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Pierluisi: Decision on extraordinary session to address fiscal measures is ‘imminent’

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Thursday that a decision on calling an extraordinary session of the Legislative Assembly before the Christmas holidays, to address several matters that he considers urgent, is “imminent.”

“I am inclined to call an extraordinary session of the Legislative Assembly,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “I have not yet made the decision, but it is imminent.”

He added that he will make the decision “at any time” and that the intention is not to coincide with the Christmas holidays.

Among the issues that Pierluisi hopes the Legislature will address, he mentioned the proposal to adapt the local tax system to the Global Minimum Tax that begins to apply in January 2025. He noted that some European companies that operate on the island have warned they will reconsider expansion plans if the matter is not addressed promptly.

Pierluisi also pointed out that the Financial Oversight and Management Board looks favorably on the granting of a refundable incentive to taxpayers with moderate incomes again, similar to the one granted in April of this year, which reached $250 million. He stressed the need to approve that mechanism with sufficient advance notice so that the Treasury

Department can implement it on time.

The governor also said it is likely that the extraordinary session will include amendments to bills already signed that require corrections, as well as adjustments to incentives arranged for the development of urban centers after input from the oversight board.

House votes to mint Roberto Clemente commemorative coin

By THE STAR STAFF

he U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved the Roberto Clemente Commemorative Coin Act (H.R. 6751), a bipartisan initiative led by Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón and Rep. Adriano

Espaillat (D-N.Y.) that aims to commemorate the legendary Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente through the creation of a commemorative coin.

“As the only representative of Puerto Rico in Congress I feel proud that the House has honored one of our own by approving this law that assures us that the life and legacy of Clemente are recognized forever through this commemorative coin,” González Colón said in a written statement. “The income from this coin will benefit the Roberto Clemente Foundation and its important community work.”

Espaillat stressed the transcendence of Clemente not only as a baseball icon, but as a humanitarian committed to social justice. “From breaking barriers to giving help to the needy, the impact of Clemente goes much further than sports,” he said.

Clemente, who played 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, was the first Latino to enter the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. He was inducted in 1973, less than three months after losing his life in a plane crash off the coast of Carolina on Dec. 31, 1972, while attempting to deliver relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He was the winner of the National League Most Valuable Player award (1966) the World Series MVP award (1971) and 12 consecutive Gold Gloves as a right fielder (1961-1972).

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi (Facebook via Governor Pierluisi)

Roberto Clemente, seen here when he managed the Puerto Rican national team in 1972, played 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates and was the first Latino to enter the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

DDEC secretary pushes for vertical launch pad at Roosey Roads

By THE STAR STAFF

Economic Development and Commerce

(DDEC by its acronym in Spanish)

Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda asked the incoming administration on Thursday to make it possible to complete the project of launching rockets from the old Roosevelt Roads naval base in Ceiba.

“The aerospace sector and vertical launch are the future,” said Cidre Miranda during the transition hearing. “That while it’s true that the typical takeoff from an airplane is less polluting or is more manageable, what we’re really looking at is SpaceX, and what is happening is there are a lot of [...] companies interested in looking at vertical launch.”

“There is a person in the United States, I can’t publish his name, who has presented a proposal to the directors of the board of Roosevelt Roads to establish an area that doesn’t affect Roosevelt Roads, for a vertical [launch] platform,” he added.

“That is in process. I urge this administration that the person who heads that board, and the executive director in charge of Roosevelt Roads, pay special attention to opportunities in that direction,” the DDEC secretary continued. “Obviously, it is an issue that requires a lot of federal permitting,

among other things, and it is an issue that is not necessarily a popular issue for reasons that are often due to ignorance, and to be honest, I possibly include myself in that perception. But we should not stop studying the option as a great possibility to develop not only Roosevelt Roads, but to develop the entire eastern region of Puerto Rico,”

DDEC deputy secretary Humberto Mercader said the interested parties claim that there should not be a considerable environmental impact due to the noise or dust that the rockets would raise during the takeoff process.

“Those who were making the proposal did a study on the impact that these takeoffs would have and they categorized them, if I am not mistaken, as low, medium and high impact,” he said. “The larger the rocket, the greater the impact. And they establish that, with little impact, that is, the smallest ones, it would not affect, it would not be incompatible with the part [of the former base] that is being developed at a tourist and residential level. They even argue that it is an additional attraction for the entire area and creates an economic activity where jobs can be created, because around this there are always maintenance, repair and testing operations.”

Cidre Miranda noted that originally the

Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda, second from right, said “the aerospace sector and vertical launch are the future.”

residents of Ceiba and the Roosevelt Roads Board approved the entry of the company, under the understanding that they were going to handle airplanes or horizontal takeoffs. When they were told about the rocket launches, they rejected it.

“Originally the intention of this company,

which the deputy secretary refers to, was the horizontal launch,” he said. “Obviously this horizontal launch was submitted to the community, the community understood it and the board approved it. When the second phase came, which is a vertical launch, it did not receive the same reception from the board.”

Pierluisi says criticisms of transition hearings go too far

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia defended the government transition process on Thursday by stating that the agencies have supplied the information required by law and that the work teams of the outgoing and incoming administrations have had full opportunity to exchange data and ask questions.

“I am very aware of what is reported in the media and I know that there have been criticisms regarding the performance of the incoming committee, as well as the outgoing committee,” the governor said of this week’s

hearings. “I think that these criticisms, to a certain extent, are unnecessary.”

In response to questions from the press, Pierluisi noted that agency heads appear under oath, are obliged to answer the questions asked of them, and that the incoming committee has the responsibility to investigate and request recommendations. He stressed that the process has been carried out in accordance with the law, and that any additional information can be obtained with an appropriate formulation of questions by the incoming committee.

Regarding the criticisms about the lack of recommen-

dations offered by the agencies, the governor insisted that those can be provided if the officials are asked directly.

“The responsibility of the person asking is key,” he said, emphasizing that if the agency heads are asked what the main problems they face are and what their suggestions are for solving them, they will undoubtedly provide answers.

Pierluisi added that despite the public observations and accusations, the transition process has flowed correctly and that the incoming government “is receiving a status report as it should be, of how the government is at this given moment.”

‘Micromachismo’ to be subject of virtual workshop on Monday

By THE STAR STAFF

s part of the “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence” campaign, the Office of the Women’s Advocate will hold a virtual workshop for the gen-

eral public on Monday, Dec. 9 titled “Micromachismo.”

“The purpose of this workshop is to raise awareness about micromachismo, how it is manifested and its impact on daily life,” Interim Woman’s Advocate Madeline Bermúdez Sanabria said in a written statement. “We invite

both women and men to connect from 10 o’clock until 11:30 in the morning to learn more about the subject.”

The free workshop requires previous registration through the link: https://forms.office.com/g/ Q29h2ek1NK.

Ferrao says number of UPR campuses should be evaluated

By THE STAR STAFF

Some University of Puerto Rico (UPR) campuses risk being shuttered due to the dramatically reduced number of registered students. Since 2010, the university system’s enrollment has fallen by more than 22,000.

Although UPR President Luis A. Ferrao Delgado promised not to close campuses when he took office a few years ago, he did not rule out the need to cut the number of campuses from 11 down to five or six to address the sustainability of the system.

Ferrao made his remarks during this week’s government transition hearings.

In May of this year, faculty members and workers at UPR Utuado received letters informing them of a transfer to other campuses. Ferrao has denied that the move means UPR Utuado, which has very few students, will be shut down.

Former Gov. Alejandro García Padilla said in a radio report that Puerto Rico has enough students. Ferrao must evaluate academic offerings to attract new students and avoid any campus closures, he said.

That approach has been echoed by New Progressive Party Rep. José Meléndez Ortiz, who maintains that the UPR must modernize its programs of study.

Given the reduced enrollment, Ferrao said the UPR wants to attract students from the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

LGBTQ+ sectors reach deal with police on their civil rights

By THE STAR STAFF

The LGBTQ+ Federation of Puerto Rico announced Thursday that it reached agreements with the Police Bureau commissioner and the local head of the FBI that address core issues regarding the treatment of LGBTQ+ people and the protection of their civil rights.

“We are satisfied with the announcement by Police Commissioner Antonio López, establishing links with the LGBTQ+ community in 13 police regions,” said Pedro Julio Serrano, president of the federation. “The agents in charge of the citizen interaction committees will now address complaints from the LGBTQ+ people in each police region and ensure their civil rights are protected.”

Olga Chapman Rivera, the federation’s

communications director, added: “Likewise, we will continue to work collaboratively with the federal Justice Department, the FBI, and the Office of the Police Reform Monitor to evaluate the training and protocols that have to do with matters related to the LGBTQ+ community.”

The organizations will make visual representations of appropriate exchanges with LGBTQ+ people by uniformed officers and participate in police training, noted Eduardo Cintrón, the alternate secretary of the federation.

“In addition, the head of the FBI in Puerto Rico, Joseph González, promised that his team will train the police liaisons with the LGBTQ+ community on the correct treatment of people in the community and the attention to crimes against our population,” said Carmen Milagros VélezVega, director of the federation. “This joint effort will allow our civil rights to be respected.”

Pedro Julio Serrano, president of the LGBTQ+ Federation of Puerto Rico (Facebook via Pedro Julio Serrano)

Next recycling event in Loíza slated for Dec. 14

By THE STAR STAFF

The non-profit environmental organization LimPiaR, in collaboration with the Municipality of Loíza and IFCO Recycling, invites all citizens to participate in its second Recycling “Pop-up,” an initiative funded by Ford Environmental Grants.

The monthly events are dedicated to addressing Puerto Rico’s recycling challenges, raising environmental awareness, and encouraging community participation in sustainable practices.

The next Pop-up will take place on Saturday, Dec. 14 at Miguel Fuentes Pinet Stadium in Loíza from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and is open to residents of Loíza, surrounding towns and the general public. Unlike traditional events in recycling, the regular events create an interactive and educational expe-

rience -- offering educational resources, recycling incentives for Loíza citizens, and an opportunity to connect with others passionate about sustainability.

“With only 20% of Puerto Ricans having access to curbside recycling and only 7% of recyclable materials being recycled, events like these are critical,” said Auraluz Guzmán, director of education and community partnerships at LimPiaR. “Community education and participation are essential to changing behaviors and ensuring a sustainable future for Puerto Rico.”

The organizing team encourages attendees to start saving recyclable items at home now to bring to the event. Accepted materials include #1, #2, #5 plastics (e.g. water bottles, detergent containers, yogurt containers), as well as aluminium and tin (e.g. beverage cans, food cans). Corrugated cardboard (e.g. plain brown boxes, without designs or gloss) will also be accepted.

University of Puerto Rico President Luis Ferrao Delgado

Citizens planning to attend the next Recycling Pop-up in Loíza are encouraged to start saving recyclable items at home now to bring to the Dec. 14 event at Miguel Fuentes Pinet Stadium.

What we know about the killing of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare CEO

By ED SHANAHAN and SHAYLA COLÓN

Afrantic manhunt was underway Thursday for a masked assailant who shot and killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, one of the largest health insurers in the United States, outside a midtown Manhattan hotel Wednesday morning in what police called a brazen assassination.

The executive, Brian Thompson, was shot from behind as he arrived at the New York Hilton Midtown on West 54th Street for an investors’ gathering.

After firing at least three shots at Thompson, 50, and hitting him in the calf and back, the shooter ran through a nearby passageway to West 55th Street, where police said he jumped on a bike and rode off into Central Park.

Police are now investigating whether the gunman escaped on an unmarked e-bike, rather than a Citi Bike as they first said, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

On Thursday, police released two photos of the man who is believed to be the shooter with his mask down that appear to have been taken at a hostel he was staying at. A senior law enforcement official said the shooter had been sharing a room with two strangers at the hostel, which is on the Upper West Side of Manhattan near 103rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue. It remains unclear when the photos were taken.

Police were also investigating messages left on bullet casings at the scene of the shooting, according to two law enforcement officials. Authorities are running ballistics tests on the casings, which appear to have had the words “delay” and “deny” on them, the official said.

While the meaning of the message was not immediately clear, “Delay, Deny, Defend” is the title of a 2010 book by Jay M. Feinman, a professor emeritus at Rutgers Law School, that discusses ways that health insurance companies avoid paying for patients’ claims.

Who was Brian Thompson?

Thompson became UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in April 2021. The company, which is based in a Minneapolis suburb, is a unit of UnitedHealth Group, whose market valuation of $560 billion makes it one of the country’s largest publicly traded companies.

Thompson spent more than 20 years rising through the ranks at UnitedHealthcare, which offers insurance to companies and individuals, employs about 140,000 people and had $281 billion in revenue in 2023.

He received total compensation of

Numbered evidence markers indicate where bullet casings were located at the crime scene outside the New York Hilton Midtown, where Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot on the morning of Dec. 4, 2024. Thompson was killed in what the police described as a “brazen targeted attack” outside a hotel where the company was holding an investor meeting. The suspect was last spotted in Central Park, investigators said at a news conference. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)

$10.2 million last year, with $1 million in base pay augmented by substantial cash and stock grants. The company’s profits rose on his watch, jumping to more than $16 billion last year from $12 billion in 2021.

But amid the growth, the company and its parent also attracted scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators who accused them of systematically refusing to authorize health care procedures and treatments.

UnitedHealth Group’s size and scope have attracted the attention of the Justice Department, which is examining whether it has engaged in anticompetitive behavior.

According to regulatory filings, Thompson owned about $20 million of UnitedHealth Group shares as of late September. Bloomberg reported in April that he was one of several company executives who sold shares before the Justice Department antitrust investigation was disclosed to investors — about $15 million worth, in Thompson’s case. The company told Bloomberg at the time that the sales had been approved.

UnitedHealthcare has drawn criticism from patients, lawmakers and others over its denial of claims that have, at times, left people stuck with sizable medical bills that they have to pay out of their own pockets.

UnitedHealthcare was the subject of a scathing report released by a Senate panel that documented insurers’ refusal to pay for the care of older people who suffered a fall or stroke. The report was part of Senate investigations into denial rates of private Medicare Advantage plans. Thompson’s company, in particular, was cited for a surge in denials in post-acute care when it increased to 22.7% in 2022 from 10.9% in 2020.

How did the shooting unfold?

The killer, according to images released by police and security camera footage, was a man wearing a dark hooded jacket, a gray backpack and a mask covering the bottom of his face.

Apparently knowing which door Thompson planned to enter, the shooter arrived outside the hotel about 10 minutes before his intended target and ignored passersby as he lay in wait.

As Thompson, in a blue suit, walked toward the hotel entrance, the shooter approached him from behind and fired at least three shots with a pistol that appeared to be fitted with a silencer. The pistol jammed during the shooting, but the gunman cleared the jam quickly and continued firing.

Struck by the bullets, Thompson took

several steps, turned to face his assailant and then collapsed on the sidewalk.

With his victim crumpled against a wall, the shooter walked toward him slowly. He seemed to point the gun at Thompson one more time, then walked away. He began to run only as he was crossing the street.

Where does the investigation stand?

The police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, who was sworn into the job just last week, said her department would “not rest until we identify and apprehend the shooter in this case.”

Officers recovered a cellphone near the shooting site, and detectives were conducting a forensic analysis to see whether it was linked to the killing, police said.

Investigators were also expected to comb through footage from the many security cameras on the surrounding blocks that might offer leads as to where the shooter came from and where he went.

One place he apparently stopped before the shooting was a nearby Starbucks on Sixth Avenue. Several images released by police from inside the coffee shop showed what appeared to be a man dressed the same way as the shooter.

Police released additional images of who they believe to be the shooter Thursday morning. The images show a man, smiling and wearing a green jacket, backpack and what looks like the black face mask he was seen wearing in previous photos around his neck.

Law enforcement officials were also investigating the purchase of a gun in Connecticut that they believe resembles the one used in the shooting, two officials briefed on the investigation said. They are trying to determine if that gun was bought by the person they suspect to be the shooter, the officials added.

Investigators were also examining Thompson’s background for signs of a possible motive.

He had recently received several threats, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation; the source and precise nature of the threats were unclear.

Police officers in Maple Grove, Minnesota, where Brian Thompson lived, responded to a bomb threat targeting his home Wednesday, just hours before he was gunned down, a police report released Thursday said. The small suburban police department asked the Minneapolis bomb squad for help searching two residences, which did not turn up any explosives, according to the report. It remains unclear if that threat was related to his killing.

Supreme Court inclined to uphold Tennessee law on transgender care

By ADAM LIPTAK and EMILY BAZELON

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready Wednesday to uphold a Tennessee law denying transition care to transgender youth, with some of them saying that judgments about contested scientific evidence should be made by legislatures rather than judges.

“The Constitution leaves that question to the people’s representatives, rather than to nine people, none of whom is a doctor,” Chief Justice John Roberts said.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson responded that leaving the question to the states was an alarming abdication of responsibility. “I’m suddenly quite worried,” she said.

The Tennessee law prohibits medical providers from prescribing puberty-delaying medication, providing hormone therapy or performing surgery to treat what the law called “purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.” But the law allows those same treatments for “a congenital defect, precocious puberty, disease or physical injury.”

More than 20 other states have similar laws. The court’s decision, expected by June, will almost certainly yield a major statement on transgender rights against the backdrop of a fierce public debate over the role gender identity should play in areas as varied as sports, bathrooms and pronouns.

The wide-ranging argument, which lasted 2 1/2 hours, touched on the approaches of other nations, the relevance of a previous ruling protecting transgender workers from workplace discrimination and the rights of parents.

But the core question the justices focused on was whether the Tennessee law made distinctions based on sex, which would subject it to a demanding form of judicial scrutiny and make it harder for the law to survive.

Three families and a doctor sued to challenge the law, and the Biden administration intervened on their side. The challengers said the law violated the Constitution by denying equal protection to transgender people, primarily by discriminating against them based on sex.

J. Matthew Rice, Tennessee’s solicitor general, disagreed, arguing that the law was passed for medical purposes, and several of the conservative justices appeared to agree that it did not amount to sex discrimination.

“The burdens of the law fall equally on

Chase Strangio, the ACLU lawyer arguing for Tennessee families, speaks outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, where justices were hearing a case over the constitutionality of a Tennessee law blocking some kinds of medical care for transgender youth, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. The court’s decision, expected by June, will almost certainly yield a major statement on transgender rights; more than 20 other states have similar laws that could be affected. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

boys and girls, because neither can transition,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, repeating and seeming to endorse a point made by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Some conservative justices also seemed inclined to follow the court’s approach in overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. In that case, the majority said regulating abortion was a matter for the states.

So, too, Kavanaugh said, is gender transition care.

“The Constitution doesn’t take sides on how to resolve the medical and policy debate,” he said. “The Constitution is neutral on the question.”

Assessing the court’s ultimate direction was complicated by the silence of one justice in the conservative majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote the opinion in the employment discrimination case. But it seemed probable that there were at least five votes for rejecting the equal protection challenge to the law.

Over the past decade, as the number of adolescents identifying as transgender has risen sharply, doctors around the world have weighed the risks and benefits of what is called gender-affirming care, or treatments like puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries that align their bodies with their gender identities.

Most doctors in the United States sup-

port gender treatments for adolescents, based on guidelines written by professional medical groups. But in Europe, countries including Sweden, Finland, Norway and Britain have limited gender-related medical treatments for teenagers after scientific reviews that found weak evidence of long-term benefits.

No European country has categorically banned gender medications for minors as Tennessee and more than 20 other states have done, almost entirely under Republican leadership. In Britain, for example, young people can get prescriptions for puberty blockers in clinical trials. And in contrast with states in the United States where bans extend until the age of 18, teenagers can have access to hormone treatments at the age of 16.

Several justices noted that some European countries have become wary of some kinds of transgender care.

“England’s pulling back and Sweden’s pulling back,” Kavanaugh said. “It strikes me as a pretty heavy yellow light if not red light for this court to come in, the nine of us, and constitutionalize the whole area when the rest of the world, or at least the countries that have been at the forefront of this, are pumping the brakes.”

The Tennessee law is different from the European responses, said Elizabeth B. Prelogar, the U.S. solicitor general, who argued

on behalf of the Biden administration. “It’s a sweeping categorical ban,” she said.

Most of the argument concerned whether the Tennessee law drew distinctions based on sex.

Justice Elena Kagan said a more straightforward approach was available. “There’s another way of looking at a law like this, maybe a more obvious way,” she said, “which is that it’s a classification based on transgender status.”

Among the factors the court has used to determine whether to grant protected status to groups warranting heightened scrutiny are whether their traits are immutable and whether they have political power.

Justice Samuel Alito said gender identity is not always fixed and so cannot be said to be immutable.

“There are individuals who are born male, assigned male at birth, who at one point identify as female, but then later come to identify as male,” he said.

Chase B. Strangio, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union representing the families challenging the law, said that “the discordance between a person’s birth sex and gender identity has a strong biological basis and would satisfy an immutability test.”

Kavanaugh asked questions about sports, suggesting that it may not be “logically and legally possible” to strike down the Tennessee law but to uphold “laws that limit women’s and girls sports to exclude transgender athletes.”

Prelogar responded that the two kinds of laws are different. Letting transgender women play on sports teams affects the other players, she said.

“There’s nothing like this here,” she added. “Allowing transgender individuals who have carefully thought about this and consulted with their parents and their medical team to access these medications that have health benefits recognized here and abroad in no way affects the rights of other people.”

The Supreme Court has only once before heard arguments in a case on transgender rights. The question in that case, Bostock v. Clayton County, decided in 2020, was whether a federal civil rights law protected transgender people from employment discrimination.

The court said yes, relying on the law’s prohibition of discrimination “because of sex.”

“It is impossible,” Gorsuch wrote for a six-justice majority, “to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.”

Bitcoin hits a milestone: $100,000

By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY

In May 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz, an early cryptocurrency enthusiast, used Bitcoin to buy two pizzas from Papa John’s. He spent 10,000 Bitcoins, or roughly $40 at the time, in one of the first purchases ever made with the digital currency.

It has turned out to be the most expensive dinner in history.

On Wednesday, the price of a single Bitcoin rose to more than $100,000, a remarkable milestone for an experimental financial asset that had once been mocked as a sideshow and a fad. The total cost of those pizzas today: $1 billion.

Bitcoin now stands as arguably the most successful investment product of the past 20 years. The value of all the coins in circulation is $2 trillion, more than the combined worth of Mastercard, Walmart and JPMorgan Chase. The motley assortment of hackers and political radicals who embraced Bitcoin when it was created by an anonymous coder in 2008 have become millionaires many times over. And the invention has spawned an entire industry anchored by publicly traded companies such as Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange, and promoted by celebrities, athletes and Elon Musk.

Even the president-elect says he is a believer. During the campaign, Donald Trump marketed himself as a Bitcoin enthusiast, vowing to create a federal stockpile that could push its price even higher.

Bitcoin began as “essentially an experimental hobbyist project,” said Finn Brunton, author of a 2019 book about the history of cryptocurrency. “To see where it is now is to see a really impressive feat.”

Bitcoin’s rise to $100,000 signals its now-undeniable status in the global economic system. The virtual currency has become a staple of financial markets, embraced by Wall Street giants and amateur investors alike. Its surge also caps an astonishing turnaround after its price dropped below $17,000 in 2022, as the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange sent the industry into a tailspin.

This year, Bitcoin has come roaring back. Federal regulators allowed Wall Street firms to offer a popular financial product

The price of a single

tied to the coin, attracting billions of dollars in fresh investment. Then, Trump’s election victory sent its price even higher, as crypto enthusiasts branded him the first “Bitcoin president.”

Last month, Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a crypto critic who had led a crackdown on the industry, said he would step down Jan. 20.

Earlier Wednesday, Trump picked Paul Atkins, a former regulator and founder of a financial consulting firm, as the next SEC leader. He has advised clients on crypto issues, and is seen as a strong advocate for looser regulation of the digital asset industry.

In a matter of months, Bitcoin investors went from bemoaning tough regulation under the Biden administration to shopping for Lamborghinis and gloating on social media. Top crypto executives spent about $135 million to influence the U.S. election, and they are now enjoying the spoils.

“There’s an enormous amount of excitement in the industry right now,” said Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of Circle, an influential U.S. crypto company. “A lot of positive energy.”

Still, Bitcoin remains prone to extreme volatility. Its price sometimes drops when the global economy struggles. Environmental groups have raised concerns that the energy required to run Bitcoin’s software contributes to climate change, and the technology has long been used by scammers and thieves.

While some of that illicit activity has fallen off, cybercriminals used digital currencies to facilitate about $500 million in ransom payments over the first six months of the year, according to crypto forensics firm Chainalysis.

Before it became a cultural and financial phenomenon, Bitcoin was just an idea sketched out in a nine-page white paper posted on an internet mailing list on Halloween in 2008. The author was a mysterious coder who used the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. At its most basic, Satoshi’s vision was a type of digital money that people could exchange without relying on banks to process the transfers. Every transaction would be recorded on a publicly visible ledger known as a blockchain.

Early enthusiasts envisioned Bitcoin as the foundation for a new kind of financial system that would be governed by code and exist outside the supervision of Wall Street firms and government regulators. They also viewed Bitcoin as a long-term store of value — it was programmed to have a fixed supply, so it would be resistant to inflation.

The Wall Street establishment dismissed Bitcoin as a passing trend and a tool for criminals. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, called Bitcoin “a fraud” and a “Ponzi scheme.” Trump once decried it as “a scam” designed to undermine the U.S. dollar.

and Steph Curry promoted crypto companies in splashy television commercials.

Then the bubble burst. In 2022, FTX and other prominent crypto firms filed for bankruptcy, causing the prices of Bitcoin and other digital assets to plummet by as much as 96%. Amateur investors who had poured money into crypto saw their savings vanish. In Washington, Gensler of the SEC embarked on a wideranging clampdown.

But the industry’s fortunes changed again this year, after the SEC lost a court battle to block a new financial product tied to Bitcoin. In January, major Wall Street firms, including BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Fidelity, started offering exchangetraded funds linked to Bitcoin, attracting a wave of investment. Bitcoin’s price skyrocketed to another record in March.

Wealthy investors who had held onto their Bitcoin became even richer. Michael Saylor, CEO of software firm MicroStrategy, had been widely mocked for borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars to buy Bitcoin for his company. Now his stash is worth more than $30 billion.

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Tentative calm in Seoul, US juggernaut rolls on

U.S. stocks were little changed on Thursday, with technology shares easing after recent sharp gains and investors bracing for Friday’s jobs report, but all three indexes remained close to the previous session’s closing high.

The S&P 500 technology index was down 0.3% from the record closing high on Wednesday, when both other major U.S. stock indexes also notched closing highs.

Shares of UnitedHealth were down 4.7% and the stock the biggest weight on the Dow and S&P 500. On Wednesday, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth’s insurance unit, was killed outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel in what police described as a targeted attack.

Forecasters believe Friday’s employment report will show nonfarm payrolls increased by 200,000 jobs in November, a Reuters survey showed. In October, payrolls rose 12,000, the smallest rise since December 2020. A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.

As a degree of calm descends on South Korean markets, for now at least, Asia is set for a positive open on Thursday as investors also draw encouragement from another record high on Wall Street and U.S. bond yields falling to the lowest in a month.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s upbeat remarks on Wednesday - that the U.S. economy in “remarkably” good shape and he feels “very good” about where U.S. monetary policy is - will also support investor sentiment and risk appetite.

The S&P 500 rose for a fourth day on Wednesday for its 55th record high this year, and has now fallen only once in the last 12 trading sessions. The Nasdaq registered its second 1% gain this week.

U.S. bond yields declined across the curve, most notably at the short end where the two-year yield fell to 4.12%. That’s the lowest since the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5, signaling that this particular leg of the so-called “Trump trade” has fizzled out.

The fall in yields, partly fueled by surprisingly soft U.S. service sector data, was accompanied by a weaker dollar, offering a double dose of relief for Asian and emerging markets.

Investors will also draw comfort from the apparent financial stability in South Korea, even though the politi-

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cal situation remains extremely tense and fluid. The won has recovered most of the losses that pushed it to a two-year low on Wednesday, and short-term implied won volatility has eased too. On the other hand, Kospi futures are still pointing to a fall of more than 1% for local stocks at Thursday’s open.

Meanwhile, market signals from China are also pointing to relative calm in FX but weakness in stocks. The yuan rebounded from a 13-month low to clock its biggest rise in a month on the onshore spot market, while weak service sector

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data and trade tensions with the US pushed stocks into the red again.

The Australian dollar remains on the back foot after GDP data on Wednesday showed that Australia’s economy expanded more slowly in the third quarter than was expected. That said, the central bank’s first rate cut is still not fully priced in until April, according to the interest rate swaps market.

The calendar in Asia on Thursday sees the release of revised South Korean GDP data, inflation numbers from Taiwan and the Philippines, retail sales from Singapore and Australian trade.

South Korean general gives a confused account of a failed crackdown

By CHOE SANG-HUN

South Korea’s military — agents of terror and violence in the 1970s and ’80s — spent decades scrupulously cleaning up its image to become what many people in the country came to see as a modern and disciplined force.

But that image was shattered Thursday when the general who led a short-lived spasm of martial law this week was grilled in parliament, a rambling appearance that cast the military as ill-prepared and disorganized from the top down.

“We were not militarily prepared because it was put into action in such a hurry,” Gen. Park An-su, the army chief of staff, told a parliamentary hearing Thursday. “There was confusion.”

His testimony offered the first opportunity for lawmakers to question the military about the martial law order handed down Tuesday night by President Yoon Suk Yeol. The decree plunged the country into a political crisis, sparking widespread anger that drove thousands of protesters to the streets. Yoon was forced to reverse course after just six hours.

Park insisted that he had not had any role in the planning: He told lawmakers he had been caught off guard, first learning of it when Yoon announced the extraordinary move on television. The military’s follow-up announcement, under his name, banned “all political activities” and public rallies and asserted control over media outlets, among other steps. But in his account Thursday, Park claimed he had not read it until his signature was requested.

He described being at a loss over how to proceed as commander, unsure of what steps to take beyond trying to set up a new office.

“We were military people, some of us the best I know,” Park said of a meeting with aides after he was made martial law commander. “But we didn’t know much about martial law. Time passed while we wondered, ‘What should we do?’”

His testimony was clearly aimed at rebutting the idea that the military had returned to its old, brutal ways. But it appeared unlikely to ease any of the anger from protesters — some of whom had lived through the traumatic era of military

Demonstrators calling on President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down after his brief imposition of martial law in South Korea hold a candlelight vigil outside the National Assembly building in Seoul on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. The military has spent decades trying to rehabilitate its image and win public trust after a brutal past. Its role in President Yoon’s martial law raised a specter from that era. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)..

rule and had been part of the popular uprising that ushered in South Korea’s democracy.

In the 1970s and ’80s, the military used martial law to send troops into towns and college campuses to violently suppress anti-government protesters, massacring hundreds. It censored the news media, hauling unfriendly journalists into torture dungeons. Army generals beat up lawmakers.

South Koreans fought back with stones, firebombs and massive protest rallies. By the 1990s, the generals who had taken power through coups and bloodshed were in prison on charges of mutiny. The military worked to clean up its image, vowing not to meddle in politics.

Many South Koreans believed them. That’s why footage broadcast Tuesday night of helicopters dropping elite troops to take over the National Assembly deeply shocked the nation. Emblematic of the rage was the scene of a young woman grabbing a paratrooper’s rifle barrel Tuesday night at the Assembly, yelling: “Shame on you!”

The woman, An Gwi-ryeong, had rushed to the Assembly after the martial law declaration to find troops trying to force their way into the building to prevent lawmakers inside from voting to repeal the order. Citizens and parliamentary

staff were resisting the troops.

“I thought we had to stop them no matter what,” An, a spokesperson of the main opposition Democratic Party, said in an interview. “I thought if they broke in, we had no future.”

An, 35, grew up in a democratized South Korea: Her knowledge of martial law came from history textbooks and movies. When some lawmakers in her party suggested that the deeply unpopular Yoon could deploy martial law to silence his critics, she said she wondered whether he might do it.

“When it actually happened, it felt not real, this happening in the 21st century South Korea,” she said. “There is a lot of blame for the military, but the one who is to blame the most is Yoon Suk Yeol, who made his military train its guns at its own citizens.”

The hearings Thursday were an attempt to understand how and why that happened. The questioning lasted hours and appeared tense at times, as lawmakers

raised their voices in frustration.

Park told them he still did not know who had ordered the troops to storm the National Assembly — a striking claim from the man who was ostensibly their commander. When some lawmakers urged him to resign, Park said he had already offered to do so.

The country’s deputy defense minister, Kim Seon-ho, testified that Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun had ordered in the troops — a move he said he had opposed.

“I am sorry to the people for having been unable to prevent or stop it,” he said.

The defense minister, a former bodyguard of the president, resigned before the hearings and did not testify.

The military’s failed attempt to take over the Assembly has formed a central piece in the opposition’s argument for why Yoon should be impeached for “insurgency.”

Yoon has not been seen in public or made a public statement since the early hours of Wednesday. He had insisted that martial law was necessary to protect the country from an extremely disruptive “anti-state” opposition that he said paralyzed his government.

The National Assembly is scheduled to vote Saturday about whether to move forward with impeachment. Opposition lawmakers have a majority in the legislature, but an impeachment motion needs a two-thirds vote to pass. That would require some support from members of Yoon’s party.

The opposition is hoping to take advantage of mass demonstrations scheduled for Saturday to create extra pressure as the vote takes place.

Grasping for glory, but settling for a respite

By CATHERINE PORTER

When the president of France speaks at the reopening Saturday of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral, the jewel in the heart of Paris, it should by rights be a delicious moment of glory.

Few had believed it was possible to repair the 860-year-old monument in the short time-frame President Emmanuel Macron announced the day after the 2019 disaster.

Glory, however, is eluding the French leader as he presides over a country in profound crisis, with a fallen government, no budget and so much political division that there seems no clear path forward. Increasingly, Macron is hearing not professions of gratitude but demands for his resignation.

“I don’t see what can happen to put him back up on his horse,” said Vincent Martigny, a political science professor at the University of Nice, Côte d’Azur. “He has the smell of a never-ending ending.”

Many blame Macron for the country’s current political mess. After his party was trounced in the European elections last June, he shocked his Cabinet and the country by calling for snap elections for the 577-seat National Assembly. The result, he promised, would offer the country some “clarification.”

Instead, voters elected a messy, deadlocked Parliament, with seats divided into three camps — none with a clear path to pass bills — and two emboldened extremist parties, both of whose leaders are challengers for the president’s job.

“Macron is a victim of his own narcissism,” said Alain Minc, a political essayist and long-term informal adviser to French presidents. “He was in denial of reality.”

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, June 14, 2024. In what would be his first foreign trip since last month’s election, President-elect Donald Trump plans to travel to France on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, for the reopening of the historic cathedral, five years after it was ravaged by a fire. (Felipe Romero Beltran/The New York Times)

The result was the overwhelming vote by opposing lawmakers Wednesday to bring down the government, just three months into its tenure. That gave it the distinction of being the shortest-lived government in the history of France’s Fifth Republic.

Now, Macron is under pressure to quickly name a new prime minister who might offer the country some stability. Whomever he chooses, few believe a new government will manage to navigate the minefield of a bitterly divided Parliament.

“We are looking at years of stalemates,” said Jean-François Copé, a former conservative budget minister and supporter of the just-fallen government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier. Copé was the first of a growing number of centrist voices to call for Macron’s resignation. “It’s just a catastrophe,” he said.

Macron’s term lasts until 2027, and he has called the idea that he might resign early “political fiction.”

“I was elected twice by the French people,” he said this week during a state visit to Saudi Arabia, where he spent some of his time brokering deals for French

businesses. “I’m extremely proud, and I will honor this trust with all my energy to serve my country until the very last second.”

But it is clear that Macron’s position is greatly weakened.

Since the summer, Macron’s once-broad portfolio has been winnowed to what the constitution and tradition officially set out: the handling of foreign affairs and the command of the army. National columnists have written about his near-disappearance and sulky withdrawal. People in his own party have been cited in newspapers as saying that he is increasingly isolated.

The hugely successful Paris Olympics offered Macron a brief reprieve — some called it an “enchanted interlude” — during which he became his nation’s fan-in-chief. It showed his compatriots what the country is capable of when it dreams big. But it was not long before the jubilation was replaced by political rancor and classic French pessimism.

In his entourage, officials pointed out what they say is the paradox of the Macron criticism: After years of accusing the president of acting like Jupiter and railroading Parliament, detractors now blame him for the mess made when he left the lawmakers alone.

A friend of Macron’s and former lawmaker in his party, Patrick Vignal, said the president was feeling bruised last summer by

his party’s poor election results. But he said he believed Macron would regain his élan, particularly if he ventured outside of Paris and connected with people on a new grand project.

“He’s a warrior,” Vignal said from the southern city of Montpellier. “He still has three years. Making him resign would serve no one, and I believe he can return to the field, just as he did during the Yellow Vests crisis.”

The Yellow Vests were motorists who blocked roundabouts across the country to protest, initially, a gas tax and, eventually, their broader sense of abandonment. The protests posed the biggest challenge of Macron’s first term, and in response he faced the protesters head-on, touring the country to talk to citizens in town hall-style events. He called it the Great National Debate.

The Yellow Vest crisis was an all-time low for Macron’s popularity. Polls show his approval rating is now close to that same level, and calls for his resignation are increasing like a drumbeat — not just from the extreme left and the far right, whose self-interest is clear, but also from moderate voices.

Some of the arguments are structural. Constitutionally, the Fifth Republic was devised to run with a strong president overseeing a strong majority in Parliament, argued Copé, the former Conservative minister who is now the mayor of Meaux. Without that, and with compromise in French politics considered weakness, stalemates become inevitable, he argued.

“There is no other alternative but for Macron to resign,” Copé said.

Others noted that replacing Macron would not change the makeup of the lower house of Parliament, which is fixed by the constitution until at least next July, when new elections can be called.

“We would still be without a budget, without a government,” said Benjamin Morel, a lecturer in public law at PanthéonAssas University in Paris. “It would be the same old mess, and French political sociology is such that it’s not even clear today, in the event of another parliamentary election, that we’d have a majority again.”

If not glory, the reopening of Notre Dame should at least offer Macron a brief respite. He has called the moment, like the Olympics before it, “a jolt of hope.”

But the Olympics, like all glory, was fleeting.

“The reopening of a church is not enough to save him,” said Martigny, the political analyst. “He will need a miracle.”

Serving the innocent children of incarcerated parents

By CHARLES M. BLOW

Deonte Smith was just 3 years old, and his brother just a baby, when their mother, Yolanda Diamond, was incarcerated. She faced consecutive life sentences plus 25 years after crashing into another vehicle while fleeing the scene of a burglary, killing two sisters, one of whom was pregnant, and a child.

Smith, now 34, remembers family and friends occasionally taking him, as a small child, to see his mother. On those early trips, she was able to briefly hug and kiss him before they had to be seated on opposite sides of a table for the rest of their short visits — prevented from having the physical contact that would be natural and normal for young children and parents: sitting in her lap, resting his head on her chest, her rubbing his cheek and feeling his breath.

But when Smith was about 8, he told me, his mother entered the Foreverfamily program and things began to change. Foreverfamily is an Atlanta-based organization founded in 1987 by attorney and activist Sandra Barnhill to serve the children of incarcerated parents, helping those children maintain regular, meaningful connections with their parents.

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to see Diamond, and she was able to visit with them for six hours at a time in a family center on prison grounds that was decorated to look more like a day care than a prison visitation area, complete with holiday decorations depending on the time of year.

Diamond lit up when she described it to me: “It had books. It had games. You could go outside. I mean, it was a full open space. You could get in the floor. You could just get in the rocking chair.”

The organization’s CEO, Camilla Ngurre Paul, describes these visits as being “like going to a party in the park.”

Smith credits Foreverfamily’s suite of services, including mentorships and college tours, with making him a productive member of his community. “I feel like I would’ve went the other way” without them, he told me. “I grew up in the projects, like, real poverty,” he explained, and by age 9 both of his parents were incarcerated. Foreverfamily helped him break the cycle. He graduated from high school, completed two years of college and has never been to prison. Now he is a father himself.

Paul says that Smith’s success story is common among those who’ve been involved with the organization.

We think of the carceral system as providing a measure of justice for victims of crimes, but we often neglect to consider that the system also produces victims: the innocent children of the incarcerated.

A 2015 report from the organization Child Trends estimated that there were 5 million American children who’d had a parent imprisoned at some point in their lives.

When a parent is incarcerated, Paul said, “society punishes the children, too.” People make mistakes “and they have to pay the price to society,” she said, “but the children don’t have to pay a price for what they did not do.”

And that price can be severe. According to a 2017 article in The National Institute of Justice Journal, “Children whose parents are involved in the criminal justice system, in particular, face a host of challenges and difficulties: psychological strain, antisocial behavior, suspension or expulsion from school, economic hardship and criminal activity.”

But: “Research suggests that the strength or weakness of the parent-child bond and the quality of the child and family’s social support system play significant roles in the child’s ability to overcome challenges and succeed in life.”

Foreverfamily, Paul says, has worked with more than 40,000 children in some capacity since its founding.

One of the core services the group provides is the visits that helped Smith maintain a bond with his mother. Paul says that many of the families in her program are low-income and wouldn’t have the means to make these visits possible without assistance.

When I think of Foreverfamily’s aims in the grand scope of philanthropy, they are modest. The organization hopes to expand its program to more families and more prisons. “I also have a dream of just getting our own bus,” Paul told me; the group has been depending on a local church to donate the use of a bus for their trips.

Diamond has been out on parole for 10 years. She and a co-defendant have maintained that she didn’t take part in the burglary. Years ago, she connected with the parents of the sisters who were killed, who offered their forgiveness. She is working through her relationship with Smith and his brother, which is understandably difficult. As she told me, while looking adoringly at Smith: “It was a little sketchy, but we worked through it. You know, and we still growing. But it’s beautiful.”

Smith now volunteers with Foreverfamily. I asked Diamond what she would say to anyone considering a contribution to the organization: “I would tell them how life-changing it is. It’s vital. It is almost a necessity.”

Anuncian proyecto de $110 millones para expandir la Planta de Filtración Culebrinas en Aguadilla

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El peticionario, Isabela Elderly Limited Partnership S.E., cuya dirección postal es Calle Turquesa #2116, Urb. Alto Apolo, Guaynabo, P.R. 00969, ha solicitado al Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), la renovación de un Permiso de Operación UIC-07-37-0007-RM para una facilidad de inyección subterránea (FIS) Clase V C-1 bajo las provisiones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) del Programa para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (PCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada, 42 USC 300f, et seq. (LFAPS).

La FIS consiste en un tanque séptico de forma rectangular de 11.83 pies de largo por 6.16 pies de ancho por 6.5 pies de profundidad líquida, para una capacidad de 3,543 galones que descarga a un lecho de percolación de 93.75 pies de largo por 20 pies de ancho con área de percolación de 1,875, para la disposición de aguas exclusivamente sanitarias y de limpieza. La referida FIS estará ubicado en las instalaciones de Isabela Elderly Limited Partnership S.E., localizado en la Car. 112 Km. 1.4 Bo. Mora, Isabela, Puerto Rico.

Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de renovar el Permiso de Operación para la instalación antes mencionada en conformidad con los requisitos del RCIS y de la LFAPS. Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA, ha preparado el borrador del permiso de operación de forma tal que el público interesado pueda someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.

El público puede evaluar copia de la solicitud de permiso que sometió el peticionario ante el DRNA, el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes en la Oficina Regional de Arecibo ubicada en la Avenida San Patricio #44 Marginal PR-2 Km. 80.6 en Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Copia de dichos documentos pueden entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 4:00 p.m. de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la siguiente dirección postal: San José Industrial Park 1375 Ave. Ponce de León, San Juan PR 00926. Las partes interesadas o afectadas pueden enviar sus comentarios al Sr. Moisés Soto Pérez, Director Regional del DRNA en Arecibo a la dirección postal antes indicada o solicitar una vista pública por escrito al Lcdo. Roberto Méndez Martínez, Secretario Interino del DRNA.

Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vista pública deberán ser sometidos al DRNA no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública deberá señalar la razón o las razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de esta. De realizarse una vista pública, los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emite o deniega el permiso, si el Secretario determina que dicha vista es necesaria o apropiada. Autorizado por la Oficina del Contralor Electoral: OCE-SA-2024-00071.

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Este anuncio se publicó conforme a lo requerido por la Ley Sobre Política Pública Ambiental, Ley Núm. 416 del 22 de septiembre de 2004, según enmendada, y los costos de este fueron sufragados por la entidad peticionaria.

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AGUADILLA – El gobernador Pedro

Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, junto a la presidenta de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA), Doriel Pagán, anunció a principios de esta semana el inicio de un proyecto de mejoras y expansión de la Planta de Filtración Culebrinas en Aguadilla, con una inversión de 110 millones de dólares provenientes de fondos de la AAA, FEMA y CDBG-DR.

“Este proyecto no solo garantiza un mayor acceso al agua potable para las comunidades cercanas al río Culebrinas, sino que también representa una inversión en la seguridad y resiliencia de este servicio esencial para nuestra gente”, expresó Pierluisi Urrutia en declaraciones escritas.

El proyecto duplicará la capacidad de producción de agua potable de la planta, aumentando de 5 millones a 10 millones de galones diarios, e incluirá mejoras a la

estación de bombeo de aguas crudas y la instalación de nuevos sistemas de bombeo y generadores eléctricos, detalló Pagán. La obra se espera que culmine a fines de 2027.

Otras iniciativas en la región incluyen mejoras a los sistemas de agua potable y alcantarillado en Cabo Rojo, Mayagüez, Isabela y Maricao, entre otros municipios.

CBP incauta productos de aluminio fabricados con trabajo forzado por empresa dominicana de propiedad china

WASHINGTON – Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de los Estados Unidos (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés) anunció que, de manera inmediata, incautará productos de extrusión y perfil de aluminio fabricados por la empresa Kingtom Aluminio S.R.L., ubicada en la República Dominicana. La decisión se tomó tras una investigación que reveló el uso de trabajo forzado en la producción de estos bienes, en violación del Título 19 del Código de los Estados Unidos § 1307.

Durante la investigación, la CBP identificó múltiples indicadores de trabajo forzoso definidos por la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, entre ellos abuso de vulnerabilidad, intimidación, engaño, retención de salarios, violencia física y sexual, restricción de movimiento y jornadas laborales excesivas.

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a costa de la salud y libertad de otros seres humanos es incompatible con los valores estadounidenses”, afirmó el funcionario superior de la CBP, Troy A. Miller, en declaraciones escritas.

Los productos de Kingtom Aluminio S.R.L., utilizados en transporte, construcción, muebles y electrónicos, serán confiscados en los puertos de entrada de Estados Unidos. Este hallazgo se suma a las 51 órdenes de retención de liberación y nueve hallazgos que la CBP supervisa actualmente bajo la legislación que prohíbe la importación de bienes producidos con trabajo forzado.

La CBP reiteró su compromiso de combatir el trabajo forzoso, que afecta a 28 millones de personas en todo el mundo, y exhortó a ciudadanos y organizaciones a reportar actividades sospechosas a través del Sistema de Denuncias de Infracciones Comerciales en línea o llamando al 1-800-BEALERT.

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Celebrando Tres Años de Éxito en Caguas

ELITE VISION: Revolucionando la Salud Visual en Caguas y más allá

En octubre de 2021, Elite Vision abrió sus puertas en el Consolidated Mall, marcando el inicio de un nuevo estándar en salud visual en Puerto Rico. Con tecnología de punta, un equipo profesional altamente cualificado y una amplia selección de monturas de marcas de lujo a precios accesibles, la óptica se ha convertido en un punto de referencia para quienes buscan cuidar su visión con estilo y calidad.

Tres años después, Elite Vision sigue creciendo como un baluarte en el sector óptico, reafirmando su compromiso de brindar excelencia en el servicio y accesibilidad a la comunidad de Caguas y sus alrededores. Una Visión de Futuro

Desde su apertura, Elite Vision ha evolucionado para convertirse en mucho más que una óptica. Bajo la dirección de su fundador y CEO, Carlos J. Flores, su presidenta, Krisiani Flores, y su vicepresidente y socio, Joel Del Río, la empresa ha ampliado su alcance, brindando servicios innovadores y adaptándose a las necesidades cambiantes del mercado. Carlos Flores, al reflexionar sobre este hito, expresó: “Cuando decidimos abrir Elite Vision, sabíamos que enfrentábamos un reto. Pero nuestra misión siempre ha sido clara: ser un recurso confiable y accesible para la salud visual en Puerto Rico. Estos tres años son solo el comienzo de una historia que queremos seguir escribiendo junto a nuestra comunidad.”

Joel del Río, vicepresidente y socio, añadió: “Nuestra meta ha sido siempre combinar lo mejor en tecnología, servicio y estilo para redefinir lo que significa una experiencia óptica de calidad. Este aniversario nos

motiva a seguir innovando y creciendo junto a nuestros clientes.”comunidad.”

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Elite Vision se enorgullece de contar con maquinaria digital avanzada para realizar diagnósticos precisos y confiables en exámenes visuales. Además, acepta todos los planes médicos y ofrece opciones de financiamiento a través de Care Credit, asegurando que los servicios estén al alcance de todos.

Krisiani Flores destacó: “Nuestra meta es brindar lo mejor en salud visual, desde tecnología de última generación hasta la más cálida atención al cliente. Queremos que cada visita a Elite Vision sea una experiencia inigualable. Moda y Funcionalidad: Las Mejores Marcas Bajo un Mismo Techo

Con una selección de marcas de diseñador como Guess, Prada, Ray-Ban, Gucci, Oakley, Puma, YSL y la exclusiva marca Crown Miami, Elite Vision combina estilo y funcionalidad para satisfacer todos los gustos y necesidades.

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Elite Vision, con su lema “Cambiando tu manera de ver”, reafirma su compromiso de ofrecer un servicio excepcional y de calidad para todos. Celebra con nosotros este tercer aniversario y sé parte de nuestra visión hacia el futuro.

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‘Tuesday,’ ‘The Killer’ and more streaming gems

By JASON BAILEY

This month’s under-the-radar streaming recommendations include an underrated horror-comedy, an action thrill ride, and two vehicles each for two of our most talented actresses.

‘Tuesday’ (2024)

This mixture of dead-serious drama and imaginative fantasy from Croatian filmmaker Daina Pusic is such a big, weird swing that it’s not surprising audiences didn’t flock to it last summer. And it’s a hard picture to summarize without sounding insane; yes, this is a film where Death, taking the form of an oversized macaw, bobs his head and raps along with Ice Cube’s “Today Was a Good Day.” But if you go along with its wild premise — Death visits a terminally ill teenager (the excellent Lola Petticrew) and her mother (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, in a rare and affecting dramatic turn), and they must grapple with their thorny relationship and what this departure would do to it — it’s quite involving, particularly as Pusic (who also penned the script) gracefully pivots to heartwrenching poignancy in the homestretch. (Stream it on Max.)

‘Downhill’ (2020)

Those who prefer Louis-Dreyfus in a more humorous mode will enjoy this comedy of manners from directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (“The Way, Way Back”), remaking Ruben Ostlund’s 2014 international hit “Force Majeure.” As before, the story concerns a husband and father (played with well-practiced oafishness by Will Ferrell) who responds to a possible avalanche during his family’s ski vacation by fleeing without hesitation, to the shock and consternation of his wife (Louis-Dreyfus). The screenplay (by Faxon, Rash and “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong) isn’t quite as sharp or subtle as Ostlund’s, but “Downhill” scores plenty of keenly observed points about the fragility of masculinity, and Ferrell and Louis-Dreyfus are a well-matched comedy duo. (Stream it on Hulu.)

‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ (2024)

Viggo Mortensen writes, directs and stars in this Western drama, but it’s less of a showcase for him than for Vicky Krieps, who made such a memorable first impression in “Phantom Thread.” Mortensen directs in a classical style, owing a debt to John Ford, Howard Hawks and the other masters of the genre;

his contemporary flourishes are in the focus, which rests squarely on Krieps as the tough-as-nails wife of his frontier sheriff, and the structure, which nests multiple time frames and stories within its single narrative. The result is a welcome mixture of old and new Western cinema, executed with intelligence and heart. (Stream it on Paramount+.)

‘Outlaw Johnny Black’ (2023)

In 2009, Michael Jai White starred in and was one of the writers of “Black Dynamite,” a delightfully silly and undeniably affectionate parody of the low-budget Blaxploitation action movies of the 1970s. Here, the screenplay White wrote with Byron Minns sends up the less ubiquitous Blaxploitation Western, in which a tough Black hero shows the frontier what’s what. White also steps into the director’s chair, with less success (the picture is a touch too flabby at 130 minutes), but there are big laughs to be found here, while White remains a compelling presence, equally adept at playing tough and goofy. (Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)

‘The Killer’ (2024)

John Woo’s made-for-Peacock revamp of his Hong Kong action classic feels, at least on a surface level, like an act of reappropriation, taking back his title from David Fincher, who swiped it last year for his own (decidedly mediocre) story of a hit man. Here, Woo strikes the right balance of remake and reimagining, keeping the broad strokes of his story, in which a contract killer discovers his seemingly irredeemable soul after an innocent

young singer is blinded in the crossfire of an assignment. This time, Woo changes the sex of his protagonist (she’s played, with charismatic ferocity, by Nathalie Emmanuel) and the setting (from Hong Kong to Paris), but retains the breathless, visceral energy of his action beats. In fact, much of what made Woo’s ’80s and ’90s films so memorable is here: baroque gunfights, two-fisted shooting, motorcycle stunts, religious iconography, unapologetic melodrama, and the camaraderie between cop and criminal. He’s playing the hits, and he knows it — he even places his director credit over birds flapping in slow-motion inside a church — but if this is a late-period victory lap, it’s a richly deserved one. (Stream it on Peacock.)

‘Daddio’ (2024)

This intimate drama from writer-director Christy Hall is basically a one-set two-hander, playing out the conversation between a crusty cabby (Sean Penn) and his last fare of the night (Dakota Johnson) in real time, during her ride from Kennedy Airport to Midtown Manhattan. It could have just as easily been a stage play, and at times it plays like one, mostly in the right ways; the mighty performers benefit from the claustrophobic setting, creating characters of real texture from their prickly but nuanced interactions, creating points of credible contact from their divergent worldviews. (Stream it on Netflix.)

‘Am I OK?’ (2024)

Johnson rarely gets to showcase her comic chops (aside from her winkingly funny work in those terrible “Fifty Shades” movies), but she’s a spark plug of a comic actor, with great timing and a keen ability to keep silly situations grounded. That comes in handy in Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne’s fluffy but enjoyable relationship comedy, with Johnson as a woman who finally admits, at 32, that she’s attracted to women (Johnson generates real sparks with Kiersey Clemons as her first lady-crush). It all gets a little twinkly, and things wrap up just a bit too tidily. But it’s an enjoyable watch, and Johnson continues to prove she can do just about anything. (Stream in on Max.)

‘Vamps’ (2012)

Writer and director Amy Heckerling teamed up again with her “Clueless” star Alicia Silverstone for this high-spirited horrorcomedy, in which Silverstone and Krysten Ritter play a pair of likable urban women attempting to navigate their social lives with the added complication of being vampires. Heckerling’s clever script playfully explores the practical inconveniences of their bloodsucking lifestyle, while Silverstone and Ritter create a sweet, credibly lived-in girl-buddy dynamic. (Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)

“The Killer” (2024)

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How to exercise for better sleep

By HANNAH SINGLETON

Sleep and exercise work together like gears in a machine: When one turns smoothly, the other follows suit. Quality sleep supports athletic recovery and performance, while exercise releases useful brain chemicals, lowers stress and can help you fall asleep faster.

But for those battling insomnia, the rules can be different; even a small misalignment can throw the gears out of sync. Just as the benefits go hand-in-hand, so do the drawbacks: Exercise can stress the body, much like sleep deprivation itself. Exercising too intensely, too late in the day or too often can backfire, making it harder to drift off or stay asleep.

While most people don’t have to be overly mindful about workout routines affecting their sleep, those with insomnia — chronic dissatisfaction with sleep quality or quantity for at least three nights a week over three months — are more sensitive.

“People with full-blown insomnia tend to have a hyperactive stress system. Stressors tend to have a bit of an exaggerated response in the body,” said Dr. Christopher Kline, an associate professor of health and human development at the University of Pittsburgh. People with insomnia may not respond as well or recover as efficiently from the physical demands of exercise, he added.

But there are ways to exercise regularly without worsening sleep issues.

Why exercise sometimes leads to poor sleep

When you complete a grueling workout, you might expect to crash as soon as your head hits the pillow. But “you can’t exercise yourself to sleep,” said Dr. Kelly Baron, who is a clinical psychologist and the director of the behavioral sleep medicine program at the University of Utah.

She continued: “Sure, sometimes you can feel really physically tired from exercise, but it doesn’t mean you’re going to necessarily sleep better.”

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se often come from moderate aerobic activities, like walking, jogging or cycling. But high-intensity exercise, like a half-marathon or a punchy HIIT session, can have the opposite effect: poor sleep quality, especially related to falling asleep.

“I’ve been working with elite athletes for years now,” said Kevin Morgan, the former director of the clinical sleep research unit at Loughborough University in England. “If there was a simple relationship between vigorous activity and energy expenditure and sleep, they would sleep like babies. And they don’t. They sleep badly.”

Exercise temporarily elevates heart rate, blood pressure and core temperature, factors that are counterproductive to sleeping. Elevated cortisol, the body’s stress hormone, is another potential cause. While most workouts lower cortisol, high-intensity or prolonged aerobic exercise can increase it.

tensity, frequency and level is,” she said.

Timing matters, too. A 2022 study found that any physical activity after 8 p.m. caused people to sleep less while another study shows that intense exercise ending one hour before bed may disrupt sleep. Late-night workouts won’t negatively affect everyone with insomnia, Kline said, but people with the disorder are at greater risk than people without sleep issues. How to tailor exercise for better sleep

Additionally, muscle soreness, pain and myoclonic jerks — sudden twitches from overworked muscles — can cause tossing and turning, Morgan said. “Training hurts,” he added.

How much, and when, matters

There’s no question that exercise is generally good for sleep. “People who exercise an hour get a bigger benefit than those who exercise 30 minutes,” Baron said. But you can overdo it. “More is better — up to a point,” she added.

Disturbed sleep is one of the key symptoms of overtraining, when your workout load is higher than your ability to recover, Kline said. For instance, more than six intense sessions a week can lead to difficulty falling asleep, according to a 2021 study. Another study found that both very high and low levels of exercise increased insomnia risk for some individuals, especially for those whose main physical activity comes from demanding jobs.

While the average gym-goer isn’t at risk of overtraining, a big change in exercise regimen — like preparing for a marathon or daily boot camp classes — can exacerbate insomnia, said Dr. Cheri D. Mah, a sleep physician and lecturer at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center. “That’s the time to evaluate what their exercise in-

While researchers haven’t definitively determined the ideal exercise routine for sleep improvement, a 2024 meta-analysis suggested moderate aerobic exercise paired with light strength training, mind-body practices (like yoga or tai chi) and traditional insomnia treatment.

Kline also recommended people with insomnia exercise at the same time every day.

“Routine is the guardian of good sleep,” Morgan said. “It maintains circadian rhythm.”

It’s also important to be deliberate about intensity and timing, pay attention to pain and soreness and find the right balance. If evening exercise leaves you feeling wired, switch to mornings or afternoons. If the evening is your only free time, try shorter sessions and tone down the intensity.

Above all, find a rhythm. It can take weeks and months for an exercise habit to translate to better sleep, and the short-term effects can be pretty small, Baron said. Once you dial in a routine that works, the gears will start turning again — you will sleep better after being active, and your workouts will feel easier as you sleep through the night.

As Morgan said, “Exercise is the gift that keeps giving.”

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A fitness routine can be key to a good night’s rest. But too much exercise at the wrong time could can aggravate insomnia. (Julianna Brion/The New York Times)

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Civil Núm.: NSCI2015-00402.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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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 Fajardo, 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 Fajardo, el 16 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cual-

quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “Propiedad Horizontal: OCEAN WALK CHALETS, CONDOMINIO de Luquillo. Apartamento: 406. Cabida: 95.15 Metros Cuadrados. Apartamento Residencial identificado con el 406, ubicado en la cuarta planta del Condominio multipisos denominado Ocean Walk Chalets, ubicado en el Barrio Mata de Plátanos del Municipio de Luquillo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de aproximadamente 95.15 metros cuadrados, equivalente a 1,022.8323 pies cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 22 pies 0 pulgadas y en 2 pies 0 pulgadas, con las paredes que lo separan del espacio aéreo que ubica sobre el solar en donde se construyó el edificio del cual este apartamento forma parte y en 6 pies 9 pulgadas con la pared que lo separa del espacio aéreo que ubica sobre el solar en donde se construyó el edificio; por el SUR, en 22 pies 0 pulgadas y en 2 pies 0 pulgadas con la pared que lo separa del apartamento 401 y en 4 pies con 4 pulgadas con la pared que lo separa del espacio aéreo que ubica sobre el solar en donde se construyó el edificio del cual este apartamento forma parte; por el ESTE, en 12 pies 9 pulgadas y en 5 pies 6 pulgadas, con la pared que lo separan del espacio aéreo del solar en donde se construyó el edificio del cual este apartamento forma parte y en 19 pies 6 pulgadas con el espacio aéreo que ubica luego de la baranda del balcón de este apartamento y por el OESTE, en 22 pies 3 pulgadas y otra de 12 pies 6 pulgadas, con la pared que lo separa del corredor que da acceso a este y otro s apartamentos y en 3 pies 0 pulgadas con el umbral de la puerta que lo separa de dicho corredor. Su puerta de entrada al apartamento esta orientada al lindero Oeste. Este apartamento consta de dormitorio, 2 baños, cocina y área de lavandería, sala, comedor, cuarto familiar (“dining, living and family room”), 4 “closets” y balcón. Le corresponde a este apartamento de forma exclusiva, como un anejo al mismo, el área de estacionamiento identificada en el correspondiente plano con los números 21 y 22. Le corresponde una participación de los elementos comunes generales de 4.48545%. Se separa de la Finca 13305, de Luquillo.”

La Hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe, finca número 14403 de Luquillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo, inscripción 4a. Propiedad localizada en: COND. OCEAN WALK

CHALETTS, APT 406, CALLE VILOMAR, LUQUILLO, PR 00773. 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: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. 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 $190,000.00, 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 Fajardo, el 24 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $126,666.67, 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 $95,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 31 DE ENERO DE 2025, 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 $172,841.35 desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2014, más el pago por intereses al 6.8750% anual, recargos por demora mensuales desde el 1ro de enero de 2015, hasta el total pago de la deuda; y la suma estipulada del diez por ciento (10%) del total del pagaré por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, cuyas sumas son líquidas y exigibles. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen pos-

terior 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de octubre de 2024. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266. ***

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Mediante la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. Los abogados de la parte demandante son, Lcdo. Luis J. Sotomayor Landrón y Lcda. Amarys Bolorin Solivan, Lugo Mender Group, LLC, 100 Carr. 165 suite 501, Guaynabo, P.R. 00968-8052; Tel: (787) 7070404 / Fax: (787) 707-0412. Por este medio se le emplaza y se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración y de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder por el portal cibernético del Poder Judicial www. poderjudicial.pr, bajo el Tribunal Electrónico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle, disponiéndose además, que en las diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto se le dirigirá por correo certificado con acuse de recibo una copia del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda presentada a su última dirección conocida en: 13607 Pinerock Lane Houston, Texas 770795914. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 25 de noviembre de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. ANA CELÍS MÁRQUEZ APONTE, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Y COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO POR FUSIÓN DE BANCO SANTANDER PUERTO RICO; BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS RÉCORDS DE DORAL BANK (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC); JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV10689. Sala: 504. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE. Quedan ustedes notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación vía judicial de un Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado ante el Notario Público Luis A. Archilla Díaz, bajo affidávit número 20,685, a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $204,000.00, con intereses al 8 3/4% anual y vencedero el 1ro de julio de 2030, suscrito el día 30 de junio de 2000, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura Número 665, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Luis A. Archilla Díaz, inscrita al Folio 247 del Tomo 372 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Primera (I) de San Juan, Finca Número 21,283, inscripción 2da. El mencionado pagaré hipotecario grava una propiedad inmueble, que se describe como sigue: “URBANA: Penthouse (PH): Apartamento residencial individualizado en la totalidad del Cuarto piso y la parte posterior de la azotea del Condominio La Paz, localizado en la Calle La Paz 710, en el Barrio Santurce de esta Ciudad de San Juan, de forma rectangular con una cabida superficial en su planta principal de mil novecientos noventa pies cuadrados (1,990.00 p.c.), equivalentes a ciento ochenta y cuatro punto ochocientos setenta y siete metros cuadrados (184.877 m.c.) y en la azotea de mil setecientos dieciocho pies cuadrados (1,718 p.c.), equivalentes a ciento cincuenta y nueve punto seiscientos siete metros cuadrados (159.607 m.c.), para un total de tres mil setecientos ocho pies cuadrados (3,708 p.c.), equivalentes a trescien-

tos cuarenta y cuatro punto cuatrocientos ochenta y cuatro metros cuadrados (344.484 m.c.), con lindes en su planta principal por el NORTE, en una alineación de setenta y ocho pies y media pulgada (78’ 1/2”) con el patio lateral del Condominio y la colindancia del solar con la finca de Don Fernando J. Domenech; por el SUR, en una alineación de setenta y ocho pies y media pulgada (78’ 1/2”), con el patio lateral del Condominio y la colindancia del solar con la finca de Don Luis Rexach; por el ESTE, en una alineación de veintiséis pies cinco pulgadas (26’ 5”) con el frente del edificio orientado hacia la Calle Paz; y por el ESTE, en una alineación de veintisiete pies cinco pulgadas (26’ 5”) (asi surge)con el patio posterior del Condominio y la colindancia del solar con la finca de la Sucesión Guillermety. Consta esta planta principal de cuatro cuartos dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina, dos cuartos de baños, un cuarto de lavandería y dos balcones, situados en las esquinas Sureste y Suroeste del apartamento. Tiene una puerta de salida al Vestíbulo con acceso a la escalera que conduce al techo del edificio y a la salida del Condominio en la Calle Paz. La azotea de este apartamento es un área abierta que cubre la totalidad del techo del edificio con excepción de un área de ciento cuarenta pies cuadrados (140 p.c.), situada en su Esquina Noreste y que está dedicada a terraza de uso común del condominio y del área de escaleras que conduce a los pisos inferiores del edificio y al vestíbulo de salida orientada hacia la Calle La Paz. Esta área de azotea cuenta con facilidades de agua, luz y la conexiones para un baño. El apartamento residencial Penthouse (PH) tendrá derecho al uso exclusivo de los estacionamientos marcados con los números cinco y diez y el área de almacenaje identificado con las Letras PH. La participación de este apartamento en las áreas comunes generales es cuarenta y ocho punto sesenta porciento.” Consta inscrita al Folio Doscientos Cuarenta y Cinco (245) del Tomo Trescientos Setenta y Dos (372) de Santurce Sur, Finca Número Veintiun Mil Doscientos Ochenta y Tres (21,283), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (I) de San Juan. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lic. Antonio A. Hernández Almodóvar, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009364908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax

(787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal de San Juan, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de noviembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LIZ MARIE RIVERA DÍAZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, POR SI Y EN REP DE HERIBERTO FELICIANO SOTO SU ESPOSA BLANCA IRIS CAMACHO BADILLO Y LA SOC LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMP POR AMBOS Y OTROS Demandante V. YONDER INVESTMENT CORPORATION COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO POR FUSION CON CITIFINANCIAL SERVICES OF PUERTO RICO, INC, QUIEN A SU VEZ ES SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORP Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AG2024CV00987. (Salón: 603 CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANTONIO A. HERNÁNDEZ ALMODÓVAR - AHERNANDEZ@

RMMELAW.COM.

A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD DOE - DIRECCIÓN: SE DESCONOCE.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de noviembre de 2024, 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 02 de diciembre de 2024. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 02 de diciembre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY SUNSET

INVESTMENT INC.

Demandante V. HECTOR M. MENDOZA COTO, ET. ALS.

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CM2023CV00628. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rivo, HAGO SABER:

A: HECTOR MANUEL MENDOZA COTO, NILSA OMARA PEREZ ARCE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. Y AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE

DE 2024, par la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en el barrio Zanjas del término municipal de Camuy, Puerto Rico, marcado en el plano de inscripción con el número dos (2), con una cabida superficial de Novecientos Treinta y Cinco con Cuatro milésimas metros cuadrados (935.004 MC). En lindes, por el Norte, con área marcada en el plano de inscripción, como uso público; por el Sur, con terrenos de José Arvelo; por el Este, con solar marcado en el plano de inscripción con el número tres (3); y por el Oeste, con solar marcado en el plano de inscripción con el número uno (1). La Escritura de Hipoteca antes descrita consta inscrita al Folio Karibe, Finca 21321 de Camuy, inscripción 2da. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 23 DE ABRIL DE 2024, notificada el 25 DE ABRIL DE 2024, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $37,458.25 en concepto del principal, $51,523.66 en concepto de los intereses acumulados al 31 de agosto de 2023, a razón de 9.75% anual, más las cantidades que se acumulen hasta su complete pago en adición a los garantizados por ley; $4,300.00, suma estipulada de para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra partida acordada en el contrato. 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 cabo el 7 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Camuy, Puerto Rico. El PRECIO MÍNIMO fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $43,000.00. De ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a cabo el 14 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la ofician antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El PRECIO MÍNIMO fijado para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA es de $28,666.67, equivalente a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA. De ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a cabo el 22 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El PRECIO MÍNIMO fijado para la TERCERA SUBASTA es de $21,500.00, equivalente a

la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA. De declararse desierta la TERCERA SUBASTA se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor par la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispuesto en el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 de 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad lnmueble 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 las licitadores y el público en general, el presente edicto se publicará por espacio de dos 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 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 laborables. b.) Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta coma bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de las licitadores, en Camuy, Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de noviembre de 2024. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA. MUNICIPIO DE ISABELA

Demandante v. LUIS GUILLERMO GONZALEZ PONCE Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AG2024CV00947 (SALÓN 601 CIVIL). Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. ALICIA DIAZ SANTIAGO ADIAZ@CRHPR.ORG MOISÉS RODRÍGUEZ TORRES MOISESROD2001@GMAIL.COM

YANIRA A. LICEAGA SÁNCHEZ YLICEAGA2@HOTMAIL.COM

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO A: LUIS GUILLERMO GONZALEZ PONCE, LARRY DOE, MARY DOE, MIKE DOE Y LUCY DOE CARR 472

AVE ESTACION 130

ISABELA, PR 00662

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024, 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 27 de NOVIEMBRE de 2024. En AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, el 27 de NOVIEMBRE de 2024. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretario(a). f/AWILDA CABAN SANCHEZ, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT FINANCE, INC. DEMANDANTE vs. LG PLUMBING & ELECTRIC, LLC; JUAN M. LÓPEZ GONZÁLEZ, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE

BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2024CV08054 (902) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN DE GARANTÍA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss. A: FULANA DE TAL POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON JUAN M. LÓPEZ GONZÁLEZ -Urb. Country Club, 967 Calle Eider, San Juan, PR 00921; -Urb. Vistamar, B-317, Cataluña, Carolina, PR 00983.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva 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:/ /www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente fisico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar 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. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos by f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023).

Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Vis-

ta la moción y la declaración jurada presentada por la parte demandante solicitando autorización para emplazar por medio de edicto, examinados los autos y resultando que la parte demandada, FULANA DE TAL POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON JUAN M. LOPEZ GONZALEZ, no pudo ser emplazada personalmente y/o que residen fuera de Puerto Rico, y que existe contra dicha parte una reclamación que justifica la concesión de un remedio, se ORDENA por la presente su emplazamiento por medio de edicto. El emplazamiento por edicto se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de publicación general de la Isla de Puerto Rico, advirtiéndole a la parte demandada, que de no contestar dentro del término de treinta (30) días luego de publicado el edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Se dispone, además, que dentro del término de diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, la parte demandante dirigirá a la parte demandada por correo certificado y con acuse de recibo, una copia de la Demanda y del Emplazamiento a su última dirección conocida. Deberá acreditarse al Tribunal el cumplimiento de esta orden. Se le ordena a Secretaría expedir el emplazamiento por edictos a FULANA DE TAL POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON JUAN M. LOPEZ GONZALEZ. Notifiquese. San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de octubre de 2024. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 3 de diciembre de 2024. SRA GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretario( a). MARGARITA MUÑIZ MENDEZ, SECRETARIA SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. SUCESION DE PALMIRA RAMOS ROMÁN Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: GY2023CV00085. (Salón: 406 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN - JMONTALVO@ DELGADOFERNANDEZ.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE PALMIRA RAMOS ROMAN - 2 CALLE RUFINA, GUAYANILLA, PR 00656; 32 RUFINA BO. PUEBLO, GUAYANILLA, PR 00656.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de junio de 2024, 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 04 de diciembre de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: ENMENDADA A LOS FINES DE CUMPLIR CON ORDEN DICTADA POR ESTE TRIBUNAL EL 2 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 04 de diciembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL TURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES DEMANDANTE vs. JOSEPH TORRES

RODRÍGUEZ Y BERMARIE RODRÍGUEZ MUÑOZ;

TAYSHA DE TAL DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: HU2024CV01289. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss. A: JOSEPH TORRES RODRÍGUEZ Y BERMARIE RODRÍGUEZ MUÑOZ -URB. VERDE MAR, 669 CALLE 5, HUMACAO, PR 00741; -URB. VERDE MAR, 669 CALLE 5, PUNTA SANTIAGO PR 007412317.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva 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://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar 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. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos by f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO

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Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 31 de octubre de 2024 . Evelyn Felix Vazquez, Secrentaria. Dalissa Reves de León, Sub-Secretaría.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. RAFAEL OMAR

GARCIA SANTIAGO: SU ESPOSA; MARELINE

ACEVEDO MORALES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV04143. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: RAFAEL OMAR

GARCIA SANTIAGO Y SU ESPOSA MARELINE

ACEVEDO MORALES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS: LA AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO A SU ORDEN: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

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: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número mil dos (1002) localizado en la 10ma planta del Edi-

ficio número 2 del Condominio Torres de Andalucía, que radica en la Calle Marginal Oeste de la Carretea Estatal número181, Expreso Trujillo Alto, kilómetro 1, Hectómetro 2, Barrio Sabana Llana, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial de 808.73 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 75.13 metros cuadrados y consta de sala, comedor, tres dormitorios, cocina, lavandería, baño y closets. Colinda por el NORTE, con el patio delantero; por el SUR, donde tiene su acceso de entrada y salida, con un pasillo que lo comunica con el resto del edificio; por el ESTE, con el patio lateral izquierdo; por el OESTE, con el apartamento número 1003. Le corresponde un porcentaje en los elementos comunes de 0.2390% por ciento y un espacio de estacionamiento identificado con el mismo número del apartamento. Consta inscrita al folio 85 del tomo 619 de Sabana Llana, finca número #25,128, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Condominio Torres de Andalucía, Edificio #2, Apartamento 1002, San Juan, P.R. 00923. 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 a favor de La Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2012, constituida mediante la escritura número 108, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 1 de abril de 2004, ante el notario Jorge J. Villavicencio, e inscrita al folio 52 vuelto del tomo 1000 de Sabana Llana, finca número 25,128, inscripción 5ta. Se requiere el consentimiento del acreedor en caso de venta o transferencia (no se expresa término). Se le notifica al acreedor posterior anteriormente identificado para que pueda 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 $74,000.00, según consta mediante la escritura número 107, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 1 de

abril de 2004, ante el notario Jorge J. Villavicencio, e inscrita al folio 52 vuelto del tomo 1000 de Sabana Llana, finca número 25,128, Inscripción 4ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 9 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 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 $74,000.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA

SUBASTA el día 16 DE ENERO

DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 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 $49,333.33. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA

SUBASTA el día 27 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 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 $37,000.00. 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: La suma de $50,598.44, más intereses a 5.625% anual, desde el 1 de octubre de 2019, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $7,400.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, 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 22 de noviembre de 2024. IRMA D. CARMONA CLAUDIO, ALGUACIL PLACA #492.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. AIDA

FELICIANO AGOSTINI

Demandado Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV01097. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PÚBLICO EN

GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio de la Salud del Municipio de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ciento trece metros cuadrados (113.00 m.c.), equivalente a veintiocho milésimas de cuerda (.028 cdas), colindando por el NORTE, con solar número veintiocho propiedad de Luis Vilella Vélez; por el SUR, con solar número veintidós propiedad de Luis Vilella Vélez; por el ESTE, con la calle de la cantera y por el OESTE, con propiedad de Luis Vilella. Contiene una casa dedicada a vivienda. Inscrita al folio 135 del tomo 198 de Mayagüez, Registro de la Propie-

dad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez, finca número 7066. Dirección Física: 330 CANTERA BO SALUD MAYAGÜEZ, Puerto Rico, 00680. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $25,079.85, la suma de $27,973.01, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 8 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Mayagüez, por el tipo mínimo de $41,052.99. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 15 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $27,368.66. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 22 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $20,526.50. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 25 de noviembre de 2024, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTY, ALGUACIL #283.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL BAYAMÓN YOLANDA HERNÁNDEZ ROSADO Parte Demandante Vs.

ANGEL RAFI GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2024CV03497. Sala: 506. Sobre: DESAHUCIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A : ANGEL RAFI GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ O SEA, LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA

MENCIONADA:

Por el presente edicto se le notifica al demandado, que la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda en este Tribunal donde se solicita el desahucio. Por la presente se le emplaza y se le notifica que debe contestar la Demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Deberá presentar la contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://tribunalelectronico. ramajudicial.pr/sumac salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentarla ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Bayamón, con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección: Lcda. Sara Pagán Rodríguez, P.O. Box 8232, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-0232, teléfono 787-308-2020, correo electrónico sarapaganlaw@ gmail.com. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 26 de noviembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. JERALICE CRUZ POMALES, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN STEPHANIA

SANTIAGO ARROYO

Demandante V. EFRAÍN

DÍAZ MALDONADO

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024RF00954. (Salón: 3005 RF). Sobre: CUSTODIA - MONOPARENTAL O COMPARTIDA Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JORGE M. DÍAZ RODRÍGUEZJORGEMDIAZRODRIGUEZ@GMAIL.

COM. A: EFRAÍN DÍAZ MALDONADO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de noviembre de 2024, 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 27 de noviembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de noviembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. ISABEL SOUCHET BURGOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DRIVEN P.S.C., EN SU CARÁCTER DE SÍNDICO DE NODUS INTERNATIONAL BANK, INC.

Demandante V. JARFOP WUXI ENTERPRISE, INC. (JW ENTREPISE); JOSÉ ANTONIO ROJO FERNÁNDEZ, SU ESPOSA MÓNICA ELENA BETANCOURT CHONG Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; MARCIAL ALEJANDO MENÉNDEZ GALLEN, SU ESPOSA MÓNICA SERRANO LOPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Y ORLANDO JOSÉ PEREZ OBALLOS, SU ESPOSA GLADYS ELENA JATEM SIERRALTA Y LA

SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV1084. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JW ENTERPRISES; JOSÉ ANTONIO ROJO FERNÁNDEZ, SU ESPOSA MÓNICA ELENA BETANCOURT CHONG Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; MARCIAL ALEJANDO MENÉNDEZ GALLEN, SU ESPOSA MÓNICA SERRANO LOPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Y ORLANDO JOSÉ PEREZ OBALLOS, SU ESPOSA GLADYS ELENA JATEM SIERRALTA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - FRANCE FIEL, 8CA LOCAL 1LO FRENTE DE ELBROS, COLON, PANAMÁ. Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda por Cobro de Dinero, reclamando las siguientes sumas adeudadas al 17 de octubre de 2024: una suma no menor de $792,724.30, la cual se desglosa como sigue: (i) $650,000.00 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $1,725.91 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $180.56 diarios; más (iii) $10,998.39 por mora, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago según pactado por las partes; más (iv) la suma de $130,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados expresamente por las partes, según se desprende del Pagaré. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a:

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By FRED KATZ / THE ATHLETIC

Oklahoma City forward Jalen Williams’ new role emerged without any warning.

Williams, who is 6-foot-5, has defended larger players for years, but until recently, he appeared as your typical small forward. On Nov. 10, outside forces decided he would no longer be one.

That’s when the Thunder lost 7-footer Chet Holmgren to a pelvic fracture. Another 7-footer, Isaiah Hartenstein, was already sidelined. Without any conventional big men, the team replaced Holmgren on the first unit with 6-foot-5 Isaiah Joe. That meant an adjustment for Williams, the team’s new final line of defense.

In his new role, Williams battled the opposing center each night. He jumped center on the opening tipoff. Each leap was a little surprise, a reminder that a lifelong perimeter player was now down low with the big boys.

“I’m going to be shocked tonight when I do it,” Williams said before a game in November in San Antonio, where he guarded Zach Collins, a 7-footer. Two nights earlier, he had scrapped with a couple of mammoths in Dallas, the Mavericks’ Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively II.

In reality, the Thunder’s do-everything player should not have been shocked, even if Williams’ size deviates from your usual center archetype. Thunder coach Mark Daigneault never actually told Williams — or any of his teammates, for that matter — that he would be the one to take jump balls. It was “assumed,” as Daigneault put it.

“Who else is going to do it?” the coach said.

And who else would be the team’s

playing without centers, and why they’re now even more dangerous

guarding centers up for grabs with no help from any giants in sight, a Williams fever dream.

As the wise philosopher Aaron Wiggins, who moonlights as a Thunder forward, put it: “Tonight, he’s a center. Tomorrow, who knows what he’ll be?”

Such is the way to survive in Oklahoma. No team and no defense can shapeshift the way the Thunder can. Just like Williams, Oklahoma City’s identity is that it has many.

Daigneault will flip through starting units or substitution patterns regularly. On one day, the Thunder will go small. On the next, they will be oversize. They toggle in and out of a zone defense or they switch with their assembly of multifaceted defenders or they move to other types of coverages.

With the centers present, they have at least one deterrent in the paint, someone to scare away any dribbler who dares approach the basket. They line the perimeter with ravenous guards and wings. They gobble up steals. Without either of the bigs, they are a cloud of gnats.

Caruso is a hound, as are Wiggins and Cason Wallace. Their goal is to make any ballhandler or screener uncomfortable. Daigneault talks about rhythm: The defense’s job is to break the offense’s.

Caruso will stunt at a dribbler, then recover back onto his man. When drivers reach the free-throw line, he has an uncanny ability to step toward them and swipe the basketball away. Williams and Dort do the same.

“Sometimes, it’s not even about stealing it,” Williams said. “It’s just about making somebody think you might steal it.”

The Thunder are lurking.

Once the ball hits the paint, arms swarm down low. They will send aggressive help from the weak side, sometimes the strong side, wherever they need. They will give up corner 3s when they are small, but they will not make any shot easy.

“Everybody is in there and fighting,” Dort said. “That’s all we can ask for.”

The Thunder, even without their rim protectors, protect the rim better than most teams.

center for the six games that neither Holmgren nor Hartenstein could start?

The Thunder have trusted Williams to guard bigs since long before injuries forced them into it. He has guarded brawny scorers such as Giannis Antetokounmpo and Zion Williamson or towers like Victor Wembanyama and KarlAnthony Towns. Even when Holmgren was healthy, Oklahoma City would occasionally throw its shot-blocker on a nonshooter so he could roam as a free safety with Williams defending the other team’s center. Before Holmgren was in the picture, when the Thunder deployed a tinier roster and three not-so-imposing fives, Williams had to slide down a position or two.

“In my mind, it was just one of those things: Like, why wouldn’t I be able to do it?” Williams said. “And I just kind of keep getting the opportunity to do it.”

But this situation was new — 48 minutes of

Now, Hartenstein’s fractured hand has healed. Oklahoma City’s biggest freeagent signing from the summer, Hartenstein returned to the starting lineup Nov. 25 and played his sixth game of the season Tuesday night, a 133-106 win against the Utah Jazz. He is averaging 13.3 points and 12.3 rebounds a game. Holmgren, a rim protector who will be out at least another five to seven weeks, has missed 11 games. Hartenstein, whose analytics graded him as one of the world’s most daunting paint defenders last season, missed 15.

The Thunder, who at 16-5 have the best record in the NBA’s Western Conference, do not defend quite like any other team — especially when Williams runs at center, which Daigneault calls “a muscle that if we do it effectively, which we’ve done to this point, will help us in the future.”

When the Thunder go small, all eyes focus on the paint. Williams mans a center. Luguentz Dort will take on the other team’s highest-usage perimeter player. Other stalwarts line the outside. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is a master in passing lanes and has become one of the league’s better shot-blocking guards. Alex

At the beginning of a play, if the ballhandler is under duress, “it changes the rhythm of the play,” Daigneault said. He continued: “They’re not getting into their steps in a rhythmic way. And then it’s just competitiveness at the rim.”

Since Hartenstein entered the starting lineup, he has been a hit, reaching a double-double in four of his five starts so far. The Thunder now have a conventional center, which slides Williams to a more run-of-the-mill role, one to be expected from an efficient scoring and facilitating wing who would not normally exhaust himself wrestling people nearly a foot taller.

Once Holmgren returns (the Thunder say he will be back before the end of the season), Oklahoma City can play the two centers together. Holmgren shoots 3s and attacks closeouts off the dribble. Hartenstein is an expert screen-setter, passer and roller. They could operate alongside each other, especially for short stretches. In those moments, the Thunder will be massive.

Of course, that will not change who they are — because their identity is that they play however the situation dictates they should.

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