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Judge hears closing arguments in PREPA debt deal

By THE STAR STAFF

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain heard the closing arguments Monday in favor of and against the debt adjustment plan that would reduce the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) debt to $2.8 billion.

Monday was slated to be the last day of hearings.

Late in the day, Swain, who is overseeing Puerto Rico’s Title III bankruptcy cases, ruled to keep the mediation team active as ordered in the event stakeholders want to continue to negotiate.

Michael Doluisio, the lawyer for a group of Ad-Hoc PREPA bondholders that oppose the debt adjustment plan (PAD by its Spanish acronym), said that while Puerto Ricans deserve good power service, it should not be by hindering the rights of bondholders, whose debt was reduced by 80%.

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The PAD entails the imposition of a legacy charge and the Financial Oversight and Management Board has said utility rates should not be more than 6% of a household’s budget. The board has also said the average household yearly salary is about $25,000. Bondholders insist Puerto Ricans can pay more and have challenged the numbers provided by the oversight board. Several opponents, such as Doluisio, have maintained that the board did not use current statistics in its numbers.

Oversight board lawyers from the firm Proskauer, Martin Bienenstock, Margaret Dale and Ehud Barak, have insisted that the PAD is the best possible deal for consumers.

Dale said that contrary to what the bondholders claim, the legacy charge and the premise that a household can pay over 6% of its budget is not applicable to commercial and industrial clients.

Barak reminded the court that several offers were made to the bondholders, which they rejected. The oversight board made deals with fuel line lenders, a portion of the bondholders and some of the monoline insurers, among others.

The oversight board also objected to the appointment of a receiver for PREPA because such a deal will prevent the utility from generating revenue to pay bondholders.

PREPA’s bondholders opposing the plan have not only argued that PREPA can pay more of its $9 billion debt, but also that the oversight board is manipulating the classification of claims to gain approval of the PAD.

claims asserted against PREPA. On the effective date of the PAD, Vitol will be paid a distribution on account of its claim equal to one-half the percentage recovery of other general unsecured creditors. The bondholders noted that shortly after the settlement with Vitol, the oversight board informed the court that it had procured “an impaired accepting class, thus enabling it to file a confirmable plan rather than a placeholder.”

In December 2022, the oversight board reached an agreement with the fuel line lenders. The bondholders said that after initially rejecting the fuel line lenders’ priority claim, the board later accepted it after creating an impaired accepting class. Under their settlement, the fuel line lenders will receive first priority Series A bonds in a principal amount of some $650 million with a 15-year stated final maturity and 6% cash interest coupon, post-petition interest accrual and $15 million in consummation fees, and professional-fee reimbursement of up to $11 million.

“The fuel line lenders remain the only creditors receiving the senior Series A Bonds and the associated 92%-plus recovery even though the Bondholders and the fuel line lenders all are unsecured creditors,” the bondholders said.

The PAD is slated to preempt sections of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Act, the Puerto Rico Labor Relations Act, the Puerto Rico Net Metering Program Act, the Puerto Rico Transformation and Energy RELIEF Act, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Revitalization Act, the Act to Guarantee the Payment of Pension Benefits to Retirees and to Establish a New Defined Contribution Plan for Public Servants, the Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy Act, and the Puerto Rico Debt Responsibility Act. The preemption of the selected provisions of these laws is either permanent or until the later of the repayment of debt issued in the PAD.

The PAD “rests on a series of purported settlements that bestow premium recoveries on certain favored creditors with the purpose of gaining support for the plan,” opposing bondholders said.

For instance, they said Vitol’s general unsecured claim will be allowed in the aggregate total amount of $41.4 million and classified separately from other general unsecured

Planning Board projects economic growth through FY 2025

By THE STAR STAFF

The Planning Board (JP by its Spanish initials) projects sustained growth of Puerto Rico’s economy of 2.8% and 1.4% for fiscal years (FY) 2024 and 2025, respectively, JP Chairman Julio Lassús Ruiz said Monday.

“The projections are based, among other variables, on the slowdown in inflation and the increase in the disbursement of federal funds,” Lassús Ruiz said in a written statement.

The planner noted that “among the main variables of the projections are funds for reconstruction, the significant reduction of inflation, and credits for work and dependent children.”

It is essential to mention that any economic projection realization must be built with appropriate statistical instruments,” Lassús Ruiz said, adding that the JP uses an econometric model called the Dynamic Econometric Model of the Economy of Puerto Rico.

Different economic assumptions are incorporated into the model to explain the behavior of the projections. Among the main assumptions are the following exogenous variables: economic growth in the United States, oil prices, the level of investment in construction, investment in machinery and equipment, the amount of federal transfers to individuals, the size of the population, and the world economy, he said.

The sources of information are fiscal plans published by the Financial Oversight and Management Board, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Census Bureau, International Monetary Fund, and the U.S. Office of Energy. In addition, the aggregates of Puerto Rico’s economy

are incorporated according to the data from the 2023 social accounts produced by the JP.

Economic growth of 2.8% is projected in the base case for FY 2024, positively impacted by federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for reconstruction. Those federal disbursements are expected to grow 21.2% in the current fiscal year, reaching $1.858 billion, $326 million above the previous fiscal year 2023. In addition, a significant reduction in inflation is expected, which will reach a growth of 2%, after having increased 3.3% in FY 2023.

“Other factors that have contributed positively to the economy have been the credits from the ARPA [American Recovery Plan Act] Law, work credits and credit for dependent children,” Lassús Ruiz said.

Likewise, he said, “the projection for fiscal year 2025 is a growth of 1.4 percent in the base scenario.”

“This projection is supported by increased federal disbursements in CDBG funds totaling $2 billion,” the official said. “This would represent an increase of 10.6 percent, or $196 million over fiscal year 2024. Another indicator contributing to growth in fiscal year 2025 is a slowing inflation [rate] of 1.4 percent over fiscal year 2024.”

The JP always measures two alternative scenarios to the base scenario that explain any eventuality in the base forecast. The scenarios are optimistic and pessimistic. The optimistic scenario is more positive in terms of the economy’s performance. In the pessimistic scenario, performance is smaller or negative

at the base level.

The optimistic scenario for FYs 2024 and 2025 projects growth of 3.2% and 2.4%, respectively. The pessimistic scenario projects increases of 2.4% in FY 2024 and 0.3% in FY 2025.

Lassus Ruiz also noted that Puerto Rico’s economy, measured by the gross domestic product (GDP) at constant prices, increased 0.7% in FY 2023 compared to FY 2022.

The JP chairman noted that “this growth is mainly attributed to an increase in exports of goods and services of 12.7 percent, imports of goods and services of 5.6 percent, personal consumption expenditures 3.2 percent, total domestic fixed capital investment 2.8 percent and government consumption expenditures 0.3 percent.”

Constant GDP estimates for FYs 2021 and 2022 were revised, for growth of 1.4% and 3.8%, respectively. At current prices, GDP in FY 2023 rose 3.9%. The revisions to the current GDP estimates for FYs 2021 and 2022 were 7% and 4.1%, respectively.

In FY 2023, personal consumption expenditures at current prices increased by 6.3%. Durable and nondurable goods have the largest share in personal consumption expenditures, with 58.9% of the total. At constant prices, personal consumption expenditures on household operation, clothes and accessories, and medical and funeral services had the greatest impact on the total expenditures. Personal consumption expenditures accounted for 85.1% of real domestic demand in FY 2023, confirming the category’s crucial role as a driver of the economy.

Diabetes expo slated for Thursday to Sunday at San Patricio Plaza

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rican Diabetes Association is returning with its free interactive event Expo Diabetes, this time at San Patricio Plaza, from Thursday, March 21 to Sunday, March 24, to educate and raise awareness about diabetes.

“The incidence of diabetes in our country is alarming and continues to rise, posing a serious threat to public health,” said Brenda Padilla, executive director of the Puerto Rican Diabetes Association, in a written statement. “It is necessary to take urgent measures to address this situation and promote healthy lifestyle habits that can help prevent and control this disease.”

At Expo Diabetes, health professionals will offer their care and support to people who attend the event on the mall’s central stage. A variety of programs will include workshops and educational content, informative talks, story readings by the publisher Con Pluma Papel, health clinics (including checking

and monitoring glucose, weight, blood pressure and nutrition), exhibits, massage stations, and healthy cooking demonstrations.

On Friday, renowned chef Giovanna Huyke will be in charge of the Cooking Lab, presenting a delicious healthy recipe, while on Saturday, Chef Eliezer Rosa will share a special recipe designed to help decrease cardiovascular problems in those living with type 2 diabetes.

Also, on Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon the 3rd edition of ForoNutrición will be held with a panel of experts.

Various organizations, associations, and businesses will be present to educate people on topics relevant to those living with prediabetes, diabetes, or other chronic conditions, as well as those who wish to prevent them.

For more information about the Puerto Rican Diabetes Association, visit the Facebook page, write to informacion@ diabetespr.org, call 787-729-2210 or 1-800-281-0617, or access www.diabetespr.org.

Puerto Rico Planning Board Chairman Julio Lassús Ruiz

US Census: Some 96% of island towns have lost population

Guánica leads the way, while Rincón, Naranjito and Barranquitas grew slightly

By THE STAR STAFF

The U.S. Census Bureau on Monday released the most recent Annual Population Estimates data for Puerto Rico’s municipalities, as well as counties in U.S. states, reporting that as of April 1, 2020, 96% of the island municipalities had lost population since July 1, 2013.

The statistics include estimates of the total population for each municipality and population change in the current decade. On behalf of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Network of Census Data and Information Centers in Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics reported several findings from the new publication of population estimates for 2023:

Compared to the 2020 Decennial Census with a reference date of April 1, 2020, versus the most recent year available, July 1, 2023, estimates indicate that: Changes in the resident population in the municipalities ranged from 1.6% to -10.05; in 96% of the municipalities, a population decrease was estimated. In the municipalities of Rincón, Naranjito and Barranquitas, however, a slight increase was

estimated (0.1%– 1.6%). Some seven municipalities reflected an estimated reduction equal to or greater than 5% within the period compared. The total population of all of Puerto Rico is estimated to have decreased by 2.4%, translating into about 80,000 fewer residents than in April 2020.

Regarding the geographical dimension between the municipalities, the interactive map available on https://censo.estadisticas. pr/EstimadosPoblacionales provides the geographical distribution of the change in the total population estimated until 2023. On the map it can be seen that:

The seven municipalities with the highest percentages of population decrease were Guánica (-10.0%), Loíza (-5.9%), Guayanilla (-5.5%), Ponce (-5.3%), Yauco (5.2%), Guayama (-5.0%) and Yabucoa (-5.0%); five of the seven municipalities are located in southern Puerto Rico, with Loíza and Yabucoa in the northeast and eastern regions, respectively.

The seven municipalities with the lowest percentages of population decline were Aibonito (-0.1%), Isabela (-0.3%), Moca (-0.4%), Dorado (-0.5%), Corozal (-0.6%), Camuy (-0.6%) and Adjuntas (-0.7%).

“The general trend in population decline is maintained in the municipalities, an aspect that began in the jurisdiction nearly two decades ago

(2005),” said Alberto Velázquez Estrada, senior manager of statistical projects at the institute, in a written statement. “The phenomenon of the reduction [involves] greater caution in several municipalities where the rate indicates to be five percent or more in just three years of the current decade, according to the new estimates.”

As an interactive summary, the institute published a visualization that allows the user to see the new series of estimates at the municipal level, thus facilitating the geographical comparison within Puerto Rico. The visualization can be accessed at: https://censo.estadisticas. pr/node/517.

Governor announces start of Child-Friendly Cities project in Puerto Rico

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, Family Secretary Ciení Rodríguez Troche and Roberto Carlos Pagán, head of the Administration for the Comprehensive Care and Development of Children (ACUDEN by its Spanish acronym), announced on Monday the 20 municipalities that will initially participate in the Child-Friendly Cities in Puerto Rico (CAN) project, with the objective of developing and strengthening the ecosystem of services for children.

Selected municipalities that met the eligibility requirements will go through a training, support and mentoring process to be certified as CAN towns. For the implementation of the initiative, over $3.3 million in funds from the ACUDEN-managed Child Care Program were allocated.

“Today we announce another great step of coordination and unity of purpose with

our municipalities to continue fulfilling our commitment to building a future of success and opportunities for our boys and girls,” the governor said at a press conference in San Juan. “We have developed an initiative called Child-Friendly Cities, in collaboration with Fondos Unidos, in which pioneering municipalities join us to improve the education and quality of life of our children throughout Puerto Rico. These participating municipalities will obtain assistance and resources to promote new initiatives, educational models and public policies for the benefit of minors between the ages of zero and five.”

Pierluisi added that from the total investment in the initiative, “each municipality will be able to receive $167,000 once they receive the CAN certification.”

“These first 20 chosen municipalities were evaluated by the firm Estudios Técnicos and Fondos Unidos based on municipal governance for the benefit of children, quality of life in the

town, citizen participation, and socioeconomic indicators, among other components,” the governor added.

The selected municipalities were: Aguadilla, Aguada, Isabela, Lares, Adjuntas, Lajas, Florida, Jayuya, Juana Díaz, Morovis, Arecibo, Barranquitas, Aibonito, Salinas, Guayama, Gurabo, Cataño, Canóvanas, Río Grande and Fajardo. The funds will be directed toward the development of a 2 Gen orientation, resource and referral center.

The Family secretary said that “accepting the designation of Child-Friendly City is committing to asserting the rights of our boys and girls, which are covered in Law 138-2019, and which include the right to receive care and protection, opportunities for their full development, and safe spaces to play in, among many others.”

“For this reason, we celebrate that these 20 municipalities, through their municipal executives, have adopted the mission of becoming Child-Friendly Cities,” Rodríguez Troche said.

“Our goal is that, eventually, all 78 municipalities can be certified under this initiative.”

The ACUDEN administrator -- who recognized the mayors, ACUDEN staff, Fondos Unidos and Estudios Técnicos for working hard to make the initiative possible -- went over the eligibility criteria that the agency developed together with the organizations.

“In order for a municipality to be certified and selected for a grant, it had to have been identified as a service desert, obtain a score of 75 percent or more in the prequalification and commit to developing and implementing a plan for the well-being of early childhood,” Pagán said. “Nor could they have been participating in the GEN 2 Program subsidy.”

Child Friendly Cities used criteria based on the rights outlined in the UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child, which recognizes that childhood is a special and protected stage during which children must be helped to grow, learn, play, develop and thrive with dignity.

PDP demands NPP explain feds’ SEC visit; electoral commissioner responds

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul1@gmail.com

Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Secretary General Gerardo “Toñito” Cruz Maldonado asked State Elections Commission (SEC) Chairwoman Jessika Padilla on Monday to explain the reasons why federal authorities visited the SEC last Friday.

“We have information that the federal authorities met with the chair of the SEC and the Commission’s legal adviser in the area known as JAVAA-PNP, that is, in the area of the New Progressive Party [NPP] in the Absentee Voting and Early Voting Administrative Board,” Cruz Maldonado said in a written statement. “For years in the PDP we have been denouncing irregularities in absentee voting and early voting in the previous elections and we believe that a visit by federal authorities specifically to this division is of utmost importance in terms of the transparency that should permeate a matter like this.”

Cruz Maldonado, who is also the PDP’s alternate electoral commissioner, noted that during their visit the federal authorities met with the NPP work team in JAVAA and that NPP Electoral Commissioner Vanessa Santo Domingo joined the meeting.

Santo Domingo issued a statement in response.

“Toñito Cruz is unaware of the information or has little retention,” she said. “He does not participate in the Commission meetings, arrives late or does not go at all. And now, he comes to try to divert attention from the defeat suffered by the Popular Party Saturday in the Democratic Special Election. If I had been at the Commission meeting last Thursday along with the rest of the election commissioners, I would have been aware of the outcome of the federal investigation requested by my Office in the September 2022 special election. Last Friday, we held a

meeting with federal officials about the case filed due to irregularities in the delivery of postal mail containing ballots. To clarify, it was the NPP that requested the meeting.”

Cruz Maldonado had pointed out in his statement that “Friday’s visit by federal authorities was not the first in the past six months.”

“This type of visit raises all kinds of conjectures about the personnel of all political parties and the motivations for these visits must be explained,” he said. “The people of Puerto Rico should know the reasons for the meeting with federal authorities. I request that the SEC President and the NPP Electoral Commissioner make known the reasons for the visit. They can’t hide or pretend to go under the radar with such an important issue. It’s time for them to talk.”

PDP candidate urges agencies to act against businessman who pleaded guilty

By THE STAR STAFF

At-large Popular Democratic Party Senate candidate Carlos Díaz Sánchez called on Treasury and Justice secretaries Nelson Pérez Méndez and Domingo Emmanuelli Hernández, respectively, to take decisive measures against businessman Oscar Javier Santamaría Torres, whom Díaz Sánchez described as corrupt.

Santamaría Torres testified against former Guaynabo Mayor Ángel Pérez Otero, who was found guilty of corruption in March 2023. He pleaded guilty in 2022 of participating in a corruption scheme with former Cataño Mayor Félix Delgado Montalvo.

Díaz Sánchez, a former New Progressive Party senator, said Santamaría Torres has been accused of not complying with his tax obligations, failing to pay income taxes and personal enrichment taxes for nearly $2 million, made through the company VIP HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS. The illicit funds, the candidate said, were used to pay bribes to mayors, allowing the company to obtain illegal contracts totaling nearly $300 million belonging to the people of Puerto Rico.

One of the corruption schemes revealed involves cash payments made by the president and treasurer of the management company operating the Diagnostic and Treatment Center of the Municipality of Cataño. Ivelisse Rivera Padilla and Carla Carrillo Torres paid Santamaría $30,000 a month in cash, money that was used to bribe

mayors of several municipalities in order to obtain contracts illegally.

VIP HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS INC., was created by Santamaría Torres as revealed by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in the criminal complaint and plea agreement by Ivelisse Rivera Padilla and Carla Carrillo Torres.

Federal authorities have exposed several schemes through which the convicted businessman personally enriched himself by offering bribes to mayors in exchange for contracts.

After pleading guilty, Santamaría Torres confirmed having obtained “profits” from the company of nearly $1.8 million. In addition, he facilitated contracts from the Municipality of Cataño with VIP HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS worth $9 million between 2017 and 2022, with a monthly sum of approximately $189,000, of which the convicted contractor appropriated $30,000 “for doing nothing,” Díaz Sánchez said.

“What have the Secretaries of the Treasury and Justice done to recover the money that Santamaría had to pay?” Díaz Sánchez said. “I call on you to take legal action against other corporations belonging to the convict, such as Saint Mary Investment, Fresh Cookies PR Corp., Waste Collection, Waste Management and Queen Management LLC, among others.”

This call to action and compliance with the fiduciary responsibility of the secretaries is crucial to combat corruption and ensure that those who benefit illegally at the

expense of the Puerto Rican people are held accountable before the law,” the candidate added. “We cannot continue sending the message that being corrupt, a tax evader or embezzler of public funds, pays.”

Popular Democratic Party Secretary General Gerardo Cruz Maldonado

New Progressive Party Electoral Commissioner Vanessa Santo Domingo

Carlos Díaz Sánchez (X photo)

A new surge in power use is threatening US climate goals

By BRAD PLUMER

Something unusual is happening in America. Demand for electricity, which has stayed largely flat for two decades, has begun to surge.

Over the past year, electric utilities have nearly doubled their forecasts of how much additional power they’ll need by 2028 as they confront an unexpected explosion in the number of data centers, an abrupt resurgence in manufacturing driven by new federal laws, and millions of electric vehicles being plugged in.

Many power companies were already struggling to keep the lights on, especially during extreme weather, and say the strain on the grid will only increase. Peak demand in the summer is projected to grow by 38,000 megawatts nationwide in the next five years, according to an analysis by the consulting firm Grid Strategies, which is like adding another California to the grid.

“The numbers we’re seeing are pretty crazy,” said Daniel Brooks, vice president for integrated grid and energy systems at the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit organization.

In an ironic twist, the swelling appetite for more electricity, driven not only by electric cars but also by battery and solar factories and other aspects of the clean-energy transition, could also jeopardize the country’s plans to fight climate change.

To meet spiking demand, utilities in states such as Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia are proposing to build dozens of power plants over the next 15 years that would burn natural gas. In Kansas, one utility has postponed the retirement of a coal plant to help power a giant electric-car battery factory.

Burning more gas and coal runs counter to President Joe Biden’s pledge to halve the nation’s planet-warming greenhouse gases and to generate all of America’s electricity from pollution-free sources such as wind, solar and nuclear by 2035.

“I can’t recall the last time I was so alarmed about the country’s energy trajectory,” said Tyler H. Norris, a former solar developer and expert in power systems who is now pursuing a doctorate at Duke University. If a wave of new gas-fired plants gets approved by state regulators, he said, “it is game over for the Biden administration’s 2035 decar-

bonization goal.”

Some utilities say they need additional fossil fuel capacity because cleaner alternatives such as wind or solar power aren’t growing fast enough and can be bogged down by delayed permits and snarled supply chains. While a data center can be built in just one year, it can take five years or longer to connect renewable energy projects to the grid and a decade to build some of the long-distance power lines they require. Utilities also note that data centers and factories need power 24 hours a day, something wind and solar can’t do alone.

Yet many regulated utilities also have financial incentives to build new gas plants, since they can recover their costs to build plants, wires and other equipment from ratepayers and pocket an additional percentage as profit. As a result, critics say, utilities often overlook, or even block, ways to make existing power systems more efficient or to integrate more renewable energy into the grid.

“It is entirely feasible to meet growing electricity demand without so much gas, but it requires regulators to challenge the utilities and push for less-traditional solutions,” Norris said.

The stakes are high. If more power isn’t brought online relatively soon, large portions of the country could risk blackouts, according

to a recent report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp., which monitors the health of the nation’s electric grids.

“Right now everyone’s getting caught flat-footed” by rising demand for electricity, said John Wilson, a vice president at Grid Strategies.

Why demand is spiking

For much of the 20th century, America’s electricity use increased steadily and utilities built plenty of coal, gas and nuclear plants in response. But starting in the mid-2000s, demand flattened. The economy and population kept expanding, but factories, lightbulbs and even refrigerators became much more energy efficient.

Now demand is rising again, for several reasons.

The growth of remote work, video streaming and online shopping has led to a frenzied expansion of data centers across the nation. The rise of artificial intelligence is poised to accelerate that trend: By 2030, electricity demand at U.S. data centers could triple, using as much power as 40 million homes, according to Boston Consulting Group.

In Northern Virginia, one of the nation’s largest data center hubs, at least 75 facilities have opened since 2019 and Dominion Energy, the local utility, says data center capacity could double in just five years.

At the same time, investment in U.S. manufacturing is hitting a 50-year high, fueled by new federal tax breaks to lift microchip and clean-tech production. Since 2021, companies have announced plans to spend at least $525 billion on factories for semiconductors, batteries, solar panels and more.

In Georgia, where dozens of electric vehicle companies and suppliers are setting up shop, the state’s largest utility now expects 16 times as much growth in electricity demand this decade as it did two years ago.

Millions of Americans are also buying plug-in vehicles and electric heat pumps for their homes, spurred by recent federal incentives. In California, one-fifth of new cars sold are electric, and officials estimate that EVs could account for 10% of power use during peak hours by 2035.

On top of that, record heat fueled by global warming is spurring people to crank up air-conditioning, causing summer demand in Arizona and Texas to rise faster than forecast.

Many worry the grid won’t keep up.

PJM Interconnection, which oversees the nation’s largest regional grid, stretching from Illinois to New Jersey, is now expecting an additional 10,000 megawatts of demand by 2030 that wasn’t forecast last year. That’s akin to adding another New York City to the system.

“To see that come on all of the sudden, even for a system as big as ours, that’s significant,” said Ken Seiler, who leads system planning for PJM.

Finding enough power could be a challenge, since PJM’s process for connecting renewable energy projects to the grid has been afflicted by delays. Utilities in PJM have been preparing to retire roughly 40,000 megawatts of mostly coal, gas and oil-burning power plants this decade as states seek to transition away from fossil fuels. PJM has already approved an additional 40,000 megawatts of mostly wind, solar and batteries as partial replacements. But many of those projects have been stalled by local opposition or trouble getting vital equipment like transformers.

“We have a huge concern about that,” Seiler said. “Folks aren’t building.”

Nationwide, just 251 miles of highvoltage transmission lines were completed last year, a number that has been declining for a decade.

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Electric vehicles charging in Victorville, Calif., March 11, 2024. In California, electric vehicles could soon account for 10 percent of peak power demand. (Lauren Justice/The New York Times)

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Emissions targets suffer

Soaring demand has provoked major fights over the future of natural gas.

In North Carolina, regulators had ordered Duke Energy, the state’s biggest utility, to slash its planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions by 70% by 2030.

But in January, Duke warned it could miss that target by at least five years under a new plan to build up to five large gas-burning power plants and five smaller versions by 2033, more than previously proposed. Even though Duke is planning a major increase in solar and offshore wind power, the company says it needs additional gas plants because demand from industrial customers is rising faster than expected.

“The growth we’re seeing is historic in scale and speed,” said Kendal Bowman, president of Duke Energy’s operations in North Carolina. “But it’s also going to be a challenge, particularly in the near term, to see carbon reduction at the same time we’ve got this unprecedented growth.”

“It’s completely at odds with what we need to do to” to fight climate change, said Greg Buppert, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, which has identified at least 33,000 megawatts worth of gas projects being proposed by utilities across the Southeast, plants that could stick around burning fossil fuels for decades.

In interviews, utility executives say gas is needed to back up wind and solar power, which don’t run all the time. Gas plants can sometimes be easier to build than renewables, since they may not require new long-distance transmission lines. Eventually, additional sources of clean power may emerge (both Duke and Dominion want to build smaller nuclear reactors) but those are years away.

There are other ways to meet rising demand that require burning fewer fossil fuels, experts say. Utilities could get more creative about helping customers use less electricity during peak hours or make better use of batteries, reducing strains on the grid. Advanced sensors and other technologies could push more renewable energy through existing transmission lines. Some utilities are pursuing these options, but many are not.

Similar revisions are occurring elsewhere. In Virginia, Dominion Energy has proposed to meet rising demand for data centers with a mix of renewables and gas generation in a plan that could increase its overall emissions. Georgia Power has asked permission to build three new gas- and oilburning turbines and is evaluating whether to postpone the planned retirement of two older coal plants.

Over the coming months, environmentalists and other groups aim to challenge utility plans at state regulatory proceedings. In some cases, they’ll argue that the utility has overestimated future demand growth or neglected alternatives to gas. While these debates can get technical, they could have a significant impact on the nation’s energy future.

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Chicago begins evicting migrants from shelters, citing strain on resources

By MIRIAM JORDAN

Chicago officials on Sunday began evicting some migrants from shelters, joining other cities that have made similar moves to ease pressure on overstretched resources.

The process is starting gradually. Of the nearly 11,000 migrants living in 23 homeless shelters in Chicago, according to the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, a fraction — 34 single adults — were required to leave Sunday.

Many people will be eligible for exemptions. They will be determined on a case-bycase basis, city officials said, for pregnant women, people with certain medical issues and migrants who are in the process of securing housing. Families with children can receive renewable 30-day extensions.

But officials said that more than 2,000 people would be evicted by the end of April. And many families with children may be forced to exit the shelter network altogether by the summer.

Backed by an army of volunteers, Chicago and other cities have found shelter for migrants, enrolled their children in schools, provided food assistance and held workshops to help them fill out paperwork to apply for work permits.

But housing migrants has been draining city coffers — Chicago has received more than 37,000 migrants since August 2022. Overall, in the past year, hundreds of thousands of migrants have ended up in large cities.

The evictions are placing even more pressure on volunteers as they scramble to fill the void. Many of them said they had grave concerns about the impact, particularly when they begin to apply to families.

“There is a lot of fear there will be people in the streets,” said Annie Gomberg, whose volunteer group, People’s Shelter Response, has been assisting migrant families in Chicago.

For families in the shelters, there was confusion and worry as news spread of the policy.

A Venezuelan migrant named Nelly, who declined to share her last name for fear of retribution, said that her family’s allotted time in the shelter would expire Tuesday. “The social worker said that there was no extension order, and we are waiting for the actual day to arrive to find out what happens,” she said.

A mother of two special-needs children, ages 5 and 6, and a former dental hygienist in her home country, she said that neither she nor her husband had found jobs because they still lacked work permits. “It’s an anguishing

Several migrants and some children lined up near the Inn of Chicago, where hundreds of asylum seekers are temporarily housed in downtown Chicago, on Sept. 30, 2023. Officials say more than 2,000 people would be evicted by the end of April, as volunteer groups scramble to assist them (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)

situation,” she said, “because we can’t make money.”

For months, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration had delayed enforcing a 60-day limit on shelter stays amid frigid temperatures and concerns over the repercussions of evicting people who might have nowhere to go.

A progressive Democrat who took office last year, the mayor has repeatedly struck a welcoming tone toward migrants from Central and South America, while criticizing Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas for orchestrating charter buses that have brought tens of thousands of migrants to Chicago.

But citing limited city services, Johnson decided to begin enforcing the limit. And Chicago is not alone.

Denver, which has received about 40,000 migrants, began to clear hotels housing them in February. That month, it reinstated time limits for city-provided hotels after pausing evictions in November because of the cold. Stays are up to 14 days for adults without children and 42 days for families.

The number of arrivals has declined since late last year, as they have in Chicago. So far this month, Denver has received 11 charter buses from the border, compared with seven in February — substantially fewer than in December, when 144 buses unloaded migrants. Still, the large number of newcomers has overwhelmed the city.

“What we have been doing actively is working with nonprofits day and night to help families secure housing,” said Jon Ewing, a spokesperson for Denver Human Services.

“But we don’t have resources to do this forever, and the nonprofits don’t either,” he said. “It’s very, very important to keep the numbers down.”

Hundreds of local families have been hosting migrants, and more are expected to do so in the coming months.

In New York, where the migrant shelter population stands at about 65,000, the city will begin limiting the amount of time most adult migrants can remain in shelters to 30 days.

Some would be allowed to stay longer if they met certain criteria. The new cap on shelter stays represents a major shift in the city’s right-to-shelter policy, and it is a culmination of months of negotiations in state court.

The city had imposed limits on how long migrants could stay in several shelters, evicting many and requiring them to reapply if they still wanted a bed, which is also part of the new policy in Chicago.

Families still have 60 days before they have to leave shelters, and can ask to be readmitted under the new rules. The city has said that 80% of evicted adults end up giving up and voluntarily not trying to remain in the shelter system.

In all the cities, the biggest impediment

to the migrants achieving self-sufficiency has been their inability to secure steady jobs without employment authorization, a permit that gives them the legal right to work in the United States. Migrants who have crossed the border illegally and seek asylum are eligible for employment authorization but can only apply for the benefit 150 days after they have filed their asylum claim in immigration court.

Many migrants are finding odd jobs, but they have been unable to save enough money to afford skyrocketing rents and support their families in expensive cities, creating a burden on social services. The cities’ mayors, struggling with busted budgets, have pleaded for assistance from the federal government.

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TikTok bill’s progress slows in the Senate

By DAVID McCABE and SAPNA MAHESHWARI

After a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the app or face a nationwide ban sailed through the House at breakneck speed last week, its progress has slowed in the Senate.

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader who determines what legislation gets a vote, has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor, his spokesperson said. Senators — some of whom have their own versions of bills targeting TikTok — will need to be convinced. Other legislation on the runway could be prioritized. And the process of taking the House bill and potentially rewriting it to suit the Senate could be time-consuming.

Many in the Senate are keeping their cards close to their vest about what they would do on the TikTok measure, even as they said they recognized the House had sent a powerful signal with its vote on the bill, which passed 352-65. The legislation mandates that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, sell its stake in the app within six months or face a ban.

“The lesson of the House vote is that this issue is capable of igniting almost spontaneously in the support that it has,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said in an interview Friday. He said that there could be adjustments made to the bill but that there was bipartisan support to wrest the app from Chinese ownership.

The slowdown in the Senate means that TikTok is likely to face weeks or even months of uncertainty about its fate in the United States. That could result in conti-

nued lobbying, alongside maneuvering by the White House, the Chinese government and ByteDance. It is also likely to prompt potential talks about deals — whether real or imagined — while the uncertainty of losing access to the app will hang over the heads of TikTok creators and its 170 million U.S. users.

“Almost everything will slow down in the Senate,” said Nu Wexler, a former Senate aide who worked for Google, Twitter and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. “They’ll need some time to either massage egos or build consensus.”

The House approved the legislation just over a week after it was introduced, passing it with bipartisan support on concerns that the app could endanger American users’ data or be used as a Chinese propaganda tool. The bill also received support from the White House. After saying last week that he opposed the legislation, former President Donald Trump said he now supported it in an interview with Fox News on Friday.

The bill has angered China, with an official saying that the United States had “never found any evidence of TikTok posing a threat to U.S. national security.” China could move to block a sale if the legislation does pass. Some lawmakers have worried that the bill could exceed Congress’ mandate by mentioning TikTok specifically, running afoul of a constitutional ban on targeting individuals in laws. And TikTok has argued that the secretive drafting of the bill and the speed at which it passed in the House suggested that lawmakers were aiming for a ban rather than a sale.

by surprise.

Last Wednesday, Shou Chew, TikTok’s Singaporean CEO, posted a video addressing users, saying a ban of the service would hurt small businesses in the United States. He urged them to call their senators and fight back. (The company did the same with House representatives last week.)

TikTok has spent more than $1 billion on an extensive plan known as Project Texas — because of its partnership with Austin, Texas-based Oracle — that aims to handle sensitive U.S. user data separately from the rest of the company’s operations. The plan also provides for independent and government oversight of the platform to monitor for manipulation.

were not authorized to discuss the calls publicly. The aides said many calls appeared to come from underage people.

Some senators have come out in support of the bill. The leaders of the Intelligence Committee, Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said in a statement Wednesday that they would support the bill moving forward in the Senate.

Warner, who also has his own TikTok proposal, said Wednesday that he was still asking questions about various elements of the bill but was cheered by the momentum it carried coming out of the House.

TikTok, which has repeatedly said that it has not and would not share data with the Chinese government or allow any government to influence its algorithmic recommendations, has scrambled to respond to the bill, which took the company

On Friday, searching “KeepTikTok” on the app brought up a banner asking Americans to “Tell your Senator how important TikTok is to you.” The message asked users to input their ZIP codes, then informed them of the correct lawmaker to call.

“We continue educating members of our community about the rushed ban bill, how it would trample their constitutional right of free expression, and how they can make their voices heard,” Alex Haurek, a spokesperson for TikTok, said in a statement.

Senate offices have received hundreds of phone calls and voicemail messages about the bill from TikTok users in recent days, said two Senate aides, who

“There’s lots of bases that need to be touched,” Warner said. But, he added, it was “hard to think of anything else that’s garnered over 350 votes in a House that’s otherwise not had a record of being fully functioning.”

Others have been more circumspect. Blumenthal said in the interview that the Senate had to review aspects of the bill, adding that a six-month deadline to reach a sale deal might not be long enough.

He also said that he had “heard about a number of very credible and prominent groups” that were interested in buying TikTok but had not yet been reported in the press.

“There is a clear path to achieving all of the interests here — preserving TikTok but simply putting it in different hands,” he added.

Shou Chew, chief executive of TikTok makes his way through reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 14, 2024. Chew posted a video last week addressing users, saying a ban of the service would hurt small businesses in the United States. (Kent Nishimura/The New York Times)

US yields nearing level that could pressure stocks, Morgan Stanley says

U.S. stocks have climbed this year despite rising Treasury yields, but equities could become more sensitive if yields push higher from current levels, Morgan Stanley strategists said on Monday.

Rising yields tend to pressure equity valuations, but this year “multiples have remained elevated in the face of rising rates,” the Morgan Stanley equity strategists led by Michael Wilson said in a note.

But the strategists said 4.35% for the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield was “an important level to watch for signs that stocks’ rate sensitivity may increase.” The 10-year yield was last at 4.32% on Monday morning.

The bond market could become more volatile over the next few days, with policy decisions by the Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan.

“We think a key question for this week is whether the direction of rates will begin to matter more for the valuations of large cap equities,” the Morgan Stanley strategists said.

The S&P 500’s forward price-to-earnings ratio - a commonly used valuation metric - last stood at 20.5, near its highest level in about two years, according to LSEG Datastream. The benchmark index is up more than 8% so far in 2024.

Higher yields increase the attractiveness of owning “risk-free” Treasuries for investors. That in turn can dull the luster of riskier equity cash flows and tends to pressure stock valuations.

Small-cap stocks have been more negatively correlated to yields than large caps, “indicating small caps are likely to exhibit greater interest rate sensitivity than large caps on a move higher in rates,” the Morgan Stanley strategists said.

The strategists were also watching to see if the 10-year yield falls below its 200-day moving average, which was about 4.195%.

“Should rates decisively fall back below the 200-day moving average, it could serve as support for equity valuations to remain elevated,” Morgan Stanley wrote.

Hedge funds piled into bank and financials stocks at the fastest pace in a year, Goldman Sachs said in a note, just in time to catch highs seen European and U.S. banking indices.

Financial stocks in North America, Europe, and emerging-market Asia were among the most sought-after stock sectors for the second week running last week, according to the note tracking hedge fund trades for the week ending Friday.

The STOXX Europe 600 banks index (.SX7P) has risen by 8.3% so far this year and is now around its highest since 2019.

The Dow Jones banking index has risen by 6.6% since the start of the year.

Hedge funds took long positions in banks and capital markets companies, ditching short bets. Consumer finance firms saw hedge funds add long positions. A short reflects an expectation that an asset price will fall.

Hedge funds were still net short insurance companies, the note said.

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Behind Putin’s Potemkin vote, real support. But no other choices.

By PAUL SONNE

The Kremlin stage-managed Russia’s presidential vote over the weekend to send a singular message at home and abroad: that President Vladimir Putin’s support is overwhelming and unshakable, despite or even because of his war against Ukraine.

From the moment the preliminary results first flashed across state television late Sunday, the authorities left no room for misinterpretation. Putin, they said, won more than 87% of the vote, his closest competitor just 4%. It had all the hallmarks of an authoritarian Potemkin plebiscite.

The Kremlin may have felt more comfortable orchestrating such a large margin of victory because Putin’s approval rating has climbed during the war in independent polls, owing to a rally-around-the flag effect and optimism about the Russian economy. The Levada Center, an independent pollster, reported last month that 86% of Russians approved of Putin, his highest rating in more than seven years.

But while the figures may suggest unabiding support for Putin and his agenda across Russia, the situation is more complex than the numbers convey. The leader of one opposition research group in Moscow has argued that backing for Putin is actually far more brittle than simple approval numbers suggest.

“The numbers we get on polls from Russia don’t mean what people think they mean,” said Alexei Minyailo, a Moscow-based opposition activist and co-founder of a research project called Chronicles, which has been polling Russians in recent months. “Because Russia is not an electoral democracy but a wartime dictatorship.”

In a late January survey, Chronicles asked one group of Russian respondents what they wanted in key policy areas and a different group what they expected to see from Putin — and documented a substantive difference between desires

and expectations.

More than half of respondents, for example, said they supported restoring relations with Western countries, but only 28% expected Putin to restore them. Some 58% expressed support for a truce with Ukraine, but only 29% expected Putin to agree to one.

“We see that Russians want different things from what they expect from Putin,” Minyailo said. “Probably if they did have any kind of alternative, they might make a different choice.”

Compelling alternative choices, however, have been systematically eliminated over the near quarter century Putin has been in power in Russia.

Opposition figures have been exiled, jailed or killed. Independent news outlets have been driven out of the country. And a wave of repression unseen since the Soviet era has led to lengthy prison sentences for simple acts of dissent, such as critical social media posts.

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition figure who carried the hopes of many Russians for an alternative to Putin, died under mysterious circumstances in an Arctic prison last month. After declaring victory late Sunday, Putin called Navalny’s death an “unfortunate incident.”

The war has only further closed what little space used to exist for alternatives to Putin’s agenda to gain traction in public.

“There is a sophisticated case to be made about why this war is so much against Russia’s interest, and that part of the spectrum is missing,” said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. “It is now happening in exile, and the government is erecting a lot of barriers to people tapping into this content.”

By casting those against the war as saboteurs, he said, Putin’s regime has succeeded in making “the opposition something that is really unattractive — more for outsiders, not for mainstream people.”

In years past, Russia’s so-called “political technologists” allowed a semblance of competition and open debate in presidential elections to drive turnout and give the race a patina of authenticity. But this year they took no chances.

Yekaterina S. Duntsova, a relatively unknown TV journal-

ist and former municipal deputy from a city 140 miles west of Moscow, tried to run for president on an anti-war platform but was swiftly disqualified. So was Boris B. Nadezhdin, another under-the-radar politician who collected more than 100,000 signatures required to enter the race but could not get on the ballot.

“They deemed both of them dangerous enough not to let them on the ballot,” Minyailo said. “That tells a lot, to my mind, about the nature of the regime and about how stalwart Putin’s position is. If his regime thinks there is a danger to letting a provincial journalist collect signatures, that tells a lot.”

Russian opinion polling regularly shows that a relatively small segment of the Russian population are die-hard supporters of Putin and a similarly sized group are aggressive opponents, many of them now abroad.

The majority, pollsters have found, are relatively apathetic, supporting Putin passively, with no other alternative coming onto their radar. They are particularly influenced by the narrative on television, which is controlled by the state.

“Deep wells of social inertia, apathy and atomization are the real source of Putin’s power,” Gabuev said. Many Russians, he said, don’t have a sophisticated framework for thinking about certain issues, because there is no public discussion taking place.

And those Russians who do articulate desires that differ from Putin’s actions are not necessarily willing to fight for what they want, Minyailo noted. Many Russians believe they have no influence on the country’s course of events.

Still, the increase in support for Putin among Russians in the two years since he ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is unmistakable across multiple polls.

Denis Volkov, director of the Levada Center, said that a number of metrics showed consolidation around Putin.

“We monitor many indicators, not only approval rating,” Volkov said. “We ask open-ended questions. We ask about the economic situation. We ask about the mood of people. All these indicators are pointing in one direction.”

Armed with a vast propaganda apparatus, Putin has convinced millions of Russians that he is valiantly defending them against an antagonistic Western world bent on using Ukraine as a cudgel to destroy their nation and their way of life.

“The state narrative has generated this idea that it’s Russia versus everybody else,” said Katerina Tertytchnaya, a comparative politics professor at the University of Oxford. “It’s very important, this narrative of being under siege. The lack of an alternative is also cited as one of the reasons that people support Putin. People cannot conceive of an alternative.”

It is not only that Putin seems superior to the alternative candidates the Kremlin allows to appear on state television. He also comes across as a better choice compared with nearly all his historical predecessors.

Gabuev noted that despite the war tarnishing much of Putin’s legacy, his first two terms in particular brought the greatest combination of material prosperity and relative freedom Russians had ever seen — and for those uninterested in politics, goodwill remains.

“That’s the paradox, they really are the happiest life in the country’s history,” Gabuev said. “Because the combination of wealth and material prosperity and freedoms being present at the same time was never higher.”

A polling station for the Russian presidential election in Moscow, March 17, 2024. Many Russians say they back their president, but it is far less clear what they might do if they were given alternatives. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)

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Haiti’s hospitals survived cholera and COVID. Gangs are closing them.

By DAVID C. ADAMS and FRANCES ROBLES

Taïna Cenatus, a 29-year-old culinary student in Haiti, lost her balance at school one day this month and toppled over, but it wasn’t until she hit the ground that she realized she had been hit in the face by a stray bullet.

It left a small hole in her cheek, just missing her jawbone and teeth.

Unlike many Haitians wounded by gunfire in the midst of a vicious gang takeover of the capital, Port-au-Prince, Cenatus was actually lucky that day — she made it to a clinic. But she is still in pain, her wound swelling, and she cannot get any relief, with more and more hospitals and clinics abandoned by staff or looted by gangs.

“My teeth hurt,” she said. “I can feel something is wrong.”

A gang assault on Haiti’s capital has left an already weak health care system in tatters.

More than half of the medical facilities in Port-au-Prince and a large rural region called Artibonite are closed or not operating at full capacity, experts said, because they are too dangerous to reach or their medicine and other supplies have been stolen.

In a country where the United Nations estimates that up to 1 million people are facing the threat of famine, the unraveling of the medical infrastructure threatens to put thousands more lives at risk.

Even in periods of less upheaval, the public health system was already in shambles, but now hospitals run by humanitarian groups and churches that many Haitians depend on are closing one by one.

The State University Hospital, the country’s largest public hospital, is closed. Blood supplies are running low, fuel to run generators is hard to come by and, because of the street violence, clinics that remain open cannot transfer patients needing more sophisticated treatment. Doctors also predict a sharp rise in maternal and infant deaths, as thousands of women will be compelled to give birth at home in the coming weeks.

Haiti’s public health system has responded in recent years to repeated emergencies, from a devastating earthquake in 2010, to hurricanes to COVID-19 to cholera and Zika. The strain has long been fraying the system’s foundation.

Poor patients cannot afford to pay for services, further crippling chronically underfunded hospitals, making it difficult to purchase needed items. Before gangs took control of Port-au-Prince, hospitals still closed their doors from time to time, because doctors would go on strike to protest rampant kidnappings target-

A woman who just gave birth is tended to by relatives at King’s Hospital in Port-auPrince, Haiti, Nov. 5, 2022. Amid a vicious gang takeover of the Haitian capital, more than half of the medical facilities in Port-au-Prince and a large rural region called Artibonite are closed or not operating at full capacity, experts say. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)

ing medical professionals.

By early this year, up to 20% of the medical professionals at Haiti’s hospitals had left for the United States and Canada, according to the United Nations.

Several officials with Haiti’s Ministry of Health did not respond to requests for comment.

Jean Marc Jean, 37, a freelance journalist, was covering anti-government protests last month when a police tear-gas canister hit his left eye.

He had three surgeries to remove the eye and repair the socket before the hospital where he was being treated closed because it was behind the National Palace, which gangs had attacked. Patients recounted bullets whizzing by in the hospital courtyard. His wound became infected, so his doctor braved the streets for a house call.

“Fortunately, our neighborhood is safer than some others,” Jean said. “Even so, I was surprised when the doctor said he could come to our house.’’

Jean said he needed to have another operation to have a prosthetic eye implanted. His brother spent all of Friday in search of painkillers and antibiotics, because most pharmacies were closed. Jean said he could try to get his infection treated at another hospital, but gangs could make it impossible to travel.

Haiti has been in the throes of gang-fueled violence for years, but it surged after the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

Gangs that had been concentrated in particular neighborhoods grew in size, firepower and influence, sending the murder and kidnapping rate soaring.

A Kenya-led international deployment that was meant to help quell the violence — an effort backed by the United Nations and financed largely by the United States — has been repeatedly delayed. When Haiti’s leader, Prime Minister Ariel Henry, a neurosurgeon who once worked at the Health Ministry, visited Kenya in late February, gangs took advantage of his absence.

Instead of fighting one another, they banded together to attack police stations, prisons, hospitals and other government buildings, demanding his resignation. Henry, now stranded in Puerto Rico, has agreed to step down once a provisional committeestyle government is put in place and names a new leader.

In the meantime, gang members have stripped many medical facilities bare, taking most anything of value, including beds and vehicles.

“The bandits looted, vandalized and turned everything upside down,” said Monsignor Theodule Domond, the director general of St. Francis de Sales Hospital, one of Portau-Prince’s largest and oldest hospitals with the only oncology unit in southern Haiti.

With violence rising in the surrounding neighborhood, the staff evacuated all of the patients to private hospitals in recent days,

just before armed gang members overran nearby streets, ransacking and setting fire to several government buildings.

St. Francis was not spared.

“They carried off everything,” said Dr. Joseph R. Clériné, the hospital’s medical director. “When we are able to get back into the building, we will have to do an inventory. But we will have to wait for calm to return. Right now, it’s too dangerous.”

Two staff members, a nun and a chauffeur, were able to briefly enter the facility and reported seeing broken windows and empty rooms where furniture and medical equipment had been stolen. The privately run Catholic hospital estimates the damage at $3 million to $4 million.

Dr. Wesler Lambert, who runs Zanmi Lasante, a network of clinics affiliated with Partners in Health, a nonprofit public health organization that has operated in Haiti for decades, said several of its 16 clinics had closed for days at a time to save on critical supplies. But given the fear of venturing out and the lack of transportation, there have not been many patients to treat.

“For now, our main shortage is fuel to keep the generators running,” he said. “We will be running out of some other essential drugs. Not because we don’t have them — we have them in our main warehouse. We can’t transport them.”

Another major aid group that provides extensive health care in Haiti, Doctors Without Borders, said it had increased capacity at one of its hospitals and opened a new one with 25 beds and an operating room. But the group cannot fly in more doctors — the country’s main airport remains closed because gangs control the area around it.

Blood products are running low, and patients needing a higher level of care are stuck.

“It’s not sustainable at all,” said Dr. James Gana, who treats patients and helps run the aid groups’ clinics. “It’s not sustainable for the Haitian population, and not sustainable for us.”

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Niger orders US troops to leave its territory

By RUTH MACLEAN and ERIC SCHMITT

Niger said it is revoking its military cooperation deal with the United States, ordering 1,000 American armed forces personnel to leave the country and throwing the United States’ strategy in the region into disarray.

The announcement by the West African nation’s military junta Saturday came after meetings last week with a delegation from Washington and the top U.S. commander for Africa, Gen. Michael E. Langley. The move is in keeping with a recent pattern by countries in the Sahel region, an arid area south of the Sahara, of breaking ties with Western countries. Increasingly, they are partnering with Russia instead.

U.S. officials also voiced alarm in the meetings about several other issues, including whether Niger’s military government was nearing a deal to give Iran access to Niger’s vast uranium reserves, a concern that was reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal.

Niger’s rejection of military ties with the United States follows the withdrawal from Niger of troops from France, the former colonial power that, for the past decade, has led foreign counterterrorism efforts against jihadi groups in West Africa, but which has lately been perceived as a pariah in the region.

“The American presence in the territory of the Republic of Niger is illegal,” Niger’s military spokesperson, Col. Amadou Abdramane, said on national television. He added that the U.S. military presence “violates all the constitutional and democratic rules, which would require the sovereign people — notably through its elected officials — to be consulted on the installation of a foreign army on its territory.”

Matthew Miller, the chief State Department spokesperson, said it was in touch with the ruling military junta, known as the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, or CNSP, about the move.

“We are aware of the statement from the CNSP in Niger, which follows frank discussions at senior levels in Niamey this week about our

in Agadez, Niger, on Thursday, April 12, 2018. Niger said it is revoking its military cooperation deal with the United States, ordering 1,000 American armed forces personnel to leave the country and throwing the United States’ strategy in the region into disarray. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/The New York Times)

concerns with the CNSP’s trajectory,” he said in a message on X, formerly Twitter.

Many of the Americans posted to Niger are stationed at U.S. Air Base 201, a 6-year-old, $110 million installation in the country’s desert north. But since the military coup that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and installed the junta in July, the troops there have been inactive, with most of their drones grounded.

Because of the coup, the United States had to suspend security operations and development aid to Niger.

Bazoum, the country’s elected president, is still under arrest, eight months after he was ousted. But the United States had wanted to maintain its partnership with the country.

A senior U.S. military official said Sunday there had been no immediate changes to the status of about 1,000 American military personnel stationed in the country. The Pentagon has continued to conduct surveillance drone flights from Air Base 201 to protect U.S. troops and alert the Nigerian authorities if the flights detected an imminent terrorist threat.

“The canceling of the security agreement is not quite a direct expulsion of the American military presence, as happened with the French,” said Hannah Rae Armstrong, an analyst focused on peace and security in the Sahel. “It’s

are still in the early stages, military officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.

J. Peter Pham, a former special U.S. envoy to the Sahel, said Washington will “have to wait and see” how Niger will implement the new approach.

“The potential fallout goes beyond the not insignificant damage to counterterrorism and intelligence efforts that loss of access to the bases in Niger entail,” Pham said, “but to the broader damage to America’s standing on the continent.”

The Biden administration formally acknowledged in October what most countries had declared months previously: that the military takeover in Niger in July was a coup.

Biden administration officials had sidestepped that declaration for weeks because the word “coup” has major policy implications. Congress has mandated that the United States must halt all economic and military aid to any government installed by a military coup until democracy is restored.

more likely an aggressive negotiation tactic to extract more benefits from cooperating with the Americans.”

In Niger, the decision was couched in terms of “sovereignty” — rhetoric meant to resonate with the public.

“The goal of American policy is not to help fight armed groups, but to maintain control and counter the growing influence in the region of countries such as Russia, China and Turkey,” Abdoulaye Sissoko, a Nigerien columnist, wrote on a popular Nigerien news site. “There is no public evidence that American bases in Niger have proven useful.”

U.S. officials say they have tried for months to prevent a formal break in relations with Niger’s junta.

The new U.S. ambassador to Niger, Kathleen FitzGibbon, one of Washington’s top Africa specialists, has held regular discussions with the junta since taking office at the beginning of the year.

In a trip to Niger in December, Molly Phee, an assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, said the United States intended to resume security and development cooperation with Niger, even as she called for a swift transition to civilian rule and the release of Bazoum.

But the Pentagon has been planning for the worst-case contingencies if the talks failed. The Defense Department has been discussing establishing new drone bases with several coastal West African countries as backups to the base in Niger, which is landlocked. Talks

But the administration finally concluded that efforts to restore Niger’s democratically elected government to power had failed and that aid that had not already been restricted would be cut off. State Department officials said nearly $200 million in aid that was temporarily paused in August would be suspended. About $442 million in trade and agricultural assistance will also be suspended.

In Washington, the Biden administration had been holding out increasingly dim hopes that the military junta would reverse its takeover and agree to restore a democratically elected government.

The junta’s announcement is part of a major change in dynamic between the country and its erstwhile Western partners.

“It reflects a real shift in the balance of power,” Armstrong said. “Over the past decade, Niger has repeatedly pleaded for security assistance and aid. Now it’s the U.S. that finds itself in a position of being asked to beg to keep forces and bases in the country.”

The entire military approach in the Sahel needs to be reformed, said El Hadj Djitteye, director of the Timbuktu Center for Strategic Studies on the Sahel, a Mali-based think tank.

“Western governments including the United States and France have failed to work closely with African governments and civilian populations in economic and military development,” Djitteye said. This, he said, has fed the widely held perception that their presence in the region is an extension of “the old colonial pattern which puts colonial interests first and African interests a distant second.”

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Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot

By PAUL KRUGMAN

Afew days ago, the Biden administration released its budget proposal for the 2025 fiscal year (which begins in October). Given that Republicans control the House, this budget isn’t going to happen, so it serves mainly as a statement of principles and intent.

But that doesn’t make the budget irrelevant. It clearly signaled Democrats’ vision for the future — in particular, their belief that we can preserve the solvency of Social Security and Medicare by raising taxes on high incomes rather than by cutting benefits. And it draws a stark contrast with the vision of Donald Trump, who appeared to say during an interview with CNBC that he would seek to cut those programs.

I’ll come back to the question of what Trump meant by his remarks and, more important, what he might actually do if he returns to power. First, however, let’s talk about President Joe Biden’s position.

You might be tempted to dismiss Biden’s assurances on safety net programs as boilerplate; don’t Democrats always promise to protect Social Security and Medicare?

But Biden has staked out a significantly stronger position than that of Barack Obama, who, as president, all too often seemed to be in the intellectual thrall of those I used to call the Very Serious People, opinion leaders who a decade ago dominated inside-the-Beltway discourse and were obsessed with the need for entitlement reform — which effectively meant cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Obama’s 2014

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fiscal year budget teased entitlement reform to the point that even John Boehner, then the Republican House speaker, was prompted to say Obama “does deserve some credit for some incremental entitlement reforms that he has outlined in his budget.”

Biden is saying that none of this is necessary. This is a significant move to the left — although it’s also a move to the center, in the sense that voters never agreed with the elite conventional wisdom that benefits must be cut and a majority consistently says the rich don’t pay enough in taxes.

What explains this toughening up of the Democratic position? For one thing, entitlement programs look a lot more fiscally sustainable than they used to.

A decade ago, projections of spending generally assumed that health care costs would continue their historical pattern of rising much faster than gross domestic product, making Medicare and other health programs increasingly unaffordable. In fact, however, Medicare costs, in particular, have been rising much less than expected. We don’t know exactly why, although cost reduction efforts in the Affordable Care Act probably played a role.

We still have an aging population, which means a rising ratio of retirees receiving benefits to workers paying taxes; the Congressional Budget Office expects combined spending on Social Security and Medicare to rise by about 3 percentage points of GDP over the next 20 years. But this cost rise, while not small, is moderate enough that it could be offset with higher revenues.

At the same time, the Very Serious People have lost much of their influence. Their repeated predictions of fiscal crisis kept not coming true. The inflation surge of 2021-22 temporarily boosted the credibility of critics of government spending, but this credibility evaporated when dire warnings about persistent stagflation proved utterly wrong.

All of this has, I believe, encouraged Biden and his officials to stake out a firm position opposing cuts to America’s social safety net — indeed, calling for increased benefits, to be paid for with increased taxes on corporations and high-income individuals.

What about Trump? Here’s what he said: “There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements.”

If you have trouble parsing that, it’s not you; it’s him. Trump sounded to me like a student who didn’t do the reading, trying to bluff his way through an essay question. If pressed about what “bad management” he was talking about, which theft he had in mind, he’d probably just respond with more word salad.

And desperate follow-up attempts by the Trump campaign to insist that “cutting” didn’t actually mean, well, “cutting” weren’t convincing.

Incidentally, Social Security sees very little fraud, and if Medicare is very badly managed, how has it become so effective at cost control?

Trump gives no indication here that he really knows what he’s talking about. What that could mean in practice, however, is that if he gets back to the White House, he’ll do for Social

A resident of the Good Shepherd Nursing Home participates in a penny auction in Wheeling, W.Va. on Feb. 8, 2021. Will Social Security and Medicare be on the ballot this November? Definitely. Biden has a clear plan to preserve these programs; Trump, wittingly or unwittingly, would probably help wreck them, as Paul Krugman writes. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)

Security and Medicare what he did in his almost successful attempt to replace Obamacare: leave the drafting of legislation to right-wing ideologues who do understand how the programs work — and who want to gut them.

One final point: Trump’s plan for a draconian crackdown on immigration would be a disaster on many fronts, but one important consideration is that it would have a catastrophic impact on the future finances of Social Security and Medicare. Why? Because at this point, immigration is crucial for growth in the working-age population, whose taxes support retirees.

So will Social Security and Medicare be on the ballot this November? Definitely. Biden has a clear plan to preserve these programs; Trump, wittingly or unwittingly, would probably help wreck them.

Gobernador le pidió más fondos a la primera dama y hara lo mismo con la vicepresidenta de EEUU cuando visite

SAN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia dijo que aprovechó la visita de la primera dama Jill Biden y utilizara la oportunidad que tenga con la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris este viernes cuando visite a Puerto Rico, para solicitarle fondos adicionales para varios programas.“También quizás podemos recibir un apoyo adicional o me gustaría recibir un apoyo adicional del gobierno federal en el cuido de adultos mayores es uno. La-

mentablemente el Medicaid que tenemos en Puerto Rico no cubre el cuido prolongado. Eso causa que personas de bajos ingresos pues no tienen los recursos para ir a un hogar de cuido prolongado. Familia hace lo que puede dentro de los recursos presupuestarios que tiene para subsidiar a estas personas. Y yo tengo el compromiso de aumentar el subsidio. Eso es algo que en su momento estaremos anunciando en específico. Pero como quiera que sea, es un área de reto, porque se está envejeciendo nuestra población. Y como digo, los que no tienen ingresos suficientes, pues se quedan en los hogares”, dijo Pierluisi Urrutia en conferencia de prensa.

“Entonces, pues hablé de cuido de niños. Sí, porque estamos haciendo, como lo acaban de ver en esta conferencia, todo lo posible dentro de los recursos que tenemos. Hemos utilizado fondos ARPA, estamos utilizando fondos Child Care para expandir el cuido de niños en Puerto Rico. Esto es bien importante, porque mientras más temprano atendemos a las niñas desde el punto de vista de académico, pero también de apoyo. Está garantizado que su aprovechamiento académico va a ser mejor. Además, evitamos situaciones de abuso de menores. Y por eso, sí, yo le mencioné ese tema también, porque lo que quisiéramos es seguir expandiendo la cantidad de centros. De cuido de niños que tenemos, que complementan lo que hacen los Early Head Start y Head Start en la isla. Esos

fueron los dos temas puntuales que yo le levanté a la primera dama porque sé que a ella le interesa mucho el tema de la educación, es doctora en ese campo, le interesa mucho el tema de la salud. Así que por eso fue que abordé”, añadió.

Sobre Kamala Harris, insistió en que todavía se desconoce su agenda del 22 de marzo, pero aprovechará para abordarla sobre los costos por inflación de los proyectos de reconstrucción.

Pero para cerrar, la vicepresidenta no tengo la agenda específica, sé que va a estar llegando en horas tempranas de la tarde del viernes y debe estar aquí hasta ya entrada la noche del viernes.

“Lo voy a decir en voz alta. Yo estoy seguro que lo voy a mencionar, de que le estoy pidiendo a FEMA que ajuste los fondos que nos asignaron por propósitos de la inflación extraordinaria que tuvimos, particularmente en los años de la pandemia. Porque eso nadie lo vislumbró cuando nos asignaron los fondos para la reconstrucción. Estoy hablando de FEMA, ajuste por inflación. Así que estoy seguro que voy a tocarle ese tema, porque no pierdo oportunidad de tocarlo. Todavía no tenemos un compromiso específico de FEMA para hacerlo. Hay apertura, pero no lo hemos visto. O sea, no hemos visto un ajuste ya sea global, que pudiera ser una opción, o un ajuste por proyecto”, sostuvo.

Hasta el momento, Harris visitará a Puerto Rico para ver los trabajos de reconstrucción con los fondos asignados luego de los huracanes Irma, María y Fiona.

Comisionada residente anuncia $3.5 millones para mejores servicios a niños y adultos con retos funcionales

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MOCA – Tras una inversión de 3.5 millones de dólares en fondos federales, la comisionada residente, Jenniffer González Colón informó el lunes, que más de 2,500 niños y jóvenes con retos funcionales en la zona norte y oeste de la isla tendrán acceso a mejores servicios para su desarrollo.

“El hecho de que este proyecto comunitario sea el primero que anuncio de los aprobados este año, demuestra la importancia que le doy a los trabajos que se presentan aquí y a mi compromiso con esta comunidad que se extiende a sus padres y cuidadores”, dijo González Colón en declaraciones escritas.

González Colón consiguió incluir dentro de la Ley de Presupuesto Consolidado del 2024, convertida en ley el 9 de marzo de 2024, 14 proyectos comunitarios que suman una inversión federal de 11.8 millones de dólares. Dentro de esos fondos, se aprobaron 3.5 millones de dólares para Centro de Ayuda y Terapia al Niño con Impedimentos Inc. (Centro AYANI).

La congresista resaltó el trabajo que realiza el

Centro AYANI dándole servicios a la población de niños y adultos con retos funcionales.

La asignación está bajo la iniciativa de Desarrollo Económico del Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano (HUD, por sus siglas en inglés). Ya convertidos en ley, en las próximas semanas HUD debe estar comunicándose y publicando las guías y requisitos para permitir que Centro AYANI—y el resto de los recipientes de proyectos comunitarios a través de la nación que recibirán fondos bajo la agencia— puedan solicitar su asignación.

Migdalia González Lugo, fundadora del Centro AYANI agradeció las gestiones directas de la comisionada para hacer realidad esta importante asignación: “Agradecemos profundamente a la comisionada residente, que desde que nos visitó hace muchos años vio el producto como uno muy importante. Agradecida profundamente porque se lo difícil que es conseguir fondos y esto lo hacemos porque queremos a nuestros niños, a nuestros jóvenes y porque queremos una mejor sociedad, donde los padres, quienes a veces vienen llorando, sufriendo, porque no tienen un lugar seguro donde tener a sus niños o donde pue-

dan recibir sus servicios. Agradecemos nuevamente esos estos $3.5 millones que están divididos en nuestros tres centros”.

Cuando fue presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Jenniffer González Colón, aseguró asignaciones de fondos para este centro el cual visitó.

In defense of PG-13 horror

By KELLINA MOORE

It’s nothing new to say that the scariest beasts are those left to the imagination: In the darkened corners of a room, on the ocean floor, in the vacuum of space — terror tends to lurk in the periphery, where it taunts us with what we don’t (or worse, can’t) know. There’s one unfairly maligned horror-movie feature that, when used wisely, can aid with such artful restraint: the humble PG-13 rating.

Since many horror nerds predicate their identity on being able to enjoy content that is too depraved for the general public, they tend to look down on the PG-13 scary movie, viewing it as watered-down or wimpy. These fans can tend to turn genre viewing into a sort of contest in which the one who can stomach (or even delight in) the most deviant content wins: You can’t call yourself a real horror fan unless you’ve seen “Salò”/“Cannibal Holocaust”/ all three sequences of “The Human Centipede.”

Yes, it may be that one of the most powerful things the genre can do is subvert social norms, and it’s difficult to push boundaries when you’re pitching to a broader or younger audience. But it’s not impossible. Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me to Hell,” for instance, about a cursed loan officer, contains Raimi’s over-the-top camp sensibility, yet reels in some of his signature gore. It opts for softer gross-outs like bugs and vomit instead of heavy blood and guts, but it doesn’t sacrifice impact. I once saw a

screening of it at MoMA that played like a metal show, with the film’s sound blasting from the speakers and squeals of delight jumping from the audience with each increasingly demented sequence.

The genre is a great tool for more than just provocation, though. The latest PG-13 horror from Blumhouse, “Imaginary” (now in theaters), experiments with just how little you can show while still provoking fear with the first teaser for the film, which prompts audience members to close their eyes and imagine visuals to accompany audio cues. The full film plays with the perception of things that are seen but not heard, or heard but not seen — a figure just at the corner of a frame, a child responding to the directions of a sinister imaginary friend that only she can see.

Gore Verbinski’s “The Ring” (2002), about a haunted videotape, is regarded as one of the best PG-13 horror films, and its most explicit image comes in the first 20 minutes. The rest of the movie relies on atmosphere to create tension, and does so stunningly; the soft static hum of an analog television, a fly plucked gently by its wings to bring it from inside a screen to outside of it. Even the film’s signature ghost is defined by what’s hidden: her long, dark hair pulled forward to shield her face.

Milder horror is also well suited to the horror-comedy subgenre. The classics (“Tremors,” “Death Becomes Her,” “Beetlejuice”) are born again in the new crop: “Happy Death Day,” “M3gan,” Rob Zombie’s take on “The Munsters.” The

most recent of these, “Lisa Frankenstein” (in theaters), is a perfect example of tackling terrifying imagery with levity: The film lights up its murderous leads in shades of neon, a bloodied ax topped with a glittering ’80s bow. Like many others of the horror-comedy ilk, it’s able to explore darker themes — teenage isolation, sexual assault and death — with a wink, a dash of humor that makes the sharpness of these subjects more approachable, but doesn’t dull their edge.

But the paramount goal of PG-13 horror, and the reason it is often viewed with disdain, is to appeal to newcomers to the genre, namely teenagers. Seeing “Escape Room” in theaters, I imagined a younger version of myself enthralled by it, the same version too scared to watch other lockedroom thrillers like “Saw” or “Cube.” We often view content marketed toward teens as juvenile or not for adults, but in doing so we abandon young viewers to wade through the schlock on their own. It’s time we stop asking for less PG-13 horror, and start asking for better PG-13 horror — no longer treating teenagers as the lowest common denominator.

The first horror movie I saw in theaters was the 2009 PG-13 remake of “The Stepfather” starring Penn Badgley. Is it a good film? Not by any means. But each tired trope was brand-new and electric to me at 13; a by-the-book shot of a darkened figure at the top of a staircase left me cowering in my Aéropostale hoodie. A decade and a half later, I have an insatiable

hunger for that electricity, and I will reach farther to touch it. But I can still enjoy either side of the extreme, and all of the PG-13 along the way is what enabled me, and hopefully a future generation of horror nerds, to embrace more and more of the genre. Sometimes it takes practice and repetition to become brave.

5 science fiction movies to stream now

By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

Time loops in Japan, a seductive interface for agoraphobes and artificial intelligence battles make up this month’s science fiction streaming picks.

‘River’

In this Junta Yamaguchi film, the staff and clients of a quaint Japanese inn find themselves stuck in a short time loop: Every 120 seconds, they all rewind. This premise makes it sound as if Yamaguchi himself is stuck on repeat since his previous feature, “Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes” (2022), was about a loop of the same length. But “River” — once again made in collaboration with Kyoto theater company Europe Kikaku and writer Makoto Ueda — feels very different. The often broad humor is still present, but the new movie also effectively creates a wistful mood that can make it feel as if you’re watching a live-action Studio Ghibli feature. Dominating the ensemble is Riko Fujitani’s Mikoto, a young employee who eventually convinces herself that she may have caused the temporal disturbance. After kicking off as a goofy comedy as we meet all the characters and watch them try to process their situation in exactly two minutes, “River” slides into a bittersweet romance. Even the intervention of a deus ex (tempus) machina to resolve the plot doesn’t spoil the film’s whimsical charm. (Rent or buy it on most major platforms.)

‘Sight: Extended’

The agoraphobic Patrick (Andrew Riddell) hasn’t left his apartment in over a month, working remotely and ordering delivery food. Stepping outside to pick up a prescription sets off a near-meltdown; an invitation to a high school reunion triggers feelings of inadequa-

cy. So when Patrick is offered a miracle new app called Refresh, he jumps on the opportunity. He finds himself immersed in an enhanced reality in which his field of vision essentially becomes a screen on which prompts are overlaid, as well as bonuses and rewards. He can even buy booster packs for things like X-ray vision. Overnight, his life becomes a video game in which he is a triumphant HeMan instead of a loser. He even wins over his old crush, Emily (Nova Gaver).

Daniel Lazo and Eran May-Raz’s “Sight: Extended” suffers from an affliction plaguing much of the free fare streaming on Tubi: The acting is perfunctory at best, so don’t go in expecting Actors Studio fireworks. But the movie makes up for it by offering a scarily convincing version of an interface so seductive and so toxic that surely it must be just a few days away from becoming available in

real life. (Stream it on Tubi.) ‘Ozma’

“What if dreams are rehearsals?” Jeff (Ferdy Roberts) ponders. “Rehearsals for experiences that are too strange for us to accept.” You can see why Jeff is questioning the fabric of reality, because he is in a film named after a “hyper-evolved, shape-shifting jellyfish” that talks in unmistakably feminine tones (voice by Eva Magyar).

United States hellbent on eradicating AI after robots took it upon themselves to nuke Los Angeles, most of the action takes place in New Asia, where men and machines live in harmony, and where Joshua tries to evade pursuers led by a relentless commander played by Allison Janney.

The director, Gareth Edwards, was responsible for “Rogue One,” so it’s tempting to underline connections to the “Star Wars” universe (Alphie is basically Grogu, and the American superweapon satellite, NOMAD, is the Death Star). A more useful reference is the Vietnam War-movie genre, with a troubled American hero unable to tell friends and foes apart while desperately searching for an elusive target (in this case Nirmata, the genius behind AI), and with harrowing scenes of the U.S. military attacking villages.

While “The Creator” does not dig very deep into its subject’s metaphysical import — androids may be sentient, but we are not told what they dream of — it suggests, almost in passing, intriguing tidbits, as when it shows some simulants working as monks, for example. (Stream it on Hulu.)

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Some science-fiction movies don’t feel so much set in an alternate universe as having been filmed in one. You know the type: willfully eccentric, immersed in surreal logic, low budget, often in black and white. Such is writer and director Keith John Adams’ “Ozma,” a sci-fi noir oddity set in London that glances toward Luis Buñuel and early David Lynch, albeit with a looser attitude, a generally more benevolent disposition and a jazzbo score performed by an array of British alt veterans that includes saxophonist Terry Edwards. I can’t pretend that I entirely followed the plot, but it’s hard not to be at least intrigued by a story in which a man deals with absence by accepting those strange experiences. (Rent or buy it on most major platforms.)

‘The Creator’

It’s been at least (checks watch) a minute since we’ve seen an action movie or series in which a solitary hero must protect the precious cargo upon which hangs the fate of humanity. In the case of “The Creator,” that loner is Joshua (John David Washington) and his charge is Alphie (Madeleine Yuna Voyles), a simulant, or android, who looks like a little girl and holds the key to the peace between humans and artificial intelligence. With the

How to put this delicately? For a movie that has been described as patriotic, Kim Yong-hwa’s “The Moon” sure makes the staff of the Korean space program look completely inept. After a space shuttle explodes midflight in its initial attempt to reach the moon, the country takes a whopping five years to try again, only to almost immediately lose two of the new shuttle’s three crew members after solar winds wreak havoc on the mission.

The last one standing, Seon-woo (Do Kyung-soo), appears woefully unprepared to survive in space on his own. We are told Seon-woo is a hardcore military guy, but Kpop boot camps must be more rigorous than any military training this character received. Which brings me to the key to enjoying this movie: Do is, in fact, in the K-pop group Exo in his other life as a singer, and so it’s hard not to think of “The Moon” as a parable in which a handsome young man must do some growing up, real fast, in order to overcome trials that mere mortals can’t even fathom. It helps that while the scenes set on Earth can be leaden, Kim displays impressive dexterity as soon as the action is set in space. There, everything that could go wrong does in a relentless avalanche of catastrophes, and Seonwoo somehow rises to the challenge every time. By the end, I, too, believed in him. (Rent or buy it on most major platforms.)

Riko Fujitani’s Mikoto, center, is a young employee who convinces herself that she may have caused a temporal disturbance in the movie “River.”

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5 exercises we hate, and why you should do them anyway

By ANNA MALTBY

Some exercise moves are easy, others are tough but manageable. But there are always a few that we truly abhor.

Some are so reviled that they have their own merch with phrases like “Burpees Hate You Too.” If you’re not the “no pain, no gain” type, is it OK to just skip the burpee, or any of your other least favorite moves?

“There are some movements that some people are never going to want to do, and that’s OK. But most people underestimate themselves when it comes to fitness,” said Ashantis Jones, a mental health counselor and personal trainer in Chicago.

Trying something hard and realizing you actually can do it, Jones added, is a confidence boost with benefits that stretch beyond the gym. In a 2022 study, scientists found that adults that they classified as unhappy reported higher life satisfaction after trying (often physical) activities outside their comfort zone.

“No one likes to do things they aren’t good at,” said Crystal Fasano, a Brooklyn-based personal trainer and Pilates instructor. But “change happens when we get a little uncomfortable,” she said. The secret: Every exercise can be modified, and any version of an exercise counts.

Here are some of the most valuable least-loved exercises, according to a sampling of experts, and how to make them a little more appealing.

PLANKS

“All my clients hate planks,” Jones said. That may be because they haven’t learned to do them correctly or they’re trying an overly advanced version. Sadly, planks are one of the most effective ways to build core strength, which supports posture, balance and overall stability. If you skip them, you really are missing out.

How to adjust

The classic plank involves holding your body horizontal, in a straight line, with your hands or forearms and toes on the floor. But that’s not the only way to do it.

“You can do forearms and knees, or hands and knees,” Jones said. You can also put your hands on a sturdy chair or table or even a wall: Elevating your upper body removes some of the weight from the plank to make it more doable, they added.

JUMPING

Whether it’s jumping jacks or squat jumps, Fasano said, many people detest jumping exercises. “So many people land really hard after jumping and don’t understand how to soften the impact on their joints when they jump,” she said.

That’s a missed opportunity, said Maillard Howell, a personal trainer in Brooklyn and co-owner of Dean CrossFit. “Jumping improves balance, coordination. It helps train the quick reaction we need if we slip,” he said.

How to adjust

There are some circumstances — injuries, recent surgeries, joint instability — that might make jumping a bad idea. And if you have certain kinds of pelvic floor dysfunction, particularly stress incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse, it’s best to consult a physical therapist first and start slow.

But it’s hard to find a more versatile movement: Beyond balance and coordination, jumping raises your heart rate and

A plank done in a push-up position, on hands and toes, but that can also be done in a standing position, in Amsterdam, March 3, 2024. Trainers share tips on how to make some of the

even builds pelvic floor strength. And learning to land softly can help a lot.

Keep your knees slightly bent when landing, and aim to let your toes and the balls of your feet touch down first, rather than landing on a flat foot, Fasano said. Also, start slow and break down the movement. You can start with box step-ups before progressing to jumps onto a small box, then a larger box. Or, for jumping jacks, start with stepping jacks, then progress to hopping your feet just a few inches apart, before going for a wider jump.

SQUATS

Howell likes to observe how the people around him move, whether in a fitness setting or on the subway. At some gyms (not his own), “no one is squatting,” he said. Then, on the subway, he notices when fellow passengers need to grab a pole to get out of a seat. These two things, he said, are connected.

Squats are a foundational movement pattern that anyone who wants to sit and stand independently (whether from a subway seat or a toilet) should do, Howell said. It doesn’t mean you have to like them, but there are ways to make them

more bearable.

How to adjust

Start simple. “Sit on a bench and then get up. Do that a bunch of times,” Howell said. When you’re ready, try sitting on the bench and standing with your weight mostly on one leg for a few reps, then the other. Work your way up to a squat without a seat, and when that’s feeling good, add weight, he added.

Our ankles need to be able flex deeply to allow our knees and hips to bend, said Jill Koshak-Johnson, a physical therapist in New Jersey. If you have limited ankle mobility, certain exercises and standing with your heels on a wedge (available at most gyms) can help.

DEAD LIFTS

Dead lift dread is more about fear than hatred, KoshakJohnson said: “People believe dead lifts are bad for their back or may aggravate existing back injuries.”

And yes, if you try a dead lift, which involves leaning over from the hips to pick up a weight, with a heavily loaded barbell on your first trip to a gym, your back might revolt. But dead lifts done properly are one of the best ways to strengthen your hamstrings and glutes, which “can actually help take a load off the back,” Koshak-Johnson said.

How to adjust

Dead lifts can feel much more supported if you can address limitations in hip mobility as well as tension or tightness in the pelvic floor, Koshak-Johnson said. Prepare for your dead lift session with some exercises to activate the hip internal rotators and adductors. If needed, work your way up by trying a hip hinge on your knees, she said, then a standing one. Then add weight slowly, using a pair of light dumbbells to get the hang of it and asking a trainer or knowledgeable friend to watch your form.

BURPEES

No list of hated exercises would be complete without the burpee. Invented as a fitness test in the 1930s by a physiologist named Royal H. Burpee, it was later adopted by the Army and Navy and is still popular in CrossFit gyms and other athletic spaces. Many of Jones’ clients assume they can’t do one because they don’t have a CrossFit physique. But many people can do some version, they said.

“The way your body looks or is shaped, someone who lives in a larger body versus a smaller body, that does not matter to the burpee. The burpee does not care,” they said.

How to adjust

At its core, the burpee entails moving from standing to a horizontal position on the floor, and then getting back up again. An advanced burpee can involve quickly squatting down, jumping into a plank, performing a pushup, jumping forward into a squat, then jumping back into a standing position.

But you can adjust any of the parts that feel too uncomfortable, Jones said. You can step back into a plank, skip the pushup, step forward one foot at a time or stand without jumping.

“It also doesn’t have to be quick, it can be slow,” they added. None of those difficult elements “are necessary for a burpee to be a burpee.”

most dreaded moves work for you. (Melissa Schriek/The New York Times)

The coolest menu item at the moment is ... cabbage?

By KIM SEVERSON

If I were a vegetable, I would hire cabbage’s brand manager.

Cabbage has spent an eternity as the workhorse of the stir-fry and the braise, the quiet companion to endless duck legs and pulled pork sandwiches. It never complained, even when boiled with corned beef or shoved into a crock for months.

But today, a vegetable that can make your house smell like a 19th-century tenement is the darling of the culinary crowd.

Leaves of purple cabbage have been enlisted to swaddle mapo tofu at Poltergeist, the current culinary fascination in Los Angeles. At Superiority Burger in New York City, cabbage gently enrobes sticky rice studded with tofu and braised mushrooms.

Fancy dishes that cast cabbage in a leading role have been popular on the coasts for some time, but they’re now making their way onto menus across the country. At Good Hot Fish in Asheville, North Carolina, shredded green cabbage stars in a pancake punched up with sorghum hot sauce. In Denver, Sap Sua sprinkles a charred wedge with anchovy breadcrumbs. Cabbage is bathed in brown-butter hollandaise at Gigi’s Italian Kitchen in Atlanta.

“It’s like bacon was in the 1990s,” said Michael Stoltzfus, who has two cabbage dishes on his menu at Coquette in New Orleans.

Cabbage is just the latest celebrity in a family of hardy crucifers that help chefs and diners through the colder months when local produce is scarce. Arugula, kale and cauliflower have each had their star turn, but Brussels sprouts, the modern menu darling that David Chang started pan roasting with bacon at Momofuku Noodle Bar in 2004, is perhaps the biggest gateway brassica of them all.

Cabbage has the advantage of being especially cheap and bountiful, with a long shelf life — a single head seems to last forever in the refrigerator. It gained ground as American menus added creative dishes influenced by China, India and other Asian countries, where cabbage is an essential ingredient. Kimchi has helped mightily. Its meteoric rise has been buoyed — much to the chagrin of some — by the interest in all things fermented and gut-friendly.

With his Swiss-German heritage, Stoltzfus was a cabbage superfan before it was cool. “Everyone laughed at me for a long time,” he said.

His big hit is a charred wedge of green cabbage perched on turnip ravigote and showered with Parmesan. At $15, the dish is a steady moneymaker at a time when restaurant budgets are particularly tight.

“It’s something we joke about,” he said. “Our bestselling appetizer is the thing we’re most excited about, and also by far our best cost margin.”

Still, some diners who don’t have cabbage fever need to be convinced.

“For a regular person, cabbage is the last thing they go for when they see it on a menu because it’s humble,

Cabbage, a stolid supporting player, has slowly risen to a starring role in creative restaurants across the country. American chefs have fallen in love with a vegetable that has sustained cultures for centuries. (Shawn Michael Jones/The New York Times)

like a potato,” said Armen Ayvazyan, the chef at Chi Spacca, Nancy Silverton’s Italian steakhouse in Los Angeles.

Plenty of people order his $18 contribution to cabbage’s rehabilitation: a wedge of tender, cone-shaped cabbage stuffed with ’nduja. It comes to the table on a pool of taleggio fondue ringed with green scallion oil.

Cabbage has been a global culinary workhorse for centuries. (China grows the most, Russia eats the most.) It has fed generations of American immigrants.

But tracking down the Cabbage Zero that started the current cruciferous renaissance is not as easy as, say, pinning the popularity of goat cheese and beets on Wolfgang Puck in the 1980s or tipping the hat to Roy Choi for wrapping kimchi and bulgogi in a corn tortilla and driving the Korean taco craze 25 years later.

A decade or so ago, farmers who sell largely to restaurants began to grow more specialty cabbage, like the small, tender Caraflex, which is often called conehead or arrowhead because of its pointy tip, as well as napa cabbage and Tendersweets, which are shaped like flattened ovals with loosely packed thin, crisp leaves.

Chefs looking to create dishes for a new plant-forward world discovered that coneheads were easy to braise or roast, and looked gorgeous when quartered and sauced on a plate.

It’s hard to know who jumped into the cabbage pool first, but some chefs make bigger splashes than others. In 2018, Thomas Keller’s New York restaurant Per Se offered a charcoal-grilled Caraflex cabbage with apple, sunchokes and pumpkin seeds surrounded by red cabbage jus.

Around the same time, Chicago chef Paul Kahan put a charred wedge of cabbage on his menu at the Publican

after tasting a version with hazelnut muhammara and a drizzle of tahini that Alon Shaya served when he was the chef at Shaya in New Orleans. Shaya has been making the dish for a decade. He serves it at Saba in New Orleans and Safta in Denver, and it will be on the menu when he opens Safta 1964 in Las Vegas next month.

By 2019, it looked as though cabbage was well on its way, at least according to The Associated Press. A few months later, Eater hailed cabbage as “your next great vegetable crush.” The pandemic slowed the vegetable’s momentum in restaurants, but there was a spike in sauerkraut and kimchi sales when people thought fermented cabbage might ward off COVID-19.

Now, cabbage fever is stronger than ever. “I think 2024 is going to be a really exciting year in cabbage,” predicted celebrity farmer Lee Jones of the Chef’s Garden, a specialty farm in northern Ohio.

Since 2017, Max Morningstar of MX Morningstar Farm near Hudson, New York, has been steadily adding arrowhead cabbage to his brassica mix. He plants close to two acres of it, but is pondering whether he should expand to six next fall.

“Who peddled the humble arrowhead cabbage to be what it is today? I’m not really sure,” he said. “Someone says this is going to be the thing, and this time around it’s cabbage.”

New York chef Victoria Blamey, who grew up in Chile, hated cabbage and its sulfurous smell. But as a young cook working in England, she tasted a dish of cabbage with bacon that had been slowly coaxed into softness. Now she uses the vegetable in terrines and chou farci, and recently married Murdoc cabbage, king crab and vanilla at Blanca, which recently reopened in Brooklyn.

“Cabbage can be as classy and luxurious as anything else,” she said.

But what of the home cook? For people who grew up eating Southern-fried cabbage or Chinese hand-torn cabbage or cabbage curry, cabbage isn’t news. The amount of cabbage Americans eat has dropped in this century, to roughly 6 pounds per capita in 2022 from 9 pounds in 2000.

About a third of grocery shoppers bought cabbage in 2023, down a little from 2022, according to a consumer survey by The Packer, a produce industry publication. And they weren’t just cooks on a budget: People making more than $100,000 a year bought more cabbage than those earning under $25,000, the report said.

Paul Crognale, who with his wife, Hana, runs Down Home Acres, a small farm in Unadilla, New York, sells produce at two greenmarkets on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Restaurants used to buy his Caraflex cabbage before the pandemic. Now, most of them turn to a distributor, so he’s been trying to gin up interest among home cooks.

“I thought it was super-cool and I thought it would be more popular,” he said. “On the Upper West Side, it sure wasn’t.”

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LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs. FRANCHESKA

SANCHEZ MUÑIZ

Demandada

CIVIL NÚM. CG2023CV03837 (701) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria) EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL

A: FRANCHESKA

SANCHEZ MUÑIZ

Yo, ANGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, Alguacil Placa 593, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 3 de abril de 2024 a las 9:30 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Caguas durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 10 de abril de 2024, a las 9:30 de la mañana y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 17 de abril de 2024, a las 9:30 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Catorce (14) del Bloque “G” del plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACIÓN CIUDAD PRIMAVERA, localizado en la Carretera Estatal número Setecientos Ochenta y Siete (787), kilómetro cuatro punto ocho(4.8) del Barrio Beatriz en el término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS VEINTISEIS

PUNTO CERO SEIS CERO

NUEVE (326.0609) METROS

CUADRADOS. En linderos:

NORTE, con una alineación de veinticinco punto doscientos novena (25.290) metros lineales, con el solar número Trece (13) del Bloque “G”; SUR, con una alineación de veinticinco punto doscientos noventa y uno (25.291) metros lineales, con el solar número Quince (15) del Bloque “G”; ESTE con una alineación de doce punto setecientos setenta y cuatro (12.774) metros lineales, con la Calle número Nueve (9); OESTE, con una alineación de trece punto cero uno dos (13.012) metros lineales, con el solar número Cinco (5) del Bloque “G”. Afecta a este solar una servidumbre de uno punto cincuena y dos (1.52) metros de ancho que discurre a todo lo largo de sus colindancias Este y Sur a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Afecta a una servidumbre sanitaria de tres punto cero cero (3.00) metros a todo lo largo de su colindancia Sur. En dicho solar enclava una estructura de concreto diseñada para fines residenciales para una familia, construida de acuerdo a los planos y especificaciones. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Cidra, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda, finca número 16,270, inscripción sexta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Ciudad Primavera, Calle Montevideo, G-14, Cidra, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $129,076.49 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.50% anual, desde el día 1ro. de junio de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $13,989.80, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $139,898.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $93,265.33 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $69,949.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndo-

se que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 23 de febrero de 2024. ANGEL GOMEZ

GOMEZ, Alguacil Placa 593. ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL SALA

SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs. SUCESIONES DE JOSE ISRAEL ROBLES

CARDONA Y ESTHER

RIVERA ROBLES, COMPUESTAS POR SUS HIJAS SANDRA

ESTHER ROBLES

RIVERA, WALESKA

IVETTE ROBLES RIVERA

Y JACQUELINE ROBLES

RIVERA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. BY2023CV04319 (403) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA) EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL

A: SUCESIONES DE JOSE ISRAEL ROBLES

CARDONA Y ESTHER

RIVERA ROBLES, COMPUESTAS POR SUS HIJAS SANDRA

ESTHER ROBLES

RIVERA, WALESKA

IVETTE ROBLES RIVERA Y JACQUELINE ROBLES

RIVERA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Yo, EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA 193, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 4 de abril de 2024 a las 9:30 de la mañana en mi

oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en la oficina del Alguacil de Subastas en el Cuarto Piso, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 11 de abril de 2024, a las 9:30 de la mañana y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 18 de abril de 2024, a las 9:30 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA PROPIEDAD

HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número Veintidós guion A (22A). Apartamento residencial de forma irrregular, constituido por un nivel, localizado en la primera planta del Edificio número Cuatro (4) del CONDOMINIO

VISTAS DEL RÍO, que está situado en la parcela número A guion Nueve (A-9), Avenida “A” (Este-Oeste), esquina Avenida “B” de la Comunidad Río de Bayamón, ubicada en el Barrio Juan Sánchez de Bayamón al lado Sur de la Carretera número PR-177, conocida también como Avenida Lomas Verdes, kilómetro uno punto cuatro (1.4), Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Los lindes del apartamento son: por el NORTE, en 10.466 metros lineales, con el apartamento número veintiuno guion A (21-A); por el SUR, en nueve punto seis cinco cinco (9.655) metros lineales, con el apartamento número veintitrés guion A (23-A); por el ESTE, en diez punto cuatro cuatro dos (10.442) metros lineales, con espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en diez punto cuatro cuatro dos (10.442) metros lineales, con espacio exterior. Consta de tres habitaciones con sus respectivos closets, una sala, comedor, cocina, terraza o balcón, dos baños, áreas de almacenar y “laundry”. Los baños están equipados con bañera, lavamanos y servicio sanitario. El área total del apartamento es de NOVENTA Y SIETE PUNTO NOVENTA Y

DOS (97.92) METROS CUADRADOS. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situado en su lindero Oeste y por ella se sale a la escalera y al área interior de circulación del proyecto. Le corresponde y se le asigna a este apartamento el estacionamiento identificado con el número Veintidós guion A (22-A). Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto seis seis cero cinco cuatro porciento (0.66054%) en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 224 del tomo 1852 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera, finca número 70,392, inscripción tercera. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Vista del Río Apartamento 22A, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $111,669.27 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6 ¾% anual, desde el día 1ro. de febrero de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $13,585.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $135,850.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $90,566.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $67,925.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 01 de marzo de 2024. EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE

FUNDING, LLC

Demandante Vs. OLIVIA MARGARITA

REYES LASALLE T/C/C

OLIVIA MARGARITA

REYES DE VILAR POR SÍ

Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CRUZ

VILAR PEÑA; SUCESIÓN DE CRUZ VILAR

PEÑA COMPUESTA

POR ELISA M. VILAR

REYES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL

COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados

CIVIL NÚM.: BY2023CV00078

SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca

In Rem. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL

A: OLIVIA MARGARITA

REYES LASALLE T/C/C

OLIVIA MARGARITA

REYES DE VILAR POR SÍ

Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CRUZ

VILAR PEÑA; SUCESIÓN DE CRUZ VILAR

PEÑA COMPUESTA

POR ELISA M. VILAR

REYES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES

DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Yo, Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana Placa 193, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONS-

TAR: Que el día 3 de abril de 2024, a las 10:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmue-

ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 13 de noviembre de 2023. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 10 de abril 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 3 de abril 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 Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 24 de enero de 2024, 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: Solar marcado con el número tres Bloque “B” de la Urbanización Campo Alegre, situado en el Barrio Cerro Gordo de la municipalidad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos doce metros cuadrados colindando por el NORTE, con el solar número dos en una distancia de veinticuatro metros; por el SUR, con el solar número cuatro en una distancia de veinticuatro metros; por el ESTE, con Magnolia Gardens en una distancia de trece metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle Laurel, en una distancia de trece metros. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto de una sola planta dedicada a vivienda. Finca número 11,833, inscrita al folio 158 del tomo 270 de Bayamón Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. Dirección de la

Propiedad: B-3 Laurel St. Campo Alegre Dev., Bayamón, PR 00959. 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 $136,911.51 en concepto de principal con interés al 3.89% anual hasta su total y completo pago, y que continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de

reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $19,800.00 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 95 otorgada el día 26 de marzo de 2009, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, ante la Notario Público Jennifer Córdova Córdova y consta inscrita al folio 882 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 11,833, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I de Bayamón. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de Estados Unidos, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $198,000.00, con intereses al 3.89% anual, vencedero el día 11 de agosto de 2079, constituida mediante la escritura número 96, otorgada en (no expresa), Puerto Rico, el día 26 de marzo de 2009, ante la notario Jennifer Córdova Córdova, e inscrita al folio 883 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 11,833, inscripción 6ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $198,000.00 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 orde-

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en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 26 DE FEBRERO de 2024. HECTOR L PEÑA RODRIGUEZ, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO

DEMANDANTE VS. SUCESIÓN DE GLADYS

MATTA MALAVE T/C/C GLADYS MATTA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS

CONOCIDAS COMO

LUZ SANCHEZ MATTA Y MARGARITA SANCHEZ

MATTA; FULANO DE

TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

DEMANDADAS

CIVIL NÚM.: CA2023CV00018.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO

PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER-

CERA SUBASTA El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Carolina, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 7 de noviembre de 2023, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 5 de febrero de 2024 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización

Valle Arriba Heights, Segunda Sección, situada en el Barrio

Sabana Abajo de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de la inscripción de la urbanización con el número

Ocho de la manzana “AF” con

un área de trescientos setenta y tres metros cuadrados setenta y cinco centímetros, en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar diez, distancia de veintitrés metros; por el SUR, con el solar siete, distancia de veintitrés metros; por el ESTE, con camino sombreado, distancia de dieciséis metros veinticinco centímetros; y por el OESTE, con la calle veintiuno, distancia de dieciséis metros veinticinco centímetros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia. FINCA NÚMERO: 7,340, inscrita al folio 217 del tomo 199 de Carolina, sección I de Carolina. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad, la descripcion registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente. En la escritura #518, otorgada en San Juan, el 13 de diciembre de 2000, se omitió mencionar la colindancia Oeste, la cual se describe en la siguiente manera; • Por el OESTE, con la calle veintiuno, distancia de dieciséis metros veinticinco centímetros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia. Dirección Física: URB.

VALLE ARRIBA HEIGHTS

SECCION II, AF-8, CALLE NISPERO CAROLINA PR 00982. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 4 de abril de 2024, a las 9:15 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $105,400.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 11 de abril de 2024, a las 9:15 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $70,266.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 18 de abril de 2024, a las 9:15 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $52,700.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor.

Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $319,012.03 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 8.0000% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa al Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos de América por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $105,400.00, intereses al 8% anual y a vencer a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #518, otorgada en San juan, el 13 de diciembre de 2000, inscrito al folio móvil del tomo 899 de Carolina, finca #7,340, inscripción 8va. También, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y

los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 20 de febrero de 2024. Hector L Peña Rodriguez, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de NANCY ACEVEDO ROMAN, sobre la unidad B208 semana 9 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 9 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B208 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B208 and includes the right to use such unit during the 9 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 9 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B208, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the

owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $8,951.26 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda

del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MARIO

ESPINOSA GARCIA Y AUREA

LARA RICARVETT, sobre la unidad B208 semana 21 que a continuación se describe:

Vacation Club Right: unit week

21 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B208 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B208 and includes the right to use such unit during the 21 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 21 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B208, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,971.10 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a

ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de BRAULIO AVILES PEREZ Y LORNA

MORAYMA VAZQUEZ ORTIZ, sobre la unidad B208 semana

44 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 44 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B208 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B208 and includes the right to use such unit during the 44 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B208, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come,

first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $5,553.14 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION,

INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de VALENTIN

ALONSO MARTINEZ Y JESSI-

CA RODRIGUEZ CARRERAS, sobre la unidad B209 semana 45 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 45 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B209 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici-

pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B209 and includes the right to use such unit during the 45 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 45 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B209, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime.

This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $14,258.13 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de

marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de HECTOR

HERNANDEZ ROSARIO Y FE

MARIE LOPEZ HERNANDEZ, sobre la unidad B210 semana 26 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 26 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B210 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B210 and includes the right to use such unit during the 26 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 26 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B210, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and

common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $13,466.26 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de WAYNE

FARIA MERCADO Y DELMARIS YOLANDA ALERS RAMOS, sobre la unidad B211 semana 19 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 19 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B211 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B211 and includes the right to use such unit during the 19 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 19 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a

successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B211, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $14,671.55 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de LEN

ZAKREWSKY, sobre la unidad

B212 semana 17 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 17 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B212 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B212 and includes the right to use such unit during the 17 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 17 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B212, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $5,972.10 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán

de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00

A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de THOMAS

ANTHONY SMALDINO Y SANDRA JANE SMALDINO,, sobre la unidad B307 semana 9 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 9 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B307 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B307 and includes the right to use such unit during the 9 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 9 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B307, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club

rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $5,541.29 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00

A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ESTELLA

NORWOOD-EVANS, sobre la unidad B308 semana 1 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 1

Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B308 of HACIENDA

DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B308 and includes the right to use such unit during the 1 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 1 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B308, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $10,034.46 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los

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licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JENARO AUGUSTO BALAREZO, sobre la unidad B308 semana

42 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 42 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B308 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B308 and includes the right to use such unit during the 42 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 42 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B308, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two

point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. 10

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION,

INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de BARBARA ANN MESSINA, sobre la unidad B309 semana 10 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 10 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B309 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B309 and includes the right to use such unit during the 10 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 10 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week,

coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B309, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $7,300.01 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen-

tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de CARMEN ANA SERRANO AVILES, sobre la unidad B310 semana 28 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 28 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B310 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B310 and includes the right to use such unit during the 28 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 28 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B310, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $18,992.33 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos

correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ARNALDO IVAN TEJEDOR DAVILA Y DAMARIS RODRIGUEZ ROLDAN, sobre la unidad B311 semana 26 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 26 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B311 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B311 and includes the right to use such unit during the 26 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 26 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B311, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the

Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,711.30 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ELIE-

ZER MANGUAL MORALES Y IRMA LUZ UGARTE SALAS, , sobre la unidad B312 semana 18 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 18 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B312 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B312 and includes the right to use such unit during the 18 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 18 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B312, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $16,392.24 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en-

tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de RAYMOND ROBERT SCHWEIGART Y GLADYS ESTHER SCHWEIGART, sobre la unidad B312 semana 22 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 22 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B312 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B312 and includes the right to use such unit during the 22 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 22 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B312, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in

such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00

A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de EMELISA

BERMUDEZ RIVERA, sobre la unidad B407 semana 8 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 8 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B407 of HACIENDA

DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B407 and includes the right to use such unit during the 8 week of

each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 8 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B407, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA

OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de LUIS MANUEL RODRIGUEZ GARCIA Y

DARYNES DE JESUS ORTIZ, sobre la unidad B411 semana 50 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 50 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B411 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B411 and includes the right to use such unit during the 50 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 50 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B411, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance

pendiente de $12,719.78 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JAMES MELVIN JARANSON, sobre la unidad B412 semana 46 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 46 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B412 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B412 and includes the right to use such unit during the 46 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 46 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B412, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights

during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $5,781.77 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association,

Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de XIAO-WEI ZHU, sobre la unidad B412 semana 50 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 50 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B412 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B412 and includes the right to use such unit during the 50 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 50 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B412, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $10,102.67 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al

crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00

A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de, GUISE-

LLA ROSALINA RODRIGUEZ

Y GEORGE RODRIGUEZ, sobre la unidad B509 semana 32 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 32 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B509 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B509 and includes the right to use such unit during the 32 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 32 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B509, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this

Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,694.53 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. 20

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION,

INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MARIA DE LOURDES PAGAN FRANCO Y TOMAS MELENDEZ LOPEZ, sobre la unidad B509 semana 41 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 41 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B509 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled

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with a special property right to the Unit B509 and includes the right to use such unit during the 41 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 41 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B509, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime.

This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $12,903.88 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de

marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de TERESA MARIE HELEN BARONE, sobre la unidad B607 semana 9 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 9 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B607 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B607 and includes the right to use such unit during the 9 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 9 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B607, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vaca-

tion Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $4,321.91 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00

A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JACK KORN KOWLASKI Y MARIE

RUBINO-KORN, sobre la unidad B607 semana 2 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 2 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B607 of HACIENDA

DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B607 and includes the right to use such unit during the 2 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 2 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club

right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B607, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104,

de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de THOMAS

NORMAN SPINK JR. Y JOANNE SPINK, sobre la unidad B512 semana 5 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 5 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B512 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B512 and includes the right to use such unit during the 5 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 5 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B512, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners

Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00

A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ANGELA MILAGROS MENDEZ SANABRIA, sobre la unidad B511 semana 19 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 19 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B511 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B511 and includes the right to use such unit during the 19 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 19 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B511, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt

Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,935.12 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de LASHAN GOODWIN, sobre la unidad B608 semana 1 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 1 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B608 of HACIENDA DEL

MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B608 and includes the right to use such unit during the 1 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 1 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B608, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $4,311.86 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en

Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00

A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de WEI MICHAEL LAI Y LINDA CHU LAI, sobre la unidad B607 semana

49 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 49 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B607 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B607 and includes the right to use such unit during the 49 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 49 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B607, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and

common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $10,057.46 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de GAIL LAU KEE Y MOHAMMED JAVADE CHAUDHRI, sobre la unidad B608 semana 32 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 32 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B608 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B608 and includes the right to use such unit during the 32 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 32 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a suc-

cessor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B608, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $4,429.11 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de RAUL MORERA LLERA Y ENID MARGARITA RIVERA ROSARIO, sobre la unidad B611 semana 48 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 48 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B611 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B611 and includes the right to use such unit during the 48 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 48 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B611, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $5,027.37 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi-

miento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de NILDA DEDOS SANTANA Y HECTOR MELENDEZ MOJICA, sobre la unidad B612 semana 16 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 16 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B612 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B612 and includes the right to use such unit during the 16 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 16 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B612, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation

Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $1,586.98 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. 30

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

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DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ROBERT MAGID Y TINA MAGID,

sobre la unidad B612 semana 50 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 50 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B612 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B612 and includes the right to use such unit during the 50 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 50 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B612, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $19,286.11 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado

en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

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DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de CIARAN

PATRICK CASSIDY Y RUTH

ELLEN CASSIDY, sobre la unidad B705 semana 33 que a continuación se describe:

Vacation Club Right: unit week 33 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B705 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B705 and includes the right to use such unit during the 33 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 33 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B705, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda

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del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $8,984.21 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00

A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MATTHEW

CLARK MASON Y DERREL

MARSELLA MASON, sobre la unidad B706 semana 13 que a continuación se describe:

Vacation Club Right: unit week

13 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B706 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B706 and includes the right to use such unit during the 13 week of each year until December 31, of the year

2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 13 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B706, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,707.85 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

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DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00

A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de DOMINICK VITO CIANCIOTTI

Y CHRISTINE CIANCIOTTI, sobre la unidad B708 semana 41 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 41 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B708 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B708 and includes the right to use such unit during the 41 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 41 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B708, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $5,801.01 en

concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ALEXIS

PADILLA ORTIZ Y NYDIA RO-

DRIGUEZ CINTRON, sobre la unidad B708 semana 43 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 43 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B708 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B708 and includes the right to use such unit during the 43 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 43 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B708, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights

during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $10,095.91 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association,

Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ROBERT HUGH MURPHY Y MYRIAM MURPHY, sobre la unidad B806 semana 19 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 19 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B806 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B806 and includes the right to use such unit during the 19 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 19 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B806, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $3,448.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas

y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JACK ROBERT KOUKERJINIAN Y MARIO ANTONIO DELGADO, sobre la unidad B807 semana 33 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 33 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B807 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B807 and includes the right to use such unit during the 33 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 33 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B807, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis,

and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $3,448.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JANE

ROBIN SERPICO, sobre la unidad B808 semana 33 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 33 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B808 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled

with a special property right to the Unit B808 and includes the right to use such unit during the 33 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 33 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B808, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime.

This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $3,448.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As-

sociation, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JOSE ROSADO Y HEIDI ANN BRISCOE ROSADO, sobre la unidad B111 semana 1 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 1 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B111 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B111 and includes the right to use such unit during the 1 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 1 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B111, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners

Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 CARR 693

DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de LUIS

ANGEL TORRES QUINONES

Y MARIA MAGDALENA ADORNO RIOS, sobre la unidad B312 semana 21 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 21 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B312 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B312 and includes the right to use such unit during the 21 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 21 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right

allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B312, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $8,883.84 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

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DORADO PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104,

de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 27 de marzo de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ANTONIA TERESA MARTINEZ, sobre la unidad B608 semana 26 que a continuación se describe:

Vacation Club Right: unit week 26 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B608 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B608 and includes the right to use such unit during the 26 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 26 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B608, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners

Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 7 de marzo de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. * 41 *

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Angels adjust to life after Ohtani: ‘Like being kicked out of the band’

By SAM BLUM and BRITTANY GHIROLI / THE ATHLETIC

Every morning for the past six years, no matter how early Los Angeles Angels players and staff members got to Tempe Diablo Stadium, they saw a throng of Japanese photojournalists standing on Tempe Butte, which overlooks the team’s spring training complex in Arizona. This was not a sunrise hike. Every camera was zoomed in, waiting for the arrival of two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani.

While spring training means early mornings for players, coaches and reporters, those assigned exclusively to Ohtani made everyone else think twice about complaining about their alarms. Ohtani Watch started at 5 a.m., when most of the Cactus League was still asleep. There were no weekends off and no wiggle room: Everyone was after that one shot, every day, for the entire six weeks of camp.

“Good luck beating them here,” third baseman Anthony Rendon said of a group that routinely included 50 reporters.

“They said they had to,” the Angels’ bench coach, Ray Montgomery, said. “I asked why, and they said in case Ohtani showed up early.”

The attention never calmed down. When Ohtani arrived in Tempe in 2018 as a 23-yearold Japanese star, no one was sure how his talents as a pitcher and hitter would translate. Now, after three All-Star selections, two American League MVP awards, two Silver Slugger awards and a Rookie of the Year Award, there is no doubt he is a generational talent.

Ohtani’s star power is now 26 miles down the road, at the Los Angeles Dodgers’ camp in Glendale, Arizona. The Dodgers signed him to a 10-year, $700 million contract in the off-

Los Angeles Angels third baseman Anthony Rendon during warmups before the start of the Opening Day game against the Houston Astros at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif., on April 7, 2022. Rendon and the rest of the Angels are adjusting to life without two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, who is now with the Los Angeles Dodgers. “I’ve never been around somebody that big,” Rendon said. “It was weird, right?” (Michael Owens/The New York Times)

season.

So what is life like in Angels camp now that the Ohtani circus has left town?

“Someone said the last few years maybe this was what being in the Beatles was like,” Rendon said. “You don’t get used to it, but you kind of expect it. Now it’s like being kicked out of the band.”

The biggest change, other than no one watching team members get in and out of their cars, has been inside the clubhouse, the players’ space. When Ohtani was there, the large contingent of reporters made some Angels players feel like guests in their own house.

“It’s nice to be able to have our space back a little more,” outfielder Taylor Ward said.

Losing a player like Ohtani does not make any team better. But it has allowed the players

to breathe a little more easily.

“Sometimes players got intimidated by a lot of media,” said Carlos Estévez, the Angels’ veteran closer. “Some younger guys. They were like, ‘I’m going to stay out of the way.’”

Pitcher Patrick Sandoval was one of Ohtani’s closest friends, but even he acknowledged it was a “weird dynamic” to have the Japanese reporters ask him one question about himself, then 10 others about Ohtani. If cameras caught you so much as nodding at the two-way superstar, the reporters would ask you to talk about it.

The Angels’ public relations staff, often inundated with requests, would try to rotate which players they asked to speak about Ohtani, who usually limited his media availability to after his mound starts. The team’s communications manager, Grace McNamee, who speaks Japanese, would make notes on Ohtani’s schedule and coordinate photo opportunities.

Now, with Ohtani gone, “I’ve never seen Grace so relaxed,” Montgomery said.

One year ago, there was hardly enough room to walk in the alley-like corridor within the Angels’ spring training locker room. Now, catcher Matt Thaiss and Chad Wallach have enough space to throw a football back and forth as part of a makeshift fielding drill.

Gone are Ohtani signs and stadium paraphernalia from the stadium and around Tempe. But fear not if you’re one of the thousands of fans who made Ohtani’s jersey the top seller in MLB last year: It’s still in active Angels circulation.

Ohtani’s number — the famed red-andwhite No. 17 — now belongs to a nonroster invitee, Hunter Dozier, who has a career minus-2.6 WAR, or wins above replacement. Dozier wore No. 17 for nearly all of his sevenyear career with the Kansas City Royals and signed a minor league deal with the Angels in January. He started to wonder in the weeks before spring training started: Would the Angels give it away so soon?

He got his answer on the first day of camp. Dozier, 32, a utility man, emphasized that the No. 17 did not have any special significance for him; it was just what the Royals gave him when he was starting his career. Dozier has been reassigned to minor league camp, meaning he will not make the Angels’ opening day roster.

Pitcher Reid Detmers was surprised when he arrived at camp expecting to be in his normal locker — only to find that he got Ohtani’s old space to the left of the clubhouse door.

“It was kind of sad,” Detmers said. “But at the same time, it was kind of cool. Obviously, it’s a great locker, and Shohei was unbelievable. Awesome dude. Easy to talk to. Talk to him about anything. It’s special to have his old locker.”

Without Ohtani, multiple players feared the steady stream of Japanese cuisine would slow to a trickle, making, “Are we still going to have sushi?” a common write-in question. The answer was yes. Ohtani was not the biggest daily sushi consumer on the team; that title most likely belongs to Mike Trout or Logan O’Hoppe.

Trout is the only current Angels player who can remember life without Ohtani, and the fact that Ohtani’s arrival in 2018 did not actually result in more sushi. During the season, Ohtani often brought in his own food.

Still, Ohtani’s absence will be felt in the food room. A few times last year, he brought in Japanese wagyu beef for the kitchen to cook for the team. Multiple Angels lamented the loss.

Potential iron deficiencies aside, everything is a little quieter for the Angels postOhtani. Parking is ample. Tickets are easy to get. The autograph lines for players entering and leaving the stadium are minuscule in comparison to previous years.

“I’ve never been around somebody that big,” Rendon said. “I don’t think baseball has seen anybody that big. It was weird, right? At hotels and places, there would be a lot of people trying to find him.”

Now the eyes following Ohtani’s every move are in Dodgers camp. Only a short drive, but a world away.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

The special person in your life could be working too hard, causing strain for him or her and frustration for you. Their extra hours at work could interfere with your desire to enjoy quality time together. Your own worries could put a damper on your self-confidence, Aries. You might be wondering if you’re doing everything that needs to be done. It might help to make a list and cross off each task you complete.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

The special person in your life could be working too hard, causing strain for him or her and frustration for you. Their extra hours at work could interfere with your desire to enjoy quality time together. Your own worries could put a damper on your self-confidence, Aries. You might be wondering if you’re doing everything that needs to be done. It might help to make a list and cross off each task you complete.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

The special person in your life could be working too hard, causing strain for him or her and frustration for you. Their extra hours at work could interfere with your desire to enjoy quality time together. Your own worries could put a damper on your self-confidence, Aries. You might be wondering if you’re doing everything that needs to be done. It might help to make a list and cross off each task you complete.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

The special person in your life could be working too hard, causing strain for him or her and frustration for you. Their extra hours at work could interfere with your desire to enjoy quality time together. Your own worries could put a damper on your self-confidence, Aries. You might be wondering if you’re doing everything that needs to be done. It might help to make a list and cross off each task you complete.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

The special person in your life could be working too hard, causing strain for him or her and frustration for you. Their extra hours at work could interfere with your desire to enjoy quality time together. Your own worries could put a damper on your self-confidence, Aries. You might be wondering if you’re doing everything that needs to be done. It might help to make a list and cross off each task you complete.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Money could be a source of worry today, Virgo. You might feel you’ve spent too much (who doesn’t sometimes?) or perhaps some funds you were expecting have been held up. This is a delay and not a permanent situation (although it might seem that way). Too much worry could spoil your day, and you don’t want that. If there’s anything you can do to ease the situation, do it. Otherwise, hang in there.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Too much stress and strain over the past few days could cause you to clash with your partner. While not a disaster by any means, Libra, this can put a damper on your day. It might be best if you took a few minutes to get away by yourself and let all your negativity fade away when no one’s around. You’ll feel better by the time you face your family, friends, and partner again.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Overindulgence last night could have left you feeling a little woozy today, Scorpio. You’re may want to spend the day in bed, but the prospect of leaving tasks undone could cause you to push on anyway. That’s a bad idea. Rest is just what you need. Don’t force yourself to socialize, either. You need some time alone to recover and gather your resources so you can face the world with a clear head.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Plans for getting together with a group of close friends may have to be called off because of sudden unexpected events. This could have you feeling somewhat down, Sagittarius, especially if a romantic partner is involved. Try not to worry about it too much. You will be able to reschedule, and you could use the time alone anyway to relax and center yourself.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

The planetary energy has you feeling a bit sluggish today. You’ll probably want to stay home, surrounded by your books, pets, and plants, yet you know you have appointments to keep and responsibilities to fulfill. Your sense of duty is especially strong. Make a deal with yourself to get the bare minimum done and then relax. Try a hot bath and listening to classical music.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

The planetary energy has you feeling a bit sluggish today. You’ll probably want to stay home, surrounded by your books, pets, and plants, yet you know you have appointments to keep and responsibilities to fulfill. Your sense of duty is especially strong. Make a deal with yourself to get the bare minimum done and then relax. Try a hot bath and listening to classical music.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Dreams with mixed messages might trouble your sleep tonight. One minute you’ll be having a wonderful dream, and the next could be black and gloomy. Write them down, Pisces. The message is probably more positive than it appears. Worries about money might plague you throughout the day, yet things probably aren’t as bad as they seem. Make sure you learn the facts about your situation before allowing yourself to panic!