Thursday Sep 7, 2023

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New status bill has 81 co-sponsors in the US House

By THE STAR STAFF

The new Puerto Rico status bill, House Resolution (HR) 2757, a bipartisan measure that seeks to hold a congressionally endorsed consultation among the options of statehood, direct independence and independence through free association, has 81 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives, New Progressive Party (NPP) Rep. José Aponte Hernández announced Wednesday.

Aponte Hernández stressed that the increase in members of Congress who support the measure indicates that “the message about statehood, about the need to do justice to U.S. citizens living in Puerto Rico, is permeating Congress.”

“Members of Congress are already realizing they have to do something about the oldest colony in the world,” the former speaker of the island House of Representatives said. “The fact that in a year that the presidential election [campaign] is occurring and there are already 81 co-sponsors is indicative that in the federal House of Representatives, the message of our governor, who spent eight years in Congress and has great contacts, as well as the resident commissioner in her effort of the past six years with members of the congressional delegation, among others, is having great resonance.

H.R. 2757 is the tool in Congress to finally do justice for the nearly 3.2 million U.S. citizens in the territory of Puerto Rico, who have voted, freely and democratically, in favor of admission during the past three local status consultations.”

Tropical

By THE STAR STAFF

The at-large lawmaker called on all members of the NPP, as well as those who treasure permanent union with the United States and want to see their citizenship -- which can only be secured with statehood -- guaranteed, to continue “knocking on doors in Congress because their voice is being heard.”

On April 20, Gov. Pedro Pierlusi Urrutia, along with the Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón and both Democratic and Republican leaders, announced the filing of HR 2757.

The six original authors of the measure, González Colón, Reps. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Darren Soto (D-Fla.) and Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), as well as Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), have been joined by 75 new co-sponsors.

Lee expected to develop into major hurricane

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami reported Wednesday that Tropical Storm Lee was close to reaching hurricane strength and could rapidly intensify into an extremely dangerous major hurricane by Saturday.

According to the NHC, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Lee was located some 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) east of the northern Leeward Islands, with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (mph), or 110 kilometers per hour.

Lee was moving west-northwest at a speed of 14 mph (about 22 kilometers per hour), a trajectory that was expected to continue in the coming days with a slight reduction in speed.

The trajectory takes the storm well north of Puerto Rico.

Lee’s intensity was expected to steadily increase to hurricane strength late Wednesday, with the storm becoming a major hurricane within a couple of days.

Lee had tropical storm-force winds extending up to 80 miles, or 130 kilometers, from the center.

The NHC has stressed that interests in the Northern Leeward Islands should monitor the progress of this system.

“Storm surges generated by Lee are expected to reach parts of the Lesser Antilles on Friday, likely causing dangerous surf conditions and deadly rip currents,” the NHC warned.

The captain of the Coast Guard of the Port of San Juan, meanwhile, established the WHISKEY Condition on Wednesday in all ports in Puerto Rico and the U.S.Virgin Islands due to the approach of Tropical Storm Lee.

During the WHISKEY Condition, port facilities remain open to all commercial traffic and all transfer operations may continue as long as the WHISKEY is in effect. Pleasure boats must seek a safe port. In addition, maritime and port facilities are reminded to review and update their severe weather response plans and make any additional preparations necessary to adequately prepare for a potential impact to the area.

In this phase, sailors are warned that there are no safe havens at these facilities, and ports are safest when the inventory of ships is minimal. Vessels wishing to remain in port must seek approval from the port master before establishing the X-Ray Condition, the date of which is yet to be determined.

Rep. José Aponte Hernández

Second UPR probe contradicts findings that RCM chancellor violated internal processes

By THE STAR STAFF

Asecond probe by a University of Puerto Rico (UPR) investigator into a controversy around Medical Sciences Campus (RCM by its Spanish initials) Chancellor Ilka Ríos Reyes refuted a 2022 probe that had concluded the official violated internal processes when she reached a settlement with a 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 actions against Ríos, a source familiar with the situation said. The report is addressed to Ortiz and Alfonso Fernández Debs, head of the 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 a 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 did not have the authority to reach a settlement because that responsibility belonged to the UPR president. Because of Fraga Meléndez’s findings, UPR President Luis Ferrao Delgado asked for Ríos’ resignation, only to appoint her again as chancellor a year later. The source

said Ferrao Delgado, who has declined to speak on the matter publicly, decided to issue written remarks upon learning of Miranda López’s conclusions.

Miranda López said Ríos did not act in contravention of internal regulations or against the presidency. She agreed with the opinion of then-UPR legal adviser Marcos Román López to refute claims that, in violation of regulations, Ríos tried to go over the opinion of a promotions committee in the School of Medicine.

“Even if we may be in disagreement with the determinations or management of this situation by Dr. Ríos, the truth is that her actions occurred within her functions as a chancellor, the maximum academic and administrative authority of the Medical Sciences Campus,” the report stated.

Ríos had to reach a settlement with the young medical student who had failed several courses in her first year and also in her second year, or risk a lawsuit, because the School of Medicine had failed to provide required assistance that the student needed because of her age, documents obtained by the STAR showed.

Following the terms of the transaction, Ríos allowed the gifted student, who had been accepted at the School of Medicine when she was 14, to drop the courses she had failed and to take others. A document obtained by the STAR from the RCM showed that Ríos authorized the student as part of the transaction to drop the courses and had not authorized changes to her grades, as had been alleged.

Román López said in documents that he learned about the student’s situation when he was informed by Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Hilton Franqui, who wanted to know about an arrangement reached with the student, who failed her first year of medical school and had been allowed to repeat it. Franqui informed Román López that the student had also failed her second year.

Román López said that when he requested the student’s file, he found out that

the school’s Promotion Committee had said nothing could be done about the student’s grade after she failed her first year, but that the Office of the President had reached an agreement to allow her to repeat the first year. However, he also noted that the school had failed to provide the student with the help she needed to cope with her coursework. He said the school’s psychologist told him that “the girl’s rights had been violated” and that the school did not execute any of the recommendations he had made.

An agreement had been reached with the student and her parents in February of 2021, and Román López believed the medical school had violated that agreement. Román López also said he believed the February 2021 agreement was valid for the rest of the student’s years at the school.

The school’s Promotion Committee, which evaluates such situations, had an impasse over the issue.

Román López said he spoke with Ríos about his concerns regarding a prolonged litigation and Ríos met with the parents of the student. The parties reached an agreement similar to the one reached in February 2021 with then-Chancellor Segundo Rodríguez. The new agreement included a waiver of responsibility and was signed July 7, 2022.

On Wednesday, students and faculty launched a short protest against Ríos’ appointment, which became effective Sept. 1 after the UPR governing board confirmed her. The protesters believe Ríos put the School of Medicine’s accreditation at risk with her actions.

By THE STAR STAFF

Aforward bond purchase agreement published in the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bankruptcy process shows that the power utility agreed to pay about $124.4 million to buyers of $1.6 billion in new debt.

BlackRock Financial Management, Whitebox, Taconic, Franklin and Nuveen agreed to buy $1.6 billion in debt from PREPA

as part of the bankruptcy settlement, which still requires court approval.

The execution of the purchase agreement was authorized by the resolution adopted by the Financial Oversight and Management Board on Aug. 18 authorizing execution of a Plan Support Agreement, Forward Delivery Bond Purchase Agreement, and Filing of the Third Amended Plan of Adjustment.

The $124.4 million pays for the forward delivery bond commitment fee and the exit financing structuring fee, the document notes. That amount of the bonds sold may be reduced by up to $37.5 million, if bonds are required to be taken to first settlement bondholders.

PREPA’S plan of adjustment is opposed by holders of over half of its outstanding bonded debt, including GoldenTree Asset Management, Invesco and bond insurers Syncora and Assured Guaranty, in motions submitted to the court in August.

In the motions, Invesco, Syncora and Golden Tree said the debt plan was unconfirmable as it provides disparate treatment to creditors whose rights are similar, if not identical. They said the plan, which would cut bondholders’ debt by 80% to $2.5 billion, improperly classifies various identical claims separately to gerrymander accepting classes, and thus, violates the Bankruptcy Code.

UPR Medical Sciences Campus Chancellor Ilka Ríos Reyes

By THE STAR STAFF

As he had anticipated he would do a few weeks ago, Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago formally demanded that Congress include a new definition of the commonwealth status that would broaden the self-governing powers of the people of Puerto Rico.

“Earlier this year, members of Congress introduced a bill that seeks to address Puerto Rico’s political status in an unfair and undemocratic manner,” Dalmau Santiago said in a letter to various congressional leaders. “Said legislation, HR 2757, is designed to create an artificial majority in favor of statehood, excluding the Commonwealth status and depriving its supporters of voting for their preferred status.”

The PDP leader said any status bill must include in the definition of statehood: the costs of statehood, the effect of federal taxes on debt payment obligations, and the loss of Olympic athletics representation and cultural identity.

In the letter, Dalmau Santiago established what he characterized as five substantive and procedural criteria that any congressional bill to address the status issue must contain.

The Senate president’s letter was addressed to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Appeals Committee Chairman Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Sens. Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).

In the U.S. House of Representatives, Dalmau Santiago sent the letter to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Appeals Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), and Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) and GT Thompson (R-Pa.). The Popular Democratic Party (PDP) leader said the new effort will include visits to the U.S. capital and a push for inclusive language in various congressional offices.

The PDP leader added that the “status bill HR 2757 intentionally seeks to disenfranchise supporters of the current status in Puerto Rico.”

“Worse yet, this measure seeks to impose a mechanism for self-enforcement of the results in Congress, while hiding from voters the harmful effects that a change of status toward statehood would cause to Puerto Rico and the United States,” Dalmau Santiago said in his letter.

HR 2757 does not include relevant information or economic analysis on the transition process for a status change, he insisted.

“It ignores the devastating effects of integrating the federal Internal Revenue Code into the island’s economy, which would undermine our industrial sector, representing half of the island’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP),” the island Senate leader wrote.

Dalmau Santiago said the bill sponsored by the New Progressive Party “ignores the impact that a default on the payment obligations of the recently restructured public debt would probably create due to the elimination of our existing tax code.”

“Also, there is no reference to issues important to Puerto Ricans, such as the permanence of our Spanish language, our proud cultural heritage, and the Puerto Rican Olympic

Committee,” he wrote.

For those purposes, the Senate president demanded from the congressional leadership that any consultation process on the final destiny of the island must rely on five guiding principles.

First: All federal legislation to be considered must be consistent with the requirements established in Public Law 113-76 (PL113-76), the Consolidated Appropriations Law of 2014, which establishes that each status alternative must be previously submitted to the Department of Justice of the United States (DOJ) for its evaluation and validation.

Second: The same DOJ review process must be followed for educational materials, ballots, and the use of the $2.5 million allocated for future consultation.

Third: HR 2757 should be dropped and instead, Senate Bill 4560, introduced last year by Wicker, should be used as a starting point. That bill includes all the status alternatives, corrects the deficiencies of HR 2757, and establishes a fair and organized process for the different options.

Fourth: The issue of the imminent loss of U.S. citizenship by birth under the options of independence and free association must be clearly stated in the text of the legislation, and under no circumstances must there be confusing or manipulated language that attempts to misrepresent that birthright U.S. citizenship is possible if Puerto Rico becomes a sovereign country. The same clarity and certainty must be included in the elimination of federal funds under both modalities of independence.

Fifth: The statehood option must clearly state that the payment of federal tax contributions will be applied in the same way as in the rest of the states and that an indefinite transition process -- in which Puerto Rico becomes a state of the Union with proportional representation but without the application of the Internal Revenue Code -- is not possible.”

Dalmau Santiago announced that soon he will be traveling to Washington, D.C. for meetings on the status issue, as well as on health and education issues, and to promote the creation of a new incentive for manufacturing.

PR Senate president spells out demands for status legislation to Congress House approves resolution to transfer Aguadilla park facilities to municipality

By THE STAR STAFF

The island House of Representatives approved House Concurrent Resolution (HCC) 075 on Wednesday, which transfers to the Municipality of Aguadilla the property and facilities of the Parque Colón de Aguadilla. Parque Colón is currently attached to the commonwealth Department of Recreation and Sports.

“Parque Colón is a place with a lot of history, which has been fundamental in the lives of our citizens,” Aguadilla Mayor Julio Roldán Concepción said in a press release. “The iconic, ‘tree house rehabilitation’ is the main attraction of this park, for which it is recognized and for which it has been part of thousands of family stories for Aguadillanos and Puerto Ricans. The fact that we are advancing in the transfer is a positive step for its recovery.”

The mayor said that for many years, the Municipality of Aguadilla has worked to ensure an allocation of $6.3 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds for the comprehensive

remodeling of Parque Colón.

“We have managed and been allocated more than $6 million to bring this iconic venue into the 21st century era,” Roldán Concepción said. “This project not only represents an investment in infrastructure, but also ends a long controversy of more than 100 years over the jurisdiction of this historic park. Today, we celebrate a momentous day by expanding the territorial boundaries of our beloved city of Aguadilla.”

The approval of HCC 075 will make it possible to turn Parque Colón into one of international caliber, the mayor noted, and will allow it to become, not only a recreation center, but also to host sports, recreational and youth ball events, along with artistic and cultural events, and many other activities that will enrich the quality of life and socioeconomic development of the area.

“I thank Rep. Wilson Román for his support and commitment in leading this project,” Roldán Concepción said. “I also thank the Speaker of the House, Rafael Hernández Montañez, for joining this cause and all the Representatives who voted in

favor of it. I hope that the project will have the same fate in the Senate of Puerto Rico.”

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) (Samuel Corum/The New York Times)

Parque Colón de Aguadilla

Aging & able

Activity club for elders holds inaugural Olympics event

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

It’s no secret that the elderly population in Puerto Rico is growing, not just because birth rates across the island are at an alltime low or because many young people leave the island in search of better opportunities, but also because people live longer than they used to.

To some, this growing population may be regarded as a burden, or as a group of people that should probably stay home and watch TV all day, waiting for their children to come over and visit them once a month or so. However, many of these people are not doing any of that; they are quite active and happy about taking part in different events in the community and having a good time being active. And more than 435 of them got together to do just that on Wednesday at Pedrín Zorrilla Coliseum in Hato Rey.

“These are the first ever Olympics of the Hot Feet group!” a spokesperson told the STAR.

“The Hot Feet group is an initiative of MMM healthcare [and is] included as a benefit from our plan; however, it is important to note that not all Hot Feet members are affiliated with our plan -- anyone over the age of 65 can join the Hot Feet group and have a good time,” the spokesperson added. “These groups are scattered all over the island and dedicate themselves to performing different types of exercises all over the island. We expected 400 people but were surprised to receive over 435 members. Some groups aren’t here, such as ‘sabe rojo,’ otherwise we’d have over 500 members of the Hot Feet group right here easily. This is the first time ever they have all gotten together to do just what they love, which is to be active, because the old people that take part in this are not the stereotypical old man who’s sitting home all day doing nothing, these people like being active and are enjoying life to the fullest.”

“We have been opening more and more spaces,” the spokesperson said. “Our goal with this is to motivate elders to stay active and stay healthy and socialize among themselves, because a lot of times people get to that age and they get isolated from their family and others as well.”

The environment was brimming with elders who didn’t act like they’ve been

working for a long time, or were tired at all. Instead, the atmosphere was very much alive with people dancing and enjoying their time among each other. The conditions at Pedrín Zorrilla were well suited for the elderly population as there was refreshingly cool air conditioning. With heat waves occurring all around the island, it was the right choice.

San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo visited the event and was visibly pleased to be there, shaking hands with members of Hot Feet groups from nearly all the island municipalities that have them -- a total of 18 groups representing 15 municipalities, minus Cabo Rojo.

The mayor was also pleased that the event was held in the well-air-conditioned environs of the coliseum.

“In terms of Puerto Rico, we have a high population of elderly people,” the mayor told the STAR. “Here in San Juan, more than 38% of the population is over the age of 60, the sector of the island’s population that is 65 years or older being the only one that raised its numbers according to the Census of the year 2020. Therefore, our public policies state that it is crucially important that facilities such as these are available for events like this, as well as other facilities in the city. We are the capital of the island; therefore, we must make these facilities available to other municipalities as well.”

“I am very pleased to be enjoying the

Hot Feet event,” Romero added. “If we get to do more of these, they’ll happen here.”

Apart from opening the capital city’s arms to elders participating in such events, the mayor also stated that the city wants to continue incentivizing young people to stay active as well, and continue empowering different sports teams.

Joining the mayor at the event were celebrities such as Raymond Arrieta, the host of two shows on Telemundo, “Dia a Dia” and “Raymond y Sus Amigos,” and Alex DJ, host of the rather popular show “Puerto Rico Gana.”

“I am part of MMM myself. I have

always supported the elderly population,” Arrieta told the STAR. “Not just with our program ‘Dia a Dia,’ which is very much directed toward this group of people so they don’t feel alone, but by participating in these events as well.”

The event had plenty of physical activity games, but also had plenty of other games that required using the brain more than the body.

“Our mission has always been to provide a coordination of integrated health services both mental and physical, and the Hot Feet groups are part of different initiatives to promote physical activity in elders,”

MMM President Ricardo Rivera Cardona told the STAR. “Elders can have an active and healthy lifestyle; especially if they stay physically active and interact with each other, they can have a much more enjoyable and happy life.”

Judging from events like this one, it appears that the elderly community on the island has considerable support from both the public and private sectors. There are options and communities for them in nearly every corner of the island, but the best part of all seems to be that they enjoy it.

“I feel so happy, being here,” participant María de los Angeles said. “I’m with my group, my people, the volunteers are all so young and kind, the facilities are very good and we have so much fun. We need more of that in both the private and public sector, especially for our community.”

“We have to pay attention to this community because there are a lot of us and we still have a lot to give to the island,” she added. “We have to work together with the youth in order to bring Puerto Rico to a good place, using our experience and their strength.”

The environment was brimming with elder citizens who didn’t act like they’ve been working for a long time, or were tired at all. (Photo by Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star)

San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo said “if we get to do more of these, they’ll happen here.” (Photo by Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star)

Ex-leader of Proud Boys sentenced to 22 years in Jan. 6 sedition case

By ALAN FEUER

Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced earlier this week to 22 years in prison for the central role he played in organizing a gang of his pro-Trump followers to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power.

Tarrio’s sentence, stemming from his conviction this spring on charges of seditious conspiracy, was the most severe penalty handed down to any of the more than 1,100 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack — and was likely to remain that way, given that no other defendants face accusations as serious as the ones he did.

Until Tuesday, the longest prison term connected to Jan. 6 had been 18 years. That sentence was issued last week to Ethan Nordean, one of Tarrio’s co-defendants. The same sentence was given in a separate case in May to Stewart Rhodes, the leader of another far-right group, the Oath Keepers militia, who also was found guilty of sedition in connection with the storming of the Capitol.

The penalty imposed on Tarrio at a three-hour hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington was the final sentence to be lodged against the five members of the Proud Boys who were tried on seditious conspiracy charges this year. Three other men in the case — Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola — were each sentenced last week to between 10 and 17 years in prison.

But of all the sentences handed down, Tarrio’s was the most notable — not only because of its length, but also because of what it suggested about the current state of the Proud Boys.

Within days of the Capitol attack, the far-right group became a priority for the FBI’s inquiry into Jan. 6 as investigators quickly determined that dozens of its members had played decisive roles in breaching barricades and assaulting the police.

In a series of separate prosecutions — of which Tarrio’s sedition trial was by far the most important — the Justice Department all but decapitated the group’s national leadership and mostly put an end to its involvement in large-scale and often violent pro-Trump rallies in cities across the country.

But the Proud Boys as a whole survived, persisting in their role as “foot soldiers for the right,” in the words of one member who testified for the government at Tarrio’s trial. In recent years, the group has repeatedly inserted itself at the local level into conflicts over issues like coronavirus restrictions and the teaching of anti-racism in schools, and has taken part in attacks against LGBTQ pride events.

Explaining why he had imposed 22 years, Judge Timothy J. Kelly read aloud the seditious conspiracy statute, noting that it was a “serious offense.” Tarrio, he added, was the “ultimate leader of that conspiracy” and had been “motivated by revolutionary zeal.”

For Tarrio, 39, the sentence ended a brief but belligerent career as a prominent force among far-right groups during a period when they moved from the fringes toward the center of conservative politics. Tarrio was in charge of the Proud Boys, which has long espoused a kind of violent patriarchal nationalism, when Donald Trump famously called it out during a presidential debate against Joe Biden, telling its members to “stand back and stand by.”

A Floridian of Cuban descent rarely seen without his uniform of sunglasses and a baseball cap, Tarrio took control of the Proud Boys in 2018 after the group’s founder,

Gavin McInnes, stepped aside. With longstanding ties to pro-Trump figures like Roger Stone, Tarrio was enough of a celebrity in right-wing circles that even the prosecutors who secured his conviction referred to him in a sentencing memo this month as “a naturally charismatic leader” and “a savvy propagandist.”

As he left the courtroom escorted by federal marshals, Tarrio raised two fingers in a peace or victory sign.

Conor Mulroe, a prosecutor on the case, had urged Kelly to sentence Tarrio to 33 years in prison, saying that a stiff penalty was needed to prevent extremists from attacking the democratic process in future elections. Mulroe described Tarrio as summoning his men to Washington on Jan. 6 and launching them at the Capitol, where they crashed into the building with a “tidal wave of force.”

Still, Tarrio’s situation was unique: He was in Baltimore, not Washington, on Jan. 6, having been kicked out of the city days earlier by a local judge presiding over a separate criminal matter. In that case, Tarrio was arrested on charges of burning a Black Lives Matter banner that belonged to a Black church in Washington after an earlier proTrump rally and of being in possession of two high-capacity rifle magazines bearing a Proud Boys logo.

Prosecutors claimed that Tarrio knew in advance that he was going to be taken into custody through a contact in the Washington police force and “strategically calculated his arrest as a means to inspire a reaction by his followers.” On Jan. 6, Tarrio was watching events unfold from a distance and swapping texts with some of his subordinates as the pro-Trump mob — with the Proud Boys in the lead — overran the Capitol.

Mulroe said that Tarrio has never showed true remorse for the Capitol attack, noting that even as a jury was deliberating his fate he gave an interview in front of thousands of people online declaring that the Proud Boys did nothing wrong on that day.

Tarrio’s lawyers disputed many of these claims, arguing, as they did during the trial, that neither Tarrio nor the Proud Boys had a plan to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“The plan all along was to confront antifa and to protest,” Sabino Jauregui, one of the lawyers said, adding, “Everything that happened after that was not my client’s intent and was not my client’s plan.”

Nayib Hassan, another lawyer for Tarrio, took issue with the government’s attempts to liken his client to “a general controlling his soldiers,” noting that in this instance, the general “didn’t have communication with his troops.”

Moments after his mother begged Kelly for leniency, Tarrio, dressed in an orange prison outfit, apologized for his role in the events of Jan. 6 and said his trial, which lasted more than three months, had “humbled” him.

Some of the other Proud Boys sentenced were similarly contrite in their remarks to Kelly — only to reverse themselves outside the judge’s presence. Last week, not long after telling the judge that he was “a changed and humbled man,” Pezzola raised his fist as he was being led from the courtroom and shouted with a smile, “Trump won!”

Days after weeping at his own sentencing, Biggs called into a vigil being held outside the municipal jail in Washington that houses several Jan. 6 defendants, describing his punishment as “insane” and declaring, “We gotta stand up and fight — don’t give up.”

In an interview with his former boss, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Biggs also said he expected that Trump, if reelected, would pardon him.

Enrique Tarrio, center, addresses a Proud Boys rally alongside Joseph Biggs, right, in Portland, Ore. on Sept. 26, 2020.

McConnell releases new health assurances from the Capitol’s physician

By CARL HULSE

Hoping to reassure his colleagues that he is physically able to continue as minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell released a letter earlier this week

Gobierno de Puerto Rico

El Sr. José L. Alsina, representante autorizado de Vivo Recycling, Inc., sometió ante el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (en adelante, DRNA) una solicitud de modificación de permiso para operar una Instalación de Compostaje Clase 2, que procesa composta Tipo 1. Las actividades contempladas en la solicitud de permiso de operación consisten en el recibo, manejo, procesamiento y compostaje de desperdicios sólidos no peligrosos, tales como paletas de madera, material vegetativo, residuos de cultivo y picadillo de tabaco provenientes del sector doméstico, comercial, industrial, institucional y gubernamental (agencias estatales, federales y municipios). Esta instalación está ubicada en Carr. 1 Km. 32.3 (interior), Bo. Bairoa, Caguas PR.

La modificación consiste en incorporar al proceso de compostaje, temporalmente, material compostable Tipo 2, tales como: sobras de comida preparada, carnes crudas, lácteos, harinas crudas, harinas preparadas y utensilios compostables

El Reglamento para el Diseño y Operación de Instalaciones de Compostaje (en adelante, RDOIC), establece en el Capítulo V, Regla 31, Inciso J(e) el requisito de solicitar la modificación de un permiso a solicitud del poseedor del permiso o por iniciativa del DRNA.

Luego de evaluar los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de emitir la modificación al permiso de operación.

Copia de la solicitud de permiso, al igual que el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes al caso, están a la disposición del público para ser examinados en el Área Contaminación de Terrenos del DRNA, ubicado en la Carr. 8838 Km. 6.3, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras de 8:00 a.m. a 4:30 p.m., de lunes a viernes.

Cualquier persona interesada podrá someter comentarios por escrito sobre el borrador del permiso y podrá solicitar una vista pública. Toda solicitud de vista pública deberá hacerse por escrito y deberá ser debidamente fundamentada y exponer la naturaleza de los planteamientos que se levantarán en la vista. El DRNA podrá celebrar una vista pública de forma discrecional. Toda solicitud deberá ser dirigida al Área Contaminación de Terrenos, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Ave. Ponce de León, San Juan PR 00926, no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Aviso.

Este anuncio se publica conforme a lo requerido por la Ley Núm. 38-2017, conocida como la “Ley de .Procedimiento Administrativo Uniforme del Gobierno de Puerto Rico”, la Ley Núm. 416-2004, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley sobre Política Pública Ambiental”, los reglamentos aprobados a su amparo; y las leyes y reglamentos federales aplicables.

from the attending physician of Congress declaring that an examination and tests had ruled out a stroke or seizure as causes of his recent on-camera medical episodes.

In the letter, Dr. Brian Monahan, the Navy rear admiral who serves as the on-site doctor in the Capitol for members of Congress and the Supreme Court, said his examination of McConnell, R-Ky. — along with a brain MRI, an electroencephalogram study and a neurological consultation — had found no sign of a seizure disorder or stroke.

Both possibilities and others have been raised by medical professionals who watched video of McConnell inexplicably freezing up during a news conference last week as well as a similar episode at the Capitol in July.

“There is no evidence that you have a seizure disorder or that you experienced a stroke, TIA or movement disorder such as Parkinson’s disease,” the letter said, using a shorthand for transient ischemic attack, a kind of ministroke. “There are no changes recommended in treatment protocols as you continue recovery from your March 2023 fall.”

McConnell and his aides have attributed both alarming medical episodes to lightheadedness stemming from a concussion he suffered after a serious fall at a Washington hotel in March, as well as being dehydrated at the time of his appearances. Monahan cited a similar reason when he issued a letter after McConnell’s incident last week before having examined him or conducted any tests.

With the Senate returning Tuesday after the extended August break, Republicans gathered for the first time since McConnell’s latest public incident, which has raised quiet questions about his ability to lead Senate Republicans and spurred speculation about a possible succession. The release of the second medical note from the Capitol

physician appeared to be an effort to head off any real action regarding his leadership and to show colleagues he was not hiding the true extent of his medical condition.

As he entered the Senate chamber Tuesday, McConnell did not respond to questions from reporters about his health, but he obliquely addressed it on the floor as he talked about the busy schedule he kept in Kentucky during the past month.

“Now one particular moment of my time back home has received its fair share of attention in the press over the past week, but I assure you August was a busy and productive month for me and my staff back in the commonwealth,” he said as he ticked off events from his recess schedule.

Democrats made it a point to welcome McConnell back.

“I’m glad to see him back and doing well,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader.

So far, few senators have publicly called for any discussion of McConnell’s health, and most Republicans who have spoken have been supportive of him.

But Tuesday evening, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who supported an unsuccessful challenge to McConnell last year by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., raised questions.

“I don’t know; I’m concerned about it,” Hawley said. “There were 11 of us who didn’t support him a few months ago. If you’re asking me if I’m concerned about his health: yeah, of course.”

Senate Republicans are scheduled to gather Wednesday for their first private luncheon since July, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas and a close ally of McConnell, said he expected the party leader to discuss his health status.

“I’m confident there’ll be some conversations or meetings,” said Cornyn, who added he welcomed the new letter from the Capitol physician and the additional medical information.

“He feels good,” Cornyn said about McConnell. “He feels like he’s up to his job. But these two episodes, which obviously rattled everybody — it’s just taking longer than I think he anticipated to recover from the concussion.”

After last week’s incident, McConnell called numerous senators to try to allay fears about his health. He told them that the incidents were clearly side effects of his fall and had only happened twice, though each time had been in front of television cameras present to record his remarks to the media.

Monahan rarely speaks in public about his job — and almost never about the medical condition of a member of Congress — strongly suggesting that the pair of brief statements he has written up about McConnell’s condition over the past few days were solicited by the senator.

“He wouldn’t have released the letter if he didn’t want that issue to be laid to rest,” Cornyn said Tuesday of McConnell.

An internal medicine, hematology and medical oncology doctor, Monahan has served as the attending physician since 2009, when he was nominated to the post by President Barack Obama.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) during a weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on July 26, 2023.

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Federal court again strikes down Alabama’s congressional map

By EMILY COCHRANE

Apanel of federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest congressional map earlier this week, ruling that a new map needed to be drawn because Republican lawmakers had failed to comply with orders to create a second majority-Black district or something “close to it.”

In a sharp rebuke, the judges ordered that the new map be independently drawn, taking the responsibility away from the Republican-controlled Legislature while chastising state officials who “ultimately did not even nurture the ambition to provide the required remedy.”

The Legislature had hastily pushed through a revised map in July after a surprise Supreme Court ruling found that Alabama’s existing map violated a landmark civil rights law by undercutting the power of the state’s Black voters. The revised map, approved over the objections of Democrats, increased the percentage of Black voters in one of the state’s six majority-white congressional districts to about 40%, from about 30%.

In its new ruling, the three-judge panel in Alabama found that the Legislature had flouted its mandate under the court’s ruling.

“The law requires the creation of an additional district that affords Black Alabamians, like everyone else, a fair and reasonable opportunity to elect candidates of their choice,” the judges wrote. “The 2023 plan plainly fails to do so.”

Responsibility for a new map now falls to a special master, Richard Allen, a longtime Alabama lawyer who has worked under several Republican attorneys general, and a cartographer, David Ely, a demographer based in California. Both were appointed by the court.

State officials have said that a new congressional map needs to be in place by early October, in order to prepare for the 2024 elections.

The litigation has been closely watched in Washington and across the country, as several other states in the South face similar voting rights challenges, and control of the U.S. House of Representatives rests on a thin margin. Prominent lawmakers in Washington — including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Democrats in the Congressional Black Caucus — have kept careful tabs on the redistricting effort.

“What happened in Alabama this summer underscores the necessity for the

judiciary to continue to be unwavering in its obligations to enforce the critical protections of the Voting Rights Act,” said Eric Holder, the former attorney general and head of the National Redistricting Foundation, the Democratic group that has backed several voting rights-based map challenges, including the one in Alabama.

The Alabama Attorney General’s Office appealed the ruling Tuesday evening.

“While we are disappointed in today’s decision, we strongly believe that the Legislature’s map complies with the Voting Rights Act and the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court,” the office said in a statement.

Lawyers for the state also asked the court to halt its own order and allow the 2023 map to be used during the appeal, arguing that without doing so, “the state will be compelled to cede its sovereign redistricting power to the court so that Alabamians can be segregated into different districts based on race.”

At least one nonpartisan political analysis has predicted that at least one Alabama district could become an election tossup with a new map, given that Black voters in Alabama tend to vote for Democratic candidates.

The decision was joined by Judge Stanley Marcus, who was nominated by former President Bill Clinton; and by Judges Anna M. Manasco and Terry F. Moorer, both named to their posts by former President Donald Trump. (Marcus typically sits on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Atlanta.)

=After the 2020 census, which began the process of setting district lines for the next decade across the country, the Alabama Legislature maintained six congressional districts with a white Republican incumbent. A group of Black voters challenged the map under a landmark voting rights law, given that more than 1 in 4 residents of Alabama are Black.

The Birmingham court said the map would need to be redrawn, but the Supreme Court intervened and said a new map could not be put in place so close to the primary races before the 2022 election.

In doing so, the Supreme Court unexpectedly affirmed the key remaining tenet of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which bars any voting law that “results in a denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of

race.” The court had gutted much of that landmark civil rights law a decade earlier, and many had expected a similar result with the Alabama case.

But in a weeklong special session, Republicans refused to create a second majority-Black district, and shielded their six incumbents from a potentially brutal primary at a moment when the party has only a slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Republicans defended their revised map, calling it a fair attempt to keep counties and communities with similar economic and geographic issues together, while adhering to the Constitution. Democrats and

the Black voters who brought the challenge called it a squandered opportunity to provide equal representation to a historically disenfranchised bloc of voters.

The special master will have until Sept. 25 to produce three proposed plans that comply with the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution, and that include a second district with a Black majority or that otherwise offers Black voters “an opportunity to elect a representative of their choice.”

Objections to those plans can be filed within three days of their submission to the court. If a hearing on the objections is deemed to be necessary, the court will convene one Oct. 3.

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State Senator Rodger Smitherman discussed the redistricting proposal during debate at the statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., in July.

In its first monopoly trial of modern internet era, US sets sights on Google

By DAVID McCABE and CECILIA KANG

The Justice Department has spent three years over two presidential administrations building the case that Google illegally abused its power over online search to throttle competition. To defend itself, Google has enlisted hundreds of employees and three powerful law firms and spent millions of dollars on legal fees and lobbyists.

On Tuesday, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia began considering their arguments at a trial that cuts to the heart of a long-simmering question: Did today’s tech giants become dominant by breaking the law?

The case — U.S. et al v. Google — is the federal government’s first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, as a generation of tech companies has come to wield immense influence over commerce, information, public discourse, entertainment and labor. The trial moves the antitrust battle against those companies to a new phase, shifting from challenging their mergers and acquisitions to more deeply examining the businesses that thrust them into power.

Such a consequential case over tech power has not unfolded since the Justice Department took Microsoft to court in 1998 for antitrust violations. But since then, companies like Google, Apple, Amazon and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have woven themselves into people’s lives to an even greater degree. Any ruling from the trial could have broad ripple effects, slowing down or potentially dismantling the largest internet companies after decades of unbridled growth.

The stakes are particularly high for Google, the Silicon Valley company founded in 1998, which grew into a $1.7 trillion giant by becoming the first place people turned to online to search the web. The government has said in its complaint that it wants Google to change its monopolistic business practices, potentially pay damages and restructure itself.

“This is a pivotal case and a moment to create precedents for these new platforms that lend themselves to real and durable market power,” said Laura Phillips-Sawyer, who teaches antitrust law at the University of Georgia School of Law.

The case centers on whether Google illegally cemented its dominance and squas-

hed competition by paying Apple and other companies to make its internet search engine the default on the iPhone as well as on other devices and platforms.

In legal filings, the Justice Department has argued that Google maintained a monopoly through such agreements, making it harder for consumers to use other search engines. Google has said that its deals with Apple and others were not exclusive and that consumers could alter the default settings on their devices to choose alternative search engines.

Google has amassed 90% of the search engine market in the United States and 91% globally, according to Similarweb, a data analysis firm.

Fireworks are expected at the trial, which is scheduled to last 10 weeks. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, as well as executives from Apple and other tech companies, will probably be called as witnesses.

Judge Amit P. Mehta, who was appoin-

ted by President Barack Obama in 2014, is presiding over the trial, which will not have a jury, and he will issue the final ruling. Kenneth Dintzer, a 30-year veteran litigator for the Justice Department, will lead the government’s arguments in the courtroom, while John E. Schmidtlein, a partner at the law firm Williams & Connolly, will do the same for Google.

The jockeying over the trial has already been intense. The Justice Department and Google have deposed more than 150 people for the case and produced more than 5 million pages of documents. Google has argued that Jonathan Kanter, the Justice Department’s head of antitrust, is biased because of his earlier work as a private lawyer representing Microsoft and News Corp. The Justice Department has accused Google of destroying employees’ instant messages that could have contained relevant information for the case.

Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, said in an interview last month

that the company’s tactics were “completely lawful” and that its success “comes down to the quality of our products.”

“It’s frustrating — maybe it’s ironic — that we’re seeing this backward-looking case and really unprecedented, forward-looking innovation,” he said.

The Justice Department declined to comment.

Rivals have long accused Google of brandishing its power in search to suppress competitors’ links to travel, restaurant reviews and maps, while giving greater prominence to its own content. Those complaints brought scrutiny from regulators, although little action was taken.

In 2019, under President Donald Trump, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission decided to mount new antitrust investigations into tech companies as part of a broad crackdown. The Justice Department agreed to oversee inquiries into Apple and Google.

In October 2020, the government sued Google for abusing its dominance in online search. In its lawsuit, the government accused Google of hurting rivals like Microsoft’s Bing and DuckDuckGo by employing agreements with Apple and other smartphone makers to become the default search engine on their web browsers or be preinstalled on their devices.

“Two decades ago, Google became the darling of Silicon Valley as a scrappy start-up with an innovative way to search the emerging internet,” the Justice Department said in its lawsuit. “That Google is long gone.”

Google’s actions had harmed consumers and stifled competition, the agency said, and could affect the future technological landscape as the company positioned itself to control “emerging channels” for search distribution. The agency added that Google had behaved similarly to Microsoft in the 1990s, when the software giant made its own web browser the default on the Windows operating system, crushing competitors.

A group of 35 states, Guam, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia also filed a lawsuit in 2020 accusing Google of abusing its monopoly in search and search advertising to illegally wedge out competitors. That case will be tried alongside the Justice Department lawsuit, although Mehta threw out many of the states’ key arguments in a ruling last month.

The case — U.S. et al v. Google — is the federal government’s first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, as a generation of tech companies has come to wield immense influence over commerce, information, public discourse, entertainment and labor.

Wall St slides as economic data stokes inflation worries, Apple drags

Wall Street stocks fell on Wednesday after strongerthan-expected services sector data fueled concerns of sticky inflation and interest rates staying higher for longer, while weakness in Apple Inc shares further weighed down the indexes.

The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Wednesday its non-manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 54.5 last month against expectations of 52.5, while a gauge of prices paid by service-sector businesses for inputs increased.

Traders’ bets that the Federal Reserve would pause hiking interest rates at its Sept. 20-21 meeting were 91%, while bets on a pause in November slipped to 46.8% from nearly 57% before the data, the CME FedWatch Tool showed.

“The stronger-than-expected ISM services data shows that investors are still not very skilled at reading the postpandemic tea leaves,” said Carol Schleif, chief investment officer at BMO’s family office in Minneapolis.

While investors have been hoping for interest rate cuts soon, Schleif said the data shows a strong economy and inflation that is not coming down “as fast as the Fed would need to start cutting rates any time in the foreseeable future.”

Earlier in the day Boston Fed President Susan Collins stressed the need for the central bank to “proceed carefully” with its next monetary policy steps.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 235.55 points, or 0.68%, to 34,406.42. The S&P 500 lost 40.09 points, or 0.89%, at 4,456.74 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 179.32 points, or 1.28%, to 13,841.63.

Of the S&P 500’s 11 major industry sectors technology was the biggest decliner, down 1.6%. Defensive utilities was the only gainer, up 0.1%.

Apple was the biggest drag across the three major indexes, down 3.7% after a report that China had banned officials at central government agencies from using iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work.

Other megacaps also declined, with Tesla, Amazon.com and Nvidia down between 1.6% and 3.8% as yields on the 10-year and the two-year U.S. Treasuries moved higher after the economic data.

The S&P 500 barely reacted after the Fed’s “Beige Book” snapshot of the U.S. economy was released, a week ahead of the keenly awaited August inflation data and the Fed’s rate decision on Sept. 20.

The report showed “modest” U.S. economic growth in recent weeks while job growth was “subdued,” and inflation slowed in most parts of the country.

A recent uptick in oil prices has also stoked fears of persistent inflationary pressures that could compel the Federal Reserve to maintain its hawkish stance on interest rates.

Lockheed Martin dropped 4.5% after the U.S. weapons maker trimmed the delivery outlook for its F-35 jets.

Roku climbed 1.9% after the video-streaming company said it would reduce its workforce by about 10% and limit new hiring.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers on the NYSE

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by a 2.38-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.10-to-1 ratio favored decliners.

The S&P 500 posted 3 new 52-week highs and 25 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 33 new highs and 146 new lows.

In the latest week, investors pulled a net $1.4 billion from the sector, the biggest weekly outflow since May 2022. That was only a little more than the net inflow of $1.3 billion to healthcare stocks in the week of Aug. 14, the second-

largest weekly gain since 2008, according to BofA Global Research.

Overall, the healthcare sector - which ranges from health insurers like UnitedHealth to pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer to small biotechs - has received the third largest inflows of any sector year to date, BofA’s data showed. Still, the sector [.SPXHC] is down around 2% year-to-date, one of few areas that have not joined the broad market rally, adding to its appeal among bargain hunters.

“If you continue to see money flowing into healthcare then investors are using their feet to march to a more conservative posture given the uncertain outlook for where the economy goes from here,” said Bob Kalman, senior portfolio manager at Miramar Capital.

Key suspect in assassination of Haiti president is set to plead guilty

By DAVID C. ADAMS

Akey defendant in the trial of the men charged in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti is set to plead guilty this week, in what could be a major breakthrough for U.S. prosecutors who are handling the case in Miami federal court.

A change of plea hearing has been set today in the case of a retired Colombian army captain, Germán Rivera, according to court records.

“I am writing to advise that Mr. Germán Rivera is scheduled to plead guilty,” Sarah Schall, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, told the Times.

The guilty plea is widely viewed by legal observers as a sign that Rivera, who was considered a leader of the plot to kill Moïse, is willing to cooperate with prosecutors and testify against the other defendants, an important development that would bolster the prosecution’s case.

Schall would not comment further on Rivera’s plea.

Rivera, 45, initially pleaded not guilty after his extradition from Haiti in February. Prosecutors say he helped recruit a team of about 20 private security contractors accused of killing Moïse in his bedroom shortly after midnight on July 7, 2021.

Rivera could face a life sentence on four charges of conspiring to kidnap or kill Moïse.

On the night of the assassination, Rivera led a convoy of vehicles that assaulted the president’s residence, according to an indictment against 11 accused conspirators. A few hours earlier, Rivera and others had met at a nearby house “where firearms and equipment were distributed,” according to court documents.

Moïse was shot 12 times at close range and died instantly.

About 20 former Colombian soldiers were recruited in May 2021 to travel to Haiti as private military contractors and were initially instructed to provide security for a would-be presidential candidate, Christian Sanon, a Haitian American pastor. The plan later evolved into arresting Moïse and, finally, to killing him, according to prosecutors.

Rivera was in charge of the Colombians and passed along the order to assassinate Moïse to the rest of the team, according to recorded witness statements made to Colombian law enforcement after the assassination and leaked to a Colombian TV station. Most of them were highly trained former Co -

lombian soldiers.

Rivera “is likely to turn state’s evidence and flip against other defendants,” said Emmanuel Perez, who represents Antonio Intriago, the owner of a Miami-area security firm who is also charged in the plot. “It is likely to be the defendants that were on the ground in Haiti on the night of the assassination.”

Rivera would potentially provide prosecutors with a powerful witness, said David Weinstein, a former federal and state prosecutor now in private practice who is not

involved with the case.

Potentially facing life in prison, Rivera could seek a reduced sentence in return for his cooperation, though how much benefit he could receive would be up to the judge, legal experts said. “It would seem that this would provide some leverage,” Weinstein said.

Rivera’s lawyer, Mark Alan Levine, hung up the phone after being contacted by the Times and asked about his client’s reported plea change.

“Rivera is one of the masterminds,” said William Acosta, a criminal defense investigator in New York who was asked by relatives of some of the former Colombian soldiers to research the case in the early stages. “He knows everything. He can break down how everything got started, who was in the meetings, how everything was organized and who gave the orders.”

One of the 11 defendants, Rodolphe Jaar, 51, a business owner and former drug trafficker, pleaded guilty in June and was sentenced to life in prison. A trial date for the other 10 defendants is set for May.

Prosecutors say the conspirators, who plotted in Haiti and Florida, believed they would reap lucrative government contracts once Moïse was out of the way and a new president was installed.

Some of the Colombians were told by a defendant that it was a CIA-backed operation and that all the participants would be immune from prosecution, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit.

Relatives of Rivera in Colombia said they were unaware of his change of plea and expressed shock at the news before declining to comment further.

Since the assassination, Haiti has descended into a spiral of violence and chaos, with no elected government and gangs controlling much of the capital, Port-auPrince, setting homes on fire and launching a wave of kidnappings and killings.

Human rights groups have expressed concern over the inaction of the state authorities in responding to Haiti’s security crisis, which has seen more than 2,400 people killed and over 900 others injured so far this year, according to the United Nations.

In the immediate aftermath of the president’s assassination, the Haitian government arrested more than 40 people in connection to the killing, including 18 former Colombian soldiers. Three other former Colombian soldiers died in a shootout with the Haitian police. Another former Colombian soldier escaped but was later arrested in Jamaica and extradited to Miami.

The other defendants in the case include Sanon; a former Haitian senator, John Joël Joseph; the two owners of a Miami area security firm, Intriago and Arcangel Pretel; as well as a South Florida investor who was accused of financing the operation.

Some of the defendants have been in jail for more than 18 months after they were extradited from Haiti or surrendered to authorities.

A mural depicting the assassinated president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, near the entrance to his home in Pétionville on Sept. 10, 2021. A former Colombian Army captain who is accused of playing a leading role in the assassination of Moïse will change his plea to guilty, a sign that he may testify against his co-defendants.

Haiti has descended into chaos since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on July 7, 2021.

Cuba says its citizens were lured to fight in Russia’s war in Ukraine

By VALERIA SAFRONOVA

Cuba’s government has begun criminal proceedings against a “human trafficking network” that recruited Cuban citizens to fight in Russia’s war with Ukraine, according to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The ministry issued a statement Monday saying that Cuban authorities had begun dismantling the recruiting group for Russia. The statement said the network had intended to “incorporate Cuban citizens living there and even some living in Cuba” into the military to take part in operations in Ukraine.

The statement cited Cuba’s “firm and clear historical position against mercenarism” and said that it was “not part of the war in Ukraine.”

The statement did not say who was behind the trafficking network or how many people had been affected. The claims had not been independently verified, and Russian authorities did not immediately comment.

The Moscow Times reported that a social media account under the name of Elena Shuvalova had for months been posting ads in a Facebook group called “Cubans in Moscow” offering a one-year contract with the Russian army. On Tuesday, the group had nearly 76,000 members. The statement from the Cuban Foreign Ministry did not mention the group.

But Andrés Albuquerque, a Cuban political analyst in Miami, said that President Vladimir Putin of Russia would not recruit in Cuba without the consent of the country’s government and that it was “not possible” for the government not to know about the humantrafficking network.

“In Cuba, that does not exist,” Albuquerque said.

Cuba has been a close ally of Russia since the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The country’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, met with Putin during his official visit to Russia last November, and they have pledged to strengthen what they have called a “strategic partnership.” And when Álvaro López Miera, the head of Cuba’s Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, visited Moscow in June, he was received by his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, who said that Cuba was Russia’s “most important ally” in the Caribbean.

“Our Cuban friends confirmed their attitude toward our country, including demonstra-

ting a full understanding of the reasons for the start of a special military operation in Ukraine,” Shoigu said at the time, according to reports from Tass, a Russian state media agency. There are direct flights between the countries, which have a mutual visa-free arrangement for 90 days out of 180. About 70,000 Russian tourists visited Cuba in the first half of 2023, according to Russian state media, and about 11,000 Cubans visited Russia in 2022, according to the Russian Association of Tour Operators.

It is not the first time that a country has claimed that its citizens were being recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine. In late June, a prosecutor’s office in the Kostanay region of north Kazakhstan issued a statement saying that advertisements attempting to recruit people to “participate in the armed conflict in Ukraine” had been appearing on social media and elsewhere online.

The statement said that mercenary activities were prohibited by the Kazakh Constitution and that serving in military operations in a foreign country was a criminal offense.

Shoigu announced late last year that the ranks of the Russian army needed to be expanded from 1.15 million service members to 1.5 million, and U.S. officials have said that Russia has struggled to attract recruits.

The Russian government has taken a number of measures to bolster its military ranks, including making draft evasion more difficult and raising the maximum age of men required to complete military service from 27 to 30.

A priest blessing conscripted men at a recruiting office in Moscow in 2022. The Russian government has taken a number of measures to bolster its military ranks.

Record rains flood Greece just as wildfires let up

By NIKI KITSANTONIS

Torrential rain unleashed major floods in central Greece earlier this week that submerged streets and wreaked widespread damage, just as firefighters were containing enormous wildfires in the country. One man died, and at least one person was missing.

In neighboring Bulgaria and Turkey, at least six more died in the rain-caused flooding, including two swept away at a campsite in northwest Turkey, two in Istanbul and two on Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea coast, according to The Associated Press. Four more people of a dozen who had been vacationing at the Turkish campsite remained missing Tuesday night.

As Greek television showed semi-submerged cars stuck on flooded streets and vehicles being swept into the sea or onto muddy beaches, police banned traffic in three regions. The ban came a day after warnings by local authorities and Greece’s fire service for people to avoid unnecessary travel during the onset of the wet front, Storm Daniel.

Greece’s fire service said a 51-year-old Albanian national died after a wall collapsed on him; state news media identified him as a cattle breeder who was trying to reach his animals. A 42-year-old Greek man was missing after getting out of his car to try to push his 16-year-old son to safety amid raging floodwaters, a fire service spokesperson, Vassilis Vathrakoyiannis, said by telephone. “The boy was found in the car,” he said. “We’re still looking for the dad.”

The damage came days after major flooding elsewhere in Europe: In Spain, the slowmoving Storm Dana brought exceptional rainfall, leaving a trail of destruction and killing at least five people since Saturday.

On Saturday, two canyon experts drowned in flash flooding in a ravine in the Spanish Pyrenees, according to local news reports, when rain caused the water to increase tenfold in minutes. In Casarrubios del Monte, a village near Toledo that was drenched from Sunday night to Monday, a 20-year-old man died when floodwaters poured into an elevator where he was trapped. Two other victims near Toledo, one of whom was washed away with his car, were located Monday.

Early Monday morning, a 10-year-old was found up a tree he had clung to all night after his family’s car fell into the Alberche River in Aldea del Fresno, a village outside Madrid that was cut off after three of its bridges collapsed and the fourth was closed. The boy had wounds and symptoms of hypothermia, according to local news reports. His mother and sister were found alive, but Spain’s Civil

Guard was still searching for his father.

The storm was expected to wane by Tuesday evening, according to Spain’s weather agency, AEMET. Footage on Tuesday in the Spanish news media showed residents pumping water out of windows and sweeping mud and debris out of their front doors.

In Greece, the floods particularly affected the port of Volos, about 320 kilometers, or 200 miles, north of Athens, and the nearby mountain village of Pelion, with Greece’s fire service receiving 400 calls for help in the

broader area, Magnesia (although most were not emergencies). Video from Volos showed partly submerged cars in streets and people being ferried through floodwaters by rescuers in plastic boats.

In Pelion, a resident, Iro Proia, posted a live video on Facebook showing a car swept out to sea and appealing for help, saying that locals were trapped.

Earlier Tuesday, the mayor of Volos, Achilleas Beos, waded through knee-deep water in the city as motorists sat in partly submer-

ged cars, shouting at them, “Where are you going? This is insane! Go home! We’ve been telling you since yesterday, there’s a lot of water coming! The rivers are going to break their banks.”

The torrential rain came on the back of major wildfires that have been taxing Greece’s fire service this summer, the worst of which ravaged the northern region of Evros for more than two weeks, leaving 20 people dead and turning huge swaths of forest to ash.

Vathrakoyiannis said authorities had been sending messages warning people to stay home since Monday. He said rescuers had moved 10 people to safety in plastic boats and noted that most of the 400 calls for help from the Magnesia region were not urgent. “Many were from elderly people worried that the floods would spread their way,” he said. “Most were not in danger,” he added.

Inland from Volos, the city of Larisa and the town of Kileler in central Greece were also hammered by the storms, with the fire service called to dozens of flooded homes and stores, as was the island of Skiathos, where video showed streets transformed into muddy rivers Tuesday afternoon.

The extent of the damage was unclear, but local news reports said that at least two rivers had broken their banks. Greek state television posted footage of a bridge in Volos collapsing after the River Krafsidonas broke its banks.

The online portal of Greece’s weather service, meteo.gr, said the Pelion area had received 650 millimeters, or more than 25 inches, of rain between midnight and 3 p.m. Tuesday. It noted, for comparison, that the average annual rainfall in the Greek capital was around 400 millimeters, about 16 inches. “We almost couldn’t believe the forecast,” said Konstantinos Lagouvardos, research director at the National Observatory of Athens. “This is a number we’ve never seen before. It’s unreal,” he said.

The entire Thessaly region, in central Greece, also received “a very large volume of rain,” the weather service said.

Although the rain eased Tuesday afternoon, the fire service and local authorities remained on standby, as the stormy weather is forecast to continue through Thursday in Magnesia. Officials’ greatest concern is that more rivers will overflow, the fire service spokesperson said.

Greece’s civil protection minister, Vassilis Kikilias, appealed to people to follow the authorities’ directions, as the crisis was not over. “After a brief easing, it will flare up again in the morning,” he said, calling on citizens to “be careful and not commute.”

As Greek television showed semi-submerged cars stuck on flooded streets and vehicles being swept into the sea or onto muddy beaches, police banned traffic in three regions on Tuesday.

¡Comenzaron las clases en Huertas College y tienen cursos GRATIS para la Escuela de Construcción!

las 1,000 horas de práctica que tienen que hacer. Incluso, estos lugares de práctica se convierten muchas veces en sus empleos”.

Kevin Pagán, profesor del programa de Entrenador Personal:

“Una de las ventajas de este programa es que te permite montar tu propio negocio u ofrecer servicios por tu propia cuenta. Muchas de las personas que se encuentran estudiando son personas que ya son profesionales en otras áreas y deciden estudiarlo para tener otras oportunidades de trabajo”

El martes, 5 de septiembre de 2023, Huertas College dio inicio a su nuevo semestre recibiendo a los cientos de estudiantes que se matricularon en su oferta académica. Como parte de las actividades en su primer día de clases, se le entregaron las nuevas tshirts de Huertas College con el nuevo logo, lanzado el pasado 15 de junio de 2023. En adición, los estudiantes recibieron ofertas exclusivas de suplidores y se tuvo transmisión en vivo de Walo Radio. Para esto, una representación de Huertas College participó de las entrevistas y aquí te compartimos lo puntos más importante de cada una de ellas:

Dr. Isaac Esquilín, presidente de Huertas College:

“Huertas ha evolucionado, comenzó con carreras técnicas, pero ahora también ofrecemos grados asociados y bachilleratos. Es importante destacar que somos una Institución Postsecundaria Acreditada por la “Middle States Comission on Higher Education”.

Valerie Guevara, estudiante del bachillerato en Ventas y Mercadeo:

“Me gradué en febrero de este año de Estética y me encantó el sistema. Volver a retomar estudios en Huertas College en el bachillerato de Ventas y Mercadeo de manera “Online” es algo que es perfecto para mi especialmente por los diferentes roles que tengo en mi vida”.

Rosilma Casillas, profesora del grado asociado en Técnico de Farmacia:

“Como Coordinadora del Programa tenemos contratos con diversas farmacias que nos ayuda a poder ubicar los estudiantes de acuerdo a su interés y accesibilidad, especialmente por

Dra. María del Mar López, directora ejecutiva del Huertas Training Center:

“La Escuela de Construcción surgió en el 2019 como consecuencia del Huracán María para ofrecer cursos tales como: Carpintería, Ebanistería, “Project Management”, Supervisión de Proyecto, Albañilería e Instalación Fotovoltaica, los cuales son GRATIS a través de los fondos de recuperación económica del departamento de la vivienda. Al finalizar los cursos, el estudiante obtendrá una “Blue Card” que certifica que tiene las habilidades y conocimientos para el oficio”.

Norma Santiago, decana de asuntos académicos:

“Huertas cuenta con laboratorios en todos los programas que ofrecemos permitiéndole a los estudiantes poder demostrar las habilidades que aprende en una sala de clase. Otra de las ventajas de nuestros laboratorios es que se utilizan materiales de un escenario real de un ambiente laboral y cabe destacar que al estudiante estar familiarizado con los equipos y laboratorios, puede provocarle un mayor grado de seguridad para ejecutar en sus áreas de práctica”.

Aprovecha su matrícula tardía para estudiar y explora todas las carreras cortas de alta demanda laboral que Huertas College tiene para ti. Para estudiar en uno de sus programas académicos puede llamar al 787-746-1400 extensión 3, visitar su campus, ir a su página web: www.huertascollege.com o escribir a través de su correo electrónico: admisiones@huertas. edu. En Huertas, “el futuro eres tú”. ¡Te esperamos!

Dr. Isaac Esquilín, presidente de Huertas College

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Research in graphic design: Exploring creativity and functionality

By JOHN RIVAS

Research in graphic design is a fundamental component that drives evolution and excellence in this creative discipline. It goes beyond the simple search for information, becoming a vital process to understand, explore, and apply concepts effectively in visual communication.

In essence, research in graphic design is the engine that drives innovation, relevance, and emotional connection in each work. This involves an in-depth and systematic analysis of various aspects surrounding a design project, including understanding the target audience, researching the cultural context, exploring visual and technological trends, and evaluating the effectiveness of visual elements in communication.

Graphic designers explore through in-depth analysis the trends, tools, and methodologies driving graphic design to new frontiers.

One of the most crucial aspects of graphic design research is its ability to inform and guide decision-making. Before beginning to design, the designer enters into a research process encompassing the visual and the conceptual aspects.

The process helps define the tone, message, and aesthetic that will be the foundation of the final work, allowing each optical element to serve a purpose, whether it be conveying an emotion, communicating specific information, or generating a response from the viewer. This process is intrinsically linked to problem solving. Designers are constantly facing creative and functional challenges, and research provides them with the tools to address these challenges effectively. Through analysis, designers can discover innovative and creative solutions that might go unnoticed.

The functionality aspect is another crucial point in graphic design research. More is needed to create visually stunning designs; they must also be functional and able to communicate the message clearly and effectively. Research helps designers understand how users interact with designs, allowing element layout, typography, and visual hierarchy to be optimized for maximum effectiveness.

In short, graphic design research is a dynamic and essential field that explores the intersection between creativity and functionality in visual communication. It dives into the evolution of graphic design from its traditional role to its position in the digital age.

When advertisements were art

By EVE M. KAHN

Between the 1920s and World War II, illustrators and designers slashed bands of color across advertisements to tempt consumers with ever faster modes of travel and cleverer machinery. The era’s frenetic pace of change is vividly represented in posters hung throughout the homes of collectors William and Elaine Crouse, and they have partly denuded their walls to lend 58 pieces to “Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde,” an exhibition that opens Sept. 28 at Poster House in New York City.

Angelina Lippert, Poster House’s chief curator and director of content, described the show as “the first global history of art deco posters hosted at a museum.” The works on view were targeted at potential customers for Japanese trains, American race cars, Swiss clothing, Swedish tires, Dutch glassware, Italian liqueurs, French cigarettes, Cuban cigars, and sports events in Poland, Israel, Argentina and Uruguay.

In one ad from the Crouses’ collection, for Britain’s Imperial Airways, a passenger sinks into an oversize black armchair buoyed by clouds, with stiff drinks at the ready for help enduring days-long hauls to New Zealand and South Africa.

In the exhibition’s poster for the French newspaper L’Intransigeant, Ukraine-born artist A.M. Cassandre silhouetted the face of a newsboy shouting headlines for journalism freshly delivered to his ears by global telegraph networks.

Opulent metallic inks shimmer on the poster surfaces,

amid logos and brief texts in newly invented faceted and squiggly lettering styles. Inspired by the latest experimental art movements, the illustrators abstracted human faces into rectangles and disks and depicted fashionable consumers dressed in cubist patchwork clothing.

Traditional motifs also influenced the designs of the era; in an Australian tourism ad by artist Gert Sellheim, an émigré from Eastern Europe, coral reef-dwelling angelfish emit bubble streams that evoke dot patterns used by Indigenous Australians.

William Crouse, who long worked as a biotech venture capitalist, said that in amassing more than 1,000 posters, he has been particularly drawn to examples with “clean geometric lines and bright colors.” Poster House is borrowing works as vast as Cassandre’s ad for a French furniture store, 13 feet long, with a silhouetted lumberjack felling a tree against a backdrop of twilight sky. A crane was required to remove the poster from a third-floor hallway in the Crouses’ Florida home.

The couple’s other collections include art deco glassware and cocktail shakers, which, historically, were used to concoct and serve drinks with the very same ingredients that the Crouses’ posters advertised. The Crouses have lent their possessions over the years to shows, including an art deco survey that traveled widely after originating at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and a recent retrospective of works by designer E. McKnight Kauffer at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

To fill gaps created by the loans to Poster House, the Crouses have moved pieces out of stairwells and bathrooms

The importance of creativity as a motor of design is highlighted, underlining how innovation and experimentation can influence perception and the effectiveness of visual communication.

This column aims to shed light on the continued relevance of graphic design in an increasingly visual and digital society. It provides a comprehensive view of how graphic design adapts to changing demands and continues pushing the limits of creativity and functionality in visual communication.

John Rivas is a graphic design professor at the University of Puerto Rico-Carolina Campus.

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Juntos nada nos detiene

By KYLE BUCHANAN

“I’ve never even seen that beach!” said Ava DuVernay as she took in the view on Monday at a hotel restaurant on the Lido, the island where the Venice Film Festival is held. Staring out onto the sands, DuVernay smiled. “I’ve been to Venice a couple of times, but I never went to the beach,” she said. “I was more into the canals, but this is fantastic.”

The trailblazing director has come to the festival to premiere her new film, “Origin,” adapted from “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson. Although it was a major bestseller, Wilkerson’s tome doesn’t naturally lend itself to a straightforward narrative film: The book is a sprawling, nonfiction exploration of the ways that caste systems have shaped different societies all over the world, and encompasses Germany’s persecution of Jews in the lead-up to World War II, India’s treatment of its Dalit people, and racism against African Americans in the United States.

To crack the movie adaptation, DuVernay cast Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (“King Richard”) as the author herself, anchoring the story in the period that Wilkerson spent researching and writing “Caste,” even as she dealt with a series of personal tragedies that included the death of her husband (played by Jon Bernthal). “I’d heard about her losses and that really struck me — to be creating this massive work on top of it,” DuVernay said.

Although “Origin” was originally set up at Netflix, the streamer where DuVernay made the Oscar-nominated documentary “13TH” and the Emmy-winning limited series “When They See Us,” she opted to direct it independently to preserve her vision for the film, which included on-location shoots in Germany and India and an opening scene that follows Trayvon Martin on the night he was shot and killed. In advance of the Venice premiere of “Origin” on Wednesday, DuVernay’s company Array announced that the red-hot distributor Neon had picked up the film and is planning a year-end release.

DuVernay is the first African American woman to have a film in competition at Venice, and during our interview this week, she kept spotting and waving to colleagues who had helped realize her vision, including a fellow producer, Paul Garnes, and cinematographer Matthew J. Lloyd. “The whole team came!” she told me, beaming by the beach. “Because we’re indie, we used our miles.”

Here are edited excerpts from our conversation.

Q: “Caste” came out in August 2020. What was going on in your life at that time?

A: It was the summer of George Floyd’s murder, and I was interrogating that in ways that were deeply personal. I had also just lost a loved one to COVID in the early, very scary time of COVID, which I think so many people have just forgotten about. But when you think of the spring and summer of 2020, it was shocking, it was frightening; people were dying alone in hospitals, which was the situation for my loved one. So when I read this book, I found it to have

organizing principles to help me have something to anchor and hold onto as I thought about this crazy world we’re in.

Q: Did the idea of an adaptation immediately present itself when you read it?

A: I have this really bad thing that I do with almost everything I read where I think, “Could this be a movie?” But on this one, I just thought, Well, this is not possible. It was so dense and full-bodied with ideas and there was no linear narrative. It was really the second time I read it that I started to see Isabel in the book. There are some stories she tells that she’s actually in, where I started to think, “Oh, wow, she’s the recurring character in it,” and that was the little seed of the idea.

Q: Did Isabel take some convincing?

A: When I got on the phone with her and told her I wanted to do something, I remember her saying, “Would this be like ‘13TH,’ or a doc series?” She was just trying to figure it out. I said, “It’s a narrative film with actors, and the main character is someone who appears all throughout the book.” She said, “Oh, there’s not really anyone who’s all throughout the book,” and I said, “It’s you.” She got it, because she’s a storyteller. All of these stories and ideas and pieces need to be unified through a character that we root for, someone that we’re emotionally connected to.

Q: “Origin” is the story about how Isabel put together “Caste,” but what is the story of how you put together “Origin”? What obstacles did you face?

A: The obstacles were money. It was originally with a streamer, and I realized that in order to make the film I wanted to make, I would have to make it on my own.

Q: Netflix is a streamer that isn’t normally afraid to spend money.

A: It just was different visions. They were good enough to let it go and let me try to figure it out on my own, which we did in short order.

Q: How different was their vision for this?

A: It would have been more of a group thing, and I was

interested in a singular voice. But I just want to make sure that it doesn’t come across like I’m bashing them, because I’m not. They didn’t have to let it go, and some things don’t match up. I had a really nice run with them.

Q: While making this film about caste systems, is it true you even sought to dismantle castes in the crew, like the conventional naming of first and second units or A and B cameras?

A: I challenged different department heads to look at the hierarchies within our set and really think about what we’re making: What are we saying about the order of people and who’s more valuable? That was really embraced by Matthew Lloyd, our cinematographer, who said, “I’ve noticed on sets that the B camera is where the women or people of color are. Let’s change that, let’s not have a B camera.”

So we just didn’t call it B camera, it was just East or West camera. That’s the idea. Can we get on an equitable playing field? It won’t happen in our lifetimes, but it’s never going to even start if you don’t talk about it and name it.

Q: How did you make the decision to open the movie with Trayvon Martin?

A: That story was so formative for me because Trayvon’s like our Emmett Till. That’s when I felt like it all started, this idea of a movement for Black lives many years before it was called that. I wanted to really crystallize what had been happening to us through the story of this boy, and I don’t want people to forget him because he was the first of this modern era of high-profile cases.

I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that he was just talking to a friend on the phone — one of his girls, it wasn’t even a girlfriend — and how that could be so wildly misinterpreted and criminalized by this schmuck of a guy who was empowered to take his life. It angers me still, so I wanted to pay tribute to him. His mother visited Array, and I showed her those sections because I wanted to get her blessing. A strong lady. The two family members she came with were in tears and she didn’t cry. She just looked at me and she said, “That’s right,” and gave her blessing for it.

Q: In “Caste,” Wilkerson wrote, “It does us no good to pretend that certain ailments have not beset us.” But this is a moment in time when state legislatures around the country are pulling books that examine slavery and racism.

A: I think that’s why you have to do this kind of work. They may not read the book, they may not watch CNN, they may not go to the panel, but they might see one movie. This stuff is going down and we’re just acting as if it doesn’t really matter, but this is the exact same thing that happened in 1930 to ’33 in Germany. So much is happening so quickly that you’re overwhelmed by it.

I mean, taking books off shelves, saying that slavery was good for both sides, basically? These are absurd things that are now being codified in law. The people who know that it’s absurd are not doing enough, so it’s really important for this film to be out at this time when people are making decisions about the leadership of this country. When you look at what happened, it might echo and remind you this is happening now.

How Ava DuVernay made ‘Origin’ an adaptation of the best seller ‘Caste’

Ava DuVernay arriving in Venice. Her film “Origin” was originally set up with Netflix, but they parted ways.

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Jimmy Buffett died of rare form of skin cancer

By BEN SISARIO

Jimmy Buffett died of skin cancer at his home in Sag Harbor, New York, on Long Island, according to a statement on the singer-songwriter’s website.

After Buffett died Friday at 76, his site announced the death but did not give a cause or specify where he died. In an update over the weekend, the website said that he had Merkel cell carcinoma for four years. A rare and aggressive form of skin cancer, Merkel cell is diagnosed only about 2,500 times a year in the United States, and until recent years it had carried a life expectancy of five months.

Buffett’s 1970s hits like “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” which mingled country-rock with bits of calypso melodies and had wry lyrics about the carefree life of boating and loafing at beachside bars, made him a cult hero on a huge scale.

He sold at least 23 million albums in the United States alone, according to the Record-

ing Industry Association of America, on par with Jimi Hendrix and the Beastie Boys. And Buffett’s annual tours — in which he usually appeared barefoot, in a comfy T-shirt or Hawaiian button-down — were hugely successful, drawing millions of fans who sang along, drank prodigiously and called themselves Parrot Heads.

Buffett was one of pop music’s most successful and ambitious business owners, building a huge empire on the brand of good times and island escapism that he sang about in his songs. That included Margaritaville restaurants and resorts, footwear, drink mixes and a 2018 Broadway jukebox musical, “Escape to Margaritaville.”

This year, Forbes estimated his net worth at $1 billion, with $570 million attributed to his tours and recording and $140 million in planes, homes and his shares in Berkshire Hathaway — the holding company founded by multibillionaire investor Warren Buffett, who had been a longtime friend.

Jimmy Buffett died of a rare and aggressive form of skin cancer, Merkel cell carcinoma.

Blue-light

By DANI BLUM

The pitch for blue-light-filtering glasses is compelling: an easy way to counteract that bleary-eyed feeling that sets in after hours of scrolling on your phone or staring at a laptop.

The evidence for them, though, has largely been lacking. And a new review of 17 studies adds to a growing consensus that they probably don’t prevent or relieve eye strain.

The phrase blue light refers to a range of wavelengths of light around us — the sun emits it, and so do screens. Some experts have wondered whether blue light could be behind “computer vision syndrome” — a condition that encompasses the eye irritation and other issues, including headaches and blurred vision, that many people experience after extended screen time. But blaming blue light for this is contentious, said Laura Downie, an associate professor of optometry and vision sciences at the University of Melbourne and an author on the new review.

She and the team found that there appeared to be no benefit to using blue-lightfiltering glasses, compared with just standard lenses, to reduce eye strain. The trials included in the review were relatively small — the largest had 156 participants.

Researchers have long been skeptical that blue-light glasses can curb eye strain, said Mark Rosenfield, a professor at the State University of New York College of Optometry. Previous studies have also typically been small, but several have found that the lenses did not

Here’s what does.

prevent people’s eyes from tiring or getting irritated, and did not appear to improve vision.

The new review found mixed results for blue-light-filtering glasses and sleep: Some studies showed improved sleep scores among wearers, while others showed the opposite. There’s evidence that blue light may also take a toll on sleep by inhibiting our brain’s ability to secrete melatonin, the hormone that gets us ready to rest, said Dr. Raj Maturi, a spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

The amount of blue light that a phone or computer emits is actually quite low, Downie said, which might be why blocking it doesn’t do much to ameliorate eye strain. But if you spend four or more hours a day on a computer, you’re nonetheless at risk for screen-induced eye irritation, she added. The way we use our eyes when we stare at a screen for long periods of time, especially close up to our faces, can cause discomfort.

Downie and other experts recommended a few tips that may help.

Lubricate your eyes: Part of the reason your eyes might ache is that you blink far less when glued to a screen, said Dr. Craig See, an ophthalmologist at Cleveland Clinic’s Cole Eye Institute. This means that your eyes dry out more easily. If you regularly experience eye strain, consider using eye drops three to four times a day, Maturi recommended.

Give yourself a break: Eye health experts often recommend the “20-20-20” rule: Every 20 minutes, take a 20-second break to look at something 20 feet away. This exercise helps

the eye muscles relax, Maturi said. However, some researchers have suggested that 20-second breaks may not be long enough.

Reduce glare: It’s important to consider the light in your entire room, not just the kind coming from your computer. Reflections and glares on your screen can strain your eyes, Downie said. Make sure your computer is positioned to minimize reflections from light sources and reflective surfaces like windows and glass doors.

Placement is everything: Keep the center of your screen just below eye level, and

if you’re experiencing eye strain, try moving your computer farther away — the ideal range is generally around 20 to 30 inches away from your head, Downie said.

The same advice goes for your phone: Your eyes have to work harder when you hold your phone close up to your face, Rosenfield said. Try to hold it at least 16 inches away, he suggested.

Get help: If you’re consistently feeling eye strain, and none of these solutions are working after three or four weeks, seek out an eye specialist, Maturi advised.

If you spend four or more hours a day on a computer, you’re at risk for screeninduced eye irritation, one expert said.

glasses are unlikely to help eye strain.

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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: RÚSTICA: Solar identificado uno (1) en el plano de inscripción radicado en el Barrio Corcobados del término municipal de Hatillo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ochocientos dieciséis punto cuatro nueve dos siete (816.4927) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar del Sr. Angel Medina Roman; por el Sur, con el solar dos (2) en el plano de inscripción; por el Este, con Camino Municipal; y por el Oeste con calle Municipal. Inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 39 de Hatillo, finca 23,989, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 7 del tomo 450 de Hatillo, finca 23,989, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II, inscripción 6ª. Propiedad localizada en: SR 492, KM 2.7 INT., BO. CORCOBADOS, HATILLO, PR 00659. 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: $166,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 10 de abril de 2088. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $166,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, el 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A

LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $111,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se pro-

duce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $83,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, el 25 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 $122,733.18 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $17,967.01 en intereses acumulados al 19 de abril de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,658.46 en seguro hipotecario; $4,080.00 en tarifas de servicio; $560.00 de tasaciones; $120.00 de inspecciones; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $16,650.00, 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 Hatillo, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de agosto de 2023. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL PLACA #657.

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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, ÁNGEL DE JESÚS TORRES PÉREZ, 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 de-

dicada 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 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 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 xxxxx-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 25 de agosto de 2023. ÁNGEL DE JESÚS TORRES PÉREZ, ALGUACIL. LEGAL NOTICE

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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Demandante V.

The San Juan Daily Star

CONOCIDOS SHERYL GARCÍA, ODALYS GARCÍA, PAOLA GARCÍA Y FRANCISCO GARCÍA; FULANO(A) DE TAL Y SUTANO(A) DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: GR2022CV00332. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E. E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 4 de agosto de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente y/o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Toscana situada en el barrio Rincón del municipio de Gurabo, Puerto Rico. El solar se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el numero área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: NUMERO DEL SOLAR: SESENTA (60) AREA DEL SOLAR: CUATROCIENTOS ONCE PUNTO OCHENTA Y SEIS (411.86) METROS CUADRADOS. EN LINDES: POR EL NORTE, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número sesenta y uno (61) de la urbanización; por el Sur, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número cincuenta y nueve (59) de la urbanización; por el Este, en una distancia de quince punto cero uno (15.01) metros, con los solares número sesenta y cuatro (64) y sesenta y cinco (65) de la urbanización; y por el Oeste, en distancia de diecisiete punto noventa y cuatro (17.94) metros, con la calle número cuatro (4) de la urbanización. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto para residen-

cia de una familia. El expresado solar se halla afecto a la (s) Siguiente (s) servidumbre (s): SERVIDUMBRE TELEFÓNICA: FRANJA de terreno de UNO PUNTO CINCUENTA (1.50) METROS, que discurre por parte de sus Colindancias OESTE. Se segrega de la finca número 18163, inscrita al folio 9 del tomo 469 de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. Dirección física: 60 Calle 4, Toscana, Gurabo Puerto Rico 00778-3900. La finca 20,167 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Sun West Mortgage Company, lnc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $145,500.00, con intereses al 4.25% anual, vencedero el 1 de abril de 2048, constituida mediante la escritura número 9, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de marzo de 2018, ante el notario Fernando L. Meléndez López, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Gurabo, finca número 20,167, inscripción 2da. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: A. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 23 de diciembre de 2022, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil número GR2022CV00332, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por SunWest Mortgage Company lnc; versus Sucesión Hilario García también conocido como Hilaría García Pérez, compuesta por Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos, CRIM, por la suma de $147,724.24, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 30 de enero de 2023, al tomo Karibe de Gurabo, finca número 20,167, Anotación “A”. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a SunWest Mortgage Company lnc; por la hipoteca de $145,500.00 total o parcialmente. 1. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a SunWest Mortgage Company lnc, total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 31 de mayo de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el mismo dia. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, asciende a las siguientes cantidades: $147,725.24 de principal al 31 de diciembre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.25% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda. Además, en la escritura de hipoteca, las partes pactaron la suma de $250.00 para costas, gastos

y honorarios de abogados. Asimismo, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente al diez por ciento (10%) del principal para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente al diez por ciento (10%) del principal para cubrir intereses adicionales a los garantizados por ley, según pactado. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue:

PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $145,500.00. SEGUNDA SU-

BASTA: Se celebrará el día 10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $97,000.00.

TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 17 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $72,500.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, 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. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secre-

taría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas, 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 una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fijará además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanzamiento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 19 de agosto de 2023. Ángel Gómez Gómez, Alguacil Placa #593, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Caguas.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 505.

SEA WORLD, LLC H/N/C

SEA WORLD, INC.

Demandante v.

CEVICHE BOWL LLC

D/B/A CEVICHE BOWL Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2023CV01668.

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

EDICTO.

AMARYS VELLISE BOLORÍN SOLIVÁN

A.BOLORIN@LUGOMENDER.COM

A: CEVICHE BOWL LLC

D/B/A CEVICHE BOWL

POR CONDUCTO DE SU AGENTE RESIDENTE Y PRESIDENTE JOSÉ

DA VID ALEXANDER RODRÍGUEZ ESCOBAR

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA

Y POSTAL 12397 S. ORANGE BLOSSOM TRL.

106, ORLANDO, FL 82837

JOSÉ DA VID

ALEXANDER RODRÍGUEZ ESCOBAR POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

ENTRE EL Y SOLIMAR FIGUEROA

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA

Y POSTAL 12397 S. ORANGE BLOSSOM TN.

106, ORLANDO, FL 82837

SOUMAR FIGUEROA POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

ENTRE ELLA Y JOSÉ

DA VID ALEXANDER RODRÍGUEZ ESCOBAR

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA

Y POSTAL 12397 5. ORANGE BLOSSOM TRL.

106, ORLANDO, FL 82837

CÓNYUGE A POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES

GANANCIALES ENTRE

CÓNYUGE A Y JOSÉ

DA VID ALEXANDER

RODRÍGUEZ ESCOBAR

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA

Y POSTAL 12397 S. ORANGE BLOSSOM TRL.

106, ORLANDO, FL 82837

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

EL SECRET ARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 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 31 de AGOSTO de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 31 de AGOSTO de 2023. LAURA l. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. f/NOELIA MA TIAS SALAS, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante v. LA SUCESION DE RUBEN RIVERA ORTIZ Y OTROS Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2023CV02454.

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

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

A: TAYRA RIVERA LOPEZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE RUBEN RIVERA ORTIZ, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE RUBEN RIVERA ORTIZ

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del termino 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 01 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 01 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023.

LAURA l. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. f/MARIA COLLAZO FEBUS, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO

LEGACY MORTGAGE

ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1

Parte Demandante Vs SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN

MARÍA DÍAZ NIEVES

t/c/c CARMEN DÍAZ NIEVES, compuesta por: ANDRÉS ESCOBAR DÍAZ; MARÍA ESCOBAR DIAZ; BETSABETH ESCOBAR DÍAZ; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL Como Posibles Herederos Desconocidos; ANDRÉS ESCOBAR

GALARZA, Por Sí Y Como Cónyuge Superstite; CRIM

Parte demandada

CIVIL NÚM. HU2023CV01042

SALÓN NÚM. 206 SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN

MARÍA DÍAZ NIEVES

T/C/C CARMEN DIAZ NIEVES

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

parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de marzo de 2023, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $44,807.96, más intereses a razón del 6.25% anual, desde el 1 de febrero de 2023, hasta el presente, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal ($6,800.00), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Verdemar situada en el Barrio Punta Santiago del término municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número cuatrocientos sesenta y cinco con un área de trescientos ocho punto veinte metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintitrés punto cero cero metros con el solar número cuatrocientos sesenta y cuatro de dicha Urbanización; por el SUR, en veintitrés punto cero cero metros con el solar número cuatrocientos sesenta y seis de dicha Urbanización; por el ESTE, en trece punto cuarenta metros con la calle número diecinueve de dicha Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en trece metros cuarenta metros con los solares números cuatrocientos ochenta y uno y cuatrocientos ochenta y dos de dicha Urbanización. Contiene una casa de vivienda de hormigón y bloques de hormigón de una sola planta con marquesina y balcón modelo sencillo. Consta inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 283 de Humacao, finca número #11,095. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. SE LE ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que le corresponda en la herencia de la SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MARÍA DIAZ NIEVES t/c/c CARMEN DIAZ NIEVES. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LE APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegacio-

nes responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Humacao, Puerto Rico. A 31 de agosto de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, Secretaria Regional. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE MELQUIADES DEL VALLE LEÓN

Peticionario EX PARTE

CIVIL NÚM.: PO2023CV01702

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

A: SARAHI SUAREZ DE JESÚS Y RUBEN MEDINA

FELICIANO, INMEDIATOS

ANTERIORES DUEÑOS., HEREDEROS, DENOMINADOS FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; Y LAS

PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA

QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL

QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE

POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición 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 en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse

dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. “Solar #37 con residencia de dos pisos construida en concreto y madera con techo en zinc en el Pueblito Nuevo del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 109.970 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte en una alineación de 15.558 metros con el propietario Ana H. Rodríguez; por el Sur en una alineación de 16.192 metros con el propietario Guillermo Cruz Franco; por el Este una alineación de 6.701 metros con propietarios desconocido y por el Oeste en una alineación de 7.187 metros con la Calle #5.” El abogado de la parte peticionaria es la Lcdo. Ernesto Rovira Gándara, PMB 767, 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, PR 00966; Tel. (787)-758-3277; Email: erovira@partnerslegalservicespr.com. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 17 de agosto de 2023. Carmen Tiru Quiñones, Secretaria Regional. F/ Keilene Rodríguez Meléndez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

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

AMERICA

Demandados

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

Al: Público en General

A: NELSON VALENTIN PEREZ, su esposa PAULA ESTHER CAMPOS COLON, también conocida como PAULA ESTHER CAMPOS de VALENTIN y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos; ISLAND FINANCE

PUERTO RICO, por tener Hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $32,116.76;

AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO, por tener Condiciones Restrictivas por la suma de $11,768.00; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, por tener Embargo anotado a su favor por la suma de $6,256.28;

SANTANDER FINANCIAL, INC., por tener Aviso de Demanda anotado a su favor por la suma de $29,322.27.

Yo, ALG. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS. PLACA #924, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER:

Que el día 26 de septiembre de 2023, a las 11:15 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Mayagüez durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 3 de octubre de 2023, a las 11:15 de la mañana y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 10 de octubre de 2023, a las 11:15 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La

propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Solar número Uno (1) radicado en el BARRIO FURNIAS del término municipal de Las Marías, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de SETECIENTOS SESENTA Y SIETE PUNTO CINCUENTA

Y CINCO (767.55) METROS

CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela dedicada a uso público para ensanche de la Carretera número Ciento Veinte (120) que de Mayagüez conduce a Las Marías; por el SUR, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, con el solar número Dos (2) del plano de inscripción; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Pablo Pérez. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 4 del tomo 102 de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, inscripción quinta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Barrio Furnias, Carretera 119, Km. 51.8 Interior, Solar Número 1, Las Marías, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $59,048.42 de principal, intereses al 8.25% anual, desde el 1ro. de junio de 2014, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $8,320.00 estipulada para costas, gastos, y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $83,200.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $55,466.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $41,600.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta a los guientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de Island Finance Puerto

Rico, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $32,116.76, con intereses, al 14.76% anual, vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la Escritura Número 119 otorgada en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de abril de 2004, ante la Notario Público Susan Báez Dixon; inscrita al folio 184, del tomo 184 de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, inscripción sexta. Condiciones Restrictivas a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, a través del Programa “Protegiendo tu Hogar”, por la suma de $11,768.00, sin intereses y vencedero el día 28 de septiembre de 2016, según consta de la Escritura Número 1086 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de octubre de 2011, ante el Notario Público Luis Torres Dávila; inscrita al folio 184 del tomo 184 de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, inscripción séptima. Embargo Federal a favor de Estados Unidos de América, contra Nelson Valentín, Seguro Social Patronal 66-0392458, dirección HC1 Box 2182, Las Marías, Puerto Rico 006709713, por la suma principal de $6,256.28, notificación número 491829508, presentado el día 24 de noviembre de 2008, anotado al folio 109, asiento 4 del libro de Embargos Federales, número 4. Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Aviso de Demanda, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, Caso Civil Número I1CI- 2018-00040, seguido por Santander Financial Inc., versus Nelson Valentín Pérez y su esposa Paula Esther Campos de Valentín, por la suma de $29,322.27, más intereses y gastos, anotado el día 8 de febrero de 2018, al tomo Karibe de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, Anotación A. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para

conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 5 de septiembre de 2023. Alg. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, Placa #924, Alguacil Tribunal, Sala Superior De Mayaguez.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. JAVIER CRUZ COFRESI

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: HU2023CV00970

SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JAVIER CRUZ COPRESI FISICA Y POSTAL: URB. PALACIOS DEL SOL, 367 CALLE HORIZONTE, HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO 007911255 DE: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder 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. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero; la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $9,967.09 por la tarjeta bancaria número xxxxxxxx-xxxx-6442; más una suma por costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Abogado Número 15693 PO Box 194089, San Juan, PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy: 30 de agosto de 2023. Ivelisse C. Fonseca Rodríguez, Secretaria. Keyla Pérez Figueroa, SubSecretaria.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 501. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante v. LARRY RODRIGUEZ VAZQUEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a) REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZ RDIAZ@BDPRLA W.COM Caso Núm.: BY2023CV01955. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ELAINE DIAZ VIDAL, POR SI Y POR CONCEPTO DE USUFRUCTO VIUDAL DE LA SUCESION DE LARRY RODRlGUEZ VAZQUEZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE LARRY RODRlGUEZ VAZQUEZ (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARlO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 31 de AGOSTO de 2023. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 31 de AGOSTO de 2023. LAURA l. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. f/NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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Demandante Vs. LUIS A. MONTES JUSINO

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: GU2022CV00052

SALÓN: 1 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: LUIS A. MONTES JUSINO20 RES. LUIS MUÑOZ RIVERA APT 194, GUÁNICA, PR 00653-2278.

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

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guánica en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de junio de 2023. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 23 de junio de 2023. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Auxiliar. Daisy Quiñones Vázquez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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FUND, LLC

Demandante Vs. DIANELLYS ROQUE PÉREZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00212. Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

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

A: DIANELLYS ROQUE PÉREZBO.

CANOVANILLAS

CARR 3 R 857 K 4 H 9, CAROLINA, PR 00987 / HC 3 BOX 12654, CAROLINA, PR 00987-9635.

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

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de junio de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 26 de junio de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY M. ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. CARMEN D.

GONZÁLEZ LÓPEZ

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: CG2022CV03214

SALÓN: 703 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: CARMEN D. GONZÁLEZ LÓPEZ

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LA JURADO CALLE 5

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00725 / HC 4 BOX 45366, CAGUAS, PR 00727-9653. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EX-

TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de julio de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 6 de julio de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Jessenia Pedraza Andino, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 201. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v. SUCESION DE JOSE RAMON INCLE CARLO, T/C/C RAMON IN Y OTROS

Demandado(a) GENEVIEVE LOPEZ STIPES LCDA.GLOPEZ@GMAIL.COM Caso Núm.: GB2021CV00772. SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA-PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

A: JORGE INCLE DIAZ, CARLOS INCLE DIAZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE MARIA JOSEFINA DIAZ HERNANDEZ T/C/C JOSEFINA DIAZ

INCLE CARLO

HERNANDEZ Y LA SUCESION DE JOSE RAMON

T/C/C RAMON INCLE CARLO

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el

25 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 31 de AGOSTO de 2023. Notas de la Secretaria: SE ENMIENDA

A LOS FINES DE CORREGIR EL APELLIDO INCLE EN LOS NOMBRES QUE VAN A SER NOTIFICADOS POR EDICTO En GUANABO, Puerto Rico, el 31 de AGOSTO de 2023. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Secretaria. F/ Sara Rosa Villegas, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

KARLA MICHELLE

RODRÍGUEZ HORNEDO COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IRAIDA

HORNEDO CAMACHO Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

BELMA ALONSO GARCÍA OFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM

Caso Núm.: CG2023CV02160

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

A: FULANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE IRAIDA HORNEDO

CAMACHO MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO

DESCONOCIDO DE

IRAIDA HORNEDO CAMACHO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

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

MARTINEZ AGOSTO, Secretaria. F/MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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HOMES III, LLC

Parte Demandante V.

SUCESION DE CATALINO ENCARNACION DE LA CRUZ COMPUESTA POR

ELVIS ENCARNACIÓN

VÁQUEZ, JOHNNY ENCARNACIÓN

VÁQUEZ, FERNANDO ENCARNACIÓN

VÁQUEZ, ELLY CORAL ENCARNACIÓN

CARVAJAL, DAVID

ENCARNACIÓN

DEGRACIA, GÉNESIS

ENCARNACIÓN, LILIVETTE ENCARNACIÓN

SARMIENTO (MENOR DE EDAD); FULANO Y FULADA DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA

SUCION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV06856.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE

AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada SUCESION DE CATALINO ENCARNACIÓN DE LA CRUZ compuesta por ELVIS ENCARNACIÓN VÁQUEZ, JOHNNY ENCARNACIÓN VÁQUEZ, FERNANDO ENCARNACIÓN VÁQUEZ, ELLY CORAL ENCARNACIÓN CARVAJAL, DAVID ENCARNACIÓN DEGRACIA, GÉNESIS ENCARNACIÓN, LILIVETTE ENCARNACIÓN SARMIENTO (menor de edad); FULANO Y FULADA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 31 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $110,500.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: 598 SOLFERINO, SABANA LLAMA WARD, SAN JUAN, PR 00924, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: Urbana: solar radicado en el barrio sabana llana del municipio de San Juan, antes Río Piedras, con una cabida superficial de 300.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el norte, en 15.00 metros, con el callejón las palmas; por el sur, en 15.00 metros, con un solar ocupado por el señor Pablo Pizarro; por el este, en 20.00 metros, con otro solar ocupado por el señor Martin Gerena; y por el oeste, en 20.00 metros, con terrenos de la urbanización Town Park.

Finca número 12,338 inscrita en el folio 240 del tomo 287 de Sabana Llana, Registro de San Juan, Sección V. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes:

(i) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de RBS Mortgage Corp., o a su orden, por $110,500.00, al 7.75%, vencedero el 1 de julio de 2036, según Esc. #220, en San Juan, a 6 de julio de 2006, ante Rene Aviles Perez, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca #12338, inscripción 7ma., bajo la Ley #216, asiento abreviado. (ii) Modificada y cancelada parcial par $6,004.17 la hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma., siendo el nuevo principal de $104,495.83, se estipula que la suma de $100,128.03, devengara intereses al 5% durante los primeros 12 meses y durante el término restante al 5 ½%, vencedero el 1 de junio de 2040, la suma de $4,367.80

son las atrasos y no devengaran intereses, vencedero el 1 de junio de 2040, según Esc. #41, en San Juan, a 18 de junio de 2015, ante Aimee I. López Pabón, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca #12338, inscripción 8va., el 12 de enero de 2021. (iii) Demanda del 1 de julio de 2019, radicada en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso civil #SJ2019-CV06856, sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido par Firstbank P.R. vs. Sucesión de Catalino Encarnación De La Cruz, par $99,370.43, anotada al Sistema Karibe de Sabana Liana, finca #12338, el 15 de enero de 2021, anotación A y última. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 7 de febrero de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $99,370.43, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.50% desde el 1 de octubre del 2018, los cuales continúan acumulando hasta el pago total de la obligación; $10,449.58 para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado; los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; una suma equivalente a $10,449.58 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; una suma equivalente a $10,449.58 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $110,500.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS

9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $73,666.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS

9:00 DE LA MAÑANAen el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $55,250.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en

moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de agosto de

2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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SALÓN SESIONES SALÓN 1 HENRY

MILLAN MARTINEZ Demandante V. DAVID APONTE ORTIZ Y OTROS Demandado(a)

MARIA E ROSA DOMENECH MARIAEUGENIAROSALAW@GMAIL. COM

CASO NÚM: CR2022CV00312

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de agosto de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de. 28 de agosto de 2023. En Coamo, Puerto Rico, el 28 de agosto de 2023. Elizabeth González Rivera, Secretaria. F/ Maria Del C. Mercado Fuentes, secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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STRUCTURED SECURITIES

ACQUISITION TRUST 2019-HB1

DEMANDANTE VS.

LEIDA GONZALEZ ROSADO, SUCESIÓN DE EDUARDO SANTIAGO VEGA COMPUESTA POR LEIDA GONZALEZ ROSADO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; R F MORTGAGE; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DE! PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO DEMANDADOS

CIVIL UM.: BY2023CV04766.

SALA: 703. SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO DE EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos de la Sucesión de Eduardo Santiago Vega; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES tenedores del Pagaré extraviado

Por la presente se les notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe en la cual se alega que el pagaré que a continuación se describe se ha extraviado y que no existe tenedor de! mismo ni acreedor por medio de pignoración, y así han solicitado la sustitución del mismo: Pagaré con número de affidavit 24,762 emitido a favor de RF Mortgage o a su orden por la cantidad de $165,000.00 suscrito por Leida Gonzalez Rosado y Eduardo Santiago Vega garantizado por la escritura número 361 otorgada el 29 de diciembre de 2010. ante la Notario Manuel Rivera Meléndez. El inmueble hipotecado para garantizar el pago de! pagaré antes mencionado se describe como sigue:

“URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dieciséis (16) de la Manzana “B” del Plano preparado por la Autoridad sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico, hoy la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para su proyecto de solares denominado Zenón Díaz Varcárcel PRHA- once, radicado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos cuarenta y ocho metros cuadrados con sesenta y seis centímetros de metro cuadrado, en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar B-quince (B-15). distancia de veintidós metros con setenta y siete centímetros (22.77): por el SUR. con servidumbre de paso de la Calle número doce (12), distancia de veintidós metros con setenta y siete centímetros

(22.77) por el ESTE, con servidumbre de paso de la Calle número diecisiete (17), distancia de diez metros con novena y dos centímetros (10.92): y por el OESTE, el solar B-cinco (B-5), distancia de diez metros con noventa y dos centímetros (10.92). Enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales”. Finca número 30,985 inscrita al folio 114 del tomo 818 de Guaynabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: hup mIL1 Jjlaj2j, salvo que se repiesente por derecho propio en cuyo caso debera presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria de! Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención:: Lcda. Genevieve López Stipes, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotara la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 31 de AGOSTO de 2023. LCDA. LAURA L SÁNCHEZ, Secretaria Regional. Ivette M Marrero Bracero, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

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Demandante V.

MIGUEL ANGEL

PEREIRA SUAREZ, OLGA MILAGROS

DIAZ MOLINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandada Civil Núm.: JCD2015-0687. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y GRANTÍAS PERSONALES. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: MIGUEL ANGEL PEREIRA SUAREZ,

By EMMA BUBOLA and RACHEL CHAUNDLER

Spanish soccer star Jennifer Hermoso has filed a sexual assault complaint against Luis Rubiales, the head of the country’s soccer federation, after he gave her an unsolicited kiss in the wake of her team’s World Cup victory in Australia last month, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The criminal complaint by Hermoso clears the way for prosecutors to open a case against Rubiales, who has been the subject of enormous criticism ever since the kiss during a medal ceremony following Spain’s victory over England in the World Cup final Aug. 20.

Prosecutors in Spain opened an initial investigation last Thursday into whether Rubiales could be charged with committing sexual assault and invited Hermoso, who had said that the kiss made her feel “vulnerable” and a “victim of an attack,” to formalize a complaint within 15 days. In Spain, sexual assault is a crime punishable with one to four years in prison.

“It was a necessary step to begin the judicial process,” said Mar Hedo, a spokesperson

for the prosecutor’s office. She said the first phase of the case would come in a few days. There was no immediate comment from Rubiales.

Rubiales has defended his conduct and said that Hermoso had initiated the exchange, but she has maintained that she did not consent to the kiss. Rubiales has also re -

sisted calls to resign from the Spanish soccer federation.

After initially offering an apology the day after the World Cup final, he reversed course, and amid rumors that his resignation was imminent, he said that Hermoso had “moved me close to her body” during their encounter onstage. He accused his critics of targeting for “social assassination” and declared that he would not step down.

The kiss provoked a widespread debate over sexism in sport, most notably in Spain, which is battling a deep-rooted, while declining, culture of machismo. Some commentators have described it as Spain’s #MeToo moment.

The fate of Rubiales, who has been suspended from all soccer-related activity for 90 days by FIFA, the sport’s world governing body, remains in the balance, but another prominent male figure in women’s soccer in Spain has already lost his job.

Jorge Vilda, the coach of the women’s national team, was fired by the Spanish soccer federation on Tuesday, after months of complaints from players who accused him of outdated methods and controlling behavior.

Spain player files official complaint over soccer chief’s kiss Coco Gauff storms into the US Open semifinals

By DAVID WALDSTEIN

Coco Gauff saluted the fans in every direction of Arthur Ashe Stadium in the New York borough of Queens on Tuesday, thanking them for their support through one of the easiest, but also most significant, wins of her young career. She then spread out her arms and with a big smile waved her fingers upward, as if to ask for just a little more love.

That is all Gauff, 19, needs, now, just a tad more support to help accomplish her dream. With only two more victories at this U.S. Open — four sets — Gauff would capture her first major singles title, and for now she is handling the pressure, if she even notices it, with the cool composure of a multiple-time champion.

“I told myself, ‘Man, I should enjoy this,’ ” she said. “I’m having so much fun doing it. I should not think about the results. I’m living a very lucky life and I’m so blessed. I don’t want to take it for granted.”

Winning tends to lead to smiles and Gauff, the No. 6 seed, is playing some of her best tennis, taking full advantage of a favor-

able draw to blaze into a U.S. Open semifinal for the first time.

Under the noon sun Tuesday, Gauff pounded a weary Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia

into near oblivion, 6-0, 6-2, in just 68 minutes to become the first American teenager to reach a U.S. Open semifinal since Serena Williams in 2001.

Williams was also 19 that year. She went on to reach the final, where she lost to Venus Williams, her older sister. Serena Williams had already won the U.S. Open in 1999 and eventually built her total to 23 major singles titles, staking a claim as perhaps the best player in tennis history.

“She’s my idol,” Gauff said of Serena Williams, “and I think if you told me when I was younger that I would be in these same stat lines as her I would freak out. I’m still trying not to think about it a lot because I don’t want to get my head big or add pressure, but it is a cool moment to have that stat alongside her.”

In her semifinal, Gauff will play another eminently beatable opponent, No. 10 Karolina Muchova, who defeated No. 30 Sorana Cirstea, 6-0, 6-3, in their quarterfinal match Tuesday night. Gauff has recent experience against Muchova, a win last month in the final of the Western & Southern Open in Ohio, their only career meeting, helping to make her road to the final, and perhaps her first Grand Slam title, potentially quite smooth. She has

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Jennifer Hermoso warming up before the Women’s World Cup final in Sydney last month. The kiss came in the wake of her team’s victory.

Coco Gauff dropped just two games during her quarterfinal victory over Jelena Ostapenko.

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already avoided a prospective quarterfinal match with topseeded Iga Swiatek after Ostapenko upset her in a late match Sunday night.

When Ostapenko returned to play 36 hours later with the temperature on the court in Ashe above 90 degrees, she was no match for Gauff. Attempting to hit aggressive winners from the beginning, Ostapenko made 36 unforced errors as Gauff played a patient, mature game, allowing her flustered opponent to cave in on her own.

Gauff, who won tournaments in Washington, D.C., and Mason, Ohio, after a first-round loss at Wimbledon, has continued her success on hard courts by rolling through the draw in Queens. She has beaten three unseeded players — including the former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki — No. 32 Elise Mertens and No. 20 Ostapenko. Her biggest test could be No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka, if they both reach the final.

Gauff was unable to watch Ostapenko sweep Swiatek from her path Sunday night because of a cable television dispute with the provider for her hotel. But when she saw the score, she knew that the greatest obstacle to success had simply vanished.

“I was shocked,” Gauff said. “But I knew that I was going to have to go out there and play tennis, regardless of whether I was playing her or Jelena.”

Ostapenko was understandably upset that she had to play so soon after her three-set win against Swiatek. She said she returned to her hotel in Manhattan at about 2 a.m. Monday and did not fall asleep until 5 a.m., buzzing on adrenaline.

She said she had been told after her match that her quarterfinal against Gauff would be at night, and considering Gauff’s popularity, it was reasonable to assume that they would be given that premier time slot. Instead, tournament organizers put them on court at noon, the first singles match of the day. Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton, two popular rising Americans, were given the night stage on Ashe instead, following the Cirstea-Muchova match.

“When I saw the schedule I was a little bit surprised,” Ostapenko said, “not in a really good way.”

Ostapenko also said she had trouble with the sun, and added that she actually expected more from Gauff, even though she won only two games and held serve just once. But her real gripe was with the scheduling.

“I think it’s a little bit crazy,” she said. Gauff, at her post-match news conference, spoke elo -

quently about her place in tennis, about handling pressure, growing up famous and learning from the example set by her grandmother, Yvonne Lee Odom, who integrated Seacrest High School in Delray Beach, Florida, in 1961.

“She always reminds me that I’m a person first, instead of an athlete,” Gauff said.

Gauff has reveled in the support of the fans, who have come to the U.S. Open in record numbers this year, in part to see her.

Ben Shelton advances to US Open semifinal against Novak Djokovic

By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN

There was a time when a U.S. Open quarterfinal match between two bighitting American men could just be referred to as “tennis” rather than as a historic night for the sport in this country.

This is the way the home Grand Slam tournament would always be for the country that has won the Davis Cup, the team event contested by several nations, more than any other. But it wasn’t that way, not for 18 years, and then Tuesday night, two young Black men, Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton, made it so again.

They came to it from different places — Tiafoe, the son of a maintenance man at a tennis center in suburban Maryland, Shelton the son of a former top-60 tour pro who became a highly regarded college coach. During the last year, they have become brothers of a sort, Tiafoe, the 25-year-old veteran who has become one of the most popular players on the tour, guiding the 20-year-old Shelton, who didn’t have a passport a year ago, through his first season as a professional.

“Great guy off the court, but on the court a nightmare to deal with,” Shelton said of Tiafoe over the weekend.

Shelton, the powerful lefty whose serves at nearly 150 mph and 112 mph forehands have become the buzz of the tournament, was right about that.

“Ben has wanted to play me at the Open for a long time,” Tiafoe had said in

discussing his game plan. “Make him play a lot of balls, just try to make it a really tough night for him.”

On a thick, sweaty and breezeless night at Arthur Ashe Stadium in the New York borough of Queens that seemed to get hotter as it wore on, Tiafoe and Shelton put on the sort of tight, nervy show that stretched past midnight and into Wednesday morning.

The U.S. Open is known for its late night spectacles, storied battles that only so many can stick with until the end. It wasn’t that way Tuesday and into Wednesday, as the stadium stayed loud and live and Shelton and Tiafoe traded punches and counter-

punches from start to finish.

When it was over, Shelton had prevailed, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2.

Shelton struck early, playing the first set like a loose, midcareer pro who had done this before, his arm whipping serves and forehands as Tiafoe appeared tight and sloppy, giving up two service breaks and doing much of Shelton’s work for him.

But then Tiafoe reverted to form, resisting playing the match like a testosteronefueled hitting contest. He grinded out points and games and let Shelton cool off and tighten up, as younger players often do, to draw even.

The match turned on a crucial third-set tiebreaker, a seesaw battle that Shelton was on the verge of cruising through before hitting two consecutive double faults. Suddenly Tiafoe, who had given up control of the set a few games before, was on the precipice once more.

Barring an injury or some other calamity, Shelton is likely to have plenty of moments like the one that happened next, with Tiafoe a point away from taking a two-setsto-one lead.

There is a specific sound that comes off Shelton’s racket when he lays into a serve or a stroke like only he and Carlos Alcaraz, the world No. 1, can these days. It’s nothing like the familiar “thwop” of strings hitting a felt ball, but more like a sledgehammer nailing a spike into a railroad tie. Tiafoe’s serve was plenty good. Shelton’s forehand return blasted onto the line inches from the corner. Tiafoe barely moved for it.

“Sometimes you just have to shut off the brain, close your eyes and just swing,” Shelton said.

Two errors later, Shelton had the set and for all intents and purposes, the match, breaking Tiafoe’s serve in the first game of the fourth set and never looking back.

“Left it all out there tonight,” Shelton said. “Emotional battle.”

Next up is Novak Djokovic, the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, in the semifinals Friday.

“Doesn’t get any better than that,” Shelton said.

Ben Shelton will face Novak Djokovic in the semifinal after beating Frances Tiafoe in four sets.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Mind your physical health today, Aries. Don’t push yourself if you’re feeling tired and run down. Seriously consider taking a day off from everything to get the rest your body needs. This can prevent more serious ailments by bolstering your strength and immune system. If you can’t take a day off, consider what you’ll do when you’re forced to take a week because of illness.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Something out of the ordinary may appeal to you, Taurus, especially if life seems dull these days. Nothing says you can’t indulge yourself as long as what you’re considering isn’t dangerous or something you’ll regret. To bring some excitement into your life, just think through the means of attaining it. Perhaps all you need is to try a new sport or go out this evening.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

It’s a great day to set some goals or review existing ones, Gemini. If you don’t have a working list, it’s time you started one. Brainstorm without censorship. Let your thoughts flow and write them down. Then prioritize the list, add the steps needed to reach each goal, and consider the time frame. Map out your life and go where you want.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Make yourself available to someone in need of a friend, Cancer. Don’t turn anyone away even if you’re busy or under the weather. Chances are the person who comes to you needs the advice and support that only you can offer. Listening doesn’t take that much energy, and that may be all that’s required. Leave yourself open to others.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Take care of yourself if you feel tired, Leo. There’s no shame in slowing down or taking a day off if it’s needed. If you can spend a day in bed, go for it. This can be more restorative than you know. If some things must get done, delegate or work on a laptop in bed. Take heed when your body tells you it’s had enough. Give yourself the rest you need.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Music can soothe the savage beast, Virgo. If you feel rather savage yourself, turn on some music. Dance and sing aloud. You’ll be amazed at how this reduces stress and increases energy. Many find it therapeutic when times are tough and emotions run high. Try it for yourself. Expand your listening range to include many musical styles. You’ll be glad you did!

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

If you feel sluggish today, Libra, put on some upbeat music to get you going. Whether it’s your favorite tune or the radio, it will help a great deal. Dance a little or sing while you tend to your work. Housework, filing - just about anything goes more quickly with a little rhythm. It also makes it more fun! Bring some enjoyment to your day.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Try then try again today, Scorpio. It can feel terrible to fail at something. Sometimes you just want to hide rather than face the possibility of humiliation. If success is important to you, you need to overcome your embarrassment and fear. Most people have to try more than once, especially when striving for important goals. Don’t give up. Your goals are worthy of the effort.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Consider talking with a good friend today, Sagittarius. Don’t let your pride get in the way of getting the support and help you need. If you’ve made a mistake or fear you’ve done something wrong, don’t walk around with guilt. Sit down with a confidante over a cup of coffee and share what’s happening. Remember that everyone ends up in positions like this at some time.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

It might be time to face a recent failure, Capricorn. No one is exempt from disappointment, of not succeeding at something. It’s part of reaching a goal, no matter who you are or what you’ve done in the past. Even the most accomplished people have had to face this. You aren’t alone in your feelings. Give it another shot. Things will work out.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Don’t delude yourself, Aquarius. While it can be a real temptation to see what you want to see, there’s danger in doing so. A pipe dream can only last so long. It’s never permanent! Rather than playing this kind of trick on yourself, take off the blinders and face what’s before you. Even if it hurts, it will likely be far less painful now than later.

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Don’t delude yourself, Aquarius. While it can be a real temptation to see what you want to see, there’s danger in doing so. A pipe dream can only last so long. It’s never permanent! Rather than playing this kind of trick on yourself, take off the blinders and face what’s before you. Even if it hurts, it will likely be far less painful now than later.

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