In order to promote economic development in the eastern region of Puerto Rico, the nonprofit Vitrina Solidaria is preparing to start a new phase of training for unemployed people and entrepreneurs interested in giving a new direction to their lives in 2023.
Vitrina Solidaria Executive Director Raquel Skerrett Escalera announced Monday that applications are now available for the organization’s job training programs La Y en el Yunque and the small business incubators and accelerators El Yunque Emprende-Business Acceleration. She invited residents of the island’s eastern municipalities to be part of the movement that seeks to impact them in a successful and positive way.
“After completing several successful cycles of both programs, we want to invite all those people who are unemployed or underemployed and existing entrepreneurs in the El Yunque region who wish to start or strengthen their businesses in one of our available specialties,” Skerrett Escalera said. “With these programs we want to develop a solid and supportive economy in the eastern region of Puerto Rico. Space to participate in our training programs is limited, so we encourage you to apply now.”
She said the La Y en el Yunque and El Yunque Emprende Accelerator programs are free of charge, as they are funded by federal Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds from the Department of Housing through the Workforce Training Program and the Small Business Incubator and Accelerator Program (SBIA), respectively. They are also conducted in agreement with the U.S. Forest Service, the agency that manages El Yunque National Forest, and the YMCA of San Juan.
The third edition of the four-month labor and business training program, La Y en el Yunque, will begin on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023 and will conclude on Friday, June 23, 2023. Upon completion of the training program, participants will have certifications in their chosen specialty area and other topics. For example, some of the certificates by thematic area are: agroecology (sustainable beekeeping), renewable energy (solar and photovoltaic energy via the Aguadilla Campus of the University of Puerto Rico), outdoor recreation (interpreter guides through the National Association for Interpretation-NAI) and in recreation and sports (recreational leader from the island Department of Recreation and Sports).
In addition, participants will receive a certification in first aid (CPR and defibrillator).
Primary tools to be developed in the program developing a business action plan and composing a professional resumé.
The requirements for being part of the program are: be over 18 years old, reside in one of the 10 municipalities that make up the eastern region of Puerto Rico (Canóvanas, Naguabo, Humacao, Ceiba, Las Piedras, Juncos, Fajardo, Luquillo, Loíza and Río Grande), and be unemployed or working part-time.
The training will be offered mainly in person at the Vitrina Solidaria building in the Palmer sector, PR-948, km 0.1 in Río Grande.
The deadline to apply for the program is Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.
The second edition of the business training program of the El Yunque Emprende Accelerator will begin on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, mostly in person at the El Portal visitor center of El Yunque National Forest. The cycle will specialize in topics related to gastronomy, local production (preparation and/or sale of products that are emblematic of Puerto Rican culture), circular economy (development of products or services using existing resources with priority given to the reduction of waste and non-durable materials), and sustainable tourism.
The El Yunque Emprende Accelerator is an acceleration program for local microenterprises focused on education for the strengthening of companies and/or businesses under a philosophy of a solidarity economy with a focus on the El Yunque region, which includes educational components, mentoring and practical hours for entrepreneurs with already established businesses.
Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Rep. Ángel Matos García said Monday that the island Senate should not confirm Hiram Torres Montalvo as secretary of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO by its Spanish acronym) because he is using the position for political gain.
Matos García said Torres Montalvo is merely defending the interests of companies and wants to procure an elective position on the New Progressive Party (NPP) ballot.
“It is not the first time that he has aspired to at-large [legislative] positions, both for the House and for the Senate,” Matos García said. “So you better say so and leave and find a job elsewhere. He has had the golden opportunity to maintain the inspection tradition in favor of the Puerto Rican consumer, but since Black Friday until today, he has
Torres Montalvo, secretary-designate of the Department of Consumer Affairsfound nothing.”
The lawmaker accused the designated DACO secretary of ignoring issues related
to consumers.
“At the most … vulnerable time for the consumer, well, DACO is blind, because it
does not see anything,” Matos García said in a radio interview.
Compared to the previous secretary, Edan Rivera Rodríguez, who Matos García said was fired by La Fortaleza because of his oversight actions, including going after solar panel companies and contractors that lie to consumers, the current secretary might as well be blind when it comes to protecting the interests of island consumers, the legislator said.
“Mister Magoo sees more than this nominee,” the Carolina representative said, referring to a cartoon character who had vision problems.
Former Gov. Alejandro García Padilla was appointed secretary of DACO in 2005 by then-governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá of the PDP. From that platform, he went on to the Senate in 2009 as a member of the PDP, and in 2013 he became governor.
By THE STAR STAFFThe Ad Hoc Group of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Bondholders, which holds a majority of some $8.3 billion in outstanding bonds issued by utility, released information last week from the mediation over the island power utility’s debt restructuring plan that the Financial Oversight and Management Board did not want to disclose.
Pursuant to the terms of its nondisclosure agreement, the
Ad Hoc Group made certain materials public that it noted show errors in management consulting firm McKinsey & Company’s calculations.
The first is titled Analysis Group Presentation on the Share of Wallet Analysis, which is focused on errors made in McKinsey’s share of wallet analysis at PREPA. The bondholders noted that McKinsey compared average household consumption with median household income.
“Average consumption is inflated by the higher electricity consumption of households earning more than the median level of income,” the Ad Hoc Group noted. “A household earning a median income consumes less electricity than households in higher income cohorts.”
It noted that McKinsey’s calculation incorrectly uses an “Average Monthly Bill,” which overstates electricity consumption of the median income-earning household.
The other report, titled Analysis Group Presentation on the Share of Wallet Analysis, focused on households earning $10,000 to $20,000 per year.
The share of wallet analysis is used to calculate how much a consumer spends on a specific brand and in the case of PREPA, it helps calculate revenues.
Separately, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain appears to be exerting pressure to move the utility’s bankruptcy closer to a final resolution.
The Financial Oversight and Management Board late last week submitted the latest adjustment plan to restructure PREPA’s $10 billion debt. PREPA has been in bankruptcy
since 2017.
The judge, who is overseeing Puerto Rico’s Title III bankruptcy cases, advised PREPA stakeholders on Monday that she plans to hold a hearing to determine the adequacy of information in the disclosure statement for the utility’s debt adjustment plan by Feb. 28. She will give the parties a Feb. 3 deadline to object to the disclosure statement and a Feb. 10 deadline to file replies.
She overruled an objection from the Ad Hoc Group of PREPA Bondholders, who hold about $8 billion in claims against PREPA, to the proposed briefing schedule.
Meanwhile, PREPA is holding a public meeting in Fajardo today to answer the public’s questions about the utility.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Financial Oversight and Management Board, through the debt adjustment plan for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), would hinder the powers of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) to determine rates, a member of the electrical utility’s board said Monday in a radio interview.
The PREB is the entity in charge of regulating the energy sector. One of its duties is to control and determine energy rates for consumers.
Tomás Torres Placa, the consumer representative on the PREPA governing board, said PREPA’s debt adjustment plan (PAD by its Spanish acronym) submitted to the court last Friday contains language that deters the PREB’s powers. The latest PAD filed to restructure the $10 billion PREPA debt would create a legacy charge added to customers’ bills to pay bondholders for 35 years, would eliminate the workers’ pension system and would pay more to bondholders who settle their claims.
He said there is a section that undermines the regulatory powers of the PREB because it would limit the entity’s jurisdiction “so that they do not create an effect against that fiscal plan. …”
“The financial oversight board is going against the powers of the Energy Bureau,” Torres Placa said.
Tomás Torres PlacaTo help pay for the debt, the PAD establishes a temporary, hybrid transition charge, called the “Legacy Charge,” which would be added to PREPA’s rates to allow for sufficient net revenues to provide a source of repayment for the new bonds issued by PREPA under the PAD.
The legacy charge may involve both a volumetric component based on customer class and a customer’s electricity use, and/or a flat monthly connection charge for being connected to PREPA’s electricity grid, based on customer class. The flat fee component is designed to provide a relatively more consistent and predictable cash flow while charging customers for access to PREPA’s electricity grid and not based on usage in any given month.
“Revenues from the volumetric component are projected to decrease with time as demand for electricity decreases on the island,” the PAD states. “The quantification of the Legacy Charge added to a given customer’s bill will be determined considering factors such as a customer’s rate class. For example, the most vulnerable customers or subsidized residential customers are not intended to be assessed any connection charge and would only be assessed a volumetric charge if their consumption exceeds approximately 500 kWh [kilowatt-hours] per month.”
Other customer accounts would be subject to a connection charge, a volumetric charge for consumption up to approximately 500 kWh,
and an equivalent or higher volumetric charge for consumption over approximately 500 kWh. Based on electricity demand projections pursuant to PREPA’s 2022 certified fiscal plan, the legacy charge is expected to generate some $5.4 billion of revenue over the next 35 years.
However, Torres Placa said the intention is contradictory to law, since section 11.29 A-6 of Title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, establishes that any PAD must comply, among other requirements, with the approval of changes in rates by the local regulatory entity, which in this case is the PREB. The foregoing is stipulated by Law 57 of 2014, the Energy Transformation and Relief Law.
Meanwhile, the oversight board submitted an incomplete PAD because it leaves information on rates up in the air, the governing board member noted.
Torres Placa said that in Exhibit 1 of the PAD, there is a space to establish the fixed charges in the rates, and the variable charges reflected in cents per kilowatt-hour.
However, on Feb. 28, 2023, those charges are supposed to be stipulated, since it is the deadline for the disclosure hearing.
Also, LUMA Energy is in a countdown period to “show cause” or justify before the PREB an additional $27 million in spending in the budget without authorization from the entity.
Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez on Monday requested funds in her budget with which to increase the salary of her employees under House Bill 1343, recently signed into law.
“Once again, we call on the Governor and the Fiscal Oversight Board to include judicial officials in the salary reform they have announced for other government employees,” Oronoz Rodríguez said in a written statement. “Wage dignity cannot be just for some. Our secretaries, social workers, maintenance workers, sheriffs, lawyers, mediators and other staff are essential to ensuring that justice is done every day in Puerto Rico.”
In the same way, judges, who, like prosecutors, have not received a raise for 20 years, also deserve a competitive remuneration that is on par with that of the rest of the officials of the justice system, she said.
“Fair remuneration for all officials of the Judiciary is essential so that the operation of the courts is not hindered, and we
action,” the chief justice said. “I will not tire of waging this battle on all fronts until fair compensation is recognized for all officials of the Judiciary who daily administer justice through their attention to cases, controversies and conflicts, and who guarantee the rights and freedoms of people.”
Judicial branch funds are administered by the chief justice, but are allocated by the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the Legislative Assembly. House Bill 1343, signed into law by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, authorizes salary increases, through a competitive salary structure, for prosecutors, attorneys for minors and family matters, as well as property registrars and general attorneys attached to the Department of Justice.
Currently, and by provision of the law for the Administration and Transformation of Human Resources in the Government of Puerto Rico (Law 8 of 2017), the positions of prosecutors, juvenile and family attorneys are not considered career posts and their appointments have a term of 12 years. Therefore, there is a disparity between those legal professionals and other attorneys working in other areas of government.
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Para conocimiento del público general y de conformidad con las disposiciones del Reglamento Conjunto para la Evaluación y Expedición de Permisos Relacionados al Desarrollo, Uso de Terrenos y Operación de Negocios, vigente al 2 de enero de 2021, conocido como: “Reglamento Conjunto”, la Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, conocida como: “Código Municipal de Puerto Rico” y cualquier otra disposición de ley aplicable, se informa que la Oficina de Permisos (ODP) del Municipio Autónomo de Caguas celebrará Vista Pública para evaluar la solicitud que se describe a continuación:
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La propiedad propuesta para el proyecto ubica dentro de un Distrito de Calificación R-I, Residencial Intermedio, según el Mapa de Calificación de Suelo de Caguas. La solicitud se evaluará a tenor con las reglas 6.1.3, 6.3.1, 2.1.10 y las secciones aplicables del Capítulo 8.5 del Reglamento Conjunto.
Se invita a vecinos del proyecto y a los propietarios de terrenos que radiquen dentro de los límites territoriales circundantes, a las agencias gubernamentales y al público en general a comparecer y participar en dicha Vista. Es mandatorio que el Peticionario o dueño de la propiedad o su representante autorizado asista a la Vista Pública. De no asistir se procederá con el archivo de la solicitud. Se advierte que las partes podrán comparecer asistidas por abogados, pero no estarán obligadas a estar así representadas, la cual incluye corporaciones y sociedades. Todo lo anterior, de conformidad, pero sin limitarse a lo establecido en la Orden Ejecutiva OE-2020-044, según enmendada; en cuanto a las normas de distanciamiento social y el uso de mascarillas. Se advierte que la Oficina de Permisos podrá establecer requisitos adicionales de conformidad con las circunstancias de cada caso; esto de acuerdo con la emergencia de salud pública por la que hoy día atraviesa Puerto Rico.
El Oficial Examinador que presida la Vista no podrá suspenderla una vez señalada, salvo que se solicite por escrito con expresión de las causas que justifiquen la suspensión, con no menos de cinco (5) días de antelación a la fecha de celebración de la misma. La parte que solicite la suspensión tendrá que expresar las razones que justifican la suspensión o posposición. La Solicitud o Petición de Suspensión de la Vista tendrá un costo de cien dólares ($100.00). Este pago será realizado en el Departamento de Finanzas del Municipio Autónomo de Caguas en las formas de pago aceptadas por dicho Departamento. La Petición de Suspensión o transferencia deberá ser radicada ante la Secretaría de la Oficina de Permisos del Municipio Autónomo de Caguas y no se entenderá radicada correctamente hasta tanto se evidencie el pago de los cien dólares ($100.00) y la notificación de la Solicitud de Suspensión a las otras partes e interventores en el procedimiento, que tendrá que ser con no menos de cinco (5) días previos a la celebración de la Vista.
El expediente de Vista estará disponible para inspección de las partes en la Oficina de Permisos, ubicada en la Oficina 201 del Centro de Gobierno Municipal Ángel Rivera Rodríguez, al frente de la nueva Alcaldía en la calle Padial final, en Caguas. Para más información o someter comentarios sobre esta solicitud, puede contactarnos a nuestra direccion postal: Oficina de Permisos, PO Box 907, Caguas, PR 00726-0907, o a nuestro correo electrónico: permisos.mac@caguas.gov.pr
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By THE STAR STAFFThe 10 students from the Mayagüez Residential Center for Educational Opportunities (CROEM by its Spanish acronym) who took first place in robotics at the NASA Awards were recently selected as most valuable players of the year 2022 by the program “Pelota Dura” in an activity that rewards people or entities that made a difference during the year by contributing to the quality of life in Puerto Rico.
The student team is composed of Natalia A. Díaz, Brittany Justiniano, Andrés Pérez, Enrique Núñez, Omar Torres, Benjamín Irizarry, Gabriela Martínez, Fernando Ramírez, Alex Vázquez and Adrián Núñez, along with physics professor Danelix Cordero Rosario, who directed the entire academic process for the CROEM robotics group.
“Having been exposed to an audience that captured the attention of thousands of people with the consequence of receiving recognition of that magnitude [from NASA], makes us proud and encourages us to continue improving our academic offer every day,” said Prof. Milton Tomassini del Toro, director of CROEM.
In addition to the recognition of the CROEM students, at the same event, which was broadcast for two hours “live” on Teleonce as part of the Pelota Dura program, recognition was given to island Health Secretary Dr. Carlos Mellado López as public servant of the year; the Reverend Héctor Luis Delgado Román (El Padre), who was recognized for community services; Jorge L. Pérez, manager of the Convention Center and Coca Cola Music Hall, who was recognized as entrepreneur of the year; Nuestra Escuela, a community-based, non-governmental organization that offers educational services to youth and adults; and educator Lilia M.
Rivera, who has excelled serving academically challenged students in the primary grades.
“We humbly appreciate this recognition that I receive today on behalf of the almost 4,000 employees of the Department of Health; they are the ones who stand out every day offering their services to citizens and entities that require our participation,” Mellado López said. “The secretary is simply an orchestra conductor who combines his knowledge and enthusiasm to lead a select group of Puerto Ricans who strive to give their best, very much in recent years of the COVID pandemic, the scourges of hurricanes and even an earthquake that left us all scarred. Thanks to the viewers of Pelota Dura for addressing the complaints in the messages we broadcast every day in order to improve the quality of health services on the island.”
Health Secretary Dr. Carlos Mellado López, center, was named public servant of the year.
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By ADAM LIPTAK
The conventional critique of the Supreme Court these days is that it has lurched to the right and is out of step with the public on many issues. That is true so far as it goes. But a burst of recent legal scholarship makes a deeper point, saying the current court is distinctive in a different way: It has rapidly been accumulating power at the expense of every other part of the government.
The phenomenon was documented last month by Mark A. Lemley, a law professor at Stanford University, in an article called “The Imperial Supreme Court” in The Harvard Law Review.
“The court has not been favoring one branch of government over another, or favoring states over the federal government, or the rights of people over governments,” Lemley wrote. “Rather, it is withdrawing power from all of them at once.”
He added, “It is a court that is consolidating its power, systematically undercutting any branch of government, federal or state, that might threaten that power, while at the same time undercutting individual rights.”
The arguments this month over the role of state legislatures in setting rules for federal elections seemed to illustrate the point. The questioning suggested that the court was not prepared to adopt a novel legal theory that would upset the ordinary checks and balances at the state level in election litigation.
Rather, the justices seemed ready to elevate their own role in the process, giving themselves the right to do something ordinarily forbidden: second-guess state courts’ interpretations of state law.
In a similar vein, Justice Elena Kagan noted the majority’s imperial impulses in a dissent from a decision in June that limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to address climate change.
“The court appoints itself — instead of Congress or the expert agency — the decision maker on climate policy,” she wrote. “I cannot think of many things more frightening.”
A second study, to be published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, concentrated on cases involving the executive branch and backed up Lemley’s observations with data. Taking account of 3,660 decisions since 1937, the study found that the court led since 2005 by Chief Justice John Roberts has been “uniquely willing to check executive authority.”
This trend was even more pronounced in cases discussed in law school casebooks and featured on the front page of The New York Times. The executive branch in the Roberts court era won just 35% of the time in those cases, a rate more than 20 percentage points lower than the historical average.
The study’s authors, Rebecca L. Brown and Lee Epstein, both of the University of Southern California, wrote that “there is little indication that the Roberts court’s willingness
to rule against the president bears any reliable relation to preserving the balance among the branches or the workings and accountability of the democratic process.”
“Instead,” they wrote, “there are increasingly frequent indications that the court is establishing a position of judicial supremacy over the president and Congress.”
Brown added in an interview that the nature of the court’s reasoning has shifted.
“When the court used to rule in favor of the president, they would do so with a sort of humility,” she said. “They would say: ‘It’s not up to us to decide this. We will defer to the president. He wins.’ Now the court says, ‘The president wins because we think he’s right.’”
Nor does the Supreme Court seem to trust lower federal courts. It has, for instance, made a habit of hearing cases before federal appeals courts have ruled on them, using a procedure called “certiorari before judgment.” It used to be reserved for exceptional cases like President Richard Nixon’s refusal to turn over tape recordings to a special prosecutor or President Harry Truman’s seizure of the steel industry.
Before 2019, the court had not used the procedure for 15 years, according to statistics compiled by Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Since then, he found, the court has used it 19 times.
The court has been using another kind of shortcut to enhance its power, as two law professors — Lisa Tucker of
Drexel University and Stefanie A. Lindquist of Arizona State University — demonstrated in a recent guest essay. The court has been, they wrote, “increasingly setting aside legally significant decisions from the lower courts as if they had never happened, invalidating them in brief procedural orders.”
Yet another study, from Tejas Narechania, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, examined the cases selected by the justices for full-blown review on the merits.
“The Roberts court, more than any other court in history, uses its docket-setting discretion to select cases that allow it to revisit and overrule precedent,” Narechania found in the study, which will be published in the St. Louis University Law Journal and built on an earlier one in the Columbia Law Review.
In September, in remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts insisted on the court’s primacy.
“You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is,” he said, echoing Chief Justice John Marshall’s famous statement in Marbury v. Madison, the foundational 1803 decision: “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial branch to say what the law is.”
The statement is popular with the current court. “Over half of the total number of majority or concurring opinions in Supreme Court history to have quoted this language from Marbury,” Brown and Epstein wrote, “have been penned by the Roberts court.”
tions of the central and eastern U.S. as a blast of arctic air is expected to sweep in, sending temperatures plunging far below their late December averages, forecasters said.
“The tandem of bitterly cold temperatures and an intensifying storm system over the Rockies and central Plains by midweek, will mean treacherous travel for many locations along and east of the Rockies,” the weather service said, adding that anyone in those regions should closely monitor the forecast.
ward by the middle of the week, sweeping from the northern Rocky Mountains toward the eastern part of the country.
Along the leading edge of the cold air mass, a winter storm will develop across parts of the central Appalachians, eastern Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast, forecasters said. A mix of strong winds, rain and snow is probably leading up to the holiday weekend, Taylor said.
Cities on the East Coast, including New York City, are unlikely to have a white Christmas as the storm will probably pass on Thursday and Friday as a “rain event” before temperatures plummet.
By LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKAAwinter storm is expected to develop and move across parts of the central Appalachians, eastern Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast, bringing a mix of strong winds, rain and snow that could make travel dangerous leading up to the holiday weekend, the National Weather Service said Sunday.
A bitterly cold Christmas also is in store for vast sec-
In the northern Plains and upper Midwest, temperatures could dip into the negative teens by Christmas Eve and the following days, according to the service. It said subzero temperatures could reach as far south as the central Plains, while the stretch from the Northeast to the Ohio Valley and up to the Great Lakes can expect temperatures in the single digits. Below-freezing temperatures are forecast even for parts of southern Texas, the Gulf Coast and Florida over the weekend and into the following week, the service said.
“For some folks, it could be one of the coldest Christmases in a while,” said Zackary Taylor, a senior meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center.
“The cold air spilling southward is certainly some of the coldest air we’ve seen so far this winter, and there is the potential there for some record low temperatures,” he said, adding that temperatures across much of the eastern twothirds of the country were expected to drop as much as 30 degrees below normal for this time of year.
The cold air mass is expected to begin its surge south-
“The system is going to be pretty strong and pretty dynamic, such that it’s going to create some hazardous weather conditions and probably travel disruptions,” he said.
Cities on the East Coast, including New York and Washington, are unlikely to have a white Christmas as the storm will probably pass on Thursday and Friday as a “rain event” before temperatures plummet. New York is forecast to reach a high near 28 degrees on Christmas Day.
The best chance of heavy snow, Taylor said, was over the Ohio Valley into the Great Lakes and the interior Northeast.
Parts of the United States will experience anomalously cold conditions for this time of year, forecasters said. Houston is forecast to reach a high near 29 degrees on Friday, while New Orleans is expected to reach a high near 34.
“The cold will probably impact more people, but the snow and wind is going to be pretty significant where it does occur,” said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist with the prediction center.
He added that clearing the roads of snow under such conditions could prove challenging. “It’s going to be so cold, it’s not going to melt,” he said.
Three dozen people were hurt — 11 of them seriously — when a flight from Phoenix to Honolulu was rocked by severe turbulence Sunday, authorities said.
The Hawaiian Airlines flight, which carried 238 passengers and 10 crew members, landed at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu about 11 a.m. local time, according to the airline. Medical personnel provided care to passengers and crew members who were injured, according to Honolulu Emergency Medical Services.
Shayne Enright, a spokesperson for the services, said 36 people, including a 14-month old and three crew members, were injured. Of those, 11 people, including one teenager, were hospitalized with serious injuries. Nine others were hospitalized in stable condition, she added. The condition of the infant was not immediately available.
“Injuries included a serious head injury, lacerations, bruising and loss of consciousness,” Enright said. None of the victims appeared to have life-threatening injuries, she said.
Hawaiian Airlines said on Twitter that it was supporting all affected passengers and employees, and that it had provided medical care to those who were injured in the flight.
At a news conference Sunday, the chief operating officer
for Hawaiian Airlines, Jon Snook, said the seat belt sign was on when flight HA35 experienced turbulence about 30 minutes outside of Honolulu.
Turbulence, which is air movement that often occurs unexpectedly and cannot be seen, can be created by various conditions, including cold or warm weather fronts, thunderstorms and jet streams.
About 58 people in the United States are injured each year by turbulence while not wearing their seat belts, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. From 1980 to 2008, the last year in which the administration has posted data on its site, U.S. air carriers had 234 turbulence accidents that resulted in 298 serious injuries and three deaths.
In the turbulence instance Sunday, unstable air and weather conditions near the Hawaiian islands helped create an unstable patch of air that caught the flight by surprise, Snook said.
“There was no warning of this particular patch of air,” he said.
The seat belt sign was on at the time, but some of those who were injured did not have their seat belts on, Snook said. The National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating, he said.
“We’re going to have to look back at the investigation to understand aside from the seat belt sign being on, what other
measures were taken,” he added.
Thomas Vaughan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu, said there had been a weather advisory posted for thunderstorms at the time of the turbulence.
“Possibly, they flew into a thunderstorm,” he said.
Kaylee Reyes, a passenger on flight HA35, told Hawaii News Now that the turbulence had come out of nowhere, causing her mother, who had her seat belt unbuckled, to be tossed up and hit the ceiling of the aircraft cabin.
In recent years, other passengers have dealt with similarly frightening turbulence that resulted in injuries onboard. In 2019, 30 people were treated for injuries at Kennedy International Airport in New York when a flight hit severe turbulence. In 2015, 21 passengers aboard an Air Canada flight were injured when sudden and intense turbulence threw passengers out of their seats.
Jim Ireland, the director of the Honolulu Emergency Services Department, said at the news conference that it was “fortunate that there were not any deaths or other critical injuries.”
“It’s the holidays; everybody’s trying to come here for vacation or come back home,” he said. “It’s generally a time when people are happy. And so this is obviously something that they didn’t plan for in their journey here.”
By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS
More than one-third of execution attempts in 2022 were mishandled, capital punishment researchers said late last week, describing the seven visibly botched executions that took place in three states as “shocking,” even as the total number of executions remained among the lowest in a generation.
In one of the most comprehensive annual examinations of the death penalty in the United States, the Death Penalty Information Center found that the number of executions this year, 18, remained significantly lower than even a decade ago, when more than twice as many death row prisoners were killed. As public support for the death penalty has waned, the number of death sentences and executions has largely been in decline since the late 1990s; in 1999, 98 people were executed.
But of the 20 execution attempts this year, seven were “visibly problematic,” including two that were ultimately abandoned, the researchers wrote, adding that 2022 could thus be considered “the year of the botched execution.”
Those cited included three high-profile cases in Alabama, where death chamber staff members cut open one man’s arm to insert an IV and, in two other attempted executions, were unable to insert IV lines before the men’s death warrants expired. The others were in Arizona and Texas, where officials struggled for some time before ultimately finding suitable veins. Alabama’s governor called for a temporary moratorium last month in carrying out the death penalty while the state’s protocols were investigated.
“As support for the death penalty has declined, we’ve been seeing more and more extreme conduct by the states that want to carry it out,” said Robert Dunham, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. “And it’s been manifest in recklessness.”
While there have been a series of obstacles in recent years for states trying to carry out the death penalty — such as difficulty getting lethal injection drugs, and lawsuits over their use — many of the problems this year resulted from difficulties in accessing prisoners’ veins to administer the drugs.
Some politicians and prison officials have said that executions had to be carried out in a hurry after last-minute appeals from defense lawyers left little time before death
warrants expired. Dunham noted that despite rising fears of crime — which have previously coincided with support for capital punishment — American support for the death penalty remains at one of its lowest points since the 1970s. A Gallup Poll from October found that 55% of Americans supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder.
In 37 states, the researchers said, the death penalty has either been abolished or not been carried out in more than a decade.
Last week, Oregon’s governor commuted the sentences of all 17 people on that state’s death row to life in prison without parole. The state had not executed anyone in 25 years, but the move by the governor, Kate Brown, a Democrat, removed the possibility that the people might one day be executed if the moratorium first imposed by her predecessor, also a Democrat, were lifted. She called the death penalty “immoral” and said she hoped the commutations would bring a measure of finality to victims’ families, who might otherwise be left in a state of uncertainty.
In Nevada, where the state has not executed anyone since 2006, the state Board of Pardons will discuss this week whether to commute the death sentences of all 65 people on Nevada’s death row to life in prison.
Of the 18 executions this year, Texas and Oklahoma each carried out five, followed by Arizona with three and Alabama with two. Oklahoma made headlines earlier in the year when the state announced that it would seek to execute 25 prisoners over a 29-month period. Executions in Oklahoma were halted in 2015 because of botched executions, and then later because of a lawsuit over one of the drugs used during lethal injections, but they have since resumed.
The report on Friday cited problems in trying to carry out executions in a range of states. In Arizona, prison officials had difficulty accessing a vein in a man who had long claimed he was innocent of killing an 8-year-old girl, and were able to do so only once the man himself suggested that they try to find a vein in his hand instead.
In Tennessee, the governor halted all executions until next year after the state failed to properly test lethal injection drugs, a revelation that led to the halt of an execution about an hour before a prisoner was to be killed.
In South Carolina, where officials had searched for alternatives after problems finding lethal injection drugs, a judge stopped the state from moving forward with executions
by firing squad or electric chair, deeming the methods cruel and unusual.
Still, perhaps no state had as many high-profile problems as Alabama.
In issuing the temporary moratorium on executions last month, Alabama’s governor, Kay Ivey, said she did not believe that prison or law enforcement officials were at fault for the botched attempts. Instead, Ivey, a Republican, placed the blame on lawyers filing appeals for the prisoners as their execution dates neared, saying they left prison officials insufficient time to carry out the executions before death warrants expired.
Defense lawyers bristled at that claim, saying that their appeals often raised significant, new issues and that the state should have had time to carry out the executions if they were properly conducted.
In one execution that was carried out, in July, prison staff members in Atmore, Alabama, spent hours struggling to access the veins of Joe N. James. The preparations were hidden from the reporters and other witnesses who were allowed to watch the actual execution, but photographs from a private autopsy later showed that executioners had ultimately made an incision into one of his
arms to access the vein, a procedure known as a “cutdown.”
Several months later, on Sept. 22, the state again struggled to insert an IV line into another man, Alan E. Miller, this time running out of time before his death warrant expired at midnight. Lawyers for Miller, who was convicted of murdering three men in 1999, said at the time that he was the only living execution survivor. Alabama recently agreed that the state would not execute him by lethal injection, although it left open the possibility of killing him with nitrogen hypoxia, a method he has said he would prefer.
A strikingly similar failed effort took place last month, when last-minute appeals were rejected by the Supreme Court late at night, leaving Alabama with about two hours to carry out the execution of Kenneth E. Smith. While officials were able to insert one IV line, they could not insert a second and determined that they did not have time to do so before midnight, calling the execution off.
“None of this should have happened,” said Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center. “But it happened over and over and over, which feeds into the growing public belief that states can’t do this right.”
have been adopted, and layoffs have taken hold throughout the industry.
The recent decline in show orders tracks that path. The number of series ordered in the first six months of the year showed no signs of letting up — it was shaping up to be just another year of buying in the Peak TV era. In fact, 325 series had been ordered, more than each of the previous three years, according to the research.
That market dried up — and it dried up in a hurry.
Jay Carson, the creator of the Apple TV+ series “The Morning Show” who currently has several projects in development at outlets like FX and Peacock, said that his talent representatives had warned him in recent months that it was a “bloodbath of a market.”
“They will love and believe in the project and know the material and package are strong, but they’ll tell you that right now if you take it out, you’ll end up like the guys in the opening scene of ‘Saving Private Ryan,’” he said.
well as sudden cancellations. The once-popular series “Westworld” was canceled last month — a move that surprised Hollywood — and the lesser-known, raunchy dating series “FBoy Island” was cut a few weeks ago.
And Warner Bros. Discovery-owned basic cable networks like TBS and TNT, which just five years ago had greatly expanded their original programming efforts, have scaled back those ambitions since the merger.
There are a few outliers to this year’s trend: Apple TV+ and Amazon have increased the number of adult scripted series they have purchased this year. So has Disney, according to Ampere’s research. (For the second half of the year, however, Disney’s buying has declined compared with the same period last year.)
By JOHN KOBLINAmerican television viewers have become accustomed to it: Dozens of premieres every month, hundreds of shows every year, a guarantee from Hollywood that there’s always going to be something new to watch.
The so-called Peak TV era has included unexpected gems (“The White Lotus”), huge hits (“Stranger Things”), meat-and-potatoes fare (nine different series from “Law & Order” producer Dick Wolf) and the utterly bewildering (five full seasons of the “Full House” reboot, “Fuller House,” on Netflix).
But a new reality has become increasingly clear over the past few months in Hollywood: Peak TV has peaked.
The never-ending supply of new programming that helped define the streaming era — spawning shows at a breakneck pace but also overwhelming viewers with too many choices — appears to finally be slowing.
The number of adult scripted series ordered by TV networks and streaming companies aimed for U.S. audiences fell by 24% in the second half of this year, compared with the same period last year, according to Ampere Analysis, a research firm. Compared with 2019, it is a 40% drop.
“The second half of the year has really gone off a bit of a cliff,” said Fred Black, a re-
search manager at Ampere.
It may take some time for that to become apparent to viewers — if it becomes apparent at all, given the glut. It is usually months and sometimes more than a year for a TV show to premiere after a network orders it.
The drop is a result of broader reckoning inside the entertainment industry. For years, television executives tossed off billions of dollars on TV series to help build out their streaming services and chase subscribers. The spending has been a boon to high-profile writers and producers, who captured eight- and nine-figure deals, as well as for the actors, directors and behind-the-scenes workers who kept the engine going.
But Wall Street soured on the buy-atany-cost strategy starting in the spring, when Netflix, the streaming powerhouse, announced that it had lost subscribers for the first time in a decade. Netflix’s stock nose-dived, and other entertainment companies soon watched their share prices fall, too. Hollywood companies quickly shifted, putting a new emphasis on higher profits instead of raw subscriber counts.
Then, in recent months, entertainment companies became increasingly anxious about a slowing economy, the cord-cutting movement and a troublesome advertising market. Since the summer, scores of executives have abruptly been dismissed, strict cost-cutting measures
Hollywood insiders felt a cutback on series orders was inevitable, particularly when many executives were ignoring profit margins and giving full series orders without so much as seeing a script.
“It’s part cost-cutting and stock price chaos, and part correction for the buying frenzy over the past five years where series were literally ordered over the phone without any proof of concept,” said Robert Greenblatt, the former chair of NBC Entertainment and WarnerMedia who is now a producer.
For the year, the deepest declines in the number of orders for scripted adult series in the United States were at Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery (which includes HBO and the Turner networks) and Paramount (which includes CBS, Paramount+ and Showtime). The series orders for U.S. audiences have fallen 22% to 27% at those three companies, according to Ampere. In the second half of the year, the drop-off in orders from the three companies was even steeper.
After Netflix lost subscribers earlier this year, it vowed to slow its spending on content. Netflix also cut hundreds of jobs and introduced a cheaper advertising tier, overturning the company’s longtime pledge to never allow commercials on the service.
Warner Bros. Discovery, a company that was formed in April, faces a debt of roughly $50 billion and has been in severe cost-cutting mode. There have been rounds of layoffs companywide, including at HBO and HBO Max, as
Black said Amazon and Apple, which get a vast majority of their revenue from their tech products and services, are “obviously not as beholden to the same budget limitations as pure entertainment companies — they have deeper pockets and can weather this storm,” he said.
Although orders for scripted series in the United States are falling, orders for international and unscripted series remain steady, Black said.
In addition to TBS and TNT, digital giants like Facebook and YouTube, which were investing in original series just a few years ago, have mostly moved on. The CW, which was recently acquired by Nexstar, is looking for lower-cost programming. And there are numerous basic cable networks that in recent years have pulled back from original scripted programming ambitions.
Some writers have found the market conditions so difficult that they are giving up on the idea of turning a project into a TV series — and looking to movies instead.
“In a stark reverse of what happened for 20-plus years, writers are now taking TV projects and converting them to features because they’ll be easier to get done,” said Carson, the TV writer. “The truth is, a lot of projects for the last 20 years that should have been features were stretched to be TV because that’s just what you did.”
And in the end, there could be a silver lining for viewers: Scaling back the volume could make for a higher percentage of quality shows.
“These companies pulling back — thinking longer and harder about each project — is actually good for the business,” said Greenblatt, the former television executive turned producer. “It will hopefully lead to less waste and more shows worth watching.”
Shares of U.S. banks are taking a beating in December, as worries over an expected recession and weakening profit margins dull the industry’s appeal.
The S&P 500 banks index has slumped some 11% this month against a 5.5% drop for the broader index in the same period. Among the hardest hit were shares of Bank of America, which have fallen 16% this month. Shares of Wells Fargo & Co have slumped about 14%, and those of JPMorgan Chase & Co are down over 6%.
Signs of pessimism over the economy have crept into asset prices in recent weeks, as investors grow increasingly worried that the Federal Reserve’s most aggressive monetary policy tightening in 40 years - aimed at reducing inflation - will also hamstring growth
Treasury yields, which move inversely to prices, have recently tumbled to three-month lows, signaling that growth worries may be pushing investors into bonds. Others have pointed to energy shares, which have fallen about 12% from recent highs, as a sign that investors may be factoring in an economic slowdown.
Banks face a potential double whammy: While a recession could hurt loan growth and increase credit losses, higher rates threaten to shrink profit margins if the interest that lenders pay out on deposits eats away at interest earned from loans.
Job cuts have further hinted at the stresses banks expect to face: Goldman Sachs is planning to cut thousands of employees to navigate a difficult economic environment, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, the latest global bank to reduce its workforce in recent months.
“Bank stocks do not do well in a recession, and more and more investors are worried about a hard landing,” said Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak.
While bank stocks have traded broadly in line with the S&P 500 throughout the year, their decline accelerated in recent weeks, with the S&P 500 bank index now off over 24% in 2022. The S&P 500 is down 19% year-todate, on pace for its biggest annual percentage drop since 2008.
“The recent performance of banks is evidence to me that there is increased concern around the economic outlook for 2023,” said Walter Todd, chief investment officer of Greenwood Capital. Expectations of a slowdown led Todd’s firm to sell some of its bank shares earlier this year.
Profit margins are one potential trouble spot investors are focusing on. Higher rates led net interest margins -- which measure how much a bank earns on loans and fixed income securities compared with what it pays out on deposits -- in the third quarter to expand to their widest average spread in three years, among 20 banks tracked by RBC Capital Markets.
RBC Capital Markets analyst Gerard Cassidy said part of the recent weakness in bank stocks reflects expecta-
tions that net interest margins will peak next year and concerns that “we are going to see increases in the provision for credit losses due to the expectation of a slowing economy in 2023.”
The extent of such pressure will become clearer next month when banks report fourth-quarter earnings. In another potential stumbling block for the group, some of the banks that lent Elon Musk $13 billion to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter, Reuters
reported this week.
Investors will learn more about the economy’s health next week, with data due on housing and consumer confidence.
Of course, banks’ discounted shares may prove alluring for investors who believe the economy will remain on stable footing.
The S&P 500 banks index trades at about nine times forward earnings estimates, below its long-term average P/E of 12 times and well lower than the roughly 17 times for the overall S&P 500, according to Refinitiv Datastream.
King Lip, chief strategist at Baker Avenue Wealth Management, said his firm recently bought bank stocks, convinced that any hit to U.S. growth will likely be moderate.
Explosions rang out before dawn on Monday in Kyiv and in other Ukrainian cities as officials said that Russia had launched another drone attack targeting power plants and other key infrastructure.
The Ukrainian air force said that it had shot down 20 of 35 drones that Russia had launched, though those that evaded air defenses had hit power plants, electrical systems and other civilian targets.
At least four loud explosions were heard in the capital, Kyiv, where residents rushed to take shelter. While most of the drones that flew into the airspace over the city were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses, officials said, those that made it through struck an electrical power plant, causing additional power outages in Kyiv, which has been subject to continuous rolling blackouts because of Russian strikes.
“There is damage,” Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said in a statement. “Energy and heating engineers are working to quickly stabilize the situation with energy and heat supply.”
By afternoon, Klitschko said that heat had been restored to all but 3% of the 2 million people still living in the city.
As an aerial battle between Russian drones and Ukrainian fighter jets and air defense missiles was heard in the skies above the capital overnight, officials in two other regions in central and southern Ukraine, Dneprotrovsk and Mykolaiv, also reported drones overhead late Sunday and early Monday.
The drones used in Monday’s attacks were from a new batch of Iranian-made Shaheds received by Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He cited those details
The attacks by the Iranian-made drones were the latest on Kyiv, where Russian strikes have increased. Five others died in a strike in the northeastern Sumy region, officials said.
in an address to European leaders gathered in Latvia in which he urged more support for Ukrainian air defenses. Although Iran has officially denied supplying Russia with the weapons since the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. officials have said that the first shipment was delivered in August.
By around 5 a.m., authorities had lifted the air-raid alert for all provinces in Ukraine except for Kyiv and the surrounding region.
Russia has launched waves of missile and drone attacks at Ukrainian electrical power plants, substations and transmission lines since October, in what military analysts say is an effort to plunge the country into darkness and cold as winter sets in. In the past week, the attacks appear to be happening in the darkness as Russian forces try to evade Ukrainian defenses.
The latest attack began late Sunday, shortly before midnight. Vitaliy Kim, the regional governor of Mykolaiv, posted on Telegram that Iranian-made Shahed drones used by Russia were flying toward the area. “We have mopeds,” Kim wrote, using the nickname Ukrainians have adopted for the small, buzzing engine that powers the drones.
By morning, however, there were no reports that the drones had struck targets in the Mykolaiv region, which is in southern Ukraine.
Oleksiy Kuleba, military governor of the Kyiv region, the administrative district around the capital, said that drones had hit “infrastructure objects and private houses.” Three people were wounded in the strikes, according to the regional police.
To the south of Kyiv, along the banks of the Dnieper River, more drones flew into towns and cities in the Dneprotrovsk region, where the military administrator, Valentyn Reznichenko, said that air defenses had shot down two Shaheds. A rocket attack in the region cut electrical power to water pumps, depriving several villages of running water, Reznichenko said.
Ukraine’s national nuclear power company, Energoatom, said that one of the Iranian drones had flown over the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, which lies about 70 miles north of the city of Mykolaiv, shortly after midnight. In a statement, the company called it “an absolutely unacceptable violation of nuclear and radiation safety.”
President Vladimir Putin visited his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Monday, making his first trip to Russia’s closest ally in three years as fears grow in Kyiv that Moscow is preparing to launch a new offensive in Ukraine from Belarus.
Lukashenko greeted and hugged Putin after the Russian leader bounced down the steps of his aircraft in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, signaling the importance of the relationship for both men.
“Belarus is not merely our good neighbor, with whom we are working, taking into account each other’s interests over the past decades,” Putin said later as the two leaders sat down for talks, according to Tass, the Russian state news agency. “But Belarus is definitely our ally in the most direct sense of this word.”
The two men have met at least six times since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, using Belarus as a staging ground for its abortive assault on
Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. But those meetings were all outside of Belarus, with most taking place in Russia.
Lukashenko said strengthening relations between the two countries was “a natural response to the changing situation in the world,” according to remarks reported by the state news agency Belta.
“A break in visits to Minsk has not prevented us from staying in constant contact,” Lukashenko said. “Even our so-called Western partners were very concerned about our frequent meetings.”
Lukashenko — who relies on Moscow for financial, fuel and security assistance to maintain his 28-year grip on power — has insisted that economic matters were to be the focus of the talks, although he acknowledged the two leaders would not avoid discussing military and security matters.
While Lukashenko has allowed Moscow to use his territory to launch missiles and bombing runs against Ukraine, he has so far resisted pressure from the Kremlin to contribute his own troops to the war effort.
Monday’s meeting follows repeated warnings from Ukraine in recent days that Russian forces could be preparing a new offensive from Belarus aimed either at making another effort to seize Kyiv, only around 55 miles from the Belarusian border, or at disrupting the flow of Western arms into Ukraine from Poland.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has played down such speculation, telling reporters on Monday morning that reports of Belarus’ potential involvement in the invasion were “totally stupid, groundless fabrications.”
He similarly dismissed warnings from the United States at the start of the year that Russia was planning to invade Ukraine, insisting that Moscow had sent troops to Belarus only for training exercises.
The meeting between Putin and Lukashenko comes as Russia has experienced a series of setbacks on the battlefield. Many military experts believe that Russia’s military has been so badly battered by nearly 10 months of war that it is no condition to launch a new offensive from Belarus, with or without the participation of Belarusian troops.
Beyond the burning tires and roadblocks guarded by angry protesters, after the justice palace had been set on fire and the military had been sent to intervene, a funeral was underway.
In a white coffin draped in the flag of Peru, the body of Clemer Fabricio Rojas, 22, traveled down the road Saturday in a crowd so thick that it seemed to float. His mother wailed. And then, just as the coffin passed an intersection, a second one was borne down the cross street, this one holding the body of Christopher Michael Ramos, just 15.
“Justice!” the mourners shouted.
Peru is reeling from mass protest more than a week after Pedro Castillo, the country’s first leftist president in more than a generation, tried to dissolve Congress and rule by decree, setting off a dizzying drama that resulted in his arrest and the installment of his vice president as the new executive.
The protests, by supporters of Castillo’s, have led to confrontations with police and the military that have left at least 25 dead, hundreds injured and a country deeply divided over the mandate of the new president, Dina Boluarte, a former ally of Castillo’s. Peru remains in a state of emergency, with many civil liberties suspended and the military and police charged with enforcing a curfew in parts of the country.
In few places are the tensions more evident than in Ayacucho, an overwhelmingly poor, largely rural department far from the capital that Thursday was the scene of a brutal encounter between protesters and the military. It left nine people dead, including Rojas and Ramos.
In an interview, the local head of the ombudsman’s office, David Pacheco-Villar, said that after a group headed toward the airport, probably in an attempt to use it as a seat of protest, soldiers responded with “disproportionate use of force,” launching an hourslong siege on the airport and surrounding neighborhoods.
Castillo, a farmer, teacher and union activist, won a democratic election for the presidency last year — although he had never held office — supported by rural Peruvians who had long felt excluded from the halls of power. Like many of the country’s politicians, his government was mired in corruption scandals from the start and hobbled by a political establishment also plagued by malfunction.
Facing a third attempt by Congress to impeach him this month, Castillo declared that he was disbanding Congress and creating a government that would rule by decree. The measures clearly fell outside the limits on presidential power in Peru’s Constitution. Castillo’s opponents, and even his own Cabinet, declared them an attempted coup — and a clumsy one at that, given that he appeared to have rounded up no support for it.
But some of his supporters argued in interviews that Castillo had been manipulated into his actions by canny elites angling to wrest back power, and they began calling for him to be reinstalled.
Pacheco-Villar said that Thursday’s protest had begun peacefully in the city center, but that soldiers made a “grave error” when they tried to stop the march from entering the main plaza.
The group eventually entered the plaza, and around noon, some people decided to head to the airport, he said. There, the army asserts, soldiers were attacked and responded to defend themselves.
Pacheco-Villar, who lives blocks from the airport, said he had heard the sound of gunfire. Videos began circulating of wounded and dead people, and of others screaming in the streets for the soldiers to leave. Helicopters flew overhead. At least 61 people were hurt.
Rojas’ cousin Mayra Condori, 23, was
among the people at the airport Thursday. “They were shooting at us at point blank,” she said. “They killed us in the most cowardly way.”
Amid the chaos, protesters have set fires in several local government buildings while attacking other entities.
Rojas and Ramos both came from poor families in Quinua, a small town an hour from the department’s capital.
Rojas was studying mathematical physics at a public university. On Saturday, his friends and family carried his body through the main plaza in Ayacucho in a march led by his 14-year-old brother.
“He wasn’t a delinquent!” the crowd yelled. “He was a student!”
“Close the Congress!” they continued.
And then singling out the new presidnt: “Dina! Assassin! The people reject you!”
Afterward, mourners drove to Quinua, where they filled a large white church for Mass.
Outside, as church bells clanged, boys with drums beat out a lament, and women in traditional braids, skirts and black hats stood silently, tears rolling down their faces.
Ramos was among the youngest people to die in the protests. In Quinua, his sister, Analuz, 18, said she had been like a mother to him, caring for him while their parents worked.
Their mother sold food in the streets, and their father was a bricklayer.
“What I would suggest,” Analuz Ramos said, directing her comments to protesters “is that they keep fighting.”
After the Mass, a local orchestra played a song of mourning, marching with the two coffins and at least 1,000 people through the streets.
Among them was Marleni Durán, 48, a mother of two children, who described life in the region as difficult. She said she woke at 4 a.m. to buy alfalfa, which she resells in a market, along with a traditional corn dessert. She finishes her day around 10 p.m.
For this, Durán brings home about $8 a day, she said, while a large canister of gas for cooking has risen in price to about double that.
Her sister, Luisa Quispe, 59, gestured toward the dead. “Here, you have justice if you have money.”
Finally, the coffins were carried to the archway of the cemetery, where they were held high, bounced and turned around, giving the two young men their final dance.
Then, the enormous crowd crossed under the arch, marching past the cemetery’s brick and concrete crypts, and Rojas’ family prepared to slide his body into its vault.
His mother, Nilda García, leaned over the open coffin, wailing in Quechua, “We will never see my son again!”
Soon, the coffin was closed, the flag of Peru removed and crumpled into a ball.
As the casket disappeared, García fell to the ground, while Rojas’ friends, overcome with anger and sorrow, began grasping at the crypt.
“My little Clemer!” García yelled. And then the boy drummers took up their beat again.
Princes and presidents traversed the white marble floors of the ultra-selective VVIP box overlooking the field for the first game of the World Cup. But mingling among the soccer legends and Gulf royals was a figure few outside European politics would recognize: Eva Kaili.
Kaili, a Greek politician, was a vice president of the European Parliament, a sprawling body with limited power (and 14 vice presidents). She had no official business in Qatar. Her trip was private, people who saw her in the VVIP box said.
And then, less than a day later, she was in Strasbourg, France, delivering an impassioned defense of Qatar against criticism of its exploitation of migrant workers who had built the World Cup stadiums.
“The World Cup in Qatar is proof, actually, of how sports diplomacy can achieve a historical transformation of a country with reforms that inspired the Arab world,” Kaili said. She chastised Qatar’s critics as bullies. “They accuse everyone that talks to them or engages, of corruption.”
Less than three weeks later, she was in jail, accused of trading political decisions for cash. Belgian authorities charged her last weekend alongside her life partner, Francesco Giorgi, and two others in an investigation into Qatari influence. Police raids uncovered 1.5 million euros in cash. Roughly half of that was found in a hotel room occupied by Kaili’s father; another 150,000 euros was found in the apartment Kaili shared with her partner, prosecutors said.
The case, which Belgian authorities say they’ve been building for over a year with the help of their secret services, has uncovered what prosecutors say was a cash-for-favors scheme at the heart of the European Union. And it highlighted the vulnerabilities in an opaque, notoriously bureaucratic system that decides policies for 450 million people in the world’s richest club of nations.
Kaili’s lawyer, Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, said she was innocent. “She simply had no knowledge of the cash,” he said. “She did Qatar no favors at all, because all her positions were, in fact, in line with EU policy on Qatar.”
Giorgi’s lawyer had no comment. Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper reported Thursday, citing sealed court documents, that Giorgi was cooperating with investigators.
Qatar has forcefully denied the allegations.
“It has been a difficult week in Brussels,” Roberta Metsola, the president of the European
Fans celebrate in Souq Waqif after Morocco defeated Spain at the 2022 World Cup in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 6, 2022.
Parliament, told EU leaders on Thursday. “There will always be some for whom a bag of cash is always worth the risk. It is essential that these people understand that they will get caught.”
Investigators in Washington, too, have tried to crack down on illegal foreign lobbying, including for Qatar, which has separately been accused of bribing its way into being awarded the World Cup. But while American law requires foreign lobbyists to publicly disclose their affiliations, Brussels has few disclosure requirements. Most such influence peddling occurs under the secretive umbrella of diplomacy.
That is especially true in the European Parliament, the least powerful but only directly elected institution in the EU power structure. Its 705 lawmakers approve legislation and participate in the legislative process, but its debates, events and resolutions have mostly reputational impact for those involved.
“The Parliament is easily accessible and it has become an attractive ground for all kinds of lobbyists,” said Michiel van Hulten, the head of Transparency International EU and a former European lawmaker himself. “Because of this, it is relatively easy to operate under the radar and not get caught,” he added.
Kaili, 44, and Giorgi, 35, started their relationship in Parliament’s labyrinthine halls in 2017, according to people who know them. She was in her first term in office. He was an aide to a senior member of Parliament, Pier Antonio Panzeri. Both were members of the center-left Socialists and Democrats group.
This account is based on interviews with two dozen lawmakers, EU and Belgian government officials, and aides directly familiar with the case and the people involved, as well as an examination of private correspondence, years of social media posts, policy drafts and voting records.
Most of those interviewed for this article requested anonymity because they did not want
to get dragged into a high-profile criminal investigation.
Giorgi is linked to the corruption investigation not just through his partner, but also his former boss. Panzeri, 67, was arrested last week at his home in Brussels, where Belgian police found 600,000 euros ($632,000) in cash. His wife and daughter were also arrested in their hometown near Milan.
Panzeri’s lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.
The authorities say Panzeri played a central role in cultivating relations with Qatari and Moroccan officials and facilitating the flow of cash to Brussels, including through a nongovernmental organization he leads.
As the World Cup neared, Kaili’s and Giorgi’s advocacy of Qatar intensified. She argued against any attempt to condemn the human rights abuses in Qatar, an absolute monarchy that criminalizes homosexuality and requires a woman under age 25 to obtain permission from a male guardian to travel abroad.
She pushed for visa-free travel for Qataris visiting the EU.
Colleagues said she also undermined Parliament’s scrutiny of Qatar’s handling of the World Cup.
Hannah Neumann, a European lawmaker from Germany who chairs the delegation for relations with the Arabian Peninsula, had planned a committee trip to Doha, the capital of Qatar, for over a year. Committee members were supposed to critically assess Qatar’s progress before the World Cup kickoff.
Then in late September, the Qatari government abruptly told her the trip had to be canceled because the building where they were to meet was under construction.
So Neumann said she was stunned and angry a month later, when Kaili showed up in Doha in her stead. In a whirlwind two-day trip, Kaili even held a meeting with the head of state, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, which she had seemingly organized herself, people familiar with her visit said.
“She was giving statements that were much more pro-Qatar than the Parliament’s position, pretending to speak on behalf of Parliament,” Neumann said in an interview with the Times.
Kaili’s lawyer and a spokesperson for the Parliament’s president said that her trip was an official mission.
Two weeks later, in mid-November, a seemingly uncontroversial resolution criticizing Qatar’s human-rights record ran into unexpected resistance. “It was difficult to even put it on the agenda,” said liberal lawmaker Katalin Cseh. “I was shocked.”
Even Kaili’s political allies were frustrated. “As social democrats, we should take the lead in putting the spotlight on the human rights violations,” Danish lawmaker Niels Fuglsang said in an interview. He said a resolution he drafted criticizing Qatar was opposed by at least one of the people now being investigated — he would not say who — and was ultimately rejected.
It was replaced by one that praised Qatar for reforms that are “an example for the Gulf region.” The new text said that Qatar had “already improved the working and living conditions for hundreds of thousands of workers.” Qatari officials have indeed implemented changes to their labor-sponsorship system, though activists say they are insufficient.
Set on softening the final resolution, Giorgi, working for a new member of Parliament, sent out an email to all socialist lawmakers to vote down an amendment that said that Qatar had bribed to win the hosting of the World Cup.
“The European Parliament should not accuse a country without evidences coming out from the competent judicial authorities,” said the email, sent in the name of lawmaker Andrea Cozzolino. When the vote was held Nov. 24, he succeeded in getting the bribery language removed.
Since her arrest, Kaili has been stripped of her vice presidential title and expelled from both her Greek party, Pasok, and her European Parliament political group, the Socialists and Democrats. The Greek authorities are also investigating her finances.
The European Parliament was set to vote this week on the Qatar visa-free travel proposal. That vote, and all other work relating to Qatar, has been suspended.
Kaili’s energetic lobbying for the tiny Gulf state was not entirely unusual for the European Parliament.
In the days since the arrests, lawmakers and operatives privately pointed fingers, accusing their rivals of similar clandestine efforts. But the ability to take undisclosed meetings with foreign agents is built into the rules of Parliament.
“It is not an accident that a gray zone exists in Brussels,” said van Hulten of Transparency International EU. “This is how the institutions wanted it.”
The scandal seems set to ensnare more lawmakers, as Belgian authorities have raided several aides’ residences. It has also caused deep mistrust.
“I thought the political fights we had were based on honest political assessments leading to different conclusions,” Neumann said. “But now I know that I was most likely fighting against a corruption network.”
By FARAH STOCKMAN
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021 left a consolation prize for the Afghans who stood by the United States for 20 years: They would be brought to safety in our country to begin life anew. That was the fragile promise they hung on to when the country they knew was lost.
For a while, it looked like a commitment that Americans would keep.
Last year, after what President Joe Biden called America’s longest war culminated in one of the largest airlifts in U.S. history, some 80,000 Afghans were hastily evacuated to military bases in the United States. Thousands of Afghans who worked for the U.S. government, Western nongovernmental organizations or the old Afghan government remain trapped inside Afghanistan.
Many who were evacuated, and some who were left behind, were eligible for Special Immigrant Visas that would eventually provide a path to citizenship under a category created in 2009 for Afghans who served in high-risk roles. The Biden administration also unveiled “Operation Allies Welcome,” an effort to give a home to loyal friends put at risk by our military withdrawal. It included a new program of “sponsorship circles” —
inspired by Canada — that allowed ordinary Americans to support Afghan families in their resettlement.
But today, as Americans turn their attention to yet another war — this time, in Ukraine — our promises to Afghans are fading into red tape, bureaucracy and in some cases, open hostility. More than 70,000 Afghans in the United States remain in legal limbo, stuck in a temporary status called humanitarian parole that will expire in 2023. The Special Immigrant Visa program is hopelessly backlogged and is in danger of being allowed to lapse. The sponsorship circles for Afghans are also being phased out, after serving only about 600 individuals. (A new private sponsorship program for Ukrainians was rolled out in April, and a larger program that serves more nationalities is expected to be announced before the end of the year.) But resettlement efforts for Afghans have left much to be desired, as the suicide of an Afghan teenager whose family was placed on their own in rural Missouri makes clear.
Afghan evacuees “are all living with uncertainty here,” Asila Wardak, a former Afghan diplomat and a prominent human rights activist, told me recently. She was able to flee Afghanistan on a diplomatic passport and get a fellowship at Harvard. But she worries about her legal status when her fellowship ends. Most of all, she worries about the people she has left behind. “We don’t know what will be our future,” she told me. “Will we be sent back or stay here? We don’t know.”
When Americans don’t keep their promises to Afghan allies, it doesn’t just send a message to Afghans. It is noticed by would-be allies all over the world. That’s why Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota — a state that welcomed tens of thousands of Hmong refugees after the Vietnam War — has been championing the passage of the Afghan Adjustment Act. It would ease the path to permanent residency for Afghans who are already in the United States and establish an interagency task force to figure out how to help allies who remain trapped in Afghanistan.
“It would just show that our government is committed to standing with people who stood with us,” Klobuchar told me. But unless this legislation makes it into the omnibus spending bill that is being hammered out in Congress, tens of thousands of Afghans who were airlifted to the United States will be forced to navigate a broken asylum system and a backlogged special visa system or face deportation to what is now called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. “That is just no way to treat people who stood with your military,” Klobuchar said.
Some Republican senators, including Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, are championing the Afghan Adjustment Act alongside Klobuchar. But others, including Chuck Grassley of Iowa, have refused to support it, citing concerns that the newly arrived Afghans could pose a security threat.
The critics have a point. In the chaos of the
evacuation, vetting was a challenge. Not everyone who got in should have. For instance, a person who was freed from prison in August 2021 by the Taliban managed to get on an evacuation flight and has since been deported, according to a report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General. The Defense Department’s inspector general will look into claims that some evacuees were on a Pentagon watch list. If true, that would be yet another stain on the American withdrawal.
Still, the Afghan Adjustment Act is one of the most promising ways to ensure that evacuees are rigorously vetted. The legislation requires additional screening for those who apply for permanent residency. Lawmakers who are concerned about security threats should support the Afghan Adjustment Act and use it to make sure people who are already living in this country are exactly who they claim to be.
A large majority of Afghans who aided the United States on their soil are innocent and deserving of help. The Afghan Adjustment Act’s most ardent supporters include American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who have never forgotten America’s debt to the people who fought alongside them. It speaks volumes about the character of so many who wear the uniform that thousands of veterans have dedicated their lives to making sure that Americans keep their promises to their friends.
Welcoming Afghans who fought alongside the U.S. military also serves a geopolitical purpose. A report in Foreign Policy magazine that U.S.-trained Afghan commandos are being recruited by Russia to fight against Ukraine offers one troubling scenario for the future of thousands of U.S.-trained soldiers and police.
Afghanistan may be last year’s war, a chapter that Americans would rather forget. But it would be a travesty if Congress, which funded that war for two decades, turned its back on our allies now.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – La comisionada residente, Jenniffer González Colón informó que el Senado de Estados Unidos aprobó el jueves una legislación que garantizará que el gobierno federal no quite la asistencia a víctimas inocentes de desastres cuando cometa un error.
“Se han asignado más de 72 mil millones de dólares en fondos de recuperación de desastres para Puerto Rico después de los huracanes Irma, María y la subsiguiente actividad sísmica. Algunos de mis electores lo perdieron todo y dependen de la mayoría o de toda de la ayuda federal para reconstruir sus hogares. Es injusto quitarle esos recursos a aquellas personas y familias que ya están tratando de poner sus vidas en orden, y más si es por un error de FEMA. Agradezco a mi colega Sam Graves por liderar este proyecto de ley en la
Cámara para proteger a las víctimas y guiar a FEMA a corregir estos errores en el futuro”, dijo González Colón en declaraciones escritas.
La medida pasó como parte de la Ley de Defensa Nacional y se enviará al presidente para que se promulgue como ley. La Ley de Prevención de Revictimización por Desastres, H.R. 539, fue presentada en la Cámara de Representantes por el líder republicano del Comité de Transporte e Infraestructura, Sam Graves (RMO), y los coautores adicionales del proyecto de ley incluyen a los representantes Daniel Webster (R-FL), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) y Jenniffer González Colón (RPR). La Cámara aprobó inicialmente el proyecto de ley el 15 de junio de 2021.
“Cuando las inundaciones, los tornados y otros desastres destruyen los hogares, las granjas, los negocios y los medios de subsistencia de los americanos, las víctimas que reciben asistencia de FEMA para re-
Incidentes con sistemas de información del DRNA pudieron provocar incidentes y riesgos de pérdida irreparable de información según investigación OIG
SAN JUAN – El Área de Querellas e Investigaciones de la Oficina del Inspector General de Puerto Rico (OIG), identificó que incidentes recientes con los servidores y centro de cómputos del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), pudieron haber provocado un riesgo considerable de pérdida irreparable de información esencial y privilegiada por no haber desarrollado planes y protocolos sobre
mantenimiento preventivo y respuesta, ante riesgos y amenazas a los sistemas de información, trascendió el lunes.
La OIG precisó que el 29 de septiembre de 2022, tomaron conocimiento de información que trascendió públicamente, sobre un incidente en el Centro de Cómputos de las oficinas del DRNA, del cual no surgía certeza sobre la causa pero que tuvo un impacto negativo en las operaciones y los sistemas de información de la entidad.
En su función preventiva, el 30 de septiembre de 2022, el Área de Querellas e Investigaciones de la OIG, diligenció una comunicación al DRNA, sobre Notificación de Visita, Inspección y Requerimiento de Información para la Investigación QI-050-23-005. Esto, con el propósito de examinar métodos de manejo y control de seguridad en los sistemas de información del DRNA y validar su cumplimiento. Como parte de la intervención, se llevaron a cabo entrevistas, visitas y requerimientos de información.
MAYAGÜEZ – Personal de la planta de Composta localizada en Mayagüez recibirá árboles de Navidad naturales de lunes a viernes, desde las 8:00 de la mañana hasta la 1:00 de la tarde, informó el lunes, el director ejecutivo de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA) en la Región Oeste, ingeniero Eric Rosa Lugo.
“Todos los años recibimos en nuestras instalaciones, localizadas en el barrio Sabanetas en Mayagüez, los pinos naturales utilizados durante el periodo navideño. Estos árboles se convierten en materia prima para la
producción de composta, que es un acondicionador de terreno que prepara la agencia con cieno de las plantas de alcantarillado sanitario y con paletas de madera”, explicó el director regional.
Los pinos deben ser entregados sin adornos ni luces. Estos serán triturados para ser mezclados con cieno y sometidos a un proceso que luego de un tiempo se transforma en un abono y tierra preparada. El resultado final es un acondicionador para el terreno que contiene un alto valor nutritivo para los cultivos. Es una composta de calidad Clase A que puede ser utilizada en la agricultura y jardinería de forma segura y efectiva.
“Es así como esta iniciativa pasa a ser una de importancia por el reciclaje y la protección al ambiente al reutilizar las paletas de madera, el material vegetativo como los árboles de Navidad y el cieno de las plantas de la AAA evitando que se depositen en los vertederos”, agregó el funcionario.
La planta de Composta de la AAA está localizada en la carretera PR- 342 Km. 0.5 del barrio Sabanetas en Mayagüez. La composta y tierra lista están disponibles para la venta a $16 la yarda recogida en guagua. Para más información, los interesados deberán comunicarse al 787-834-7540.
For many of us, 2022 was the year we emerged more fully from our pandemic cocoons, venturing out to movie theaters, museums, concerts — exploring our entertainment with eager, if weary, hearts and eyes before returning home to our TVs. Along the way, artists and performers across the world of the arts had, for the first time in years, the chance to connect more closely and fully with audiences, and deliver big. Here are seven stars who captured our attention in this moment and gave us a fresh perspective.
In 2014, Quinta Brunson had a viral Instagram hit on her hands: a series of videos called “The Girl Who’s Never Been on a Nice Date.” At BuzzFeed, where she was first paid for taste-testing Doritos, she made popular comedic videos for the site and then sold the streaming series “Broke” to YouTube Red. In 2019, she starred in and wrote for the debut season of HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show.”
That trajectory set her up to deliver a rare feat: a warmhearted but not saccharine network sitcom with a pitch-perfect ensemble cast that has managed to delight critics and audiences — all while illuminating the problems of underfunded public schools. The mockumentary-style comedy, “Abbott Elementary,” which she created and stars in, debuted on ABC in December 2021 and was nominated for seven Emmy Awards this year, of which it won three.
“I think a lot of people are enjoying having something that is light and nuanced,” Brunson, 32, told The New York Times Magazine earlier this year. “‘Abbott’ came at the right time.”
When Stephanie Hsu was a child, she told her mother that she wanted to be an actor. Her mother “pointed at a TV screen and said, ‘There’s nobody that looks like you — that seems impossible,’” Hsu, 32, told Variety this year. Turns out, her presence onscreen was both possible and unforgettable, particularly her jaw-dropping performance in this year’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” a mind-twisting acid trip through the multiverse (and the human condition) that was a box-office hit and had critics raving.
In “Everything,” her first feature film, Hsu nailed the complex role of both a depressed, despairing daughter (opposite Michelle Yeoh as her mother) and the maniacally evil, chaos-inducing villain Jobu Tupaki.
“I think it’s so rare that you get to experience the scope of range within one character in one movie,” Hsu told the Times.
Next up for the actress is a role in the Disney+ actioncomedy series “American Born Chinese”; in Rian Johnson’s Peacock series, “Poker Face,” alongside Natasha Lyonne; and in “The Fall Guy,” an action movie starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
Pop Music: Jack Harlow
Those on TikTok probably first caught wind of rapper Jack Harlow in 2020 with his viral track “Whats Poppin.” But it wasn’t until his verse on Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby” last year
— the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 — that his star really began its ascent.
Now, the laid-back Harlow, 24, a Kentucky native, had his first solo No. 1 hit, the Fergie-sampling “First Class,” from his second major-label album, “Come Home the Kids Miss You,” which dropped in May. In November, he earned three Grammy nominations, including for best rap album. And in October, he served as both host and musical guest on “Saturday Night Live.”
“I’m looking to get away from rapping in a way where people can marvel at it and more something we can all enjoy together,” he told the Times this year.
Soon, Harlow will star in a remake of the 1992 film “White Men Can’t Jump.”
Art: Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Over the last few years, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, 41, “has emerged as one of the most singular artists of our aesthetically rich, free-range time,” Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic of the Times, wrote in her review of McClodden’s exhibition “Mask/Conceal/Carry,” a meditation on guns shown at 52 Walker in Tribeca this year. Smith called it a “brooding beast of an exhibition, bathed in blue light.”
And that was only one of three major presentations of McClodden’s work in New York in 2022. At the Museum of Modern Art, she presented a room-size fetish-themed tribute to Brad Johnson, a Black gay poet who died in 2011. At the Shed, she celebrated the groundbreaking 1983 festival Dance Black America with a program that included custom dance floors and video portraits of dancers.
McClodden, who was a star of the 2019 Whitney Biennial (she won the Bucksbaum Award), emerged as a filmmaker before expanding to boundary-pushing art installations.
Amid the pandemic and the George Floyd protests and counterprotests, she decided to learn how to shoot guns, an activity that bore “Mask/Conceal/Carry.” “The statement is that I’m in the world, I didn’t try to run away from my position in this world, and I wanted to be able to defend myself,” she told the Times this summer.
Theater: Julie Benko
Few can say they’ve seized an opportunity like Julie
Benko, whose monthlong summer run as Fanny Brice in the Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” changed a lot for the actresssoprano who stepped into the role full-time between Beanie Feldstein and Lea Michele. But even that degree of pressure didn’t weigh her down.
“When you get the chance to play such an amazing role, there’s no need to take it too seriously,” Benko told the Times. “You just have to enjoy it.” Now, Benko has the title of “alternate” in “Funny Girl,” not “understudy,” performing the lead in most Thursday night shows (with an extra performance on Monday, Dec. 26, and for a full week in late February).
Benko, 33, had understudied several roles before “Funny Girl,” including in the national “Spring Awakening” tour in 2008, and later in the “Les Misérables” tour, where she worked her way up to Cosette, the protagonist, from roles like “innkeeper’s wife.”
In December, she performed at 54 Below in New York alongside her husband, pianist Jason Yeager.
Classical Music: Davóne Tines
“No one could accuse Davóne Tines of lacking ambition,” Oussama Zahr, a classical music critic, wrote recently in the Times when reviewing “Recital No. 1: MASS,” the bassbaritone’s personal and thoughtfully arranged Carnegie Hall debut
“I really like structures,” Tines, who is in his mid-30s, told The New Yorker of “MASS” last year. “The ritualistic template of the Mass is a proven structure — centuries of culture have upheld it. Anything that I put into it will assume a certain shape. And what I put into it is my own lived experience.”
Accolades for Tines have been mounting, including for, this fall, his performance in a staged version of Tyshawn Sorey’s “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife),” at the Park Avenue Armory; and for “Everything Rises,” his collaboration with violinist Jennifer Koh, which opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
In the work, Tines and Koh recount their complicated relationships with classical music as people of color. “I was the moth, lured by your flame,” Tines sings. “I hated myself for needing you, dear white people: money, access and fame.”
Dance: Catherine Hurlin
She may only be 26, but ballerina Catherine Hurlin has been ascending for more than half of her life. As a girl, she secured a full scholarship to the American Ballet Theater’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. Not long after, she became an apprentice with the ABT, then a member of the corps de ballet and eventually a soloist in 2018.
Then this summer, she was one of three dancers promoted to the role of principal.
“The simple serenity of Hurlin’s face, framed by cascading curls, is riveting, as is the daring amplitude of her expressive, singular dancing,” Gia Kourlas, the dance critic of the Times, wrote in June of Hurlin’s performance in Alexei Ratmansky’s “Of Love and Rage.”
And in July, when Hurlin made her debut in the double role of Odette-Odile in “Swan Lake,” Kourlas called her “the future of Ballet Theater, the kind of dancer who has a fresh take on story ballets.”
Her nickname? Hurricane.
H3N2, which originated in birds. It was initially detected in dogs in South Korea in 2007, although it began circulating earlier, and spread in several countries in Asia.
In 2015, it showed up in Chicago, tearing through kennels, veterinary clinics and animal shelters. “In the shelter setting, flu is not super subtle because it comes in like a tidal wave,” said Dr. Sandra Newbury, who directs the University of Wisconsin Shelter Medicine Program. (Newbury, who was part of the team that responded to and studied the Chicago outbreak, has also been working with Operation Kindness in recent weeks.)
The virus spread through the Midwest and seeded additional outbreaks across the country before eventually fading out.
H3N2 has been reintroduced to the United States numerous times since, research suggests. (Regulations surrounding the importation of dogs are “minimal,” said Dubovi, adding that the Healthy Dog Importation Act, introduced in Congress last year, would impose more safeguards.)
Canine influenza, which is transmitted through respiratory droplets and aerosols, tends to spread quickly in group settings and can jump between states as infected dogs travel.
“There’s a tendency to move animals from one part of the country to another or from one shelter to another,” said Colin Parrish, a virus expert at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine and an expert on canine influenza. “So the virus gets moved along with the dogs.”
Last year, the virus took hold in Los Angeles, resulting in more than 1,300 cases from July 2021 to January 2022.
This summer, it showed up in Birmingham, Alabama. “And it exploded,” said Dr. Lindy Alverson, the chief veterinary officer at the Greater Birmingham Humane Society. “Day cares were closing. Groomers were closing.”
By EMILY ANTHESWhen a few dogs started coughing at a Texas animal shelter in October, veterinarians were not initially alarmed. The shelter, Operation Kindness, had seen its share of sick dogs.
But these coughs seemed to linger, and the handful of hacking dogs soon turned into dozens. By mid-November, 86% of the shelter’s roughly 150 dogs were ill.
“This was just so fast-acting,” said Ed Jamison, CEO of Operation Kindness, which is based in Carrollton, just north of Dallas.
Laboratory testing revealed that the dogs had contracted a highly contagious strain of canine influenza, known as H3N2, which has caused a spate of recent outbreaks across the South. Veterinarians have warned clients about the virus on social media; doggy day care facilities have closed; and shelters, including Operation Kindness, have suspended adoptions.
The virus, which has caused periodic outbreaks in the United States since 2015, does not currently pose a risk to humans, experts stressed, and most dogs that contract it do not become severely ill. But the disease can progress to pneumonia or even be fatal in a small percentage of dogs.
Although canine influenza can flare up at any time, the recent rash of cases could be fueled, in part, by recent changes in Americans’ behaviors, some veterinarians suggested. Shelters
that emptied out during the pandemic are full again, they said, and the resurgence of travel and reopening of offices mean that more dogs are spending time together in kennels and at day care, where the virus can easily gain a foothold.
“We had a bit of a quiet period during the first couple years of COVID,” said Dr. Silene St. Bernard, regional medical director for Southern California at VCA Animal Hospitals. “While people were home, their pets were home. And we didn’t see as many of these contagious viruses spreading around.”
Experts are urging dog owners to remain alert for symptoms — which may include coughing, fever and loss of appetite — especially if the virus has been reported in their area. And those whose dogs spend time in social settings may want to consider a canine influenza vaccine.
“You need to think about what risks you take,” said Edward Dubovi, a virus expert at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine who was part of the team that identified the first strain of canine influenza. “If you go to a dog park — we have one here in Ithaca, and there may be 30 or 40 dogs running around in there — that’s a risk. If that’s part of your daily routine, and flu is in the area, then you just might want to go get a vaccine.”
There are two strains of canine influenza. The first, known as H3N8, originated in horses and was first detected in Florida among greyhounds in 2004.
But the most recent outbreaks have been caused by
The Humane Society, which suspended canine adoptions for six weeks, had to euthanize several severely ill dogs before the outbreak ebbed, Alverson said. Now, after a brief respite, the virus is back, she added.
Cases have also been reported in Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas and elsewhere, experts noted.
And influenza is not the only respiratory infection making the rounds. In Charlotte, North Carolina, veterinary facilities and doggy day cares said that they had seen a surge of coughing, sniffling dogs this fall. “By mid-October, it got really bad,” said Kim Lovingood-Owens, the co-owner of NoDa Bark and Board. “We closed for an entire week, sanitized the building.”
Some local dogs have tested positive for flu, while others have contracted different respiratory pathogens, such as the bacteria Bordetella bronchiseptica.
In recent weeks, Charlotte Animal Referral & Emergency, a veterinary hospital, has seen a flood of dogs with respiratory infections resulting in severe pneumonia.
“We are running out of room to place animals. We’re running out of oxygen to put them on,” said Dr. Kelly Lang, an emergency and critical care veterinarian at the facility. “I’ve never dealt with anything like this before.”
At Operation Kindness, the peak of the outbreak has passed with no canine deaths, although some dogs are still finishing up their courses of treatment, Jamison said. Last weekend, adoptions at the shelter resumed, and 21 dogs found new homes.
“It was so nice to finally see some dogs get adopted,” Jamison said.
A patient in Nevada City, Calif., was checked for signs of canine influenza during a 2018 outbreak.Of all the groups still threatened by COVID-19 — including the elderly and the immunocompromised — it is pregnant women who seem the most unaware of the risks.
COVID can kill pregnant women and can result in miscarriage, preterm births and stillbirths even when the women have asymptomatic or mild illness. The infection may also affect the baby’s brain development.
Dozens of studies have shown that the COVID vaccine is safe for pregnant women. Immunization of the mother also passes along protective antibodies to her fetus.
Yet only 70% of women have completed the primary vaccination series for COVID before or during pregnancy, meaning that roughly 30% of pregnant women have not had this basic protection. Since early September, only 15% have opted for a booster shot.
Even the flu vaccine has not proven popular with pregnant women this year: Just 37% of pregnant women had been vaccinated for the flu as of the end of October, compared with nearly 60% at the end of September 2020.
The United States is now struggling with a mix of respiratory syncytial virus, the flu and the coronavirus, all of which can cause serious illness in pregnant women. The winter is looking grim.
“I’m concerned about it, especially given low vaccination rates,” said Dr. Denise Jamieson, an obstetrician at Emory University in Atlanta and a member of the COVID expert group of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists.
Even early in the pandemic, it was obvious that COVID was dangerous in pregnancy. Data from a study in June 2020 showed that among pregnant women infected with COVID, about 1 in 3 ended up in the hospital, compared with about 6% of women who were not pregnant.
Infected pregnant women were 50% more likely to be admitted to intensive care units and 70% more likely to need a ventilator.
“It’s very clear now that if you’re pregnant, planning to get pregnant or breast-
feeding, for you and for your baby, it’s very important to get vaccinated,” said Dr. Neel Shah, an assistant professor at Harvard and chief medical officer of Maven Clinic, a digital health care provider for women and families.
Pregnant women, their families and even their doctors may not realize the importance of immunization because of “sluggish and muddled” communication from public health agencies, Shah said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not wholeheartedly endorse vaccination for pregnant women until September 2021, about three months before the omicron variant swept the nation and months after the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine strongly recommended the shots for pregnant women.
By then, mistrust and misinformation had already been sown, and only about onethird of pregnant women were vaccinated.
“That was a big part of the failure, honestly,” Shah said.
Scientists used to believe that pregnant women were, in essence, immunocompromised — that the body tolerates a fetus by responding to it as it would a foreign invader and suppressing its own immune responses.
“We now know that that’s not true; that’s an
oversimplification,” Jamieson said.
Pregnancy is accompanied by some immune changes, she said, but they don’t compromise the ability to fend off infections as an organ transplant or certain medical conditions might.
Still, pregnant women are vulnerable for other reasons. The growing uterus compresses the lungs, hindering the ability to take in air, for example. Pregnancy can also cause conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure, which themselves put a person at risk for severe COVID.
Studies have shown that the placenta of pregnant women who are infected with the coronavirus resembles that of women with preeclampsia, a form of dangerously high blood pressure in pregnancy.
The placenta is a sponge of blood vessels that enables the exchange of oxygen and nutrients between the mother and fetus. It takes on the role of lungs, liver and kidneys for the fetus, but COVID can ravage it, said Dr. Anne V. Herdman Royal, a pathologist at Tulsa Medical Laboratory who studies placental tissue.
“The placenta is essentially the lungs for the fetus, and it’s damaged in the same way that lungs are by COVID,” she said. Most babies turn out to be fine, as long as they have completed at least 30 weeks of gesta-
tion, she added.
So why have so many pregnant women avoided vaccination? Many have focused on claims of risk for which there is little to no evidence while ignoring the very real dangers of COVID, Royal said.
That’s true not just of pregnant women but of friends, family and even their health care providers.
In October 2021, Maven Clinic surveyed 500 women in the United States. Nearly 70% said at least one person had suggested they avoid the vaccine while pregnant. In about one-third of these cases, the source was a health care provider.
Doctors were already wary of taking even the smallest risks with pregnant women, and any ambiguity in the evidence regarding COVID vaccination may have reinforced their fears, said Dr. Anne Lyerly, a bioethicist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lyerly pointed to one scientific paper in the journal JAMA that was titled “Association of COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy With Adverse Peripartum Outcomes.”
The researchers concluded that there was no significant association. But leaving that information out of the title surely did not reassure doctors, she said.
“Neutral messaging, like that messaging in the JAMA article, is not neutral against the backdrop of fear,” Lyerly said.
“The better-safe-than-sorry stance that so many people in the public, so many doctors — even so many public health officials — tend to take with regard to pregnancy is not safer in the end,” she added. “In fact, it puts pregnant people in harm’s way.”
She also said that public health messages had not sufficiently emphasized the risks of COVID to pregnant women and the benefits of vaccination to the fetus, she said.
Many women willingly have the DTaP vaccine — which protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis — in the third trimester because they understand that it is needed to protect the baby.
But the message has not gotten through that the flu and COVID vaccines are also necessary in pregnancy, Jamieson said. In the Maven survey, for example, 1 in 3 women said they were planning to get the COVID vaccine only after giving birth.
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COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION IMILDA MERCEDES IRIZARRY
PEREZ T/C/C IMILDA M.
IRIZARRY PEREZ T/C/C
IMILDA IRIZARRY PEREZ
T/C/C IMILDA MERCEDES
IRIZARRY T/C/C IMILDA M. IRIZARRY T/C/C IMILDA IRIZARRY COMPUESTA POR IDALI
IRIZARRY PEREZ, DORIS
ROBLES IRIZARRY; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2021CV00910.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, 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 Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 23 DE ENE-
RO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número catorce (14) del Bloque T del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Caguas Norte situada en el Barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos tres metros cuadrados, con sesenta centímetros cuadrados (303.60 m/c), colindando por el NORTE, en veintitrés metros (23), con los solares doce y trece; por el SUR, en veintitrés metros (23), con el solar número quince (15); por el ESTE, en trece metros veinte centímetros (13.20) con la Calle veintidós (22); y por el OESTE, en trece metros veinte centímetros (13.20), con el solar número (10) diez. Finca número 30,305 inscrita al folio 70 del tomo 901 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca número 30,305 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 8ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. CAGUAS NORTE, T-14 CALLE NEBRASKA, CAGUAS, PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $183,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 4 de septiembre de 2092. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. 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 de mínima subasta la suma de $183,000.00, 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 Caguas, el 30 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $122,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $91,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 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 $75,152.04 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $20,143.71 en intereses acumulados al 31 de octubre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.563% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,133.12 en seguro hipotecario; $637.00 en seguro; $450.00 de tasaciones; $300.00 de inspecciones; $8,347.00 en preservaciones; $1,645.00 en honorarios de abogados; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $18,300.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o 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 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 interesados 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 espacio de dos semanas consecutivas 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. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de noviembre de 2022. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA
#593.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION FREDERICK HENRY BARREDA MONGE COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02346.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, 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 Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 30 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 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 describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Borinquen de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área de tres punto cero treinta y seis cuerdas, equivalentes a ONCE MIL NOVECIENTOS TREINTA Y DOS PUNTO SESENTA Y NUEVE METROS CUADRADOS (11,932.69 M.C.). En lindes por el Norte, con el solar que le fuera segregado; por el Sur, con el solar que le fuera segregado; por el Este, con una faja de terreno destinada a uso público; y por el Oeste, con la parcela “E” del plano de inscripción.
Enclava edificación para fines residenciales. Finca número 22,367 inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 1600, inscripción octava, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 256 del tomo 1750, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 9ª. Propiedad localizada en: PR 763 KM.
4.7 INT., BO. BORINQUEN, CAGUAS PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $382,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 12 de mayo de 2088. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. 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 de mínima subasta la suma de $382,500.00, 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 oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $255,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $191,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 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 $220,819.14 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $36,257.95 en in-
tereses acumulados al 1 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.317% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $9,544.37 en seguro hipotecario; $5,355.00 en tarifas de servicio; $2,016.00 en seguro; $555.00 de tasaciones; $480.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 en adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $38,250.00, para gastos, costas 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 fecha, desde este mismo día hasta 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 mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, 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 interesados 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 espacio de dos semanas consecutivas 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. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de noviembre de 2022. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. YASHIRAH LUZ
Demandado Civil Núm.: UT2022CV00103.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Utuado, Utuado, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 18 de noviembre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 2 del Bloque I (I-2), Calle 7 en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Palmas del Sol, radicado en el Barrio Pueblo del término municipal de Lares, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 275.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el SUROESTE, en distancia de 25.00 metros, con el solar I-3; por el NOROESTE, en distancia de 11.00 metros, con el Solar I-1; por el NORESTE, en distancia de 25.00 metros, con la Calle 7; y por el SURESTE, en distancia de 11.00 metros, con el solar I-13. Enclava una estructura para uso residencial. Inscrita en la finca número 19,158, inscrita al folio 176 del tomo 399 de Lares, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Utuado. La propiedad ubica según pagaré: I-2 7 St. Palmas del Sol, Lares, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el 10 de agosto de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $74,773.17 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 3.99%, anual desde el 1ro de agosto de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $8,075.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00
DE LA TARDE, en el Centro Judicial de Utuado, Utuado, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA
SUBASTA es de $80,750.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA
TARDE, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $53,833.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 21 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00
DE LA TARDE, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $40,375.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la-
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO ric TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA FORTALEZA EQUITY PARTNERS I, LLC
Demandante V.
RENE ARIEL TORRES
PEÑA, DAYRA ILEANA
RUIZ BATTISTINI Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA
Demandado Civil Núm.: LO2022CV00139.
(407). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.
A: DAYRA ILEANA RUIZBATTISTINI POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
TORRES-RUIZ.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de publicación. Se le advierte que al tiempo de hacerse la primera publicación de este edicto se le estará enviando por correo certificado una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda al lugar de su última dirección conocida. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar 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 rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le requiere que notifique su contestación a la parte demandante, por conducto de sus abogados, Lcdo. Francisco Fernández Chiqués a su dirección Fernández Chiqués LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, Fax (787) 722-3317, Email: ffc@ ffclaw.com, dentro del término provisto o se le podrá anotar la rebeldía en su contra y se le
dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 07 de diciembre de 2022.
LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. RUTH M. COLÓN LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO ric TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA FORTALEZA EQUITY PARTNERS I, LLC
Demandante V. RENE ARIEL TORRES PEÑA, DAYRA ILEANA
RUIZ BATTISTINI Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Demandado Civil Núm.: LO2022CV00139. (407). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.
A: RENE ARIEL TORRES PEÑA POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES TORRES-RUIZ.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de publicación. Se le advierte que al tiempo de hacerse la primera publicación de este edicto se le estará enviando por correo certificado una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda al lugar de su última dirección conocida. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar 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 rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le requiere que noti-
fique su contestación a la parte demandante, por conducto de sus abogados, Lcdo. Francisco Fernández Chiqués a su dirección Fernández Chiqués LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, Fax (787) 722-3317, Email: ffc@ ffclaw.com, dentro del término provisto o se le podrá anotar la rebeldía en su contra y se le dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 07 de diciembre de 2022.
LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. RUTH M. COLÓN LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante V. TOMMY VARGAS RAMOS AKA TOMMY VARGAS POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA CELIA RAMOS ROMAN AKA ANACELIA RAMOS ROMAN COMPUESTA CON JULISSA M. VARGAS RAMOS Y JUAN LUIS VARGAS RAMOS COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B Y C DE LA SUCESIÓN; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Demandados
Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00597. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A La Parte Demandada: FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B Y C
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al (a la) abogado (a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. 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 aceptando o repudiando las herencias de la Sucesión de Ana Celia Ramos Roman aka Anacelia Ramos Roman. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr. salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma está garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 89 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Magueyes, del Barrio Magueyes del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.1469 cuerdas, equivalente a cinco áreas, setenta y cuatro centiáreas y tres mil seiscientos treinta y ocho diezmilésimas de otra; 574.3638 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 19.40 metros con la Calle Amatista, esquina Calle Perla de la misma comunidad; por el SUR, en una distancia de 19.53 metros, con la parcela número 93 de la misma comunidad; por el ESTE, en una por el OESTE, en una distancia de 29.35 metros, con la Calle Perla, esquina Amatista. Las distancias de las colindancias Norte y Oeste que se indican en este documento son tomadas hasta el vértice de
la esquina de las Calle Perla y Amatista. El área del conjunto en esta esquina fue restada y no está incluida en el área que se indica en el presente documento. La curva de este abanico es de 90 grados y el radio es de 5.59 metros. Dentro de la parcela descrita se encuentra enclavada una casa de dos plantas de hormigón, madera y zinc de 32 pies con 4 pulgadas de largo por 16 con 3 pulgadas de ancho, con balcón, sala, cocina, comedor y tres habitaciones. Finca #10365 inscrita al folio 90 del tomo 419 de Ponce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Segunda. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: García-Chamorro Law Group, P.S.C., 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 8 de diciembre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
RAD MAN HOLDINGS, LLC Y MR MAN SAN JUAN 1, LLC
Demandante, V. REY DANIEL GONZÁLEZ MORALES
Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08948. (906). DESAHUCIO SUMARIO, INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO Y COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: REY DANIEL GONZÁLEZ
DIRECCIONES
CONOCIDAS: URB. SANTIAGO IGLESIAS
CALLE ANTONIO ARROYO #1389, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00921 Y 1075 AVENIDA PONCE DE LEÓN, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00907.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda de Desahucio Sumario, Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero Ordinario. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcda. Elizabeth Villagrasa-Flores RUA Núm. 16,877 evillagrasa@ferraiuoli.com FERRAIUOLI, LLC P.O. Box 195168 San Juan, PR 00919-5168
Tel: 787-766-7000
Abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA SERRANO SOTO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON.
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante vs. SUCESION CARMEN MARIA NIEVES MERCADO T/C/C CARMEN M. NIEVES MERCADO T/C/C CARMEN D. NIEVES MERCADO COMPUESTA POR
COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados CIVIL NUM. BY2021CV04222. SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público General: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, 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 Esta-
dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 24 de enero de 2023, a las 10:15 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 describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela número cuatro (4): Predio de terreno compuesto de cero punto dos ocho tres uno (0.2831) cuerdas, equivalentes a mil ciento doce punto ocho mil setenta y dos (1112.8072) metros cuadrados localizada en el Barrio Cerro Gordo del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico. En lindes por el Norte, con las parcelas uno y tres (1 y 3); por el Sur, con Don Antonio Saldaña Cruz y Griselle Rivera Nieves; por el Este, con camino dedicado a Uso Público; y por el Oeste, con área dedicada a Uso Público para ensanche de la carretera número ochocientos treinta (830). Inscrita al folio 85 del tomo 1902 de Bayamón Sur, finca 79,119, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 84 del tomo 1905 de Bayamón Sur, finca 79,119, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I, inscripción 7ª. Propiedad localizada en: SR 830 KM 1.6 BO.
CERRO GORDO, BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO 00956. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $262,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 10 de diciembre de 2078. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. 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 de mínima subasta la suma de $175,000.00, 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
Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 31 de enero de 2023, a las 10:15 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $116,666.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $87,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 7 de febrero de 2023, a las 10:15 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 $183,068.87 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $33,030.03 en intereses acumulados al 26 de noviembre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 4.35% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,907.22 en seguro hipotecario; $5,320.00 en tarifas de servicio; $980.00 en seguro; $425.00 de tasaciones; $40.00 de inspecciones; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $17,500.00, para gastos, costas 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 fecha, desde este mismo día hasta 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 mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, 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 interesados 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 espacio de dos semanas consecutivas 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. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 2 de noviembre de 2022. Frances Torres, Alguacil Regional. Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana, Alguacil Auxiliar, Placa 193.
JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE PONCE
Demandante Vs ADA N. LOPEZ SANTIAGO
Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00328.
Salón: 301. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ADA N. LOPEZ SANTIAGO.
P/C LIC KEVIN L. SANCHEZ CAMPANERO.
PO BOX 71418, SAN JUAN PR 00936.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de diciembre de 2022. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 12 de diciembre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SANDRA GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V.
RAMÓN
HERNÁNDEZ PAGÁN
Demandado(a)
Civil: LU2021CV00087. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
HERNÁNDEZ PAGÁNURB ALAMAR E20 CALLE H LUQUILLO, PUERTO RICO 00773-2521.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de diciembre de 2022. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 12 de diciembre de 2022. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. KATHERINE ROBLES TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC Demandante V. ANDRES E ZAYAS SANTA Demandado(a) Civil: CN2022CV00094. Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ANDRES E ZAYAS SANTAVILLAS DE LOIZA, AD1 CALLE 24 CANOVANAS
PR 00729-4164. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando
usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de diciembre de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 12 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN CPD, LLC.
Demandante V. JAVIER MOYA RÍOS Y SU ESPOSA, CARMEN LÓPEZ DÍAZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES CONSTITUIDA POR ESTOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: DCD2009-3881. (501). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 17 de octubre de 2018, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Bayamón todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 1087 del bloque C en la Urbanización Levittown en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 378.87 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle marginal 188, en 19.55 metros y 5.45 metros; por el Sur, con el solar 1088, en 23.00 metros; por el Este, con el paseo Damasco, en 12.93 metros y en
5.45 metros en arco; y por el Oeste, con un paseo público, en 16.86 metros. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 176 del tomo 39 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda, finca número 3,717. Dirección Física: 1087 Bloque C, Calle Paseo Damasco, Urb. Levittown, Toa Baja, PR 00949. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales, Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Estados Unidos de América, Municipio de Toa Baja, Condiciones Restrictivas, Servidumbre de Paso.
Por sí: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $191,000.00 con interés al 7.95%, y vencedero el 1 de octubre de 2035, según consta de la escritura #393, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de septiembre de 2005, ante el Notario Público Reinaldo Segurola Pérez e inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, inscripción 8ª. HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $29,600.00, con interés al 9.95%, y vencedero el 1 de noviembre de 2035, según consta de la escritura #135, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de octubre de 2005, ante la Notario Público Melysa M. Vázquez Hernández e inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, inscripción 8ª. ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: Es objeto de esta anotación la Hipoteca a favor de Doral Bank, por la suma de $191,000.00 que surge de la inscripción #7. DEMANDANTE: Doral Bank; DEMANDADO: Javier Moya Ríos y Carmen López Díaz, cantidad adeudada $184,952.75, por concepto de principal más intereses, según Demanda expedida por el Tribunal de Bayamón, en el caso Civil #DCD09-3881, el día 11 de noviembre de 2009 e inscrito al folio 55vto del tomo 586, Anotación “A” de fecha 26 de mayo de 2010. De conformidad con la ley hipotecaria y con los términos de la hipoteca a ejecutarse, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será la cantidad de $191,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $127,333.33. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 6 DE FEBRERO
DE 2023, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $95,500.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a CPD, LLC, asciende a $184,952.75 de principal; más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.95% anual, desde el día 1 de junio de 2009, hasta su total y completo pago; más la suma de $19,100.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, y aquellas cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca como seguro hipotecario y recargos adeudados desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta el saldo total de la obligación. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables. El Alguacil procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 28 de octubre de 2022.
EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL
DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ MANUEL SÁNCHEZ TORRES, T/C/C JOSÉ M. SÁNCHEZ TORRES COMPUESTA POR CARLOS SÁNCHEZ CABAN, JOSÉ SÁNCHEZ CABAN, ELSA NYDIA SÁNCHEZ CABAN, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE LUZ CELESTE CABÁN NEGRÓN, T/C/C LUZ C. CABÁN NEGRÓN, T/C/C LUZ CELESTE CABÁN COMPUESTA POR CARLOS SÁNCHEZ CABAN, JOSÉ SÁNCHEZ CABAN, ELSA NYDIA SÁNCHEZ CABAN, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandado(a) Civil: SG2022CV00210. 207. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ MANUEL SÁNCHEZ TORRES, T/C/C JOSÉ M. SÁNCHEZ TORRES Y DE LA SUCESIÓN LUZ CELESTE CABÁN NEGRÓN, T/C/C LUZ C. CABÁN NEGRÓN, T/C/C LUZ CELESTE CABÁN. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 1 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución
en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de diciembre de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 15 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA.
NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. WANDA RENTAS BURGOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO LUIS MENDOZA MORALES
Demandante Vs DAMARIS MENDOZA MORALES, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE IRAIDA MORALES GARCIA, SAMUEL MENDOZA MORALES Y LUIS ANGEL MENDOZA IRIZARRY
Demandado(a) Civil: HU2018CV00792. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES Y DIVISIÓN DE HERENCIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.
A: LUIS ANGEL MENDOZA IRIZARRY; DIRECCIÓN; 1301 SOUTH SCOTT ST., APT. 628, ARLINGTON VIRGINIA 22204; P/C LCDO. JULIO L CASTRO VELÁZQUEZ. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen-
tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de diciembre de 2022. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 14 de diciembre de 2022. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO
Parte Demandante V. RICHARD KUSHNER
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2022CV00704.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: RICHARD KUSHNER. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: GONZÁLEZ & MORALES LAW OFFICES, LLC PO BOX 10242 HUMACAO, PR 00792
TELÉFONO: (787) 852-4422
FACSÍMIL: (787) 285-4425
Email: jrg@gonzalezmorales.com abogados de la parte demandante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida en este caso, dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 09 de diciembre de 2022. IVELISSE
C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIAESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE AUBERTO MATEO RIVERA COMPUESTA POR MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; LA SUCESIÓN DE VIRGENMINA DÍAZ LEBRÓN COMPUESTA POR PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; LA SUCESIÓN DE NARDA MATEO DÍAZ COMPUESTA POR SUTANEJO y PERENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, AUBERTO MATEO DÍAZ, MARIO MATEO DÍAZ por conducto de HÉCTOR MANUEL DÍAZ LEBRÓN COMO HEREDEROS DE AUBERTO MATEO RIVERA Y VIRGENMINA DÍAZ LEBRÓN
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01991.
(406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: AUBERTO MATEO DÍAZ HEREDERO DE AUBERTO MATEO RIVERA Y VIRGENMINA DÍAZ LEBRÓN Y COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE NARDA MATEO DÍAZ
A LAS SIGUIENTES
DIRECCIONES: URB.
PERLA DEL SUR, 346 CALLE C, PONCE, PR 00731; URB PERLA DEL SUR, 3130 CALLE COSTA CORAL, PONCE PR 00717-0404, 17345
PORTER AVE APT B, MONTVERDE, FL 347563273, PLAZA CAROLINA STATION, PO BOX 8851, CAROLINA, PR 009888851.
SUTANEJO Y PERENGANO DE TAL,
MATEO DÍAZ.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $11,291.48 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.5% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2022 hasta su completo pago, más $87.76 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,725.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 346 de la manzana 13 de la Urbanización Perla del Sur (Tercera Extensión) radicada en el Barrio Canas de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 362.50 metros cuadrados. Colindando por el NORTE: con la calle C, en una extensión de 14.50 metros; por el ESTE: en 25.00 metros, con el solar número 345; por el SUR: en 14.50 metros, con el solar número 332; y por el OESTE: en 25.00 metros, con terrenos de la Reparada Development Corporation. En su inscripción segunda se dice que es este solar enclava una casa toda de concreto de una planta, dedicada a vivienda. Inscrita al folio 226 del tomo 330 de Ponce, Finca 12575 (antes 24662).
Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 145 vuelto del tomo 815 de Ponce, Finca 12575. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. Inscripción décima y última. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los demandados para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento el Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación
responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 13 de diciembre de 2022 en Ponce, Puerto Rico. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
CASITAS BLANCAS, LLC.
Parte Demandante Vs. LESTER VIRGILIO NEGRON AYALA Y LA SUCESION DE GETZAIDA MONTIJO CABIYA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV03258. Salón Núm.: (0503). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: LESTER VIRGILIO NEGRON AYALA Y LA SUCESION DE GETZAIDA MONTIJO CABIYA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA; ORIENTAL BANK (ANTES) SCOTIABANK DE PUERTO RICO O A SU ORDEN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES: DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA:
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados
Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número cincuenta y cinco (55) de la Urbanización Villa Francis (hoy Urbanización Los Maestros) radicado en el Barrio de Hato Rey del término municipal de Río Piedras (hoy San Juan), Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos cuarenta y cuatro punto cincuenta (344.50) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintiséis punto cincuenta (26.50) metros, con el solar número cincuenta y nueve (59); por el SUR, en veintiséis punto cincuenta (26.50) metros, con el solar número cincuenta y nueve (59); por el ESTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con el solar número cincuenta y cuatro (54); por el OESTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la número tres (3) (hoy calle Ramón Negrón Flores), marcada con el número quinientos trece (513). Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto de una planta. Inscrita al folio 32 del tomo 1527 de Río Piedras Norte, finca #17,784 inscripción 11ma. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Los Maestros, #513 Calle Negrón Flores, San Juan, P.R. 00918. Según figura en el Estudio de título, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada al siguiente Gravamen posterior a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Oriental Bank (antes) Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $10,000.00, con intereses al 5.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2041, constituida mediante la escritura número 225-B, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de julio de 2011, ante la notario Elyvette Fuentes Bonilla, e inscrita al folio 32 del tomo 1527 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 17,784, inscripción 12ma. Se le notifica a los acreedores posteriores anteriormente identificados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y
Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $172,861.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #225-A, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de julio de 2011, ante la notario Evlyvette Fuentes Bonilla, inscrita al folio 32 del tomo 1527 de Río Piedras Norte, finca # 17,784, inscripción 11ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $172,861.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $115,240.66. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $86,430.50. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $149,809.99, con intereses al 4.50% anual desde el día 1 octubre de 2018; cargos por demora mensuales; las debidas cantidades de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca hasta su completo pago; $17,286.10 estipulados para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados en caso de reclamación judicial; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante
la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 8 de diciembre de 2022. ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #390.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA JUAN RAMON LOPEZ LOPEZ Y OTROS Demandante V. IRIS NELLIE DELGADO JIMENEZ Y OTROS Demandado(a) Civil: CN2022CV00150. Sala: 409. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
SUCESION.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a
usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de diciembre de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 14 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ORIENTAL
Demandante V. FERNANDO
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03537.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: FERNANDO LUIS COLÓN
APT. 202 CALLE MUÑOZ
RIVERA CAROLINA PR 00985.
Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido termino, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Representa a la parte demandante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 06 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
RUTH M. COLÓN LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs. ANDRES
CARRASQUILLO BIGIO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV09098. Salón: 803. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
CARRASQUILLO BIGIO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA. SECT. LA CORTE 2, CAMINO LOS VELAZQUEZ, SAN JUAN PR 00926-8624.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de noviembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de noviembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA I. RÍOS LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
In the end, Qatar got what it wanted. The tiny desert state, a thumb-shaped peninsula, craved nothing more than to be better known, to be a player on the world stage, when in 2009 it launched what seemed like an improbable bid to stage the men’s soccer World Cup, the most popular sporting event on Earth. Hosting the tournament has cost more than anyone could have imagined — in treasure, in time, in lives.
But on Sunday night, as the fireworks filled the sky above Lusail, as the Argentina fans sang and their star, Lionel Messi, beamed while clasping a trophy he had waited a lifetime to touch, everyone knew Qatar.
The spectacular denouement — a dream final pitting Argentina against France; a first World Cup title for Messi, the world’s best player; a pulsating match settled after six goals and a penalty shootout — made sure of that. And as if to make sure, to put the nation’s final imprint on the first World Cup in the Middle East, Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, stopped a beaming Messi as he made his way to collect the biggest trophy in the sport and pulled him back. There was one more thing that needed to be done.
He pulled out a golden fringed bisht, the black cloak worn in the Gulf for special occasions, and wrapped it around Messi’s shoulders before handing over the 18-karat gold trophy.
The celebration ended a tumultuous decade for a tournament awarded in a bribery scandal; stained by claims of human rights abuses and the deaths and injuries suffered by the migrant workers hired to build Qatar’s $200 billion World Cup; and shadowed by controversial decisions on everything from alcohol to armbands.
Yet for one month Qatar has been the center of the world, pulling off a feat none of its neighbors in the Arab world had managed to achieve, one that at times had seemed unthinkable in the years since former FIFA President Sepp Blatter made the stunning announcement inside a Zurich conference hall on Dec. 2, 2010, that Qatar would host the
2022 World Cup.
It is improbable the sport will see such an unlikely host again soon. Qatar was perhaps among the most ill-suited hosts for a tournament of the scale of the World Cup, a country so lacking in stadiums and infrastructure and history that its bid was labeled “high risk” by FIFA’s own evaluators. But it took advantage of the one commodity it had in plentiful supply: money.
Backed by seemingly bottomless financial resources to fuel its ambitions, Qatar embarked on a project that required nothing less than the building, or rebuilding, of its entire country in service to a monthlong soccer tournament. Those billions were spent within its borders — seven new stadiums were constructed and other major infrastructure projects were completed at enormous financial and human cost. But when that was not enough, it spent lavishly outside its boundaries, too, acquiring sports teams and sports rights worth billions of dollars, and hiring sports stars and celebrities to support its cause.
And all that was on display Sunday. By the time the final game was played in the $1 billion Lusail Stadium, Qatar could not lose. The game was being shown across the Middle East on beIN Sports, a sports broadcasting behemoth set up in the aftermath of Qatar’s winning the World Cup hosting rights.
It also could lay claim to the two best players on the field, Argentina’s Messi and French star Kylian Mbappé, both of whom are under contract to the Qatarowned French club Paris St.-Germain.
Mbappé, who had scored the first hat trick in a final in over a half-century, finished the game sitting on the grass, consoled by President Emmanuel Macron of France, an invited guest of the emir, as Argentina’s players danced in celebration all around him.
The competition delivered compelling — and sometimes troubling — storylines from the outset, with the intensely political opening at Al Bayt Stadium, an enormous venue designed to look like a Bedouin tent. That night, Qatar’s emir had sat side by side with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, less than three years after the latter had led a punishing blockade of Qatar.
For a month, deals were discussed and alliances were made. Qatar’s team was not a factor in its World Cup debut; it lost all three of its games, exiting the competition with the worst performance of any host in the competition’s history.
There would also be other challenges, some of Qatar’s own making, like a sudden prohibition on the sale of alcohol within the stadium perimeters only two days before that first game — a last-minute decision that left Budweiser, a longtime sponsor of soccer’s world governing body, FIFA, to fume on the sideline.
On the tournament’s second day, FIFA crushed a campaign by a group of European teams to wear an armband to promote inclusivity, part of efforts promised to campaign groups and critics in their home countries, and then Qatar quashed efforts by Iranian fans to highlight ongoing protests in their country.
But on the field, the competition delivered. There were great goals and great games, stunning upsets and an abundance of surprising score lines that created new heroes, most notably in the Arab world.
First came Saudi Arabia, which can now lay claim to having beaten
the World Cup champion in the group stage. Morocco, which had only once reached the knockout stage, became the first African team to advance to the semifinals, pulling off a succession of barely believable victories over European soccer heavyweights: Belgium, Spain and then Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal.
Those results sparked celebration across the Arab world and in a handful of major European capitals, while also providing a platform for fans in Qatar to promote the Palestinian cause, the one intrusion of politics that Qatari officials did nothing to discourage.
In the stands, the backdrop was a curious one, with several games appearing short of supporters and then mysteriously filling up in the minutes after kickoff, when gates were opened to grant spectators — many of them the South Asian migrants — entry free of charge. The true number of paying spectators is unlikely to ever be known, their empty seats filled by thousands of the same laborers and migrants who had built the stadium and the country, and who kept it running during the World Cup.
That group, largely drawn from countries like India, Bangladesh and Nepal, was the most visible face of Qatar to the estimated 1 million visitors who traveled to the tournament. They worked as volunteers at stadiums, served the food and manned the metro stations, buffed the marble floors and shined the hand rails and doorknobs at the scores of newly built hotels and apartment complexes.
By the end of the tournament, most of the fans had gone, leaving the Argentines — an estimated temporary population of 40,000 — to provide the sonic backdrop to the final game. Dressed in sky blue and white stripes, they converged on the Lusail Stadium, creating the type of authentic World Cup atmosphere — bouncing and singing throughout 120 minutes of play, and then long afterward — that no amount of Qatari wealth could buy.
They had gotten exactly what they wanted from the World Cup. And so did Qatar.
The final games of the regular season are meant to solidify playoff seeding, but in Week 15, precious few postseason berths were clinched over a chaotic slate that featured three overtime games. When the dust — and snow — cleared, the Dallas Cowboys fell to the resurgent Jacksonville Jaguars, the Las Vegas Raiders picked a win over the New England Patriots out of thin air, and the AFC wild-card spots were just as up for grabs as they had been before the weekend’s games kicked off.
The AFC playoff picture is in shambles.
It is easy for a team’s season to fade quickly in the NFL. A few unlucky losses, a bad string of injuries, a couple of poor coaching decisions — any of these could be the margin between a successful season and a wasted year.
On Sunday, the AFC’s wild-card race turned into slapstick with the Raiders’ inconceivable 30-24 win over the Patriots, which was decided on the game’s final play. With the New York Jets having already lost, New England had a chance to leapfrog ahead in the AFC East and looked to be cruising to overtime against Las Vegas.
Tied at 24-24, the Patriots had the ball on their own 45-yard line with 3 seconds left. They were too far for a field goal and out of Hail Mary range. New England opted to hand the ball off to running back Rhamondre Stevenson, who lateraled the ball to receiver Jakobi Meyers. Meyers described what happened next as him “trying to do too much and trying to be a hero,” knowing that he should have let time expire by giving himself up or going out of bounds.
But Meyers tried to throw the ball back to Mac Jones near the line of scrimmage without noticing that 6-foot5 Raiders defensive end Chandler Jones stood between them. Chandler Jones picked the pass and stiff-armed Mac Jones on his way to the end zone, giving the Raiders a win in improbable fashion.
That play encapsulated the chaotic AFC wild-card picture. By some miracle, the Raiders, who at one time were just 2-7, still have a 6% chance to get in the postseason, according to The Upshot’s playoff simulator. And with the Los Angeles Chargers’ win over the Tennessee Titans, the Patriots and the Jets were both out of the playoffs as of Sunday.
The Miami Dolphins are currently the No. 7 seed, but their loss to the Buffalo Bills on Saturday added some complications. The Jaguars then beat the Cowboys in overtime on Sunday, putting themselves just one game back of Tennessee in the AFC South.
It doesn’t feel like there is any use trying to sort out the AFC playoff picture from where it stands now.
Around the NFL
Giants 20, Commanders 12: Giants rookie defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux picked the perfect time to have a breakout game. Thibodeaux finished with a team-high 12 tackles, including three tackles for loss and
a strip sack he recovered himself for a touchdown. Most of that production came in the first half, but it was good enough to put the Commanders behind the eight ball. Washington tried to rally in the second half, largely off the back of two contested catches from rookie receiver Jahan Dotson, but two consecutive drives that stalled inside the Giants’ 10-yard line sealed their fate. With the Giants’ win, division-rival Cowboys clinched a playoff spot despite losing earlier in the day.
Bengals 34, Buccaneers 23: Joe Burrow and the Bengals’ offense had little in the first half, falling behind 17-3. Cincinnati’s fate shifted in the second half when the defense gifted the team a number of short fields. Tom Brady had four turnovers, and Burrow found four different receivers for touchdowns.
Chargers 17, Titans 14: In typical Chargers fashion, this game was harder than it needed to be. With the Titans’ secondary ravaged by injuries, Chargers offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi puzzlingly opted not to test Tennessee down the field. Justin Herbert bailed Los Angeles out anyway. He found Mike Williams on a 35-yard pass with roughly 30 seconds left to set up Cameron Dicker’s 43-yard game-winning field goal, pushing the Chargers into wild-card positioning.
Broncos 24, Cardinals 15: Three backup quarterbacks played in this game and it felt that way. Both teams entered the game with backups as starters; Colt McCoy for the Cardinals and Brett Rypien for the Broncos. Neither played very well, and McCoy eventually left the game with a concussion, giving way to Trace
McSorley getting real snaps. Rypien, by contrast, was sacked seven times, although he did manage to lead the Broncos to their second-highest point total of the season. Both teams are mercifully eliminated from postseason contention.
Jaguars 40, Cowboys 34 (OT): After Jacksonville fell behind by 21-7 in the first half, Trevor Lawrence and the team’s offense exploded for 27 points in the second half, thanks to a number of daring throws, many of which found Zay Jones (six catches for 109 yards and three touchdowns). Lawrence finished with 27 of 42 passing for 318 yards, four touchdowns and one interception. The effort was enough to push the game to overtime, where a Dak Prescott pass bounced off Cowboys receiver Noah Brown’s forearm and into Jaguars safety Rayshawn Jenkins’ arms. Jenkins returned the pick, his second of the game, for the winning score.
Eagles 25, Bears 20: Justin Fields was sacked six times for 61 yards, but he rushed 15 times for 95 yards, nearly half of which came on one heroic 39-yard scramble that set the Bears up for their first score. Fields has exactly 1,000 yards rushing for the season. On the other end, Jalen Hurts threw two interceptions and was dogged by a chippy game from the Bears’ secondary, but he ran in three scores himself.
Chiefs 30, Texans 24 (OT): Patrick Mahomes diced up the Texans’ secondary all day, but fumbles by Isiah Pacheco and JuJu Smith-Schuster resulted in Texans scores. Houston quarterback Davis Mills was stripsacked in overtime and Jerick McKinnon ran in a 26yard score to end the game.
Saints 21, Falcons 18: The NFL debut for Falcons rookie quarterback Desmond Ridder (97 yards passing) didn’t look a whole lot different from any game with Marcus Mariota. Ridder completed just half his 26 passes and ate four sacks, often looking like the game was just a beat too fast for him. New Orleans Saints quarterback Andy Dalton, however, was much more efficient in his limited chances to throw the ball. Most importantly, Dalton executed in and near the red zone, finding Juwan Johnson for 19- and 22-yard touchdowns.
Lions 20, Jets 17: The Lions’ passing offense was held mostly to dinking and dunking, partly a result of Jared Goff’s typical struggles in unsavory weather and the Jets’ lights-out secondary. Zach Wilson’s return as starter yielded a handful of surprising deep throws (317 yards, two touchdowns, one interception, four sacks), but the handful of explosive plays couldn’t bury Detroit, which went ahead on a 51-yard Goff touchdown throw to Brock Wright with less than 2 minutes remaining.
Steelers 24, Panthers 16: Ball control put the Pittsburgh Steelers over the finish line. With quarterback Mitchell Trubisky starting in place of an injured Kenny Pickett, the Steelers went into throwback mode with the run game. The Steelers finished with 45 carries for 156 yards (led by Najee Harris’ 86 yards) and converted on 12 of 16 third downs, an exhausting display that kept the Pittsburgh offense on the field.
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