November 2022 closed with a decrease in the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, thus placing it at 6.2%, according to data extracted from the Employment and Unemployment Report issued by the island Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH by its Spanish initials).
This decrease was 0.3 percentage point when compared to last October, when it stood at 6.5%. If compared against November 2021 (7.3%) and January 2021 (9.1%), the difference is 1.1 and 2.9 percentage points, respectively, consistent with the historical trend seen throughout 2022, as reported by DTRH Secretary Gabriel Maldonado González, who highlighted the figures with optimism and assured that the drop in unemployment and increase in labor participation will continue to bring stability to the local economy.
“We continue to experience favorable numbers for the labor market in Puerto Rico, with levels of labor participation and employment not seen for a decade,” Maldonado González said in a written statement.
The non-seasonally adjusted labor participation rate in November 2022 was estimated at 44.4%, for an increase of 1.1 percentage point compared to October 2022, when it was 43.3% and 4 percentage points when compared to January 2021. In contrast, the estimate of the non-seasonally adjusted working group was 1,216,000 people. That meant an increase of 30,000 people compared to October 2022 (1,186,000). The comparison with November 2021 (1,216,000), meanwhile, showed no change in the size of the working group, but when compared to January 2021 (1,111,000) an increase of 105,000 people who are now part of the labor force is seen.
The number of people employed in Puerto Rico for November 2022, not seasonally adjusted, was 1,140,000. That figure is equivalent to 31,000 more people when compared to October 2022 (1,109,000). Compared to November 2021 (1,128,000), the level of employment registered an increase of 12,000 citizens. When compared to January 2021 (1,010,000), the increase is 130,000 people employed.
Meanwhile, according to the seasonally adjusted data of the publication of non-agricultural salaried employment, corresponding to November 2022, a monthly increase of 4,200 was shown.
The industries that registered monthly increases in employment were: government (1,900), education and health services (900), finance (700), and recreation and accommodation (700). Similarly showing increases were mining, logging and construction (200); manufacturing (100); and trade, transportation and utilities (100). The sector that showed lower growth was professional and commercial services (400). Those that did not reflect changes were information and other services. Compared to the previous year, all sectors registered increases.
“Although much remains to be done to meet the current demand that employers have on our island, the statistical data we collect month after month allows the DTRH and other state and federal agencies, as well as the private sector, to draw up additional strategies to achieve part of the over 1.5 million people who are currently outside the working group to the different industries that require so much labor,” the Labor chief said. “We must maximize the potential of working women, people with functional diversity, those who receive government aid, ex-convicts, young people and older adults who continue to be of productive age, among other groups skilled at working who are part of our society.”
The San Juan Daily Star, the only paper with News Service in English in Puerto Rico, publishes 7 days a week, with a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday edition, along with a Weekend Edition to cover Friday, Saturday and Sunday.The municipality of Vieques received an advance through the Working Capital Advance (WCA) pilot program amounting to $10.8 million for the development of the Susana Centeno hospital, Central Office of Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience (COR3) Executive Director Manuel A. Laboy Rivera announced Sunday.
“This project is a priority for the administration of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi. Therefore, in the search to provide the necessary resources to continue expediting the construction of this health center, this initial advance of 25 percent was processed for the development of the design and construction,” Laboy Rivera said. “The municipality has 90 days to submit a progress report and/or refund request, to request the other half of the WCA and reach 50 percent of the advance.”
Since the WCA became available in mid-June, the municipality of Vieques has been one of the 44 municipalities that have requested advances to start their reconstruction projects. To date, the municipal council has processed 11 WCA applications amounting to $13.7 million, including
the advance for the development of the medical institution.
“The municipality of Vieques appreciates the prompt action by COR3 and its executive director, Manuel Laboy, to manage the advance of 25% of the Working Capital Advance, for the construction of the long-awaited Health Center for our island, this being a priority project for the governor, necessary and expected for all the residents of the Isla Nena,” Vieques Mayor José “Junito” Corcino Acevedo said.
The project has an allocation approaching $43.5 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Public Assistance Program, with the purpose of building a resilient and advanced infrastructure where medical services are provided that meet the needs of patients in Vieques and neighboring islands.
Infrastructure Finance Authority Executive Director Eduardo Rivera Cruz said meanwhile that “the mission is clear, we continue the development of this infrastructure and social justice work at a steady pace for the people of Vieques, with the same urgency that we have given it since the project was assigned to us by the municipality of Vieques, to provide first-rate medical facilities on Isla Nena.”
The latest adjustment plan filed late last week to restructure the $10 billion Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) debt would create a “legacy” charge added to customers’ bills to pay bondholders for 35 years, would eliminate the workers’ pension system and would pay more to bondholders who settle their claims.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said in a reaction over the weekend that the plan is a positive step but noted that it must create an accessible system and respect the determinations of the Puerto Rio Energy Bureau, which is the regulator of the energy industry and is the entity in charge of approving rate hikes and charges.
The debt adjustment plan (PAD by its Spanish acronym) filed by the Financial Oversight and Management Board last Friday after two postponements has the support of at least two major classes of PREPA’s creditors, which are fuel line lenders and Vitol, a fuel supplier. The oversight board, meanwhile, announced last week an agreement in principle with monoliner National.
The plan proposes to cut PREPA’s unsustainable debt by 48%, to approximately $5.4 billion, and should provide the financial stability necessary to invest in a modern system, the oversight board said.
“Bankruptcy held back the transformation of Puerto Rico’s energy system,” the oversight board’s chairman, David Skeel, said last week. “The Plan we filed today is a big step forward, but it is not the last step. We will continue to negotiate with creditors on the path to confirmation of the Plan by the Court.”
The PAD identifies 12 classes of claims and accounts for the potential outcomes of pending litigation. It would encourage settlement of bonded debt claims by its inclusion of two separate classes for bond claims. The first, which is for bondholders and monoline Insurers desiring to settle, would recover about 50% to 100% of the value of their investment. The second, which is for bondholders desiring to vindicate their purported rights through litigation, would provide a lesser recovery.
The PAD has four scenarios depending on whether the oversight board prevails on litigation that seeks to disallow any secured claim held by the bondholders beyond the estimated $16 million in funds actually deposited in the Sinking Fund, and limit any potential recourse, secured or unsecured, to the monies deposited in the Sinking Fund. If the board prevails on the lien and recourse litigation, “the Non-Settling bondholders will receive only their pro rata share of amounts deposited in the Sinking Fund.”
Nonetheless, the oversight board does not dismiss a cramdown as the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act and the Bankruptcy Code provide that the Title III Court may confirm a plan of adjustment that is not accepted by all of the classes if the plan is determined to be “fair and equitable.”
Bondholders and monoline insurers who choose to settle their claims will receive fixed and two types of outcome-dependent contingent payments. Their fixed payment will be Series B bonds in the face amount of 50% of their allowable petition date claims. Non-settling bondholders will receive only their pro rata share of amounts deposited in the Sinking Fund. Settling bondholders, on the other hand, will receive additional Series B bonds as the first type of contingent payment. In this scenario, settling bondholders may receive up to 100.00% of their prepetition claim.
General unsecured claims will get about $800 million. Because many bondholders did not participate in the mediation, and have not had the opportunity to settle, the oversight board intends to send a settlement offer with a restructuring support agreement containing such terms to all bondholders on or around Dec. 28.
To fund the new bonds issued under the PAD, a temporary, hybrid transition charge, called the “Legacy Charge” will be added to PREPA’s rates to allow for sufficient net revenues to provide a source of repayment for the new bonds issued by PREPA under the PAD.
The legacy charge may involve both a volumetric component based on customer class and a customer’s electricity use, and/or a flat monthly connection charge for being connected to PREPA’s electricity grid, based on customer class. The flat fee component is designed to provide a relatively more consistent and predictable cash flow while charging customers for access to PREPA’s electricity grid not based on usage in any given month.
“Revenues from the volumetric component are projected to decrease with time as demand for electricity decreases on the island,” the PAD states. “The quantification of the Legacy Charge added to a given customer’s bill will be determined considering factors such as a customer’s rate class. For example, the most vulnerable customers or subsidized residential customers are not intended to be assessed any connection charge and would only be assessed a volumetric charge if their consumption
exceeds approximately 500 kWh [kilowatt-hours] per month.”
Other customer accounts would be subject to a connection charge, a volumetric charge for consumption up to around 500 kWh, and an equivalent or higher volumetric charge for consumption over about 500 kWh. Based on electricity demand projections pursuant to PREPA’s 2022 certified fiscal plan, the legacy charge is expected to generate some $5.4 billion of revenue over the next 35 years.
In regard to PREPA’s retirees, the utility’s Employment Retirement System will receive the same treatment provided to other pensioners as part of the bankruptcy. PREPA’s defined benefit pension system will be frozen as of the effective date of the PAD and cost of living adjustments, or COLAs, will be eliminated. PREPA will deposit monies in a PREPA PayGo Trust sufficient to pay retirees all pension benefits.
The PAD is not expected to impact subsidies. PREPA customers currently enrolled in one of PREPA’s existing subsidy customer classes, such as those for the elderly, students, customers that depend on lifesaving medical equipment, customers with disabilities, and participants in the Puerto Rico Nutrition Assistance Program, among others, will continue to receive their existing subsidies from PREPA without interruption and may or may not be exempt from the legacy charge.
The PAD is also not expected to impact payments to LUMA Energy for operating PREPA’s transmission and distribution
system. Whitefish, which performed work for PREPA, is also expected to be paid.
Oversight board member Justin Peterson voted against the plan because he believes it treated bondholders unfairly, and was predicated on financial analysis produced to solve for a desired outcome – to pay as little as possible.
“The Oversight Board’s unilateral approach to mediation was disappointing,” Peterson said. “It prevented a global deal with all bondholders that was within reach. For as long as I remain a member of the Oversight Board, I will continue to stand up for the rights of bondholders who have been treated shabbily throughout this process.”
The speaker of the island House of Representatives, Rafael Hernández Montañez, rejected the PREPA PAD on Sunday, charging that it will increase the rate paid by residential and commercial customers and thus would perpetuate LUMA’s inefficiency as an operator of the electrical system.
“In the House we have been consistent from day one, by approving legislation (HB 1387 and HB 1429) that restructures PREPA’s debt, protecting the consumer without imposing increases in the bill and with zero cuts to pensions,” Hernández Montañez said.
He added that if the plan proposed by the oversight board is approved, the commercial and industrial competitiveness of the island and the investment possibilities for economic development will be adversely affected.
By THE STAR STAFF
The members of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) issued a motion and order to LUMA Energy last week so that in 10 working days the company shows cause for which it should not be fined $25,000 per day for exceeding the budget for fiscal year 2022.
The document, signed by the PREB’s four commissioners and issued Dec. 14, highlights that the energy consortium exceeded its budget by $21 million without obtaining the Energy Bureau’s approval.
“LUMA cannot view year-end finances as available funds that it can relocate without taking proper precautions before spending them,” the PREB document reads. “The Energy Bureau
expects the budget management process to be the result of careful planning and thus any amendments should be reasonably anticipated according to a prudent accounting process
during the fiscal year.”
The deadline for LUMA to show cause is Jan. 3, 2023. Days off and/or holidays are not counted, the PREB noted.
Guaynabo Mayor Edward O’Neill Rosa in conjunction with Santa Claus and the Three Kings delivered toys to children from several Guaynabeña communities over the weekend.
Early on, a group of Guaynabo municipal employees led by teachers and Head Start staff moved into various sectors to organize communities prior to the gift-giving.
“It fills us with joy to be able to give children from disadvantaged communities toys at Christmas time and to be able to bring them a moment of joy with music and the visit of Santa Claus and the Three Kings,” the mayor said. “We have enjoyed the excitement on their faces when their toy is handed to them.”
At the same time, he called on adults to give away educational toys instead of items that promote violence.
“Let’s take advantage of the time to give educational
toys or those that stimulate our children instead of items that encourage violence such as guns and swords,” O’Neill Rosa said. “Parents have a great responsibility to educate so that there is no more violence in Puerto Rico.”
At each gift delivery site a caravan of joy would arrive with Christmas music to brighten up the event andSanta Claus and The Three Kings share time with children and adolescents.
The deliveries of toys began in the Amelia neighborhood, then the caravan moved to Juan Domingo, and then on to the Rafael Martínez Nadal y La Rosaleda neighborhoods. Later the caravan moved on to the Villa Venecia Condominium, from there they organized themselves at the Mario “Quixote” Morales coliseum in the Guaraguao neighborhood, where the day of distributing toys culminated.
The next delivery of toys will be on Three Kings Day, when the caravan will visit the rural communities in the southern part of Guaynabo.
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The number of students with autism in Puerto Rico went up by 932 over the past school year, Education Associate Secretary Jessica Díaz Vázquez said.
The number of autistic students went up to 7,575 compared to 6,643 in the past school year, Díaz Vázquez said during a public hearing of the Special Committee for Legislative Monitoring of the Education Department’s (DE) Special Education Program.
“There has been a significant increase in the number of students within the autism spectrum, more than doubled. I believe the department must reflect on how to serve this growing population,” Committee Chairwoman María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón said. “We need more specialized teachers but also [need to be] more willing to explore other methodologies that can be useful. I always insist with the Department that we need to pause and reflect on the effects of the pandemic on our students. The fact that the number of new referrals and diagnoses increased so much when we returned to face-to-face classes should be an alert for us to think about whether we are facing clinical problems or an inability for the system to function remotely.”
Díaz Vázquez noted that the enrollment distribution of students within the autism spectrum by educational region is 7,575.
“They are divided with the San Juan region having the largest number of students with
1,597,” the DE official said. “The Bayamón region follows it with 1,315, the Arecibo Region with 1,024 students, the Ponce region with 992, Caguas with 979, Mayagüez with 951, and Humacao with 717 students. … More men are diagnosed within this spectrum than women.”
The Puerto Rican Independence Party senator asked the agency official why a higher statistic is being seen in Puerto Rico compared to other jurisdictions. Díaz Vázquez responded that there are several hypotheses, and the one favored by most specialists is access to evaluations. She said students were being sent for psychometric assessments and not necessarily for autism.
“Now an evaluation is done on autism. It has been one of the trends,” the official said. “Also, access to information. … Being alert affects sending students to be evaluated.”
Likewise, Díaz Vázquez noted that the number of students with autism has been increasing.
“In 2018, the total was 5,530 students; subsequently, each year it increased, but the most significant increase occurred last school year, whose total was 6,643 and [that number] increased to 7,575 at present,” she said.
Santiago Negrón also asked how many autism specialists the Education Department has. Díaz Vázquez said some 200 teachers are specialized in autism and recognized that that is not enough to serve the population. However, she said, the agency is making the
necessary efforts for recruitment within the existing limitations.
When asked by New Progressive Sen. Migdalia Padilla about the increase in students with autism, Kiomarie Ramos, a former teacher and current consultant for the STARS and LINKS curriculum, said the rise is a function of one in 66 cases being diagnosed -- a significant increase, she said.
Regarding the methodologies used by the agency to treat students with autism, Díaz Vázquez said those recommended and used for students are the TEACH Methodology, Comprehensive Intervention Model for Autism, Montessori Methodology, STAR Program
and LINKS Curriculum.
Meanwhile, Yolanda González, an assistant professor in the Graduate Studies Department at the University of Puerto Rico, advocated for a personalized assessment in the first stage.
“While it is true that the DE needs to improve preparation for adult life, it is also true that after the DE, the alternatives are almost nil,” she said.
González stressed that a broad assessment should be repeated at the end of the school year to identify achievements, stages in which goals are reached, and to plan for the future.
and license plate numbers, addresses, schools and places of employment.
The legislation gained momentum after the son of Judge Esther Salas was shot and killed at her home in New Brunswick, New Jersey, by a lawyer who had come looking for her and also shot her husband. “Judges, and their families, should not live in fear for doing the job they are sworn to do,” Salas said in a statement Friday.
Democrats attached a package of ocean conservation provisions, including a ban on owning or selling shark fins in the United States; an increase in funding for research and restoration of coral reefs; an increase in oversight of imported seafood; and an expansion of programs that monitor, research and map the oceans and Great Lakes.
The oceans package also expands the use of technology to monitor marine mammals to help prevent them from colliding with boats — legislation that is aimed in particular at preserving North Atlantic right whales, of which there are only 340 left in the world.
The legislation makes it easier for active-duty families to qualify for the basic needs allowance, a stipend designed to target food and housing insecurity for the most at-risk service members. Nearly 1 in 4 active-duty service members experienced food insecurity at some point in 2020, according to a report released this year by the Department of Defense.
By CATIE EDMONDSONCongress late last week gave final approval to an $858 billion military policy bill that would increase the Pentagon’s budget by 8% and repeal the coronavirus vaccine mandate for the troops, after lawmakers in both chambers overwhelmingly approved the mammoth, 4,400-page legislation.
Seen as one of the few must-pass bills taken up by Congress at the end of each year, the legislation, which authorizes an annual pay increase for the military and typically draws broad bipartisan support, lays out lawmakers’ national security priorities for the coming year. It is also a perennial magnet for unrelated pet projects.
This year, eyeing the protracted war in Europe and rising tensions with China, lawmakers approved funding for Taiwan and Ukraine and building up the military’s sea power, as well as new provisions shielding the personal information of federal judges and their families.
The legislation also authorizes a 4.6% pay raise for U.S. troops.
Here’s a look at what’s in the bill, which has gone to President Joe Biden for his signature.
Vaccine mandate repeal
Republicans pushed to include language rescinding the Pentagon’s requirement that troops take the coronavirus
vaccine, one of several inoculations service members are required to receive. Across the armed services, a vast majority of service members are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, and nearly all are at least partially vaccinated, according to data released by the various branches.
The Biden administration had strongly resisted the repeal, arguing that it would erode the health and readiness of the armed forces. But Republicans threatened to tank the entire military bill if it was not included.
Determined to continue aiding two young democracies, lawmakers voted to approve $800 million in military funding to Ukraine and to create a new defense program for Taiwan, authorizing up to $10 billion over the next five years.
A far bigger tranche of military aid for Ukraine is expected to pass through Congress later this year. The Biden administration in November asked lawmakers to approve an additional $38 billion for Ukraine, and despite growing voices in both parties questioning sending more money, bipartisan support for aiding the Ukrainians has remained strong.
Lawakers agreed to add to the military bill a measure with bipartisan support that would shield from the public the personal information of federal judges and their families, including identifying information like Social Security
After an investigative series by The New York Times into civilian deaths from U.S. airstrikes, the Pentagon in August announced sweeping changes aimed at reducing risks to civilians in U.S. military operations. Congress has pushed Pentagon officials to go even further, and lawmakers included in the military bill $25 million to fund the staffing and other expenses of operationalizing those changes.
The bill requires greater specificity regarding the geographic location of strikes resulting in civilian casualties in annual reporting to Congress. And it extends the Defense Department’s authority to access congressionally approved funding to make condolence payments for civilians and their families inadvertently injured or killed in U.S. military operations, after it made zero such payments in 2020.
Shipbuilding budget increase of nearly $5 billion
Fears of rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific, paired with the fact that many senior members of Congress who sit on the national security committees hail from areas dependent on shipyards, resulted in another year of a boosted shipbuilding budget. Lawmakers authorized the procurement of 11 battle force ships and reversed plans for the early retirement of 12 vessels in the coming year.
The Navy’s budget request sought to decommission 24 ships and build eight.
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The increase in gun sales in the country in recent years, particularly among first-time gun owners, could help explain the rise, Jacobson added.
While gun interceptions have increased nationwide, Fitz said, the trend was particularly notable in “parts of the country where open carry and concealed weapons permits are higher,” especially in Southern states.
As for how many guns made it through airport security, the TSA did not immediately respond to a question on that matter. But a 2020 study by Jacobson estimated that several hundred guns made it past TSA checkpoints.
A number of these breaches made the news in recent years. In January 2019, a Delta Air Lines passenger accidentally carried a loaded gun through a security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, TSA officials said at the time. The passenger later discovered the firearm and alerted authorities, who met the plane when it landed in Japan, according to officials.
In 2017, a shooting at an airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, raised concerns about the presence of guns at airports. A gunman retrieved a weapon from his checked bag, opened fire and killed five people.
Last year, a firearm was accidentally discharged during a security check at Atlanta’s international airport. When a TSA officer opened a bag to examine what X-ray machines had identified as a suspicious item, a man lunged into the bag and grabbed a firearm, which then discharged, officials said.
By EDUARDO MEDINA
The Transportation Security Administration intercepted a record number of guns at airport security checkpoints this year, the agency said Friday, prompting it to increase the maximum fine for firearm violations. The move comes amid surges in air travel and gun sales across the country.
The agency said that it had stopped 6,301 guns — more than 88% of which were loaded — from passing beyond security checkpoints. By the end of the year the administration expects to have intercepted about 6,600 guns in carry-on bags, a 10% increase over the previous record of 5,972, set in 2021.
Officials increased the maximum fine for a firearms violation by nearly $1,000, to $14,950, “in order to reduce the threat of firearms at checkpoints,” the agency said in a news release.
“When a passenger brings a firearm to the checkpoint, this consumes significant security resources and poses a potential threat to transportation security, in addition to being very costly for the passenger,” the TSA administrator, David Pekoske, said in a statement.
The announcement came about three months after the agency said that it was on pace to break the record once again, as air travel in the United States neared pre-pandemic levels.
Besides a drop in 2020, when travelers stayed home amid pandemic lockdowns, the number of firearm interceptions by the TSA has steadily increased each year since 2010.
Passengers are allowed to bring guns in checked baggage, so long as the weapons are unloaded and locked in a hard-sided container. Passengers must also declare guns at the check-in counter. But guns are not allowed in carry-on bags at any TSA checkpoint, even if a passenger has a concealed weapon permit.
That distinction may be behind the thousands of mishaps in recent years, some experts say. Travelers may be unfamiliar with the rules for bringing firearms on planes, especially if they have not traveled since the start of the pandemic, said Sheldon H. Jacobson, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an expert on aviation security.
“The majority of people are not doing it with malicious intent,” Jacobson said. “They’re simply forgetting.”
TSA spokesperson David Fitz said in a statement that “the most common reason given by passengers bringing a firearm into a checkpoint is ‘I forgot it was in the bag’ or ‘Someone else
And this spring, Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., was briefly detained by police after trying to bring a loaded gun through airport security in Charlotte, North Carolina — the second time in a little over a year that he had been found with a gun at an airport checkpoint.
When a gun is found at a checkpoint, the TSA does not seize it. Instead, agents are instructed to call law enforcement to handle the situation and confiscate the weapon. There is no federal criminal penalty for passengers caught with a gun at a checkpoint, but the TSA can impose a fine.
Jacobson said an increase in that fine would not solve the problem because “if someone has forgotten that they have a gun with them, then why would deterrence make a difference?”
“It’s not the item that’s the problem,” he added. “It’s the people and the intent of the person with the gun.”
At a congressional hearing this year, lawmakers and airport officials debated how to approach the issue.
Jason Wallis, president of the Airport Law Enforcement Agencies Network and police chief of the Port of Portland in Oregon, said at the hearing that he supported increased fines because “the maximum fine is rarely, if ever, imposed and clearly not serving as a deterrent.”
“I believe the TSA and Congress should consider significantly raising the civil penalties imposed to make an actual impact,” he said.
Balram Bheodari, general manager of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, also supported increased fines at the hearing and made other recommendations, including requiring violators to attend gun safety training.
“Clearly, this is an issue that needs to be addressed nationwide,” he said.
Aman charged with bludgeoning a Chinese immigrant on a Queens sidewalk last year has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and faces a probable 20-year prison term when he is sentenced next month, officials said.
The victim of the beating, GuiYing Ma, a 61-year-old grandmother who moved to New York with her husband to seek out adventure and better-paying jobs, was sweeping a sidewalk in the North Corona neighborhood Nov. 26, 2021, when a man confronted her and hit her twice in the head with a large rock.
Ma spent about three months in the hospital before dying in February.
Elisaul Perez, 33, was arrested near the scene and told a police officer what he had done, according to court documents. Perez, who had prior arrests for robbery, assault and public lewdness, was initially charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon. After Ma died, the charges were upgraded to second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter.
He pleaded guilty to the manslaughter count last week and is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 10, court records show. The Queens district attorney’s office said the judge overseeing the case had indicated he would sentence Perez to 20 years in prison, the upper end of the sentencing range, to be followed by five
years of supervised release.
“We can only hope that the long prison sentence will provide at least some measure of solace to the family of Ms. Ma,” Melinda Katz, the Queens district attorney, said Friday. “Her loss was as heartbreaking as it was senseless.”
The attack on Ma came amid a wave of violence against people of Asian descent in New York and prompted Asian American organizations and residents to demand that more be done to quell the attacks.
Perez was not charged with committing a hate crime. Such a charge often requires explicit evidence of a racial slur or other clear type of bias.
A lawyer for Perez did not immedia-
tely respond to a request for comment; neither did Jennifer Wu, a lawyer for Ma’s family.
Ma and her husband, Zhanxin Gao, left their home in northeastern China in 2017. They were both 56 at the time. Although neither of them spoke English or had ever been to the United States, they applied for visas in hopes of making money to support their son and his children back home.
After settling in Queens, Gao worked for the couple’s landlord at a company that changed and cleaned grease filters for restaurant kitchens. They eked out a simple life on a limited budget, bound by their admiration for each other, their deep bond and a spirit of adventure.
Amountain lion celebrated in the Los Angeles community and who helped to inspire an urban wildlife project was euthanized Saturday, officials said.
The animal, known as P-22, was put down because of health issues that included kidney failure, heart disease, chronic weight loss and a parasitic skin infection, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Saturday.
P-22’s most severe injuries came after he was hit by a car this month. For a decade, he had evaded cars, including crossings of a 10-lane freeway.
The authorities captured P-22 on Monday after he appeared agitated and attacked two dogs, killing one of them.
“P-22’s advanced age, combined with chronic, debilitating, life-shortening conditions and the clear need for extensive long-term veterinary intervention left P-22 with no hope for a positive outcome,” the department said.
Estimated to be 12 years old, the mountain lion was considered old for his breed, wildlife officials said. P-22 was most likely born on the western side of the Santa Monica Mountains but lived most of his life in Griffith Park and amassed a
social media following, with more than 10,000 followers on Instagram.
The park, while being the largest urban-wilderness municipal park in the United States, was small for an animal like P-22, although he made it home. The park recently hosted a celebration to honor the 10 years since P-22 — the 22nd puma in a study to get a tracking
collar — was found.
P-22 was one of the animals that inspired the construction of a wildlife crossing bridge on the 101 Freeway, Brenda Rees, who is on the executive board of the Friends of Griffith Park, said Monday.
“To see this happen kind of is a reminder of why we need connectivity in Southern California,” Rees said after
P-22’s capture. “We need animals being able to go from one area to the other and not feel locked in the kind of confines he was in Griffith Park.”
The project is meant to give large animals such as mountain lions the freedom to move without interacting with the urban space around them.
“P-22’s survival on an island of wilderness in the heart of Los Angeles captivated people around the world and revitalized efforts to protect our diverse native species and ecosystems,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement.
P-22 was one of the oldest mountain lions that the National Park Service has been researching since 2002, according to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Data collected from his patterns of movement will continue to be analyzed.
“Goodbye, P-22,” the recreation area said. “Your scientific legacy will live on.”
Beth Pratt, executive director of the California regional center of the National Wildlife Federation, said she had considered herself P-22’s friend and spokesperson.
“I was so sorry that we did not make the world a safer place for him,” she said Saturday.
His wife, he confided, had warned him “don’t get emotional.” But anyone who knew President Joe Biden surely understood that was never going to happen.
For Biden, Friday was always going to be an emotional day. He flew to Delaware to give a speech at a military center named for his eldest son, who died more than seven years ago — an event that happened to come just two days before the 50th anniversary of the car accident that claimed the life of his first wife and baby daughter.
“It always leaves me a with a little bit of a lump in my throat,” he said of visiting the Maj. Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center, near New Castle, where he promoted a new law providing benefits for veterans suffering from exposure to burn pits in Iraq, Afghanistan and other combat zones. Biden has long blamed the brain cancer that killed his son on toxic exposure during Beau’s own Iraq tour, although no firm connection has been established.
The purpose of the appearance was to encourage veterans to sign up for the benefits, which Biden considers one of the major achievements of his administration. He flashed passion when discussing the legislation enacted this summer. “I made it real clear to the United States Congress — if they didn’t pass this damn burn pit bill, I was going to go on holy war,” he said. “Not a joke.”
He recounted how many troops came home from war suffering from headaches,
dizziness and cancer. “I remember Beau calling and saying he collapsed on a run,” he said, his voice trailing off. “It’s personal to all of us,” he added. “It’s not unique to me and my family.”
At another point, Biden raised his voice at the effects that post-traumatic stress has had on veterans. “More people have died from suicide, suicide, suicide than any other cause in the last three, five years,” he said, meaning among veterans.
Since Biden signed the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act,
called the Pact Act, in August, more than 185,000 veterans have applied for its benefits, according to the White House. More than 730,000 veterans have been screened for exposure, with nearly 39% reporting concern, the White House reported.
The Department of Veterans Affairs began processing claims from terminally ill veterans Monday, counting 2,500 claims in the first few days.
Biden’s speech was part of a weeklong drive to build awareness of the act, with 90 events staged across the country. “The benefits are real,” he said.
Biden’s family tragedies have long animated his political career and formed part of his public appeal, a story of loss and recovery that many could empathize with. In Friday’s speech, he did not mention Sunday’s anniversary of the death of his first wife and daughter, but their loss has been one of the enduring elements of his biography.
Neilia Biden was going Christmas shopping in Delaware with Beau, Naomi and their brother, Hunter, on Dec. 18, 1972, when their station wagon was hit by a tractor-trailer. Neilia and Naomi died, while Beau and Hunter were injured. Biden, who had just been elected to the Senate, was in Washington when he learned about the accident.
After flying back to Washington on Friday for a holiday party and to sign a bill keeping the government open for another week pending negotiations for a longer-term spending bill, Biden returned to Delaware to spend this weekend in Wilmington with family. But aides said they knew of no organized remembrance to mark the anniversary of the accident.
Beau’s death in 2015 from brain cancer, however, is a regular staple of the president’s public remarks, a way for him to connect with the nation’s military community and those who have suffered from cancer. As the president talked about the new benefits program on Friday, he reflected on the choice of venue to discuss it, named for his dead son.
“There’s no place I’d rather be today to get the message out about the Pact Act than home here and here in this particular facility,” he said.
lon Musk’s decision to abruptly suspend several journalists from Twitter sparked an outcry late last week from First Amendment advocates, threats of sanctions from European regulators, and questions about the social media platform’s future as a gathering place for news and ideas.
But as people debated complex, novel issues of free speech and online censorship, the move also underscored the role of a simpler, more enduring element of American life: the press baron.
Hello, Citizen Musk.
As with William Randolph Hearst and Rupert Murdoch before him, Musk now controls an influential means of mass media production. Twitter, albeit a different beast from newspapers and TV networks, enticed journalists by promoting itself as a virtual town square. Now Musk, despite his stated wish “that even my worst critics remain on Twitter,” is flexing his ownership muscle in seemingly arbitrary ways, appearing to stamp out accounts that personally displease him.
The suspensions — which included reporters from CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post — came after Musk accused the journalists of breaking Twitter’s rules on violating personal privacy. Twitter had recently shut down an account, @ElonJet, that tracked the whereabouts of Musk’s private plane using publicly available flight data, after Musk claimed that a “crazy stalker” accosted a car in which one of his sons was traveling.
“You’re not special because you’re a journalist; you’re a citizen, so no special treatment,” Musk told reporters during a terse Twitter audio session Thursday. He added, using a term for publishing intrusive personal information, “You doxx, you get suspended, end of story.”
But it was not obvious how the journalists suspended by Musk had violated Twitter’s policies. Some of the reporters had written about the removal of @ElonJet and other accounts that tracked private planes, or linked to those accounts; some had previously written critical stories about Musk’s stewardship of Twitter. On Friday, Twitter suspended the account of Linette Lopez, a reporter who has published investigations into
Tesla, another company controlled by Musk.
As recently as last month, Musk said that @ElonJet would be allowed to remain on Twitter. He said the promise demonstrated “my commitment to free speech,” a common refrain for Musk, who has amassed millions of online fans in part by presenting himself as a First Amendment absolutist, determined to root out supposed biases on the part of Twitter’s previous management.
In the wake of Musk’s suspensions, media outlets said that Twitter had acted arbitrarily in ways that may serve to intimidate journalists who report on his companies. “If confirmed as retaliation for their work, this would be a serious violation of journalists’ right to report the news without fear of reprisal,” Jodie Ginsberg, president of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said Friday. CNN called the suspensions “impulsive and unjustified,” and The New York Times described the moves as “questionable.”
There was also backlash from lawmakers in the European Union. Vera Jourova, a vice president of the European Commission, said the move violated the EU’s Digital Services Act and its Media Freedom Act,
which serves as a kind of rule book for moderating online content. “There are red lines. And sanctions, soon,” she tweeted Friday.
Musk firmly rejected those criticisms. He mocked journalists for crying foul, arguing that the actions taken by Twitter under its previous owners — like the restriction of posts linking to a 2020 New York Post report about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter — had amounted to censorship of conservative viewpoints.
“So inspiring to see the newfound love of freedom of speech by the press,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post, implying that the reporters upset about the suspensions did not speak out when Twitter restricted certain posts about COVID and presidential politics that the platform had deemed misinformation.
Musk also has supporters in Silicon Valley C-suites, where many tech founders and investors are watching his unorthodox management of Twitter with excitement, not disdain. These executives believe that Musk’s head-on clashes with his critics, like dissenting workers and skeptical journalists, may offer a future model for tech leaders tired of
ceding power to internal and external detractors.
Last week’s drama landed in a broader discussion over the role of social media platforms in deciding what ideas circulate online. Musk, who did not respond to a request for comment, is a happy warrior in that debate; it motivated his release this month of the socalled Twitter Files, a trove of internal documents that he said shed light on Twitter’s past content moderation decisions.
One of the journalists that Musk entrusted with those documents, Bari Weiss, said Friday that she was troubled by Twitter’s decision to suspend reporters’ accounts.
“The old regime at Twitter governed by its own whims and biases and it sure looks like the new regime has the same problem,” said Weiss, a former opinion writer and editor at the Times who is the founder of an independent media site, The Free Press. “I oppose it in both cases. And I think those journalists who were reporting on a story of public importance should be reinstated.”
Musk seemed unimpressed with Weiss’ take; in a Twitter reply, he accused her of “virtue-signaling to show that you are ‘good’ in the eyes of media elite to keep one foot in both worlds.”
It was unclear if Musk might eventually reverse course and restore the accounts of the suspended journalists. On Friday, Musk asked his 121 million followers to vote on when accounts might be reinstated; as of Friday evening, nearly 60% of respondents had voted “now.” The counting was set to run for several more hours.
Last week’s developments left some reporters, not for the first time, wondering if Twitter’s days as the media’s preferred social platform are numbered, and if journalists ought to consider alternatives.
Naturally, the discussion played out on Twitter, with Musk, as usual, a highly active participant. In a string of posts Friday, Musk — who, like any proud press baron, keeps a close watch on his platform — cracked jokes, defended his positions and needled his critics. He highlighted a user’s post asserting that Twitter now had “more attention, press and power than ever,” replying with an approving emoji of a bull’s-eye.
Citizen Musk appeared to be enjoying himself.
extradition. But after a few days in prison, he’s now inclined to go along with the extradition, although his decision could still change, according to the person briefed on the matter, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive legal deliberations. He is expected to state his new position at a court hearing as early as Monday, the person said.
An extradition sets up what will likely become a monthslong legal drama in the United States. On Tuesday, prosecutors for the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York unsealed a 13-page criminal indictment charging Bankman-Fried with eight counts, including wire fraud against customers and lenders, as well as conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Once he is transferred to the United States, Bankman-Fried will be arraigned in federal court in Manhattan and have a new bail hearing.
lender BlockFi, to file for bankruptcy.
Bankman-Fried resigned the day of FTX’s bankruptcy filing. He was replaced by John Jay Ray III, a lawyer who specializes in restructuring troubled companies. In bankruptcy filings and testimony to Congress, Ray has harshly criticized BankmanFried’s management, calling it a “complete failure of corporate control.”
In the early 2000s, Ray oversaw the unwinding of Enron, an energy trading firm that collapsed in an accounting scandal. But he said in a court filing that the mess at FTX was the worst he had ever seen.
Since he was denied bail in the Bahamas, Bankman-Fried has been held at the Fox Hill correctional center in Nassau, the country’s capital, in a room with five other people.
By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY, ROB COPELAND and MATTHEW GOLDSTEINDisgraced cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to agree to extradition to the United States, according to a person briefed on the matter, as he faces charges that he orchestrated a yearslong fraud culminating last month in the collapse of his crypto exchange, FTX.
In the United States, Bankman-Fried,
30, has been charged with using his customers’ FTX deposits to make lavish real estate purchases, invest in other companies and donate funds to politicians. BankmanFried was arrested last Monday at his luxury apartment complex in the Bahamas. After being held overnight in a police cell, he was denied bail by a judge in the Bahamas on Tuesday and transferred to the island’s notorious Fox Hill prison.
In court Tuesday, Bankman-Fried said he wouldn’t waive his right to challenge the
After the charges were filed, Mark Cohen, a lawyer for Bankman-Fried, said his client was “reviewing the charges with his legal team and considering all of his legal options.”
The news that Bankman-Fried was expected to agree to extradition was first reported by Reuters.
The collapse of FTX was an extraordinary fall for Bankman-Fried, a crypto celebrity who testified in front of Congress and was at the forefront of an effort to make the technology mainstream.
He founded FTX in Hong Kong but moved the company to the Bahamas in late 2021, capitalizing on the country’s friendly regulatory posture toward crypto. He also marketed the company aggressively in the United States: His face was plastered on advertisements, and he rubbed shoulders with actors and star athletes, cultivating a reputation as a hardworking do-gooder who intended to donate his vast wealth to charity. For a while, he was widely thought to be the second-richest crypto industry mogul.
Even as other crypto firms struggled this year, FTX was viewed as a responsible company in a freewheeling, loosely regulated industry. That changed in early November, when a run on deposits revealed an $8 billion hole in the company’s accounts, forcing the exchange to file for bankruptcy Nov. 11. Its collapse has rocked the industry, sending crypto prices spiraling and forcing one other major crypto company, the
Known among locals as “Fox Hell,” the prison has been widely criticized for its harsh conditions. Running water inside the prison is sparse, beatings from guards are common and inmates sometimes defecate in buckets, according to former prisoners, family members of inmates and a U.S. State Department report.
A former Fox Hill prisoner released last year, Sean Hall, said he was briefly incarcerated in maximum security, where he was crammed into a cell no wider than his wingspan with five other inmates. They slept on metal bunk beds without mattresses, he said, and woke up covered in bug bites.
“It’s no living condition for no type of living being,” Hall said.
Doan Cleare, the prison’s head administrator, declined to allow a New York Times reporter and photographer to enter the prison grounds. He wouldn’t give many details on Bankman-Fried’s condition, except to say that the FTX founder was in the medical facility for reasons that couldn’t be specified. He described the medical facility as a “dorm-style apartment.”
“There’s no preferential treatment,” Cleare said, noting that the prison is undergoing renovations to improve conditions.
Bankman-Fried’s parents, Stanford Law School professors Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried, visited the prison Thursday, dropping off clothes and medicine, according to a person familiar with the matter.
They also deposited money in Bankman-Fried’s commissary account, Cleare said, but were not permitted to see their son.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas last Monday and a judge there denied him bail on Tuesday.
US stocks dropped for a third straight session and suffered a second straight week of losses on Friday (Dec 16) as fears continued to mount that the Federal Reserve’s campaign to arrest inflation would tilt the economy into a recession. Equities have been staggered since the US central bank’s decision to raise interest rates by 50 basis points (bps), as expected. But comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell signalled more policy tightening, and the central bank
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed down on Wednesday after a choppy session on Wall Street, as investors struggled to grasp a clear direction as they weighed how the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy tightening might feed through into corporate America.
For the benchmark S&P 500, it was the fifth straight session that it has declined, while the Nasdaq finished down for the fourth time in a row. The Dow snapped a two-session losing streak, as it ended unchanged from the previous day.
The Nasdaq was dragged down by a 1.4% drop in Apple Inc on Morgan Stanley’s iPhone shipment target cut and a 3.2% fall in Tesla Inc over production loss worries.
Markets have also been rattled by downbeat comments from top executives at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of America Corp on Tuesday that a mild to more pronounced recession was likely ahead.
Fears that the U.S. central bank might stick to a longer ratehike cycle have intensified recently in the wake of strong jobs and service-sector reports.
More economic data, including weekly jobless claims, producer price index and the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey this week, will be on the watch list for clues on what to expect from the Fed on Dec. 14.
“It feels like we’re in this very uncertain period where investors are trying to ascertain what’s more important, as policymakers are slowing down on rates but the data is not playing ball,” said Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at OANDA.
“The market is trying to balance the headwinds and the tailwinds and this is causing some confusion.”
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and accommodationlinked Airbnb Inc and Booking Holdings all falling between 1.7% and 4.4%.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 10.29 billion shares, compared with the 10.98 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.ware firm’s stock to “neutral”, while Rent the Runway Inc jumped 33.9% after the clothing rental firm raised its 2022 revenue forecast.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 3.36-to-1 ratio on the NYSE. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 2.67-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The CBOE volatility index, also known as Wall Street’s fear gauge, closed at 22.68, its highest finish since Nov. 18.
Money market participants see a 91% chance that the Fed will increase its key benchmark rate by 50 basis points in December to 4.25%-4.50%, with rates peaking in May 2023 at 4.93%.
The S&P 500 lost 7.34 points, or 0.19%, to close at 3,933.92 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 56.34 points, or 0.51%, to finish at 10,958.55. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat,
ending on 33,597.92.
Concerns about a steep rise in borrowing costs have boosted the dollar, but dented demand for risk assets such as equities this year. The S&P 500 is on track to snap a three-year winning streak.
Three of the 11 major S&P sector indexes were higher, with healthcare one of them. Technology and communication services, down 0.5 and 0.9% respectively, were the worst
performers.
Energy fell for its fifth straight session. The sector’s performance was weighed by U.S. crude prices falling again, settling at the lowest level in 2022, as concerns over the outlook for global growth wiped out all of the gains since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exacerbated the worst global energy supply crisis in decades.
Carvana Co had its worst day as a public company, losing nearly half its stock value, after Wedbush downgraded the used-car retailer’s stock to “underperform” from “neutral” and slashed its price target to $1.
Meanwhile, United Airlines traded 4.1% lower. Unions representing various workers at the airline said they would join forces on contract negotiations.
The death toll in protests that have convulsed Peru rose above 20 on late last week, with tensions centered in the highland city of Ayacucho, where eight people were killed in clashes between anti-government demonstrators and military officers.
The demonstrations and ensuing violence have hampered efforts by the new president, Dina Boluarte, to establish control over the country, with two ministers in her government resigning Friday and protesters in the streets chanting, “Dina! Murderer!”
Despite authorizing the military to help restore order this week, Boluarte has struggled to contain the violent protests sparked by the abrupt downfall of her democratically elected predecessor, Pedro Castillo, who tried to illegally seize control of Congress and the courts last week. The protests have shuttered regional airports, choked off roads across large swaths of the country and resulted in curfews being imposed on several provinces.
On Friday, hopes for a quick resolution to the crisis remained elusive. Congress rejected a proposed constitutional reform that Boluarte had hoped would calm tensions, and clashes resumed in Ayacucho and other regions. But efforts to negotiate an end to the tensions were hindered by a lack of visible protest leaders to take part in any dialogue.
“People want a fight, but there’s no head. There’s no direction,” said Alfredo Sauñe, a 43-year-old farmer from a highland region in Peru’s southern Andes who had traveled to the capital, Lima, to take part in demonstrations.
Like many other protesters, Sauñe wants new general elections and the shutdown of
Congress.
The developments came two days after Peru’s government declared a nationwide state of emergency as it sought to quell widespread violence after last week’s ouster of Castillo, a leftist, when he tried to dissolve a Congress, controlled by right-wing parties, that was trying for the third time to impeach him.
Many demonstrators are also calling for a new constitution and the return of Castillo to power. But on Thursday, a judge ordered him to remain detained for up to 18 months in jail while prosecutors prepare a case against him for alleged rebellion, conspiracy and abuse of power.
A former farmer and schoolteacher with
whom many rural and poor Peruvians identify, Castillo had been in office for a little more than 16 months when on Dec. 7 he delivered his televised message to the nation announcing the dissolution of Congress, rule by decree and the “reorganization” of a justice system that has been investigating him for corruption.
In recent days, protesters have attacked police stations, courthouses, TV network operations and factories. They also forced the closures this week of four airports in southern Peru after crowds swarmed them.
On Wednesday, Boluarte, a leftist who was Castillo’s running mate, authorized the military to support police in restoring order and suspended some civil liberties, such as the right to free transit and assembly. On Thursday, she imposed a nighttime curfew in 15 provinces, all outside Lima. Human rights groups have criticized the measures as disproportionate.
“This has to stop,” Boluarte said of the unrest while at a ceremony with top military leaders Friday. “Let’s move forward to have a light at the end of the tunnel. A light of the peace, the hope and the order that Peru deserves.”
Authorities on Friday said 35 road blockades had since been lifted, including on three key highways connecting Lima to the rest of the country. Flights also resumed at the airport in the city of Cusco, where hundreds to thousands of tourists have been stranded since protesters swarmed its terminal and forced it to close.
But many regions are still restive. On Thursday, protesters in Ayacucho marched peacefully through the city before crowds forced their way into the airport, igniting clashes with military officers, according to local media. Eight people died, and a regional health director said three people injured in the violence are now in intensive care and need to be evacuated for specialized care in Lima.
Protests resumed in Ayacucho on Friday, with reports of demonstrators encroaching on the airport again, and of attacks on a courthouse and a bank.
So far, at least 22 people have been killed in the unrest or related accidents, according to the office of the country’s ombudsman, which called for an investigation into human rights abuses in Ayacucho.
Patricia Correa, outgoing education minister, posted a picture of her resignation letter on her Twitter account Friday, saying the death of Peruvians at the hands of the government “has no justification.”
“State violence cannot be disproportionate and cause death, #NoMoreDeath,” she said in her posting. Minutes later, the resignation letter of the culture minister became public.
Defense Minister Alberto Otarola told journalists that despite the deaths in Ayacucho on Thursday, which he said he regretted, “a situation of extreme crisis is being overtaken bit by bit and recovered by peace.”
Asked about the deployment of troops to handle protests in Ayacucho, Otarola cited the nationwide state of emergency that Boluarte declared earlier this week.
Castillo is the fourth former Peruvian president to be held in some form of pretrial detention this century. Only one, former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori, has been tried and convicted.
Ever Rodriguez, 51, a taxi driver in Lima, said he agreed with the judge’s order to keep Castillo detained.
“He was going above the law,” Rodriguez said. “He was going to do a coup d’etat.”
Calls for Boluarte to resign, once limited to Castillo’s supporters, grew among leading public figures and politicians Friday. Many, including the governor of Ayacucho, blamed her for the deaths of protesters.
Political analysts point out that if Boluarte were to resign, it would effectively force Congress to hold new elections. She is Peru’s sixth president to take office in a little over six years.
Ukraine is bracing for the possibility that Russia will sharply escalate the war in a winter offensive as Moscow tries to turn the tide on the battlefield and limit political backlash at home, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday.
Despite suffering severe setbacks over the first 10 months of war, the Russian military is now laying plans for mass infantry attacks akin to the tactics employed by the Soviet Union during World War II, the adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, said in written responses to questions.
Podolyak’s comments came as Ukraine’s top military and political leaders have been warning in a series of recent interviews that Russia is massing troops and armaments to launch a renewed ground offensive by spring that very likely would include a second attempt to seize Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.
Russia has already drafted and is training soldiers who might be deployed in mass infantry attacks, Podolyak said. It is one of several possible threats that Ukraine faces from Russia over the winter months, he said, as officials in Kyiv see little sign that President Vladimir Putin of Russia is seeking an end to the war.
“Russia’s political leadership clearly refuses to acknowledge the tactical defeats that already took place and grasps at any, even the most illusory, chances to change the situation in its favor,” Podolyak said.
Ukrainian officials have said they base their assessments of Russia’s war aims on the findings of their military and foreign intelligence agencies and on consultations with allies.
In his comments, Podolyak said that Ukraine was taking the risk of a fresh Russian offensive seriously and emphasized that its allies should understand this, too. As Western governments plan for future weapons transfers to Ukraine, he suggested, the equipment should match the future threats.
“It is extremely important that our partners take these risks no less seriously,” he said. “Russia is not interested in ending the war until it suffers a significant military defeat and is forced to focus on its own internal political transformation.”
Ukraine’s supreme military command -
er, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, said in an interview with The Economist published last week that Ukraine was training and outfitting reserves to defend against a new Russian offensive that might come in January, February or March.
“The Russians are preparing some 200,000 fresh troops,” he said. “I have no doubt they will have another go at Kyiv.”
The statements by senior Ukrainian officials appeared to be part of a coordinated campaign to guard against complacency among Ukraine’s allies as the Russian army struggles on the battlefield. Since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, Russia has fallen back in three major retreats — from the territory around Kyiv, in the northeastern Kharkiv region and, last month, in the southern region of Kherson.
The warnings also appear to be an attempt to counter the Kremlin’s efforts to persuade Ukraine’s Western allies to pressure Kyiv into a negotiated settlement.
In parallel with the fighting along the front lines, Russia has bombarded civilian infrastructure targets throughout the country, knocking out heating, water and electricity for millions of Ukrainians. In his nightly address to Ukrainians on Saturday, Zelenskyy said that electricity had been restored to 6 million people who lost
power after a salvo of missile strikes Friday. The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, said Sunday that neighborhood heating systems damaged in the strikes had been fully restored.
Military analysts say that this campaign is intended to demoralize Ukrainians and push the Ukrainian government into a cease-fire that might allow Russia time to regroup and rearm for future offensives.
But analysts who rely on open-source intelligence have said it is difficult to know what is happening at Russian military training bases. The Kremlin said in September that it would mobilize 300,000 additional soldiers and that some are already deployed in Ukraine.
Podolyak said that the type of mass infantry warfare Moscow seems to be preparing for would not be effective against Ukraine’s increasingly modern arsenal of precision-guided weaponry and surveillance drones. But he said that the Russian military leadership
had bent to Kremlin demands for advances on the ground for domestic political reasons.
Russian commanders, he said, “diligently maintain Putin’s illusion of the possibility of ‘victory,’ in order to, firstly, maintain Putin’s personal power, and secondly, to avoid harsh punishment for admitting loss.”
In their most recent setback, Russia forces retreated last month from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson but remain within artillery range on the opposite bank of the Dnieper River. Through the day Sunday, Russian forces fired artillery at Kherson, wounding three people, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a Ukrainian deputy presidential chief of staff, said in a post on Telegram.
In its morning update on the status of the battlefield Sunday, the Ukrainian military said that it had repulsed 15 ground assaults on its positions over the past 24 hours and that multiple front-line towns and villages had been targeted by Russian artillery.
Most of the attacks came in the Donbas area of eastern Ukraine, the only section of the front line where the Russian army is regularly staging offensive attacks. Along much of the rest of the crescentshaped front line in southeastern Ukraine, Russian forces are in a defensive crouch, building fortifications along new lines after their retreats earlier in the fall.
By ANTON TROIANOVSKI
Ateam of New York Times reporters investigated one of the central questions of the war in Ukraine: Why has Russia bungled its invasion so badly?
The story — based on secret battle plans, intercepts and interviews with Russian soldiers and Kremlin confidants — offers new insights into President Vladimir Putin’s state of mind, the stunning failures of his military, and U.S. efforts to prevent a direct war with Russia.
Here are eight takeaways from the report.
Reached by phone inside Russian hospitals, wounded soldiers described being sent to war with little food, training, bullets or equipment — and watching about twothirds of their platoon get killed. Materials recovered from battlefields point to the military’s lack of preparation: a map from the 1960s, a Wikipedia printout on how to operate a sniper rifle, a wildly optimistic timetable for Russia’s invasion. In interviews, one soldier recalled asking how to use his rifle just before heading off to battle, while another described how his supervisor revealed they were going to war: “Tomorrow, you are going to Ukraine to fuck up some shit.”
Many of the people closest to Putin fed his suspicions, magnifying his grievances against the West. A former confidant compared the dynamic to the radicalization spiral of a social media algorithm: “They read his mood, and they start to slip him that kind of stuff.” Putin planned the invasion in such secrecy that even Dmitry Peskov, his spokesperson, said in an interview that he learned of it only once it had begun. Anton Vaino, Putin’s chief of staff, and Alexei Gromov, Putin’s powerful media adviser, also said they did not know in advance, according to people who spoke to them about it.
The United States tried to stop Ukraine from killing a top Russian general. American officials found out that Gen. Valery Gerasimov was planning a trip to the front lines but withheld the information from the Ukrainians, worried that an attempt on his life could lead to a war between the United States and Russia. The Ukrainians learned of the trip anyway. After an internal debate, Washington took the extraordinary step of asking Ukraine to call off an attack — only to be told that the Ukrainians had already launched it. Dozens of Russian soldiers were said to have been killed. Gerasimov wasn’t one of them.
A senior Russian official told the CIA director, Bill Burns, last month that Russia would not give up, no matter how many of its soldiers were killed or injured. One NATO member is warning allies that Putin might accept the death or injury of as many as 300,000 Russian troops — roughly three times his estimated losses so far. Before the war, when Burns warned Russia not to invade Ukraine, another senior Russian official said Russia’s military was strong enough to stand up even to the Americans.
Days into the invasion, Putin told Israel’s leader that the Ukrainians had turned out to be “tougher than I was told.” But, he warned the leader, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, “we are a big country, and we have patience.” Earlier, in October 2021, during his first meeting with Bennett, Putin had railed against President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine: “What kind of Jew is he? He’s an enabler of Nazism.”
Invading Russian soldiers used their cellphones to call home, enabling the Ukrainian military to find and kill them. Phone intercepts obtained by the Times showed the bitterness Russian soldiers felt toward their own commanders. “They’re preparing you to be cannon fodder,” one soldier said. Another described a commander warning him he could be prosecuted for leaving his position, only for the commander to flee when shelling began. “His wheels didn’t even get stuck in the mud,” the soldier said.
The day of the invasion, Putin set a trap for Russian business tycoons, putting them on television “to tar everyone there,” as one of them described it. Indeed, the businesspeople present were all hit by Western sanctions in the months that followed. Even so, another billionaire at the Kremlin that day, Andrey Melnichenko, was defiant, insisting sanctions would not make Russian tycoons turn against Putin. “In textbooks, they call this political terrorism,” he said.
Putin’s fractured armies have sometimes turned on one another; one soldier said a tank commander deliberately fired on a Russian checkpoint. Putin divided his forces into fiefs, some led by people who are not even part of the military, such as his former bodyguard, the leader of Chechnya and a mercenary boss who has provided catering for Kremlin events, Yevgeny Prigozhin. In an interview after being captured by Ukraine, one Russian soldier said he had been in prison for murder when Prigozhin recruited him. Later, after he was returned to Russia in a prisoner swap, a video emerged of his execution by sledgehammer.
As Bad Bunny, one of the world’s hottest pop stars, floated on a palm tree crooning to adoring fans for what was supposed to be one of Mexico City’s largest concerts ever, the stadium floor was far from jampacked.
But outside, thousands were trying to get in, some scaling the stadium fence after their tickets — many valid and purchased directly from Ticketmaster — were rejected as fakes by malfunctioning scanning machines. While the stadium’s upper seating areas appeared full, the sold-out stadium’s floor was half empty.
The fiasco prompted Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to condemn Ticketmaster this week, demanding the company reimburse valid ticket holders. The president said it made him emotional to see so many fans rejected from the concert and asked Bad Bunny to return to Mexico and play for free.
Bad Bunny has yet to speak about the ticketing problems in Mexico City.
Ticketmaster’s troubles are nothing new. The ticketing giant was forced to halt public sales for Taylor Swift’s latest tour after soaring demand for presale tickets crashed the computer system and tickets were resold at markups of tens of thousands of dollars. But in poorer countries like Mexico, more is at stake for many fans.
The country’s median monthly income is much lower than in the United States, and even lawyers make as little as $1,000 a month.
Yet Bad Bunny tickets were being sold for up to $900 by scalpers who had snatched them up, evading the company’s attempts to prevent a secondary sales market run by scalpers charging exorbitant markups, as happened with Swift’s show.
A group of Swift’s fans has since sued Ticketmaster over the botched sales, accusing its parent company of fraud.
Bad Bunny, who has played sold-out shows across Latin America and the United States, is this year’s highest-grossing touring artist, according to Boxscore. The artist’s World’s Hottest Tour broke records for gross ticket sales in 12 of the 15 U.S. markets it played in over 2022 — including New York City — and last weekend’s show in Mexico City was the tour’s last stop, before the artist announced plans to take a break next year.
But many people were denied entry to his show after they had saved large portions of their salaries to buy tickets, with others dipping into their savings.
While hundreds, possibly thousands of fans were turned away because they had bought bogus tickets, more than 1,600 others who said they had purchased tickets directly from Ticketmaster were denied entry, according to Mexican authorities, who are still collecting complaints from disappointed purchasers.
It appeared that Ticketmaster’s scanning machines at the stadium malfunctioned and could not read the valid tickets, the company said Monday.
Mariam Rodríguez Luna, a 22-year-old veterinary student, had camped out the day before the concert last Friday, clutching a ticket she said she had bought directly from Ticketmaster for 14,000 pesos (about $700). She and a friend had pitched a tent on the premises of the Azteca stadium, just south of the capital, so they could be first in line when the doors opened and get as close as possible to the stage.
When Rodríguez and her friend handed their tickets over to be scanned Friday afternoon, gate agents said they were fake. After they protested and pulled up their Ticketmaster accounts on their phones to show their purchase, they were told to file a complaint directly with the company.
But their emails and calls to Ticketmaster on Friday night went unanswered. After six hours of waiting to get in, the crowd turned unruly, Rodríguez said, which is when she and her friend decided to leave.
It “was a very ugly scandal, because a lot of people were obviously crying, and it was very stressful,” Rodríguez said. “The police also began to treat everyone very badly. They started hitting people.”
Mexico’s consumer protection watchdog, known as Profeco, has called for Ticketmaster to reimburse valid ticket holders who were denied entry the full cost of their ticket, plus a 20% compensation fee. Ticketmaster agreed to the agency’s demands.
Profeco has collected more than 1,600 refund requests so far and is preparing a lawsuit against the ticketing giant, which could be fined millions of dollars.
Ticketmaster defended itself in a statement Monday, saying that an “unprecedented number of fake tickets” were purchased from unofficial vendors as 4.5 million people across Mexico tried to purchase Bad Bunny tickets, the “highest number in the history of the country.” Those fake tickets, the company said, ended up creating a malfunction in the system at the entrances to the stadium last weekend. And that, it said, led to some valid tickets being rejected.
“It’s important to emphasize that there was no overcrowding or overselling of tickets,” the statement added.
But the company acknowledged earlier that an unspecified number of valid tickets had been ripped up and the purchasers denied entry to the Azteca stadium because of the system malfunction. The stadium is one of Mexico’s largest, with a capacity of nearly 90,000.
The head of Profeco also took aim at Ticketmaster’s monopoly on ticket sales in Mexico, something U.S. lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., have also complained about, vowing to break the company up.
Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is known for his eccentric style, feminist lyrics and reggaeton beats infused with the Caribbean sounds of salsa and mambo and is known to pour his heart into his shows. It is not just an evening of entertainment; it is an experience: Aerial videos from recent concerts show crowds jumping so hard in unison that they look like they are in a giant wave pool at a water park while flame throwers go off around them.
Not all of his Mexican fans were unlucky last weekend.
Claudia Murillo, 38, took her 8-year-old son to the show and said it took about an hour to get in. Murillo, a medical device consultant, was disappointed that she had been booted from the Ticketmaster website in the spring when she tried to line up online to buy tickets when they were officially released.
After losing her place on Ticketmaster’s website, she ended up buying tickets from a scalper for 9,000 pesos each, three times the official price.
On Friday night, she and her son had to push through a crowd of angry people to get to the entrance.
“A girl behind me started to pray as we saw all these people walking toward the exit, angry and shouting that they had been
denied,” Murillo said. “The girl was saying, ‘God, I have never asked you for anything. If there is one thing I ask you for in my life is to get into this concert.’”
When Murillo and her son finally entered the stadium, they discovered a half-empty floor.
Rodriguez, who works jobs as a night guard and in a veterinary clinic, said she has been told that she will be reimbursed the cost of her ticket, which she had to use her savings to pay for. But she recalls meeting another Bad Bunny fan amid the chaos last week, who had traveled to the capital from over 600 miles away from the Mexican city of Torreon. That fan, Rodriguez said, will never recoup all the money she spent on hotels, flights and accommodation to attend a concert she never got into.
Many people saved their salaries and “wanted to spend it on an experience that was important to them,” Rodriguez said. “I paid so much, for nothing.”
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One gauge of the hypocrisy of the Iranian regime is that there are credible reports that it is enforcing its supposedly strict moral code by arresting women and girls accused of advocating immodesty, and then sexually assaulting them.
In a searing report about the rape of protesters by security forces, CNN recounted how a 20-year-old woman was arrested for supposedly leading protests and later was brought by police to a hospital in Karaj, shaking violently, head shaven, her rectum hemorrhaging. The woman is now back in prison.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have independently documented multiple cases of sexual assault. Hadi Ghaemi of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a watchdog organization in New York, told me of a 14-yearold girl from a poor neighborhood in Tehran who protested by taking off her headscarf at school.
The girl, Masooumeh, was identified by school cameras and detained; soon afterward, she was taken to the hospital to be treated for severe vaginal tears. The girl died and her mother, after initially saying she wanted to go public, has disappeared.
Accounts of sexual violence are difficult to verify because of the victims’ feelings of shame and fear, and CNN reported that authorities sometimes film assaults to blackmail protesters into silence. What’s absolutely clear is that protesters keep turning up dead.
Consider Nika Shahkarami, a 16-year-old girl who burned her headscarf in public. Security forces closed in on her. Days later, authorities announced she had died. An autopsy reportedly found that her skull, pelvis, hip, arms and legs had been fractured.
So, the uprising across Iran isn’t just about head coverings. It’s about toppling a regime that is incompetent, corrupt, repressive and brutal.
“Should there be a government doing something wrong, the nation should punch it in the mouth,” Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared in 1979 after the revolution he led established the Islamic Republic. That’s what Iranians are now trying to do.
I’m surprised and disappointed that today’s grassroots Iranian revolution hasn’t received more support in America and around the world. I think there are a couple of reasons for this.
First, Iran has barred most foreign reporters, so we don’t have television crews on the streets to record schoolkids risking their lives to take on regime thugs. Because we aren’t on the ground, I think we journalists collectively haven’t given this story the importance that it deserves.
Second, there is some American sourness toward Iranians, a misperception that they are fanatics chanting, “Death to America.” In fact, at the people-to-people level, Iran may be the most pro-American country in the Middle East.
On one trip, I brought my daughter, who was 14 at the time. A family photo of her being embraced by women reflects how thrilled ordinary Iranians are to meet Americans.
I chatted once with a young Revolutionary Guard protecting an anti-American museum. Surrounded by huge banners denouncing America as the “Great Satan,” he asked me for advice about how to emigrate to the United States. “To hell with the mullahs,” he told me.
Fearless young girls are at the forefront of today’s protests. When a member of the Basij paramilitary force spoke at one school, the girls pulled off their hijabs and heckled him. At a girls school in Karaj, students threw water bottles at an official and chased him out.
The United States and other governments are speaking up, and Iranians are grateful. Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian human rights lawyer now on medical furlough from a 10-year prison sentence (reduced from 38 1/2 years and 148 lashes), told me that she particularly appreciated the ejection of Iran from a United Nations commission on women’s rights. But Sotoudeh and others would like the Biden administration to do more to delegitimize the Iranian government and criticize executions, and she calls on Western governments that have embassies in Iran to recall their ambassadors.
“The Biden administration hasn’t done enough,” said Tala Raassi, an Iranian American fashion designer who knows firsthand the brutality of the regime: At 16, she was arrested and given 40 lashes for wearing a T-shirt and miniskirt at a private party.
I’d like to see Biden work with other countries to raise the volume of international, top-level outrage at the repression.
“Just as Kennedy delivered his ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech and Reagan his ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall’ speech, Biden could signal American resolve with an ‘Ayatollah, open the gates of Evin prison, free Iran’ speech,” suggested Amir Soltani, an Iranian American writer.
The West can also try to ramp up targeted sanctions
on officials and their family members who party abroad or funnel assets overseas. Meanwhile, the intelligence community should be spying more on Iran’s mass repression — and leaking information, where possible, to hold the country’s authorities accountable.
Pressuring Iran is difficult, for it is already isolated and heavy sanctions have already been imposed on it. But we must try because Iran is now beginning its next phase: It has begun executing protesters to try to terrify the population into surrender. Two protesters are known to have been hanged so far, and at least 35 others have either been sentenced to death or are being held on capital charges.
In 1978, as Khomeini’s revolution gathered steam, The New York Times quoted an Iranian lawyer with prescient misgivings: “I hope we don’t climb out of a ditch,” he said, “only to fall into a well.”
More than four decades later, Iranians are desperately trying to pull themselves out of that well, led by schoolgirls who persevere despite the threat of arrests, torture and execution. They understand that gross immorality lies not in a girl’s uncovered hair but in the government that rapes her for it, and they should receive far more international support.
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LA FORTALEZA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia anunció el domingo que no firmará el Proyecto de la Cámara 474 que crea la Ley de Legitimación Activa Ambiental.
“Proteger nuestro ambiente es política pública de mi administración y eso se puede constatar mediante las medidas puntuales que he tomado, incluyendo la asignación de mayores recursos al Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, el cual precisamente reclutará más vigilantes para velar por el cumplimiento de nuestras leyes ambientales, algo que no se hace desde hace casi 20 años. De hecho, he utilizado fondos estatales y federales para dar paso a iniciativas importantes, tales como la atención al cierre de vertederos que están en incumplimiento, la disposición de gomas usadas para que sean recicladas, la siembra de árboles, la reforestación de cuencas hidrográficas, la restauración de dunas playeras , y la conservación y tratamiento de
corales. También he acogido sobre 80 recomendaciones del Comité de Expertos de Cambio Climático, muchas de las cuales están siendo implementadas.
En nuestro ordenamiento legal actual, los ciudadanos tienen el derecho de presentar reclamaciones al gobierno y solicitar del Estado la reparación de agravios. Además, existen procesos rigurosos de permisos que requieren el cumplimiento con las leyes de protección ambiental y permiten que cualquier persona o entidad realmente afectada por cualquier proyecto que impacte el ambiente participe en los procesos y se oponga a la concesión de los permisos requeridos.
Dar paso a esta medida tendría como consecuencia una proliferación desmedida de pleitos judiciales innecesarios que atrasarían la reconstrucción en curso, así como la recuperación económica y creación de empleos que hemos logrado en los pasados dos años. Más aún, la medida hace caso omiso de la legislación y jurispruden -
cia actual que permite la revisión administrativa y judicial de los procesos y las decisiones de agencias del gobierno. Por consiguiente, no hay razón para trastocar el estado de derecho actual que propicia tanto la conservación como el aprovechamiento de nuestros recursos naturales como bien lo establece nuestra Constitución”, dijo el gobernador en declaraciones escritas.
LA FORTALEZA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, convirtió en ley el domingo varios proyectos legislativos.
Entre estos, el Proyecto de la Cámara 1343 para autorizar aumentos salariales, mediante una estructura salarial competitiva, a los fiscales, procuradores de asuntos de menores y de familia, así como a registradores de la propiedad y procurador general adscritos al Departamento de Justicia (DJ).
“Conozco de primera mano la encomiable labor que realizan nuestros fiscales, procuradores y registradores del Departamento de Justicia. Desde mis tiempos como secretario de esta agencia hasta el presente he visto como estos profesionales del derecho dan lo mejor de ellos para defender las víctimas y para asegurar que se haga justicia.
Es necesario que estos trabajadores estén bien compensados para garantizar que mantenemos un equipo de trabajo robusto y comprometido con la verdad y la justicia”, sostuvo Pierluisi Urrutia en declaraciones escritas.
Actualmente, y por disposición de la ley para la Administración y Transformación de los Recursos Humanos en el Gobierno de Puerto Rico (Ley 8 de 2017), los puestos de fiscales, procuradores de menores y de familia no son considerados como de carrera y sus nombramientos tienen un término de 12 años. Por lo tanto, existe una disparidad entre estos profesionales del derecho y restantes abogados que ejercen funciones en otras áreas del Gobierno.
Por otro lado, el gobernador convirtió en ley el Proyecto de la Cámara 1281 para que la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) pueda, de manera
inmediata, realizar compras y subastas de bienes y servicios no profesionales sin la mediación de la Administración de Servicios Generales (ASG).
En un memorando, la UPR expuso su aval a esta pieza legislativa porque con la nueva ley no se duplicarán procesos administrativos redundantes que incidan en aumentar los costos de su operación, dilaten los procesos y le deje sin acceso a fondos externos incluyendo los de investigación y recuperación.
Asimismo, Pierluisi firmó el Proyecto de la Cámara 1203 para respaldar, mediante ley, que el Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico (COPUR), sus federaciones afiliadas, las organizaciones bajo su jurisdicción, así como las entidades receptoras publiquen anualmente, en la Página de Internet del COPUR o en las propias, sus estados financieros auditados y planillas contributivas.
SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el viernes 3 muertes y 226 personas hospitalizadas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,466.
Hay 200 adultos hospitalizados y 26 menores.
El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 29 de noviembre al 13 de diciembre 2022.
La tasa de positividad está en 24.82 por ciento.
Banderas has cast most of the show’s other parts with local performers. “Twenty years ago, you couldn’t find this amount of actors and actresses in Spain,” for musical theater, he said. He also insisted on using the show’s original orchestration. “I have 26 musicians here, which is not profitable,” he said, but added, “I love that sound.” (For comparison, the 2021 Broadway revival of “Company” used a 14-person band.)
To create a convincing Spanish-language version, Banderas turned to Roser Batalla and Ignacio García May, a duo who had previously worked together on “A Chorus Line.”
“Every Sondheim is a challenge,” said Batalla, a translator and actress from Barcelona who was in a Catalan-language production of “Company” there 25 years ago. The lyrics and music are so closely bound in the show and, indeed, in all of Sondheim’s work, she added.
“You have to maintain not only the rhymes and syllables and the cadence of the music, but also give the information at the right point,” said Batalla, who has translated other Sondheim shows into Spanish and Catalan.
She recalled meeting Sondheim in Barcelona, in 1995, at a performance of “Sweeney Todd,” which she had translated into Catalan. “He said, ‘As long as all the ideas get to the audience, I’m OK with it.’ He never asked us for the backtranslation of any of the shows,” she said.
By A.J. GOLDMANNOn a recent Friday night, a fashionable Madrid audience leaped to its feet at the end of a performance of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company.” The crowd cheered the 40 onstage actors and musicians, but the most enthusiastic ovations were reserved for Antonio Banderas, the production’s director and star. For the past nearly three hours, the Spanish actor had crooned, belted and twirled his way through the first Spanish-language production of the groundbreaking 1970 musical.
Banderas’ “Company” started life a little more than a year ago in Málaga, the actor’s hometown in southern Spain, where he founded a musical theater company, Teatro del Soho, in 2019. After a stop in Barcelona this year, the production is ending its run in Madrid, where it is playing through Feb. 14, 2023, at the Teatro Albéniz.
“I actually am an actor because of musical theater and musical movies,” Banderas, 62, said in an interview the next day. As an adolescent in 1970s Málaga, he explained, he grew up with the great musicals of the era, including “Hair,” “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Godspell.”
That early love was the inspiration behind Teatro del Soho, a nonprofit that Banderas compared to the Public Theater in New York, which aims to bring musicals other than blockbuster Broadway fare to Spanish theatergoers. (The company’s most recent production is Stephen Schwarz’s “Godspell.”)
Over the past two decades, Madrid has emerged as the musical theater capital of the Spanish world. Among the 14 shows running there are “Tina,” “Mamma Mia!,” “We Will Rock You” and “The Lion King” (“El Rey León”). Now Banderas is trying to push the envelope with serious, complex works that are little-known here — and “Company” has been on Ban-
deras’s mind for a long time.
In 2003, Banderas was starring in the musical “Nine” on Broadway, playing Guido, a filmmaker having a creative crisis. Banderas recalled Sondheim visiting his dressing room during the run, and drawing similarities between Guido and Bobby, the protagonist of “Company.” He also told Banderas that there was more to that show than met the eye: “I love to create plays with enigmas,” the actor recalled Sondheim saying.
After the meeting, Banderas said he immersed himself in Sondheim’s catalog. “Company” in particular became something of an obsession.
When “Company” premiered in 1970, it looked like nothing else on Broadway: Formally daring, and laced with irony, it is often described as a “concept musical” and has little plot to speak of. Instead, Sondheim and George Furth, who wrote the book, serve up a series of loosely connected scenes about a commitment-phobic bachelor and his friends.
Banderas’ main change to the book is an age switch for Bobby — the role he plays — from 35 to 50. The composerlyricist signed off on that before his death in 2021 at age 91, Banderas said.
Everything in his production followed from having an older Bobby, Banderas said. The show’s vignettes are like hallucinatory episodes, as Bobby sifts through memories and dreams of his youth; regrets take on a haunting dimension because of “the proximity of death,” Banderas added.
“It was always very shocking to me how much everything was thoroughly focused on Bobby,” Banderas said. “Bobby is a charismatic character, but he’s also an egotistical coward.”
In Banderas’ staging, Bobby sometimes sits center stage as the large cast rotates around him. Behind them, the New York City skyline looms majestically. “I created a glittering universe and he’s in the center, as the sun,” Banderas said.
“Company” holds some thorny problems for translators. Batalla pointed to “Getting Married Today,” a punishing, rapid-fire song for a hyperventilating bride — and a high point in most performances — as a particular challenge. “It’s very quick and it needs to be understood,” she said. Spanish had relatively few monosyllabic words to recreate the song’s patter, she added, but the language’s flexible syntax helped offset the difficulty.
She left some culturally and geographically specific references to 1970s New York in place, Batalla said: Since American culture is so dominant, those still resonate with Spanish audiences. “We’ve been seeing movies by Woody Allen all our life long,” she said.
May, a noted Spanish playwright, said the main challenge in translating the dialogue was finding a “high-class Spanish” that matched the snappy, urbane tone of the book. He weighed “every word, every verb, every nuance, so it could be as close to the English as possible,” he said.
Critics here have largely been convinced: The daily newspaper El País hailed the production as “one of the best musicals ever seen in Spain.” For Banderas, the reception is a validation of his passion and commitment.
“When we put together Teatro del Soho, it was to do the musicals that actually don’t get to Spain,” he said. In addition to his work there, Banderas recently teamed up with Andrew Lloyd Webber to create Amigos Para Siempre, a joint venture to license, produce and develop theatrical work for the world’s Spanish-speaking markets.
Banderas called it an opportunity to “create a platform of Broadway in Spanish to the world.” “But it’s going to take time,” he added.
‘Company’ runs through Feb. 14, 2023, at the Teatro Albéniz, in Madrid; companyelmusical.es.
Antonio Banderas has assembled a mostly Spanish cast for Sondheim’s “Company,” performed in Spain with his musical theater company Teatro del Soho.Dino Danelli, whose hard-charging, high-energy drumming powered the Rascals to a string of hits in the late 1960s, including the No. 1 records “Good Lovin’,” “Groovin’” and “People Got to Be Free,” died Thursday in New York’s Manhattan borough. He was 78.
Joe Russo, a close friend and the band’s historian, con fi rmed the death, at a rehabilitation center. He said Danelli had been in declining health for several years.
The Rascals (billed on their fi rst three albums as the Young Rascals) were among the fi rst American bands to emerge in response to the so-called British Invasion of 1964.
Formed in New Jersey in 1965, the quartet — featuring Felix Cavaliere on organ and vocals, Eddie Brigati on vocals, Gene Cornish on guitar and Danelli on drums — drew on a range of in fl uences, including doo-wop, jazz and soul.
Danelli, a protege of great jazz drummers Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa, merged percussive virtuosity with a rock sensibility. Like Ringo Starr of the Beatles, he set the template for the rock drummer archetype: disciplined and precise, but with a flair that drew the crowd’s eye. He would twirl his sticks — a trick he learned from his sister, a cheerleader — and throw them in the air, before catching them without dropping the beat.
Danelli was responsible for the band’s fi rst big hit. He was a fan of obscure soul records, and one day at a record shop in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, he found a single by the Olympics, “Good Lovin,’” written by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick, which reached No. 81 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965.
“We said, ‘Let’s try it, let’s put a new version to it,’” he said in a 2008 interview with drummer Liberty DeVitto. “It was just a lucky fi nd.”
The Rascals played the song during a 1966 appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” It soon topped the charts and — with its opening shout of “One, two, three!” — became one of the best-known songs of the decade.
Onstage, the band dressed in the sort of foppish out fi ts favored by several other white acts of the mid-1960s: knee-high socks, short ties, fl oppy collars. But it was the fi rst white band signed by Atlantic Records, home of Ray Charles, and it was among the few American rock bands to be accepted by Black crowds.
The members included a clause in their contracts stating that they would perform only if a Black act was on the bill with them — a fact that meant
Dino Danelli was the drummer for the Rascals, among the first American bands to emerge in response to the so-called British Invasion, from their formation in 1965 until their breakup in the early 1970s.
large swaths of the South remained off limits.
As the Rascals evolved, their sound mellowed and they turned out summer-vibe classics like “Groovin,’” which hit No. 1 in 1967, and “A Beautiful Morning,” which reached No. 3 in 1968. That same year, shocked by the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York, they released “People Got to Be Free,” a paean to racial harmony — written, like the earlier two songs, by Cavaliere and Brigati. It also reached No. 1.
The Rascals dissolved in the early 1970s; Brigati left in 1970 and Cornish a year later. Cavaliere and Danelli stayed for two more albums before the band broke up.
Danelli played in a series of bands through the 1970s, and in 1980 he joined Steven Van Zandt, the lead guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, in a side project called the Disciples of Soul.
Van Zandt had grown up as a die-hard Rascals fan. In 1997, he delivered the speech inducting
the band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, calling Danelli “the greatest rock drummer of all time.”
Dino Danelli was born July 23, 1944, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Robert Danelli and Teresa Bottinelli.
He is survived by his sister, Diane Severino.
He began playing drums at an early age and, after dropping out of high school, moved to Manhattan, intent on pursuing a music career. He picked up gigs in the jazz clubs of Greenwich Village, fi nagled a room at the Metropole Hotel in Times Square and met Rich and Krupa, who both took him under their wing.
He traveled to California, Las Vegas and New Orleans for work, including a stint with jazz vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, before returning to New York. He met his future bandmates at a venue in Garfi eld, New Jersey, called the Choo Choo Club, and after playing together in another band, they formed the Young Rascals.
The band got back together for a few reunion shows in the 1980s, and then in the 1990s, minus Brigati, performed under the name the New Rascals. At Van Zandt’s urging, the four original members played a 2010 charity show together, and in 2012 Van Zandt wrote and produced a “bioconcert” called “The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream” — a multimedia show featuring performances by the band and clips from its 1960s heyday.
It ran for 15 shows on Broadway, then toured the country for several months.
In the Caribbean, many cruise companies have bought islands and turned them into private resorts for the exclusive use of cruise passengers who cavort in enormous wave pools, rush down 135-foot waterslides with names like Daredevil’s Peak, and zip line across wide beaches.
But on Ocean Cay, an island 20 miles south of Bimini that MSC Cruises began leasing from the Bahamian government in 2015, there is no theme park, no giant waterslide.
Oh, there are plenty of bars, shops and wave runners. But the general aim is to provide a serene getaway and largely quiet activities — snorkeling, swimming and lounging on beach chairs — while scientists and students from the University of Miami and Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale research how to reverse the decline in coral reefs and develop reefs that can withstand climate change.
MSC, which has a 100-year lease with the Bahamian government, invested $200 million to transform the island from a barren industrial site that had once been used to mine sand into a 103-acre haven of native plants and trees, surrounded by a 64-square mile marine reserve.
The island, according to MSC, is the centerpiece of an overall plan to make the company more sustainable. It is only one among a flurry of plans and initiatives cruise companies have been announcing in recent years as they try to convince the public they are serious about combating climate change.
Viking, a luxury line whose passengers tend to be wealthy and college-educated, said it is building ocean ships that will run on hydrogen fuel cells, an investment that its chair, Torstein Hagen, said will cost the company an additional $40 million per ship. Royal Caribbean Group, a behemoth in the industry that owns three cruise lines, said it will launch a ship in 2023 that will be equipped with “a large-scale, hybrid power source,” a combination of fuel cells, batteries and dual-fuel engines that use liquefied natural gas.
Virgin Voyages, an adults-only cruise line with four ships, has partnered with three companies working on biofuel solutions — from cooking oil to animal or even human waste — that could power its en-
gines in the future.
As the cruise industry continues to recover from the pandemic, addressing climate change and the ways cruising contributes to it has emerged as a major challenge. Industry officials project a “full recovery” from the pandemic in 2023 and as cruises enter the winter season, typically their busiest time of year, a survey of 4,000 people showed that demand for cruise holidays was greater than in 2019, according to the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), a trade organization.
It is a comeback environmental groups said they have been dreading.
“If you care about the environmental footprint of your vacation, a cruise is not the first vacation I would choose,” said Marcie Keever, director of the Oceans and Vessels Program at Friends of the Earth, an environmental organization that among other things, grades cruise ships on their green practices. “I don’t even know if it would be the second or the third.”
Cruise ships represent 0.6% of total travel carbon emissions, the least of any sector of the travel industry and far less than aviation, which represents 17% of carbon emissions, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
But most cruise companies still rely on heavy fuel oil, a dirty but cheap fuel, to
help power the engines of behemoth ships that carry thousands of people around the world. Finding an energy source that will reduce pollution and greenhouse gases remains the biggest obstacle to the industry reaching a goal CLIA announced in 2021: to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and, as an intermediate step, reduce emissions 40% by 2030.
“This is the biggest challenge that the industry will face in maritime history for sure,” said Linden Coppell, the vice president of sustainability at MSC Cruises. “Nothing is off the table for us for now as we look for new solutions.”
But the industry’s continued reliance on heavy fuel and the plans of many cruise lines to transition to liquefied natural gas — a cleaner, less polluting fossil fuel that also emits methane, a major greenhouse gas — have led to doubts over how serious companies are about fulfilling their pledge.
“There is a lot of greenwashing,” said Sönke Diesener, the transport policy officer at the Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union in Germany (NABU), an environmental organization that studies the industry and ranks cruise companies according to their sustainability plans.
“If you still burn the most toxic fuel on Earth,” he said, “it doesn’t matter if your customers don’t sip drinks from plastic straws.”
A pact to get to zero Cruise companies do not get enough credit for the steps they are taking and the improvements they have already made to ships, said Anne Madison, a spokesperson for CLIA.
More than 15% of vessels scheduled to launch in the next five years will be equipped with engines that can be powered with fuel cells or batteries. Eighty-five percent of the ships being built in the next six years will be able to plug in to shore terminals and use electricity when they are docked, rather than having to keep their engines running the entire time they are in port and burning fuel.
“The commitment is clear,” Madison said. “The effort is aggressive. The path is complicated and full of challenges.”
Among those complications is the pace of technology and the debate among cruise lines over which fuel to use.
CLIA has touted liquefied natural gas as a cleaner alternative fossil fuel than heavy fuel that can act as a stopgap until a more sustainable energy source becomes available.
But environmental groups said methane, the primary component of natural gas, traps even more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide emitted from heavy fuel.
“LNG is totally a false solution,” said Keever of Friends of the Earth.
Industry officials say that concerns over methane are antiquated and do not take into consideration technological advancements that have reduced the levels of methane that escape into the atmosphere.
Still, said Diesener of NABU, a better, temporary alternative is marine gas oil, which is similar to car diesel, but does not carry the methane risks and is far cleaner than heavy fuel oil.
Cruise lines are also investing in vessels that can operate on shore-side electricity when they’re at port, using berths as plugin stations instead of running their engines, which emits tons of carbon dioxide. A single cruise ship docked for one day can emit as much diesel exhaust as 34,400 idling tractor-trailers, according to an independent analysis verified by the Environmental Protection Agency.
But only about 2% of ports worldwide — 29 of them, including eight in the United States — offer shore-side electricity, Madison said.
Twenty more cities and communities are planning to offer shore power, including in the Florida Everglades and Miami, but “these installations are expensive, and they require public-private funding,” Madison said. Royal Caribbean and Carnival Corp., two of the world’s biggest cruise lines, which together own more than 150 ships, announced in November that they would work with the port of Galveston, Texas, to develop a plug-in station.
Cruise lines have also been criticized for their contributions to overtourism, especially when large ships dock in fragile places like Dubrovnik, Croatia, or Venice, Italy, and send a flood of thousands of passengers ashore, overwhelming destinations.
When residents of U.S. port towns have voted for restrictions to control the crush of passengers coming into their communities or protect national parks and natural resources, state governments have rolled back their efforts. In 2006, Alaska voters approved the Ocean Ranger program, which used state funds to pay for inspectors to make sure cruise ships going into places like Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve were complying with state environmental and health laws.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, defunded the program in 2019.
In November 2020, residents of Key West, Florida, voted by a more than 60% margin to restrict the number of cruise passengers allowed in the city to 1,500 per day. But eight months later, Gov. Ron DeSantis reversed the decision when he signed a law that voided any local referendum or initiative that restricts maritime commerce.
In both cases, CLIA opposed the local
efforts, balking at a proposal to have a tax on cruises to help pay for the Alaska program and contemplating supporting litigation or legislation that would preempt ship bans like the one in Key West. Madison said that CLIA did not lobby against the local efforts and that the group and its members “cooperate with cruise destinations to support their tourism management needs.”
Cruise companies should support such voter initiatives, which are aimed at preserving tourist destinations their passengers want to visit, Keever said.
Under the current way of doing business, she said, “the places that they depend on for their business model are going to disappear.”
Below the deck of the MS Roald Amundsen, which in 2019 became the first hybrid cruise ship to set sail, are two enormous battery packs. They are each about 4 yards in length and help power the four-engine vessel, which also relies on marine gas oil.
The technology reduces the ship’s fuel consumption and carbon emissions by 20%, according to Hurtigruten Expeditions, the Norwegian company that owns it and has developed climate protection measures that usually send it to the top of rankings by groups like NABU.
The ship is one of Hurtigruten’s four vessels that run on hybrid power. Two other ships will be upgraded by early 2024 to run on hybrid power and five others will be outfitted with selective catalytic reduction systems that would cut emissions by 80%, according to the company.
“We don’t speak about zero emissions in 2050,” said Daniel Skjeldam, CEO of Hurtigruten Group. “We say that our target is to have the first ship with zero emissions by 2030.”
Traveling on the Amundsen is not cheap.
A 13-day Caribbean cruise in April on the ship, which carries about 530 people, starts at $4,547 per person. A similar trip on the MSC Divina, which carries up to 4,345 passengers and runs on heavy fuel oil, starts at $1,700 for two people.
It’s expensive to take passengers to remote places like the Galápagos and Antarctica while adopting new technology that cuts emissions, Skjeldam said.
“Customers must be aware of this when booking their travel,” he said. “Just as they would by choosing an organic product in the supermarket, they must be willing to pay a little more for a more sustainable and responsible travel experience.”
Owen O’Shea, a marine research program manager at the MSC Foundation, the philanthropic arm of MSC, said he knows most passengers do not book with MSC to support coral reef restoration.
“I don’t think people choose to cruise with MSC because of the sustainability goals,” he said. “It’s mainly people who want to get away for a few days on a cost effective break.”
That was true of many of the passengers on the MSC Meraviglia, who went on a threeday cruise around the Bahamas in September that left from Port Canaveral in Florida and stopped for a day at Ocean Cay.
Carole Sincic, a dental hygienist from Orlando, Florida, said a cruise line’s sustainability plans are not a priority when she is planning a vacation. Her focus, she said, is on “what is the easiest, cheapest way” to cruise.
Sincic, 69, compared spending more to
cruise on a ship with a hybrid engine to buying an electric car — it’s a nice idea but she cannot afford it.
“I’m not rich,” she said. “I don’t have the ability to absorb the extra costs and the extra hassles.”
In surveys, cruise passengers say they do care about sustainability. A recent poll by Cruise Critic, a cruise review website, found that 61% of respondents said they are “very concerned” about the impact cruises have on the environment, said Aaron Sanders, a senior editor at the site. “But it’s not impacting their booking decisions yet,” Sanders said.
Cruise lines recognize that more passengers are scouring environmental sites to see how cruise companies rank, said Robert Kritzman, a partner at Clyde & Co., an international law firm in Miami, who advises cruise companies and spent 13 years as general counsel for Norwegian Cruise Line.
“People save up for a vacation and you have to deliver a product that you think is worthwhile,” he said. “Cruise lines are very, very sensitive to the negative publicity.”
Sincic said her visit to Ocean Cay changed her thinking about what to prioritize when booking a cruise.
She met with O’Shea during her visit to the island and listened carefully as he described how the restoration of the island appeared to be drawing stingrays, sea turtles and even woodpeckers.
She visited one of Ocean Cay’s beaches and was moved when she heard the story of a staff member who found heavy tracks in the sand while putting out lounge chairs early one morning. A sea turtle had laid eggs there the night before. The staff members quickly alerted researchers, who placed posts around the small patch of sand and a sign warning beachgoers to keep away.
“I’d book because of this island,” Sincic said. “I was going to go on a cruise. I might as well go on a ship that helps something.”
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The holidays may be known for their go-go-go stressful energy, but we also tend to spend a lot of time in December being sedentary. Historically, people are least physically active during the winter, thanks to falling temperatures, limited hours of sunlight, calendars jam-packed with travel and social commitments and, of course, the tug of the couch after too much eggnog.
Americans are five times more likely to say their stress level increases rather than decreases during the holidays. And while these higher stress levels aren’t only caused by a lack of physical activity, the lethargy certainly doesn’t help, said Dr. Rebecca Brendel, president of the American Psychiatric Association and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School.
Exercise can be a key way to combat the stress of the season. And it can take whatever shape and form you prefer.
If you already have an established fitness routine, keep it up. Research shows that, over time, regular exercise can help to prevent stress in the first place by improving our body’s ability to neutralize stress-causing hormones and by increasing dopamine receptors in the brain, allowing us to feel more joy.
And if you haven’t been consistently working out? You can turn to exercise “as needed,” in the same way you might take an Advil for a headache, said Sepideh Saremi, a licensed clinical social worker and founder of Run Walk Talk, a Los Angeles-based therapy program in which she treats her clients while engaging in physical activity. Research suggests that a single session of intense exercise (whatever that means for you) can boost your mood for up to 24 hours.
While just about any movement can offset holiday overwhelm, we asked mental health experts who focus on the mind-body connection for their best advice for this particular time of year.
Do the opposite of what’s keeping you down.
The holidays can feel constricting, both physically and psychologically. Travel requires squeezing yourself into small spaces in airplanes or trains and crowded parties intrude on your personal space. A relative’s backhanded compliments about your life choices can make you feel emotionally small, too.
When you’re feeling squeezed, do a workout (or single exercise) that encourages the body to take up space, said Erica Hornthal, a dance therapist in Chicago.
Hornthal suggested carving out time for full body, reach-for-the-sky style stretching sessions. Even two to three minutes of this can help to offset feeling cramped. She also recommended shaking off the feeling of constriction. “Shake your hands,
shake your head — kind of like an animal after it gets wet,” she said. “You can make a game out of it if you have kids.”
If you’re feeling claustrophobic at your in-laws’ house, find an open space and try an 8 1/2-minute “joy workout” that leads you through six body-expanding moves designed to boost happiness, including reaching, swaying, bouncing and jumping.
You can use this counterbalancing strategy to ease the relentless pace of the holidays, too. If you feel like you’re constantly racing from one commitment to the next, seek out a workout that slows the body down.
Yoga, with its focus on breathing and mindful movement, can be an especially effective tool for alleviating this feeling of nonstop doing. Making time for a 15-minute session in the morning or evening can help the mind and body reset to a more comfortable pace.
Jog or walk with friends — or foes.
When you feel your family stress meter rising, make time to step out and take an “empathy run” or walk — a concept coined by William Pullen, a therapist in London.
To do it, Pullen said, enlist a friend or loved one to accompany you for a jaunt outside — even for just 20 minutes. While moving together, take turns expressing whatever is stressing you out and listening without judgment.
Alternatively, Saremi said you could suggest going for a jog or walk with a family member who is causing you stress. “It can help you both be more in the present moment, so you’re not continually playing up old dynamics.” Another advantage to talking while moving? You don’t have to look at each other. “Without the pressure to make eye contact,” we often feel freer to open up, she said. “It makes it easier for people to connect.”
Take a group dance class.
If you want to feel more happiness and connection with the people around you, sign up for a dance fitness class.
Research has shown that, when humans move in tandem, we are primed to feel as if the boundaries between us are dissolving, creating a sense of shared humanity, said Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, founder of The Flourishing Center, which coaches individuals and organizations in positive psychology.
Go on a “microadventure.”
Scientists have found that people who experience awe report lower levels of daily stress. Try planning a creative “microadventure” to calm your mind: Take a familiar bike ride in the dark to see your surroundings with fresh eyes, or do a day hike on a local mountain, pausing along the way to revel in the views.
Or you can simply step outside. A growing body of research suggests that spending time in nature, even just in a city park, can have a soothing effect on our minds and bodies, including lowering stress hormones and reducing physical measures of stress such as blood pressure.
“Benefits can range from increased feelings of happiness and emotional well-being to positive social interaction to decreased stress and anxiety,” said Gregory Bratman, director of the Environment and Well-Being Lab at the University of Washington.
Try a workout you’ve never done before.
Maybe you’re traveling and away from your regular gym or equipment — or you’re home, but your favorite studio is closed for the holidays. Turn the obstacle into a challenge to try something different.
The holidays may be known for their go-go-go stressful energy, but we also tend to spend a lot of time in December being sedentary.
“Our brain is a novelty-seeking machine,” said Zhivotovskaya. When we learn something new, we activate our body’s reward system, releasing dopamine and lifting our mood. This explains why people turn to social media for a quick boost of newness, she said — but trying a fitness workout or class is healthier.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, COMO FIDEICOMISARIO DE FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2019-HB1
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO ÁNGEL DEL VALLE; T/C/C PEDRO DEL VALLE ROSARIO, COMPUESTA POR, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE LYDIA MARÍA DÍAZ MERCADO, T/C/C LYDIA M. DÍAZ MERCADO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV01907. Sala: 402. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO ÁNGEL DEL VALLE; T/C/C PEDRO DEL VALLE ROSARIO, COMPUESTA POR, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE LYDIA MARÍA DÍAZ MERCADO, T/C/C LYDIA M. DÍAZ MERCADO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL
Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS
Yo, SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 24 de mayo de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 2 de agosto de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno, identificado como el Lote “G” 11 en el plano de inscripción localizado en la calle 37 de la Urbanización Parque Ecuestre, Barrio Canovanillas, Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 154 metros cuadrados con 138 milésimas de otro y según plano 154 metros cuadrados en lindes por el NORTE, en 14 metros lineales con 3 centímetros de otro con el lote G-12; por el SUR, en 13 metros lineales con 995 metros lineales con el lote G-10; por el ESTE, en 11 metros lineales con la calle numero 37; y por el
OESTE, en 11 metros lineales con el lote G-6. Enclava en este solar una estructura de hormigón reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales con las facilidades usuales.
Finca número 46,361, inscrita al folio 77 del tomo 1087 de Carolina. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Carolina. Dirección de la Propiedad: G-11 37 St. Parque Ecuestre, Carolina PR 00987.
La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $60,503.98 por concepto de balance principal del préstamo con interés al 4.990% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta su pago total, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $14,100.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 530 otorgada el día 21 de agosto de 2012, Carolina, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Maria G. Chevere Mourino y consta inscrita al folio 208 del tomo 1501 de Carolina, finca número 46,361, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II de Carolina. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de 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. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $141,000.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 19 de agosto de 2092, constituida mediante la escritura número 531, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de agosto de 2012, ante la notario María G. Chévere Mouriño, e inscrita al folio 36 del tomo 1502 de Carolina, finca número 46,361, inscripción 11ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $141,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $94,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $70,500.00. 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, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, 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 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. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia
dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 13 de septiembre de 2022. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE LOÍZA
CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST HB4
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CONCEPCIÓN PARRILLA
FUENTES T/C/C CONCHITA PARRILLA COMPUESTA POR
CARLOS CIRINO PARRILLA, JULIO CIRINO PARRILLA, MYRNA CIRINO PARRILLA, LYDIA CIRINO PARRILLA, VÍCTOR CIRINO PARRILLA, JOSÉ CIRINO PARRILLA, JOSÉ CIRINO PARRILLA, YOEL CIRINO PARRILLA Y MARÍA ESTHER CIRINO PARRILLA; SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ MARÍA CIRINO ORTÍZ T/C/C JOSÉ CIRINO ORTÍZ T/C/C JOSÉ MARÍA CIRINO OSORIO T/C/C JOSÉ CIRINO OSOSRIO T/C/C JOSÉ M. CIRINO ORTÍZ T/C/C JOSÉ M. CIRINO OSORIO COMPUESTA POR CARLOS CIRINO PARRILLA, JULIO CIRINO PARRILLA, MYRNA CIRINO PARRILLA, LYDIA CIRINO PARRILLA, VÍCTOR CIRINO PARRILLA, JOSÉ CIRINO PARRILLA, JOSÉ CIRINO PARRILLA, MARISOL CIRINO OSORIO, YOEL CIRINO PARRILLA, MARÍA ESTHER CIRINO PARRILLA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: LO2021CV00107.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESIÓN DE CONCEPCIÓN PARRILLA FUENTES T/C/C CONCHITA PARRILLA COMPUESTA POR CARLOS CIRINO PARRILLA, JULIO CIRINO PARRILLA, MYRNA CIRINO PARRILLA, LYDIA CIRINO PARRILLA, VÍCTOR CIRINO PARRILLA, JOSÉ CIRINO PARRILLA, JOSÉ CIRINO PARRILLA, YOEL CIRINO PARRILLA Y MARÍA ESTHER CIRINO PARRILLA; SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ MARÍA CIRINO ORTÍZ T/C/C JOSÉ CIRINO ORTÍZ T/C/C JOSÉ MARÍA CIRINO OSORIO T/C/C JOSÉ CIRINO OSOSRIO T/C/C
JOSÉ
Yo, SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Loíza, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Loíza, Loíza, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 9 de marzo de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Loiza, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 28 de abril de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el
inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número ciento cuarenta y tres en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Vieques del Barrio Medianía Alta del término municipal de Loíza, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con setecientos noventa y nueve diezmilésimas de otra, equivalentes a trescientos trece punto noventa y siete metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número ciento cuarenta y cinco de la misma comunidad; por el SUR, con paso de peatones (separa la parcela número ciento cuarenta y tres de la número ciento cuarenta y uno de la misma comunidad); por el ESTE, con la parcela número ciento cuarenta y cuatro de la misma comunidad; por el OESTE, con la calle número dos de la misma comunidad. Finca número 7,105 inscrita al folio 265 del tomo 128 de Loíza. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. Dirección de la Propiedad: 143 2st. Vieques Comm., Mediana Alta Ward, Loiza Pr 00772. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $138,559.19, con interés al 5.250% anual , por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados al 31 de diciembre de 2021, y los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $14,700.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 902 otorgada el día 21 de diciembre de 2010, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público María G. Chevere Mouriñoy consta inscrita al folio 67 del tomo 235 de Loíza, finca número 7,105, Registro de la Propie-
M. CIRINO ORTÍZ T/C/C JOSÉ M. CIRINO OSORIO COMPUESTA POR CARLOS CIRINO PARRILLA, JULIO CIRINO PARRILLA, MYRNA
PARRILLA, LYDIA CIRINO
VÍCTOR
MARÍA ESTHER
Unidos de América, por la suma de $307, 410.29, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 26 de junio de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Las Piedras, finca número 4,307, Anotación A. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por la hipoteca de $253,000.00, total o parcialmente. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 9 de abril de 2021. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe asciende a las siguientes cantidades: $375,339.59 al 31 de diciembre de 2020. Dicha cantidad continuará acumulándose a razón del 7% hasta el completo pago de la deuda. La demandada adeuda, además, una cantidad equivalente a $25,300.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, $25,300.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y $25,300.00 para cubrir intereses adicionales a los garantizados por ley, según pactado. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo mínimo: $253,000.00, suma pactada entre los contratantes en la escritura de constitución de hipoteca. Si no se produce remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará la SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30
DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo Mínimo: $168,666.67 dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado entre los contratantes en la escritura de constitución de hipoteca. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30
DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo Mínimo: $126,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado entre los contratantes en la escritura de constitución de hipoteca. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Humacao, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha
venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses devengados hasta la fecha de la subasta, en cuarto término las sumas establecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada conforme con la sentencia dictada. Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Humacao durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fijará además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta,
estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanzamiento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta y para ello procederé a romper candados de ser necesario. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 8 de noviembre de 2023. JOSÉ LUIS RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL / SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
(R. 60). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: FRANCISCO JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA, IVETTE SOCORRO FUENTES ORTÍZ, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda contra usted(es), solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Demanda de COBRO DE DINERO, por concepto de cuotas de mantenimientos vencidas y no pagadas por la suma de $1,990.50 por el periodo de 16 de agosto de 2019 al 25 de octubre de 2022. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: LCDO. MELVYN E. FONTAN LOZADA Colegiado Núm. 15768, RUA: 14519 PO Box 124, Bayamón, PR 00960-0124 Tel. 787-340-6604 Fax 787-261-9168 e-mail: melfonloza@live.com, melvynfontan@gmail.com
VIRGINIA RODRIGUEZ SOLIVAN
Demandada Civil Núm.: SA2022CV00175. (202). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
Demandante V.
Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deje 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. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 7 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV05607.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.
A: VIRGINIA RODRIGUEZ SOLIVAN. Yo, RICHARD TORRES PLACA #067, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, 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 12 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Salinas, Salinas, 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 en el mismo acto de subasta y tan pronto se conceda la buena pro al postor agraciado. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Salinas 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 19 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Seis (6) del Bloque “E”, en el plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACIÓN LLANOS DE PROVIDENCIA, localizado en el Barrio Lapas del término municipal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS CINCUENTA PUNTO CERO CERO (350.00) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar Cinco (5), en una distancia de veintiocho punto cero cero (28.00) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número Siete (7), en una distancia de doce punto cincuenta (12.50) metros; por el OESTE, con la Calle número Cuatro (4), en una distancia de doce punto cincuenta (12.50) metros; y por el ESTE, con solar número Diecisiete (17), en una distancia de doce punto
cincuenta (12.50) metros. Enclava una casa de hormigón y bloques para una sola familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 222 del tomo 224 de Salinas, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama, finca número 8,942, inscripción cuarta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Llanos de Providencia, Calle 4, Solar Número E-6, Salinas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $27,380.29 de principal, intereses al 8 3/8% anual, desde el día 1ro. de diciembre de 2021, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $5,200.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $52,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $34,666.67 y de necesitarse una tercera subasta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $26,000.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito
hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Salinas, Puerto Rico, a 13 de diciembre de 2022. RICHARD TORRES PLACA #067, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS.
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CARMEN NELLY CARRILLO GARCIA, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04392. (508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESION DE CARMEN NELLY CARRILLO GARCIA, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”).
Yo, ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, 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 25 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, 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 me-
jor 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 San Juan 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 FEBRERO 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 FEBRERO 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 P guión Dieciocho (P18) de la URBANIZACIÓN SAGRADO CORAZÓN, radicado en el Barrio Cupey del término municipal de Río Piedras Sur, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de CUATROCIENTOS OCHENTA PUNTO CERO CERO (480.00) METROS CUADRADOS. En linderos: NORESTE, en una distancia de treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con el solar P guión Diecinueve (P-19); SURESTE, en una distancia de dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros, con el solar P guión Seis(P-6); SUROESTE, en una distancia de treinta punto cero cero(30.00) metros, con el solar P guión Diecisiete (P-17); NOROESTE, en una distancia de dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros, con la Calle “B”. Contiene una casa de concreto de una sola planta que consta de sala, comedor, “family room”, tres dormitorios, dos baños, cocina, “laundry”, balcón, marquesina, cuarto de desahogo y rejas. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 141 vuelto del tomo 762 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, finca número 68, inscripción décimo novena. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urb. Sagrado Corazón, 1617, (antes Solar P-18), Calle Santa Angela, San Juan, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $203,356.66 de principal, intereses al 6 1/2% anual, desde el día 1ro. de abril de 2020, hasta su completo pago, $2,324.00 de principal diferido, más la cantidad de $20,560.000, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí-
ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES
RIO HONDO II , VALLE VERDE I Y II, INC.
FRANCISCO JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA, IVETTE SOCORRO FUENTES ORTÍZ, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables. El Alguacil procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 15 de noviembre de 2022. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGUEZ.
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC
Demandante vs. SUCESION JOSE
Demandados CIVIL NUM. MZ2022CV01308. SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMOPOR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de 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: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en 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.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIME INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. FRANCISCO J. TORRES FELICIANO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08537.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO EMITIDO POR EL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
DE PUERTO RICO, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
A: FRANCISCO J. TORRES FELICIANO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO VS. FRANCISCO J. TORRES FELICIANO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2022CV08537 SOBRE COBRO DE DINERO. Se les notifica a ustedes, FRANCISCO J. TORRES FELICIANO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, que en la Demanda que originó este caso se alega que ustedes le adeudan a la parte demandante, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, las siguientes cantidades: a. $26,612.64 de principal e intereses devengados hasta el 14 de enero de 2022, más los intereses que se devenguen a partir de la fecha de radicación de la Demanda al tipo legal, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, y una suma razonable para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, por concepto de las sumas desembolsadas por el uso de la demandada de una tarjeta de crédito VISA cuyos últimos 4 dígitos son 4171. b. $15,989.21 de principal e intereses devengados hasta el 14 de enero de 2022, más los intereses que se devenguen a partir de la fecha de radicación de la Demanda al tipo legal, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, y una suma razonable para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, por concepto de las sumas desembolsadas por el uso de la demandada de una tarjeta de crédito VISA cuyos últimos 4 dígitos son 9716. Se les emplaza y requiere que presenten al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Deberán notificar a la licenciada: María S. Jiménez Meléndez al PO Box 9023632, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902-3632; teléfono: (787) 723-2455; abogada
de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la demanda. Si ustedes dejan 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. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 6 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. ELIZABETH AGOSTO NÚÑEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
MORTGAGE TRUST HB2 Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE MARTA ANTONIA RAMIREZ PABON T/C/C MARTA A. RAMIREZ PABON, COMO MARTA RAMIREZ PABON COMO MARTA ANTONIA RAMIREZ COMO MARTA A. RAMIREZ Y COMO MARTA RAMIREZ Y
Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: SJ2022CV05528.
Sala: SAN JUAN / Salón: 604 Civil. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. ORDEN. Examinada la Moción en Solicitud de Orden de Interpelación presentada por la parte demandante, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y ORDENA a la SUCESIÓN DE MARTA ANTONIA RAMIREZ PABÓN, también conocida como MARTA A. RAMIREZ PABÓN, COMO MARTA RAMIREZ PABÓN, como MARTA ANTONIA RAMIREZ, como MARTA A. RAMIREZ y COMO MARTA RAMIREZ, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente ORDEN, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia. #36 Nevárez St., Los Olmos Cond., Apt. E-10, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00927. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la misma se tendrá por aceptada. También se le APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30 días antes señalado a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente ORDEN, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia
del causante y por consiguiente responde por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme a lo que dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021. Se ORDENA a la parte demandante proceda a notificar la presente ORDEN mediante un edicto a esos efectos una (1) sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Notifíquese. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy 05 de diciembre de 2022. AIDA ILEANA OQUENDO GRAULAU, JUEZA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. EMILIO CRUZ OTERO, NILDA ROSA PACHECO ESTEVES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01043.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: EMILIO CRUZ OTERO, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON ROSA PACHECO ESTEVES Y A ROSA PACHECO ESTEVES, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON EMILIO CRUZ OTERO.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los
abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 009366603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 27 de septiembre de 2022. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION FRANCISCA COLON MARRERO T/C/C FRANCISCA COLON COMPUESTA POR MOISES RIVERA COLON, RUTH NOEMI RIVERA COLON, ESDRAS MISAEL RIVERA COLON, IRIS MARTA RIVERA COLON; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06707. 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.
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30
DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que
se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar o predio de terreno situado en la Urbanización Valencia, en el Barrio Hato Rey, del término municipal de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos ochenta y cuatro punto cuarenta (384.40 m.c.) metros cuadrados. Identificado en el plano con el numero ciento quince (115). En lindes por el Norte, que es su fondo, en veinte punto cero cero (20.00 m.) metros, con el solar numero ciento catorce (114) de la Urbanización Valencia, propiedad del señor Jorge A. Carlo; por el Sur, que es su frente, en veinte punto cero cero (20.00 m.) metros, con la calle Borinquen; por el Este, en diecinueve punto veintitrés (19.23 m.) metros, con el solar numero ciento diecisiete (117) de la Urbanización Valencia, propiedad de Doña María Echegaray, viuda de Viera; y por el Oeste, en trece punto cincuenta y ocho (13.58 m.) metros, con el solar numero ciento doce (112) y en cinco punto sesenta y cinco (5.65 m.) metros, con el solar numero ciento trece (113) de la Urbanización, haciendo un total en este lindero de diecinueve punto dieciocho (19.18 m.) metros.
Enclava una casa de concreto. Consta inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 351 de Rio Piedras Norte, finca 6,574, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. Propiedad localizada en: URB.
VALENCIA, 359 (115) CALLE JEAN, SAN JUAN, PR 00923. 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: $235,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 12 de noviembre de 2077. 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 $157,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera,
la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $104,666.67, 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 $78,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $152,262.56 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $27,284.08 en intereses acumulados al 4 de abril de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.516% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,311.14 en seguro hipotecario; $5,320.00 en tarifas de servicios; $560.00 en seguro; $375.00 de tasaciones; $520.00 de inspecciones; $1,610.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $15,700.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico,
ANTONIO CESANI BELLAFLORES COMPUESTA POR
JOSE ANTONIO CESANI
ROMAN, CARLOS
EUGENIO CESANI
ROMAN, RAUL CESANI
ROMAN, JAVIER
ENRIQUE CESANI
ROMAN; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ANA MINERVA DIAZ TORRES
POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE
hoy 5 de diciembre de 2022.
EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00632.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 22 de noviembre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Condominio Portales de Río Grande de Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Apartamento: B-215. Cabida: 95.193 Metros Cuadrados. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la Segunda Planta del Edificio B de Portales de Río Grande, localizado en la Carretera PR número Tres (#3), Kilómetro 23.6, en el Barrio Ciénaga Baja, del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, el cual se describe en la Escritura Matriz de Dedicación al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal y en los planos aprobados para este Condominio, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Apartamento número: B doscientos quince (B-215). Area total de la vivienda: Mil Veinticuatro pies cuadrados con Seis Mil Quinientos Veintiocho milésimas partes de otro (1,024.6528 p.c.), equivalentes a: Noventa y Cinco punto Ciento Noventa y Tres metros cuadrados (95.193 m.c.). Los linderos del área de vivienda son los siguientes: Por el NORTE, en dieciséis pies diez y media pulgadas (16’ 10½”) con espacio abierto; por el SUR, en veintiún pies y diez pulgadas (21’ 10”) con espacio abierto; por el ESTE, en treinta y siete pies nueve pulgadas (37’ 9”) con pared que colinda con el apartamento doscientos catorce (214); y por el OESTE,
en treinta y cinco pies nueve pulgadas (35’ 9”), con pared que colinda con el apartamento doscientos dieciséis (216). Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado NOROESTE, que da al área del pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al Edificio.
Consta de Sala-Comedor, un (1) balcón; un pasillo que brinda acceso a las siguientes áreas: un (1) dormitorio con closet, área de Lavandería; cocina, un (1) dormitorio con un closet; un (1) baño completo de uso general; un (1) dormitorio principal (“master bedroom”) en la cual ubican un área de “closet” y un (1) baño completo. A esta unidad de vivienda se le ha asignado dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento, identificados con los números doscientos quince (215) y doscientos quince A (215 A) para uso exclusivo del apartamento aquí individualizado. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de cero punto cero cero siete nueve tres siete por ciento (0.007937%). Inscrita en la finca número 29,044, al tomo Karibe de Río Grande. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. La propiedad está ubicada en: B-215 Portales de Río Grande, Río Grande, PR 00745. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $25,000.00, con intereses al 5.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2040, constituida mediante la escritura número 227, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de abril de 2009, ante el notario Jorge García Rondón, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Río Grande, finca número 29,044, inscripción 3ra. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y
notificada el 20 de octubre de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $113,556.74 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 5.99% desde el 1ro de enero de 2019; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $13,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 12 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $130,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 11:30
DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $86,666.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 26 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 11:30
DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $65,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta
judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de diciembre de 2022. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
LIME HOMES, Ltd. Plaintiff, vs. ALEXIS DIAZ HERNANDEZ, HIS WIFE LILLIAM CRISTELA CARRON ACOSTA AND THE CONJUGAL LEGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendants Civil No. 18-1517 (PAD). RE: FORECLOSURE IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: ALEXIS DIAZ HERNANDEZ, HIS WIFE LILLIAM CRISTELA CARRON ACOSTA AND THE CONJUGAL LEGAL
THEM: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC: WHEREAS: On April 5, 2019 Default Judgment was entered and grated on same day in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal amount of $208,684.35, plus interest at a rate of 6.125% per annum since August 1st, 2015 to the present. The defendant also owes Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not received by the mortgage note holder within 15 days after the installment was due; all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note, including but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections; as well as 10% ($25,900.00) of the original principal amount to cover, costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligations. 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: Parcela de terreno identificada como Solar 60 del Bloque “MM” de la Urbanización Mansión Del Mar, radicada en el Barrio Sabana Seca del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 407.614 metros cuadrados y en lindes por el NORTE, en 9.34 metros y en una distancia en arco de 3.87 metros, con la calle número 4 (Plaza de Estrellas); por el SUR, en 23.26 metros con los solares número 61 y 62; por el ESTE, en 24.12 metros con la calle número 1; y por el OESTE, en 23.50 metros con el solar número 59. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. The encumbered property is recorded at Page 215 of Volume 484 of Toa Baja, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and lot number #26,650, Section Second of Bayamón. Property address: Urbanización Mansión Del Mar, MM-60 Plaza Estrella, Toa Baja, P.R. 00949. The deed
of mortgage is recorded at Page 203 of Volume 549 of Toa Baja, Property Registry of Bayamón, Second Section. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following Juniors liens described in Spanish: A. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de First Equity Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $76,000.00, con intereses al 10.500% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2037, constituida mediante la escritura número 206, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de julio de 2007, ante la notario Ana Isabel Diaz Cabán, e inscrita al folio 204 del tomo 549 de Toa Baja, finca número 26,650, inscripción 7ma. B. Embargo Federal contra Alexis Díaz Hernández y L. Carrión, seguro social xxx-xx-9021, por la suma de $2,987.88, notificación número 180364615, presentado el día 22 de octubre de 2015, anotado al folio 14, Asiento 4, del libro de Embargos Federales número 4. Fecha límite de renovación 21 de enero de 2025. C. Embargo Federal contra Alexis Díaz Hernández, seguro social xxx-xx-9021, por la suma de $3,843.63, notificación número 18364115, presentado el día 22 de octubre de 2015, anotado al folio 14, Asiento 3, del libro de Embargos Federales número 4. Fecha límite de renovación de fecha 22 de julio 2025. 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 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. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the 14th day of February of 2023, at: 8:30 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $259,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the 21st day of February of 2023, at: 8:30 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $172,666.67, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 28th day of February of 2023, at: 8:30 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of
$129,500.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. 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. WHEREAS: 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, this 29th day of November of 2022. By: Pedro A. Vélez Baerga, Special Master 787-672-8269.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
Demandante Vs. BRENDA
Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02374.
Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de diciembre 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 13 de diciembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTHA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY FSB D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE CSMC 2015-pr 1 TRUST MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015PR-1
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE MIRTHA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2018CV03553.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Guaynabo, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada
ALEMAN SANTIAGO TC/C MYRTA ALEMAN SANTIAGO, MIRTA DEL CARMEN ADEMAN, COMPUESTA POR DAMARIS CRUZ ALEMAN, ARELIS CRUZ ALEMAN, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ALBERTO CRUZ
en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $15,987.72 de balance principal, al 7.50% anual desde el primero de noviembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago; el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad de principal e interés por la suma de $311.85 por concepto de cargos por demora desde el día primero de diciembre de 2017, hasta su total y completo pago; más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca por la suma de $4,460.00; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número once (11) del Bloque O del plano de inscripción del proyecto Zenón Díaz Valcárcel PRHA guion once (PRHA-11) radicado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo Amelia del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de doscientos cincuenta y tres metros cuadrados con cincuenta y seis centésimas de metro cuadrados (253.56 m/c); en lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Número Cinco (5) distancia de once metros con dos centímetros (11.02); por el SUR, con el solar O guion cincuenta y cuatro (O-54) distancia de once metros con cuarenta y cuatro centímetros (11.44); por el ESTE, con el solar O guion doce (O-12) distancia de veintidós metros con sesenta centímetros y por el OESTE, con el Solar O guion diez (O-10) distancia de veintidós metros con cincuenta y cinco centímetros (22.55). Sobre este solar enclava una casa. Finca número 19,987, Inscrita al folio 261 del tomo 451 de Guaynabo, del Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. Dirección
Física: Barrio Amelia, 43 Calle Hermandad, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00965. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día
7 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $44,600.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $29,733.33. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 21 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA,
y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $22,300.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas
con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 21 de noviembre de 2022.
YANIXA RAMOS, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYNABO,
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESION DE RAFAEL ANGEL BEY NAZARIO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION DE NORBERTO BEY NAZARIO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; BLANCA LUISA VIÑAS RODRIGUEZ POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE NORBERTO BEY NAZARIO; NYDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO NIDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO
Demandado(a) Civil: SG2021CV00415. 306. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: SUCESION DE RAFAEL ANGEL BEY NAZARIO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; Y A NYDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO NIDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO. (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 7 de septiembre 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 9 de diciembre de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 9 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA.
NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. WANDA RENTAS BURGOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION FREDDIE ESPINO LOPEZ T/C/C FEDERICO ESPINO T/C/C FREDDIE ESPINO COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03822.
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
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o
Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero veintinueve (29) de bloque B del plano de solares de la Urbanización Reparto Fullana, radicado en el Barrio Monacillos del municipio de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos uno punto treinta (501.30) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cuarenta y dos (25.42) metros, con la Calle doce (12) B del plano de la referencia; por el Sur, en una distancia de ocho punto cero cero (8.00) metros, con el solar numero treinta (30) de dicho plano; por el Este, en una distancia de treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con el solar numero treinta y uno (31) del plano referencia; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de treinta y cuatro punto sesenta y nueve (34.69) metros, con la calle B de dicho plano. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 139 del tomo 256 de Monacillos, finca 9753, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. Propiedad localizada en: VILLA BORINQUEN, 1342 CALLE DAMASCO, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00920. 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: $256,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 9 de junio de 2092. 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 $256,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por
declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $171,000.00, 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 $128,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor por concepto de principal, mas la suma de $20,859.59 en intereses acumulados al 26 de noviembre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.494% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,783.55 en seguro hipotecario; $5,110.00 en tarifas de servicios; $475.00 en tasaciones; $180.00 de inspecciones; $11,721.20 en preservación; $1,645.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $25,650.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico,
hoy 5 de diciembre de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
FUNDING LLC.
Demandante Vs. SUCESION MARIA ERUNDINA COLON RIVERA T/C/C MARIA E. COLON DE QUIGLEY T/C/C MARIA E. COLON T/C/C MARIA E. COLON RIVERA T/C/C MARIA COLON T/C/C MARIA COLON RIVERA COMPUESTA POR HEYDA QUIGLEY COLON, SANTIAGO QUIGLEY COLON, JAIME QUIGLEY COLON Y SUS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2018CV07212. (505). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 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 con un área superficial de 246.25 metros cuadrados, marcado con el #24-B de la manzana LC de la Urbanización Caparra Terrace que radica en
el Barrio Monacillos de la municipalidad de Río Piedras, P.R., el cual colinda por el Norte en 9.85 metros con el solar 1-LC, por el Sur en 9.85 metros con la calle #100 de la urbanización, por el Este en 25.00 metros con el solar #23-A-LCV y por el Oeste en 25.00 metros con el solar #24-A-LC. Enclava casa. Se halla afecto a Servidumbre de signo aparente de pared medianera. Finca número 17,483, inscrita al folio 120 del tomo 473 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Sistema Karibe, finca 17483 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III, inscripción 7ª. Propiedad localizada en: 1421 4 S.O. ST., CAPARRA TERRACE, SAN JUAN, PR 00921. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $213,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 30 de marzo de 2082. 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 $213,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $142,000.00, 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 $106,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 1 DE FEBRERO DE
2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $78,155.52 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $11,421.13 en intereses acumulados al 31 de marzo de 2019 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 4.221% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $3,583.15 en seguro hipotecario; $625.00 en tasaciones; $400.00 en inspecciones de la propiedad; más la cantidad de 10% de la pagare original en la suma total de $21,300.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogad, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de diciembre de 2022. EDWIN E.
LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS
EDWIN PEREZ APONTE
Parte Demandante Vs. CARMELO SORIA LEBRÓN; SUCESIÓN DE RAMONITA DEL VALLE FONTÁNEZ, COMPUESTA
POR DIMAR SORIA DEL VALLE, DIRA LIZ SORIA DEL VALLE; MAYRA LIZ VARGAS DEL VALLE; CARMELO SORIA DEL VALLE;
Parte Demandada
Civil Número: CG2022CV01646. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: CARMELO SORIA DEL VALLE; DIMAR SORIA DEL VALLE; DIRA LIZ SORIA DEL VALLE; JOHN DOE / POSEEDOR DESCONOCIDO.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda del epígrafe dentro de los TREINTA (30) DÍAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en la Ejecución de Hipoteca constituida en Escritura de Constitución de Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré mediante la cual la parte demandante y usted suscribieron un pagaré hipotecario al portador por la suma de ciento treinta mil $130,000.00, vencedero en un año, presentada por la parte el siguiente inmueble: RÚSTICA: - Solar radicado en el Barrio Rincón del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, compuesto de MIL OCHOCIENTOS METROS CUADRADOS CON SETENTA Y DOS CENTESIMAS DE OTRO (1800.72 m. c.) equivalente a CUATRO MIL QUINIENTOS OCHENTA Y DOS DIEZMILESIMAS DE CUERDA, colindando por el NORTE con Solar rotulado “C” en el Plano de Inscripción; por el SUR, con camino Municipal existente asfaltado que forma parte de la Parcela rotulada con la letra “K” dedicada a uso público en el Plano de Inscripción y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Jesús Colón. Usted debe presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
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de diciembre de 2022. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 13 de diciembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs.
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00847. Sala: 201. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y 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 6 de septiembre de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 2 de noviembre de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 8 de noviembre de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, en el Centro Gubernamental, Carretera Número 20, Kilómetro 5, Guaynabo, 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: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 1002. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la primera planta del edificio número 10 del Condominio Portales de Alhelí, situado en la Carretera Estatal Número 833, Kilómetro 0.8, Barrios Los Frailes del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área aproximada de 1,174.70 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 109.13 metros cuadrados.
Son sus linderos los siguientes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de 42’11” con patio común y pasillo; por el SUR, en una distancia de 42’11” con patio común limitado; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 34’ 7” con
patio común limitado y con el apartamento número 1101, según Certificación Registral apartamento número 1001; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 34’ 7” con patio común limitado, área común y con el apartamento número 1001. Este apartamento consta de balcón, sala-comedor, cocina, laundry, dos (2) baños y tres (3) dormitorios. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en el lindero Norte. Este apartamento goza del uso exclusivo de un patio que es el elemento común limitado, el cual está delimitado marcado por puntos y/o verjas, según surge de los planos del proyecto. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de 1.365% en los elementos comunes del Condominio. Se le asigna el área de estacionamiento números 92 y 93-S. Inscrita al folio 20 del tomo 1542 de Guaynabo, Finca Número 49834, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 20 vuelto del tomo 1542 de Guaynabo, Finca Número 49834, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. Inscripción cuarta. Dirección Física: COND. PORTALES DE ALHELÍ, 2050 CARR. 8177, APT. 1002, GUAYNABO, PR 00966-3758. Número de Catastro: 16-086-085-086-09-050.
El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $100,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA, 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, $66,666.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $50,000.00. 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 demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $69,349.99 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.75% anual desde el 1 de junio de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $1,102.62 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $10,000.00 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 que afecta a la propiedad en cuestión: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de Susana Ortiz Miranda compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, en el Caso Civil Número GB2021CV00847, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $69,349.99 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 18 de noviembre de 2021. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Guaynabo. 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 gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de noviembre de 2022. YAMIXA RAMOS CEBALLOS, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAY-
NABO ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE AWILDA LOPEZ RIVERA, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)
Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2022CV00299. (201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESION DE AWILDA LOPEZ RIVERA, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”).
Yo, YANIXA RAMOS CEBALLOS, 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 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Guaynabo, 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 Guaynabo 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 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 21 DE FEBRERO 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 PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número Seiscientos Cuatro (604) de la Torre número Dos (2). Apartamento residencial número Seiscientos Cuatro (604) de la Torre número Dos (2) del Edificio de Propiedad Horizontal CONDOMINIO GARDEN HILLS PLAZA, situado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Está situado en la parte Norte-Centro de la planta número Seis (6). Tiene un área aproximada de fabricación de MIL SEIS (1,006) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a NOVENTA Y TRES PUNTO CINCUENTA (93.50) METROS CUADRADOS, siendo sus mayores medidas lineales aproximadas de cuarenta pies (40’) en su mayor largo y veintinueve pies siete pulgadas (29’7”) en su mayor ancho. Colinda por el NORTE, con pared exterior que da hacia el área de estacionamiento; por el SUR, con pared que lo separa de un pasillo de uso común, de los elevadores y el closet del incinerador y de limpieza; por el ESTE, con pared que da a un espacio exterior de uso común; y por el OESTE, con pared que da hacia un espacio exterior de uso común. Su puerta principal de entrada está situada en la colindancia Sur y lo comunica directamente a pasillo común que le da acceso a las escaleras y a los elevadores y estos le dan acceso a espacios comunes dentro de los límites del Edificio y su terreno que a su vez le dan acceso a una vía pública. Se compone de sala, comedor, cocina, balcón, una habitación-dormitorio, dos baños, pasillo y closets. Este apartamento tiene un porcentaje de cero punto cinco ocho cero por ciento (0.580%) en los elementos comunes generales del Edificio y un porcentaje de uno punto dieciséis por ciento (1.16%) en los elementos comunes limitados de la Torre número Dos (2) y un porcentaje de catorce punto setenta y cuatro porciento(14.74%) en los elementos comunes limitados de la planta o piso en que está situado. A este apartamento le ha sido asignado el espacio de estacionamiento número Cuarenta y Cuatro(44).
La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 178 del tomo 1502 de Guaynabo, finca número 20,392, inscripción quinta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Garden Hills Plaza II, Apartamento 604, Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $83,017.80 de principal, intereses al 5.00% anual desde el 1ro. de noviembre de 2021,
hasta su completo pago; más la cantidad de $10,100.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $101,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $67,333.33 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $50,500.00. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 23 de noviembre de 2022. YANIXA RAMOS CEBALLOS, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.
LA SUCESIÓN DE SUSANA ORTIZ MIRANDA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS
Lionel Messi had to wait and wait and wait. He had to wait until he was 35. He had to wait until he had already lost a World Cup final. He had to wait after he had seemed to have won it for Argentina in normal time, and he had to wait after he had believed he had beaten France again in extra time.
He had to wait until the end of the most extraordinary final in the tournament’s history, in which Messi offered a career-defining performance and was still, somehow, outdone by Kylian Mbappé, scorer of the first hat trick in the biggest game there is for more than half a century.
Only then, at the last, was Messi’s wait, his agony over. Only then did he deliver the World Cup, that precious third star, to Argentina, cementing his claim to be the greatest player to have ever played the game.
The emotion that has accompanied Argentina on its journey to the final has been so raw, so volatile that it seemed inevitable that the final step on the road would have to be taut and frenetic and angst-ridden. There was, after all, some 36 years of history, as well as the defining legacy of Messi’s career, at stake. That carries enormous weight.
When the time came, though, Argentina seemed to shoulder the burden lightly. Where France seemed
slack, uncertain, Lionel Scaloni’s team was crisp, purposeful. Ángel Di María, restored to the team, tormented Jules Koundé on Argentina’s left; Messi prowled around, drawn by a radar he has honed over the past two decades to be wherever he could cause the most trouble.
By halftime, Argentina’s supremacy had been first established and then reinforced. Di María, the game’s outstanding attacking threat, had drawn a distinctly soft penalty for a foul by Ousmane Dembélé; Messi had duly converted, his teammates swamping
him as Argentina’s fans melted in delight.
What came next, though, was this team’s masterpiece: five passes, played in the blink of an eye, sweeping Argentina from one end of the field to the next, culminating in a goal that is the equal, at least, of any scored in a World Cup final in the last half a century.
Di María finished it, and there were starring supporting roles for Alexis Mac Allister and Julián Álvarez, but it hinged on a single, silken touch from Messi, standing on the halfway line, a moment of alchemy that took the most ordinary of materials and turned them into something golden.
And that, at the time, seemed to be that. This has been a curiously passive French team for much of the tournament, outplayed in the quarterfinal by England and for substantial parts of the semifinal by Morocco. The control that was the hallmark of its triumph in Russia four years ago was notably absent; this seemed to be a team living uncomfortably close to the edge.
Deschamps did what he could to claw his team back into the game, removing both Dembélé and Olivier Giroud before halftime, equal parts bold, decisive action and sheer, blind panic. It made little difference. France bare -
ly landed a blow on Argentina. Time seemed to be ticking away on its reign as world champion.
It took precisely two minutes for everything to change, for all of Argentina’s painstaking work in this game, in this tournament, to fall apart. Nicólas Otamendi, the grizzled central defender, misjudged a fairly straightforward pass, allowing Randal Kolo Muani, one of France’s roll-of-the-dice substitutes, to slip clear; as he recovered, he bundled the forward over. The French had a penalty, converted by Mbappé, and a glimmer of hope.
Argentina was still regaining its composure when the hammer blow arrived: Messi himself caught dawdling on the ball, a clever touch from Marcus Thuram, and a fierce, first-time volley from Mbappé, fizzing past Emiliano Martínez’s despairing grasp. Argentina’s players slumped, the breath drawn out of their lungs. They had been so close, and in an instant they were as far as ever.
For a while, it seemed as though Argentina’s hopes could extend no further than making it to extra time and then hanging on for penalties. Messi, though, intervened once more, unwilling to accept an ending he had not written. When Hugo Lloris blocked a shot from Lautaro Martínez, there was Messi to drive the ball home.
He celebrated, then, as though he knew just how close he was, his team was; he had not reckoned with Mbappé’s own determination to be the master of his own destiny. His shot was handled by Gonzalo Montiel; with 117 minutes played, he stepped up to take the penalty, to complete his hat trick in a World Cup final, to ensure the game went the distance, to the sweetest, cruelest conclusion imaginable.
Mbappé scored. Messi scored. But Kingsley Coman and Aurelién Tchouámeni did not, and that left Montiel, the right back, to take the shot that would echo through the ages. The roar that Argentina’s fans emitted when the ball struck the back of the net seemed to pierce the sky. Messi sunk to his knees, clasping his teammates close, his wait over, at last.
The Minnesota Vikings may be known for losing in all four of their Super Bowl appearances. But they have also played in some of the most famous games in league history, including Saturday, when they roared back from a record 33-point deficit in the second half to beat the Indianapolis Colts 39-36 in overtime.
The Vikings surpassed the previous record comeback set by the Buffalo Bills in 1993, who overcame a 32-point deficit to beat the Houston Oilers in overtime.
The Vikings, who clinched the NFC North with the victory, secured the win when kicker Greg Joseph’s 40-yard field goal split the uprights with seconds remaining in overtime. The Vikings (11-3) have now won 10 of their games by one score, and none in more dramatic fashion than Saturday.
The Indianapolis-Minnesota showdown was supposed to be the sleepiest of the three NFL games Saturday, with the teams six wins apart in the standings. But the frantic finish was another reminder that even seemingly irrelevant games in the country’s most popular league can produce some of the most compelling results.
It may be a cliché, but the game was really two games. The Colts (4-9-1), who have endured coaching and quarterback turmoil all season, looked like a playoff-bound team in the first half. They returned one blocked punt for a touchdown and returned an interception for another score. Quarterback Matt Ryan threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Deon Jackson as well.
Heading into halftime, the Vikings looked like they were going to absorb their second blowout loss in their past five games.
Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell said that at halftime, cornerback Patrick Peterson said, “All we need is five touchdowns.”
The Vikings did that with a formula that has worked all season: Let quarterback Kirk Cousins throw the ball. About
Minnesota Vikings kicker Greg Joseph scored the game-winning field goal with seconds remaining in overtime. He also made four extra points during regulation.
midway through the third quarter, Cousins hit receiver K.J. Osborn for a 2-yard score for the Vikings’ first points. After the Colts added a field goal to push their lead to 36-7, the Vikings added another touchdown on a 1-yard run by C.J. Ham with just over a minute remaining in the quarter.
The Colts’ offense repeatedly stalled, allowing Cousins and the Vikings time to keep chipping away at their deficit. Cousins threw an 8-yard score to receiver Justin Jefferson — the league’s leading receiver — early in the fourth quarter to narrow the gap to 36-21 after the extra point.
Cousins was intercepted, but the Colts could not convert the turnover into points. The Vikings came back yet again when Cousins threw a 1-yard pass to receiver Adam
Thielen to narrow the Colts’ lead to 8 points after another successful extra point.
On the following drive, the Vikings appeared to tie the game when cornerback Chandon Sullivan snagged a fumble and ran into the end zone. But the officials had ruled that the runner was down by contact. Although a review showed that the runner had fumbled the ball and Sullivan had recovered it, Minnesota was not awarded the touchdown. The Vikings took over, but their drive stalled.
The Colts seemed in good position to run out the clock, but Ryan failed to convert a quarterback sneak on fourth down, giving the Vikings another shot with just over two minutes remaining.
“We would have closed the game out and ended the game,” Colts coach Jeff Saturday said after the game. “I’m in. Everybody’s in. We didn’t convert.”
Ryan’s inability to grab a first down was reminiscent of Super Bowl LI, when he and the Atlanta Falcons failed to convert a first down that allowed the New England Patriots to erase a 28-3 deficit, the largest comeback in Super Bowl history.
After the Vikings took over with just over two minutes remaining, running back Dalvin Cook sprinted 64 yards for a score. Cousins then hit tight end T.J. Hockenson for a 2-point conversion to tie the game. In all, Cousins was 34 for 54 for 460 yards, with 417 yards accumulated after halftime.
It wasn’t quite the “Minneapolis Miracle” — when the Vikings beat the New Orleans Saints on a Stefon Diggs touchdown as time expired in a 2018 playoff game — but it was thrilling nonetheless.
After the game, Cousins said that he thought Peterson was “being sarcastic” when he called for five touchdowns. But, in the end, he was happy to create a miracle of his own.
Vikings 39, Colts 36 (OT)
Browns 13, Ravens 3 Bills 32, Dolphins 29
With Aaron Judge’s contract situation settled last week, the New York Yankees were finally able to move on to other business. They did just that late last week, coming to terms on a six-year, $162 million deal with left-hander Carlos Rodón, arguably the best starting pitcher remaining on the free-agent market.
The deal, which was first reported by Jon Heyman of The New York Post, was confirmed Thursday by a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal has yet to be finalized. It represents the 11th-highest total contract committed to a pitcher in major league history,
according to Spotrac, with an average annual value of $27 million. The contract has a full no-trade clause.
Rodón, who turned 30 on Saturday, is coming off back-to-back seasons in which he had an ERA under 3.00. Drafted and developed by the Chicago White Sox after a standout career at North Carolina State, he blossomed into a star with Chicago in 2021. Then he signed a two-year, $44 million deal with the San Francisco Giants just before the 2022 season began — a deal that came together quickly after the lockout ended. He acclimated to the National League with ease, going 14-8 with a 2.88 ERA in 31 starts. He led major league starters with an average of 12 strikeouts per nine innings and was an All-Star for a second consecutive year.
The deal included an opt-out clause after one season that Rodón exercised.
In New York, Rodón should slot in near the top of the Yankees’ rotation, serving as a significant upgrade over right-hander Jameson Taillon, who left the Yankees and signed a four-year, $68 million contract with the Chicago Cubs last week.
The Yankees’ starting rotation projects to be a strength for the team, with Gerrit Cole, Néstor Cortés, Luis Severino and Rodón all having All-Star potential. Right-hander Frankie Montas, who was acquired in a deadline trade with the Oakland Athletics, could be a terrific option as a fifth starter if he can recover from the injuries and inconsistency that plagued him last season.
It had been 10 months since the last time Vince Kozar had a conversation with Brittney Griner, since he could see her face and hear her voice.
The 6-foot-9 Griner, who has a wingspan over 7 feet, wrapped her arms around him in an embrace Friday morning when Kozar, the president of the Phoenix Mercury, joined two other members of the WNBA team to surprise Griner for her flight home.
“I don’t want to be naive and say she seemed like the same person, because obviously I can’t imagine an experience like this not changing you,” Kozar said. “But it felt like talking to BG.”
He continued: “It was the same energy and the same jokes and her laugh and her disarming personality that makes you want to be around her, which I’ve spent nine months talking to people about as an explanation for why so many people miss her and why so many people rallied around her. It’s that. And that was all still there.”
Griner, an American basketball star, on Friday left the military base in San Antonio where she spent the eight days since her release from imprisonment in Russia. She said on Instagram that she planned to spend the holidays at home with her family and that she would play basketball for her Mercury when the WNBA season begins in May.
“The last 10 months have been a battle at every turn,” she said in her first public statement since her release from a Russian penal colony, where she was serving a nine-year sentence after pleading guilty to a minor drug charge. “I dug deep to keep my faith and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep me going.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone for your help.”
Her wife, Cherelle, said in a separate post of her own: “I’m so happy you’re home and safe babe.”
Griner left San Antonio from a private airport Friday morning, according to her agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas. She had been at Brooke Army Medical Center since returning to the United States last week. Kagawa Colas said Griner was going home but did not say whether that meant a residence in Phoenix. Hospital and State Department officials declined to comment.
Three members of the Mercury organization surprised her at the airport in San Antonio and shared the ride home with her: star player Diana Taurasi; Jim Pitman, the general manager; and Kozar.
Kozar said he spoke to Griner over FaceTime on Thursday night and felt a rush of emotion at hearing her voice and seeing her face in such a personal setting after so long.
The group spent the flight home catching up and talking about basketball, food, weather and music — things that Griner
had missed out on in the past 10 months.
Some wondered if the trauma of her experience would make her not want to return to playing basketball. But Kozar had an inkling she would. She often mentioned basketball and asked about her teammates in letters they exchanged.
“I was really hesitant to talk about her in terms of basketball because her basic humanity was at stake,” Kozar said. “But I came to realize that basketball was one of the things taken away from her, along with freedom and family and friends. When I really thought about how big a part of her life basketball is, how much she missed it and the fact that it had been taken away from her, I felt like she would eventually want to play.”
Griner thanked numerous people in her post, including the staff at the U.S. Army’s Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, where she arrived at the medical center one week ago. Brooke Army Medical Center has long been a place the U.S. government has sent people who need to be debriefed or who require sensitive medical care after going through an ordeal like Griner’s. The hospital treats both civil-
ians and military personnel who have survived torture or other trauma.
Griner also thanked her family and President Joe Biden, and she pledged to help him seek the release of Paul Whelan, who is serving a 16-year sentence in Russia on espionage charges that the United States has said are politically motivated.
“I also encourage everyone that played a part in bringing me home to continue their efforts to bring all Americans home,” she said. “Every family deserves to be whole.”
In a separate Instagram story post, she shared information about how to write letters to Whelan.
Griner was detained at an airport near Moscow in February after customs officials said they found a small amount of cannabis oil in vape cartridges in her luggage. The State Department categorized her as wrongfully detained and sought a prisoner exchange for her release. Officials in Moscow had said that a prisoner exchange would not happen until after her trial concluded.
A Russian court convicted her of drug smuggling, and in August she was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony known for its harsh conditions. Her appeal was denied in October, and she was sent to the IK-2 female penal colony 300 miles southeast of Moscow.
She was released Dec. 8 in a prisoner swap for Viktor Bout, an arms dealer who had been convicted in 2011 on charges including conspiring to kill Americans.
That day, when Kozar heard Griner had been released, brought him to tears. He also cried on opening day of last season.
“There were a lot of emotional days like that, and there were also days that made us pretty optimistic,” Kozar said. “Getting letters for her or seeing the outpouring of support. Hearing her situation talked about by the secretary of state of the United States and our entire team getting to meet with members of the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs.
“There were some really, really great moments in there, too, in a really, really terrible situation. It’s been a roller coaster of a lot of things, and I think all of that has just sort of come flooding back these last eight days.”
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If something isn’t working, let it go! Are you carrying around a burden that’s wearing you down and leaving you tired? If you’ve had enough, just drop it! The upshot is that you’ll have room for something more positive and uplifting to come your way. The Moon’s angle with Pluto can enhance feelings of tension, until you do something constructive to bring this matter to an end.
The thing you’re seeking may be closer to home than you think. If you’re looking for a new opportunity or something to give your life meaning, then it might not be far away at all. It could be an interest that you’re taking for granted that can yield rich pickings if you dig deeper. In addition, an in-depth conversation will let you know whether someone is truly trustworthy.
If you have romantic feelings for someone, then the Libra Moon can find you playing to their likes and dislikes. While this might bring you closer for a time, you won’t be truly happy if you can’t be yourself. It’s better to be truthful about your preferences now, even if it means a distance develops. You’ll soon find someone you sync with, and you’ll be more at ease too.
Ideas about how to beautify your home will inspire you. You may have some great plans to transform all of it, or one small section. And even if you’re decorating a room just for you, you’ll want to go to town and give it a few personal touches. The Moon in Libra is a reminder that your home is a place where you can relax, enjoy good company and get back into balance.
The day could get off to an edgy start, as you may need to be honest with someone. Get the difficult things out of the way first, whether this is a conversation or a decision. Once it’s done, you can turn your attention to getting out and about with friends or someone special, and having a great time together. Looking for romance? A certain person might stand out from all the rest.
Feel like giving someone a treat? The focus on your leisure zone, encourages you to follow your heart. Whether it’s a friend or co-worker, your generous gesture will not be forgotten. Plus, Neptune’s tie with asteroid Juno, can connect you with someone who is looking for a relationship. If you’re happily entangled Virgo, then you’ll want to make this very clear.
The Moon’s angle with Pluto encourages you to say it like it is. This is not the time to compromise or water down your truth, as the person you’re dealing with may only respond if you’re very honest. On the plus side, a lovely Moon/Sun aspect can put you in the best of moods. And if you have plans for a date or an outing, it could be the tonic you need to boost morale.
Tailoring your home to meet your spiritual and emotional needs could be a consideration. If it’s too cluttered or you don’t like the decor, then it might be causing subtle background stress. Take your peace of mind seriously and think about re-organising your environment so that you feel at ease and uplifted when you are there. It may take a few hours or a week, but it’s so worth it.
Stick with your principles, and refuse to go against them just to make others feel better about themselves. You may have different views from someone, but it’s your right to express them without feeling the need to compromise your beliefs in any way. The Sun in your sign for a few more days, shows you off in the best light. There’s something very attractive about you, Archer.
The Libra Moon encourages fairness and balance in your dealings with others, and yet you might not feel like being nice to everyone, Capricorn. If someone is getting on your nerves, you’ll likely show it. And perhaps this is justified if they have been bothering you for a while. You may even want to go one step further and distance yourself from them, which could be the better option.
The Libra Moon and its ties can bring a positive quality to the day. You may feel emboldened to try new ideas for size, and to explore possibilities that you’ve tentatively looked into. With Venus and Mercury in practical Virgo, this is the time to put your thoughts into action. Doing so could be a game changer in every way. Something might shift, and you’ll be so pleased it has.
You may get a crucial insight into a matter that has confused you, Pisces. If so, do something about it. If you leave it too long, you’ll forget and nothing will change. This is an opportunity to turn something around that has been quietly bugging you. Get rid of it, and you’ll feel so much better. On a plus note, a stroke of good fortune could bring you and another back together.
