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Lawmaker: Possible new fee in power bill would pay for pensions

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) cus tomers may see an additional fee in their utility bill that will go toward the payment of pensions, House Treasury Committee Chairman Jesús Santa Rodríguez said Wednesday.

Currently, and after negotiations to restructure PREPA’s $9 billion debt failed in September, the Financial Oversight and Management Board was ordered by the court to en gage in a new round of mediation. The oversight board, at the same time, is litigating the legality of PREPA’s bonded debt, estimated at $8.3 billion, and must submit a debt adjustment plan in December.

The information about the new charge to pay pen sions was revealed by lawyer Rolando Emmanuelli, Santa Rodríguez said in a televised interview. Emmanuelli could not immediately be reached for comment.

Santa Rodríguez noted that current law requires PREPA to itemize all fees in the utility bill.

“Any debt restructuring, regrettably, will lead to a hike in the utility bill,” he said. “The key is for it to be as low as possible to ensure there is little impact. As energy rates become more expensive, the island is less competitive and the government has fewer revenues.”

The lawmaker said customers who are not connected to the grid because they have solar panels may also have to pay the charge, but he also noted that it all depends on the outcome of the negotiations.

PREPA bondholders, who are owed about $8.3 billion in debt, argued in court this week that PREPA has failed in the collection of revenues that could be used to pay its debt.

PREPA has failed to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in accounts receivable from municipalities, instru mentalities and agencies as required under the Trust Agree ment, the bondholders said. It has accumulated a $420 million excess liability for payments made to municipalities in lieu of taxes. And it has an accounts receivable balance of over $200 million from public instrumentalities. In ad dition, PREPA has failed to raise rates to levels required to ensure revenues sufficient to pay current expenses and debt service, the bondholders say.

PREPA has deposited $148.3 million from the General Fund in the Government Development Bank (GDB) of Puerto Rico, but has not sought the return of those funds to pay bondholders as required under the Trust Agreement, even though GDB has misappropriated PREPA’s monies in violation of the automatic stay, the bondholders added.

Santa Rodríguez also said there may be public hearings

in the Legislature following remarks made by Public-Private Partnership Authority Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez to the effect that there is a preferred proponent already identified to manage the utility’s 18 power plants. Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz said putting all plants under a single proponent may be a violation of the law.

Power outages expected due to failure at AES plant

Separately, PREPA officials warned Wednesday af ternoon that Unit 1 at the Applied Energy Systems (AES) power plant could not start generation, so both units at the Guayama plant remain out, a situation that could cause outages.

“The AES No. 1 unit went out of service again,” PREPA said on its social networks. “At present both AES units are out of service. This has caused a deficiency of around 500 megawatts in the generation system. If the AES units continue out of service and given the demand forecast, we will not have the generation to meet peak demand. We ask customers to reduce their energy consumption to reduce the number of customers who will see their energy service affected.”

LUMA Energy echoed the call for prudence in energy consumption.

“We understand the frustration these generation-related disruptions pose to our customers, and we are monitoring the situation closely,” the operator of the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system said on social media. “To help minimize the impact of potential service interruptions caused by under-generation, we encourage our customers to conserve energy, especially during peak hours from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Neither PREPA nor LUMA said when full generation capacity would be restored.

House Treasury Committee Chairman Jesús Santa Rodríguez

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

In order to end the problem of supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) to generate electricity in Puerto Rico, at-large Rep. José Enrique “Quiquito” Meléndez Ortiz said he will be organizing an emergency meeting of the island Ports Authority, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, among others, to outline an action plan to prevent a lack of LNG fuel. The lawmaker did not rule out new legislation to address the issue.

“Puerto Rico cannot be at the mercy of a waiver of cabotage laws to meet its natural gas needs for electric power generation,” Meléndez said. “We recognize the difficulties that occurred due to the passage of Hurricane Fiona on September 18, but we have to learn from that and we will be convening all sectors involved with natural gas in order to draw up an immediate action plan to avoid a possible crisis,” Meléndez Ortiz said.

“Winter is approaching in our nation, the United States, as well as in Europe, which has stopped using

natural gas from the Russian Federation in the face of its attack, without any justification, on Ukraine,” the New Progressive Party legislator added. “This factor will have the effect of not only increasing the price of natural gas, but also making its transportation more sporadic and that could have an effect on the island. What we seek is to minimize it.”

Two days ago, the administration of President Joseph Biden authorized a waiver of the Jones-Shafroth Act, which covers matters related to cabotage, to allow a vessel with the flag of the Marshall Islands to discharge natural gas at the Eco Eléctrica terminal in Peñuelas, a private power generation plant that supplies PREPA.

“We cannot and will not go along with this situation; we have to look for a real alternative that we can imple ment as soon as possible,” Meléndez Ortiz said. “The forum will be an open one, where we will encourage the free exchange of ideas, such as the creation of a state reserve of natural gas, among other things.”

The lawmaker added that in the coming days he will announce details of the meeting, including the day and time as well as other possible participants.

Rep. José Enrique Meléndez Ortiz

Lawmaker calls for emergency meeting to address natural gas supply concerns Completion date extended for study on women in the workforce

By THE STAR STAFF

Labor and Human Resources Secretary Gabriel Maldonado González announced Wednesday that the date has been extended until Oct. 26 for women who are part of the workforce -- employees, entrepreneurs and human resources personnel of private companies or the government -- to participate in the “First Study of Working Women in Puerto Rico.”

“Due to the events brought about by the impact of Hurricane Fiona, it was decided to give more people the opportunity to access the questionnaire. It is im portant to capture the feelings of working women, their employers and Human Resource managers to develop public policy initiatives to lead to better job opportuni

Labor and Human Resources Secretary Gabriel Maldonado González and Women Who Lead CEO Frances Ríos

ties, wage justice, equality, inclusion, empowerment and safe work environments,” Maldonado González said in a written statement about the study, which is being developed in collaboration with the organization Women Who Lead and its CEO and founder, Frances Ríos. “Certainly, this study will chart a new path in the history of thousands of women in Puerto Rico and future generations.”

Those who wish to participate in the survey only have to fill out the questionnaire in Spanish or English found at https://reclamatupoderpr.com/. The survey is free, confidential and takes only five minutes to complete. In addition, it can be accessed from a cell phone, a computer or any other digital device.

The results of the study will be announced on Nov. 2.

Businesses threatened by slow pace of landslide response

By THE STAR STAFF

Dozensof small and midsize businesses could cease to exist if government officials do not immediately open Highway 831 in the Minillas neighborhood of Bayamón to the public, United Retailers Association (CUD by its Spanish ac ronym) President Lourdes M. Aponte Rodríguez said Wednesday.

Landslides caused by the passage of Hurricane Fiona blocked the highway, and the government has yet to clean up the debris.

“The call is to speed things up because there is no time to wait,” the CUD leader said. “We call on the mayor of the Municipality of Bayamón, Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz, and the executive director of the Highways and Transportation Authority [HTA], Edwin E. González Montalvo, to rehabilitate highway 831 in the Minil las neighborhood as soon as possible. Many heads of families have businesses there that depend on that sustenance to support their families and supply the residents of the place with basic necessities. In addition, this closed road makes it impossible to

reach regular customers, places such as the Bayamón Regional Hospital, putting the community’s health at risk.”

The merchants said that while the mayor has been looking into the situation, landslides continue to occur, further obstructing the roadway. The HTA is going to carry out a soil study because two houses are about to collapse as the land continues to give way under them.

Area stores have seen their sales drop by 60% to 70%, the merchants said.

Mayors Assn. joins congressional petition to allocate $5 billion for solar panels

By THE STAR STAFF

PuertoRico Mayors Association President Luis Javier Hérnández Ortiz announced Wednesday that he would actively en dorse and lobby in favor of the proposal of a group of U.S. congressmen, who together with House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for her support to allocate $5 billion to install solar panels and batteries on the roofs of residences in Puerto Rico.

“In addition to Grijalva, Nydia Velázquez, Darren Soto, Alexandria Ocasio, Richie Torres, and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González, among other legislators, support this,” the Villalba mayor said. “This aid would help low-income households and people with disabilities to promote the agenda of clean and accessible energy in favor of our communities.”

Hernández Ortiz noted that earlier this month, in anticipation of President Biden’s visit to the island, he asked U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to create a team dedicated to accelerating the reconstruction of the elec trical grid, whose poor condition has once again become evident after Hurricane Fiona.

“Today, my agenda’s priority is to promote that the mayors have the resources and access to the construction of micro-grids,” Hernández Ortiz said. “We should not have to depend on LUMA Energy and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. This $5 billion congressional initiative should be aimed particularly at low er-income families, where energy is generated from the roofs of homes and stored in batteries.

Health

By THE STAR STAFF

This technology is already available and is part of what we are working on in the Mountain Energy Consortium.”

The mayor pointed out that Villalba, along with other municipalities in Puerto Rico, in cluding Orocovis, Morovis, Barranquitas and Ciales, has been working in the consortium.

“The goal is to make the project viable and use the Toro Negro Hydroelectric Plant as part of the project to produce renewable energy through water power and the sun’s intensity,” he said. “We have seen how, for years, there have been announcements of allocations of federal funds for the reconstruction of the electrical

certifies nursing

The island Department of Health’s Vaccination Program has certified the first 50 nursing professionals who pro vide immunization services so that they can administer vaccines without needing a medical order per the authorized vaccination schedule in Puerto Rico.

The certification comes after the entry into effect of Administrative Order 520, which stipulates that all licensed nurses working in immunization centers, whether in the public or private sector, may administer vaccines without needing a doctor’s order. As of July 1, 2023, nurses must be duly certified.

“We continue to join efforts to strengthen the practice while facilitating the process for fathers, mothers, and guardians when taking their children to be vaccinated,” Health Secre tary Carlos Mellado López said Wednesday. “It has proven to

Hau is the author of Senate Bill 1047, which also seeks to create a registry of man ufacturers, distributors and sellers of solar panels at the Department of Consumer Affairs.

“This coming Thursday, October 27, we will begin the process of public hearings to listen to all the sectors that offer or receive services related to solar panel systems on the island. It is common knowledge that installing these systems in homes represents a substantial investment and a sacrifice for families, who are forced to obtain these systems as a remedial measure to handle interruptions in the electric power system,” Hau said. “Given this reality, it is necessary to create an efficient legal framework so that consumers have a system that allows them to enjoy the investment made and, in the event of any damage, to enforce the guarantee of the products that make up the solar panel system.”

system, and we are not seeing the results. This is one of the issues I will be discussing with Secretary Granholm.”

The federal energy secretary is scheduled to visit the island today.

Public hearings slated for proposed law to enforce solar panel warranties

The Puerto Rico Senate, meanwhile, is seeking to create the island’s Solar Panel Systems Warranty Enforcement Act. To this end, they initiated the public hearings process through the Committee on Economic Develop ment, Essential Services, and Consumer Affairs, chaired by Guayama District Sen Gretchen

The legislative measure arises from a sharp increase in complaints from solar panel sys tem customers and owners about companies failing to fulfill warranties that are supposed to be part of the purchase and sale agreement. In addition, they complain about the lack of legal jurisdiction to address their allegations.

“We hear that citizens who purchase these systems claim noncompliance with the warranties that are part of the contract.” Hau said. “Among them are problems with the batteries, which work inadequately, or the energy storage is different from what was promised in the transaction. These are situa tions that have to be resolved for the benefit of consumers.”

promote greater access to vaccination services by eliminating the requirement of a doctor’s order for the administration of vaccinations. In this context, nurses from the Department received their certification and were also educated to help citizens make informed decisions about vaccination, which is a proven tool for the prevention of contagious diseases.”

The certification is a first in Puerto Rico and will be com pulsorily extended to licensed nurses working in vaccination services. It must be updated every three years through the 16-hour course offered by the program.

Vaccination Program Director Dr. Ángel Rivera García said “we are satisfied with this advanced step we have taken with the implementation of this course.”

“Today there were 50 nursing professionals, but the goal is to reach as many professionals as possible before July 1, 2023, so that vaccination services are not affected,” he said.

Marie Hau.

Puerto Rico Mayors Association President Luis Javier Hérnández Ortiz

Feminist collective cleans up abandoned space, could face criminal charges

By THE STAR STAFF

Brumbaugh Street, on the corner of Robles Street, where a few years ago the Teatrolandia business was located. The place, abandoned for the past 10 years, was full of debris and vermin, so the community organized to clean

they learned who allegedly owned the space.

Tof the Department of Justice to file criminal charges against several members of the organi zation, as well as residents of Río Piedras, after they cleaned and refurbished an abandoned space located in that community.

the latest action by the government is part of a pattern of harassment and persecution that they have been experiencing for the past year.

“In the last year, since we have been doing work in the community of Río Piedras, where many of us, members of this organiza tion, live, work and study, we began to receive constant harassment and persecution from the Puerto Rico Police and the San Juan Municipal Police,” said the organization’s spokeswoman, Shariana Ferrer-Nuñez. “This has manifested itself in the harassment of officers in patrol cars with intimidating attitudes at times when we have been doing outdoor activities with the community, disproportionate interventions to question our right and legitimacy to do activities in the streets of Río Piedras or merely for standing here, on the street where our premises are located. Also, officers of the San Juan municipal police have searched, without prior notification, parts of our premises car rying long guns, among other interventions.”

Ferrer-Núñez said the pattern worsened once the organization, along with people from the Río Piedras community, cleaned up and renovated an abandoned structure located on

“Despite the fact that the only ones who had an obligation to act in this situation were the alleged owners in the first place and the Municipality of San Juan, the community decided to take care of the situation,” said son for Colectiva Feminista en Construcción. “Here there were conversations among neigh bors, with the Río Piedras Development Trust, the Río Piedras Community Board, with the Center for the Reconstruction of Habitat, and the understanding and information we have is that this property has been abandoned for 10 years and that the municipal government had not done anything about it. In that sense, our Civil Code provides that a neighbor entering an abandoned property such as this one to mitigate dangerous conditions that affect the community and the other homes is protected by law.”

Zoán Dávila, another spokesperson for the organization, members of the collective were subjected to three interventions by the municipal police, the Puerto Rico Police and the Department of Justice, where they were intimidated about filing complaints. When the officials were asked who was filing the complaint and why, they refused to provide them with information. It was not until an eviction lawsuit was filed on Oct. 7 against one of the leaders of the organization that

“This lawsuit is filed knowing that the space was only cleaned up and that absolutely no one, much less members of the Collective, lives in that space or has become an owner of it,” Ferrer-Nuñez said. “Those who file the lawsuit claiming to be owners are wealthy lawyers with resources and knowledge about the rule of law in Puerto Rico. These people should know that, for one thing, they have the legal responsibility to prevent this property from becoming a ruin that threatens the safety of the community.”

According to the spokeswomen, after the hearing for the eviction case ended, several collective members and several Río Piedras residents received citations for the filing of criminal charges. Dávila Roldán said the action amounts to persecution by public law enforcement agencies since there is no justification for filing charges when there is already a civil case in which the claims of the parties are being addressed.

Collective members demanded that San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo provide answers as to why the public nuisance has remained unattended. They also called on the mayor to order the municipal police to refrain from harassing and persecuting them.

The organization also demanded that island Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández explain why he intends to file charges against members of the collective and residents of Río Piedras for cleaning up a public nuisance.

“We demand that he also answer why he is trying to criminalize people from the com

munity when there is already a civil process, between citizens, with legal representation from both parties, that seeks to resolve this situation,” Dávila said.

The municipality reacts

San Juan Administrator Israel Alicea said in a written statement that “since we arrived at the municipal administration and under the leadership of Mayor Miguel A. Romero Lugo, we have implemented an intensive work plan with regard to public nuisances and abandoned properties throughout the Municipality of San Juan and particularly in Río Piedras.”

“In the case that is being aired in the media, it is important to note that the prop erty is private,” Alicea continued. “Within the public nuisance declaration process, the owners of said property made a commitment to the Municipality to eliminate the nuisance conditions. Once the contractor and the owners arrived at the property, they realized that some people had recently occupied the property.”

“To this effect, the owners proceeded to file a complaint with the Police. It should be noted that Municipal Police officers visited the property on only one occasion to attend to the complaint filed,” the official said. “We presume that the state police have visited the site in response to the complaint and the judicial proceedings that are in process. In response to those judicial proceedings and the statements made in the media, the State Police issued a summons to the persons al legedly occupying the property without the owner’s authorization.”

Members of the Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, along with some residents of the Río Piedras community, cleaned up and renovated a long-abandoned structure located on Brumbaugh Street, on the corner of Robles Street, where some years ago the Teatrolandia business was located. The place was full of debris and vermin, so the community

‘They forgot about us’: Inside the wait for refugee status

By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and MIRIAM JORDAN

Forthe past eight years, Ahmed Mohamed Aden has been trying to reunite with the sons he left behind when he fled Somalia. He sought help from immigration advoca tes in Wisconsin, where he was legally resettled. He filed reams of paperwork with the United Nations refugee agency. He submitted DNA samples to prove he shares a genetic relationship with his children, which he hoped would speed up processing.

But earlier this month, he learned that their applications were still pending, stuck in a backlog of people fleeing violence and perse cution who hope to find sanctuary in America.

“I did everything I can,” an emotional Aden said, holding his head in his hands as the social worker assigned to his case explained that his children would not be joining him in Milwaukee any time soon. “I tried.”

Aden’s sons are among thousands of people living in limbo as delays in the U.S. re fugee system stretch to an average of five years or more, according to government estimates.

The average wait used to be roughly two years, before the Trump administration gutted the refugee program with the intention of sealing off the United States from refugees and other immigrants. And the coronavirus pandemic forced many U.S. embassies to close or curtail their operations, allowing cases to back up even more.

Many of the people who have been in the pipeline for years have grown increasingly frustrated, saying they are being pushed to the back of the line as the Biden administration prioritizes those fleeing crises in Ukraine and Afghanistan.

Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, the CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, said she understands that the Biden administration is working with an overburdened system inherited from the Trump years.

But, she said, her patience is wearing thin.

“We’re at a point in the administration that while we recognize how the Trump administra tion decimated the infrastructure, it can’t be an excuse for too much longer,” Vignarajah said. “Because lives depend on the administration stepping up.”

President Joe Biden, who has promised to rebuild the refugee program, issued an executive order last year that directed his administration to cut the processing times to six months.

But in a report submitted to Congress last month, the White House acknowledged that the effort to provide temporary protection to roughly 180,000 people escaping Ukraine and Afghanis tan “required a significant reallocation of time and resources” and “hampered the program’s rebound.” Last week, the administration said it would offer a similar status for up to 24,000 Venezuelans looking to escape their broken country, even as many more who cross the border would be expelled under a pandemic-era rule put in place by former President Donald Trump.

The shift means people in desperate conditions in countries like Somalia, Eritrea and Myanmar are facing the prospect of even longer waits. More than 76,000 prospective refugees were in the system’s pipeline waiting to be cleared for travel as of this summer, ac cording to State Department data obtained by The New York Times.

Mulugeta Gebresilasie, a case manager at a resettlement agency in Columbus, Ohio, said that refugees already in the United States have felt penalized as their loved ones languish in camps for displaced people.

“Suddenly, the resettlement agencies were focusing on Afghan people,” Gebresilasie said. “The African refugees told me: ‘They forgot about us. We have been waiting so many years.’”

The U.S. refugee system was designed to provide a legal pathway for displaced people to find protection in the United States. Applicants must be recommended by the United Nations, a U.S. Embassy or a nonprofit; undergo interviews with U.S. consular officers overseas; and gather documents that can be difficult or impossible to procure in failed states: birth certificates, marriage certificates, travel documents, school records. They also undergo extensive medical and security vetting.

Once they are resettled, the refugees can petition for their immediate relatives to join them in the United States by providing DNA or other evidence of their relationship. The relative would then be interviewed at an embassy by a U.S. official before being approved for travel.

But millions of people are being admitted into the United States outside the traditional refugee program, diverting resources from those who have been waiting for years.

Much attention has been paid to migrants crossing the border in record numbers, in part because of decisions by Republican-led states like Florida and Texas to send some of them to liberal bastions like Martha’s Vineyard as a way to provoke outrage.

Those migrants can secure asylum if they can prove they would be persecuted at home; otherwise they face deportation. More than 1 million have been turned away on the basis of a Trump-era public health measure called Title 42, which allows the United States to expel people who would have otherwise been admitted for an evaluation of their asylum claims or placed into deportation proceedings.

In special circumstances, the United States government can grant “parole” to people from other countries, a legal tool that allows them to enter the country but does not automatically confer a green card or citizenship. That is what Biden’s administration has done in the cases of many refugees from Afghanistan, Ukraine and now Venezuela.

Over the past two years, the Biden ad ministration has taken some steps to rebuild the overburdened refugee system, even as the president and his senior aides have debated how to unwind the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda. Biden has expressed concern about Republican attacks over his immi gration policies, particularly as apprehensions at the U.S. southern border have hit record levels.

The White House named Andrew Nacin, a former WordPress developer who worked on immigration issues for the Obama administra tion, to lead the effort. Nacin is streamlining the White House’s digital services and is trying to

apply some lessons learned from the scramble to assist Afghans and Ukrainians.

The president has said he is committed to fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse Trump’s limits on accepting refugees. The administration recently informed Congress that it would set the annual cap on the number of refugees at a maximum of 125,000 people, the same level as last year.

Trump, by contrast, set the limit at 15,000, the lowest it has been in the history of the re fugee program.

The refugee numbers include only those who are legally resettled in the United States; asylum-seekers who cross the border from Mexi co, for example, do not count toward the limit. Nor do the Ukrainians, Afghans or Venezuelans who come in under humanitarian parole.

But the United States has not even come close to hitting the 125,000-person limit, in part because it simply has not had enough personnel to get through the backlog.

By the end of 2021, the United States had tallied just 11,411 refugees, the smallest number since the establishment of the refugee program. The Biden administration resettled about 25,400 refugees this past fiscal year, according to the State Department.

In interviews, senior administration offi cials said it was unlikely they would hit their target in the coming year.

The

Ferozah Binti Abdul Rashid, a Rohingya refugee, and her 5-year-old daughter at their home in Milwaukee, Wis. on Sept. 16, 2022. Her husband has not been able to join the family in the United States.

Four takeaways from the Rubio-Demings debate in Florida’s Senate race

girls as a senator. I think those decisions are made between the woman, her family, her doctor and her faith.”

Rubio dismissed those attacks. While he called himself “100% pro-life” and indicated that he personally supported strict abortion laws, he cast the issue as theoretical, saying that bans without exceptions would be unable to pass because they lack popular support.

For his part, Rubio pressured Demings to name a clear week limit on the procedure, falsely accusing her of backing abortion “on demand, for any reason, at any time, including the moment before birth.” She replied that she supported abortion until vi ability — the standard set by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, commonly understood to be around 24 weeks.

He claimed that provision would allow “your co-worker who has a grudge against you” to “go to a judge and take away your guns.”

Demings responded with clear anger, accusing Rubio of be traying the victims of massacres in Florida like the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando and the Parkland shooting, and of making promises to victims’ families that he “had no intentions of keeping.”

She went on: “How long will you watch people being gunned down in first grade, fourth grade, high school, college, church, synagogue, the grocery store, a movie theater, a mall and a nightclub, and do nothing?”

Rubio was more detailed on foreign policy.

For months, polls have shown Senator Marco Rubio with a lead in his re-election race against Representative Val Demings.

By LISA LERER and MAGGIE ASTOR

A Florida phenomenon: property insurance chaos.

Sen.

Marco Rubio of Florida and his Democratic challenger, Rep. Val Demings, met for the only debate of the Florida Senate race Tuesday, a fast-paced, fiery faceoff that cruised through a series of the top issues affecting the country and the state.

Rubio, who participated in around a dozen debates as a Republican presidential candidate in 2016, was polished and quick. Taking a more evocative approach, Demings sought to cast him as heartless, disconnected from the human impact of his policies on issues like abortion and guns.

Still, she may not have gotten the kind of viral moment neces sary to shift the trajectory of the race in her favor. For months, polls have shown Rubio with a lead in Florida, a perennial battleground state but one that has shifted to the right.

Here are four takeaways: Sticking to the party line on abortion.

The candidates largely hewed to their party’s talking points on abortion rights, with each aiming to paint the other as extreme. Demings accused Rubio of supporting abortion restrictions without exceptions for rape, incest and life-threatening medical conditions.

“No, senator, I don’t think it’s OK for a 10-year-old girl to be raped and have to carry the seed of her rapist,” she said. “No, I don’t think it’s OK for you to make decisions for women and

A portion of the debate focused on an issue that’s fairly specific to Florida: a property insurance market in free-fall. Homeowners in Florida pay the highest premiums in the country, nearly three times the national average, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Six Florida property insurance companies have been de clared insolvent and others are canceling or not renewing policies.

Demings accused Rubio of doing nothing on the issue as a member of the state House, saying she had asked the governor to call a special session to tackle the crisis.

Rubio countered that there had been a special session when he was speaker in 2007. Legislation passed that year expanded the offerings and reduced the rates of the state’s insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance. Rubio blamed former Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running for another term as the Democratic nominee, for the sharp increase in rates since then.

The temperature rose when guns came up.

One of the most heated exchanges came when the modera tor asked whether the candidates would support a federal ban on the sale of assault weapons to people under 21 — an idea that Rubio dismissed as useless, pointing out that a 15-year-old was accused in a recent shooting rampage in Raleigh, North Carolina.

“Where did he get the gun? He didn’t get it from a gun show. He certainly didn’t buy it. He’s 15 years of age,” Rubio said. Instead, he promoted a “red flag” bill he sponsored to allow law enforcement authorities to confiscate guns if a person shows warn ing signs of violence — while denouncing as “crazy” a red-flag provision in the bipartisan gun law that Congress passed this year.

Rubio gave more detailed responses than Demings to questions about China and about how the United States should respond if Russia used tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine or attacked a NATO ally.

Demings said repeatedly that the United States needed to hold Russia and China “accountable,” but gave no examples of what that might involve. At one point, she said that if China were to try to take over Taiwan, “there has to be a response,” and added that she and her colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee were discussing the matter.

Rubio also, to some extent, deferred to other decision makers; he said, for instance, that the response to an attack on a NATO member would have to be a joint decision by the alliance. He also threw in a mocking line about transgender people, sug gesting that the Pentagon needed to focus on military superiority rather than “proper use of pronouns.”

But his responses contained a level of detail that Demings’ did not. Among other things, he discussed the range of ways Russia could escalate in Ukraine — short-range nuclear missiles and a conventional attack on an airport in Poland were two possibilities he mentioned — and called for efforts to decrease dependence on Chinese manufacturers and strengthen American military capacity in the Indo-Pacific region.

Near the end of the debate, Demings accused him of feign ing foreign policy expertise, saying, “Look, the senator can play national security expert all he wants.”

Rubio replied, to applause: “I don’t know what she means by playing national security expert. I’m the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee and was the previous chairman of it, so it’s actually my job.”

Stockton knew hard times, but nothing like an ‘unimaginable’ killing spree

By LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA, SHAWN HUBLER and HOLLY SECON

Stockton,

a city of about 320,000 in California’s Central Valley, has spent decades enduring some of the state’s hardest knocks, from municipal bankruptcy to crippling crime waves.

And it plunged into a deepening anxiety in recent weeks with reports that a serial killer was stalking its streets. Police linked six killings in the city and one in a nearby county to a single perpetrator. Some residents stopped buying gas after sunset. Others would not let their children out at night.

At a hearing in San Joaquin County Superior Court on Tuesday, a suspect in the killings, Wesley Brownlee, was char ged with three counts of murder. Police said they arrested him around 2 a.m. Saturday, while he was armed and “out hunting.” Brownlee also faces weapons charges, with prosecutors saying he had used an untraceable firearm known as a “ghost gun.”

“The firearm is linked to those three murders,” said Elton Grau, a deputy district attorney in the San Joaquin District Attorney’s Office. Cellular data associated with Brownlee, he added, had also placed him at the locations of the three killings.

In a news conference after the hearing, the county’s district attorney, Tori Verber Salazar, said her office was still processing evidence for the other three killings and the attempted murder of a woman who was shot but survived. Additional charges were likely in the near future, she said.

At the hearing, Brownlee appeared stone-faced as Judge John Soldati read his charges. The surviving victim and families of those killed were present, and some appeared on the verge of tears.

“I couldn’t even look at him,” Jerry Lopez, the brother of one of the victims, Lorenzo Lopez, said of Brownlee after the hearing. Of the killing, he added, “It’s something unimaginable.”

Soldati ordered that Brownlee be held without bail. The minimum sentence on convictions for the charges, he said, would be life in prison. The maximum, the death penalty.

Brownlee, 43, whom prosecutors described as a truck driver who had moved to Stockton over the summer, requested that a public defender be appointed to represent him.

South of Sacramento and east of Oakland, Stockton has struggled since the 2008 financial crisis, despite being the site of a major inland port and civic assets like the University of the Pacific. Unemployment and foreclosure rates were among the nation’s highest after the housing bubble burst. Local businesses collapsed and tent cities sprang up; crime soared as police officers left for better pay in other cities. By 2011, Stockton had topped Forbes magazine’s list of “America’s Most Miserable Cities” twice in three years, and a year later, Stockton filed for bankruptcy protection, the largest American city to do so up to that time.

The misery lingers. One out of six Stockton residents was living in poverty in 2020, according to the census, compared with 1 in 8 statewide, and the city’s median household income was $58,393, more than 25% below the state median.

Into that fraught landscape strode a figure with a covered head and a distinctive gait, seen in grainy video footage released by police from surveillance cameras near at least one of the homicide scenes. That hooded figure, police said, may have

been responsible for seven shootings since April 2021, the first in Oakland and the rest in and around north Stockton. Several of the victims, police said, were homeless at the time they were attacked. They were ages 21 to 54. Five men who were killed were Hispanic, and one was white; the victim who survived is a Black woman.

Hearing that a serial killer was at large left many Stockton residents unnerved and desperate for answers. Was a gunman targeting the homeless? Were the shootings racially motiva ted? Some residents doubted that police were leveling with the public, or that the depleted police force — short by more than 100 sworn officers out of the 485 needed to fill its ranks, officials have said — was up to the task of solving the case and safeguarding the city.

“I can’t stand this place — it’s a jungle,” Raymond Debudey, 40, a warehouse worker and Stockton native whose older brother Salvador Debudey Jr. was among the victims, said Tuesday. “It’s been one thing after another. There’s no human kindness here.”

Local officials have expressed pride that the suspect was caught so quickly.

“This crime was solved because we’re Stocktonians,” Verber Salazar, the district attorney, said at a news conference announcing Brownlee’s arrest over the weekend. “Because you don’t come to our house and bring this kind of reign of terror.”

For many vulnerable Stockton residents, and those who work with them, the killings have been just a variation on a kind of darkness that has long plagued the city.

“For us, it was like, what’s the difference?” said Anthony Robinson Jr., CEO of Echo Chamber, which works with margi nalized communities in Stockton. “Poverty itself is violence.”

Stephanie Hatten, a community activist and leader who works to prevent gun violence, described the assailant as a “si lent predator.” She added, “I feel like he said: You’re not paying attention. Watch what I do.”

Police have said that the sole surviving victim in the linked shootings, a 46-year-old woman, had been emerging from a tent encampment at 3:20 a.m. when a masked gunman shot her several times without saying a word. She told authorities that the gunman was wearing a hooded jacket and a dark face mask, so she did not get a good look at his face.

While they sought the gunman, police said they were reaching out to people in high-risk areas of Stockton with warnings about him in English and Spanish. But just south of downtown, in a park fringed by palm trees and tents, several homeless people said in interviews before the suspect was arrested that they had heard nothing directly from authorities about the shootings.

Juan Esparza, a farmworker, lives on Stockton’s south side, where relations with police have been checkered for generations. He said he had taken to hiding a machete in a potted plant a few steps from his door, in case anyone might be lurking when he leaves for his job in the predawn darkness. His wife watches from the window to see that he reaches his car safely.

Luz Sauceda, a health educator at El Concilio California who does outreach in the Latino community, made a plea to authorities: “Walk at night with us. See if you feel safe.”

On the more manicured north side of the Calaveras River, where at least five of the shootings happened, some homeowners

A memorial for Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez, who was murdered in August, in Stockton, Calif., Oct. 14, 2022. A suspect was charged Tuesday, Oct. 18, in a series of murders in the California city, which has faced municipal bankruptcy, crippling crime waves and decades of setbacks.

would not venture out late at night. But other residents said the threat felt more distant.

In a neighborhood of freshly watered lawns dotted with American flags, campaign yard signs and Halloween decorations, Adam Bourez, a construction worker, said the police reports didn’t really worry him, and he shrugged off the effect of the killings on his city’s image. “I don’t know if you could get a worse reputation than Stockton,” he said.

These days, about half the homicides committed in Stock ton are solved by police, officials say. At a municipal golf course where families from other parts of the state gathered Oct. 8 for a youth tournament, the city’s stake in solving the serial killer case quickly became clear.

Eric Giza, a parent and an orthopedic surgeon from Sa cramento, said the killings were “probably furthering the image that people from other parts of California have about Stockton.”

Stockton Mayor Kevin J. Lincoln acknowledged that his city had an image problem.

“One of the challenges that we’ve dealt with is the narra tive of Stockton that people on the outside put on us,” he said. But he added, “What we’re dealing with, it’s just not isolated to Stockton.”

This latest bad news, he said, could have happened anywhere.

Institution

Weary of snarls, small businesses build their own supply chains

By AMY HAIMERL

What’s

more stressful than a night mare you can’t wake up from?

For Ken Rosenblood, it’s watching ships, tiny dots on a radar, stuck at sea, una ble to deliver the lifeblood of your company. That’s how he remembers the early days of the pandemic.

His company, obVus Solutions, pro duces ergonomic office equipment, and his laptop stands were stuck on ships just as demand was swelling for tools to work from home. Unable to get more from his manufac turers in China, he saw his revenue plummet, and his main sales channel, Amazon, stop ped ranking his company in searches.

“If you run out of product, you are per sona non grata on their algorithm,” Rosen blood said. “So our business was just destro yed. We had to completely start over.”

Rosenblood decided to bring obVus’ production and supply chain back to the United States, a process called reshoring. He bought an old 18,000-square-foot furniture store in Victor, New York, and spent $4 mi llion to turn it into a factory. Products started rolling off the line last month.

“I’ve got my plant here, and I’ve got my engineers — we can make the adjustments, and we can control things,” Rosenblood said. “That gives us speed, and that is a huge ad vantage over China.”

He is also betting that it will cost the same — if not less — to make his products in the United States. And as he said, “I hate to lose a bet.”

The pandemic forced companies to reckon with the cost of producing and ship ping goods overseas. ObVus joins other small businesses that are following multinational counterparts, like Ford Motor, First Solar, In tel and Lego, that have recently announced new U.S. plants as a solution to global snarls that left them without access to key compo nents and empty shelves when consumer de mand seemed insatiable.

“I always wondered what would hap pen if the global supply chain suddenly ground to a halt,” said Amy R. Broglin-Pe terson, an industry consultant and instructor in Michigan State University’s supply chain management department. “We were spread too thin to continue working to the degree we do with our supply centrally located in Southeast Asia.”

With no end in sight to delays and bac klogs, building domestic supply chains from scratch is becoming more appealing and fe asible. Small businesses are putting a priority on proximity to their customers so they can react to market demands in real time, and are leaning into a resurgent pride in “made in America” goods.

“A decade ago, we saw similar inter est, and I said it was more of a trickle than a trend,” said Scott N. Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a non profit advocacy group. “I think it’s different now. It’s not a torrent, but it’s more than a trickle.”

Rosenblood spent five months resear ching whether obVus could make products in the United States with domestic supplies like aluminum, nuts and bolts, and even skilled labor.

The answer, he decided, was yes — with some innovation. He switched to re cycled aluminum because he could not sour ce enough aluminum domestically, and opted to produce nuts and bolts in house at onetenth of the cost that suppliers were charging.

Computer-controlled routers, lathes, cutters and millers, which are critical to keeping labor costs down, would be imported from China, and the company would hire and train about 25 machinists to run them, paying at

least $52,000 annually.

Rosenblood plans to make a foldable keyboard and smartwatch, and is still stud ying whether he’ll have to return to China to find affordable components — not an un common roadblock to reshoring.

But there is a nascent shift, he said, re sulting from recent policy moves by the fe deral government to promote reshoring and the growth of U.S. production. The Inflation Reduction Act, for example, is encouraging investment in domestic battery production for electric vehicles. Days after President Joe Biden signed the bill in August, Honda and LG Energy announced a $4.4 billion battery plant to be completed by the end of 2025.

“There is much more intent to have economic policy that promotes onshoring, reshoring, growth of production in the Uni ted States,” Paul said.

That can’t come soon enough for Scott Colosimo. He hopes to use those domestic batteries in his electric motorcycle startup, Land Energy.

When he started the company in 2020, his goal was a domestic supply chain with everything built, assembled and shipped from his 65,000-square-foot warehouse in Cleve land. He had the same dream in 2009 when he started a gas-motorcycle company, but it wasn’t feasible. Today, he’s closer to making

it real: Colosimo’s 15 employees produce and assemble almost everything on-site, except for the batteries and some high-volume parts that he cannot find here.

“We’re looking at the high intellectual property items,” he said. “If we can invent a process or shrink development time or re duce costs by doing it ourselves, that’s what we’re bringing in house.”

Those new processes require capital, however, and fundraising is Colosimo’s pri mary challenge. That refrain is common for small-business owners, especially those loo king to build production abilities that are no longer in the United States. But they do have an unexpected advantage.

“Most small businesses are family-ow ned or privately held, so they are not answe ring to shareholders or private equity who are concerned about the next quarter rather than investing for the future,” Paul said.

The long-term commitment is what ini tially struck Robert Yturri when, in 2019, he met Andy Techmanski, who was interested in starting a company to make technical hunting gear in the United States. A lifelong hunter, Techmanski knew exactly what was missing from store shelves, but he needed a supply chain expert to navigate manufacturing.

Yturri warned him: “The type of pro duct we want to make is extremely difficult to build in the United States, like, nearly impos sible. It will take money and it will take time.”

With Techmanski’s assurance of capi tal, Yturri agreed to become the chief pro duct officer of the new company, Forloh. He called every manufacturer he had worked with in his career guiding outdoor brands such as the North Face, looking for suppliers that could produce the softest, quietest, most durable, breathable hunting gear on the mar ket.

But most could not do what he needed, so Yturri got creative. He found a printable synthetic leather used by automakers that was perfect for kneepads and elbow abrasion. He turned to a commercial HVAC company to make waterproof membranes. And when he could not find a three-ply fabric supplier, he ordered bolts of greige cloth — raw fabric right from the mill — plus lining fabric and other materials and found a factory to make three-ply fabric exclusively for Forloh.

“You have to have a ‘don’t say no’ atti tude to get you through this USA manufactu ring hurdle,” Yturri said.

David Natarelli, chief technology officer of obVus Solutions, works on finishing the components of laptop stands with his wife, Shiela, at the company’s factory in Victor, N.Y., on Sept. 22, 2022.

Equities close lower as rise in yields overshadows earnings

U.S.

stocks snapped a two-day streak of gains on Wednesday as weak point in shares of Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N) and an increase in Treasury yields sapped momentum from the pres ent revenues season and exceeded a rise in Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) shares.

The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note touched its greatest level in more than 14 years as soft real estate information did little to change ex pectations the Federal Reserve will stay aggressive in treking rates of interest as it tries to battle down stubbornly high inflation.

The increase in yields weighed on rate-sensitive names like property (. SPLRCR) stocks and mega cap development names such as Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O). Energy (. SPNY) was the sole significant S&P sector to end the session in favorable area.

Abbott Laboratories toppled after reporting lower-than-expected development in worldwide medical gadget sales, struck by a strong dollar and supply obstacles in China.

Netflix shares, nevertheless, leapt after it brought in 2.4 million brand-new customers world wide in the 3rd quarter, more than double the agree ment projection, and assisted for 4.5 million addi tions by year-end.

” The bonds are simply weighing so greatly on it … it’s a pity to see excellent revenues be lost,” stated JJ Kinahan, CEO of IG The United States And Canada in Chicago.

” Eventually revenues drives stocks however when they are being eclipsed it is difficult to have that optimism, however eventually excellent rev enues will cause stocks going greater, it refers just how much the macroeconomic photo is going to continue to harm those revenues.”

According to initial information, the S&P 500 (. SPX) lost 24.09 points, or 0.65%, to end at 3,695.89 points, while the Nasdaq Composite (. IXIC) lost 89.45 points, or 0.82%, to 10,684.07. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (. DJI) fell 84.73 points, or 0.28%, to 30,439.07.

Fed authorities have actually mostly remained in sync in their public remarks about the require ment to be aggressive in raising rates to deal with inflation. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari stated task market need stays strong and hidden inflation pres sures most likely have not peaked yet.

The Fed’s “Beige Book” study of financial activ ity revealed companies kept in mind cost pressures stayed raised, although there was some relieving in numerous districts, while the labor market revealed

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The U.S. reserve bank is commonly anticipated to raise rates by 75 basis points for the 4th straight time at its November conference.

The Fed’s result on the real estate market con tinues to grow. Real estate begins, a step of brandnew domestic building, dropped 8.1% in September in the current indication of the economy slowing.

The PHLX Real Estate Index (. HGX) stumbled, marking another sector not likely to assist stocks re verse months of decreases, with the 3 primary U.S. indexes still bogged down in bearishness.

Dow parts Procter & & Gamble Co and Travel ers Companies Inc (TRV.N) both increased after the business published better-than anticipated quarterly earnings.

Civilian relocations begin in Kherson; Putin declares martial law in 4 areas of Ukraine

By ANDREW E. KRAMER and MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG

Russian occupation officials were moving civilians out of Kherson on Wednesday, another sign that Moscow’s hold on the strategic southern Ukrainian city was slipping, as President Vladimir Putin of Russia sought to reassert control over that and other occupied regions by declaring martial law.

The move by Putin was an effort to tighten the Kremlin’s authority over Kherson and three other Ukrainian regions he recently claimed to annex, even as his army loses ground in those areas to Ukrainian forces and as Western allies dismiss the annexations as illegal.

As Russian proxy officials in Kherson said they would move as many as 60,000 civilians to the eastern side of the Dnieper River and shift its civilian administration there, they ap peared to be girding for a battle for control of the region. Amid a weekslong Ukrainian cou nteroffensive, the pro-Kremlin leader in Kher son, Vladimir Saldo, said the relocations would protect civilians and help Russian forces fortify defenses to “repel any attack.”

Ukrainian officials dismissed the plans as “a propaganda show.” Andriy Yermak, the head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, ac cused the Russian proxies of scaring civilians with claims that Ukraine would shell the city. He called it “a rather primitive tactic, given that the armed forces do not fire at Ukrainian cities — this is done exclusively by Russian terrorists.”

Ukrainian forces have been advancing gradually for weeks along both sides of the ri ver in Kherson, a region that Moscow seized early in the war and has declared part of Russia. Since late August, Ukrainian troops have dama ged bridges near the city of Kherson, making it harder for Moscow to resupply the thousands of troops it has stationed there.

Western analysts have suggested the Rus sian positions in and around the city are un tenable without the bridges, and U.S. officials have said that Russian commanders have urged a retreat from Kherson, only to be overruled by Putin. But Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the Kherson region has moved more slowly than its recent advances in the east, and it was far from clear whether its forces could soon mount a push to retake the city of Kherson.

On Tuesday, the general Putin appointed this month to command the war in Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin, said he was ready to make “difficult decisions” about the military deploy ments in the Kherson region, without specifying what those decisions would entail.

Ukrainian officials have greeted the hints of a Russian pullback of at least civil adminis trators with caution, saying the announcements could be intended for internal Russian audien ces, signaling a commitment to protecting civi lians, or preparation for Russian military action in the area. Videos released on Russian news media showed lines of civilians apparently boarding ferries at a river port to evacuate to the eastern bank of the Dnieper.

The Kherson region spans both banks of the river, with the city of Kherson, the regional capital, lying on the western side. The western bank is an expanse of pancake-flat farmland crisscrossed by rivers and irrigation canals, and one of the most pivotal battlefields of the war.

Ukrainian troops had through the sum mer whittled away at Russian supply lines by firing U.S.-provided precision guided rockets at the four bridges over the Dnieper River in areas Russia controls. All are now destroyed.

In late August, Ukraine opened an offen sive with ground troops, advancing in bloody, slow-moving combat through several dozen villages while driving the Russian forces bac kward, toward the Dnieper. The Russian an nouncements of evacuating civilians and the civil administration could signal a faltering of military defenses, presaging a Russian pullback from the western bank of the Dnieper River in what would be a major setback for Moscow — but could also be a ruse.

Saldo, a Ukrainian politician who had switched sides at the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, told the Russian state news agency RIA on Wednesday that all ministries would evacuate to the eastern bank. The occu pation government earlier on Wednesday said it would evacuate from 50,000 to 60,000 ci vilians across the river and onward to the oc cupied peninsula of Crimea or into Russia. Re sidents risked artillery fire from the Ukrainian army or flooding from the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam on the Dnieper River, Saldo said.

Ukrainian civilians protest outside the Embassy of Iran after Russia used Iraniansupplied explosive drones to attack the center of town earlier in the morning, in Kyiv, Ukraine on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022.

Brittney Griner spends birthday in a Russian cell

By SOPHIE DOWNES, VALERIE HOP KINS, MICHAEL CROWLEY and IVAN NECHEPURENKO

Brittney

Griner, the American bas ketball star who has been detained in Russia since February, sent a mes sage of thanks to her supporters Tuesday — her 32nd birthday.

According to a statement from two of her lawyers in Russia, Maria Blagovo lina and Alexander Boykov, Griner said, “Thank you everyone for fighting so hard to get me home. All the support and love are definitely helping me.”

The lawyers said they had met with Griner for several hours Tuesday and rela yed messages from well-wishers. “Today is of course a difficult day for Brittney,” they said, adding that she was “very stressed” in anticipation of a hearing over the appeal of her conviction on drug charges, which is scheduled for Oct. 25.

Griner told her lawyers last week that

she was not optimistic about the chan ces of her being freed before serving her full nine-year sentence and that she was struggling emotionally. Griner is allowed outside once a day, according to Boykov, during which she walks for an hour in a small courtyard at the penal colony outsi de Moscow where she is being held. She spends the rest of her time in a small cell with two cellmates, sitting and sleeping on a specially elongated bed to accommodate her 6-foot-9 frame.

While she awaits the appeals court hearing, Boykov said, Griner struggles in large part because it is “very difficult” to speak to her relatives. He added that it had been very difficult to organize phone calls with Griner’s wife, Cherelle, and that Britt ney Griner had been unable to speak to her parents or siblings since her detention, as far as he was aware.

Last Wednesday, President Joe Biden said that there had been no movement with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin,

over Griner’s case. A White House official said last week that the administration was trying “every available channel” with Mos cow, including the one through which U.S. officials arranged a prisoner swap in April to secure the release of Trevor Reed, a for mer Marine who had been serving a nineyear prison sentence in Russia.

Griner was stopped in February at an airport near Moscow on her way to play for UMMC Yekaterinburg, a Russian profes sional women’s basketball team. Customs officials said that she had been carrying two vape cartridges with hashish oil in her luggage. In August, she was sentenced to nine years in prison after a trial that was all but assured to end in a conviction.

The United States has said that her de tention and trial were politically motivated and that the Kremlin wants to exchange her for high-profile Russian citizens held in the United States. After her conviction, Russian officials said that political negotiations with the United States were already underway.

Truss is jeered in UK Parliament but insists she can govern

By MARK LANDLER and STEPHEN CASTLE

Under relentless pressure after the repudiation of her economic agenda, Prime Minister Liz Truss of Britain rejected demands Wednesday that she resign, declaring, “I am a fighter and not a quitter.”

Speaking at a stormy session of prime minister’s questions in Parliament, Truss repeated her apology for announcing tax cuts that had rattled financial markets and sent the British pound into a tailspin. But she insisted that she could continue to go vern despite all the turmoil.

“I had to take the decision because of the economic situation to adjust our po licies,” Truss said, her obvious understa tement drawing catcalls from opposition lawmakers and pained expressions from members of her own Conservative Party.

It was a brutal ordeal for Truss in only her third appearance for such questioning as prime minister — and one that is likely to deepen doubts about whether she can

cling to her job. But as painful as it was, political analysts said it had not produ ced the kind of knockout blow that would make her ouster imminent.

Still, the tough questioning by oppo sition lawmakers did produce yet another reversal in the government’s policy. On Tuesday, senior officials had signaled that Downing Street might no longer honor an election guarantee to increase state pension payments to keep up with both average earnings growth and the inflation rate, which is now at 10.1%.

But when Truss was asked about the pledge by the parliamentary leader of the Scottish National Party, Ian Blackford, she said she was “completely committed” to it. That appeared to put her at odds with her new chancellor of the Exchequer, Je remy Hunt, who has warned about the need for painful spending cuts.

But a Downing Street spokesperson said afterward that the prime minister and chancellor had conferred on the policy Wednesday morning before she spoke. And Hunt sat behind Truss, nodding at

her statements.

Still, the question of who is actually running the government hung over the proceedings. On Monday, when Hunt appeared in the House of Commons to confirm the reversal of her economic pro gram, she sat silently behind him.

The leader of the opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, pressed Truss to ex plain why her statements should be trea ted with any credibility, given the rever sal of her policies and the appointment of Hunt, who, at a minimum, has taken control of the economic levers of gover nment.

Referring to the tax cuts, as well as Truss’ first chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, whom she ousted last week, Starmer said, “They’re all gone, so why is she still here?”

Truss tried to turn the tables by accu sing Starmer of backing “militant” unions: Railway workers are scheduled to strike again next month. But those counter punches failed to land on a day that was dominated by uncertainty over how the prime minister could rebuild her standing

after such a disastrous debut.

“I have acted in the national interest to make sure we have financial stability,” Truss said, repeating, “I’m a fighter, not a quitter.”

Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia since February, in Khimki, Russia, in August.

Prime Minister Liz Truss of Britain said she would guarantee a pension increase that her finance chief had called into question.

‘Yankees, go home!’: Seoul gets squeezed between the US and China

By CHOE SANG-HUN

DoGeum-yeon, 86, has lived in this valley in South Korea all her life. During the Korean War in the 1950s, her village was so peace ful that she remembers refugees taking shelter in its humble homes and quiet hills. These days, though, Do spends much of her time protesting an unwant ed guest: a U.S. military base that is ex panding on a nearby hilltop.

“Now, if there is war, our village will become the first target because of that machine up there,” she said impa tiently.

The “machine” Do was refer ring to is the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, a powerful ra dar and missile-interceptor battery also known as THAAD. Five years ago, it was brought to this hamlet about 135 miles southeast of Seoul, South Korea, by the United States, infuriating China and prompting it to unleash economic retaliation.

Washington and Seoul said the weapons system was crucial in their defense against North Korean aggres sion. China argued that the United States was using North Korea as an excuse to expand its military presence in the region and make implicit threats toward its most formidable competitor. Villagers like Do and their supporters, including labor activists, have tended to agree.

Now, the THAAD system, located in an area once known for its melon patches, has become a symbol of the broader challenges facing South Korea as it tries to strike a balance between China, the country’s largest trading partner, and the United States, its main security ally.

“THAAD has brought nothing but harm to South Korea, causing econom ic damage and heightening tensions,” said Kang Hyunwook, another protest er. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this year has magnified those concerns, he said. “If South Korea sides with one party in the rivalry between the U.S. and China, we could suffer the fate of Ukraine.”

Few things showcase the many polarizing divides in South Korea bet ter than the THAAD system. For those who favor a strong alliance with the United States, it represents Washing ton’s unwavering commitment to its

Asian ally. For those who oppose it, it is a reminder of the dangers of being drawn into a rivalry between two major powers.

Seongju County, which includes this village, had been known mainly for its farming community before residents grabbed national headlines protesting the arrival of the THAAD system five years ago. Villagers here — and many South Koreans elsewhere — were con cerned that it could place South Korea on the front lines of a potential SinoAmerican conflict.

As Beijing and Washington clash over issues such as Taiwan, global sup ply chains and the South China Sea, anxieties have been on the rise. Numer ous anti-American banners line both sides of the road that winds through the village and up to the U.S. military base. “Yankees, go home! THAAD, go home!” they demand.

During a recent early-morning rally, Do and 20 other protesters sat on plastic chairs on a two-lane as phalt road, shouting: “We don’t need THAAD! We need peace!” An hour later, police officers removed them — carrying them in their chairs — so the road could be cleared for trucks and

water and fuel tanks going up the hill to the THAAD base

South Korea has long been careful not to take sides in the rivalry between the U.S. and China, benefiting from a national strategy known as “anmigy eongjung,” which loosely translates to “the United States for security and China for the economy.”

Washington has provided security for Seoul since the Korean War. But af ter South Korea established diplomatic ties with Beijing in 1992, China quickly replaced the United States as the coun try’s biggest trading partner, helping to fuel a thriving, export-driven economy . About 30% of South Korean exports go to China or Hong Kong — almost equaling the country’s trade with the United States, Japan and Europe com bined.

Over the years, it has become in creasingly difficult for South Korea to enjoy the best of both worlds. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has aligned his country more closely with Washington, deepening ties in missile defense and supply chains to help deter North Korea. He has done so at the risk of provoking Beijing.

Under Yoon, South Korea opted

in to the Indo-Pacific Economic Frame work; increased trilateral military co operation with the United States and Japan; and joined those nations and Taiwan in preliminary talks for a tech nology alliance known as “Chip 4” — all moves opposed by Beijing.

South Korean chipmakers Sam sung and SK Hynix announced multi billion-dollar investments in the United States to help it secure a chip supply chain earlier this year. But China and Hong Kong still buy 60% of South Ko rea’s chip exports.

“Like it or not, China is a massive market, and abandoning it isn’t an op tion,” SK’s chair, Chey Tae-won, told re porters in July.

That same month, Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, warned that South Korea should “keep in mind its own long-term inter ests.” In 2017, when the THAAD battery first arrived, Beijing shut down tourism to South Korea and restricted exports like K-pop in response.

Many people in the country saw the retaliation as bullying. South Kore ans now regard China more unfavorably than North Korea and Japan, its former colonial ruler, according to a survey con ducted in July.

“The THAAD deployment has be come a weapon for China to divide South Koreans and drive a wedge into the alli ance,” said Cho Kyunghwan, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul.

Yoon’s predecessor, Moon Jae-in, tried to improve relations with Beijing by pledging a “Three Nos” policy: no addi tional THAAD systems; no participation in U.S. missile defense networks; and no trilateral military alliance with Washing ton and Tokyo. Yoon has said he is not bound by those promises.

In an interview with The New York Times last month, Yoon said North Ko rea’s growing nuclear threat compelled South Korea to cooperate more closely with Washington on missile defense and that the THAAD system was a matter of national security that would not be nego tiated with Beijing

He told the Times that he would support another THAAD system in the country, depending on the evolving threat from North Korea. He also em phasized: “Our defense system is to deal with the North Korean threat, not China.”

President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visit the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Sunday, May 22, 2022.

By BRET STEPHENS

DearPresident Xi:

Please accept my country’s gratitude and congra tulations as you embark on your third term as ge neral secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Though it may not be obvious now, we believe your reign will one day be recognized as one of the great unexpected bles sings in the history of the United States, as well as that of other free nations.

A few exceptions aside, this was not what was genera lly expected when you first became paramount leader 10 years ago.

Back then, many in the West had concluded that it was merely a matter of time before China was restored to its ancient place as the world’s dominant civilization and largest economy. China’s astonishing annual growth rates, frequently topping 10%, put our own meager economic progress in the shade. In one industry after another — tele communications, banking, social media, real estate — Chi nese companies were becoming industry leaders. Foreign nationals flocked to live, study and work in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing; well-to-do American parents boasted of enrolling their children in Mandarin immersion classes.

Xi Jinping

At the policymaking level, there was widespread ac ceptance that a richer China would be vastly more influen tial abroad — and that the influence would be felt from Western Europe to South America to Central Asia to East Africa. Though we understood that this influence could at times be heavy-handed, there was little political will to curb it. China seemed to offer a unique model of capita list dynamism and authoritarian efficacy. Decisions were made; things got done: What a contrast with the increasin gly sclerotic free world.

Not that we thought that all was well with China. Your rise coincided with the dramatic downfall of your principal rival, Bo Xilai, amid rumors of a possible coup. Longerterm challenges — widespread corruption, an aging po pulation, the role of the state in the economy — required prudent management. So did the international resentments and resistance that swiftly rising global powers invariably engender.

Still, you seemed up to the job. Your family’s bitter experience during the Cultural Revolution suggested that you understood the dangers of totalitarianism. Your deter mination to crack down on corruption seemed matched by your willingness to further liberalize your economy — demonstrated by your appointment of the competent te chnocrat Li Keqiang as your premier. And your stay with a family in Iowa in the 1980s raised hopes that you might harbor some fondness for America.

Those hopes haven’t just been disappointed. They’ve been crushed. If there’s now a single point of agreement between Donald Trump and Joe Biden — or Tom Cotton and Nancy Pelosi — it’s that you must be stopped.

How did you do it?

Your war on corruption has turned into a mass purge. Your repression in Xinjiang rivals the Soviet gulags. Your economic “reforms” amount to the return of typically in efficient state-owned enterprises as dominant players.

Your de facto policy of snooping, hacking and intellec tual-property theft has made Chinese brands like Huawei radioactive in much of the West. In 2020 FBI Director Christopher Wray noted in a speech, “We’ve now reached the point where the FBI is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case every 10 hours.”

Your zero-COVID policy has, at times, transformed China’s great metropolises into vast and unlivable prison colonies. Your foreign policy bullying has mainly succe eded in encouraging Japan to rearm and Biden to pledge that America will fight for Taiwan.

All of this may make your China fearsome. None of it makes you strong. Dictatorships can usually exact obe dience, but they struggle to inspire loyalty. The power to coerce, as the political scientist Joseph Nye famously

observed, is not the same as the power to attract. It’s a truism that may soon come to haunt you — much as it now haunts Vladimir Putin as his once-fearsome military is decimated in Ukraine.

You could still change course. But it seems unlikely, and not just because old men rarely change. The more enemies you make, the more repression you need. Su rrounding yourself with yes men, as you are now doing, may provide you with a sense of security. But it will cut you off from vital flows of truthful information, particularly when that information is unpleasant.

The Achilles heel of regimes like yours is that the lies they tell their people to maintain power ultimately beco me lies they tell themselves. Kicking foreign journalists out of China makes the problem worse, since you no longer have the benefit of an outside view of your compounding troubles.

None of this solves our problems here in the United States. In many ways, your truculence exacerbates them, not least in the increasing risk that we may someday come to blows. But in the long-run competition between the free and unfree worlds, you are unwittingly helping make the case for the free. To adapt a line from my colleague Tom Friedman, does anyone want to be your China for a day? I doubt it.

Which is why we want to say thanks. We know our Union is faulty; we know our leaders are flawed; we know that our society’s edges are frayed. To take one hard look at you is to prefer all this to your dismal alternative.

TORNEO

Gracias…

Deseamos agradecer a todos los auspiciadores por acompañarnos en este magno evento, sin su presencia, aportación y respaldo no se hubiera logrado. En la ADG les estamos eternamente agradecidos por siempre decir presente.

3er Lugar Ne o - Juan Santos / Ervin Rive a

2ndo Lugar Neto Mario Marques / Neftalí Ayala

1er Lugar Neto - Ernesto Bezares / Javier Crespo

2ndo Lugar Gross Richard Martínez / Robert Hernández

3er Lugar Gross - Edua dito Figueroa / Javier Frau

1er Lugar

Pedro Rivera

Piden a aspirantes a la gobernación del PPD que sean más como Miguel Hernández Agosto y no como Rafael Hernández Colón

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – El secretario general del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Luis Vega Ramos llamó el miér coles a los populares a concentrarse en la discusión de la Asamblea de Reglamento y no en candidaturas.

“Yo hago un llamado a todos los populares a que nos concentremos en la discusión de las ideas plasmadas en ese proyecto de reglamento, a favor o en contra. Con la posibilidad de sugerir cambios como se quiera. Y que la concentración sea en las ideas y en la sustancia de lo propuesto y no en ambiciones, no en candidaturas que no están abiertas y no hay ninguna otra consideración que no sea lo que está sobre la mesa de la asamblea de delegados. Si tenemos esa conversación en las próximas semanas, de aquí al 13 de noviembre, el Partido Popular va a salir bien y va a salir fortalecido que es lo que todos nosotros queremos”, dijo Vega Ramos en conferencia de prensa.

Vega Ramos, junto al comisionado electoral del PPD, Ramón Torres, el subcomisionado electoral, Jorge Colberg y la subsecretaria general, Nina Valedón anunciaron los detalles sobre la Asamblea de Reglamento a llevarse a cabo el 13 de noviembre.

“Este es un proceso de ideas y de propuestas. No es un proceso de candidaturas o de elecciones de indivi duos a ningún puesto interno ni a ningún puesto de fun ción pública en Puerto Rico. Así que lo que vamos a estar propiciando es la discusión primero y luego, la votación sobre una serie de principios sobre un proyecto de regla mento que, en ese sentido, es una votación por propues tas. Segundo, en la discusión de esas propuestas, en los mecanismos del partido ya hemos publicado un resumen de las propuestas aprobadas el viernes por la Junta de Go bierno (del PPD). Ya hemos puesto y podremos material gráfico para explicar la naturaleza de esos proyectos y las

enmiendas que se aprobaron el viernes, que son muchas, para que el pueblo popular pueda examinarlo”, añadió.

Por su parte, el subsecretario electoral del PPD dijo que “el problema es que todos quieren ser como Hernán dez Colón y pocos quieren ser como Hernández Agosto”.

“Después de Luis Muñoz Marín, la figura que mayor trascendencia en términos de victorias electorales tuvo fue Rafael Hernández Colón. Llevó al Partido Popular a unos niveles de excelencia. Miguel Hernández Agosto no corrió para gobernador, mi padre, Severo Colberg nunca corrió para gobernador… Aquí hay muchos que quieren ser Hernández Colón, pero pocos quieren ser como Her nández Agosto o como Severo Colberg, fiscalizando al

PNP”, dijo.

Colberg criticó la intención de los aspirantes a llevar a cabo dos veces un proceso de candidaturas dentro del partido rojo. “Si la asamblea quiere hacer dos primarias a la gobernación, una en marzo y otra cuando venga el año electoral radicando todo el mundo en octubre, pues esa es la decisión”, dijo.

Tras la aprobación por la Junta de Gobierno del PPD el pasado viernes de las enmiendas propuestas por el presidente cameral Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, tanto el representante Jesús Manuel Ortiz González como Carmen Maldonado, han criticado y catalogado la movi da como un secuestro del partido rojo.

informe del DS

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departa mento de Salud (DS) reportó el miércoles, sobre 134 casos positivos confirmados, 569 casos probables y tres muertes.

Las personas fallecidas fueron 1 hombre y 2 mu jeres entre las edades de 71 a 88 años de las regiones de Caguas, Mayagüez y Metropolitano. Dos estaban sin vacunas al día y una con vacunas al día.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 3 de octubre de 2022 al 17 de octubre de 2022.

La tasa de positividad está en 13.54 por ciento.

Hay 140 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 22 están en intensivo. Mientras, 15 menores están hospitalizados y un menor está en intensivo. 11 adultos están en venti lador y ningún menor.

Las personas con vacunas al día son 1,057,279 per sonas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,220.

The

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Dwayne Johnson is ready to embrace the heel again in ‘Black Adam’

By DAVE ITZKOFF

When you watch a film starring Dwayne Johnson these days, you generally know the kind of prota gonist he’s going to play: a muscular good guy who, beneath the enviable physique, possesses a heart of gold, and who, in a tight scrape, is more likely to lend you a hand than pummel you into the ground.

But that’s not the role that the ubiqui tous action star Johnson, 50, plays in “Black Adam,” which Warner Bros. will release Fri day. In the latest entry in the film franchise based on DC comic-book characters (known as the DC Extended Universe), Johnson is cast as the title character, a merciless super powered adventurer from ancient times who finds himself revived in the present day.

Using his awesome abilities — and a general lack of concern for human life — Black Adam sets about liberating his fictio nal homeland of Kahndaq from the criminal regime presently running it. In doing so, he becomes a savior to the citizens of Kahndaq while attracting the unwanted attention of

the Justice Society, including Hawkman (Al dis Hodge) and Doctor Fate (Pierce Brosnan), who are unsure if they can trust Black Adam.

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (who previously directed Johnson in “Jungle Crui se”), “Black Adam” brings to life a long-run ning comic-book villain who has traditiona lly served as a nemesis to the young heroes seen in the 2019 DC film “Shazam!”

“Black Adam” is also a project that Johnson has spent years helping to bring to fruition — one that recalls his ascent as a bad guy in the WWF (now WWE) professio nal wrestling league.

As Johnson explained in a video call this month, he appreciated “Black Adam” for its willingness to question the motives of the Justice Society, the apparent good guys of the story.

“These heroes who have been so be loved over the decades, where have they been?” he said. “They haven’t been to Kahndaq and they have not taken care of an oppressed people for over 5,000 years. But you do have one man who comes back to protect them, who is their champion. I love that commentary and the dialogue that it could spark.”

Johnson spoke further about the ma king of “Black Adam,” his longtime appre ciation of the character and its connections to his pro-wrestling days as the Rock. These are edited excerpts from that conversation.

Q: Black Adam is a role you’ve been waiting to play for a long time. What was so important to you about the character?

A: Almost 15 years of fighting for this and pushing for it. Admittedly, I was a DC boy growing up. I liked Marvel but I loved DC. My Saturday morning cartoon was “Su per Friends.” I get it from a studio perspecti ve. It’s the safer bet to continue to invest in the IP [intellectual property] that the world knows. The Justice League — Batman, Su perman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman.

I understand that. But it took convincing to get the studio to look past the Justice League into the DC universe, and there’s some rea lly cool characters there. You’ve just got to give it a shot and trust the investment. Black Adam has been sitting around for almost 80 years.

Dwayne Johnson in Los Angeles,

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Q: Was it a challenge to keep your powder dry when, presumably, you could have played many other comic-book cha racters during this time?

A: I had been approached — I won’t say by who — to play a few other super heroes, who eventually went on to be pla yed by other actors. But I did always feel in my gut that Black Adam was the character for me. The first time I saw a Black Adam comic, I was intrigued. There was an in tensity on Black Adam’s face. There was a little bit of rage on that comic book cover. Oh, and he had brown skin like mine. That immediately intrigued me. Who is that? I want to be him.

Q: Was that important to you, to be able to bring a character of color to the big screen?

A: What’s critical is the investment in more superhero characters of color, and Black Adam is one of them. It was extre mely important to me and one of the rea sons why I was not letting go.

Q: Was there a point where you were deciding between playing Shazam and Black Adam? Their motivations are very different, to say the least.

A: I did have that option when I star ted discussing this with Warner Bros. al most 15 years ago. Would you like to play Shazam? Would you like to play Black Adam? I appreciated the mythology be hind the characters and their connection. But I always knew in my heart that I was Black Adam. The original script that came in, six or seven years ago, both origin stories of Shazam and Black Adam were being told within about a 100-minute mo vie. It was convoluted and it wasn’t serving them both properly. I made a call to the people running Warner Bros. at the time and I said we should separate these two so they could tell their own origin stories, and that’s what we did. Which then pro longed and delayed the process. It worked against me in the moment, because they went with “Shazam!” first. [Laughs.] I said, OK, not a problem.

Q: You’ve played heroic characters in your movies for many years now. Was it a risk to play Black Adam, whose mora lity is not so easily defined?

A: I embraced all the characteristics that would deem him a supervillain — his violence and his brutality and his philoso phy on justice. Hardcore justice. He’s very economic with his words but also with his powers. It’s not a killing spree. It’s those who, well, have it coming to them. But I never looked at it as a risk. It’s one thing if he’s violent and he’s brutal and he’s full of rage. But when we take our time to tell his origin story and show why he became that way, it’s not a risk.

Q: The DC Extended Universe has taken some unexpected twists and turns — some films that seemed like surefire hits weren’t, and other left-field entries were surprising successes. Does that put more pressure on you and on “Black Adam”?

In “Black Adam,”

the film franchise based on DC comicbook characters (known as the DC Extended Universe), Johnson is cast as the title character, a merciless superpowered adventurer from ancient times who finds himself revived in the present day.

A: Yes, and I embrace it. It’s a uni que time in the superhero genre, where there’s the introduction of fresh blood and new characters on both sides of the ais le — at Marvel and certainly at DC. And the launching of Black Adam is converging with a time where they are also bringing in new leadership at Warner Bros. and new leadership on the DC side is soon to be coming in. I feel very confident about the direction of the DC universe. It is going to require real strategy and real leadership. And that requires us not to look at Marvel’s success and say, let’s follow that blueprint. That’s Marvel. I’m very happy for them. We don’t want to be Marvel, in my opi nion. We want to be DC and we want to do it our way.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO PNH CAPITAL, LLC. Plaintiff V. FOUNTAINEBLEU PLAZA, S.E; SEDCORP. INC. AND EDWIN LOUBRIEL ORTIZ Defendants

Civil No.: 3:17-cv-01383. (GLS). COLLECTION OF MO NIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND OTHER CO LLATERAL. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: DEFENDANTS AND GENERAL PUBLIC.

On January 21, 2022, this Ho norable Court issued Judgment in favor Bautista Cayman Asset Company, now PNH Capital, LLC, and against defendants, Fountainebleu Plaza, S.E., Se dcorp, Inc., and Edwin Loubriel Ortiz (“Defendants”). Defen dants were ordered to pay plain tiff as of November 19, 2021, the amount of $1,531,182.92 in connection with the Loan Agreement itemized as follows:

Principal: $851,109.26. Inter est: $454,997.44. Late Fees: $19,301.72. Legal Expenses: $200,000.00. Environmental: $550.00. Insurance: $342.00. Valuation Expenses: $4,882.50.

Pursuant to said judgment and the Order of Execution of Judg ment, the undersigned appoin ted Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Fe deral Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designa ted by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property:

RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Mamey de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de ochenta y seis mil doscientos treinta y dos metros cuadrados con mil cuatrocientos ochenta y cuatro diez-milésima de otro (86,232.1484), equivalentes a veintiuna cuerdas con nueve mil trescientos noventa y ocho diez-milésimas (21.9398); en lindes por el NORTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan una distancia de 377.708 metros lineales con el Sr. Tito Con cepción, Fountainebleu Plaza, S.E. antes Salveg, Inc., Sr.

Andino Cancel y el Sr. Andrés Salazar; por el SUR, en varias alineaciones que totalizan una distancia de 138.7535 metros lineales con solar número 9 que proviene de esta finca y

cuyo dueño es el Sr. Oriel Ra mírez Rodríguez, con camino municipal y el Sr. Andrés Sa lazar; por el ESTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan una distancia de 294.9143 metros lineales con el Sr. Felipe Baer ga, Sr. Félix Urbina García y el Sr. José María Martínez; por el OESTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan una distancia de 569,1409 metros lineales con el Sr. Loreto Meléndez, servidum bre de paso segregada de esta finca y camino municipal. Es remanente esta finca luego de segregado solar con cabida de 5,120.2426 metros cuadrados. Equivalentes a l.3028 cuerdas, inscrito al folio 133 del tomo 1,428 de Guaynabo. Property Number 16,778 is recorded at page 191 of volume 301 of Guaynabo, Registry of Proper ty of Puerto Rico, Section of Guaynabo. Physical Address: Avelino Cancel Road, North of Kilometer 1.6, Road 835, Ma mey Ward, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of liens. By itself:

EASEMENT: In favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, according to the Resolution issued in the Court of First Ins tance, Court of San Juan, dated June 29, 1983, Civil #E83-22 1 to E83-223, recorded at page 192 of volume 301 of Guayna bo, 3rd inscription. TRANSFER

OF EASEMENT: In favor of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewage Authority, as stated in the Resolution dated April 6, 1994 issued by the Supe rior Court of Puerto Rico, San Juan, recorded at page 192 of volume 301 of Guaynabo, 4th inscription. EASEMENT: In favor of Puerto Rico Power Authority, for the value of $1.00. According to the Certification dated January 15, 2003, sworn under affidavit 4406 and signed before the Notary Public Os valdo Pérez Marrero, recorded at page 140 of volume 1425 of Guaynabo, inscription 8ª.

MORTGAGE: In guarantee of a mortgage note in favor of Bea rer, or to its order, for the sum of $950,000.00, with interest at the rate of 2% per year on the preferential interest (Prime Rate), as established from time to time by Citibank, N.A in the City of NY, whose interest will never be less than 6.25%, and due upon presentation, as per deed #6, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 31, 2003, before Notary Public Ma nuel Correa Calzada, recorded at page 140vto of volume 1425 of Guaynabo, 10th inscription.

MORTGAGE MODIFICATION: To modify the Mortgage of $950,000.00 to the amount of $2,000,000.00, which arises

from the 10th inscription, as per deed #77, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Decem ber 29, 2003, before the Notary Public Manuel Correa Calzada, recorded at page 140 of volume 1425 of Guaynabo, Marginal Note inscription of February 11, 2010. COMPLAINT: The object of this entry is the Mortgage in favor of Bearer, for the sum of $950,000.00, which arises from inscription #10. Plaintiff: Doral Bank; Defendant: Holder, Amount Owed $860,219.00, for principal plus interest, Complaint, Bayamón Court in civil case #DCD2014-0264 on January 28, 2014, recorded at page 218 of volume 1480, Annotation A of date of May 21, 2014. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the hol ders thereof. It shall be unders tood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, ta cit, implied or legal), shall con tinue in effect. It being unders tood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is su brogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The amount of $2,000,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to pro duce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementio ned amount or $1,333,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the se cond public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third pu blic sale shall be $1,000,000.00.

Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confir mation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, pu blic notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before re ferred to, will, on the NOVEM BER 14, 2022, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property des cribed herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the

manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set herei nabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the NO VEMBER 21, 2022, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDI CIAL SALE of the property des cribed in this Notice will be held on the NOVEMBER 28, 2022, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 29th day of September, 2022. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE RAMONA MOLINARES PÉREZ, T/C/C AUREA MOLINARIS, T/C/C AUREA RAMONA MOLINARIS DE PÉREZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, NYDIA DE TAL Y A TONY DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS Y MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAMONA MOLINARES PÉREZ, T/C/C AUREA MOLINARIS, T/C/C AUREA RAMONA MOLINARIS DE PÉREZ T/C/C RAMONA MOLINARIS PEREZ T/C/C AUREA MOLINARIS DE PEREZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2021CV01418.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA

RIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE RAMONA MOLINARES PÉREZ, T/C/C AUREA MOLINARIS, T/C/C AUREA RAMONA MOLINARIS DE PÉREZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, NYDIA DE TAL Y A TONY DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS Y MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAMONA MOLINARES PÉREZ, T/C/C AUREA MOLINARIS, T/C/C AUREA RAMONA MOLINARIS DE PÉREZ T/C/C RAMONA MOLINARIS PEREZ T/C/C AUREA MOLINARIS DE PEREZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, MIGUEL A. TORRES AYA LA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte rés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 01 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor pos tor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 27 de diciembre de 2021. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento incoado, estarán de ma nifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudi cación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propie dad, el 08 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA, y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se cele brará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en

cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígra fe con fecha de 17 de agosto de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor, todo derecho, título e inte rés que tenga la parte deman dada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número ciento dieciocho (118) del Bloque “H” del plano de ins cripción de la Urbanización Buena Vista, radicada en el Ba rrio Machuelo Abajo del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de cuatro cientos cuarenta y un punto ochenta y dos metros cuadra dos (441.82 m/c). En linderos: NORTE, con el solar número ciento treinta y tres (133), por donde mide quince punto cin cuenta y cuatro (15.54) metros; por el SUR, con la calle “A” por donde mide catorce punto no venta y tres (14.93) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número ciento diecisiete (117), por don de veintinueve (29.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número ciento diecinueve (119), por donde mide veinti nueve (29.00) metros. Finca número 18,741, inscrita al folio 128 del tomo 656 de Ponce.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Pon ce. Dirección de la Propiedad: Buena Vista Dev 1452 H-118 Aloa St, Ponce, PR 00728. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcan ce, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte deman dante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de 157,246.76, con interés al 2.916% anual, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo el cual incluye intereses y otros gastos acumulados, y los cua les continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gas tos 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 $25,500.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para cos tas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumu lados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquie ra suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hi poteca, todas cuyas sumas es tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipo teca a ejecutarse en el caso de

epígrafe fue constituida me diante la escritura número 176 otorgada el día 27 de noviem bre de 2013, Ponce, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Jose M. Biaggi Junquera y consta inscrita al folio 139 del tomo 2124 de Ponce, finca nú mero 18,741, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I de Ponce. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipo tecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del eje cutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hu biesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, posee dores, tenedores de o interesa dos en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantiza dos hipotecariamente con pos terioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios se ñalados para que puedan con currir a la subasta si les convi niere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honora rios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecu tante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca re vertida en garantía de un paga ré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma princi pal de $255,000.00, con intere ses al 2.916% anual, vencede ro el día 20 de marzo de 2071, constituida mediante la escritu ra número 177, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de noviembre de 2013, ante el notario José M. Biaggi Junque ra, e inscrita al folio 140 del tomo 2124 de Ponce, finca nú mero 18,741, inscripción 7ma. Que la cantidad mínima de lici tación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $255,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hi poteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se orde na la celebración de una se gunda subasta de dicho inmue ble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $170,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera su basta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subas ta, es decir la suma de $127,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el im porte de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el mo

mento de la adjudicación, en tiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de

recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 7 de septiembre de 2022. MIGUEL A. TORRES

AYALA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #560, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE PONCE.

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Civil Núm.: HU2021CV00031.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE MARCOS GONZALO RODRIGUEZ ALONSO T/C/C MARCOS G. RODRIGUEZ ALONSO T/C/C MARCOS RODRIGUEZ ALONSO A/K/A MARCOS G. RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MARCOS GONZALO RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MARCOS RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR MARCOS RODRIGUEZ PIDAL, ENRIQUE RODRIGUEZ PIDAL Y CONCHITA RODRIGUEZ PIDAL, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN CONCEPCIÓN PIDAL RODRIGUEZ T/C/C CONCEPCION PIDAL DE RODRIGUEZ T/C/C CONCEPCION PIDAL ANIA T/C/C CONCEPCION PIDAL COMPUESTA POR MARCOS RODRIGUEZ PIDAL, ENRIQUE RODRIGUEZ PIDAL Y CONCHITA RODRIGUEZ PIDAL, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. Yo, JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, a los de mandados, acreedores y al pú blico en general con interés so bre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca 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 7 de marzo de 2022. Los autos y todos los do cumentos 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 cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS TA para la venta de la susodi cha propiedad, el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 26 de agosto de 2022, pro cederé a vender en pública su basta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚS TICA: Localizada en el Barrio Santiago de Lima del término Municipal de Naguabo, Puerto Rico, descrita en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización como el solar número dieciséis (16), con una cabida de mil dos cientos sesenta y ocho punto cuatrocientos (1,268.400) me tros (así surge). En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veintiuno punto cuatrocientos sesenta (21.460) metros, con el solar número quince (15); por el SUR, en una distancia de nue ve punto cuatrocientos treinta (9.430) metros, con el solar nú mero cuarenta y uno (41); por el ESTE, en una distancia de cin cuenta y nueve punto cuatro cientos ochenta y dos (59.482) metros, con la Calle A; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cinco (24.05) metros, y en una distan cia de catorce punto cincuenta (14.50) metros, con los lotes números cuarenta y dos (42), cuarenta y tres (43) y cuarenta y cuatro (44). Finca número 12,293, inscrita al tomo móvil 218 de Naguabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción de Humacao. Dirección de la Propiedad: Mar Caribe, Prin cipal St. Lot 16, Naguabo, PR 00718. 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: $291,294.08 por con cepto de balance principal del préstamo, con interés al 5.060% anual, cual acumulan a un total de $594,091.35, equi valente al 10% de la suma prin cipal original pactada, estipula da para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deu da; más cualquiera suma de di nero por concepto de contribu ciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pac tadas en la escritura de hipote

ca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 52 otorgada el día 15 de mayo de 2012, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Nota rio Público Roberto Soto Tapia y consta al tomo Karibe de Na guabo, finca numero 12,293. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscri tos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, 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 abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca Reverse en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su or den, por la suma principal de $652,500.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 29 de julio de 2082, constituida mediante la escritura número 53, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de mayo de 2012, ante el notario Rober to Soto Tapia, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Naguabo, finca nú mero 12,293, inscripción 3ra. Que la cantidad mínima de lici tación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $652,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hi poteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se orde na la celebración de una se gunda subasta de dicho inmue ble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $435,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera su basta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subas ta, es decir la suma de $326,250.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el im porte de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el mo mento de la adjudicación, en tiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del

ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá dili genciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerra dura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este des alojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edic to de acuerdo con la ley, me diante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Es tado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) luga res públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribu nal y la Colecturía, y se le notifi cará además a la parte deman dada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última di rección conocida. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y compare cencia de los licitadores, bajo

mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 29 de septiembre de 2022. José L. Rodríguez Hernández, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #796, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Humacao.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. ESTHER MARÍA OLIVERAS ALICEA Demandados Civil Núm.: SG2019CV00335.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: EL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que sus cribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Man damiento que me ha sido dirigi do por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 36 en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comu nidad Rural La Tea del Barrio Retiro del término municipal de San Germán, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 361.12 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con par cela número 37 de la Comuni dad; por el SUR, con parcela número 35 de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con Calle núme ro 2 de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 34 de la Comunidad. Dirección Física: Barrio Tea, K.m. 4.3, 36 Calle C, San Germán, PR 00683. Finca 12,627, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 381 de San Germán, Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los

preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes pos teriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $18,296.36, más la suma de $9,208.71, que incluye intere ses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se cele brará el día 15 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia de Mayagüez, por el tipo mínimo de $40,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 22 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes menciona do. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $26,666.67. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subas ta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 29 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $20,000.00. Y

PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un pe riódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos con forme a la ley, expido la presen te bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 14 de septiembre de 2022 en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924.

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LUNA COMMERCIAL II, LLC Demandante V. NORBERTO VELAZQUEZ TROCHE; JOSUE GUIDEL VELAZQUEZ MORALES; SU ESPOSA JOSEFA TROCHE HERNANDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA Demandada Civil Núm.: SS2021CV00553.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y

GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judi cial de San Sebastian, San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimien to de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamen te con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus in tereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia ex pedido el día 6 de abril de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: SR445 KM 7.9 Moca, Puerto Rico 00676: RUSTICA: Radicada en el Barrio Rocha del municipio de Moca, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos ochenta y seis punto siete mil quinientos cincuenta metros cuadrados (586.7550 m.c), en lindes por el NORTE, en cuatro (4) alineaciones y un total de veintiséis punto cero treinta y un metros con parcela dedica da a uso público que separa en parte de la Carretera Numero 112 y en parte de la carretera #445; por el SUR, en veintidós punto seiscientos metros con el remanente de la finca principal, o sea Bienvenido Caleb Vélez; por el ESTE, en veintitrés punto setecientos sesenta y ocho me tros con la parcela identificada con la letra “C” en el plano de inscripción; por el OESTE, en veintiséis punto seiscientos no venta y seis metros con parcela identificada con la letra “A” en el plano de inscripción. Encla

EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI CA SUBASTA.

A: NORBERTO VELAZQUEZ TROCHE; JOSUE GUIDEL VELAZQUEZ MORALES; SU ESPOSA JOSEFA TROCHE HERNANDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA; Y AL PUBLICO EN

va una estructura dedicada a vivienda y comercio. Inscrita al folio 200 del tomo 270 de Moca, finca número 5,585; Re gistro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. El producto de la su basta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde al cance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 24 de junio de 2022 en el presente caso civil, la cual asciende a la suma de $149,684.19 de principal, mas $7,905.22 de intereses no pa gados al 6.5%, mas $7,783.58 de intereses acumulados de 8/1/2021 al 5/20/2022, mas $393.17 de intereses morato rios no pagados: mas $644.32 de cargos por mora acumula dos; mas $6,447.31 de cuenta plica (“Escrow Balance”), y los intereses que se sigan acumu lando hasta el pago total de la obligación, más cualquier ade lanto adicional realizado por la demandante, conforme a los términos pactados, y las par tidas pactadas y garantizadas en la escritura de hipoteca y pagare, costas, gastos y hono rarios de abogado ascendentes a 10% del principal según pac tados, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mis mo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la con interés previa solicitud y orden del Tri bunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del algua cil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022

A LA 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Sebastian, San Sebas tián, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $200,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la ce lebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 8 DE NOVIEM

BRE DE 2022 A LA 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $133,333.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LA 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SU BASTA será de $100,000.00,

equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Se bastian, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de octubre de 2022. LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados Civil Núm.: HSCI201600511. (208). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR DINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, BENEDICTO VELÁZQUEZ FÉ

LIX, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Centro Judicial de Humacao, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Man damiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secreta rio del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha de 11 de marzo de 2020 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $101,720.25 de principal, dictada en el caso de autos el día 23 de septiembre de 2016, notificada y archivada en autos el 27 de septiembre de 2016, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o che que certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que ha yan tenido tengan o puedan te ner los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad locali zada en el Municipio de Huma cao, Puerto Rico, el bien inmue ble se describe a continuación: 326 (G-5) Caoba St. Los Sauces, Humacao PR 00791. URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Los Sauces, situado en el Barrio Collores de la municipalidad de Humacao, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se re lacionan continuación: número de solar G-Cinco. Área del so lar Trescientos Noventa y Cinco punto Cero Setenta y Dos me tros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar cuatro del bloque G, en una distancia de veintiocho punto ciento setenta y un metros; por el SUR, con el solar seis del bloque G, en una distancia de veintiocho punto doscientos treinta y dos metros; por el ESTE, con la Urbaniza ción El Retiro, en una distancia de noventa y seis punto cua trocientos diecinueve metros y por el OESTE, con la calle Caoba (cuatro), en una distan cia de catorce metros. Enclava una casa de concreto para re sidencia de una familia. Inscri to al folio 45 del tomo 471 de Humacao, finca número 21,368

del Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satis facer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Hu macao, cuyas cantidades son las siguientes: $101,720.25 de principal, 7.00% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumu lándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $1,596.16 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do. El tipo mínimo para la su basta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $111,600.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudica ción la primera subasta, se pro cederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 partes del valor de la tasación, $74,400.00 Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se proce derá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será de la 1/2 del valor de la tasación, $55,800.00. Para el lote des crito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no compare cer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MA ÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localiza da en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao. Del Estudio de Titulo realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes posteriores los que serán objeto de ejecución por esta subasta: Sentencia dictada el 2 de abril de 2014, en el Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala de Humacao, Caso Civil Num. HACI2014-00235, sobre Cobro de Dinero, segui do por Asociación de Emplea dos del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico versus Evelyn Rodríguez Rodríguez, por $2,859.39, anotada al Folio 43 del Tomo 9 de Sentencias, el 6 de abril de 2015. Embar go Estatal bajo la Ley #12 del 2010 contra Evelyn Rodríguez Rodríguez, $12,264.69, según Certificación expedida por el Departamento de Hacienda el 22 de noviembre de 2015, anotado al Folio 153 del Tomo 2 de Ley #12 el 22 de mayo de 2015. Sentencia dictada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, Caso Civil Núm. HACI2014-01000, sobre Cobro de Dinero, seguido por Asociación de Propietarios Las

Sauces versus Fausto Ortiz Carrasquillo y Evelyn Rodrí guez Rodríguez, por $2,817.73, anotada al Folio 51 del Tomo 9 de Sentencias el 22 de junio de 2015. Embargo Estatal bajo la Ley #210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, contra Evelyn Rodríguez Rodríguez, por $8,778.97, nú mero cuenta 581-51-3053, se gún Certificación expedida por el Departamento de Hacienda el 7 de marzo de 2018, anotado al Asiento 2018-001934-EST el 6 de abril de 2018, al Tomo de Embargos y Sentencias Karibe. Aviso de Demanda, dictado el 17 de abril de 2012, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, Caso Civil Núm. HSCI2012-00441, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Doral Bank versus Fausto Ortiz Ca rrasquillo y Evelyn Rodríguez Rodríguez, donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 4ta. reducida a $103,443.56 o la venta en pública subasta, anotado al Tomo Karibe el 21 de noviembre de 2019, finca #21368 de Humacao, Anota ción “A”. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Uni dos de Norteamérica y para co nocimiento de la parte deman dada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para co nocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Regis trador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos pos teriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secre taría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio

res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes; 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 conocimiento de los de mandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspon dientes. Librado en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 30 de agosto de 2022. JENNISA GARCÍA MO RALES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #796. ***

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ISIDRO MENDOZA DE LA ROSA Demandante Vs. GIANELSI LEE

HALL HERNANDEZ Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2022RF01004.

Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SSS.

A: GIANELSI LEE HALL HERNANDEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: httrs://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. LCDO. EDGAR A. MOLINA JORGE PO Box 733, Sabana Seca PR. 00952 Tel. (787) 472-3444 E-mail: emolinalaw@gmail.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Ba yamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GRENDA L. VÉLEZ, SECRE TARIA.

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Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; SOUTHERN MORTGAGE INC; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO

POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERES Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV03798. Sala: 403. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE Y SOUTHERN

MORTGAGE INC.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días conta dos a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 12 de octubre de 2022. LAURA I.

SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETA RIA. NOELIA MATÍAS SALAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. GLORIMAR ROSADO AYALA Demandado(a)

Civil: VA2022CV00041. Sala: 501. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: GLORIMAR

ROSADO AYALA.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 12 de octubre de 2022. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

2018-HB1

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ROMERO RIVERA A/K/A RAFAEL ROMERO COMPUESTA POR JANE DOE Y JOHN DOE; SUCESIÓN DE INÉS LUISA LEBRÓN GUZMÁN A/K/A INÉS LEBRÓN GUZMÁN A/K/A INÉS L. LEBRÓN GUZMÁN A/K/A INÉS LUISA LEBRÓN A/K/A INÉS L. LEBRÓN A/K/A INÉZ L. LEBRÓN A/K/A INÉS LEBRÓN PORTO COMPUESTA POR JANE DOE Y JOHN DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HATILLO WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST

Demandante V. FAUSTO ORTIZ CARRASQUILLO, EVELYN RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

SU VIUDA LUZ EDELMIRA MACHADO MARTINEZ T/C/C LUZ E. MACHADO MARTINEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LUZ EDELMIRA MACHADO MARTINEZ T/C/C LUZ E. MACHADO MARTINEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados

Civil Núm.: CICD2016-0053.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: MAYRA ENID LEBRON RODRIGUEZ, JUAN ANTONIO LEBRON RODRIGUEZ, GRISEL LEBRON RODRIGUEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ANTONIO LEBRON CARILLO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación respon siva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente.

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Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Hatillo, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de septiembre de 2022. Vivian Y. Fresse Gonzá lez, Secretaria Regional. Suhail Serrano Moya, Secretaria Auxi liar Del Tribunal.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. HECTOR E. SANTIAGO AGOSTA

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04458. (906). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: HECTOR E.

SANTIAGO ACOSTA.

POR MEDIO del presente edic to se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sen tencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presen te al tribunal su alegación res ponsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de ha ber sido diligenciado este em plazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electró nica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electro nico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva en la Se cretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de prestar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribuna podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abo gado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PMB 450, 400 Calle Calaf, San Juan, PR 00918-1314; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electró nico: legal@jrslawpr.com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publi cación del presente edicto; el le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del em plazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su últi ma dirección conocida: Alturas del Bosque, Carr. 844 #2905, San Juan, PR 00926. EXPE DIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de octubre de 2022.

GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. MARGARITA MUÑIZ

MÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA ANTHONY GIOVANNI FELICIANO VALENTÍN Demandante V. PREFERRED MORTGAGE, CORPORATION HOY SU SUCESORA

FINAL BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL Demandado(a) Civil: AG2022CV01039. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL CON DIRECCIONES DESCONOCIDAS.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de octubre de 2022. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 13 de octubre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉ REZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA VALENTÍN RAMÍREZ, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE UTUADO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC. (COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING)

Parte Demandante Vs. JUAN C. QUIÑONES CRUZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: UT2021CV00279.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.

A: JUAN C. QUIÑONES CRUZ. PROYECTO VIVI ABAJO B39, UTUADO PR 00641. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de octubre de 2022. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, el 12 de octubre de 2022. DIANE ÁLVAREZ

VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YAMARIS ES TRONZA MALDONADO, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante (a) Vs. JOSÉ CARDONA VEGUET, CONCEPCIÓN MUÑOZ VÁZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03416.

Sala: 906. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSÉ CARDONA VEGUET, CONCEPCIÓN MUÑOZ VÁZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR

AMBOS COMPUESTA.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de octubre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional Interina. Angela M. Rivera Her nández, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. JOSE ORLANDO RIVERA GARCIA, SU ESPOSA BRENDA EUNICE OCASIO GONZALEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV02412. (504). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: JOSE ORLANDO RIVERA GARCIA, SU ESPOSA BRENDA EUNICE OCASIO GONZALEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Yo, MARIBEL LANZAR VE LÁZQUEZ, 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 10 DE

NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Bayamón, 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 or denó por la vía ordinaria al me jor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón durante horas labora bles. Que en caso de no produ cir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1RO. DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MA ÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propie dad a venderse en pública su basta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar número Quin ce (15) del Bloque “AD” en la URBANIZACIÓN LEVITTOWN del Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de TRESCIENTOS DIEZ PUNTO CINCUENTA (310.50) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: por el NORTE, en VEIN TITRÉS PUNTO CERO CERO (23.00) METROS, con el solar número Catorce (14); por el SUR, en VEINTITRÉS PUNTO CERO CERO (23.00) METROS con el solar número Dieciséis (16); por el ESTE, en TRECE PUNTO CINCUENTA (13.50) METROS, con los solares nú mero Cuarenta y Cuatro (44) y Cuarenta Tres (43); y por el OESTE, en TRECE PUNTO CINCUENTA (13.50) METROS, con Calle Margarita (según pla no Calle número Cuatrocientos Ocho (408). Sobre este solar enclava una casa de cemento y bloques para una familia. La es critura de hipoteca se encuen tra inscrita al folio 210 vuelto del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda, finca núme ro 6,772, inscripción décimo sexta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Levittown, AD15, Margarita St., Toa Baja, Puer to Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $122,127.02 de principal, inte reses al 5.5% anual, desde el día 1ro. de diciembre de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $13,851.50 es tipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado más recargos acumulados, todas

cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí nima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $138,515.00 y de ser nece saria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equi valente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $92,343.34 y de necesitarse una tercera su basta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $69,257.50. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el im porte de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Esta dos Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferen tes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subas ta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Po drán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigen tes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si algu no o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de algu no en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad ma yor a la suma del crédito o cré ditos preferentes al suyo, al ob tener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del cré dito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro cré ditos posteriores al que se eje cuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Baya món, Puerto Rico, a 14 de oc tubre de 2022. MARIBEL LAN

ZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPE RIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. LETICIA FERNANDEZ BLONDET Y OTROS Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: SJ2022CV01643. Sala San Juan: Salón Civil 906. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO POR SUMAC.

EL SECRETARIO (A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de esta. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de octubre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍ GUEZ COLLADO, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL. MYRNA DE LIZ VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN

SUPERIOR ROOFING & REPAIR INC. Demandante V. GIBERT, CORP. Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2022CV03149. (403). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESI DENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: GIBERT, CORP. DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: URB. APOLO, QQ-14 CALLE FEBE, GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO 00969, REPRESENTADA POR SU AGENTE RESIDENTE, EL

A: LETICIA FERNÁNDEZ BLONDET, POR SÍ, Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN RAMÓN BENÍTEZ JIMÉNEZ.

SR. JUVAL RODRÍGUEZ.

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su con tra una Demanda de Cobro de Dinero por la vía ordinaria. Se le emplaza y se le requiere que notifique a: Lcdo. Jean G. Vidal Font

RUA Núm.16,795

jvidal@ferraiuoli.com

Lcda. Claudia B. Alonso Ramos

RUA Núm. 22,565 calonso@ferraiuoli.com

FERRAIUOLI, LLC P.O. Box 195168 San Juan, PR 00919-5168 Tel: 787-766-7000

Abogados de la Parte Deman dante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Us ted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se represen te por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tri bunal. DADO hoy en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 13 de octubre de 2022. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional. Noelia Matías Salas, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION JORGE ARMANDO FERRE ZEÑA COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION JULIA MERCEDES ORMEÑO HUAMAN T/C/C MERCEDES ORMEÑO COMPUESTA POR SUS POSIBLES HEREDEROS JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2021CV00900.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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

GENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 5 DE DICIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se des cribe a continuación: URBANA:

PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Número DOCE “F” (12-F). Este apartamento de dos dormitorios localizado en el lado Oeste del ala Norte de la Duodécima planta residencial del edificio Este del Condomi nio Los Pinos, cuyo condominio ubica en un solar de tres punto cuatrocientos cincuenta y seis cuerdas, equivalentes a trece mil quinientos ochenta y cuatro pinto cero cinco metros cua drados, cuyo solar colinda por el NORTE, que es su frente, con el kilómetro uno punto dos de la carretera estatal número ciento ochenta y siete, estando dicho solar localizado en el Ba rrio Cangrejo Arriba del muni cipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico.

El apartamento tiene un área superficial de mil ciento cin cuenta y siete pies cuadrados, equivalentes a CIENTO SIETE

PUNTO CINCUENTA METROS CUADRADOS (107.50 M.C.).

Colindando el mismo por el NORTE, con el apartamento Número Doce “H”; por el SUR, con el área central de servicio del piso, donde el cuarto del incinerador y los elevadores; por el OESTE, con el espacio abierto sobre un patio central Norte del Condominio; y por el ESTE, con el pasillo central del piso por donde tiene su entrada al apartamento cuyo pasillo lo conecta a su vez con los elevadores y las escale ras del edificio a través de las cuales el apartamento tiene acceso al vestíbulo central y a las demás áreas comunes del piso tercero de ambos edificios del Condominio y a sus patios circundantes y a la calle de la colindancia Norte del solar.

Espacio de estacionamiento para un automóvil localizado y marcado en uno de los garajes del lado Este del condominio.

Finca número 27,345, inscrita

al folio 234 del tomo 544 de Ca rolina Norte, Registro de la Pro piedad de Carolina, Sección I. Propiedad localizada en: 6410 AVE. ISLA VERDE, COND. LOS PINOS ESTE APTO. 12-F, CAROLINA, PR 00979. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $480,000.00. Fe cha de Vencimiento: 27 de di ciembre de 2090. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $480,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 12 DE DICIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha se gunda subasta la suma de $320,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $240,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $202,113.98 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $20,017.59 en inte reses acumulados al 31 de agosto de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.87% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $8,331.25 en se guro hipotecario; $5,460.00 en tarifas de servicios; $1,076.15 en seguro; $525.00 de tasa ciones; $220.00 de inspeccio nes; $290.00 en preservación;

$1,645.00 en honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $48,000.00, para gas tos, costas y honorarios de abo gado, esta última habrá de de vengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones

Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por es pacio de dos semanas conse cutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expe dido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de octubre de 2022. José R. Cristóbal, Alguacil Regional. Héctor L. Peña Rodríguez, Al guacil Placa #278.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAY NABO

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC

Demandante Vs. MIGUEL ANGEL

SANCHEZ REYES T/C/C

MICHAEL A. SANCHEZ

T/C/C MIKE A. SANCHEZ

T/C/C A SANCHEZ

MICHAEL T/C/C SANCHEZ

A MICHAEL T/C/C

MICHAELA SANCHEZ T/C/C SANCHEZ A MICHAEL T/C/C MICHAEL A SANCHEZ REYES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2022CV00698.

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A: MIGUEL ANGEL

SANCHEZ REYES T/C/C MICHAEL A. SANCHEZ T/C/C MIKE A. SANCHEZ T/C/C A SANCHEZ MICHAEL T/C/C SANCHEZ

A MICHAEL T/C/C MICHAELA SANCHEZ T/C/C SANCHEZ A MICHAEL T/C/C MICHAEL

A SANCHEZ REYES.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación respon siva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

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POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación respon siva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente.

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Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puer to Rico, hoy 12 de octubre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Ro dríguez, Secretaria Regional. Lilliam Ortiz Nieves, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Civil: GM2019CV00288. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

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Dan Snyder ‘needs to be removed,’ says one NFL owner

By KEN BELSON and JENNY VRENTAS

As Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder faced two NFL in vestigations and a congressional inquiry into allegations of rampant sexual harassment of female employees, includ ing by Snyder, his peers have kept silent about his future in the league.

That changed earlier this week, when Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay told re porters that there was merit to forcing Sny der to sell his team amid the reports of a toxic workplace and fiscal improprieties at his troubled franchise.

Speaking during a one-day league meeting in New York, Irsay was the first team owner to say publicly that Snyder should be removed. Over the past year, team owners have grumbled privately about Snyder’s tenure as owner of the Commanders and spoken on background in news media reports about his stand ing, but none have gone so far as to say he should be pushed out of the league.

Such a move would require at least 24 of the league’s 32 owners to take that ex traordinary step. But Irsay said that for the good of the league, Snyder should sell the team he has owned since 1999.

“We have to act,” Irsay said. “He needs to be removed.”

Snyder did not appear to be at the meeting Tuesday. His wife, Tanya, repre sented the team.

The owners’ meeting had not conclud ed when Irsay spoke to reporters. At the end of the meeting, the team owners met among themselves, with no staff members present. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said afterward that he told owners that the league’s second investigation into Snyder is still ongoing and warned them not to spec ulate about the future of the team.

Irsay said he did not know if there were 24 owners willing to vote to push Snyder out.

“I think potentially there will be, but we’ll see,” he said.

When asked about the possibility of removing Snyder but allowing his wife, a co-owner and a co-CEO of the team, to continue running it, Irsay said that the Sny ders should sell the franchise. Tanya Snyder has handled day-to-day operations of the team since July 2021, when her husband

stepped away from his role after the league completed its first investigation.

In a statement, a Commanders spokes person said Snyder has no intention of sell ing the team.

“It is unfortunate that Mr. Irsay decided to go public with his statement today, while an investigation is in process, and the team has had no opportunity to formally re spond to allegations,” the statement said.

It added: “We are confident that, when he has an opportunity to see the actual evi dence in this case, Mr. Irsay will conclude that there is no reason for the Snyders to consider selling the franchise. And they won’t.”

Several owners, speaking on back ground, told The New York Times that they would be reluctant to force another team owner to sell their team because it sets a precedent that could be used against them.

Owners have looked the other way at bad behavior of owners and the front offices of their teams if the problems are perceived to be contained and the team is financially successful.

Snyder has been embroiled in multiple scandals that have stained the league in re cent years. Two years ago, Snyder feuded with three of his limited partners in dueling lawsuits over Snyder’s decision to withhold their dividend payments. That fight con cluded with Snyder buying out the part ners and retaining sole ownership of the Commanders franchise after owners from around the NFL voted to allow Snyder to increase his debt ceiling and borrow hun dreds of millions of dollars in 2021.

In the midst of that fight, allegations of widespread harassment of women who worked at the team over many years sur faced in a July 2020 report by The Wash ington Post. Those claims, made by more than a dozen women, accused several Commanders executives and football per sonnel of abusive behavior over more than a dozen years. Male executives, the wom en said, commented repeatedly on their looks, sent them inappropriate text mes sages and pursued unwanted relationships.

Snyder initially launched an investi gation of their claims before the NFL took

it over in September 2020. In July 2021, Goodell said that the investigation found that “bullying and intimidation frequently took place, and many described the cul ture as one of fear, and numerous female employees reported having experienced sexual harassment and a general lack of respect in the workplace,” but did not re lease the report’s findings. (He said that they were only delivered verbally.)

Goodell fined the team $10 million and Snyder agreed to step away from the team for a year while working only on a handful of business topics, including find ing funding to replace the team’s stadium, which is among the league’s worst.

The House Oversight Committee began its own investigation into the allegations at the behest of former female employees who were angered that the NFL’s investiga tion was not made public. At a committee roundtable, one woman claimed that Sny der harassed her, charges that he denied. Another former team employee said the team had withheld ticket revenue from the other 31 teams.

In June, a congressional panel said it found evidence that Snyder directed a “shadow investigation” of accusers, inter fering with the league’s initial look into the harassment claims.

The following month, the committee questioned Snyder in a daylong deposition that was conducted privately.

This led the NFL to start its second investigation. The House Oversight Com mittee appears to have finished calling wit nesses — including Goodell, Snyder and former team President Bruce Allen, who was fired at the end of 2019 and whom Snyder has blamed for the team’s toxic work culture. It is unclear when the com mittee will release its report.

Irsay said the owners should review all the evidence before making any final deci sions. But on Tuesday, Irsay appeared to have made up his mind already. The troubles at the Commanders over the past 20 years at Sny der’s team have tarnished the league. Remov ing Snyder, he said, would help rebuild trust.

“It’s an unfortunate situation,” he said. “But I believe it is in the best interest of the National Football League that we look it squarely in the eye and deal with it. I think America, the world expects us to, as lead ers.”

Dan Snyder is facing investigations by the N.F.L. and Congress into allegations that he sexually harassed employees, among other violations.

The existential horror of Thursday Night Football

By MIKE TANIER

WatchingAmazon’s “Thursday Night Football” is not merely as boring as watching paint dry. It’s also as unpleasant as smelling paint dry.

The games, dealt from the middle of the NFL’s deck of weekly matchups and typically played by a pair of exhausted teams forced to rest starters dealing with minor injuries, have always felt more like soundchecks than actual concerts. Re cently, however, “Thursday Night Football” has been trudging through a particularly miserable quagmire of low-scoring, poorly played affairs.

This week’s contest pits the Arizona Cardinals, who have scored 26 combined points in their last two games, against the New Orleans Saints, who are expected to be without their injured starting quarter back, Jameis Winston, and top receiver, Michael Thomas, for the fourth consecutive week. Both teams have 2-4 records.

The loser of today’s game (8:15 p.m. ET, PRIME) will be all but eliminated from playoff consideration. The victor will be lucky to survive until Halloween.

As bad as Cardinals-Saints looks on paper, it’s likely to be an improvement over the Washington Commanders’ 12-7 vic tory last Thursday over the Chicago Bears, which featured 10 punts, eight sacks and just 240 net passing yards.

That game, in turn, was an upgrade over the Indianapolis Colts’ 12-9 overtime victory over the Denver Broncos in Week 5, which was highlighted by 12 punts, 10 sacks, four interceptions, six fumbles, 15 penalties and zero touchdowns.

From Week 3 through the upcoming Cardinals-Saints matchup, “Thursday Night Football” participants have a combined re cord of 23-36-1. A Week 8 meeting of Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Lamar Jackson’s Baltimore Ravens offers a possi ble respite from the misery, although both teams endured upset losses Sunday, as if each knew what was on the horizon.

Amazon paid about $1 billion per sea son for the rights to broadcast “Thursday Night Football” on its streaming service for the next 11 years. The broadcasts them selves have been impressive, and Amazon’s on-air personalities are more amusingly derisive of the caliber of play than typical network announcers. Commiserating with

Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit about an awful game can be as grimly convivial as watching from a corner bar in a town where all the factories were just torn down.

Even hard-core football fans tend to treat “Thursday Night Football” like the guest who shows up two hours early for a party: While never totally unwelcome, the games are more tolerated than appreci ated. There’s no denying that recent match ups have been nearly unwatchable. The typical quality of play, however, may not be as poor as it is made out to be.

Thursday night games are lower-scor ing than the average NFL game, an inevi table result of short weeks of rest and prep aration. The scoring differential is minor, however.

Since the 2020 season, teams are aver aging a combined 45.0 points per game on Thursday nights. Overall, teams combined for an average of 47.0 points per game in that span. One 2-point conversion’s worth of offense hardly explains the game’s noto rious reputation.

Surprisingly, the problem with “Thurs day Night Football” may not be the “Thurs day night” part of the formula, but the “football” part.

The NFL’s Sunday schedule is curated

to maximize the fan experience: an ar ray of early-afternoon games, followed by a late-afternoon game of the week and a marquee prime-time matchup. East Coast fans usually get to watch their hometown favorites at 1 p.m., followed by a pair of duels between Super Bowl contenders or superstar quarterbacks, or both.

If one afternoon game is dull, there’s another on a different network, or a bunch of them on a satellite package, or roundthe-league highlights and fantasy statistics streaming across the internet and the NFL RedZone channel.

Thursday night games, on the other hand, are generally selected from the left overs after the other broadcast rights hold ers call dibs on the most appealing games. So the NFL starts each week with its fourthor fifth-best matchup, which is like start ing a presentation to the board of directors with your fourth- or fifth-most persuasive argument.

Amazon and the NFL tried to spice up this year’s Thursday night lineup by spot lighting “story line” quarterbacks: Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan leading their new teams in Week 5, the multitalented young ster Justin Fields versus the downright Shakespearean Carson Wentz in Week

6, and so forth. That programming tactic backfired, however, as none of those quar terbacks have lived up to their billing.

The league’s Friday news cycle has therefore become a weekly referendum on unfulfilled expectations, which would not happen if Wilson and the others were merely disappointing local fans during re gional Sunday telecasts.

Ultimately, spotlighting one ordinary matchup from the weekly NFL schedule is like isolating a sickly wildebeest from the herd: Skeptical fans approach the game poised to attack, and spend the day after picking over its carcass. One football game, presented in isolation and without Brady or Patrick Mahomes in the open ing credits, just isn’t as interesting as the league wants it to be.

Yet no matter how unentertaining the games, fans still tune in: “Thursday Night Football” averaged 11.26 million viewers per game through Week 5. For contrast, the top-rated Thursday network program “Young Sheldon” drew 6.9 million view ers on Oct. 13, while Game 1 of an Amer ican League division series between the New York Yankees and Cleveland Guard ians on Oct. 11, a Tuesday, drew 5.35 million viewers. A society that would rather watch Wentz than Aaron Judge by a 2-to-1 margin ends up getting precisely what it deserves.

In one sense, “Thursday Night Foot ball” serves as the NFL’s version of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” — a chance to ironically celebrate the absurd while throwing toast at the league’s bombastic image. In another sense, however, the horror is more genuine and existential.

Millions of fans have conditioned our selves to gorge upon dissatisfying sports entertainment, grouse bitterly about the experience, then voluntarily pry our eye balls open with toothpicks the next week for more. Perhaps if the games finally reach a tipping point of putrescence, we’ll break the soul-crushing cycle and escape the waking nightmare of inveter ate NFL obsession.

Programming note: Saints backup quarterback Andy Dalton was also listed on the early-week injury report, meaning that a third-string gadget specialist, Tay som Hill, may get the start. That sounds rather fun. So let’s do the Time Warp again.

A Week 5 matchup meant to showcase Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan leading their new teams ended up being headlined by Chase McLaughlin, who kicked the Colts’ game-winning field goal in overtime.

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Things may not be easy, if you and another clash concerning a goal or plan. The Sun’s angle to Pluto suggests that conversations might be intense, and emotions could flare up too. You may be better off to wait until another day, when the mood is lighter and brighter. Mind, with the Sun forging a tie to sweet Venus, there is always the possibility that you can compromise, Aries.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Tired of the same old routine, Taurus? Perhaps if you had something different to occupy your days, you would be so much happier. Yet a few small changes might allow you to make the most of your present situation. With the Sun and Venus squaring with Pluto, there may be one thing you could do that seems minor, but can lead to you taking on a welcome challenge.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

It could be so easy to manipulate a situation to your advantage, or to allow another to steer you in a direction you’re reluctant to go. With the Sun and Venus facing-off with Pluto, the urge to force matters is strong. Yet doing so likely won’t do you much good, Gemini. Whether you’re keen to get a romance off the ground or an entrepreneurial idea, it’s better to let things unfold naturally.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

You may prefer to be in everyone’s good books, but sometimes it just isn’t possible. You might feel bad for standing up for yourself. But if you don’t, someone will get what they want, and you’ll just have to put up with it. Need to make a bold request? Don’t seem too desperate or needy. Act as if you don’t really care if you get it or not, and you could get access to it faster.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Your mindset and thoughts about difficult issues can impact your body, which you might notice under the current intense sky. If you feel out of sorts, this may be why. Instead of making yourself even more anxious, do something that will help you relax. If you have the opportunity, a massage could be a great way to ease any knotty muscles, or a gentle walk can help too.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

The awkward Venus/Sun/Pluto angle could highlight a desire for change, and perhaps for more excitement, Virgo. If life has been a tad stale recently, it may be that you need activities which can give you that sense of being truly alive. Perhaps a new hobby that has an element of risk, would do this for you. You might also be drawn to buy something, but could regret it later.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Is someone leaning on you, when they are quite capable of handling matters themselves? If so, a powerful angle could be a call to cut those cords, and encourage this person to be more self-sufficient. Being a Libra, you’ll go about this in a very diplomatic way, and may even suggest a compromise until they get on their feet. But if this is a big strain, don’t drag it out for too long.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Keeping information to yourself, may seem like a good way to turn a situation to your advantage. But what if someone is playing you at your own game? No matter how much you discuss an issue, it won’t get you anywhere. If neither of you are willing to be honest, how can it? If you want a matter to move forward Scorpio, then one of you is going to have to tell the truth.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You could feel quite uptight, and even a tad jealous if a friend shows you something that you would love to have for yourself. It might even blight your weekend, if you let it. The emotional Venus/Pluto angle can leave you riled. Is it worth getting annoyed? The chances are, that if you did get it, you may not enjoy it as much as you thought, and feel it’s a waste of money.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

It’s easy to get the wrong end of the stick today, as Venus and the Sun square off with Pluto in your sign. You may be convinced that someone has it in for you, when they might be just pointing out how something could be improved. This can be a boss, authority figure or client. If so, try not to take their words personally. Instead, try their suggestion as it might work well, Capricorn.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Have big plans, but little faith that you can accomplish them? A potent aspect may be a call not to let your limitations box you in. A dynamic focus encourages you to branch out and try new things, even if doing so is a bit of a stretch. Yet you might feel that leaving your comfort zone is one move too far. Don’t overthink this Aquarius, just take a small step and go from there.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

With Venus and the Sun aligning with Pluto, someone may be drawn to share a matter with you that they are unable to talk about to anyone else. There’s something about your calm acceptance and nonjudgemental approach, that is attractive to those in trouble. Don’t let their words affect you though, Pisces. Listen, and let it wash over you, so you can get on with your day.

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