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PREPA bond trustee says it will oppose debt adjustment plan

By THE STAR STAFF

U.S. Bank National Association, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) bond trustee, said it will oppose the utility’s debt adjustment plan as it advised bondholders that they have until June 7 to vote for or against it.

The information is contained in a filing to the markets, according to the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA). June 7 is the deadline for bondholders insured by U.S. Bank National Association to complete an election regarding their treatment and rights, and the deadline to object to the confirmation of the proposed plan. It is unclear how the vote will impact the approval of the debt plan since bondholders account for a significant portion of the utility’s $10 billion debt.

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than its secured claim. The Title III court ruled that the PREPA bond trustee holds an unsecured claim based upon PREPA’s payment and equitable relief covenants in the Trust Agreement.

The Title III court, however, declined to rule that the amount of the PREPA bond trustee’s unsecured claim was equal to the full amount of the bond indebtedness. Instead, the court indicated that it intends to conduct additional proceedings.

“The PREPA bond trustee opposes confirmation of the proposed plan on numerous grounds,” the bond trustee’s filing said. “The trustee currently intends to coordinate with members of the majority bond group to oppose confirmation of the proposed plan and anticipates jointly seeking leave for an interlocutory appeal of the summary judgment order together with the majority bond group.”

On March 22 of this year, the U.S. District Court in San Juan issued an opinion and order in a Lien and Recourse Litigation upon cross motions for summary judgment. In the order, the Title III bankruptcy court rejected the position of the PREPA bond trustee and majority bondholders that the indebtedness evidenced by the bonds is secured by a lien in all of PREPA’s future revenues of the system. Instead, the Title III court granted partial summary judgment in favor of the Financial Oversight and Management Board and ruled that the Trust Agreement only created a security interest in the moneys actually deposited by PREPA to the Sinking Fund, Self-Insurance Fund, Capital Improvement Fund, Reserve Maintenance Fund and Construction Fund.

“This is an adverse ruling because it limits the security interest securing the Bonds to relatively small sums of money that are insufficient to provide a material recovery to Bondholders on account of the PREPA Bond Trustee’s secured bankruptcy claim,” the EMMA publication says.

With respect to the PREPA bond trustee’s unsecured claim based on the bonds and the Trust Agreement, the Title III court rejected the argument advanced by the oversight board and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors that the amount of the unsecured claim held by the PREPA bond trustee could be no greater

“Under the proposed plan, a Class 2 unsecured claim is to receive the same treatment as general unsecured creditors,” the filing says. “... The PREPA Bond Trustee opposes confirmation of the Proposed Plan on numerous grounds, and nothing herein is intended to constitute a waiver or admission with respect to any of the rights of the PREPA Bond Trustee or grounds for opposing confirmation of the Proposed Plan.”

Confirmation hearings on the oversight board’s proposed PREPA adjustment plan under the Title III case are scheduled for July 17-28, according to the document.

Separately, PREPA’s retirees on Tuesday sought a meeting with Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia to discuss the future of the utility’s retirement system, which under the plan will change to a “Pay as You Go” structure.

A filing by U.S. Bank National Association, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s bond trustee, said it would appeal a summary judgment in the Authority’s bankruptcy case “because it limits the security interest securing the Bonds to relatively small sums of money that are insufficient to provide a material recovery to Bondholders on account of the PREPA Bond Trustee’s secured bankruptcy claim.”

Governor vows to find confirmable women’s advocate candidate

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Tuesday that he will seek a candidate for the Women’s Advocate Office “who does not arouse passions.”

“I have to renew the search, look for a suitable person to run that office,” the governor said at a press conference. “As soon as I identify it, I will make that designation. This just happened [interim Women’s Advocate Vilmarie Rivera Sierra’s withdrawal of her nomination last week], and now I have to ask my team to identify candidates. What happened is unfortunate because, well, every time I make a nomination and it doesn’t have the votes of the Senate, it’s a bad thing. Well, for the next appointment, I will have to make a great effort to try to find someone who passes that endorsement. ... It may take me a while because [I have to] try to ensure that the next appointee does not find a stumbling block like the one Vilmarie Rivera just found.”

Asked if Madeline Bermúdez, the new interim women’s advocate, could be formally appointed, Pierluisi replied, “What

I can say is that she has been doing her job, but this is a difficult decision because the person I desire I have to make an almost superhuman effort to please a majority of the Senate.”

“Obviously, this is not easy,” he said. “… I have to find someone who … does not raise too many passions on one side and the other. We have a conservative sector and a progressive or liberal sector in that Senate and I have to try to reconcile this so that they approve someone with the majority of the votes.”

Likewise, Pierluisi recalled other appointees who were rejected by the Senate.

“At all times I defended the appointment. It was defended by my team,” the governor said. “Thank God this has not happened so much. It happened with Larry Seilhamer and it hurt me a lot. It happened with Judge Rodríguez Casillas and it hurt me a lot, to give two examples. Now it happened with Vilmarie Rivera and it also hurt me a lot.”

“Now, hundreds of appointments have been confirmed,” he added. “From time to time these things happen. They are not pleasant in the least and I am going to make a great effort

because I realize what has happened here, to look for a person who will get the 14 votes that are necessary.”

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By THE STAR STAFF

Despite investing thousands of dollars in a social alert application in 2015, the island’s 9-1-1 Emergency Systems Bureau failed to implement it because numerous mistakes had been made in the contracting process, a Puerto Rico Comptroller opinion showed Tuesday.

The comptroller issued an adverse opinion on the fiscal operations of the computerized information systems of the 9-1-1 Emergency Systems Bureau of the Puerto Rico Department of Public Safety.

The tests carried out, as well as the evidence, revealed that officials did not carry out the operations related to the investment and payments for the emergency alert system of the Social Alert platform, in all significant aspects, under the applicable law and regulations.

Social Alert is an application that organizations, agencies and communities use to receive and send emergency alerts using smartphones. In addition, the application allows citizens to report emergency incidents in real time.

The comptroller’s report reveals that the 9-1-1 Bureau invested $167,750 in the acquisition of licensing and implementation of the Social Alert platform, which has yet to be of any use since it has only been in the test phase. In addition, officials failed to install a mobile application, the monitoring portal, the alert reports, and the educational portal.

The Bureau formalized a contract on May 6, 2015, for $869,000 to acquire the license and implement the Social Alert security platform for 9-1-1 emergencies. However, the contract, valid until May 4, 2020, was canceled on Dec. 6, 2016 after an internal audit report was revealed showing that officials failed to obtain certain quotes for the application and that neither a

feasibility study nor a risk analysis study had been done. In addition, in December 2016, the director of the Bureau’s Information Systems Office established that the application was only in the testing stage, that the staff did not participate in the evaluation process, and that officials did not consider the requirements and standards of federal regulations when awarding the contract.

The situation is attributed to the fact that the director and deputy executive director at that time needed to carry out a necessity and feasibility study to analyze whether the platform met their operational and technological requirements. Those officials also did not request or review additional proposals in order to compare and evaluate the costs submitted by the contractor, the report notes.

The audit indicates that the Bureau approved the most costly and advantageous billing for the contractor. The then-executive director signed the contract with a leonine clause in which the Bureau had to pay $92,000 for the planning and development phase of the Social Alert platform, whose license was not exclusive and whose implementation cost $8,000. A leonine clause threatens the balance in contractual benefits, grants unjustified advantages and is contrary to the reciprocity of benefits. The comptroller’s report highlights that the Bureau should have demanded a final product that was functional and adapted to the existing systems.

The audit also reveals that the Bureau paid invoices for the various phases of the Social Alert platform, not to mention the programming carried out to make it functional. In addition, the contracted training sessions did not present the product, did not explain the use of the platform, and were not perceived as useful for call center telecommunications workers.

The audit recommends that the secretary of Justice advise the Bureau to carry out the necessary recovery actions.

commonwealth comptroller’s audit revealed that Public Safety Department officials did not carry out the relevant operations, under the applicable law and regulations, related to the investment and payments for the Social Alert platform’s emergency alert system.

Former Interim Women’s Advocate Vilmarie Rivera Sierra

Comptroller’s report: Costly social alert app for 9-1-1 system not implemented due to botched contract

Pacts signed for 2 federally funded mental health facilities in Bayamón

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Tuesday announced the signing of two agreements totaling $167 million between the island Housing Department and the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (ASSMCA by its Spanish initials), and the Housing Department and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR), for the construction of two new mental health facilities.

Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez signed the agreements with DCR Secretary Ana Escobar Pabón and ASSMCA Administrator Carlos Rodríguez Mateo.

“As part of our statewide reconstruction plan submitted to the federal Department of Housing for CDBG-MIT [Community Development Block Grant Disaster Mitigation] funds, we created the Health Care Reserve in the Infrastructure Mitigation Program,” the governor said at a press conference. “To this program, which is allowing us to create resilient infrastructure in our communities, we allocated $1 billion for the reconstruction of public health facilities.”

The governor added that “today the Department of

Housing and the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration are signing an agreement for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Ramón Ruiz Arnau University Hospital, known as HURRA, in Bayamón.”

“At the same time, today the Department of Housing will also sign a subrecipient agreement with the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation to build the first psychiatric hospital for inmates that will be located in the municipality of Bayamón,” he said.

The multimillion-dollar investment in the two projects comes as part of the $1 billion health care reserve of the CDBG-MIT Infrastructure Mitigation Program.

The Housing secretary stressed that “these important agreements are key to the future of mental health in Puerto Rico.”

“Recovery funds have a great reach and today we see it,” Rodríguez Rodríguez said. “These new infrastructure works will allow us to address the need for alternatives and treatments for Puerto Ricans who need them and do not have the opportunity to receive assistance.”

Campaign aims to raise awareness about dangers of texting while driving

By THE STAR STAFF

Traffic Safety Commission (CST by its Spanish initials)

Executive Director Luis Rodríguez Díaz announced on Tuesday the launch of an educational campaign aimed at raising awareness about the risks of distracted driving.

With the slogan “When you use the cell phone, it is not only your life that is at stake. If you drive and text, you pay”, the campaign will be held through next Monday.

With the allocation of $168,554 in federal funds by the CST, the educational effort will also have the participation of commonwealth and municipal police, who will intervene with drivers who are using their cell phone

while behind the wheel.

“It is imperative that drivers know the consequences of being distracted by driving, which can cause crashes or lead to fines, or in the worst case, end with a negligent fatality,” Rodríguez Díaz said. “Through this campaign, we call for responsibility and respect for the law. We must all be spokespersons. The hands should always be on the steering wheel and the eyes on the road. No call or text message is more important than life itself.”

In addition to warning about the danger of engaging in the act of texting while driving, the objective of the campaign is to change the behavior of the entire population, mainly in drivers between 21 and 36 years old, since statistics show that this demographic is the one that most often engages in the practice.

“It is forbidden to send and read text messages, emails or any other action that distracts the driver’s attention,” the CST chief said. “It is recommended to use ‘handsfree’ systems or stop in a safe place. However, in medical or security cases, generating or answering a call using a hands-free system is authorized. This law applies to drivers, bus drivers, school transportation drivers, truck drivers and motorcyclists. There are no exceptions.”

As for the police effort, it was announced that the commonwealth police will work with municipal police in 18 municipalities to intervene and fine violators of Law 22-2000, as amended, which regulates, among other things, the use of cell phones in motor vehicles, and expressly prohibits all drivers from reading and texting messages while driving.

The participating municipal police forces will be from Arecibo, Barceloneta, Bayamón, Caguas, Camuy, Ceiba, Guaynabo and Hatillo. They are also joined by officers from Ponce, San Juan, Toa Baja, Yauco, Vega Baja, Isabela, Salinas, Cidra and Guayama.

“We have all witnessed drivers who are distracted by using a cell phone, putting their lives and those of other road users at risk,” Rodríguez Díaz said. “Behavior change by citizens must be a collective effort. Let us avoid tragedies; a call or a text can wait.”

The educational campaign can be seen on television, radio, digital media and social networks of the CST as @ CSTPR. More information can be found at www.seguridadeneltransito.com.

Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez

“If you drive and text, you pay”: The Traffic Safety Commission’s educational effort will be augmented by the participation of commonwealth and municipal police, who will intervene with drivers who are using their cell phone while behind the wheel.

Resident commissioner co-sponsors bill to expand high-speed connectivity

By THE STAR STAFF

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón and Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, to which González Colón belongs, are co-leading legislation to eliminate barriers and promote projects that bring high-speed connectivity to disadvantaged communities and urban centers in Puerto Rico and the rest of the nation.

Reps. Tracey Mann (R-Kan.) and Michael Guest (R-Miss.) are also sponsors of the measure.

House Resolution (HR) 1752, the Eliminating Barriers to Rural Internet Development Grant Eligibility (E-BRIDGE) Act, seeks to remove obstacles to broadband projects in grants under the Economic Development Administration (EDA), including challenges that arise in the effort to complete the final leg of connecting to customers. which often delays broadband deployment in rural areas. It also ensures that local communities can partner with the private sector to carry out broadband projects and gives communities more flexibility to meet their financing matching requirements.

“More and more American citizens are regularly working,

buying food and supplies, and receiving critical medical care without leaving their homes, thanks to high-speed broadband connections. These services and skills have become critical for many businesses and job creators. Unfortunately, many of our communities, particularly in rural America, still lack access to broadband. In some cases, just completing that socalled ‘last mile’ is what’s standing in the way of connecting people to a job they need,” Graves said. “The E-BRIDGE Act will help drive projects that attract jobs and businesses to expand economic development and opportunity in rural and poor communities.”

González Colón added that “[i]n rural areas and disadvantaged communities across the nation, opportunities for business development, distance education, remote work and telemedicine are limited by the challenge of bringing high-speed connectivity to that final stretch to homes, small businesses and community institutions.”

“E-BRIDGE is important to bridge the gap between these and developed urban centers,” she said. “Especially, in places like Puerto Rico, where communities are facing disaster recovery, we need to be able to rebuild a more resilient network.”

Governor: Full extent of PRASA hack yet to be determined

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Tuesday that a complete picture of the customers impacted by the cyberattack on the systems of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) is still unknown.

“Well, that’s going to be reported as soon as the investigation reflects the exact number of customers impacted by this cyberattack,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “I mean, this is under investigation. The FBI,

alongside PRITS [Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service], among other entities, is investigating this thoroughly. And it’s becoming as transparent as we can be. As soon as we have more information, we will provide it. Meanwhile, the clients of the Authority are being urged to take a series of measures, such as changing their code keys to access their accounts, and others, and we will continue to do so.”

Asked what measures he will implement to avoid a similar situation in other government agencies and corporations, Pierluisi replied: “A measure that we announced some time

ago and that [is] being implemented, is that we have a system to monitor possible cyberattacks on all instruments, on all personal computers and tablets of government personnel. All those systems right now are under constant scrutiny to detect any possible hacking or cyberattack. In other words, that measure is already being taken.”

“In addition, PRITS is supporting all agencies; we are improving systems as government resources allow,” the governor added. “This is continuous work. What is happening here, happens all over the world.”

TSA balance reduction leads $288 million overall decline in gov’t bank accounts in February

By THE STAR STAFF

Government bank accounts totaled $18.29 billion as of Feb. 28, a $288 million decrease from the previous month, when the accounts had $18.58 billion, a Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority report published in the markets says.

The March 31 unaudited report shows that the overall decrease was mostly driven by a $289 million reduction in the treasury single account (TSA) balance, a $151 million decrease in public corporations and legally separated entities, and a $5 million drop in the central government’s non-TSA balance account.

The summary shows a $155 million increase in restricted accounts and/or those subject to Title III proceedings to $1.4 billion, and a $2 million increase in pension-related accounts.

Regarding the entities with restricted accounts, the report

shows that the liquidity of the Highways and Transportation Authority increased to $213.9 million as of Feb. 28, from $199.8 million as of Jan. 31.

The Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation’s account balance decreased to $1.9 million in February, down from $2.2 million in January.

The bank account balance for the Health Insurance Administration decreased to $523.2 million on Feb. 28 from $742.4 million the previous month.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s balance increased to $1.22 billion in February from nearly $1.08 billion the month before.

The report also included the bank account balances for other entities. The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority’s account balance increased to $1.13 billion in February from $1.11 billion in January, and that of the University of Puerto Rico increased to $417.7 million in February from $380.1 million the previous month.

A March 31 report from the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority shows that the overall decrease in the government’s bank accounts was mostly driven by a $289 million reduction in the treasury single account (TSA) balance, a $151 million decrease in public corporations and legally separated entities, and a $5 million drop in the central government’s non-TSA balance account.

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón

Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony counts

he was not expected to be handcuffed or have his mug shot taken.

When Trump, visibly angry, entered the courtroom, he was accompanied by his legal adviser, Boris Epshteyn, and the lawyers handling this case, Todd W. Blanche, Susan R. Necheles and Joseph Tacopina. Trump declined to speak, despite aides indicating that he might.

The case, brought by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, charges the former president with 34 counts of filing false business records in the first degree, a low level felony that carries a maximum of four years in prison for each count, though if he is convicted a judge could sentence him to probation.

days of the campaign. The payment, which Cohen said he made at Trump’s direction, ensured the porn star, Stormy Daniels, would not go public with her story of a sexual liaison with Trump.

While serving as the commander in chief, Trump reimbursed Cohen, and that’s where the fraud kicked in, prosecutors say. In internal records, Trump’s company falsely classified the repayment to Cohen as legal expenses, citing a retainer agreement. Yet there were no such expenses, the prosecutors say, and the retainer agreement was fictional as well.

By JONAH E. BROMWICH, WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, BEN PROTESS and MAGGIE HABERMAN

Manhattan prosecutors on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of covering up a potential sex scandal during the 2016 presidential campaign, unveiling 34 felony charges that open a perilous chapter in the long

public life of the billionaire businessman who rose to the presidency and now faces the prospect of a shameful criminal trial.

Trump was indicted last week for orchestrating a scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election through hush money to a porn star — becoming the first former American president to face criminal charges.

He surrendered to authorities in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon and later appeared before a judge for his arraignment, where he entered a not guilty plea, a surreal scene for a man who once occupied the Oval Office and is mounting a third run for the White House.

In a remarkable spectacle playing out before a divided nation, Trump’s 11-vehicle motorcade arrived just before 1:30 p.m. at the district attorney’s office, part of the towering Manhattan Criminal Courts Building. While in custody, he was fingerprinted like any felony defendant, but special accommodations were made for the former president: He spent only a short time in custody, and

Amid fears of protests and Trumpinspired threats, the day’s events will be highly choreographed by the Secret Service, the New York City Police Department, court security and the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been investigating Trump for nearly five years. As helicopters circled overhead, the streets outside the courthouse were crammed with the press corps and hundreds of demonstrators, with supporters and critics of the former president assembling at a nearby park, where they screamed at each other from across metal barricades placed to keep the peace.

The case against Trump stems from three hush money deals. One of them involved the National Enquirer, a longtime ally of Trump, paying $30,000 to a former Trump Tower doorman, who claimed to know that Trump fathered a child out of wedlock.

The tabloid made another payment to Karen McDougal, Playboy’s playmate of the year in 1998, who wanted to sell her story of an affair with Trump during the 2016 campaign. She reached a $150,000 agreement with the National Enquirer, which bought the rights to her story to suppress it, a practice known as “catch and kill.”

The final payoff, which is the focus of the indictment, involved a $130,000 deal between Trump’s fixer, Michael D. Cohen, and a porn star in the final

The case might mark only the beginning of Trump’s journey through the criminal justice system. He faces three other criminal investigations related to accusations of undermining an election and mishandling sensitive government records, issues at the core of American democracy and security.

But it is perhaps unsurprising, given the crass and circuslike political era that Trump’s election ushered in — one marked by the elevation of D-list celebrities, uncouth social media posts and a casual relationship with the truth — that his first indictment stems from lies about a tryst with a porn star.

“The trail of money and lies exposes a pattern that, the People allege, violates one of New York’s basic and fundamental business laws,” Bragg said in a statement. “As this office has done time and time again, we today uphold our solemn responsibility to ensure that everyone stands equal before the law.”

For Bragg, a Democrat, a conviction is no sure thing. The falsifying business records charges appear to hinge on a novel application of the law.

And Trump has denied all wrongdoing — as well as any sexual encounter with Daniels — and has lashed out at Bragg with threatening and at times racist language, calling the district attorney, who is Black, an “animal” and summoning his followers to “PROTEST” his arrest. His rhetoric has been reminiscent of his posts in the run-up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Protesters of former President Donald Trump gather in Collect Pond Park across from Manhattan Criminal Court, where former President Donald Trump is expected to be arraigned Tuesday, in Manhattan, April 4, 2023. The former president is expected to appear today in a Manhattan courtroom and plead not guilty to charges related to his role in a hush-money payment to a porn star in the last days of the 2016 presidential campaign.

NASA names diverse astronaut crew for Artemis II moon mission

By KENNETH CHANG

For the first time in more than half a century, NASA has named a crew of astronauts headed to the moon.

Humans have not ventured more than a few hundred miles off the planet since the return of Apollo 17, NASA’s last moon mission, in 1972. After Artemis’ experience on the moon, NASA hopes to chart a path to putting humans on Mars, while scientists expect to use what is found there to answer questions about how the solar system formed.

Astronauts in 2023 are much different from those when the United States was in a race to beat the Soviet Union to the moon. During the Apollo program, 24 astronauts flew to the moon, and 12 of them stepped on the surface. All of them were Americans. All of them were white men, many of whom were test pilots.

This time, the astronaut corps reflects a much wider swath of society.

They are Reid Wiseman, the mission’s commander; Victor Glover, the pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and, Jeremy Hansen, also a mission specialist. The first three are NASA astronauts, while Hansen is a member of the Canadian Space Agency.

“When we were selecting astronauts back then,” Glover said in an interview, “we intended to select the same person, just multiple copies.”

Koch will be the first woman to venture beyond low-Earth orbit, and Hansen, as a Canadian, the first non-American to travel that far.

“So am I excited?” Koch said during an event unveiling the crew at Ellington Field, a small airport used by NASA for the training of astronauts. “Absolutely. But my real question is: are you excited?”

The assembled crowd cheered in response.

The mission is a major step in NASA’s Artemis program to send astronauts back to the surface of the moon to explore the cold regions near the moon’s south pole. Water ice found in deep dark craters there could supply water and oxygen for future astronauts as well as fuel for missions deeper into space.

“Together, we are going — to the moon, to Mars, and beyond,” said Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator.

But the four astronauts aboard this next mission, Artemis II, will not land on the moon.

Instead, the travelers will take a 10-day journey that will swing around the moon and come back to Earth. It is currently scheduled for late next year.

“It’s an exciting time for the Artemis people, no question about it,” Harrison Schmitt, the last surviving astronaut from Apollo 17, said in an interview. He added that many people did not “fully realize that we’re about three generations away from any experience with human beings being in deep space, and that’s probably the most important part of the mission.”

Schmitt, who is also a former U.S. senator from New Mexico, said he was not necessarily surprised that it had taken so long. “I would say I’m disappointed,” he said. “A lot of things conspired to stop the Apollo program and to keep us from going back for quite a while.”

Hansen noted that the United States could have undertaken the Artemis missions by itself but instead chose to pull together an international collaboration with Canada and the European Space Agency. That agreement reserved a seat for a Canadian astronaut on Artemis II.

“All of Canada is grateful for that global mindset and that leadership,” Hansen said.

Glover, who was the first Black man to serve as a crew member on the International

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Space Station, said that diversity was “an important aim of the agency and our partners.”

“But it was also going to happen organically because of the corps that we have that represents America so well,” he said.

As the name of the mission indicates, Artemis II will be the second in NASA’s Artemis program. Artemis I launched last November as an uncrewed test of the Space Launch System, NASA’s giant new rocket, and the Orion astronaut capsule. The Orion spacecraft spent two weeks in orbit around the moon before returning to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific.

After years of delay — development of the rocket took longer than originally promised — the Artemis I mission progressed smoothly for the most part, although some problems occurred. The heat shield of Orion protected the spacecraft during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, but more of it came off than had been expected.

Artemis II, with four astronauts aboard, will allow a full check of the Orion’s life support systems. Then NASA officials will feel more confident in undertaking the longer, more complex Artemis III mission, which will include two astronauts landing near the south pole.

Wiseman, Glover and Koch all said they

were not disappointed that being part of the Artemis II crew rules out the possibility of walking on the moon during Artemis III.

“This is going to probably sound cliché,” Wiseman said, “but just flying on any of these missions is an enormous thing. It’s fantastic. I love the idea of going out past the moon.”

He added, “Watching our astronaut colleagues walk on the moon will be a success for us.”

After a long afternoon of interviews with reporters, the four astronauts left the Johnson Space Center, accompanied by a police escort, to NRG Stadium in downtown Houston to watch the NCAA men’s basketball championship game between the University of Connecticut and San Diego State University.

NASA is currently aiming for that first moon landing to occur in late 2025, but the NASA inspector general has predicted the mission would slip to 2026 or later. The Artemis III mission requires the use of Starship — the giant spacecraft being developed by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company — to take the two astronauts from a distant lunar orbit to the surface. The first test launch of Starship to space might take off in the coming weeks.

An undated photo provided by NASA shows the crew of the Artemis II mission, clockwise from center bottom: Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen.

Millions on Medicaid may soon lose coverage as pandemic protections end

By NOAH WEILAND

In a closet-sized windowless office, Kialah Marshall maintains an Excel spreadsheet with a prosaic title, “Medicaid Unwinding,” the source material for a mind-numbing routine.

Five days a week, she and a group of co-workers in a poor section of Kansas City, Missouri’s largest city, call 75 to 100 Medicaid recipients from a list of about 19,000 who receive care at Swope Health, a federally funded network of health clinics. Their assignment is straightforward: warning those patients that they could lose their health insurance for the first time in at least three years.

“Medicaid is on the line,” Marshall, once a recipient herself, said in that cramped office last week, describing how she delivers the potentially dire news.

As of Saturday, state officials around the country could begin removing people from Medicaid who no longer qualify — something they had been prohibited from doing under a provision in a coronavirus relief package passed by Congress in 2020.

That package offered states additional federal funding in exchange for guaranteeing that recipients of Medicaid, a joint federal-state program that serves low-income people, would retain their health coverage during the pandemic. In part because of that policy, the nation’s uninsured rate reached a record low early last year.

Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program have ballooned to cover roughly 90 million people, or more than 1 in 4 Americans — up from about 70 million people at the start of the pandemic. The guaranteed coverage amounted to an extraordinary reprieve for patients, preserving insurance for millions of vulnerable Americans and sparing them the hassles of regular eligibility checks.

The federal government has estimated that about 15 million people will lose coverage in the coming months, including nearly 7 million people who are expected to be dropped from the rolls even though they are still eligible. Nearly half of those who lose coverage will be Black or Hispanic, according to federal projections.

The changes in eligibility could lead to more people signing up for private coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, where some people who lose Medicaid coverage will be eligible for free plans.

But hundreds of thousands of people could end up in the so-called coverage gap in states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, with incomes too low for subsidized coverage through those marketplaces but too high to qualify for Medicaid.

The speed and mechanics of what Marshall and state and federal health officials are calling the “unwinding” will vary by state. A majority of them plan to take 12 to 14 months to complete the eligibility verifications, with many states beginning to remove people from Medicaid rolls by late spring or early summer. Only five states — Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, New Hampshire and South Dakota — were expected to begin axing people from Medicaid this month, according to the federal government.

Some state officials have argued that the program is merely retreating to its intended size and shape. “We’ll be able to go back in there and say, ‘OK, do you belong? Do you not belong?’” Gov. Michael L. Parson of Missouri, a Republican, said in February.

Annual eligibility checks can save states money by relieving their Medicaid programs of spending on participants who no longer qualify for coverage. But they often result in a cycle that health policy experts call churn, or when people eligible for Medicaid lose their insurance in the confusing, intimidating bureaucracy of enrollment verification, then eventually reenroll.

“Those people don’t have anywhere else to go,” said Jennifer Tolbert, an associate director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She added that the consequences would be severe for people with chronic health conditions for whom a week or a month without insurance could be especially risky.

Researchers have found that most people who lose Medicaid coverage often go without insurance for some period of time, while about 4 in 10 regain Medicaid coverage within a year.

In Missouri, where state officials have warned that as many as 200,000 people may lose coverage, the unwinding could result in a boom-and-bust cycle.

The state expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act during the pandemic, resulting in more than 300,000 new adults with coverage. It now has about 1.5 million Medicaid recipients, half of whom are children.

That growth makes the state a proverbial canary in the coal mine for the rest of the country during the unwinding, said Timothy McBride, a health policy expert at Washington University in St. Louis and the former chair of an oversight committee for the state’s Medicaid program. He pointed to a controversial period in 2018 and 2019, when officials used a new process for verifying Medicaid eligibility to remove more than 100,000 people from the rolls, many of them children. That led to complaints of

unjust removals.

“Have we learned lessons from that period?” McBride asked.

Medicaid eligibility rules vary by state. They can depend on a family’s income, whether someone is raising a child and whether a person has a disability. Millions of children and pregnant women benefit from the program.

For states, tracking down those who are on Medicaid will be daunting, experts say. Some people will have moved, and some will have died. Phone numbers will have changed, making some people hard to reach. Others will be earning more, making them ineligible for coverage.

The so-called continuous enrollment policy requiring that Medicaid recipients retain their coverage was initially set to end with the expiration of the public health emergency for the pandemic, which the Biden administration is planning to allow to lapse in May. But before the administration announced its plans to end the emergency, a spending package that Congress passed in December separated the Medicaid policy from the emergency declaration and established an April 1 starting point for the unwinding.

When lawmakers set that date, they attached guardrails to encourage states to undertake the work gradually. The legislation mandates that states report data monthly to the Department of Health and Human Services on how many people have been taken off Medicaid. It also allows the department to intervene if a state does not comply with federal requirements.

Missouri is starting with people whose coverage would be up for renewal in June, a group of about 100,000. The state is leaning on managed care organizations to work with Medicaid recipients on renewals, but the effort required of the state is still immense. Kim Evans, the official overseeing the Medicaid unwinding in Missouri’s Department of Social Services, said she had about 1,200 government workers available to help.

Those whose status the state is still uncertain about after automatic checks will be mailed letters early next month, and they will have until the end of June to complete renewal forms. If they miss that deadline, they will lose their insurance, but they can still challenge the decision and be reenrolled if state officials determine them to be eligible.

Evans called the work an “all-out assault” to reach people who might otherwise slip through the cracks.

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A flyer encouraging patients to update their contact information for annual Medicaid enrollment at Swope Health’s central facility in Kansas City, Mo. on March 27, 2023. In Missouri, state officials have warned that as many as 200,000 people may lose coverage.

DeSantis and Disney clash anew over Florida theme park’s authority

By BROOKS BARNES

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and The Walt Disney Co. clashed anew earlier this week, with the governor requesting an investigation into Disney’s effort to sidestep state oversight of its theme parks and Robert Iger, Disney’s CEO, blasting DeSantis as “anti-business” and “anti-Florida.”

Shortly before Disney’s annual shareholder meeting, DeSantis sent a letter to Melinda Miguel, Florida’s chief inspector general, asking for “a thorough review and investigation” into Disney’s effort to circumvent his authority.

DeSantis and the Florida Legislature restricted Disney’s autonomy in February by appointing a hand-picked oversight board for a special tax district, enacted in 1967, that has effectively allowed the company to self-govern Disney World. Previously, Disney selected the board members. But the new appointees — and, apparently, the governor — realized only last week that the Disney-controlled board, as one of its final actions, pushed through a development agreement with the company that would limit the new board’s power for decades to come.

The agreement gave Disney vast control over future construction in the district; the new board doesn’t have any say.

“These collusive and self-dealing arrangements aim to nullify the recently passed legislation, undercut Florida’s legislative process and defy the will of Floridians,” DeSantis wrote to Miguel, whom he appointed in 2019. “Any legal or ethical violations should be referred to the proper authorities.” A spokesperson for DeSantis added that “Disney is again fighting to keep its special corporate benefits and dodge Florida law. We are not going to let that happen.”

The new board has hired four law firms to scrutinize the matter and, potentially, take Disney to court.

DeSantis and Disney — Florida’s largest private employer and corporate taxpayer — have been sparring for more than a year over the tax district. It has long enabled Disney to control fire protection, policing, road maintenance and development planning at the 25,000-acre Disney World resort. The designation has been a crucial tool for Disney in developing the resort, which includes four theme parks, two water parks and 18 Disney-owned hotels.

Speaking at the shareholder meeting, Iger denounced DeSantis for moving to restrict Disney’s tax district autonomy — noting that the governor took action only after the company halted political donations in Florida and criticized a contentious state education law. Among many things, the law, called Parents Rights in Education, prohibits classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity for students through the third

grade and limits it for older ones. Opponents labeled the legislation “Don’t Say Gay.”

“A company has a right to freedom of speech just like individuals do,” Iger said. “The governor got very angry over the position Disney took and seems like he’s decided to retaliate against us, including the naming of a new board to oversee the property, in effect to seek to punish a company for its exercise of a constitutional right. And that just seems really wrong to me.”

Iger noted that Disney employs 75,000 people at Disney World, which is about 20 miles south of Orlando, and annually attracts 50 million visitors. Iger added that Disney was “currently planning” to invest more than $17 billion in the resort over the next decade, creating an estimated 13,000 new Disney jobs and thousands of indirect jobs. He said the unspecified expansion plans would attract more visitors to Florida and “generate more taxes.”

“And so our premise is that any action that thwarts those efforts simply to retaliate for a position the company took sounds not just anti-business, but it sounds anti-Florida,” Iger concluded.

In 2021, Disney World paid more than $780 million in state and local taxes, according to a Disney disclosure.

Disney’s annual shareholder meeting, which was held virtually Monday, seemed planned with DeSantis in mind. After a brief introduction by Susan E. Arnold, who is retiring as Disney’s chair, Iger opened the meeting with a video from a sunny Disney World. “We are so proud of Disney’s legacy here in Central

Florida,” Iger said with a smile, with Cinderella’s castle rising in the background.

Iger went on to highlight expansion of the resort, including a new “Tron”-themed roller coaster that will open Tuesday and a new “Guardians of the Galaxy”-themed roller coaster that opened last year as part of a continuing overhaul of the Epcot park.

Just over a year ago, Disney’s response to the Florida education law overtook the company’s shareholder meeting. Bob Chapek, who was Disney’s CEO, tried to explain the company’s shifting response to the legislation — silence followed by soft disapproval followed by more aggressive condemnation. He ended up making things worse. Before the day was over, Disney employees were in open revolt, DeSantis had gone on attack, and the company had been drawn into a humiliating tit for tat with the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group.

Much has changed since then. Chapek was fired. Iger came out of retirement to retake Disney’s helm. Most of the outraged employees have been calmed. Disney and the Human Rights Campaign made up.

But LGBTQ issues continue to be a tricky matter for Disney to navigate. In this hyperpartisan moment, one side of the political divide has been pushing Disney to include same-sex relationships in animated movies; the other has ardently opposed that. One shareholder thanked Iger on Monday for LGBTQ inclusion in films like “Lightyear” and “Strange World.” Another, in a homophobic tirade, begged him to “turn Disney back to the apolitical, family-friendly place that it used to be.”

Ron DeSantis has been battling with Disney for the past year over the governance of its theme park resort.

Wall St slips on recession worries after weak economic data

Wall Street’s main indexes slipped on Tuesday as evidence of a cooling economy exacerbated worries of a recession, with investor bets shifting in favor of a pause in the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes in May.

U.S. job openings in February dropped to the lowest level in nearly two years, suggesting that the labor market was cooling while factory orders fell for a second straight month.

Stocks were volatile after both the sets of data, which were in focus to gauge the strength of the economy and for clues on future interest rate hikes after a recent banking crisis.

Recent data on Monday had also pointed to weakening U.S. manufacturing activity.

“There is a lot of concern out there already because of the problems that the banks have experienced and the potential tightening of credit,” said Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth in Fairfield, Connecticut.

“You combine that with weaker economic data and all of a sudden the Fed is pushed off to the back page and economic data is brought to the front page.”

Sectors closely tied to the economy such as industrials, materials and energy were the top losers on the S&P 500.

Defensive stocks such as healthcare and utilities, considered to hold up better during an economic slowdown, were among the few major sectors in the green.

Traders’ bets are tilted toward a pause by the Fed in May, with odds of a 25-basis point rate hike at 39.8%, compared with nearly 60% before the data, according to CME Group’s Fedwatch tool.

Despite the day’s declines, S&P 500 and the techheavy Nasdaq have gained nearly 7% and 16% so far in 2023, steadying from their worst annual drop last year since the 2008 financial crisis.

At 11:41 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 214.15 points, or 0.64%, at 33,387.00, the S&P 500 was down 22.74 points, or 0.55%, at 4,101.77, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 55.37 points, or 0.45%, at 12,134.08.

Among stocks, Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc tanked 23.4% after the satellite launch company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on failing to secure long-term funding.

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc shares tumbled 22.3% after the movie theater chain said it agreed to settle litigation and proceed with converting its preferred stock into common shares.

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp fell 7.9% after the SPAC linked to former U.S. President Donald Trump delayed the filing of its annual financial report.

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to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 2.51-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

The S&P index recorded 12 new 52-week highs and no new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 53 new highs and 169 new lows.

In crypto currencies, Bitcoin last fell 0.91% to $28,094.00.

US consumer spending rose moderately in February, and while inflation cooled, it remained elevated enough to possibly allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates one

more time this year.

Additional data showed US consumer sentiment fell for the first time in four months in February on concerns of an impending recession, although the impact of the recent banking crisis was muted, reported Reuters. Expectations for a 25 basis point rate hike at its May meeting dipped to about 50%, with no hike seen to be just as likely.

However, Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins said the inflation data doesn’t alter the Fed’s monetary policy path yet, while New York Fed President John Williams said financial conditions will be a key contributor to his thinking about what’s next for central bank interest rate policy.

By STEVEN ERLANGER

Finland’s flag was raised Tuesday afternoon at NATO headquarters, a deeply symbolic moment marking the Nordic nation’s official welcome into the group and the shifting power calculations as the West shores up its allegiances in response to the war in Ukraine.

President Sauli Niinisto of Finland attended the ceremony, on NATO’s 74th anniversary, for the expansion of the organization, which represents a strategic defeat for President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who has made blocking NATO expansion a goal of his leadership.

NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that with Finland now “a full-fledged member, we are removing the room for miscalculation in Moscow about NATO’s readiness to protect Finland, and that makes Finland safer and stronger, and all of us safer.”

Niinisto stressed the significance of the moment for his country, saying, “It is a great day for Finland.” History has many important moments, he added, but “this is the day most historic to us and to our partners.” Russia tried to restrict Finland’s freedom of choice and “tried to create a sphere around them,” he said. “We are not a sphere.”

With Finland’s membership unlocked by Turkey’s vote last week to ratify its entry, NATO’s border with Russia is doubling and the alliance has gained access to a strong military with a deep history of countering its bigger neighbor.

In a statement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed the new member and said, “Finland is stronger and safer within the alliance, and the alliance is stronger and safer with Finland as its ally.”

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early last year, Niinisto judged quickly that Finland’s best protection was to drop its military nonalignment and apply to join NATO.

The ceremony Tuesday came as foreign ministers from the alliance were gathering in Brussels for a two-day meet-

By HELENE COOPER

The United States plans to send Ukraine additional air defense interceptors and munitions as part of a $2.6 billion aid package, part of which will be used to help the country prepare for a planned spring offensive against Russian troops.

The package announced Tuesday includes $500 million in ammunition and equipment from U.S. military stockpiles, and $2.1 billion that the United States will use to buy munitions, radar and other weapons to send to Ukraine in the future.

“Russia alone could end its war today,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. “Until Russia does, the United States and our allies and partners will stand united with Ukraine for as long as it takes.”

US announces additional $2.6 billion in aid to Ukraine NATO welcomes Finland as a member

ing, Finland’s first as a full-fledged member, although many details about how the country, which shares an 830-mile border with Russia, will integrate into the alliance are yet to be determined. Finland’s foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, is among the attendees.

A new Finnish government, still to be negotiated after an election Sunday, will have to decide whether Finland will accept foreign troops on its soil, for example — NATO now has troops in other front-line states with Russia — or even nuclear weapons belonging to allies.

Finnish membership will produce little change for the moment, except for the key psychological boost to the security of Finland and the alliance from NATO’s commitment to collective defense. If Finland should be attacked, it can now call on all members of the alliance for aid, and Finland commits to come to the aid of other alliance members.

Finland must learn to think collectively and adapt its military strategy appropriately, said Matti Pesu, a security expert at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. It must also think through its nuclear strategy and its views toward nuclear arms control, now that it will be covered by the U.S. nuclear umbrella.

Pesu said Finland would continue to deepen its existing defense relationships with countries such as the United States, Britain, Estonia, Sweden and Norway. And its Russia policy will become more centered on collective deterrence than on Finland’s own impressive defense capabilities.

NATO will over time have access to Finnish ports, air space and sea lanes, which will greatly enhance its ability to defend the Baltic nations, as well as Sweden.

Finland’s move to join NATO pulled along a more hesitant Sweden, which submitted its own application simultaneously. But the aim of Sweden joining “hand in hand” with Finland has been thwarted, by Turkey’s objections.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who is up for reelection on May 14, continues to express his displeasure with what he considers Sweden’s inadequate commit-

The $2.1 billion, which is being provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, a funding program led by the Department of Defense, will be used to purchase missiles for NASAMS air defense systems. The money will also be used to purchase anti-aircraft ammunition, mobile laser-guided rocket systems, fuel tankers and other equipment, according to the Pentagon.

The air defense systems in particular are notable as Russia continues to launch barrages of long-range missiles at Ukraine.

Meanwhile, a fierce battle still rages in the eastern city of Bakhmut, which is at the heart of a Russian campaign to seize all of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Russian troops were expected to have taken the city months ago, but the battle has been long, costly and so far indecisive.

ment to fighting terrorism, focusing on those living in Sweden whom Erdogan regards as terrorists, including certain Kurds and others he believes supported a 2016 coup attempt against him. Hungary is also blocking Sweden’s entry.

Nonetheless, Sweden’s foreign minister, Tobias Billstrom, will also attend this week’s meetings in Brussels.

At the ceremony Tuesday, Stoltenberg and Niinisto said they would continue to press Turkey and Hungary to ratify membership for Sweden rapidly. Blinken urged them “to ratify the accession protocols for Sweden without delay, so we can welcome Sweden into the alliance as soon as possible.”

The two-day NATO meeting will focus on Ukraine and how to accelerate the country’s transition to NATOcompatible military equipment and ammunition. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, will also be there.

During the NATO session, the alliance will convene a NATO-Ukraine Commission, a more formal meeting previously blocked by Hungary. That will focus on how to help Ukraine wage a counteroffensive against Russian troops, expected to begin in late spring or early summer, and how to intensify Ukraine’s partnership with NATO in the future, Stoltenberg said.

That will involve looking not just at Ukraine’s immediate defense needs against Russian forces, but also how to help Ukraine modernize and align its military with NATO standards and doctrines.

Ukrainian soldiers fire a 105 mm howitzer at an artillery position of the 80th Air Assault Brigade in the Donbas region of Ukraine, March 5, 2023.

The Finnish flag was raised outside NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday.

Russia accuses dissidents and Ukraine of killing pro-war blogger

By ANTON TROIANOVSKI, ANATOLY KURMANAEV and IVAN NECHEPURENKO

Russian authorities earlier this week detained a suspect in the bombing that killed a popular pro-war blogger in the center of St. Petersburg, and blamed Ukraine and Russian opposition activists for the attack, signaling that the Kremlin could use the explosion to escalate its harsh crackdown against what remains of anti-war activism in Russia.

Police claimed that the suspect, a 26-yearold Russian woman named Daria Trepova, had “opposition views” and had coordinated with Ukraine to deliver explosives hidden in a statuette to the blogger, known as Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, who was speaking at a pro-war gathering at a cafe in Russia’s second-largest city.

Russia’s Antiterrorism Committee also issued a statement claiming, without providing evidence, that the bombing had been planned by Ukrainian intelligence agencies, along with “agents” connected to the movement of Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned Russian opposition leader. Investigators also said that Trepova was a supporter of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.

But an exiled leader of Navalny’s movement, Ivan Zhdanov, described the allegations against his group as outrageous — a pretext to extend Navalny’s prison term even further.

“They don’t just need an absolute external enemy in the form of Ukraine,” Zhdanov wrote on social media, “but also an internal enemy in the form of the Navalny team.”

The bomb exploded Sunday while Tatarsky was giving a talk on his trips to the front line in Ukraine at a venue called Street Food Bar #1 Cafe. At least 25 other people were injured, with 19 hospitalized. Videos posted on social media showed Tatarsky receiving a bust in his likeness onstage shortly before the explosion.

“What a beautiful guy, is that me?” Tatarsky asked the audience before the explosion, according to the footage.

After Trepova’s arrest, Russia’s Interior Ministry posted a short video showing a woman telling interrogators that she had given Tatarsky the statue after receiving it from another person she declined to name. A man identified as Trepova’s husband by Russian news outlets said she had been set up.

Peers of the slain blogger immediately called for retribution for the bombing. And

Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson President Vladimir Putin, said, “Ukrainian intelligence agencies may have had something to do with the planning of this terrorist attack.”

Russia’s unsubstantiated accusations that an anti-war activist had carried out an assault deep within the country came as Putin struggles to gain ground in Ukraine in a war he casts as an existential battle. Some analysts predicted the Kremlin could capitalize on the bombing to further ostracize domestic opponents of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and of Putin himself.

“All participants in anti-war actions will now automatically become potential terrorists in the eyes of not just law enforcement, but also the ‘patriotic’ public,” Tatiana Stanovaya, an analyst for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

The explosion was the most brazen attack on a prominent war supporter inside Russia since the car bombing in August that killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of an ultranationalist ideologue, Alexander Dugin. American intelligence officials later described it as the work of parts of the Ukrainian government, which denied it. Ukrainian officials have dismissed any suggestion that their government was involved in the new bombing.

The explosion Sunday occurred amid escalating drone assaults on Russian territory, along with shelling and deadly raids on regions bordering Ukraine. The violence has begun to expose residents of major Russian cities to fallout from a war that the Kremlin has sought to portray as a distant “special military operation.”

With Ukraine expected to launch a spring counteroffensive, the bombing added to the

rising tension in Russia. A week before, Putin had said he would be able to position nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus by the summer, escalating his threats to use his arsenal.

On Thursday, Russia arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich, based on what are widely viewed as bogus espionage accusations, the first time since the Cold War that Moscow has taken such a step. And on Friday, Putin released a new foreign policy doctrine that accused the West of waging “a hybrid war of a new kind” against Russia.

The cafe where the bomb exploded is owned by the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who said in a Telegram post that he had allowed the venue to be used by a nationalist activist group that organized the event.

Prigozhin said, however, that he did not believe the Ukrainian government was behind the attack against Tatarsky, saying, “This is an act of a group of radicals that is unlikely to have connection to the government.”

Prigozhin said in a statement Monday that he would posthumously induct Tatarsky into Wagner and give his family compensation for his death, “if his loved ones agree.”

Putin also issued a decree Monday bestowing a governmental Order of Courage on Tatarsky for what he called “courage and bravery shown in the fulfillment of his professional duty.”

A friend of Trepova’s, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said that she did not believe that Trepova would knowingly participate in a plot to kill Tatarsky. The young woman did, indeed, support

Navalny, the friend said, but added that she would not describe her as a committed activist.

Trepova, a native of St. Petersburg who recently moved to Moscow, had attended Navalny’s rallies, according to her friend, and online records show that she had signed up to receive information about candidates through an electoral initiative run by the opposition leader.

Court records show that a woman with the same name and birthdate received a 10day jail term last year for participating in a protest on the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A Russian tabloid, Moskovskiy Komsomolets, reported that Trepova was married to a member of the Russian Libertarian Party, which opposes Putin.

The man identified as her husband, Dmitry Rylov, told a Russian libertarian news outlet that Trepova had not known what was inside the statue. Rylov could not be immediately reached for comment. The Russian news reports could not be independently verified.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, had suggested that the attack was a sign of internal fractures in Russian society. Zelenskyy also said Monday, “It is Russia that should think about” what happened in St. Petersburg.

The Ukrainian leader is expected to travel to Poland on Wednesday for an official state visit, the office of Poland’s president announced on Monday. The trip, Zelenskyy’s third outside Ukraine since the Russian invasion last year, comes as Poland made good on its promise to deliver fighter jets to Ukraine.

A memorial for the Russian blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, who was killed in a bomb blast, in St. Petersburg on Monday.

In Paris referendum, 89% of voters back a ban on electric scooters

By TOM NOUVIAN

An overwhelming majority of Parisians who took part in a referendum on rental electric scooters have voted to ban the devices from the streets of the French capital, reflecting exhaustion with a public-transit alternative that was once seen as convenient and climate-friendly but is now largely regarded as dangerous and environmentally questionable.

Relatively few people turned out on Sunday for the referendum — only about 100,000 Parisians voted, less than 7.5% of those eligible — but those who did cast ballots left little doubt about what they wanted: Nearly 89% backed the ban.

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who once backed the expansion of rental electric scooters to cut traffic, led the campaign against them, describing them as a “nuisance.”

Although the referendum, described as a “public consultation,” was nonbinding, Hidalgo, a member of the Socialist Party, said that she was “committed to respecting the results of the vote.”

With the operators’ contracts expiring at the end of August, Hidalgo said, “there will be no more self-service scooters in Paris” come Sept. 1. Privately owned scooters will still be permitted.

Many other cities, including Marseille in the south of France, have been closely watching the vote in Paris as they weigh the future of rental scooters on their own streets. Copenhagen, Denmark, and Montreal banned the electric scooters in 2020, although Copenha-

gen allowed them to return the next year under strict conditions.

International experts say Paris has long been a leader in the evolution of transportation. “Cities that were already planning or interested in banning scooters will now point to Paris as it is the largest city yet to ban them,” said Sarah M. Kaufman, the interim director of the New York University Rudin Center for Transportation.

Paris has been one of the largest markets for rental scooters in the world, recording about 20 million trips on 15,000 scooters in 2022. The same year, though, the national road safety department, Sécurité Routière, said that 34 people had died and 570 others had been seriously injured in France while riding an electric scooter or similar mobility device.

The French National Academy of Medicine called electric rental scooters a “major health problem.”

“We consider it a victory. Paris is a symbol,” said Arnaud Kielbasa, who set up an association for victims in 2019 after someone riding a scooter knocked down his wife, who had been carrying their 7-week-old baby girl. The child was hospitalized with a concussion. Since then, Kielbasa had been publicly pushing against the rental operators’ promotion of the scooters as safe, environmentally friendly and an easy mode of public transportation.

“On top of saving people from death and injury, we also have the satisfaction of pushing back the uberization of our country,” he said.

In the United States, cities like Seattle and Portland saw rental scooter ridership soar during the pandemic, when people feared they could catch the coronavirus on trains or buses and opted for outdoor travel.

“All cities were caught flat-footed by the rise of micro-mobility,” said Sam Schwartz, an international transportation expert and former chief engineer for the New York City Department of Transportation, who said most municipalities are still struggling to regulate scooters.

First arriving in Paris in 2018, the motorized version of the children’s toy were welcomed by Hidalgo, in her efforts to make the city more green and reduce its congestion.

The next year, 16 companies were offering rental scooters in a marketing frenzy that resulted in reckless riders barreling down sidewalks at speeds of up to 19 mph. Parked scooters were thrown across roadways and into the Seine and lovers wove precariously through traffic, with two entwined people balancing on a platform the size of a skateboard.

In 2019, a rider was hit by a van and killed, becoming the first but far from the last rental scooter fatality in the city.

Afterward, City Hall implemented some basic rules and narrowed the operators to three — the San Francisco-based company Lime, the Dutch startup Dott and the German startup Tier.

Since then, their environmental value has also come under close scrutiny.

The three companies pointed to a citysponsored study that found that the devices helped reduce pollution in Paris, as 19% of trips would have otherwise been made by car. But that same study also noted that more than three-quarters of riders would have traveled using another low-carbon method, like walking.

As City Hall hailed the vote as a “victory for local democracy,” opposition parties, including President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance, denounced what they characterized as a one-sided decision.

Calling the vote a “gigantic democratic fiasco,” Sylvain Maillard, a Renaissance lawmaker in the National Assembly representing Paris said Monday on Twitter that he was “thinking of the young Parisians who are the big losers in this binary vote organized by a municipality which has decided to pit one generation to another.”

The three scooter rental companies were critical that online voting — rare in France — had not been allowed, arguing that its absence discouraged the participation of younger voters who were most likely to use the scooters. They also complained that the geographic boundaries of who could vote, excluding people who live in the suburbs but spend time in the capital, were too restrictive.

“It’s as if they prefer traffic jams over getting to their job on time,” said Aymen Kouachi, a salesman who was picking up a scooter to leave his workplace on the Champs-Élysées on Monday. Kouachi, 22, was among the few who voted to keep the rental scooters on Sunday.

“I will have to find solutions, maybe buy my own electric scooter,” he said with resignation.

Before the vote, the companies operating in Paris organized a marketing campaign based on social-media influencers in the city, and offered free rides on the day of the referendum to try to mobilize young voters, their core customer base.

After spending the sunny afternoon cruising up and down the Champs-Élysées on a rented electric scooter, Dominik Metz, 41, struggled to find a place to park. Unaware of Sunday’s referendum, the German tourist said the news didn’t rattle him. “Next time I’ll just walk or take the subway,” he said. “It’s really no big deal.”

Relatively few people turned out for the referendum about the scooters — only about 100,000 Parisians voted, less than 7.5 percent of those eligible — but nearly 89 percent backed the ban.

Women are still stuck in ‘A Doll’s House’

By PAMELA PAUL

When Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House” opened in 1879 at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen, it was an instant success — and an outrage to many. The story of Nora, a woman who walks out on her husband and three children, was considered scandalous in a country in which marriage was held as a sacred bond, and one that held women to exacting strictures.

A new production of “A Doll’s House” just opened on Broadway in which the characters remain largely the same and the setting has not been outwardly updated. The date 1879 appears on the rear wall of an almost entirely bare stage before fading soon after the play begins, prompting the audience to wonder: Are we still watching events unfold in 1879, and if so, why do they feel so familiar in 2023?

Because here we are still. Still asking why women’s rights, when not outright ignored, are often an afterthought. Still asking why society is so rigid in its expectations of women. What was shocking about Ibsen’s play in 1879 was that Nora’s act was shocking for its time. What’s shocking now is that it is still so shocking.

The current adaptation, by the playwright Amy Herzog, is streamlined from the play’s original three hours to just under two and stars Jessica Chastain as

Nora. When the play opens, Christmas is approaching, and Nora is thrilled to learn that her husband, Torvald, is being promoted at his bank. Behind Torvald’s back, she has taken an illegal loan using her father’s forged signature as security — a married woman was unable to conduct such transactions in Norway at that time without her husband’s or father’s permission. Now she can repay the balance and her secret will remain safe.

But when the lender threatens to expose the truth to her husband unless she does him a favor against her husband’s will, Nora is in a bind. Should she tell her husband herself or let her deception be exposed — and either way, how will they weather the threat to their future as a family?

When Ibsen wrote “A Doll’s House,” women’s rights in Norway, as in most other parts of Europe, were socially, culturally and legally restricted by both church and state. Nora’s decision — even after her secret is exposed and the loan forgiven — to leave her husband and children in favor of independence, was viewed as a radical feminist statement at the time.

But according to the playwright, that was not the intention. Ibsen defined himself as a humanist, not a feminist; his targets were bourgeois institutions and outdated mores. His work often cast a wary eye on the ways in which people prove almost triumphantly capable of dividing and dominating one another. One of Ibsen’s most powerful plays, “An Enemy of the People,” concerns the bitter irony of a whistleblower denounced by the very community he seeks to help.

In this new “A Doll’s House,” the emphasis shifts away from the broader social canvas, creating a more intimate psychological portrait. The dialogue is updated into a more contemporary idiom, unmooring it from earlier translations of the 19th-century text, and its traditional three-act structure is performed without intermission. On a stage devoid of props and other signifiers of time, place and social status, with the roles of the children disembodied into offstage voices, Nora’s battle becomes largely internal. We are meant to keep our eyes on her, and for good reason.

Chastain’s Nora has not only let herself be defined by society; she has also internalized those limitations. She is pliable, cheerful, playful on command, a birdie who actually opens the play chirping. As Chastain told The New York Times in an interview, she sees Nora not only as a victim but also as party to her own subjugation.

“Nora has stepped in the cage to gain what little power she has,” Chastain said, explaining that Nora has allowed herself to become small and weak. “That’s kind of bred into us. But that’s part of how we are helping it continue, women not being seen as equal. We’re playing a part so we’re palatable enough, so that people hopefully will listen to us.”

In other words, women sometimes adopt gender stereotypes, consciously or unconsciously, to their

advantage. They can be complicit. This is a more nuanced view of “A Doll’s House,” and possibly more in line with Ibsen’s intent. Rather than being a passive victim who shifts dramatically toward independence in the final scene, Nora has been playing a subtle but active role all along. It’s her motivations and goals that change. She leaves when Torvald’s actions, at the end of the play, reveal him to be anything but the loyal and devoted husband she took him to be — when he fails to play along in the role she expected of him.

It’s worth contrasting this 2023 Nora with Janet McTeer’s Tony Award-winning version in the 1997 Broadway production. Whereas Chastain’s Nora is driven inward, a contained presence who is essentially confined to a chair throughout the play, the 6-foot-1-inch McTeer exuded manic energy from the start, all limbs and irrepressible sexuality, a hive waiting to be poked. (Ben Brantley, in his review for the Times, compared her to the Hale-Bopp comet, an understatement.) McTeer’s Nora was literally too big for her space. When her combustible power was finally realized, it felt like destiny, both a liberation and a devastation.

Perhaps we always get a “Doll’s House” for our moment. In the exuberance and optimism of 1997, as third-wave feminism gathered steam in response to the backlash against the women’s movement chronicled by Susan Faludi, women’s rights felt owed and overdue — women were ready to unleash, as McTeer’s performance suggested. In a divisive 2023, with the status of women at an ebb and long-standing rights having recently been trampled on or cast aside, the mood is bleaker. It feels harder to neatly assign or absolve blame for the collective failure to recognize women in their full humanity. Chastain’s Nora captures these complexities.

As we near the end of Women’s History Month, we can only hope that the next time a major revival of the play opens in America, its story will be purely historical, a curious relic of a bygone era.

Jessica Chastain as Nora Helmer in “A Doll’s House” at the Hudson Theater in New York on Jan. 29, 2023.

Reactivan campaña educativa “Tumba La Tiraera”, para fomentar el

de desperdicios sólidos y preservación de recursos naturales

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – Ante el acostumbrado aumento de visitantes a las playas y otras atracciones turísticas durante la Semana Santa, el director ejecutivo de la Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico (CTPR), Carlos Mercado Santiago, anunció el martes, que se ha puesto en marcha una campaña de orientación dirigida a reforzar los esfuerzos para mantener a turistas locales y del exterior informados sobre las medidas de precaución que deben tomar en consideración para el disfrute seguro de sus vacaciones en la Isla.

La iniciativa cumple el propósito de apoyar y complementar el trabajo interagencial que realizan todas las entidades municipales y estatales para implementar las medidas de seguridad adecuadas en zonas de alto volumen de actividades turísticas. Entre las diversas medidas que ya se han adoptado está la instalación de tres torres de salvavidas en lugares estratégicos entre los hoteles La Concha y el San Juan Marriott. El personal de salvavidas contratado por la CTPR, que rinde servicios en cada torre instalada entre 10:00 de la mañana y 6:00 de la tarde, cuenta con el equipo adecuado de salvamento y rescate.

“Con estos esfuerzos, perseguimos ofrecer a nuestros turistas una experiencia positiva durante su visita, a la vez que implementamos herramientas puntuales para mantener informados sobre las condiciones del tiempo para asegurar la seguridad en zonas turísticas”, indicó Mercado Santiago en declaraciones escritas.

En cuanto a los planes de comunicación a turistas, la CTPR difunde información actualizada sobre el estado del tiempo y de las costas a través de la página web www.voyturisteando.com y www.discoverpuertorico.com. La información compartida surge del Servicio Nacional de Meterología (NWS, por sus siglas en inglés). Asímismo, a través de las redes sociales de la CTPR se ofrece información con el propósito de orientar sobre las condiciones del clima, marejadas, posibles correntías marítimas, lluvias o inundaciones, y correntías de ríos.

De igual forma, se ha implementado una campaña de orientación mediante vallas digitales alrededor de la Isla. El mensaje al público en general es difundido en inglés para exhortar a que verifiquen las condiciones del tiempo antes de visitar una playa.

La CTPR también ha reforzado su campaña de orientación general a la industria turística. Diariamente, a las 8:00 a.m. se envía un correo electrónico a las hospederías endosadas y a los hosteleros registrados con información sobre el tiempo, resumen del oleaje, corrientes y temperatura, entre otras notificaciones de interés.

De otra parte, la CTPR reactivó la campaña de educación “Tumba la Tiraera”, iniciativa enfocada en crear conciencia sobre el recogido de basura y la preservación de las playas y recursos naturales, que el año pasado redundó en sobre 60 toneladas de basura recolectada. “Este año queremos seguir creando conciencia sobre la necesidad de mantener nuestros atractivos turísticos y recursos

naturales limpios y libres de basura. Para lograrlo, continuaremos con nuestra campaña educativa y promocional, la cual ha rendido frutos positivos en los pasados dos años. A nivel de activaciones, impactaremos playas y lugares de alto tráfico durante la Semana Santa y otras fechas festivas hasta finales de julio 2023 para recoger desperdicios sólidos junto a los turistas internos y visitantes, mientras se les recuerda la importancia de llevarse la basura consigo en los casos que así lo ameriten”, sostuvo el titular de Turismo.

La campaña “Tumba la Tiraera” es protagonizada nuevamente por los exponentes de música urbana Jowell y Wiso G, quienes a través de sus letras y contagiosos ritmos de reggaetón promueven el mensaje que exhorta a al público en general a “tumbar la tiraera” de basura. Como parte de la campaña se realizarán alrededor 40 activaciones en distintos puntos turísticos, como playas y balnearios, ríos, campos, y parques, y rutas gastronómicas en todas las regiones turísticas de la Isla.

Solicitan a padres estar pendiente del contenido de menores en redes sociales

POR EL STAR STAFF

S AN JUAN – La senadora del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), Keren Riquelme Cabrera, solicitó a los padres monitorear a sus hijos, menores de edad, en el uso de las redes sociales.

“El uso de las redes sociales es bien marcado, sobre 2.2 millones de personas en la Isla utilizan estas plataformas. Estamos hablando que eso representa el 81.6 por ciento de nuestra población. El uso de plataformas como Facebook, Instagram, Twitter y Tik Tok entre la juventud y los preadolescentes está creciendo, pero con ello también se necesita un monitoreo más continuo y detallado por parte de los padres”, dijo la Senadora por Acumulacion.

“Los padres deben saber bien las contraseñas de los menores de edad, así como actualizaciones a los

controles de seguridad sobre contenido no apto para menores y una comunicación franca y constante sobre los riesgos que se encuentran en este tipo de plataformas. No podemos permitir que situaciones como la de hoy en Guánica se repitan, la comunicación es vital”, añadió Riquelme.

La Senadora recordó que la edad mínima para tener una cuenta en las redes sociales es de 18 años, para otras son 16 y las mismas solo se pueden establecer con rigurosos controles de contenido.

El pedido se hace luego de que un menor de 6 años en Guánica ‘aceptara’ un reto en la red social de Tik Tok de desaparecer de su familia por 48 horas.

De acuerdo con datos del Negociado de la Policía, el menor aceptó un reto colgado en la red social de Tik Tok que pedía que los niños abandonaran sus hogares, alegando que eran víctimas de maltrato.

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Stream these 9 titles before they leave Netflix in April

By JASON BAILEY

This month’s assortment of titles leaving Netflix in the United States includes three hysterically funny series, two must-see documentaries, two comic-book adaptations that buck expectations and one of the scariest movies the streamer has to offer. See them before they leave. (Dates reflect the last day a title is available.)

‘Hush’ (April 7)

Director Mike Flanagan has become the horror king of Netflix, with credits including “Gerald’s Game” “The Haunting of Hill House” and “Midnight Mass.” But before any of those high-profile projects, he cowrote (with his star and spouse, Kate Siegel) this lean, mean, efficient little single-location slasher thriller. Siegel plays Maddie, a deaf and mute novelist who works and lives in an isolated country home and must fight for her life when she is targeted by a brutal killer (John Gallagher Jr.). The result is tense, frightening and wildly effective.

‘New Girl’: Seasons 1-7 (April 9)

On first sight, this Fox sitcom seemed tailored entirely (and narrowly) to spotlight the specific pixie-like charms of its star, Zooey Deschanel. But within a few episodes, “New Girl” became much more: a fast-paced, frequently quotable showcase for an ace comic ensemble. Deschanel remained at the center, but the uproarious characterizations and onscreen teamwork of Max Greenfield’s high-maintenance Schmidt, Lamorne Morris’s oddball Winston, Hannah Simone’s complicated Cece and (especially) Jake Johnson’s rough-edged-but-soft-centered Nick turned this into one of the freshest and funniest network comedies of the 2010s.

‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks’ (April 23)

Prolific documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney waded into one of the most complicated stories of his career when he took on the rise of Julian Assange’s organization — and the fall of Assange himself. It’s a story toward which neutrality is all but impossible — for a filmmaker or a viewer — but Gibney is admirably evenhanded, praising WikiLeaks’ high-minded mission and notable scoops while also asking pressing questions about its founder, his motives and his misdeeds. And the filmmaking unfolds with the tension and propulsion of a tightly-wound political thriller, which, in many ways, is exactly what it is.

‘Bill Nye: Science Guy’ (April 24)

As the (comparatively) science-friendly Obama administration gave way to the climate denialism of Donald Trump, 1990s-era children’s television personality Bill Nye reconsidered his mission and his audience, repositioning himself as an advocate and educator for older generations. Directors David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg document

that tricky career shift as Nye changes from an innocuous fellow with a perpetual smile and bow tie into a surprisingly polarizing political lightning rod. The results are as enlightening, thought-provoking and frequently amusing as the man himself.

‘The IT Crowd’: Series 1-5 (April 25)

Several international comedy stars-to-be — including Chris O’Dowd (“Bridesmaids”), Matt Berry (“What We Do in the Shadows”) and Richard Ayoade (“Travel Man”) — made their first big splash in this unfailingly clever British office sitcom. O’Dowd and Ayoade star as Roy and Moss, socially inept, know-it-all IT technicians. Katherine Parkinson is Jen Barber, their manager, who is tech illiterate (much to their chagrin) but personally adept (much to their amazement). It sports a tone and style not unlike the original British version of “The Office,” and it accomplishes a similar duality: though unmistakably local in its details, it taps into universal truths about work, class and life.

‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’: Seasons 1-3 (April 28)

The new “Evil Dead” sequel, “Evil Dead Rise,” hits theaters April 21, though it continues in the grim, humorless vein of the series’ 2013 installment. Those who prefer the zany, slapstick-heavy, gore-and-grins iteration of the franchise, tweaked to perfection by director Sam Raimi and star Bruce Campbell in “Evil Dead II” (1987) and “Army of Darkness” (1993), can direct their attention to this Starz Original series, codeveloped by Raimi, with Campbell reprising his role as the wisecracking, chain saw toting, Book-of-the-Dead-battling hero Ash Williams. The results are somewhat uneven (the early episodes, with which Raimi was most directly involved, are the highlights), but fans of the films will love it anyway.

‘Leap Year’ (April 30)

This light-as-a-soufflé romantic comedy was not exactly received with enthusiasm upon its release in 2010, but time has been kind to it for several reasons, among them the general dearth of theatrical rom-coms and the slow-burn charms of screenwriters Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont (whose “Josie and the Pussycats” has undergone a spectacular popular and critical reappraisal). Perhaps most important, it’s an opportunity to see Amy Adams at her light and breezy best, in sharp contrast to her more recent spate of Serious Actor Oscar bids.

‘Road to Perdition’ (April 30)

This 2002 adaptation of the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins (itself inspired by the “Lone Wolf and Cub” manga and film series) was only the second feature film from director Sam Mendes. Yet it plays like an elegy, a film about endings, mortality and what we leave behind. It was the final film of award-winning cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, whose visions of Depression-era America here are staggeringly evocative, and one of the final onscreen appearances for Paul Newman. The actor nabbed one last Academy Award nomination for his work as the patriarch of a crime family, caught between his irresponsible biological son (a pre-Bond Daniel Craig) and his beloved surrogate son (Tom Hanks, in a rare and affecting non-hero turn).

‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ (April 30)

Edgar Wright’s 2010 action-comedy, initially a boxoffice disappointment, has become a cult favorite in the intervening years, and for good reason: Its fizzy look and feel, energetic direction and spirited performances make it one of the most purely entertaining comic book adaptations of recent years, and Wright’s light touch keeps it from bogging down into the endless back stories and crossovers that have tended to burden such pictures. Michael Cera is a delight in the title role, and the stacked supporting cast includes such MVPs as Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Aubrey Plaza, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as his dream girl and Jason Schwartzman, cast against type as a supervillain.

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Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 1 de abril de 2023

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Amy Adams is at her light and breezy best in the 2010 rom-com “Leap Year.”

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

WILMINGTON SAVINGS

FUND SOCIET, FSB, D/B/A

CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2015-PR

1 TRUST, MORTGAGEBACKED NOTES, SERIES

2015-PR 1

Plaintiff Vs JULIO ANGEL RIVERA

CAMACHO A/K/A JULIO

A. RIVERA CAMACHO AND ROSA ANGELICA

AVILA BENITEZ A/K/A

ROSA AVILA BENITEZ

Defendants

Civil No.: 15-cv-3123. (PAD).

Matter: COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: JULIO ANGEL RIVERA

CAMACHO A/K/A JULIO

A. RIVERA CAMACHO AND ROSA ANGELICA

AVILA BENITEZ A/K/A

ROSA AVILA BENITEZ; AND TO THE GENERAL

PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: On February 22, 2019, Default Judgment in Collection of Monies was entered and granted in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the following sums: The principal sum of $122,303.96, itemized as follows: the principal sum of $31,499.58, as a non-interest-bearing principal, and the interest-bearing principal sum of $90,804.38, plus interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum since March 2, 2016. The interest continues to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, Defendants were ordered to pay plaintiff accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, charges and disbursements, expenses, and attorney’s fees equivalent to 10% of the original amount of the Mortgage Note. That on January 31, 2023 the Court entered order granting execution of the attachment affecting the property, with writ of execution of attachment issued on February 1, 2023. The order of attachment shall cover the amount of the Default Judgment above cited and awarded to Plaintiff. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue,

Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150– Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in Spanish: URBANA: Solar número siete (7) del Bloque G de la Urbanización Vistas de Naguabo, radicado en el Barrio Rio del Municipio de Naguabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos sesenta y nueve punto ochenta y dos (469.82) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de treinta y dos punto once (32.11) metros lineales, con el Lote número seis (6) del Bloque G; por el SUR, en una distancia de treinta y tres punto cero cinco (33.05) metros lineales, con el Lote número ocho (8) del Bloque G; por el ESTE, en una distancia de catorce punto cuarenta y cinco (14.45) metros lineales, con la Sucesión Juan R. Garzot; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de catorce punto cuarenta y dos (14.42) metros lineales, con la Calle veintisiete (27). Enclava una casa para fines residenciales. The encumbered property # 12,712 is recorded at mobile volume 226 of Naguabo. Property Registry of Puerto Rico, Humacao Section. The garnishment lien (embargo) is duly recorded at volume KARIBE of Naguabo, property # 12,712, Annotation B and last. Property address: G7 27 ST VISTAS DE NAGUABO, NAGUABO Puerto Rico 00718. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens described in Spanish: Senior Liens: NONE.

Junior Liens: NONE. The Order of Attachment was duly recorded at the Property Registry of Puerto Rico, Humacao Section, and described in the Spanish Language as follows:

Embargo seguido por Wilmington Savings Fund Society

Christiana Trust como Administrador de CSMC 2015-PR1 Trust Mortgage Backed Notes, Series 2015-PR1, contra Julio Ángel Rivera Camacho, Et Al., por la suma de $122,303.96, en la Corte de Distrito de los Estados Unidos de América para el Distrito de Puerto Rico, según Mandamiento del 9 de febrero de 2021, anotado el

día 24 de agosto de 2021, e inscrito al tomo Karibe de Naguabo, finca número 12,712, Anotación B y última. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed/sold upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. Because this is a case of money collection, it does not have a minimum rate or bid.

The sale will take place to satisfy the amounts owed per the Default Judgment entered on February 22, 2019. The AUCTION will take place on the 1ST DAY OF MAY OF 2023, AT 9:30

A.M., at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150– Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, whose sale at public auction was ordered by the Order of Execution of Judgment dated January 31, 2023. The undersigned Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHE-

REAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, 13th day of March of 2023. PEDRO

A. VÉLEZ BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, 787-672-8269.

GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.

MIGDALIA TIRADO BRAVO PETICIONARIA

Representada en este acto por su apoderada Carmen Rosario Burgos Millán EX PARTE CIVIL NÚM: IS2O22CV00073. SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: 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 DESCRIBE; A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE; A LOS HEREDEROS Y/O LEGATARIOS DE EVANS CASTRO BUMBORY Y CLAUDETTE BECERRA LAMBERTY

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica para que comparezcan, silo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal, dentro del término de 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: https://unired.poderjudiaLpr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la Parte Peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Solar

localizado en el Barrio Bajura del término municipal de Isabela, compuesto de mil doce punto nueve mil novecientos noventa y siete metros cuadrados (1,012.9997 m.c.), equivalentes a cero punto dos mil quinientos setenta y siete cuerdas (0.2577 cds.). Colindando por el Norte, en dos alineaciones que suman sesenta y dos punto doscientos setenta metros (62.270 m.), con Victor Parrilla y Claudette Becerra Lamberti; por el SUR, en una alineación de sesenta y uno punto cien metros (61.100 m.), con Ismael Rodriguez Santiago; por el ESTE, en una alineación de veinticinco punto cero cincuenta metros (25.050 m.) con camino privado; y por el OESTE, en una alineación de siete punto seis cientos cincuenta y tres metros (7.653 m.) con Evans Castro Bumbory. La abogada de la parte peticionaria es la LCDA. VIVIAN GODINEAUX VILLARONGA, P.O. BOX 1957, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00726-1957, TELÉFONO (787)427-4164, Email: vagodineaw@gmail. com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 28 de abril de 2023, a las 4:15 p.m., mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda 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 los dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil de 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 veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 10 de marzo de 2023. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMAN PABON, SEC AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ROSA CURBELO COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE LUCILA GOTAY SÁNCHEZ COMPUESTA POR AGUSTÍN GOTAY SÁNCHEZ, SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE JULIA GOTAY SÁNCHEZ T/C/C

JULIA ALICIA GOTAY SÁNCHEZ COMPUESTA

POR CARLOS AGUSTÍN TIRADO GOTAY, PERENGANO Y SUTANEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE EDNA ALICIA TIRADO GOTAY COMPUESTA POR

JOANNE J. GRACE

TIRADO, SUTANITO Y PERENGANITO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE JULIO TIRADO GOTAY COMPUESTA

POR MENGANITO Y PERENCEJITO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00429. (303). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 9 de septiembre de 2022 y notificada el 17 de enero de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 1 de marzo de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 6 de marzo de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE

2023, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Sala Superior, Ave. Marcelito Gotay, Edificio 461, Esquina

Barriada Jerusalén, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad:

URBANA: Solar Número tres

(3) de la manzana A de la Urbanización Extensión Santa Isidra en el Barrio Sardinera del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 387.50 metros cuadrados. Colindando por cada uno sus lados NORTE y SUR: en 15.50 metros con la Calle Número tres (3) dicha urbanización, respectivamente; por cada uno de sus lados ESTE y OESTE: en 25.00 metros con la Calle Número cuatro (4) de dicha urbanización y el Solar Número dos (2) de dicha manzana “A”, respectivamente. Sobre el descrito solar enclava una casa de concreto reforzado de una planta para una familia. Inscrita al folio 104 del tomo 80 de Fajardo, Finca 2598, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 187 del tomo 449 de Fajardo, Finca 2598, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción octava (8va). Dirección Física: Urb. Santa Isidra 1, A3 Calle 3, Fajardo, PR 00738-4952. Número de Catastro: 24-150037-260-05-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $76,828.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $51,218.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 22 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $38,414.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la deman-

dante el importe de la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia por la suma de $51,203.35 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7% anual desde el 1 de octubre de 2021 hasta su completo pago, más $215.64 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,882.80 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente ejecutar: a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs Fulano y Mengano de Tal, la Sucesión de Lucila Gotay Sánchez, compuesta por Agustín Gotay Sánchez, Julia Gotay Sánchez, Sutano y Perencejo de Tal, Departamento de Hacienda por conducto de la División de Caudales Relictos y el Centro de Recaudaciones e Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el caso civil número FA2022CV00429, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $51,203.35 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 27 de abril de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Fajardo. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo 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 que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra-

en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de marzo de 2023. LUIS F.

ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #838, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE VEGA BAJA.

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Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2019CV00212.

Salón Núm.: (506). Sobre:

EJECUCION DE SENTENCIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL

PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE

ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE JULIO ENRIQUE RUIZ SIERRA COMPUESTA

POR SUS HEREDEROS

FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL; ESMERALDA

HERNÁNDEZ TORRES

POR SÍ Y COMO

CONJUGUE SUPÉRSTITE EN CUANTO LA CUOTA

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PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separa-

do, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados

Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Lote con casa de bloques y concreto radicado en el Barrio Almirante Norte de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, identificado con la letra G en el Plano de Inscripción, compuesto de 820.83 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORESTE, en 30.58 metros el lote A de Víctor Ruiz Sierra; por el SUR, en dos alineaciones continuas una de 28 metros con 57.66 metros, el lote F de Carmen Aida Ruiz Sierra; y por el OESTE, en 47.19 metros, José Sierra. Consta presentada y pendiente de despacho al Asiento 937 del Diario 253, segregada de la finca 1965, la cual consta inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 44 de Vega baja, Sección 4ta de Bayamón. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: 160 RD KM 5.8, Barrio Almirante Norte, Lote G, Vega Baja, P.R. 00693. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $58,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #94, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de enero de 2007, ante el notario Félix R. Figueroa Cabán, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Vega Baja, finca número 34,297, inscripción 2da. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 25 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $58,500.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 2 DE MAYO

DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $39,000.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA

SUBASTA el día 9 DE MAYO

DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $29,250.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $41,555.77, más los intereses acumulados cobre dicha suma a razón de la tasa de 9.550% anual desde el 16 de mayo de 2017, hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que esté en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más la suma de $5,850.00, para el pago de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, más los cargos por demora por concepto de mensualidades impagadas, seguros y cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hagan o se hayan hecho en virtud de las disposiciones de las escrituras de hipoteca y el pagaré, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. 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. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 21

de marzo de 2023. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735.

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Demandante Vs. MARIE IVETTE GRAU GRAU

Demandada

Civil Núm.: CCD2014-0427. (302). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: MARIE IVETTE GRAU GRAU; DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA, POR TENER HIPOTECA EN GARANTÍA DE PAGARÉ A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $40,000.00.

Yo, áNGEL DE JESÚS TORRES PÉREZ, 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 24 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, Arecibo, 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 Arecibo 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 1RO. DE MAYO 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 8 DE MAYO 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: Apartamento número Dos Mil Seiscientos Uno (2601).

Cabida: CIENTO DIEZ PUNTO OCHENTA Y SEIS (110.86) METROS CUADRADOS.

URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial

localizado en el primer piso (segundo nivel) del Edificio “E” del Condominio “Marina IV de Barceloneta”, sito en el Barrio Pueblo del término municipal de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. Área aproximada de OCHOCIENTOS NOVENTA Y CINCO PUNTO NOVECIENTOS CUARENTA Y UNO (895.941) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a OCHENTA Y TRES PUNTO VEINTISIETE (83.27) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: por el NORTE, en veintiún pies con tres pulgadas (21’ 3”), con la Calle Unión; por el SUR, en veintiún pies con tres pulgadas (21’ 3”), con área de estacionamiento; por el ESTE, en cuarenta y seis pies con cuatro pulgadas (46’ 4”), con áreas comunes, pasillo y escalera; y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y seis pies con dos pulgadas (46’ 2”) con el apartamento número Dos Mil Setecientos Uno (2701). Consta de sala comedor, cocina, balcón, tres dormitorios, dos baños, roperos (“closets”) y área de lavandería (“laundry”). Le pertenece el uso exclusivo como elemento privado: dos espacios de estacionamiento, identificados con el número Dos Mil Seiscientos Uno (2601) en el área descubierta del estacionamiento y en el “Plot Plan”, con una cabida superficial de Doscientos Noventa y Siete punto Cero Uno (297.01) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a Veintisiete punto Cincuenta y Nueve (27.59) metros cuadrados, siendo sus colindancias: por el NORTE, con áreas comunes y áreas verdes; por el SUR, con área de rodaje; por el ESTE, con el estacionamiento Dos Mil Quinientos Uno (2501); y por el OESTE, con el estacionamiento Dos Mil Setecientos Uno (2701). El área total de este apartamento, incluyendo el estacionamiento privado es de Mil Ciento Noventa y Dos punto Novecientos Cincuenta y Un (1,192.951) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a Ciento Diez punto Ochenta y Seis (110.86) metros cuadrados. Su puerta principal de entrada está situada en su lindero Este. Este apartamento tiene una participación en los elementos comunes generales de uno punto seiscientos treinta y tres porciento (1.633%). La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Barceloneta, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, finca número 16,047, inscripción segunda. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Marina IV, Apartamento 2601, Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $92,802.86 de principal, intereses a 4.50% anual, desde el día 1ro. de diciembre de 2013, hasta su completo pago,

más la cantidad de $9,760.00, 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 la suma de $97,600.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $65,066.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $48,800.00. 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 las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor del Departamento de la Vivienda, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $40,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero en 10 años, según consta de la Escritura Número 82, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de diciembre de 2010, ante el Notario Público Miguel Bauzá Rolón; inscrita al tomo Karibe de Barceloneta, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, finca 16,047, inscripción 3ra. y última. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2023. ÁNGEL DE JESÚS TORRES PÉREZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO. ***

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JOSEFINA

ALVAREZ JIMENEZ

Demandante V. FELIPE COLON SERVICES CORP., ASEGURADORA XYZ, EFRAIN JIMENES ROBLES, FULANA DE

TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL COMPUESTA POR EFRAIN JIMENES ROBLES Y FULANA DE TAL, ASEGURADORA 123

Demandado(a)

Civil: FA2019CV01261. Sobre: DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: EFRAÍN JIMEÑES ROBLES POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES ENTRE ESTE Y LA SRA. FULANA DE TAL.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de mayo de 2022, 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 3 de abril de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 3 de abril de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANA CELÍS MÁRQUEZ APONTE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. JOSÉ ANTONIO BETANCOURT ALICEA

Demandado(a)

Civil: PO2022CV01697. 406.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSÉ ANTONIO BETANCOURT ALICEA. URBANIZACIÓN

ALTURAS DE YAUCO

017, YAUCO, PR 00698; 213 LEHMAN COURT LANCASTER PA 17603

Y/O 213 LEHMAN COURT LANCASTER PA 17606. LIC.REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZ. 500 CALLE DE LA TANCA SUITE 209, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, 00901. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de marzo 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 marzo de 2023. PONCE, Puerto Rico, el 30 de marzo de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO PALMAS DEL MAR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante V. GILBERTO MEDINA SAFÓN E IRIS M. RODRÍGUEZ DE LEÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandado(a)

Civil: HU2022CV01235. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: IRIS M. RODRÍGUEZ DE LEÓN A SU DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: 4

CALLE ZVANIA, PARQUE VILLA CAPARRA, GUAYNABO, PR 00966 P/C LCDO. JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERA.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de marzo 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 marzo de 2023. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 2023.

IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO

DLJ MORTGAGE

CAPITAL, INC.

Demandante V. MIGUEL ANGEL

FRANCO MENDOZA, SU ESPOSA; DIANA

RODRIGUEZ MIRANDA

Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA FOR AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: A12022CV00222. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA, COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MIGUEL ANGEL

FRANCO MENDOZA, SU ESPOSA; DIANA

RODRIGUEZ MIRANDA

Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS-P/C LCDO.

ROBERTO C. LATIMER

VALENTIN-LATIMERRC@ LBRGLAW.COM.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de marzo 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 29 de marzo de 2023. En AIBONITO, Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARINELLY MATOS COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE JORGE

RODRIGUEZ REYES Y SUCESION DE CARMEN

IRIS MALDONADO

TORRES, COMPUESTAS POR SUS HIJOS

REBECCA RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, JORGE

LUIS RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, DIANA RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, EDWIN RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, ROSAL RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, HIRAM RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, GLORIA RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, REYNALDO RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO Y JOEL RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO; FULANO

DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE JORGE RODRIGUEZ

REYES Y CARMEN

IRIS MALDONADO

TORRES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)

Demandados

Civil Núm. BY2022CV06538. (504). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JORGE LUIS RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, DIANA RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, EDWIN RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, ROSAI RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, HIRAM RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, GLORIA RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, REYNALDO RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO Y JOEL RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO, COMO MIEMBROS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE JORGE RODRIGUEZ

REYES Y DE CARMEN IRIS MALDONADO TORRES; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE JORGE RODRIGUEZ

REYES Y CARMEN IRIS

MALDONADO TORRES.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda Enmendada sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $87,400.08 intereses al 4.00% anual, desde el día 1ro de abril de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $9,720.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es:

URBANA: Solar radicado en la

URBANIZACIÓN LOMAS VERDES, situado en el Barrio Minillas de Bayamón. Número del solar: 42 de la Manzana Dos guión G (2-G): Área del solar:

TRESCIENTOS UNO PUNTO

TREINTA (301.30) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por

el NORTE, con el solar número Cuarenta y Tres (43), distancia de veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número Cuarenta y Uno (41), distancia de veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros; por el ESTE, con los solares números Tres (3) y Cuatro (4), distancia de trece punto diez (13.10) metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número Veintiuno (21), distancia de trece punto diez (13.10) metros. Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para una familia, que consiste principalmente en sala-comedor, tres cuartos dormitorios, cocina, un baño y balcón. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera, finca número 11,134, inscripción quinta. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. 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: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se indica. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Lcdo. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC

P.O. Box 11550 San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550

Tel. (787) 625-9999

Fax (787) 705-7387

E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com

Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689, 696 (2005) y a tenor con las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021), deberá aceptar o repudiar la herencia de los causantes Jorge Rodríguez Reyes y Carmen Iris Maldonado Torres, dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar las herencias dentro del término que se le fijó, las herencias se tendrán por aceptadas. Se le notifica también por la presente que

la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MARIA SOLEDAD REYES DELFAUS

Parte Demandante Vs. POPULAR MORTGAGE INC.; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO SE SOLICITA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08896.

Salón de Sesiones: 504. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO POR SUMAC.

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO SE SOLICITA. EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de marzo 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 esta. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, 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 edic-

to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 31 de marzo de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JANE VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.

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

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. JUANA OQUENDO MONTAÑEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00283.

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

A: JUANA OQUENDO MONTAÑEZ. CALLE 3 E-7

JARDINES DE TRUJILLO ALTO, TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976.

De: BANCO POPULAR DE 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. ramaiudicial.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 Incumplimiento de Contrato; Cobro de Dinero y Reposesión, en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $12,551.61 de principal, más los intereses acumulados a razón del 7.95%; más $245.62 de cargos por mora los cuales se continúan acumulado hasta el saldo total y completo de la deuda; más $1,122.43 de otros cargos; más una suma equivalente al 30% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados según pactados. 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 Número del Tribunal Supremo 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 marzo de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESION JULIA

ESTHER RIVERA NIEVES

T/C/C JULIA E. RIVERA

NIEVES T/C/C JULIA

RIVERA NIEVES T/C/C

JULIA ESTHER RIVERA

COMPUESTA POR JOHN

DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

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

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02617.

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

A: LA PARTE

DEMANDADA, AL (A

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

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 2 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número OCHENTA Y TRES (83) del plano de inscripción del proyecto de Viviendas, a Bajo Costo denominado VBC guion diecisiete (VBC-17), radicado en el Barrio Rincón del término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cuarenta y seis punto

cero tres (346.03 m.c.) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle número cinco (5); por el Sur, con el solar número ochenta y cuatro (84); por el Este, con el solar número ochenta y seis (86); y por el Oeste; con la calle número uno (1). Enclava casa. Finca número 3,386, inscrita al folio 125 del tomo 96 de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 345 del tomo 499 de Gurabo, finca número 3386, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II, inscripción 8ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. BAJO COSTO (OREILLY), 83 CALLE 1, GURABO, P.R. 00778. 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: $202,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 8 de noviembre de 2084. 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 $135,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 9 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $90,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $67,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 16 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 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 $113,171.95 por

concepto de principal, más la suma de $24,342.77 en intereses acumulados al 26 de octubre de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.535% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,507.18 en seguro hipotecario; $5,565.00 en cargos por servicio; $1,777.84 en seguro; $425.00 de tasaciones; $460.00 de inspecciones; $1,610.00 en adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,500.00, 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de marzo de 2023. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO EDWIN

RODRIGUEZ RAMOS

Demandante V.

EMI EQUITY MORTGAGE

INC.; BEEWEE

MORTGAGE SAVINGS

COPORATION JUAN

DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALQUIERA PERSONA

DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA

CANCELACIÓN POR

DECRETO JUDICIAL SE

SOLICITA

Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00223. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUY A CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de los siguientes gravámenes: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de EMI Equity Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $160,650.00, con intereses al 6 1/4% anual, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2014, constituida mediante la escritura número 121, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de marzo de 1999, ante el notario Mario

A. Quiles Rosado, e inscrita al folio 67 del tomo 1429 de Guaynabo, finca número 48,141, inscripción 3ra. b. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Bewee Mortgage Bankers Corp, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $250,000.00, con intereses al 5.5% anual, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2033, constituida mediante la escritura número 63, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de junio de 2003, ante la notaria Luz Conchita Toro Rivera, e inscrita al folio 67 del tomo 1429 de Guaynabo, finca número 48,141, inscripción 5ta.

2. Los pagaré y sus respectivas hipotecas previamente relacionados afectan la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Lote de terreno marcado con el número B-6 de la Urbanización Chalets de Santa Clara, Barrio Frailes de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veinte punto quince metros cuadrados (320.15 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Brillante; por el SUR, con Don Rafael Rivera Colón; por el ESTE, con el lote B guión siete (B-7); y por el OESTE, con el lote B guión cinco (B-5). Discurre en todo su frente una servidumbre de cinco pies cero pulgadas (5’ 0”) de ancho para el servicio telefónico y tiene una servidumbre de tres punto cuarenta y siete

(3.47) metros cuadrados en su esquina Noreste a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica. Finca Número 48,141, inscrita al folio 67 del tomo 1429 de Guaynabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. 3. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. 4. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico y se le requiere para que radique en este Tribunal su contestación y notifique con copia de ella al abogado de la parte demandante la LCDA.

LIZBET AVILES VEGA, RUA: 12536, Urb. Los Sauces, Calle Pomarrosa #222, Humacao, PR 00791, Tel: 787-354-0061, Email: lizbet_aviles@yahoo. com y lcdalizbetaviles@gmail. com; dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXPEDIDO bajo mi fimra y sello de este Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA

I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIAMAR

T. GONZÁLEZ BARRETO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL II.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. ROSALINA NIEVES MAYSONET, A-Z

MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE

Demandadas

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV01630.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S. A: A-Z MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ a favor de A-Z Mortgage Corporation, o

a su orden, por la suma principal de $58,793.00 con intereses a razón del 8% anual y con vencimiento el 1 de noviembre de 2024, conforme a la escritura número 93, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de octubre de 1994, ante el Notario Vilma Leticia Álvarez Villalba, inscrita al folio 249 vuelto del tomo 238 de Toa Baja, finca 14,307 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Segunda Sección de Bayamón. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente 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/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son.

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Suite 209 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 28 de marzo de 2023. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE GREGORIO ANGULO RIVERA Y LYDIA

ESTHER ROSA RIVERA, COMPUESTAS POR SUS

HIJA JESSICA ANGULO ROSA; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS DE AMBAS

SUCESIONES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00672. (701). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: SUCESION DE GREGORIO ANGULO RIVERA Y LYDIA ESTHER ROSA RIVERA, COMPUESTAS POR SUS HIJA JESSICA ANGULO ROSA; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”).

Yo, ALEJANDRO URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, PLACA #997, 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 24 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, 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 Caguas 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 1RO. DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 8 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Cuarenta y Seis

(46) del Bloque R guión Trece (R-13) de la URBANIZACIÓN TURABO GARDENS, radicado en el Barrio Cañaboncito del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de TRESCIENTOS DOCE

PUNTO CERO CERO (312.00)

METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: por el NORTE, en veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros, con el solar número Cuarenta y Cinco (45); por el SUR, en veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros, con el solar número Cuarenta y Siete (47); por el ESTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la Avenida Shuford; y por el OESTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la Calle “A”. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 1744 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera, finca número 22,077, inscripción décima. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Turabo Gardens III, Calle A (antes 34), R13-46, Caguas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $97,281.23 de principal, intereses al 5.00% anual, desde el día 1ro. de agosto de 2021, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $12,460.00, por concepto de 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 la suma de $124,600.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $83,066.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $62,300.00. 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 las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 29 de marzo de 2023. ALEJANDRO URBINA

ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, PLACA #997, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR.

ORIENTAL BANK

COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.

DEMANDANTE VS. HÉCTOR LUIS PAGÁN CARRASQUILLO

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM.: FA2019CV00853.

SALA: 303. SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA “IN REM” (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONS-

TAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, el día 9 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: APT. 20-501, CONDOMINIO COSTA BRAVA, CEIBA, PR 00735 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Edificio #20, Apartamento #501, de hormigón armado y bloques, para fines residenciales, localizado en el quinto piso del edificio, que a su vez forma parte del conjunto de edificios conocidos como “Condominio Costa Brava”, radicado en el barrio Macho del término municipal de Ceiba, Puerto Rico. Consta de un área superficial de 1,204.9382 pies cuadrados (1,204.9392 Según Escritura de Hipoteca), equivalentes a 116.0476 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con área exterior; por el SUR, con área exterior; por el ESTE, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento #502 del edificio #21 y por el OESTE, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento 502 del edificio del que forma parte. Dicho apartamento consta de tres cuartos dormitorios con sus closets, dos cuartos de baño,

sala-comedor, cocina-“laundry”, un pasillo o corredor que da acceso de la sala-comedor a las habitaciones donde ubica un “linen closet” y una terrazapatio. Su puerta de entrada está localizada en el extremo Noroeste de su sala-comedor y la misma da acceso directo al exterior del edificio. Está equipado con un fregadero doble en la cocina, una pileta de lavado en el área de lavandería, un calentador de agua. Tiene el uso y disfrute con carácter exclusivo de un área de terraza parcialmente techada, ubicada en la azotea, de aproximadamente 163.0729 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 15.1499 metros cuadrados, accesibles mediante una escalera en forma de espiral localizado en su balcón. PORCENTAJE: Elementos Comunes Generales: 0.5808%. ESTACIONAMIENTO: Le corresponden 2 áreas o espacios, tipo sencillo, para el estacionamiento de vehículos de motor, identificada ambas con el número del apartamento. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 46 del Tomo 171 de Ceiba, finca número 10,718, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $87,335.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $58,223.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 23 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $43,667.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 25 otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de marzo de 2017, ante la Notario Corally Veguilla Torres y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Ceiba, finca número 10,718, inscripción Sexta (6ta). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $84,974.43 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2018,

más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.¼% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $8,733.50.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $8,733.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $8,733.50 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble 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 de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/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 del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal

expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en el Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de marzo de 2023. Sandalia Martinez, Alguacil Auxiliar. ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR. Jorge A Ortiz Estrada #622, Alguacil Regional.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYA-

GUEZ SALA SUPERIOR.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

DEMANDANTE VS.

ALBANAHIR VALENTÍN

ORTIZ T/C/C ALBA NAHIR

VALENTIN ORTIZ

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM.: MZ2021CV00794.

SALA: 207. SOBRE: COBRO

DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA)EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 16 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 11: 30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: E-25, URBANIZACION ESTANCIAS DEL RIO, HORMIGUEROS, PUERTO RICO 00660 y que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Parcela de terreno designada solar número 25-E, modelo Perla, en el Plano de la Urbanización Estancias del Río, sita en el Barrio lavadero del término municipal de Hor-

migueros, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 301.14 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 9.65 metros, con la calle número 3; por el SUR, en 13.15 metros, con el solar número 25-D; por el ESTE, en 19.60 metros, con la calle número 7; y por el OESTE, en 23.10 metros, con el solar 26E. Enclava y le pertenece una estructura edificada de hormigón y bloques de una sola planta, dedicada a vivienda para una sola familia. Consta de sala-comedor, cocina, tres habitaciones y dos baños. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 41 de Hormigueros, finca número 6,820, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $81,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 23 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 11: 30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $54,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 30 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 11: 30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $40,500.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 288 otorgada en Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de junio de 2000, ante el Notario Ramón A. Amador López, y consta inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 41 de Hormigueros, finca número 6,820, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez, inscripción Primera (1ra). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $50,557.27 por concepto de principal, más los intereses acumulados al tipo pactado de 7.1/2% anual desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2019, hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, se condena a la parte demandada al pago de lo adeudado por concepto de los cargos por demora acumulados equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos acce-

sorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $8,100.00. Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $8,100.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto hecho en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $8,100.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble 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 de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de marzo de 2023. JOSE M CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR.

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Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan.

LUNA RESIDENTIAL II, LLC

Parte Demandante VS. NELSON CABASSA

DUPREY, NYDIA AISH Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM: GB2022CV00745 (604). SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: NYDIA AISH RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON NELSON CABASSA DUPREY

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de marzo 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 marzo de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria

Regional. f/Elsa Magaly Candelario Cabrera , Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO.

WILMINGTON SAVINGS

FUND SOCIETY, FSB como fideicomisario de FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES

ACQUISITION TRUST

2018-HB1

DEMANDANTE VS.

Jesus Martinez Medina

t/c/c Jesus Martinez por si y como miembro de Ia Sucesión de Carmen

Antonia Martinez Centeno

t/c/c Carmen Martinez

t/c/c Carmen Santiago; Sucesión de Carmen

Antonia Martinez Centeno

t/c/c Carmen Martinez

t/c/c Carmen Santiago compuesta por Elizabeth

Santiago Martinez, Cruz

Maria Martinez; Rafael

Martinez Centeno y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos; Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales; y los Estados Unidos de America

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM.: AR2023CV00199.

SALON: 403. SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA In Rem. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACION POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

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

A: Elizabeth Santiago Martinez, Cruz Maria

Martinez (miembros de Ia Sucesión de Carmen

Antonia Martinez Centeno) y Sutano de Tal, como miembro de nombre desconocido de Ia Sucesión de Sucesión de Carmen Antonia

Martinez Centeno tic/c

Carmen Martinez tic/c

Carmen Santiago

POR LA PRESENTE, se es emplaza y se es notifica que se ha presentado en Ia Secretaria de este Tribunal Ia Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitando Ia ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagare suscrito a favor de Senior Mortgage Bankers, Inc.., o a su orden, por Ia suma principal de $130,500.00, con intereses computados sobre Ta

misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de Ia tasa de interés de 5.060% anual, Ia cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $13,050 equivalente al 10% de Ia suma principal original. Este pagare fue suscrito bajo el affidavit número 7,609 ante eI notario Maria G. Chévere Mourino. Lo anterior surge de a hipoteca constituida mediante Ta escritura nUmero 332 otorgada el 16 de mayo de 2012, ante el mismo notario pUblico, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca nUmero 33,380, inscripción 3ra La Hipoteca Revertida grava Ia propiedad que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Solar marcado con el nUmero A veinticuatro (A24) del Piano de Inscripción del proyecto U M Dos Cinco (UM 2-5), denominado Victor Rojas número Uno, radicado en el Barrio Hato Abajo del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos quince metros cuadrados con cincuenta y cinco centésimas de metros cuadrados (315.55 m.c.), en lindes 01 el NORTE, con Ia calle nUmero cinco, distancia de veinticuatro metros con veinte centímetros; por el SUR, con el solar A-veinticinco, distancia de veinticinco metros, con veintisiete centímetros; por el ESTE, con Ia calle número cuatro, distancia de once metros con veintisiete centímetros y un metro con setenta y tres centímetros en arco; y por el OESTE, con el solar A-veintitrés, distancia de doce metros con sesenta y un centímetros. Finca número 33,380, inscrita al folio 50 del tomo 771 de Arecibo. Registro de Ia Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Arecibo. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas conocidas y desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. jamajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente par derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia secretarla del Tribunal. De no contestar Ia demanda radicando el original de Ia contestación ante Ia secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Región Judicial de Carolina, Sala de Carolina, y notificar copia de Ia contestación de esta a Ia parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Genevieve Lopez Stipes, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos sesenta (60) dIas

a partir de Ia publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diana general en Ia isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará Ia rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en Ia Demanda sin más citarle ni oIrle. Vista Ia interpelación judicial presentada por Ia parte demandante al amparo del ArtIculo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico se ordena a Elizabeth Santiago Martinez, Cruz Maria Martinez y Sutano de Tal coma miembros de nombres conocidos y desconocidos de Ia Sucesión de Carmen Antonia Martinez Centeno tic/c Carmen Martinez tic/c Carmen Santiago que notifiquen si aceptan a repudian Ia herencia de Ia causante dentro del plaza de 30 dias contados a partir de Ia notificación de Ia orden. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer en dicho termino a aceptar a repudiar Ia herencia, Ia herencia se tendrá por aceptada. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de marzo de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZALEZ, Sec Regional. Pilar H Mercado Gonzalez, Sec Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

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CASCADE FUNDING

MORTGAGE TRUST HB4 Demandante V. LA SUCESIONES DE SEVERO RESTO MOLINA y GUILLERMINA RODRÍGUEZ VÉLEZ compuestas por ANGEL LUIS RESTO RODRIGUEZ; HECTOR RESTO RODRIGUEZ; OLGA RESTO RODRÍGUEZ; RUBÉN RESTO RODRÍGUEZ; WILLIAM RESTO RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL y MENGANA DE TAL como posibles herederos desconocidos con interés en la Sucesión; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandado(a)

Civil: VA2022CV00159. SALA

501. Sobre: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LA SUCESIONES DE SEVERO RESTO MOLINA y GUILLERMINA

RODRIGUEZ

VÉLEZ

COMPUESTAS POR ÁNGEL LUIS RESTO RODRÍGUEZ; HECTOR RESTO RODRÍGUEZ; OLGA RESTO RODRÍGUEZ; RUBÉN RESTO RODRÍGUEZ; WILLIAM RESTO RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL como posibles herederos desconocidos con interés en la Sucesión (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican Ja sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 28 de marzo 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 Marzo de 2023. En BAYAMÓN Puerto Rico, el 31 de Marzo de 2023.

LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZSEC. REGIONAL, Secretaria.

F/NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de COMERIO.

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

como agente de FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. JAVIER A.

GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ

Demandado(a)

Civil: BQ2022CV00056. Sobre:

COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JAVIER A. GONZALEZ

RODRIGUEZ - BO

PALO HINCADO SECT.

PARCELAS CARR

156 KM 12.0 INT.

BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794! HC 3 BOX 9609

BARRANQUITAS PR 00794-9523

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 31 de marzo 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 Ia misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en Ia Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 dIas siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de Ia Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de Ia cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 dIas contados a partir de Ia publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en Ia fecha de Ia publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 31 de marzo de 2023 En COMERIO Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZALEZ RIVERA, Secretaria. f/YARA M. RODRIGUEZ ALICEA, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de CAROLINA. ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

Demandante v.

ANGELA M ORTIZ PEREZ

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm. CA2022CV03187.

SALA 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ANGELA M ORTIZ PEREZ - LOS COLOBOS 114 CALLE 101

CAROLINA PR 0987 (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de marzo 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 marzo de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de CAROLINA. ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

Demandante v. MIGUEL A LUCIANO CALDERON

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm. CA2022CV03161.

SALA 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MIGUEL A LUCIANO CALDERON - COND MONSERRATE TOWERS I, 1 AVE SANCHEZ OSORIO APT 209 CAROLINA PR 00983-3204 (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de marzo 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 marzo de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 2023.

LCDA. MARILYN APONTE

RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a).

MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de BAYAMON.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante v. SUCESIONES DE JENNIE

RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ Y ÁNGEL THEODORO

DAMIANI Y TIRADO

T/C/C ÁNGEL TEODORO

DAMIANI TIRADO COMPUESTAS POR: HÉCTOR RAFAEL

DAMIANI RIVERA, SANDRA IVETTE

DAMIANI RIVERA, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm. BY2022CV00281.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, por sly como posibles herederos des conocidos de las Sucesiones de Jennie Rivera Rodriguez y Angel Theodoro Daniiani Tirado, t/c/c Angel Teodoro Damiani Tirado DIRECCION DESCONOCIDA

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de marzo 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 3 de abril de 2023. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico. el 3 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). F/LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA. Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC DEMANDANTE VS. Sucesión de José Miguel Ayala Arroyo t/c/c José M. Ayala Arroyo t/c/c José Ayala Arroyo t/c/c José M. Ayala, compuesta la Sucesión de Ada Sacarello Bayron t/c/c Ada Sacarello De Ayala t/c/c Ada S. Ayala t/c/c Ada Sacarello compuesta por Nelson Ramirez Sacarello, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos; Fulano de Tal, y Sutano de Tal como herederos de nombres desconocidos; Sucesión de Ada Sacarello Bayron t/c/c Ada Sacarello De Ayala t/c/c Ada S. Ayala t/c/c Ada Sacarello compuesta por Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal; Centro de Recaudaciones Municipales y los Estados Unidos de América

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM.: CA2019CV01769.

SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. MANDAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.\

Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Orden: ORDEN. Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en Ja misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a los herederos del co-demandado conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A.sec. 2787y su equivalente el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 2020: Se Ordena a los herederos del causante a saber, Nelson Ramirez Sacarello, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal,, herederos de nombres desconocidos a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de

a fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Ada Sacarello Bayron t/c/c Ada Sacarello De Ayala t/c/c Ada S. Ayala t/c/c Ada Sacarello. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego de! transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado !a herencia de !os causantes, y por ende, la parte demandante podrá continuar !a causa acción, dado por entendido que !as partes interpeladas han aceptado !a herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785 y su equivalente el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil, edición 2020. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión del causante Ada Sacarello Bayron t/c/c Ada Sacarello De Ayala t/c/c Ada S. Ayala t/c/c Ada Sacarello, incluyen como herederos a Nelson Ramirez Sacarello, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de marzo de 2023. F/ Ignacio Morales Gomez, JUEZ. Por Cuanto: Se le advierte a que dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Ada Sacarello Bayron t/c/c Ada Sacarello De Ayala t/c/c Ada S. Ayala t/c/c Ada Sacarello. Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primera Instancia de este Tribunal, expido el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en Carolina, Puerto Rico hoy día 31 de marzo de 2023. Lcda. Marllyn Aponte Rodriguez, Seretaria Regional. Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Sec Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOT ICE

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de BAYAMON.

YADIRA LIZRODRIGUEZ

NAZARIO T/C/P YADIRA

RODRIGUEZ

Demandante V.

JEROME P TRICK

O’CONNELL FRAWLEY

T/C/P JEROME

O’CONNELL

Demandado(a)

Civil: DO2022CV00206. SALA:

4001. Sobre: EXEQUATUR. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JEROME PATRICK

O’CONNELL FRAWLEY

T/C/P JEROME

O’CONNELL

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 29 de marzo de 2023 , este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de Ia misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en Ia Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de las 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de Ia Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de Ia cual puede establecerse recurso de revision o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de Ia publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en Ia fecha de Ia publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 31 de marzo de 2023. En BAYAMON , Puerto Rico, el 31 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). Fdo. ISABEL C SOUCHET BURGOS, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

LEGACY MORTGAGE

ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1

Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE GABRIEL

RODRĹGUEZ LABOY

Y SUCESIÓN DE LUZ

DELIA GARCÍA BURGOS

COMPUESTA POR

IVETTE RODRÍGUEZ

GARCÍA; OLGA

RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA; DAVID RODRÍGUEZ

GARCÍA; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES; CRIM

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: GM2022CV00066. Salón Núm.: (202). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA

Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE

ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE GABRIEL RODRĺGUEZ LABOY Y SUCESIÓN DE LUZ DELIA GARCÍA BURGOS compuesta por IVETTE RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA; OLGA RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA; DAVID RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM): DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Patillas en Guayama, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e 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: Parcela marcada con el número 209 de La Comunidad Rural Guardarraya, radicada en el Barrio Guardarraya del término municipal de Patillas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de cuatrocientos sesenta y siete metros dieciocho decímetros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número 2 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con canal de riego; por el ESTE, con la calle número 3 de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la parcela número doscientos nueve A de la comunidad. Consta inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 215 de Patillas, finca número #9,475, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Com. Rural Guardarraya, Lote 209, Calle 2, Esq. Calle 3, Vistamar, Patillas, P.R. 00723. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación

UConn wins fifth NCAA title by overwhelming San Diego State

By BILLY WITZ

The Connecticut men’s basketball team has endured many tribulations in recent weeks. The Huskies walked into soiled hotel rooms when they arrived in Las Vegas for their first games in the NCAA tournament. Their bus was broken into while they were at practice. And Jordan Hawkins, their star guard, was curled up on the floor of his hotel room on Friday, stricken with illness and complaining about some calamari.

As for difficulties on the basketball court?

Those were trifling matters for the Huskies, who, after blitzing their way to the tournament’s championship game, showed they also possessed a rock-solid chin and a cool hand in turning back San Diego State, 76-59, to win their fifth title in the past 25 years.

This wasn’t another freewheeling romp but a grinding effort in which the Huskies relied on their defense to take control before making enough plays down the stretch — and being near perfect at the free-throw line, making 21 of 23 in the second half — to repel the game but scattershot Aztecs.

Tristen Newton scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Connecticut, which also got 17 points and 10 rebounds from Adama Sanogo, who was named the most outstanding player of the Final Four in Houston. Hawkins added 16 points — including a critical 3-pointer that stymied San Diego State.

With 30 seconds remaining, coach Dan Hurley removed his starters, greeting each one with a bearhug as they returned to the bench. When the final buzzer sounded, Newton jumped off the edge of the elevated court and into the arms of family members wearing his No. 2 jersey.

San Diego State, which had never before advanced past the round of 16, was trying to replicate what Kansas did a year ago, rallying from 15 points down in the second half to claim a championship. But the Aztecs just did not have enough offense, shooting 32.2% from the field and missing 14 consecutive shots in the first half, when the Huskies seized control.

The Huskies looked nothing like a team that finished fourth in the Big East Conference during the regular season. In their march to the national championship, they won their six tournament games by 24, 15, 23, 28, 13 and 17 points.

“The group had a lot of confidence for how

we played the majority of the season,” Hurley said on the court after the game. “We knew we were the best team in the tournament going in, and we just had to play like it.”

While Newton contributed the most points and Hawkins delivered the biggest bucket, the Huskies at both ends of the court revolved — as they have all tournament — around Sanogo, who is observing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and does not eat food or drink water from dawn to sundown.

After sunset, he eats protein-packed meals, hibachi steak and chicken with fruit, and he rises around 5 a.m. to eat another meal before going back to sleep. On game nights, he subsists on lighter fare: coconut water and fruit.

“I just want to say anything is possible,” said Sanogo, who grew up in Mali, and whose ambition was to further his education in France until an uncle living in the United States suggested that he was enough of a basketball prospect to come.

The victory was seen in UConn’s locker room as restoring the program to its rightful place in the college basketball universe. Since the last title nine years ago, Kevin Ollie, a former Husky himself, was fired and then filed suit to win back salary, getting $14.9 million through an arbitrator’s ruling and a settlement with the university. And until last month, Connecticut had not won a tournament game since 2016.

Many of the players spoke of a desire to uphold the standard that comes at the entrance to

the basketball facility, where the first thing you see are the 11 women’s championship trophies and, until Monday, the four won by the men.

There are also mementos of all-Americans and high draft picks.

“That’s big shoes to fill,” said Andre Jackson Jr., the team’s leader, nodding toward the other side of the locker room, where former Connecticut stars Ray Allen, Emeka Okafor and Rudy Gay were holding court with reporters. “As a basketball player, if you don’t walk in there and feel inspired by that, I don’t know what’s going to inspire you.”

The title also served as validation for Hurley, who has spent his basketball life cast in the shadow of his older brother, Bobby, a star at Duke when Dan was a role player at Seton Hall, and his father, Bob, a decorated high school coach at St. Anthony in Jersey City, New Jersey.

A little more than a decade ago, Dan Hurley was coaching at St. Benedict’s Prep in his home state.

As much as he can be profane and combustible along the sideline, biting his lip so hard when he screamed for a foul against Gonzaga that he drew blood, he has not been afraid to reveal his vulnerabilities during the tournament. He said he “sucked” when he first started coaching in high school, and revealed that he had taken up painting at the suggestion of his wife, while acknowledging that he is no Picasso.

The seeds of Connecticut’s celebration were planted last March, after the Huskies were upset in the first round of the tournament by 12th-seeded New Mexico State. Hurley convened his three cornerstones — Sanogo, Jackson and Hawkins — and promised them he would put a better roster around them, dotted with perimeter shooters who wouldn’t shrink in big moments. Among them was Newton, who played the last three years at East Carolina.

Basketball observers were not impressed. The Huskies began the season unranked.

When they won their first 14 games, including a rout of Alabama, the Huskies had a touchstone they could return to. And fittingly enough, they did so one more time late Monday.

After Joey Calcaterra buried a 3-pointer to put Connecticut ahead, 56-41, the Aztecs mustered a final charge. Jaedon LeDee, a chiseled forward playing in his hometown, scored a pair of baskets in the lane that prompted a Huskies timeout.

Hawkins left a jumper short, Keshad Johnson knocked in a 3-pointer from the wing, Darrion Trammell followed that with a steal and a layup, and San Diego State fans brought the cavernous arena to life, having crawled to 56-50.

The Aztecs — who had shown their mettle in the tournament, trailing Alabama by 9, Creighton by 8 and Florida Atlantic by 14 on their way to the title game — envisioned reeling the Huskies in.

“It was that March feeling — wow, this is happening,” said Trammell, whose free throw with 1.2 seconds left had beaten Creighton in the South Regional final. “We’re going to be that team that overcomes another deficit, and we can come out and win this game.”

The Aztecs would close to 60-55 with less than six minutes left, but Hawkins, curling off a series of screens near the top of the arc, unfurled his silky shot, swishing a 3-pointer that kept San Diego State at bay by starting a 9-0 run.

“Big shot by a great player,” Trammell said, grimacing at the thought.

Said Hurley: “I thought the group was a little frustrated that we hadn’t put them away, and they focused on execution.”

It was an orderly ending for this unpredictable, hugger-mugger of a tournament.

Jordan Hawkins had 16 points and was one of the Huskies’ three double-figure scorers.

Once a scrappy underdog, the Padres adjust to penthouse life

By SCOTT MILLER

Xander Bogaerts faced a dilemma. He had just unboxed a custom pair of spiffy brown cleats with yellow accents that popped. And as he sat at his locker handling them some four hours before his first opening day with the San Diego Padres, he asked someone standing nearby a colorful question.

“Do you like white or brown laces?”

Across the game, most others on this day were treading carefully into the new season, wondering about more weighty issues. Where will the runs come from? Is there enough depth in the bullpen for the impending six-month grind of the regular season?

But these Padres are different, set apart by an enormous payroll, vivid swagger and unique team colors.

From the visitors’ dugout this weekend, they were unrecognizable to the Colorado skipper, Bud Black, from when he managed in San Diego. Then, from 2007 through 2015, his Padres wore blue. And they were a deteriorating franchise overseen by an owner, John Moores, who for all intents and purposes had checked out. His other businesses and a messy divorce were occupying much of his time.

When Black managed the Padres to a surprise 90-win season in 2010, contending for a playoff spot through that season’s final day in San Francisco, he did so with a team payroll that had been chopped to $37.7 million. It ranked 29th in Major League Baseball, nestled between the Oakland Athletics at No. 28 and the dead-last Pittsburgh Pirates.

The cumulative payrolls of Black’s first four teams in San Diego ($213 million) did not even add up to the franchise’s estimated payroll this season ($237 million) — by far a franchise record.

“I’ve never been in those shoes. You know, those higher payroll teams,” Black said, smiling. “So I don’t know what that’s like.”

According to Spotrac’s estimates, only the New York Mets ($335.9 million) and the New York Yankees ($268.9 million) are spending more on their team payroll to chase a World Series title this year than the Padres, now controlled by the owner Peter Seidler. Seidler and Ron Fowler, who stepped down after the 2020 season, led the group that purchased the

team from Moores in 2014.

As the superstars Bogaerts, Manny Machado, Juan Soto and Joe Musgrove were introduced before Thursday’s opener, the capacity crowd of 45,103, many of whom had lost interest in baseball while watching the team divest itself of the 2007 National League Cy Young Awardwinner, Jake Peavy; the slugger Adrián González; and the future Hall of Fame closer Trevor Hoffman, stood and roared.

When the introductions were finished, there was an aggregate of 37 AllStar Game selections standing along the first-base line, or residing somewhere on this star-spangled roster. Nelson Cruz (seven All-Star selections), Machado (six) and Yu Darvish (five) led the way, with Bogaerts and closer Josh Hader chipping in four each.

“I wish I’d have had some of these teams when I was here,” said Peavy, who was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 2009 even after signing for a hometown discount of $52 million over three years. He was in town to throw out the season’s ceremonial first pitch before being inducted into the club’s Hall of Fame later this summer.

“San Diego is on fire,” Peavy added enthusiastically.

Different days, different times.

“I remember when I first came into the big leagues, everything was different here,” said Rockies outfielder Kris Bryant, who made his debut with the Chicago Cubs in 2015, two years after they made

him their first-round pick out of the University of San Diego. “Different coaches, different players, different field dimensions.

“Everything has changed.”

That includes the expectations. After bouncing the Dodgers last October before losing to Philadelphia in the NL Championship Series, the Padres will play the most anticipated season in franchise history. All four games over the weekend sold out, setting a club attendance record to open a season. Fervor is so high that in the late innings of last Thursday night’s 7-2 loss to Colorado, there was even a smattering of boos from this mostly sunny and optimistic fan base — and then more as the Padres dropped to 0-2 on Friday night.

Nevertheless, the club announced before the season’s third game Saturday that infielder Jake Cronenworth had signed a seven-year, $80 million extension.

Another day, another whopping check.

“Baseball is a weird sport,” said Machado, a voice of experience, before the season’s first pitch was thrown. “Over 162 games you have ups, you have downs, there are a lot of highs, a lot of lows, a lot of streaks. It goes both ways.

“But with these guys in here, we have a lot of tools in the box.”

In Bogaerts, a key part of Boston’s 2018 World Series triumph, and in Soto, who helped lead Washington to a title in

2019, the Padres have two players with recent championship pedigrees on whom they are counting to be influencers.

“If I’m going to compare it to a team that I was privileged to be on previously, it would be that one,” Bogaerts said of the 2018 Red Sox team that won 108 games and rolled through a postseason that culminated with a five-game World Series breeze over the Dodgers. “That ’18 team, we were that much better than every team in the league. And with the expectation, we went out and we delivered.”

Bogaerts delivered on Saturday night by smashing a two-run, first-inning homer to help push San Diego to its first win of the year. He homered again on Sunday as the Padres won a second straight game to split the series with Colorado, an NL West rival. (The Padres won again on Monday, 5-4 over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks.)

As with any worthwhile influencer, there was a clear and pointed message in his comments: The actual delivery of a well-appointed blueprint is never a guarantee. Charlie Blackmon, Colorado’s designated hitter, has witnessed many significant changes in the NL West since his rookie season in 2011, including the various permutations in Petco Park.

“They’re a good team, but this is the big leagues and every night you’re facing All-Stars,” Blackmon said, adding: “A few years ago, San Diego went for it and had a bunch of big contracts and had to blow it up. It’s not necessarily a sustainable model, what we’ve seen so far. So it makes you wonder.”

Specifically, he was referring to 2015. That was the first full season for A.J. Preller, then the general manager, now the president of baseball operations, always the aggressive architect whatever his title. Preller traded for the All-Stars Matt Kemp, Derek Norris and Craig Kimbrel and signed pitcher James Shields as a free agent that season. The Padres started slowly, fired Black in June, finished 74-88 and started all over again after finishing 68-94 in 2016.

The payroll reached a then-Padres record $108.3 million in 2015 and $99 million in 2016. The 90 wins in 2010 with a payroll a third or so of those remains the most victories for the club in any season since San Diego’s 1998 NL pennant-winning team.

Juan Soto and Xander Bogaerts are two of Major League Baseball’s biggest stars and both joined the San Diego Padres in the last year.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Is an issue bugging you, Aries? Getting involved in other activities may help. The Virgo Moon encourages you to go out for a walk or a jog, and generally get moving. The sunny emphasis on your sign is great for indulging activities that uplift and recharge you. As you get involved in your day-to-day affairs, you’ll find that this matter is less bothersome and might resolve itself.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Mercury’s recent move into your sign, is great for taking stock of the many ideas you’ve been dreaming up over recent weeks. You’ve likely had some way out plans, but now the planet of talk and thought is in your sign, you’ll be more realistic about what is possible. This doesn’t mean you can’t be adventurous, but you’ll prefer not to take too many outrageous risks, Taurus.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

The Sun and buoyant Jupiter in your sector of longterm goals, may have inspired you to think big and expand on your plans. Mind, with Mars in a more cautious sign, you’ll be acutely aware of the costs too. Rather than lower your expectations, get more creative and you could come up with ways to get the results you want and not pay too much, Gemini. It’s a win-win situation!

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Mars in your sign can stir up a variety of emotions, but you do have a choice about how you react to circumstances. Whatever shows up, you get to decide how to respond, and this could make all the difference to the outcome. Rather than go into defensive mode, try keeping an open mind. This will help you see what’s really going on rather than what you think is happening.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

The combined energies of the Sun and expansive Jupiter, can be enough to chase away any shadows and encourage you to go for what you want. Today’s Moon/Venus link suggests attending to the details, rather than ignoring them, as you could find a loophole that you can take advantage of. It’s not often that such things happen, but it’s possible you’ll gain financially, Leo.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

The Moon in your sign could make you more aware of your faults and failings, which won’t help if you’re trying to launch something new. Its tie to Venus encourages you to be kinder to yourself, as nobody is perfect. If you’re wondering about how a plan might pan out, overthinking won’t help. Just make a start, and do a little every day. You can adapt it as you go along, Virgo.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

You’ll have plenty of ideas, and some of them could be extremely creative. You’ll also enjoy pooling resources and collaborating on projects, as this way you’ll be truly in your element. The outcome can be sensational. Plus, the Moon in Virgo may be a call to listen to your instincts. If you need to make an important choice, then trusting your gut might make the process easier.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

You like to be self-sufficient, but you can’t be an expert on everything. If you have a DIY project on or are attempting to do something creative like redecorate your home, think about getting some expert help. Whether it’s the advice of someone you know or you get hold of a professional, you’ll be less likely to make a mess of it. Have plenty of experience? Go for it!

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

What passes as deep conversation could leave you cold, as you’ll have your mind on more urgent and important matters. You’ll be keen to connect with others who share your perspective and who are ready to take your ideas as seriously as you do. Once you’ve talked about it all, there’s plenty of time to get out and do something more enjoyable and a lot more relaxing, Archer.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

Your ruler Saturn has been in Pisces and your communication zone for a few weeks, bringing you together with people who share the same ideas and beliefs as you. Even so, there are some things you’ll need to take with a pinch of salt today, until you know the facts. A Moon/Neptune face off hints that someone’s words may seem credible, but it’s best to make sure they stack up.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

The Moon’s link to Pluto in your sign, suggests you’ll experience a surge of energy. Use it to complete a project that’s been hanging over you for some time. Once out of the way, you can start something new. This aspect also hints at an encounter that could shake you up in a good way. This person might act as a catalyst, inspiring you to make a game changing decision.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

If you’re worried about your finances, a shift in mindset can help. You’ll only succeed if you do something, and this requires some creative or lateral thinking. With an upbeat blend of energies in your money zone, consider what you want to accomplish and forget what you’re most dreading. Keeping the positive in mind might bring helpful ideas into the mix, Pisces.

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