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Severalisland lawmakers, including Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael Hernández Mon tañez, called upon business, industrial, professional and nonprofit groups on Sunday to join efforts to save the government’s health insurance card.
Hernández Montañez, along with Finance and Budget Committee Chairman Jesús Santa Rodríguez, House Majority Leader Ángel Matos García, and Health Committee Chair woman Sol Higgins Cuadrado, warned in an open letter that federal Medicaid cuts would result in a healthcare cliff.
Hernández Montañez pointed out that according to the certified Fiscal Plan for 2021, the central government lacks the resources to pay debt service and Puerto Rico would not receive a permanent increase in the Medicaid program’s financing levels.
Santa Rodríguez warned of the danger that the reduc tion in Medicaid funding would represent for the health of Puerto Rico residents and its impact on local coffers.
“Puerto Rico faces a direct and imminent threat on the road to recovery: the loss of funding for Medicaid if the problem is not addressed at the federal legislative level,” he said.
The current federal legislation only guarantees $400 million in Medicaid funding for the island, while the pro gram costs some $4 billion. He also said the total general fund budget is $11 billion, which makes it impossible to commit 35% of the budget, approximately $3 billion, to finance the program with local funds without putting es sential services at risk.
“The impact that this would have on the current Fiscal Plan, our agreements with creditors, and our limited resources would completely undermine each of the achievements so far,” Santa Rodríguez stressed.
“Puerto Rico would be forced to start from scratch,” he added. “The [Financial Oversight and Management] Board and the government are directly responsible for ensuring that we avoid this calamity for the good of Puerto Rico.”
Higgins Cuadrado noted that the oversight board is aware of the threat to island residents’ health.
“The Board recognizes this reality and thus expressed it in its Certified Fis cal Plan for Puerto Rico, describing the potential disaster that this scenario would represent,” she said. “Any revision that
results in a reduction in Medicaid funding would require a corresponding drastic reduction in services to Medicaid beneficiaries, reductions in fees for health providers and their services, and a reduction in the total number of ben eficiaries.”
Matos García highlighted some of the steps taken in recent days by various sectors that have gathered in Washington, D.C.
“We have worked tirelessly to push Congress and President Biden’s administration in the right direction as this situation approaches,” he said. “In the last week alone, a bipartisan and multisectoral delegation, made up of elected officials from the delegations of the Popular Democratic Party and the New Progressive Party, together with representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and the Hospitals Association of Puerto Rico, met head-on with elected officials and their teams from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the White House, and other key players in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, and lobbyists in Washington, D.C. The consensus is unanimous: any reduction in Medicaid fund ing for Puerto Rico would permanently undermine Puerto Rico’s recovery.”
A letter sent to the oversight board requests its col laboration in transmitting the message to President Biden, Congress, and any other party with interest in the matter.
“Thus, we strongly urged the private sector of Puerto Rico to join in this effort to guarantee the stability of our health system,” the lawmakers said in the letter, “thus paving the way for a reliable and well financed health infrastructure that honors health services in Puerto Rico as the highest priority.”
According to the close communication that the Puerto Rico Ports Authority (PRPA) maintains with the port of Jacksonville in Florida and its shipping companies, a major disruption in the distribution chain to Puerto Rico is not expected, PRPA Executive Director Joel Pizá Batiz said Sunday.
The Ports chief added that the island has enough supplies to handle a two-day delay of any type of cargo ship as a result of Hurricane Ian’s passage through Florida.
“The Authority has been in direct communication with the port of Jacksonville to learn how operations were going before and after the passage of Hurricane Ian through Florida,” Pizá Batiz said in a written statement. “Currently, a cargo delay of two days is estimated, which should not represent major prob lems with the Puerto Rican distribution chain because there are enough food supplies on the island to handle a two or three-day disruption. [This week] six ships from the domestic market and Jacksonville are expected to arrive without problems, so there
Puerto Rico Ports Authority Executive Director Joel Pizá Batizwill not be a food crisis because there will be supplies.”
The PRPA executive director noted that on Tuesday, Wednes day, Thursday and Friday of last week he exchanged communi cations with the executive director of the Port of Jacksonville, Erick Green, and his work team. Pizá Batiz has also been in constant contact with executives of the shipping companies that offer services from the port: Crowley, TOTE Maritime and Trailer Bridge.
The Ports chief said seven domestic vessels have arrived without problems in Puerto Rico, carrying more than 2,000 cargo containers.
Pizá Batiz also noted that, for the first time in the history of the PRPA, the ports authorities of Puerto Rico and Jacksonville signed a memorandum of understanding on April 26, 2021 to strengthen their commercial relationship and promote economic growth in both regions. For Puerto Rico, the Port of Jacksonville is the number one port in the United States, handling nearly 70 percent of the containers arriving on the island. For Jacksonville, Puerto Rico represents around half of its container business.
In order to stimulate air traffic at the island’s regional airports after the passage of Hurricane Fiona, the New Progressive Party minority leader in the House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, is proposing the inclusion of Puerto Rico in the federal program known as Essential Air Service (EAS).
“The regional airports in Puerto Rico have great potential for development; what we need is a boost to achieve it,” Méndez Nuñez said on Sunday. “In addition, during an emergency such as Hurricane Fiona two weeks ago, they can serve as emergency airports for cargo and passengers. That is why we are asking Con gress to approve the EAS immediately, as an assistance measure in the face of Fiona’s passage.”
The EAS is a federal program that provides economic subsi dies and funds to guarantee flight operations at regional airports
throughout the United States and its jurisdictions, as would be the case with Puerto Rico.
“This federal program would directly help municipalities, as in the case of Ponce, Vieques, Culebra and Mayagüez, among others, to maintain a commercial air service, subsidizing part of the small air operations -- with 20 or fewer seats -- at those airports, as well as cargo transportation, as is currently the case in the states of Alaska and Hawaii,” the legislator said. That is why it is important to have the service urgently.”
As detailed by Méndez Nuñez, the EAS will make it possible for more airlines to establish their operations in regional airports such as Antonio Rivera Rodríguez in the island municipality of Vieques, Eugenio María de Hostos in Mayagüez, as well as Benjamín Rivera in Culebra, among others, because the federal government would pay for available seats on unsold flights.
Small airlines operating from airports with international des ignations or major operations, such as Merceditas in Ponce, José
Aponte de la Torre in Ceiba, and Rafael Hernández in Aguadilla, would also benefit from the program.
“After the passage of Hurricane Fiona, regional airports have become very important,” said the District 36 representative (Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra). “We are confident that the members of Congress will welcome this proposal that would create new jobs for our people, and encour age the establishment of new small and midsize businesses, as well as generate economic activity for the municipalities through more air traffic.”
In accordance with current regulations, the federal trans portation secretary may make exceptions to the criteria for a jurisdiction or municipality to qualify for the EAS program.
Currently, a considerable number of regional airlines, notably Cape Air, Boutique Air and Southern Express Airways, among others, have developed their operations on routes endorsed by the EAS program with aircraft with a capacity of up to 20 passengers.
The
Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH by its Spanish initials) will begin a tour of the regions most affected by Hurricane Fiona to assist displaced workers, including self-employed workers, who have not been able to complete their application for Regular Unemployment Insurance, Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) or who require the services of any other agency.
The event will begin today from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Casa de la Cultura Orocoveña in the municipality of Orocovis, and will be replicated in several towns around the island.
“Aware of the island’s situation after Hurricane Fiona, the DTRH will reach out directly to citizens to help them with their Unemployment Insurance and DUA paperwork,” said Labor and Human Resources Secretary Gabriel Maldonado González.
“Unemployment Insurance and DUA are transitional aids
offered to affected citizens,” he added. “We will also have Employment Services staff available to help anyone in need get a new job. Our agency will continue to provide support for the benefit of all working people.”
As part of the process to apply for Unemployment Insur ance or DUA, attendees must bring with them a valid photo ID (passport, voter’s card, or driver’s license), a copy of their Social Security card, evidence of residency (water, electricity or telephone bill) and a copy of their birth certificate.
President Joe Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, will travel to Puerto Rico today to survey damage to the island from Hurricane Fiona and will go Wednesday to Florida, where Hurricane Ian left parts of the state in ruins, the White House announced Saturday night.
A statement from the White House said Biden will arrive at the Mercedita International Airport in Ponce in the morning and is expect ed to offer remarks after 12:45 p.m. in media activity that will be heavily controlled by the Secret Service. Local officials hope the presi dent not only surveys damage but also takes a closer look at the island’s power problems.
On Sunday, LUMA Energy, the private operator of the transmission and distribution system of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Author ity, announced that it had restored electricity service to over 1.34 million customers, or 92% of total customers. Given the severity of damage in the hardest-hit regions, LUMA utility field crews continue to prioritize and perform critical repairs across the western and southern parts of the island and are on track to meet LUMA’s estimated restoration timeframe of Oct. 4-6 for Ponce and Mayagüez.
Biden had said in the past several days that he expected to travel to both places to reassure residents that the federal government will help in their recoveries.
“In addition to what we’re doing for Florida and South Carolina, we remain focused on recovery efforts in Puerto Rico as well,” Biden said Friday at the White House. “We’re going to stay with and stay at it as long as it takes.”
The president’s visit to Florida will be the first since he and Ron DeSantis, the state’s governor, have spent months clashing over transgender rights, abortion, immigration and
President Joe Biden, center, receives a briefing on Hurricane Ian at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
other issues that are at the center of congressio nal elections next month. DeSantis has said that the storm, which made landfall on the state’s Gulf Coast as a powerful Category 4, will go down in history as one of the strongest to hit Florida because of the catastrophic flooding that wiped away whole towns and killed dozens.
As the hurricane approached last week, however, Biden and DeSantis stayed away from political attacks. Asked by a reporter in Wash ington about his relationship with DeSantis, the president called it irrelevant.
“In fact, very fine. He complimented me,” Biden said. “He thanked me for the immediate response we had. He told me how much he appreciated it. He said he was extremely happy with what’s going on.”
The president added: “This is not about anything having to do with our disagreements politically. This is about saving people’s lives, homes, and businesses.”
DeSantis has changed his tone as well in recent days. In the past, he criticized federal hurricane assistance as a “boondoggle” and a “put it on the credit card mentality.” But last week, DeSantis urged the federal government to come to his state’s aid.
“You know, when people are fighting for their lives, when their whole livelihood is at stake, when they’ve lost everything — if you can’t put politics aside for that, then you’re just not going to be able to,” the governor said.
There is a long history of presidents from both parties visiting disaster areas, in part to demonstrate that they understand the magni tude of the crisis and that political affiliation will not determine how much help the state gets. Former President George W. Bush was criticized for flying over the devastation wrought in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and not, initially, touring the damage on the ground.
But the reality is that it can be difficult
for presidents to visit too soon after a disaster strikes. Their presence — along with the large number of vehicles, Secret Service officers, local police protection and other staff — can distract from the efforts to recover and rebuild.
After a visit to the Federal Emergency Man agement Agency headquarters last Thursday, just after Hurricane Ian made landfall, Biden said he would travel as soon as possible to support the local first responders and federal officials who were already rescuing people from rooftops.
“When the conditions allow it, I’m going to going to Florida to thank them personally so we don’t get in the way.” Biden said at the time.
“I’ll do our best — we’re going to do our best to build Florida back as quickly as possible. But we’re not going to be leaving.”
“We’re going to build it back with the state and local government,” he added. “However long it takes, we’re going to be there. That’s my commitment to you.”
The hurricanes wrought devastation in both places. But the damage in Puerto Rico may prove especially difficult to recover from since the island had yet to fully recover from Hurricane Maria almost five years ago.
Ten days after Hurricane Fiona struck Sept. 16, more than 365,000 people on the island remained without power, raising questions about the inability of the federal and local efforts to rebuild the island’s fragile electrical grid.
Biden noted the island’s difficult history with hurricanes on Sept. 22, just days after the storm swept through the island.
“To the people of Puerto Rico, who are still hurting from Hurricane Maria five years later, I know that we’re — they should know that this — we are with you,” he said. “We’re not going to walk away. We mean it.”
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Sen. Marissa “Marissita” Jiménez Santoni visited over the weekend, with the sup port of the Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development (ODSEC), various communities with acute need in the Senate District of Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona.
“We took on the task of being present … when we knew that they needed to be attended to immediately,” Jiménez Santoni said.
“We have a very serious commitment to all the people in our senatorial district,” she said. “And more so in this case, since we are talking about mothers with small children and seniors.”
As part of the visit, people received basic necessities including canned food, supplies and bottled water, among many others.
“We were present in the Buenaventura neighborhood, in the Municipality of Car olina, where we visited homes along with [Rep.] Wanda del Valle, and the director of
the Governor’s Office, Cari Pierluisi,” Jiménez Santoni said. “Later, in the ‘servi-carro’ mo dality, we also had the opportunity to impact the community of Interamericana Gardens, in the Municipality of Trujillo Alto. We are immensely grateful to ODSEC and its director, Thais Reyes, for all the help provided to our initiative, in which we had the opportunity to impact around 500 families.”
“We will continue to reach the homes of people who, one way or another, were harmed by Hurricane Fiona,” the senator said.
Sen. Marissa Jiménez SantoniThePuerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and LUMA Energy did not have any discussion at all about segregating the energy grid system to avoid an islandwide blackout like the one that occurred during Hurricane Fiona’s passage on Sept. 18.
The admission was made by PREPA Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz during PREPA’s monthly board meeting in response to a question from consumer representative Tomás Torres Placa.
The consumer representative noted that the energy grid is interconnected as power lines go from power plants in the south to the north. If the system is not segregated and a power line from the south fails, it impacts the ones in the north unless some of the power substations are segregated. Torres Placa then asked Colón Ortiz if there was a coordination to segregate the system.
Colón Ortiz replied that such coordination was not made but he noted that it is a complex operation. “It is correct that certain areas can be isolated,” he said. “To achieve that operation,
you must do certain operations in a manual fashion prior to the event, in a well-coordinated fashion to avoid undesired consequences. You have to balance the loads when you disconnect.”
“Segregating is always an option but we should be able to do it remotely in a safe man
ner,” Colón Ortiz said.
He said LUMA Energy did coordinate with PREPA on the elimination of the automatic shutdown of lines to avoid damages in the system, but not the segregation or isolation of the grid by areas.
When Category 3 Hurricane Hugo hit the eastern part of the island in 1989, the western part of the island did not suffer power outages because the system had been segregated in preparation for the storm.
Asked why the coordination was not done this time, Torres Placa replied that the problem now is the lack of a government policy for adequate preparation. He also said Act 120 of 2018 strips PREPA from determining public policy and gave the Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) the power to make public policy determinations.
The P3A has been criticized for failing to adequately supervise LUMA Energy, whose offi cials often do not show up for PREPA meetings.
“The Energy Bureau should investigate,” Torres Placa said.
Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz said the House already passed legislation giving PREPA the power to supervise the LUMA Energy contract, but the Senate has placed it in limbo.
He urged Torres Placa to go to the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau and file a complaint on behalf of consumers “instead of complaining to the media.”
Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds for long-term disaster recovery assistance.
Housing
Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez has signed an agreement with the mayors of six southern Puerto Rico municipalities affected by the 2019 earthquakes. The agreement, which includes the municipalities of Guánica, Guayanilla, Lajas, Peñuelas, Ponce and Yauco, will usher in the use of $36.4 million in Community Development
“Through this agreement, we seek to effectively implement the funds available for southern recovery by integrating the most affected municipalities in their administration and management, as mandated by Governor Pedro Pierluisi,” Rodríguez said during the signing. “This is a crucial opportunity for the munici palities themselves and the low-income families who still need to live under a safe roof.”
The amount that will fund the new program for the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Homes due to Earth quakes (SR2) arose after a special allocation of CDBG-DR funds defined by Federal Register 86 FR 569, which the U.S. government issued on Jan. 6, 2021 to cover the needs of households affected by the 2019 and 2020 earthquakes. The Register also identifies the municipalities of Guánica, Yauco, Guayanilla, and Ponce as the most impacted and affected areas.
Under the administration of a new consortium com prising the six municipalities under the name ConSur, the SR2 program will assist homeowners in repairing damaged residences or rebuilding substantially affected homes in the same location.
The Housing Department will be the state adminis
trator of these funds and, as a federal requirement, will develop an action plan focused on using the $36,424,000 and the SR2 program, available on the “Action Plan” tab of the www.cdbg-dr. pr.gov portal.
ConSur will now begin the process of implementing the plan, starting with the identification of a project manager.
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz The San Juan Daily StarMonday, October 3, 20226 Present at the signing of the agreement were mayors Luis Irizarry Pabón of Ponce, Ismael Rodríguez Ramos of Guánica, Raúl Rivera Rodríguez of Guayanilla, Jayson Martínez Maldonado of Lajas, Ángel Luis Torres of Yauco, and Gregory Gonsález Souchet of Peñuelas.of the month and didn’t have the money to buy last-minute storm supplies, including extra water.
Cole’s problem was a depres singly common one this past week in Florida: First, there was too much water. Now there is not enough of it.
Cole, 50, lives in a two-story apartment on the western coast of Florida that was battered and flooded by Hurricane Ian. After the storm, she and her husband found themselves holed up on the second floor in a county where the water system was broken; the power was mostly out; and many of the taps, including hers, were dry.
The downstairs, Cole said, reeked of sewage. She had bought a couple of cases of water before the storm, but now she had to decide whether to use it to clean or to drink. She and her husband had tried to clean up with water from a small pond, but it proved to be an ineffective solution. The grime was unbearable. They were thirsty.
“We’re really worried,” she said.
Hurricane Ian, which made a second U.S. landfall Friday afternoon on the coast of South Ca rolina, visited tremendous visible devastation as it cut its northeastward path across the Florida Peninsula this past week, leaving wrecked houses and businesses along the Gulf Coast and thick tangles of tree limbs and debris farther inland.
But some of the most potent problems in the state were less easy to see, including the effect on water systems, as the electricity needed to keep water flowing went out in some areas, and water lines were severed by the storm. The state’s water troubles were reflected on a regularly updated list of boil-water advisories maintained by the Florida De partment of Health. On Monday, it had no such notices to report. On Friday, there were nearly 50 advisories in effect.
“As far as I’m aware, every single case is related to the hurricane,” Jae Williams, a Health Department spokes person, said Friday.
Boil-water advisories, which alert residents to the pos sibility of biological contamination in a water system, can be issued for a number of reasons and are often prompted by malfunctions or damage that results in a loss of pressure or other problems. Residents at low elevations are typically told to boil any water used for drinking or cooking for at least one minute.
But in some of the hardest-hit places, water was not coming out of the taps. And owners of electric stoves had limited options in a state where more than 1.7 million power customers were without electricity as of Friday afternoon.
Some of the areas on the boil-water list were small,
like the Spanish Main Travel Resort, a recreational vehicle park in Hillsborough County, on the western side of the state. In other cases, the advisories covered entire cities, like Bartow, Florida, a city of about 20,000 near the geographic center of the peninsula, where the water system experienced several line breaks.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency annou nced Friday that it had sent 1.6 million liters of water to Florida and promised that another 6.6 million liters were on the way. The water was part of an enormous federal response focused on providing basic human services, in cluding 5.5 million meals, more than 400 ambulances and four aircraft to evacuate medically vulnerable people from nursing homes and other facilities.
But the worst trouble was in Lee County, where a badly damaged water system was affecting a population of nearly 760,000, forcing residents to hunt through a tableau of ruin for bottled-water distribution sites and forcing state and federal officials to improvise some creative solutions.
Cole and others were given some water Friday at Next Level Church in Fort Myers, where orange-shirted volun teers — most of whom had no power or water in their own houses — piled cases of water and food into the trunks of waiting cars. The volunteers stuck a yellow sticky note with a number on each driver’s door reflecting the number of household residents, a running tally of desperation: 13, 6, 1.
Victoria Kent, 28, who pulled up with her 8-year-old daughter in the back seat, had subsisted on juice boxes over the past two days. She wouldn’t be paid until the end
And anyway, she said, she had to keep working — selling insurance over the phone from her house — until the power had cut off. They were almost out of food and had run out of water completely. “We’ve just been driving around to see who can help us,” she said. “And I’m down below half a tank.”
The problem was affecting institutions as well as residents. As of Friday morning, three hospitals in Lee County were without water, forcing administrators to evacuate some patients, said Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association. “The public water system has had breaks, and the hospitals are not getting access to water, or the water pressure is completely inade quate,” Mayhew said in a phone interview.
Later in the day, however, Kevin Guthrie, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said in a news con ference that the state had “solved the water problem temporarily” by setting up tanks at the hospitals and “ferrying 20,000 gallons of water about five times a day” to each hospital. Guthrie also said that more than 14,000 gallons of diesel fuel had been shipped to Fort Myers for use at a water plant that served the hospitals.
The water challenges were different farther inland. In Polk County, in Central Florida, Ian stormed through Thursday night, leaving streets strewn with debris and thousands of people without power. Also without power Friday morning were 55 of the county’s 350-plus “lift stations,” which pump wastewater to the local treatment plant.
Mark Addison, a manager for utilities in Polk County, said one short-term solution was to warn people to conserve water and not overwhelm a system that could send dirty water back through their pipes and into their homes.
The ultimate solution — which speaks to another looming infrastructure challenge for Florida — was to work to get the power back on quickly.
The Matanzas Pass Bridge in Fort Myers, Fla., Sept. 29, 2022. In Florida, where nearly 50 boil-water advisories were in effect, residents in counties ravaged by Hurricane Ian stru ggled to find clean drinking water after the storm cut off electricity to keep water flowing and severed pipelines.Not all Republicans who closely aligned themselves with Trump have struggled to pivot from the primary election to the general. In Arizona, the Republican nominee for governor, Kari Lake, has taken a similar approach, and has narrowed her race to a dead heat — but unlike Dixon, she is not facing an incumbent governor like Whitmer.
Other candidates backed by Trump, in cluding Blake Masters in Arizona’s Senate race and Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania’s contest for governor, have fallen behind their Democratic opponents as they have struggled to raise money. Another Republican Senate hopeful, J.D. Vance, is facing a closer-than-expected race in Ohio.
Trump has maintained a keen interest in Michigan. He eked out a victory in the state in 2016 by fewer than 11,000 votes before losing to Joe Biden in 2020 by more than 154,000 votes.
after her grandmother died in a Norton Shores nursing home that prohibited visits during the pandemic.
Dixon, who has the delivery of someone comfortable in front of an audience, has gener ated criticism for spreading unfounded claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election and for some of her stances on LGBTQ issues, including calling for “severe criminal penalties for adults who involve children in drag shows.”
On her website, she calls for a ban to pre vent school employees from talking to children in kindergarten through third grade “about sex and gender theory secretly behind their parents’ backs.” And she has said that abortion should be allowed only if it is necessary to save the life of a mother, not in cases of rape or incest.
By JAZMINE ULLOAAsshe runs to lead a narrowly divided swing state, Tudor Dixon is pursuing a hazard ous strategy in the Michigan governor’s race: embracing Donald Trump, and at times emulating his no-holds-barred political style.
She hit the campaign trail recently with the former president’s son Donald Trump Jr. and Kellyanne Conway, the onetime Trump White House adviser — and, in Trumpian fashion, made headlines for mocking her Democratic opponent, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, over a 2020 kidnapping plot hatched against her by right-wing militia members.
In other appearances, Dixon called for a ban on transgender girls playing in girl’s and women’s sports. And on a recent afternoon at an athletic club in an affluent suburb northwest of Detroit, where a life-size cutout of Trump stood by the doors, she promoted his so-called America First business policies.
“‘America First’ — Michigan First — will bring Michigan back together,” she said.
The governor’s race between Dixon and Whitmer carries high stakes for abortion rights, schools and the future of elections. It is historic — the first time two women have ever gone head-to-head for the position in the state.
The contest also serves as a test of whether Dixon and other Republican candidates can win their general elections by harnessing the grassroots energy of Trump supporters that pro pelled them to the top of crowded and chaotic primaries. That approach — which entails a close
association with Trump’s election denialism and other political baggage — worries some Michi gan Republicans who believe Dixon is failing to win over the kinds of suburban and independent voters who are crucial in tight races.
But it might be the only option she has. Early voting began Thursday, and with time run ning out, Dixon is short on cash, well behind in polls, still working to shore up support among her Republican base and being pummeled by Democrats on the television airwaves.
“Uphill, on icy roads,” said Dennis Darnoi, a longtime Republican strategist in Michigan, describing Dixon’s path to victory. “It is a chal lenge, with a month left, for her to make up the kind of ground that she is going to need.”
Dixon, who joined Trump at a rally Satur day in Macomb County, has appeared unfazed, arguing that her recent fundraising numbers have been high and that her message will ultimately resonate with voters more than Whitmer’s.
On stage Saturday afternoon, Dixon pledged to protect women’s sports and attacked Whitmer’s pandemic and economic policies, suggesting the governor was hiding from voters. Her remarks at times elicited thunderous chants of “Lock her up.” Asked about the challenges ahead for her campaign after she spoke, her team pointed to a new poll from a Republicanaligned firm that put her within 6 percentage points of Whitmer.
“We feel great about it — it means that their message is not resonating,” Dixon said. “She spent millions of dollars to try to take us out, and still people are going to vote red in November.”
“Six weeks from now, the people of Michigan are going to vote to fire your radicalleft Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and you are going to send a very good person, a very, very good woman, Tudor Dixon, to the gover nor’s mansion,” Trump said Saturday in Warren, Michigan, to cheers from the audience.
In a statement released after Dixon’s remarks, Lavora Barnes, the chair of the Michi gan Democratic Party, called her appearance “divisive and desperate.”
“Tonight, Michiganders saw a schoolyard bully on stage — not a leader,” Barnes said. “Tudor Dixon hurled insults and rattled off a litany of grievances because she knows that her dangerous agenda to ban abortion and throw nurses in jail, dismantle public education and slash funding for law enforcement is out-of-step.”
Days before the Republican primary in early August, Trump endorsed Dixon, a conser vative media personality backed by Michigan’s powerful DeVos family.
Dixon, 45, a breast cancer survivor, worked as a steel industry executive until 2017, when she helped create Lumen Student News, a company that produces conservative TV news and history lessons for middle and high school students.
In a December radio interview, she said she aimed to restore students’ faith in the country and combat what she described as “indoctrination” in schools. After helping found Lumen, Dixon went on to host a news show, “America’s Voice Live,” on weekday afternoons.
On the stump, Dixon says she became a vocal critic of Whitmer’s coronavirus restric tions as she witnessed their negative impact on Michigan’s economy. The safety measures “took a deeply personal turn,” Dixon’s website states,
Dixon’s stance on abortion in particular — in a state where voters tend to favor abortion rights and that in November will weigh a ballot measure to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution — is a big reason that some Republicans are worried about her chances. They also fear that underperformance at the top of the ballot could cause the GOP to lose control of the state Legislature.
At Dixon’s event at the athletic club in Oakland County, a panel including former Trump administration officials sat against the tall glass walls of a serene, sunlit indoor pool, as they blasted Biden’s economic policies and painted a harrowing picture of crime-filled American cities and unchecked immigration at the southwestern border.
In a short speech, Dixon slammed what she characterized as a “radical sex and gender theory” permeating schools and denounced Whitmer for providing tax incentives to bring a Chinese company to Michigan, rather than an American one.
But mostly, she displayed a rare dose of moderation, critiquing Whitmer’s pandemic re strictions and economic policies, rising crime in the state’s cities, and schools that Dixon argued had failed to adequately teach students to read and write. They were the kinds of remarks that some establishment and moderate Republicans might be hoping for — and they also seemed to appease the people in the room.
Susan Savich, 64, and her 24-year-old son, Jonathan, asked to take photos with Dixon on her way out. They were opposed to schools teaching children anything but basic skills and traditional beliefs, they said, and Savich liked that Dixon was “education first.”
They were also relieved to hear that Trump was coming to the state. “Ms. Dixon is going up against a lot,” Savich said.
Doug Mastriano, Republican candidate for governor, hosts a Hispanic Town Hall Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. on Sept. 30, 2022.California finds itself on edge more than ever with a lingering fear: the threat of rolling blackouts for years to come.
Despite adding new power plants, building huge battery storage systems and restarting some shuttered fossil fuel generators over the past couple of years, California relies heavily on energy from other states — the cavalry rushing over a distant hill.
Sometimes the support does not show up when expected or at all. That was the case this month, when millions of residents got cellphone alerts urging them to cut their energy use as the state teetered close to blackouts in blazing heat.
As climate change makes extreme weather events more frequent, the peril has only increased.
“Weather volatility wreaks havoc on energy systems,” said Evan Caron, a 20-year veteran of the energy industry as a trader and investor who handles venture investments for Riverstone Holdings, a private equity firm in New York. “They’ve created complex systems to help try to figure out how to balance demand, but the system is an imperfect system.”
Where local utilities once produced, transmitted and delivered electricity to their customers, a cast of players now orchestrates the service in most areas of the country. There are power plant owners, energy traders who buy and sell excess power not committed in contracts, utilities that deliver electricity to customers, electric grid managers who coordinate it all.
California’s grid is connected by transmission lines to other Western states and Canadian provinces, allowing it to import and export power. Like any big marketplace, the system has advantages of scale, allowing resources to be redirected to where they are needed. But California’s experience has revealed a number of vulnerabilities — in the system’s design and in the region’s generating capacity — that create the potential for failure.
The transition away from fossil fuels has complicated energy operations, as an increasing share of electricity is coming from solar and wind farms that produce power only when the sun shines or the wind blows, making the available supply more variable over a 24-hour period.
Part of President Joe Biden’s strategy to reduce emissions and counter the effects of climate change is to increase the delivery of clean energy from one area, state or region to another — say, from Wyoming wind farms or Arizona solar farms to California homes and offices — an effort backed by hundreds of billions of dollars in this year’s Inflation Reduction Act and other measures.
But until those plans yield a significant increase in energy generation and transmission, grid managers like the California Independent System Operator, or CAISO, which
runs 80% of the state’s electric system, must depend on and compete with neighbors for what is sold in energy markets. That means California risks falling short during periods of peak demand, like the one it experienced Sept. 6.
With temperatures soaring throughout the West, CAISO faced rising prices in the regional market that it operates to buy and sell energy. As electricity demand kept increasing, so did prices, some to almost $2,000 per megawatt-hour, compared with normal prices of less than $100.
“Where the risk comes is if we can’t get our prices high enough compared to the rest of the West to get any im ports,” said Carrie Bentley, co-founder and CEO of Gridwell Consulting, which focuses on energy markets in the West. “Prices in the desert Southwest were a little higher, so we were competing with them. There just wasn’t enough supply.”
As Sept. 6 arrived, Elliot Mainzer, CAISO’s CEO, knew he was facing one of his organization’s toughest days.
Its meteorologists, along with those at the National Weather Service, were forecasting record heat. With overnight lows in the 80s in much of the state, it did not take long for temperatures to surge back into the 100s, with Sacramento setting a record high of 116 degrees.
Just before Mainzer and a hundred other people from utilities, smaller grid operators and emergency services got on a 9 a.m. call with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, CAISO’s forecasters were projecting the highest demand the system had ever seen: 51,276 megawatts. The peak, set 16 years earlier, was 50,270.
“We were seeing that there were going to be some significant shortfalls,” Mainzer said. “It’s not just the demand and the heat, but wildfires, smoke and cloud cover were affecting the system.”
About 5:17 p.m., the highest of three emergency alert levels was declared, and CAISO told utilities to prepare to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of customers.
At 5:40 p.m., CAISO informed Newsom that “we were deep into the emergency,” Mainzer said. “That was where we were, one step away from rotating outages.”
Taking a drastic measure, Newsom ordered emergency warnings to be sent to 27 million cellphones in areas of high de mand, like Los Angeles. The messages urged people to avoid nonessential power use, keep thermostats no lower than 78 degrees and charge electric vehicles only at night, after demand recedes.
In minutes, electricity use dropped more than 2,000 megawatts — or the pro duction capacity of two large power plants.
Even as California was facing record demand, its power lines were sending power to other parts of the region, in some cases to fulfill contracts between producers and utili ties. At moments during the day, more than 5,000 megawatts of electricity were exported through CAISO’s system for hours at a time, according to Tyson Siegele, an analyst at the Protect Our Communities Foundation, an advocacy group for energy issues.
Even with the exports, the state imported more power that day than it shared, with a net that never fell below 4,000 megawatts, according to Bentley of Gridwell Consulting.
Still, Mainzer is aware of the optics of the exports at such a critical time.
“I think we’re kind of terrified,” Mainzer said, “that we’re going to be criticized that we were doing exports.”
Mainzer said his staff would have to review the data from the Sept. 6 emergency for more details about power plant performance and imports and exports, but California did help neighboring states affected by the extreme heat, Nevada in particular, just as other states provided support to California. The bigger concern, he said, is the need to adjust for the evolving demands that climate change is placing on the electric grid, including by improving planning.
“We’re having to update our resource forecasting,” Mainzer said. “The past is no longer the predictor of the future.”
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Power lines in Cathedral City, Calif., Sept. 6, 2022. Despite adding new power plants, building huge battery storage systems and restarting some shuttered fossil fuel generators over the last couple of years, California relies heavily on energy from other states.
Itis a horrible time for stocks, which have spent the year in a bear market. But guess what? When you look at the historical re cord, bonds are worse.
This year is the most devastating period for bonds since at least 1926, the numbers show. And, in the estimation of one bond ma ven, 2022 is shaping up to be the worst year for bonds since reliable record-keeping began in the late 18th century.
Yet as bad as things are now, history and basic fixed-income math tell us that bond in vestors will begin to experience relief when interest rates stop rising. You can count on that eventually, though we don’t know when it will happen.
Much as truly long-term investors are likely to be better off if they can ignore the tur moil in the stock market and just hang onto well-diversified holdings in low-cost index funds, most bond investors can expect to be nefit if they can ride out this upheaval and hold onto their bonds, whether owned individually or in diversified funds.
More lessons from the Volcker era
Since the 1920s, the stock market has usually produced wonderful returns over the long haul, but it has frequently generated short-term losses that have dominated headli nes. That’s certainly happening this year.
Bonds — especially the investmentgrade core of the market, which includes U.S. Treasurys and high-quality corporate bonds — are supposed to be Steady Eddies, so boring that they are comforting. They provide an inco me stream and, typically, also offer something else: a buffer against losses in the stock market.
Not so this year.
Bonds are being hammered all over the world. British government bonds, known as gilt, have taken huge losses this week, and the Bank of England intervened.
In the United States, bond investors are experiencing large paper losses that are closely connected to red-hot inflation, and to the rising interest rates engineered by the Federal Reser ve to curb the pace of soaring prices.
Because bond prices and interest rates (aka yields) move in opposite directions — that is simply the way bonds work — the steep rise in rates has automatically led to deep drops in bond prices.
It’s happened before.
The last time the Fed had to cope with
This has been the most devastating time for bonds since at least 1926, and maybe in centuries. But, our columnist writes, much of the damage is already behind us.
inflation this high was in the early years of Paul Volcker’s tenure as chair, from August 1979 through 1982. He responded by sharply incre asing interest rates and throwing the economy into two recessions.
I’ve examined that period in two recent columns, and it is especially illuminating for bonds.
Recall that after tightening rates for se veral years, Volcker decided in the summer and fall of 1982 that it was time to relieve the economic pain. That was a turning point. Inter est rates fell and the stock market rallied. For bonds, according to several measures, it was the best year of the last century.
I’m not predicting another spectacular turnaround for bonds right now, or even in 2023, only noting that amid all the gloom, it’s already possible to discern signs of a future tur naround. The economy is weakening, the Fed will pivot eventually — and bonds will rally.
Some bond bulls, like David Rosenberg, chief economist of his own firm, Rosenberg Research, go much further. He has been an ticipating a recession for many months and points out that in such periods, as the eco nomy shrinks, people tend to seek safety in Treasury bonds. That popularity of Treasurys, along with declining yields, typically increases bond prices.
“I’m confident that long Treasury bonds will be the best asset class over the next year,” Rosenberg said in an interview.
Still safe
Before looking at the ugly numbers, try to stay calm. You don’t need to worry about high-quality bonds if you hold onto them. Tre asury bonds, in particular, are still the safest investments you can get, in the sense that if you keep them to maturity, you won’t lose any money.
Try to sell them, though, and losses will kick in. And because mutual funds and exchange-traded funds must report the market values of their holdings, if you are a sharehol der in such funds you are likely to have losses now, even if you haven’t sold any shares. Your diversified funds containing stocks and bonds have probably declined sharply in value, as well, because bonds haven’t provided their customary buffer.
Bonds produce income, but because in terest rates were close to zero when the cu rrent surge in rates started, those increases in yield caused vertiginous drops in bond values, and there has been almost no income cushion to soften the blow.
A little perspective
I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that whole sections of the bond market have done
even worse than these statistics suggest.
Long bonds — those with many years to run, like 30-year Treasurys — are more sensiti ve to interest rate changes than one-year Trea sury bills. That’s why, in this rising interest rate environment, the Bloomberg US Credit Long AA index lost 27.7% through Thursday.
High-yield bonds, or junk bonds, have special problems. As the economy weakens, the risk of default rises and, in some respects, they trade more like stocks than Treasurys. Junk bonds are having a terrible year, too.
Stocks are in a bear market — defined as a decline of more than 20% from a previous peak — but that happens relatively often com pared with bonds. Including this one, there have been 15 bear markets for the S&P 500 since 1926, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst for S&P Dow Jones Indi ces.
There has never been a decline that big for diversified investment-grade bond portfo lios.
Most of the time, losses in these bonds are small. For example, the Schwab Center for Financial Research has found that since 1976, diversified, investment-grade bonds like these suffered calendar year losses only four times before 2022 — and they were inconsequential, less than 5% in a given year.
What may lie ahead
“It’s likely that most of the damage in the bond market has already been done,” said Kathy A. Jones, chief fixed income strategist for the Schwab Center for Financial Research. In terest rates have already risen so rapidly that the average yield for the kinds of high-quality bonds in the Bloomberg Aggregate index is al most 5%.
“That’s becoming an attractive income stream,” she said. “There’s some good news in there for bond investors.”
The damage done to the economy from higher interest rates is probably just beginning, however. Mortgage rates have leaped well above 6%, and there are indications that the housing market is beginning to stumble. With interest rates rising, a lingering pandemic, supply chain glitches, an energy shock and the endless misery of Russia’s war on Ukraine, it would hardly be a surprise if the U.S. economy fell into a recession.
But don’t despair. I expect that at some point in the not-too-distant future, the havoc of the last year will start to reverse. People with long horizons are likely to prosper.
TheS&P 500 closed records on Friday with its sharpest September drop in two decades, crossing the finish line of a turbulent quarter fraught with historically high in flation, rising interest rates and recession fears.
All three major indices fell sharply, choking off shortterm gains early in the session.
The S&P and Dow posted their third consecutive weekly decline, and all three indexes posted their second straight monthly losses.
In the first nine months of 2022, Wall Street experienced three consecutive quarterly declines, marking the longest los ing streak for the S&P and Nasdaq since 2008 and the Dow’s longest quarterly decline in seven years.
“This is another ugly day to end an ugly quarter in what looks like a very ugly year,” said Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at Carson Group in Omaha, Nebraska. “Investors will look back and realize that this year the Fed changed a total of 180 of its views on inflation and quickly became in credibly hawkish.”
The Federal Reserve shocked the markets by engaging in the most relentless series of rate hikes in decades to curb the stubbornly high inflation that is causing many market par ticipants to watch key economic data for signs of a looming recession.
“The realization that the Fed is doing everything it can to fight inflation, which has reached a 40-year high, makes investors worry that they will push the economy to the brink and fall into a recession,” Detrick added.
The Commerce Department’s Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) report did little to allay those concerns, showing that while consumers continue to spend, the prices they pay have accelerated, deviating from the Fed’s inflation target and all but supporting the central government’s hawk ish monetary policy. jar. will last longer than investors had hoped.
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Shares of companies fell by 12.8% and 23.3%, respec tively.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) fell 500.1 points, or 1.71%, to 28,725.51; S&P 500 (.SPX) lost 54.85 points, or 1.51%, to 3585.62; and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) fell 161.89 points, or 1.51%, to 10,575.62.
Among the 11 major S&P 500 sectors, real estate (.SPLR CR) was the sole gainer, while utilities (.SPLRCU) and tech nology (.SPLRCT) suffered the largest percentage loss.
Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Microsoft Corp, Amazon.com and Nike were in the top weight.
Corporate earnings reports for the quarter ending Friday will start coming in in a few weeks, and analyst expectations
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are trending down.
Analysts are now forecasting a 4.5% annual gain for the S&P 500 as a whole, up from an estimate of 11.1% at the start of the quarter.
The reallocation of funds at the end of the quarter and the so-called “window dressing” probably contributed to the volatility of the session.
There were more declining issues on the NYSE than ris
ing issues at a ratio of 1.45 to 1; on the Nasdaq, a ratio of 1.38 to 1 favored the decline.
The S&P 500 made no new 52-week highs and 93 new lows; The Nasdaq Composite recorded 27 new highs and 380 new lows.
Volume on US exchanges was 12.44 billion shares, compared to an average of 11.45 billion over the past 20 trading days.
By ANDREW E. KRAMER and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
Ukraine continued its show of de fiance against Moscow’s illegal annexation claims Sunday, with soldiers and police officers fanning out to search for Russian stragglers in a key city reclaimed by Ukrainian forces even as Russian President Vladimir Putin declared it part of Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said that Lyman, a strategic rail way hub in the Donetsk region, had been fully cleared by Sunday afternoon, as Ukrainian forces conducted patrols and delivered aid to residents who had sur vived months of Russian occupation and weeks of battle as Ukraine fought to re take it. The city now lies largely in ruins, without electricity, water or regular food supplies, according to Stanislav Zagrusky, the Ukrainian police chief responsible for the area.
Still, Zagrusky said in an interview, the resumption of Ukrainian police pa trols late Saturday — hours after the Ukrainian army declared the city liber ated and Russia’s military conceded that it had retreated — underlined the absur dity of the Kremlin’s grandiose ceremony a day earlier announcing that the territory had been incorporated into Russia.
“We absolutely don’t care what they say, what decrees they issue, what an nouncements they make,” he said of the Kremlin authorities, deploring the con ditions in which Russian troops had left residents of Lyman during the occupa tion: “They did absolutely nothing for the people all this time.”
“They didn’t try to restore electricity, or water and people lived without regular food supplies,” he said, adding that many residents needed medical care.
It was unclear how many people re
mained in the city, which had a prewar population of 20,000. Artillery strikes damaged much of Lyman.
Ukrainian commanders had initially thought they would retake Lyman quick ly, but Russia’s military sent reinforce ments. Fierce fighting ensued in dense forests and along the banks of the Siver sky Donets River as Ukraine cut off the roads used to move troops and ammuni tion into the city. Ukrainian forces nearly completed an encirclement of Lyman, even as Putin claimed the region around the city as part of Russia on Friday.
“In Lyman and around it, there were significantly strong forces,” Col. Sergei Cherevaty, a spokesperson for Ukrainian troops fighting in the east, said in an in terview.
Russian soldiers retreated chaotically, breaking from their units and escaping in smaller groups into the surrounding forests, Cherevaty said, and many were killed or cap tured. About 2,000 to 3,000 Russian sol diers remained in Lyman when Ukrainian forc es arrived at the outskirts of the city Friday, he said. It was unclear Sunday how many Rus
sian soldiers had fallen into Ukrainian hands.
In an article published Sunday in a major Russian newspaper, Komsomol skaya Pravda, a prominent war corre spondent traveling with fleeing Russian forces described demoralized troops with “empty eyes” who barely escaped Lyman with their lives.
In an unusually candid assessment, the account, written by Alexander Kots, said that in the last few days of their oc cupation, Russian forces in Lyman were
plagued by desertion, poor planning and the late arrival of reserves.
“The risk of encirclement or shameful imprisonment became too great, and the Russian command made a decision to fall back,” he wrote.
There was no public comment from Putin’s office about the loss of Lyman, even as pro-war commentators and two of his closest allies sharply criticized the Defense Ministry for retreating from the city. Seemingly unfazed by its military setbacks, Moscow continued to press ahead with its sham annexation effort Sunday, as the country’s rubber-stamp Constitutional Court formally accepted Putin’s decision to claim four Ukrainian regions as part of Russia.
Zagrusky said that while the Ukraini an military took prisoners after the battle, police officers had made no arrests of Russian stragglers as of midday Sunday. His officers found that Russians had hast ily abandoned a police station, leaving it littered with garbage.
Ukrainian military posted a taunting message on Twitter asserting that it had captured prisoners and mocking the Rus sian explanation of the withdrawal as a redeployment to the east.
“We thank the ‘Ministry of Defense’ of Russia for successful cooperation,” the Ukrainian tweet said. “Almost all Russian troops deployed to Lyman were success fully redeployed either into body bags or into Ukrainian captivity.”
A civilian sits in front of a battle-damaged building after receiving humanitarian aid in the recently liberated city of Izium, Ukraine on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Russian forces withdrew from the strategic eastern city of Lyman on Saturday, a significant setback for Moscow just a day after President Vladimir V. Putin declared that the region where it lies was now part of Russia.
Ukrainian soldiers near Lyman, in eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022.
Brittney Griner, a professional basketball player, remains jailed in Russia for bringing hashish oil into the country after the United States denounced its president, Vladimir Putin, for invading Ukraine earlier in the year.
U.S. officials said the two Venezuelans known as the “narco nephews” — Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Fran cisco Flores de Freitas — were flown to a third country on Saturday at the same time that a plane carrying the Americans landed in the same country, which officials would not name.
A senior administration official called Biden’s action to grant clemency “a tough decision and a painful decision,” but said it was the only way to persuade Venezue lan President Nicolás Maduro to release the Americans.
Cold War.
In a statement Saturday, the govern ment of Venezuela said it welcomed the release of the nephews, saying they had been “unjustly imprisoned” and that it had decided to release the Americans “for hu manitarian reasons.”
The Venezuela announcement had been months in the making, according to senior administration officials, and had been approved by Biden several weeks ago, setting in motion a series of logisti cal conversations between officials in both countries.
One senior administration official said both governments spent time Saturday mor ning confirming the identities of the people on the planes before they switched places and took off again, this time for home.
The Americans released by Venezuela included several executives of the Citgo oil refining company who had been detained for more than four years.
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and FARNAZ FASSIHI
Seven Americans who had been held captive in Venezuela for years were on their way home Saturday after Pre sident Joe Biden agreed to grant clemency to two nephews of Cilia Flores, Venezuela’s first lady, officials said. The men had been sentenced in 2017 to 18 years in prison for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the Uni ted States.
At the same time, Iran on Saturday re leased Siamak Namazi, a 51-year-old dualnational Iranian American businessman who had been jailed since 2015, on a tem porary furlough and lifted the travel ban on his father, Baquer Namazi, an 85-year-old former official for the United Nations, ac cording to the family’s lawyer.
Together, the announcements regar ding Venezuela and Iran represented one of the largest mass releases of Americans de tained abroad in recent memory, although one U.S. official said the timing was coinci dental. For Biden, freeing seven Americans, some of whom had been held for years in Venezuelan prison, was part of an aggres sive push to accelerate such homecomings — an effort that has drawn some criticism for the president’s willingness to exchange convicted criminals.
The releases also come at a time of heightened global tensions that has proved dangerous for Americans traveling abroad.
Officials declined to say whether the prisoner swap represented a thaw in the strained relationship between the United States and the Maduro-led government in Venezuela. The United States has imposed sanctions on Maduro’s government as it has pressed for negotiations between Ma duro and Juan Guaidó, the former National Assembly leader, whom the United States considers Venezuela’s legitimate interim president.
The release of the Namazis comes as negotiations over returning to a deal to li mit Iran’s nuclear capabilities have stalled. American officials have long insisted that prisoner talks are not connected to the talks to revive the 2015 deal.
The White House made no official mention of the actions by Iran on Saturday, and neither did a statement issued by Biden address the release of the Venezuelan drug smugglers. But Biden welcomed home the Americans: Jorge Toledo, Tomeu Vadell, Alirio Zambrano, Jose Luis Zambrano, Jose Pereira, Matthew Heath and Osman Khan.
“These individuals will soon be reuni ted with their families and back in the arms of their loved ones where they belong,” Bi den said in the statement. “Today, we cele brate that seven families will be whole once more.”
The last prisoner exchange involving so many people took place in 2010, when the United States agreed to release 10 Russians arrested for spying in exchange for four people detained by Moscow for their con tacts with Western intelligence agencies. At the time, the swap — which was approved at a time of warming relations between the United States and Russia — represented the largest spy exchange since the end of the
The exchange was the latest in a series of prisoner swaps that Biden has agreed to since taking office as his administration seeks to bring home Americans whom the State Department has designated as wron gfully detained abroad.
But it is also likely to be another flas hpoint in the debate about releasing cri minals convicted of significant crimes in exchange for detained Americans. In 2014, President Barack Obama agreed to swap five Taliban terrorists in exchange for the return of Bowe Bergdahl, an Army soldier who had deserted and been captured by the Haqqani terrorist network.
Obama’s decision to make the exchan ge for Bergdahl, who was dishonorably dis charged, sparked intense debate about the willingness of the U.S. government to ne gotiate with terrorists, something presidents from both parties have for decades vowed not to do.
The Americans who had been held
in Venezuela included five members of a group known as the “Citgo 6.” They were executives of the Citgo oil refining com pany who were detained more than four years ago on charges of corruption that their lawyers and U.S. officials said were trumped up. One member of the group and another American being held in Venezue la were released in March after a team of Americans from Biden’s administration flew to Caracas for discussions, officials said.
Citgo said in a tweet that its executives had been detained and convicted “without due process. We welcome the news of the release of the remaining five and are grate ful to the leaders in Washington who hel ped bring about their release.”
Two other Americans — Heath, who was detained in 2020, and Khan, who was detained at the beginning of this year — were also among those released by Vene zuela on Saturday.
Asked whether the release of the Vene zuelan drug smugglers would prompt Ma duro to detain more Americans, the senior administration official said he hoped that the Venezuelan president and others would realize that the president’s decision was a “rare” action that is not likely to be repea ted often.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., lashed out at the administration on Twitter.
“Today Biden released two convicted drug dealer nephews of #Venezuela dic tator Maduro in exchange for 7 innocent Americans being held hostage,” said Rubio, whose state is home to many Venezuelans who fled the socialist governments there.
“Another Biden appeasement that will result in more anti-U.S. dictators taking more innocent Americans hostage in the future,” Rubio wrote.
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By MUKTITA SUHARTONO, SUI-LEE WEE and DERA MENRA SIJABAT
Itwas supposed to be a joyous occa sion for fans of Arema FC, the most beloved soccer team in Malang.
Tens of thousands of young people — who call themselves “Aremania” — had packed the Kanjuruhan Stadium on Saturday night, hoping to watch their team beat Persebaya Surabaya, a club it had defeated for 23 years running.
But Arema lost, 3-2, and angry fans began rushing the field. What unfolded next became one of the deadliest sports stadium disasters in history: Police offi cers began shooting tear gas canisters into the crowd and beating fans with ba tons, witnesses said, and in a rush to flee the stadium fans piled up against narrow exits, crushing each other. At least 125 people were reported dead as of Sunday night.
“I’m still thinking: ‘Did all this really happen?’” said Felix Mustikasakti Afoan Tumbaz, a 23-year-old fan whose right leg was injured when a tear-gas canister landed on him. “How could such a trage dy occur and kill so many people?”
The disaster has focused attention on the use of tear gas by local police in such a tightly packed stadium. On Twit ter, one of the top trending topics in In donesia was “National Police Chief,” with many Indonesians calling for his removal. A spokesperson for the national police said that in addition to the huge death toll, there were reports that at least 300 people had been injured.
Violent, often deadly rivalries bet
ween major teams are common in Indo nesia. Some teams even have fan clubs with so-called commanders, who lead large groups of supporters. Flares are of ten thrown onto the field, and riot police are a regular presence at many matches. Since the 1990s, dozens of fans have been killed in soccer-related violence.
But Indonesia has never before seen a sports stadium disaster on this scale. Saturday’s tragedy appeared to be a per fect storm of everything that could go wrong at a soccer match.
Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has asked the police chief for a tho rough investigation into the cause of the incident.
In a televised speech to the nation, he said he had also ordered the minister of youth and sports and the chair of Indonesia’s foot ball association to evaluate security at soccer matches.
“I regret that this tra gedy occurred,” Joko said. “And I hope this is the last football tragedy in the country.”
Police defended their use of tear gas, which they
said was necessary to subdue aggrieved fans. East Java’s police chief, Inspector General Nico Afinta, said the gas was de ployed “because there was anarchy.” He said the fans “were about to attack the officers and had damaged the cars.”
But witnesses dispute Afinta’s accou nt, saying that police officers fired tear gas indiscriminately into the stands, causing a stampede and many people to suffocate. Videos circulating on Twitter showed fans scaling a fence as they tried to flee the clouds of tear gas. Other videos showed security forces with shields and batons kicking and hitting fans who had rushed onto the field.
The stadium was over capacity. Ma hfud MD, Indonesia’s coordinating minis ter for political, legal and security affairs, said that the local football committee had printed 42,000 tickets, more than the stadium’s 38,000 seats. Afinto said there were 40,000 people inside the stadium.
Police came armed with tear gas, even though its use at games is prohibi ted by FIFA, soccer’s global governing body. Owen West, a senior lecturer on policing at Edge Hill University in Britain, said the use of crowd control munitions and full riot gear “becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy” because officers’ “tactical as sumptions are all initiated around a sense
“It is incredibly, incredibly dangerous to use a dispersal tactic such as tear gas in this case,” West said. “I’m guessing it was used without any thought of where thousands of people might go to.”
One fan, Joshua Nade, said that af ter the match ended, two or three angry fans came down from the stands and were seen shouting at the players. Poli ce officers entered to turn the fans back, drawing more people onto the field. Some scuffling between police and fans prompted officers to fire the first bursts of tear gas around 10:30 p.m. local time.
Then at 11 p.m., security forces suddenly started firing tear gas at a steady clip into the stands, said Joshua, who like many Javanese does not use a fa mily name. That prompted hundreds of people to rush to the exits. Officers conti nued firing tear gas for an hour, according to Joshua.
Outside the stadium, hundreds of an gry fans clashed with police. Some of the exits were sealed off, ostensibly to keep fans from flooding the stadium. But that trapped thousands of people inside.
To get out, Joshua said, some people had to scale fences more than 15 feet high, clambering over other panicked spectators. Joshua said police stood by and did nothing to help the hundreds of people who had fainted from the tear gas.
In a statement, Indonesia’s Legal Aid Foundation said “the excessive use of for ce through the use of tear gas and inap propriate crowd control was the cause of the large number of fatalities.”
“If there wasn’t tear gas, there wouldn’t be such a riot,” said Suci Raha yu, a photographer who was in the sta dium.
Soccer violence has long been a pro blem for Indonesia, and police officers are usually on guard to contend with un ruly fans. The last time tear gas was used in a deadly way by police during a soc cer match was also during an Arema FC game in 2018. One person died and 214 people were injured.
Saturday’s death toll put it among the worst sports casualty counts in history, including a riot in Peru in 1964 that left more than 300 dead, and in Hillsborough, England, in which an FA Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Fo rest in Sheffield resulted in the deaths of 97 soccer fans.
Officers with a damaged police vehicle after the deadly events at Kanjuruhan Stadium on Saturday.
Wayback when, I was a Cosmo Girl. I read Cosmopolitan magazine and studied its barrage of tips on how to attract men.
One tip was to read an intriguing book on the bus to and from work. I settled on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.”
This literary honey trap did not work. But after reading “Crime and Punishment,” I came away thinking the Russian temperament was soulful and truthful.
Raskolnikov, the poor former student, kills an older woman who is an unethical pawnbroker, as well as her half sister. He is immediately filled with guilt and disgust and, in the end, turns himself over to the police.
It got stuck in my 20-year-old head that selfincrimination was a Russian trait, and that Russians understood on a deep level that you can’t put yourself above the rules just because you think you’re superior.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, of course, contradicts that notion, as did Josef Stalin.
Putin is less Dostoyevsky than Euripides, a walking revenge play. Like Medea — a searing production of the opera kicked off the Met season on Tuesday — Putin commits savage murder of innocents without worrying
about the consequences.
Medea feels disrespected — that’s all she needs to justify her carnage, murdering her own children and her husband’s new bride with a poisoned robe and coronet. In some versions of the Greek myth, Medea helped Jason get the Golden Fleece, killing her own brother and betraying her father to assist him, and she wasn’t about to see her husband happy in another woman’s arms. Now she wants blood, summoning in the opera the “Black Furies” and “deities of Hell.”
Putin, too, feels disrespected, still mourning the breakup of the Soviet Union, content to murder any number of innocent Ukrainians to slake his longing to stitch that lost empire back together.
At the end of the opera, Medea sets fire to the temple where she has killed her two sons. It bursts into flames around her. The horrified crowd runs away, singing,
Oh, terror!
Earth and Heaven are in flames!
Let us fly from the burning sky.
In an eerie echo, Putin raised the chilling specter of a burning sky in a speech on Friday at the gilded Georgievsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. He darkly alluded to using nuclear weapons, which would leave Earth and heaven in flames.
“The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent,” he said.
Sounding demented, Putin charged that “the dictatorship of the Western elites” was an “overthrow of faith and traditional values.” It has, he said, come “to resemble a religion in reverse — pure Satanism.”
Wrapping up his own destiny with Mother Russia’s, noting that his country must occupy its rightful place in the world as “a great thousand-year-old power, a whole civilization,” he announced that he was formally swallowing four provinces in eastern Ukraine following fake referendums there.
We are awash in fear and anger at his unholy brutality, but Putin doesn’t care. Like Medea, he is unconcerned about the cries of the Greek chorus.
To justify his unprovoked attempt to subsume Ukraine, Putin made the absurd claim that the West is a “neocolonial system” that has always “dreamed about” dividing, weakening and breaking up Russia and turning it into a colony.
While U.S. President Joe Biden and officials in Europe blamed Russia for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines, designed to carry Russian natural gas to Europe, Putin implied it was the work of
President Vladimir Putin held a ceremony Friday to declare the annexation of four regions in Ukraine.
the Anglo-Saxons. “Sanctions are no longer enough, and now they have turned to subversion,” he said.
Biden responded during a news conference at the White House on Friday, announcing that the administration was imposing new sanctions against Russia, and stating that the world would not recognize the fraudulent referendums.
“He’s not going to scare us or intimidate us,” Biden said. “He can’t seize his neighbor’s territory and get away with it.”
The Ukrainians are making successful military offensives in the northeast of the country, and Russian men are fleeing Putin’s Russia in droves; by some estimates, more men have left Russia to avoid service in Ukraine than have served there.
Donald Trump posted on his social media site, “The Russia/Ukraine catastrophe should NEVER have happened, and would definitely not have happened if I were President.”
He may be right. If Trump were president, he would be in Putin’s pocket and America would not be helping Ukraine.
It has long been assumed that a nuclear weapon would never be used again because of the consequences. But what if you’re dealing with a malefactor with no concern for consequences? A modern Greek tragedy.
CATAÑO – Casi mil solicitudes de asistencia individual de FEMA han sido llenadas en tres centros habilitados por el Municipio de Cataño, desde el pasado lunes, 26 de sep tiembre. De igual forma, esta semana seguirá abierto el Cen tro ubicado en la Casa Alcaldía, desde mañana lunes hasta el viernes, 7 de octubre; así lo informó el alcalde, Julio Alicea Vasallo.
“Luego de la petición del gobernador, Pedro Pierluisi, al presidente de los Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, para que los pueblos de la isla fueran declarados zonas de desastre mayor, incluyendo Cataño, el presidente la aprobó. Inmediatamente nuestro equipo municipal habilitó tres lugares para completar solicitudes: uno en el Centro Comunal de Juana Matos, otro en el Centro Comunal Vista del Morro y en el piso 9 de la Casa Alcaldía. Ante este llamado, a 919 de nuestras familias se les ayudó para complementar la solicitud de 700 dólares. Para concentrar estos esfuerzos, esta semana solo abrirá la oficina de la casa Alcaldía en el piso 9, de 8:30 de la mañana a 5:00 de la tarde, todos los días hasta este viernes. Exhortamos a todos los que entiendan que cualifiquen que pasen por nues tro centro y tengan información de primera mano”, destacó Alicea Vasallo en declaraciones escritas.
Otras maneras de solicitar la asistencia individual por de sastre pueden ser: en línea (Internet) en DisasterAssistane.gov/
es, llamando al 800-621-3362 o mediante la aplicación móvil de FEMA. Estos números de teléfono gratuitos funcionarán de 7:00 am a 11:00 pm (hora local) los siete días de la semana hasta nuevo aviso; los operadores están preparados para ayu dar a los sobrevivientes en varios idiomas.
Para agilizar su solicitud, tenga a mano la siguiente in formación: Un número de teléfono actualizado donde se le pueda localizar; su dirección en el momento del desastre y la dirección en la que se encuentra ahora; su número de Seguro Social, si lo tiene; una lista general de los daños y pérdidas sufridas en su hogar y de sus bienes personales; y si tiene un seguro, el número de la póliza de seguro, o el nombre del agente y la compañía. Además, para iniciar la solicitud nece sita: número de Seguro Social; ingreso anual del hogar; infor mación de contacto; información de tu asegurador (si aplica); datos de tu cuenta bancaria (si es elegible se le deposita di rectamente en su cuenta) y dirección de correo electrónico (email) si desea estar notificado del estatus de la solicitud.
El alcalde Julio Alicea Vasallo, aprovechó para destacar la labor de los empleados del municipio durante la emergencia del huracán Fiona que “se tiraron a la calle a auxiliar a nuestra gente y a importantes labores de recuperación. Brigadas del Departamento de Obras Públicas municipal estuvieron todos los días, mayormente, recogiendo árboles y despejando las vías públicas. Ante la falta del servicio de agua, se estable cieron dos oasis con agua potable. Se distribuyó hielo en las
residencias en las comunidades. Se movilizaron residentes a refugios y al CDT. Desde antes que comenzaran las lluvias, se estuvo vigilante al continuo funcionamiento de las bombas de aguas. Empleados de todas las dependencias municipales han estado por cada sector haciendo el censo de daños. Nuestra oficina de Bienestar Animal también veló celosamente por el cuidado de las mascotas. En fin, me siento más que orgulloso de tener unos empleados que les hacen honor a las palabras: servidor público.”
Los apoderados respaldaron la labor de Quiles Rosas y sus gestiones con el equipo de Puerto Rico de cara al World Baseball Classic del 2023.
Además, la Junta de Directores de la Federación aprobó de forma unánime la entrada de las franquicias de Caguas y Ponce para la temporada 2023 del Béisbol Superior Doble A, hoy domingo, en reunión extraordi naria.
César Ozuna y el de los Cachorros el profesor Eric Vega. Caguas jugará en la sección Central, mientras Ponce for mará parte de la sección Sur.
Se informó además que los Criollos tendrán como estadio local el Yldefonso Sola Morales y los Leones el Francisco ‘Paquito’ Montaner.
POR CYBERNEWSSAN JUAN – Con la presencia de 39 de los 43 apode rados, la Junta de Directores aprobó de forma uná nime una petición del apoderado de los Maceteros de Vega Alta, Jorge William Santiago, para darle un voto de confianza al presidente de la Federación de Béisbol de Puerto Rico, doctor José Quiles Rosas.
La aprobación de ambos equipos aumentó a 45 las franquicias participantes, siendo la cantidad más alta del torneo federativo desde 2014.
Las ciudades de Caguas y Ponce tuvieron repre sentación por última vez en la Doble A en 1982. Los equipos llevarán los nombres de Criollos y Cachorros, respectivamente.
El apoderado de los Criollos será el licenciado Julio
El resto de las franquicias tendrá hasta el 21 de octu bre para dejar tres jugadores libres, que serán escogidos en sorteo por Caguas y Ponce.
También, se aprobó de forma unánime la creación de una Liga de Desarrollo Sub 23, que correrá paralela con el torneo Superior Doble A. La misma contará con un equipo por sección, a cargo de la FBPR. Participarán jugadores entre 18 a 23 años.
Las franquicias del torneo superior podrán subir y bajar jugadores.
POR CYBERNEWSSAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el do mingo 197 personas hospitalizadas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,130. Hay 179 adultos hospitalizados y 18 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 13 al 27 de sep tiembre de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está a 15.09 por ciento.
tion and original music inspired by their writings.
“I wanted to tell this from their point of view, from the inside,” Smoczynska said. “And just to introduce them as beau tiful, sensitive, very funny, intelligent sis ters.” She was drawn to the story having grown up among a “constellation” of her mother’s sisters in Poland.
woman, there have been many times in which I have felt isolated within an insti tution that was so much bigger than me.”
For Wright, who was brought onto the project first and already knew of June and Jennifer’s story, she said it was im portant that she and Lawrance had crea tive control behind the scenes as the only Black women on the production team.
By CHARLIE BRINKHURST-CUFFGrowing up in England and Wales in the 1970s, the identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons spoke to each other all the time. They chattered and laughed, and whispered. They were prolific readers and wrote stories that showed great creative promise. They had ambitions to become famous authors.
But throughout their childhood, they had experienced racist bullying at school, which became particularly bad in Haver fordwest, Wales, where they and their brother were the only Black students. They became selectively mute, a condi tion generally caused by severe anxiety. Eventually, they rarely spoke to anyone but each other.
Later in their teenage years, this be havior, alongside incidents of petty theft and arson, would ultimately lead them to Broadmoor, one of the most notorious psychiatric hospitals in Britain, for nearly 12 years.
Only one of them truly left the insti tution — Jennifer died of inflammation of the heart on the day of their release, at 29.
Marjorie Wallace, the investigative journalist who first reported on the story of the twins in the 1980s and campaigned for their release from Broadmoor, wrote about them in her 1986 book, “The Silent Twins.”
“I loved their sense of humor,” Wa llace said. “Very ironic, very perceptive.
They saw the funny side of everything, as well as the tragic.” She first met the twins when she was working as a journalist for The Sunday Times. Although they didn’t engage with her at first, she persuaded them to speak to her by reading their wri tings: from Jennifer, for example, a novel titled “Discomania,” and from June, a no vel titled “The Pepsi-Cola Addict,” along side diaries and other texts.
Wallace quickly realized that June and Jennifer had incredibly rich, complex worlds under the surface of their silence.
“It’s a bit like deep-sea diving,” she said. “And you suddenly come across this Tech nicolor world that they wrote.”
Over the years, June and Jennifer’s story has been used to sustain ongoing na rratives about the dangers of twins that are often seen in films and on television. Think of the creepy twins in “The Shining,” for example, or a recent Netflix hit, “Echoes” (which presents its lead twin characters, who swap lives once a year unbeknown to their family and friends, as borderline psychopathic), where tropes of fascina tion, intrigue, fetish and horror abound.
“The Silent Twins,” a new movie about June and Jennifer starring Leti tia Wright (“Black Panther”) and Tamara Lawrance (“Kindred”) as the teenage and adult twins, aims to buck this trend.
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska (“The Lure”), the film hopes to capture the rich, tragic palette of the twins’ lives. It makes clever use of stop-motion anima
Wallace said it was a calculated choice to work with Andrea Seigel, who wrote the screenplay, and Smoczynska, who she felt would do justice to her re porting. “There have been many, many people who have come to me with sy nopses and scripts,” Wallace said. “One of them was about two white girls in Mis sissippi who were drug addicts and went to crazy raves.” Wallace worked as a con sultant and co-producer on the film and is still close with June, who Wallace says gave her blessing to the film but is intent on living a private life.
While Wallace said the new film is “not entirely maybe what I would have done” (she wrote the screenplay for the original BBC adaptation of her book in 1986), she described Wright’s and Lawrance’s portrayals of June and Jennifer as “remarkable.” “At some points in wat ching the film, I honestly thought I was back in Broadmoor,” she said, highlighting a phrase June used while imagining that institution: “My sister and I, as vulnerable as flowers in hell.”
Alongside reframing June’s and Jennifer’s lives and paying tribute to their acts of creativity, Wallace hopes that the film will have an impact on the portrayal of twins on film and TV in general.
“If you look at the old movies, and in fact, any current movies, they either make twins out as evil killers or freaks,” Wallace said. “Or they make them comic, or they use their identical image to be able to ma nipulate and play havoc.”
Lawrance and Wright, who are pro ducers on “The Silent Twins,” became incredibly close during the course of the filming, staying up all night talking and planning their scenes, and even moving in next door to each other. Lawrance felt deep empathy for the sisters and said she knows what it’s like to feel voiceless because of her race and gender. “I can’t speak for everyone, but for me, as a Black
The director “understood early on that she doesn’t have all the answers, she’s not a Black woman, so she was willing to listen, she was willing to learn from me and Tamara,” Wright said in an interview. “And immediately I told her, if I’m going to join this project, whoever’s going to play my twin, we have to have a seat at the ta ble, we have to be executive producers or producers: pick one. We have to have a say because this is our story.”
Lawrance and Wright worked inten sively with movement and voice coaches to attempt to replicate the sisters’ behavior and appearance onscreen, despite loo king nothing alike. They also spent a lot of time considering the differences in their characters. Wright views June as a “caged bird,” with the maturity to understand that the twins’ way of life couldn’t last forever, but had deep love and loyalty toward her sister.
Lawrance thinks that Jennifer was more insecure than June, which made her slightly more obsessive. “Watching the do cumentary and reading the book, I really felt for Jennifer, because I felt like media coverage of the past depicts her as the evil twin,” she said. “The one that is possessing June.”
Just as the stories of twins in mytho logy stretch back thousands of years, that film and TV will continue to be fascinated with twins is inevitable: Coming movies featuring twins include the horror “Good night Mommy,” and a comedy musical inspired by “The Parent Trap.” Could “The Silent Twins” have a small but lasting im pact on their portrayal?
Smoczynska reflected that after a screening, a mother came up to her, very moved, and said that she had gained a much greater understanding of her twins.
“This is the reason why you make the movies,” Smoczynska said. “So that somebody can find himself or herself and understand life, and heal.”
The San Juan Daily Star Letitia Wright as June Gibbons and Tamara Lawrance as Jennifer Gibbons in “The Silent Twins,” a film directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska.and French-history time travelers are among the protagonists in this month’s sci-fi picks.
The movie “Butt Boy” was fairly di visive when it came out a couple of years ago, but the least you can say is that direc tor Tyler Cornack fully committed to the story of a man who becomes obsessed with — let’s just say the title was pretty descrip tive. Now Cornack is confirming the warped singularity of his vision with “Tiny Cinema,” an anthology of six stand-alone shorts that straddle the line between sci-fi, horror and comedy. (The movie derived from the Tiny Cinema videos Cornack has been posting online.) What links the chapters, as they are called, is the sense that the characters are stuck in nightmares that have their own comically horrific — or horrifically comic — absurdist logic. A common setup is to take a word or an expression literally and see what happens, as in “Game Night,” where Bert (Austin Lewis) becomes obsessed with the sentence “That’s what she said,” and the chapter with an unprintable title refer ring to a common insult. Few movies have described some single people’s desperation to find their soul mate as economically as “Edna,” in which the title character (Olivia Herman) starts dating a corpse she found floating in a river. Despite its tight duration, “Edna” even manages a hilarious second act. Cornack balances storytelling economy with an expansive approach — a rare feat. (Rent or buy on most major platforms.)
A successful novelist paralyzed by writer’s block, Claire (Rachel Shelley, who played the wealthy Helena Peabody on “The L Word”) decides to spend a month at a luxu ry countryside retreat so she can focus on her work without distractions. Her only company there consists of Henry (Wayne Brady), a ho lographic concierge, and Rita (Heida Reed, from the series “Poldark”), an unflappable android assistant who looks as if she has stepped out of the 1950s. One night, Henry tells Claire that malware has been detected and the operating system must be rebooted. As anybody who’s ever had to update a com puter or even a phone knows, technology has a way of going awry. While Henry mere ly flickers in and out, Rita goes into a spin, locks all the doors and informs Claire — who is plagued by nightmares of a little girl and a terrifying mother — that she must complete her manuscript if she ever wants to leave. The movie, directed by Natalie Kennedy, makes
the most of its premise, with amusing refer ences to “The Shining” and a final reveal that would not have been out of place in an M. Night Shyamalan film. Think hard next time you want to blow a deadline. (Rent or buy on most major plat forms.)
Another movie with a satisfying plot twist is James Mark’s “Control,” which effec tively combines two major contemporary film tropes: amnesia and the small, locked environment. Eileen (Sara Mitich) wakes up in a padded cell, not knowing who she is or how she ended up there. She is given tasks by a disembodied voice (Karen LeB lanc) and is told that if she can’t execute them, her daughter, Eve (Evie Loiselle), will die. The scenes in the mysterious room are interspersed with others showing Eileen and Eve frolicking on a beach, though it’s unclear whether these are flashbacks or visions. Mark keeps adding layers to that fairly simple starting point as Eileen learns a huge thing about herself, and both she and the viewer try to figure out why she is kept captive, what the experiments are lead ing to and who is orchestrating the sadistic scheme. Unlike many puzzle movies that rely on self-important obfuscation because, let’s be honest, it’s easier than coming up with an explanation, “Control” does tell us what’s going on — not entirely, but enough to both satisfy and give the ending a sense of gravitas that feels earned.
(Rent or buy on most major plat forms.)
When it comes to cinematic time travel, it’s usually men who have fun hop ping around the decades or centuries while
women are stuck in place, waiting for the guys to change history. Not so in this com edy, in which a lawyer named Charlie (Car oline Vigneaux, who also directed and cowrote the movie) finds herself hopscotching from one major event of French history to another. After she got a client acquitted from a rape charge by cynically arguing that the victim had been wearing a thong and thus was consenting (this really happened, in Ireland), Charlie meets a cabdriver (Issa Doumbia) who points out that she has a few things to learn about women’s rights. Voilà: She’s sent back in time, where she meets a series of influential figures, including Joan of Arc (Emy Ltr) and the revolutionary Olympe de Gouges (Sylvie Testud). Charlie even turns up at the 1972 trial, in Bobigny, that played a big part in the decriminalization of abortion in France, and lets us hear a fiery speech by real-life firebrand lawyer Gisèle Halimi (Sophia Aram). Vigneaux, a practic ing lawyer before becoming a comedian, has cooked up an unabashedly, surprisingly pointed feminist story wrapped in good-na tured, broad humor. And it bears repeating: How refreshing to finally watch a woman move forward by turning back the clock.
(Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)
‘Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy’ Officially, this delightful Vietnamese family movie was inspired by a 1978 Czech children’s TV series. Unofficially, you can see the fingerprints of “E.T.” all over Ham Tran’s caper. Life is getting complicated for a boy named Hung (Phu Truong Lai): His mom has recently died from cancer, his dad (Ngoc Tuong) is struggling to keep a small repair shop afloat, and a pair of goons are trying to buy people’s apartments on behalf of a developer. So when a weird little girl (Diep Anh Chu) drops out of the sky, Hung is more than ready to welcome a new friend. Since she doesn’t have a name, he calls her Maika, after the home world she longs to return to. Don’t let the presence of subtitles deter your kids from enjoying a movie so clearly made for them — then again, many got over that hurdle to watch “Lupin,” so where there’s a will … Despite running a lit tle too long, “Maika” has enough high jinks, cartoonishly goofy characters and spirited cheer to translate to a wide audience. And besides, fart jokes are part of the intergalac tic language of comedy.
(Rent or buy on most major platforms.)
Austin Lewis in “Tiny Cinema.”Aswe say farewell to summer, trav elers are surely hoping to say “so long” to the chaos in the skies too.
As a flight attendant who has been on the job for 20 years, I can tell you this season of delays and cancellations hasn’t been a picnic for us either.
Earlier this summer, I shared my tips on surviving a season of cancellations and delays, and answered readers’ questions about flying. I hope I helped you to avoid some stress.
Since your questions kept rolling in, it seemed like fun to answer a few more.
Here are my answers to your latest questions, some of which have been light ly edited for length and clarity.
Q: Does sleeping on the flight help lessen jet lag?
A: If you are blessed with the abil ity to sleep on planes, a nap is a wise use of your time on a long flight. On Europebound flights from the United States, I eat dinner then try to sleep, although I rarely manage it. When I land, I stay up until bedtime where I am locally. If I can’t keep my eyes open, I take a short power nap, so I can still sleep that night. This should put your body on the correct schedule to wake up the next day rested.
For the reverse route, which is usu ally a daytime flight, I force myself to stay awake so I’ll sleep as soon as I get home. A short nap on a long flight won’t hurt though, and if your flight is longer than 12 hours, sleep as long as you can.
Q: On the last few flights I took, my rude neighbor in the middle seat used both armrests, spread their legs and was constantly touching me and elbowing me. What’s the middle-seat etiquette? Is it tru ly a free-for-all?
A: Manspreading is not acceptable in any seat. That said, the middle seat is the dreaded torture device of flying. So, the unwritten rule is that the middle seat gets both armrests. The aisle and window each get their own armrest and room to lean over a little.
To handle someone invading your space, ask them nicely. Often, the person doesn’t even realize they are being rude. Try a joke, like, “they keep making these seats smaller and smaller.” That acknowl
edges your problem is with the seat, not the person, and that you are both in this together. As long as you feel safe, try han dling it yourself before getting the flight at tendant involved.
If the person is quite tall and is com pletely folded in their seat with nowhere to go, you could offer to trade seats. We all hate the middle, but it might be more comfortable for both of you over the flight.
Q: Do you keep track of how many alcoholic drinks a person has during a flight? When do you decide to cut some one off?
A: I do keep track. I start making mental notes once someone has had three to four alcoholic beverages. I consider the length of the flight and how the person is handling themselves before I decide to step in. Red flags are increasing aggres sion and demands, excessive slurring or just getting very loud. The effects of alco hol are actually felt more strongly in flight because of the decreased oxygen levels.
I have cut off several passengers in my career, and it almost never goes well. Almost everyone argues and insists they are fine. If things escalate, we inform them that their disruptive behavior could be in
violation of federal law and that we could arrange law enforcement to meet them when we land. That usually solves the problem.
Q: Is it true that flight attendants don’t get paid until the plane starts mov ing?
A: That is true. Each airline is slightly different. I am paid as soon as the door closes, and we stop being paid when the door opens. It is also true for pilots.
That means if we show up to work on time and our flight is delayed for three hours, we are not paid for that time. If we board up, have a full plane of passengers and then have a maintenance issue or an air traffic control hold, we are also not paid for that time. However, if we get out on the taxiway and are number 27 in line for takeoff, we do get paid for that.
If a flight cancels, most airlines have cancellation pay that protects us, so we get the pay that was scheduled. Some airlines don’t have that protection, though. So trust me: We hate delays and cancellations as much, if not more, than our passengers.
Q: I get airsick when I fly, especially when the cabin pressure changes during takeoff and landing. Do you have any recommendations?
A: Sit as close to the wing as pos sible. Think of the airplane as a seesaw: The wing is the most stable part. Keep your air vent on. Wear layers you can take off if you start to get that sweaty feeling. Ask the flight attendant for a cup of ice, or whatever nonalcoholic beverage settles your stomach. I also recommend not flying on an empty stomach — but don’t eat too much right before a flight either.
If you do throw up, that is what that sick sack in your seat-back pocket is for. You can dispose of the used bag in the lavatory trash can, ring the call button or leave it sealed under the seat in front of you. Just please don’t leave it there for an unsuspecting cleaner to find, or hand it to a flight attendant who doesn’t have a trash bag in hand.
“We all hate the middle,” writes Kristie Koerbel, a flight attendant for 20 years, about the center seat.
NASA’s DART spacecraft was not able to take pictures of the very moment it slammed into an asteroid last Monday at more than 14,000 mph. Or the aftermath.
But telescopes on Earth, 7 million miles away, were watching. The images they recorded revealed a spectacular outburst of debris rising from the asteroid after the collision.
The celestial show was a bonus to the spacecraft’s main objective of demonstrating a method for defending the planet from deadly space rocks in the future.
“I saw the ground-based images in the minutes after impact, and they were absolutely phenomenal,” said Cristina Thomas, a professor of astronomy and planetary science at Northern Arizona University and the lead of the observations working group for the mission.
Take, for example, the sequence that was captured with a 20-inch telescope in South Africa. It shows the asteroid Didymos, about a half-mile wide, moving across the night sky. What cannot be seen is Dimorphos, the 500-foot-wide moon of Didymos — and the target of DART.
“Our telescope in South Africa — we simply pointed in the direction of the asteroid,” John Tonry, a professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii, said. “And we started taking images every 40 seconds.”
The sudden brightening comes from a cloud of debris tossed into space by the impact of the spacecraft into Dimorphos.
“We didn’t really expect to see such a big plume of dust coming out,” Tonry said. “But, you know, discovery favors the prepared.”
Tonry is co-principal investigator of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, which uses the South African telescope and three others around the world to scan the sky for asteroids that might be on a collision course with Earth.
Even though the telescope was nearly half a world away from him, Tonry saw the pictures seconds after they were taken. “That’s the amazing thing about the internet,” he said. “We looked at the picture and said, ‘Oh my God,
In an undated image provided by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL shows, the penultimate image transmitted by the DART spacecraft at a distance of about seven miles and two seconds before impact. Astronomers on Earth — and a shoebox-size Italian spacecraft called LICIACube — captured the DART mission’s successful strike on Dimorphos.
look at that. Wow.’”
Tonry was surprised by how much debris was knocked off the asteroid and how fast it was moving. “This stuff was screaming out at two kilometers a second, like 4,000 miles an hour,” he said. “And so within an hour, that cloud was as big as the Earth.”
Most of the debris was ejected from the point of impact, moving away from the side where DART struck. “Which is exactly what you’d expect for a plume to be recoiling off the surface,” Tonry said. But he said there also appeared to be a shell of debris rising from the opposite side, moving in the same direction as DART.
“It may be that DART created a wave that went right through Dimorphos and kind of blasted stuff off the far side,” Tonry said.
Right after the impact, the brightness jumped by a
factor of 10 from sunlight bouncing off the debris. It has dimmed since then, but the dot is still four times as bright compared with what it was. A cloud of slower moving debris that remains in the vicinity of Didymos and Dimorphos is likely to fall back to the surfaces of the two asteroids in the coming weeks.
A similar sequence of images was taken by another telescope in South Africa by Amanda Sickafoose, an astronomer who lives in South Africa but works for the Planetary Science Institute based in Tucson, Arizona, and Nicolas Erasmus of the South African Astronomical Observatory. (South Africa was a prime location for viewing the impact.)
“Seeing the ejecta was phenomenal,” Sickafoose said. “I feel like I might never have the opportunity to see something like that again in my life.”
On Monday, the Italian Space Agency released images that were taken by LICIACube, a shoebox-size spacecraft that trailed DART to take before-and-after pictures of Dimorphos.
In images after the impact, “the ejecta cloud is very complicated,” said Angela Stickle, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the lead for the group of scientists who performed computer simulations of the impact. “You get sort of things that look a little bit like streamers. You get sort of asymmetric ejection. And so it is de fi nitely very complex.”
All of the plume data gives Stickle and her colleagues plenty to work with as they try to understand the structure and composition of Dimorphos. The large plume and the boulder-strewn surface that DART saw upon approaching the asteroid indicate a rubble pile that Stickle said was loosely held together.
The other key measurement is the orbital period of Dimorphos around Didymos; it was 11 hours and 55 minutes before the smashup. But the head-on impact would have sapped some of Dimorphos’ momentum, causing the moon to fall closer to Didymos. The size of the change — expected to be about 1% — would give an indication of how much material was kicked off the surface.
“Once we get the period change measurement from the telescope,” Stickle said, “then we can start matching that to our simulation.”
not be a difference that patients in the mild early stages of the disease would notice.
Pharmaceutical
companies Biogen and Eisai said last week that a drug they are developing for Alzheimer’s disease had slowed the rate of cognitive decline in a large late-stage clinical trial.
The strong results boost the drug’s chances of winning approval and offer renewed hope for a class of Alzheimer’s drugs that have repeatedly failed or generated mixed results.
The positive data also offer Biogen a second chance after the company’s disastrous rollout of another Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm. That medication won regulatory approval last year despite little evidence that it could slow cognitive decline, received only sharply limited coverage by Medicare and has proved to be a commercial failure.
The results appear stronger for the new medication, lecanemab. Cognitive decline in the group of volunteers who received lecanemab was reduced by 27% compared with the group who received a placebo in the clinical trial, which enrolled nearly 1,800 participants with mild cognitive impairment or mild Alzheimer’s disease, the companies said.
The trial of lecanemab, which is administered via intravenous infusion, was the largest to date to test whether clearing the brain of plaques formed by the accumulation of a protein called amyloid could slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Aduhelm is designed to work in a similar way.
As with previous anti-amyloid drugs, some patients taking lecanemab experienced brain swelling or brain bleeding, but the prevalence of these side effects was lower than with Aduhelm and other experimental medications.
Eisai had already applied for accelerated approval, the type of approval given to Aduhelm. The process allows the Food and Drug Administration to greenlight drugs if they have uncertain evidence of benefit but affect a disease’s biological pathway in a way that is considered reasonably likely to benefit patients. The company said Tuesday night that it would first continue with the accelerated approval process, with an FDA decision expected by early January, and then use the newer data to seek full approval. (Accelerated approval requires companies to do further trials and prove that their drug works.)
Analysts predict that lecanemab, or any effective Alzheimer’s medication, would most likely be a multibillion-dollar blockbuster.
“For Biogen, it puts them back in the Al-
zheimer’s game,” said Brian Skorney, an analyst at the investment bank Baird.
In a briefing for reporters Tuesday night, Ivan Cheung, the chairman and CEO of Eisai, said the results represented “the first definitively positive large clinical trial to show that you can indeed slow down Alzheimer’s disease at this very early symptomatic stage.”
He said that the drug started to show a benefit to patients about six months after they began taking it and that the benefit increased until the trial ended, 18 months after patients started on the drug.
The companies plan to present more detailed results in November.
Some experts said the drug’s ability to slow cognitive decline — by 0.45 on an 18-point scale — was modest at best and might
Dr. Lon Schneider, director of the California Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of Southern California, said the effect “is small and would not be considered by many as a minimally clinically important difference.” However, he added, “others would strongly disagree and say it’s clinically meaningful.”
Schneider said the “relatively low” rates of brain swelling and bleeding “suggest that lecanemab is easier to use” than Aduhelm.
He added that “although taking a press release at face value, which is often a chancy thing to do without having real data or reports, it seems that lecanemab would most likely receive regular marketing approval based on this one study alone.”
In the briefing, Cheung said the company considered the results “very clinically meaningful,” but he added, “Of course, there are different opinions out there on defining what clinical meaningfulness is for this stage of disease.”
Other companies are also developing treatments that could shake up the market for Alzheimer’s drugs, which before Aduhelm had not seen a novel treatment for two decades. Before the end of this year, Roche is expected to report data from two studies of a drug known as gantenerumab. The FDA is expected to make a decision on whether to grant accelerated approval to an Alzheimer’s drug from Eli Lilly known as donanemab by early January, with results from a larger study of that drug due in the middle of next year.
The results from the study on lecanemab “set a high bar that I think will be hard for the other drugs, if they are successful, to beat,” Skorney said.
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BRO DE DINERO Y EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, MARIBEL LANZAR VE LÁZQUEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha del 21 de junio de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tri bunal Superior de Bayamón en relación con la Sentencia Su maria en Rebeldía dictada en 28 de junio de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos el 28 de junio de 2019, y publicada la Notificación de Sentencia Por Edicto en 3 de julio de 2019, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Edifi cio uno punto uno (1.1) Aparta mento: uno guión dos cero uno (1-201). Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento de una (1) planta, tres (3) habitaciones en el Con dominio Bosque Sereno, situa do en la Avenida Las Cumbres, en el Barrio Cerro Gordo, Baya món, Puerto Rico, con un área de mil cuarenta y siete punto cero cero (1,047.00) pies cua drados, equivalentes a noventa y siete punto treinta (97.30) me tros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con pared exterior; por el SUR, con pared exterior; por el ESTE, con pared exterior; y por el OESTE, con la pared medianera que comparte con el apartamento uno guión dos cero dos (1-202) y escalera.
Tiene puerta de entrada en el lado Oeste que conduce a un pasillo común y tiene puerta en el lado Sur, que conduce al balcón del apartamento. Consta dicho apartamento de sala comedor, cocina, closet de alacena, closet de calenta dor de agua, balcón, closet de lavandería, un (1) baño, dos (2) dormitorios con sus respectivos closets, un (1) dormitorio princi pal con su closet y baño. A este apartamento le corresponden punto cincuenta y siete (.57%) de titularidad en los elementos comunes. A este apartamento le corresponden los estaciona mientos números ciento once (111) y doscientos setenta (270). Consta inscrita al folio 98, del tomo 1875 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 77,303, Re gistro de la Propiedad de Ba yamón, Sección I. Condiciones Restrictivas a través del Progra ma Bono de Vivienda: La Auto ridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, ha concedido a los compradores la suma de $7,950.00 para gastos de cierre, por lo que impone las siguientes condiciones restric tivas: No podrá vender, donar, permutar o de cualquier otro modo transferir la propiedad sin el previo consentimiento de la Autoridad dentro de un periodo de 10 años a partir de la fecha de la escritura relacio nada en la inscripción primera. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de Baya món. d. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Com pany. e. Condiciones restricti vas. Dirección de la propiedad: Condominio Bosque Sereno, Apartamento 1-201, Bayamón, Puerto Rico 00956. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que proce dan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de las subastas. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la pro piedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SU
BASTA: Se celebrará el 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRE CIO MÍNIMO: $154,969.00.
SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se ce lebrará el 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $103,312.66. TERCERA SU
BASTA: Se celebrará el 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRE
CIO MÍNIMO: $77,484.50. Las subastas se llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco de mandante de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada, a saber, la suma de $140,365.98 adeu dada por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 25 de septiembre de 2018, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $499.20, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y comple to de la obligación, las sumas adeudadas por concepto de seguros y/o contribuciones, la suma de $139.25 por concepto de adelantos (Corp Advances), más la suma de $15,496.90, por concepto de costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situa da en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribunal de Ba yamón, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de Améri ca, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en pri mer término los gastos del Al guacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma con venida, en tercer término los intereses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pac tados hasta su total y completo pago, en cuarto término, las su mas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de la subasta y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada. Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. El inmueble anteriormente descrito se encuentra afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, Civil Número BY2018CV04191
sobre Cobro de Dinero y Eje cución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria de fecha 16 de no viembre de 2018, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Deman dante) Vs. EDNA IRIS NALES PEREZ (Demandada). Por la misma se reclama el pago de la suma de $140,365.98, más intereses y otras sumas, o en su defecto la venta en públi ca subasta, anotado al Tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 77,303, Anotación A, el cual se refiere al caso del epí grafe en la presente causa de acción. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe es tán disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, durante horas laborables. Y
PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publi cará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Co lecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Bayamón, Puer to Rico, a 7 de septiembre de 2022. MARIBEL LANZAR VE LÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.
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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00660. Sala: 409. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que sus cribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumpli miento de la Sentencia dictada el 28 de junio de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 24 de agosto de 2022 y el Man damiento de Ejecución del 26 de agosto de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a ven der el día 21 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LA 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en la Avenida 65 Infantería, Carretera Número Tres (3), Kilómetro 11.7 (En trada de la Urbanización Man siones de Carolina) Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de Amé rica, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número F-10 en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Villa Cooperativa, en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con las siguientes cabidas y colindan cias: cabida de 222.04 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con un paseo que lo separa del bloque G de esta misma urbanización, en distan cia de 9.10 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle Número Cuatro (4) de esta misma urbanización, en distancia de 9.10 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número F-9 de esta misma urbanización, en distancia de 24.40 metros; y por el OESTE, con solar nú mero F-11 de esta misma urba nización, en distancia de 24.40 metros. Enclava una estructura dedicada a vivienda construida de hormigón armado y bloques. Inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 989 de Carolina, Finca Número 41529, Registro de la Propie dad de Carolina, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca consta
inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 1283 de Carolina, Finca Número 41529, Registro de la Propie dad de Carolina, Sección II. Ins cripción sexta. Dirección Física: Urb. Villa Cooperativa, F10 Ca lle 4, Carolina, PR 00985-4212. Número de Catastro: 20-088007-672-34-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $76,900.00. De no haber adju dicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 28 DE OC TUBRE DE 2022, A LA 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera su basta, o sea, $51,266.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebra rá una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 4 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LA 1:45 DE LA TAR DE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mi tad del precio pactado, o sea, $38,450.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $40,954.77 de princi pal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.5% anual desde el 1 de junio de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $1,104.70 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,690.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del prés tamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hi poteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Hipoteca: Constituida por Rogelio Espi no Maysonet (soltero) y Peter Eugene González Mattas, tam bién conocido como Peter Gon zález Matta y su esposa, Luz Damaris Rosario Hernández, también conocida como Luz D. Rosa Hernández, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $30,598.00, intereses al 10.95% anual y vencedero el 1 de abril de 2021, según consta de la Escritura Número 75, otor gada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 10 de marzo de 2006, ante
la Notario Giselle M. Feliciano Maymi. Inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 1389 de Carolina, finca número 41529, inscripción sép tima. b. Modificación de Hipote ca: Comparece Rogelio Espino Maysonet (soltero) y Peter Eugene González Mattas, tam bién conocido como Peter Gon zález Matta y su esposa, Luz Damaris Rosario Hernández, también conocida como Luz D. Rosa Hernández y Doral Recovery II, LLC., para modifi car hipoteca de $30,598.00 en cuanto a su principal que será de $30,713.13 con intereses al 7.50% anual, pagos mensuales de $236.01, con un último pago de $5,254.32 y vencedero el 1 de junio de 2029, ampliada por $115.13, según consta de la Escritura Número 415, otorga da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de junio de 2014, ante la Notario Leilany Carrión de Toro. Inscrita al folio 31 vuelto del tomo 1389 de Carolina, fin ca número 41529, inscripción octava. c. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Po pular de Puerto Rico Vs. Peter Eugene González Mattas, Luz Damaris Rosario Hernández también conocida como Luz D. Rosario Hernández y Rogelio Espino Maysonet también co nocido como Rogelio Espino Maisonet, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2022CV00660, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecu ción de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $40,954.77 y otras cantidades, según De manda de fecha 7 de marzo de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los do cumentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expe diente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licita dor acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al
crédito del ejecutante, conti nuarán subsistentes; enten diéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mis mos, sin destinarse a su extin ción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los luga res públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de septiembre de 2022. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA, SALA SUPERIOR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. JOSÉ LUIS ORTIZ
HERNÁNDEZ, VIVIAN SANTIAGO SEPÚLVEDA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: DCD2016-0094. Sala: 506. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚ BLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia por Consentimiento dictada el 13 de octubre de 2016, la Or den de Ejecución de Sentencia Enmendada el 18 de agosto de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución Enmendado el 22 de agosto de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender día 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el Cuarto Piso de la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, localiza da en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, ubica do en la Carretera Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Esteban Padilla, Bayamón,
NALES PEREZ
Parte Demandante Vs. PETER EUGENE GONZÁLEZ MATTAS, LUZ DAMARIS ROSARIO HERNÁNDEZ T/C/C LUZ D. ROSARIO HERNÁNDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE ROGELIO ESPINO
Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de Amé rica, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar Número Nueve (9) del Bloque “FM” en la Urba nización Levittown en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de 322.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros, con el solar número diez (10); por el SUR, en 23.00 metros, con el solar número ocho (8); por el ESTE, en 14.00 metros, con el solar número treinta y dos (32); y por el OES TE, en 14.00 metros, con José P.H. Hernández (según plano Calle Avenida Los Dominicos). Contiene una casa de cemen to diseñada para una familia. La propiedad consta inscrita al Folio 160 del Tomo 183 de Toa Baja, Finca Número 10817, Re gistro de la Propiedad de Baya món, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca y sus modificaciones constan inscritas al Folio 43 del Tomo 551 (Ágora) de Toa Baja, Finca Número 10817. Inscrip ciones novena y duodécima, respectivamente. Dirección Física: Urb. Levittown Lakes, FM9 Calle José PH Hernán dez, Toa Baja, PR 00949-2817. Número de Catastro: 13-039083-317-09-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $119,059.00. De no haber adju dicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 31 DE OC TUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la prime ra subasta, o sea, $79,372.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebra rá una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 7 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MA ÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mi tad del precio pactado, o sea, $59,529.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Orden de Ejecu ción de Sentencia Enmendada por la suma de $91,685.77 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.50% anual desde el 1ro de septiembre del 2016 hasta su completo pago, más $462.33 por recargos por de mora desde el 1ro de octubre
de 2016 los cuales siguen acumulándose hasta su total pago y la cantidad estipulada de $11,905.90 para costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga dos, así como cualquier otra suma que surja del contrato de préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Con diciones Restrictivas: Compa rece José Luis Hernández y su esposa Vivian Santiago Se púlveda y la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, bajo el Progra ma Protegiendo tu Hogar, con ceden la suma de $11,850.98, sin intereses y vencedero el 22 de agosto de 2017, según consta de la Escritura Número 237, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 22 de agosto de 2012, ante el Notario Giancarlo Olano Lavergne. Inscrita al fo lio 44 del tomo 551 (Ágora) de Toa Baja, finca número 10817, inscripción decimotercera. b. Hipoteca: Constituida por José Luis Ortiz Hernández casado con Lideliz Candelario Cande lario y Vivian Santiago Sepúl veda (soltera) en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivien da de los Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por la suma de $38,621.59, sin intere ses y vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2044, según consta de la Escritura Número 417, otorga da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 29 de abril de 2014 ante la Notaria Magda V. Alsina Figue roa. Inscrita al folio 44 del tomo 551 (Ágora) de Toa Baja, finca número 10817, inscripción de cimocuarta. Nota: Se acompa ña Escritura de Capitulaciones Matrimoniales, según consta de la Escritura Número Uno, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de marzo de 2014, ante la Notario Zaritza Torres Cruz. c. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Doral Bank Vs. José Luis Ortiz Hernández, también conocido como José Ortiz Hernández y su esposa Vivian Santiago Sepúlveda, ante el Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Centro Judicial de Baya món, Sala Superior, en el Caso Civil Número DCD2012-2415 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Eje cución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $132,084.98 y otras cantidades, según De manda de fecha 31 de agosto de 2012. Anotada al folio 44 del tomo 551 (Ágora) de Toa Baja. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su su cesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a prote ger su derecho si así lo desea. Se hace constar que ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA podrá ejecutar sobre este inmueble
el derecho de redención que le asiste, según lo dispone la Sec. 2410 del Título 28 de las Leyes de Estados Unidos (28 U.S. Code (a) § 2410. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacio nados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examina dos, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Se cretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, conti nuarán subsistentes; enten diéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mis mos, sin destinarse a su extin ción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los luga res públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de septiembre de 2022. EDGARDO ELÍAS VAR GAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, AL GUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.
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Civil Núm.: BY2022CV00376. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SS.
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Man damiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido diri gido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cual quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Urbanización Forest View de Bayamón Sur. Solar: 44 de la manzana B. Cabida: 318.26 metros cuadrados. Linderos: por el NORTE, con los solares 50 y 51, distancia de 13.77 metros; por el SUR, con la calle Sofia, distancia de 13.00 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar 45, distancia de 23.57 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar 43, distancia de 23.97 metros. Existe una casa con concreto para una sola familia. Inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 1878 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 21280, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Bayamón. Propiedad localizada en: B44 Forest View, C Sofia, Baya món, PR 00956. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o preferentes. Se gún figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecu tante: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Deve lopment, o a su orden, por la suma de $4,305.95 sin intere ses anual y vencimiento 1 de marzo de 2035. Constituida por la Escritura 32 otorgada en San Juan el 21 de agosto de 2006
ante el notario Jorge Eduardo Martínez Landrón, e inscrita al folio 215 del Tomo 1878 de Bayamón Sur, finca 21280, inscripción 14ª. 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 mínimo de subasta la suma de $119,050.00, 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 Bayamón, el 31 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $79,366.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda su basta, se establece como míni ma para la TERCERA SUBAS TA, la suma de $59,525.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 7 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $107,617.85 de principal, intereses al tipo del 4.625% anual según ajustado desde el día 1ro. de mayo de 2021 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $11,905.00 por concepto de ho norarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escri tura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen poste rior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUN DA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efec tos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la cele bración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás cons tancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante
horas laborables para ser exa minadas por los (las) interesa dos (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas pu blicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públi cos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de septiembre de 2022. Edgardo Elías Vargas Santana, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #193, Alguacil De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Cetro Judicial De Bayamón, Sala Su perior.
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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. THE MONEY HOUSE, INC Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Civil: CA2022CV00839. Sala: 407. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
(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 2 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 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 14 de septiembre de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puer to Rico, el 14 de septiembre de
2022. LCDA. MARILYN APON TE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETA RIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALI CEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE LEO
LUGO Y SUCESION DE FRANCISCA SOSA SOSA, ET AL.
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02152.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA Y COBRO DE DINE RO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LEO ANÍBAL HIRALDO LUGO Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCA SOSA SOSA.
POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar su 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 presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tri bunal correspondiente y notifi que con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marie L. Quiñones Tañón, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número men cionado en el epígrafe. Se ale ga en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Con trato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades ven cidas correspondientes a los meses de julio de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además adeuda a la parte de mandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hi potecaria la parte Demandante
declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de principal de $77,975.30, más intereses a razón del 5.00% anual desde el 1 de ju nio de 2020 hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumu lando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por de mora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su ven cimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribu ciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $9,960.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte De mandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIEN TE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Canóvanas, del térmi no municipal de Loíza, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número seiscientos ocho del bloque “R” del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Loíza Va lley, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veinte metros cuadrados con cincuenticuatro centímetros cuadrados; en lin des por el NORTE, en catorce metros cuarentiún centímetros, con los solares seiscientos treinticinco y seiscientos treinti seis del Bloque “R”; por el SUR, en doce metros ochentisiete centímetros, con la calle Bu ganvilla (diez y nueve); por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros cin cuenta centímetros, con el solar seiscientos nueve del Bloque “R”; y por el OESTE, en vein titrés metros cincuenta centí metros, con el solar seiscientos siete del bloque “R”. Enclava una casa de una sola planta de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residen ciales. Consta inscrita al folio 116 del tomo 185 Canóvanas, finca número #828. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que den tro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o re pudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la DE LA SUCESION DE LEO
ANÍBAL HIRALDO LUGO Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCIS CA SOSA SOSA. De no hacer lo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones respon sivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dicta ra sentencia, concediéndose
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB AS TRUSTEE OF WV 2017-1 GRANTOR TRUST Demandante Vs. DAVID PACHECO PEREZ, AILEEN CASTRO MARRERO, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, SECRETARIO DE DESARROLLO URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE ESTADOS UNIDOS (HUD) Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Demandados
A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:
el remedio solicitado en la De manda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Carolina, Puer to Rico. A 14 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APON TE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL. RUTH M. CO LÓN LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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Caso: D4CD2017-0122. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
SANCHEZ, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
EL SECRETARIO(A) QUE SUSCRIBE LE NOTIFICA A USTED QUE EL 08 DE FE BRERO DE 2018 , ESTE TRIBUNAL HA DICTADO SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA
PARCIAL O RESOLUCION EN ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRA DA Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS DONDE PODRA USTED EN TERARSE DETALLADAMEN TE DE LOS TERMINOS DE LA MISMA. ESTA NOTIFICACION
SE PUBLICARA UNA SOLA VEZ EN UN PERIODICO DE CIRCULACION GENERAL EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, DENTRO DE LOS 10 DIAS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICA
CION. Y, SIENDO O REPRE SENTANDO USTED UNA PAR TE EN EL PROCEDIMIENTO
SUJETA A LOS TERMINOS DE LA SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA
PARCIAL O RESOLUCION, DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTA
BLECERSE RECURSO DE REVISION O APELACION DENTRO DEL TERMINO DE 30 DIAS CONTADOS A PAR TIR DE LA PUBLICACION
POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTI
FICACION, DIRIJO A USTED ESTA NOTIFICACION QUE SE CONSIDERARA HECHA EN LA FECHA DE LA PUBLICA CION DE ESTE DICTO. COPIA DE ESTA NOTIFICACION HA SIDO ARCHIVADA EN LOS AUTOS DE ESTE CASO, CON FECHA DE 26 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 2022. LIC. BELLVER ESPINOSA, ALEJANDRO. ALEJANDRO@BELLVERLAW.
COM. LIC. ORTIZ TORRES, GERARDO MANUEL. GERAR DO@BELLVERLAW.COM. EN
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Vs
PEREZ CORDOVA, JOSE C. Caso: D4CD2018-0041. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
CORDOVA SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. EL SECRETARIO(A) QUE SUSCRIBE LE NOTIFICA A USTED QUE EL 16 DE ABRIL DE 2019 , ESTE TRIBUNAL HA DICTADO SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RE SOLUCION EN ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRADA Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS DONDE PODRA USTED ENTERARSE DETA LLADAMENTE DE LOS TER MINOS DE LA MISMA. ESTA NOTIFICACION SE PUBLICA RA UNA SOLA VEZ EN UN PE RIODICO DE CIRCULACION GENERAL EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, DENTRO DE LOS 10 DIAS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICACION. Y, SIEN DO O REPRESENTANDO US TED UNA PARTE EN EL PRO CEDIMIENTO SUJETA A LOS TERMINOS DE LA SENTEN CIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION, DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTABLECERSE RE CURSO DE REVISION O APE LACION DENTRO DEL TERMI NO DE 30 DIAS CONTADOS A PARTIR DE LA PUBLICACION POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTI FICACION, DIRIJO A USTED ESTA NOTIFICACION QUE SE CONSIDERARA HECHA EN LA FECHA DE LA PUBLICA CION DE ESTE DICTO. COPIA DE ESTA NOTIFICACION HA SIDO ARCHIVADA EN LOS AUTOS DE ESTE CASO, CON FECHA DE 26 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 202. LIC. ORTIZ TO RRES, GERARDO MANUEL. GERARDO@BELLVERLAW.
COM. EN VEGA BAJA, PUER TO RICO, A 26 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 2022. LAURA SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MA RITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. KAREN RODRIGUEZ CAUTINO T/C/C KAREN ROSA RODRIGUEZ
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV03351. Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Al guacil que suscribe por la pre sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cum plimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SU PERIOR, en el caso de epígra fe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América el 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocu pa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: COND. PUERTA DEL SOL APT. 305 SAN JUAN, PR 00926 y que se describe a con tinuación: RÚSTICA: PROPIE DAD HORIZONTAL: Aparta mento número tres cero cinco (305): Apartamento residencial número tres (3) del Condominio Puerta del Sol, que ubica en la Carretera Estatal número cien to ochenta y uno (181) del Ba rrio Sabana Llana de Río Pie dras, Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de seiscientos cin cuenta y dos punto ochenta y ocho pies cuadrados (652.88 p.c.) siendo sus medidas linea les treinta y dos pies con diez pulgadas de largo (32’10”) por veintidós pies con ocho pulga das de ancho (22’8”); en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veintidós pies con ocho pul gadas (22’8”) con el Aparta mento número trescientos seis (306); por el SUR, en distancia de diecisiete pies con nueve pulgadas (17’9”) con el Aparta mento número trescientos cua tro (304); por el ESTE, en una distancia de treinta y dos pies con diez pulgadas (32’10”) con el pasillo central del edificio; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de treinta y dos pies con diez pulgadas (32’10”) con terrenos
donde enclava el edificio. La puerta principal del Apartamen to tiene acceso al pasillo central del piso. Esta unidad residen cial consta de lo siguiente: salacomedor, baño, pasillo con cló set, cocina y tres cuartos dormitorios con su clóset cada uno. El apartamento tiene un porciento de participación en los elementos comunes gene rales de punto cero cero cuatro dos cero dos cero (.0042020). A este apartamento le correspon de como elemento común limi tado el estacionamiento núme ro ciento ochenta (180). La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 1 del Tomo 973 de Sabana Llana, fin ca número 32,113-A, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del in mueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $76,700.00. Si no hubiere re mate ni adjudicación en la pri mera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscri be el día 1RO DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda su basta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $51,133.33. Si tampo co hubiere remate ni adjudica ción en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SU BASTA en las oficinas del Al guacil que suscribe el 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecu ción, o sea, la suma de $38,350.00. La hipoteca a eje cutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la es critura de hipoteca 185 otorga da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de diciembre de 2004, ante el Notario Jeremíah Oca sio Silva inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 31-113-A, inscripción 9na, Re gistro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcial mente según sea el caso el im porte de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $54,982.56 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equiva lentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los
créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $7,670.00. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al Proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SU PERIOR durante las horas la borables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematan te los acepta y queda subroga do en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anterio res y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Condiciones Res trictivas de ocupación y uso por un término de 30 años, según la escritura número 54, otorga da en San Juan, el 23 de sep tiembre de 1992. ante el notario Alfredo Castro Mesa, e inscrito al folio 1 del tomo 973 de Saba na Llana, finca número 32,113A, inscripción 3ra. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta me diante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación: Hi poteca en garantía de un paga ré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivien da de Puerto Rico, o a su or den, por la suma principal de $10,000.00, sin intereses, ven cedero el día 30 de diciembre de 2012, constituida mediante la escritura número 186, otor gada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de diciembre de 2004, ante el notario Jeremiah Ocasio Silva, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 32,113A, inscripción 10ma. Su jeta a Condiciones Restrictivas a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, bajo el Progra ma “La Llave para tu Hogar”, por un término de 8 años. Por la presente se notifica a los acree dores conocidos y desconoci dos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o ano tados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con poste rioridad a la inscripción del cré dito del ejecutante o acreedo res de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pos puesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, te nedores de o interesados en tí tulos 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. La pro piedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se ad quirirá libre de cargas y gravá menes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Con firmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitado res del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de ce lebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía. Este Edicto será publica do dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presen te Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de septiembre de 2022. ED WIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, AL GUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA LINA VIZCARRONSO SÁNCHEZ
Demandante Vs. RAMÓN GARCÍA EDUA Demandado Civil Número: CA2022RF00560. Sobre: DIVORCIO. (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ES TADOS UNIDOS DE NORTE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la solicitud del epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. María Pagán Hernán dez, P.O. Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, teléfo no 787-282-6734, abogada de la parte demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Podrá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema
Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración eje Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal como se explicó ante riormente. Si dejare de hacer lo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía conce diéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tri bunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 26 de agosto de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Amelia Z Garcia Brio nes, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAY NABO
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. MARIANELA DIAZ VELASCO; FULANO DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2022CV00570. Salón: 202. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
DIAZ VELASCO, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - URB. SIERRA BERDECIA H14 CALLE ESTEVES, GUAYNABO PR 00969.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presen tar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.
Si usted deja de presentar su
alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en re beldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la de manda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la par te demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas di recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, a la dirección no tificaciones@orf-law.com. EX TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guayna bo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de agosto de 2022. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 22 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs. ELISA M. CARRERA DEL MORAL Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01856. Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: ELISA M.Queda emplazado y notifica do de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de cobro de dinero (Regla 60) en su contra. Se le notifica que 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 electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puer to Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte de mandante: Lcdo. Kenmuel José Ruiz López, PO Box 71418, San Ju_an, PR 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731, correo electrónico: notificaciones@ orf-law.com / kenmuel.ruiz@ orf-law.com. Se le apercibe y
A: JOSE C. PEREZ
notifica que. si no contesta la demanda radicada en su con tra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solici tado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Expe dido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 22 de junio de 2022.
GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ CO LLADO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CEIBA
Demandados Civil Núm.: CE2022CV00051.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: ROCIO GONZALEZ, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON VICTOR L. RODRIGUEZ RIVERA.
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/tribunalelectroni co/, 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 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, 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, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplaza miento y de la demanda pre sentada al lugar de su última di rección conocida: Urb. Paseos de Ceiba, E24 Calle Almendra, Ceiba, PR 00735-1044; PO Box 1044, Ceiba, PR 007351044. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Fajar do, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de septiembre de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA CAO
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO JUAN GREEN ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR DORALIZ GREEN ORTIZ; PETER JOHN GREEN ORTIZ; MICHELLE GREEN ORTIZ; EDWARD GREEN ORTIZ Y FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DORA LUZ ORTIZ FRANCO POR SÍ Y COMO CÓNYUGE SUPÉRSTITE; CRIM
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2021CV00608. Salón Núm.: (207). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDIC TO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., Ss.
A: SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO JUAN GREEN ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR DORALIZ GREEN ORTIZ; PETER JOHN GREEN ORTIZ; MICHELLE
El Alguacil que suscribe, cer tifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Humacao, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separa do, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: So lar marcado con el número GSeis (G-6) de la Urbanización Casa Bella, localizada en la Carretera PR guion novecien tos setenta y tres (Puerto de mil veintitrés punto seiscientos se senta y ocho metros cuadrados (1,023.688 m.c.). En lindes por el NORESTE, en una distancia de nueve punto doscientos ca torce (9.214) metros Rico-973) Kilómetro cero punto sesenta (Km. 0.60) del Barrio Marina Ward en Naguabo, Puerto Rico, con un área con la calle número uno (#1) de la Urbanización; por el NOROESTE, en una distan cia de veintisiete punto noventa y cuatro (27.94) metros con el Lote número G guion cinco (G5); por el SURESTE, en una distancia de cuarenta y un pun to ochocientos treinta (41.30) metros con la calle número uno (#1) de la Urbanización; y por el SUROESTE en una distancia de cincuenta punto ochocientos veintiún (50.821) metros con los lotes número G guion uno (G-1), G guion dos (G-2) y G guion Tres (G-3). Enclava una estructura de hormigón, que consta de sala, comedor, coci na, lavandería, cuatro dormito rios y dos baños. Consta inscri ta al tomo Karibe de Naguabo, finca número #14,067, Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. La propiedad objeto de ejecución
está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Casa Bella, Calle 1 G-6, Naguabo, Puerto Rico 00718. Según fi gura en el Estudio de título, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada al siguiente Gra vamen posterior a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: ESTA DO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito un Embargo por la suma de $15,077.11, por concepto de contribuciones sobre ingresos, contra Pedro Green Ortiz, Dora Ortiz Franco, cuenta número xxx-xx-9842 y xxx-xx-7678, embargo número HUM-17-9842, según Certi ficación de fecha 25 de abril de 2017, anotado el día 28 de abril de 2017, al Asiento 2017003278-EST, del Sistema Kari be. Se le notifica a los acreedo res posteriores anteriormente identificados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del cré dito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados ase gurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritu ra de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de can celación de gravamen poste rior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Su basta la suma de $204,343.28, según acordado entre las par tes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #665, otorgada en San Juan, Puer to Rico, el día 20 de junio de 2008, ante el notario Luis A. Archilla Díaz, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Naguabo, finca nú mero 14,067, inscripción 2ª. Debidamente modificada según consta de la escritura número 395, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de abril de 2013, ante la notario Magda V. Alsina Figueroa, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Naguabo, fin ca número 14,067, inscripción 3ª. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Humacao, el tipo míni mo para la primera subasta es la suma de $204,343.28. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni ad judicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la pri mera subasta, o sea, la suma de $136,228.85. Si la segunda
subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera su basta la mitad del precio pac tado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $102,171.64. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal: $185,432.15, más los intereses que se acumulen desde el 1ro de octubre de 2018, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, la suma princi pal de $4,769.20 como balance diferido y la cual no genera in tereses, con una tasa de interés razón del 6.00% anual, más los cargos por demora que corres ponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pac tada de 5% de cualquier pago que esté en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fe cha de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago, entre otros, de seguros y contribucio nes, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $20,434.32, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resul te por cualesquiera otros ade lantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipoteca rio. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les no tifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, esta rán de manifiesto en la Secre taría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspon dientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la juris dicción de Puerto Rico. Se en tenderá que todo licitador acep ta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante 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. Se procederá a otorgar la co rrespondiente Escritura de Ven ta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita den tro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si trans curren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior proce dimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la fin
ca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. Expedido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 9 de septiembre de 2022. BENEDICTO VELÁZ
QUEZ FÉLIX, ALGUACIL RE GIONAL INTERINO. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, AGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUA DILLA
Parte Demandante V JORGE LUIS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: ACD2017-0111. So bre: Ejecución de Hipoteca - In Rem. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, hago saber a la parte deman dada, JORGE LUIS RUIZ ACE VEDO y al PÚBLICO EN GE NERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 11 de abril de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a ven der y venderé en pública subas ta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: Alturas de Borinquen #20-B Anexo, Aguadilla PR 00725 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Borinquen de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 274.4805 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE en 14.04 metros, con camino municipal; por el SUR, en 15.15 metros con Pablo Cruz; por el ESTE en 18.33 metros con parcela “C” y por el OESTE, en 19.35 metros con parcela “A”. Edificación: Es tructura en cemento de 2 plan tas, dedicada a la vivienda. La planta baja mide 40’9 ‘de frente por 42’7’de fondo y consta de 2 cuartos dormitorios, 1 baño, sala-comedor, cocina, “laun dry”, balcón, y marquesina. La Planta alta mide 32’1 ‘de frente por 39’2 ‘de fondo y consta de 2 cuartos dormitorios, 1q1 baño, sala comedor cocina, “laundry”, balcón y escalera de acceso a dicha estructura. Finca 9460, Inscrita al folio 24 del tomo 633 de Aguadilla, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. La finca antes descrita se en cuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA a favor de Doral Mortgage, LLC., o asu orden, por la suma de $139,700.00, con intereses a
razón del 5 1/8% anual, venci miento al 1 de agosto de 2040, según consta de la escritura #159, otorgada en San Juan, el 17 de julio de 2010, ante el no tario Ivonne Gonzalez Medra no. Inscrita al folio 24 del tomo 633 de Aguadilla, finca 9460, inscripción 5ta. (ii) Anotación de Demanda: Demanda radi cada en el Caso Civil número A CD2017-0111 sobre Ejecu ción de Hipoteca seguido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla el 17 de julio de 2017, Scotia bank de Puerto Rico v. Jorge Luis Ruiz Acevedo por la suma de $124,546.24. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 17 de junio de 2019, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad ascendiente a $124,546.24 de principal, más los intereses que se han acumulado y con tinuaran acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, más recargos por demora, más la suma de dinero para primas de seguro y/o contribuciones, inspecciones, mas $13,970.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será cele brada el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el CENTRO JUDI CIAL DE AGUADILLA, PUER TO RICO, PISO 2, OFICINA DEL ALGUACIL. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la canti dad de $139,700.00 sin admitir se oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, cele braré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MA ÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $93,133.33 Si no hubiese remate ni adjudi cación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBAS TA el 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MA ÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $69,850.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento incoado estarán de ma nifiesto en la Secretaría del Tri bunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta
como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entien de que cualquier carga y/o gra vamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continua rá subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cual quier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propie dad para ejecutar será adquiri da libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de car gas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo teca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de ins trumentos negociables garan tizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecuta do, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando subrogados en los dere chos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y con signado el precio correspon diente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente es critura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o ti tular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el ad judicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo due ño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si trans curren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior proce dimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la fin ca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de sep tiembre de 2022. GERARDO MÉNDEZ VILLANUEVA, AL GUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRI MERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AGUADILLA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
GREEN ORTIZ; EDWARD GREEN ORTIZ Y FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DORA LUZ ORTIZ FRANCO POR SÍ Y COMO CÓNYUGE SUPÉRSTITE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM): ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJAR DO COMMOLOCO INC. (PR)
Demandante V. ALEJANDRINA SANTOS
OCASIO POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE ISMAEL PÉREZ RIVERA COMPUESTA ADEMAS
POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICLP
Demandados
Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00746.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, S. S.
A: ALEJANDRINA SANTOS OCASIO POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE ISMAEL PÉREZ RIVERA COMPUESTA ADEMAS POR FULANO DE TAL Y FUL,ANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS.
Queden emplazados y notifi cados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alega ción responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abo gados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC
1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Ratón, FL 33432 Tel. 877-338-4101 /
Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi fir ma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 12 de septiembre de 2022.
WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBU NAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE GERTRUDIS QUIÑONES ROJAS, ET AL. Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02419.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA Y COBRO DE DINERO.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SS.
A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GERTRUDIS QUIÑONES
ROJAS.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unred.rama judicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abo gados de la parte demandan te, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de di nero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los me ses de mayo de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además adeuda a la parte de mandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré
en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hi potecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de principal de $74,424.05 más intereses a razón del 5.50% anual desde el 1 de abril de 2020 hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha an teriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su ven cimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribu ciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $9,180.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte De mandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIEN TE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 181 en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comuni dad Rural Valenciano del Barrio Valenciano del término muni cipal de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos cuarenta punto no venta y un metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela 182 de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con Pedro Borges López; por el ESTE, con Pedro Borges López; y por el OESTE, con Calle 3 de la Comunidad.
Se segrega de la finca núme ro 5,300, inscrita al folio 22 del tomo 141 de Juncos. Consta inscrita al folio 192 del tomo 225 de Juncos, finca número #8,851. Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del tér mino legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Or den, acepten o repudien la par ticipación que les corresponda en la herencia de la DE LA SU CESION DE GERTRUDIS QUI ÑONES ROJAS De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada.
SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones respon sivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dicta rá sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la De manda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico. A 22 de agosto de 2022.
LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. ELVIRA GENOVEVA RIVERA TORRES, JOHN DOE
Demandado(a)
Civil: AI2022CV00248. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican Ia sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que 15 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 en terarse detalladamente de los términos de Ia misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en Ia IsIa 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 Ia Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de Ia cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de Ia publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en Ia fecha de Ia publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de septiembre de 2022. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2022. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. CAR MEN J. APONTE MERCADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANK DE PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00839. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN PAGARÉ EX TRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
BANK DE PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE. 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 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 27 de septiembre de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA.
NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZA RRY, SECRETARIA. GLENDA L. AVILÉS CASTILLO, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE AÑAS CO
mino de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epí grafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tri bunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Añasco, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de septiembre de 2022. LIC. NORMA G. SANTA NA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AÑASCO. LIZBETH VÁZ QUEZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE BAYA MÓN
RODRIGUEZ VILLAMIL Demandada Civil Núm.: VA2022CV00052. Salón: 402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en re beldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la de manda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel Ruiz Lopez cuyas di recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@ orfIaw.com, a la dirección no tificaciones@orf-law.com. EX
TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 02 de agosto de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 02 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁN CHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. ELIBETH TORRES ALI CEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
LUIS ESTEBAN COLON III
Parte Demandada Civil: CG2020CV02738. (801). Sobre: PAGARÉ EXTRAVIA DO. NOTIFICACIÓN ENMEN DADA DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO (SE ENMIENDA FE CHA NOTIFICACIÓN).
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de 2022. En CAGUAS, Puer to Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, Secretaria Regional. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, secretaria Auxiliar.
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A: FULANO Y FUNAParte Demandada Civil Núm.: AÑ2022CV00133.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). EDICTO.
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EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de JULIO 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 27 de septiembre
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 27 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 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 29 de septiembre de 2022. En San Sebastían, Puerto Rico, el 29 de septiem bre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA.
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The NFL Players Association has dis missed a neurologist who evaluated Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tago vailoa after Tagovailoa hit his head in a game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Sept. 25. Tagovailoa was allowed to return to that game, only to be carted off the field during a game four days later after apparently sustain ing a second head injury.
The dismissal came hours before the players’ union and the NFL announced Sat urday that they were working to modify the league’s concussion protocol, perhaps within days.
According to two people with knowl edge of the union’s decision, it “exercised its right” to remove the doctor, known as an “unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant,” who had advised the Dolphins’ team doctor dur ing Tagovailoa’s evaluation last Sunday. One person said that the outside doctor, who was approved by the NFL and the union, was re moved for concussion protocol violations that resulted in an initial diagnosis that Tagovailoa did not have a concussion and his being al lowed to play days later.
The dismissal of the doctor, who has not been publicly identified, came two days af ter Tagovailoa sustained a second hit to the head during the Dolphins’ game on Thursday against the Cincinnati Bengals, which led him to be removed on a stretcher and taken to a hospital. The injury, broadcast in prime time, reignited a vociferous debate about whether the Dolphins had skirted the concussion pro tocol during last Sunday’s game.
Soon after the Sept. 25 incident, the play ers’ union said it initiated an investigation, jointly undertaken with the league, into how doctors assessed Tagovailoa’s health after his head slammed against the turf in the second quarter of the Dolphins’ home game against the Bills.
After the play ended, Tagovailoa reached for his helmet with his hands, struggled to get to his feet and fell after a couple of steps. He was taken to the locker room to be evaluated.
According to the NFL’s concussion pro tocol — which was developed by the league and the union — a player cannot return if a team doctor, “in consultation with” an unaf filiated neurologist, determines that a player’s “gross motor instability” was “neurologically
caused.” The team doctor, however, has the final say on the player’s diagnosis.
The Dolphins initially said during the Sept. 25 game that Tagovailoa was being evaluated for a possible head injury. The team later said the quarterback had hurt his ankle and back, and he returned for the second half.
The Dolphins’ head team doctor is Dr. John Uribe, an orthopedist who is also the team doctor for the NHL’s Florida Panthers. It is unclear whether Uribe or another team doctor made the final decision to allow Tago vailoa to return against the Bills.
An NFL spokesperson said last Wednes day that there was “every indication” that the doctors who evaluated Tagovailoa had fol lowed the league’s concussion protocol. But the league and the players’ union said in a joint statement Saturday night that the inves tigation had not yet made conclusions about possible medical errors or protocol violations. They also said that discussions were under way about modifying the concussion proto col within days, specifically around the term “gross motor instability.”
The investigation, which should take no more than three weeks, will seek to deter mine “if a violation occurred and, if so, the proper disciplinary response.” If the league and union cannot agree on whether the pro tocol was violated, the complaint will be sent
to an arbitrator.
The neurological consultants work on each sideline at every NFL game to assist team doctors if a player is thought to have sustained a head injury. These neurologists typically work at hospitals in the home team’s city. They are approved by the league’s chief medical officer, Dr. Allen Sills, and the NFL Players Association medical director, Dr. Thom Mayer.
The union’s move to dismiss the neu rologist may amount to a symbolic action because team doctors, not the unaffiliated
neurologists, make the final determinations as to whether players sustained concussions and whether they can return to the game, accord ing to the NFL’s concussion protocol.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the respon sibility for the diagnosis of concussion and the decision to return a player to a game remains exclusively within the professional judgment of the head team physician or the team physi cian assigned to managing TBI,” the protocol says, using an abbreviation for traumatic brain injuries.
According to the NFL’s collective bar gaining agreement, a neurological consultant can “present his/her own questions or con duct additional testing and shall assist in the diagnosis and treatment of concussions.”
In response to questions about the status of the team doctor or doctors who evaluated Tagovailoa on Sept. 25, a Dolphins spokes person said the team was letting the joint in vestigation proceed.
The Dolphins have not said that Tago vailoa had a concussion during the game two Sundays ago. But he did sustain a concussion during Thursday’s game, the team said. A sec ond concussion sustained before an earlier one has properly healed can lead to signifi cant complications.
On Friday, Dolphins coach Mike McDan iel said Tagovailoa had headaches but was generally feeling better. Later in the day, Ta govailoa said on Twitter that he was “feeling much better and focused on recovering so I can get back out on the field with my team mates.”
The team has not set a timeline for Tago vailoa’s return.
Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s head slammed against the turf during the Miami Dolphins’ game against Buffalo last Sunday. He also appeared to sustain a head injury in a game on Thursday.Héctor López, the first Black manager at the highest level of minor league baseball and one of the last liv ing members of the early 1960s New York Yankees dynasty, who played in the team’s outfield alongside Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, died last Thursday in Hudson, Florida. He was 93.
His son Darrol López said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was complications of lung cancer.
A native of Panama, López was one of the first Black players for the Yankees. Ap pearing in five consecutive World Series, he was the very essence of a utility player, a ca pable nonstar who filled in as an infielder or an outfielder, wherever there was a need.
In the fifth and final game of the 1961 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, he smashed a home run and a triple and drove in five runs in a 13-5 victory.
López was released by the Yankees after the 1966 season, in which the team finished 10th and last, ending his 12-year playing ca reer with a .269 average and 136 home runs. He played in the minor leagues for a couple of seasons, hoping to return to the majors. But instead, in 1969, he was named manager of the Buffalo Bisons, then the Triple-A af filiate of the Washington Senators (now the Texas Rangers).
A New York Times headline read: “Hec tor Lopez Slides Safely Into Buffalo as First Negro Pro Baseball Pilot.” López, lacking a star pedigree or much experience in coach ing, was an unlikely trailblazer. George Vecsey, a longtime Times sports columnist, wrote that as an aging minor league player in Buffalo, López was “a helpful senior citizen to Washington Senator farmhands” and got the job by being “in the right place at the right time and by wanting the job.”
“Good for Hector,” Elston Howard, the first Black Yankees player, said. “This is a good break for him.”
López led the Bisons for just one season. It would be six more years before Frank Rob inson became the first Black manager in the big leagues, with the Cleveland Indians.
Over a 12-year career that began with the Kansas City Athletics in 1955, López played every position on the field except pitcher and catcher, although it could be argued that his versatility wasn’t entirely a
strength.
Playing in an era before the designated hitter, he was known as a solid hitter who was iffy with the glove no matter where he played. According to Vecsey, he was known as Hector “What a Pair of Hands” Lopez, because of his “exciting duels with ground balls.”
In Kansas City, where he was mostly an infielder, he hit 67 home runs but made 116 errors in just over four seasons. After he was acquired by the Yankees, along with pitcher Ralph Terry, early in the 1959 season, he played mostly outfield, where he would pre sumably do less damage, but he did little to dispel his reputation as a poor fielder.
His first year in New York, he made 17 errors in 76 games at third base (and three more in the outfield); however, he hit .283 with 16 homers for the Yanks, and includ ing his time with Kansas City, drove in 93 runs for the 1959 season. His new manag er, Casey Stengel, described López, “a man which batted in 93 runs,” as a conundrum: “If I bench him I bench 93 runs, but I would like better fieldin’ outta my 93 runs.”
This was the start of a dynastic period for the Yankees — from 1960-64, they were
American League champions every year, capturing the World Series in 1961 and 1962 — and López often played in the same out field with the star sluggers Mantle and Maris or substituted when one or the other was in jured, a not infrequent occurrence.
Living in Brooklyn during his early Yankee years, as an indication of both the times and his secondary role on the team, he commuted to work in the Bronx on the subway, largely without being recognized. In eight years as a Yankee, he hit .262, respect able for a utility man; he was better in the postseason, hitting .286 in 15 World Series games.
Héctor Headley López Swainson was born on July 8, 1929, in Colón, Panama, where his father, a salesperson, was a pitcher in local leagues. López graduated from an English-speaking high school and for a while studied auto mechanics and worked in a bowling alley.
He played in amateur and professional leagues in Panama before a scout spotted him and signed him to play for a profes sional team in Quebec that would eventually become affiliated with the Athletics. López played four minor league seasons and part of a fifth before becoming the regular third baseman for a hapless Kansas City club that had recently relocated from Philadelphia.
López lived for many years on Long Is land, where he worked for the parks depart ment in Hempstead and for a time coached high school baseball. He and his wife, Clau dette Joyce (Brown) López, whom he mar ried in 1960, later moved to Hudson, near Tampa, and he served as a scout, a coach and a minor league instructor for the Yan kees.
In addition to his wife and his son Dar rol, his survivors include another son, Hugh; a sister, Dilcia López; a brother, Manuel López; five grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren.
López returned to managing briefly to lead the Yankees’ rookie-level team (where Darryl Strawberry played his first games with the Yankees organization) in 1994 and 1995.
“Just being able to play in the big leagues for as long as I did at the time that I played is something I’m proud of,” López said in an interview for the 2002 book “That Was Part of Baseball Then,” by Victor Debs Jr. “There was a lot of competition, a lot of great play ers during the ’50s and ’60s. Plus the fact that there weren’t that many Black ballplay ers at that time. Especially in the American League. So I guess you can say I made the most out of my opportunities.”
Héctor López, left, with the Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, a fellow Panama native, at Yankee Stadium before an old-timers game in 2013. López played 12 major league seasons.Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
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Frustrated by delays? From today key planets forge ahead, giving you more freedom of movement. Upbeat Mercury changes direction, enabling you to get back on track with your plans. If you’ve felt stymied by the slow pace of events, this is all set to change. Soon you’ll be ticking off those milestones and heading for great results. Bit by bit, progress will be made.
As fleet-footed Mercury turns direct today, it will make life so much easier. If a new romance had stalled or a promising project seemed to come to nothing, you might wonder whether it’s time to abandon them. Not yet! Give yourself another chance, as things could soon start coming together. While it pays to keep an eye on the details for a while longer, you’ll soon be flying high, Taurus.
Good news today, as Mercury your personal planet, turns direct after its three-week retro phase. As it pushes ahead in your home zone, any major plans or projects that have been put on the backburner, can now be dusted off. Even as other planets continue to rewind, you’ll still notice a positive difference, as this inquisitive planet gets back on track. Progress will be tangible.
If talks have failed to bring about the breakthrough you want, get ready for good news. The coming week brings a significant turnaround. With nimble Mercury pushing forward, any delays may soon be a thing of the past. Agreements can be set up, deals signed and discussions swiftly initiated. Still, keep your eye on the ball over the coming days, as Mercury steadies its pace.
Financial affairs will begin to run smoother, which could be a relief if you’ve experienced continuous delays and hold-ups. Contracts related to work or business might also get processed more quickly, as chatty Mercury changes direction and works to your advantage. If you’ve held back from making a crucial decision or move, you can now press ahead with those vital plans.
Get ready, as messenger Mercury heads forward in your sign, bringing an end to any setbacks. If personal plans have had to be shelved due to unexpected circumstances, you can now get back on track. And if you’ve been working hard to build a relationship or to get your talents recognized, things might now begin to take off. Fresh opportunities are yours for the taking.
Projects may come unstuck, and those plans that have been snarled up could now go ahead, as progress becomes possible. But a change in mindset can also have a major influence on what happens next. If you’ve been sticking to an outdated idea, the realization that it isn’t going to work might hit home. The only way forward may be to do it differently. Try again, Libra!
A change of plan may not be the issue it appears. It might even be the answer. If you’ve tried to get an idea off the ground and been held back by various issues, then it could be fatally flawed. With Mercury pushing ahead, you now have an opportunity for a fresh start. Take what works and jettison the rest. Any experience gained won’t go wasted, as you’ll soon find out, Scorpio.
Doors that have stayed shut may now spring open, and not before time, Archer! If you’ve tried in vain to get things moving and had no luck, be prepared for a pleasant surprise. It might not occur right away, but soon enough you’ll see a difference. Small signs of progress can give way to bigger ones, leaving you more assured that things are heading in the right direction at last.
Get ready to sail away on your boat of dreams, as obstructive energies become more flowing from today. As Mercury pushes ahead, you’ll see things improving before your eyes. First the smaller delays will begin to melt away, followed by the bigger obstacles that have marred progress. The steps leading to your goal will get bigger too Capricorn, and soon you’ll arrive.
If you’ve been busy clearing the decks, tying up loose ends and finding closure on issues that have bugged you for a while, then the forward motion of Mercury from today, will be very welcome. There is now space for you to embrace fresh opportunities and ideas. If recent efforts seem to have failed, the weeks ahead can see seeds sprouting and blossoming everywhere.
People, rather than events, may have been the main cause of recent hiccups. If you’ve got little done over past weeks and months, it could be that others haven’t been able to do their bit. And it’s probably no fault of their own, as they might have had issues to tend to. You can delegate and negotiate with more confidence now, as Mercury’s forward motion brings plans to fruition.
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