powerful country will be able to bring to Finland for exercises or prepositioning. The agreement also governs issues such as judicial jurisdiction should U.S. troops commit a crime.

The negotiations are complicated, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said in an interview. Given its history of fending off Russian assaults, she said, Finland is protective of its sovereignty.

“Of course, it’s a balance, how to also defend your sovereignty against an aggressive and unpredictable neighbor, who does not respect the same values that we do with our friends and allies,” she said. “But Finland is a country where, typically, we like to have agreements, we like to have treaties, we are very legalistic.”

Finland’s relationship with the United States is considered as important as the one with the larger alliance, especially given the U.S. nuclear deterrent that protects all NATO members. Finnish law prevents the importation or storage of nuclear weapons on its soil. But Finland will have to decide its policy on nuclear deterrence and the nature of its involvement in shaping NATO’s nuclear policy.

Relations with neighboring Russia have also inevitably changed. Before invading Ukraine, Russia demanded a roll back of NATO’s borders and warned Finland against membership. But the invasion caused a rapid shift in Finnish public opinion. Support for membership soared from about onefourth of the population before the invasion to more than 80%.

Initial Russian reaction to Finland’s joining NATO was muted, given Moscow’s preoccupation with Ukraine. And with Russia’s having redeployed many of its forces from near Finland to Ukraine, few see any immediate threat.

But Finns see Russia as a permanent potential aggressor, and recent statements by Russian officials, perhaps aimed at changing popular Russian perceptions of Finland, have treated it as “a member of an enemy alliance,” said Pesu.

In a sort of rear guard action, he said, Russia “wants to intimidate us and limit NATO presence and Finnish integration into the alliance.”

Russia has even been dismantling monuments to the Finnish war dead in Karelia, which it seized from Finland in World War II. Those tributes had been erected with Russian permission in a more cooperative time.

Much of the responsibility for integration with NATO rests with Gen. Timo Kivinen, commander of

Finland’s defense forces. At the core, he said in an interview, is Article 3 of NATO’s charter, “which underlines that the first priority to defend a country lies with the country itself.” To him, it is as important as Article 5, which treats an assault on one member country as an assault on all.

He is familiar with the inner workings of NATO, since Finland has long been a partner nation and involved in NATO exercises; several hundred NATO troops have been stationed almost continuously in Finland since April 2022. Even as a candidate member, Finland began the first stage of alliance defense planning that July.

Now, as a full member, the planning is more intensive, but there is much to consider, he said, to align Finland’s defense plans with those of the larger alliance.

Article 5 will require more from Finland, Kivinen said. “We need to be capable to contribute to NATO collective defense outside Finland’s borders, and that’s new,” he said. It will have an impact on Finland’s forces “when we go on to develop those deployable capabilities, those capability targets” that NATO demands, he added.

There are other NATO missions as well, including air policing outside Finland, naval task forces and possible participation in the multinational forces the alliance has deployed in other front-line countries. Finland will also have to decide what officers to provide to which NATO headquarters, and how it wants to influence alliance policies.

The war has made northern Europe and the Arctic more important for the security of the whole alliance. So, Kivinen said, it is also vital that Sweden, a longtime defense partner for Finland, get into NATO soon.

That would make alliance planning easier, especially in determining how best to defend the Arctic, the Baltic region and four of the five Nordic countries — Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark (Iceland is the fifth). Already, these four have agreed to operate their approximately 250 fighter jets as a joint operational fleet and also to provide air policing for Iceland.

Then there is the issue of where Finland fits in NATO’s three operational commands, responsible for different geographical areas. The five Nordic countries would prefer to be in the same command, run from Norfolk, Virginia, which is navy-focused and defends the Atlantic sea routes, the Nordics and the Arctic. The logic is that in war, reinforcements would be likely to come from the West, across the Atlantic.

But Norfolk is not yet fully operational. And given the war in Europe and the current threat from Russia, NATO has placed Finland in the land-oriented command based in Brunssum, the Netherlands, which is charged with defending Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland and the Baltic nations. Finland hopes that is temporary, but so far, officials say, the integration has been going smoothly.

Finland has already increased its defense budget, in part to pay for the purchase of F-35 fighter jets and new ships to better patrol its seas and hunt for submarines. It vows to spend at least 2% of gross domestic product on the military, as NATO desires.

Joining NATO will require significant cultural, political, legal and military changes, Kuusela said, and it will take years. But of all the countries of Europe, he said, Finland would be the last to underestimate the long-term Russian threat.

Finnish soldiers participating in a military exercise in Rovajarvi, Finland, in May.

Why are so many Venezuelans going to the United States?

By JULIE TURKEWITZ and ISAYEN HERRERA

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have arrived at the United States border in the past two years, part of a historic wave of migrants headed north amid growing global crises.

But Venezuela has been in the midst of an economic and humanitarian crisis for roughly a decade.

Why are so many people going to the United States now?

Over the past year, we’ve interviewed hundreds of Venezuelans headed to the United States. The short answer is that people are exhausted by so many years of economic struggle, and global policies meant to change the situation have failed to keep them at home.

At the same time, social media has popularized the route to the United States, while a thriving people-moving business near the start of the journey has accelerated the pace of migration — even as a United Nations tally shows a record number of people dying on their way north.

Venezuela was once among the wealthiest countries in Latin America, its economy buoyed by profits from vast oil reserves — the largest proven reserves in the world — that supported celebrated universities, a respected public health system and a flourishing middle class.

But the economy crashed in the mid2010s amid mismanagement of the oil sector by an authoritarian government claiming socialist ideals, now led by President Nicolás Maduro. Tough sanctions imposed by the United States in 2019 have exacerbated the situation.

For years Venezuelans have been scraping by, trying to feed their children on meager salaries, watching family members die of preventable diseases, waiting for hours in line for gasoline so they can take a trip to the hospital or the market.

An influx of dollars in recent years has landed mostly in the pockets of the wealthy and well-connected.

The average salary for a public school teacher or nurse is roughly $3 a month, the average salary for a private sector employee is $160 — and the monthly cost to simply feed a family of four is $372, according to the Venezuelan Finance Observatory, a nonprofit organization.

Many parents are now raising children who have only known crisis, and making herculean efforts to simply put food on the table.

In our conversations, many Venezuelans

said that they were willing to take enormous risks just to find a semblance of sanctuary for their families.

“Every day I get older and I have still not secured anything for them,” said Williams Añez, 42, speaking of his five children. Añez, a former supporter of Maduro’s party, spoke from a northern Colombian town that has become a gathering point for Venezuelans headed to the United States.

Why are Venezuelans going to the United States? Why not go elsewhere?

In the early days of the crisis, millions of Venezuelans migrated to other countries in South America. Colombia, Venezuela’s neighbor, received the largest part of the exodus — more than 2 million people.

Colombia, with the support of the United States, offered a generous visa program meant to keep Venezuelans in South America. But wages in Colombia are very low. Añez, for example, migrated to Colombia, where he made just $5 a day cutting sugar cane.

Peru and Ecuador were other popular countries for Venezuelans seeking new homes. But both suffer similar wage issues. Ecuador is now struggling with rising drug trafficking violence and with common criminals who extort small-business owners.

Unable to build safe or stable lives in South America, many Venezuelans are moving on to the United States.

Isn’t life improving in Venezuela?

Not really.

In the early days of the economic crisis, widespread scarcity made everyday goods difficult to find for nearly all Venezuelans. Today, food and medicine are more available,

they are just too expensive for most citizens to afford.

Life in Venezuela has gotten better — for an extremely select number of people.

For everyone else, public schools have been gutted as investment has dried up, while a teacher strike over low wages has put educators in the streets and students out of the classroom.

The health care situation is dire. Public hospitals lack basic supplies and are overwhelmed. To enter a private clinic, patients are sometimes asked to pay as much as $1,000 in advance, and then a similar price for every day of care. Formerly middle class families now resort to websites like GoFundMe, forced to beg for money to treat lifethreatening cancers and other conditions.

At the same time, the electricity and gasoline shortages that characterized the early days of the crisis continue because of the country’s deteriorating infrastructure.

Caracas, the capital, has suffered almost daily electricity cuts in the past year, while lines for subsidized gasoline last up to six hours. The situation beyond the capital is worse.

What is the journey like to the United States?

Visa requirements mean that many Venezuelans cannot simply fly.

Instead, they are taking a grueling land route from Caracas or other points of origin, moving on foot, and via bus, train and car all the way to the southern U.S. border.

One of the most dangerous legs is a jungle called the Darién Gap, which connects South and North America.

In the past, the jungle acted as a natural barrier, making northward migration difficult. But in 2021, Haitians fleeing chaos at home began to cross the forest in large numbers. Last year they were surpassed by Venezuelans.

Today, Venezuelans are the largest group crossing the Darién, according to authorities in Panama, followed by Ecuadorians and people from many other countries, including China, India and Afghanistan.

What role does the U.S. play in Venezuela’s demise?

The United States intensified economic sanctions on Venezuela in 2019, including a ban on oil imports, after having accused Maduro of fraud in the most recent presidential election. The goal was to force him from power.

Experts agree that sanctions hobbled the country’s oil industry. But they are split over how much the economic collapse was also caused by the corruption and mismanagement of the Venezuelan government.

“That these sanctions are still in place is a major impediment for the Venezuelan economy to be able to recover,” said Mariano de Alba, a senior adviser for International Crisis Group. “It is not the only factor.”

Francisco Rodríguez, a senior researcher at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said he had found that sanctions and other foreign policy actions have played a central role in the country’s economic contraction since 2012 and are a major factor driving the exodus.

“If there had been no sanctions, Venezuela would still have suffered a major economic crisis,” said Rodríguez. “But by no means of the dimension of what we’ve seen.”

Venezuelans crossing from Mexico into the United States in May.

Uncertainty ‘is killing us’: Sikhs in India are in limbo amid Canada dispute

By SUHASINI RAJ

Kulwant Singh, 45, shut his eyes tight and offered a prayer at the Sikh temple. Clutching a box of sweets and a shiny blueand-white toy airplane, Singh and his teenage daughter, Navpreet Kaur, bowed outside the place of worship, Talhan Sahib in the North Indian state of Punjab.

For Singh and many others, a diplomatic crisis has caused a personal one, too. Though he has a valid visa and plane ticket, his plans to leave next week for Canada have been abruptly put on hold because of a feud between India and Canada over a Sikh’s killing on Canadian soil, which India’s government is accused of orchestrating.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh from Punjab who championed the creation of a separate state for Sikhs, was shot dead in June by hooded assailants. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government considered him a terrorist, and he was on a wanted list, but Indian officials deny accusations made last week by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which have caused a firestorm.

One result: The Indian government has temporarily put on hold visas to citizens of Canada, which has a large Indian diaspora. Both countries also expelled diplomats in a tit-for-tat response, and trade talks are frozen.

Now Kulwant Singh is simply afraid to go, suspecting that flights might be canceled in coming weeks, leaving him helpless in Canada.

“It hurts, this cold war, and there is an uncertainty now which is killing us,” Singh, a farmer who had hoped to explore business opportunities with extended family in Canada, said dejectedly. “We are seeing a lot of statements being thrown around. Each of their sentences, each word of our leaders, is affecting the lives of each one of us. Whatever they say or do has a direct effect on us.”

Set amid lush green paddy fields and surrounded by imposing billboards advertising migration services, the temple draws thousands of visa aspirants every year who seek a little divine intervention in reaching places that

offer more opportunities for success. Shops lined up on one side of the temple sell mini Boeing 747s and A380s, among other paraphernalia that might bolster their prayers.

Known as India’s breadbasket, Punjab is a majority-Sikh state where the average income is about $2,080 a year. It has a special relationship with Canada and a special place in the hearts of Sikhs including Singh.

Sikhs have been migrating to Canada for more than a century, but the numbers surged in the 1970s. A secessionist armed struggle began, seeking an independent state for Sikhs in India called Khalistan, and prompting a repressive response. The Sikh community grew in places such as British Columbia, and its members acquired positions of power and responsibility. Many of Punjab’s wealthy families own chains of gas stations in Canada, and it is hard to find a family that does not have a relative there.

According to Canada’s 2021 census, Sikhs accounted for 2.1% of the population, making the country home to the largest Sikh population outside India.

The share of Canada’s Sikh population has more than doubled in 20 years, according to that census, as a large number have migrated from India in search of higher education and jobs. Forty percent of the international students in Canada come from India, according to the Canadian Bureau for International Education, a nonprofit group.

Jalandhar, which lies in the most agriculturally fertile part of Punjab, has become a popular base for many of the state’s thousands of migration consultancies. Concrete buildings housing their offices and English-language training centers are peppered with signs bearing Canadian flags that compete for space with those of Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the United States. It is difficult to imagine more depictions of red and white maple leaves even in Toronto.

Career counselors say most young Punjabis dream of seeking an education and better lives in Canada.

Bharti Rajput, a counselor at Skybird International, which provides migration services, said Punjabis, especially Sikhs, had bonds with

Canada like that of a “mother and child.”

“It is like their motherland,” she said. Not only does migrating offer a sense of status, but most have friends and relatives in Canada, making it especially alluring.

Pointing at posters of young men and women who had made it through the visa process to countries including Canada, Rajput said, “The young would be happier working at a McDonald’s there than at a corporate in India.”

Gurbhej Singh, 22, stood outside another migration business on Saturday with friends. Recently he had taken a trip to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, about 50 miles from Jalandhar, to pray for a visa.

“I have been traveling over 12 miles from my village by bus every day to attend the classes here,” he said, “but Mr. Modi has spoilt my future.”

Gurbhej Singh, whose family has taken out a loan for his education, said Modi’s handling of the dispute with Canada showed he did not care about the Sikhs, given that his party has never been strong on its own in the state.

“His government has asked the Canadian diplomatic mission to be reduced. It is uncertain to me how long or when visas will come through now,” Singh lamented.

An hour’s drive away, in the village of Bhadas, which is surrounded by sugar cane and paddy fields, people expressed similar concerns.

“My sons call me twice a day, worried what will happen between the two countries,” said Gurmeet Singh, a retired teacher, as he leaned forward on his motorcycle. His 27- and 26-year-old engineer sons have been living in Canada for a few years, and one has even gained citizenship.

Money from locals who have gone abroad for work — nonresident Indians, or NRIs — has transformed the village, with its imposing houses, neat tiled alleys, sewerage system and beautified bus stop. On the highway to Bhadas, an outlet of Barista, a coffee chain, jostles for space with a Chicago Pizza restaurant, and SUVs zoom past. Marble Sikh temples and billboards for emigration companies stand tall in the bustling markets.

Some in the village have sold off their lands to finance sending their children abroad, many to Canada, said Nishan Singh Baliyania, who helps his wife, a female village head of Bhadas, with its day-to-day affairs.

Gurmeet Singh said: “We expect Mr. Modi to behave like the family elder who would solve a household problem with sensitivity and maturity. Because of the deep people-to-people interaction between the two countries, all we want is peace.”

Praying at a gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, in Punjab, a majority-Sikh state in India that has a special bond with Canada.

What really happened at the Biden-Netanyahu meeting

By THOMAS FRIEDMAN

In recent weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about Joe Biden’s age. He’s old. But you know what comes with age besides a slower gait and forgetting words? Wisdom — in particular, how to handle a high-stakes diplomatic encounter without blowing things up (or blowing things up before you want them to blow up). And that’s what I think I saw at the face-to-face meeting between Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Wednesday in New York.

A lot of Israeli reporters and people I know were left depressed by the meeting, because Netanyahu came out and told everyone how warm and friendly it was. And Biden spoke about the unbreakable bonds between America and the Jewish state. Many Israelis so detest Netanyahu that they wanted Biden to publicly rebuke him over the judicial coup that Bibi has mounted — and when that didn’t happen, they thought the meeting was a huge missed opportunity.

“I get it, I get it,” I told them. “But didn’t you see it?” I asked.

“See what?” they responded.

While Biden was publicly putting his right arm around Netanyahu’s shoulder — precisely to defuse any attacks from Republicans for being too tough on Israel — I hear the president was, so to speak, using his left hand to privately slip a homework assignment into Bibi’s pocket. It was like a magician at work; you’d need to find the instant replay in

double slow-motion to see it.

And do you know what that homework assignment said? My reporting suggests that it was broadly along these lines:

“Bibi, you want this deal that would normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. I want it too. But to get this deal, I’m going to have to do something really hard: forge a mutual defense pact with Saudi Arabia and maybe agree to some kind of civil nuclear program for the Kingdom under strict controls. The Saudi leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is going to have to do something really hard: normalize relations between the home of Islam’s two holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, with the Jewish state. And now you’re going to have to do something hard too.

“You’re going to have to agree to terms for normalization with Saudi Arabia that will require you to verifiably curb Jewish settlements in the West Bank, improve living and travel conditions for Palestinians there, advance Palestinian administration over more of their populated areas in accordance with Oslo and generally agree to steps on the ground that preserve the option of a two-state solution, even though your coalition agreement advocates annexation.

“Now, Bibi, I, as your dear old, close and warm friend, would never tell you how to run your politics, let alone ask you to blow up your crazy coalition by agreeing to terms that the far-right Jewish supremacists in your Cabinet could never swallow. No, I would never do that. That would be intervening in your politics. That would be wrong. I’m just telling you, you’ve got homework to do, my dear old, close, warm buddy. And your homework is due in the next few weeks.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in New York on Sept. 20, 2023. Many Israelis so detest Netanyahu that they wanted Biden to publicly rebuke him over the judicial coup that Bibi has mounted — and when that didn’t happen they thought the meeting was a huge missed opportunity, Thomas Friedman writes.

assets.

Telephones:

It was a master class in how a U.S. president puts a fateful decision to an Israeli leader — one that poses to that Israeli leader the most excruciating challenge of his political career: Either blow up the extremist Cabinet you’ve built to keep yourself out of jail and replace it with a national unity coalition, or blow up the chance for peace with Saudi Arabia, which could pave the way for Israel’s acceptance across the whole Muslim world.

And Biden did it all by looking like what he actually is — one of Israel’s best friends ever — defusing any political blowback in America.

I’m not getting into the debate about whether Biden is too old to run for reelection. I’m just telling you that when it comes to diplomacy, age and experience are his greatest

By the way, I’m kind of old myself — just turned 70. But my vision is still 20/20. And the good thing about being old — and still having good vision — is that I don’t need instant replay to see a diplomatic magician at work.

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SAN JUAN – La comisionada residente, Jenniffer González Colón, destacó la nueva inversión que hace la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias (NSF, por sus siglas en inglés) de $5.5 millones en fondos federales como un paso concreto para comenzar el nuevo enfoque académico del Observatorio de Arecibo; a la vez enfatizó que continuará trabajando con la agencia para maximizar el potencial de la instalación.

“El futuro del Observatorio de Arecibo es un asunto prioritario tanto para mí, como para la comunidad científica y estudiantil. Doy la bienvenida a esta nueva partida de fondos federales, sobre $5 millones, por parte de NSF como base para el futuro de la instalación. Por medio del CHIPS Act logramos incluir lenguaje para asegurar que se exploraran las oportunidades para expandir el rol del Observatorio en la Isla por medio de la educación, investigación y tecnología en la facilidad. La designación de fondos servirá precisamente para esto. Aunque este no es el plan que queremos para el Observatorio, con esta propuesta la facilidad no va a caer en desuso completo”, indicó González Colón.

La comisionada añadió que continuará impulsando para que se trabaje con una perspectiva de seguridad nacional para el Observatorio, así como el uso de toda la instrumentación científica en la facilidad, la consideración para la reconstrucción de tecnología que podría reemplazar el radio telescopio de 305-metros, entre otros.

La asignación da paso a un acuerdo colaborativo durante un período de cinco años entre tres instituciones de educación superior: Universidad de Puerto Rico, recinto de Río Piedras ($900,000), Universidad del Sagrado Corazón ($2,253,887), la Universidad de Maryland en el condado de Baltimore ($311,172) y el Laboratorio Cold Spring Harbor en Nueva York ($2,038,173) para establecer un nuevo centro educativo multidisciplinario en el Observatorio de Arecibo en Puerto Rico.

“El nuevo centro, el Centro para la Educación Científica, Habilidades Computacionales y Participación Comunitaria Inclusiva y Culturalmente Relevante (Arecibo C3), servirá como catalizador para una participación mayor e inclusiva en una amplia gama de discipli-

nas de ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas, recortando -Iniciativas de investigación de vanguardia y desarrollo de la fuerza laboral por parte de estudiantes, maestros, investigadores, comunidades locales y el público dentro y fuera de Puerto Rico”, expresó NSF quienes esperan abrir el nuevo centro a principios de 2024.

NSF establece que esta propuesta es cónsona con la Ley CHIPS. La Sección 10365 de la Ley Pública 117167 (Ley CHIPS de 2022), reconoce las contribuciones realizadas por el antiguo radiotelescopio de 305 metros en el Observatorio e indica que el Congreso “alienta a la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias, en consulta con otras agencias federales, a explorar oportunidades para fortalecer y expandir el papel del Observatorio de Arecibo en Puerto Rico a través de programas de educación, divulgación y diversidad, y futuras capacidades de investigación y tecnología en el sitio”.

La Comisionada introdujo el lenguaje utilizado como una resolución, H.Res. 827, un año luego del colapso del telescopio de 305-metros. El senador Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introdujo la medida en el senado, S.Res.467.

El pasado 14 de agosto, de manera bipartita y bicameral la comisionada lideró una petición al director de la Fundación Nacional de la Ciencias donde le urgen a que mantengan su compromiso con la transición que allí se realiza, incluya un plan para la operación y el mantenimiento del equipo científico en el centro y que reconsidere la reconstrucción de instrumentación que pueda reemplazar el antiguo radiotelescopio.

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S AN JUAN – El representante por el Distrito #4 de San Juan, Víctor Parés, solicitó a la delegación del Partido Popular Democrático en la Cámara de Representantes bajar a votación el Proyecto de la Cámara 1408 el cual transfiere unos $165 millones del exceso en ahorros de la Corporación del Fondo del Seguro del Estado (CFSE) hacia la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) y a la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA) para bajar el costo de la factura de luz y agua.

“Existen medidas que son directamente importantes para Puerto Rico, para nuestra gente y comercios; una de ellas es el Proyecto de la Cámara 1408 el cual está diseñado para bajar la factura de la luz y el agua que reciben nuestros ciudadanos. Lamentablemente la pieza legislativa no se ha atendido con la premura que se requiere, estando detenida desde el 28 de junio de 2022. Hago un llamado a la delegación del Partido Popular en la Cámara

que la atienda ya, que la baje en un segundo calendario hoy para su votación”, comentó Parés.

El proyecto destina $145 millones para la AEE con el fin de ser utilizados para bajar la factura con el pago de combustible. Igual sucederá con los $20 millones que se destinan a la AAA.

“Pedimos que este proyecto se apruebe ya, sin más demora. No hay razón alguna para que no se baje a votación, ninguna. El uso de los fondos, desde su fuente, hasta el desembolso, se encuentra detallado. Podemos bajar la luz y el agua a la gente, no hay que esperar, se puede actuar. Está en las manos de la delegación del PPD”, dijo.

La medida de Administración (A-79), radicada el 27 de junio de 2022 se encuentra, desde entonces, en la Comisión de Hacienda y Presupuesto de la Cámara Baja.

“Esta medida es importante y se basa en realidad y datos concretos. Esto no fue lo que sucedió en el 2013 cuando el PPD aprobó el Proyecto de la Cámara 1064,

la Ley 43-213 que ‘tomó prestado’ la cifra de $40 millones de la reserva del CFSE para ‘apoyar el presupuesto 2013-2014’. Este proyecto de nuestra Administración sólo transfiere de exceso en ahorros y por un tiempo límite y en nada, nada afecta la salud fiscal de esa corporación pública”, sostuvo el legislador del Partido Nuevo Progresista.

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Representante reclama aprobación de proyecto que transfiere $165 millones del Fondo a la AEE y AAA

Jenniffer González le da la bienvenida a inversión federal para nuevo enfoque académico en el Observatorio de Arecibo

María Magdalena Campos-Pons lets the spirits guide

By SIDDARTHA MITTER

One evening back in Cuba, when artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons was about 8 years old, she was visited by an owl. She was in her bed, she recalls, and saw it perched on the sill of the half-open window. It was observing her, as owls do.

“You might say they don’t come that close,” CamposPons, now 64, said recently in her studio at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. “But this was in the countryside, in a finca, in La Vega, Manguito. And ever since then I have dreamed a lot about flying.”

By any measure she has flown far. She grew up on a former sugar plantation in Matanzas province. Her greatgrandfather arrived enslaved from present-day Nigeria. Her father left school in third grade to work the cane.

But her own journey would take her through the schools that the Cuban Revolution brought to the countryside, to the art institutes that it established in Havana; to Boston, where she taught for 25 years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts; and to Nashville since 2017, where she has brought her whirlwind energy to the local art scene.

Campos-Pons is a nonstop artist for whom no medium — painting, assemblage, photography, video, ritual-like performance, even Murano glass — seems beyond reach. Her work has been featured in biennials on five continents. She has founded art spaces in the cities where she teaches. Fiercely loyal colleagues and ex-students participate in her performances and field her predawn phone calls sharing urgent ideas.

“I barely rest,” she said. The work, she added, is “absolutely a spiritual thing.”

Last week the Brooklyn Museum opened “Behold,” her first career-spanning survey in 16 years. It touches on her early work in Cuba, concerned with sexual politics and bodily autonomy. And it features some of her most influential works, including landmark multimedia installations and the ultra-large Polaroid triptychs she made using the company’s famed 20-by-24-inch cameras in the 1990s and 2000s.

But the exhibition carries through to the present, with some of her newest works made in Nashville, in which she finds ways to express the beauty she feels in the American South alongside the weight of its violent racial history. Magnolia trees and other local symbols appear in her compositions on paper that mix watercolors and photomontage. Some works honor victims of police violence, including Breonna Taylor.

Through her career Campos-Pons has modeled a “combination of humility and confidence,” said Carmen Hermo, the associate curator at the Brooklyn Museum who initiated the exhibition. (She curated the show with Mazie Harris, an assistant curator at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where it will conclude in 2025 after stops at the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, North Carolina, and the Frist Art Museum in Nashville.)

And the recurring symbols in Campos-Pons’ work — eyes, footprints, butterflies, hair, beads, pomegranates —

offer points of emotional connection for any audience. “She creates this beautiful loop between looking, feeling, doing, thinking and being,” Hermo said, “that feels rare and special.”

But her Afro-Cuban roots provide the intimate lens through which exploring personal and family stories widens to themes with broad resonance — migration, the multiplicity of Black experiences, women’s lives. And knowing, for instance, her guardian orishas — Yemaya and Oshun — she has centered spiritual information in her work since long before the contemporary art milieu had the range to understand it.

To art historian Cheryl Finley, who has known her since the early 1990s, it is precisely Campos-Pons’ rootedness that makes her work global. She pointed to “The Seven Powers Come by the Sea,” an installation that debuted in 1992 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. It involved carvedwood panels evoking slave ships, tall painted silhouettes, a field of framed family photographs and a performance in which Campos-Pons, in a white dress, silently held space at her own show’s opening. That work connected so much — the Middle Passage, farm and women’s labor, lineage and

memory — under the aegis of the seven major orishas, the spirits who, Finley said, “would have come through the transAtlantic slave trade fully alive and ready to support, replenish and enhance the survival of Black-descended people.”

Another major installation, “Spoken Softly With Mama” (1998), is the first work that visitors encounter as they enter “Behold” in the museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Here, upright ironing boards form the surfaces for family photos transferred onto stretched fabric, and video projections of the artist’s legs or feet walking. A flotilla of glass sculpted irons and trivets dispersed in front of the screens conveys allusions both maritime and domestic.

“A work like ‘Spoken Softly With Mama’ is art-historical canon, period,” Hermo said. “But conversations about feminist art are remiss if they don’t include artists like Magda, who has been thinking about what it means to take genealogical lineage, what the body does, what the spirit does, and move it into a space of permanence” through art pieces.

Campos-Pons has gotten involved in Nashville with trademark gusto, in particular building ties between Vanderbilt’s programs and Fisk University, the historically Black institution with a hallowed art history. She has founded the Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice, with the aim to connect local and visiting artists and activists; it runs a project space off-campus, in a former clothing store in Nashville’s West End.

“Magda is a force,” said Jamaal Sheats, the director of the Fisk University Galleries, who was one of her students at the Museum School. The “Magdalenian school of thought,” as he put it, “fully explores what art has the capacity to do” for its community.

Perhaps in that spirit, Campos-Pons has never closed her channels to Cuba. She has taken part in several Havana Biennials, including the 2019 edition, which was preceded by a crackdown on dissenting artists, and which artist Tania Bruguera (who was Campos-Pons’ student in Havana in the 1980s) refused to attend.

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A photo provided by Paula Abreu Pita shows the installation “Spoken Softly With Mama,” by María Magdalena CampoPons, at the Brooklyn Museum. The influential work from 1998 is the first one encountered by visitors to “Behold,” the prolific Cuban-born artist’s first survey in many years.

The artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons at her studio in Nashville on Aug. 7, 2023. The prolific Cuban-born artist’s first survey in many years has opened at the Brooklyn Museum.

Usher to headline Super Bowl halftime show

By EMMANUEL MORGAN

Usher Raymond, the eight-time Grammy-winning singer known as Usher, will headline the halftime show of Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, the NFL, Roc Nation and Apple Music announced Sunday. It comes in the second year of the league’s multiyear deal with Apple Music and will be Usher’s first time starring in the show.

“It’s an honor of a lifetime to finally check a Super Bowl performance off my bucket list,” Raymond said in a statement. “I can’t wait to bring the world a show unlike anything else they’ve seen from me before. Thank you to the fans and everyone who made this opportunity happen. I’ll see you real soon.”

Raymond, 44, performed at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2011 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, as a complement to the lead act, the Black Eyed Peas. Raymond had been rumored as a potential candidate for this year’s halftime production after he extended his residency of shows in Las Vegas, which began in July 2022. His participation comes amid the NFL’s partnership with Jay-Z’s sports and entertainment agency Roc Nation, which was signed in 2019 to

can’t wait to bring the world a show unlike anything else they’ve seen from me before,” he said about his Super Bowl performance.

boost the quality of its halftime shows.

“Beyond his flawless singing and exceptional choreography, Usher bares his soul,” Jay-Z said in a statement. “I can’t wait to see the magic,” he added.

Raymond’s performance follows Ri-

hanna, who performed last year in Glendale, Arizona, making her pregnancy public from the sky-high Super Bowl stage, and catching the attention of fans on social media. In February 2022 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, as a nostalgic nod to

María Magdalena Campos-Pons lets the spirits guide

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Campos-Pons’ approach that year was to stage exhibitions and events in Matanzas, whose Afro-Cuban artists, she said, were hitherto rarely if ever invited. Now separate from the biennial, her program, “Ríos Intermitentes” (“Intermittent Rivers”), is scheduled to return to Matanzas next year. “We should have real elections in Cuba,” she said. “We should have real democracy. But I want to build in Matanzas a republic of its own.”

She did not sign the letter last month by 24 Cuban and Cuban American artists, including Bruguera and Coco Fusco, calling for the boycott of government-funded Cuban arts events, but considers its initiators as friends. “Every artist needs to use their agency in a way that honestly serves what they believe is just,” she said.

On Sep. 16, the Brooklyn Museum held a symposium on Campos-Pons’ work. Afterward, she premiered her new performance, “A Mother’s River of Tears,” in the Beaux-Arts Court. It was dedicated to the victims of police and vigilante violence and their mothers — a natural continuation of her photo-painting work in tribute to Breonna Taylor that appeared in the Louisville, Kentucky, exhibition honoring Taylor’s

life.

The processional featured 10 women in white, including friends and former students who have taken part in CamposPons’ previous performances; two passed back and forth a rich blue fabric. Kamaal Malak, the onetime bassist in Arrested Development (and Campos-Pons’ new boyfriend), led an ensemble. Poet Major Jackson recited. Campos-Pons, in yellow — the color of Oshun — and with her face painted white, moved among the audience distributing fruits and flowers.

In Nashville, Campos-Pons had described the piece as exploring “tender territory, tender space.” It emphasized, she said, the “central role of women in holding well-being, clarity and love in society.” One inspiration was “All About Love,” by bell hooks — one of seven books that she recommends to accompany the entire exhibition.

“It’s all about love,” she said. “And the power of love to sustain.”

“Secrets of the Magnolia Tree” (2021), which blends watercolors and photomontage, shows the artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons as a half-owl figure amid the flora of Tennessee, where she has lived since 2017.

the Super Bowl’s return to the region, Los Angeles rap icons Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar performed at the halftime show, along with Eminem, Mary J. Blige and special guest 50 Cent.

Raymond, a 23-time Grammy nominee, won his first Grammy in 2001 in the category best male R&B vocal performance for the song “U Remind Me.” His popularity rose in 2004 when he released the album Confessions. His most recent Grammy win came in 2013 for the song “Climax.” Raymond, who has served as a coach for the game show “The Voice” and appeared in handful of movies, is currently performing concerts in Paris.

The Super Bowl will take place Feb. 11 and be hosted for the first time in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium, the $2 billion jet-black venue built by Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis before the team’s move to the city after the 2019 season.

The NFL had long shunned Las Vegas as a market and its association with gambling until 2018, when the Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited sports betting. Since then, Las Vegas has hosted the draft and the league’s annual All-Star Game, the Pro Bowl, but has also struggled with a string of high-profile arrests of players in the city.

Usher performing in 2022. “I

By APOORVA MANDAVILLI

Liv Grace came down with respiratory infections three times over the course of four months. Each occurred after a visit to a medical provider in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Grace, 36, a writer who uses they/ them pronouns, was infected with respiratory syncytial virus, which led to pneumonia, in December, after they were treated by a nurse wearing a surgical mask who complained about her children being ill with the virus.

Grace got COVID after a visit to a cancer center for an infusion in February. And there was the pale, coughing phlebotomist who drew blood in April, just before they came down with COVID again.

Grace was born with a rare immune deficiency related to lupus and takes a medication that depletes the cells that produce antibodies. The combination renders the body unable to fend off viruses or to recover quickly from infections.

Since the pandemic began, Grace has rarely ventured anywhere other than health care facilities. But hospitals, by their nature, tend to be hotbeds of illnesses, including COVID, even when community rates are relatively low.

“People like me who are very high risk and very susceptible will still get sick when we’re sitting in, like, virus soup,” Grace said.

Facing a potential wave of coronavirus infections this fall and winter, relatively few hospitals — mostly in New York, Massachusetts and California — have restored mask mandates for patients and staff members. The vast majority have not, and almost none require them for visitors.

By Thursday, several Bay Area counties had announced mask mandates for staff members of health care facilities that treat high-risk patients, including infusion centers, effective Nov. 1.

The order does not apply to facilities in Berkeley, including Alta Bates Summit Center — a part of the Sutter Health network — where Grace was treated.

“We continue to monitor the impact of Covid-19 in our communities, and work with state and local health departments to

ensure any additional masking and public health requirements are incorporated into our policies,” a spokesperson for Sutter Health said in a statement.

Among patients, health care workers and public health experts, opinions are divided over whether and when to institute masking mandates in hospitals.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which is part of the Mass General Brigham system, currently requires masks only in inpatient settings. Yet some of its own experts disagree with the policy.

Hospitals have an ethical obligation to prevent patients from becoming infected on site, regardless of what they might choose to do elsewhere, said Dr. Michael Klompas, a hospital public health researcher at Brigham and Women’s.

“That’s their prerogative,” he said of patients taking risks outside the health care setting. “But in our hospital, we should protect them.”

In August, Klompas and his colleagues published a paper showing that masking and screening for COVID at Brigham and Women’s also decreased flu and RSV infections by about 50%.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that hospitals con-

sider putting masking in place when levels of respiratory infections rise, especially in urgent care and emergency rooms, or when treating high-risk patients.

But the guidelines do not specify what the bench marks should be, leaving each hospital to choose its own criteria.

Ideally, every patient would be given a mask on arrival at an emergency room or urgent care and asked to wear it regardless of symptoms, said Saskia Popescu, an infection control expert at the University of Maryland.

But hospitals also must reckon with the backlash against masking in large swaths of the population. “Now that we’re not in this emergent state with COVID, I think that’s going to be the most challenging, especially since masks have been so politicized,” she said.

As a result, in emergency rooms at many hospitals — like Banner-University Medical Center Tucson, in Arizona, and Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center, outside Portland, Oregon — patients with COVID sit alongside older adults, pregnant women and those with conditions such as diabetes that put them at high risk should they become infected.

Very few hospitals that predominantly

treat immunocompromised patients, such as City of Hope, a cancer treatment center in Los Angeles, have maintained universal masking. But some of the nation’s most prestigious hospital systems don’t require masks even in their cancer centers, where severely immunocompromised patients like Grace receive infusions.

“Just do whatever you want — that’s essentially what the CDC guidance says, at this point, in terms of universal masking,” said Jane Thomason, lead industrial hygienist for National Nurses United, which represents nearly 225,000 registered nurses.

The guidelines give hospitals “permission to prioritize profits over protecting nurses and patients,” Thomason said. The union has called for stronger protections, including the use of N95 respirators, to protect health care workers, patients and visitors.

Mass General Brigham is evaluating new criteria for reintroducing masking, such as the proportion of people in its emergency rooms with respiratory illness, admissions for such illnesses and wastewater data, said Dr. Erica Shenoy, the hospital system’s chief of infection control.

In June, Shenoy and her colleagues argued in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine that the time for universal masking had passed, partly because most interactions between patients and health care personnel are brief.

In response to criticism from scientists, they later cited results from an unpublished study showing that only 9% of people without symptoms carried infectious coronavirus.

“The fact is that the conditions for COVID have changed dramatically,” Shenoy said in an interview. “It’s important from a policy perspective to have an open mind and to be able to reflect and revise our policies as we go along.”

But several experts, including Klompas, said that stance underestimated the long-term effects of other respiratory infections, like influenza and RSV.

Respiratory viruses can unmask or exacerbate chronic conditions of the heart, lung or kidneys and trigger autoimmune conditions. “It’s much bigger than simply the actual infection,” Klompas said.

Masks available outside Liv Grace’s home in Philadelphia on Sept. 12, 2023. Grace, who was born with a rare immune deficiency related to lupus, experienced three respiratory infections in four months after visiting medical providers.

In hospitals, viruses are everywhere. Masks are not.

Ancient arrow is among artifacts to emerge from Norway’s melting ice

2011.

Since then, the team has discovered around 4,000 artifacts and remains, including a 1,000-year-old wooden whisk and Viking mitten, medieval horseshoes, Bronze Age skis and more than 150 arrows.

Similar work is taking place near Anchorage, Alaska, as well as in northeastern Siberia and Mongolia.

Among the most exciting finds have been Yuka, a 39,000-year-old baby mammoth found in Siberia in 2010, and a 280-million-year-old tree fossil found in Antarctica in 2016. But the most famous of all is Ötzi — a 5,300-year-old iceman found in 1991 by hikers on the northern Italian border with Austria.

At first presumed to be an unlucky mountaineer, Ötzi was later determined to be a Copper Age fellow, making him the most well-preserved mummy in history. He has since shed light on the social bonds, diets and lives of Copper Age humans.

“We are always hoping for an ice mummy,” Pilo said. “But, of course, the chances of that are really small.”

For now, he and his colleagues are content with the 250 or so objects pulled this year from the melted sludge in Norway, including a Viking Age knife, an iron horse bit, and several arrows, including the 3,000-yearold artifact.

By LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA

Espen Finstad was trudging through mud in the Jotunheimen mountains of eastern Norway this month when he happened upon a wooden arrow, bound with a pointed tip made of quartzite. Complete with feathers, it was so well-preserved that it looked as if it could have been lost just recently.

But Finstad, a glacial archaeologist for the county of Innlandet, knew better. By his estimate, the arrow is probably about 3,000 years old.

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“I was really excited,” he said. “I’ve never seen something like this before because it was so complete.”

The find, which Finstad and his colleagues believe belonged to a reindeer hunter in the late Stone Age or early Bronze Age, is among thousands of artifacts and remains that have emerged from melting ice in recent years, as climate change thaws permafrost and glaciers around the world.

Last month, the global surface temperature was 1.25 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average, making it the planet’s warmest August on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That heat is rapidly melting the ice, from the American West to Kilimanjaro, the Dolomites and the Himalayan mountains.

The thaw presents a fleeting opportunity for glacial archaeologists: They must find the historical treasures just as they emerge from the ice and before they are destroyed by the elements.

“We’re sort of in a race against time,” said Lars Holger Pilo, a glacial archaeologist and a colleague of Finstad’s. “We really need to work even harder to save as many of these artifacts as we possibly can.”

For more than a decade, their team, which runs the Secrets of the Ice project, has scoured mountain passes across the country. The project, a cooperative effort between Innlandet County Municipality and the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, was founded in

What makes the arrow so impressive, Finstad said, is its preservation: Although it is broken into three parts, the arrowhead remains attached to the shaft, as do the feathers, known as fletchings, which help to stabilize the arrow’s flight path. Once the scientists carbon-date the arrow, they can determine its exact age.

William Taylor, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who was not involved in the Norwegian field research, said the “incredible” thing about the near-intact arrow was that it helped to fill in gaps about how such objects were made and used.

“We’re often sort of guessing at the big picture from whatever was robust enough to weather through the centuries,” said Taylor, who conducts similar research amid melting ice in Mongolia. The arrow, he added, “leaves nothing to the imagination.”

He noted that the clock was ticking to find objects before they deteriorate.

“This is a discipline that exists almost exclusively because we are in the sort of throes of catastrophic global climate change,” he said.

Finstad described the finding as among his “top 10” favorites because its near-pristine state had helped him envisage the lives of those who had lived and died in the same mountains.

“You also kind of feel a special connection to the people who lost it,” he said.

An undated photo provided by Espen Finstad of a wooden arrow, about 3,000 years old and in unusually fine condition, that he found in the mountains of Norway in September 2023. The wooden arrow, with a quartzite tip, was preserved under ice.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

DEMANDANTE vs. FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE MIGUEL ÁNGEL PRADO LÓPEZ Y VICTORIA ESTHER ROSADO RÍOS DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM. : CA2022CV00956.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO.

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

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 24 de abril de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---. Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: A-205 SEMANA 30. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-205 and includes the right to use such unit during the 30 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 30 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-205 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of ti-

meshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 12,843 inscrita por asiento abreviado al folio 2792 del tomo 332 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 2da. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $22,288.98 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de los elementos comunes correspondientes a la unidad A- 205, semana 30, en Hacienda del Mar. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:15 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte de-

mandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1 de septiembre de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante Vs. ROBERT JOHN LINDSAY, BERNARDITA MARIA GUTIÉRREZ, t/c/c

Bernardita Maria Lindsay y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, compuesta por ambos

Demandada

CIVIL NUM.: VB2019CV00948

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

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

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 27 de abril de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro: .Propiedad

Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta.

Apartamento: B-808 SEMANA

35. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-808 and includes the right to use such unit during the 35 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 35 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-808 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 16,597 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 93 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Association el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $11,698.20 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B 808, semana 35. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:30 de la mañana. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal

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

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante Vs. DEJAN JOCIC RIEBARTSCH, JULIA RIEBARTSCH Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada

CIVIL NUM.: VB2022CV00246

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodríguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 27 de abril de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:. Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: B-808 SEMANA 51. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-808 and includes the right to use such unit during the 51 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 51 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-808 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units

of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 15,281 inscrita al sistema Karibe, según inscripción 5ta. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Association el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $18,329.95 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:45 de la mañana. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo

de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1 de septiembre de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodríguez Collazo, Alguacil Superior.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante Vs. GILBERTO ORTEGA

ALICEA, CARMEN

OLIMPIA MORALES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

CIVIL NUM.: BY2022CV01592

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodríguez, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 27 de abril de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:

Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: B-310 SEMANA 29. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-310 and includes the right to use such unit during

the 29 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 29 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-310 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 14,843 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 74 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $14,432.42 por concepto de principal. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de octubre de 2023, a las 11:00 de la mañana. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta

la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1de septiembre de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodríguez Collazo, Alguacil Superior.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR

OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante Vs.

FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA

SUCESIÓN DE PATRICK

DANIEL DOLAN; Y JOY

LEE DOLAN T/C/C/ JOY

LEE MATHEWS

Demandados

CIVIL NUM.: VB2022CV00243

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

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

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 1 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en

efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:.

Urbana: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: UNIDAD

B-706 SEMANA 44 Cabida

101.42 Metros Cuadrados located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-706 and includes the right to use such unit during 44 week of each year until December 31 of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-706 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such excessive, other owners of Vacation Club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare of Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1 .2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 18,191 inscrita al tomo de Hoja Móvil número 104 de Vega Alta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Association el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $17,050.36 por concepto de principal. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 26 de octubre de 2023, a las 11:15 de la mañana. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal

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

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

DEMANDANTE V.

EUGENE PAPSCOE

HAZIN Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA DEMANDADOS

Civil Núm. CCD2016-0288

(402). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, EFRAIN CARDONA VEGA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento Enmendado que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 7 de marzo de 2023 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $114,427.62 de principal para la primera hipoteca y $14,444.68 de principal para la segunda hipoteca, mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 24 de abril de 2017, notificada y archivada en autos el 25 de mayo de 2017, y publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 2 de mayo de 2017, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Manatí, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación:

Coto Norte Ward, Guayaney Comm., PR 686 KM 1.8, Manatí, PR. RUSTICA: O sea, predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Coto Norte, Sector Guayaney del término municipal de Manatl. Consiste de una cabida superficial de mil ciento treinta y ocho punto ochocientos cincuenta y ocho metros cuadrados (1,138.858 m.c.) Igual a cero punto veintiocho noventa y siete cuerdas (0.2897 cdas.) y en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y cuatro punto ochenta y cinco metros (34.85 m), con el remanente de la finca; por el SUR, en treinta y dos punto cincuenta y siete metros (32.57 m) con el predio número dos (2) del plano de segregación; por el ESTE, en treinta punto cincuenta y nueve metros (30.59 m), con Clemente Ayala Rodríguez y por el OESTE, en treinta y siete punto veinticuatro metros (37.24 m), con la Calle dedicada a uso público. Enclava edificación. Consta inscrita al folio 90 del tomo 294 de Manatí; finca número 11,898 del Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $114,427.62 principal, 6.125% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $155.56 de gastos

por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $125.53 de reserva “escrow”, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y para la segunda hipoteca, $14,444.68 de principal, 6.125% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $19.44 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, para la primer hipoteca la cantidad de $128,000.00 y para la segunda hipoteca la suma de $16,000.00 para un total combinado de $144,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $96,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $72,000.00. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 10 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 17 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 24 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:30 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo. Del Estudio de Título realizado surge el siguiente gravamen posterior el cual podrá ser cancelado: Embargo Federal contra Gene Papscoe, seguro social xxx-xx-7699 por $17,212.66

notificación #680346110 asiento 1 folio 43 del tomo 5 de Embargos Federales, el 30 de julio de 2010. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término 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) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la

Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. EFRAIN CARDONA VEGA, ALGUACIL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESION MANUEL

MUÑIZ FUENTES

COMPUESTA POR JOHN

DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLE HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION LUZ MARIA NIEVES ROSADO COMPUESTA POR JOHN

ROE Y JANE ROE COMO

POSIBLE HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm. SJ2023CV00827.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO

RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Santiago Iglesias Pantín, situada en el Barrio Gobernador Piñero (antes Monacillos) de Río Piedras, que se describe con el número 15 de la manzana “V”, con un área de 376.55 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 14, en una distancia de 22.54 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle Número 2, en una distancia de 21.00 metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle Número 8, en una distancia de 17.00 metros; por el OESTE, con el solar número 16, en una distancia de 18.19 metros. Enclava una casa de una sola planta, de concreto pre-fabricado, diseñada para una familia y consiste principalmente de tres habitaciones, sala-comedor, cocina, baño y balcón”. Inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 418 de Monacillos, finca número 15772, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 161 del tomo 1031 de Monacillos, finca 15772, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III, inscripción 7a. Propiedad localizada en: 1354 CALLE E ORTIZ, SANTIAGO IGLESIAS, SAN JUAN, PR 00921. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $210,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 16 de enero de 2095. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubie-

re, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $210,000.00, 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 oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 17 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $140,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $105,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $72,388.78 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $44,197.55 en intereses acumulados al 21 de marzo de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.180% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $10,679.36 en seguro hipotecario; $3,510.00 de cargo de servicio; $2,961.51 de seguro; $575.00 de tasaciones; $220.00 de inspecciones; $907.50 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $21,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las)

interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de septiembre de 2023.

EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR

OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

DEMANDANTE VS. TONI JANINE INDRIOLO

PARTE DEMANDADA

CIVIL NUM.: VB2022CV00242.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RO-

DRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al

Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 1 de mayo de 2023 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB

VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: B-512 SEMANA 16. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados.

CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-512 and includes the right to use such unit during the 16 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 16 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-512 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the

Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2575% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 16,478 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 92 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton, Inc. el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a la siguiente cantidad: $18,409.30 de principal, por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento vencidas correspondientes a la unidad B-512 semana 16. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje-

cutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1ro de septiembre de 2023. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

DEMANDANTE VS. THOMAS PATRICK HANDEL Y NOREEN CECILIA NICOSIA, T/C/C NOREEN CECILIA DOOLEY

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM.: VB2022CV00219. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 1 de mayo de 2023 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: A-302 SEMANA 47. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-302 and in-

cludes the right to use such unit during the 47 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 47 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-302 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 12,961 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 47 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a la siguiente cantidad: $16,892.91 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 302, semana 47. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili-

dad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1ro de septiembre de 2023. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

DEMANDANTE VS. ROCCO ABBATIELLO, MARY ELIZABETH

ABBATIELLO, T/C/C/ MARY ELIZABETH MARSTTA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, POR ELLOS COMPUESTA

DEMANDADA

CIVIL NUM.: VB2022CV00517.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Senten-

cia que se me libró con fecha de 1 de mayo de 2023 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-206 SEMANA 3. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-206 and includes the right to use such unit during the 3 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 3 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-206 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 15,610 inscrita en tomo de hoja móvil número 88 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton, Inc. el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a la siguiente cantidad: $14,432.42 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento.

La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1ro de septiembre de 2023. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Small Business Administration)

Plaintiff V. JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE as those unknown persons who may be the holders of the lost mortgage note or have any interest in this proceeding,

Defendants

CIVIL NO. 23-01031 JAG. ACTION FOR CANCELLATION OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (MFC Investment, Inc. d/b/a Vernet). SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.

TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE

Unknown holders of a promissory note of $416,000.00 executed on December 18, 2009, by MFC Investment, Inc. d/b/a

Vernet, as acknowledged by affidavit number 18,094 sworn before JaimeSantosMirabal, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mortgage Deed No. 11 executed on December 18, 2009, before Notary Public

Jaime Santos Mirabal, over the following property, described in the Spanish language as:

PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL:

Urbanizacion Industrial Caguas

Oeste de Caguas. Lote: Nave

Cuatro: con un area de construccion bruta de cinco mil cuatrocientos sesenta y seis punto cuarenta y dos pies cuadrados (5,466.42 p/ c) y un “Mezzanine” de dos mil setecientos cincuenta y ocho punto cincuenta y seis pies cuadrados (2,758.56 p/c). Colindando por el SUR, con la pared entre las naves tres y cuatro; por el NORTE, con la pared exterior del lado Norte; par el ESTE, con puerta de acceso al area de estacionamiento y a la zona de carga y descarga; par el OESTE, con pared exterior del lado Oeste, con puerta de acceso a pasillo comun y a los servicios sanitarios. El local tiene acceso al estacionamiento, el cual consta con rampa de acceso y estacionamiento para impedidos, areas de carga y descarga y tendra uso industrial y/o comercial. Como parte esencial del local se incluye el usa en comun de los estacionamientos para automoviles en las areas alrededor del edificio. Participacion en los elementos comunes:

Corresponde a este local en los gastos de conservacion, administracion, ganancias y derechos y en los elementos comunes generates del Condominio, un porcentaje de veinticinco punto siete por ciento (25.07%).

Estacionamientos: Bordeando el edificio antes descrito en su colindancia Este, que es el frente y en las colindancias Norte y Sur se encuentran los espacios de estacionamientos de uso comun. En la parte Este,

cada uno de los cuatro locales (naves) ubicados en el edificio, tienen facilidades para carga y descarga. Elementos comunes generales, areas y facilidades comunes generales: Las areas y facilidades comunes generates que pertenecen en comun proindiviso a los titulares de los locales en proporcion que se indica son los siguientes: El terreno donde enclava el edificio segun descrito y las verjas. Los estacionamientos sobre el terreno, asi como tambien las vias de accesos o “drive way” existentes alrededor del edificio. Los cimientos de techo, paredes maestras, columnas, vigas, paredes de carga y que sostienen y/o dividen las areas y facilidades comunes del edificio. Las escaleras que dan acceso al edificio. Las tubenas de aguas potable. Las tubenas de desague pluvial de los techos. Las tubenas de descarga sanitaria. Las tubenas y cables de alimentacion electrica primaria y secundaria y dos subestaciones electricas. Las tubenas y sistemas de alarmas de fuego. Las tubenas y gabinetes con manguera para apagar incendios. El pasillo posterior, los servicios sanitarios comunes y el area de almacenaje para efectos de limpieza y mantenimiento. Las aceras. Las areas verdes. Las verjas alrededor de la propiedad. En el elemento comun denominado “techo” no se pueden instalar equipos que excedan una carga de quince libras par pie cuadrado, de igual manera en el “Mezzanine” de cada local no se puede instalar equipos que representen una carga en exceso de las cien libras par pie cuadrado.

The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is duly recorded at the Karibe System ofCaguas, property number 63,170, fourth inscription. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on 08/23/2023 by the Honorable Jay A. GarciaGrecjon/, United States District Judge (Docket No._4), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime Lopez Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de Lean Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269:his Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear

and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 24th day of August, 2023. ADA I. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ., Clerk Of The Court. By: Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk.

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CAMACHO APONTE DEMANDANTE VS MARIA ESTHER

GONZALEZ FLORES, también conocida como Esther González Flores, Sucn. de María Esther González Flores, también conocida como Esther González Flores, compuesta por FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, nombrados así por desconocerse sus verdaderos nombres; HEXTOR ALVARADO GONZÁLEZ Y HELGA TORRES BERLY DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.:PO2021CV02843.

SALÓN: 604. SOBRE: ACCIÓN CIVIL SOBRE DOMINIO CONTRADICTORIO Y REANUDACIÓN DE TRACTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. EDICTO.

A: MARIA ESTHER GONZÁLEZ FLORES; SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA ESTHER GONZÁLEZ FLORES, ESTHER GONZÁLEZ FLORES, SUCESIÓN DE ESTHER GONZÁLEZ FLORES compuesta por FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del

tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el LCDO. LUIS NOEL RODRÍGUEZ RUIZ, HC 01, BOX 11623, COAMO, PR 00769, Tel. (787)3970300, Icdo.luisnoelrodriguezruiz@gmail.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del tribunal, hoy 15 de septiembre de 2023. CARMEN G. T!RÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARA REGIONAL. Hilda J. Rosado Rodriguez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. LA SUCESION DE FELICITA ESCOBAR CAMACHO Y OTROS Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2023CV01855. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DAVID CARDONA DINGUI DCARDONA@CM-PRLAW.COM

DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE EJECUCIONES@CM-PRLAW.COM

A: FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FELICITA, ESCOBAR CAMACHO; BRAULIO DUEÑO A-24

CALLE 1 BAYAMON, PR 00959. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a

usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 21 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 21 de septiembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CARLOS ENRIQUE CINTRON SANTIAGO, COMPUESTA POR CARLA CINTRÓN Y ANA LIZ ALBIZU MERCED JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE CARLOS ENRIQUE CINTRÓN SANTIAGO, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICPALES, ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO A MENORES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02767.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala 410, Cuarto Piso, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $47,867.72, de balance principal, el cual se compone de un primer principalpor la suma de $46,891.71 y un balance diferido de $976.01, más los intereses adeudados sobre la suma de $46,891.71 y computados al 6.75% annual desde el primero de noviembre de 2021 hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad; cargos por demora

devengados desde el primero de diciembre de 2021, más la suma estipulada de $89,279.30 para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como

sigue: RÚSTICA: Parcela número cuatrocientos noventa y cinco (495) de la Comunidad Rural San Antonio del Barrio Higuillar de Dorado, área cero cuerdas con novecientos cinco diez milésimas de otra, equivalente a trecientos cincuenta y cinco punto setenta (355.70) metros cuadrados. Lindes: Norte, parcela cuatrocientos noventa y seis (496); Sur, parcela cuatrocientos noventa y cuatro (494); Este, con área rocosa y servidumbre de la A.A.A. de Puerto Rico; Oeste, Calle dieciséis (16). Inscrita al folio ciento noventa (190) del tomo ciento cuarenta y uno (141) de Dorado, finca número seis mil setecientos cuarenta y siete (6,747), Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, sección IV. Dirección Física: Lote 495 Calle 16, Comunidad San Antonio, Dorado PR, 00646. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $82,793.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $55,195.33. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $41,396.50. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad

queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 19 de septiembre de 2023.

EDWIN ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.

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SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN RAFAEL

FONTÁNEZ ROSA

Demandante V. DENIA MARIA AQUINO DAVILA

Demandado(a) Civil: SJ2023RF00305. Sobre: DIVORCIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: DENIA MARIA AQUINO DAVILA. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de agosto de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 23 de agosto de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ORIA I. SANTANA CARO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO FRANCISCO MORALES ROSA, ELIZABETH MEDINA ORTEGA Y LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandantes Vs. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA ACTUANDO POR CONDUCTO DE LA ADMINISTRACIÓN DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00740. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO

POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

Por la presente, se les notifica a ustedes que se les ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal, una Demanda de Cancelación de Hipoteca y Pagaré Extraviado: Ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Deben notificar con copia de ella al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Ian A. Lebrón Ward, Cond. El Centro I, Suite 249, Ave. Muñoz Rivera #500, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00918; tel. (787) 630-4697, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndoles que, de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy a 12 de de 2023. WANDA I.

SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA.

LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante Vs. GLORIA IRIS SANTIAGO

ACEVEDO T/C/C GLORIA

SANTIAGO ACEVEDO

T/C/C GLORIA IRIS

SANTIAGO; SUCESIÓN DE REYNALDO SOTO

CABAN T/C/C REYNALDO

SOTO COMPUESTA POR

GLORIA IRIS SANTIAGO

ACEVEDO T/C/C GLORIA

SANTIAGO ACEVEDO

T/C/C GLORIA IRIS

SANTIAGO, REYNALDO

SOTO SANTIAGO, MADELINE SANTIAGO, 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.: AR2023CV00598.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO-

-

TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Orden: “ORDEN: Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2787 y su equivalente el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 2020. Se Ordena a los herederos de los causantes a saber, Gloria Iris Santiago

Acevedo t/c/c Gloria Santiago

Acevedo t/c/c Gloria Iris Santiago, Reynaldo Soto Santiago, Madeline Santiago, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes Reynaldo Soto Caban t/c/c Reynaldo Soto. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante, y por ende, la parte demandante podrá continuar la causa acción, dado por entendido que las partes interpeladas han aceptado la herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785 y su equivalente el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil, edición 2020. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de los causantes Reynaldo Soto Caban t/c/c Reynaldo Soto, incluyen como herederos a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de agosto de 2023. JORGE

F. RAÍCES ROMÁN, JUEZ”.

Por Cuanto: Se le advierte a que dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes Reynaldo Soto

Caban t/c/c Reynaldo Soto. Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primera Instancia de este Tribunal, expido el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico hoy día 20 de septiembre de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. ANABEL PÉREZ RÍOS, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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MMG I PR CR, LLC

Demandante V. JOSE A. DE JESUS

CLAUDIO T/C/C JOSE ALBERTO DE JESUS CLAUDIO, SU ESPOSA MORAYMA E. CARRASQUILLO SANTA

T/C/C MORAYMA EDLYS CARRASQUILLO SANTA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandada

Civil Núm.: E2CI2007-0477.

(201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: JOSE A. DE JESUS

CLAUDIO T/C/C

JOSE ALBERTO DE JESUS CLAUDIO, SU ESPOSA MORAYMA E. CARRASQUILLO SANTA

T/C/C MORAYMA EDLYS

CARRASQUILLO SANTA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Y AL PUBLICO EN

GENERAL:

en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: EMBARGO

MANDAMIEN-

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

FEDERAL.: En el Libro de Embargos Federales número 5, en la paina 81, asiento 3 anotado el día 16 de marzo de 2011, con el número de notificación 762176011, embargo contra Jose A. De Jesús, seguro social xxx-xx-6821, por la suma de $16,587.76. EMBARGO FEDERAL.: Asiento 2016-006367FED Karibe, anotado el día 1 de julio de 2016, con el número de notificación 199046416, embargo contra Jose A. De Jesús, seguro social xxx-xx-6821, por la suma de $8,387.47. EMBARGO FEDERAL.: Asiento 2021009335-FED Karibe, anotado el día 17 de diciembre de 2021, con el número de notificación 444832621, embargo contra Jose A. De Jesús, seguro social xxx-xx-6821, por la suma de $9,069.37. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 21 de agosto de 2023 - {250 Fecha mandamiento}, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Urb. Hacienda Florida B-4 Calle 1, San Lorenzo PR 00754. URBANA: Parcela de terreno radicada en la Urbanización Haciendas de Florida, localizada en el Barrio Florida, San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico marcado con el numero 4 del bloque “B” con un área de 300.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 12.500 metros, con la calle numero 1 de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en 12.500 metros, con el solar numero 39 del mismo bloque; por el ESTE, en 24.00 metros, con el solar numero 5 del mismo bloque; y por el OESTE, EN 24.00 metros con el solar numero 3 del mismo bloque. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 452 de San Lorenzo, finca numero 19,648; Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda Caguas Guayama. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor ascendente a $74,405.01 por concepto de principal, mas los intereses al 6.125% anual equivalentes a $18,284.11 de intereses devengados hasta el 25 de abril de 2023 y los cuales siguen acumulándose hasta su total pago la suma de $1,669.66 por concepto de cargos por demora hasta la misma fecha y los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta su total pago, la suma $574.12 por concepto de deficiencia en la cuenta de reserva (“Negative escrow”), y la cantidad liquida y estipulada de $9,900.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado más cualquier partida pactada y/o adelanto adicional y realizado por la demandante, conforme a

los términos pactados y garantizadas en la escritura de hipoteca y pagare, costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado ascendentes al 10% del principal según pactado, disponiéndose que si quedare algun remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con interes previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023

A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $99,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $66,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $49,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose-

sión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de septiembre de 2023. ALEJANDRO URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #997, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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SALA DE CAGUAS MWPR CR, LLC

Demandante V. DEBORAH MARTINEZ

BULLARD; SUCESION DE CARLOS MARTINEZ

COMPUESTA POR

CARLOS MARTINEZ

BERRIOS; CARLOS

BULLARD MARTINEZ;

MICHAEL MARTINEZ

BULLARD T/C/C

MICHAEL BULLARD

MARTINEZ; DEBORAH

MARTINEZ BULLARD

Y ESTHER MARTINEZ

T/C/C ESTHER MARTINEZ

BULLARD; ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandada

Civil Núm.: ECD2010-1795. (402). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: DEBORAH MARTINEZ

BULLARD; SUCESION

DE CARLOS MARTINEZ COMPUESTA POR

CARLOS MARTINEZ BERRIOS; CARLOS BULLARD MARTINEZ; MICHAEL MARTINEZ

BULLARD T/C/C

MICHAEL BULLARD

MARTINEZ; DEBORAH

MARTINEZ BULLARD

Y ESTHER MARTINEZ

T/C/C ESTHER MARTINEZ

BULLARD POR SI Y EN SU CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada y, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL, y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: PRAMCO CV9, LLC: A cuyo favor aparece una anotación de demanda, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas caso civil #ECD2010-1795 (402), por concepto de cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Pramco, CV9, LLC versus Deborah Martinez Bullard y la Sucesión de Carlos Martinez compuesta por Carlos Martinez Berrios; Carlos Martinez Bullard t/c/c Carlos Bullard Martinez; Michael Martinez Bullard t/c/c Michael Bullard Martinez; Deborah Martinez Bullard y Esther Martinez t/c/c Esther Martinez Bullard y Estados Unidos de América, por la suma de $55,092.53 y otras sumas. Anotado al folio 209 del tomo 1769 de Caguas, finca #23,117, Anotación A. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 27 de septiembre de 2018 - {250 Fecha mandamiento}, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Calle

San Ramón, J-7, Urbanización Mariolga, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 7 del bloque J, del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Mari-Olga, localizada en el Barrio Turabo del municipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un are de 549.13 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 42.29 metros con el solar numero 6; por el SUR, en 33.90 metros con el solar numero 8; por el ESTE, en 14.15 metros con la calle numero 11; y por el OESTE, en 16.69 metros con la Urbanización Dr. Mimoso. Enclava edificación. Inscrita al folio 241 del tomo 711 de Caguas finca numero 23,117; Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera de Caguas. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor ascendente a $44,574.48 por concepto de principal, mas los intereses al 6.500% anual equivalentes a $5,405.38 de intereses devengados hasta el 7 de agosto de 2023 y los cuales siguen acumulándose hasta su total pago, más cualquier partida pactada y/o adelanto adicional y realizado por la demandante, conforme a los términos pactados y garantizadas en la escritura de hipoteca y pagare, costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado ascendentes al 10% del principal según pactado, disponiendose que si quedare algun remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con interes previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023

A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas,, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $57,700.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $38,466.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de

una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A

LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $28,850.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de septiembre de 2023. ALEJANDRO URBINA

ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #997, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CARMEN ADA JIMENEZ RESTO COMPUESTA POR

CARMEN REYES

JIMENEZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y LA ADMINISTRACION

PARA EL SUSTENTO A MENORES

Parte Demandada

CIVIL NUM.: SJ2022CV06743.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO.

ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $79,529.96 por concepto de principal, el cual se compone de $68,336.55 de primer principal y la suma de $11,193.41 de balance diferido, más los intereses sobre la suma de $68,636.55, al 7.50% annual desde el primero de septiembre de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgos, recargos por demora computados al 5%, a razón de $24.95 sobre cada mensualidad de $498.98 y hasta su total pago, más la suma de $7,680.00 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD

HORIZONTAL: Residential apartment number one thousand one (1001) is irregular in shape located in Condominium Los Almendros Plaza, which is located in Sabana Llana Ward of the Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total superficial area of nine hundred seventeen point eighteen (917.18) square fit. Measuring

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

thirty eight (38) lineal feet and 11 ½ inches in width at its northern wall; thirty one (31) lineal feet and six (6) inches and 51/2 half inches plus seven (7) lineal feet and six (6) inches in width at its southern wall; twenty five (25) lineal feet 1 inch length at its western wall; and seventeen (17) lineal feet 1 inch plus eight (8) lineal feet in length at its eastern wall. It is bounded on the North and West by the exterior walls of the building; on the South by the corridor; and on the East by the apartment number one thousand two (1002) and janitors and storage room. The main entrance faces corridor. This unit consists of a living dining room, three bedrooms with closet each, one bathroom. A hallway with a linen closet and kitchen. The bathroom includes a bathtub, wash a basin and toilet and the kitchen a two part cabinet with space for refrigerator, space for a stove and breakfast counter. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales el cero cuatro cero uno dos cinco por ciento (040125%) y a su vez le corresponde idéntico porciento en los gastos de operación y mantenimiento del condominio. Le corresponde en forma exclusiva, permanente e inseparable el estacionamiento número cuarenta y siete (47), debidamente demarcado y numerado de conformidad con el plano de área de estacionamiento. Inscrita al folio noventa y tres (93) del tomo seiscientos uno (601) de Sabana Llana, finca número veinticuatro mil cuatrocientos setenta y dos (24472), Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan

V. Dirección Física: 1001 Los Almendros Plaza I, San Juan, PR 00924. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día

23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A

LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $76,800.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea, la suma de $51,200.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $38,400.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipote-

cario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante.

Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, expedido el presente en San Juan, Puerto Rico a 20 de septiembre de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ELSA LARACUENTE RIVERA; SUCESIÓN DE LEONARDO GILBERTO MEREJO CORREA, ET ALS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV00682.

Sala: 207. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN DIRIGIDOS

A: ELSIE MEREJO LARACUENTE, COMO HEREDERA CONOCIDA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ELSA LARACUENTE RIVERA Y SUCESIÓN DE LEONARDO GILBERTO MEREJO CORREA; “JOHN DOE Y

RICHARD ROE”

COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ELSA LARACUENTE RIVERA Y “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE”

COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LEONARDO GILBERTO MEREJO CORREA; C13 CALLE 2, URBANIZACIÓN VILLA ALBA, SABANA GRANDE, PUERTO RICO 00637, Y C13 VILLA ALBA, SABANA GRANDE, PUERTO RICO 006371763. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Además, en cuanto a la interpelación de los herederos de los causantes, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2787. De no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencias, se tendrán por aceptadas. También se les APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado las herencias de los causantes y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dichas herencias conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE

DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP 500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901

Tel.: (787) 523-2670 /

Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 19 de septiembre de 2023.

LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. NILDA TORRES

ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR TRIBUNAL I.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 402 SUPERIOR CIVIL

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. CARMEN SOCORRO

MARRERO CABRERA

POR SI Y EN REP DE LA SLG COMPUESTA CON GUMERCINDO ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2023CV03825.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

BALDO MERO A. COLLAZO TORRES

BCOLLAZO@LAWPR.COM

A: CARMEN SOCORRO

MARRERO CABRERA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO CARMEN S. MARRERO CABRERA

Y COMO CARMEN S. MARRERO, POR SÍ

Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE GUMERCINDO

ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO GUMERSINDO

ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ; JUAN ROSARIO

MARRERO Y RUTH

ROSARIO MARRERO, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE GUMERCINDO ROSARIO

RODRIGUEZ, TAMBIEN CONOCIDO COMO

GUMERSINDO ROSARIO

RODRIGUEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE GUMERCINDO ROSARIO

RODRIGUEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO

GUMERSINDO ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de septiembre de 2023, 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 notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 20 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de septiembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYAMA SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 202 SUPERIOR ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. EDWIN PEREZ TORRES

Demandado(a)

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

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

Caso Núm.: SA2022CV00354. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: EDWIN PÉREZ TORRES.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación

por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de septiembre de 2023. Marisol Rosado Rodríguez, Secretaria. Brenda Ramos Pomales, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SALÓN DE SESIONES FAMILIA Y MENORES - SALA DE BAYAMÓN SALÓN 4001

ARLENE RODRIGUEZ PEREZ Demandante V. EDUIN MARCELINO

VENTURA MARTINEZ Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2023RF01212. Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ROSA L. VÁZQUEZ LÓPEZ ROSAVAZQUEZPR@HOTMAIL.COM

EDUIN MARCELINO

VENTURA MARTINEZ

JAIBON, LAGUNA

SALADA VALVERDE, NOROESTE SANTO DOMINGO, REPÚBLICA

DOMINICANA 61000.

A: EDUIN MARCELINO

VENTURA MARTINEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 19 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 19 de septiembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, Secretaria. ISABEL SOUCHET BURGOS, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

A former hockey enforcer searches for answers on CTE before it’s too late

By DAVID WALDSTEIN

Page 68 of Boston University’s Hope Study questionnaire asks, “Have you ever injured your head or neck in a fight or been hit by someone?”

For Chris Nilan, a simple yes could never convey the whole story.

The answer stretches out over 300 bareknuckle fights as a professional hockey player and countless other brawls on the street corners of Boston beginning in his childhood. Most times, Nilan was the one dispensing the punishment. But hockey fights almost always involve mutual, bone-crushing blows, sometimes fracturing bones and rattling brains.

The Hope Study, run by BU’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, has been measuring the brain health of living subjects with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias since 1996. Nilan, curious about the condition of his brain after years of on-ice battles and eager to help with the research, turned to BU, where participants return each year to repeat extensive testing, and eventually donate their brains. CTE can only be diagnosed posthumously, but the Hope Study’s testing can provide valuable clues while patients are alive.

Over his 13 years in the league, Nilan, who was labeled Knuckles before he even turned pro, fought an astonishing 316 times, the third most in NHL history, according to the NHL Fight Card database. All of it was followed, coincidentally or not, by years of drug addiction, alcohol abuse and anger issues before Nilan settled into a quiet life in a Montreal suburb. An engaging, humorous sort with a Boston accent, Nilan now hosts the “Raw Knuckles” podcast, fishes, cooks, reads, runs addiction recovery groups and spends quiet time with his fiancee, Jaime Holtz.

But if there was ever a high-risk candidate for CTE, the degenerative neurological disease associated with repeated impacts to the head, or body blows harsh enough to rattle the skull, Nilan would fit the category.

Researchers have long suggested that the more hits to the head someone receives, including subconcussive ones, the more likely they are to develop cognitive and neurological problems later in life. A study earlier this year of football players’ brains suggested the cumulative impact of multiple hits can also play a role.

Some 30 years after retiring from a violent and successful career, Nilan signed up for the Hope Study.

“I don’t worry about having CTE,” Nilan said. “But sometimes, you wonder.”

Ten years ago, there might have been more concern. Nilan’s past substance abuse and outbursts of rage mirror some of the behavior exhibited by other hockey enforcers following retirement — players like Bob Probert, Derek Boogaard, Wade Belak, Todd Ewen and Steve Montador. All of them were diagnosed with CTE, which can only be detected after death.

Nilan is 65 and sober now, still with a sharp wit and a vivid memory of a tumultuous life.

On April 17, Nilan entered the Hope Study. He and Holtz answered background questions from their home over a video conference call with researchers, who asked about Nilan’s family and behavioral history, his moods, his memory, his mother’s dementia and his career on the ice.

A few weeks later, he went to Boston for the cognitive and medical testing, and a month after that, he received results that can give participants a snapshot of their brain health at that moment.

Nilan went into the study feeling healthy and robust, perhaps even a bit lucky. He empathizes with players who suffered from the same dangerous work that he did but points no fingers. Nilan does not believe the sport caused his past substance abuse issues, and he does not regularly suffer from de-

pression.

But because of his nearly unmatched history of fighting in hockey, Nilan has emerged as an important subject for researchers studying the effects of repetitive brain impacts and ways to detect it before death.

Even if he does not have CTE or show signs of cognitive impairment, researchers will want to know why not, and what can be learned from it.

“That’s huge,” said Dr. Michael Alosco, the co-director of clinical research at BU’s CTE Center. “Why do some people get it, and some don’t? What is different about them? It could be very informative for treatment and prevention.”

Over a day and a half in Boston, Nilan underwent a battery of medical, cognitive and neurological exams designed to help researchers learn the causes and effects of repetitive head impacts that can lead to CTE, and perhaps one day design a test that will detect it in living patients.

Nilan had his blood and spinal fluids drawn and was scheduled for magnetic reso -

nance imaging of his brain. He tackled cognitive and memory tests involving word games, number sequences, short stories and mazes.

There are more than 400 participants in the program now, and about one-third have been exposed to repetitive head impacts.

In some ways, Nilan’s contribution to the study was an opportunity to do in retirement what he loved most as a player: defending teammates. Nilan accumulated 3,584 penalty minutes over the regular season and playoffs, the fifth-most in league history, and he played almost 300 fewer games than the top four offenders. He twice set the Canadiens record for most penalty minutes in a season: 338 in the 1983-84 regular season and 358 the following year.

“If what I do now can help them figure out ways to detect CTE earlier,” Nilan said, “maybe guys in the future can be forewarned and saved from further damage.”

Chris Nilan is a quintessential Bostonian of a certain time and demographic, the kind they make movies about: A tough, working-class hockey player of Irish descent, hundreds, if not thousands, of local kids yearned to be just like him. He was born Feb. 9, 1958, at the Faulkner Hospital in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Henry and Leslie Nilan, a hardworking, blue-collar couple who raised their four children in a strict household. Chris Nilan still found his way into scraps as a kid and soon discovered he was a capable and fearless fighter. Often, he said, it was in defense of others.

Fighting is far less common in today’s NHL than it was in the 1980s and ‘90s, as the league has ushered in rules modifications and a faster style of play, even though Gary Bettman, the league commissioner, still denies a link between fighting and CTE. Nilan opposes a ban on fighting but acknowledges being sickened when a player is knocked unconscious in a fight.

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Nilan fighting the 6-foot-5 Dave Brown in December 1984. He fought Brown six times and often took on larger opponents.

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In the years after his career ended, his hands, knees and back throbbed from 13 years of pounding and too many surgeries. Nilan began ingesting Percocet, a prescription pain killer, and then became addicted to oxycodone and alcohol.

He eventually found heroin and took it intravenously. In 2015, his mother had a stroke, and Nilan went to visit her at Faulkner, the hospital where he was born. He asked a drug dealer to meet him there, and he shot up in a maintenance closet. The next thing he knew, he was on a gurney with a nurse calling his name, yet another overdose victim.

Nilan met Holtz in rehab, and she has been his stanchion, guiding him out of relapses and back to recovery. The researchers asked Holtz about Nilan’s memory and moods and if he displayed moments of rage. She explained that several years ago, she told Nilan that if he did not get

his anger under control, she would leave him.

“He would lose his temper for the smallest things,” she said. “Chris acknowledged those issues in his life and is completely different now. All of that has changed. He faced some hard truths and emotions and dealt with them. Growing up, that is how he was raised.”

Nilan adored his father, who died in 2021, and is immensely proud of him. Henry Nilan was a Green Beret in the Army reserves and a draftsman at Draper Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he worked hard to provide for his family. He also hit Chris Nilan as punishment until Chris was about 16 and threatened to run away. Growing up in that environment, he said, led to much of his anger and propensity to violence, not his career as an enforcer.

On June 8, Nilan and Holtz sat in Nilan’s podcast studio in their home and listened to Alosco and Hannah Bruce, a fellow researcher, present the findings. The results cannot rule out CTE, but they were very good for Nilan. His

cognitive, memory and motor tests showed he was well within the normal range for his age, gender and education. In most, he was above average. Had there been any reason for concern, Alosco would have recommended clinical care for diagnosis and treatment, which he did not consider necessary at the time.

Alosco said Nilan is in a very high-risk group and urged him to remain vigilant with his sobriety and a healthy lifestyle. He also asked him to return for the yearly research follow-ups, and Nilan said he would.

At the end of the meeting, Alosco stressed that researchers want to know the factors that have made Nilan appear resistant so far to degenerative neurological disease, whether genetics, medical history, the types of head impacts, his lifestyle or other factors.

“That’s why your data might be so valuable to answer who is resilient to these long-term effects of repetitive head impacts,” Alosco told Nilan.

James Dolan on owning the Knicks: ‘You’re not beloved until you’re dead’

By KATHERINE ROSMAN

The focus of James L. Dolan’s attention is his new Las Vegas superarena, called the Sphere, which includes 700,000 square feet of video screens and will open with a series of mostly sold-out U2 concerts next week. But in several interviews over the past five months for a New York Times profile published this week, Dolan, who controls the companies that own Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the Knicks and the Rangers, had a lot of eye-opening things to say about his New York sports teams — as well as his feud with a former Knicks star, Charles Oakley; a potential renovation of Penn Station; and why it is OK to criticize the basketball team but not its owner. Here are some highlights.

Not a fan of team-owning

Before deciding to build the Sphere, Dolan had considered expanding his sports portfolio, perhaps by buying a baseball or soccer team. He decided

against it, saying he finds the economics of major league sports “kind of sleepy.” Although the Knicks and Rangers are “near and dear to my heart,” he said, “I don’t really like owning teams.”

A wish for Oakley

In 2017, Oakley, a Knicks all-star and a vocal critic of Dolan, was ejected from the stands at the Garden during a game between the Knicks and the Los Angeles Clippers. In a spectacle before fans and cameras, a physical altercation broke out between Oakley and eight security guards and police officers as they tried to remove him.

The incident is the subject of a lawsuit and created anger toward Dolan among fans loyal to Oakley.

So the Times asked Dolan if there was any part of the incident he wishes he could change. “Yes,” he said. “I wish I could change Charles Oakley.”

50-50 chance

Politicians and civic leaders are hoping to move forward with a much-needed renovation of Penn Station, the rail depot that sits dank and dark beneath Madison Square Garden, a building that New York state law exempts from paying property taxes.

Dolan said that his company would not financially contribute to the Penn Station project — “That’s a civic responsibility,” he said, adding that his company is “a private enterprise.” But given how long city leaders have been talking about reno -

vating the station, he said, he’s not holding his breath. “The best I give it, personally, is 50-50 that anything will happen,” he said.

‘This team sucks’

Dolan rules over the Garden like a king (back when kings had real power). He uses facial recognition technology to bar from entry lawyers working for firms that represent clients suing his companies. (He calls them “troll attorneys.”)

He also believes the sports fans who publicly express their displeasure with his leadership while they are at the Garden should be removed from the arena. For instance, a fan holding a sign that says “Sell the Team” is subject to ejection, because, Dolan said, they violate a code of conduct barring the harassment of the arena’s workers, including him. “I am an employee,” he said.

(The code of conduct does not actually say that, but it does stipulate that “guests shall be respectful of others around them.”)

He said it is OK to hold a sign that says, “Play better, this team sucks,” because “that’s part of being a fan.”

Does not take it personally

Dolan is frequently approached — at public events, at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, at his mother’s wake — by people offering unsolicited advice for the Knicks. “Basically every fan thinks of themselves as the owner/general manager,” he said.

He said he does not take criticism of his leadership personally. “Being a professional sports owner in New York,” he said, “you’re not beloved until you’re dead.”

James L. Dolan watches the Knicks play the Denver Nuggets at Madison Square Garden in 2017.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

You’ve been lucky for the last two months, there’s no doubt about it. Lately it seems like your luck is changing. It’s hard to pinpoint, but something isn’t quite right in your daily life. At the moment, the planets are imparting some lessons that could be difficult to bear, Aries. Get through this transition with as little pain as possible. The lessons you learn will prove worthwhile.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

This is going to be a good time to get a global view of things, Taurus. Take full advantage of the current planetary aspects by reading some books on spirituality or travel. If you desire to go on a long voyage, don’t be surprised if your job sends you on an adventure, even if it isn’t part of your job routine. Don’t hesitate! Go breathe in some fresh air in a new place!

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

It’s true that having to earn a living isn’t always the most agreeable thing in life, Gemini. However, we all know that it’s necessary. Have you thought about adding more balance to your life? All work and no play makes anyone a dull person. This would be a good day to examine your daily life and add some new elements. Yes, Gemini, it’s time for you to choose a hobby.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

If you’ve had some problems in your sentimental life during the last few months, Cancer, they’re probably behind you now. It’s a sure bet that you’ve learned something. You’ve been served the same dish for years and now it seems you’ve finally had enough! Know that from now on you’ll be better about not falling into the same old traps.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

If you aren’t the most self-assured person in the world, Leo, take a look around and see all that you’ve done. True, you still have many unattained dreams, but look at how many you’ve already realized. A lack of confidence in your abilities is holding you back. There’s a moment for everyone when a leap of faith is required. It’s time for you to jump.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

You may meet some new people in the next few days, Virgo. Someone in your professional life may help you launch some unusual experiments that have never been done before. Or someone may want to create a new service or get into a completely new market. You will be the one they seek to explore these exciting new avenues!

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

It seems as though you’re trying to live down some criticism, Libra. For weeks you’ve taken special care to look over your work to catch any mistakes. Perhaps the number of errors you found surprised you. Criticism from others stung even more as a result, because you could see that it had some merit. Today you’ll get some relief. In fact, you may receive some compliments.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

It seems as though you’re trying to live down some criticism, Libra. For weeks you’ve taken special care to look over your work to catch any mistakes. Perhaps the number of errors you found surprised you. Criticism from others stung even more as a result, because you could see that it had some merit. Today you’ll get some relief. In fact, you may receive some compliments.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

It seems as though you’re trying to live down some criticism, Libra. For weeks you’ve taken special care to look over your work to catch any mistakes. Perhaps the number of errors you found surprised you. Criticism from others stung even more as a result, because you could see that it had some merit. Today you’ll get some relief. In fact, you may receive some compliments.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

You’re often preoccupied by other people’s lives. Your devotion to others will be appreciated today, Capricorn. For example, in the family circle, you may have to bandage everyone’s little physical or psychological wounds. Don’t neglect your energy needs. As you’re aware, you need all the strength you can muster.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may have some trouble getting out of bed today due to a desire to let the world carry on without your help for a while. Aquarius, you can yield to that lazy urge today, for the aspects are likely to assist you in fulfilling your goals. Take advantage of some time off to rest or perhaps tidy your nest. You might want to make that bed, too.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

The day ahead should be excellent, Pisces. You tend to work with an energy unparalleled by the other signs, and today you reap some rewards for your diligence. These days it’s rare to find someone as conscientious as you, and you deserve recognition. Nevertheless, you still have many hills left to climb, as you well know!

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