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vice,” he said. “In Aguirre, there are four combined cycle units in service; Cambalache is fully in service; Mayagüez is in reserve. Toro Negro and Yauco are in service; we have six hydroelectric units in service.”
days after Hurricane Fiona’s passage through Puerto Rico, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Tuesday that “we are in the midst of the recovery process” after what he called “historic flooding.”
During a press conference at the Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration (NMEAD by its Spanish acronym), the governor said “FEMA has activated individual assistance for all municipalities.”
“Already 495,000 people have registered for disaster relief,” he said. “We have also begun the public assistance claim process to restore essential services for our people. The federal government will be covering 100 percent of those eligible costs.”
Pierluisi also sent a letter to Congress “to achieve 100 percent coverage for the Vital plan [which administers Medicaid on the island]; primary nutritional assistance and aid to our farmers,” to which Puerto Rico has no access.
“I [also] sent a letter to President Biden with a copy to the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security to request a waiver of the Jones Act to waive the [restrictions on] fuel imports necessary to address this emergency.”
The governor has been visiting 19 municipalities with heavy damage and assured those in attendance that “I sym pathize with every family that has lost a family member, that has had damage to their homes, or that is in need.”
“We are doing everything to protect them, to reach out and assist them,” he said.
Orlando Olivera from the Federal Emergency Manage ment Agency (FEMA) said that all 78 municipalities had been included in the declaration of federal assistance.
“It is important that all those that suffered damages register at disasterassistance.gov,” he said.
“We will have staff and people on the street helping people fill out the application,” the official added. “People must register to apply for assistance.”
PREPA Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz said “the electrical system has been recovering at a dizzying pace; we have 3,012 megawatts of generation available; we have units available at all generating stations.”
“EcoEléctrica is fully in service, and AES is fully in ser
“I would like to thank the work team that since the hurricane and as of today has not stopped …” he added, visibly affected during the press conference.
When asked about it in the round of reporter questions, he made reference to the many people working nonstop away from their families.
Daniel Hernández, director of Renewable Energies at LUMA Energy, the operator of PREPA’s transmission and distribution system, warned that even though the mayors could have the best of intentions when they decide to en ergize power lines, “we want to remind you that electricity is not seen and not heard, but the day you touch electricity, lives will be lost.”
“Please, the message is to stay away from electrical infrastructure, lines, or stations,” he pleaded.
Hernández added that as of the late-afternoon press conference, “we have been able to energize 1,039,330 customers; we have added almost 110,000 customers since yesterday.”
“After a general outage, we’re up to 71 percent,” he said.
They expected to add 70,000 reenergized customers Tuesday night, including Aguadilla, Cabo Rojo, Guánica, Lares, Salinas, San Germán and Yauco.
For his part, Health Secretary Dr. Carlos Mellado López said that 65 of 70 hospitals are already energized. He also talked about the suspected cases of leptospirosis and as sured reporters that they were being treated with antibiotics.
“If you have symptoms, go to the nearest CDT or hos pital,” the Health secretary said. “Clean all surfaces with bleach, and boiled water that is not bottled.”
As for the deaths associated directly with the passage and aftermath of Hurricane Fiona, Mellado López said “we have 21 cases under surveillance, where we have one direct case [there could be more; they have to go to the Bureau of Forensic Sciences], and the other 20 cases are being reported.”
“There was a meeting with the president of the Medical Association, and it is important that the doctors fill out the certificates specifying the social determinants that could reflect deaths due to the hurricane,” he added.
Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewer Authority Execu tive President Doriel Pagán Crespo said that “as far as the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority service is concerned, we have 1.15 million customers with service.”
Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés said the dam age from Fiona to public schools was minimal, and there are still nine that are being used as shelters.
“Also, we have seen how delaying the start of school has impacted our children in a negative way, so we were asked to start classes,” he said. “Today 405 schools opened, and we had a great response. … We will keep moving to have 93% of schools open [today].”
claim disputes.
The
Financial Oversight and Management Board’s urgent motion for litigation on certain issues that are preventing the resolution of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Author ity’s (PREPA) bankruptcy will be the leading topic at today’s omnibus hearing.
U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain will evaluate a request by mediators in the PREPA bankruptcy as to whether they should establish a schedule to continue negotiations during litigation of the issue.
The oversight board on Sept. 17 announced it had walked out of the mediation talks to restructure PREPA’s $9 billion debt due to “substantial disagreements with the mediation parties.” The oversight board then asked the Title III bankruptcy court to restart litigation of several disputes with the bondholders. The litigation will focus mainly on whether the bondholders’ security interest securing their bond claims is limited to about $8.8 million that PREPA has in accounts the bond trustee created per a 1974 trust agreement governing the issuance of the bonds.
The bondholders then asked the court to dismiss the bankruptcy case, which began in 2017, and to appoint a receiver for PREPA.
Following a request from Judge Swain, who is overseeing all of Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy cases, the mediators presented a schedule to continue negotiations during the litigation pro
posed by the oversight board and the creation of a new debt adjustment plan.
The mediators said they believe the mediation will benefit if the court requires the oversight board to file in 60 days a proposed plan of adjustment, or “toggle plan,” and a relat ed disclosure statement that contemplates alternative plan treatment depending on the outcome of the primary lien and
They also said it would enhance the mediation if the litigation takes place as part of the oversight board’s request for confirmation of the debt plan and a confirmation hearing consistent with an expedited litigation schedule. The hearing should take place no later than June 2023.
The oversight board opposes the idea.
While the board said the court may set a deadline for filing a plan, it noted that the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, does not provide for the court to predetermine the plan’s con tents, including that it be a “toggle plan.”
The oversight board also insisted that the purpose of the requested litigation is to determine the bondholders’ and current expense claimants’ rights, which will help it strike deals with those creditors or other groups. The “current expense” claims are those in which fuel line lenders and PREPA’s retirement system said they should be paid before the bondholders.
Lawyer Rolando Emmanuelli said the mediation will continue to extend the process. He said the mediators’ first bill in the case is about $400,000.
He noted that the oversight board has finally realized what other creditors, such as the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union, have been saying, which is that if the board negotiates to pay the bondholders, it would not be able to restructure PREPA. He also said that the mediators’ proposed calendar would extend the case until at least January.
San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced Tues day that his municipal administration has set up two centers where citizens can go to fill out the Individual Assistance form from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to receive $700 in aid.
The centers are located in the San Juan Bautista Gallery in City Hall in Old San Juan and in the Estudio Conmigo Electronic Library on Franklin Delano Roosevelt Avenue.
The centers started operating Tuesday and are open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The designated areas are spaces that provide citizens with confidentiality, computers with internet to complete the FEMA form, electricity and a waiting area. In addition, citizens will have access to an area where they can charge their phones while they complete the form.
“We know that the majority of Puerto Rican families still do not have electricity service, but in San Juan we are moving quickly, as part of our response plan, so that families can recover from the devastating passage of Fiona and can access the basic resources and help available,” the mayor said. “We invite citizens and families who do not have ac
cess to the internet, electricity, and computers to go to one of these two centers … for free and easy access.”
As detailed by FEMA, when filling out the application, people must have with them their social security card or number, their date of birth, their physical and postal ad dress, their bank account and routing number, as well as an email address where they will receive information about their request.
In this first phase, the authorized centers are for those people who can fill out the form on their own. Romero Lugo anticipated that soon the municipal administration will enable other centers for those citizens who require help to fill out and submit the application to receive the $700 in assistance.
U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain
San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo
Mayor Edward O’Neill Rosa said Tuesday that the LUMA Energy consortium, where he worked as chief of brigades, “doesn’t fix anything.”
“They don’t fix anything because they are like a separate farm,” O’Neill Rosa said in a radio interview (NotiUno). “Those people came to manage the transmission and distribution part. If you came to manage that, talk to the mayors, and reach agreements. That MOU [memorandum of understanding], which has not reached me, is done by the mayors for free.”
The memorandum of understanding, Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz said, consists of debris removal, vegetative material removal and traffic control.
O’Neill Rosa said it is dangerous for mayors to “start to energize sectors in a crazy way” because they can cause the loss of lives and the energy system could collapse again.
However, he understands that it is absurd that, more than a week after Hurricane Fiona made landfall, there are still so many power customers without service. When asked what he attributes the situation to, the mayor replied that it is LUMA’s working style.
“Although they say that their system of working is safer, the truth is that it is riskier,” he said.
O’Neill Rosa noted that, in terms of safety, LUMA leaves the breakers on in the
substations when they are supposed to turn them all off. That causes, the former LUMA Energy employee said, places where there are live wires on the ground when a substation is reenergized, which represents a safety risk to anyone.
“Here, they have left LUMA alone to work on their own, as they want and as they please, and that’s not the way to do it,” the Guaynabo mayor said.
Also on Tuesday, Morovis Mayor Carmen Maldonado González confirmed that the municipality declared a state of emergency for the activation of municipal brigades as of this Friday to assist with improving the condition of the electrical system in her northern-central town.
The decision is in accordance with Law 107 of Aug. 14, 2020, known as the “Mu-
nicipal Code of Puerto Rico,” which allows mayors to deal with unmet electrical and water challenges five days after notifying the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) or the Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewer Authority.
“As in the rest of Puerto Rico, mayors are the first line of service to the citizenry. In many cases, particularly with sick people, having electric power service is a matter of life or death,” Maldonado González said in a document that was sent to the management of LUMA Energy, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau and Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia. “The work we will do in the municipality to restore power service will last uninterruptedly, as long as the financial condition of the municipality allows it, trying to restore power to each Moroveño.”
The official document specifies that “due to the laziness, delay, and lack of notification of information on the work, or schedule of work, to restore power service to the residents of the Municipality of Morovis, by PREPA and LUMA, we have determined to activate such provision.”
“We cannot remain with our arms crossed in the face of the inefficiency and lack of personnel of the private administrator of Puerto Rico’s electric power system,” Maldonado González continued in the document. “To do nothing, at this time, would be to settle for the mismanagement of the electrical system. We will not be complicit in the suffering of our people and the country.”
The island Health Department’s top medical officer, Dr. Iris Cardona, confirmed Tuesday that the number of suspected cases of leptospirosis in Puerto Rico rose to 26.
“Twenty-six in total. They are cases reported throughout the health regions and are under investigation,” Cardona said in a radio interview. “We call on all residents of Puerto Rico [to understand] that this is a disease, it is an infection that is treatable and that the consequences can be avoided if treated early. We alert health institutions to be vigilant.”
Dr. Iris Cardona
The increase in cases was seven, from the 19 cases that were reported late Monday after the STAR went to press. The
total number includes people of all ages, Cardona said, adding that the incubation period can be five to 30 days.
She reiterated that leptospirosis is a treatable disease, but must be treated in time.
Symptoms of the disease include fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, jaundice (yellow eyes and skin), rash and red eyes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
The CDC reports that leptospirosis can be contracted by drinking or having contact with water, including swimming and rafting or kayaking, or land that has been contaminated by urine or body fluids from infected animals.
Guaynabo Mayor Edward O’Neill Rosa talks with residents of the metro area municipality.Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael Hernández Montañez said Tuesday that he and other lawmakers asked White House officials to allow a foreign-flagged vessel carrying diesel fuel to deliver its cargo in the southern municipality of Peñuelas.
The ship had been unable to dock in Puerto Rico since Sunday because of the century-old Jones Act provision that prevents foreign-flagged vessels from transporting goods among U.S. ports.
Hernández Montañez, House Majority Leader Ángel Matos García and Rep. Eddie Charbonier Chinea stressed to Gretchen Sierra, director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House, the need for diesel fuel for hospitals, nursing homes and businesses in the southern and western parts of the island. Diesel fuel is used for the operation of power generators in hospitals and businesses. There is no current crisis in the amount of diesel fuel available in Puerto Rico, but there are problems with its distribution, a situation that has forced some businesses to limit operating hours or shut down.
“We managed to get the White House to prioritize this issue and to start efforts to release this shipment at the Peñuelas terminal to address the deficiency of the product on the island, so that it reaches the different areas that remain without electricity and rely on electric generators,” Hernández Montañez said.
The British Petroleum (BP) ship has been off the coast
The British Petroleum ship has been off the coast of Peñuelas since Sunday, awaiting the approval of the U.S. government to deliver its cargo of diesel fuel.
of Peñuelas since Sunday, awaiting the approval of the U.S. government to deliver its cargo.
“As we became aware of the situation and given the urgency to solve the problem of access to fuel immediately, we introduced House Resolution 832, in which we ask the Department of Homeland Security to issue a one-year waiver from the Jones Act to exempt Puerto Rico from federal cabotage
regulations and thus facilitate access to key supplies to face an emergency,” the House speaker said.
Gov. Pedro Pierlusi Urrutia said via Twitter on Monday that he had asked Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to personally intervene to allow the vessel loaded with diesel to dock “for the benefit of our people.”
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to NBC News on Monday that it “will continue to examine individual requests for Jones Act waivers on a case-by-case basis and in consultation with the Maritime Administration, and Departments of Defense and Energy.”
Federal officials must examine whether granting the waiver could prevent a crisis in national security and it is a time-consuming process.
The 1920 Jones Act requires that goods shipped from one U.S. port to another be transported on a ship that is Ameri can-built, American-owned, and crewed by U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Puerto Rico does receive goods from foreign-flagged ships without waivers as long as they do not come from U.S. ports.
Ports Authority Executive Director Joel Pizá Batiz said on the radio Monday that the foreign-flagged ship had departed from Texas City, Texas with 300,000 barrels of diesel several days ago. British BP owns the diesel and its commercial partner is Peerless Oil and Chemicals in Puerto Rico.
The Ports chief said they should have sought the waiver in advance of coming to Puerto Rico.
Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea announced on Tuesday a package of tax administration measures for the benefit of citizens and merchants.
“Due to the major disaster declaration authorized by President Joe Biden, we are activating our emergency plan by postponing certain dates for filing and payment of tax returns, in addition to other measures that will benefit businesses,” the official said in a written statement.
Tax returns and payments: Administrative Determination 22-08 postpones until December 15 the deadline to file any income tax return or request for extension whose filing due date is between Friday, Sept. 30 and Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022.
At the same time, the due date of any return for which an Extension Request is filed was extended to Thursday, June 15, 2023.
Payment Postponements: The extension of the due date to Thursday, Dec. 15 also includes any outstanding amounts due between Friday, Sept. 30, and before Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022.
This includes payment of the second installment of the individual income tax return.
The filing of returns and payments or deposits related to the following taxes are not included in the postponement and therefore their due date is maintained as established by the Code: excise taxes; taxes on alcoholic beverages; special tax on foreign corporations; taxes withheld on salaries and services rendered and other withholdings at source and estimated tax payments.
Payment Plans: Any taxpayer that has been economically affected by the impact of
Hurricane Fiona may enter into a new Payment Plan through SURI or by visiting the Collection Offices of the Bureau of Collections before Dec. 31, 2022. In the event that the system imposes a penalty, the taxpayer must request the elimination of the penalty by submitting an elimination request through their SURI account, along with evidence of filing and payment.
Other expiration dates: All bonds with expiration dates between Sept. 19 and Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, are automatically extended until Friday, Nov. 18, 2022.
The terms for taxpayers to submit their claims to the Notices of Mathematical Errors and Notices of Adjustment on Schedule, whose due date is between Sept. 19 and Nov. 18, 2022, are extended until Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, as well.
Collection Notices and Foreclosures: In the case of Collection Notices, Bank Foreclosures, and other embargoes, the Department stopped their issuance until Friday, Nov. 18, 2022.
“Should any notice of garnishment arise, the taxpayer should call 787-620-2323 or write to embargosbancarios@hacienda.pr.gov, to attend to his or her case,” the secretary said.
Merchants: The Treasury Department
extended until Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022 the deadline to file the IVU and Import Monthly Return for the month of August 2022. It also extended until Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, the deadline for sending the sales and use deposit to the Treasury Department.
Meanwhile, the Treasury Department will grant a Temporary Exemption Certificate allowing 16,180 Resale Merchants to import or acquire taxable items for resale, free of IVU. These merchants must have their Reseller Cer tificate in force. The exemption term will be of one month, beginning on Oct. 1, and ending on Oct. 31, 2022. The Temporary Exemption Certificate will not apply to imports or purchas es of taxable items for use or consumption in Puerto Rico.
Administrative Procedures: The Depart ment extended until Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, the expiration date of any managerial procedures that cannot be handled through SURI.
“I urge all taxpayers to stay informed by accessing our social networks Facebook @Dp toHacienda and Twitter @haciendapuertorico and our website www.hacienda.pr.gov,” the secretary said.
Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés AliceaHurricane Ian lashed Cuba on Tuesday with heavy rain and winds of up to 125 mph, knoc king out power and causing the eva cuation of about 50,000 Cubans, ac cording to authorities.
“Another dawn without rest,” Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, wrote on Twitter, noting that govern ment officials were mobilizing to help in the aftermath of the Category 3 storm. Ian began moving off the island nation around midday.
The storm causes power outages that plunged parts of Havana into dark ness. Despite heavy rains and strong winds, some people were out seeking food and basic supplies Tuesday, lining up under sheltering overhangs to buy a piece of chicken or a bottle of oil.
Cuba’s western provinces, where the hurricane made landfall, have been the hardest hit. Videos shared on social media from the town of Coloma, along Cuba’s southern coast, showed people inside their homes with water up to their knees.
The hurricane comes as Cuba continues to recover from one of the worst periods of financial hardship in the country’s history, with the nation’s ailing infrastructure already producing widespread power blackouts. The fi nancial misery, along with ongoing political repression, sparked one of the largest protest movements in decades last year.
The island has long borne the brunt of Atlantic storms. In 2008, two hurri canes, Gustav and Ike, blasted across the country, leaving at least seven people dead, damaging crops and buil dings, and setting off more than 150
Staff members of Doc’s Beach House fill sandbags outside the restaurant in Bonita Springs, Fla., in preparation for Hurricane Ian, on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022.
landslides in Havana.
On Tuesday, flooding in western
Cuba damaged houses and tobacco crops, an important agricultural indus try. In the municipality of San Luis, nor th of the city of Santiago de Cuba, one of the largest tobacco growing areas had been decimated.
Thousands of families were eva cuated, and widespread power outa ges were reported in the western city of Pinar del Río. Tourists in places like Varadero, a popular beach resort in the country’s north, were relocated to more secure locations.
Official state media in northern Matanzas province said that 76 shelters had been opened in the region and that they expected the evacuation of some 17,000 people,
Local authorities predicted that the center of the hurricane would leave the island later Tuesday, before moving into the Gulf of Mexico and then on toward Florida.
As Hurricane Ian headed toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, airports annou nced plans to shut down before the worst of the wind and rain arrived.
Officials at Tampa International Air port, where about 140 incoming and out going flights were canceled as of Tuesday morning, said the airport’s last departure would be at 5 p.m. By then, most of the airport’s daily operations will be finished.
The airport will be fully closed starting Wednesday, and it is not clear when it will reopen, according to John Tiliacos, the exe cutive vice president of airport operations.
At a news briefing Tuesday morning, he said the closure would affect 450 flights a day.
The airport is close to Tampa Bay, so storm surge and flooding are a top concern, he said.
“We are talking potentially a lot of wa ter that could be on our airport,” Tiliacos said. He added, “To my knowledge, we have never had a storm of this magnitude that’s impacted us.”
The Tampa International Airport on Tuesday. It was scheduled to close at 5 p.m. as Hurricane Ian approached.
A team of about 120 employees have volunteered to ride out the storm at the airport, he said. Their goal is to reopen it as quickly as possible after the storm, once
workers have assessed its effects.
Passengers who find themselves stran ded at the airport will be taken to a shelter, Tiliacos said.
Joseph W. Lopano, CEO of the public authority that manages the Tampa airport, said that airlines were already canceling flights and moving aircraft to safer places. He said the economic impact of closing the airport would be “in the millions.” He added, “Unfortunately Ian is not giving us a choice.”
The Federal Aviation Administration said the outer bands of the hurricane could slow flights at the Orlando International Airport and the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
The Orlando airport said Tuesday that it would halt commercial flights Wednesday, with its final flight departing at 10:30 a.m., but it would remain open for emergency aid and relief flights if necessary. It could take up to three days to return to normal schedu les, the airport said.
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Interna tional Airport said there were delays and cancellations because of the storm but the airport was still operating.
St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport said Monday that its last flight was scheduled to depart at 11:22 a.m. Tuesday, and that the terminal building would close at 1 p.m. to comply with a mandatory evacuation order in Pinellas County.
Miami International Airport said Tuesday that it remained open and that the Federal Aviation Administration and individual airlines would determine whether to operate flights.
Pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 7 de mayo de 2022
around the sun for 10 months as it pursued its target — a small space rock, Dimorphos, 7 million miles from Earth.
“For the first time, humanity has demonstrated the ability to autonomously target and alter the orbit of a celes tial object,” Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, said during a news conference after the crash. The laboratory managed the mission for NASA.
Hitting an asteroid with a high-speed projectile nudges its orbit. For an asteroid headed toward Earth, that could be enough to change a direct hit to a near miss.
In its last moments, the spacecraft sent back a series of photographs of the asteroid, Dimorphos, as it approached at more than 14,000 mph.
DART had spotted Dimorphos only about an hour earlier, as a dot of light. Then, the pile of celestial rubble grew bigger and bigger, until the picture of the asteroid’s surface strewn with boulders filled the screen. The mission’s engineers were on their feet, cheering.
“Normally, losing signal from the spacecraft is a very bad thing,” Semmel said. “But in this case, it was the ideal outcome.”
There was one more partial image, but the data never made it back to Earth. DART had smashed into the asteroid.
analysis indicated that the spacecraft hit within about 50 feet of the target center.
“I definitely feel relieved,” said Elena Adams, the mis sion systems engineer. “And it is absolutely wonderful to do something this amazing. And we are so excited to be done.”
For asteroid scientists, their work is just beginning.
By design, the crash occurred when the asteroids were fairly close to Earth.
That allowed telescopes on Earth to get a good look. About 40 of them were pointed at Didymos and Dimor phos, according to NASA and the mission’s managers. So were the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes as was the camera on Lucy, another NASA spacecraft. The LICIACube, a spacecraft about the size of a shoe box built by the Italian Space Agency, trailed DART to take photographs of the impact and the plume of debris. Its trajectory was shifted to the side so that it did not also crash into the asteroid.
By KENNETH CHANGIt’sthe plot point for more than one Hollywood block buster: A rogue asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, threat ening tsunamis, mass destruction and the death of every human on the planet.
Humanity has one shot to save itself with brave, selfsacrificing heroes piloting a spacecraft into the cosmos to destroy the asteroid.
But that’s the movies. On Monday evening, NASA showed what the reality would be like.
There was an asteroid, but it wasn’t threatening Earth. And there was a spacecraft, relying solely on sophisticated technology. The human heroes of the mission were actually at a physics and engineering lab between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
And there was a collision. In this case it was the fi nal act of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, a spacecraft that launched in November and then raced
“Wow, that was amazing, wasn’t it?” Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist at the laboratory who works on the mission, said during the NASA webcast.
The growing focus on planetary defense can be in seen in a number of initiatives that NASA and congressio nal appropriators have sponsored. One is the Vera Rubin Observatory, a new telescope in Chile that is financed by the United States and will systematically scan the night sky and find thousands of potentially hazardous asteroids. Another is the NEO Surveyor, a space-based telescope that NASA is working to build. It too will find many hazardous asteroids, including some that are hard to spot from Earth.
If any of those asteroids turn out to be on a collision course with Earth, the DART mission shows that deflecting them is a realistic possibility.
For the engineers on the mission, operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the impact, at 7:14 p.m. Eastern time, marked the end of their work. The spacecraft, operating autonomously for the last four hours of its existence, successfully locked on Dimorphos.
That is even more impressive because DART’s camera spotted Dimorphos for the first time a little more than an hour before impact. Dimorphos orbits a larger asteroid, Didymos, and until then, the smaller asteroid was lost in the glare of the larger object. DART’s navigation system then shifted its gaze toward the smaller asteroid.
Up until five minutes before impact, mission control lers could have intervened if something had gone wrong. But they did not have to make any adjustments.
During the last five minutes, the people in the control room were spectators, too, like everyone watching the stream of photographs of Dimorphos. And then it was over. Initial
“There’s the rest of us that are really eagerly anticipat ing the impacts so that we can take our science and run with it,” said Cristina Thomas, a professor of astronomy and planetary science at Northern Arizona University and lead of the observations working group for the mission. “It’s going to be so great and such an exciting once-ina-lifetime event that we are throwing everything that we have at it.”
Over the coming days and weeks, Thomas and other astronomers will be sifting through the data and the images to figure out what DART did to Dimorphos. The key measurement will be how much the smaller asteroid, which had been orbiting Didymos every 11 hours, 55 minutes, has sped up. That will reflect how much momentum the spacecraft imparted to the asteroid, causing it to move closer to Didymos. The change is expected to be about 1%, or about seven minutes.
The impact could have given Dimorphos an even big ger push if the space rock was a loosely held together pile of rubble. The crash of DART would have created a deep crater and sent a shower of debris flying into space. That cascade of material would have acted like the thrust of a rocket engine pushing against the asteroid.
Astronomers are looking to see if there is a brightening of the Didymos-Dimorphos system from sunlight reflecting off the debris plume. Analyzing the specific colors of light could reveal details about the composition of Dimorphos.
More detailed study will come years later when Hera, a spacecraft being built by the European Space Agency, ar rives to take a close look at the two asteroids, especially the scar made by DART. Scientists estimate that there should be a crater 30 feet to 60 feet wide.
The asteroid pair takes two years to go around the sun, and part of the orbit crosses Earth’s. But there is no danger of either asteroid hitting Earth anytime soon, and the impact had no chance of knocking it into Earth’s path.
Still, with a successful demonstration that an asteroid can be deflected, “I think that earthlings should sleep bet ter,” Adams said. “Definitely I will.”
The DART mission launching from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in November 2021.Adaybefore resuming its televised hea rings and with only months remaining before it closes up shop, the House Jan. 6 committee was wrangling over how best to complete its work, with key decisions yet to be made on issues that could help shape its legacy.
The panel, whose public hearings this summer exposed substantial new details about former President Donald Trump’s efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election, must still decide whether to issue subpoenas to Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.
It has yet to settle on whether to enforce subpoenas issued to Republican members of Congress who have refused to cooperate with the inquiry, or what legislative recom mendations to make. It must still grapple with when to turn its files over to the Justice Department, how to finish what it hopes will be a comprehensive written report and whether to make criminal referrals. It cannot even agree on whether today’s hearing will be its last.
The panel has not disclosed the topics it intends to cover in the 1 p.m. hearing, its first since July. But it is still working to break new ground with its investigation.
It recently had a breakthrough when Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, agreed to a voluntary interview about her role in seeking to keep Trump in office. That interview is expected to take place within weeks.
The committee also issued a subpoena to Robin Vos, the Republican House speaker in Wisconsin whom Trump tried to pressure as recently as July to overturn the 2020 election, suggesting that the panel tracked Trump’s activities long after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and his departure from office two weeks later. (Vos has sued to try to block the committee’s subpoena.)
“Our hearings have demonstrated the essential culpability of Donald Trump, and we will complete that story,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the committee.
But the committee has debated whether and how to highlight certain information re lated to the Jan. 6 attack. For instance, some members and staff have wanted to hold a hearing to highlight the panel’s extensive work investigating the law enforcement failures related to the assault, but others have argued that doing so would take attention off Trump.
And it has struggled in recent weeks with
staff departures and is facing public criticism from a former aide, Denver Riggleman, who says it has not been aggressive enough in pursuing connections between the White House and the rioters.
The final stages of its planned 18 months of work are playing out against a shifting po litical climate. Polls suggest that Democrats could lose control of the House in November’s midterm elections. Trump is showing every intention of seeking the presidency again, and the committee’s Republican vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who lost her primary in August, appears to be positioning herself as the party’s anti-Trump White House candidate for 2024, with the panel’s conclu sions as part of her platform.
Cheney seemed to contradict other committee members on Saturday by des cribing this week’s hearing as unlikely to be the last. Other members, including the committee’s chair, have said it would likely be their final presentation.
With that backdrop, Wednesday’s hearing could be seen as the first step in the closing stages of the committee’s work.
“What they have to do is strategic,” said Norman L. Eisen, who was special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee from 2019 to 2020, including for the first impeachment and trial of Trump. “The first part of the end game is to close the deal with the American people.”
The panel set high expectations for itself by revolutionizing what a congressional hea ring could look like. Preparing for the hearing today has consumed the committee’s focus in recent weeks.
“They’ve pretty uniformly met and ex ceeded expectations,” Eisen said. “And when you’ve done that eight times, that suggests that you know what you’re doing. I suspect part of the reason that they took a lengthy hiatus — and by all reports worked very hard over the summer — was to be able to come back in September with a bang.”
To some degree, the committee is now competing for attention with other investiga tions into Trump and his allies. The New York attorney general has filed a sweeping fraud suit against Trump and his family. Prosecutors in Georgia are conducting grand jury interviews about efforts to overturn Trump’s loss there. And the Justice Department is now conducting criminal inquiries into both the events that led to the Jan. 6 attack and Trump’s handling of classified documents he took with him upon leaving the White House.
Today’s hearing is expected to feature new video of the Jan. 6 attack and also new clips of some of the committee’s hundreds of interviews with witnesses.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said the pa nel would focus some of its energy on ongoing threats to democracy, such as 2020 election deniers gaining power over election systems.
“We have found additional informa tion,” Lofgren said. “We worked throughout the summer.”
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chair of the committee, said the panel recently received a trove of documents from the Secret Service in response to a subpoena it issued after the news that agents’ text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, had been lost.
A spokesperson for the agency said the Secret Service provided a “significant level of detail from emails, radio transmissions, Microsoft Teams chat messages and exhibits that address aspects of planning, operations and communications surrounding January 6th.” But the spokesperson said the docu ments did not include any additional text messages, such as those sought by the com mittee that were erased during an upgrade of phones.
Members of the committee had origina lly seen their investigation, and the possibility of a criminal referral, as a way of putting pressure on the Justice Department to pursue a criminal case. But with federal prosecutors now investigating elements of Trump’s efforts
to retain power despite losing at the ballot box, the House committee is considering a new suggestion for the information it uncovered about Trump and his allies raising money by promoting baseless assertions about election fraud: making a referral to the Federal Election Commission, a largely toothless body that can weigh abuses of campaign finance laws.
“FEC would be a good possibility,” Thompson said. “Obviously we looked se riously at some of the fundraising that went on around Jan. 6.”
Members have also been discussing what legislative recommendations they should make. Last week, to close off the possibility of another president trying to have a vice president block the certification by Congress of the Electoral College results, Cheney and Lofgren introduced an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act, which quickly passed the House. (A somewhat different version is awaiting action in the Senate.)
Members are also discussing reforms to the Insurrection Act, legislation related to the 14th and 25th amendments and regulation of militia groups. Members also are likely to recommend improvements to Capitol security.
Not all the panel’s recommendations have found agreement. Raskin, for instance, has pushed for recommending the Electoral College be eliminated, but that idea has been met with resistance from Cheney and others and is unlikely to be included in the final recommendations.
A screen displays a photo of former President Donald Trump during the third hea ring of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, at the Capitol in Washington, June 16, 2022.global economy.
around the world are slowing more than ex pected, as Russia’s war in Ukraine drives inflation and the cost of energy higher, forcing the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development earlier this week to scale back its projections for growth in the coming years.
Although it shied away from forecasting a global re cession, the organization downgraded its outlook, maintai ning its expectation that global economic growth would be a “modest” 3% this year and an even weaker 2.2% next year, down from 2.8% a few months ago.
“The world is paying a very heavy price for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine,” said Mathias Cormann, the organization’s secretary-general.
The organization lowered its growth forecast in virtua lly all of the 38 countries it represents, which include most of the word’s advanced economies. It projected growth of just 3.2% for China for this year and 4.7% for next year, one of the lowest rates for the country since the 1970s, said Ál varo Santos Pereira, the OECD’s chief economist.
Comparing its current projection with one issued at
A shopping mall in Beijing last week. On Monday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develo pment said it expected China’s economy to grow just 3.2 this year and 4.7 percent next year.
the end of last year, a gap of about $2.8 trillion in foregone output for 2023 emerged, a figure that is roughly the size of the French economy. That represented the organization’s rough estimate of the economic toll the war is taking on the
“The global economy has lost momentum in the wake of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, which is dragging down growth and putting additional upward pressure on in flation worldwide,” the report said.
Europe remains the most vulnerable region, with several countries facing the threat of a recession. Germany, the Eu ropean Union’s largest economy, is projected to contract by 0.7% next year, after growing only 1.2% this year. Both France and Italy are forecast to see growth of less than 1% next year.
In the United States, projected growth was scaled back to 1.5% this year, from 2.5% forecast in June, and to 0.5% in 2023, down from 1.2% in the June report.
Soaring inflation, fueled by the high price of energy and food, is driving the slowdown and spreading to other goods and services, weighing heavily on households and businesses. The high cost of energy and the threat of gas shortages in Europe remain key risks, as countries head into winter with storage tanks nearly full but with uncertainty about how long they will last.
“The risks are very much tilted to the downside,” Cor mann warned.
By STACY COWLEY
The pharmaceutical company Biogen has agreed to pay $900 million to settle federal and state claims that it paid kickbacks to physicians to encourage them to prescribe its drugs, the Justice Department said earlier this week as a federal judge approved the deal.
The case began in 2012, when Michael Bawduniak — who was then a Biogen employee — reported to fede ral law enforcement officials his concerns that the company was making illegal payments. Bawduniak filed a suit that year under the False Claims Act’s whistleblower provisions, which let private individuals sue on the government’s behalf.
The government declined to intervene in the lawsuit, which left Bawduniak and his lawyers to pursue it alone.
Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Di vision, said the settlement “underscores the critical role that whistleblowers play in complementing the United States’ use of the False Claims Act to combat fraud affecting federal health care programs.”
Bawduniak will be paid $266 million from the settle ment — the largest whistleblower award on record, Thomas M. Greene, his lawyer, said in an interview. Fifteen states participated in the deal.
“This is a satisfying result,” said Greene, who estimated that his firm had spent more than 28,000 hours working on the litigation.
In a company statement, Biogen said that it denied all accusations in the case and that it settled so it could “remain focused on our patients and strategic priorities.”
Biogen, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, agreed to settle the case in mid-July, the night before it was scheduled to go on trial in federal court in Boston and the day it reported
The case began a decade ago, when a Biogen employee filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against the company.
second-quarter earnings. Bawduniak claimed in his lawsuit that Biogen bribed doctors with consulting fees and lavish dinners to favor its multiple sclerosis drugs over those of its rivals. The tactics paid off in soaring sales, he said in court filings. The alleged kickbacks defrauded the government-run Medicare and Medicaid programs, according to the lawsuit.
Biogen has been under fire recently over the disas trous launch of its Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, which was greenlighted by the Food and Drug Administration despite showing little evidence of benefit for patients. The drug be came a commercial failure, and the company’s CEO stepped down in May.
TheS&P 500 .SPX fell to its lowest level in almost two years on Tuesday on worries about super ag gressive Federal Reserve policy tightening, trading under its old 2022 low from June and leaving investors appraising how much further stocks would have to fall before stabilizing.
After the benchmark index fell more than 20% from its early January high to a low on June 16, which con firmed that the retreat was indeed a bear market, the S&P then rallied into mid-August before running out of gas.
That bear-market rally is now over.
MARKET REACTION: STOCKS: The S&P 500 lost 22.25 points, or 0.61%, to stand at 3,632.79. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 214.6 points, or 0.73%, to 29,046.21
“In my 40 years in the business, I’ve never seen co incident bear market in both bonds and stocks so inves tors are unsettled with nowhere to hide”
“No one quite knows how to parse the global data, geopolitics or policy moves – both super stimulative and restrictive, so markets are unsure which to hinge to”
“Sentiment has become very bearish (which is a long term positive for potential market rebound) – but it can stay bearish for a bit. Also, no overt catalysts to propel breakout to the upside”
“Markets had “fought the Fed” all year, hoping for more dovish tilt soon. Fed’s message last week was un equivocal, so even though some of the data is support ive of peaked inflation, investor sentiment is approach ing wash out level.”
“I am a little bit less concerned about a new clos ing low. I think that is an interesting data point but it doesn’t really mean we can’t get a very substantial relief rally, nor does it mean we can’t go further down too.”
“What equity volatility really needs is Treasury volatility to come in here and they are not ... we are just seeing yields sky-rocketing.”
“The bond market is king here, you got to respect that.”
“I think there is a good scenario where once we get through the bond market violence we get to a more tradable bottom. There is a good case for that to happen if we get some inflation data that is a lot less scary than the last report.”
“It’s disappointing, but it’s not a surprise. We’ve been heading that way.” “People are concerned about the Federal Reserve, the direction of interest rates, the
health of the economy, and also the next couple of weeks with earnings season coming up and companies reporting lower-than-expected earnings.” (The support level for the S&P is) “a stretch at 3400, maybe 3200 and the worst case is probably 3000.”
“It’s all about the Fed, and as long as the Fed continues to raise rates, and investors don’t anticipate
an end of the rate hikes, I think this market is going to continue to be weak. Having said that, we’ve seen a number of bear market rallies, year to date. So, would I be surprised to see the market bounce up again? No, I wouldn’t. Traders are looking for opportunities like that. But in terms of a sustained rally, I think it really takes anticipating the end of Fed rate hikes.”
The four days of stage-managed re ferendums on joining Russia in oc cupied parts of Ukraine wrapped up on Tuesday, as pro-Moscow officials used raw intimidation tactics, including armed men in ski masks at polling sta tions, Orwellian messaging and thinly attended festivities to influence the vote.
The referendums were intended to be a show of democracy by Russia, and even though most Western leaders dis missed them as a sham, they are likely to have chilling consequences. The purpor ted results claimed the great majority of residents had voted to join Russia, giving the Kremlin a rationale to formally an nounce annexation as soon as this week.
The Russian state news media was reporting what it described as results showing enormous levels of support for joining Russia in four occupied territories. Tass, the Russian news agency, reported 92.68% in favor in Zaporizhzhia, 86% in
Kherson in the south, and 93.95% in Do netsk and 98.53% in Luhansk in the east.
The staged votes earned broad in ternational condemnation, and world leaders vowed not to recognize the an nounced results.
At a news conference in Washington on Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States would ne ver recognize territories annexed through the referendums. He denounced Russia for what he called a “diabolical scheme” to move local Ukrainian residents out of captured areas and bus in Russians for the purpose of having them vote.
Dmytro Orlov, mayor of the occu pied city of Melitopol, said in an inter view the results of the voting were mea ningless because of intimidation tactics. “They bang loudly; they ring the door bell; they give people a ballot and point with their rifles where to put the mark,” he said.
Orlov said the aim of Moscow was clear: to claim the land in four provin
ces partly occupied by the Russian army as Russian and assert that Ukraine is now attacking Russia, not the other way around.
President Vladimir Putin has said
Russia will defend the territories with any means. The country has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. Dmitry Medve dev, the former president of Russia who now serves as deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, reiterated on Telegram on Tuesday that Moscow had the right to defend itself with nu clear weapons and that was “definitely not a bluff.”
Formal annexation would require a vote in the Russian parliament. Putin is scheduled to address both houses Fri day, suggesting that a possible vote on annexation could take place then, Bri tish military intelligence reported.
Ukrainians have expressed fears that one immediate consequence of an nexation would be conscription of their citizens into the Russian military, for cing them to take up arms against their own country. In parts of Luhansk and Donetsk, which have been occupied by Russia since 2014, that is already the case.
Suspicious leaks in two gas pipelines running from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea caused a sudden drop in pressure Monday, raising concerns about possible sabotage and prompting authorities in Germany, Denmark and Sweden to inves tigate.
Sweden’s national seismic network said it detected two large undersea explosions Monday near the locations of the leaks. Neither of the pipelines — Nord Stream 1 and 2 — had been active, but they were fi lled with gas when there was a sharp drop in pressure, first registered Monday.
Footage released by the Danish De fense Command showed a swirling mass of methane bubbling up onto the surface of the Baltic Sea. Officials in Denmark raised its security alerts at electricity and gas facilities around the country.
Speculation immediately fell on Russia, which denied responsibility. The leaks un derscored the vulnerability of Europe’s ener gy infrastructure, even as the continent tries to wean itself off supplies from Russia as pu nishment for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
In an image provided by Denmark’s mili tary, a disturbance in the Baltic Sea cau sed by gas leaks in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline off the Danish island of Bornholm on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022.
Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland’s prime minister, blamed Russia for the leaks, saying they were an attempt to further destabilize Europe’s energy security. He spoke at the launch of a new undersea pipeline that con nects Poland to Norway through Denmark.
“We do not know the details of what happened yet, but we can clearly see that it is an act of sabotage,” Morawiecki said. “An act that probably marks the next stage in the escalation of this situation in Ukraine.”
Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frede riksen, said that sabotage could not be ruled out. “It is too early to conclude yet, but it is an extraordinary situation,” she said during a visit to Poland to inaugurate the pipeline from Norway.
“There is talk of three leaks, and there fore it is difficult to imagine that it could be accidental,” she said.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukrai ne, said on Twitter that the leaks were “a terrorist attack planned by Russia and an act of aggression towards EU.”
Speaking at a news conference in Washington, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Tuesday, “There are initial re ports indicating that this may be the result of an attack or some kind of sabotage, but these are initial reports, and we haven’t confirmed that yet.
“My understanding is the leaks will not have a significant impact on Europe’s ener gy resilience,” he added.
The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said of the leaks that “no possibili ty can be ruled out,” but the Russian state media sought to blame the United States
and Ukraine. State-run RIA Novosti news agency reported that Washington “is an active opponent of Russian gas supplies to Europe” and said that Ukraine opposed Nord Stream 2 because it “was afraid of losing revenues from the transit of Russian gas.”
It was not immediately clear who would benefit from ruptures in the pipeli nes, which were not in operation.
The pipelines have been a focal point of the broader confrontation between Rus sia and Europe. After the European Union imposed economic sanctions on Russia to penalize it for invading Ukraine in Fe bruary, Russia began withholding the na tural gas that for decades it had sent to Europe, threatening the continent’s energy supply as winter looms.
The governments in Denmark and Ger many both said the leaks would not affect natural gas supplies in their countries. Ga zprom had already halted nearly all delive ries of natural gas to Europe, through Nord Stream 1 as well as all but one of several overland pipelines, and European countries have turned to other suppliers, including Norway, to meet their energy needs.
The pro-Russian proxy mayor of Mariu pol visited a polling station on Tuesday.Typhoon Noru, a powerful storm that hit the Philippines this week, was moving west across the South China Sea toward central Vietnam on Tuesday.
Noru was forecast to make landfall in or near the city of Danang, one of the largest in Vietnam, by today. Among the places in its expected path was Hoi An, an ancient trading port and UNESCO World Heritage site south of Danang.
More than 800,000 people in Da nang and elsewhere in central Vietnam had been evacuated as of Tuesday eve ning local time, The Associated Press re ported. Several airports in the area were closed, and a curfew was scheduled to go into effect later that evening.
The storm was still 194 miles east of Danang, according to a warning is sued early Tuesday evening by the Joint
Typhoon Warning Center, an agency run by the U.S. Navy. There were no tsunami warnings in effect for the region.
Countries in the western Pacific use the term typhoon to describe tropi cal cyclones. In the Atlantic Ocean, the storms are called hurricanes.
Noru was producing maximum sus tained winds of 143 mph on Tuesday eve ning, making it the equivalent of a Ca tegory 4 storm on the wind scale that is used to describe Atlantic hurricanes.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center said that Noru had lost strength and was no longer a “super typhoon,” a term that forecasters in the United States use to describe storms with maximum sustained winds of at least 149 mph.
Noru, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Karding, made landfall in the north of the country on Sunday night, causing flooding and killing at least eight people, officials said.
Outside an elementary school in Hoi An, Vietnam, that was being used as a shelter during the typhoon on Tuesday.
Cubans overwhelmingly approved a sweeping referendum that will allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, the national election commission said on Monday, a resounding victory for advocates of LGBTQ rights in a country that once sent gay men to labor camps.
About 67% of voters, nearly 4 million, voted in favor, according to the Cuban go vernment. About 33%, or 2 million people, opposed the measure.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the first non-Castro to lead the nation since its 1959 revolution, celebrated the passage of the 100-page referendum, saying in a statement that “love is now the law.”
Passing the law, he said, was a way to “pay a debt to various generations of Cubans whose domestic plans had been waiting years for this law.”
“As of today,” he added, “we will be a better nation.”
The referendum — which also expands protections for women, children and the el derly — had faced opposition from the Ro man Catholic Church.
While the measure passed easily, it did not receive the near-total support typical
of government-backed proposals in Cuba, where tallies often exceed 90%.
That opposition is rooted in a growing evangelical movement in Cuba, as well as an entrenched machismo tradition, said Alberto R. Coll, a law professor at DePaul University and an expert on U.S. relations with Cuba.
But the measure passed largely becau se of the belief among many residents that “these are matters that the law should not regulate strictly,” and its time was past over due, Coll said.
The law also allows for surrogate preg nancies, includes measures against gender violence and encourages couples to equally share the load with housework.
Other Latin American countries have taken similar steps in recent years to address gay rights. In 2020, Costa Rica legalized same-sex marriage, and in 2019, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled that same-sex couples could marry.
Díaz-Canel and his government had openly supported passage of the referen dum. But some critics of his have said that his support was a way for him to show a li beral face in the wake of mounting political and economic discontent on the island.
Officials have been dealing with the worst financial crisis to hit the country since
the 1990s, coupled with demands for politi cal and social changes. Last year, those fac tors propelled the island’s largest demonstra tions in decades.
“This has been a way for him to say, ‘Look, you know, we’re not so repressive,’” Coll said.
But even putting the law up to a vote — a rare step in the country — upset some LGBTQ rights advocates.
Juan Pappier and Cristian González Ca brera, researchers at Human Rights Watch, wrote in a column that it was wrong for the Cuban government to engage in “the poli tical pageantry of putting individual rights, including the right of gay and lesbian cou ples to be free from discrimination, to a po pularity vote.”
They added that the “authorities are subjecting basic rights to a political football between advocates for equality and nondis crimination and their opponents.”
Still, the law was a stark departure from the old attitudes that dominated the country. The Cuban government had once viewed homosexuality as a dangerous aberration. In the 1960s, Fidel Castro’s revolutionary go vernment helped spread a wave of homo phobia on the island when he packed gay men off to labor camps, a form of punish
ment and coercion to conform.
His niece, Mariela Castro, has been lea ding the charge for LGBTQ rights in Cuba, as director of the National Center for Sex Edu cation. She said that she was proud that the law had passed.
“Now,” she said, “love is law on the is land of freedom.”
Electoral authorities counting ba llots on Sunday at a polling station in Havana.
ForYasi, the news felt too close to ignore: A young woman, Mahsa Amini, had died in the custody of Iran’s morality police, days after being arrested for failing to cover her hair mo destly enough.
When protests broke out after Amini’s death, 20-year-old Yasi — the first woman in her immediate family to reject the hijab — ran into the streets, waving the thin shawl she usually wears over her blond hair in public, in a grud ging concession to the law of the land.
“I keep thinking Mahsa could be me; it could be my friends, my cousins,” she said in an interview from Tehran, where protests have since raged every night outside her family’s apartment complex. “You don’t know what they will do to you.”
The nationwide protests challenging Iran’s authoritarian leadership, now in their 10th day, have fed on a range of grievances: a collapsing economy, bra zen corruption, suffocating repression and social restrictions handed down by a handful of elderly clerics. On Mon day, they showed no sign of abating, and neither did the harsh government effort to suppress them despite interna tional condemnation.
But their catalyst was the death of Amini, 22, on Sept. 16 and its connec tion to the hijab law, the most visible manifestation of a theocracy that makes women second to men in politics, in parenting, in the office and at home.
Tossing headscarves into bonfires, dancing bareheaded before security agents, young women have been at the forefront of these demonstrations, supplying the defining images of de fiance.
Iranian women had participated in protests against the clerical establish ment before, but never before had they been the spark, leaders and foot sol diers all at once. More than two dozen have been arrested, and several female protesters have been killed.
It was a female journalist, Niloufar Hamedi of Shargh, an Iranian daily, who first brought Amini’s story to light. Hamedi was arrested last week and is being held in solitary confinement at Evin prison, according to her collea gues.
“I see a lot of anger and a lot of rage in young women,” said Golshan,
28, a women’s rights activist from Isfa han who has organized small groups of friends to gather every night to chant, “No to hijab, no to oppression, only equal rights.”
The first night of the protests, Gol shan and about 50 other women loc ked arms to block an intersection, ca lling on men to join them. One man lit a bonfire. One by one, as the crowd cheered, women pulled their hijabs off, waved them aloft and tossed them into the blaze.
“We want to be heard,” she said. “We don’t have one leader. The beauty and strength of our movement is that every single one of us here is a leader.”
Mariam, 34, an artist in northern Manzadaran province, said she and her friends had not only burned their scar ves, they had cut their long hair and shaved their heads.
“It’s a statement that doesn’t need explaining,” she said. “You can’t con trol me and you can’t define me with my hair.”
Women are paying for their de fiance in blood. On Saturday night, the riot police beat Golshan with a baton, leaving her dizzy and in pain, her neck frozen. (Like others interviewed, she in sisted on being identified only by her first name to avoid reprisal.)
Two years after ultraconservative Muslim clerics seized power in the 1979
revolution, they required women in go vernment offices to wear the headscarf, then all women and girls older than 9, justifying it with Shariah law. The hijab, they proclaimed, would protect female chastity and honor.
But it has also become a weak point for the regime, symbolizing social restrictions that men and women alike chafe at — and flout behind closed doors.
Iranian women have been contes ting the law mandating hijabs and long, loose robes that cloak the body for de cades. The women’s rights movement has also pushed — with limited success — against laws that allowed men to di vorce more easily than women, gran ted men exclusive custody of children, lifted restrictions on polygamy for men, lowered the marriage age for girls and required women to get their husbands’ or fathers’ permission to travel.
But the current protests have spread far beyond the usual ranks of activists.
Yasi’s mother, Minoo, seeing her daughter in Amini, signed an online petition by religious women calling for the abolition of the morality police and the repeal of the hijab mandate. Minoo says she wears the headscarf willingly, but the choice should be hers, not the government’s.
“We can’t impose what we think on one another,” she said. “I’m religious,
but I’m fed up with the hypocrisy and lies of this regime treating us ordinary people like dirt.”
Under former President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate, young Iranians got used to a degree of flexibility, as the morality police grew less stringent. Long hair snaked from under ever-loo ser headscarves. Makeup got heavier, hemlines shorter. Clothing once restric ted to dark, somber shades turned char treuse and hot pink, embroidered and appliquéd.
In recent years, some women have dared to go even further, removing their headscarves in public in restaurants and while riding in cars, as Yasi does.
Iranian women “have never confor med to the state’s ideal of what the hijab should look like,” said Sussan Tahmase bi, a veteran Iranian women’s rights acti vist who lives in exile. “And we see now the emergence of a younger generation that really care about their bodily rights, and the hijab is probably the most visi ble infringement on their bodily rights.”
Successive governments, including Rouhani’s, periodically cracked down on hijab noncompliance with fines, arrests and verbal warnings, but hardliners were impatient to reverse the li beralizing tide. Since Ebrahim Raisi, an ultraconservative, became president a year ago, he has systematically tighte ned enforcement of strict social and re ligious rules.
In July, the president ordered all “responsible entities and institutions” to devise a strategy for stepping up hijab enforcement. Violations, he said, were damaging the values of the Islamic Re public and “promoting corruption.”
Iran’s chief prosecutor declared his support for barring women who were improperly covered from getting access to social and government services, in cluding the subway. The Ministry of Guidance ordered movie theaters to stop showing women in ads.
The backlash to the policy has come not just from the country’s secu lar camp, but also from religious and conservative Iranians who said it would only deepen the divide between the go vernment and its people.
But the clerical establishment was unmoved, blaming the reaction on fo reign interference. “In the history of Is lamic Iran, the life of the women of Iran has always been associated with chasti ty and hijab,” Raisi said last month.
News media covered the death in custody this month of Mahsa Amini, 22, arrested by the morality police for not adequately covering her head, which sparked the current protests.Theworld shifted last week. Vladimir Putin showed that he knows how deeply wounded he is. He knows that his rule is under existential threat if Russia is completely humiliated in Ukraine. He also showed the world that his strategy in this context is to escalate. He is signaling that his best bet for survival is to cast the war against Ukraine as a struggle against the entire West.
He’s like a wounded tiger, who in desperation, and knowing his strength is weakening, decides to go on the attack. Last week, I learned a bit about how U.S. officials are thinking about this situation.
Putin’s wounds are now pretty obvious. U.S. intelligence officials believe it is unlikely that the Russian army in Ukraine will simply collapse. But they do believe that Russian forces are running out of steam and being badly beaten.
I’m told that somewhere between 80,000 and 110,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded in the past seven months. Russia has lost 50% of its prewar military tanks. It’s lost 20% to 30% of its infantry fighting vehicles and a tenth of its advanced fighter planes. The Russians have also burned through huge amounts of precision munitions. Morale is awful. Over the past weeks, most Russian forces have been on the defensive or falling back.
This terrible situation has induced not humility in Putin but audacity. In his speech to the Russian people this week, he portrayed the operation in Ukraine as a defensive measure against Western forces that want to divide and destroy Russia. He signaled that he considers Crimea part of Russia and will regard eastern Ukraine as part of Russia too. He’ll view attacks in those regions as attacks on Russia itself, especially if they are made by Ukrainian forces using American weapons. The crucial passage in his speech was this: “In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us. This is not a bluff.”
U.S. officials are now preparing for all the ways Putin could escalate the war, if he pretends Russia itself is being invaded. He could lob missiles onto American installations in Poland and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe. He could escalate in space by destroying satellites. He could launch a missile strike against a NATO ally. And of course he could use a tactical nuclear weapon — perhaps on a Ukrainian town, on a Ukrainian military unit or just in an open field — to show he means business.
The intent would be to intimidate the West into ceasing all support for Ukraine.
U.S. officials don’t seem to know whether Putin will or won’t use nukes, but they are taking the possibility quite seriously. In their communications with the Russians, they are trying to convey that any use of nuclear weapons would put the world in a very different place. They are not talking about what their contingency plans are in such a circumstance, but they imply they are grave.
Overall, U.S. strategy is to help the Ukrainians defeat the Russian invasion, but slowly. The idea is to hit a series of singles, not go for a crushing home run. U.S. officials don’t want to self-deter — that is, be intimidated by Putin’s threats. One the other hand, they don’t want to trigger him into doing something rash. They don’t want Götterdämmerung, a situation in which a desperate Putin decides to pull the whole world down around him. They are trying to control the pace of the war so that Russia is pushed back from Ukraine gradually.
Controlling the pace of a war sounds really hard, but the weather will help. By late October and November, Ukraine turns muddy, and it is difficult to launch offensive operations. Over time, and maybe next year, the Ukrainians can gradually take advantage of their advantages: They are fighting to defend their homeland; they have a flexible, decentralized command structure; their air defenses have mostly prevented the Russians from doing combined air and land operations; and they have much better intelligence, thanks to Western assistance.
The West will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, maybe even including tanks and advanced fighter planes. Those systems are apparently on the table.
The influx of up to 300,000 new Russian troops will probably not alter the basic momentum of the war. They will be ill trained and ill coordinated, and it’s hard to see how the conscripts’ morale would be any better than the morale of the troops already bogged down there. You don’t make a stupid war better by making it bigger.
The first American hope is that Putin will eventually do a cost-benefit analysis and conclude that his best option is to negotiate. The second American hope is that the Ukrainians will also do a cost-benefit analysis. They will realize that while they are winning the war, it is also nearly impossible to physically dislodge the Russian troops who are dug in in eastern Ukraine. They too will decide to negotiate.
If that happens, a territorial settlement will be reached, and the global rules-based international order will be reestablished.
My parting thought is that too much of Western strategic thinking ignores the Ukrainians themselves — what they desire. They are winning, passionate and filled with righteous indignation, and seem to be thirsting for the kind of maximalist victory that they apparently feel is within their grasp — including getting Crimea back. Why should the heroes of this conflict settle for a tepid, incremental approach and a partial win, and what happens if they won’t?
The Ukrainians’ efforts have demonstrated that liberal democracy and human dignity are causes people are still willing to fight and die for. They are showing that these ideas have great power. Unfortunately, tyrants are sometimes more dangerous when they are losing.
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SAN JUAN – El grupo de mujeres denominado “Las Doñis Con tra LUMA” convocaron este martes a manifestarse contra la compañía encargada de la transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica este próximo jueves 29 a las 4:00 de la tarde, frente a la sede principal de LUMA en la Ave Ponce de León en Santurce.
“Se tiene que ir. No vamos a parar hasta que se vaya. La salida de LUMA no es negociable porque ha probado que no está capacitada para ofrecer un servicio que acabe con la incertidum bre energética que amenaza con ruina y muerte al país. Ya no es cuestión de sacar o no sacar a LUMA. Es cuestión de ponerle fecha a su salida ya, no de esperar a la próxima emergencia. El 30 de noviembre a las 12 de la noche expira el contrato de LUMA y para entonces el proceso de su salida debe estar definido”, mani festó el grupo en un comunicado de prensa.
“Las doñis” se estrenaron en la calle contra LUMA el sábado con un cacerolazo frente a La Fortaleza. Esta vez anuncian que montarán un tenderete de ropa sucia frente a LUMA.
“Invitamos a los que no han podido lavar su ropa a que lleven una pieza de ropa sucia para colgarla frente a LUMA”, dijeron.
SAN JUAN – La Local Sindical de la Asociación de Maes tros le radicó 4 querellas al Departamento de Educación por supuestas prácticas ilícitas, por enviar notificaciones a los maestros fuera de horario laborable, en la Comisión
Apelativa de la Comisión de Relaciones del Trabajo.
Específicamente, las querellas son por los memoran dos publicados el 20, 21, 22 y 23 de septiembre.
El secretario general de la Local Sindical, Ángel Javier Pérez Hernández denunció además, que a pesar de que llegaron a unos acuerdos con el secretario del Departa mento de Educación, Eliezer Ramos Parés sobre la reaper tura de las escuelas, algunos directores regionales “hicie ron interpretaciones de los acuerdos”.
“Nosotros encontramos que lo expresado en los me mos, no era la ejecución en la escuela. Hubo una mala comunicación entre los directores regionales y los direc tores escolares. Cada director escolar asumió su república en el Departamento de Educación y hacían lo que ellos entendían. Nosotros acudíamos al nivel central, donde es que se hacen los acuerdos, pero muchos directores regio nales hacían caso omiso”, expresó Pérez Hernández en conferencia de prensa.
El presidente de la Asociación de Maestros, Victor Ma nuel Bonilla Sánchez explicó que los acuerdos para la re apertura de escuelas luego del paso del huracán Fiona era que los planteles tenían que tener disponible agua potable
de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, energía eléctrica provista por LUMA Energy y fácil acceso.
Sin embargo, algunos directores regionales hicie ron otra interpretación y marcaron planteles como aptos, cuando lo que tenían era agua por cisterna y/o energía eléctrica por un generador.
El liderato de la Asociación de Maestros le exigió al gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia que active la Guardia Nacional para que atienda la situación de las es cuelas afectadas por el huracán Fiona.
“Le estamos exigiendo al secretario y al gobernador que activen a la Guardia Nacional para que sus brigadas colaboren en la reparación de las escuelas y se agilicen los procesos para que nuestros planteles, de una vez y por todas, estén en óptimas condiciones”, expresó Pérez Her nández.
Según Pérez Hernández, la escasez de personal en la Oficina para el Mejoramiento de Escuelas Públicas (OMEP) y en la Autoridad de Edificios Públicos imposibilitaba que las escuelas estuvieran aptas al 100 por ciento. Hoy tras el paso de Fiona, aseguraron que la situación se ha agravado, en especial en las escuelas del sur.
identificado, sacaba unos cables de cobre cuando hizo con tacto con la caja de 8 mil voltios y falleció en el acto.
TOA BAJA – La Policía informó el martes, sobre un incidente que se reportó a las 10:15 de mañana en el Centro Guber namental de Toa Baja, donde un hombre murió electrocutado al hacer contacto con una caja de distribución de alta tensión.
Según la Uniformada, el hombre, que aún no ha sido
Éste fue descrito como de unos 30 a 35 años, de tez tri gueña; 5’5” de estatura aproximadamente y unas 130 libras de peso.
El agente Cruz, adscrito al distrito de Toa Baja se hizo car go de la investigación junto al fiscal de turno.
POR CYBERNEWSonto a trolley and to visit Jack’s charismatic boss, Frank (a silkily menacing Chris Pine), whose home looks like a bachelor’s pad out of an antique issue of Playboy, ex cept that this one comes with a wife, Shelley (Gemma Chan).
Frank and his male employees’ extreme deference to him suggest there’s more to this world than its glossy exterior, as do some period-inappropriate details, like the topless woman walking poolside in public and Alice wearing only a man’s dress shirt outside her front door. But even as the dissonance builds and Alice grasps that something is amiss, the movie stalls. Alice becomes lost in thought, looks puzzled, hallucinates, looks less puzzled and so on as Wilde embraces a visual motif — the circle — that, after the second, third, fourth time she deploys it, loses its punch and usefulness, beco ming an unintended metaphor for a movie that keeps returning to the same point.
By MANOHLA DARGISSooninto the candy-colored feminist gothic “Don’t Worry Darling,” the director Olivia Wilde tips her hand. The movie takes place in a desert town, Vic tory, where everything looks nice and pretty, including the midcentury homes at the end of a cul-de-sac. It’s a friendly neighborhood and, given that the story is set in the 1950s, more diverse than you’d expect. But Wilde lets you know straightaway that there’s something off here: Everything is too tidy, too uniform and too, too perfect, including the women’s smiles.
Shy, bold, coquettish or mocking, a woman’s smile is richly signifying, something that Wilde, an actress tur ned director, certainly knows. It can be a mystery, an in vitation, a deflection; sometimes it’s a reward, although one that comes with a cost. “It is the Sleeping Beauty’s smile that crowns the efforts of Prince Charming,” as Si mone de Beauvoir writes in “The Second Sex,” the cap tive princess’ gratitude validating the prince’s heroism. The men in the movie aren’t charming or heroic, yet the women smile constantly, stretching their lipsticked mouths so wide, it’s a wonder their faces don’t crack.
One does, though it takes an interminably long time for the fissures to become seismic. Something starts troubling Alice (Florence Pugh) soon after the movie opens. She lives on the cul-de-sac, and like the
other wives, she waves goodbye to her husband, Jack (Harry Styles), as he drives off to work. At night, coc ktail in hand, Alice greets him, an impeccably coifed and dressed present that he eagerly unwraps. Much of the rest of the time, she cleans their house, polishing and vacuuming and washing — the cinematography is suitably bright and crisp — to the sound of a mystery man’s droning voice.
It’s a good, intriguing setup. Everything has been buffed to gleam, including Wilde, who plays Bunny, one of Alice’s neighbors. But you quickly notice the lack of mess, and especially the relative absence of those agents of chaos, aka children. There’s a touch of Stepford to this happy, shiny place, and a dash of co medy in its excesses. But it’s obvious and blunt, and early on when the wives wave bye, all following similar choreography, I flashed on the evil planet in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel “A Wrinkle in Time,” where everything — houses, adults and kids bouncing balls — looks ee rily near-identical.
Alice has clearly tumbled down a weird rabbit hole. But one problem with “Don’t Worry Darling” is that Wilde is so taken with the world that she’s meticu lously created — with its colorful veneer, martini glas ses and James Bond poster — that she can’t let it go. So, as Alice floats through her dream-life, Wilde shows off this dollhouse, taking the character to a country club,
Wilde does some fine work here, despite hamme ring the same notes early and often. (The screenplay is by Katie Silberman, one of the writers of “Booksmart,” Wilde’s more successful feature directing debut.) But she isn’t a strong enough filmmaker at this point to na vigate around the story’s weaknesses, much less trans cend them. That’s especially tough on the actors, who — with the exception of Pine — deliver one-dimensio nal performances that never hint at what might be chur ning inside their attractive heads. For her part, Pugh is too vibrant, too alive and just too vigorously full-bodied from the get-go for a role that calls for a slow-dawning awakening.
If Pugh’s performance never gets beneath the shiny, satirical surface, it’s because there’s no place for it or her to go. The movie’s take on gender roles is stin ging, but its targets are amorphous (yes, agreed, sexism is bad) and carefully nonpartisan, and its take on the prison-house of the traditional feminine role — what Betty Friedan called the “happy housewife heroine” in her 1963 classic “The Feminine Mystique” — is shallow. Many cycles of feminist progress and sexist backlash have happened since that book hit, but, fairly or not, the current political climate and assaults on women’s rights demand more than a clever mashup between “Mad Men” and “Get Out.”
Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 24 de septiembre de 2022
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Florence Pugh and Harry Styles in Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling.”
LolaCasademunt’s colorful and exciting collection for SS23 is a summer dream in technicolor. Presented at the MercedesBenz Fashion Week event in Madrid, the Span ish label’s signature zebra prints were front and center. This time in energetic tones like peri winkle, orange and fuchsia in crop tops, sarong skirts and sophisticated kaftans worn with slim ming cigarette pants. There was glitter, sequins and tons of feminine accents women all over the globe love to love. Also, garments in red, lime, blue and lavender.
“Vivid colors and patterns are key to our collections,” said Maite Casademunt, president and creative director of the brand. “We like
tions that elevate the natural beauty of women.
We always create our terns, patterns
that trigger emotions in the women who wear them.”
Barcelona-born Casademunt was se lected this week by the International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge (IWEC) as Business Woman of the Year. The award ceremony is scheduled to take place during the organiza tion’s annual conference in Madrid, in Novem ber.
According to IWEC, Casademunt was chosen out of 14 regional winners for “her out standing career, her pledge to making the Lola Casademunt brand international, and her com mitment to corporate accountability and sus tainability in the world of fashion.”
“Maite Casademunt, chosen as the na tional winner in the sixth edition of the ‘Caixa Bank Women in Business Award,’ has helped to establish Lola Casademunt as a leading fashion brand in Spain, present on the catwalks at 080 Barcelona Fashion and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid,” IWEC said in a statement. “Ad ditionally, under her stewardship, the business has grown significantly and expanded to inter national markets through commercial partners in Europe and America. The company, which has more than 550 multibrand sales points and an e-shop in Spain, is already present in nine
other countries, including Andorra, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Por tugal and Ireland. Currently, the international market accounts for 13 percent of Lola Casade munt’s business.”
The judges also took into account Maite Casademunt’s firm commitment to corporate accountability and sustainability. The Cata lan fashion designer devised the company’s CSR program, LOLA LOVES LIFE, which focuses on combating breast cancer, fight ing loneliness amongst the elderly, and supporting families at risk of social exclu sion and vulnerable people, similar to those affected by the conflict in Ukraine. In the area of sustainabil ity, 35 percent of the company’s production is local, and it has set a goal to have 100 percent of its collections be sustainable by 2025. The company managed to save over 8,800 kilos of plastic and more than 35,700 kilos of CO2 with the pro duction of the last three collections of 2021.
Casademunt was trained at the Advanced School of Image and Design in Barcelona and is also the
lead designer at the firm. She worked alongside her mother from an early age until she finished her design studies. The company changed course after she was hired, with the creation of a fashion line. Since 2018, she has been the owner and chairwoman of the firm, established by her mother in 1982.
Founded in 2017 with headquarters in New York, IWEC is a global network of lead ing women entrepreneurs who advocate for business ownership and who cooperate globally through cham
Aftera middle-aged woman tested positive for CO VID-19 in January at her workplace in Fairbanks, public health workers sought answers to questions vital to understanding how the virus was spreading in Alaska’s rugged interior.
The woman, they learned, had existing conditions and had not been vaccinated. She had been hospitalized but had recovered. Alaska and many other states have routinely collected that kind of information about people who test positive for the virus. Part of the goal is to paint a detailed picture of how one of the worst scourges in American history evolves and continues to kill hundreds of people daily, despite determined efforts to stop it.
But most of the information about the Fairbanks woman — and tens of millions more infected Ameri cans — remains effectively lost to state and federal pub lic health researchers. Decades of underinvestment in public health information systems has crippled efforts to understand the pandemic, stranding crucial data in in compatible data systems so outmoded that information often must be repeatedly typed in by hand. The data fail ure, a salient lesson of a pandemic that has killed more than 1 million Americans, will be expensive and timeconsuming to fix.
Details of the Fairbanks woman’s case were scat tered among multiple state databases, none of which con nect easily to the others, much less to the Centers for Dis ease Control and Prevention, the federal agency in charge of tracking the virus. Nine months after she fell ill, her information was largely useless to public health research ers because it was impossible to synthesize most of it with data on the roughly 300,000 other Alaskans and the 95 million-plus other Americans who have gotten COVID.
Those same antiquated data systems are now ham pering the response to the monkeypox outbreak. Once again, state and federal officials are losing time trying to retrieve information from a digital pipeline riddled with huge holes and obstacles.
The federal government invested heavily over the past decade to modernize the data systems of private hospitals and health care providers, doling out more than $38 billion in incentives to shift to electronic health re cords. That has enabled doctors and health care systems to share information about patients much more efficiently.
But while the private sector was modernizing its data operations, state and local health departments were largely left with the same fax machines, spreadsheets, emails and phone calls to communicate.
States and localities need $7.84 billion for data modernization over the next five years, according to an estimate by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiol ogists and other nonprofit groups. Another organization, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, estimates those agencies need nearly $37 billion
over the next decade.
The pandemic has laid bare the consequences of neglect. Countries with national health systems like Is rael and, to a lesser extent, Britain were able to get solid, timely answers to questions such as who is being hospi talized with COVID and how well vaccines are working. American health officials, in contrast, have been forced to make do with extrapolations and educated guesses based on a mishmash of data.
Facing the wildfirelike spread of the highly conta gious omicron variant last December, for example, fed eral officials urgently needed to know whether omicron was more deadly than the delta variant that had preceded it and whether hospitals would soon be flooded with pa tients. But they could not get the answer from testing, hos pitalization or death data, said Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the CDC director, because it failed to sufficiently distin guish cases by variant.
Instead, the CDC asked Kaiser Permanente of South ern California, a large private health system, to analyze its COVID patients. A preliminary study of nearly 70,000 infections from December showed patients hospitalized with omicron were less likely to be hospitalized, need intensive care or die than those infected with delta.
But that was only a snapshot, and the agency only got it by going hat in hand to a private system.
The drought of reliable data has also repeatedly left regulators high and dry in deciding whether, when and for whom additional shots of coronavirus vaccine should be authorized. Such decisions turn on how well the vaccines perform over time and against new versions of the virus. And that requires knowing how many vaccinated people are getting so-called breakthrough infections and when.
But almost two years after the first COVID shots were administered, the CDC still has no national data on breakthrough cases. A major reason is that many states and localities, citing privacy concerns, strip out names and other identifying information from much of the data
they share with the CDC, making it impossible for the agency to figure out whether any given COVID patient was vaccinated.
The Food and Drug Administration now spends tens of millions of dollars annually for access to detailed COV ID-related health care data from private companies. About 30 states now also report cases and deaths by vaccination status, showing that the unvaccinated are far more likely to die of COVID than those who got shots.
But those reports are incomplete, too: The state data, for instance, does not reflect prior infections, an impor tant factor in trying to assess vaccine effectiveness.
And it took years to get this far.
Now, as the government rolls out reformulated booster shots before a possible winter virus surge, the need for up-to-date data is as pressing as ever. The new boosters target the version of a fast-evolving virus that is currently dominant. Pharmaceutical companies are expected to deliver evidence from human clinical trials showing how well they work later this year.
When the first U.S. monkeypox case was confirmed May 18, federal health officials prepared to confront an other information vacuum. Federal authorities cannot generally demand public health data from states and lo calities, which have legal authority over that realm and zealously protect it. That has made it harder to organize a federal response to a new disease that has now spread to nearly 24,000 people nationwide.
To find out how many people were being vaccinat ed against monkeypox, the CDC was forced to negotiate data-sharing agreements with individual jurisdictions, just as it had to do for COVID. That process took until early September, even though the information was important to assess whether the taxpayer-funded doses were going to the right places.
State and local public health agencies have been shriveling, losing an estimated 15% of their staffs between 2008 and 2019, according to a study by the de Beau mont Foundation, a public-health-focused philanthropy. In 2019, public health accounted for 3% of the $3.8 tril lion spent on health care in the United States.
The pandemic has prompted Congress to loosen its purse strings. The CDC’s $50 million annual budget for data modernization was doubled for the current fis cal year. Two pandemic relief bills provided an additional $1 billion, including funds for a new center to analyze outbreaks.
But public health funding has traced a long boomand-bust pattern, rising during crises and shrinking once they end. Although COVID still kills about 400 Americans each day, Congress’ appetite for public health spending has waned.
And while $1 billion-plus for data modernization sounds impressive, it is roughly the cost of shifting a sin gle major hospital system to electronic health records, Walensky said.
Researchers at Queens College in New York process wastewater samples collected from a sewage pipe at Elmhurst Hospital on July 30, 2022.ESTADO
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no producir remate ni adjudica ción, se celebrará una TERCE RA SUBASTA el día 31 DE OC
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RODRIGUEZ Y SU ESPOSA ZARAHI MERCADER RODRIGUEZ
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Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01127.
(407). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA) “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: ISRAEL FERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ Y SU ESPOSA ZARAHI MERCADER RODRIGUEZ
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES
GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ORIENTAL BANK, POR TENER AVISO DE DEMANDA ANOTADA A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $129,399.59.
Yo, SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISA AC, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SA
BER: Que el día 17 DE OCTU
BRE DE 2022 A LAS 1:45 DE
LA TARDE en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propie dad inmueble que más adelan te se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, esta rán de manifiesto en la Secreta ría del Tribunal de Carolina du rante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera su basta a celebrarse, se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 24 DE OC
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DE LA TARDE; y en caso de
DE LA TARDE en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pú blica subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número F guión Ciento Cin co (F-105) del CONDOMINIO WOODLANDS, localizado en el Barrio Las Cuevas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puer to Rico, localizado en el quinto y sexto piso del Edificio “F”, con un área de construcción total de MIL OCHOCIENTOS
CINCUENTA Y CINCO PUN TO CERO CUATRO (1,855.04)
PIES CUADRADOS, equiva lentes a CIENTO SETENTA Y DOS PUNTO TRESCIENTOS
TREINTA Y NUEVE (172.339)
METROS CUADRADOS. Área primer nivel: Le corresponde un área de Mil Trescientos Cuaren ta y Seis punto Cuatrocientos Cuarenta y Siete (1,346.447) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a Ciento Veinticinco punto Cero Ochenta y Nueve (125.089) metros cuadrados. Sus linde ros en el primer nivel son los siguientes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de treinta y seis pies cuatro pulgadas (36’4”), equivalentes a once punto cero setenta y tres (11.073) metros, con espacio aéreo; por el SUR, en una distancia de veinticua tro pies una y media pulgadas (24’1-1/2”), equivalentes a siete punto trescientos cincuenta y tres (7.353) metros, con es pacio aéreo; por el ESTE, en una distancia de cincuenta y siete pies una y media pulga das (57’1-1/2”), equivalentes a diecisiete punto cuatrocientos doce (17.412) metros, con el apartamento número F guión Doscientos Cinco (F-205) y área común; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de cuaren ta y ocho pies once pulgadas (48’11”), equivalentes a catorce punto noventa y uno (14.91) metros, con el apartamento nú mero E guión Doscientos Cinco (E-205) y con espacio exterior. Área segundo nivel: Le corres ponde un área de Quinientos Ocho punto Quinientos Noven ta y Tres (508.593) pies cuadra dos, equivalentes a Cuarenta y Siete punto Veinticinco (47.25) metros cuadrados. Sus linde ros en el segundo nivel son los siguientes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de diecinue ve pies diez y media pulgadas (19’10-1/2”), equivalentes a seis punto cero cincuenta y ocho (6.058) metros, con es pacio aéreo; por el SUR, en una distancia de diecisiete pies diez y media pulgadas (17’101/2”), equivalentes a cinco punto cuatrocientos cuarenta y ocho (5.448) metros, con área
común; por el ESTE, en una distancia de veintinueve pies tres pulgadas (29’3”), equiva lentes a ocho punto novecien tos quince (8.915) metros, con terraza del apartamento núme ro F guión Doscientos Cinco (F205); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veintisiete pies tres pulgadas (27’3”), equivalentes a ocho punto trescientos seis (8.306) metros, con área co mún. Contiene vestíbulo, salacomedor, cocina, lavandería, a tres dormitorios, dos baños equipados, guardarropas y te rraza descubierta. Su puerta de entrada está localizada al Sur del apartamento desde la cual se tiene acceso a la escalera que conduce a la Calle. A esta unidad se le ha asignado el uso exclusivo de dos espacios (s) de estacionamiento (s) enume rados ambos Treinta y dos (32).
Le corresponde a este aparta mento punto siete uno cinco siete por ciento (.7157%) en los elementos comunes generales del inmueble. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscri ta al folio 137 vuelto del tomo 821 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, finca número 32,576, inscripción tercera. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Woodlands, F-105, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. La subasta se lle vará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $129,399.59 de principal, intereses al 4.00% anual, des de el día 1ro. de septiembre de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $15,581.40, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí nima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $155,814.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $103,876.00 y de ser nece saria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $77,907.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Es tados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferen tes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se
encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Aviso de Demanda, del día 25 de febrero de 2020, expedida en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2020CV00715, so bre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecu ción de Hipoteca, seguido por Oriental Bank contra Israel Fer nández Rodríguez y su esposa Zarahí Mercader Rodríguez y la Sociedad Legal de Ganan ciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $129,399.59, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 29 de mayo de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Trujillo Alto, finca 32,576, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sec ción Cuarta, Anotación A. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores. EN TES TIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puer to Rico, a 12 de septiembre de 2022. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL DEL TRI BUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs. ANGÉLICA MARÍA JOSÉ GARCÍA T/C/C ANGÉLICA M. JOSÉ GARCÍA, SU ESPOSO DOUGLAS FERNANDO PERLA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV04623. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en gene ral que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 23 de junio de 2022 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 10 de agosto de 2022 libra do por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por
dinero en efectivo, cheque cer tificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se descri be a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el nú mero cuatrocientos ocho en el plano de parcelación de la co munidad rural Cucharillas del barrio Las Palmas del término municipal de Cataño, con una cabida superficial de trescien tos treinta y siete punto treinta y cinco metros. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número cuatrocientos siete de la comu nidad; por el SUR, con parcela número cuatrocientos nueve de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número cuatrocientos diez de la comunidad; por el OESTE, con calle Las Marías de la comunidad. FINCA NÚ MERO: 7,763, inscrita al folio 40 del tomo 160 de Cataño, sección IV de Bayamón. Direc ción Física: COMUNIDAD RU
RAL CUCHARILLAS BARRIO LAS PALMAS, PARCELA 408 (3 CALLE LAS MARIAS), CA TAÑO PR 00962. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 17 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tri bunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Bayamón. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo acepta ble como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo míni mo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $28,624.37. De no ha ber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por di cha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes seña lado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $19,082.91. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el pá rrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mis mo lugar antes señalado el día 31 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $14,312.18. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el im porte de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $26,885.39 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 5.875% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y ven dido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión ju dicial a los nuevos dueños den tro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deu dor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lan zamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consig nado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el deman dante y/o el acreedor y/o inver sionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Además, se no tifica e informa a la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vi vienda de Puerto Rico por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su fa vor por la suma de $10,000.00, sin intereses, inscrito al folio 73 del tomo 177 de Cataño, ins cripción 6ta. Condiciones: No podrá vender, donar, permutar o de cualquier otro modo, trans ferir la propiedad dentro de un período de 8 años. También, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan te ner derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subas ta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesa rio, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer
a la celebración de dicha Su basta. 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 continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas la borables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el pre sente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 23 de agosto de 2022. ED GARDO Elías Vargas Santana, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #193, Sala Superior De Bayamón.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00147. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRI MERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCE RA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribu nal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Senten cia dictada en este caso con fecha 27 de junio de 2022 y se gún Orden y Mandamiento del 6 de septiembre de 2022, libra do por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque cer tificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PRO PIEDAD HORIZONTAL: APAR
TAMENTO RESIDENCIAL NÚ MERO TRESCIENTOS UNO (301). Apartamento marcado con el número trescientos uno (301) ubicado en la tercera planta del Condominio El Ro ble, el cual está localizado en la Calle El Roble en Río Piedras, del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Contiene un área de seiscientos ochenta y nueve punto sesenta y ocho pies cuadrados (689.68 p.c.), según en el plot plan equivalen te a 64.08 metros cuadrados. Colinda: por el NORTE, en una extensión de quince pies once pulgadas (15’-11”), equivalente a cuatro punto ochenta y cuatro metros (4.84 m), con espacio abierto; por el SUR, en una ex tensión de dieciocho pies diez pulgadas (18’-10”), equivalente a cinco punto setenta y cuatro metros (5.74 m) con espacio abierto; por el ESTE, en una extensión de treinta y nueve pies seis pulgadas (39’6”), equi valente con doce punto cero cuatro metros (12.04 m), con espacio abierto; por el OESTE, en una extensión de treinta y nueve pies seis pulgadas (39’6”), equivalentes a doce punto cero cuatro metros (12.04 m), con el apartamento número trescientos dos (302). Es de forma irregular y su puer ta principal de entrada se en cuentra en el lindero Oeste, co munica al pasillo de la segunda planta. Se compone de una (1) sala, dos (2) dormitorios, una (1) cocina, un (1) laundry, un (1) comedor y un (1) baño. Le co rresponde una participación en los elementos comunes de un dieciséis punto noventa y tres por ciento (16.93%) y no tiene participación en los elementos comunes limitados en la prime ra planta. FINCA NÚMERO: 41,704, inscrita en Sistema Ka ribe de Río Piedras Norte, sec ción II de San Juan. Nota acla ratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sec ción II la descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente. En la Escritura número 217, otorgada el 30 de marzo de 2009, consta lo si guiente: “URBANA”: Aparta mento marcado con el número
TRESCIENTOS UNO (301) ubicado en la tercera planta del Condominio El Roble, el cual está localizado en Río Piedras, del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Contiene un área aproximada de SEIS
CIENTOS SESENTA Y OCHO PIES CUADRADOS (668 p/c). Colinda: Por el Norte, en una extensión de dieciséis pies tres pulgadas (16’3”) con la Calle Roble. Por el Sur, en una exten sión de Dieciocho pies Nueve Pulgadas (18’9”) con el edificio propiedad de Marcial Figueroa. Por el Este, en una extensión de Treinta y nueve pies tres pul
versus Titular, se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con hipoteca de la inscripción 5ª., la cual asciende a la suma principal de $134,751.92 mas costas, gastos e intereses, ano tado al Sistema Karibe, finca No. 4820 de Aguas Buenas, anotación “A”. H. AVISO DE DEMANDA: En el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil No. CG2019CV02395, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus Titular y Estados Unidos de América, se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con hipo teca de la inscripción 5ª., la cual asciende a la suma principal de $133,900.53 mas costas, gas tos e intereses, anotado el 10 de febrero del 2021, al Sistema Karibe, finca No. 4820 de Aguas Buenas, anotación “A”.
Y para conocimiento de licita dores 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 colectu ría. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La pro piedad a ser ejecutada se ad quirirá libre de cargas y gravá menes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según apli que. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Ca guas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de septiembre de 2022. (FDO.)
ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, AL GUACIL PLACA #593.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING
Demandante Vs. AIDARIX LEÓN DE JESÚS
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV07221.
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.
A: LA PARTE
LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque ge rente, giro postal, cheque certi ficado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se descri be a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL. Apartamento 302. Apartamento residencial del primer piso del Condominio Caminos Verdes, Edificio A, Modulo 3 localizado en el Barrio Cupey del munici pio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Apartamento de un solo nivel, compuesto de sala-comedor, cocina, balcón y pasillo de ac ceso a las otras dependencias del apartamento, que inclu yen un área de lavandería, un cuarto dormitorio principal con vestidor y baño, dos cuartos dormitorios adicionales con sus closets y otro baño, con una área superficial de 1,334.17 pies cuadrados, equivalente a 123.948 metros cuadrados. Su puerta de entrada se encuentra en su colindancia Oeste, la cual da acceso directamente al ves tíbulo de dicho piso, que a su vez da acceso a las áreas co munes generales de la propie dad y a los estacionamientos, que a su vez conduce a la vía pública. En lindes por el NOR TE, en cinco alineaciones que suman 45` con el área de patio que ha sido separada para su uso exclusivo como elemento común de uso limitado; por el SUR, en cinco alineaciones que suman 45`7” con elemen to común exterior y pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que dan acceso al exterior del edificio; por el ESTE, en tres alineaciones que suman 39`2” con apartamento 401 y con ele mentos común exterior; y por el OESTE, En cuatro alineaciones que suman 40`10” con elemen to común exterior con apar tamento 301 y con el área del pasillo que conduce a las esca leras que dan acceso al exte rior del edificio. De conformidad con el plano aprobado por la Administración de Reglamen tos y Permiso de Puerto Rico, le corresponde a este apar tamento el uso exclusivo del área de patio que es un área
común de uso limitado, con el cual colindan por el Norte. Le corresponde a este aparta mento una participación de los elementos comunes generales del inmueble de 0.74%. Le co rresponde de forma exclusiva, permanente e inseparable los estacionamiento número 180 y 48 debidamente y numerados de conformidad al plano de es tacionamiento. Consta inscrita al folio 41 vuelto del tomo 662 de Rio Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. Propiedad localizada en: 302 Cond. Caminos Verdes, San Juan, PR 00926. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferen tes: Nombre del Titular: N/A.
Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecu tante: Nombre del Titular: N/A.
Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán sub sistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mí nimo de subasta la suma de CIENTO OCHENTA MIL DO LARES ($180,000.00), según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi ofi cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de CIENTO VEINTE MIL DOLARES ($120,000.00), 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo estable cido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudica ción en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de NOVENTA MIL DOLARES ($90,000.00), la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, 9:30 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 $185,913.68 de principal, inte reses al tipo del 4.625% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de abril de 2015 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $18,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abo gado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipo tecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hi poteca. La venta en pública su basta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afec te la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace sa ber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o perso nas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas la borables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as).
Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de cir culación 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de septiembre de 2022.
PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De San Juan, Sala Su perior.
ESTADO LIRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante Vs. RAFAEL LLERA ORTIZ Demandado Civil Núm.: CD2022CV00041.
Salón: 802. 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.
A: RAFAEL LLERA ORTIZ - URB. FERNÁNDEZ 7
CALLE PEDRO DIAZ
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 secretaria 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 Lddo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas di recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 0093685 18, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Ca guas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de agosto de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 12 de agosto de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIL MA OYOLA RIVERA, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA GUAS
PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC Demandante Vs. ROXANNA GONZÁLEZ SANTIAGO, JOSÉ M CRUZ & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01771.
Sala: 801. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: ROXANNA GONZÁLEZ SANTIAGO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALESBONNEVILLE HEIGHTS #99 CALLE CAYEY CAGUAS, PR 00725 / 620 E 110TH TER, KANSAS CITY, MO 64131.
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 presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu nal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de agosto de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 15 de agosto de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRE TARIA. MARTA E. DONANTE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE PONCE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. JUAN C. TIRADO CANCEL, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, RUDERSINDO CRUZ FELICIANO, ELIDA FELICIANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00969. Sobre: cobro de dinero. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: FULANA DE TAL POR SÍ Y EN REPRESeNTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTA Y JUAN C. TIRADO
POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la pre sente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publi cación por Edicto de este Em plazamiento presente su con testación 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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, P. O. Box 7185, Ponce, Puerto Rico 007327185 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Ama dor Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Telé fonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, con cediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIR MA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 2 de septiembre de 2022. LUZ
MAYRA CARABALLO GAR CÍA, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. LINDA TORRES IRIZA RRY, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS EDGAR LOZADA CARRASQUILLO LYNETTE LOZADA MELENDEZ
Parte Demandante Vs. JONATHAN RICHARD LOZADA SANCHEZ; MERRY LEE LOZADA SANCHEZ; ABRAHAM ISAAC LOZADA SANCHEZ; JULIO JUAN LOZADA RAMIREZ
Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: CG2022CV02866.
Sala: 701. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. Causante: JULIO LOZADA OR TIZ. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: JONATHAN RICHARD LOZADA SANCHEZ; MERRY LEE LOZADA SANCHEZ; ABRAHAM ISAAC LOZADA SANCHEZ; JULIO JUAN LOZADA RAMIREZ.
POR LA PRE ENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri
bunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda so re División de Comunidad Hereditaria del Causante Julio Lozada Ortiz, dentro de los TREINTA (30) DÍAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted debe pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la si guiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
LCDO. PEDRO A. CRESPO CLAUDIO (RUA 17415)
EMPHATIA NOTARY & LEGAL ADVISORS, PSC Urb. Villa Criollos Calle Corazón A-6 Caguas, P.R. 00725 Tel. 939-337-5550 E-mail: pcrespo@emphatialaw.com POR ORDEN EL JUEZ DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, hoy día 22 de septiembre de 2022. EX PEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 22 de septiembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRE TARIA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉ LEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO
Parte Demandante Vs SUCESION CLARA LUZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CB2022CV00275. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO.
A. HENRÍQUEZ VARGAS
COMPUESTA POR EILEEN HENRÍQUEZ
FIGUEROA. Se le apercibe que la parte de mandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colon, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto
LOZADA COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS CLARA HENRÍQUEZ VARGAS, MIGUEL A. HENRÍQUEZ VARGAS Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MODESTO A. HENRÍQUEZ VARGAS
Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epí grafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida.
Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tri bunal. La parte demandante advino en conocimiento del fa llecimiento del Sr. Modesto A. Henríquez Vargas, componen te y/o heredero de la Sucesión Clara Luz Vargas Cancel y Su cesión Modesto Antonio Henrí quez Lozada. Siendo usted (es) miembro (s) de la Sucesión, se le ha solicitado el pago de la suma indicada en los autos de referencia. A tales efectos, resulta necesario que informe su determinación en torno a si usted acepta o repudia la he rencia del Sr. Modesto A. Hen ríquez Vargas, Q.E.P.D. Esta comunicación debe ser consi derada como una interpelación al amparo del artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico 2020. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de trein ta (30) días para radicar con testación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted con veniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Maneo 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 Secretaria del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de septiembre de 2022. LIC.
NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZA
RRY, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL II, SECRETARIA GENE RAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante V. MARIA CRISTINA
FONTANEZ ORTIZ, IRIS
GIOVANNA CABALLERO ROQUE, IRIS
CABALLERO FONTANEZ, CASADA CON CRISPIN FLORES VAZQUEZ Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, LUIS
ALBERTO CABALLERO
FONTANEZ, CASADO CON ROAE MARIE MARRERO ALVAREZ, Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE
Demandado(a) Civil: CG2022CV02059. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: MARIA CRISTINA
FONTÁNEZ ORTIZ, IRIS
GIOVANNA CABALLERO ROQUE, IRIS CABALLERO FONTÁNEZ, CASADA CON CRISPIN FLORES VAZQUEZ Y
IA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, LUIS ALBERTO CABALLERO FONTÁNEZ, CASADO CON ROAE MARIE MARRERO ALVAREZ, Y IA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES
DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE.
(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 25 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 26 de septiembre de 2022. En CAGUAS, Puer to Rico, el 26 de septiembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIL MA OYOLA RIVERA, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Demandante Vs SUCESIÓN DE RUBÉN RODRÍGUEZ SÁNCHEZ, ET AL.
Demandada
Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00797. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA - IN REM. EMPLA ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal ($6,660.00), por con cepto de costas, gastos y hono rarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pen dens”) sobre la propiedad obje to de esta acción cuya propie dad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela número 4 radicada en el Barrio Montoso del municipio de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de tres cientos sesenta y siete metros trentiun centímetros cuadrados.
Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2021CV00948. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
GENERAL:
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://unired.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 di cho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el in cumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas co rrespondientes a los meses de abril de 2019, hasta el presen te, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este liti gio. De acuerdo con dicho Con trato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $62,616.74, más intereses a razón del 6.628% anual, desde el 1 de marzo de 2019, hasta el presente, así como todos aque llos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipo tecaria y de la hipoteca que la
En lindes por el NORTE, en una alineación de 14.02 metros con el solar número 3 a segregarse y en otra alineación de 11.03 metros con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el SUR, en 21.49 metros con camino público; por el ESTE, en 21.64 metros con el remanente de la finca prin cipal de la cual se segrega; y por el OESTE, en 18.85 metros con el solar número 3 a segre garse. Consta inscrita al folio 89 del tomo 975 de Mayagüez, finca #29,113. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Maya güez. SE LE ORDENA a usted a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepte o repudie la participación que le corresponda en la herencia de la SUCESIÓN DE RUBÉN RODRIGUEZ SÁNCHEZ. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho tér mino, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LE APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegacio nes responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dis puesto, se les anotará la re beldía y se dictara sentencia, concediéndose el remedio soli citado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Ma yagüez, Puerto Rico. A 27 de septiembre de 2022. LIC. NOR MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. MAGALY BONILLA MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA CAO
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESION BETTY ROSAS RODRIGUEZ T/C/C BETTY ROSAS COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certifica do, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 2 DE NO VIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se des cribe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Barrio Aguacate de Yabucoa. Solar: Cabida: 607 Metros Cua drados. En lindes por el NOR TE, que es la derecha entran do, con Francisco Cintrón, hoy María Leonor Ortiz; por el SUR, que es la izquierda entrando, con doña Teresa Serrano, hoy Maria González; por el ESTE, por el frente, con la carretera insular de Yabucoa, conduce a Humacao; y por el OES TE, por el fondo, con la viuda de Consorcio Ortiz, hoy Blas Millán.” Finca número 17963 de Yabucoa, inscrita al tomo Karibe, Registro de la Propie dad de Humacao. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al tomo Karibe, Finca 17,963 de Yabucoa, Registro de la Propie dad de Humacao, inscripción 2ª. Propiedad localizada en: CARRETERA 3 KM. 89.5, BA RRIO AGUACATE, YABUCOA, PUERTO RICO 00767. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $202,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 20 de marzo de 2089. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro
piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $135,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 9 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha se gunda subasta la suma de $90,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $67,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $113,615.76 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $15,215.55 en in tereses acumulados al 11 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.91% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,019.27 en se guro hipotecario; $5,635.00 en tarifas de servicio; $1,199.59 en seguro; $400.00 de tasa ciones; $540.00 de inspeccio nes; $1,553.30 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,500.00, para gas tos, costas y honorarios de abo gado, esta última habrá de de vengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles
en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por es pacio de dos semanas conse cutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expe dido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de septiembre de 2022.
BENEDICTO VELÁZQUEZ FÉLIX, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR PLACA #796.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ESTRELLA HOMES, LLC Demandante V. NASAE ROCHE CRUZ; JOHANNALI QUIÑONES NIEVES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2018CV02992. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES. YO, SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISA AC, Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala de Caroli na, al público en general, POR LA PRESENTE HAGO SABER: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Cumpliendo con un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia del Secretario de este Tribu nal, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda le gal de los Estados Unidos, en mi oficina, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ca rolina, el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE, la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Horizontal Property apartment 0-32 of Paisajes del Escorial Condominium located in San Anton Ward, Carolina located on the third fourth and fifth floor of building O of the condominium. The apartment has an area of 139.039 square meters. The third floor is boun ded on the NORTH by the exte rior wall that overlook the side yard in a distance of 5.029 me ters on the SOUTH, where the entrance is located by the ha llway the stairwell and common elements that separates it from apartment 0-33 in a distance of 6.09 meters; on the EAST, by the exterior wall that overlooks the back yard in a distance of 10.439 meters; and the WEST, by the wall that separates it from apartment 0-30 in a dis tance of 10.439 meters. The
fourth floor is bounded on the NORTH by the exterior wall that overlooks the side yard in a dis tance of 6.019 meters; on the SOUTH, by the wall that sepa rates it from apartment 0-33 in a distance of 6.019 meters on the EAST by the exterior wall that overlook the back yard in a dis tance of 11.658 meters; and on the WEST, by the wall that se parates it from apartment 0-30 in a distance of 11.658 meters. The fifth floor is bounded on the South and East by the open horizontal roof area which is common element limited to this apartment; on the NORTH, by the exterior wall that overlooks the side yard and on the WEST, by the wall that separates it from apartment 0-30. The third floor of this apartment consists of living and dining area, kit chen laundry, bathroom and the staricase leading to the foruth floor. The fourth floor consists of 3 bedthroom with a closet each, 2 bathrooms, a hallway and the staircase leading to the third and fifth floor. The fifth floor consists of a roofed open area measuring 3.96 meters by 2.51 meters and the area oc cupied by staircase leading to the fourth floor measuring 2.89 meters by 0.96 meters. The en trance to this apartment located on its southern boundary com municates with the hallway and stairwell of the building that lead to the sidewalk. This apartment haas as part and appurtenant to it 0.6692% of the common elements and 14.0534% of the limited common elements of building. It also has as part and appurtenant to it 2 parking spaces in the parking area iden tified with the unit designation. The apartment has a common element limited to it that ho rizontal area of the roof of the building built directly over the apartment excluding the area designated in the deed plan as the gazebo of terrace which forms part of the apartment. Consta inscrita al folio 294 del tomo 1259 de Carolina, finca 54055, Registro de la Propie dad de Carolina, 2da Sección. La dirección física es: Paisajes del Escorial, Apartamento O-2, Carolina, PR 00983. Los tipos mínimos fijados para la ejecu ción del bien inmueble antes mencionado lo son las sumas de $190,000.00 para la Primera Subasta; $126,666.67 para la Segunda Subasta; $95,000.00 para la Tercera Subasta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta don de sea posible, el importe de la sentencia dictada el pasado 16 de febrero de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $157,669.94 de principal, más $5,710.61 de intereses acumu lados hasta el 4 de septiembre de 2018, más los que continúen acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más la cantidad de $384.00
A: MADELINE RODRIGUEZ OLÁN, CARLOS RUBÉN RODRIGUEZ OLÁN; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RUBÉN RODRÍGUEZ SÁNCHEZ.
por recargos, más $2,851.32 de otros cargos; más $348.92 de “Escrow Balance, más los que continúen acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda; más la suma de $19,000.00 por honorarios de abogados pactados. En caso de que el inmueble a ser su bastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE, y el tipo mínimo para ésta será el de las dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se ce lebrará una TERCERA SUBAS TA el día 1RO DE NOVIEMBRE
DE 2022, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE, y el tipo mínimo para esta subasta será la mitad del precio mínimo pactado para la primera subasta. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera su basta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuera 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 fuere mayor. Todas las subastas deberán ser acor dadas y celebradas según lo ordenado por el Tribunal. La subasta antes indicada se lle vará a cabo en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala de Carolina. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas labo rables. El inmueble NO consta afecto por el siguiente grava men preferencial. El inmue ble antes relacionado consta afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: a. Aviso de Deman da de fecha 25 de octubre de 2018, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Carolina, en el caso civil número CA2018CV02992, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecu ción de Hipoteca, seguido por Oriental Bank, contra Nasae Roche Cruz, Johannali Qui ñones Nieves, por la suma de $157,669.94 más otras sumas, anotado el día 10 de febrero de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 54,055, anotación A. b. AL ASIENTO 2018-038141-CR02 DEL SIS
TEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 30 de abril de 2018, la es critura número 1, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de abril de 2018, ante el notario
José L. Ríos Torres, mediante la, mediante la cual comparece Johannali Quiñónes Nieves, soltera, a vender a favor de Na sae Roche Cruz, por el precio de $1,000.00, previa liquida ción de la Sociedad de Bienes Gananciales. c. Embargo a fa vor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Nasae Roche Cruz, Caso número
xxx-xx-3318, en la suma de $8,903.96, Embargo de fecha 20 de febrero del 2014, según Certificación de fecha 5 de mar zo del 2014, presentado el día 4 de marzo del 2014 y anotado al folio 105 Orden 3810 del Li bro del ELA número 7, (Ley 12).
d. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico contra Quiñones Nieves Johan nali, seguro social xxx-xx-2452, por la suma de $1,123.82, ex pedida por el Departamento Hacienda, por el Supervisor de Distrito Cobros Ramón Echean dia Vargas, según Certificación de Embargo de fecha 7 de junio de 2018, anotado en el libro de Embargos de Carolina 18-384, presentado y anotado el día 11 de junio del 2018 al Asiento 2018-004739-EST. Se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsisten tes; entiéndase que el rema tante los acepta y quedan su brogados en la responsabilidad del mismo sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Para la publicación de este edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana, durante dos semanas conse cutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, libro el pre sente en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de septiembre del 2022. Samuel González Isaac, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Prime ra Instancia, Sala De Carolina.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PATILLAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante Vs. ÁNGEL L RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ
Demandado Civil Núm.: PA2022CV00017.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO.
A: ÁNGEL L RODRÍGUEZ
RODRÍGUEZ - BO LOS
RIOS CARR. 758 KM 4.4
PATILLAS, PUERTO RICO
00723 / HC 64 BOX 7346
PATILLAS, PUERTO RICO 00723-9771.
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 presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orflaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu nal, en Patillas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de agosto de 2022. En Patillas, Puerto Rico, el 15 de agosto de 2022. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL I. IRIS Y. DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs. SHARLEEN RAMIREZ BETANCOURT
Demandada Civil Núm.: CN2022CV00220. Salón: 406. 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.
- URB. VILLAS DE LOÍZA AR6 CALLE 23A, CANÓVANAS, PR 007294250.
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, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caro lina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de agosto de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 17 de agosto de 2022. LIC. MARILYN APON TE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HATILLO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. MARÍA RIVERA SANTIAGO, POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; SUCESIÓN DE FÉLIX CORREA ÁLVAREZ COMPUESTA POR SUS MIEMBROS LAURITA CORREA RIVERA, ENRIQUE CORREA RIVERA, FULANO DE TAL HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; SUCESIÓN DE RUTH CORREA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR NATASHA CORREA Y LAWRENCE CORREA, MENGANO DE TAL HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; SUCESIÓN DE FÉLIX CORREA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR KEISHA CORREA Y BRIAN CORREA Y ZUTANO DE TAL HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA Demandados Civil Núm.: HA2019CV00074.
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: ENRIQUE CORREA RIVERA Y FULANO DE TAL HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FÉLIX CORREA ÁLVAREZ; NATASHA CORREA, LAWRENCE CORREA Y MENGANO DE TAL HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RUTH CORREA RIVERA; KEISHA CORREA, BRIAN CORREA Y ZUTANO DE TAL HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FÉLIX CORREA RIVERA. Quedan emplazados y notifica dos que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre cobro de dinero y Ejecución de Hi poteca en la que se alega que la parte demandada, MARÍA RIVERA SANTIAGO, POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USU FRUCTUARIA; SUCESIÓN DE FÉLIX CORREA ÁLVA REZ COMPUESTA POR SUS MIEMBROS LAURITA CO RREA RIVERA, ENRIQUE CO RREA RIVERA, FULANO DE TAL HEREDERO DESCONO CIDO; SUCESIÓN DE RUTH CORREA RIVERA COMPUES TA POR NATASHA CORREA, LAWRENCE CORREA Y MEN GANO DE TAL HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO, SUCESIÓN DE FÉLIX CORREA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR KEISHA CORREA, BRIAN CORREA Y ZUTANO DE TAL HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO le adeudan a Banco Popular la suma de $8,681.31 por concepto de principal, más intereses al 7.5% anual, más 4% de todo pago en atraso, más $5,495.90 como cantidad estipulada de hono rarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que con tenga el contrato de préstamo. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda y que luego del transcurso del térmi no de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, se le anotará la rebel día y se dictará Sentencia con cediendo el remedio así solici tado sin más citarles ni oírles. Por la presente el Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptan do o repudiando la herencia de la SUCESIÓN DE FÉLIX CORREA ÁLVAREZ; LA SU CESIÓN DE RUTH CORREA RIVERA Y DE LA SUCESION DE FELIX CORREA RIVERA. Se le apercibe que de no ex presar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por acep tada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Gui llermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 00936-6603. Tel. (787) 9190073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Ex pido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 6 de septiembre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRE TARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA TORRES MUÑIZ, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA CAO
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1
Demandante Vs. SUCESION CARMEN TORRES DIAZ T/C/C CARMEN TORRES COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2021CV01131. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
GENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública
subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 2 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30
DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se des cribe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el núme ro trescientos noventa y siete (397) del Plano de Parcelación de la comunidad rural Punta Santiago en el Barrio Punta Santiago de Humacao, con un área de novecientos veintisiete punto cero cuatro (927.04) me tros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con parcela numero tres cientos noventa y ocho (398) de la comunidad; por el Sur, con ampliación de Punta San tiago (Existente); por el Este, con Parcela numero trescientos noventa y cinco (395); y por el Oeste, con calle número seis (6) de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio 200 del tomo 409 de Hu macao, finca 18,186, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca 18,186 de Humacao, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, inscripción 2ª. Propiedad locali zada en: COMM. PUNTA SAN TIAGO, 397 CALLE CASABE, HUMACAO, P.R. 00741. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $94,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 13 de noviem bre de 2087. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $94,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi ofi cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Hu macao, el 9 DE NOVIEMBRE
DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $63,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima 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 $47,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 16 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 $64,452.42 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $9,434.25 en intereses acumu lados al 23 de febrero de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulán dose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $3,590.62 en seguro hipotecario; $3,960.00 en tarifas de servicios; $353.00 en seguro; $525.00 de tasacio nes; $340.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 en honorarios de abo gado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $9,450.00, para gastos, cos tas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) in teresados (as). Y para su publi cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia rio de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de agosto de 2022. JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTE RINO. JENNISA GARCÍA MO RALES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #796.
One drive late in the fourth quarter Mon day night against the Dallas Cowboys summed up the state of the New York Giants perfectly. Trailing by 7 with about seven minutes remaining, Daniel Jones threw two of his best passes of the night, but his receivers, Sterling Shepard and Kenny Golladay, dropped them.
The drive stalled at the Giants’ 22-yard line and KaVontae Turpin’s punt return put the Cowboys in position for a 44-yard field goal, essentially sealing the contest in East Ruther ford, New Jersey, which finished as a 23-16 Dallas victory.
The optimism surrounding the Giants’ first 2-0 start since 2016 quickly turned to frustra tion as the game opened with a sloppy first half in which both teams missed field-goal at tempts and went into halftime with the Cow boys ahead 6-3.
It soon transformed into a back-and-forth affair toward the end of the third quarter, as both teams scored rushing touchdowns on successive drives. After the Giants opened the second half with Graham Gano kicking a 51yard field goal to tie the score, the team’s next possession finished with running back Saquon Barkley sorting through a congested line of scrimmage to burst into the end zone for a 36yard score to put the Giants up 13-6 after the extra point.
The Cowboys responded with a nine-play, 75-yard drive that culminated with an Ezekiel Elliott 1-yard touchdown run.
But in the fourth quarter, the Giants’ errors
allowed Dallas to pull away. On a Cowboys’ first-and-10 from the Giants’ 27-yard line, a de fensive breakdown allowed Dallas quarterback Cooper Rush to find receiver CeeDee Lamb for a 26-yard completion. Lamb finished the drive with an acrobatic one-handed catch for a 1-yard touchdown that pushed the score to 2013 with nearly eight minutes remaining.
Jones could find no such breakthroughs. He finished with 196 passing yards and was sacked five times as the Cowboys’ pass rush constantly pressured him. In the Giants’ final offensive possession, with about one minute
remaining and a chance to tie the game, Jones threw an interception to cornerback Trevon Diggs, ending any comeback attempt.
Barkley, who is attempting to revive his ca reer after years of serious injuries, rushed for 81 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries.
The Giants had compiled close victories in their first two games, overcoming a 13-point deficit to beat the Tennessee Titans 21-20 in Week 1 and besting the Carolina Panthers 1913 in a sluggish offensive outing in Week 2. The contests allowed the new coach, Brian Daboll, and general manager, Joe Schoen, to evaluate
their roster with an eye toward the future. Be cause of questionable contracts doled out by the previous leadership group, the Giants’ brass entered the season with salary-cap trouble. Next year, when those contracts are alleviated, the pair will have an expected $60 million to operate in free agency.
The new leadership has been bold in its strategy, and has not apologized for its meth ods. Golladay, the receiver acquired in free agency by the Giants’ former leadership last season, has played sparingly, as has 2021 firstround pick Kadarius Toney.
“I think something we want to create is as competitive of a team as we can,” Daboll said last week in a news conference. “Regardless of where you’re drafted, how you got here, how much money you make, we believe in every body goes out there and competes, and we play the guys that earn the right to play that week.”
Rookie offensive tackle Evan Neal strug gled, allowing three sacks against veteran de fensive tackle DeMarcus Lawrence. Kayvon Thibodeaux, a rookie edge rusher who played in his first game for the Giants since injuring his knee in a preseason game, registered one tackle.
The Cowboys, contrastingly, won while overcoming key injuries and mistakes. The backup quarterback, Rush, playing while Dal las’ star quarterback, Dak Prescott, recovers from thumb surgery, threw for 215 yards and a touchdown, while running backs Elliott and Tony Pollard combined for 178 rushing yards. Lamb caught eight passes for 87 yards and a score, despite dropping a potential touchdown pass in the second quarter.
The NFL announced earlier this week that it would turn the Pro Bowl, its annual all-star game, into a flag foot ball game and drop the tackle game en tirely. The shift comes as participation and interest in the exhibition has dwindled in recent years, despite the league’s efforts at modifying it.
At this season’s event, scheduled to take place in Las Vegas the week before the Super Bowl in February, selected play ers will continue to participate in skills competitions as they have done since 2017, before players from the NFC and the AFC will play each other in a flag football
game.
The week of events will be broadcast by ESPN and ABC along with production from Omaha Studios, the media company founded by retired quarterback Peyton Manning.
“We’ve received invaluable feed back from players, teams and fans about reimagining the Pro Bowl, and as a result, we’re thrilled to use the Pro Bowl Games as a platform to spotlight flag football as an integral part of the sport’s future while also introducing fun, new forms of com petition and entertainment that will bring our players, their families and fans closer than ever before,” Peter O’Reilly, the NFL’s senior vice president for events, said in a
statement Monday.
The league has for years faced criti cism over the Pro Bowl and dwindling in terest in it. Television ratings for the event have steadily declined, with the 2021 ver sion drawing a reported 6.7 million view ers, the lowest total since 2006.
Few star players who are selected for the game actually participate, citing the need to rest after the regular season, and the NFL has relocated the event several times in the hopes of drawing players to vacation destinations.
The game, which began in 1951, was originally hosted in Los Angeles, then moved to Hawaii from 1980 to 2009. The NFL has since cycled the game among dif
ferent cities, including Las Vegas and Mi ami.
With few competitive stakes and only passing interest, the game has been marked by lackluster play and few com pelling moments. To add excitement to the broadcasts, the NFL re-added the skills competition to the event in 2017 after hav ing discontinued it before the 2008 Pro Bowl.
The new version of the showcase event marks a shift for the NFL, which has for years funded and promoted youth flag football leagues as a way to introduce children to mixed gender competition while mitigating the risks of head injury and accessibility concerns among parents.
New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley (26) runs for a touchdown against the Dallas Cowboys in East Rutherford, N.J., on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022.Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving were ex pected to make the Brooklyn Nets in stant title contenders when they joined the team in 2019, bringing two of the best of fensive talents in the NBA to a team that had just finished sixth in the Eastern Conference.
But three years later, without any cham pionships or finals appearances with the Nets, Durant and Irving spoke earlier this week about a rocky offseason that at times seemed like it might end with both of them playing for other teams.
In June, Durant, 33, requested a trade, which he said Monday was because of un certainty and accountability issues in the or ganization.
“I want to be in a place that’s stable and trying to build a championship culture,” Du rant said. “So, I had some doubts about that.”
Despite his trade request coming just days after Irving and the Nets couldn’t agree to a long-term extension, Durant said that wasn’t a factor.
Instead, he pointed to the Nets’ 11-game losing streak while he was injured last season as a worrisome signal about the team’s direc tion. At the time, he didn’t want his concerns to affect the team’s play on the floor, he said, so he waited until the offseason to make his trade request.
“That’s what was putting doubt in my mind, is that when adversity hit, can we keep pushing through it?” Durant said. “I’ve been on championship teams. I’ve been on teams that have been right on the brink of winning a championship, and they did those things. So, I want to be a part of a group that did that.”
He added: “Winning and losing — I can take all that. I’ve been in the league for a long time. So, it’s not more so about just a result. It’s like how we get to that point. And I wasn’t feeling how we was getting to that point.”
In August, The Athletic reported that Durant had told the Nets to choose between keeping him or keeping general manager Sean Marks and coach Steve Nash. The re port drew Nets owner Joe Tsai to release a statement of confidence in the Nets’ lead ership. “Our front office and coaching staff have my support,” Tsai wrote. “We will make decisions in the best interest of the Brooklyn Nets.”
On Monday, Marks said, “That’s pro sports, right?” He added: “Everybody’s enti tled to their opinions. And I think from us, it’s not to hold a grudge against what Kevin said, but it’s almost like: All right, that’s the way
he feels. What’s going on here? Like, what do we need to change?”
Nash said that he didn’t take it person ally. “This is not new in the NBA,” he said.
“Kevin and I go way back,” said Nash, who worked with Durant in Golden State as a team consultant. “So, you know, families go through things like this.”
The Nets shopped Durant to other teams, but on Aug. 23, Durant and the Nets announced that they had “agreed to move forward with our partnership.”
Durant said he wasn’t disappointed or surprised to return to the Nets: “I know I’m that good that you just not going to give me away.”
Before Durant’s trade saga began, there was the issue of Irving, whose contract nego tiations and unwillingness to be vaccinated against the coronavirus dominated headlines for much of the past year. Irving said he felt as though the Nets had given him an “ulti matum.”
“I gave up four years, 100 and something million deciding to be unvaccinated,” Irving said. “And that was the decision: It was con tract, get vaccinated or be unvaccinated, and there’s a level of uncertainty of your future — whether you’re going to be in this league,
whether you’re going to be on this team. So, I had to deal with that real-life circumstance of losing my job for this decision.”
Irving, 30, was eligible for max con tract extensions worth up to about $245 million, but he and the Nets did not reach an agreement on one. Instead, Irving opt ed into the final year of his contract, which will pay him $36.5 million this season. He said he had other options — but not many — and decided that staying in Brooklyn was the best choice for him. Irving played in just 29 regular-season games in 202122, mostly because he was ineligible to play at home because of local vaccine mandates.
Marks said that not reaching a con tract agreement with Irving was because of reliability, not Irving’s stance against the vaccine.
“There’s no ultimatum being given here,” Marks said as Nash sat next to him and nodded his head in agreement. “It goes back to wanting people who are reliable people, who are here, account able — all of us. Staff, players, coaches, you name it. I’m not giving somebody an ultimatum to get the vaccine. That’s a completely personal choice. And I stand
by Kyrie, and if he wants, he’s made that choice. That’s his prerogative completely, and I totally understand that.”
While the Nets were navigating Du rant’s injury and Irving’s absences last season, they were also affected by the un clear status of guard Ben Simmons. Amid tensions in Philadelphia early last season, Simmons, 26, was traded to the Nets for James Harden in February. Simmons, who said he was dealing with a lingering back injury and mental health concerns, has never played in a game for the Nets.
He appeared to be close to suiting up in the first round of the playoffs, when the Nets were facing elimination against the Celtics. “That day I was supposed to play Game 4, I woke up on the floor,” Simmons said Monday. “I couldn’t move, could barely walk.”
Simmons had back surgery in May. He said he was cleared to participate in train ing camp, which began Tuesday.
“I’m excited to play with these guys,” said Simmons, who hasn’t played in an NBA game since Game 7 of the 2021 East ern Conference semifinals with the Sixers. “I think it’s a good opportunity for us, and we have a lot to prove.”
Kyrie Irving, left, and Kevin Durant, right, have been with the Nets for three seasons but have not made it past the second round of the playoffs.
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You know what you want, and you know you can get it, if you keep your cool and aren’t too obsessed with getting results. You’re in a no-nonsense mood, and this could shine through and reveal itself as a powerful self-confidence. Some may resent the fact that you seem to know what you’re doing and are making good progress. Don’t bother feeling guilty Aries, just go for it!
This is no time to compare yourself to others, but to be proud of who you are and what you can do. The emphasis on your creative sector encourages you to showcase your talents, even if doing so is uncomfortable for you. You’ll soon realize you have what it takes when the compliments come rolling in. If you have a passion Taurus, this is the best time to give it your attention.
This can be an intense time for family issues, as Mercury’s link with Pluto encourages some powerful and awkward conversations. Someone may be trying to convince you that their suggestions are for your own good. You probably don’t agree, and this is the time to say so. It could be easy to give in just to avoid an argument, but being honest is the better way to go.
A potent aspect encourages you to go beyond superficial chat, to deeper and more personal issues. Today, you’ll find it easier to let others know how you feel. This doesn’t mean you have to cross a line you would normally steer clear of, Cancer. Yet the coming days can be a time of relief, as you discuss issues and get feedback. Just don’t give away too many of your secrets.
You may have more in common with someone than you realize, especially when it comes to your skills and abilities. So, if you feel an inclination to work alongside this person to accomplish something worthwhile, then go for it. You’ll discover some interesting things along the way that could change you, and might encourage further developments. And you may become best friends.
A potent Mercury/Pluto tie, may help you realize that not everyone thinks about or sees things like you do. Everyone lives in their own world, fuelled by their perception of life. This then shapes their reality. Because of this, it’s no surprise that not everyone will agree with you or want the same things as you. Accept this, and your relationship with someone will be so much easier.
A potent Mercury/Pluto tie, may help you realize that not everyone thinks about or sees things like you do. Everyone lives in their own world, fuelled by their perception of life. This then shapes their reality. Because of this, it’s no surprise that not everyone will agree with you or want the same things as you. Accept this, and your relationship with someone will be so much easier.
It helps to accept that you can’t always have things your own way. If someone wants to take charge, then let them. It doesn’t really matter whether their decisions turn out to be good or bad, all you need do is go with the flow. Of course, you could challenge them, but this might only put a spanner in the works and prevent things happening as they should. Try not to interfere, Scorpio!
Stick to what you know, and don’t be tempted to branch out into areas where you aren’t sure of what you’re doing. While it’s good to be bold, the coming days could find you eager to surpass yourself and show how clever you are. This is a good time to focus on your career, but if you really want to get ahead, you’ll need to show you are competent and committed. Play to your strengths!
The emphasis on your adventure zone, suggests you may want to see more of the world or try out other experiences for size. With Mercury continuing to rewind for a few days more, delays can be an issue, no matter what you’re planning. If you’re travelling during this time, check the little details, and even better, have a to-do list to hand so you can tick everything off for peace of mind.
This is a good time to make amends if you need to, Aquarius. With Venus and Mercury in your psychological sector aligning with Pluto, doing so can be a huge relief. Even if it was not totally your fault, your graciousness could bring peace to a situation that might have festered on for a while otherwise. The effect may be instantaneous. You’ll feel any pent-up tensions easing away.
Close relationships and friendships could be a source of angst, unless you make a point of holding a conversation before things get too heated. There is a chance of a misunderstanding, especially with talkative Mercury rewinding for a few more days. If you sense that someone has the wrong end of the stick and is feeling miffed, speak out! You’ll save the day, just in time.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29
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Herman
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