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Lawmaker proposes postponing ‘presidential election’ in PR until 2028

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ouse of Representatives Deputy Speaker José “Conny” Varela Fernández on Wednesday introduced a bill to postpone, until the date of the 2028 general elections, the “presidential election” scheduled to take place in conjunction with this year’s general elections.

“Carrying out this process on the day of the 2024 general election would entail incurring additional efforts and expenses to prepare for the election, at a time when the resources of the State Elections Commission (SEC) are committed to the election of the governor, mayors and the Legislature, and limited by the decisions of the Fiscal Oversight Board [sic],” the Caguas lawmaker said in a written statement. “In printing ballots only, and calculating from the costs of 2020, this process would add approximately $600,000 to the cost of the electoral process.”

When the current Electoral Code (Law 58-2020) was approved, the terms of the repealed Law 12-2018 were incorporated there, which required a vote to be held in Puerto Rico to elect the president of the United States. According to the law, a fourth ballot would be added in which “compromisarios,” or delegates, would be elected to represent Puerto Rico in the Electoral College that is in charge of electing the U.S. president.

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Rep. José “Conny” Varela Fernández “During this year, in addition to having to implement the electronic endorsement system, the law requires the completion of the implementation of several other new technology systems, such as the electronic voter registration (eRe), the electronic poll book, and the call center system (CESI),” Varela said. “The reliability and certainty of our electoral process depends on the success of the implementation of these systems. The SEC’s scarce resources should be invested in electing the people who govern Puerto Rico’s destiny, and not in an election with no real effect. For this reason, we believe that this ‘presidential election’ should be postponed until 2028.”

Pierluisi says he will refrain from proposing local status vote

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday that he will not submit to the island Legislature a bill that would enable a political status vote along with the November elections.

Pierluisi, who is seeking reelection, said he is refraining from holding a local status vote because he wants to pressure Congress into passing status legislation that already has more than 20 co-sponsors and is pending Senate approval.

“I have always said that while the status issue is moving in Congress, we must avoid calling for a consultation at the local level,” the governor said. “We are actively seeking more co-sponsors of the status bill before the Senate. If I remember correctly, we already have about 25 co-sponsors, a very important number. Still, we continue to make arrangements with members of the Senate so that that number continues to increase, and to grant us a public hearing.”

Luis Dávila Pernas, who directs the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration in Washington, is in charge of moving the status bill on Capitol Hill on a daily basis.

“It is more of a strategic decision on my part that Congress continues to feel the pressure on our part,” Pierluisi said in an aside with the press.

Groups within the pro-statehood movement have said Congress will not act on the status bill pending in the Senate.

Recently, prominent supporters of Puerto Rico statehood, including pro-statehood lawyer Gregorio Igartúa, sent to all 500 members of Congress a draft bill that would make Puerto Rico an incorporated territory of the United States in the hope that it can gain approval. They did so because they believe the bill that would enable a congressionally binding status vote will not go up for a vote. They said Congress will be more open to making Puerto Rico an incorporated territory.

The draft legislation, a copy of which was obtained by the STAR, notes that while Puerto Rico is legally an unincorporated territory, the island has been incorporated through a series of laws including the Foraker Act, which organized the commonwealth government into three branches, the executive, legislative and judicial; the Jones-Shafroth Act, which gave U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans; and the commonwealth Constitution.

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Survey: Labor shortage is a leading reason for crisis in dairy industry

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labor shortage is one of the main reasons why the dairy industry in Puerto Rico has yet to reach its maximum potential, according to a report from the Senate Northern Region Development Committee.

At-large Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera and Guayama District Sen. Albert Torres Berríos spoke Wednesday on the crisis affecting the local dairy industry.

“The results of the study that we commissioned, through Senate Resolution 138 of our authorship, make it clear that, like many other sectors of our economy, the dairy industry suffers severely from the lack of labor,” Riquelme said. “Furthermore, access to raw materials is another problem, along with energy costs. We are going to address these issues now that we have this real survey of the industry, one of the most important in Puerto Rico.”

This week, the Senate received the final report from the Northern Region Development Committee on the dairy industry, which according to data from the Puerto Rico Farmers Associ-

ation represents 40% of the gross annual agricultural income on the island.

“Our goal is to foster a robust dairy industry that can assimilate the changes of a global economy and continues to be an essential foundation of our agricultural development,” Riquelme said. “The demographic reality of Puerto Rico, where of 3.2 million inhabitants, about 770,000 are over 65 years of age, makes it clear that we have to look for alternatives, be it labor from states of the union or other jurisdictions or assimilating new technological platforms, among others.”

Among the suggestions expressed in the conclusion of the Resolution 138 report were conducting on-site visits to dairy farms to detail their unique needs and reviewing the designation of funds for dairy farmers.

“This does not stop here,” Riquelme said. “We will continue creating forums to advance work in favor of this industry. The committee’s suggestions will be evaluated in detail to identify the path forward then.”

The senator noted that the island dairy industry at one time (circa 2011) included more than 325 dairy farms operating

and dispensing milk. Today, the total fluctuates between 230 and 260 farms.

Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera

Legislator calls for probe of ‘a series of deficiencies’ at Firefighters Bureau

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itizen Victory Movement Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli warned on Wednesday about “a series of deficiencies and irregularities” in the Puerto Rico Firefighters Bureau that she alleged put the population at risk and could cause tragedies if not attended to urgently.

“The attention that fire management receives is usually limited to the press reporting that there was a fire and that the firefighters put it out,” Nogales Molinelli said in a written statement. “There is rarely an assessment as to whether that response met certain standards. We never want to minimize the risky work that firefighters do, but there has to be oversight that is not happening within the Fire Department or at the level of the Department of Public Safety (DSP). I proposed [House Resolution] 1125 to discuss the indications that we have been collecting and that cause serious doubts about the ability of the Firefighters Bureau to do its job.”

The legislator introduced House Resolution 1125 for the House Safety Committee to investigate the ability of the Firefighters Bureau to carry out its duties safely, quickly and effectively.

The representative said she has received information about errors or impermissible failures in the response of the Firefighters Bureau to different incidents.

“There are some shortcomings in the preparation provided by the Fire Academy and the continuing education that is provided afterwards,” she said. “For examples, we can go from the most recent, which was the unfortunate incident in Dorado, in which an elderly couple died. In that case, they explained that the firefighters could not enter the house quickly because there was an accumulation of items, but what they did not say is

that the balcony was clear and that they could not use portable ladders to climb there because the members of the Corps have

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not been trained in how to use them.”

“Another big mistake occurred in August last year after an accident between a bus and a truck [caused a] fire on the highway,” Nogales Molinelli continued. “They didn’t use absorbent material to contain the diesel and oil spill, and what they did was to water the fuel more when they poured water and then pushed it into the green area.”

The lawmaker added that it has been pointed out that the Firefighters Bureau has placed people in positions with great decision-making power who are not qualified because they do not meet the requirements, nor with the standards dictated by both professional organizations and agreements with the federal government.

“The intrusion of partisan and sectarian politics into the processes of promotions and appointments to management positions is even more dangerous when it occurs in a security agency,” she said. “The information we have is that there are people in charge who don’t have the preparation or the knowledge for it. That endangers both the people and the members of the Corps themselves, because when it comes to making decisions, the criterion is not going to be security or reasonableness, but politicking.”

“It is not a good sign that in September of last year I asked the Department of Public Safety for an organizational chart with the names of those who hold those positions, job descriptions, personnel movements, among other things, and it refused to hand over the information,” the legislator said. “I immediately took it to court and they did not give a single valid reason for the denial. Just today we were notified that the judge ruled in our favor, so we expect the DSP to deliver the information in the next 10 days.”

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$28 million repaving & reconstruction project on PR-30 in Humacao gets underway

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced on Wednesday that, after a million-dollar investment of state and federal funds, the pavement rehabilitation and reconstruction project on busy highway PR-30 near the municipality of Humacao is underway.

The governor was accompanied by Highways and Transportation Authority (ACT by its Spanish initials) Executive Director Edwin González Montalvo and Humacao Mayor Julio Geigel Pérez.

“This is key work for all people who drive to Humacao and the eastern area through PR-30, an essential highway for the transportation of residents and merchants,” the governor said in a written statement. “The rehabilitation of the pavement and the reconstruction of PR-30 at kilometer 25.4 to kilometer 28.55 entails an investment of nearly $28 million in federal and state funds.”

Pierluisi noted that the road work includes the removal and rehabilitation of the concrete pavement and the flexible pavement, as well as essential improvements to bridges 1244 and 1248. In addition, improvements will be made to the drainage system to prevent future damage, protective metal barriers will be installed and concrete barriers will be built. Likewise, new visible signage, thermoplastic pavement marking and other additional work will be per-

“This work will positively impact all drivers,” said Highways and Transportation Authority Executive Director Edwin González Montalvo, seen at left. (Gov. Pedro Pierluisi/Facebook) formed to guarantee the safety of the road.

The project is expected to be completed in September of next year.

The ACT chief said: “This work will positively impact all drivers.”

Geigel Pérez, the Humacao mayor, added that PR-30 “is a crucial highway for the thousands of drivers who travel to and from our town of Humacao.”

The improvements to PR-30 join a series of projects being conducted by the DTOP and ACT to update several roads in the eastern region of the island. For example, rehabilitation work is being carried out on the PR-30 lighting system at kilometer 6.6 to 7.7 and from 14.4 to 29.5, with an investment of almost $5 million. “This provides better lighting for those traveling around the towns of Gurabo, Juncos, Las Piedras and Humacao, and should be completed around May of this year,” the governor said.

Another $4.2 million, meanwhile, is being invested in the repaving of highways PR-3, PR-916, PR-918, PR9209, PR-980 and PR-9905, which benefit residents of and visitors to the towns of Ceiba, Las Piedras, San Lorenzo and Yabucoa. Those works should be completed in August of this year.

At the same time, bridge 116 over Quebrada Ceiba on PR-3 is being replaced with an investment of $8.4 million, which benefits those traveling to Fajardo, Naguabo and the town of Ceiba, as well as residents of Tarawa Street and the Santa María urbanization. The bridge work should be completed in August.

Mayors’ group: Condition of state highways points to discrimination by DTOP

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group of Popular Democratic Party mayors attached to the Mayors Association of Puerto Rico (AAPR by its Spanish initials), along with municipal legislators, denounced on Wednesday what they said is the lack of attention given to state highways by the Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP by its Spanish acronym).

“What is being experienced throughout Puerto Rico is a crisis in the state of public roads,” said Villalba Mayor Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, who is the AAPR president, in a written statement. “We have reported this situation before. We are pointing out a situation of discrimination.”

They noted that on Aug. 25, 2022, and then July 31, 2023, DTOP Secretary Eileen Vélez Vega announced the ‘Changing Lanes’ program under which each municipality would report the three roads that required the most attention, and said action has not been taken by the commonwealth agency.

“In fact, there was talk of 827,000 tons of asphalt, and we want to know in detail what happened to that, what agreements have been signed and the dates of the work,” said Trujillo Alto Mayor Pedro Rodríguez González.

In the case of Naguabo, Mayor Miraidaliz Rosario Pagán listed numerous state highways that are in poor condition, including PR-31, PR-3 and PR-924.

Isabela Mayor Miguel Méndez Pérez listed at least 10 Party … they have paved. This claim we are making is problem roads in his town, including PR-212, PR-466 a citizen’s claim.” and PR-446.

In Villalba, meanwhile, the three unattended roads, which Hernández Ortiz said are already known to DTOP, are PR-153, PR-161 and PR-538. In Trujillo Alto, the 15 state roads that require attention include PR-181, PR-175, and PR-199, Rodríguez González said.

Meanwhile, Cidra Mayor Ángel David Concepción, pointed out that PR-782 in the Ceiba neighborhood requires repairs and attention due to landslides that have not been attended to since the passage of Hurricane Maria, while the town’s busiest highway, PR-734 to Cayey, was destroyed.

In Santa Isabel, Mayor Rafael Burgos Santiago said the roads with the greatest need are PR-153, PR-161 and PR-538.

“We have had many meetings with Secretary Vélez Vega, several, and the work is not done,” Hernández Ortiz said. “The lack of action by the DTOP is in Trujillo Alto, Villalba, Naguabo, Toa Alta and Isabela, among other [Mayors Association-affiliated] municipalities. In some municipalities, yes, there has been repavement work, and on January 29, we mayors, in writing, asked Secretary Vélez Vega to certify which roads have been paved. To date, she has not responded to our letter, when in other Mayors Association President Luis Javier Hernández municipalities with mayors from the New Progressive Ortiz

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US Treasury removes island’s credit unions from money laundering at-risk list

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he U.S. Department of the Treasury has removed Puerto Rico’s cooperatives, or credit unions, from the list of entities at high risk for money laundering, an official said Wednesday.

Mabel Jiménez Miranda, executive president of the Cooperatives Supervision and Insurance Corp. (COSSEC by its Spanish acronym), expressed satisfaction at the Treasury Department’s decision to eliminate island co-ops from the list of entities with “vulnerability and risks” for money laundering. The federal agency removed the U.S. territory from the National Risk Assessments of Capital Blockade, Terrorism Financing and Proliferation Financing Report 2024 as a risky scenario.

“Without a doubt, it is positive news that we are no longer within the special focus,” Jiménez Miranda said. “However, it is important to emphasize and not ignore the importance of continuing with good financial practices in a responsible manner.”

In July 2023, COSSEC created a Compliance Department to strengthen processes and evaluate savings and credit cooperatives to ensure that they comply with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) requirements and Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The department seeks to determine whether a cooperative

has established and implemented an effective anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) program, verify whether the cooperative is complying with the requirements of maintaining and documenting the records and reporting required by regulatory agencies, and detect weaknesses or violations in the execution of the anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) program. Likewise, it helps the credit union understand the BSA requirements and encourage compliance, document the findings of the compliance examination, and share them with the examined credit union for discussion, response and correction. Finally, it submits serious or recurring BSA violations to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

“Both COSSEC staff and the cooperatives in close communication have worked hand in hand for faithful compliance with state and federal agencies,” Jiménez Miranda said. “This is beneficial for maintaining the trust of our members in the institutions, promoting good practices, and assisting cooperatives in their duty.”

In a February 2022 report, the federal Treasury highlighted the risks posed by Puerto Rico’s international banking entities, international financial entities, and cooperatives in a section titled “Special Focus: Non-federally Chartered Puerto Rican Financial Entities,” noting that they were not subject to a federal regulation requiring federally incorporated financial institutions

Mabel Jiménez Miranda, executive director of the Cooperatives Supervision and Insurance Corp. to establish and maintain an anti-money laundering program.

However, a FinCEN rule made the requirement equally adaptable to the aforementioned Puerto Rican financial entities.

Governor says reconstruction will take eight years

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday that it will take eight years to complete the reconstruction of Puerto Rico.

“Yes, what I’m saying is that when you look at the time it takes for an area devastated by a natural disaster in the United States to rehabilitate, to rebuild completely, the approximate time is 15 years,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “And I’m saying we’ve basically been [at it for] around six years and a few months, we’re going to say four or five months -- almost six and a half years since Maria. And I

am seeing that at the rate of the permanent work projects that essentially began at the beginning of 2021, all this work, or the vast majority of the work, must be completed in eight years.”

“That’s my estimate, so if you add it all up, it would [come out to] 14 and a half years and that’s what happens in the United States elsewhere, because that’s how the U.S. government’s programs work, the programs to respond to emergencies and natural disasters,” he added.

Pierluisi said further that “if we add the first funds that the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] has disbursed so far from everything it had planned to disburse, including

those emergency and individual assistance funds, we are at about 45 percent of all the funds that FEMA has available to deal with Hurricane Maria.”

The governor insisted that the report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which states that only 8% of the federal funds allocated have been used, is incorrect.

“I explained that because there are times when reports can be misrepresented, such as the GAO’s own report, which is incomplete, because it is only talking … about permanent work and does not say [anything about] everything else that was done before it began, that permanent work,” he said.

RUM students & alumni urged to apply for positions at PRITS

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tudents and alumni of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (RUM by its Spanish acronym) will have the opportunity to apply for employment, an internship program and COOP at the Office of Innovation and Technology Services (PRITS) at the 15th Spring Job Fair, PRITS Executive Director Antonio Ramos Guardiola said

Wednesday.

On Friday at Rafael A. Mangual Collegiate Coliseum at RUM, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., PRITS will have staff on hand to guide candidates who attend the job fair. Professional attire is suggested.

“We encourage all students and alumni who wish to be part of the transformation and digitalization team of the Government of Puerto Rico to attend this event, which will

surely bring together great talent,” Ramos Guardiola said in a written statement.

Those interested can reserve a space by visiting https://www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-spring-job-fair-tickets-799875217307. An abstract must be submitted through https://jobfair.uprm.edu/ resume-submission/. Likewise, it is recommended that participants bring copies of their updated resume.

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Protesting Biden, Gaza supporters warn, ‘Don’t blame us’ if you lose

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bout 100 people turned out earlier this week at the University of Michigan to urge Democrats to reject President Joe Biden in the state’s primary election, a political gathering that illustrated both the passion and the limits of the effort to pressure him into calling for Israel to stop waging war in the Gaza Strip.

The rally, held by a group called Listen to Michigan that is urging voters to cast their ballots for “Uncommitted” against Biden in next week’s primary, called for Democrats to reject the president in the primary.

The speakers in Ann Arbor and a crowd made up mostly of students displayed energy, pronouncing themselves livid at Biden’s stance on Israel, but when the event began there were so few attendees that they could, and did, all stand in a circle and hold hands.

Former Rep. Andy Levin of Michigan, a progressive Democrat who was at the gathering, said it would be Biden’s fault if his policies toward Israel and Gaza led him to lose the general election to former President Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee.

Levin nodded to Michigan’s large population of Arab Americans, whose frustration with Biden along with discontent among young voters and progressives has raised questions about the president’s standing in the state, a critical presidential battleground.

“Don’t blame us,” said Levin, who along with Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan has become one of the most prominent supporters

of the Uncommitted movement. “He needs votes from Arab Americans, from people of color, from progressive Jews and from young people. He only won Michigan by 150,000 votes in 2020, so politically we have a moment where we can raise our voices.”

Layla Elabed, the campaign manager for Listen to Michigan and Tlaib’s sister, said the goal for the campaign was to earn “at least 20,000 votes” for Uncommitted.

“That is the number that we will need to flex our political power,” she said.

“We will raise our voices at the ballot box,” said Abbas Alawieh, a former congressional aide who is one of the group’s organizers. “Vote Uncommitted, because a vote for Uncommitted is a vote for cease-fire. A vote for Uncommitted is a vote against war.”

The Uncommitted push has support from 39 state and local elected officials in Michigan, according to a tally by The Detroit News. Tlaib over the weekend became the first member of Michigan’s Democratic congressional delegation to break from Biden and call for an Uncommitted vote.

The Biden campaign began dispatching surrogates to the state this week to urge primary voters to support the president. On the campaign’s first day of events Monday, Mitch Landrieu, a former New Orleans mayor who is a Biden campaign co-chair, said in Flint, Michigan, that he did not expect the conflict in Gaza to end “anytime soon.”

“Michiganders need to be cleareyed on the differences between Biden and Trump,” said Lavora Barnes, the chair of the Michigan

A rally in Ann Arbor, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, held by the group Listen to Michigan, calling for “Uncommitted” votes against President Joe Biden during the state’s primary.

At the University of Michigan, a demonstration against President Biden’s stance on Israel showed his critics’ passion but was light on numbers. (Nick Hagen/The New York Times) Democratic Party. “Our job is going to be to help people remember that when there’s a choice between two people in November, the only way to vote will be for Joe Biden.”

That may be a difficult sell for activists and officials involved in the Uncommitted push if Biden does not engineer a significant change in U.S. policy toward the IsraelHamas war.

Rima Mohammad, a member of the

Ann Arbor school board who addressed the rally Tuesday, said she could not imagine how Biden could expect people who feel “horrified” by the death toll and humanitarian crisis in Gaza to support him in the presidential election.

“President Biden abandoned this community,” Mohammad said. “People are feeling increasingly betrayed as the violence continues in Gaza.”

Trump again compares himself to Navalny while discussing legal woes

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ormer President Donald Trump continued to liken himself to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a town hall in South Carolina on Tuesday, at one point directly comparing a civil fraud judgment against him to the case of an anticorruption activist who died in a Russian prison last week.

Halfway through the town hall, the host, Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, asked Trump how he would come up with the $450 million penalty issued by a New York judge last week.

“It is a form of — Navalny,” Trump said.

“It is a form of communism or fascism.”

The remark came after a prolonged discussion in which Trump continued to suggest that his legal travails were somehow equivalent to those of Navalny, a staunch opponent of President Vladimir Putin of Russia who was politically persecuted and imprisoned on charges that supporters believed were fabricated in an attempt to silence him.

Trump did not specifically address Navalny’s death until Monday, when he posted on social media that the situation was reminiscent of his legal problems. The

former president faces four criminal cases, all of which he has attributed to President Joe Biden, although Biden has no oversight over them.

During the town hall, Ingraham asked Trump to expand on those comments. The former president commended Navalny for his courage, calling his death “very sad” and saying that Navalny “was a very brave guy.” He also expressed his belief that Navalny — who returned to Russia in 2021 from Germany, where he had been recovering from being poisoned — would have been better served by “staying away and talking from outside

of the country.”

But Trump then said that what had happened to Navalny was happening “in our country too.” He went on to mention his four indictments, which he said were “all because of the fact that I am in politics.”

Ingraham then followed up by asking Trump if he viewed himself as a “potential political prisoner.” Trump, who has repeatedly without evidence claimed that the criminal cases against him are part of a plot to keep him from winning a second term, seemed to affirm her.

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2 men charged with murder in Kansas City Super Bowl rally shooting

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t began, prosecutors said, with one man accusing another of staring at him.

Groups of men, who appeared to be strangers, exchanged angry words and threats. A female friend tried to intervene. And then, surrounded by thousands of people at a rally last week celebrating Kansas City’s Super Bowl victory, at least two men pulled out their guns and began shooting.

“Just being stupid,” one of the men, Lyndell Mays, 23, told detectives later, according to authorities, after admitting to firing his gun at least once or twice into the crowd.

Mays and another Missouri man, Dominic Miller, 18, were charged with murder in the death of a bystander, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Ballistics tests revealed that a bullet from Miller’s gun killed Elizabeth Galvan, 43, a DJ and radio host known as Lisa, who was at the parade Wednesday with her family, prosecutors said.

Two dozen people were wounded by gunfire, including nine children.

Prosecutors described how a seemingly mundane interaction spiraled into violence, then chaos. As shots rang out, spectators screamed, ran for cover and rushed to tend to the wounded. Galvan was lying on the ground, fatally shot in the abdomen. Elected officials in attendance, including the governor of Kansas, were quickly evacuated for their safety.

More charges were expected as police continue to investigate the shooting, said Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.

Prosecutors would not say how many guns were believed to have been involved.

“We seek to hold every shooter accountable for their actions on that day,” she said. “Every single one. While we are not there yet on every single individual, we are

going to get there.”

Miller and Mays were shot and remain hospitalized. Each is charged with seconddegree felony murder, two counts of armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.

Each is being held on a $1 million bond, and if convicted, could be sentenced to life in prison.

“Consequences must be swift, certain and severe,” Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said.

It was not clear whether Miller or Mays was represented by lawyers, and the men could not be reached.

Separately, two days after the shooting, two teenagers were charged with resisting arrest and “gun-related” offenses. The teenagers have not been publicly identified and could eventually be tried as adults after a judicial process that can take days or weeks to decide how they should be tried.

The connection between the two men who were charged with murder and the teenagers who were charged with lesser offenses last week is unclear.

In a statement, Galvan’s family thanked the prosecutor and the Kansas City Police Department for their work in investigating the “senseless act of violence” that killed her.

“Though it does not bring back our beloved Lisa, it is comforting to know that the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office and the KCPD made it a top priority to seek justice for Lisa, the other shooting victims, those who had to witness this tragedy unfold and the Kansas City community,” the statement said.

The shooting erupted at the end of a parade and rally that drew tens of thousands of jubilant Kansas City Chiefs fans to the downtown area.

Surveillance video from the area, as described in charging documents from prosecutors, showed one group of people staring

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From page 7 “If I were losing in the polls, they wouldn’t even be talking about me,” Trump said.

Still, Trump did not condemn Putin, who has drawn widespread condemnation and speculation from officials, including Biden, that he or the Russian government may have had a hand in Navalny’s death.

During the town hall, he praised Rus-

sia’s military, which is invading Ukraine, for its prowess.

“You’re really up against the war machine in Russia,” Trump said. “Russia, what did they do? They defeated Hitler. They defeated Napoleon. Yeah, they’re a war machine.”

Trump has opposed providing more military aid to Ukraine, and he has vowed to end the war if elected president, although he is vague on the details, other than citing his relationship with Putin.

People gather for a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at the Super Bowl parade, in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 15, 2024. Two Missouri residents were charged with murder in the shooting that erupted after the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City, Mo., last week, Jean Peters Baker, the Jackson County prosecutor, announced on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.

(Chase Castor/The New York Times) at one man, and an argument ensuing. More people nearby joined the argument, and as it continued, the people involved began to produce firearms.

Authorities said Miller was seen in the video appearing to fire shots, then was struck by a bullet in his lower back, causing him to fall to the ground. He then ran away, the charging documents say, shouting “I’m shot, I’m shot.”

A bystander saw that Miller was carrying a black firearm near his waistband, and tackled and disarmed him, authorities said.

When interviewed by detectives at the hospital, Miller admitted that he was armed with a handgun at the rally and said that When asked by Ingraham about his opposition to supporting Ukraine, Trump again insisted the invasion would not have happened if he had won reelection in 2020 and then said that he would encourage European leaders to provide more aid to Ukraine.

Former President Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks with Laura Ingraham during a Fox News town hall in Spartanburg, S.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

he fired roughly four or five shots, because he observed another man shooting at him, authorities said.

Mays, the other man charged with murder, told detectives at the hospital that he had fired the first shots.

“He hesitated shooting because he knew there were kids there,” according to charging documents. Mays told authorities that he only began firing because he believed that a woman in his group was going to be shot, the documents say.

Both the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office and the Kansas City Police Department said they had no previous contact with either Miller or Mays.

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Alito renews criticism of landmark ruling on same-sex marriage

By ABBIE VANSICKLE

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ustice Samuel Alito earlier this week renewed his criticisms of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision recognizing the right to same-sex marriage, saying that people who oppose homosexuality risk being unfairly “labeled as bigots and treated as such.”

The justice included his warning in a five-page statement explaining why the court had rejected a request to hear a Missouri case about people removed from a jury after voicing religious objections to gay relationships. The case, Alito wrote, “exemplifies the danger” from the court’s 2015 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges.

The ruling, he added, shows how “Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government.”

The statement appeared to offer a glimpse into Alito’s continued discontent with Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the court, by a 5-4 vote, guaranteed a right to same-sex marriage, a long-sought victory in the gay rights movement.

In the years since, Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas, who both dissented from the 2015 decision, have appeared to urge the court to reconsider the ruling. The court, they have contended, invented a right not based in the text of the Constitution and said it had cast “people of goodwill as bigots.”

Only two members of the court who ruled in favor of Obergefell remain on the bench — Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

The court has since transformed under the presidency of Donald Trump with the addition of three conservative justices who have solidified a conservative supermajority.

The case at issue on Tuesday, Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney, No. 23-203, involved a dispute over the dismissal of jurors who voiced religious concerns about gay relationships during jury selection in an employment discrimination case.

Jean Finney, an employee of the Missouri Department of Corrections, claimed that after beginning a same-sex relationship with a coworker’s former spouse, that co-worker made Finney’s job intolerable. The colleague spread rumors about her, sent demeaning messages and withheld information she needed to complete her work duties, Finney said. Finney sued the Department of Corrections, accusing the department of being responsible for the co-

worker’s actions.

During jury selection, Finney’s lawyer questioned potential jurors about their religious beliefs about sexuality. Among the questions: “How many of you went to a religious organization growing up where it was taught that people that are homosexuals shouldn’t have the same rights as everyone else because it was a sin with what they did?”

The trial lawyer moved to strike certain jurors on the basis of his questions, according to the legal brief filed by the Department of Corrections. The brief took issue with the trial lawyer’s tack, saying that it essentially endorsed the idea that “a person with traditional religious beliefs should never sit on a jury when a party has been in a same-sex relationship because when a prospective juror believes as a religious matter ‘that is a sin, there’s no way to rehabilitate.’”

The lawyer for the Department of Corrections objected, saying that such a request edged into religious discrimination.

The trial judge granted Finney’s lawyer’s request to strike the jurors, and the jury sided with Finney, prompting the Department of Corrections to ask for a new trial.

The Department of Corrections asserted that by excluding the jurors who voiced their religious beliefs, the trial judge had violated the 14th Amendment.

After the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld the verdict and the state Supreme Court declined to review the case, the Office of the Missouri Attorney General asked the United States Supreme Court to take up the case.

Even as Alito wrote that he reluctantly agreed that the court should not take up the case, he said he remained troubled by the issue.

“I am concerned that the lower court’s reasoning may spread and may be a foretaste of things to come,” he wrote.

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Will food prices stop rising quickly? Many companies say yes.

By JEANNA SMIALEK and JASON KARAIAN

tion, as measured by the consumer price index, peaked at 9.1% in summer 2022 but slowed to ew prices are as visible to Americans as the just 3.1% at the start of this year, while food commodity costs such as beef, grains and some kinds ones they encounter at the grocery store or of dairy have been easing. drive-thru window, which is why two years “Our pricing broadly is coming down in of rapid food inflation have been a major drag for line with kind of inflation getting back to what U.S. households and the Biden administration.

I’ll call more normal levels,” Ian Borden, chief fiShoppers have only slowly regained confidence in the state of the economy as they pay nancial officer at McDonald’s, said on a call with more to fill up their carts, and President Joe Biden investors. (McDonald’s executives also noted that has made a habit of shaming food companies — they were seeing some lower-income customers even filming a Super Bowl Sunday video criticispend less per visit.) zing snack producers for their “rip-off” prices.

Shake Shack, the burger and ice cream But now, the trend in grocery and restaurant chain, is planning on raising prices by 2.5% this inflation appears to be on the cusp of changing. year — a return to the sort of increases that were After months of rapid increase, the cost of normal before the pandemic, Katie Fogertey, the food at home climbed at a notably slower clip in company’s chief financial officer, said on a recent January. And from packaged food providers to earnings call. restaurant chains, companies across the food buBut she noted that some stores would need siness are reporting that they are no longer raising to raise prices by more than that to offset increPeople dine at a restaurant in the West Village neighborhood in Manhattan, asing costs. In particular, that is true in markets prices as steeply. In some cases that’s because Jan. 27, 2024. Food companies are talking about smaller price increases this where workers are hard to find and bigger price consumers are finally pushing back against price year, good news for grocery shoppers, restaurant diners and the White House. increases are needed to “offset wage inflationary increases after years of spending through them. In (Amir Hamja/The New York Times) pressures,” she said. others, it’s because the prices that companies pay Such comments underline an important for inputs such as packaging and labor are no longer rising as sharply. point.

Many companies have taken advantage of ble-digit percentages for seven straight quarters, and while that Even if food inflation cools, it does not mean that your streak ended at the close of 2023, PepsiCo still raised prices by inflation to pad profits, but for the past several years, some grocery bill or restaurant check will get smaller: It just means 9% in the final months of the year. portion of grocery and restaurant price increases has been aiit will stop climbing so quickly. Most companies are planning But all those price jumps on sodas and chips have started med at covering higher costs. Wages have been rising rapidly smaller price increases rather than outright price cuts. Still, to bite. The company recently posted a surprise drop in sales. in the hospitality and retail sectors, and key ingredients had when it comes to the question of whether rapid jumps in groRamon Laguarta, PepsiCo’s CEO, said on a recent ear- been expensive amid supply-chain problems, Russia’s invasion cery and restaurant prices are behind us, what executives are nings call that the company would be less likely to raise prices of Ukraine and bouts of avian flu. telling investors offer some reason for hope.

Companies typically at least try to raise prices when beyond “normal pricing levels” — around 2% to 3% per year.

Some, but not all, consumers are saying no. the cost of doing business climbs to avoid losing profits. But The firm is seeing milder cost increases on ingredients and is Executives have found in recent months that they can focusing more on keeping sales up, he explained. as wage and input cost pressures begin to fade, companies raise prices only so high before consumers cut back.

James Quincey, CEO of Coca-Cola, explained on a re- can stop aggressively lifting prices without risking a hit to their Soda and snack maker PepsiCo had raised prices by dou- cent earnings call that the company had seen a stark divide bottom line.

Some firms are turning to technology. among U.S. customers. Some are under financial stress and Of course, there is a way to cover higher costs without are facing a “real spending power squeeze,” while others “still have plenty of money, plenty of purchasing power” to spend raising prices: Companies can improve their productivity, so that each worker can stock more shelves, flip more burgers or on lactose-free milk and protein shakes.

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Equities down again on caution ahead of Nvidia earnings U .S. stocks were lower on Wednesday, with each of the three major indexes on track for a third straight decline, as investors looked toward the release of Nvidia’s earnings that could determine the near-term momentum for equities.

Nvidia fell 2.2%, adding to the previous day’s decline of more than 4% decline. The chip designer’s quarterly earnings are due after the closing bell on Wednesday.

The company’s fourth-quarter revenue is expected to be more than triple from the previous quarter’s level on robust demand for its chips that dominate the market for artificial intelligence (AI).

Nvidia shares have soared nearly 40% this year, making it the best performer on the S&P 500 after a leap of almost 240% in 2023. Analysts have cautioned that its lofty valuation could be vulnerable to a sharp pullback if the company delivers anything short of a blowout report. This in turn could dampen enthusiasm over other AI-related stocks that have helped power the market rally off its October 2022 low.

“It’s been driven by excitement and enthusiasm around AI and of course the AI darling in the room is Nvidia,” said Jason Ware, chief investment officer at Albion Financial Group in Salt Lake City, Utah.

“Markets are looking at Nvidia with a little bit of anxiety, maybe, given that we have a market that’s done so well and maybe in order to keep it going short term we need to see a good report from the leader in the space and that leader is Nvidia.”

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 100.36 points, or 0.26%, at 38,463.44, the S&P 500 was down 16.91 points, or 0.34%, at 4,958.60, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 130.36 points, or 0.83%, at 15,550.43.

Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s January meeting showed the majority of policymakers were concerned about the risks of cutting interest rates too soon, with broad uncertainty about how long borrowing costs should remain at their current level.

After the release of the minutes, traders of U.S. shortterm interest-rate futures stuck to bets the Fed will begin cutting interest rates no earlier than June.

Despite declines among stocks, only four of the 11 major S&P sectors were in the red, with heavily weighted technology stocks down 1.47%, while energy shares outperformed with gains of 1.74%.

The rally on Wall Street this year ran into turbulence last week after data hinted at sticky inflation, raising concerns that the Fed would be in no hurry to cut interest rates.

The January inflation data complicates upcoming rate decisions, Richmond Fed president Thomas Barkin said.

Palo Alto Networks plunged 28.2% after the cybersecurity firm forecast third-quarter billings below analyst estimates.

Shares of other cybersecurity companies such as Fortinet, Zscaler and Crowdstrike Holdings were also weaker.

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Hedge funds sold more than bought stocks last week as the main U.S. stock indexes posted a loss after five consecutive weeks of gains, Bank of America said in a note.

The bank, which tracks its clients trading flow, said hedge funds net sold roughly $2 billion in U.S. shares.

Sales occurred across most sectors, except for industrial, BofA showed, and were mainly concentrated on largecap companies.

Last week, the Nasdaq fell 1.34%, the S&P 500 was down 0.42% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.11%, as inflation reports came in hotter-than-expected and eroded hopes for imminent interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.

Hedge funds have net sold $3.8 billion in shares this year, the bank said, leading outflows. Institutional investors have also been sellers, as well as retail. Conversely, companies are the sole net buyers, as stock buybacks are at historical high levels, totaling $17.9 billion.

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Russian forces press on with attacks in southern Ukraine

By CONSTANT MÉHEUT

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ussian forces in recent days have launched multiple attacks around the southern Ukrainian village of Robotyne, military officials and experts said, targeting land hard-won by Ukraine in a rare success of its counteroffensive last summer.

The Ukrainian army said it had repelled four consecutive days of assaults from Saturday to Tuesday involving armored vehicles and large numbers of troops that had massed in the area.

Open-source maps of the battlefield compiled by independent groups analyzing combat footage suggest that Russia has made marginal gains to the west and south of Robotyne. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based research group, said Monday that Russian forces had advanced to the western outskirts of the village.

“Pay attention to the village of Robotyne,” Dmytro Lykhovii, a spokesperson for Ukrainian forces fighting in the area, said on national television last week. “It seems that the Russians have set a goal of achieving some success there” and planned to try to seize the village, he said.

The weekend assaults around Robotyne came as Russian forces took the front-line city of Avdiivka, about 100 miles to the east, and attacked Ukrainian positions on the east bank of the Dnieper River, more than 130 miles to the west. Military analysts say these near-simultaneous assaults are designed to apply pressure

Soldiers with Ukraine’s 31st Separate Mechanized Brigade prepare to fire their 122mm artillery piece towards a Russian position near the village of Marinka, in southeastern Ukraine, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2022. Russian forces in recent days have launched multiple attacks around the southern Ukrainian village of Robotyne, military officials and experts said, targeting land hard-won by Ukraine in a rare success of its counteroffensive last summer. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) across the front line in order to reduce Kyiv’s ability to withdraw and replenish exhausted troops and to force it to burn through its scarce stocks of ammunition.

“They are trying in different places, testing the Ukrainian defenses,” said Pasi Paroinen, from the Black Bird Group, which analyzes satellite imagery and social media content from the battlefield. “They are probing and seeking weaknesses.”

Serhii Kuzan, chair of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, a nongovernmental research group, said Moscow would try to build on its success on the eastern front in the coming weeks and

“cut off Robotyne at any costs.” He and other analysts said that Moscow had tens of thousands of troops around Robotyne, and he predicted that attacks would intensify.

Russia’s gains around Robotyne, a village of just a few hundred inhabitants before the war, have been limited. The village fell under Russian occupation shortly after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022. It was retaken by Ukrainian forces in August, after weeks of combat that underlined the immense challenges Kyiv faces in punching through dense Russian defenses erected in the area.

Today, Robotyne sits in a bulge carved into Russian-held territory, surrounded to the west, south and east by Moscow’s troops. In recent weeks, Russian forces have been attacking the flanks of this pocket and gradually recaptured small stretches of land, using what the Ukrainian military has described as small assault groups backed by armored vehicles.

“The situation is dynamic there, the enemy is inflicting heavy fire,” Lykhovii said Monday.

Geolocated footage of the battlefield showed Russian attack drones hitting Ukrainian-held trenches just a few hundred yards south of Robotyne. Rybar, a prominent Russian military blogger, said Russian

troops had gained a foothold on the southern outskirts of Robotyne and that fighting was now taking place in the village, which was largely reduced to rubble during the fighting last summer. His claim could not be independently confirmed.

Paroinen said Russia had retaken some fortifications lost in the summer counteroffensive. He added that Robotyne is not easy for Ukrainian soldiers to defend because Russian troops control the high ground around the area.

“In general, that’s a big problem for the Ukrainians there,” he said, adding that Russia had positioned three divisions around Robotyne, between 30,000 and 40,000 soldiers, including some elite paratrooper units.

Kuzan said he expected that some of the troops involved in the capture of Avdiivka would now be “redeployed to other parts of the front line in the coming days,” possibly around Robotyne to help with the offensive push there.

Ukraine’s military said Monday that its troops had taken up new defensive positions outside of Avdiivka, in an attempt to stop further Russian advances.

Kuzan and other military analysts said that delayed Western military assistance had weakened Ukraine’s ability to sustain Russia’s assaults all along the front line.

“The Russians have realized that we are really ‘starved of shells,’ meaning that we cannot respond to every one of their attacks,” Kuzan said. “They will continue to put pressure on Robotyne.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine acknowledged in his nightly address Monday that “the situation is extremely difficult in several parts of the front line, where Russian troops have amassed maximum reserves.”

Russia, he added, is “taking advantage of the delays in aid to Ukraine.”

The European Union on Wednesday said it would impose new sanctions against Russia that would target companies, including ones based in China and Turkey, that make components for drones used by Russia in Ukraine.

“We must keep degrading Putin’s war machine,” said Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, announcing the news on social media.

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Russia arrests US citizen, accusing her of treason by aiding Ukraine

By JACK NICAS

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ussia’s main security agency said earlier this week that it had arrested a dual citizen of Russia and the United States on accusations of committing state treason by raising funds for Ukraine.

The Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, identified the detainee as a 33-yearold woman who lives in Los Angeles. It said in a statement that she had raised money for a Ukrainian organization that bought weapons and other equipment for Ukraine’s military.

Perviy Otdel, a group of Russian lawyers who specialize in cases involving accusations of treason and other politically charged allegations, said that the woman had been accused of treason for sending just over $50 to Razom for Ukraine, a New York-based nonprofit organization that sends assistance to the country.

The FSB said she had been arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg in central Russia.

RIA Novosti, a Russian state news agency, published a video that it said showed the woman, wearing a white hat that covered her eyes, being handcuffed and escorted by masked security service officers.

If convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison.

The detention of American citizens on Russian soil in recent years has raised suspicions that the Kremlin views them as valuable assets to be traded for high-profile Russians held in custody in the United States and other Western countries.

On the same day that the woman’s arrest was announced, a Moscow court rejected an appeal by Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal whom Russia arrested last spring on an espionage charge, to lift his pretrial detention. It ruled that Gershkovich — who, along with his employer and the U.S. government, has denied the charge against him — must stay in prison at least until the end of March.

A State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told reporters Tuesday that the United States had requested consular assistance for the woman, but “that has not yet been granted.” He said Russia in effect “does not recognize” dual citizenship and considers such people “to be Russian citizens first and foremost.”

A Russian news outlet, Media Zona,

A cell at the prison where Russian forces held and interrogated prisoners during their occupation of Kherson, Ukraine, on Feb. 16, 2023. Russia’s Federal Security Service said this week that it had arrested a dual citizen of Russia and the United States on accusations of committing state treason by raising funds for Ukraine’s military. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times) identified the detainee as Ksenia Karelina.

Perviy Otdel, the legal group, identified her as Ksenia (Karelina) Khavana, with Karelina most likely being her maiden name. Perviy Otdel said she was arrested at the end of January and accused of treason on Feb. 7.

According to Karelina’s profile on VK, a Russian social network, she received U.S. citizenship in 2021. Her profile, which identified her as a student at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, said that she had graduated from Urals Federal University in Yekaterinburg in 2014.

In an interview at her home in Maryland on Tuesday, Karelina’s former mother-in-law, Eleanora Srebroski, said Karelina was once married to her son, Evgeny. She grew up in Yekaterinburg and came to the United States for a work-study program, working that summer at a fruit stand in Randallstown, Maryland, selling fruits and vegetables. (Eleanora Srebroski, 56, is herself from Russia, and grew up about 120 miles away from Yekaterinburg, she said.)

The couple married in 2013, but after they split up about two years later, Karelina left Maryland for Los Angeles, where

she worked at a Beverly Hills hotel as an aesthetician and spa manager, Srebroski said.

Isabella Koretz, the president of Ciel Spa in Beverly Hills, California, confirmed that Ksenia Khavana has worked there for eight years. A statement put out by the spa said that she had traveled to Russia to visit her 90-year-old grandmother, parents and a younger sister, and that she was now being held in a Russian prison, wrongly accused of treason “for allegedly donating $51.80 to a Ukrainian charity in the U.S.” “To know Ksenia is to love her,” the statement said. “This heartbreaking news is so difficult to share, but it must be done to spread her story and seek justice.”

Srebroski said that she had learned of the arrest of her former daughter-inlaw only that day, when a reporter called.

“She’s a beautiful, beautiful per-

son,” Srebroski said. “She just brings light everywhere she goes.”

She said she would not be surprised if her former daughter-in-law had donated money for Ukraine: “Anyone who is hurt, she is on their side.”

Mykola Murskyj, the director of advocacy for Razom for Ukraine, said he could not comment on donors or contributions to the nonprofit, but said the group was alarmed by the arrest.

He said Razom for Ukraine, which is focused on humanitarian aid, disaster relief, education and advocacy, provides tactical, medical first-aid kits and other supplies to the country’s front lines, but disputed the FSB’s claim that the group had provided weapons to the military.

“That’s nonsense,” Murskyj said. “We do provide first-aid supplies to Ukrainian soldiers and those fighting for Ukraine’s independence, but never weapons or ammunition.”

Miller declined to speculate on whether the United States might formally determine the woman to be “wrongfully detained,” as it has for two Americans already in custody in Russia, Gershkovich and Paul Whelan. Such a determination would mean the United States considers a detainee to be the equivalent of a hostage, allowing for special efforts to win his or her release.

The number of state treason cases in Russia has been growing steadily since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Last year, about 50 people were accused of the offense, according to Perviy Otdel, ranging from highprofile critics of the Kremlin to a student accused of photographing Russian army formations in his town.

A court in Yekaterinburg was scheduled to hear an appeal by the woman whose arrest was announced Tuesday, according to the court’s website, which also said that she was accused of treason.

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Where hostage families and supporters gather, for solace and protest

By RONI CARYN RABIN

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week after Hamas-led terrorists stormed his kibbutz and kidnapped his wife and three young children, Avihai Brodutch planted himself on the sidewalk in front of army headquarters in Tel Aviv holding a sign scrawled with the words “My family’s in Gaza,” and said he would not budge until they were brought home.

Passersby stopped to commiserate with him and to try to lift his spirits. They brought him coffee, platters of food and changes of clothing, and welcomed him to their homes to wash up and get some sleep.

“They were so kind, and they just couldn’t do enough,” said Brodutch, 42, an agronomist who grew pineapples on Kibbutz Kfar Azza before the attacks on Oct. 7.

“It was Israel at its finest,” he said. “There was a feeling of a common destiny.”

The one-man sit-in mushroomed in the weeks after the attacks. But the sidewalks outside the military headquarters could not contain multitudes, and some people were uncomfortable with the location, which was associated with anti-government protests last year.

So the mass moved a block north to the plaza in front of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, where a long rectangular table set for 234 people and surrounded by empty chairs had been installed to represent the captives. Since some 110 hostages have come home, half of the table has been reset to correspond to the conditions of captivity they described, with half a moldy piece of pita bread on each plate and bottles of dirty water on the table instead of wineglasses.

In the months since the attacks, the plaza has continued to attract a steady stream of Israelis and tourists on volunteer missions who want to support the families. But it has also become a home away from home for the parents, adult children, siblings, cousins and other relatives of hostages.

Although it can get damp and chilly in Tel Aviv in the winter, many have set up tents in the plaza, often sleeping there, keeping company with the only other people in the world who they say can truly understand what they are experiencing — the family members of other hostages.

“If I don’t know what to do, I come here,” said Yarden Gonen, 30, who was wearing a white sweatshirt emblazoned with a picture of her sister Romi Gonen, 23, who was shot and kidnapped at the outdoor Nova music festival near the border of the Gaza Strip. A friend with her was killed.

“None of us is doing anything remotely

A model tunnel, built to simulate situations described by some hostages taken on Oct. 7, in a square outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. 17, 2024. In the months since the attacks, the plaza has continued to attract a steady stream of Israelis and tourists on volunteer missions who want to support the families of hostages. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times) related to our previous lives,” Yarden Gonen said. Even having coffee in a cafe would make her feel bad, she said.

“To do that would be to normalize the situation,” she said. “It would be like saying, ‘This is OK, and I’m used to it.’ And I’m not willing to do that.”

Gonen said she found comfort in the constant presence in the square of people who are not related to the hostages, like the peace activists from Women Wage Peace who stand vigil daily from 4 to 6 p.m. so the families are not alone, and a trio of women who bonded over their anger at international organizations they believe have failed the hostages (they carry posters that say, “Red Cross Do Your Job!” or “U.N. Women, Where Are You?”).

“When it’s raining and I see that they’ve come, it is moving, because they could have stayed cozy at home,” Gonen said. “There is a feeling that they support us, that we haven’t been abandoned.”

Although the Israeli government has stated that one of the primary goals of the war in Gaza is to free the hostages, the army has said it has rescued only a small number of individuals. Three others were mistakenly killed by Israeli troops.

Most of the hostages who have returned — including Brodutch’s wife and children — were released in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, as part of a cease-fire deal negotiated with Hamas in November.

For many of the hostage families, the greatest fear is that despite the stated goal, the government is not prioritizing the extrication

of the hostages. They worry it may ultimately chalk up the loss of the remaining captives as just more collateral damage in the bloody conflict.

The Gaza Health Ministry says that more than 29,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the territory since the war’s start.

Many people who come to the Tel Aviv plaza regularly say that if Israel does not secure the release of the hostages, the country will never be the same. “We will be worth nothing if they don’t come back,” said Jemima Kronfeld, 84, who visits every Thursday. “We will have no value. We will lose what we were, the safe feeling of being at home.”

In the initial chaos after the surprise attacks, many people did not know if their relatives — who had gone missing from kibbutzim and the site of a rave near the Gaza border — had been bound and dragged across the border, or killed, and many complained that the government was unresponsive.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a grassroots citizens’ group, sprang up to fill the void. The group provides a wide range of services for hostage families, serving them three meals a day, making medical, psychological and legal services available, and acting as an advocacy group, organizing and funding news media appearances and meetings with world leaders, as well as rallies pressing for the hostages’ release.

The forum raises private donations but has received no support from the Israeli government, which still does not provide the families

with regular updates, said Liat Bell Sommer, who quit her day job to head the forum’s international media relations team.

Other volunteers pitch in when they can.

“I just felt like I had to do something — I thought I’d go crazy if I didn’t have some part in this,” said Hilla Shtein, 49, of Tel Aviv, a human resources manager who goes to the plaza several times a week to work a stand where visitors can make a donation and pick up hats, sweatshirts and buttons that say “Bring them home NOW.” Those who visit the plaza regularly say that there is always something new to see.

In January, artist Roni Levavi installed a giant 30-yard tunnel that people can walk through to experience being in a dark sealed space, like the tunnels in Gaza that some returned hostages have described being held in.

Romi Gonen’s dance teachers hold an open lesson on the plaza every Sunday afternoon in her honor, and friends of Carmel “Melly” Gat, 39, a hostage who is an occupational therapist and yoga instructor, teach an open yoga class every Friday morning.

There is a booth where visitors can write letters to hostages, or paint a rock if they prefer, and another booth that offers mental health first aid. Occasionally, someone will sit down and play an Israeli pop song at a piano donated by relatives of Alon Ohel, 22, a musician who was kidnapped from the rave, and the crowd sings along.

When it is a hostage’s birthday, some families commemorate the day in the square, where a symbolic high chair and birthday cake are set up for Kfir Bibas, who would have turned 1 in captivity. The Israeli army said Monday that it feared for the safety of the baby and his family.

In early February, Albert Xhelili, 57, an artist visiting from Santa Fe, New Mexico, attracted onlookers when he started drawing charcoal portraits of the hostages that he hung on a clothesline in one of the tents on the square.

Ariel Rosenberg, 31, a marketing consultant from New York who came to Israel in January as part of a group to do volunteer work, said she and her fellow travelers had been at the plaza recently to help sort posters with pictures of the hostages, separating out those who had been released and those who were no longer alive, something that was painful for the families to do.

Rosenberg said the group members find themselves coming back every Saturday night to attend weekly rallies calling for the immediate release of the hostages, and they often stop by on other evenings as well. “I come to bear witness,” Rosenberg said. “It’s become sacred ground.”

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

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How Biden can avenge Navalny’s death

By BRET STEPHENS

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resident Joe Biden said last week that he was “looking at a whole number of options” to make good on his 2021 warning to Vladimir Putin that Russia would face “devastating” consequences if Alexei Navalny were to die in prison. Now that Putin has treated that warning with his customary contempt, Biden needs to act as a matter of moral clarity and personal credibility, and for the strategic imperative of demonstrating to a dictator that American threats aren’t hollow.

But how? Some analysts suggest that the administration, which on Tuesday vowed to impose tougher sanctions, will struggle to find ways to make them more effective, and that the best single policy to hurt Putin is to continue supporting Ukraine militarily. They’re right about the second point.

As several close Russia watchers told me, however, there’s much more to be done about the first.

There are four broad approaches.

Finances: “The single most important thing we can do to hit back at Putin is to enact legislation to confiscate the $300 billion of frozen Russian bank reserves for the defense and reconstruction of Ukraine,” Bill Browder, investor and political activist, wrote me on Monday. Browder is best known as the moving force behind the Magnitsky Acts, which put sanctions on Russian officials implicated in

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Browder’s suggestion isn’t new. And it’s been resisted

by U.S. government officials who fear that it exceeds what American law allows and would encourage a flight from dollar assets. But as Harvard legal scholar Larry Tribe and a team of experts from the firm of Kaplan, Heckler & Fink noted last year in a report for the Renew Democracy Initiative, seizing Russia’s assets is explicitly allowed as a “countermeasure,” an act designed to compel an aggressor to come into compliance with international law. As for the flight-from-the-dollar argument, it might otherwise be persuasive if the need to save Ukraine and punish Russia weren’t more urgent.

Seizing Russia’s assets “would be like two fingers in the eyes from the West,” Browder added. “Putin doesn’t care how many soldiers are killed, but he cares profoundly about his money. To top it off, all countries should call this new legislation the Navalny Act.” Recognition: “Do not recognize Putin as the president of Russia after March 17 — that simple,” Garry Kasparov, the legendary chess and human-rights champion, told me by phone from Berlin. “Do not recognize the regime as legitimate.”

Kasparov was alluding to next month’s sham presidential election, in which Putin is running for a fifth term. But he’s also nodding to a deeper point, which is that while Putin might be indifferent to questions of legality, he craves and is keenly attuned to the trappings of political legitimacy, particularly internationally, which bolster his claims to rule.

It’s a point that was underscored to me by economist Konstantin Sonin, a professor at the University of Chicago who this month was arrested in absentia by a Russian court.

“Putin and his henchmen should be recognized and treated as a gang whose hold on power in Russia is based on brute force rather than any kind of legitimacy,” Sonin said. “It does not make sense to negotiate with Putin as any kind of agreement will have to be renegotiated when his regime falls.”

Dissidents: When Natan Sharansky called me from Jerusalem, that great Soviet refusenik, who exchanged letters with Navalny last year, turned almost immediately to Vladimir Kara-Murza, another imprisoned dissident. Like Navalny, Kara-Murza, 42, also survived poisonings and comas. Like Navalny, he’s being held in a “strict regime” penal colony on a 25-year-sentence for his opposition to Putin.

“If there are no changes” to Western policy, Sharansky said, Putin “could kill Kara-Murza tomorrow. The West needs to understand that these dissidents are the real friends of the free world, and they have to be seen as candidates for prisoner exchanges.” Sharansky was particularly critical of the 2022 exchange of a Russian archfiend, Viktor Bout, for basketball star Brittney Griner, which surely enticed the Kremlin to arrest Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter, last March. “America showed they are a bad

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in his office in Moscow on Jan. 22, 2014. Navalny, the most outspoken domestic critic of President Vladimir Putin, has died in prison, Russian state media said Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. (James Hill/The New York Times) bargainer,” Sharansky lamented.

Sharansky is seconded by Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA case officer and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The great Soviet dissidents taught us that they were fortified by Western attention to their plight,” Gerecht told me. “Today, we don’t know what Russian dissident, what Russian on the cusp of going ‘rogue,’ might galvanize Russians who loathe the regime.”

Power: One of my sources for this column asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of his current position, but he’s a long-admired expert on energy markets. “America’s liquefied natural gas is now part of NATO’s arsenal against Russia,” he told me. Biden, he advised, could “restore U.S. credibility as an LNG exporter by lifting the administration’s ‘pause’ on new LNG permits and thereby give Europe and Japan confidence to stop importing Russian LNG.” While Russia’s oil and gas revenues have fallen steeply since the Ukraine war began, they still came to close to $100 billion last year — enough to finance the Kremlin’s war machine. What else could hurt? David Petraeus, the retired general and former CIA director, had a specific suggestion: “The White House should announce the provision of the Army Tactical Missile System to Ukraine, which would double the range to approximately 300 kilometers of the missiles provided by the U.S. to date.”

Along with everyone I spoke with, Petraeus recognized that those missiles could be provided only if the $60 billion in military aid to Ukraine that the Senate approved last week can overcome a wall of Republican opposition in the House.

Every Republican with a memory of what their party once stood for has an obligation to vote for that bill, just as Biden has a duty to ensure that evil will not go unpunished, and that Navalny did not die for nothing.

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

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How Beyoncé jolted the Cuban singer Daymé Arocena into a fresh era

By ED MORALES

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Daymé Arocena in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Feb. 23, 2024.

(Erika P. Rodriguez/The New York Times)

unning her fingers through her dreadlocks in an outdoor cafe overlooking San Juan’s grittily trendy Calle Loiza strip, Daymé Arocena reflected wistfully on an old flame.

“There’s a song on the album, ‘American Boy,’ that I wrote 10 years ago,” she said, discussing a track from her latest LP, “Alkemi,” due Friday. “He was a serious bass player from New York, the first person who introduced to me free jazz. But I felt the song was so simple, so easygoing, so ... pop, that it didn’t fit what I wanted” at the time.

“American Boy,” which oscillates between a Yoruban ñongo rhythm and an ’80s-style funk groove replete with Earth, Wind & Fire-style horns, distills the essence of Arocena’s new direction: a move from serious jazz to what she calls “pop” — with a focus on Afro-Latina pride. It’s a major shift for an artist who has made four eclectic albums that combine complex jazz arrangements with Yoruban spirituality and an occasional love song with English-language lyrics.

Arocena, 32, grew up in Santos Suárez, a neighborhood in Havana, with a family immersed in rumba folklore so passionately that they turned household objects into musical instruments. She entered the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory at age 10. “I had that double world of rumba at home and Bach at school,” she said and smiled.

As she grew into adolescence, Arocena became the lead singer of the big band Los Primos, then created Alami, a jazz band made up of all women. (It later was reformed as Maqueque with Toronto-based saxophonist and bandleader Jane Bunnett.) In 2014, French DJ and producer Gilles Peterson, who founded the London indie label Brownswood Recordings, invited Arocena to participate in “Havana Cultura Mix — The Soundclash,” a collaboration between international electronic artists and Cuban musicians.

In some ways, Arocena’s tendency to mix Afro-Cuban folkloric music, post-salsa “timba” music and outside influences like R&B reflected the mid-2010s Havana scene that Peterson encountered, one that produced the funk master Cimafunk. He sang in Interactivo, a crucial band from this period that was “the soundtrack of an entire generation,” Arocena said. “Every Wednesday, all the cool kids would go to see them at the Bertolt Brecht” cultural center, she added, peppering her speech with an occasional English word or phrase.

By 2016, Arocena had played at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and at Sub Rosa, a short-lived club in the meatpacking district of New York. As her profile rose, she performed with Cuban jazz titans like Paquito D’Rivera and Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Orchestra.

In 2019, she decided to leave Cuba for good and moved to Toronto, where her husband could secure a visa. “It was a very hard time for me,” she said. “The pandemic came, and that mixed with emigration problems, and it was so cold! I had left everything, it was traumatic. I didn’t feel like listening to jazz, any music that was very complex, or that made me think a lot.

I wanted to hear things that relaxed me.”

Arocena retreated to music she heard when she was growing up, such as Brazilian pop vocalist Djavan and neo-soul diva Sade. “My dad would climb to the roof of our building with an antenna to catch a U.S. radio signal,” she recalled. “He was way in love with Sade, and I know that in the spermatozoid that Continues on page 18 Gobierno de Puerto Rico

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The two first met backstage in 2015 at a Calle 13 concert in Toronto and reconnected when she sought him for the new album. “We is Daymé, there’s some Sade in there.”

When a friend shared Beyoncé’s “Black talked, and she came to visit and wound up Is King,” a visual album rooted in her “Lion staying for months in an extra room I had,” CaKing”-inspired record, “The Gift,” Arocena bra said, taking a break from his busy recording was riveted. schedule on the patio outside his house in San “All of a sudden I see someone singing Juan. “She has an iconic voice — the kind you to the same orishas that I do,” she said, refe- don’t need to see an image of to know who’s rring to Yoruban deities, “but from a pop pers- singing.” “Alkemi” may be pop for Arocena, he pective, that exploded in my head!” Her eyes added, “but for me it’s a strong representation widened as she recounted the story. Arocena of the Afro-Caribbean.”

Even the album’s title has a back story had always admired African American singers, in part because the ways many of them use that ties together the threads of Arocena’s vigospel influences resonated with her Yoruban sion. “It’s the Yoruban word for alchemy,” she religious tradition, and also because they had a said. “I wanted to be clear that I am talking level of self-possession she thirsted for. about Black alchemy. It’s a cultural term that She said she was inspired by the bold- speaks of transformation. Here is a new Dayness of African American female artists: “You mé, a new protest, a new mindset, to fight for see her because she makes you see her. The a space that hasn’t been given to Black Latinas Black Latin American woman is invisible and in the industry.” submerged,” she said, adding she was always Through Cabra, Arocena booked duets taught to avoid making waves and blunt her with Puerto Rican urbano/dembow singer outgoing personality. Arocena has a huge, pro- Rafa Pabón (“Suave y Pegao”) and Dominican vocative presence that still manages to be un- singer-composer Vicente García (“A Fuego Lento,” which has a strong reggae crescenpretentious and welcoming.

She decided that her next project nee- do). While both of these tracks sparkle with ded to be produced by someone who unders- Arocena’s seemingly limitless vocal range, she tood her music and Afro-Caribbean folklore, feels the stories they tell are even more imporand has a quirkily Latin American take on pop tant. “When have you seen a love story of a music. “Who is this Frankenstein?” she said Black woman reflected in Latin America?” she and laughed: Eduardo Cabra, aka Visitante, the asked. musical director of Calle 13, a Puerto Rican alArocena convinced a reluctant García to appear in the video for “A Fuego Lento” with a ternative hip-hop group. personal plea. “I had always been influenced by Daymé’s roots in Yoruban music,” he said on the phone from a cafe in Bogotá, Colombia, where he lives. “As a person you could say she has a hard exterior but a sweet inside, very affectionate, very attentive.”

García stressed that he, Cabra and Arocena have a shared philosophy of building an imaginary bridge between Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica: “There’s a need for Caribbeans to connect as societies that have come from the same root and developed in different ways.”

Arocena, still glowing in the midafternoon sun, explained how she embodies some of those connections each day. “I wear dreadlocks that aren’t exactly Rasta, but Bob Marley said Rastafarians believe that if you’re Black and were born outside of Africa, there’s a reason,” she said.

“When I devoted myself to Yoruban religion, I began to receive songs in my dreams, and now I’m dreaming pop songs.

The prodigious jazz singer came to embrace You judge yourself for wanting to please her inner pop star on a new album made with others and to fit into a jazzy world, but in Visitante from Calle 13. (Erika P. Rodriguez/ the end you have to flow with the music The New York Times) you want to make.”

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

How to keep your teeth strong

By KNVUL SHEIKH

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aving bright, beautiful teeth depends on more than just brushing twice a day.

It also depends on the strength of your enamel, the outermost layer of your teeth and the first line of defense against daily wear and tear. What you eat and drink, or even certain medical conditions or medications, can strip away the minerals that make your enamel so strong. And your genetics and early childhood experiences might also play a role in how tough your teeth are and how susceptible they are to cavities.

Here’s what dentists want you to know about what weakens your teeth, and how to keep them strong.

What causes weak teeth?

Some people simply have thinner or more brittle enamel. This can be the result of relatively rare genetic disorders, such as amelogenesis imperfecta. But more often enamel issues are associated with environmental factors that could disrupt its formation in utero or in early childhood, said Dr. Isabelle Chase, director of the pediatric dental residency program at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Research has linked prenatal health issues like vitamin D deficiency or gestational diabetes to greater incidence of enamel defects in children. Some studies have also suggested that malnutrition in infancy and early childhood diseases like measles, pneumonia or even frequent high fevers may be linked to weaker enamel.

The weaker the enamel, the more sensitive your teeth are, especially to heat or cold. You may also be more prone to cavities, Chase said.

In older teens and adults, acidic foods and drinks cause most of the enamel

Weak enamel can make you more susceptible to cavities, but there are steps you can take to protect your teeth. (Kaitlin Brito/The New York Times) erosion that dentists see, Chase said. These include fruit juices, sports drinks, sodas, sparkling water and foods that have vinegar, like pickles.

Coffee, while somewhat acidic, is not as erosive as citrus drinks and sodas, especially in moderate amounts. But if you add sugar to your morning cup, it could feed the bacteria in your mouth, Chase said, which then produce acid that can weaken your teeth. This is a separate process from direct erosion from acid in food.

Items that stick to your teeth are problematic for the same reason. If you eat or drink them frequently, your enamel will slowly lose its minerals and become weaker and more vulnerable to cavities or chips, said Dr. Daniel H. Fine, chair of the department of oral biology at the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine.

“If you had one chocolate bar, and you ate it all at once, you would have one big exposure to foods that cause acid to be produced on your tooth,” he explained.

But if you broke it into pieces and ate it over several sittings, “you would have multiple exposures to acid,” he added, which can do more damage.

A person’s teeth — particularly those in the back of the mouth — can also be weakened by chronic acid reflux or frequent vomiting. Certain occupational exposures, such as to sulfuric or hydrochloric acid, may also put people at higher risk of enamel erosion.

Saliva can stave off damage by buffering or neutralizing acid in the mouth, Fine said. It can also coat teeth with important minerals that help with remineralization, like calcium from dark leafy greens or

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But people who have chronic dry mouth because of certain medical conditions or medications may lack this protection and, therefore, also be prone to weakened teeth.

A dentist can tell if you have enamel issues by looking at your teeth under a bright light, or in some cases, using an Xray to assess enamel density.

What can you do to strengthen teeth?

Although some factors are uncontrollable, there are still steps you can take to protect and strengthen your enamel.

Brushing and flossing diligently are essential, Chase said. But you should wait at least half an hour to an hour after eating or drinking to give your saliva time to wash acids away before you brush.

The American Dental Association recommends using products that contain fluoride, which brings calcium and phosphorus together in your saliva to make enamel harder and more resistant to decay.

Dentists might also recommend a fluoride mouthwash or prescribe highfluoride toothpaste for people who have weaker teeth or are more susceptible to cavities. However, all these treatments are most effective in the early stages of enamel damage, Fine said.

To prevent erosion, Chase said to try to limit your consumption of acidic foods and beverages. Avoid sipping on drinks for long periods of time and grazing continuously on snacks, which exposes your teeth to acids more frequently and feeds the bacteria in your mouth. Rinse your mouth after you eat and drink water regularly to help increase your saliva production and counter some of the effects of erosion.

Scheduling regular dental checkups can also pay dividends, allowing you to catch and repair damage early on. If enamel is continually eroded, the damage can’t be undone. Cracks and cavities are permanent and the last thing you want to do is go for a filling when in pain.

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Will it soup? Lasagna edition.

By CHRISTINA MORALES

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or more than a century, Americans have adapted dishes with Italian roots like fettuccine Alfredo, chicken Parmesan and spaghetti with meatballs. Lasagna soup is the latest, a recipe that aims to take the work out of making the pasta casserole by mixing its components into a one-pot soup.

For its current moment in the spotlight, it can thank a Lego train. Last year, a TikTok account tried to determine how many sheets of lasagna it would take to stop the toy locomotive (24, as it turns out). Danny Freeman, who posts as @dannylovespasta on social media, responded with a video from his kitchen in Beacon, New York. He tossed broken lasagna into a soup of marinara and ground beef and stirred it together.

A few days later, singer SZA made a request: “RECIPE PLEASE KING,” and Freeman posted it. With more than 21 million views, Freeman’s version has become the foundation for dozens of online recreations and adaptations, including vegetarian and white-bean-and-pesto soups.

“It feels like you’re eating a homecooked meal that your grandmother spent all day doing, but it’s something you throw together for your family,” said Freeman, the author of the 2023 cookbook “Danny Loves Pasta,” who began posting recipes online during the pandemic. He now makes lasagna soup at home at least once every two weeks during the winter.

“It feels new and fresh,” he said, “even though it’s been around for a long time.”

Traditional lasagna, baked in a casserole dish, first became popular in the 1930s in Italian American restaurants and was presented as frozen food in the 1950s, said Ian MacAllen, the author of “Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American.” The soup version was likely first introduced at Windsor’s Lounge at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago during the 1990s, when red-sauce Italian restaurants began to close, he said.

The soup gained traction in the late aughts, likely when the Campbell’s Soup Co. published a recipe for it that includ-

Lasagna soup. It’s taken TikTok by storm, but the origins of lasagna soup go much deeper than the internet. Food styled by Barrett Washburne. (Matt Taylor-Gross/The New York Times) ed beef broth. MacAllen said that a rise in the use of slow cookers also could’ve contributed to the soup’s popularity.

Italian American recipes like lasagna soup have nostalgic staying power. The soup provides the same sense of comfort, MacAllen said, and in a world dealing with wars, inflation and fallout from the pandemic, people are seeking that contentment from Italian American cuisine.

“They’re eating their feelings, and it tastes like Italian food,” he said.

Blount Fine Foods has been making its lasagna soup, made with turkey sausage, at Wegmans since 2019. But last year, as social-media posts about lasagna soup went viral, the company introduced it in 3,000 grocery stores. It is one of the manufacturer’s five top-selling soup flavors, said Todd Blount, the president and CEO. A year after Freeman’s posts about lasagna soup first appeared, people are making wilder versions, especially in winter.

In January, Janelle Smith, an influencer, posted her recipe for white chicken lasagna soup from her kitchen in Atlanta. This version is creamier than the original soup.

“I said: ‘I love Alfredo, I love lasa-

gna,” Smith recalled. “Let me put the two together.’”

Lasagna soup

By Lidey Heuck This simple, one-pot soup delivers all the comfort of a classic lasagna with very little of the work. A jar of marinara sauce is its secret to speedy flavor, along with a combination of ground beef and Italian sausage (though for ease, you can use one or the other), plus a pinch of ground nutmeg. Dried lasagna noodles are broken into small pieces and cooked directly in the soup, thickening the broth with their starches as they soften. Don’t skip the ricotta-Parmesan topping; it adds richness and the unmistakable essence of lasagna. This soup comes together quickly and is best served right away; the noodles will continue to absorb the broth as it sits.

Yield: 6 servings Total time: 45 minutes Ingredients: 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 large yellow onion, chopped 2 tablespoons minced garlic (from about 6 cloves)

1/2 pound ground beef 1/2 pound bulk sweet Italian sausage (or sausages, with casings removed) 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper, plus more to taste Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 3 tablespoons tomato paste 6 cups low-sodium chicken broth 1 (24-ounce) jar marinara sauce 8 ounces dried lasagna noodles, broken crosswise into 1-inch pieces 1 1/2 cups/12 ounces whole-milk ricotta 1/3 cup grated Parmesan 1/4 cup heavy cream 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves, torn, plus more for serving Preparation: 1. In a large Dutch oven or other heavy-bottomed pot, heat the olive oil over medium. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent but not browned, 4 to 6 minutes. Add the garlic and stir for 30 seconds to 1 minute, until fragrant.

2. Add the beef, sausage, oregano, nutmeg, crushed red pepper, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Cook, breaking up the meat with a spoon, until starting to brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the tomato paste and cook for 1 minute, stirring often.

3. Add the chicken broth and marinara sauce and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Stir in the lasagna noodles, reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the noodles are tender and the broth has reduced slightly.

4. While the soup simmers, combine the ricotta and Parmesan in a medium bowl. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of black pepper and mix well; set aside.

5. Off the heat, stir the cream and basil into the soup, then taste and add more salt and crushed red pepper, if desired.

6. Serve the soup in shallow bowls, topped with a large dollop of the ricotta mixture and a few torn basil leaves.

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

21

A new creature emerges from a forest drowned by the Gulf of Mexico

By VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

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he creature was tiny, about the size and color of a grain of rice. Dan Distel, director of the Ocean Genome Legacy Center at Northeastern University in Boston, wasn’t exactly sure what it was, other than a mussel of some kind. He put the wee bivalve in a petri dish and asked a colleague to set it aside.

“By the time we got back to the lab, the little bugger had crawled out of the dish,” he recalls with some chagrin.

“And we couldn’t find it.”

It was months later that they found another one, and Distel realized that the mussel looked oddly familiar. It resembled the giant mussels found at deep-sea hydrothermal vents 1,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, which have gills that contain bacteria that let the mussels gain nutrients from corrosive hydrogen sulfide bubbling from the Earth’s crust. But this mussel was tiny and pale and, strangest of all, lived a mere 60 feet or so down.

DNA analysis soon confirmed that this mussel was a new species, which the scientists named Vadumodiolus teredinicola. It is the first mussel of this group ever seen at depths of less than 300 feet. The existence of this shallowwater cousin, the researchers suggest, could help explain how the giant mussels ended up deeper down.

Distel and his colleagues discovered the mussel while they were investigating an ancient underwater forest off the coast of Alabama. During the last ice age, bald cypresses grew in what was then a swamp 100 miles from the ocean. Then, sometime between 45,000 and 70,000 years ago, as sea levels rose, the trees were swallowed by the advancing sea. Swirling sands wrapped the dead trees in a natural sarcophagus. For millenniums, all was still in the forest, until heavy waves stirred up by one of the hurricanes of 2004 scooped away the sand. Fishermen were startled to discover trees on the otherwise featureless bottom of the Gulf of Mexico 10 miles from dry land, and a journalist, Ben Raines, helped bring the site to scientists’ attention.

Since then, the ancient wood has provided a splendid buffet for organisms of all sorts, and Distel and his colleagues have been collecting and characterizing them as fast as they can. The wood won’t last forever, and the forest could be buried again by another big storm. But the scientists believe that this unusual environment could host organisms with unsuspected talents. Distel’s main focus is shipworms, a group of clams that tunnel through waterlogged wood, and that might be a source for new antibiotics.

These newly discovered mussels seem to live inside burrows left by dead shipworms. The 124 individuals identified in the course of the study were all found within these tunnels. They fit quite snugly, and must have crawled in when they were even smaller, Distel said.

Ancient cypress wood with shipworms recovered from a submerged cypress forest in Dauphin Island, Ala., Dec. 9, 2019. Scientists discovered a species off the Alabama coast that is part of a group of mussels never before seen at such shallow depths. (Annie Flanagan/The New York Times)

“Once they start growing they can’t get out,” he said.

“They’re stuck in there.”

That fits with how scientists suspect the mussels make their living. Like their deep-sea brethren, V. teredinicola harbor and are fed nutrients by symbiotic bacteria that require an environment with little or no oxygen. In a shipworm burrow, a mussel could plug the hole with its body, creating a low-oxygen environment for its symbionts while still accessing oxygenated ocean water it needs outside the burrow.

Another sign that points to the mussels living permanently in protective burrows is their extreme fragility.

“Their shells are paper thin,” Distel said. “To pick them up I would use a pair of paint brushes like chopsticks. If you try to pick them up with tweezers or your fingers, you’ll crush them.”

The existence of these new mussels lends credence to an older hypothesis advanced by Distel and his colleagues. In a paper published in 2000, they suggested that deep-sea mussels might have evolved from shallow-water individuals that reached the sea bottom by hitching a ride on falling pieces of waterlogged wood. At the time, there were no shallow-water mussels known to digest sulfides.

But this discovery suggests that there might have been sulfide-eating mussels closer to the surface, ancestors of these new mussels and those in the deep.

There may be others as well — between 75% and 90% of the species suspected to live in the ocean are still undiscovered, according to the Ocean Census project. In support of this goal, Distel and his colleagues have submitted V. teredinicola to the Ocean Census. It is the first new ocean species to join the list.

In an undated image provided by Marvin A. Altamia/Ocean Genome Legacy Center at Northeastern University, Vadumodiolus teredinicola, a new species, was discovered in much shallower waters than other members of the group of mussels it belongs to. Researchers from the Ocean Genome Legacy Center at Northeastern University discovered the new species while investigating wood found in an ancient underwater forest off the coast of Alabama. (Marvin A. Altamia/Ocean Genome Legacy Center at Northeastern University via The New York Times)

22 LEGAL NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA.

GUILLERMO HERNANDEZ

Petitioner/Husband And

GLORIBEL GARZA

Respondent/Wife CASE NO.: 2023-DR-9228-O. DIVISION: 31.

TO: GLORIBEL GARZAJ. HC 91, VEGA AL TA, PR 00692-9802 AND ANY PARTIES UNKNOWN to Petitioner,

PO2023CV03637 SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la peticionaria de epígrafe ha presentado una Petición para que se declare a su favor el dominio de la siguiente finca: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno localizada en la Carretera 501 Barrio Marueño, Km 7.8 del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de TREINTA Y CINCO MIL QUINIENTOS SIETE PUNTO OCHO MIL OCHOCIENTOS NOVENTA Y DIEZ MILESIMAS (35,507.8890), equivalentes a NUEVE PUNTO CERO TRECIENTOS CUARENTA Y DOS CUERDAS (9.0342 cdas). En lindes por el NORTE con una quebrada, por el SUR con terrenos del Fideicomiso de Conservación de Suelos, por el ESTE, con terrenos de Abigail Colón López y por el OESTE con la Carretera 501. Este Tribunal ordenó que publique la pretensión de tres (3) veces durante el término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria para los que tenga algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito, las personas ignorada quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse dentro del término de veinte (20) días de la última publicación del presente edicto debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal del promovente, Lcdo.

Luis M. Barnecet Vélez, Urb. Paraíso de Coamo, 608 Calle Paz, Coamo, PR 00769, Tel. 787- 603-2396 email: barnecet@hotmail.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 17 de enero de 2023. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional. Daisy Quiñones Vázquez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

which parties may be interested as heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees, or other claimants, by, through under or against GLORIBEL GARZA, whose whereabouts is unknown.

NOTICE OF ACTION YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for Petition of Dissolution of Marriage has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses to it, if any, on ROBERT SAUERHEBER, ESQ. 1650 Sandlake Road, #$255, Orlando, FL 32809 on or before 3/14/2024 , 2024 and file the original with the clerk of this Court at 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801, before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition.

Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request. You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Designation of Current Mailing and E-Mail Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed or e-mailed to the addresses on LEGAL NOTICE record at the clerk’s office.

IN THE PROBATE COURT OF Dated: 1/26/ 2024 COFFEE COUNTY, ALABAMA TIFFANY MOORE RUSSELl, IN THE MATTER OF THE CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT. ADOPTION PETITION OF By: /S/ JUAN VAZQUEZ, JOXELL RAMIREZ VELEZ, Deputy Clerk.

CASE NO.: PRA-2023-019.

NOTICE OF ADOPTION HEALEGAL NOTICE RING. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NOTICE TO: DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUJAVIER RAMOS TORRES NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Please take notice that a PetiSALA DE PONCE tion for Adoption in the above NORMA IRIS styled matter has been filed in TORRES DE JESÚS the Probate Court of Coffee Peticionaria County, Enterprise, Alabama by Ex Parte the Petitioner named below and CASO NUMERO: the 8th day of MARCH, 2024

@

at 9:00 o’clock a.m. has been set for a hearing on the same in said Court in the City of Enterprise, Alabama. Please be advised that if you intend to contest this adoption you must file a written response within thirty (30) days with the attorney for the Petitioner whose name and address are shown below and with the clerk of the said Probate Court. A copy of the Petition to Adopt is attached to this Notice as required by statue.

Attorney for Petitioner: Thadius W. Morgan, Jr. Post Office Box 310396 Enterprise, Alabama 36331 Petitioner: Joxell Ramirez Velez 306 W. Brunson Street Enterprise, Alabama 36330 Dated this the 31st day of January, 2024.

Jodee R. Thompson, Judge of Probate

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ

ESTRELLA HOMES III LLC.

Parte Demandante Vs.

MARCIAL SANCHEZ MENDEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV00425.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Mayagüez, 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 Mayagüez, 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 en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $36,240.85 de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 7.25% anual desde el primero de agosto de 2018, hasta su total pago y completo; cargos por demora devengados desde el primero de septiembre de 2018, a razón de $15.76 mensuales, más la suma estipulada de para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe

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como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dos (2) del bloque SL en la Urbanización Valle Hermoso, radicado en el Barrio Guanajibo del Municipio de Hormiguero, con una cabida superficial de trescientos dieciocho punto cuatro metros cuadrados (318.4 m/c).

Colindante por el NORTE, en trece punto sesenta (13.60) metros, con el solar número diecisiete (17); por el SUR, en trece punto sesenta (13.60) metros, con la calle número treinta y tres (33); por el ESTE, en veintitrés punto treinta (23.30) metros, con el solar número uno (1); por el OESTE, en veintitrés punto treinta (23.30) metros, con el solar número tres (3). Contiene una casa de concreto tipo Condado. Inscrita al folio doscientos veintinueve (229) del tomo cuarenta y cinco (45) de Hormigueros, finca número mil trescientos cincuenta y ocho (1,358). Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. Dirección Física: SL-2, Calle Alamo, Urbanización Valle Hermoso, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico 00660. Dicha propiedad se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré suscrito a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $15,000.00, según escritura número 694, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 9 de diciembre de 2004, ante elNotario Fernando Luis Meléndez López, según inscripción 13; y a condiciones restrictivas por la Autoridad. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 12 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $46,200.00 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 19 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $30,800.00.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $23,100.00. 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

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Thursday, February 22, 2024 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 Mayagüez Puerto Rico, a 10 de enero de 2024. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PLACA #924, SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS.

COMPU-LINK CORPORATION DBA CELINK

DEMANDANTE VS.

Isabel López Torres, t/c/c Isabel López; y los Estados Unidos de América

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: GM2022CV00553.

SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca In Rem (Reverse Mortgage).

EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: ISABEL LÓPEZ TORRES, T/C/C ISABEL LÓPEZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA;

Yo, ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Salinas, 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 13 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Salinas, Salinas, 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 noviembre de 2023. 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 20 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 27 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado.

Que en cumplimiento de un

The San Juan Daily Star Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Salinas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 22 de diciembre de 2023, 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 identificada en el plano de inscripción como el solar 1 del Bloque L de la Urbanización Estancias Trinitaria, localizada en el Barrio Aguirre del Municipio de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 300.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar L-8; por el SUR, con la calle 12; por el ESTE, con el solar L-2; y por el OESTE, con la calle 1. Enclava una residencia de concreto de una planta”. Finca número 10,059, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 250 de Salinas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. Dirección de la Propiedad: L-1 12 Street, Estancias La Trinitaria, Salinas, Puerto Rico 00751. 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 $76,202.89 en concepto de principal con interés al 2.87% anual, los cuales acumulan a un total de $130,585.79 a la fecha de 24 de octubre de 2023 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 $9,200.00 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 546 otorgada el día 24 de noviembre de 2008, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Luis R. Rodríguez Vélez y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Salinas, finca número 10,059, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama, Sección de Guayama. 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 garantia de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $138,00000, con intereses al 2.87% anual, vencedero el 23 de mayo de 2087, cosntituida mediante la escritura número 547, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de noviembre de 2008, ante el notario Luis R. Rodríguez Vélez, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Salinas, finca número 10,059, inscripcion 4ta., como asiento abreviado extendida las líneas el día 17 de enero de 2018, en virtud de la Ley 216 del 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 16 de enero de 2009, al asiento 1,158 del Diario 638). Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $92,000.00 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 $61,333.33; 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 $46,000.00. 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

The San Juan Daily Star 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 Salinas, Puerto Rico, a 10 de enero de 2024.

Rolando Rodriguez Rivera, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #037, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SALINAS.

Thursday, February 22, 2024 LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

LILLIAM RIVERA CARRASQUILLO; CHEILYMAR PADILLA CHEVALIER y ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: CG2019CV03052.

SALA: SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. 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 Caguas, Caguas, 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 18 de enero de 2024, 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: CONDOMINIO BRISAS DEL PARQUE de Caguas. Solar: AA-10. Cabida: 353.87 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, en una distancia de diecinueve punto cincuenta metros (19.50 m.), con la Calle “A” de dicha urbanización. Sur, en una distancia de veintitrés metros (23.00 m.), con el Solar 11 del Bloque “AA”. Este, en una distancia de quince punto cincuenta metros (15.50 m.), con el Solar número 9 del Bloque “AA”. Oeste, en una distancia de doce metros (12.00 m.), con la Calle “AA” de dicha urbanización. Radicado en el Barrio Turabo de Caguas. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto para residencia de una familia. Inscrita al folio 3 vto. del tomo 1670 de Caguas, finca #49,569, inscripción 5ta, del Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. 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 constituida por Lilliam Rivera Carrasquillo mediante la escritura #806, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de agosto de 2017, ante el Notario Público Néstor Machado Cortes, en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo affidávit #10224, a favor de SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, por la suma principal de $40,294.12 y créditos adicionales, sin intereses anual y vence el día 1 de agosto de 2047, tasándose la finca en una cantidad igual al principal, e inscrita al sistema Karibe de Caguas el día 1 de marzo de 2019; inscripción 7ma. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 19 de agosto de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, en el caso civil número CG2019CV03052, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Lillian Rivera Carrasquillo y Cheilymar Padilla Chevalier; Estados Unidos de America, por la suma de $125,794.90 más intereses y gastos, anotado el día 13 de septiembre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca número 49,569, anotación A. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 9 de octubre de 2023, notificada el 23 de octubre de 2023, a saber la suma de $125,794.90 de principal, más intereses al tipo convenido al 4.000% anual, desde el día 1 de noviembre de 2017, hasta su total y completo pago, más la cantidad de $17,979.20 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado que la parte demandada se obligara a satisfacer como suma líquida y sin necesidad de nueva liquidación aprobación por este Tribunal, más la cantidad que se adeuda mensualmente a partir del día 1 de diciembre de 2017, más los cargos por demora; más cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. 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 4 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $126,342.83. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE

MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $84,228.55, 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 18 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $63,171.41, 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de febrero de 2024.

ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, Alguacil Angel Gómez Gómez P.593, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas.

LEGAL NOTICE -ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MANATÍ.

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante v.

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE como miembros desconocidos de la Sucesión de CONNIE RIVERA GARCIA

Demandado CIVIL NÚM. MT2023CV00219.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Manatí, hago saber a la parte demandada JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE como miembros desconocidos de la Sucesión de CONNIE RIVERA GARCIA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 9 de enero de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $103,000.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: VILLA BARCELONA, D6 CALLE 2, BARCELONETA, PR 00617, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Pueblo, del Municipio de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 298.94 metros cuadrados, identificado en el plano de inscripción del proyecto Residencial Villa Barcelona, con el solar #6 del bloque D, y en lindes por el Norte, en 10.00 metros, con lote D-11; por el Sur, en 14.81 metros, con calle dedicada a uso público; por el Este, en 24.58 metros, con carretera municipal cruzando el caño; y por el Oeste, en 24.10 metros, con lote D-5. Enclava una estructura de hormigón y bloques dedicada a vivienda, terrazo pulido, consistente en sala, comedor, cocina, tres dormitorios, un baño, marquesina y lavan-

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dería. Finca 10412 inscrita al folio 170 del tomo 172 de Barceloneta, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituída por Connie Rivera García, soltera, en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria P.R., o a su orden, por $103,000.00, al 6.875%, vencedero el 1 de enero de 2037, según Esc. #594, en Vega Alta, a 4 de diciembre de 2006, ante Joseorlando Mercado Gely, inscrita al folio 51 del tomo 258 de Barceloneta, finca #10412, inscripción 4ta. y última, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 2 de noviembre de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $77,324.24 de principal, más intereses al 6.875% que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total del préstamo, más $169.15 de cargos por demora y $10,300.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 6 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Manatí, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $103,00.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $68,666.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $51,500.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas

laborables. Se entiende que DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUtodo licitador que comparezca NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA a la subasta señalada en este SALA DE SAN JUAN caso acepta como bastante la LIGIA MERCEDES titulación que da base a la misLEMA COLL ma. Se entiende que cualquier Demandante V. carga y/o gravamen anterior FULANO, SUTANO Y y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta eje- MENGANO DE TAL como cución continuará subsistente, personas desconocidas entendiéndose, además, que el que pudieran ser rematante los acepta y queda tenedoras y poseedoras subrogado en la responsabilidel pagaré; SUCESIÓN dad de los mismos, sin destiDE MARIA A. RODRIGUEZ narse a su extinción cualquier ACEVEDO compuesta parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a por sus herederos ser ejecutada se adquirirá lidesconocidos JOHN bre de cargas y gravámenes DOE y RICHARD DOE; posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que FIRSTBANK DE PUERTO RICO, por sí; por sí y tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes como posible último hipotecados con posterioridad tenedor y poseedor del a la inscripción del crédito del Pagaré; LCDO. ANGEL ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los M. RIVERA MUNICH, por hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo- sí y como posible último teca ejecutada y las personas tenedor y poseedor del interesadas en, o con derecho Pagaré a exigir el cumplimiento de insDemandados trumentos negociables garanCIVIL NUM: SJ2024CV00056 tizados hipotecariamente con SOBRE: CANCELACION DE posterioridad al crédito ejecutaPAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EMdo, para que puedan concurrir PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. a la subasta si les convenga ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMERIo satisfacer antes del remate CA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS el importe del crédito, de sus ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESintereses, costas y honorarios TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE de abogados asegurados, quePUERTO RICO. SS dando subrogados en los dereA: FULANO, SUTANO Y chos del acreedor ejecutante.

MENGANO DE TAL como Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y con- personas desconocidas signado el precio corresponque pudieran ser diente, en esa misma fecha o tenedoras y poseedoras fecha posterior, el alguacil que del pagaré; SUCESIÓN celebró la subasta procederá a DE MARIA A. RODRIGUEZ otorgar la correspondiente esACEVEDO compuesta critura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o tipor sus herederos tular de los bienes hipotecados, desconocidos JOHN DOE ante el notario que elija el ady RICHARD DOE judicatario o comprador, quien SE NOTIFICA a ustedes que la deberá abonar el importe de tal parte demandante, LIGIA MERescritura. El alguacil pondrá en CEDES LEMA COLL ha radicaposesión judicial al nuevo duedo en la Secretaría de este Triño, si así se lo solicita dentro bunal una demanda solicitando del término de veinte (20) días la cancelación de un pagaré a partir de la confirmación de la al portador, del cual ellos son venta o adjudicación. Si transtenedores por endoso, por la curren los referidos veinte (20) suma de $198,700.00. Se desdías, el tribunal podrá ordenar, cribe la propiedad que constisin necesidad de ulterior procetuyó el instrumento negociable dimiento, que se lleve a efecto extraviado como sigue: Escriel desalojo o lanzamiento del tura No. 111, otorgada en San ocupante u ocupantes de la finJuan, el 3 de mayo de 2002, ca o de todos los que por orden ante Raúl J. Berio Alvarez, o tolerancia del deudor la ocuinscrita al folio 108 del tomo pen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO 1231 de SANTURCE NORTE, DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL finca No. 21,065, inscripción PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para primera. Dicho pagaré fue gasu publicación de acuerdo con rantizado con hipoteca sobre la Ley, expido el presente Edicla siguiente propiedad: Propieto bajo mi firma y sello de este dad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO Tribunal. En Manatí, Puerto PALMA REAL de Santurce Rico, hoy 19 de enero de 2024.

Norte. Apartamento: 10-D. CaWILFREDO RODRIGUEZ bida: 1,481.00 Pies Cuadrados.

CARRION, ALGUACIL CONLocalizado en el lado noreste FIDENCIAL, TRIBUNAL DE del ala sureste de la décima PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA planta de la sección residencial DE MANATÍ. del condominio Palma real, ubi**** cado entre las Avenidas Ponce de León y Baldorioty de Castro LEGAL NOTICE y las calles Madrid y ensenada ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

24 en el sector Miramar. Tiene una cabida superficial de mil cuatrocientos ochenta y un pies cuadrados (1481 p/c), equivalentes a ciento treinta y siete punto seis metros cuadrados (137.6 m/c). Colindando el mismo por el noreste con la parte central del patio este del edificio, que da a la calle Madrid; por el noroeste con la parte de la sección comunal de servicio de esa planta donde están los elevadores y un closet; por el sureste con el apartamiento 10 F y por el suroeste con el apartamiento 10 E y el pasillo Central de esa ala de la sección residencial por donde tiene su entrada teniendo acceso este apartamento a través de ese pasillo con el corredor central del piso donde están localizados los elevadores y las escaleras de la sección residencial del condominio que a su vez conectan este apartamiento con las demás plantas esa sección residencial y el vestíbulo principal de la misma que sale a la calle Madrid. Contiene este apartamiento las siguientes dependencias: vestíbulo de entrada de cincuenta y cinco pies cuadro (55 p/c) equivalentes a cinco punto uno metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cinco punto uno metros cuadrados (5.1 m. c.). Closet de vestíbulo de trece pies cuadrados (13 p/c), equivalentes a uno punto dos metros cuadrados (1.2m/c). Sala-comedor de cuatrocientos treinta y tres pies cuadrados (433 p/c) equivalentes a cuarenta punto dos metros cuadrados (40.2 m/c).

Balcón de ciento tres pies cuadrados (103 p/c) equivalentes a nueve punto seis metros cuadrados (9.6 m/c). Cocina de ciento cinco pies cuadrados (105 p/c) equivalentes a nueve punto ocho metros cuadrados (9.8 m/c). Corredor interior de sesenta y ocho pies cuadrados equivalentes a seis punto tres metros cuadrados (6.3 m/c).

Closet de corredor de catorce pies cuadrados (14 p/c) equivalentes a uno punto tres metros cuadrados (1.3m/c). Dormitorio número uno de ciento cuarenta y cinco pies cuadrados (145p/c) equivalentes a trece punto cinco metros cuadrados (13.5m/c). Closet de este dormitorio de doce pies cuadrados (12 p/c) equivalentes a uno punto uno metros cuadrados (1.1 m/c). Dormitorio número dos de ciento cuarenta y cinco pies cuadrados (145p/c), equivalentes a trece punto cinco metros cuadrados (13.5m/c).

Closet de este dormitorio de doce pies cuadrados (12 p/c), equivalentes a uno punto metros cuadrados (1.1 m/c). Baño de estos dormitorios de cuarenta y cuatro pies cuadrados (44 p/c) equivalentes a cuatro punto uno metro cuadrados 4.1m/c). Dormitorio principal de doscientos cinco pies cuadrados (205p/c) equivalentes a diecinueve punto cero metros

cuadrados (19.0m/c). Closet de este dormitorio de setenta y cuatro pies cuadraos (74 p/c) de equivalentes a seis punto nueve metros cuadrados (6.9 m/c). Baño de este dormitorio de cincuenta y tres pies cuadrados (53 p/c) equivalentes a cuatro punto nueve metros cuadrados (4.9 m/c). Corresponde a este apartamento un espacio de estacionamiento para un automóvil, en el tercer sótano de estacionamiento del condominio, estando dicho espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el número y letra del apartamento. Corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes una participación equivalentes a punto seiscientos sesenta y ocho por ciento del valor total de la sección residencial y una participación de punto cuatrocientos setenta y dos por ciento en el valor total del edificio (472 %).

FINCA NUMERO: 21,065 inscrita al folio 108 del tomo 1231 de Santurce Norte; Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Primera. TRACTO REGISTRAL: Se separa de la finca #20,148, inscrita al folio 199 del tomo 553 de Santurce Norte.

Se les emplaza y requiere para que notifiquen al Lic. Igor J. Domínguez, abogado de la parte demandante, Avenida Ponce De León 1225, Suite 1105, San Juan, PR 00907-3945, teléfono (787) 250-0220, con copia de la contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, el cual se publicará una vez por semana durante dos semanas consecutivas a tenor con la orden dictada por este Honorable Tribunal. Se les apercibe que si dejaran de hacerlo podrá dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda.

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de febrero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria.

Maria Colón Rivera, Secretaria Servicio a Sala.

PDOMINGUEZ@FERRAIUOLI.COM CASO NÚM.: SJ2019CV11723 (SALÓN 604 CIVIL) SOBRE:COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCN. DE LUIS IVÁN ALEMÁN ALEMÁN, WILMA GONZÁLEZ PADILLA, IVA ALEMAN, WILMA B ALEMAN Y NADYA N ALEMAN GONZALEZ COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE LUIS IVAN ALEMAN ALEMAN.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, 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 febrero de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de febrero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. F/ Raquel Díaz López, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LEGAL NOTICE CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- CAGUAS NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DAISY CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN HERNANDEZ TORRES JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE Demandante v.

SAN JUAN

PUERTO RICO RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC Demandante V.

CARIBBEAN COMUNICATION SOLUTIONS INC. Y OTROS

Demandado(a) JAIME A. TORRENS DAVILA JTORRENS@FERRAIUOLI.COM LUIS G PARRILLA HERNANDEZ LPARRILLA@FERRAIUOLI.COM PALOMA MARÍA DOMÍNGUEZ SÁNCHEZ

The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, February 22, 2024

FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) LIZBET AVILÉS VEGA LIZBET_AVILES@YAHOO.COM Caso Núm.: CG2023CV03463 (SALÓN 702) Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y

Tel. (787) 625-9999 CUALESQUIER PERSONA damente registrada y archivada 13 de febrero de 2024. Lisilda PUNTO UNO CINCO CINCO Agosto, Secretaria. F/ TRES (318.1553) METROS Fax (787) 705-7387 DESCONOCIDA CON en autos donde podrá usted Martínez E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com enterarse detalladamente de Eneida Arroyo Vélez, Secreta- CUADRADOS; en lindes por POSIBLE INTERÉS EN los términos de la misma. Esta ria Auxiliar del Tribunal. el NORTE, con la Calle Baldo- Se le advierte, además, a los LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA notificación se publicará una rioty de Castro de la menciona- herederos que conforme el LEGAL NOTICE da Urbanización, distancia de caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya sola vez en un periódico de CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE circulación general en la Isla ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO once punto cincuenta y nueve Argentaria v. Latinoamerica de de Puerto Rico, dentro de los DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- (11.59) metros; por el SUR, con Exportación, Inc. 164 D.P.R. SOLICITA. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA terrenos del Gobierno Munici- 689,696 (2005) y a tenor con

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 DE ENERO DE 2024, 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 febrero de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 13 de febrero de 2024. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria.

F/Vionnette Espinosa Castillo, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAusted una parte en el procedi- MA miento sujeta a los términos ORIENTAL BANK de la Sentencia, Sentencia Demandante vs.

Parcial o Resolución, de la cual SUCESION DE RICHARD puede establecerse recurso de ALBERT LEPAGE, revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a también conocido como RICHARD ALBERTO partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a LEPAGE, compuesta usted esta notificación que se por FULANO DE TAL considerará hecha en la fecha y ZUTANO DE TAL, de la publicación de este ediccomo herederos to. Copia de esta notificación ha desconocidos con sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de posible interés; CENTRO febrero de 2024. En Aguadilla, DE RECAUDACION DE Puerto Rico, el 13 de febrero INGRESOS MUNICIPALES de 2024. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, (CRIM) Secretaria. F/Arlene Guzmán Demandados Pabón, Secretaria Auxiliar del CIVIL NÚM. GM2023CV00907 Tribunal.

(303) SOBRE: COBRO DE DILEGAL NOTICE NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINADE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL RIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- EDICTO E INTERPELACION. BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMECIA SALA DE SAN LORENZO RICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE EN CAGUAS-SUPERIOR LI- LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MITADO DE PUERTO RICO.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Vs

SANTO FELIX, LUIS RAUL

CASO: E2CI201700238 SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO A: LUIS RAUL DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SANTO FELIX CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUA- EL SECRETARIO(A) que susDILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE cribe le notifica a usted que el AGUADILLA 9 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, ORIENTAL BANK Sentencia Parcial o Resolución Demandante V. en este caso, que ha sido debiOLGA MORALES Y damente registrada y archivada OTROS en autos donde podrá usted Demandado(a) enterarse detalladamente de JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑA los términos de la misma. Esta LEGAL@JRSLA WPR.COM Caso Núm.: AG2023CV01604 notificación se publicará una (SALÓN 601 CIVIL) Sobre: sola vez en un periódico de COBRO DE DINERO - ORDI- circulación general en la Isla NARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificaSENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ción. Y, siendo o representando A: OLGA MORALES, usted una parte en el procediCARLOS MORALES Y miento sujeta a los términos LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual DE GANANCIALES puede establecerse recurso de COMPUESTA POR revisión o apelación dentro del AMBOS DIRECCIÓN: término de 30 días contados a CARR. 417 KM 2.0 BO partir de la publicación por edicMALPASO AGUADA, PR to de esta notificación, dirijo a 00602 • HC 61 BOX 34764 usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha AGUADA, PR 00602 de la publicación de este dicto.

(Nombre de las partes que se le Copia de esta notificación ha notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- sido archivada en los autos de cribe le notifica a usted que el este caso, con fecha de 13 de 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este febrero de 2024.

Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, LIC. SURILLO GUTIÉRREZ,ADELA ADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi- En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el

A: FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE RICHARD ALBERT LEPAGE, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO RICHARD ALBERTO LEPAGE

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $58,736.91, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.50% anual, desde el día 1ro de junio de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $6,690.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Cinco (5) de la Manzana “K” del plano preparado por la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para su proyecto de solares denominado PR-R7, CARIOCA, radicado en la zona urbana del término municipal de Guayama, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS DIECIOCHO

pal de Guayama y la Calle Meditación, distancia de once punto cincuenta y nueve (11.59) metros; por el ESTE, con solar número K guión Seis (K-6) de la mencionada Urbanización, distancia de veintisiete punto Veinticuatro (27.24) metros; y por el Oeste, con solar número K guion Cuatro (K-4) del mencionado Proyecto PR-R-7 Carioca, distancia de veintisiete punto sesenta y uno (27.61) metros.

La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Guayama, finca número 7,298, inscripción segunda.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva Dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https:// www.pdderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. 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. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023).

Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. La información del (de la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante es la siguiente: Lcdo. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550 San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550

las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021), deberá aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante Richard Albert Lepage, dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada.

Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción.

Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Guayama, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de febrero de 2024. Marisol Rosado Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional I. Daisy Rodríguez Luna, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JESUS HERNANDEZ GARCIA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZ RDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM Caso Núm.: BY2023CV06126 (SALÓN 703) Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE COMO TENEDOR DESCONIDO DEL PAGARE; JESÚS HERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA, LUZ E. PADILLA NEGRÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y H.F. INC.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, 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

The San Juan Daily Star 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 febrero de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 13 de febrero de 2024. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. F/Lureimy Alicea González, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Demandante V.

YEIDI FIGUEROA DEL LLANO

Demandado(a) ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZ ADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM CASO NÚM.: CG2023CV03551 (SALÓN 705) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO

A: YEIDT FIGUEROA DEL LLANO

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, 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 14 de febrero de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 14 de febrero de 2024. Lisilda Martí-

Thursday, February 22, 2024

nez Agosto, Secretaria. F/Martha E. Donate Resto, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

LEGAL NOTICE

AGUSTINA

Parte Demandante Vs.

PORTES CACERES ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Parte Demandada DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CIVIL NÚM. SJ2023CV07103 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. SALA DE ISABELA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICISLAND PORTFOLIO TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE SERVICES, LLC COMO AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE AGENTE DE ACE ONE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO FUNDING, LLC DE PUERTO RICO. SS. Parte Demandante Vs. A: AGUSTIN A JOSHUA SOTO LUGO

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. IS2022CV00117 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JOSHUA SOTO LUGO • URB VISTAS DEL ATLANTICO 102 CALLE VISTA HERMOSA, ISABELA PR 006623349 • URB MANUEL CORCHADO 102 CALLE GIRASOL, ISABELA PR 00662-2794.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kenmuel J. Ruiz Lopez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@orf-law. com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Isabela Puerto Rico, hoy día30 de noviembre de 2023. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. Omayra López Girald, Secretaria Auxiliar.

PORTES CACERES • URB PUERTO NUEVO 441 CALLE CONSTITUCION, SAN JUAN PR 00920-3865.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de noviembre de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Michelle Rivera Ríos, Secretaria Auxiliar.

DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: NORBERTO LOPEZ QUILES • BO CALLEJONES SECT LA SIERRA CARR 111 R 453 K 1.2, LARES PR 00669 • HC 1 BOX 3093, LARES PR 00669-9603.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Lares, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de noviembre de 2023.

Diane Alvarez Villanueva, Secretaria Regional. Ivelisse Méndez Padilla, Secretaria Auxiliar.

los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Isabela, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de noviembre de 2023.

En Isabela, Puerto Rico, el 30 de noviembre de 2023. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. Omayra López Girald, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante Vs.

SUCESION MARIA LEGAL NOTICE FONTANEZ CASTRO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO T/C/C MARIA GASPAR DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFONTANEZ CASTRO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA T/C/C MARIA FONTANEZ SALA DE ISABELA ISLAND PORTFOLIO T/C/C MARIA P. SERVICES, LLC, como FONTANEZ CASTRO agente de ACE ONE T/C/C MARIA CASTRO FUNDING, LLC COMPUESTA POR Demandante Vs. MARIA LUISA OROZCO LEGAL NOTICE EDWIN FONTANEZ, MARIA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA EUGENIA OROZCO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDemandado NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA FONTANEZ, CONFESORA CIVIL NÚM.: IS2023CV00151 SALA DE LARES OROZCO FONTANEZ, SALÓN: 001 SOBRE: COBRO MIDLAND CREDIT MIGUEL ANGEL DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMMANAGEMENT PUERTO PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. OROZCO FONTANEZ, RICO, LLC COMO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AME- HECTOR LUIS OROZCO AGENTE DE MIDLAND RICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE FONTANEZ, MARGARITA LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE FUNDING, LLC OROZCO FONTANEZ, PUERTO RICO. SS. Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE ANTONIO OROZCO A: EDWIN GONZÁLEZ NORBERTO DIAZ, CARLOS RUBEN GARCÍA – Urb. Lamela LOPEZ QUILES LEGAL NOTICE OROZCO DIAZ, MARITZA 53 Calle Perla Isabela, Parte Demandada ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO OROZCO DIAZ, DAISY CIVIL NÚM. LR2023CV00115 PR 00662 / PO Box 136 DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUOROZCO DIAZ, JESSICA SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. Isabela, PR 00662-0136.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- POR LA PRESENTE se le OROZCO PASTRANA, SALA DE SAN JUAN TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE emplaza y requiere para que JACQUELINE OROZCO ISLAND PORTFOLIO AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE conteste la demanda dentro de PASTRANA; JOHN DOE SERVICES, LLC COMO DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO

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Caguas, Sección I. La Hipoteca de honorarios de abogado; Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS Revertida consta inscrita al folio más la cantidad de 10% del 44 del tomo 1677 de Caguas, pagare original en la suma de DESCONOCIDOS; Finca 27695, Registro de la $12,450.00, para gastos, cosSUCESION PASCUAL Propiedad de Caguas, Sección tas y honorarios de abogado. A OROZCO FONTANEZ I, inscripción 11ª. Propiedad tenor con la Regla 44.3 de ProCOMPUESTA POR JOSE localizada en: COMUNIDAD cedimiento Civil se condena a VILLA CALIZ, #47 CALLE 1, la parte demandada a pagar inANTONIO OROZCO CAGUAS, PR 00725. Según tereses aplicables sobre el imDIAZ, CARLOS RUBEN figuran en la certificación re- porte de la presente sentencia OROZCO DIAZ, MARITZA gistral, la propiedad objeto de incluyendo costas y honorarios OROZCO DIAZ, DAISY ejecución está gravada por las de abogado, desde esta fecha OROZCO DIAZ, JESSICA siguientes cargas anteriores y hasta que sea satisfecha. La OROZCO PASTRANA, o preferentes: Nombre del Ti- venta en pública subasta de la tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: referida propiedad se verificará JACQUELINE OROZCO N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: libre de toda carga o gravamen PASTRANA; JOHN ROE N/A. Según figuran en la certi- posterior que afecte la mencioficación registral, la propiedad nada finca, a cuyo efecto se noY JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS objeto de ejecución está gra- tifica y se hace saber la fecha, vada por las siguientes cargas hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, DESCONOCIDOS; posteriores a la inscripción del SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUCENTRO DE crédito ejecutante: Nombre del BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, RECAUDACION Titular: Secretario de la Vivien- a los efectos de que cualquier da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma persona o personas con algún DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS de la Carga: $124,500.00. interés puedan comparecer a la UNIDOS DE AMERICA Fecha de Vencimiento: 19 de celebración de dicha subasta.

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00826.

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

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 19 DE MARZO DE 2024, 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: “RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 47 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Villa Caliz del Barrio Cañaboncito del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.1875 diezmilésimas de cuerda, equivalente a 736.96 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Número 2 de la comunidad; x con la Calle Número 3 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 48 de la comunidad; por el OESTE, con la Calle número 2 de la comunidad.” Finca número 27695, inscrita al folio 36 del tomo 836 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de

enero de 2085. 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 $124,500.00, 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 Caguas, el 26 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $83,000.00, 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 $62,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 2 DE ABRIL DE 2024, 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 $69,459.30 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $40,129.52 en intereses acumulados al 30 de julio de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $11,573.31 en seguro hipotecario; $2,765.76 de seguro; $500.00 de tasaciones; $180.00 de inspecciones; $990.00 en adelantos

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de enero de 2024. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON

MARIA DEL CARMEN FONTANES BUNKER Demandantes V.

JAMES T BARNES OF PUERTO RICO;JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA. Demandados CIVIL NÚM BY2024CV00458 SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JAMES T BARNES OF PUERTO RICO T/C/C JAMES T BARNES OF PUERTO RICO INC.; JUAN

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA cerlo así dentro del término in- a la publicación del presente Saldaña, RUA número 11673; barrio Florida del término muni- se desglosa en: (i) $194,984.97 edictos de este Tribunal y en 15 de febrero de 2024. Kanelly dicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar edicto, se le estará enviando a Dirección: PO Box 366276, cipal de Vieques, Puerto Rico, por concepto de principal; más tres (3) lugares públicos del Zayas Robles, Secretaria. F/ DEL PUEBLO COMO su rebeldía y dictar sentencia usted por correo certificado con San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Te- con una cabida superficial de (ii) $116,510.20 por concep- Municipio donde se celebrará Myriam Figueroa Pastrana, SePOSIBLES TENEDORES Y concediendo el remedio soli- acuse de recibo, una copia del léfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo 1,336.3438 metros cuadrados, to de intereses acumulados y la subasta señalada. Además, cretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

CUALESQUIER PERSONA citado en la Demanda sin más emplazamiento y de la deman- electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. equivalentes a 1.34 cuerdas. no pagados, cantidad que se en un periódico de circulación LEGAL NOTICE DESCONOCIDA CON citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo da presentada al lugar de su com. Se le advierte que dentro En lindes: por el NORTE, con continúa acumulando hasta su general en dos (2) ocasiones ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO total y completo pago a razón y mediante correo certificado última dirección conocida: Bo. mi firma y sello de este Tribude los diez (10) días siguientes el remanente de la finca princiPOSIBLE INTERÉS EN nal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Matuyas Bajos, Carr. 759 Km a la publicación del presente pal de la cual se segrega; por de $32.05 diarios; (B) bajo el a la última dirección conocida DE PUERTO RICO TRIBULA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA hoy día 31 de enero de 2024. 7 Hm 6, Maunabo, PR 00707; edicto, se le estará enviando el SUR, con la carretera Esta- Contrato de Préstamo, según de la parte demandada. EXPE- NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA CANCELACIÓN POR LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁN- HC 2 Box 4017, Maunabo, PR a usted por correo certificado tal número 200, antes número enmendado y el Pagaré Ope- DIDO el presente EDICTO DE TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSDECRETO JUDICIAL SE CHEZ, Secretaria. F/MARIA E. 00707-9693. EXPEDIDO bajo con acuse de recibo, una copia 993; por el ESTE, con un cami- racional II, una suma no me- SUBASTA en Vieques, Puerto TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE COLLAZO, Sub-Secretaria. mi firma y el sello del Tribu- del emplazamiento y de la de- no asfaltado, carretera Estatal nor de $266,341.13, la cual se Rico, a 16 de enero de 2024. AIBONITO SOLICITA. nal en Humacao, Puerto Rico, manda presentada al lugar de número 201; y por el OESTE, desglosa en: (i) $161,389.13 Nelimar M. Peterson Vélez, Por la presente se le notifica YAHAIRA LIZ LEGAL NOTICE hoy día 31 de enero de 2024. su última dirección conocida: con el solar número dos, pro- por concepto de principal; más Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera que ha sido presentada en este AGOSTO SANTOS Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe.

En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de James T Barnes of Puerto Rico Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $30,950.00, intereses al 9 1/2% anual, vencedero el 1 de enero de 2009, constituida mediante la escritura número 19, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de diciembre de 1978, ante el Notario José A. Cepeda Rodriguez, inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 299 de Bayamón Sur, inscripción 6ta, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dieciocho de la manzana C del plano de Reparto Flamingo, sita en el Barrio Hato Tejas de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cincuenta metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en catorce metros con la Calle B; por el SUR, en catorce metros con Hato Rey Buildings Corporation; por el ESTE, en veinticinco metros con el solar C diecisiete; y por el OESTE, en veinticinco metros con el solar C diecinueve. Finca 13,130 inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 299 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, sección 1 de Bayamón. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Lizbet Aviles Vega, Urb. Los Sauces, Calle Pomarrosa #222, Humacao, PR 00791; Tel. (787) 354-0061, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no ha-

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO EVELYN FELIX V AZQUEZ, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Secretaria. LAURA DE JESUS NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA GONZALEZ, Sub-Secretaria.

SALA DE YABUCOA

Urb. Valencia, E7 Calle 20, Bayamón, PR 00959-3758; RR 14 Box 213, Bayamón, PR, 00956.

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el LEGAL NOTICE sello del Tribunal en BAYAORIENTAL BANK ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de Demandante, V. LUIS O. RIVERA RUIZ DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- febrero de 2024. Lcda. Laura NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria.

Demandado.

SALA DE BAYAMON Katherine Santiago Rodríguez, CIVIL NUM.: YB2023CV00354 Sub-Secretaria.

ORIENTAL BANK, SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Demandante, V., POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMLEGAL NOTICE PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. EDGARDO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMEFUENTES ANGULO, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBURICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE Demandado NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LI- CIVIL NUM.: BY2023CV06833 CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FABRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO SALA 403 SOBRE: COBRO DE JARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE RICO. SS. DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINAVIEQUES. A: LUIS O. RIVERA RUIZ RIA. EMPLAZAMIENTOP OR PR RECOVERY AND POR MEDIO del presente edic- EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DEVELOPMENT REO, to se le notifica de la radicación DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENLLC, de una demanda en cobro de TE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESDemandante v. dinero por la vía ordinaria en la TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE que se alega que usted adeuda PUERTO RICO. SS. B&E EMPRESAS ISLA a la parte demandante, Oriental A: EDGARDO NENA, INC.; B&E Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, FUENTES ANGULO CAR RENTAL, INC.; y las costas, gastos y honoraPOR MEDIO del presente edicCORAL MARINA, INC.; rios de abogado de este litigio. to se le notifica de la radicación VÍCTOR MANUEL El demandante, Oriental Bank, de una demanda en cobro de ha solicitado que se dicte senRODRÍGUEZ PADILLA; dinero por la vía ordinaria en la tencia en contra suya y que se que se alega que usted adeuda SU ESPOSA LUZ ENEIDA le ordene pagar las cantidades a la parte demandante, Oriental DELERME AYALA; Y reclamadas en la demanda.

Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO y las costas, gastos y honoraDE GANANCIALES se le emplaza para que presenrios de abogado de este litigio. te al tribunal su alegación resEl demandante, Oriental Bank, COMPUESTA POR ELLOS ponsiva a la demanda dentro Demandados ha solicitado que se dicte sende los treinta (30) días de hatencia en contra suya y que se CIVIL NÚM.: VQ2021CV00104 ber sido diligenciado este emle ordene pagar las cantidades (001). SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN plazamiento, excluyéndose el reclamadas en la demanda. DE HIPOTECA Y EJECUCIÓN día del diligenciamiento. Usted POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO deberá presentar su alegación se le emplaza para que presen- IN REM. AVISO DE SUBASresponsiva a través del Sistema te al tribunal su alegación res- TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Unificado de Manejo y Adminisponsiva a la demanda dentro AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE tración de Casos (SUMAC), al de los treinta (30) días de ha- DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS cual puede acceder utilizando ber sido diligenciado este em- DE AMÉRICA EL PUEBLO la siguiente dirección electróplazamiento, excluyéndose el DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. YO, nica: https://www.poderjudicial. día del diligenciamiento. Usted Nelimar M. Peterson Vélez, pr/index/php/tribunalelectronideberá presentar su alegación la Alguacil que suscribe, por co/, salvo que se represente por responsiva a través del Sistema la presente anuncia y hace derecho propio, en cuyo caso Unificado de Manejo y Adminis- constar, que en cumplimiento deberá presentar su alegación tración de Casos (SUMAC), al. del Mandamiento de Ejecución responsiva en la Secretaría del cual puede acceder utilizando de Sentencia expedido el 16 Tribunal. Si usted deja de prela siguiente dirección electró- de septiembre de 2022, por la sentar su alegación responsiva nica: https://www.poderjudicial. Secretaría de este Tribunal, dentro del referido término, el pr/index/php/tribunalelectroni- procederé a vender en pública tribunal podrá dictar sentencia co/, salvo que se represente por subasta y al mejor postor, quien en rebeldía en su contra, y conderecho propio, en cuyo caso pagará el importe de la venta ceder el remedio solicitado en deberá presentar su alegación en dinero efectivo o en cheque la Demanda, o cualquier otro, responsiva en la Secretaría del certificado o de gerente, a la si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de Tribunal. Si usted deja de pre- orden del Alguacil suscribiente, su sana discreción, lo entiende sentar su alegación responsiva en moneda del curso legal de procedente, sin más citarle ni dentro del referido término, el los Estados Unidos de Amérioírle. El abogado de la parte tribunal podrá dictar sentencia ca, el día 6 de marzo de 2024, demandante es: Jaime Ruiz en rebeldía en su contra, y con- a la(s) 1:00 de la tarde, en mi Saldaña, RUA número 11673; ceder el remedio solicitado en oficina localizada en el Tribunal Dirección: PO Box 366276, la Demanda, o cualquier otro, de Vieques todo título, dereSan Juan, PR 00936-6276; Tesi el tribunal, en el ejercicio de cho o interés que corresponda léfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo su sana discreción, lo entiende a la parte demandada sobre electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. procedente, sin más citarle ni el inmueble que se describe a com. Se le advierte que dentro oírle. El abogado de la parte continuación: RÚSTICA: Prede los diez (10) días siguientes demandante es: Jaime Ruiz dio de terreno localizado en el

piedad de Marcial Pérez y con terrenos de la finca Martineau, propiedad de la Autoridad de Tierras. Finca número 1,994, inscrita al folio 125 del tomo 50 de Vieques, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Dirección Física: Esquina PR-200 con PR-201, Barrio Florida, Vieques, PR. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales Por sí: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor del Banco de Desarrollo Económico para Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $458,000.00, con interés al 6%, y vencedero 5 de marzo de 2039, según consta de la escritura #32, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de febrero de 2009, ante la Notario Público Raquel Santos Ramos, inscrita al folio 126 del tomo 50 de Vieques, finca #1994, inscripción 2.1 asiento extendido.

Según pactado en la Escritura Número 32 de Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de febrero de 2009, ante la Notario Público Raquel Santos Ramos, que es objeto de este procedimiento, servirá de tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de la propiedad descrita la suma de $458,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 13 de marzo de 2024, a la(s) 1:00 de la tarde. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $305,333.33.

De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 20 de marzo de 2024, a la(s) 1:00 de la tarde.

El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $229,000.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT REO, LLC, que al 19 de julio de 2022 asciende y se desglosa como sigue: (A) bajo el Contrato de Préstamo, según enmendado y el Pagaré Operacional I, una suma no menor de $311,495.17, la cual

(ii) $104,951.74 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $26.53 diarios y; (C) bajo el Contrato de Préstamo, según enmendado y el Pagaré Operacional III, una suma no menor de $62,216.41, la cual se desglosa en: (i) $44,174.04 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $18,042.37 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $4.84 diarios. Además, la Parte Demandada adeuda la suma de $45,800.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados expresamente por las partes, según se desprende del Pagaré Hipotecario y la Hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

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

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HR MORTGAGE CORPORATION Demandante V.

SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESAR Y OTROS

Demandado(a) LISDAIRA SERRANO MARTINEZ LISDAIRASERRANO@GMAIL.COM Caso Núm. : CA2023CV02962 Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, 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 15 de febrero de 2024.

En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el

Parte Demandante V.

STIVEN BERRIO OSORIO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm. AI2024RF00054 SOBRE: DIVORCIO (Ruptura Irreparable) EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: STIVEN BERRIO OSORIO • 1647 North Shore Rd. Revere, MA 02151. o sea la parte demandada de epígrafe arriba mencionada.

Por el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez, se le notifica que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal una demanda de divorcio por ruptura irreparable. Usted es una parte indispensable en esta demanda.

Si usted no formula su oposición, dentro de los treinta días, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante podrá obtener sentencia en rebeldía declarando HA LUGAR la demanda y concediendo los remedios solicitados, sin más citarle, ni oírle. Deberá radicar el original de su Contestación a Demanda 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 de este Tribunal y enviar copia de por correo regular o electrónico a la representación legal de la parte demandante. Mediante la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, y notifique copia de la misma a la abogada de la parte demandante: Lcda. Migdalia Molina Rivera, Núm. TS -7949, Col. # 9202, 170 Ave. Arterial Hostos G-1, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918, TELS. (787) 3174530, molinarivera.m@gmail. com EXTIENDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 14 de febrero de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZALEZ RIVERA, Secretaria del Tribunal. MARIA DEL C. MERCADO, Sub-Secretaria.

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Peppers enjoyed a luxury today’s athletes lack: Time to excel at two sports

By JOSEPH PERSON / THE ATHLETIC

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ne of the great things about sports is just when you’re sure you’ll never see another athlete like Player X, another one comes along a decade or two later to make fans reconsider their position.

But in the case of Julius Peppers, a firstballot Pro Football Hall of Famer who will be enshrined this summer with six others, there may in fact never be another athlete quite like him — if only because there are not many two-sport stars anymore.

A former Carolina Panthers and University of North Carolina star, Peppers is the only player to appear in a Final Four in men’s basketball and a Super Bowl, having played basketball and football for the Tar Heels for two seasons. But Peppers said demands on athletes have changed since he was a two-sport star at Southern Nash High School in Bailey, North Carolina, in the 1990s.

“It’s tough,” Peppers said recently in Charlotte, N.C. “And the reason I think you don’t see it as much is everybody is selfish with the time.”

He added: “Nowadays, sports is yearround, especially football. Nobody wants to give up their time. Football coaches don’t want to give up their time. They want you there for spring. Basketball players, that’s a year-round thing, too. It’s that simple. Everybody is selfish with the time.

Nobody wants to give it up.”

The NCAA does not track how many of its 520,000 athletes play more than one sport. But anecdotally, it certainly seems like the number of multiple-sport athletes has shrunk beginning at the high school level as AAU basketball, travel baseball and seven-on-seven football leagues have turned those sports into round-the-clock endeavors.

Peppers wasn’t even North Carolina’s only two-sport star when he was in Chapel Hill. Ronald Curry was the Tar Heels’ quarterback for three seasons and started 26 games at guard for the basketball team during the 2000-01 season, the last year he and Peppers played. The two gave up the sport the next year to prepare for the 2002 draft, when the Panthers took Pep-

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is sacked by Carolina Panthers defensive end Julius Peppers at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey on Sun., Dec. 27, 2009.

(Josh Haner/The New York Times) pers with the No. 2 pick and Curry went in the seventh round to the Oakland Raiders.

Charles Waddell was the Panthers’ director of marketing and sponsorships when the team drafted Peppers, despite public calls for Carolina to select Oregon quarterback Joey Harrington. Waddell felt a special connection to Peppers. Waddell played football, basketball and track at North Carolina from 1972-74, and remains the Tar Heels’ last three-sport letterman.

“People were saying, ‘Pep’s just like you.’ I said, ‘No, he’s a lot better than me. He’s exceptional,’” said Waddell, a special assistant to the athletic director at South Carolina. “For him to do the things he could do on the basketball court and in football, it was unbelievable.”

Like Peppers, Waddell said the yearround training in every sport had made it difficult on this generation of athletes to play more than one as they reach high school and college.

“Kids are specializing so early and just focusing in one sport rather than playing a variety of sports,” Waddell said. “Without a doubt, there are some kids that could have done it, that are good enough to play two or three sports. But they just don’t have the time. The expectations from their coaches are so demanding that they feel they just have to hang in there with that one sport.”

There have been exceptions. Bruce El-

Tar Heels’ 2000 Final Four team carried over to football.

“The footwork and agility type of things that you need to use on the court, I feel like translated to the football field and my style of play,” said Peppers, a power forward who averaged 5.7 points and 3.7 rebounds over his two seasons at North Carolina. “So I think that was an advantage that I had at the time, being shifty on the field. That came from basketball — and body control, stuff like that.”

One of Peppers’ basketball teammates and close friends in college was Jason Capel, whose father was a Charlotte Bobcats assistant coach. Capel said the Bobcats had conversations about bringing Peppers in for a workout.

But Peppers at that time had begun focusing on football. It was the right decision, but not an easy one for a player who was named Julius Frazier after his father’s two favorite basketball players: Julius Erving and Walt Frazier.

“It’s been well documented that basketball was my first love,” Peppers said. “It was one of those things where I had to give it up for my best interests because I knew — yeah, that’s your dream to play in the NBA and you probably could do it if you wanted to. But it’s probably not the best move for you.

“I was having those thoughts before I went into the draft. I think I could have played and had a pretty solid career. But it wouldn’t have been All-Star, Hall of Fametype level. So when I think back on it, it definitely was the right choice to give it up and go the football route.”

The gold jacket Peppers will put on Aug. 3 in Canton, Ohio, is just the latest confirmation.

lington was South Carolina’s starting point guard for three seasons and a standout wide receiver for Steve Spurrier before the San Francisco 49ers drafted him in the fourth round in 2014.

South Carolina has had a few football players who have run for the Gamecocks’ track team, including former Panthers wideout Damiere Byrd and Nyck Harbor, a freshman receiver who recently recorded the school’s second-fastest 60-meter dash time (6.61 seconds).

Peppers admitted he didn’t know what he was doing the two winters he jumped right from football into basketball at North Carolina.

“People always ask me, ‘How were you able to do that?’ At the time I was just having fun,” he said. “I was just playing the sports that I love. It wasn’t a job. It wasn’t work. It wasn’t hard or anything. I was just playing. So it was a great time in my life just to be carefree and have fun playing sports.”

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Lefty Driesell, Hall of Fame college basketball coach, dies at 92

Lefty Driesell in 1976, when he was the head basketball coach at the University of Maryland (Wikipedia)

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN

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efty Driesell, the Hall of Fame coach who built nationally prominent basketball teams at the University of Maryland in the 1970s, and who at his retirement in 2003 was the nation’s fourth-winningest NCAA Division I men’s coach, died Saturday at his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was 92.

His death was announced by the university.

Driesell (pronounced drih-ZELL) was the first coach to win more than 100 games at each of four major college programs. Over five decades, his teams won a total of 786 games.

He coached at Maryland from 1969 until October 1986, posting a 348-159 overall record in College Park.

His Terps reached eight NCAA postseason tournaments, won the 1972 National Invitation Tournament championship and captured an Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship in 1984. They finished high in The Associated Press’ national college basketball rankings of the early 1970s.

He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall

of Fame in 2018.

Across Davidson, Maryland, James Madison and Georgia State, Driesell had an overall record of 786394. He coached James Madison to four consecutive appearances in the NIT and led the team to the NCAA Tournament in 1994.

He closed out his coaching career at Georgia State, where he was head coach from 1997 to 2003. He led the team to a huge upset of Wisconsin in the opening round of the 2001 NCAA Tournament.

His coaching victory total is in the top 20 of all time among NCAA Division I coaches and 23rd overall at all levels of NCAA basketball.

But for all his coaching success at Maryland, Driesell’s record was not without controversy. In 1983, a female student at the university accused him of making intimidating phone calls to her after she had accused one of his players, Herman Veal, of sexual misconduct, which resulted in Veal being declared ineligible to play the rest of the season. The student said Driesell had told her that her “name would be dragged through the mud” if she did not recant her statement.

Driesell issued a statement saying: “At no time in this matter did I ever intend to harass or intimidate or mistreat anyone, and I don’t believe I did. I do realize some of my comments made in the heat of the moment were not appropriate, and if my call to the young woman upset her, I apologize.” He was reprimanded but faced no additional disciplinary action, according to reporting by The New York Times.

Just a few years later, in October 1986, Driesell was forced to resign after the death of his former star player Len Bias from a cocaine overdose in his college dorm. An investigation found that Bias, who had been drafted by the Boston Celtics, was 21 credits short of graduating despite having attended Maryland for four years, exhausting his athletic eligibility.

Questions were raised over whether Driesell and the school administration had properly monitored the conduct and academic standing of Maryland’s basketball players.

“I make this announcement with mixed emotions because I have loved every one of my 17 years as head coach at Maryland,” Driesell said at a news conference announcing his resignation. “But it is obvious that the administration wants to make a coaching change, and I do not want to coach if I am not wanted.” He accepted a position as an assistant athletic director at Maryland and remained there until 1988.

Charles Grice Driesell was born on Christmas Day 1931 in Norfolk, Virginia. His father, Frank, a jeweler, had emigrated from Germany. He was a basketball star at Granby High School in Norfolk, then coached basketball there and in Newport News, Virginia.

A left-handed 6-foot-5 forward and center (he became known as Lefty in the fourth grade), he received an athletic scholarship to play basketball at Duke University. After graduating in 1954, he had hoped to play

in the NBA, but no team would sign him.

Driesell was credited with generating the idea for college basketball’s first “Midnight Madness” in 1971.

At Maryland, that has called for basketball players to hold a 1-mile run at the track in front of the campus stadium just after the stroke of midnight on the first day of practice for the coming season.

Driesell’s survivors include his daughters, Pamela Driesell Anderson, Patricia Driesell and Carolyn Driesell; his son, Chuck, who played for his father in the early 1980s and became an assistant to him at James Madison and later head coach at the Citadel; and 11 grandchildren. His wife, Joyce (Gunter) Driesell, died in 2021.

When Driesell was approaching his 86th birthday, he reminisced with sports writer Dave Kindred about the day in 1969 when Maryland was trying to persuade him to become its basketball coach. Ted Williams was managing the Washington Senators of baseball’s American League, and Vince Lombardi was coaching the National Football League’s Washington team.

“They told me the summers belonged to Ted Williams, the falls belonged to Vince Lombardi, and the winters would be Lefty Driesell’s,” he recalled. “That sounded pretty darn good.”

Driesell during his playing days at Duke University, circa 1952 (Wikipedia)

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Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Financial prosperity is just around the corner, Taurus, especially with your recently acquired money-management skills. It’s likely that you’ll receive a windfall in the near future, although it may not seem like a windfall to you, since you’ve been expecting this money for a long time now. Use your new abilities to invest it soundly and wisely. You’re bound to be quite pleased with the results you achieve over the long term.

The significant other in your life needs your support not a lecture right now, Gemini. Let him or her know you’re available to listen and help in any way, but don’t smother your partner with kindness. He or she will come to you when ready. In the meantime, Gemini, take care of your physical needs. If your body craves exercise, why not increase your jogging miles or add extra time to your gym workout? Absence does make the heart grow fonder, after all.

The significant other in your life needs your support not a lecture right now, Gemini. Let him or her know you’re available to listen and help in any way, but don’t smother your partner with kindness. He or she will come to you when ready. In the meantime, Gemini, take care of your physical needs. If your body craves exercise, why not increase your jogging miles or add extra time to your gym workout? Absence does make the heart grow fonder, after all.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

A pleasant outing could get delayed or cancelled due to an event entirely out of your control. Rather than having a fit, Leo, you and your friends could seize the opportunity to do something completely wild and different. For example, you could take in a matinee of the scariest movie in town or finally try out that Ethiopian restaurant you’ve been hearing so much about. Today brings a perfect opportunity to make lemonade out of lemons.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

There’s no question about it, Virgo, you’ve been working hard these last few weeks. As an approaching deadline looms, you may find yourself waking up at night, running numbers through your head, and mentally rewriting project proposals. It’s exhausting, to be sure, but know that the end result will make all this aggravation worthwhile..

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Some interesting moneymaking opportunities are likely to come your way, Scorpio, either today or in the near future.

It could be that it’s time for a new job, one that promises faster progress through the ranks and more financial stability. Once you get past a certain age, working on commission loses its appeal. You’re ready for steady growth in your portfolio. Perhaps you should seek a financial planner for steps you could take right now to improve your bottom line.

There’s going to be so much to get done today that you might feel a little daunted about getting started. By midday you could even find yourself downright overwhelmed. Take a break, Sagittarius. Take a long lunch on an outside terrace, weather permitting.

Breathe deeply until the stress subsides. You may need to concentrate on finishing only one or two minor tasks today and put the rest off until tomorrow. Remember, too much stress can take its toll on your health!

No sooner do you set foot in the office this morning than you begin to get pelted from all directions with various crises and problems, Capricorn. It isn’t a very welcome reception. A hot cup of coffee and a warm greeting from your co-workers would be a much nicer way to start the day. Take it all in stride. You have the brainpower and stamina to solve all the day’s problems.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Today will be a lovely combination of harmony and passion. Make the most of it, Aquarius. With things running so smoothly at work, there’s no reason you can’t leave the office early to prepare for a special evening with your partner. Pull out all the stops tonight.

Scented candles, a fabulous meal, and an even more fabulous outfit. Have a rich, gooey dessert on hand (although it’s likely you won’t get around to eating it).

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Your efforts on the domestic front have certainly paid off, Pisces. Your home is looking wonderful.

Everyone who enters says so. Some unexpected visitors may stop by for a quick hello and wind up staying for dinner. You are a natural, gracious host, not to mention a great cook. Who can blame your guests for wanting to stay?

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