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Gubernatorial hopeful Ortiz González presents his campaign team

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coordinator will be former Adjuntas mayoral candidate Víctor “Vitito” Pérez.

“As campaign manager, Ingrid Colberg will bring her opular Democratic Party (PDP) President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González, who is seeking to become strategic experience and leadership, playing a critical role the party’s gubernatorial candidate, on Tuesday in the planning and execution of the election campaign,” presented the team that will be in charge of all of his the candidate said. “She knows the workings of political affairs and enjoys the respect and recognition of our party campaign affairs for the June 2024 primaries.

The group is made up of veteran PDP politicians, leaders. For his part, Rep. Roberto Rivera Ruiz de Porras is a legislator whom I respect and thank for his willingness women and leaders from various parts of the island.

“I wanted to put together a varied team that repre- to collaborate in strengthening the campaign and advising sents the reality of our party,” Ortiz González said. “That on key issues. Meanwhile, Vitito Perez will be in charge is, a team where experience, career direction and youth of coordinating the campaign.”

To coordinate the spokespersons of the campaign, converge and, above all, a team committed to Puerto Rico.”

Ingrid Colberg, who was PDP deputy secretary Ortiz González will have the support of a group of legislaunder the presidency of Charlie Delgado Altieri and led tors who have joined his crusade, including Sen. Migdalia the Ports Authority under the administration of Alejandro González Arroyo, the former secretary of the party, and García Padilla, will assume the role of campaign direc- Reps. Ramón Luis Cruz Burgos and José Rivera Madera. tor. She is joined by Rep. Roberto Rivera Ruiz de Porras, Meanwhile, Rep. Juan José Santiago will serve as municipal who will serve as senior advisor, and serving as general coordinator.

Financial matters will be handled by Harry Vega, Suleira Quiñones and Pedro Crespo. Crespo was part of Ortiz González’s financial team during the PDP presidential campaign.

“Three issues of importance in any campaign are the Government Plan, the electoral issue and the mobilization of voters or Get Out The Vote [GOTV],” Ortiz González said.

“For director of public policy, I have appointed Lizamarie Serrano, a young [PDP] woman who has stepped forward to direct it. Lizamarie is a lawyer by profession specializing in public policy and management. I am convinced that her sensitivity and knowledge of the issues will contribute to the drafting of a Plan that contains solutions to improve the quality of life of Puerto Ricans. The electoral team will be under the charge of former electoral commissioner and former secretary general of the PDP, Miguel Ríos Torres and Jehu Santiago [respectively].

Meanwhile, GOTV will be in the hands of Julia Torres, a woman who has fought many times for our party and who was the former secretary general of our party and former executive director of the Office of Special Communities under former governor Sila María Calderón.”

Ortíz González added that Omar Vázquez will be in charge of field operations and Jossie Vega will be the director of comPopular Democratic Party President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González munications.

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Governor points to two errors by judge in case of family tragedy in Yauco

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Tuesday that the judicial management that culminated in last week’s family massacre in Yauco had two flaws.

“First is the amount of that bail that was imposed at the rule 6 hearing, a very low bail for what the magistrate who heard the case had before her because we were talking about a repeat offender,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “A person who had already violated law 54 in the past. And that he was obviously a dangerous person and we’re talking about $5,000 bail, I mean, that cries before the eyes of God for someone like that person.”

“Second, the other failure was the failure to order him to have an electronic shackle when the Office of Pretrial Services had provided a report Gov. Pedro Pierluisi recommending that he be ordered to have an electronic shackle,” Pierluisi two failures are obvious to me.” continued. “It is the responsibility of the And regarding the responsibility judge who hears any case to review the of the prosecutors who attended the report submitted to the Pretrial Services hearings, Pierluisi insisted that the reOffice, and in this case because we are sponsibility lies with the judge who is talking about a repeat offender. There hearing the case. was no discretion; you had to order the “And there is no discretion there, it is one with that electronic shackle. Those not even a question of asking for it, it is

that I basically had to review that report from the Office of Pretrial Services and include the electronic shackle,” he said.

“So you think the prosecutor did well?” he was asked.

“I’m not going to be judging,” the governor answered. “Yes, I said, and I am going to repeat it, in a case like

this, in any case, of domestic violence, where there has been a ruling of justice, all branches have to conduct a self-reflection, the judicial branch of course, and now we have seen that, for example, the courts administrator has expressed himself very accurately on this matter.”

“Meanwhile, the Department of Justice, well, surely they should listen to those recordings and if they have to take any action, they will take it and there is always room for improvement, but that’s what I’m going to say,” Pierluisi said.

“It’s not that I’m here basically praising neither of the two branches, neither of them. The police must evaluate what they did, in case there was something that was not done, that should have been done. Justice must evaluate the performance of the prosecutor in charge of everything that happened in this case.”

On Jan. 24, Wilfredo Hiram Santiago Figueroa killed his ex-partner Linnette Morales Vázquez, his ex-mother-in-law, Lizzette Vázquez Vélez, 51 years old, and the ex-partner’s brother, Luis Miguel Morales Vázquez, 28 years old, in the Caimito sector of Yauco.

The triple slaying committed by Santiago Figueroa occurred after a court hearing for domestic violence was suspended. The subject took his life at his brother’s residence.

Summit meeting on violence against women convenes

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ep. Wanda del Valle Correa and Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera gathered many of the island government’s top brass at the Tropical Medicine building in San Juan earlier this week to evaluate a series of recommendations, viable alternatives, and proposals for strengthening laws to help save women from the claws of death in the face of the latest wave of domestic violence that has brought tragedy to Puerto Rico in the early weeks of 2024.

Participating in the task force were Public Safety Secretary Alexis Torres Figueroa; Puerto Rico Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa; the head of prosecutors at the Department of Justice, Jessika Correa González; Family Secretary Ciení Rodríguez Troche; the head of the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration, Carmen

Bonet Vázquez; acting Women’s Advocate Madeline Bermúdez Sanabria; Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Ana Escobar Pabón; the director of the Judicial Program, Raiza Cajigas; and PARE (a Spanish acronym for Gender Violence Prevention, Support, Rescue and Education) Compliance Officer Ileana Espada, among other components of Puerto Rico’s central government.

Del Valle stressed that “we can’t wait for three or four more to die.”

“We have to act and act now,” the District 38 (Trujillo Alto, Carolina and Canóvanas) legislator said. “The people of Puerto Rico expect a lot from us; they ask us to act, together, and that’s it.”

The police commissioner pledged to strengthen the knowledge of law enforcement officers and give them the necessary tools to deal with cases of gender violence.

Del Valle, meanwhile, called on Senate

President José Luis Dalmau Santiago and Vice President Marially González Huertas to “free up” the measures, of our authorship, which seek to help women [escape] from the clutches of death.”

“It is very important that all the women who inhabit our Island of Enchantment know that, at a time when the wave of domestic violence is on the front pages of newspapers, and television and radio newscasts, and that public demands are made for measures that help prevent deaths, we have established, and approved for a long time, in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, a slew of legislation that pursues the protection of women,” said del Valle, a member of the Women’s Committee in the lower chamber. “It’s time to speak the truth to all of Puerto Rico!”

She also urged the chairman of the same committee in the Senate, Sen. Migdalia González Arroyo (Mayagüez-Aguadilla), “to

clear the way for our measures now, because they are [...] coming from the perspective of our victims.”

“In addition, they are also very aware of the perpetrators, workshops, judges and police, among many other areas,” del Valle said.

Rep. Wanda del Valle Correa

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Mayor obtains guidelines for paving streets of communities invaded by squatters

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anóvanas Mayor Lornna Soto Villanueva on Tuesday announced new guidelines provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with the aim of paving the streets of communities invaded by squatters after Hurricane Hugo.

After Hurricane Hugo hit in 1989, citizens occupied areas in the Municipality of Canóvanas, some of them located in wetlands.

The situation led commonwealth and federal agencies to order the municipality to stop all

activity and work, except garbage collection, in those areas. In those years, part of the invaded communities, Villa Hugo 1 and 2 and Valle Hill, were left behind, and since then, the previously built roads have not been repaired, despite many municipal requests.

“I am happy because, although we have not achieved the goal of the community’s aspirations, it is progress for these communities where more than 3,000 people live,” the mayor said. “After an intense meeting with our team, we arranged a meeting with the Chief of Permits of the United States Army Corps of

Engineers, José Alicea-Pou [chief of the Antilles Permits Section] of the Jacksonville District, who took his time and provided us with clear guidelines that will allow us to execute an action plan to pave existing streets.”

“Given this situation, I have instructed the Municipal Public Works Department to begin an analysis and marking of authorized streets,” Soto Villanueva said. “In addition, I have sent letters to the senators of the District of Carolina, the representatives and the government of Puerto Rico to request their collaboration and support with economic

resources to carry out this work, which has an estimated $3 million.”

“We are committed to improving the quality of life of our citizens and to the rehabilitation of these affected communities,” the mayor added. “Paving these streets will significantly contribute to the safety and well-being of all residents. We appreciate the collaboration of federal and state agencies in this process and we trust that, with the support of our representatives, we will be able to advance this important initiative for Canóvanas.”

Caguas announces first set of investment decrees for 2024

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aguas Mayor William MirandaTorres granted the first three decrees of the Socioeconomic Development Incentives Code for this year, which represent $750,000 in new committed investment, more than $1.2 million in new annual sales volume and $1.3 million in export volume.

“The Code of Incentives for Socioeconomic Development has been an effective instrument to encourage socio-economic activity in the city, as it promotes the attraction of new companies and encourages the retention and expansion of existing ones,” the mayor said. “This type of benefit has helped us position Caguas as an attractive place for investment, which has laid the groundwork for investors from various sectors to trust our city

to create and expand their businesses. 2023 is evidence of this with the arrival of businesses in the entertainment sector, car sales, university institutions, and the expansion and remodeling in the distribution and pharmaceutical industries.”

The beneficiary companies are: Brain Mood Corp., a new technology development company located in the traditional urban center; Hardware Plus Inc., a distributor of hardware for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean; and Taroco S.E., dedicated to real estate services.

With the agreements, the city adds 37 full-time jobs, $1.3 million in annual payroll, $9.6 million in annual sales volume and the commitment to reach 50% in the acquisition of goods and services in Caguas and the central-eastern region.

In effect since 2012, the Socioeconomic Development In-

centives Code was designed by Emprende, the Caguas Economic Development Department. So far, 114 decrees have been granted.

With the agreements, Caguas adds 37 full-time jobs, $1.3 million in annual payroll, $9.6 million in annual sales volume and the commitment to reach 50% in the acquisition of goods and services in Caguas and the central-eastern region.

Guaynabo recycles upwards of 1,100 Christmas trees

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uaynabo Mayor Edward O’Neill Rosa announced on Tuesday the success of the recent municipal Christmas tree recycling initiative carried out by the Department of Recycling.

In the latest edition of the initiative, a total of 1,103 trees were recycled, thanks to the enthusiastic support of the community and the administration’s ongoing commitment to environmental preservation.

The tradition, which has been observed for 18 consecutive years, has proven to be a fundamental pillar in the environmental awareness of the residents of Guaynabo. Since 2007,

In the annual initiative’s 18th-straight edition, a total of 1,103 trees were recycled in Guaynabo.

the initiative has prevented Christmas trees from ending up at the transshipment plant, making way for a more sustainable and beneficial alternative for the community.

Recycled trees not only contribute to beautifying the city’s public gardens, but are also used as compost in La Marquesa Forest Park, thus strengthening biodiversity and the health of the natural environment.

O’Neill Rosa expressed his gratitude to the citizens and the Recycling and Beautification Program team for having exceeded the goal of 1,000 recycled trees.

“In our administration, we not only support the recycling of Christmas trees, but we have also strengthened this program, allocating more resources to raise citizen awareness about the impact on the planet by supporting recycling,” the mayor said in a press release.

To facilitate the participation of residents, collection centers equipped with a

special shredder were set up to recycle the trees. In addition, a collection route was designed for homes to coincide with the recycling points. Four collection points were organized in different parts of the city, with dedicated staff and equipment to efficiently manage the operation, the mayor said.

“This joint effort reflects Guaynabo’s ongoing commitment to environmental preservation and citizen participation in building a sustainable City,” the press release said.

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Manatí Patron Saint Festival to offer music & more starting Thursday

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anatí Mayor José Sánchez González on Tuesday announced the schedule of the Patron Saint Festival that will take place in the Luis Muñoz Rivera public square from Thursday to Sunday.

The long-awaited event will be a mix of music, sports activities and gastronomic events, all in honor of the town’s patron saint, the Virgen de la Candelaria.

To facilitate access to the areas of the activities, the municipality has designed four collective transport routes, A, B, C and D, from strategic points to reach the square.

The routes will operate from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. In addition, parking lots will be available in key locations such as the “La Candelaria” Underground Parking Lot, Puerta del Norte Parking Lot, Puerta del Este Parking Lot and the CDT Municipal Parking Lot. Music will be the soul of this 2024 edition of the festivities, with a varied selection representing all genres for the enjoyment of all families: Thursday, Feb. 1: Manolo Lezcano, Arnaldo Vallellanes, La Tribu de Abrante, La Secta Friday, Feb. 2: Giselle, Plenason, Omar Courtz, Andy Montañez Saturday, Feb. 3: Julio César Sanabria, Obie Bermúdez, Charlie Aponte, Grupo Manía

Manatí Mayor José Sánchez González

Sunday, Feb. 4: Odilio González, Luisito Carrión, Los Friends, Group 3,2,1, Rumba Caliente, Oscarito, Toño Rosario.

In addition to the cultural component, the festival will include various sporting events, such as the Boxing Cup, Taekwondo Cup, Basketball Cup and Volleyball Cup,

scheduled for Saturday at different times and locations.

On Sunday, the “La Candelaria 5K” road race event will take place, starting in front of the Immaculate Conception School and finishing at the public square. Kits can be picked up on the previous Friday and Saturday at Bike Center in Manatí from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The organizing group has designed a Religious Program in honor of the Virgen de la Candelaria: Today at 6 p.m.: Caravan of the Virgin “La Candelaria” -- Villa Amalia Community Thursday at 6 p.m.: Caravan of the Virgin of “La Candelaria” -- Pugnado Community Friday 6 p.m.: Blessing of the Candles, Procession 7 p.m.: Mass in Honor of the Patron Saint Virgen de la Candelaria 8 p.m.: Coronation of the Virgin, Burning of the Castle Saturday at 4 p.m.: Mass Sunday 8 a.m.: Mass dedicated to absent Manatieños 12 noon: Misa º The municipality has implemented a robust security and surveillance plan that includes security cameras, municipal police and state police for all days of celebration.

As part of the amenities, there will be food kiosks located around the public square.

San Juan presents cultural proposal for the month of love

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he cultural and entertainment proposal Teatro en 15 will resume its billboard displays starting Thursday with the February theme of love and friendship, San Juan Mayor Miguel A. Romero Lugo said Tuesday.

“Teatro en 15 is a pioneering initiative in our Capital City and Puerto Rico where 15-minute micro plays on different social, comedy, sentimental, cultural and fantasy themes and more are presented,” Romero Lugo said. “Since its launch on Sept. 1, 2021, this initiative has provided exposure and space to Puerto Rican productions. Over the past two years, Teatro en 15 has managed to present more than 130 productions. We will continue with more proposals for the enjoyment of all attendees.”

Every weekend in February, the public will be able to enjoy six different Puerto Rican plays, each lasting 15 minutes, at the Old San Juan Cultural House on San Sebastián Street.

“Mientras Duermes,” by producer and writer Christian Ruiz Estrada and director José Cheo Vidal, will be presented in Room 1. In this play, a man manages to return to the happiest moments of his relationship. He discovers something that can change the doom of what is coming to a future of joy and new experiences.

From writer, director and producer Rafael Pagán, “I Wanted to Tell You” will be presented in Room 2. There are so many things that Héctor has kept silent for years that it is time to say them; perhaps courage will help him,

or the constellations. If you want to know the answer that Esther will give him, you can’t miss this romantically strange comedy that happens door-to-door or heart-to-heart.

“Di Fiore in Fiore,” directed by Kiara Santana will be staged in Room 3. In the play, Amalia is an entrepreneurial florist who wants to remodel her flower shop. She hires Luis’ cabinetmaking service. The play continues with an uncomfortable meeting between the two. The story turns into a romantic comedy that invites us to believe in the opposite coincidences of fleeting love, that of a single time, a day and an instant.

“Exhausted Thoughts” will be in Room 4 and will have a sign language interpreter every Sunday. It is the story of a man who, for years, works in the basement of a post office. Through letters that he distributes, he builds an imaginary world of these people’s lives until a particular letter makes him remember a love that marked him and left him sunk in the darkness where exhausted thoughts dance in melancholy, searching for answers in a labyrinth of lost emotions. Each letter echoes what was, and each sigh attempts to release what is no longer. The heart is torn between remembering and forgetting, while the unsaid words weigh more than the spoken ones. The play is written

by Israel Franko Müller and directed by Doel Ramírez.

In Room 5, attendees can see “Honey, I Think We Killed the Neighbor,” directed by Edgardo Soto. It is about a couple in crisis seeking help from their therapist neighbor, but a gun accident during therapy triggers an unexpected and comical situation that shows that love can overcome

any obstacle.

Finally, in Room 6, the public can enjoy “Flor de Inframundo,” directed by Adrián Talledo and Neysha Morales. It is the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, a myth that audiences will sing and sing again. The piece will have performances in English on: Feb. 2, 3, 8, 9, 15, 16, 23 and 24.

Tickets to see Teatro en 15 cost $5 per play or $25 for the six micro plays and are available at the Old San Juan Cultural House on San Sebastián Street.

San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo

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Former contractor who leaked Trump’s tax returns sentenced to 5 years in prison

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former IRS contractor accused of leaking the tax documents of Donald Trump and other wealthy Americans was sentenced earlier this week to five years in prison.

The former contractor, Charles Littlejohn, known as Chaz, worked for the tax agency from 2017-21, when he stole the tax records of thousands of the country’s wealthiest people, including Trump, prosecutors said. Littlejohn then provided the information to The New York Times and ProPublica.

Prosecutors said his actions “appear to be unparalleled in the IRS’ history.”

Littlejohn, 38, pleaded guilty late last year to one count of the unauthorized disclosure of tax return information. In addition to five years in prison, which is one of the largest sentences in a federal leak investigation, Littlejohn was also sentenced to three years of supervised release, 300 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine.

“Today’s sentence sends a strong message that those who violate laws intended to protect sensitive tax information will face significant punishment,” Nicole M. Argentieri, the acting assistant attorney general who oversees the Justice Department’s criminal division, said in a statement. Prosecutors said the harm from Littlejohn’s disclosures were “so extensive and ongoing that it is impossible to quantify.”

A spokesperson for Trump did not im-

Former President Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a rally at Big League Dreams Sports Park in Las Vegas, Nev. on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. A former Internal Revenue Service contractor accused of leaking the tax documents of Donald Trump and other wealthy Americans was sentenced on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, to five years in prison. (Jordan Gale/ The New York Times) mediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump refused to disclose his tax returns, the first president to do so since the 1970s. The documents, considered critical to understanding his wealth and business practices, drew so much public interest that the IRS commissioner at the time ordered that Trump’s filings be secured in

a special vault.

Littlejohn, who had also worked as a contractor for the IRS between 2008-13, sought work there again in 2017 with the purpose of stealing Trump’s tax records, prosecutors said.

During that time, prosecutors said, Littlejohn “weaponized his access to unmasked taxpayer

data to further his own personal, political agenda, believing that he was above the law.”

In 2020, citing Trump’s tax documents, the Times reported that the former president paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he was elected president and that he had not paid any income taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years. In 2021, ProPublica published details about how the 25 wealthiest Americans, including Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Elon Musk paid relatively little in federal income taxes. The disclosures revived Democrats’ calls for imposing a wealth tax.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., who was also included in ProPublica’s reporting, said in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week that he was among the “thousands of American taxpayers” subjected to “partisan abuse” by Littlejohn.

A lawyer for Littlejohn, Lisa Manning, said her client did not disclose the tax documents to benefit himself.

“He committed this offense out of a deep, moral belief that the American people had a right to know the information and sharing it was the only way to effect change,” Manning wrote in a sentencing memo.

The disclosures fueled longtime accusations that the tax agency acts with political motivation, something agency officials have rebutted. In late 2022, House Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee released six years of Trump’s tax returns after a yearslong legal fight.

Defense secretary returns to Pentagon a month after surgery complications

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efense Secretary Lloyd Austin returned to the Pentagon earlier this week for the first time in more than a month, the Defense Department said, after his surgery for prostate cancer and hospitalization for related medical complications.

Austin was widely criticized for failing to immediately disclose his illness and absence to the White House, a breach of protocol that baffled officials across the government, including at the Pentagon.

His return to the building came one day after three U.S. service members were

killed in Jordan and at least 34 others injured in what the Biden administration said was a drone strike by an Iran-backed militia.

Austin met with the secretary-general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, and senior defense officials, including Gen. Charles Q. Brown, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Monday.

He expressed “outrage and sorrow for the death of three brave U.S. troops in Jordan and for the other troops who were wounded” and added that “we will take all necessary action to defend the U.S. and our troops.”

Austin said he was “glad to be back at the Pentagon. I feel good and am recovering

well, but still recovering.”

The House Armed Services Committee has asked Austin to testify next month about why he and his aides kept his illness secret.

The committee’s chair, Rep. Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., said that “Congress must understand what happened and who made decisions to prevent the disclosure of the whereabouts of a Cabinet secretary.”

Rogers said that he had scheduled a hearing for Feb. 14.

Austin, 70, has long been known as an intensely private man who eschews the limelight and dislikes talking to the news media — qualities that President Joe Biden was

fine with, his aides said, when he appointed the 40-year Army officer to be his defense secretary.

But in keeping secret his hospitalization, Austin attracted more attention to himself than at any point in his long career. He also drew scrutiny and criticism of Biden’s national security team during a period when it was dealing with multiple crises around the world, including wars in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine.

After learning about Austin’s condition, Biden said he maintained confidence in his defense secretary but faulted him for waiting to notify the White House.

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As buses of migrants arrive in Chicago suburbs, residents debate the role of their towns

By JULIE BOSMAN

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n different times, the tiny brick Metra station in the town of Wilmette in suburban Chicago was just a place where commuters grabbed lattes and waited on black metal benches before boarding trains to the city.

These days, it has also become a welcome center of sorts for migrants.

Large cardboard boxes full of coats, hats and gloves are tidily arranged along one wall.

Volunteers are working there daily, accepting donations of socks, puffy North Face jackets, snow pants and bars of soap. When busloads of migrants are dropped off in Wilmette — where their chaperones help them catch trains to downtown Chicago to be transferred to a shelter — they are first met by volunteers at the Wilmette station and given a few essentials.

The migrant crisis in Chicago is intensifying well beyond the city limits. For more than a month, city officials said, buses from Texas have avoided Chicago entirely, dropping hundreds of migrants in suburbs that have been given no warning that they are en route. In December, Chicago enacted penalties for bus operators who drop off passengers outside of designated times and locations or without a permit. The dynamic has played out elsewhere as well, sending some migrants to New Jersey suburbs of NewYork City.

As the suburban drop-offs near Chicago have grown, residents concerned about the

well-being of the migrants have raised funds and collected supplies. Many municipalities have quickly passed rules limiting buses similar to the restrictions set in Chicago, hoping to stay out of the fray. And some suburban residents are approaching their elected officials with growing alarm, making their feelings clear: We do not want any part of the migrant crisis.

In Wilmette, a town of 27,000 people where the median household income is about $183,000, dozens of residents have mobilized to help migrants with clothing and other needs before they board trains for the so-called landing zone in downtown Chicago, where they are routed to shelters around the city.

Jessica Leving Siegel, a nonprofit marketing consultant, lugged trash bags around the Metra station one night last week and directed her fellow volunteers. Leving Siegel, who wore a messy bun and a maroon T-shirt printed with the words “We are all refugees,” has organized clothing drives and helped migrants make money by shoveling snowy sidewalks in Wilmette.

“What I would like is for us to become the suburban landing zone,” she said.

Perhaps the town could also find landlords willing to rent to migrant families, she suggested.

Or volunteers in Wilmette could open a “free store” modeled after those in Chicago that offer donated items to asylum-seekers in need.

If Chicago is overwhelmed by the flow of migrants, Leving Siegel said, there should be a

Migrant families eat donated pizza while waiting for transportation in Chicago, on October 3, 2023. In recent weeks, buses have been bypassing the city for its smaller outlying communities, where people are unaccustomed to the flow of newcomers. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)

role for suburban communities, too.

“We clearly have so many people who want to help,” she said. “Instead of just saying, ‘As we shuffle you onto the Metra, we’ll throw a coat on you,’ I think there is a lot more that we could do.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who leads a city of 2.7 million people, has signaled that he wants other Illinois cities to help accommodate the newly arrived migrants.

On Wednesday, Johnson said he would like Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a fellow Democrat, to set up new shelters for migrants outside Chicago.

Although there are already 28 shelters in the city, Johnson said Chicago’s resources were stretched by the number of new migrants in its care — more than 14,000, at last count — and he has no plans to create more shelters.

“Shelters do not have to solely be set up and built in the city of Chicago,” Johnson said.

“The state can do it wherever they want.”

Oak Park, a city just west of Chicago, has devoted hundreds of thousands of dollars to support migrants, including federal funds, and last week, it extended shelter aid for another month.

Other suburbs have seemed far less eager to become involved.

Mayor Mike Turner of Woodstock, Illinois, said he felt sympathy for the migrant families who were unexpectedly dropped off in his town in late December and then transported on a commuter train to Chicago, about an hour to the southeast.

But Turner, who described himself as “a bleeding-heart-liberal conservative” in charge of a diverse city with a sizable Latino population, said the issue came down to resources.

“There’s folks who think, well, maybe we should be doing more,” he said. “We all agree that these people matter because they’re human beings. But we don’t have the ability to manage immigration long term.”

Woodstock, like many other small towns, does not have homeless shelters or a robust government infrastructure that could provide housing or other significant needs to migrants fromVenezuela, the country where most asylumseekers have come from.

When Turner talks to other mayors in the Chicago area, he said, “We all agree that this is not something that we, as smaller municipalities, can manage.”

Mary May, a spokesperson for the Office of Emergency Management and Communications in Chicago, said the last bus to drop newly arrived migrants in the city was on the night of Dec. 25. Because it violated city rules about drop-off hours and notification requirements, the bus was impounded, causing some to wonder if bus

operators were now reluctant to enter Chicago.

A similar phenomenon has played out in New Jersey, as busloads of migrants bound for New York City have been dropped in the suburbs to skirt city rules.

A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who has pressed to send new migrants to cities such as Chicago, did not respond to an email seeking comment.

Buses are still allowed to take migrants to downtown Chicago, provided they follow the city’s rules, leading some people to wonder why the suburban drop-offs are becoming the norm.

“I think it’s just to cause more problems, to cause more confusion,” said Michele Carney, a volunteer with the nonprofit Nuevos Vecinos, as she picked up a surplus of donated items in Wilmette that she intended to bring to migrants in the city. “They’re driving past Chicago to get all the way up to Wilmette. Why?” In Naperville, a prosperous suburb of Chicago that is the fourth-largest city in Illinois, a City Council member has pushed back on the notion that any public funds should be used to support asylum-seekers.

Josh McBroom, who describes himself as politically conservative, dryly suggested at a recent City Council meeting that Naperville residents who are in favor of helping migrant families were welcome to host them in their own homes.

In an interview, McBroom said no one had taken him up on his idea so far.

Instead, he said, the unspoken wish by many residents is for migrants to leave Naperville as quickly as they arrive. “Get on the train, go to Chicago, nice to meet you but keep moving,” he said, voicing what he believes to be a dominant attitude in town.

Ida Fiore, a volunteer from Lake Forest, who has helped organize care packages for migrants, said that ever since a busload of migrants arrived in nearby Highland Park in December, city officials and residents had worked to gather supplies for them.

The migrant crisis that has been increasingly visible in Chicago since late 2022 — with families sitting on sidewalks in the Loop and other neighborhoods, asking for money on cardboard signs — has felt more distant in the suburbs until recently, she said.

“The crisis is so obvious in the city,” Fiore said. “We’re asking ourselves: ‘What is the housing scenario for these people? Can a suburb provide any support and relief in the long term?’

And we all look at each other and have a lot more questions than answers.”

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Today’s teenagers: Anxious about their futures and disillusioned by politicians than boys to say so. The responses were largely consistent across race.

Young people have more awareness lthough it has never been easy to be of mental health issues today, and face less a teenager, the current generation stigma in talking about it. Their concern is of young Americans feels particureflected in increasing hospitalization and larly apprehensive, new polling shows suicide rates.

— anxious about their lives, disillusioned Other measures of well-being and about the direction of the country and ambition have declined slightly. Compared pessimistic about their futures. with millennials when they were that age, Just one-third of respondents ages 12 children 13-17 are a bit less likely to say to 17 said things were going well for children that they have a friend they can confide in, and teenagers today, in a survey publisthat they exercise regularly or that they plan hed Monday by Common Sense Media, a to attend college, Gallup found. children’s advocacy group. Less than half A major driver of the mental health said they thought they would be better off crisis, said Dr. Matthew Biel, the chief of the than their parents when they grew up — a division of child and adolescent psychiatry downbeat view shared among teenagers at Georgetown University Hospital, is “the in many rich countries, other data shows. digitization of our lives, and social media It’s not just about teenage angst. A in particular.” different survey, by Gallup and the Walton Teenagers agree. Asked for the main Family Foundation, the latest installment of cause of mental health issues in the Comwhich was also released Monday, has asked questions of young people over time and A protest against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in Boise, Idaho, on June 25, 2022. Tee- mon Sense survey, the largest share said the looked at how their answers have changed. nagers tend to be issue oriented, but say in surveys that politicians do not represent their negative impact of social media and the Members of Gen Z, ages 12-27, are signi- needs. (Angie Smith/The New York Times) internet, and the next largest said bullying, including online. ficantly less likely to rate their current and “Mental health in and of itself is a public health concern, future lives highly than millennials were when they were the not specifically tied to either party and they think the entire political system is failing,” said Celinda Lake, president of Lake and I think it’s also a signal of an overall sense of distress, same age, it found.

Among those 18-26, just 15% said their mental health Research Partners, a Democratic polling firm, and another uncertainty, dislocation,” Biel said.

Adults shared many of the teenagers’ concerns. In a was excellent. That is a large decline from 2013 and 2003, pollster behind the new survey.

An issue of prime importance to teenagers across surveys companion survey of 1,000 likely voters by Common Sense, when just over half said so.

Together, the surveys offer an unusually detailed look is education. Asked an open-ended question by Common a majority said things were not going well for families.

Eight in 10 said they were concerned about children’s at the perspectives of teenagers, who are rarely surveyed in Sense about the most important thing that could be done to improve the lives of children, a plurality, 1 in 5, said improving future economic opportunities, consistently across race, genhigh-quality polls.

“The data is pretty stark: Our kids are not all right,” said or reforming the education system. der and party.

More than half of teenagers said public K-12 schools James P. Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media.

Together, Lake said, the surveys suggest that the causes These impressions among young people could be were doing a fair or poor job. Just 8% said they were doing of teenagers’ pessimism — their concerns about politics, contributing to a challenge for the presidential campaigns an excellent job. education, mental health, social media and their financial Sixty percent said pandemic learning loss was a problem. futures — are interrelated, a message she said she wants the with the country’s newest eligible voters: Youth turnout and engagement, which helped President Joe Biden in particular Margaret Spellings, the CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center politicians she serves to understand. and a secretary of education under President George W. Bush, in 2020, appear to be down.

“Right now, if I said to clients that investing in kids is “For young people, the options that have been available said teenagers are “absolutely right.” the No. 1 issue, they would say, ‘No, the economy is No. “We have to get these kids caught up or they’re going 1,’ ” she said. “And what we would say to them is: You are to you your entire lifetime have been either Trump or Biden,” to have a world of hurt in their lives, and consequently in our missing what people want in this economy. Investment in said Kristen Soltis Anderson, a founding partner of Echelon country,” she said.

Insights, a Republican polling firm, and one of the pollsters children is central to the economy, both to young people When Gallup asked teenagers for the three words that and to adults.” who conducted the Common Sense Media survey. “You may best described how they felt in school, the most common be looking at that and saying, ‘No thanks.’ ” It’s not that soon-to-be voters are apathetic about public answers were bored, tired and pressured.

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Toyota halts shipments of 10 models over mishandling of engine tests

By HISAKO UENO and ANDRÉS R. MARTÍNEZ

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oyota Motor said it had halted the global shipments of 10 vehicles after it discovered that an affiliate had mishandled the testing of diesel engines used in the automobiles, the latest embarrassing problem to hit the world’s biggest automaker in recent months.

The Toyota affiliate used software to measure horsepower output that made “values appear smoother with less variation,” Toyota, the parent company, said in a statement earlier this week. The vehicles “meet engine output standards,” and there is no need to stop using the engines or the vehicles, the company said.

Still, Toyota decided to stop shipping the 10 models that use the three diesel engines at issue. Among the models that will temporarily be shut down are the popular Hilux pickup truck and the Land Cruiser 300 SUV. Toyota did not say how many vehicles were affected.

Japan’s transportation ministry said in a statement that it had ordered Toyota Industries to address its mismanagement of the engine testing, adding that it would conduct inspections and issue penalties.

“Fraud is an act that undermines user confidence and shakes the very foundation of the automobile certification system,” the ministry said.

Toyota vehicles shipped from Japan at the Port of Long Beach, Calif., on Oct. 14, 2020. Toyota Motor says it has halted the global shipments of 10 vehicles after it discovered that an affiliate had mishandled the testing of diesel engines used in the automobiles, the latest embarrassing problem to hit the world’s biggest automaker in recent months. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times) At a news conference, Koichi Ito, CEO of Toyota Industries, apologized for the mishaps. “We are extremely sorry that this was caused by Toyota Industries Corp.,” he said. “The cause for the problem was our company system structure.”

Koji Sato, CEO of Toyota Motor, said the problem

affected the production of about 43,000 diesel engines a month.

In December, Toyota was rocked by a series of recalls and production shutdowns. First, it recalled about 1 million vehicles in the United States because of an issue with air bags. Then, it reported that Japan’s government was investigating Daihatsu, the subsidiary, for safety problems that dated back decades.

Daihatsu said it would stop shipments of all of its models because of the safety-inspection irregularities. Last week, it said it was recalling 320,000 Daihatsu vehicles and was still not ready to reopen its production facilities.

Toyota said it understood “the gravity” of the two back-to-back testing problems that “have shaken the very foundations of the company as an automobile manufacturer.”

Japanese auto companies are facing their biggest business challenge since becoming global giants in the 1980s. Toyota, which in the 1970s became the leader in automotive manufacturing efficiency, has failed to keep up with changing consumer preferences and a push by governments around the world to greatly reduce the burning of fossil fuels, the main cause of climate change. Last year China supplanted Japan as the world’s largest exporter of cars.

Walmart offers store managers company stock to make them feel like ‘owners’

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almart, the nation’s largest private employer, is raising salaries and benefits for store managers as it looks for ways to retain them.

Walmart said earlier this week that managers of its U.S. stores would be eligible for grants of up to $20,000 in company stock every year. The stock will vest over a three-year period, with a percentage vested each quarter.

Earlier this month, Walmart said it would increase the average salary for store managers to $128,000 from $117,000.

The big-box retailer also said bonuses for store managers

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could reach up to 200% of base salary, with a store’s profitability becoming a bigger factor in the calculation.

Store managers are crucial in driving sales and profitability within their stores and keeping morale high in a dynamic business. The managers are also seen as an important pipeline for leadership at the company.

A store manager at a Walmart Supercenter oversees hundreds of employees who work across a variety of departments, including food, apparel, pharmacies and auto centers. These stores often attract scores of shoppers and bring in millions of dollars in sales each year. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, store managers were given even more responsibilities as the company adapted to changing consumer behavior, including managing e-commerce abilities such as in-store pickup for online orders and navigating goods that are out of stock as well as excess inventory.

“It’s fair to say that we’re asking them to act like owners and to think like owners,” John Furner, the CEO of Walmart U.S. and previously a manager at a company store, said in a briefing with reporters.

The size of the stock grant to managers will be based on the Walmart store format. Managers at Supercenters will be eligible for the most, up to $20,000 a year. For the other two tiers of stores, which are often smaller and have

fewer departments, managers will be eligible for $10,000 or $15,000 in annual stock grants.

Retailers have sought ways to retain workers as people moved in and out of jobs throughout the pandemic in search of higher wages and more opportunities. Until recently, Walmart has concentrated on increasing wages for store workers.

Turnover within Walmart’s stores stabilized after 2022, and the company feels good about its staffing levels, Furner said.

“The store manager ranks have been more stable the last couple of years,” he said.

“We’re keeping store managers in their location a bit longer, and it’s good for an entire team to have a manager for a few years versus a year or something less than that,” he added. “So that’s a good sign.”

Furner noted that Walmart already had a stock purchase program that matched 15% of an employee’s purchase up to $1,800. But Monday’s announcement goes beyond that.

He also said that the new program would allow store managers to share in the rewards of a growing business and rising stock price. On Friday, Walmart’s stock closed at $164.27. Over the past five years, it has increased nearly 43%.

“If we perform well and the price of the stock goes up, then our management teams, our store managers in particular, will be able to participate,” Furner said.

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Investors yank over $100 billion from hedge funds in 2023 I nvestors withdrew over $100 billion from hedge funds last year in a second consecutive year of outflows of this scale, according to a Nasdaq eVestment report on Tuesday, against a backdrop of volatile markets and changing investor preferences.

In December alone, investors removed roughly $26 billion from hedge funds, the largest monthly amount in 2023.

This tipped the total outflows for last year to $103 billion, compared to $112 billion in 2022, said the report.

The outflows point to an interplay of different factors influencing investor decisions, said Bruno Schneller, a managing director at INVICO Asset Management.

“Market volatility, geopolitical tensions, and a shift in investor preference towards more liquid and transparent assets amidst global economic uncertainties have played pivotal roles,” he said.

The decline in outflows in 2023 from the previous year indicated a “nuanced investor response” to the changing global economy, he added.

However, the industry has still grown, the Nasdaq eVestment report showed.

Hedge fund assets (which combines investor money, leverage and performance growth) has increased in four of the last five years, said the report.

The hedge fund industry assets under management (AUM) rose in 2023 to an estimated $3.5 trillion, up 3.2% from the year before, the report said.

Over the last five years, the industry grew at an annualized rate of about 2%, which includes the 6.5% AUM decline in 2022, the report said.

Hedge funds trading value differences between bonds raked in $4 billion in 2023, the highest hedge fund strategy inflows and a notable jump from the $5.5 billion those funds saw withdrawn in 2022, said Nasdaq eVestment.

Hedge funds taking bets on stocks saw an estimated $35 billion withdrawn for the year, the highest strategy outflows in 2023.

Event-driven hedge funds which often trade off of mergers and acquisitions deals saw a $25 billion of outflows last year, said Nasdaq eVestment.

U.S. stocks were muted on Tuesday as mixed corporate earnings and solid economic data preoccupied investors while the Federal Reserve convened for its monetary policy meeting.

The S&P 500 fell, hovering just below Monday’s all-time closing high, while the Nasdaq, weighed by megacap tech and tech-related stocks including Apple Inc, Amazon.com and Alphabet Inc, suffered a steeper percentage drop.

The blue-chip Dow was modestly higher.

Economically sensitive sectors such as Dow Transports, chips and small caps were underperforming the broader market.

“Markets are in a holding pattern given the busy week,” said Ross Mayfield, investment strategy analyst at Baird in Louisville, Kentucky. “There’s nothing market-moving especially on the doorstep of so many big items over the next

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On the economic front, the Labor Department reported an unexpected rise in job openings, hinting that the jobs market remains too solid for the Fed to consider cutting its key policy rate as soon as March.

The Fed is expected to end its policy meeting on Wednesday with a decision to let its key interest rate stand at 5.25%-5.50%. Its accompanying statement and Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s subsequent press conference will be parsed

for clues on the timing and number of rate cuts this year.

“I don’t think anyone expects any change in (Fed) policy, but the statement and the press conference are marketmoving events,” Mayfield added. “Obviously the market will be gauging the level to which the Fed confirms their dovish pivot for 2024.”

Fourth-quarter reporting season has shifted into overdrive, with 144 of the companies in the S&P 500 having reported. Of those, 78% have delivered consensus-beating earnings, according to LSEG. On aggregate, analysts now expect fourth-quarter earnings growth of 5.5% over last year, up from the 4.7% seen at the beginning of the month, LSEG data showed.

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Israeli forces kill a Hamas commander inside a West Bank hospital, military says

By AARON BOXERMAN

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sraeli forces stormed a Palestinian hospital in the occupied West Bank early Tuesday morning, killing three militants, including a Hamas commander, according to the Israeli military and Palestinian officials.

The top Palestinian health official in the city of Jenin, Wisam Sbeihat, said Israeli forces had entered Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital there dressed in civilian clothes and carrying weapons. They went to the room where the Hamas commander, Mohammad Jalamneh, 27, was staying with two friends, and shot all three dead, Sbeihat said.

Surveillance video released by the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry shows multiple gunmen in apparent civilian garb — including one dressed in a white medical coat and another in blue scrubs — walking through the hospital halls, brandishing weapons. The Israeli raid took less than 15 minutes, said Niji Nazzal, the Ibn Sina hospital director.

“This is a hospital. It deserves protection from all kinds of violence,” Nazzal said. “But unfortunately,” he added, “this is what happened.”

In a statement, Hamas mourned Jalamneh as a leader in the Al Qassam Brigades, the Palestinian faction’s armed wing. A local militia affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed his companions — brothers Mohammad Ghazawi and Basil Ghazawi — as members.

Israeli soldiers in central Gaza on Jan. 8, 2024, during an escorted press tour by the military. The political chief of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, announced on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, that the militant group had received a proposal to pause the fighting in Gaza, after representatives from four nations agreed to present the group with a framework that would begin with a six-week cease-fire to allow for the release of more hostages. (Avishag ShaarYashuv/The New York Times) The Israeli military said all three had been involved in militant activity, including attacks against Israelis. Jalamneh had also been planning “to carry out a terror attack in the immediate future and used the hospital as a hiding place,” the military said.

Basil Ghazawi was paralyzed and had been treated in the hospital’s rehabilitation

ward since late October, Nazzal said. The Israeli military said that he and Mohammed Ghazawi “hid inside the hospital.”

Basil Ghazawi was wounded in his spinal column by shrapnel from an Israeli drone strike on Oct. 25, Nazzal said. That could not be independently confirmed, but the Israeli military said at the time that a drone

had fired on Palestinian gunmen who had hurled explosive devices and fired on Israeli soldiers in Jenin. It did not name Ghazawi.

Surging violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where millions of Palestinians live under Israeli military rule, has prompted fears of another front in the Middle East crisis spiraling out of Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Since the war in Gaza began, at least 367 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers and civilians in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, the highest toll in years, the United Nations said Monday.

Israel has escalated its attempts to crack down on Palestinian militant activity in the West Bank since Hamas’ surprise Oct. 7 attack on Israel prompted full-blown war. More than 2,980 Palestinians have been arrested since the beginning of the war in near-daily raids, more than 1,350 of them affiliated with Hamas, according to the Israeli military.

The covert raid within the hospital in Jenin raised questions under international law, experts said. Hospitals require special protection and respect under the laws of war, although that protection ceases if the compounds are used for military purposes, according to Eliav Lieblich, an expert on international law at Tel Aviv University.

If Ghazawi was indeed paralyzed and incapable of defending himself, he should not have been subject to attack under customary international law, Lieblich said.

“Whether this was the case here is a question of fact,” he said.

Farmers block traffic near Paris before prime minister’s speech

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arricades of tractors and bales of hay snarled traffic around Paris on Tuesday for a second day as hundreds of angry farmers blocked roads in and out of the French capital before a major policy speech by France’s prime minister.

Authorities closed off whole sections of at least seven major highways around Paris because of the protests, sometimes for several miles, as farmers demanded solutions to their varied list of demands on farming subsidies, environmental regulations and foreign competition.

About 1,000 protesters with more than 500 tractors formed the road barricades around Paris, according to estimates by French authorities reported in the news media.

The traffic bottlenecks, while bad, did not encircle the city and were not crippling, and broader disruptions to the French capital, such as delayed deliveries of food and other products, were so far limited.

Protesting farmers also blocked roads in other areas

of France. In the southwestern region, where the protests started and where they have been particularly acute, farmers tried to block access to the main airport serving Toulouse by setting bales of hay on fire.

The French prime minister, Gabriel Attal, was expected Tuesday to give his first major policy speech since his appointment to the position by President Emmanuel Macron this month.

Attal has tried to appease the protesters by scrapping plans to end state subsidies for fuel used by farmers and by vowing more rapid aid for cattle sickened by a hemorrhagic disease that recently hit the southwest, among other measures.

But those attempts do not appear to have placated many of the protesters.

The government has promised further measures, but it was not immediately clear whether Attal would use his speech to announce them. The speech, a wide-ranging presentation of his government’s plans before the lower house of Parliament, was scheduled before the farmer

protests erupted across France last week.

Arnaud Rousseau, the head of France’s largest and most powerful farmers’ union, told Europe 1 radio Tuesday that his members were “fully determined.” But, he added, “our goal is not disorder,” and he urged for “calm” and “nonviolent” protests.

That strategy is being challenged by smaller, more radical unions and groups of farmers. Some of them have suggested disrupting the wholesale food market in Rungis, just south of Paris — one of the largest in Europe, and a crucial source of produce for the capital region.

Authorities have already deployed armored police vehicles there to head off any incursions. Police forces have also tried to delay a convoy of about 200 tractors that left southwestern France on Monday with Rungis in its sights.

Macron has said little publicly so far about the farmers’ ire. He was on an official trip to India last week during much of the protests, and he is currently in Sweden for a state visit.

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Mix-up preceded deadly drone strike in Jordan, US officials say

By ERIC SCHMITT

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ir defenses failed to stop an attack on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan on Sunday that killed three U.S. soldiers at least in part because the hostile drone approached its target at the same time a U.S. drone was returning to the base, two U.S. officials said earlier this week.

The enemy drone was mistaken for a U.S. surveillance drone returning to the remote resupply base, and air defenses were not immediately engaged, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss preliminary findings of a major cause of the episode. Two other drones that attacked other locations nearby in southeast Syria were shot down, they added.

The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the drone mix-up, now at the heart of an investigation by the military’s Central Command into the deadly attack that has drawn vows of retaliation from President Joe Biden, raised doubts about American military defenses in the Middle East, and begged anew questions about the administration’s efforts to deter attacks by Iran-backed militias against merchant vessels, warships and military bases in the region.

Sunday’s attack killed three U.S. Army Reserve soldiers, the first known U.S. military fatalities from hostile fire in the turmoil spilling over from the Israel-Hamas war. The Pentagon on Monday raised the injured toll to at least 40, with a warning that the list would probably grow as additional troops come forward with symptoms of brain trauma from the blast.

Biden administration officials blamed a drone launched by an Iran-backed militia from Iraq, and suspicions at the Pentagon immediately fell on Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-affiliated group in Iraq. “It has the footprints of Kataib Hezbollah,” Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokesperson, told reporters, noting that intelligence analysts were still assessing the strike.

The Pentagon on Monday identified the dead soldiers as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia. The three were assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, an Army Reserve unit based in Fort Moore, Georgia.

The drone strike on Tower 22, an outpost in northeast Jordan near its borders with Syria and Iraq, escalated hostilities in the region that have been mounting since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent war in the Gaza Strip.

In an image provided by Planet Labs, a satellite photo shows military outpost known as Tower 22 in northeast Jordan in 2023. Three U.S. service members were killed in Jordan on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, and at least 34 others were injured in what the Biden administration said was a drone attack from an Iran-backed militia, the first known American military fatalities from hostile fire in the turmoil spilling over from Israel’s war with Hamas. (Planet Labs via The New York Times) A military investigation is underway to determine exactly what went wrong. Pentagon officials said the base’s air defenses were functioning properly early Sunday. Weather was not a factor.

One theory military officials are examining is that militants studied the patterns of U.S. drone flights and deliberately positioned their attack drone near the returning U.S. drone to make it harder to spot. Militia planners could have used Google Earth images of the base to guide the explosives-laden drone to the center of a mass target like the living quarters.

Biden has vowed to retaliate, and he met for a second straight day Monday with his senior national security aides to discuss possible targets in Syria, Iraq and Iran. Senior U.S. officials said attacking Iran directly was less likely, although the U.S. military has drawn up plans to strike Iranian military advisers and trainers in Iraq and Syria in the event that U.S. troops were killed by Iran-backed militias in the Middle East.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday — his first day back to work at the Pentagon since his surgery last month for prostate cancer — condemned the attacks and vowed retribution.

“Let me start with my outrage and sorrow for the deaths of three brave U.S. troops in Jordan and for the other troops who were wounded,” Austin said before meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

“The president and I will not tolerate attacks

reporters Monday about when and how the United States would respond, Kirby and Singh declined to comment on specific options. They emphasized that the administration was seeking to avert a wider war in the region, even as they blamed the attack for escalating tensions.

“We’re not looking for a war with Iran,” Kirby said, adding, “The attacks need to stop.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that he would not “telegraph” any potential U.S. response but that such action “could be multileveled, come in stages — and be sustained over time.”

Blinken added: “This is an incredibly volatile time in the Middle East. I would argue that we have not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we’re facing now across the region since at least 1973, and arguably even before that.”

For its part, Iran on Monday denied any link to the attack and blamed the U.S. for igniting tensions in the region.

About 350 Army and Air Force personnel are deployed to the Tower 22 border outpost. It serves as a logistics and resupply hub for the al-Tanf garrison nearby in southeastern Syria, where U.S. troops work with local Syrian partners to fight remnants of the Islamic State group.

The one-way attack drone hit near the outpost’s living quarters, causing injuries that ranged from minor cuts to brain trauma, a U.S. military official said. Eight U.S. service members were flown to Iraq for medical care, and three of those were expected to be flown to Germany for even more advanced treatment, Singh said.

The soldiers and airmen were living in containerized housing units, or CHUs, Singh said, essentially aluminum boxes a little bigger than a commercial shipping container. They have linoleum floors and cots or beds inside, and can be easily transported on trucks.

“What was different about this attack is where it landed,” Singh said. “It was pretty early in the morning, so people were actually in their beds when the drone impacted.”

on U.S. forces, and we will take all necessary actions to defend the U.S. and our troops.”

The drone strike in Jordan underscored that the Iran-backed militias — whether in Iran or Syria, or the Houthis in Yemen — remained capable of inflicting serious consequences on U.S. troops despite the U.S. military’s efforts to weaken them and avoid tumbling into a wider conflict, possibly with Iran itself.

U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria, and now Jordan, have come under attack at least 165 times since October — 66 times in Iraq, 98 times in Syria and Sunday’s attack in Jordan, the Pentagon said Monday. More than 80 service members had suffered injuries, including brain trauma, before the latest salvo.

“We know that Iran supports these groups,” John Kirby, a National Security Council spokesperson, said Monday. “We know they resource them, we know they train them.

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Colombia, a usually wet nation, reels amid widespread wildfires

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elicopters hauling buckets of water fly toward the mountains where fires burn, a thick haze periodically covers the sky, and residents have been ordered to wear masks and limit driving because of the poor air quality.

For a full week, firefighters have been battling fires in the mountains around Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, as dozens of other blazes have burned across the country, in what officials say is the hottest January in three decades.

The president has declared a national disaster and asked for international help fighting the fires, which he says could reach beyond the Andes Mountains and erupt on the Pacific Coast and in the Amazon.

Colombia’s fires this month are unusual in a country where people are more accustomed to torrential rain and mudslides than fire and ash. They have been attributed to high temperatures and drought exacerbated by the climate phenomenon known as El Niño.

Ricardo Lozano, a geologist and former environment minister of Colombia, said El Niño was a natural phenomenon that occurred cyclically, but that with climate change, “these events are more and more intense and more and more extreme.”

This month brought record temperatures to Colombia, including 111 degrees Fahrenheit in Honda, a colonial town between the cities of Medellín and Bogotá. It has dried out forests, savannas and normally damp highlands known as páramos, turning parts of the country into a tinderbox.

As dozens of fires have burned, more than 100 square miles have been scorched, and with temperatures continuing to soar, officials say more fires are likely before the

A military helicopter drops water from a bucket over fires near Bogota, Colombia, Jan. 29, 2024. Firefighters have been battling fires in the mountains around Bogota for a full week as dozens of other blazes have burned across the country. (Federico Rios/The New York Times) rainy season begins in April.

Fires have also broken out in neighboring Venezuela and Ecuador, including in an ecological preserve.

Across Colombia, firefighting crews made up in many places of volunteers say they are outmatched by fires fueled by heat and winds.

“One of the hardest things is finishing a shift and turning back to look at the mountains only to see more hot spots,” said Santiago Botello, a risk-management coordinator for Bogotá’s volunteer firefighters. The volunteers, he said, make up about a quarter of the roughly 600 firefighters who have been battling the fires in the mountains above the city of nearly 8 million.

“It is physically exhausting,” said Botello, adding, “Obviously it is not common to see something like this in Bogotá.”

Three fires in the mountains that run along one side of Bogotá, known as the Cerros Orientales, sent plumes of smoke pouring

over the city last week, grounding dozens of flights and leading to evacuations of some schools and buildings.

The mayor, Carlos Fernando Galán, declared Bogotá’s fires officially under control late Sunday, though not extinguished, and on Monday, new fires were reported both in the city and in Sopó, a town on its outskirts.

Helicopters continued to hover over Bogotá. Some were Black Hawk helicopters donated by the United States in 2022 and renamed by Colombia’s government “Guacamayas,” or macaws, signaling their new role fighting fires, instead of just the decadeslong drug war.

As the helicopters hauled water to hot spots, hiking trails that usually draw tourists with their lush woods, mountain streams and panoramic views remained closed.

Eduardo Campos, a biologist who runs a company offering hikes in the mountains, said a carpet of leaves left by nonnative species, including pines and eucalyptus, had dried out during El Niño and had fueled the flames.

The damage was extensive, Campos said.

Poor farmers living in the mountains had been displaced; animals including birds, mammals and small snakes had been incinerated; and swaths of the forest had been decimated.

“It will take years for the forest to reestablish itself,” he said.

Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, said Friday that 95% of the fires across the country had been started by people rather than by natural causes such as lightning — either accidentally, while burning garbage or clearing the land for farming, or with criminal intent. As of this week, 26 people had been detained.

At least one person has been killed, a 74-year-old man in La Capilla, a small town about 70 miles northeast of Bogotá. Authorities said his body had been found in his home after a fire there was put out.

The fires have been particularly devastating to the páramos, which are home to rare plants called frailejones and are crucial to supplying water to urban populations.

Hernán Morantes, an environmental lawyer and advocate for the Páramo of Santurbán, a natural

preserve 300 miles northeast of Bogotá, said there had been fires in the area before, “but never in the magnitude of this one.”

The Colombian government is asking people to report fires with the hashtag “El Niño is not a game.”

In seeking international assistance, including from the United Nations, President Gustavo Petro said this weekend: “The emergency due to global warming, combined with the phenomenon of El Niño, has necessitated action on several fronts. One has to do with heat waves and human health. Another with the forest fires. Another with the stress on the water supply.”

Brazil, Canada and Peru have promised to send aid to Colombia, the government said.

Petro said countries in the region needed to prepare to address what could be “a planetary emergency in the Amazonian rainforest.”

In recent years, fires in Brazil have consumed vast sections of the rainforest.

Petro has made tackling climate change a centerpiece of his agenda, including reducing deforestation and weaning the country off exporting fossil fuels. While some in Colombia have applauded the president’s emphasis on the link between this month’s fires and climate change, others have criticized him for not taking concrete steps to prepare.

Morantes, the lawyer and advocate, said budget cuts to fire departments and a lack of planning had hobbled the country’s ability to respond to the fires, a claim echoed by officials formerly involved in disaster relief.

“We should have already had all the instruments of international cooperation ready, airplanes, everything,” he said. “The issue is the country is not ready. It is clearly not ready.”

Responding to the claims, Colombia’s environment ministry said in a statement Monday that it had been planning for El Niño for months, citing as an example the aerial response now underway.

The ministry said that more than $2 billion had been allocated for fire preparedness and response, and that a community network had been created for prevention and communication.

“This situation is not a surprising streak of fires,” the statement said. “It is the phenomenon of El Niño combined with the climate crisis that has lead to extremely dry conditions.

To this, let’s add the hand of man that, intentionally or accidentally, has caused the fires.”

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The meaning of Gaza’s tunnels

By BRET STEPHENS

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ver since Israel withdrew its soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, critics have accused it of blockading and immiserating the territory — turning it, as Israel’s inveterate critics say, into an “openair prison.”

The charge was always preposterous. Gaza shares a border with Egypt. The people of Gaza were often treated in Israeli hospitals for cancer and other lifethreatening conditions. Israel provided Gaza with much of its electricity and other critical goods even after Hamas came to power in 2007.

Now, as Israeli troops uncover more of Gaza’s vast underground city, the falsity of the accusation has become even more apparent.

According to a report this month in The New York Times, Israeli defense officials now estimate that Hamas’ tunnels measure between 350 and 450 miles in a territory that’s just 25 miles long. (By comparison, the London Underground is only 249 miles long.) Some of Gaza’s tunnels are wide enough for cars; some are more than 150 feet deep; some serve as munitions depots; others are comfortably kitted out as command bunkers.

Israeli officials also estimate that there are 5,700 separate entrances to the tunnels — many of them with access from civilian houses and some directly beneath Gaza City’s main hospital, which U.S. intelligence

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agencies say was also used as a Hamas command center.

Within that maze, scores of Israeli hostages, including a year-old infant, are being held without fresh air, sunlight, adequate medicine or food, or visits from the Red Cross.

All this should radically reconfigure the world’s understanding of what Hamas has done in, and to, Gaza.

It has turned the territory into a gigantic military fortress purpose-built to attack Israel, endure Israeli retaliation and interpose civilian lives and infrastructure as part of its means of defense. Imagine any other government doing something similar to its people — say, putting the NORAD command center directly below Times Square — for a sense of the outrage Hamas is perpetrating against its own people.

That’s not the only outrage. How much did it cost to build these tunnels? How much concrete, steel and electricity did it divert from civilian needs? How many millions of hours of labor were given to the effort? What was the cost of building up its stockpile of thousands of rockets, which continue to be fired at Israel? How many ordinary Gaza civilians had to be conscripted into the effort of miserably shoveling dirt deep underground — and how many perished in the effort?

We may never know for sure. But in 2014, around the time Israel first started to get a sense of the scale of Hamas’ tunnel network, The Wall Street Journal, citing Israeli military officials, reported that the cost of building 32 tunnels (a small fraction of what has since been uncovered) came to around $90 million.

“Some tunnel-building materials also came from aid earmarked for development projects by international aid agencies in Gaza or were purchased on the open market when Israel allowed some imports into Gaza starting in 2010,” the Journal added.

In other words, Hamas stole from foreign donors, subtracted what probably amounted to billions of dollars over several years from Gaza’s gross domestic product, and diverted labor from productive to destructive ends, all to feed its war machine. Western progressives are usually against this sort of thing, at least when it comes to the guns-to-butter ratio in their own democracies.

Why are they virtually silent about it now?

The tunnels also help explain the level of destruction that Israel has wreaked on Gaza since the war began. If Hamas hides the bulk of its fighters and munitions in the tunnels, Israel somehow has to find, search and destroy those tunnels. If Hamas builds the entrances to those tunnels inside private homes, schools or hospitals, those places all become military targets.

And if there are nearly 6,000 such entrances, the destruction is all but guaranteed to be epochal — just as it was in Mosul when the United States assisted Iraq in destroying the Islamic State group (which was much less deeply entrenched there than Hamas is in Gaza) over nine months in 2016 and 2017. I don’t recall “Cease-Fire Now” demonstrations on college campuses back then.

A shaft leading to a tunnel in Gaza on Dec. 15, 2023.

“Ever since Israel withdrew its soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005, critics have accused it of blockading and immiserating the territory — turning it, as the saying went, into an ‘open-air prison,’ ” Bret Stephens writes. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times) It’s possible that Israel could fight with more discrimination to spare Palestinian lives while still destroying Hamas’ ability to make war. If so, it behooves Israel’s constant critics to explain precisely how, and to do so in a way that doesn’t let Hamas off the hook.

Otherwise, the tragic reality of this war is that it is going to be catastrophic for Gaza — not because Israel wills it, but because Hamas spent years of cynical efforts to make it so.

Hamas could have averted this tragedy if it had turned Gaza into an enclave for peace rather than terror.

It could have averted it if it had not started four previous rounds of war against Israel. It could have averted it if it had honored the cease-fire that held on Oct. 6. It could have lessened the blow against the people of Gaza by fighting in the open, not behind civilians. It could have eased it by releasing all of its hostages. It could end it now by surrendering its leaders and sending its fighters into exile.

Till then, something I wrote in October holds true now: Hamas bears the blame for every death in this war.

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Colectiva Feminista convoca Paro de Mujeres en respuesta al aumento en la violencia de género POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción convocó el martes, un Paro de Mujeres para este próximo 8 de marzo, Día Internacional de las Mujeres, en la que exigirán rendición de cuentas por la implementación del Estado de Emergencia contra la violencia de género.

Según la organización, las fallas en la atención a sobrevivientes discutidos en los días recientes, responden a que no existe una respuesta integrada por parte del gobierno ni un sentido de urgencia ante la situación.

“En enero del 2021, cuando el gobernador Pedro Pierluisi decretó el Estado de Emergencia, nos pidió a las mujeres y sobrevivientes del país un voto de confianza. Tres años después, los resultados de su gestión para ejecutar esa política pública son cuestionables. Cuando todavía arrancaban los trabajos se disolvió el Comité PARE, eliminando todo elemento de colaboración con organizaciones y con la comunidad. Para ese entonces, las compañeras alertaban que no se había concretado nada de los trabajos dirigidos a la prevención. Los efectos de la falta de ese componente los estamos viendo hoy día”, aseguró Adli Cordero Espada, trabajadora social y portavoz de la organización, en declaraciones escritas.

Para la Colectiva, el hecho de que los trabajos hubiesen sido descontinuados y que se haya eliminado el componente de colaboración entre agencias y organizaciones, “ha abonado a la dejadez y falta de transparencia por parte de las agencias de gobierno”. De hecho, según compartieron, el año

pasado en un informe realizado por la Comisión de Asuntos de la Mujer, se reveló que “la Policía de Puerto Rico aún mantiene en la impunidad cientos de casos de policías señalados por violencia doméstica y que no cumple con su protocolo de remoción de armas de reglamento”.

Sobre el tema de prevención, la abogada y portavoz Zoán Dávila Roldán aseguró que se sigue usando como balón político.

“Nosotras sí impulsamos la implementación de la perspectiva de género, pero esa no es la única herramienta. Tenemos que pensar en toda la población y desde ahí diseñar campañas educativas para desaprender, y así poder erradicar la violencia”, añadió Dávila.

Sobre las reuniones interagenciales convocadas en estos días, las portavoces sentenciaron que responde a la necesidad de proyectar unidad de acción y agilidad, cuando eso es lo que no ocurre en la práctica. Asimismo, denunciaron el oportunismo político de legisladores y candidatos a puestos políticos que han aprovechado la discusión de estos días, para impulsar sus candidaturas.

“El gobierno solo atiende con premura la situación de violencia de género cuando ocurren una de dos cosas: si estamos ejerciendo presión en la calle o cuando asesinan una mujer. En estos días varias compañeras han perdido la vida y no vamos a esperar que muera una sola más. Para nosotras queda claro que hay que tirarse a la calle. Si el gobierno necesita presión para hacer, pues vamos ejercer presión. Vamos a tomar las calles nuevamente seamos “cinco gatas”, o seamos miles. Y ese es el llamado que queremos hacer en la mañana

de hoy. Nos queremos dirigir a todas las mujeres que viven y sobreviven esta violencia a diario, a las amigas, hermanas, madres y tías, compañeras de trabajo, a las que acompañan a quienes la sufren, a las compañeras que alguna vez se tiraron a la calle a luchar. Nos toca nuevamente tomar las calles y luchar por nuestras vidas”, aseveró la dirigente y portavoz, Shariana Ferrer Núñez.

La jornada camino al 8 de marzo llevará como lema “Nosotras por nuestras vidas” y consistirá de una serie de acciones, movilizaciones, talleres y encuentros que comenzarán esta semana.

Presentan proyecto que promueve el desarrollo socioemocional en jóvenes POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – Con una inversión de sobre 4.5 millones de dólares en fondos federales subvencionado por la Agencia Federal para la Salud Mental y el Abuso de Sustancias (SAMHSA, por sus siglas en inglés), la organización sin fines de lucro y de base

comunitaria Boys & Girls Clubs de Puerto Rico (BGCPR) junto a 13 aliados, presentó este martes, el proyecto AWARE, iniciativa diseñada para construir una infraestructura sostenible que inicialmente brindará programas y servicios de salud mental en 5 escuelas en Arecibo, Bayamón, San Lorenzo y San Juan, desde una perspectiva sistémica multinivel, en áreas del bienestar de la niñez y juventud en Puerto Rico.

Para la presidenta de BGCPR, licenciada Olga Ramos Carrasquillo “la organización que lleva 56 años de servicio en las comunidades más necesitadas de Mayagüez a Vieques, y donde 9 de cada 10 de nuestros participantes viven bajo los niveles de pobreza federal y en entornos y comunidades altamente violentas; nuestro compromiso de reducir la pobreza y mejorar sus condiciones y las de sus familias, nos llevó a elevar a nivel estratégico la promoción del bienestar socioemocional. Para lograrlo llevamos un proceso de múltiples análisis y comenzar por desa-

rrollar, estructurar y fortalecer nuestro componente de desarrollo social”.

“En el proceso validamos la necesidad de desarrollar en nuestros participantes y sus familias destrezas socioemocionales que apoyen en el manejo de experiencias adversas en la niñez y juventud, secuelas de trauma, exposición a violencia, destrezas de crianza positiva e inteligencia emocional. Este esfuerzo, viene directamente vinculado con el aspecto educativo de nuestros participantes, ya que en la medida que abordamos sus necesidades socioeconómicas, socioemocionales y de salud mental desde un espacio inclusivo y seguro, estamos a su vez impactando su aprovechamiento académico. A través de este acercamiento de servicio, estamos apoyando a nuestros participantes y sus familias en el desarrollo y fortalecimiento de destrezas educativas, económicas y sociales que aumenten su calidad de vida y garanticen movilidad social”, añadió Ramos Carrasquillo.

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Chita Rivera, electrifying star of Broadway and beyond, is dead at 91

By ROBERT D. McFADDEN

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hita Rivera, the fire-and-ice dancer, singer and actress who leapt to stardom in the original Broadway production of “West Side Story” and dazzled audiences for nearly seven decades as a Puerto Rican lodestar of the American musical theater, died on Tuesday in New York. She was 91.

The death was announced in a statement by her daughter, Lisa Mordente. It gave no other details.

To generations of musical aficionados, Rivera was a whirling, bounding, high-kicking elemental force of the dance; a seductive singer of smoky ballads and sizzling jazz; and a propulsive actress of vaudevillian energy. She appeared in scores of stage productions in New York and London, logged 100,000 miles on cabaret tours and performed in dozens of films and television programs.

On Broadway, she created a string of memorably hard-edged women — Anita in “West Side Story” (1957), Rosie in “Bye Bye Birdie” (1960), the murderous floozy Velma Kelly in “Chicago” (1975) and the title role in “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (1993). She sang enduring numbers in those roles: “America” in “West Side Story,” “One Boy” and “Spanish Rose” in “Bye Bye Birdie,” and “All That Jazz” in “Chicago.”

As a singer and actress, Rivera was largely selftaught, though she received an on-the-job education from some of the foremost pedagogues in the pantheon: choreographers Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins, composer Leonard Bernstein, the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, and playwright Terrence McNally.

In 1986, Rivera had to suspend her dancing life when a taxi collided with her car in Manhattan, shattering her left leg in a dozen places. She underwent two surgeries, with screws and plates used to reconnect her bones, followed by months of rehabilitation. For many dancers, the injuries might have been career-ending, but almost a year after the accident she began dancing again, easing her way back with cabaret acts that sustained her for years.

In “Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life,” an autobiographical retrospective presented on Broadway in 2005, she delivered a tango about the men in her past, a dance sequence for Fosse, Robbins and other choreographers, and a medley of her musical highlights, including “A Boy Like That” from “West Side Story” and “All That Jazz” from “Chicago.”

“At 72, she still has the voice, the attitude and — oh, yes — the legs to magnetize all eyes in an audience,” Ben Brantley wrote in a review for the Times. “She is a pro’s pro in a world of exacting judgments and mythic standards. It feels right that ‘The Dancer’s Life’ should present her as the ultimate gypsy made good, the talented trouper who got the right breaks.”

Chita Rivera in “Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life,” at the Schoenfeld Theater in New York, Nov. 22, 2005. Rivera, the fire-and-ice dancer, singer and actress who leapt to stardom in the original Broadway production of “West Side Story” and dazzled audiences for nearly seven decades as a Puerto Rican lodestar of musical theater, died on Jan. 30, 2024. She was 91. (Sara Krulwich/ The New York Times)

civilian honor, from President Barack Obama in a White House ceremony.

It was the culmination of an odyssey that began a few miles away in Washington on Jan. 23, 1933, with the birth of Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, the third of five children of Pedro Julio and Katherine (Anderson) del Rivero.

Her father, who was born in Puerto Rico, played the clarinet and saxophone with the U.S. Navy Band and the Harry James Orchestra. He died when Conchita was 7.

Her mother, who was of Scottish, Irish and Puerto Rican descent and also had African American ancestors, which she discovered late in life, became a clerk at the Pentagon and enrolled Conchita in singing, dance and piano lessons. Dancing became her passion. On the advice of her teacher, she auditioned for George Balanchine and won a scholarship to his School of American Ballet in New York City.

Living with an uncle’s family in the Bronx, she graduated from William Howard Taft High School in 1951.

At an open call for dancers, she won a part with a national touring company of Irving Berlin’s “Call Me Madam.” After 10 months on the road, she replaced Onna White as a principal dancer in “Guys and Dolls” in New York. Over the next few years, she danced in “Seventh Heaven,” “Shoestring Revue” and “Mr. Wonderful.” Her career moved up. She shortened her name to a catchy Chita Rivera.

In 1957, Rivera married Anthony Mordente, a dancer in “West Side Story.” They divorced in 1966. In addition to her daughter, Lisa, she is survived by two brothers, Julio and Armando; and a sister, Lola del Rivero. Rivera lived in Rockland County, New York.

Rivera was showered with honors during her long career. She won two Tony Awards for best actress in a musical, for “The Rink” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman”; was nominated for eight others; and in 2018 received a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2002, she became the first Hispanic American woman to receive Kennedy Center Honors, the capital’s version of the Oscars, in a group that included Elizabeth Taylor, James Earl Jones and Paul Simon.

In 2009, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest Chita Rivera, the musical theater icon, at 54 Below in Manhattan, May 17, 2019. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)

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5 action movies to stream now

Nassim Lyes, foreground, plays a down-on-his-luck gambler and a hustler of fake luxury handbags in “AllTime High.” (Netflix)

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his month’s picks include a French comedic swashbuckling adventure, Indian spy games and more.

‘All-Time High’ Youssef (Nassim Lyes) is a habitual liar, a down-onhis-luck gambler and a hustler of fake luxury handbags. He is working these cons to impress his wealthy girlfriend — she thinks he has a regular office job. When Youssef reveals the truth, including his bald head underneath his wig, she leaves him. Soon Youssef has a new girlfriend, Stephanie (Zoé Marchal), a card shark with a crypto fortune. But his gambling catches up to him, and a few goons are sent to track him down.

French writer-director Julien Hollande’s “All-Time High” is a comedic swashbuckling adventure: Youssef and Stephanie are the kind of couple whose vapid arguments

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always end in raunchy sex. The pair fight their way through an underground card game, captured by a sweeping camera, and are involved in a thrilling motorcycle chase that sees them ineptly firing shots at their pursuers. It’s a reminder that sometimes the incompetent action heroes are the most entertaining. (Stream it on Netflix.)

‘Deadland’ Director Lance Larson’s “Deadland,” a border narrative that fittingly crosses the boundaries between slow burn, thriller, horror and action, isn’t totally a bust-em-up, shoot-em-up affair. It works on a subtler psychological level when Angel Waters (Roberto Urbina), a border patrol agent, brings to base a nameless, near-dead migrant (Luis Chávez) he found floating in the water. When Waters’ colleague, Cruz (Julieth Restrepo) tries to help the victim, a trigger-happy officer named Ray Hitchcock (McCaul Lombardi) shoots and kills him.

“Deadland” is an angsty film, capturing the police officers’ disintegrating alliances through well-calibrated jump scares, loaded standoffs and unhinged nightmare sequences. Although these officers bury the dead man’s body, they can’t cover up their crime. He continues to haunt them, leading to an arresting finale that sears the wounds felt by a ghost who never found the easier life he desired.

(Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)

‘Khufiya’ Vishal Bhardwaj’s “Khufiya” opens with a bang: Hee-

na Papon Rehman (Azmeri Haque Badhon), code name Octopus, arrives at a lavish party with plans to assassinate Brig. Saqlain Mirza (Shataf Figar). Although the ravishing Rehman puts up a charm offensive, she doesn’t fool Mirza; he stabs her to death. Clearly, there is a mole in her ranks.

Tabu (Krishna Mehra), her boss and lover, begins investigating. It doesn’t take long before a suspect emerges: an intelligence agent named Ravi (Ali Fazal).

“Khufiya,” based on Amar Bhushan’s novel “Escape to Nowhere,” is a scintillating piece of spycraft. Ulterior motives, competing geopolitical desires between India and the United States and a series of flashbacks, which recount how Rehman came into Mirza’s orbit, are the finely tuned mechanics that give this picture propulsion. The film is also adept at granting a sense of living on the edge of life and death; the quick, unflinching assassinations — including unsuspecting civilians hit by cars and targets poisoned by food — are the thrills Bhardwaj effortlessly delivers.

(Stream it on Netflix.)

‘Malbatt: Misi Bakara’ If you’ve seen Ridley Scott’s “Black Hawk Down,” then you’re probably familiar with the real-life story of the rescued Black Hawk crew that was trapped in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993. Adrian Teh’s frenzied war film, “Malbatt: Misi Bakara,” tells the same story, except from the perspective of the 19th Battalion Royal Malay Regiment that was dispatched to assist in the mission.

Despite volunteering for the dangerous assignment, this group of Malaysian soldiers isn’t respected by its American counterparts, who see the Malaysians only as their transport, not as their fellow soldiers.

The Malaysians, however, prove their mettle once they enter Mogadishu and when insurgents use machine guns and rocket launchers against their convoy. Teh devises major set pieces, employing an army of extras, as the streets are rendered as one large kill box where death lurks around every corner and on every rooftop. By the end, these soldiers not only win the day, but they also win respect from their American peers. (Stream it on Netflix.)

‘Your Lucky Day’ Sterling (Angus Cloud), a small-time drug dealer, is flipping through a magazine at a convenience store when he overhears a wealthy customer celebrating winning the $156 million Mega Ball jackpot. Sterling quickly tears a page from the magazine, tapes it around his head to disguise himself, pulls out a gun and sticks up the customer.

When a police officer appears, a shootout ensues, leading to the deaths of the officer and the customer. It’s a messy robbery that requires an inspired solution: Sterling offers everyone in the store, including the owner and a young couple, a piece of the jackpot if they help him cover up the crime.

While “Your Lucky Day” ends up being more complicated as the story unfolds, what really stands out is Cloud, who died last year. In one of his final roles, he’s a ball of uncertainty and vulnerability, giving Sterling a humanism that makes him easy to get behind, even when the bullets start flying. (Rent or buy it on most major platforms.)

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How to exercise when it feels impossible

By DANIELLE FRIEDMAN

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e’ve all been there. You set a goal to exercise regularly, but when the moment comes to get moving, your mind unleashes a torrent of excuses: I’m tired. It’s cold outside. I don’t want to spend money on a class.

These mental blocks may explain why it’s so hard to keep a New Year’s resolution for longer than four months.

So, how do you cut through them?

The first step, experts say, is to stop thinking of them as “excuses.”

Just using that word can suggest you failed and should feel bad about your willpower. Research has shown that self-criticism and shame can actually stop you from meeting your goals, said Katy Milkman, a behavioral scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “How to Change.”

Instead, reframe the reasons you aren’t exercising as genuine obstacles and devise a plan to overcome them, Milkman said. “Most of us don’t just need a goal,” she said, but specific steps and strategies to follow.

I asked experts in exercise science and psychology to share their best advice for conquering common reasons people struggle to build an exercise habit. Here are their time-tested solutions.

I have no time.

If you face a jam-packed daily schedule, try starting small, said Kate Baird, an exercise physiologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Instead of carving out 30 to 60 minutes several times a week, plan several short bursts of movement throughout the day. “If you’re not able to do much, doing anything is going to be helpful in so many ways,” she said.

For example, walk a few laps around the block during lunch, she said, or sneak in a series of squats between meetings. Ideally, you want these bursts to add up to the recommended 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity and 30 to 60 minutes of full-body strength training per week.

Or you could multitask: Try walking or using a resistance band while on a phone call or watching TV, she said.

(Several of the experts I talked to were walking while being interviewed.)

If you want to have a dedicated workout window, Baird recommended taking a hard look at your calendar and asking yourself: Is there anything that could go, or anything you could trade for a dose of movement? Could you experiment with setting your alarm 30 minutes earlier?

I feel self-conscious.

If the thought of working out in front of other people makes you want crawl into a hole, know that you have options, said Kelly Roberts, a running coach and body-positive fitness influencer in New York City. “The gym is a really intimidating space,” even for experienced exercisers, she said.

For some people, a solution might be exercising at

Mental blocks may explain why it’s so hard to keep a New Year’s resolution, like exercising more, for longer than four months. The first step to cutting through them, experts say, is to stop thinking of them as “excuses.” (Igor Bastidas/The New York Times) home. But for others, Roberts recommended taking a few steps to combat feelings of self-consciousness.

First, remind yourself why you’re there, whether it’s to feel stronger or to train for a race. Reconnecting with your goal can help to shore you up, she said.

Second, designate a friend or family member who you can text in the moment, who can support you when you’re feeling vulnerable.

Third, try a different gym, class or group. If a space makes you feel uncomfortable in your own skin, it’s OK to leave, Roberts said. “Some spaces are more welcoming than others,” she said.

The past few years have seen a burst of fitness offerings for people who may have historically felt unwelcome in gyms because of their gender or racial identity, body size or athletic ability, such as pace-inclusive running clubs or gyms marketed toward LGBTQ communities.

I don’t want to spend money.

You don’t need a fancy gym to get fit, said Grayson Wickham, a physical therapist in New York City. “There’s so much you can do just with body weight,” he said. “It’s pretty amazing.” Planks, pushups, lunges, squats and pointers can all build strength, and regular stretching can cultivate flexibility.

For aerobic exercise, you can do jumping jacks, or consider spending a few dollars on a jump rope. If you have access to a safe outdoor space, you can walk, run or strength-train outside, Wickham said — and get the added benefit of spending time in nature. For expert guidance, download a free workout app.

It’s too cold, or too hot.

A shift in temperature doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

Think of the change in weather as an opportunity to try something new, or include more variety in your routine, said Dr. Edward Phillips, an associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School.

“Maybe in the middle of the winter, it’s a good time

to bolster your strength training and work on your core, or finally engage in a Pilates class or sink your teeth into some yoga,” he said. Or embrace the weather and try snowshoeing. In the summer, consider trading your run for a swim.

I don’t have the space.

If you have room for a yoga mat, you have enough space to get in a great workout, Phillips said. “You can get stronger and in better shape and more flexible” in just a few square feet, he said, as long as you can comfortably move your arms and legs without bumping into a wall or furniture.

Beyond doing yoga, you could jump rope, do bodyweight exercises, lift dumbbells or kettlebells, stretch, or use resistance bands, Wickham said.

If exercising in close quarters feels too claustrophobic, consider an outdoor space that you can make your gym, he said.

I’m in pain.

It might seem counterintuitive, but for those who struggle with forms of chronic muscle or joint discomfort — such as low back pain, neck pain, or pain from osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis — physical activity is likely to help make it better, Phillips said.

If you live with chronic pain of any kind and want to be more active, talk to a doctor or an expert in exercise science who can guide you on the safest and most effective movements for your condition.

I’m exhausted all the time.

When even the word “exercise” makes you feel tired, experts recommend meeting your body where it is — in a few different ways.

“I think the first practical way to approach this is to ask yourself, are you working out at the best time of day, or best time of the week, for your energy?,” Baird said. If you know that you have the most energy first thing in the morning and generally feel wiped in late afternoon, try working out early in the day.

If getting started feels like a hurdle, Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, recommends beginning with a miniworkout designed to boost your state of mind. Exercising for the length of “one song is great, because a song will change your mood,” she said. “Do something that reminds you that it feels good to move.”

Remember that exercise doesn’t have to be intense for it to “count,” experts say. Stretching, yoga, Pilates, walking and jogging at a conversational pace are all great options.

And finally, do what you can to ensure that you are getting enough sleep.

I just don’t like it.

If you have yet to find a form of movement that you enjoy, keep looking. “Exercise” doesn’t have to mean going to the gym — it can be as simple as dancing alone in your living room, playing pickleball, or chasing after your kids or grandkids, McGonigal said. Basically, moving in any way that brings you joy.

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Did a delicious mistake lead to this national dish?

By CHRISTINA MORALES

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f you ever order sopa, or soup, in Paraguay, don’t expect to be served a steaming bowl of broth. What you’ll get instead is a dense and cheesy hunk of cornbread.

This bread, also known as sopa Paraguaya, is one of the country’s most popular dishes. Cornmeal, onion, cheese, milk and eggs are mixed together to make a custardy cornbread, with a texture similar to bread pudding, that is commonly served alongside grilled meats.

The bread can be difficult to find in the United States, where nearly 30,000 Paraguayans live — the smallest Latino group in the country, according to census data.

And it can be challenging for Paraguayan American cooks to ensure that the moist texture of the bread remains the same when using American ingredients. Instead of the creamy queso Paraguaya that’s traditional in the recipe, for instance, many chefs and cooks substitute similar cheeses like mozzarella, Muenster and Monterey Jack.

Nancy Ojeda opened I Love Paraguay, a restaurant in New York, in 2007 after selling three other restaurants in Paraguay. “We’ve seen people cry,” she said in Spanish of her customers’ reactions to her sopa. “They cannot believe it. They say it’s the same taste from Paraguay.”

There are many origin stories about the bread, all with a similar gist: In the mid-1800s, when Carlos Antonio López was the president of Paraguay, corn soup was often served for lunch. But one day, the president’s chef got carried away with the cornmeal and added too much. In an attempt to fix the dish, the chef put the sopa into the oven and served it to the president as cornbread. The leader loved the bread so much that he decreed it a national dish and named it sopa Paraguaya.

Paraguayans have been making the sopa ever since, said Bridget María Chesterton, a history professor at Buffalo State University. But the first published version of the recipe was from a 1931 cookbook by Raquel Livieres de Artecona.

Other Paraguayans, like Liliana Rodas de Araujo, said the bread was being baked

Sopa Paraguaya, the dense and cheesy cornbread commonly served alongside grilled meats in Paraguay. Everyone agrees that this beloved national dish is one of a kind, though historians debate whether its creator was really an overzealous presidential chef. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews (David Malosh/The New York Times). for many years before the presidential chef’s mistake. Rodas de Araujo said the Cario-Guaraní — a group of Indigenous Paraguayans who lived near her native city, Asunción — likely used native corn and baked a similar type of bread when they learned about dairy from Spanish colonists.

Rodas de Araujo opened Café Guaraní in 2019 in Pacific Grove, California, and has always served the sopa, but she is constantly tinkering with the recipe. She misses the techniques that made the bread unique in Paraguay, like using banana leaves as parchment paper or baking the bread in a mud oven. She hopes to recreate at least one of those elements soon with a pizza oven at her restaurant.

The recipe for the sopa Paraguaya served at Cafe Nena’i in Austin, Texas, was passed down to Gladys Benitez by her 85-year-old grandmother, who was a chef for a Paraguayan president. Every day, Benitez and her mother, Elena Sanguinetti, make about 20 thick pieces of the cornbread. They’ve also served the sopa with chorizo, as an appetizer during the pop-up dinners they started about a year ago.

Benitez was eager to connect with her roots, so she repeatedly asked her mother how to cook her grandmother’s Paraguayan recipes. “I would beg and cry to please get these recipes from my grandma,” she said.

Sopa Paraguaya (cheesy cornbread) Recipe from Nancy Ojeda Adapted by Christina Morales Crisp at the edges and creamy in the center, this dense, cheesy cornbread from I Love Paraguay, a Paraguayan restaurant in New York City, has a texture similar to bread pudding. Paraguayans serve it for many meals in the country, but especially alongside asado (grilled meats). Although the bread is extremely popular, its true origins are murky. Many people will tell a similar story: In the mid-1800s, when Carlos Antonio López was the president of Paraguay, he liked to eat corn soup. But his chef made a mistake and added too much cornmeal, and instead served the president a cornbread. The president reportedly loved it so much that he named it sopa Paraguaya. But others say that the bread has deeper roots from the Cario-Guaraní, a group of Indigenous people in Paraguay, who made a similar type of cornbread.

Yield: 12 to 16 servings Total time: About 1 1/2 hours

Ingredients: 1 cup corn oil 1 large yellow onion, finely diced 1½ teaspoons fine sea salt 1 cup corn kernels (canned or fresh) 8 large eggs, whites and yolks separated 4 cups/566 grams precooked yellow cornmeal (preferably P.A.N.) 4 cups whole milk 2 1/4 cups/8 ounces grated Muenster or mozzarella Preparation: 1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Using a little bit of the oil, grease a 9-by-13inch baking pan.

2. In a medium skillet over medium heat, add the oil and onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in the salt and let the onions cool down for 5 to 10 minutes.

3. While that cools, transfer the corn kernels to a blender and blend them into a coarse purée, scraping down the side of the blender as needed; set aside.

4. In a stand mixer (or large bowl), beat the egg whites on medium-high with the whisk attachment until they are light, frothy and uniformly white, about 2 minutes (or 3 to 4 minutes if whisking by hand).

They should at least triple in volume. Next, whisk in the yolks, one at a time; set aside.

5. In a very large bowl, combine the cornmeal and the puréed corn, mixing by hand with a rubber spatula until well incorporated. Then add the cooked onion with all of the corn oil and mix again until no dry streaks remain. Stir in about half the milk. Next, add all of the cheese and about half of the egg mixture and fold until combined, pulling the wet mixture from the edges into the center. Add the rest of the egg mixture and milk and fold until fully combined. (The mixture will look wet, similar to a cake batter.) Transfer to the baking pan.

6. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until the top is golden brown. (If you place a toothpick or knife through the center, it should come out clean.) Let it cool for 15 to 20 minutes before serving. (The sopa is best enjoyed while still warm. It will firm up as it rests.) The sopa will keep, covered tightly in aluminum foil, in the refrigerator for up to 4 days, or frozen for up to one month.

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024 Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2023CV01535.

(406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia Enmendada dictada el 6 de octubre de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 12 de diciembre de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 22 de diciembre de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Ponce, Sala Superior, en 2150 Ave. Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el #172 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Jauca del término municipal de Santa Isabel, con cabida superficial de 0.2132 cuerdas, equivalentes a 837.93 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE: con la calle de la comunidad; por el SUR: con la parcela #161 de la comunidad; por el ESTE con la parcela #173 de la comunidad; y por el OESTE: con la parcela #171 de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio 282 del tomo 98 de Santa Isabel, Finca 3524. Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama.

La hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Santa Isabel, Finca 3524. Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. Inscripción séptima. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: PARCELAS JAUCA, 172 CALLE 1, SANTA ISABEL, PR 00757. Número de Catastro: 67-438-001-060-21-000.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $65,324.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 27 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $43,549.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será

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la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $32,662.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $56,792.25 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.75% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2022 hasta su completo pago, más $63.00 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,532.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. HIPOTECA: Constituida Angel Luis Cruz Cruz (soltero), en garantía de un pagaré a favor de The Secretary of Housing & Urban Development of the United States of America, o a su orden, por la suma de $1,187.24, sin intereses y vencedero el 1 de agosto de 2045, según consta de la escritura #13, otorgada en San Juan, el 18 de marzo de 2021, ante el notario Juan H. Soto Solá, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Santa Isabel, finca #3524, inscripción 9na. b. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión De Ángel Luis Cruz Cruz t/c/c Ángel Cruz Cruz Compuesta por Fulano de Tal t/c/c Papo Cruz y Mengano de Tal, posible heredero desconocido, Estados Unidos de América representados por el Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano (HUD) ante el Tribunal Superior de Ponce, en el Caso Civil Número PO2023CV01535, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de la hipoteca, con un balance de $56,792.25 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 24 de mayo de 2023.

Anotada al Tomo Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la

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21 presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de enero de 2024.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

NEIDIBER CRUZ MEJÍAS Y JAVIER MARTÍNEZ ORTIZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV01289.

(506). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 2 de noviembre de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 19 de diciembre de 2023 y el Mandamiento Enmendado de Ejecución del 22 de diciembre de 2023 en el caso de epí-

grafe, procederé a vender el día 12 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA , en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Esquina Coll y Toste, Parada 37, San Juan, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento 5-E-8 del Condominio Estancia de Boulevard, localizado en el municipio de San Juan, con un área superficial de 1,791.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 166.3839 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con pared exterior del módulo; por el SUR, con pared exterior del módulo; por el ESTE, con apartamento 6 E-7 y por el OESTE, con apartamento 5-E7. Consta de dos niveles, en el tercer piso: de sala comedor, dos baños, tres dormitorios, cocina y balcón, un “walk-incloset” y otros tres “closets” segundo nivel en el cuarto piso: de estudio cubierto y terraza descubierta. Tiene una escalera interior que conecta los dos niveles. Tiene una puerta principal que da acceso a la escalera por donde se llega a la salida del módulo, una vez allí, por las calles interiores del condominio se obtiene acceso a la vía pública. Le corresponde una participación de 0.59% en los elementos comunes del condominio. Le corresponde un espacio de estacionamiento con capacidad para dos (2) vehículos que está marcado con el mismo número que el apartamiento. Inscrita al folio 61 del tomo 550 de Río Piedras Sur, Finca 17436. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La hipoteca y su modificación constan inscritas al folio 21 del tomo 689 de Río Piedras Sur, Finca 17436. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Inscripción tercera y cuarta, respectivamente.

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: ESTANCIAS DEL BOULEVARD APT 5E8, SAN JUAN, PR 00926.

Número de catastro: (79) 115003-226-15-151. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $156,400.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera

subasta, o sea, $102,933.33.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 27 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $78,200.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $126,173.01 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.875% anual desde el 1 de febrero de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $15,640.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores que afecta la propiedad que se pretende ejecutar: a. Embargo Estatal: Anotado sobre esta finca como perteneciente a Javier Martínez Ortiz, por concepto de contribución sobre ingresos, por la suma de $42,766.55, según certificación de fecha 15 de octubre de 2013, presentado el 6 de noviembre de 2013, expedido por Colector de Rentas Internas. Anotada al folio 53 del número de orden 209 del Libro de Embargos Estatales número, Ley número 12. b. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Neidiber Cruz Mejías y Javier Martínez Ortiz, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el caso civil número SJ2020CV01289, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $126,173.01 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 13 de febrero de 2020. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Rio Piedras Sur. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así

como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de enero de 2024.

PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.

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MMG PRCI I, LLC Demandante V.

JORGE ALEXIS MEDINA RIVERA; HACIENDA EL BOSQUE INC., T/C/C HACIENDA DEL BOSQUE INC., ASHTEN PRODUCTOS OF PUERTO RICO INC, INTERNATIONAL GROUP ORGANIZATION, INC. T/C/C INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC., IMPORTACIONES JAM INC., VIVIAN ESTHER FELICIANO PABON, GLORIA ESTHER PABON TORRES, CARIBBEAN PROMOTION GROUP, INCOPORATED

Demandado (s) Civil Núm.: KCD2015-2721.

Sobre: COBRO DE DIBERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

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de 2011. Que en cumplimiento A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, manifiesto en la secretaría del a los abogados de la parte RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ, SECOMO AGENTE DE A: JORGE ALEXIS LEGAL NOTICE con el Mandamiento de Ejecu- en la oficina del referido Algua- tribunal durante las horas la- demandante, el Lcdo. Gabriel CRETARIA AUXILIAR. FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS MEDINA RIVERA; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ción de Sentencia expedido el cil, localizada en el Centro Ju- borables. b. Que se entenderá Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas diFUND, LLC LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA EL BOSQUE día 5 de diciembre de 2023, por dicial de San Juan, San Juan, que todo licitador acepta como recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUParte Demandante Vs. INC., T/C/C HACIENDA la Secretaria del Tribunal, pro- Puerto Rico. Que el precio mí- bastante la titularidad y que las San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA WIGBERTO cederé a vender y venderé en nimo fijado para la PRIMERA cargas y gravámenes anterio- 8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BADEL BOSQUE INC., SALA SUPERIOR DE SANTIAGO TORRES ASHTEN PRODUCTOS pública subasta y al mejor pos- SUBASTA es de $310,000.00. res y los preferentes, si los hu- a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA YAMÓN SUPERIOR DE SAN GUAYNABO Parte Demandada OF PUERTO RICO INC, tor la propiedad que ubica y se Que de ser necesaria la cele- biere, al crédito del ejecutante orf-law.com y a la dirección SALA TRUST Civil Núm.: CA2023CV03384. describe a continuación: Direc- bración de una SEGUNDA SU- continuarán subsistentes. Se notificaciones@orf-law.com. JUAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP ción de la Propiedad: Urb. Villa BASTA, la misma se llevará a entenderá, que el rematante EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIR- REGINO SANTOS RIVERA Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. MORTGAGE CORP ORGANIZATION, INC. Capri, 614 Calles Niza y Vero- efecto el día 21 DE FEBRERO los acepta y queda subrogado MA y el sello del Tribunal, en EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICDemandante V. Demandantes Vs. T/C/C INTERNATIONAL na S.J. PR 00924. URBANA: DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA en la responsabilidad de los Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día JUAN ANTONIO SANTOS JOHN DOE Y OTROS TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE Solar sito en el barrio Sabana MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mismos, sin destinarse a su ex- 28 de noviembre de 2023. En GROUP, INC., Demandado(a) RIVERA; EDWIN SANTOS IMPORTACIONES JAM Llana de Rio Piedras dentro del mencionada del Alguacil que tinción el precio del remate. EX- Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 28 de RIVERA; FELIX ANIBAL Caso Núm.: GB2023CV01086. DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, municipio de San Juan, Puerto suscribe. El precio mínimo para PIDO, el presente EDICTO, en noviembre de 2023. VIVIAN Y. (Salón: 202). Sobre: CANCE- EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAINC., VIVIAN ESTHER Rico, marcado con el número la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRESANTOS RIVERA LACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. FELICIANO PABON, Demandados Once (11) de la manzana “B” de $206,666.67, equivalentes 9 de enero de 2024. PEDRO TARIA. VANESSA M. GONZÁA: WIGBERTO PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOGLORIA ESTHER PABON de la Urbanización denominada a dos terceras (2/3) partes del HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUA- LEZ MALAVÉ, SECRETARIA Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV10969. TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA SANTIAGO TORRES Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HETORRES, CARIBBEAN Reparto Residencial Gustavo tipo mínimo estipulado para la CIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, AUXILIAR. POR EDICTO. - BRISAS DE PARQUE RENCIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO JORGE GARCIA RONDON, PROMOTION GROUP, Gerardino, con un área super- PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSLEGAL NOTICE ESCORIAL 300 BLVD POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIficial de cuatrocientos sesenta necesaria la celebración de TANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE JAFGRONDON@GMAIL.COM. INCOPORATED; MEDIA LUNA APT 402, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PREy tres metros cuadrados con una TERCERA SUBASTA la SAN JUAN. A: MCM HOLDINGS WESTERNBANK PUERTO veintitrés centímetros cuadra- misma se llevará a efecto el día DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- SIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL *** INC - 14100 PALMETTO CAROLINA PR 00987-5139.

RICO (AHORA BANCO dos (473.23 m.c.), en lindes por 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO POR LA PRESENTE se le FRONTAGE ROAD LEGAL NOTICE SALA MUNICIPAL DE HATI- DE P.R., SS. emplaza y requiere para que POPULAR DE PUERTO su NORTE, que es su frente LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en SUITE 300 MIAMI LAKE, conteste la demanda dentro de A: JUAN ANTONIO RICO Y AL PUBLICO EN en 15.05 metros con la calle la oficina antes mencionada del ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LLO FLORIDA 33016; “A” de la urbanización; por el Alguacil que suscribe. El precio DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUlos treinta (30) días siguientes ISLAND PORTFOLIO SANTOS RIVERA GENERAL: SUR, que es su fondo en 3.32 mínimo para la TERCERA SU- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA a la publicación de este EdicCARRINGTON SERVICES, LLC., 1311 GALEON CT El que suscribe, Alguacil del metros con el solar número ca- BASTA será de $155,000.00, SALA DE ARECIBO to. Usted deberá presentar su MORTGAGE SERVICES Tribunal de Primera Instancia, COMO AGENTE DE WINTER SPRINGS, torce (14) de la manzana “B” de equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) ISLAND PORTFOLIO Sala Superior, Centro Judicial LLC - 101 WEST LOUIS alegación responsiva a través FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FLORIDA 32708, TEL. la urbanización ; por el ESTE, del tipo mínimo estipulado para del Sistema Unificado de MaSERVICES, LLC, de San Juan, San Juan, PuerHENNA BLVD., SUITE 450, nejo y Administración de CaFUND, LLC con la calle marginal de la Ur- la PRIMERA subasta. Si se (787) 370-7481. to Rico, hago saber a la parte COMO AGENTE DE AUSTIN, TX 78728; Demandante Vs. banización que da al camino declarase desierta la tercera Por la presente se notifica sos (SUMAC), la cual puede demandada y, al PUBLICO publico denominado Las Peñas subasta, se adjudicará la finca FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS que la parte demandante ha JOHN DOE Y RICHARD acceder utilizando la siguiente NOEL ROSADO EN GENERAL, y a todos los FUND, LLC. en 32.13 metros y por el OES- a favor del acreedor por la totapresentado ante este Tribunal dirección electrónica: https:/// ROE (PERSONAS HERNANDEZ acreedores que tengan inscriDemandante Vs. TE, en 31.09 metros con el so- lidad de la cantidad adeudada una Demanda sobre Partición www.poderjudicial.pr/index.

Demandado tos o anotados sus derechos DESCONOCIDAS CON lar número diez de la manzana si ésta es igual o menor que de Herencia de las sucesiones php/tribunal-electronico, salvo CARLOS A. Civil Núm.: HA2021CV00213. sobre el bien hipotecado con POSIBLE INTERÉS) “B” de la Urbanización. Finca el monto del tipo de la tercera que se represente por derecho MONTIJO RUIZ Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. de Ana Maria Rivera Pabon y posterioridad a la inscripción (Nombre de las partes que se le del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante, a saber: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagare a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $65,000.00, intereses al (no expresa) y a vencer a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #220, otorgada en San Juan, el1 de abril de 2025, ante el Notario Juan C. Ortega Torres, inscrito al folio 130 del tomo 854 de Sabana Llana, finca #4,926, inscripci6n 13ra.

Asiento abreviado el 2 de junio de 2011. HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagare a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $35,000.00, intereses al 7.49% anual, no expresa vencimiento, según consta de la escritura #90, otorgada en Rio Grande, el 4 de marzo de 2009, ante el Notario Adrian J. Hilera Torres, inscrita al folia 130 del tamo 854 de Sabana Llana, finca #4,926, inscripci6n 13ra.

Asiento abreviado el 2 de junio

número 4,926, inscrita al folio 112 del tomo 115 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta.

El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $288,569.85 de principal, más intereses acumulados a razón de 6.250% anual, los cuales ascendían al 23 de marzo de 2023 a $166,100.27 y los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total y solvente del principal; $18,521.72 de cargos por seguro de la propiedad (Prop Pres), más costas y gastos, en adición a honorarios de abogado, según pactados.

Los intereses se continúan acumulando a razón de $50.10 al día (“per diem”) hasta el pago total de la deuda. Disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con interés previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2024,

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

Demandado Civil Núm.: UT2022CV00520.

Salón: 402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: CARLOS A. MONTIJO RUIZ - DE DIEGO STATION 160 PO BOX 144035 ARECIBO PR 00614-4035; EXT VILLA LOS SANTOS 1 B-3 CALLE SOL NACIENTE ARECIBO PR 00612.

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

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- Regino Santos Melendez. Detalle de la demanda surge en el TO. expediente en el caso de epíA: NOEL ROSADO grafe. Se le advierte que si no HERNANDEZ - PO BOX comparece a contestar dicha 1043, HATILLO PR. 00659. Demanda radicando el original POR LA PRESENTE se le de la misma a través del Sisemplaza y requiere para que tema Unificado de Manejo y conteste la demanda dentro de Administración de Casos (SUlos treinta (30) días siguientes MAC), al cual pueden acceder a la publicación de este Edicto. utilizando la siguiente direcUsted deberá presentar su ale- ción electrónica: https://unired. gación responsiva a través del ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se Sistema Unificado de Manejo y representen por derecho proAdministración de Casos (SU- pio, en cuyo caso deberán preMAC), la cual puede acceder sentar su alegación responsiva utilizando la siguiente direc- en la secretaría del Tribunal ción electrónica: https://unired. Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se de San Juan, con copia al aborepresente por derecho propio, gado de la parte demandante, en cuyo caso deberá presentar Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón, de su alegación responsiva en la PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, secretaría del tribunal. Si usted San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 deja de presentar su alegación dentro del término de treinta responsiva dentro del referido (30) días contados a partir de término, el tribunal podrá dic- la publicación del Edicto, se les tar sentencia en rebeldía en anotará la rebeldía y se dictará su contra y conceder el reme- sentencia en su contra concedio solicitado en la demanda o diendo el remedio solicitado en cualquier otro sin más citarle ni la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci- oírles. Dentro de los Diez (10) cio de su sana discreción, lo días siguientes a la publicación entiende procedente. El siste- del Edicto, se le dirigirá al dema SUMAC notificará copia al mandado, par correo certificado abogado de la parte deman- con acuse de recibo una copia dante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz del emplazamiento y la DeLópez cuya dirección es: P.O. manda al lugar de su dirección Box 71418 San Juan, Puer- conocida en: 1311 Galeon Ct to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono Winter Springs, Florida 32708.

(787) 993-3731 a la dirección Expedido bajo mi firma y sello kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a de este Tribunal. En San Juan, la dirección notificaciones@orf- Puerto Rico, a 29 de noviembre law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍMI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu- GUEZ COLLADO, SECREnal, en Hatillo, Puerto Rico, hoy TARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA día 29 de noviembre de 2023. RÍOS, SUB-SECRETARIA. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ISAMAR

notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 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 24 de enero de 2024.

En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 24 de enero de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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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, Edwin Serrano Peña cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de enero de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC COMO AGENTE DE MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

ZAIDA CINTRON ROMAN

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ANTÚNEZ MORILLO, LA MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS to se le notifica de la radicación Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA mandante o a ésta, de no tener MARTÍNEZ T/C/C SILVINA AUXILIAR. SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE UNIDOS DE AMERICA de una demanda en cobro de POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM- representación legal. Si usted MARTÍNEZ T/C/C SYLVINA LEGAL NOTICE dinero por la vía ordinaria en la PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. deja de presentar su alegación Demandados MARTÍNEZ Y CARMEN ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ANTÚNEZ MORILLO que se alega que usted adeuda ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- responsiva dentro del referido Civil Núm.: BY2023CV07116.

ROSA TAPIA ADORNO; COMPUESTA POR DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUa la parte demandante, Oriental RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE término, el tribunal podrá dicSobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPONAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA EDDIE ANTÚNEZ REYES, DEPARTAMENTO Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL tar sentencia en rebeldía en su TECA. Sala: 702. EMPLAZASALA DE SAN JUAN y las costas, gastos y honora- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO contra y conceder el remedio DE HACIENDA; CARLOS ANTÚNEZ A: ZAIDA CINTRON MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTArios de abogado de este litigio. DE PUERTO RICO. solicitado en la demanda, o CASCADE FUNDING DEPARTAMENTO DE REYES Y TAHIANA ROMAN - BO DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El demandante, Oriental Bank, A: MYRIAM MOLL BÁTIZ. cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en MORTGAGE TRUST HB2 EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESJUSTICIA ANTÚNEZ REYES, CARRIZALEZ II 455, ha solicitado que se dicte sen- POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO el ejercicio de su sana discreDemandante Vs. Demandado JANE DOE Y JOHN HATILLO PR 00659; HC TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO tencia en contra suya y que se se le notifica que se ha radi- ción, lo entiende procedente.

ASOCIADO DE PUERSUCESIÓN DE EDDIE Civil Núm.: BY2023CV06415.

DOE, AVA ANTUNEZ 1 BOX 6085, HATILLO LIBRE le ordene pagar las cantidades cado en esta Secretaría por la Además, se le apercibe que, TO RICO, SS. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ANTUNEZ GARCÍA reclamadas en la demanda. en los casos al amparo de la MORILLO, FULANO DE PR 00659-7238; 527 parte demandante, Demanda Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA A: JOHN DOE Y T/C/C EDDIE ANTUNEZ TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO sobre Cobro de Dinero y Eje- Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley BUTTONWOOD ST, POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMJANE DOE COMO se le emplaza para que presen- cución de Hipoteca por la Vía para la Prevención del MaltraT/C/C E. ANTUNEZ SUCESIÓN DE EDWINA PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. READING PA 19601. te al tribunal su alegación res- Ordinaria en la que se alega to, Preservación de la Unidad POSIBLES MIEMBROS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- COMPUESTA POR EDWIN POR LA PRESENTE se le MORILLO GONZALEZ ponsiva a la demanda dentro Familiar y para la Seguridad, adeuda la suma principal de DESCONOCIDOS DE RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ANTÚNEZ MORILLO, LA emplaza y requiere para que T/C/C/ EDWINA de los treinta (30) días de ha- $69,061.43, incluye la suma Bienestar y Protección de los SUCESION ADA LICIA ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO conteste la demanda dentro de SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE ber sido diligenciado este em- de $1,936.68 de principal dife- Menores, entre los remedios INOCENCIA MORILLO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERlos treinta (30) días siguientes PAGAN RIVERA T/C/C plazamiento, excluyéndose el ANTÚNEZ MORILLO que el Tribunal podrá conceder rido, más intereses sobre dicha GONZALEZ T/C/C TO RICO, S.S. a la publicación de este Edicto.

ADA PAGAN. día del diligenciamiento. Usted suma al 5.25% anual, desde se incluyen la ubicación permaCOMPUESTA POR EDWINE INOCENCIA Usted deberá presentar su ale- POR LA PRESENTE se le A: LA SUCESION deberá presentar su alegación el día 1ro de junio de 2023, nente de un (una) menor fuera EDDIE ANTÚNEZ REYES, MORILLO GONZALEZ gación responsiva a través del emplaza para que presente al DE PABLO FORTES responsiva a través del Sistema hasta su completo pago, más de su hogar, el inicio de proceCARLOS ANTÚNEZ Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Tribunal su alegación responT/C/C EDWINA I. Unificado de Manejo y Adminis- recargos acumulados, más la sos para la privación de patria SIERRA COMPUESTA Administración de Casos (SU- siva a la demanda dentro de REYES Y TAHIANA tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cantidad de $11,690.70, estipu- potestad, y cualquier otra meMORILLO GONZALEZ POR FULANO DE TAL MAC), la cual puede acceder los treinta (30) días a partir de ANTÚNEZ REYES, cual puede acceder utilizando lada para costas, gastos y ho- dida en el mejor interés del (de T/C/C EDWINA MORILLO Y MENGANO DE TAL utilizando la siguiente direc- la publicación de este edicto. la siguiente dirección electró- norarios de abogado, así como la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos JANE DOE Y JOHN GONZALEZ T/C/C ción electrónica: https:///www. Usted deberá presentar su alenica: https://www.poderjudicial. cualquier otra suma estipulada b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). POSIBLES HEREDEROS DOE, AVA ANTUNEZ poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribu- gación responsiva a través del EDWINA INICENCIA DESCONOCIDOS Y LA pr/index/php/tribunal-electroni- en el contrato de préstamo, Se le advierte de su derecho a MORILLO, FULANO DE MORILLO T/C/C EDWINA nal-electronico, salvo que se Sistema Unificado de Manejo y co/, salvo que se represente por todas cuyas sumas están líqui- comparecer acompañado(a) de SUCESION DE JUANA represente por derecho propio, Administración de Casos (SUTAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; derecho propio, en cuyo caso das y exigibles. La propiedad abogado(a) en los casos que I. MORILLO T/C/C ADORNO GARCÍA en cuyo caso deberá presentar MAC), al cual puede acceder SUCESIÓN DE EDWINA deberá presentar su alegación hipotecada a ser vendida en proceda. La información del (de EDWINA MORILLO COMPUESTA POR SILVIA MORILLO GONZALEZ su alegación responsiva en la utilizando la siguiente direcresponsiva en la Secretaría del pública subasta es: RÚSTICA: la) abogado(a) de la parte deT/C/C E. MORILLO secretaría del tribunal. Si usted ción electrónica: http://unired.

MARTÍNEZ T/C/C SYLVIA Tribunal. Si usted deja de pre- Solar número Nueve (9). Radi- mandante es la siguiente: T/C/C/ EDWINA deja de presentar su alegación ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se COMPUESTA POR EDWIN sentar su alegación responsiva cado en el BARRIO YAYALES Lcdo. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres MARTÍNEZ T/C/C SILVINA INOCENCIA MORILLO responsiva dentro del referido represente por derecho propio, RUA Núm. 10,189 ANTÚNEZ MORILLO, LA dentro del referido término, el del Municipio de Adjuntas.

MARTÍNEZ T/C/C SYLVINA término, el tribunal podrá dic- en cuyo caso deberé presentar GONZALEZ T/C/C Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE tribunal podrá dictar sentencia Tiene una cabida superficial MARTÍNEZ Y CARMEN LLC tar sentencia en rebeldía en su alegación responsiva en la EDWINE INOCENCIA en rebeldía en su contra, y con- de QUINIENTOS ONCE PUNANTÚNEZ MORILLO P.O. Box 11550 ROSA TAPIA ADORNO su contra y conceder el reme- secretaria del tribunal. Si usted MORILLO GONZALEZ ceder el remedio solicitado en TO SIETE CUATRO CERO San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 COMPUESTA POR dio solicitado en la demanda o deja de presentar su alegación - URBANIZACIÓN la Demanda, o cualquier otro, CERO (511.7400) METROS Tel. (787) 625-9999 T/C/C EDWINA I. cualquier otro sin más citarle ni responsiva dentro del referido EDDIE ANTÚNEZ REYES, VILLA PINARES F-21 Fax (787) 705-7387 si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de CUADRADOS. En lindes por MORILLO GONZALEZ oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci- término, el tribunal podrá dicE-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com CARLOS ANTÚNEZ su sana discreción, lo entiende el NORTE, en veinticuatro CALLE 2, VEGA BAJA, T/C/C EDWINA MORILLO cio de su sana discreción, lo en- tar sentencia en rebeldía en su REYES Y TAHIANA procedente, sin más citarle ni punto cuarenta y ocho (24.48) Se le notifica también por la PUERTO RICO 00693; tiende procedente. El sistema contra y conceder el remedio GONZALEZ T/C/C oírle. El abogado de la parte metros, con el solar número presente que la parte demanANTÚNEZ REYES, URBANIZACIÓN VILLA SUMAC notificará copia al abo- solicitado en la demanda, o EDWINA INICENCIA demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Diez (10) mas adelante descri- dante habrá de presentar para JANE DOE Y JOHN gado de la parte demandante, cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en PINANES, SECCIÓN EL Saldaña, RUA número 11673; to; SUR, en dos alineaciones su anotación al Registrador MORILLO T/C/C EDWINA DOE, AVA ANTUNEZ Natalie Bonaparte Servera el ejercicio de su sana discrede la Propiedad del Distrito en HOYO, 415 CALLE PASEO Dirección: PO Box 366276, continuas de veinte punto cero I. MORILLO T/C/C cuya dirección es: P.O. Box ción, lo entiende procedente.

MORILLO, FULANO DE que está situada la propiedad CLARO, VEGA BAJA, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Te- cuatro (20.04) metros, cinco EDWINA MORILLO 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico Greenspoon Marder, LLP TAL; ESTADOS UNIDOS léfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo punto diecisiete (5.17) metros, objeto de este pleito, un aviso PUERTO RICO 00693; PO Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido 00936-8518, teléfono (787) T/C/C E. MORILLO electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. con el solar número Ocho (8) y de estar pendiente esta acción.

BOX 558, VEGA BAJA, COMPUESTA POR EDWIN DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO R.U.A. 15,622 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. com. Se le advierte que dentro el solar número Uno guion C (1- Para publicarse conforme a la TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 DE RECAUDACIONES bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la PUERTO RICO 00693.

Orden dictada por el Tribunal ANTÚNEZ MORILLO, LA 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD de los diez (10) días siguientes C); ESTE, en diecinueve punto DE INGRESOS dirección notificaciones@orfPor la presente se le emplaza FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 a la publicación del presente cuarenta y siete (19.47) metros, en un periódico de circulación SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO y notifica que debe contestar la MUNICIPALES. general.

Expedido bajo mi firma Telephone: (954) 343 6273 edicto, se le estará enviando a con el solar número Uno guión ANTÚNEZ MORILLO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribudemanda dentro del término de Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULEusted por correo certificado con B (1-B); y por el OESTE, en y el sello del Tribunal para su nal, en HATILLO, Puerto Rico, Expedido bajo mi firma, y setreinta (30) días a partir de la COMPUESTA POR RO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alacuse de recibo, una copia del veintiuno punto setenta y ocho publicación, en Utuado, Puerhoy día 11 de enero de 2024. llo del Tribunal, en Bayamón, publicación del presente edicto. EDDIE ANTÚNEZ REYES, guacil del Tribunal de Primera emplazamiento y de la deman- (21.78) metros, con camino de to Rico, hoy día 22 de enero VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁ- Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de eneUsted deberá presentar su aleInstancia, Sala de San Juan, a da presentada al lugar de su úl- uso público. La escritura de hi- de 2024. DIANE ÁLVAREZ CARLOS ANTÚNEZ LEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA ro de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. gación responsiva a través del los demandados, acreedores y tima dirección conocida: Sector poteca se encuentra inscrita al VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA REYES Y TAHIANA M. GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SE- SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETASistema Unificado de Manejo y al público en general con inteREGIONAL. BRENDA L. DE Salome Ortiz, Carr. 7784 Km folio 91 del tomo 288 de AdjunANTÚNEZ REYES, CRETARIA AUXILIAR. RIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ 3, Bo. Cañaboncito, Caguas, rés sobre la propiedad que más JESÚS VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA Administración de Casos (SUtas, Registro de la Propiedad MAC), al cual puede acceder JANE DOE Y JOHN TORRES, SUB-SECRETARIA. PR 00725; PO Box 933, Aguas adelante se describe, y al públiAUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. de Utuado, finca número 7,815, LEGAL NOTICE utilizando la siguiente direcco en general, por la presente DOE, AVA ANTUNEZ Buenas, PR 00703-0933.

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CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y MORILLO, FULANO PEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello PRESENTE se le emplaza para DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día del Tribunal en Caguas, Puer- que presente al tribunal su ale- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE TAL; CENTRO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUrepresente por derecho propio, 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A to Rico, hoy día 19 de enero gación responsiva dentro de los DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDE RECAUDACIÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA en cuyo caso deberá presentar LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ treinta (30) días de haber sido MÓN su alegación responsiva en la DE INGRESOS SALA DE CAGUAS mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. publicado este emplazamien- SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA secretaría del tribunal. Se le LLACG COMMUNITY MUNICIPALES; A LOS Primera Instancia, Sala SupeORIENTAL BANK SANDRA CARRASQUILLO, to, excluyéndose el día de la BAJA Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE apercibe que, de no contestar ESTADOS UNIDOS DE rior de San Juan, San Juan, INVESTMENT FUND SUB-SECRETARIA. publicación. Usted deberá prela demanda dentro del término Puerto Rico, procederé a venDemandante Vs. EMANUEL TORRES PUERTO RICO AMÉRICA sentar su alegación responsiva aquí estipulado, se le anotará LEGAL NOTICE der en Pública Subasta, al meDemandante V. SUCESION ADA LICIA Demandados a través del Sistema Unificado ESCRIBANO la rebeldía y se dictará sentenjor postor, la propiedad inmueESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de Manejo y Administración de Civil Núm.: SJ2018CV10494.

Demandado LA SUCESIÓN DE PAGAN RIVERA T/C/C cia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los ble que más adelante se DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede Sala: 506.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN Civil Núm.: CG2023CV03337.

PABLO FORTES SIERRA abogados de la parte demanADA PAGAN COMPUESTA describe y cuya venta en públiNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA utilizando la siguiente dante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. ca subasta se ordenó por la vía COMPUESTA POR POR HECTOR JIMENEZ Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- acceder ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUdirección: https://www.poderPOR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMordinaria mediante Sentencia POR FULANO DETALY Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box BASTA. PAGAN, CARLOS PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE judicial.pr/index.php/tribunal366603, San Juan, PR 00936dictada en el caso de epígrafe, MENGANO DE TAL JIMENEZ PAGAN; JOHN ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- UTUADO electronico/, salvo que el caso Al: PÚBLICO EN 6603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax la cual se notificó y archivó en DOE Y JANE DOE COMO RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE BANCO POPULAR DE sea un expediente físico o que POSIBLES HEREDEROS (787) 641-5016. Expido este GENERAL. autos el día 10 de julio de 2023. se represente por derecho proLOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIPUERTO RICO DESCONOCIDOS Y LA edicto bajo mi firma y sello de A: SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE Los autos y todos los documenPOSIBLES HEREDEROS pio, en cuyo caso deberá preBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE JUANA este Tribunal, hoy 12 de enero DESCONOCIDOS; tos correspondientes al proceANTUNEZ GARCÍA RICO, SS. de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANMYRIAM MOLL BATIZ sentar su alegación responsiva ADORNO GARCÍA CENTRO DE T/C/C EDDIE ANTUNEZ dimiento incoado, estarán de en la Secretaría del Tribunal y A: EMANUEL TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA Demandada manifiesto en la Secretaría duRECAUDACION notificar copia de la misma al (a COMPUESTA POR SILVIA GENERAL. MARITZA ROSAT/C/C E. ANTUNEZ TORRES ESCRIBANO. Civil Núm.: UT2023CV00575. rante horas laborables. Que en la) abogado(a) de la parte de- MARTÍNEZ T/C/C SYLVIA RIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA COMPUESTA POR EDWIN DE INGRESOS POR MEDIO del presente edic- Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO caso de no producir remate ni

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24 adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 27 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 6 de octubre 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: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número 1210. Residencia en forma irregular que radica en el décimo segundo piso del Condominio de Diego 444 localizado en Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, en el kilómetro uno hectómetro ocho de la antigua carretera de Rio Piedras a Caguas, hoy denominada Avenida José De Diego.

El apartamento tiene un área privada aproximada de 1116.24 pies cuadrados equivalentes a ciento tres metros con sesenta y nueve centímetros. Está compuesto de la siguiente forma: balcón, sala-comedor, cocina, tres cuartos y dos baños. Su puerta principal de entrada esta localizada al Sur del corredor que distribuye al resto de los apartamentos a la circulación vertical y a las demás dependencias del piso correspondiente. Son sus colindancias y medidas lineales aproximadas las siguientes; por el NORTE, en dos alineaciones diferentes una de 33 pies 2 pulgadas equivalentes a 10 metros 11 centímetros con el corredor central de acceso a los apartamentos y otra de 8 pies 5 pulgadas equivalentes a 2 metros con 56 centímetros con la escalera; por el SUR, en 41 pies 7 pulgadas equivalentes a 12 metros con 67 centímetros con la fachada Sur del edificio que da frente a la quebrada Juan Méndez; por el ESTE, en dos alineaciones diferentes: una de 20 pies 4 pulgadas equivalentes a 6 metros con 20 centímetros con el apartamento número 1209 y otra de 8 pies con 2 pulgadas equivalentes a 2 metros con 49 centímetros con la escalera; y por el OESTE, en 28 pies 6 pulgadas equivalentes a 8 metros con 68 centímetros, con el apartamento número 1201. Le corresponde a este apartamento un porcentaje en los elementos comunes de 0.62 por ciento y el espacio de estacionamiento número C-62, quedando el porcentaje sujeto a variación de

acuerdo a lo expresado en la inscripción del Régimen”. Finca número 22,279, inscrita al folio 105 del tomo 543 de Sabana Llana, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de V de San Juan. Dirección de la Propiedad: Apt. 1210, Condominio De Diego 444, San Juan, PR 00923. 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 $154,074.68 la cual incluye los intereses y otros gastos acumulados y los cuales se continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.685% anual hasta su completo pago, 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 $19,425.00 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 248 otorgada el día 9 de junio de 2010, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante la Notario Público Laura Mia González Bonilla y consta inscrita al folio 97 del tomo 1072 de Sabana Llana, finca número 22,279, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V de San Juan. 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 en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de Estados Unidos de

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América, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $194,250.00, con intereses al 5.685% anual, vencedero el día 10 de julio de 2081, constituida por la escritura número 249, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de junio de 2010, ante la notario Laura Mia González Bonilla, e inscrito al folio 97 del tomo 1072 de Sabana Llana, finca número 22,279, inscripción 3ra.

Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $194,250.00 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 $129,500.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $97,125.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a

la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 17 de enero de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE MILDRED QUIÑONES T/C/C MILDRED PÉREZ IRIZARRY COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ QUIÑONES MARTINO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06797.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- subasta y al mejor postor, todo TECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de SUBASTA. epígrafe en el inmueble que se AL: PÚBLICO EN describe a continuación: “URGENERAL. BANA: Solar marcado con la A: SUCESIÓN DE letra ‘A’ localizado en la carreteMILDRED QUIÑONES ra número ciento setenta y seis T/C/C MILDRED PÉREZ (176) kilometro dos punto uno IRIZARRY COMPUESTA (2.1) del Barrio Cupey de Río POR FULANO DE TAL Y Piedras, con un área superficial de cero punto treinta cincuenta SUTANO DE TAL COMO y tres ciento veintiocho POSIBLES HEREDEROS (0.3053128) cuerdas, equivalentes a mil doscientos (1,200) DE NOMBRE metros cuadrados; por el NORDESCONOCIDO; TE, con remanente de la finca SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ principal en una distancia de QUIÑONES MARTINO cuarenta y cuatro punto treinta COMPUESTA POR y cuatro (44.34) metros; por el FULANO DE TAL Y SUR, colindancia con la UrbaniSUTANO DE TAL COMO zación San Gerardo en una disPOSIBLES HEREDEROS tancia de cuarenta y cuatro punto novecientos sesenta y DE NOMBRE cinco (44.965) metros; por el DESCONOCIDO; ESTE, colinda con la carretera ESTADOS UNIDOS DE número ciento setenta y seis (176) en una distancia de veinAMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES tiséis punto treinta y uno (26.31) metros; y por el OESDE INGRESOS TE, colinda con remanente de MUNICIPALES. la finca principal en una distanYo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULE- cia de veintisiete punto dosRO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Al- cientos setenta y ocho (27.278) guacil del Tribunal de Primera metros.” Finca Número 11,791 Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 343 los demandados, acreedores y de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de al público en general con inte- la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, rés sobre la propiedad que más Sección IV de San Juan. Direcadelante se describe, y al públi- ción de la Propiedad: Lote co en general, por la presente 1708-A, Carr. 8176, Barrio CuCERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y pey, San Juan, PR 00926. La HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día subasta se llevará a cabo para 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A satisfacer, hasta donde alcanLAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en ce, el importe de las cantidades mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de adeudadas a la parte demanPrimera Instancia, Sala Supe- dante conforme a la sentencia rior de San Juan, San Juan, dictada a su favor, a saber: de Puerto Rico, procederé a ven- $447,744.88 la cual no incluye der en Pública Subasta, al me- los intereses que continúan jor postor, la propiedad inmue- acumulándose hasta su pago ble que más adelante se total, así como la cantidad líquidescribe y cuya venta en públi- da estipulada en los documenca subasta se ordenó por la vía tos del préstamo para costas, ordinaria mediante Sentencia gastos y honorarios de abogadictada en el caso de epígrafe, do en caso de reclamación judila cual se notificó y archivó en cial y que correspondan a inteautos el día 2 de octubre de reses y cargos por demora 2023. Los autos y todos los do- posterior a dicha fecha, y la cumentos correspondientes al suma equivalente al 10% de la procedimiento incoado, estarán suma principal original pactada, de manifiesto en la Secretaría estipulada para costas, gastos durante horas laborables. Que y honorarios de abogado; más en caso de no producir remate recargos acumulados hasta la ni adjudicación en la primera fecha en que se pague la deusubasta a celebrarse, se cele- da; más cualquiera suma de dibrará una SEGUNDA SUBAS- nero por concepto de contribuTA para la venta de la susodi- ciones, primas de seguro cha propiedad, el 27 DE hipotecario y riesgo, así como FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS cualesquiera otras sumas pac9:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en tadas en la escritura de hipotecaso de no producir remate ni ca, todas cuyas sumas están adjudicación, se celebrará una líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca TERCERA SUBASTA el día 5 a ejecutarse en el caso de epíDE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS grafe fue constituida mediante 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi la escritura número 41 otorgada oficina sita en el lugar antes in- el día 30 de enero de 2007, en dicado. Que en cumplimiento San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante la de un Mandamiento de Ejecu- Notario Público Namyr I. Herción de Sentencia que ha sido nández Sánchez y consta insliberado por la Secretaría del crita al folio 157 del tomo 750 Tribunal de Primera Instancia, de Río Piedras Sur, finca númeSala Superior de San Juan, en ro 11,791, Registro de la Proel caso de epígrafe con fecha piedad de San Juan, Sección de 14 de noviembre de 2023, IV de San Juan. Por la presente procederé a vender en pública 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 en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $247,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la Presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 42, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de enero de 2007, ante la notario Namyr I. Hernández Sánchez, e inscrita al folio 157 vuelto del tomo 750 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 11,791, inscripción 7ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $247,000.00 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 $164,666.66; 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 $123,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la

finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 12 de enero de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

LYDIA MILAGROS PÉREZ

The San Juan Daily Star

JUSTINIANO POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL EDUARDO FERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ

a distance of 20’6”, with a median wall that separates it from garage for apartment #A-602, and common area; EAST, in a distance of 41’0”, with a median wall that separates it from garage for apartment #A-702; WEST, in a distance of 41’0”, with a median wall that separaDemandados tes it from garage for apartment Civil Núm.: ECD2017-0141 #A-602 and a common exterior SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO area. This apartment consists Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA of a covered balcony, foyer, POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. AVIliving/dining room, kitchen, SO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. laundry area, one master A: LOS CODEMANDADOS bathroom, one bathroom, one DE EPIGRAFE Y AL master bedroom, walk-in cloPÚBLICO EN GENERAL: set, two bedrooms with closets El Alguacil que suscribe por la and garage. The total unit area presente anuncia y hace cons- is 2,513.51 square feet, equal tar que en cumplimiento de una to 233.51 square meters. The Sentencia dictada en el caso entrance door of this apartment de epígrafe el 14 de junio de is located on its East side and 2022, notificada el 22 de junio opens to the elevator lobby of de 2022; y de un Mandamiento the 8th floor, which leads to the de Ejecución emitido el día 12 outside of the building. The door de enero de 2024, que le ha of the garage is located on its sido dirigido por la Secretaria West side and opens to the outdel Tribunal de Primera Instan- side of the building. The garage cia, Sala de Caguas, procederá also has a door on its South a vender en subasta, y al mejor side that opens to the corridor postor, por separado, de con- leading to the elevator lobby of tado y por moneda de curso the ground floor of the building. legal de los Estados Unidos de PERCENTAGE: General ComAmérica, y/o giro postal, dinero mon Elements: 1.3497%. FINen efectivo, cheque de gerente CA: Número 65685 de Caguas, o cheque certificado a nombre inscrita al tomo Karibe de la del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra Sección I de Caguas. Dirección bancaria, con similar garantía Física: A-802, Apt., Puertas del de todo título, derecho o interés Parque Cond., Cañabon Ward, de los demandados de epígrafe Caguas PR 00727. El siguiensobre el inmueble que adelante te pagaré consta inscrito en la se describe. Se anuncia por la propiedad antes mencionada y presente que la PRIMERA SU- es el que se pretende ejecutar: BASTA habrá de celebrarse el HIPOTECA: Por $321,805.00, día 4 de marzo de 2024 a las con intereses al 2.99% anual 9:45 de la mañana, en el Tribu- los primeros 5 años y 5.875% nal de Primera Instancia, Sala anual, los restantes 25 años, en de Caguas, sobre el inmueble garantía de un pagaré a favor que se describe a continuación: de Popular Mortgage, Inc., que URBAN: HORIZONTAL PRO- vence el 1ro de enero de 2041.

PERTY: Apartment #A-802, Según escritura #476, otorgada which consists of the following: en San Juan, el 20 de diciemResidential apartment of irre- bre de 2010, ante Néstor Magular shape, located on the 8th chado Cortés, inscrita al tomo floor of building “A” of the Con- Karibe de la Sección I de Cadominium Puerta del Parque in guas, finca #65685 de Caguas, Hacienda San José Communi- inscripción 2da., con fecha de ty, in the Cañabón Ward of the 24 de octubre de 2023. La reMunicipality of Caguas, Puerto ferida hipoteca grava el bien Rico, with an approximate inmueble antes descrito. Que area of 1,850.68 square feet, según surge del estudio de tíequal to 171.83 square meters. tulo, la propiedad se encuentra Its boundaries are as follow: afecta al siguiente gravamen NORTH, in a distance of 55’8”, posterior: AVISO DE DEMANwith a common exterior area; DA: De fecha 15 de febrero SOUTH, in a distance of 55’8”, de 2017, dictada en el Caso with a median wall that sepa- Civil #ECD2017-0141, Triburates it from apartment A-801, nal de Primera Instancia, Sala and a common area; EAST, in Superior de Caguas, en la que a distance of 40’4”, with a me- se solicita el pago de la deuda dian wall that separates it from garantizada con hipoteca por apartment #A-803, and a com- $321,805.00 de la inscripción mon area, first, in a distance of 2da., reducida a $283,063.67 40’4”, with a common exterior de principal y otras sumas, o la area. Garage #A-802: Garage venta de esta finca en pública of irregular shape that inclu- subasta. Anotada al tomo Karides 3 parking spaces, located be de la Sección I de Caguas, on the ground floor of building finca #65685 de Caguas, ano“A”, with an approximate area tación A y última, con fecha de of 662.83 square feet, equal to 16 de noviembre de 2023. La 61.58 square meters. Its boun- subasta se llevará a cabo para daries are as follow: NORTH, in con su producto satisfacer al a distance of 20’6”, with a com- demandante, total o parcialmon exterior area; SOUTH, in mente según sea el caso, de

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $283,063.67, por concepto de principal, más intereses al 5.875% anual, partir del 1 de septiembre de 2016 hasta su pago completo, más 5% de todo pago en atraso, más $32,180.50, como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo, según pactados.

Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Caguas, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de TRESCIENTOS VEINTIUN MIL OCHOCIENTOS CINCO DÓLARES ($321,805.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 11 de marzo de 2024 a las 9:45 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de DOSCIENTOS CATORCE MIL QUINIENTOS TREINTA Y SEIS DÓLARES CON SESENTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($214,536.66) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 18 de marzo de 2024 a las 9:45 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CIENTO SESENTA MIL NOVECIENTOS DOS

DÓLARES CON CINCUENTA CENTAVOS ($160,902.50) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 16 de enero de 2024, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. Edgardo Albol Miranda, Alguacil Auxiliar. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN

IRIS ALAYLA FIGUEROA BRITO Demandante Vs.

CESAR EDUARDO REYES SANTOS

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2024RF00055.

Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EUA.

DEL TRIBUNAL, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de enero de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA A. RAMOS VIERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CLOTILDE RIVERA MERCADO Peticionaria

EXPARTE

Civil Núm.: CM2024CV00028.

Sobre: INFORMACIÓN DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, S.S.

A: CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA QUE PUDIERA TENER INTERÉS EN ESTE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO Y/O EN LA PROPIEDAD QUE MAS A: CESAR EDUARDO DELANTE DE DESCRIBE REYES SANTOS. Y ESPECIALMENTE A Por la presente se le notifica a JUAN M. RAMOS RÍOS usted, que se ha presentado Y A SUS POSIBLES en la Secretaría del Tribunal de HEREDEROS Primera Instancia, Sala de San DESCONOCIDOS DE Juan, la demanda de epígrafe, en la que, en síntesis, se alega EXISTIR LA SUCESIÓN que usted parte indispensable DE JUAN M. RAMOS en la demanda de Divorcio RÍOS, JOSÉ D. RAMOS por Ruptura Irreparable someATILÉS Y A SUS tida por IRIS ALAYLA FIGUEROA BRITO. Es abogado de POSIBLES HEREDEROS la parte demandante el Lodo.

DESCONOCIDOS DE Juan José Berrios Colón, cuya EXISTIR LA SUCESIÓN dirección es en Vázquez y DE JOSÉ D. RAMOS Asociados 379 Calle César ATILÉS, LISANDRA González, San Juan, Puerto ALCAIDE MOLINA Rico 00918, Teléfono 787-7660949 y se notifica a usted que Y A SUS POSIBLES de no comparecer a contestar HEREDEROS esta demanda dentro de los DESCONOCIDOS DE treinta (30) días siguientes EXISTIR LA SUCESIÓN después de haberse publicado el edicto, la parte demandante DE LISANDRA ALCAIDE podrá solicitar la anotación de MOLINA, QUIENES rebeldía y lograr que se dicte ERAN VECINOS DE sentencia, concediéndosele el CAMUY, PUERTO RICO remedio solicitado sin más sin Y A TODA PERSONA EN más citarles ni oírles. Usted GENERAL QUE CON deberá presentar su alegación DERECHO PARA ELLO responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y AdminisDESEE OPONERSE A tración de Casos (SUMAC), al ESTE EXPEDIENTE DE cual puede acceder utilizando DOMINIO. la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO

Por la presente se notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio Membrillo del término municipal de Camuy, con un área superficial de 1,301.421 metros cuadrados equivalentes

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a 0.3311cuerda. En lindes por el Norte, con Juan M. Ramos Ríos DBA SUCN. M. Ramos; por el Sur, con José D. Ramos Atiles; por el ESTE, con Lisandra Alcaide Molina; por el OESTE, con carretera municipal asfaltada seguido por, Antonio Vega Cabrera y Departamento de Vivienda Rural. Enclava una Estructura de uso residencial con un are de 853.P:C. aproximadamente de Hormigón y Bloques. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad.

Libre de cargas. Catastro número: 009-050-480-42-000. La dirección física de esta propiedad es: Sur de PR-485 Kilómetro 2.0 Int. Camino municipal a 515 metros, Barrio Membrillo, del término municipal de Camuy, Puerto Rico. También, se le informa que el Tribunal acogió la solicitud y el caso será señalado oportunamente para vista en su fondo en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, a la cual usted puede comparecer personalmente o asistido por abogado a presentar cualquier oposición que tuviera a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren algar su derecho.

Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le notifica a usted que este Tribunal ha ordenado su citación, para que presente oposición a este expediente, si se viesen perjudicados con la inscripción que se solicita; advirtiéndole que de no hacerlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, la parte peticionaria podrá solicitar y obtener la aprobación de este expediente de dominio y la correspondiente inscripción a su nombre en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Arecibo, el dominio de la finca anteriormente descrita. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En Arecibo,

Puerto Rico hoy 23 de enero DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUde 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN REGIONAL. EIMMY FELICIA- JUAN NO TORRES, SECRETARIA ROMULO AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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COMBINED BUIDING AND HOUSING CONSULTANTS, INC. Demandante Vs.

LEONEL BUENROSTRO CÉSPEDES

OTERO CALZADA

Parte Demandante Vs.

CARMEN DELIA OTERO FIGUEROA; RÓMULO OTERO FIGUEROA; RÓMULO OTERO SASTRE; MIGUEL ADRIÁN FRED ALMONTE; Y SUCESION DE WILFREDO RIVERA CASAS COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL

Parte Demandada Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV00536.

Caso Civil Núm.: Salón: 603. Sobre: LIQUIDASJ2023CV02844. Sala: 901.

CIÓN DE BIENES Y PARTISobre: DESAHUCIO POR CIÓN DE HERENCIA. EMINCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. TRATO POR FALTA DE PAGO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉY COBRO DE DINERO (LEY RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE NÚM. 86 DEL 5 DE JUNIO LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIDE 2011). EMPLAZAMIENBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS A: MIGUEL ADRIÁN UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL FRED ALMONTE; PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIFÉLIX EDGARDO BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO DIAZ CASAS; EDWIN RICO, SS.

FRANCISCO CORDERO A: LOEONEL CASAS; SUCESION DE BUENROSTRO CÉSPEDES WILFREDO RIVERA - ALTERGARTEN LAS CASAS COMPUESTA TERESAS I MORADA, APT. POR FULANO Y FULNA 702, SAN JUAN PUERTO DE TAL. RICO 00924.

Por la presente se les notifica a

POR LA PRESENTE se le em- ustedes, que se ha presentado plaza, se le notifica que una en la Secretaría del Tribunal demanda ha sido presentada de Primera Instancia, Sala de en su contra y se le requiere San Juan, la demanda de epíque conteste la misma dentro grafe, en la que, en síntesis, se de treinta (30) días siguientes alega que son ustedes partes a la publicación de este Edicto. indispensables en la demanda Usted deberá presentar su ale- para la división y liquidación gación responsiva a través del de una participación hereditaSistema Unificado de Manejo y ria del causante Rómulo Otero Administración de Casos (SU- Rivera. Es abogado de la parte MAC), al cual puede acceder demandante la Lcda. Nicoleutilizando la siguiente direc- marie Peña Cartagena, cuya ción electrónica: https://unired. dirección es en Vázquez y Asoramajudicial.pr, salvo que se ciados 379 Calle César Gonrepresente por derecho propio, zalez, San Juan, Puerto Rico en cuyo caso deberá presentar 00918, Teléfono 787-766-0949 su alegación responsiva en la y se notifica a ustedes que de secretaría del tribunal y copia no comparecer a contestar esta fiel al representante legal de demanda dentro de los treinta la parte Demandante a su di- (30) días siguientes después rección: de haberse publicado el edicto, Lcdo. Jorge J. Sanabria García, la parte demandante podrá soUrb. Crown Hills licitar la anotación de rebeldía y 170-B Ave. Winston Churchill lograr que se dicte sentencia, San Juan, PR 00926 Se le apercibe que, de no ha- concediéndosele el remedio cerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia solicitado sin más sin mas citaren rebeldía concediendo el re- les ni oírles. Usted deberá premedio solicitado en la deman- sentar su alegación responsiva da, sin citarle ni oírle más. EX- a través del Sistema Unificado TENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA Y de Manejo y Administración EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en de Casos (SUMAC), al cual San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 puede acceder utilizando la side agosto de 2023. GRISELDA guiente dirección electrónica: RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE- https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ CRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. index.php/tribunal-electronico/, MYRIAM RIVERA VILLANUE- salvo que se representen por VA, SECRETARIA DE SERVI- derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación CIOS A SALA. responsiva en la secretaría del LEGAL NOTICE tribunal. Si usted deja de preESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO sentar su alegación responsiva

26 dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de enero de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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tablecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 23 de enero de 2024. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 23 de enero de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NOEMÍ DEL C. ROMÁN BOSQUES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 23 de enero de 2024.

En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 23 de enero de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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LUNA RESIDENCIAL II, LLC Demandante V.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO FULANO DE TAL DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUY OTROS NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Demandado(a) CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE Caso Núm.: PO2022CV02022.

(Salón: 406 - CIVIL SUPEBANCO POPULAR DE HUMACAO RIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DIPALMAS DEL MAR PUERTO RICO NERO ORDINARIO Y OTROS. Demandante V. HOMEOWNERS NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENMYRIAM J. VARELA ASSOCIATION, INC. CIA POR EDICTO. Demandante V. GABRIEL ESTEFAN CANCEL CANCEPCIÓN POR SÍ Y PÉREZ, GABRIELCANCEL.LAW@ JOSIAH J. OELERICH EN REPRESENTACIÓN GMAIL.COM VALENCIA Y OTROS DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL KRYSTAL SANTIAGO SÁNCHEZ, Demandado(a) PRSERVICE@RASLG.COM DE GANANCIALES Caso Núm.: HU2023CV01118. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA, COMPUESTA CON MCOLON@WW.CLAW.COM Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ÉSTA Y VICTOR SOTO Y ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN A: LUIS ACEVEDO OTROS DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FERNANDEZ; CARLOS JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, JRG@ Demandado(a) MANGUAL FERNANDEZ; GONZALEZMORALES.COM. Caso Núm.: AU2023CV00567.

OTONIEL MANGUAL (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SU- A: JOSIAH J. OELERICH FERNANDEZ; WANDA PERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE VALENCIA, PAULINA DINERO - ORDINARIO. NONADAL FERNANDEZ; VALENCIA COLORADO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA NILDA NADAL Y SOCIEDAD LEGAL POR EDICTO. FERNANDEZ; ILEANA DE GANANCIALES GINA H. FERRER NADAL FERNANDEZ; MEDINA, LAWOFFICES. COMPUESTA POR GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL. ROBERTO NADAL JOSIAH J. OELERICH COM.

VALENCIA Y PAULINA A: MYRIAM J. VARELA VALENCIA COLORADO CANCEPCIÓN POR SÍ Y A SU DIRECCIÓN EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL CONOCIDA: 2 BEACH VILLAGE, HUMACAO, PR DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON ÉSTA 00791-6148. P/C LCDO. JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ Y VICTOR SOTO, VICTOR RIVERA. SOTO POR SÍ Y EN (Nombre de las partes que se le REPRESENTACIÓN DE notifican la sentencia por edicto) LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTE el 19 de enero de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Y MYRIAM J. VARELA Sentencia Parcial o Resolución CONCEPCIÓN. en este caso, que ha sido debi-

(Nombre de las partes que se le notificación la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 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 es-

damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi-

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024 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 24 de enero de 2024.

En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 24 de enero de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V.

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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 22 de enero de 2024.

En Guánica, Puerto Rico, el 22 de enero de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. SANTA MELÉNDEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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SUCESIÓN DE ANDRÉS PICHS SUAREZ T/C/C ANDRÉS F. PICHS SUAREZ T/C/C ANDRES FRANCISCO PICHS SUAREZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV03225.

(Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. YADIRA LÓPEZ GONZÁLEZ, YADIRA.LOPEZ17@HOTMAIL.COM.

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FERNANDEZ, Caso Núm.: GU2023CV00094.

COMO HEREDEROS (Salón: 1 SALA MUNICIPAL).

CONOCIDOS DE MARIA Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE JULIA FERNANDEZ SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. SANTIAGO; KATHY KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO, GONZALEZ, DALIA KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM. (Nombre de las partes que se le ACOSTA, CARLOS A: SHEYMI notifican la sentencia por edicto).

ACOSTA Y JUAN GARCIA MERCADO. EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus(Nombre de las partes que se le SANTIAGO COMO cribe le notifica a usted que notifican la sentencia por edicto) el 24 de enero de 2024, este MIEMBROS DE LA EL SECRETARIO(A) que susSUCESION DE MIGDALIA cribe le notifica a usted que el Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Parcial o Resolución SANTIAGO FERNANDEZ 22 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, Sentencia en este caso, que ha sido debieste Tribunal ha dictado SenCON POSIBLE INTERES damente registrada y archivada tencia, Sentencia Parcial o EN LA SUCESION en autos donde podrá usted enResolución en este caso, que terarse detalladamente de los DE MARIA JULIA ha sido debidamente registraFERNANDEZ SANTIAGO; da y archivada en autos donde términos de la misma. Esta nose publicará una sola ROBERTO ACEVEDO, podrá usted enterarse deta- tificación vez en un periódico de circulalladamente de los términos de SOFIA ACEVEDO Y ción general en la Isla de Puerla misma. Esta notificación se NANCY ACEVEDO to Rico, dentro de los 10 días publicará una sola vez en un COMO HEREDEROS DE periódico de circulación general siguientes a su notificación. Y, ROBERTO ACEVEDO en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento FERNANDEZ CON de los 10 días siguientes a su sujeta a los términos de la SenPOSIBLE INTERES EN notificación. Y, siendo o repre- tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resentando usted una parte en LA SUCESION DE MARIA solución, de la cual puede estael procedimiento sujeta a los blecerse recurso de revisión o JULIA FERNANDEZ. términos de la Sentencia, Sen-

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de enero de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada

tencia 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

con fecha 24 de enero de 2024. aramos@licenciadonotariopr.com En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el /F/ ALEJANDRA MARIA RAMOS MUÑOZ 24 de enero de 2024. GRISELNúm. Tribunal Supremo 23,244 DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. RAQUEL DÍAZ Expedido BAJO MI FIRMA t LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXI- sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de enero LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez LEGAL NOTICE Collado, Secretaria Regional.

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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,

JOHN DOE COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARÉ

Demandada CIVIL#: SJ2023CV11800 SALÓN: 503 SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS. A: JOHN DOE COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARÉ a favor de Dimas e Hijos, lnc., o a su orden, por la suma de ciento veinticinco mil dólares ($125,000.00), al tres por ciento (3 %) vencedero el siete (7) de julio de dos mil siete (2007), según la escritura número veintiocho (28), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico a siete (7) de julio de mil novecientos noventa. y dos (1992), ante la abogada notaria Ana M. Campos Gavito, inscrita al folio 162 del tomo 1291 de Río Piedras Norte, Finca 4307, inscripción catorce (14), Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal/ electrónico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: LICENCIADO NOTARIO P.R., INC> Física: Ave. San Patricio 764 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00921 Postal: 130 Ave. Winston Churchill PMB 327 Suite 1 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926-6018 Tel. (787) 487-7718

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

LIZ Y PADILLA NEGRON

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TA2023CV00850.

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

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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.

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National baseball team uniform will help promote PR rums in the Caribbean Series

By THE STAR STAFF

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conomic Development and Commerce (DDEC by its Spanish acronym) Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda earlier this week officially delivered the uniforms to the national baseball team that will represent Puerto Rico in the 2024 Caribbean Series.

The uniforms were sponsored by the Puerto Rico Rums Program, in support of the Puerto Rican team and as a mechanism to promote the island’s rums in the Americas and the Caribbean.

“We are very proud and confident that the Criollos de Caguas will represent us very well in the 2024 Caribbean Series,” Cidre said Monday in a written statement.

“They will surely make the greatest effort to bring the precious prize to our island. The DDEC and its Rums program support this great team, champion of the [just concluded] Puerto Rican [winter] baseball season.”

The 2024 Caribbean Series starts Thursday in Miami and runs through Feb. 9. Along with Puerto Rico, winter baseball league champions from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Curaçao and Nicaragua will participate.

“Simultaneously, we take advantage of this great opportunity to promote our rums,” the island’s trade czar added. “The Caribbean Series will be watched by thousands of fans in the United States and Latin America, which represents an excellent platform to carry the message that Puerto Rico not only has excellent athletes, but also produces the best rums in the world. Quality and distinction are characteristics that describe our team, as well as the rums we produce. With this exhibition, we will reinforce the recognition of our brand internationally, presenting Puerto Rico as the World Rum Capital.”

The 2024 Caribbean Series will take place in Miami starting Thursday and running through Feb. 9. It will bring together the champions of the winter leagues from the countries that are part of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation – Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Venezuela. Panama, Curaçao and Nicaragua will also participate, as guest countries.

Superior Baseball Hall of Fame inducts 15

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he Puerto Rico Superior (Double A) Baseball Hall of Fame honored 15 individuals on Sunday in the 34th induction ceremony, held in Aibonito. In total, six position players, four pitchers and five managers/executives were inducted.

Although he was part of the group of inductees, former federation president Osvaldo Gil was excused during the event.

Below is the list of inductees: Josefina López Galarza – Served as executive secretary of the Puerto Rico Baseball Federation for more than 50 years. She has worked under four presidents and remains active under the presidency of Dr. José Quiles.

Gilberto “Gilo” Avilés – Short outfielder for Manatí, had 612 hits and hit over .300 in 21 seasons. He was part of the National Team in three international competitions.

Félix Martínez – Short outfielder who stood out for his defense and consistency.

He helped the San Lorenzo Samaritans win five national championships and Puerto Rico win a gold medal at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Arturo Álvarez – Second baseman who played most of his 17 seasons with the Cabo Rojo Pirates and had a lifetime aver-

age of .323, in addition to winning a batting title in the 2003 season with an average of .426.

Elvin “Memo” Rodríguez – Catcher and outfielder from Utuado who had 537 hits in his career and had a lifetime average of .337.

Jorge “Georgie” Meléndez – A third baseman for the Juana Díaz Poetas and two other teams in Double A. He had a lifetime average of .295 and hit over .300 on 11 occasions.

Rosario Carrión – Catcher and outfielder who in 23 seasons had a batting average of .294 and had 517 hits with six teams: Guaynabo, Patillas, Guayama, Fajardo, Aguas Buenas and Cidra.

Moisés “Poché” Hernández – Righthanded reliever who played a key role in four national titles for the Mulos de Juncos.

In regular seasons he posted 31 victories and saved 42 games with an earned run average (ERA) of 3.49 with the Mulos, Río Grande, San Lorenzo, Las Piedras, Cataño and Humacao.

Francisco Caratini – Pitcher who won 64 games and had an ERA of 3.56 on the staffs of the Aibonito, Coamo, Humacao and Cayey franchises.

Larry Guzmán – Pitcher who notched 62 victories with an ERA of 3.40 with six

In total, six position players, four pitchers and five managers/executives were inducted into the Puerto Rico Superior (Double A) Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. (Photo by Carmen TIta Pérez) teams: Fajardo, San Lorenzo, Las Piedras, Aibonito, Juana Díaz and Cidra.

Heriberto Bermúdez – Left-handed pitcher whose record in Double A was 63 wins, 47 losses, six games saved and an ERA of 3.26 with six teams: Aibonito, Guayama, Juana Díaz, Salinas, Cidra and Comerío.

Carmelito Ortiz – Deceased former announcer and former manager of the Braves of Cidra, with whom he won three championships in the 2012, 2013 and 2016 seasons.

José Arnaldo “Arnie” Santana – Leader

of Yabucoa baseball who delivered three national titles in Little League and two Latin American titles. He has also been a manager, general manager and coach at the youth level, as well as an announcer and statistician in senior baseball.

Félix Rubén Figueroa – After retiring as a pitcher for the Leones de Patillas, he was a coach, agent and general manager of the team.

Jorge L. “Titio” Ortiz – Announcer for the Polluelos de Aibonito and a tireless collaborator with the Double A franchise.

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Russian skaters stripped of Olympic gold but will still get the bronze

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nternational skating’s governing body earlier this week stripped Russia of its victory in the team figure skating event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and awarded the gold medal to the United States. The move came one day after teenage Russian star Kamila Valieva, who had led her team to an apparent victory in the team event, was banned for four years for doping.

But rather than disqualify Russia’s team for including an ineligible skater, the governing body, the International Skating Union, adjusted the results of the competition in a way that awarded Russia the bronze medal instead.

In a statement Tuesday announcing the revised results, the skating union said it had disqualified Valieva and dismissed all the points she had accumulated. Those alterations, it said, put the United States in first in the team event, with Japan second and Russia third.

But in a curious bit of math, the ISU adjusted only the final team totals for each country when it reordered the standings. By not elevating the

Kamila Valieva of Russia competes at the Olympics in Beijing on Feb. 7, 2022.

Valieva led Russia to a team gold in Beijing before a months-old doping test emerged a day later. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)

individual points collected by each team’s women’s singles skaters at the same time, it left Canada, which had been expected to rise to the bronze, in fourth place — a single point behind Russia.

Canada’s skating federation made no immediate public comment on the ISU decision. On Monday, the skating federation and the Canadian Olympic committee had both “applauded” the ruling to disqualify Valieva but did not directly call for the awarding of any medals to Canadian athletes.

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According to those rules, it said, “the results of team competitions at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games do not depend on the outcome of the consideration of the individual case of Kamila Valieva, and the awards won by our team in Beijing cannot be legally subject to review.”

The outcome has raised yet more questions about Russia’s influence over top sports bodies, including the International Olympic Committee, and highlighted the inability of global sports to enforce rules on doping and to punish athletes and countries in a timely manner. Critics have accused the IOC of taking a soft approach on Russia by issuing tough-sounding sanctions that still allowed Russian athletes and teams to take part in its marquee competitions. Russia’s antidoping agency, for example, was itself banned when it was empowered to conduct the initial investigation into Valieva’s positive result.

The Valieva scandal has been

allowed to drag out for almost two years and may yet still have twists; new appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport could set the stage for further legal action that could take more months to resolve.

In Tuesday’s announcement, Valieva was also stripped of all results achieved in the period in which she was ineligible, including not only the team event, which had been held at the Games for the first time, but also her fourth-place finish in the singles event and her victory in the 2022 European championships.

Her four-year ban will end in December 2025, just in time to allow her to compete in the next Olympics, in February 2026 in Italy.

A Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, on Monday ridiculed Valieva’s ban as a “politicized decision.” On Tuesday, he broadened his criticisms, suggesting that any result that took the gold away from Russia was unacceptable.

“We don’t agree with these decisions, neither by the court nor by the federation,” he said. “We don’t accept them.”

Peskov said Russia was willing to work with “all relevant structures” to defend the interests of its athletes.

He added: “Upon their return from China from the Olympics, these athletes were honored as Olympic champions; we are convinced that for us they will always remain Olympic champions.

No matter what decisions were made in this regard, even unfair ones.”

The International Skating Union said it would coordinate with the International Olympic Committee on the next steps in implementing its decision — essentially the long-delayed awarding of the medals from the team competition in Beijing.

Unclear at the time about who had actually won them, the IOC had taken the unprecedented step of retaining possession of those golds, silvers and bronzes in Beijing. That was the first time in Olympic history that medals were not awarded in a completed event.

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Some exciting visitors could come to your door today, Aries, perhaps bringing Earthshaking information that could impact your life in a great way. You might start considering new lifestyle options. A group or organization, possibly associated with spirituality or metaphysics, could suddenly seem attractive and you might consider joining it.

Expect some fascinating discussions with a close person in your life. Books, magazines, and other publications could also prove enlightening.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Surprising news about your own finances and the world economy in general could cause you to feel confident and secure about your financial future, Libra. An unexpected raise in salary could come your way soon, possibly because of sudden changes at your workplace. Some of the information that you receive could seem vague and uncertain at first, but whatever news follows should clear it up. It seems a celebration is in order!

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Group activities or social events in your neighborhood could put you in touch with new and exciting people who eventually become friends, Taurus. Shared goals and interests could give rise to plans for ambitious projects.

Whatever enterprises you start today are likely to prove successful if everyone involved pitches in. In the evening, arrange for a quiet tête-à-tête with your romantic partner.

Enjoy your day!

Have you been looking to branch out in a new direction, Gemini? If so, this could be the day you get the lead of a lifetime. Or you might receive some unexpected information indicating possible new sources of income that you could pursue on your own. Whatever they are, new doors of opportunity are going to open for you that could make a big difference in your lifestyle and catapult you into a higher socioeconomic bracket. Make the most of it!

Unusual circumstances could arise that change the course of your creative orientation, Cancer. This could involve modern technology in some way, and it’s highly likely that it concerns the gathering, sharing, and use of information.

You could find yourself considering some unusual options, which could involve changing jobs, your residence, or other factors important to your lifestyle. Think carefully before plunging in.

Leo

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Today you could decide to attend a class, workshop, or social event involving people in a spiritual, metaphysical, or intellectual field. Fascinating discussions could lead to insights and revelations of your own, Leo. You could explore ways to harness your natural healing ability, perhaps through Reiki, massage, or other hands-on disciplines. Expect to spend the next few days being preoccupied with ideas you learn today. They should have a profound impact.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

New information could be coming at you from all sides today, Virgo. Books, magazines, TV, the Internet, and conversations with friends are likely to bring exciting knowledge your way that reinforces some of your own convictions.

Your intuitive abilities aren’t lying fallow either. Insights and revelations could come to you that blend well with what you’re learning from outside sources. Write down your thoughts. You’ll want to put them to work for you later.

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Some fascinating new information, possibly about spiritual or metaphysical matters, could come your way today via books, magazines, TV, or the Internet, Scorpio. This could set you off on a new course of study. Your own insights and revelations could prove invaluable in increasing your understanding of what you read. In the evening, expect a surprising letter or phone call from someone you haven’t heard from in a long time. Enjoy your day.

Dreams and meditation could lead to insights regarding how best to handle your finances and make your money grow, Sagittarius. You could receive some surprising ideas from newspapers, TV, or the Internet. Your level of intuition is very high. No matter how outrageous an idea may seem, consider it carefully before making a decision.

A written plan of action for anything you do would be helpful. Too many ideas are popping into your head and you’ll want to keep track of them.

A social event or group rally could put you in touch with some new and exciting people in interesting fields, Capricorn. You might even run into an old friend you haven’t seen for a long time. If you aren’t currently romantically involved, an attractive new person could come on the scene. This promises to be an exciting and stimulating day for you. Don’t be surprised if new doors to a great future open for you. Enjoy!

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Today you could be hit with some exciting news, Aquarius.

It could involve new people and new equipment coming onto the scene. It could involve an entirely new project or course of action that you never would have imagined.

This is likely to shape up to be a lucky break for you, as the new situation probably suits your skills and talents nearly perfectly. Make the most of this opportunity. It could make a big difference to you.

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Information that you receive from others and from within your own heart could compel you to participate in some ambitious projects, Pisces. They may be work related, connected with a group, or your own. Whatever they are, you’re likely to find them interesting, challenging, and personally gratifying. New opportunities for advancement and self-expression could be opening up for you. It’s best to move ahead now; otherwise, they might pass you by.

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