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awmakers Deborah Soto Arroyo, Wilson Román López, Jorge “Georgie” Navarro Suárez and Luis Raúl Torres have introduced a measure in the island House of Representatives to establish the “Law on Religious Freedom for Students, Parents or Guardians and School Personnel in Schools of the Public Education System.”

Pastor Julio Cruz, of the Cristo Rompe las Cadenas Ministry, petitioned the lawmakers for the measure, House Bill (HB) 1951, which seeks to protect Education Department staff and students from attempts to prevent them from practicing their religion.

The legislators insisted that HB 1951 rests on constitutional and statutory parameters, both federal and local.

“Religious freedom is a fundamental right of vital importance for developing a just society in harmony with human beings,” the legislators said in a joint document. “Likewise, and since religious freedom is a fundamental right enshrined in the federal and state constitutions, it includes the right of all citizens to practice their religion freely and integrates their right to manifest their religious beliefs.”

The bipartisan measure provides that the Education Department cannot discriminate against a student, parent or school staff for reasons of offering a religious point of view or expression in a school. The agency would treat a student’s voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint in the same manner as it would treat another student’s voluntary expression of a secular viewpoint.

In addition, it allows students to express their religious beliefs in schoolwork, works of art and literature, and other written and oral tasks without discrimination. A student’s classroom tasks and assignments would be evaluated, regardless of their religious content, according to the academic parameters contemplated by the curriculum and school year requirements.

Likewise, the measure would allow students to wear clothing, accessories, and garments that display a religious message or symbol in the same way and manner that other students are permitted to wear clothing, accessories, and garments that display secular letters or symbols.

Finally, the proposed law states that a student can pray, voluntarily reflect or participate in religious activities or expressions before, during and after the school day, in the same way and manner that another student can participate in school activities or perform secular modes of expression.

“Freedom of expression, which includes religious expression, covers the teaching and non-teaching staff of the Department of Education, provided that this is as an individual citizen, not as an employee of the Department or speaking on its behalf, and that it is not mediated by some

coercion toward students so that they adopt the expressions as their own or are penalized for not accepting them,” the lawmakers said. “This freedom of expression extends to teachers and students, who do not lose their constitutional rights of freedom of expression inside the school gates, complying with the school regulations.”

The measure ensures that no one is subject to coercion that could undermine their freedom to have a religion or convictions, they added.

“Religious freedom is a right protected at the local, federal, and international levels, both by constitutional and statutory texts and international declarations,” the legislators said. “Religious freedom is a fundamental right of vital importance for developing a society that is just and in harmony with human beings.”

The proposed law follows last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision Kennedy vs. Bremerton, which held that a public school district could not stop a football coach from praying on the 50-yard line after games. The court ruled that such prayer was a personal religious observance and that preventing someone from engaging in such a practice violated the First Amendment’s protections for free speech and the free exercise of religion.

As a result of the Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Department of Education issued new guidelines that say: “Teachers, school administrators, and other school employees may not encourage or discourage private prayer or other religious activity.” It goes on to say the U.S. Constitution allows school employees themselves to engage in private prayer during the workday. But it warns that they may not “compel, coerce, persuade, or encourage students to join in the employee’s prayer or other religious activity.”

Rep. Deborah Soto Arroyo

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Romero Lugo files candidacy for 2nd term as San Juan mayor

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ccompanied by his family, community leaders and the leadership of the New Progressive Party (NPP), San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo on Sunday filed his candidacy for re-election in the 2024 elections at an event held at Pedrín Zorrilla Coliseum Coliseum in Hato Rey. When making the announcement before thousands of San Juan residents from all parties, Romero Lugo emphasized that he seeks reelection for a second term as mayor in order to continue key projects for the economic and social development of the island capital.

The mayor said that when he entered office nearly four years ago, “our city, in itself, was a depressing and heartbreaking testimony of the indifference and incompetence of a municipal government that had abandoned San Juan to its fate.”

“I committed to returning to San Juan a model of good

San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo governance, a municipality with responsible management and solid finances,” he said.

Romero Lugo described his administration as a “team of public servants, motivated and enthusiastic, instead of marginalized and mistreated.”

“A municipal government that would rebuild the infrastructure of the capital, its streets, its roads and avenues, its parks and sports facilities, that would provide security and protection against crime in our communities, that would activate our economy and that would once again provide support services and quality health care for the most vulnerable,” he said.

“For San Juan to become the city of global competition that we all aspire to and that it can become, we need continuity in key projects that we have undertaken during my administration,” the mayor added.

In his message, the NPP leader stressed that his goal has always been to be a good administrator of San Juan, and not to use the mayor’s seat to achieve personal agendas or as a political springboard for other electoral positions.

Hearing on PREPA debt deal set for Tuesday

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he adequacy of the disclosure statement for the Third Amended Plan of Adjustment of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), which was amended last week, will be the subject of a hearing Tuesday.

PREPA, which filed for bankruptcy in 2017 to restructure some $9 billion in debt, seeks approval of the supplemental disclosure statement, approval of ballots for stakeholders to approve the plan and the deadlines to approve the plan, under which the debt has been lowered to about $2 billion.

On Saturday, the third amended plan was amended a fourth time. As part of the amendments, the Financial Oversight and Management Board, which represents PREPA in the bank-

ruptcy process, accepted that if bondholders disputing the plan win on appeal and their collateral is determined to be more, the plan would be unconfirmable.

The oversight board was proceeding toward a confirmation hearing set to commence in July 2023 but new information showed a significant reduction in PREPA’s revenues and required a reassessment of the proposed second amended plan, which had become unfeasible, and renewed negotiations with creditor parties.

After many months of negotiations, the board developed the Third Amended Plan, which addresses the deficiencies caused by the 2023 PREPA Fiscal Plan.

The oversight board also said an amendment to an agreement made with Blackrock increases bondholder support to about 37.5%. The

agreement also has the support of bond insurer National Public Finance Guarantee and the fuel line lenders, among other groups.

The Third Amended Plan lowers the amount of debt PREPA will repay to the debt level determined in the debt sustainability analysis in the 2023 PREPA Fiscal Plan. That is the amount of debt PREPA should be able to service. PREPA’s main source of revenues to pay its operating expenses and debt comes from the rates it charges to its customers for electricity consumption.

“PREPA’s rates must cover the increased costs of operation, but PREPA cannot raise rates to a level that is unaffordable to its customers,” the oversight board said. “PREPA is limited in its capacity to raise rates for several reasons.

The increasing availability of alternatives to power provided by PREPA, such as solar, will compete with PREPA. The higher PREPA’s rates are raised, the more customers will leave and use alternatives.”

The Third Amended Plan also considers certain legal rulings issued in 2023. The bondholders and PREPA disagreed as to the extent of the bondholders’ collateral and the amount of their allowed unsecured claim. The Title III court ruled their collateral was limited to monies in certain funds, and did not include PREPA’s ongoing revenues. Additionally, while the bondholders asserted an allowable recourse claim of some $8.4 billion for principal and interest accrued before the PREPA Title III case began, the Title III court ruled the allowable recourse claim was $2.3 billion. It is possible that those determinations will be appealed.

“PREPA has endeavored, however, to construct the Third Amended Plan so that whether the Bondholders’ claims are allowed at $2.3 billion

or more, the plan will be confirmable without further amendments,” the oversight board said.

Under the plan, distributions to creditors will be structured predominantly in the form of cash through the sale of the new bonds, and two contingent value instruments, CVI[1]1 and CVI-2. The new bonds will be issued in the amount of some $2.2 billion and will be payable solely from and secured by revenues attributable to a “Legacy Charge” to customers.

The new bonds will be issued in two series: Series A Bonds and Series B bonds. The Fuel Line Lenders will receive consideration in the form of Series A Bonds for $650 million. The Series A Bonds will have a final maturity of 15 years and an expected repayment of nine years.

Other creditors, including the bondholders and parties with general unsecured claims (GUCs), will receive “Plan Consideration” in the form of the cash proceeds from the purchase of Series B Bonds by certain purchasers under the forward Delivery Bond Purchase Agreement, additional cash in the amount of $53.4 million, and any Series B Bonds that are not purchased by any pPurchaser on or before the effective date. The Series B Bonds shall be issued in two maturities with an aggregate principal amount equal to $1.6 billion, which have different maturity dates.

The plan also proposes to issue two different CVIs to creditors. The CVI-1 is designed to provide creditors with additional recovery if PREPA’s actual revenues exceed those projected in the 2023 PREPA Fiscal Plan. The CVI-2, meanwhile, is designed to share a portion of the savings that Genera PR, the private operator of PREPA’S power generation fleet, achieves under the Genera operation and management agreement by reducing certain of PREPA’s projected expenses.

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Resident commissioner to prosecutors: PR has highest homicide rate in US

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esident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón participated over the weekend in the meeting of the National Association of District Attorneys, the nation’s oldest and largest national organization representing state and local prosecutors, during which she pointed out that Puerto Rico has the highest homicide rate among state jurisdictions in the United States.

The resident commissioner highlighted the central role of prosecutors within the criminal justice system and the challenges they face at the local level. According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations and the U.S. Border Patrol, she said, about 44% (135,000 pounds) of the 307,000 pounds of cocaine seized across the United States between fiscal years 2020 and 2023 were seized during operations conducted by the San Juan Field Office and the Ramey Border Patrol Sector in Puerto Rico and the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands.

According to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer, in 2022 the homicide rate in Puerto Rico stood at 18.1 homicides per 100,000 people, the highest rate compared to the rest of the states and almost three times the national average of 6.3 homicides per 100,000 people, the resident commissioner noted.

“This situation certainly has serious

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón local implications, as it contributes to violent crime in our communities and streets, affects mental health, decreases quality of life, and fuels the above-average homicide rates I alluded to earlier,” González Colón said Saturday in a written statement. “However, the drug threats and public safety risks we face in Puerto Rico cannot be viewed simply as a local or regional problem, as this has national repercussions and affects the jurisdictions and communities we serve, and must be posed as a significant national security risk for the entire United States. As Puerto

Rico’s sole representative in Congress, I have long advocated to ensure that the federal government responds accordingly, prioritizing resources, assets, and joint operations to address crime and improve public safety on our islands.”

González Colón mentioned some of her legislation to tackle crime, such as House Resolution 920, the Caribbean Border Counternarcotics Strategy Act, which requires by law that the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) develop a comprehensive federal strategy to help combat drug trafficking from the

Caribbean region to the United States.

To further strengthen the federal government’s response to illicit narcotics trafficking, she also incorporated language into the bill to ensure that the National Drug Control Strategy explicitly includes efforts to disrupt money laundering and the financial networks of drug trafficking organizations.

“As prosecutors, you understand better than anyone that if we want to go after these criminals, we must hit them where it will hurt them the most: their wallets,” González Colón said.

PDP expels ex-House speaker ‘Rony’ Jarabo

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fter he participated in an event at which Miguel Romero Lugo filed his candidacy for a second term as San Juan mayor, José Ronaldo “Rony” Jarabo, a former speaker of the island House of Representatives, was expelled from the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), the party’s deputy secretary, Yaramary Torres, announced on Sunday.

“Given the statements of the former speaker of the House of Representatives, José Ronaldo Jarabo, during the filing of the candidacy of the current mayor of San Juan for the NPP, Miguel Romero, from the platform of the New Progressive Party and in a broadcast on social networks, our president Jesús Manuel Ortiz has made the determination to enforce the regulations of our party,” Torres said in a written statement. “For this reason, and in accordance with article 241 of our regulations, Mr.

José Ronaldo Jarabo is declared as an unaffiliated voter and expelled from all his functions in our community. Therefore, he is separated from all the organizations, duties, rights and functions related to the Popular Democratic Party, among which is the General Council, the General Assembly, the Council of Former Officials and the Municipal Committee of San Juan.”

“While, today, the true leadership of the PDP is focused on reorganizing, supervising and placing the Popular Party in a position to win to remove the disastrous NPP government in San Juan and Puerto Rico, Mr. Jarabo lends himself to a spectacle that is embarrassing for a former leader of our community,” the party official added. “It is evident that Mr. Jarabo no longer feels part of the PDP that on several occasions gave him the opportunity to serve.”

On Sunday, Romero Lugo filed his candidacy for a new Popular Democratic Party President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González term as mayor of San Juan.

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Cataño boasts island’s tallest Christmas tree

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T The Cataño mayor said that when standing close to the 75-foot-tall “innovative and creative interpretation of a Christmas tree ... the entire family will be able to see inside and get an inside feel of the festive spirit that characterizes this season.”

he Municipality of Cataño has “the tallest Christmas tree in Puerto Rico” in front of its city hall, Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo announced over the weekend.

“In front of the Mayor’s Office, the tallest Christmas tree on the island, with digital illustrations, will be on display,” AliceaVasallo said Sunday in a written statement.

“An innovative and creative interpretation of a Christmas tree, the statue is 75 feet tall and the entire family will be able to see inside and get an inside feel of the festive spirit that characterizes this season. This tree will be composed of a metal structure and similar materials, upon which impressive images and visual effects will be projected.”

He added that “one of the main attractions of the

Enchanted Malecón Festival are the ‘Estampas de Pueblos de Puerto Rico,’ where each town on the island will have its own artistic representation that will highlight its unique characteristics, such as its architecture, gastronomy, music and folklore. These prints will allow visitors to learn about and appreciate the diversity and cultural richness of Puerto Rico, all in one place.”

“Our waterfront will become an enchanting place to celebrate the magic of Christmas in a spectacular coastal setting,” Alicea Vasallo said. “The Malecón Festival will also feature a wide variety of activities for all ages, such as traditional Puerto Rican music concerts, dance performances, local craft exhibits, and tastings of delicious Creole cuisine. The activities begin this weekend with the colorful Christmas Festival.”

Parade, other activities to mark Discovery of Puerto Rico in Aguada this weekend

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guada Mayor Christian Cortés Feliciano announced a series of activities related to Discovery of Puerto Rico commemorations and scheduled for Friday to Sunday.

This year marks the 530th anniversary of the historical event, which is still the subject of discussion and analysis by historians.

“Our people have a brilliant history of promoting and defending our culture, history and traditions,” Cortés Feliciano said Saturday in a press release. “What we are presenting to the country today is an example of that. The slogan ‘Por Aguada Fue’ is already part of history, to refer to the arrival of Columbus in Puerto Rico.”

Aguada was established as a town in 1508, with the name of San Francisco de la Aguada, and received the title ofVilla in 1778.

This year, Aguada will celebrate the 129th edition of the Discovery Parade, a unique activity in Puerto Rico, where Aguada receives thousands of people to enjoy the floats, artists and schools that present their particular cultural creations.

“This year we honor two outstanding Aguadeño young people who work in the media: Naomi González of Telenoticias and WKAQ580, and Manuel Crespo Feliciano of TeleOnce,” the mayor said. “Both have been designated by our administration as the grand marshals of the event. The parade is on Sunday, November 19 starting at noon in the urban center.”

The traditional parade, which historians say is the most attended in Puerto Rico, will culminate the weekend’s festivities.

Aguada also will celebrate the 46th annual Discovery of Puerto Rico Crafts Fair, in the same Cristóbal Colón public square, with more than 200 artisans already registered.

Aguada Mayor Christian Cortés Feliciano

FEMA allocates flood mitigation funds to three towns

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he communities of Barceloneta, Patillas and Villalba have been vulnerable to excessive flooding in recent years as climate change has increased the risk of flooding, while antiquated water control systems offer little protection against torrential rains.

To help these municipalities build more efficient flood control infrastructure, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Sunday it allocated nearly $1.5 million through its Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). The funds will fully fund the cost of the initial phase, which consists of geotechnical studies and engineering designs required prior to construction.

Construction projects will incorporate nature-based solutions to repair vulnerable water drainage systems, an approach that

includes bioengineering and other low-impact development solutions that are incorporated into the project design to deliver a wide range of economic, ecological and social benefits.

“These projects will create a lasting impact on these communities and will be a model for others to follow,” Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero said. “By using environmentally focused engineering designs we are in tune with the times, addressing the challenge of climate change while helping to build resilient communities.”

In Barceloneta, torrential rain periods can disrupt the daily lives of citizens, to the point that cranes must be used to rescue drivers from flooded streets, and residents are unable to enter and leave their homes due to runoff, said Yadira Rodríguez Cruz, director of Barceloneta’s Office of Emergency Management.

To lessen the impact of excessive flood-

ing in its communities, the municipality of Barceloneta received nearly $579,000 for the initial phase of its flood control project.

Mitigation repairs include the installation of 3,700 feet of reinforced concrete pipeline parallel to the existing pipeline in downtown Barceloneta. Total repairs are estimated at nearly $1.9 million.

“Improving the stormwater sewer system is critical because it manages the proper control and flow of stormwater runoff separately from wastewater,” Rodríguez said. “This will prevent urban flooding and drivers and residents facing emergency situations due to flooded streets.”

Meanwhile, in the community of LaVega in Villalba, residents still harbor fears of flooding in their homes, Nancy Martínez Marcial said.

“The uncertainty that every time it starts to rain we don’t know if the street is going to flood.

We are worried that at some point the water

could get into the houses.”

FEMA allocated $213,000 for the initial phase of the project to design and build surface and subsurface drainage infrastructure and streambank stabilization along the banks of the Jacaguas River in La Vega. The construction phase of the project is estimated at nearly $1.6 million.

In addition, FEMA approved about $702,000 to begin a mitigation project in the small Recio sector of Patillas. The project will reduce flood risks and provide safe access to about 250 families. Construction is estimated at over $6.2 million and consists of the expansion of an open concrete channel that collects and discharges runoff water from the community into a nearby river.

To date, FEMA has awarded over $18.1 million for 28 projects from the HMGP program to decrease flood risks.

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Johnson pitches bill to avert government shutdown that faces an uncertain fate

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peaker Mike Johnson on Saturday pitched House Republicans on a convoluted plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of this coming week, proposing a bill that would temporarily extend funding for some federal agencies until late January and for others through early February.

The measure faces an uncertain fate in Congress. Many conservative House Republicans have demanded that any spending plan include deep spending cuts, and Democrats and some GOP senators have sharply questioned the idea of bifurcating federal programs and staggering the deadlines for funding them.

A vote on the plan could come as early as Tuesday, just days before the Friday midnight deadline for keeping the government funded.

Setting two different end dates in what Johnson is calling a “two-step continuing resolution” was an effort to allay the concerns of hard-right lawmakers who have long railed against the now-routine practice of funding the entire government through one mammoth bill. Some members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus have endorsed the two-step idea in recent days.

“The bill will stop the absurd holiday-season omnibus tradition of massive, loaded-up spending bills introduced right before the Christmas recess,” Johnson wrote on social media following a private conference call with lawmakers to outline the plan.

The 32-page legislation would extend government funding for a number of federal programs — including veterans’ and military construction programs, agriculture, transportation, housing, and energy and water development — through Jan. 19. All other federal programs would be funded through Feb. 2.

The bill omits funding for Ukraine or Israel, which Johnson framed as a way for Republicans to put themselves in a stronger bargaining position for negotiations with the Senate and the White House on an emergency national security spending bill that would not be subject to the threat of a shutdown.

But it remained to be seen whether enough House Republicans — including many who have objected to any stopgap

Speaker Mike Johnson said his bill would “stop the absurd holiday-season omnibus tradition of massive, loaded-up spending bills introduced right before the Christmas recess. funding measure and others who have insisted that such a bill slash spending — would support it.

Nor was it immediately clear whether any House Democrats would back the proposal if GOP lawmakers balked and their votes were needed to pass the plan. Hours after Johnson unveiled the legislation, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre panned it as “a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns.”

“With just days left before an extreme Republican shutdown — and after shutting down Congress for three weeks after they ousted their own leader — House Republicans are wasting precious time with an unserious proposal that has been panned by members of both parties,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

If all Democrats were present and opposed the plan, Johnson could afford to lose no more than four Republican votes. He conceded during the conference call Saturday that his measure likely would not receive unanimous backing from Republicans, according to people familiar with his remarks in the private call who described them on the condition of anonymity.

Already one Republican, Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, has declared that he would oppose the plan because it would continue current spending levels with no changes or condi-

tions — what is known in Washington shorthand as a “clean” funding extension.

“It’s 100% clean,” Roy wrote on social media. “And I 100% oppose.”

Johnson’s predecessor as speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, was ousted from his job last month after it became clear he could not pass a stopgap spending bill with Republican votes alone and he instead relied on Democrats to pass legislation to avert a shutdown.

But Johnson’s internal standing in the Republican conference is very different than McCarthy’s was at the time.

The hard-right members of the Freedom Caucus who ousted McCarthy have repeatedly said that they are prepared to give Johnson more latitude in spending negotiations than they gave to McCarthy. They trust his conservative bona fides in a way they never trusted McCarthy’s, and also acknowledge that Johnson only took office less than three weeks ago, leaving him little time to prepare for a spending showdown with the Senate and White House.

In the Senate, lawmakers in both parties on the powerful Appropriations Committee have expressed skepticism about the idea of a funding plan with staggered deadlines. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the panel’s chair, told Roll Call this past week that such an idea was “the craziest, stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of.”

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the panel, said a “stop-and-go” plan would “increase the difficulty” of funding the government.

But the legislation also does not include any spending cuts or conservative policies that congressional Democrats have publicly warned Johnson against including.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, cautioned Thursday that “hard-right proposals, hard-right slashing cuts, hard-right poison pills that have zero support from Democrats will only make a shutdown more likely.”

“I hope they don’t go down that path in the week to come,” Schumer said.

The House Rules Committee is set to take up the legislation Monday afternoon, setting up a vote on the House floor as early as Tuesday.

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With Manchin out, Democrats’ path to holding the Senate is narrow

By MICHAEL C. BENDER and SHANE GOLDMACHER

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en. Joe Manchin III said he decided to forgo reelection because he’d accomplished all his goals. But for the Democrats he’s leaving behind in Washington, the work to hold the party’s already slim Senate majority is just beginning.

While there are no guarantees in politics, WestVirginia is now a virtual lock to flip Republican. The state has become so conservative that only Wyoming delivered a wider Republican margin in the 2020 presidential race.

In the immediate aftermath of Manchin’s announcement, several well-placed Democratic operatives said they couldn’t name a single West Virginian who could take his place on the ballot and be even remotely competitive, particularly if Gov. Jim Justice wins the Republican nomination.

“This is a huge impact,” said Ward Baker, a former executive director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the group that oversees Senate races. “Manchin not running will save Republicans a ton of money — and it takes a seat off the board early.”

The path to holding power was always going to be rocky for the Democrats’ current 51-seat majority, with or without Manchin.

Two incumbents are running for reelection in red states, Montana and Ohio. A third senator, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who was elected as a Democrat but has since switched her party affiliation to independent, has yet to declare her plans — leaving open the prospect of an unusually competitive three-way race.

And the party must also defend four Senate seats in four of the most contested presidential battlegrounds: Wisconsin, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia announced Thursday that he would not seek re-election.

But Republicans face some potentially divisive primaries and a recent history of nominating extreme candidates who have lost key contests.

With WestVirginia off the Senate chessboard next year, Democrats must win every race they are defending — and depend on President Joe Biden to win the White House — in order to maintain a majority. In a 50-50 Senate, the vice president casts the tiebreaking vote. But that’s a risky bet considering a plurality of Americans haven’t approved of Biden since August 2021, according to Gallup Polls.

The bad news for Senate Democrats is that they are on defense in each of the seven seats that both parties view as most competitive this year. The good news is that in five of those seven, the party has incumbents running for reelection, which has historically been a huge advantage.

At least 83% of Senate incumbents have won reelection in 18 of the past 21 election cycles, according to OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan group that tracks money in politics. Last year, 100% of Senate incumbents were reelected.

“Given Democratic success in 2020 and

2022, it’d be malpractice to write Democrats off at this stage,” said Justin Goodman, a former top aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer, the majority leader. “Candidates matter,” he said, as well as the ongoing contrast that Democrats have sought to strike against the “extreme MAGA agenda.”

The Democratic incumbents in Montana and Ohio — the top two targets for Republicans, with West Virginia off the map — are seeking reelection in states former President Donald Trump easily won twice. Both Sen. Jon Tester of Montana and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio have exceeded expectations before, but never with such an unpopular presidential candidate at the top of the ticket. And unlike most incumbents, whose victories tend to become easier over time, Tester has always had close races.

Brown’s margins have narrowed.

But close victories count just as much as easy ones, and Democrats maintain that the personal brands of both Brown and Tester matter more in their states than national political winds.

Republicans, who are also facing headwinds because of the unpopularity of Trump and the party’s role in rolling back abortion rights, are attempting to follow suit. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is putting a heavy emphasis on candidate recruitment this cycle to find contenders who can appeal to both conservatives and moderates in the party.

The strategy has already paid off in West Virginia.

One of the first calls this year from Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., who is overseeing his party’s Senate races, was to Justice in West Virginia, believing that the popular governor’s presence in the race would help persuade Manchin to retire.

The second part of Daines’ strategy in West Virginia was persistently lobbying to secure a

Trump endorsement for Justice, with the aim of not just forcing out Manchin but also the hope that it would convince him to run for president as an independent. Trump endorsed Justice last month.

Manchin, meanwhile, furthered speculation of a potential presidential bid by saying Thursday he planned to gauge “interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together.”

In 2018, Democrats and Republicans combined spent about $53 million on the West Virginia Senate race. With no competitive race there in 2024, both parties will have tens of millions of dollars to spend on a second tier of battleground races. Last year, candidates, parties and outside groups spent more than $1.3 billion on 36 Senate races, including $737 million in just five states — Arizona, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — that are also on the ballot again next year.

The most interesting of the second-tier races may be in Arizona, where the state may have a competitive three-way race — a rarity in American politics. The wild-card is Sinema.

If she runs for a second term, she will most likely face Rep. Ruben Gallego, a well-liked progressive Democrat who has already spent $6.2 million on the race this year, and Kari Lake, a firebrand conservative and well-known election denier who is favored in the Republican primary.

A competitive three-way general election would add a riveting dynamic to what could be the most expensive Senate race in the country next year. The state’s Senate contest last year, which pitted Sen. Mark Kelly against Blake Masters, the Republican nominee, cost more than $225 million.

There is no top-flight Republican challenging Sen. Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, but the

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In Pennsylvania, Republicans have cleared a path for David McCormick with the aim of avoiding a bruising primary and strengthening their bid against Sen. Bob Casey, who is seeking a fourth six-year term.

Republicans haven’t been as lucky in Michigan or Nevada.

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so far have mostly aligned behind Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who represents a divided district. Daines recruited former Rep. Mike Rogers, who was chair of the House Intelligence Committee. But James Craig, a former Detroit police chief, and former Rep. Peter Meijer, who lost his seat after voting to impeach Trump, have also entered the Republican race.

The Republican establishment pick in Nevada is Sam Brown, a retired Army cap-

tain who lost a Senate primary last year. But he’s facing a primary against Jim Marchant, a Trump loyalist and election denier who lost a race for secretary of state last year. The winner would take on Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Democrat who is seeking her second term.

With West Virginia scotched, the Democratic Senate map is undeniably constricting.

But the party will look to go on the offensive in Florida and Texas. Both states have been reliable Republican strongholds in recent

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years, but Democrats realistically have no better options to flip a Republican seat this year.

But to win in Florida and Texas, Democrats will need stars to align in a way they did not in West Virginia.

“Quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard,” Baker, the former NRSC director, said of Democratic hopes to take Florida or Texas. “They just lost a Senate seat. No way to spin that.”

Trump takes Veterans Day speech in a very different direction

By MICHAEL GOLD

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ormer President Donald Trump, on a day set aside to celebrate those who have defended the United States in uniform, promised to honor veterans in part by assailing what he portrayed as America’s greatest foe: the political left.

Using incendiary and dehumanizing language to refer to his opponents, Trump vowed to “root out” what he called “the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.”

“The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within,” Trump said Saturday in a nearly two-hour Veterans Day address in Claremont, New Hampshire.

Trump accused Democrats and President Joe Biden of trying to roll back his efforts to expand veteran access to health care, causing soaring inflation, pushing the country to the brink of World War III, endangering troops in Afghanistan and of lying and rigging elections.

He also promised to care for America’s veterans, reviving a hyperbolic claim that he made throughout his 2016 campaign that Democrats “treat the illegal aliens just pouring into our country better than they treat our veterans.”

And he said he would divert money currently earmarked “for the shelter and transport of illegal aliens” to instead provide shelter and treatment for homeless military veterans.

Here are some of the more notable elements of Trump’s Veterans Day speech.

Courtroom cameras Trump, who is facing a civil fraud trial in New York and four criminal indictments, said in a radio interview this past week that he would welcome cameras in the courtroom. He went further Saturday.

“I want this trial to be seen by everybody in the world,” Trump said to a cheering crowd, referring to his federal election trial in Washington. “The prosecution wishes to continue this travesty in darkness, and I want sunlight.”

Trump, who has denounced the prosecutions he faces as politically motivated and

Former President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign event at Stevens High School in Claremont, N.H. on Nov. 11, 2023. accused Biden of weaponizing the Justice Department, said he was convinced Americans who watched the trial would reach his view.

“Every person in America and beyond should have the opportunity to study this case firsthand,” he said.

Trump’s remarks came the day after his lawyers in the case filed papers arguing those proceedings should be televised, backing a similar push by other media organizations.

It was a rare instance in which the former president found common ground with the mainstream media, which Trump attacked repeatedly Saturday.

Hands raised As he has before, Trump called for executing drug dealers, praising China for making drug trafficking a capital offense. But in New Hampshire, a state where the opioid crisis has hit particularly hard, he turned to an informal straw poll to strengthen his case.

“Let’s have a vote,” Trump said to the crowd. “Who would be in favor of the death penalty — now, wait, don’t go yet — knowing

cowboy boots — the subject of late-night jokes and social media gossip. But on Saturday he finally couldn’t resist.

After mocking DeSantis for courting farmers in Iowa, Trump made an aside: “I’m not wearing lifts, either, by the way. I don’t have 6-inch heels!” The comment was an echo of a slight by Vivek Ramaswamy in Wednesday’s debate, where the entrepreneur and author made a dig at the Florida governor.

He then did a clownish impression of DeSantis walking off the stage at Wednesday night’s debate that looked ripped from Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks. “I thought he was wearing ice skates,” Trump joked.

Trump also derided Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, a Republican who has said Trump cannot win next year; Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic former House speaker; Hillary Clinton, his 2016 opponent; and Biden.

Compliments given Trump lauded Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. “There’s a guy I’d like to make my defense chief,” he said. “I wouldn’t call him my defense chief, I’d call him my offense chief.”

And he complimented President Xi Jinping of China, of whom he said, “He’s like Central Casting. There’s nobody in Hollywood that can play the role of President Xi — the look, the strength, the voice.”

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A majority of the crowd raised their hands.

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Actors to start voting on contract on Tuesday

By BROOKS BARNES and NICOLE SPERLING

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he union that represents movie and television actors said late last week that its 76-member national board had voted with 86% support to send a tentative contract with studios to members for ratification.

The ratification process will start Tuesday and end the first week in December. Actors can go back to work immediately, however.

Members are expected to approve the contract, which Fran Drescher, the union’s outspoken president, valued at more than $1 billion over three years. She highlighted the “extraordinary scope” of the agreement, noting that it included protections around the use of artificial intelligence, higher minimum pay, better health care funding, concessions from studios on self-taped auditions, improved hair and makeup services on sets, and a requirement for intimacy coordinators for sex scenes, among other gains.

“They had to yield,” Drescher said at a news conference during a 28-minute monologue that touched on Veterans Day, Bela Lugosi’s Dracula costume, her parents, the Roman Empire, studio stubbornness, Buddhism, Frederick Douglass and her dog.

The union, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which represents tens of thousands of actors, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of studios, reached the tentative agreement Wednesday. It followed a bitter standoff that contributed to a near-complete shutdown of production in the entertainment industry. At 118 days, it was the longest movie and television strike in the union’s 90-year history.

The tentative deal was also historic, according to the studio alliance, which said it reflected “the biggest contract-on-contract gains in the history of the union.” In a statement, the alliance said it was “pleased” that SAGAFTRA’s board had recommended ratification.

“We are also grateful that the entire industry has enthusiastically returned to work,” the alliance said.

The actors’ strike, combined with a writers’ strike that started in May and was resolved in September, devasta-

together recognizable features from real actors. The union won consent and compensation guarantees.

“You could imagine prompting a generative AI system that’s been trained on a bunch of actors’ performances to create a digital performer, for example, who has Julia Roberts’ smile,” Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA’s executive director, said in an interview. “Before this agreement, there wasn’t any contractual or legal basis to require consent or prohibit that. Now there will be.”

But this strike was never about stars. A-listers such as Jennifer Lawrence and Brad Pitt negotiate their own contracts (or, more precisely, their agents do). The tentative contract covers minimums, or what actors Fran Drescher, center, the president of SAG-AFTRA, in August. She valued the who don’t have any clout get deal at more than $1 billion over three years. paid.

SAG-AFTRA had demanted the entertainment economy. Hundreds of thousands of ded an 11% raise for minimum crew members were idled, with some losing their homes pay in the first year of a contract. Studios had insisted and turning to food banks for groceries. Some small busi- that they could offer no more than 5%, the same as had nesses that service studios — costume dry cleaners, prop recently been given (and agreed to) by unions for writers warehouses, catering companies — may never recover. and directors. In the end, the union was able to win a 7% The dual strikes caused roughly $10 billion in losses first-year raise. nationwide, according to Todd Holmes, an associate pro“This is really important because it sends a very fessor of entertainment media management at California clear signal to other unions,” Crabtree-Ireland said. “I’m State University, Northridge. While the big studios are ba- not aware of anyone ever being able to break the pattern sed in Los Angeles, they also use soundstage complexes in before, because it’s always been that the AMPTP estaGeorgia, New York, New Jersey and New Mexico. blishes a number and everyone gets held to it.”

Kevin Klowden, chief global strategist with the MiSAG-AFTRA failed in one regard. It had gone into lken Institute, an economic think tank, was more cautious negotiations demanding a percentage of streaming serviwith his estimate, putting losses at more than $6 billion. He ce revenue. It had proposed a 2% share — later dropped said it “may take a while” to to 1%, before a pivot to a per-subscriber fee. Drescher know the true size. had made the demand a priority, but companies such as On Friday, the SAG- Netflix balked, calling it “a bridge too far.”

AFTRA board, which inInstead, the studio alliance proposed a new residual cludes Sharon Stone, Sean (a type of royalty) for streaming programs based on perAstin and Rosie O’Donnell, formance metrics, which the union, after making some made public a summary of adjustments, agreed to take. It is similar to what the Writhe tentative contract’s con- ters Guild of America achieved in its negotiations: Actors tents. While not receiving in streaming shows that attract at least 20% of subscrieverything it asked for, the bers will receive a bonus. union achieved significant Unlike the Writers Guild, however, SAG-AFTRA gains. also got the studio alliance to agree to a system in which The final sticking 25% of the bonus money will go into a fund that will be point involved “synthetic distributed to actors in less successful streaming shows. fakes,” or the use of AI to “I felt like, is this a win or a loss?” Drescher said. create an entirely fabrica- “But we’re getting the money. We opened a new revenue ted character by melding stream. What matters is that we got into another pocket.”

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Wall Street Soars, Fueled by Tech as Treasury Yields Calm W

all Street’s main indexes ended with big gains on Friday, boosted by heavyweight tech and growth stocks as Treasury yields calmed, while investors looked ahead to a next week’s reports on inflation and other economic data.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite posted its biggest oneday percentage rise since May 26.

Equities bounced back from declines the previous session which followed hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell about interest rates. Thursday’s drop ended the longest winning streaks in two years for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.

Investors have been focused on benchmark Treasury yields, which have eased somewhat from 16-year highs, and monetary policy as they assess whether the Fed might be done raising rates to control inflation and when the central bank could start cutting rates.

A majority of traders are betting that the Fed will keep interest rates unchanged this year, with odds of a cut of at least 25 basis points in May standing at nearly 46%, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool.

Several policymakers this week have pushed back against rate cut expectations, with some stressing on a data-dependent approach to monetary policy.

Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin on Thursday said that while there’s been “real progress” on inflation, it is yet unclear if the U.S. central bank will need to push its policy rate higher to finish the job “We have had rates roll over here a little bit and I think that’s one of the reasons we have seen this rally over the last couple of weeks,” said Chuck Carlson, chief executive officer at Horizon Investment Services in Hammond, Indiana. “If you think this rally has legs, yesterday gave you an opportunity to go buy some stocks today.”

Next week the consumer price index report will be closely watched, along with data on producer prices and retail sales, which will further shape interest rate projections.

“In general, the expectation investors have is that the upcoming inflation data is going to be positive for the market and I think they want to get in front of it a little bit,” said Rick Meckler, partner at Cherry Lane Investments in New Vernon, New Jersey.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 391.16 points, or 1.15%, to 34,283.1, the S&P 500 gained 67.89 points, or 1.56%, to 4,415.24 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 276.66 points, or 2.05%, to 13,798.11.

The S&P 500 posted its highest closing level since Sept 19.

All 11 S&P 500 sectors ended in positive territory, led by a 2.6% gain for the technology sector. Megacap stocks that have propelled the market higher this year also rose solidly on Friday. Nvidia rose about 3%, with Meta Platforms up 2.6% and Microsoft up 2.5%.

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“People are looking at megacap tech and saying in an environment of higher rates and a slowing economy, these companies remain the best place to be and are willing to pay a premium for them,” Meckler said.

For the week, the Dow rose about 0.7%, the S&P 500 gained 1.3% and the Nasdaq climbed 2.4%.

Helping support equities, the yield on the benchmark 10year Treasury note was little changed at 4.62% the day after a jump that was partly driven by a weaker-than-expected 30-

year bond auction.

Data on Friday showed U.S. consumer sentiment fell for a fourth straight month in November, and households’ expectations for inflation rose again.

In company news, Illumina shares dropped 8% as the genetic testing company trimmed its full-year profit forecast for the second straight quarter.

Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 2.7-to-1 ratio on the NYSE. There were 70 new highs and 152 new lows on the NYSE. On the Nasdaq 2,589 advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.6-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq. The Nasdaq recorded 61 new highs and 353 new lows.

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Demands grow for pause in fighting as humanitarian situation in Gaza worsens

By ANDRÉS R. MARTÍNEZ

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ressure is growing on Israel to pause fighting Hamas and to allow more aid to enter the Gaza Strip after five weeks of war have exacerbated a humanitarian crisis, especially at hospitals, which are struggling to provide care.

The situation in Gaza has worsened in the past week, with food and medical supplies dwindling and the death toll surpassing 11,000, according to health authorities.

The United Nations, aid groups and key allies, including President Emmanuel Macron of France, urged Israel to stop fighting briefly to allow supplies to enter, foreigners to leave and hostages to be released.

Israel has agreed to short daily pauses to allow Palestinians to flee. Nearly 80,000 headed south last week as the Israeli military moved deeper into the enclave.

The tone of world leaders has also shifted in the past two weeks: Many of Israel’s allies who offered unconditional support at the start of the war are now asking for at least a humanitarian pause, if not a ceasefire. Israel has repeatedly rejected calls for a cease-fire since Oct. 7, when Hamas and other militant groups killed at least 1,200

Palestinian women wash dishes in a camp for displaced people set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, in Khan Yunis, Gaza, Nov. 11, 2023. people in an early-morning ambush in southern Israel.

One of the strongest pleas for a pause came from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “Far too many Palestinians have been killed,” he told reporters in New Delhi on Friday, after a diplomatic tour through

Middle Eastern and Asian nations. Blinken’s remarks were the closest he has come to criticizing Israel’s conduct and suggested that the Biden administration was stepping up pressure on Israel to do more to limit harm to civilians.

Israel’s military has struck thousands

of targets in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Hamas, and began a ground invasion more than two weeks ago. Officials have said that they are doing everything possible to limit civilian casualties, but that the efforts are complicated because Hamas uses civilians and civilian facilities, including hospitals, to hide its members and weapons.

In Tel Aviv, Israel, protesters expressed frustration with the government for a second weekend over its response to the more than 200 hostages that Hamas and other militant groups captured Oct. 7. So far, efforts led by the United States and Qatar to secure the release of the hostages has made little progress, fueling discontent in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government.

Protesters in London and New York continued to hold rallies in support of Palestinians and calling for a cease-fire. More than 300,000 people marched in London on Saturday in support of Palestinians and denouncing the rising civilian death toll in Gaza. It was the largest protest in years in London and the latest pro-Palestinian march held there on Saturdays since the start of the war.

Icelandic town evacuated as earthquakes portend volcanic eruption

By EDUARDO MEDINA

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celandic authorities declared a state of emergency and evacuated a town of about 4,000 people Saturday after hundreds of earthquakes were detected overnight, signaling an increased likelihood of a volcano erupting in the country’s southwestern Reykjanes Peninsula.

The Icelandic Meteorological Office, the country’s weather service, said it was not possible to say when and where magma would reach the surface of the town of Grindavik, but it warned that “the likelihood of a volcanic eruption occurring in the near future is deemed considerable.”

Residents of Grindavik were warned that they would probably not be able to return home for days.

Authorities also raised the aviation alert to orange with the increased chance of eruption, which could pose a risk to aviation if ash spewed into the sky, affecting aircraft.

The enhanced seismic activity measured near Sundhnjukagigar, north of Grindavik, came two days after thousands of other earthquakes rattled the region, prompting officials to close the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination known for its geothermal spas.

That spell of seismic activity led scientists to believe that an eruption might be imminent.

While the evacuation orders were not an “emergency evacuation,” which would require leaving the area within 30 minutes, officials at a news conference Saturday said that residents should still leave within two or three hours, The Reykavik Grapevine, a local news outlet, reported.

The weather service said that “scientists are meeting regularly to interpret the data and update the latest models and hazard assessments.”

Local news outlets and writers have posted images of roads cracked by the seismic activity as residents fled the area and contended with waves of shocks.

Alda Sigmundsdottir, a writer in Iceland, said on Facebook that while she was writing a post, she was “shaken by an earthquake.”

Magma under the area has grown much closer to the surface in recent days, officials said.

On Wednesday, it was about 5 kilometers, or a little more than 3 miles, underground, but Saturday, the shallowest depth was 1 1/2 kilometers, or roughly 1 mile.

There is a long history of volcanic activity in Iceland, a country of fewer than 400,000 people and home to about 130 volcanoes, most of which are active.

The country straddles two tectonic plates, which are themselves divided by an undersea mountain chain that oozes molten hot rock, or magma. Earthquakes occur

when the magma pushes through the plates.

Iceland is also above a “hot spot,” a place with “abnormally high magma activity,” according to the country’s tourism website, which notes that other such places include Yellowstone National Park and Hawaii.

Volcano eruptions in Iceland have at times had devastating effects.

In 2010, the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano spewed so much ash that it grounded flights across parts of Europe for weeks.

A crack in the road in Grindavik, Iceland, as a result of earthquakes related to volcanic activity.

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Biden and Xi to seek to stabilize relations in California meeting

By KATIE ROGERS and ALEXANDRA STEVENSON

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resident Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping of China plan to meet in California on Wednesday for a discussion that Biden’s advisers say is meant to stabilize relations even as it features a host of topics on which the two fiercely competitive countries disagree.

The Biden administration, which formally announced the meeting late last week, said the two leaders would have the highly choreographed discussion as they attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, known as APEC. In a call with reporters Last Thursday, two senior advisers to Biden said the meeting was intended to be wide-ranging, with Biden prepared to bring up issues including Taiwan, election interference, the war in Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas.

Taiwan, a self-ruled island claimed by China, is set to hold elections early next year, and one of the advisers said Biden would seek to “present” Xi with “clarity” — meaning that the United States expects Beijing not to interfere and is concerned that it might. Biden is also expected to warn Xi against interfering in U.S. elections.

The advisers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the meeting, did not provide specifics on its location, citing security concerns.

The meeting will take place almost a year to the day after Biden and Xi met during the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, another rigidly planned diplomatic affair that took place amid fears over rising Chinese aggression toward Taiwan and steep competition between Washington and Beijing over military and technology advances. The two have not spoken since, and the intervening year has severely tested relations.

A Chinese spy balloon that crossed over the United States before a U.S. fighter jet downed it off the coast of South Carolina set off a diplomatic crisis in February.

And more recently, tensions have flared over matters such as Chinese espionage and U.S. restrictions on technology exports to China.

President Joe Biden, right, meets with President Xi Jinping of China in Bali, Indonesia, on Nov. 14, 2022. They plan to meet again while attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco this week.

Strains remain and will be addressed, Biden’s advisers say, but this year, Chinese and American officials have also emphasized the importance of strengthening ties between the world’s two largest economies. The Biden administration has already sent several top officials — including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo — to China this year to try to make clear that while the United States wants to protect national security, it does not seek to sever economic ties.

Yellen echoed that position Friday, after two days of meetings with Vice Premier He Lifeng in San Francisco, where both were to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Such a decoupling, she said, “would be damaging to both the U.S. and China and destabilizing for the world.” She added that she and Lifeng had agreed that their countries should strive for a healthy economic relationship.

On Thursday, China’s ambassador to the United States, Xie Feng, said in video remarks to a forum in Hong Kong that China wanted reassurances that “the U.S.

Mastro, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

Outside of the meeting with Biden, Xi is expected to focus much of his time in California on showing leaders of American industry that his country is open for business. After he and Biden meet, Xi is expected to speak to top American business executives at a $2,000-a-plate dinner, part of a “CEO Summit” taking place on the sidelines of the main event.

Aside from issues of trade and competition, Biden is expected to broach the war in the Gaza Strip with Xi, officials said Thursday. Beijing has a warm trade and diplomatic relationship with Iran, a country that helps support Hamas and other militant groups in the Middle East, and Biden is expected to stress to Xi that the United States will respond to any expansion of the war caused by Iran.

Biden will also be monitoring developments in Washington as he navigates the meeting with Xi and engages with other leaders at APEC, a group of 21 countries that surround the Pacific Ocean. While Biden is on the West Coast, the federal government is set to inch closer to a shutdown.

House Republicans, so far, have been unable to coalesce around proposals to fund the government, and the current stopgap spending measure expires Nov. 17. White House officials have suggested that the president may cut his trip short if a shutdown looks likely, but on Thursday, they publicly downplayed that idea.

Asked about the possibility of tumult in Washington cutting into Biden’s trip, John Kirby, a White House spokesperson, told reporters, “Well, my goodness, we haven’t even loaded luggage on the plane.”

does not seek to change China’s system, does not seek a new cold war, does not support Taiwan independence and has no intention to seek decoupling from China.”

“Sino-U.S. relations are still facing severe challenges, and there is still a long way to go to stabilize and improve relations,” Xie said at the event, the Hong Kong Forum on U.S.-China Relations.

Experts cautioned against expecting the meeting between Biden and Xi to produce any breakthroughs on thorny issues such as China’s military aggression in Taiwan, U.S. limits on the sales of advanced tors to China or semiconducAmerican concerns about China’s human rights record.

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Deal granting amnesty to separatists sets off turmoil in Spain

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had a narrow path to building a government, but it ran right rime Minister Pedro Sánchez of through the issue of Catalan independence, among the most Spain sealed a deal to extend prickly and fraught in Spanish amnesty to Catalan separatists politics. late last week in exchange for their In 2017, leaders of the Capolitical support, likely allowing him talan separatist movement proto stay in power but causing turmoil voked Spain’s greatest constithroughout Spain, doubts in Europe tutional crisis in decades when and questions about the country’s they staged an independence stability. referendum that Madrid called Sánchez, 51, who is currently acillegal. ting as a caretaker prime minister after After enormous demonstrainconclusive snap elections he called tions in Barcelona and a tense in July, backed the amnesties related national climate, the heads of to an illegal referendum that shook the movement balked. Their Spain in 2017 to receive the critical leader, who was president of support of the Junts party, which supCatalonia at the time, Carles ports independence from Spain for Puigdemont, fled the country the northern region of Catalonia. and has remained in self-impoWith their support, Sánchez will sed exile in Belgium since. His likely avoid new elections, win parliaallies have faced convictions. mentary backing for another stint as But Thursday, Sánchez won prime minister and solidify his place the support of seven lawmakers in the European Union as its stanfrom the Junts party that Puigdard-bearer for progressive politics. demont essentially leads, in But the proposed amnesties, soexchange for the Socialist Party mething Sánchez had previously proposing a new law granting said he would never do, triggered an People protesting in Madrid near Spain’s Socialist party headquarters last week over negotiations amnesty to him and everyone uproar. else in the failed independenEarlier in the day, Sánchez’s allies, to grant amnesty to people involved with Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid. ce referendum. The new law eager to avoid the appearance that partner and has already made clear it will aligned himself with enemies of the stacould affect many separatists the deal had been struck out of pure political calculation, sought to frame the continue to seek to extract concessions te. “The humiliation to which Sánchez is who have been convicted or are currently facing trial for pro-independence proposal as instrumental in putting a ten- in exchange for its support in close votes subjecting our country is complete.”

In Brussels, the European commissio- activities. se and violent period of Spanish history in parliament.

The deal, and the violence, came ner for justice, Didier Reynders, sent a The specifics of the agreement have behind the country.

It was “a historic opportunity to re- after thousands of protesters angrily su- letter to Spain’s justice and presidency not yet been made public, and it is expecsolve a conflict that could — and should rrounded the Socialist Party headquar- ministers about the “serious concerns” ted to be proposed in the Spanish parliament next week. The deal was not a given — only be resolved politically,” Santos ters in Madrid in past days and called raised by the amnesty proposal.

In regional and local elections in and required more than two months of Cerdán, a top negotiator with the Socia- on Sánchez not to make a deal with the list Party, who had performed shuttle di- separatists, whom many conservatives May, Sánchez’s party took such a she- negotiations between Sánchez’s Socialist plomacy between Madrid and separatist consider an existential threat to Spanish llacking that he pulled the plug on his Party; his own, more progressive allies; government, opting to try his chances and the Catalan and Basque indepenexiles in Brussels, said after the deal was nationhood.

The mainstream conservative Popular with an early national election instead. dence movements that, despite a lacklusannounced. “Our aim is to open the way ter showing in July’s election, retained for a legislature that will allow us to pro- Party, which been expected to win elec- He was expected to lose.

But while Sánchez did not come out enough leverage to force a deal. gress and to build an open and modern tions over the summer but fell short of enough votes to form a government, has on top in the July election, he and his Puigdemont said Thursday at a news society and a better country.”

The deal potentially marks a remarka- called for major demonstrations throug- progressive allies won enough support to conference in Brussels that he would still stun the favored conservative and hard- support the cause of independence, and ble reversal of political fortune for Sán- hout Spain’s major cities Sunday.

It is about “privileging a minority to right parties, depriving them of the ne- he celebrated the deal, saying that it took chez, who has made a career out of bold, long-shot bets but who seemed on the the detriment of a majority and ending cessary parliamentary support to form a the issue out of the judiciary and brought it back in the public sphere where it bebrink of a political abyss after his party the equality between Spaniards that is government.

Sánchez, who has served as the pri- longed. received a drubbing in local and regional enshrined in the constitution,” said Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the Popular Party me minister since 2018, a position he “It is a way to return to politics,” he elections in May. But the Junts party is not a reliable leader, who said Sánchez had clearly won in a daring confidence vote, instead said, “what is politics.”

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Should Joe Manchin run for president?

By ROSS DOUTHAT

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n the emotional life of the liberal mediasphere, there was so little space between the release of the New York Times/Siena poll showing President Joe Biden losing to Donald Trump handily across a range of swing states (doom! doom!) and the Democratic overperformance in Tuesday’s elections (sweet relief!) that one of the striking features of the polling passed with relatively little comment.

This was the remarkably strong showing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent candidacy. When added to the swing-state polls, Kennedy claimed 24% of registered voters against 35% for Trump and 33% for Biden.

That number is notable along two dimensions: first, for showing Kennedy drawing close to equally from both likely nominees rather than obviously spoiling the race for one or the other; second, for its sheer Ross Perotian magnitude, its striking-distance closeness to the major party candidates.

Yet I don’t see a lot of people entertaining the “Kennedy wins!” scenario just yet, and for good reasons: Most notable third-party candidates eventually diminish, he may be artificially inflated by his famous

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name, and his crankishness is so overt (whereas Perot’s was gradually revealed) that many voters currently supporting him in protest of a Biden-Trump rematch may well abandon him after a light Googling.

The world being strange, we shouldn’t take this conventional wisdom as gospel. But if we assume that Kennedy’s 24% is mostly about people seeking a third option rather than explicitly supporting his worldview, the immediate question is whether someone else should try to fill that space.

Someone like, say, Joe Manchin, the West Virginia senator who spiced up his announcement bowing out of a reelection bid with some talk about “traveling the country” for a movement to “mobilize the middle.”

There is already a potential vehicle for a Manchin candidacy in the No Labels movement, along with an effort to draft Manchin and Mitt Romney to run together, with Romney at the top of the ticket.

But the ideal ticket would probably lead with Manchin. For an independent run, his branding as a moderate with strong ideological differences with the left seems stronger than Romney’s branding as a conservative with strong moral differences with Trump.

When elites pine for a third-party candidate, they usually imagine someone like Michael Bloomberg, a fiscal conservative and social liberal. But the sweet spot for a third-party candidate has always been slightly left of center on economics and moderate to conservative on cultural issues — and that describes Manchin better than it does most American politicians. (It arguably described Biden once, but not as he’s evolved in the past decade.)

The West Virginian could run, authentically, as an unwoke supporter of universal health care, fiscal restraint and a middle ground on guns and abortion.

That’s a better basis for a run than Bloombergism or Kennedy’s courtship of the fringes, with a chance of claiming votes from Never Trumpers and the center left.

But is it worth the effort? Stipulate that Kennedy will remain in the race and hold on to some share of the vote that might otherwise be available to a thirdparty moderate. Then the question becomes whether both Trump and Biden could fall below their 35% and 33% levels in the Times/Siena poll, giving Manchin a plurality of the popular vote and a chance at an Electoral College win (because merely deadlocking the Electoral College would just send the race to the House, where — pending the results in 2024 — Trump would probably prevail).

In a polarized landscape, that kind of mutual GOP and Democratic collapse seems unlikely. But if

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Feb. 7, 2023. If current polling holds, it’s not running an alternative to Biden that seems most likely to put Trump back in the presidency, Ross Douthat writes. you were drawing up a scenario for it to happen, it might resemble the one we’re facing — in which one candidate seems manifestly too old for the job and the other might be tried and convicted before the general election. Such a landscape seems as if it should summon forth a responsible alternative. Confronting the American people with a Trump-Biden-Kennedy choice would be a remarkable dereliction by our political elites.

But comes the response from anxious liberals: Isn’t an even greater dereliction for a Democrat — however ornery and moderate — to embark on a run that could help reelevate Trump to the White House?

Let’s allow that it might be, but then let’s also allow that if current polling holds, it’s not running an alternative to Biden that seems most likely to put Trump back in the presidency.

That Trump-friendly polling may change. But it’s entirely possible to begin an independent candidacy and then suspend it (just ask Perot) if the situation looks entirely unpropitious — which is what I’d advise Manchin to consider, if the donors and infrastructure are there: a patriotic attempt, to be abandoned if it’s going nowhere but to be seen through if enough of the country desires a different choice.

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Cayey abre sus brazos a la diversidad funcional con multitudinario evento POR EL STAR STAFF

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AYEY – El alcalde de Cayey, Rolando Ortiz Velázquez, los representantes Gretchen Marie Hau y Jesús Santa, participaron ayer de la Segunda Edición del ‘EFATLON Funtional Diversity Edition, que se llevó a cabo en el Complejo Deportivo Municipal de Cayey, como una iniciativa dirigida a los estudiantes del programa de Educación Física Adaptada de la ORE de Caguas del Departamento de Educación (DE).

En el mismo se aplicaron diferentes actividades y juegos en las facilidades desde temprano en la mañana. “Ha sido un gran día con la participación de los estudiantes del programa de Educación Física Adaptada de Cayey, Aibonito, Cidra, Caguas, Comerío, Barranquitas, Aguas Buenas, Salinas, Guayama, Arroyo y Gurabo”, señaló la representante Hau. Por su parte, el alcalde Ortiz Velázquez agradeció la labor de los educadores, organizadores, padres, madres y voluntarios. “Particularmente hay que destacar el trabajo de los maestros de Educacion Física Adaptada de Cayey, Yamil Ayala, Amyl Hernández y Carlos Vázquez, quienes además fungieron como

anfitriones de la actividad. Nuevamente se logra el éxito trabajando en equipo, uniendo esfuerzos para que la actividad sea una memorable y de impacto para los estudiantes del programa”.

“Cabe resaltar que durante este mes de noviembre se conmemora el ‘Mes de la Educación Especial. Con eso como base, la Secretaría Asociada del Departamento de Educación Especial desarrolló el lema: ‘Con amor y educación, cada diversidad se convierte en una oportunidad’, para impulsar la concienciación general y promover el mensaje de la diversidad y cómo podemos ser entes que permitan a las personas con discapacidad obtener oportunidades”, añadió el alcalde Ortiz Velázquez.

Por parte de la Cámara de Representantes, se realizó una aportación al evento con la otorgación de 400 medallas para los niños y jóvenes participantes.

Los premios fueron gestionadas por los legisladores de distrito Gretchen Marie Hau, Estrella Martínez, Jesús Santa, José ‘Conny’ Varela Fernández, Juan José Santiago Nieves y Luis ‘Narmito’ Ortiz Lugo.

Premian a Pilares de la “Comunidad Puertorriqueña” que se destacan por su apoyo a la diáspora boricua POR EL STAR STAFF

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AN JUAN – Con la participación de una representación de la Junta de Directores del Desfile Nacional Puertorriqueño de Nueva York, empresarios, líderes de la salud, funcionarios de Gobierno y comunicadores de Puerto Rico fueron reconocidos como “Pilares de la Comunidad Boricua” en sus diversas categorías y quienes han demostrado apoyar a la “diáspora” residente en Estados Unidos. El evento auspiciado por la Asociación de Miembros de la Policía de Puerto Rico y la organización CROEM ALUMNI reunió a cientos de funcionarios que participaron en el Conversatorio sobre la salud en Puerto Rico que se celebró en Nueva York durante la Semana Puertorriqueña.

“El esfuerzo de haber celebrado un taller en Nueva York para discutir los problemas de salud en la isla toma fuerza hoy con la entrega de reconocimientos a líderes como el empresario José González Freyre (presidente Pan American Grain); Cameron Mckenzie (miembro de la Cámara de Comercio Internacional); Lcda. Karen Artau (presidenta de Metro Pavia Health System), Lcda. Marta Rivera Plaza (directora del Sistema Hospital San Juan Capestrano); Dr. Carlos Mellado López (Secretario del Departamento de Salud), Dr. Carlos Rodríguez Mateo (administrador de ASSMCA); Aixa Vázquez y Julio Rivera Sanier (Noticentro WAPA TV); Juan de Vega (productor de ABC5); Sheila Otero (empresaria miembro del CUD); Lorraine Cortes Vázquez (ex presidenta del Desfile Nacional Puertorrique-

ño y actual Comisionada para Asuntos de la Vejez en la Ciudad de Nueva York); Javier Cuebas (presidente del Grupo 21 de Washington) y Wilfredo “Puruco” Torres (comentarista de radio y televisión. El resultado del Conversatorio es palpable, se han logrado acuerdos colaborativos, se han identificado los principales problemas en la salud y se están trabajando varios proyectos para atender las necesidades médicas de la población gracias a la discusión desarrollada en la Gran Manzana”, señaló José J. Taboada de Jesús, presidente de la Asociación de Miembros de la Policía y vicepresidente del Comité de la Delegación de Puerto Rico que participó en las actividades de Nueva York.

Reconocen a José González Freyre como uno de los “Pilares de la Comunidad Boricua” “Agradezco el reconocimiento de la Delegación de Puerto Rico que coordina la participación de la isla en la Semana Puertorriqueña en Nueva York y el Desfile en la Quinta Avenida. Tenemos que unirnos para enfrentar la solución de los problemas que afectan a la isla. Apoyamos la iniciativa de celebrar un conversatorio o taller para discutir y analizar los asuntos que afectan a Puerto Rico con la integración y ayuda de la “diáspora boricua”, esto es algo que nos hacía fal-

ta. Aplaudimos la idea de presentar una actividad el próximo año que discuta el intercambio con Nueva York de los productos que se manufacturan en la isla.

Debemos invitar a las empresas de servicios en Puerto Rico que deseen expandirse en el mercado de Estados Unidos. Apoyamos esas ideas que esperamos puedan lograrse en junio del próximo año en el Desfile que se le dedica a la Ciudad de San Germán”, terminó diciendo el empresario José González Freyre, presidente de Pan American Grain.

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Taylor Swift takes her Eras Tour global, shaking Argentina

By JACK NICAS

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n May 31, Florencia Romeo slept in a tent outside Argentina’s largest stadium with her girlfriend and her sister. They had heard rumors that Taylor Swift might be coming to Buenos Aires, and they wanted to be first in line.

The rumors were right: Swift was coming, but it would take a while. Her concert was more than five months away.

The tent stayed anyway, occupied by a rotating cast of 30 die-hard Swifties who worked together over 163 days to hold their spots in line for a chance to get as close as possible to their idol when she walked onstage Thursday in the first stop of her Eras Tour outside North America.

“We have been waiting for this for many years,” said Romeo, 23, who quit her job as a cashier partly to dedicate herself to waiting in line. “We didn’t expect her to come, and then she did. So, it was obvious that we had to do what we had to do.”

The Eras Tour officially went global Thursday when the pop megastar began a new phase of shows that would take her to 25 cities across South America, Asia, Australia and Europe over the next 10 months.

Since March, the North American stretch of the tour has become an economic marvel and a cultural force, cementing Swift’s status as one of the most influential, and beloved, people on the continent. Now, she is set to demonstrate that her fame and adoration go well beyond borders.

There are few countries better to display the intense passion of her fans than Argentina. While Swift has become a certified global icon, Argentina has become known for worshipping icons with religious fervor.

Consider that Juan and Eva Perón became Argentina’s president and first lady in 1946 but are still lionized in political chants, are displayed in portraits in many Argentine homes and are the inspiration for a namesake political movement that still runs the country.

Diego Maradona, a soccer star, became seen as such a deity here that tens of thousands of Argentines belong to the, yes, Church of Maradona, a legally recognized religion in its 25th year. And after Lionel Messi and the national soccer team won the World Cup last year, the crush of 4 million adoring fans during the victory parade forced the players to abandon their buses and fly over in a helicopter instead.

“She’s like the female Messi,” said Romeo, offering Swift about the highest praise an Argentine could nowadays. Some fans in Buenos Aires this week wore jerseys of the national soccer team with “SWIFT” on the back, while others passed out a sort of prayer card with Swift’s head superimposed over Jesus Christ’s.

So, it was no surprise that Swift’s arrival in Argentina became a national event. It received intense news

Mariale and Paula Nuñez, sisters from Peru, show off their friendship bracelets before Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour at El Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 9, 2023. The singer-songwriter began her Eras Tour outside North America, and some Swifties in Argentina camped out for more than five months. coverage; Buenos Aires named her an official guest of honor; and she even became a figure in next week’s presidential election after some of her fans organized against the far-right candidate, Javier Milei. Meteorologists even described forecasts for sun or rain this weekend as “dry Swifties” or “wet Swifties.” (Friday called for “wet Swifties,” so organizers rescheduled that show for Sunday.)

“Everyone in the country knows her, and everyone knows about this show,” Renata Schyfys, 15, said at Thursday’s show, wearing at least 6 inches of friendship bracelets, which have become a badge of Swiftie fandom.

In a country of 46 million people, Swift sold roughly 200,000 tickets across three sold-out shows, and yet the waiting list still had more than 2.8 million people — enough to fill Argentina’s biggest soccer arena, El Monumental, another 40 times.

That stadium was shaking Thursday night with near-constant, ear-piercing screams coming from the more than 70,000 fans there who repeatedly chanted, “Olé, olé, olé, olé, Taylor, Taylor.”

Even Swift, who has seen her share of huge crowds, seemed taken aback. “I am looking out to possibly what might be one of the most epic crowds to ever exist,” she told the audience. “This is on another level.”

Later, she removed her earpieces and motioned that she was struggling to hear over the roar of the crowd. She paused for a full 2 minutes, soaking in her fans’ adoration.

“I don’t know how to thank you enough for the way you’re treating me tonight,” she said. “I love you so, so much, and I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to come see you.”

Thursday’s show was Swift’s first major concert in South America, the first of nine this month in Argentina

and Brazil. After waiting for so long, many Swifties on Thursday said they had made a sort of pilgrimage, many from across the continent.

Nahuel Ochoa, a medical student wearing a homemade bedazzled jumpsuit and a glittery jacket, had taken a bus with 50 other fans from the city of San Luis, 12 hours away. Unable to get a room in Buenos Aires, where hotels were nearly sold out, he was planning to take the bus back after the show — and then return Saturday to see Swift again.

“We have loved Taylor since we were 10 years old — we have been waiting 13 years,” said Ochoa, 23, sitting alongside his childhood friend Andrea Garro. “Her songs reflect the majority of what we go through. It’s a form of expressing ourselves in a way that we can’t.”

Garro, 23, a law student, added that Swift’s music helped her get past a deep depression. “We feel seen,” she said.

But there was no show of devotion greater than the more than 100 fans who camped out in shifts outside the stadium for months. After Romeo and her friends staked out their spot and attracted local news attention, other tents followed.

The group of mostly young women set up shifts using a spreadsheet, with ideally at least two people present at the tent at all times. The 30 members of Romeo’s tent had to spend a minimum of 40 hours there a month, with each member spending about 10 to 12 nights at the tent on average. After spending the first few days sleeping with just blankets, they added a mattress.

“She has the best relationship with her fans and is the one that can achieve this sort of mania,” said Lucas Forte, 24, a member of another tent who had slept outside the stadium for five nights since September. “No one camped out for The Weeknd, for example.”

Swift herself was impressed with the effort. “I heard you guys were camping out to get good spots?” she asked the crowd Thursday. “I actually didn’t believe it until I saw a video.”

The fans camping out were not holding a place to get tickets to the show. Those were all sold online.

Rather, the tents were set up so they could be first in line when the doors to the show opened and the fans could sprint to the guardrails along the stage for a closer view.

Event organizers helped make sure the fans who had camped out were first in line — yet many still ended up behind rows of people whose pricier tickets had allowed them to enter even earlier.

But some campers eventually reached the barricade along the stage.

“I smashed my knee trying to get there,” said Atenas Astuni, 23, a member of the first-in-line tent, her voice hoarse the Friday morning after the show. “But if I had to smash my knee again to repeat exactly what happened yesterday, I would do it without hesitation.”

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Women lead Grammy nominees

By BEN SISARIO

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ZA, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, indie supergroup boygenius and eclectic bandleader Jon Batiste are among the top nominees for the 66th annual Grammy Awards, leading a class of contenders dominated by young women.

SZA, the R&B singer and songwriter born Solána Rowe, has nine nods — more than any other artist this year — for her album “SOS,” which led the Billboard chart for 10 weeks and spawned an in-demand arena tour. “Kill Bill,” its standout hit, is up for both record and song of the year at the next ceremony, set for Feb. 4 in Los Angeles.

Swift and Rodrigo will face off against SZA in all three top categories, with Swift’s “Midnights” — the studio LP she released last year, in between a slew of rerecordings — and Rodrigo’s “Guts” up for best album, and Swift’s “Anti-Hero” and Rodrigo’s “Vampire” each competing for both record and song.

The awards were announced in an online stream Friday morning by the Recording Academy, the nonprofit organization behind the Grammys.

Miley Cyrus and Batiste are also contenders in each of the most prestigious categories.

Cyrus’ mellow, disco-inflected hit “Flowers” is up for record and song of the year, and “Endless Summer Vacation” for album. Batiste, the surprise album of the year victor in 2022 for “We Are” — a rootsy, uplifting collection that had barely made a dent on the charts — earned a string of nominations, including best album for “World Music Radio,” a high-concept amalgam of global pop that was also far from a hit. Its track “Worship” is up for record, and “Butterfly” for song. (Record of the year recognizes a single recording; song of the year is a songwriter’s award.)

Boygenius, the project of three of indierock’s leading young women — Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, all in their late 20s — will compete for record of the year with “Not Strong Enough,” and best album with “The Record.”

Swift, Rodrigo, Cyrus, boygenius, Batiste and Americana singer-songwriter Brandy Clark have six nods apiece, as does Billie Eilish, another Grammy favorite; Victoria Monét, an R&B singer and songwriter, has seven. Bridgers, of boygenius, also nabbed a seventh, through a collaboration with SZA. The “Barbie” soundtrack, curated by pro-

ducer Mark Ronson and filled with female artists — Eilish, Dua Lipa and Nicki Minaj among them — has a total of 11 nominations in seven categories. In best song written for visual media, for example, “Barbie” tracks occupy four of the five slots.

The contenders for best new artist include Monét; banjo-playing pop-folkie Noah Kahan; Jelly Roll, who started as a rapper before finding fame in Nashville; British dance producer Fred again..; R&B singer and actor Coco Jones; husband-and-wife soul duo the War and Treaty; and two artists who have gotten a boost from their associations with Swift — singer Gracie Abrams and drill-meets-pop Olivia Rodrigo in Los Angeles on July 25, 2023. She is among the women dominating this Bronx rapper Ice Spice.

In past years, the Grammys have been year’s Grammy Award nominations, which were announced on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. criticized for failing to adequately reward female artists, and this year’s woman-heavy like the best, and feel is the most excellent, Nominees for producer of the year, nonclassical, include Jack Antonoff, known for nominations will likely be welcomed in the they vote for.”

The nominations arrived two days after his work with Swift and Del Rey; Daniel industry as a sign of progress. Still, the key Neil Portnow, a former academy chief, was Nigro (Rodrigo); Hit-Boy (Nas, Don Toliver); will be who ultimately wins.

As always, the nominations included sued in a New York court by an anonymous Dernst Emile II, known as D’Mile (Monét); some surprises in the top tier, particularly female musician who accused him of drug- and Metro Boomin (Travis Scott; Drake & 21 ging and raping her five years ago. The suit Savage). Songwriter of the year, meant to recwhen it came to country artists. ognize writers who largely work behind the Luke Combs, who had a cross-generation- also accused the academy of negligence.

Portnow has denied the accusation, and scenes, has nods for Edgar Barrera, Jessie Jo al smash with a reverently faithful version of Tracy Chapman’s 1988 song “Fast Car,” got the academy on Wednesday called the wom- Dillon, Shane McAnally, Theron Thomas and a nod for country solo performance, but not an’s claims “without merit.” Mason declined Justin Tranter. record of the year, which many in the industry to comment about the case.

For best pop vocal album, Swift’s “MidThe major Grammy nominations this year nights,” Rodrigo’s “Guts” and Cyrus’ “Endhad expected. (“Fast Car” was not, however, eligible for song of the year, since it had al- largely hew to popular hits, and they notably less Summer Vacation” are up against Kelly ready been nominated for that award in the over-index with female artists, though country Clarkson’s “Chemistry” and Ed Sheeran’s “-” and hip-hop are scarce in the top categories. (called “Subtract”). ’80s.)

In addition to LPs by SZA, Swift, Rodrigo, Zach Bryan, an admired songwriter who In the rap album category, Drake & 21 found chart success this year with a self-titled Cyrus, boygenius and Batiste, the album of Savage’s collaboration “Her Loss” and Traalbum, was recognized only in country cat- the year slate includes Lana Del Rey’s “Did vis Scott’s “Utopia” will contend with Killer egories, for that LP and for “I Remember Ev- You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Mike’s “Michael,” Nas’ “King’s Disease III” erything,” a duet with Kacey Musgraves. And Blvd” and Janelle Monáe’s “The Age of Plea- and Metro Boomin’s “Heroes & Villains.”

Morgan Wallen, a streaming titan whose al- sure.”

For country album, Bryan’s LP is up along Record of the year also includes Monét’s with Kelsea Ballerini’s “Rolling Up the Welbum “One Thing at a Time” was a blockbuster this year, is absent completely — a sign, “On My Mama” and Eilish’s “What Was I come Mat,” Lainey Wilson’s “Bell Bottom perhaps, that the coastal industry mainstream Made For?,” from “Barbie.” Del Rey’s “A&W,” Country,” Tyler Childers’ “Rustin’ in the Rain” has not forgiven Wallen for his use of a racial “What Was I Made For?” and another “Bar- and the self-titled album by Brothers Osslur two years ago, as establishment Nashville bie” number, Lipa’s “Dance the Night,” round borne.

The contenders for best rock album are seemingly has. (Wallen’s hit “Last Night” is out song of the year.

The number of slots on the ballot for the Foo Fighters’ “But Here We Are,” Greta Van up for best country song, though Wallen was four top Grammy categories has been a mov- Fleet’s “Starcatcher,” Metallica’s “72 Seanot among its four writers.)

Harvey Mason Jr., the CEO of the Record- ing target for years. This year, the academy set sons,” Paramore’s “This Is Why” and “In Times ing Academy, said in an interview that the it to eight, after two years at 10. It was the New Roman …” by Queens of the Stone Age. nominations simply reflect the musical judg- third such change in five years.

For best African music performance, a Among other rule changes this year, the new category, the nominees are Asake & ment of the academy’s 11,000 or so voting academy moved the producer and songwriter Olamide’s “Amapiano,” Burna Boy’s “City members.

“There’s really no other explanation or of the year categories to the general field, Boys,” Ayra Starr’s “Rush,” Tyla’s “Water,” and calculus here,” Mason said. “The voters come which allows all voting members to vote on Davido’s “Unavailable,” which features Musa in, they listen to the music, and the stuff they those awards.

Keys.

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What does it really mean to dissociate?

By CHRISTINA CARON

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ave you ever zoned out?

Maybe you have experienced highway hypnosis, with no recollection of having driven from Point A to Point B. Or maybe you have zero memory of something you just read.

These are mild forms of dissociation, which is the ability to disconnect from our thoughts, feelings, environment or actions.

Dissociation can even help athletes do their jobs, for instance, because it “allows people to focus on the most salient or lifepreserving aspects of a situation” without mental interference, said Janina Fisher, a psychologist who has been treating dissociative disorders for decades.

But sometimes people experience a major form of dissociation, often in the aftermath of overwhelming trauma. In this case, the dissociative symptoms become more extreme and frequent.

Public fascination with dissociation and its disorders has endured for many years — examples include the books “Sybil” and “The Three Faces of Eve,” both adapted into wildly popular feature films, each about a woman with “multiple personalities.”

Now people are capturing their experiences with dissociation and posting them on social media. TikTok videos hashtagged #dissociativeidentitydisorder, or DID, have been viewed more than 1.7 billion times and #dissociation has drawn more than 775 million views. Some show what it looks like to dissociate, or use visual effects to explain the eerie feeling of living outside your body.

In others, people describe their different identities, also called alters or parts.

Celebrities such as “Saturday Night Live” cast member Bowen Yang have also openly described struggles with dissociative disorders, as conversations about mental health continue to migrate into public forums.

But research suggests that much of this content isn’t providing reliable information.

We asked several mental health providers to explain more about dissociation.

What are the dissociative disorders?

Rather than fight or flee in a stressful or threatening situation, some people “freeze,” said Dr. Frank Putnam, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and an expert on dissociative disorders. “That’s the dissociative state where you shut down and you kind

People are turning to social media to define dissociative disorders, but those portrayals aren’t always accurate. Here is a primer. of go away.”

Although dissociation can help a person mentally escape during a threat, it can interfere with daily life when people continue to dissociate during benign situations.

Some people might find themselves in a new location without knowing how they got there, for example.

Frequent experiences like that make dissociation pathological, Putnam said. It becomes a disorder when you space out and “lose time” long enough that it interferes with your life in a significant way, he added.

The three most common and wellknown dissociative disorders are: dissociative identity disorder, depersonalization/ derealization disorder and dissociative amnesia.

The common thread in each is a disruption of identity.

The most severe is dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. Those who experience DID report having two or more identities.

Studies indicate that about 1% to 1.5% of the population has DID. But some say the prevalence could be higher.

“I think it’s way underdiagnosed,” said Dr. Judith Herman, a psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of trauma studies. That’s

largely because “you still hear people in my field saying they don’t ‘believe in DID.’” Despite the inclusion of DID in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition, known as DSM5., the American Psychiatric Association’s official manual of mental disorders, some psychiatrists and psychologists think that patients with symptoms of DID actually have borderline personality disorder. Others think it is a fad or that it can be induced by a provider.

Experiencing severe early childhood trauma, such as sexual abuse, is a predictor of developing DID, several experts said.

Fisher acknowledged that “it’s a hardto-believe diagnosis unless you’ve seen it.”

Patients show changes in body language, facial expression and cognitive ability, she added. “It is sort of dramatic and sounds almost fantastical.”

Depersonalization/derealization disorder is thought to occur in about 1% to 2% of the population and is often associated with a history of verbal abuse, such as shaming, that drives someone to want to disconnect from an emotionally traumatizing environment, Putnam said.

According to the APA, those who experience depersonalization can feel at times

as if they are detached from their mind or body — estranged from themselves — like they are watching events happen to them.

Derealization, on the other hand, refers to feeling detached from the environment as if the people and things in the world are not real, in some cases appearing like cardboard cutouts.

The prevalence of dissociative amnesia is not well established. It occurs in response to a variety of different types of trauma, and involves having blocks of time where you lose your identity and are not able to recall important information about your life, such as your own name.

Both dissociative amnesia and depersonalization/derealization symptoms commonly accompany DID. Why are dissociative disorders attracting so much attention?

“I had thought that the internet and app-based world would bring us all closer together. And it’s had exactly the opposite effect,” said Dr. David Spiegel, a Stanford University psychiatry professor who has worked with patients with DID for about 50 years. “It has fragmented us.”

What he means, he explained, is that many of us have retreated into our own online echo chambers. Some people truly have DID, or any number of mental health disorders, but others might be incorrectly labeling themselves because they are locked into a DID information loop — either by choice or via an aggressive social media algorithm.

The idea of having alternate realities or different identities is one that may especially resonate during adolescence, experts said, a time when many teenagers struggle with the question “Who am I?” Dr. David Rettew, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the medical director of Lane County Behavioral Health in Eugene, Oregon, has worked with many adolescents who learned about dissociative disorders on social media and are questioning whether they have them.

Rettew encouraged anyone curious about a specific disorder to speak with an attentive and thoughtful health care provider, particularly one who understands trauma, to tease out what might be going on.

“Just about everything in mental health is dimensional. It exists on a spectrum,” he said. “And that doesn’t make our conditions less real, but it does make them more complicated.”

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Euclid telescope dazzles with detailed first images of our universe

By KATRINA MILLER

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hether capturing spiral galaxies or stellar nurseries, Euclid is showing off our universe’s good side.

Last Tuesday, the European Space Agency shared the first images from the robotic telescope in space — five ethereal views of our cosmos.

Launched in July, Euclid is on a quest to map one-third of the extragalactic sky and to reveal how the mysterious influences of dark matter and dark energy have shaped the structure of the universe. The new images are just a taste of what scientists expect the space telescope to achieve.

“I’m just overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the data,” said Michael Seiffert, a cosmologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is a member of the Euclid mission. “The ability to have really sharp images cover a wide field at the same time is just really astounding.”

Perhaps most striking is a shot of the Horsehead Nebula, a star factory 1,375 lightAn undated photo provided by the European Space Agency/Euclid Consortium/NASA shows a new view of the spiral years from Earth with a distinct equine-shaped galaxy IC 342. The European Space Agency’s premier telescope captured new views of space, a small taste of what it cloud. The image shows reddish brown gas and is likely to accomplish in the coming years. Image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi. dust churning with baby stars, young Jupiterlike worlds and rogue planets detached from a irregular dwarf galaxy, NGC 6822, among a dense field of scope tried to capture a piece of sky. host star. In the lower left corner, massive infant Scientific observations are scheduled to begin early stars cast the interstellar clouds of another nebula, NGC stars. The final image shows the globular cluster NGC 6397, a collection of stars orbiting in the disc of our own galaxy. next year. In 2025, scientists plan to release Euclid’s first 2023, in a soft lavender glow.

Whereas NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope zooms maps of the universe, which will include more sky area Scientists also released a spectacular new view of the Perseus Cluster, an aggregation of galaxies 240 million in on one part of the sky at a time, Euclid excels at imaging than in all of the data collected so far by NASA’s Hubble light-years away. Most of the colored specks are not stars, wide, but still detailed, swaths of the universe. That’s perfect Space Telescope, Seiffert said.

And the team anticipates that Euclid will chart the sky Seiffert said, but galaxies — some so faint they have never for “when you want to look for a needle in a haystack,” Seiover the next six years, assembling a trove of 12 billion before been seen. Free-floating stars, stripped from their ffert said, including objects like free-floating worlds.

With the data Euclid sends home, researchers can learn sources for astronomers to dig into and discover. galaxies and drifting in the spaces between, may also be about how the web of dark matter cementing our universe “The data that came out represents less than a day’s nestled in the cluster.

The Euclid team also shared close-ups of galaxies: a together influences the shapes and motions of visible ob- worth of observing,” Seiffert said about Euclid’s first images. wispy white spiral, IC 342, similar to our Milky Way, and an jects in space. The telescope’s detailed resolution is also “We’re just going to be drowning in data for years and years expected to help scientists map the distribution of galaxies to come.” across cosmic time, aiding in understanding dark energy, the inexplicable force pulling the universe apart.

Te ayudamos a Vender, Alquilar, Comprar The mission team is wrapping y Administrar tu Propiedad up final checks and calibrations of Euclid’s instruments, which include a 600-megapixel camera for imaging and a near-infrared spectrometer and photometer that will record the light from galaxies in wavelengths that are not visible to infer their distance. Over the sumJosé Rodríguez mer, scientists worked around the Corredor de Bienes Raices Lic. C-20077 clock to fix a faulty navigation senAn undated photo provided by the European Space Agency/Euclid Con787.349.0013•kingdomrealty1429@gmail.com sor that made Euclid create images sortium/NASA shows the full view of the globular cluster NGC 6397. of winding star trails as the tele-

The San Juan Daily Star LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V.

SAYRA ALMODOVAR GUZMAN

Defendants Civil No.: 16-03051. SCC. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: SAYRA ALMODOVAR GUZMAN, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $126,019.89 of principal balance, plus interest at a rate of 5.50% per annum since March 1st, 2014. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges in the amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant owes Plaintiff all of the advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by accessing the electronic court records by internet accessing https://ecf.prd.uscourts.gov.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Ciénaga Baja del Municipio de Rio Grande marcado en el plano de inscripción con el numero ochocientos cuarenta y tres (843) del Bloque Q en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Alturas de Rio Grande,

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compuesto de trescientos ocho punto ochenta y ocho (308.88) metros cuadrados. En lindes; por el Norte, en doce punto ochenta y siete (12.87) metros, con el solar ochocientos setenta (870); por el Sur, en doce punto ochenta y siete (12.87), con la calle quince (15); por el Este, en veinticuatro (24.00) metros, con el lote numero ochocientos cuarenta y dos (842); por el Oeste, en veinticuatro (24.00) metros, con el lote numero ochocientos cuarenta y cuatro (844). Enclava una casa. The property is identified as land number 19,193, recorded at page number 23 of volume number 282 of Rio Grande, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Carolina III. Physical Address: 843 Q 15 St., Alturas de Rio Grande Dev. Rio Grande, PR 00745. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, AT 3: 00 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $129,734.76. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13TH, 2023 AT 3:00 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $86,486.84. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 3:00 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $64,867.38. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office

Monday, November 13, 2023 of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of October 2023. BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015-PPR1 Plaintiff V.

MIGDALIA ROSADO TORRES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil No.: 19-1921. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: MIGDALIA ROSADO TORRES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $142,903.14 of principal balance, plus interest at a rate of 6.875% per annum since June 1st, 2017. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges in the amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant owes Plaintiff all of the advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by accessing the electronic court records by internet accessing https://ecf.prd.uscourts.gov.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the

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highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno identificado con el numero 4-A, radicado en la Carretera Estatal número 829, Barrio Santa Olaya del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 952.3293 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a .2423 cuerda, colindando por el Norte, con la Calle Municipal existente, en una distancia de 19.236 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad en un arco de 6.289 metros que se extiende hacia el este y otra sección de aproximadamente la mitad en otro arco de 5.498 metros que se extiende hacia el oeste; por el Sur, con el remanente, en una distancia de 17.254 metros, segregado en el caso número 89-15-I-300 BPL; por el Este, con el lote 5-A, en una distancia de 46.401 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad de un arco de 6.289 metros que se extiende hacia el Norte; y por el Oeste, con la calle Municipal, en una distancia de 34.300 metros, con la calle existente, en una distancia de 3.50 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad en un arco de 5.498 metros que se extiende hacia el Norte. Recorded at page 256 of book 1520 of Bayamon, land number 66,838, Registry of the Property, Bayamon Section I. Physical Address: 2 St. A-4, Monserrate Hills, Bayamon, PR 00959. The property is affected to the following junior lien or attachment described below: Lien in favor of the Unites States against Jorge Luis Rivera Rivera, social security number xxx-xx-8980, for the sum of $4,833.16, notificacion number 792035811, annotated on June 21st, 2011, at page 50, book 3, volume 9. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood fur-

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21 ther that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, AT 2:45PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $155,656.00.

In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13T, 2023 AT 2:45 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $103.770.67. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 2:45 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $77,828.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of October 2023.

BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

LA SUCESIÓN DE LOS FINADOS GERMAN SANCHEZ VELEZ Y DOLORES PITRE RUIZ COMPUESTA POR RICARDO SANCHEZ PITRE, WANDA I. SANCHEZ PITRE, JANE DOE, JOHN DOE (HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS); LA SUCESION DEL FINADO EDGARDO SANCHEZ PITRE COMPUESTA POR MARY DOE (HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS), ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y CRIM

Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00348.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE

AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 14 de marzo de 2022, expedido en el Centro Judicial de Arecibo, en el Caso Civil número AR2022CV00348, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra la Sucesión de Germán Sánchez Vélez compuesta por Dolores Pitre Ruiz por si y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria; Jane Doe y John Doe (herederos desconocidos); Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y CRIM, por la suma de $39,097.80 mas intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 25 de marzo de 2022, al tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca número 18,519, Anotación A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 22 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización San Felipe, situada en el Barrio Hato Bajo del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar 5 de la manzana K, con una cabida superficial de 345.60 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con los solares K-6 y K-7, en una distancia de 25.34 metros, por el SUR, con el solar K-4, en una distancia de 25.30 metros, por el ESTE, con el solar K-9, en

una distancia de 12.33 metros ser necesaria la celebración y por el OESTE, con la calle de una TERCERA SUBASTA la número 11, en una distancia de misma se llevará a efecto el día 15.00 metros. Enclava casa de 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A concreto para una familia. La LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en propiedad consta inscrita en la la oficina antes mencionada del Finca número 18,519, inscrita Alguacil que suscribe. El preal folio 14576 del tomo 952 de cio mínimo para la TERCERA Arecibo, Registro de la Propie- SUBASTA será de $28,500.00, dad de Puerto Rico, Sección I equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) de Arecibo. La hipoteca cons- del tipo mínimo estipulado para ta inscrita en la Finca número la PRIMERA subasta. Si se 18,519, inscrita al folio 145 del declarase desierta la tercera tomo 952 de Arecibo, Regis- subasta, se adjudicará la finca tro de la Propiedad de Puerto a favor del acreedor por la totaRico, Sección I de Arecibo. El lidad de la cantidad adeudada producto de la subasta se des- si ésta es igual o menor que tinará a satisfacer al deman- el monto del tipo de la tercera dante hasta donde alcance, la subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, conveniente; se abonará dicho el día 9 de noviembre de 2022, monto a la cantidad adeudada en el presente caso civil, a sa- si esta es mayor, todo ello a ber la suma de $39,097.80 de tenor con lo dispone el Articulo principal, más intereses al tipo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 convenido al 6.000% anual, de diciembre de 2015 conocida desde el día 1 de noviembre como “Ley del Registro de la de 2019, hasta su total y com- Propiedad Inmueble del Estado pleto pago, más la cantidad de Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. $5,700.00 para costas, gastos y La propiedad a ser ejecutada honorarios de abogado que la se adquiere libre de toda carga parte demandada se obligara y gravamen que afecte la mena satisfacer como suma liqui- cionada finca según el Artículo da y sin necesidad de nueva 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirliquidación y aprobación por mada la venta judicial por el Hoeste Tribunal, más la cantidad norable Tribunal, se procederá que se adeuda mensualmente a otorgar la correspondiente a partir del día 1 de diciembre escritura de venta judicial y se de 2019, por concepto de las pondrá al comprador en posepartidas enumeradas en el pá- sión física del inmueble de conrrafo primero de las Determi- formidad con las disposiciones naciones de Hechos, más los de Ley. Para conocimiento de cargos por demora, más cua- la parte demandada y de toda lesquiera otros adelantos que aquella persona o personas se hagan en virtud de la escri- que tengan interés inscrito con tura de hipoteca. La venta de la posterioridad a la inscripción referida propiedad se verificará del gravamen que se está ejelibre de toda carga o gravamen cutando, y para conocimiento que afecte la mencionada finca, de todos los licitadores y el excepto el gravamen preferen- público en general, el presente tes aquí antes mencionado. La Edicto se publicará por espacio adjudicación se hará al mejor de dos (2) semanas consecutipostor, quien deberá consignar vas, con un intervalo de por lo el importe de su oferta en el menos siete días entre ambas acto mismo de la adjudicación, publicaciones, en un diario de en efectivo (moneda del curso circulación general en el Estado legal de los Estados Unidos de Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico América), giro postal o cheque y se fijará además en tres (3) certificado a nombre del algua- lugares públicos del Municipio cil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA en que ha de celebrarse dicha SUBASTA se llevará a efecto venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el el 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, informa, por último, que: a. Que en la oficina del referido Al- los autos y todos los documenguacil, localizada en el Centro tos correspondientes al proceJudicial de Arecibo, Arecibo, dimiento incoado estarán de Puerto Rico. Que el precio mí- manifiesto en la secretaría del nimo fijado para la PRIMERA tribunal durante las horas laSUBASTA es de $57,000.00. borables. b. Que se entenderá Que de ser necesaria la ce- que todo licitador acepta como lebración de una SEGUNDA bastante la titularidad y que las SUBASTA, la misma se llevará cargas y gravámenes anterioa efecto el día 13 DE DICIEM- res y los preferentes, si los huBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE biere, al crédito del ejecutante LA MAÑANA, en la oficina an- continuarán subsistentes. Se tes mencionada del Alguacil entenderá, que el rematante que suscribe. El precio mínimo los acepta y queda subrogado para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA en la responsabilidad de los será de $38,000.00, equivalen- mismos, sin destinarse a su tes a dos terceras (2/3) partes extinción el precio del remate. del tipo mínimo estipulado para EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, la PRIMERA subasta. Que de en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy

22 día 24 de octubre de 2023.

ALGUACIL EFRAÍN CARDONA VEGA, ALGUACIL PLACA #050, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

WIGBERTO JIMENEZ ALCAZAR, LUZ NEIDA RIVERA ROSSY Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: JA2019CV00077.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PUBLICO 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 Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ponce, 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 los bienes inmuebles que se describen a continuación: LOTE “G”: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno radicado en el Barrio Quebrada Limón del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, marcado con la letra “G” con un cabida de cuatro cuerdas setecientas sesenta y dos milésimas de otra ( 4.762 cdas), en lindes po5r el Norte, con el lote letra “H” y con terrenos de la finca [principal de donde se segrega; por el SUR, con el lote letra “F”; por el Este, con la finca principal de donde se segrega; y por el OESTE, con la Carretera Estatal Numero Ciento Treinta y Dos (132) que conduce a Ponce Peñuelas. Dirección Física: Lote “G”, Barrio Quebrada Limón, Sector Ojo de Agua, Ponce, PR. Finca número 17,899 (antes 36,961).

Inscrita al folio 226 del tomo 540 (antes 1,296) de Ponce.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. LOTE “H”: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno radicado en el Barrio Quebrada Limón del término

municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, marcado con la letra “H” con una cabida de cuatro cuerdas setecientas sesenta y dos milésimas de otra (4.762 cdas), en lindes por el Norte, con el lote letra “I”; por el SUR, con el lote letra “G”; por el Este, con la finca principal de donde se segrega; y por el OESTE, con camino público que la separa de terrenos de Alfredo Vega.

Dirección Física: Lote “H”, Barrio Quebrada Limón, Sector Ojo de Agua, Ponce, PR. Finca número 17,900. Consta inscrita al folio del tomo 1,269, hoy 540 de Ponce. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. LOTE “J”: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno radicado en el Barrio Quebrada Limón del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, marcado con la letra “J” con un cabida de cuatro cuerdas setecientas sesenta y dos milésimas de otra ( 4.762 cdas), en lindes por el Norte, con terrenos Antonio Rojas; por el SUR, con el lote letra “I”; por el Este, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Clemente Bartolomei y de la finca principal de donde procede; y por el OESTE, con camino público que la separa de terrenos de Alfredo Vega.

Enclava una casa. Dirección Física: Lote “J”, Barrio Quebrada Limón, Sector Ojo de Agua, Ponce, PR. Finca número 18,171. Consta inscrita al folio 241 del tomo 1,296, hoy 540 de Ponce. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. 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 $14,034.99 de principal, más $745.20 en intereses y otros cargos, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, y una suma equivalente al máximo por la ley aplicable para exigir el cumplimiento con el contrato, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. LOTE “G”, FINCA 17,899. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tri-

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bunal de Primera Instancia de Ponce, por el tipo mínimo de $18,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, 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, $12,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $9,000.00. LOTE “H”, FINCA 17,900: LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Ponce, por el tipo mínimo de $18,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE 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, $12,000.00.

De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $9,000.00. LOTE “J”, FINCA 18,171: LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Ponce, por el tipo mínimo de $14,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE 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, $9,333.33. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $7,000.00.

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 27 de octubre de 2023 en Ponce, Puerto Rico.

MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL PLACA #560.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ SALAS, COMPUESTA POR: ANGEL MIGUEL RODRÍGUEZ SALAS, NANCY MINERVA RODRÍGUEZ SALAS, MARITZA RODRÍGUEZ SALAS, DAVID RODRÍGUEZ SALAS, GLADYS RODRÍGUEZ SALAS Y NOEL RODRÍGUEZ SALAS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados Civil Núm.: IS2023CV00111.

(601). Sobre: 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 Aguadilla, 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: Barrio Mora de Isabela, Puerto Rico. Solar: 74 de la Urbanización Brisas Del Mar. Cabida: 351.8866 metros cuadrados. Linderos: por el NORTE, con una (1) alineación de 22.42 metros lineales con el solar número 75; por el SUR, con una (1) alineación de 27.84 metros lineales con el solar número setenta y tres (73); por el ESTE, con una (1) alineación de 11.00 metros lineales, con la calle número cuatro (4); por el OESTE, con una (1) alineación de 18.10 metros lineales con la Sucesión Villanueva. Enclava una estructura de concreto diseñada para fines residenciales para una familia. Inscrita al tomo Karibe de Isabela, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Aguadilla, finca número 32,043. Dirección fisica: Lot. #74, Urbanización Brisas del Mar, Isabela, Puerto Rico, 00662. 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 $107,168.76, más intereses acumulados a razón del 4.5% anual, desde el 1 de agosto de 2015, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $126.00 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $89.75 en conexión con la cuenta de reserva, más la suma de $12,046.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 16 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Aguadilla en la oficina ubicada en el sótano al final del pasillo, por el tipo mínimo de $120,460.00.

De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 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, $80,306.67. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 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, $60,230.00. 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 30 de octubre de 2023 en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. CAROL CHALMERS SOTO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

VERONICA DIAZ MORALES

Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03121.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO-

TECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, hago saber a la parte demandada, VERONICA DIAZ MORALES y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 25 de agosto de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: Villas de Loíza NN23 Calle 37, Canóvanas PR 00729 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villas de Loíza, situada en el barrio Canóvanas del municipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar número 23 del bloque NN con un área de 233.45 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros con solar 22; por el SUR, en 10.15 metros con calle 37; por el ESTE, en 23.00 metros con solar 24; y por el OESTE, en 10.15 metros con solar 18.

Afecta a una servidumbre de uno punto cinco metros por su colindancia Norte para mantenimiento. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia. Finca 9828 inscrita al Folio 64 del tomo 207 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina Sección Tercera. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Verónica Diaz Morales, soltera, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden por $93,279.00, al 5.50%, vencedero el 1 de julio de 2035, según Escritura 322 en San Juan, a 15 de junio de 2005, ante Jesús Allende Ledesma, inscrita al folio 651 del tomo 445 de Canóvanas, finca 9828, inscripción 7ma. Bajo la Ley #216, el 19 de octubre de 2017. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 5 de febrero de 2020, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad adeudada ascendiente a por la cantidad de $68,182.39 de principal con intereses al 5.50% anual desde el día 1 de abril de 2019 hasta su completo pago, cargos por demoras, más las cantidades debidas de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro con-

tra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca, más la cantidad estipulada de $9,327.90 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de CAROLINA, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $93,279.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $62,186.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $46,639.50. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables.

Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca

o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. 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. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy 2 de noviembre de 2023. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA. ***

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE vs.

SUCESION DE OLGA IRIS ORTIZ SERRANO COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS EMILIO REGUERO HERNANDEZ, POR SI; LUIS EDWIN GONZALEZ ORTIZ Y DIANA IRIS GONZALEZ ORTIZ; SUCESIÓN DE OLGA ElLEEN GONZALEZ ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERO CONOCIDO LUIS MARTÍNEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN AMBAS SUCESIONES

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: HU2023CV00077.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DEAMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss.

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den a $61,298.26 de principal, estarán disponibles para ser Carolina, el 8 DE DICIEMBRE 223377116. Anotado el 12 de te a la suma de $63,314.26 CELIA RIVERA Y COMO AMBOS OLGA ElLEEN GONZÁLEZ $3,904.48 de intereses, los cua- examinados en la Secretaría DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA agosto de 2016 al Tomo Digi- de principal, más intereses a Demandados ANA C. RIVERA PEREZ Y ORTIZ; FULANO DE CIVIL NUM. KCD2012-2390 les continúan acumulándose del Tribunal. Se entenderá que MAÑANA, todo derecho título, tal Karibe de Embargos Fede- razón de 8.00% anual desde LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL el 1ro. de marzo de 2016, así rales.

EMBARGO FEDERAL participación o interés que le todo licitador acepta como bashasta el saldo total de la deuda; (906). SOBRE: COBRO DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMO HEREDEROS DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE $2,519.54 de cargos por demo- tante la titulación y que las car- corresponda a la parte deman- contra Ramón Antonio Pargas como los intereses acumulaCuevas, seguro social númedos y por acumularse a partir COMPUESTA POR ra, los cuales continúan acumugas y gravámenes anteriores y dada o cualquiera de ellos en DESCONOCIDOS DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORAMBOS DINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA lándose hasta el saldo total de los preferentes, si los hubiere al el inmueble hipotecado objeto ro xxx-xx-7014, por la suma de esa fecha y hasta su total DICHA SUCESIÓN deuda; más costas, gastos y crédito de ejecutante, continua- de ejecución que se describe a de $89,922.82. Notificación y completo repago; cargos por Demandado Barrio El Duque Lote A-11 EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, la PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, honorarios de abogado. El tipo rán subsiguientes entendiéndo- continuación: URBANA: Solar 267172217. Anotado el 14 de demora equivalentes al 4.000% Ciivl Núm.: FA2019CV00393.

Carr. 970 Km 9 Alguacil de la División de Su- mínimo para la subasta será se que el rematante los acepta marcado con el número 4 del julio de 2017 al Tomo Digital de aquellos pagos con atrasos Sala: 409. Sobre: EJECUNaguabo, PR 00718 bastas del Tribunal de Primera la suma de tasación pactada, y queda subrogado en la res- bloque “L” de la Calle Número Karibe de Embargos Fede- en exceso de 15 días calenda- CIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN Dirección postal: PO Box Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a la cual es $69,530.00 para la ponsabilidad de los mismos, 7 de la Urbanización Lomas de rales. EMBARGO FEDERAL rios de la fecha de vencimiento; REM. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE 102 Naguabo, PR 00718- la demandada y al público en propiedad descrita. Si no pro- sin destinarse a su extinción el Carolina, la cual está localiza- contra Ramón Antonio Pargas más $9,420.00, para el pago de AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE remate o adjudicación la precio del remate. La propiedad da en el Barrio Trujillo Bajo del Cuevas, seguro social núme- costas, gastos y honorarios de DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, 0102 y Carr. 970 Km 9 general, les notifico que, cum- dujere pliendo con un Mandamiento primera subasta, se procederá a ser ejecutada se adquirirá término municipal de Carolina, ro xxx-xx-7014, por la suma abogado como suma pactada ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Naguabo, PR 00718 que se ha librado en el presen- a una segunda subasta y ser- libre de cargas y gravámenes Puerto Rico, con una cabida de $2,574.69. Notificación a dichos efectos en el pagaré; DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. 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.

Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. 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 RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Humacao, Puerto Rico a 07 de NOVIEMBRE de 2023.

IVELISSE C FONSECA RODRIGUEZ, SECRETARIA. LISA M FIGUEROA RUIZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

te caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 2 de octubre de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $61,298.26 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 1 de octubre de 2013, notificada y archivada en autos el 9 de octubre de 2013, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación: 887 Calle Manuel Guerra, El Comandante, Rio Piedras, PR 00928. URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero seiscientos tres #603 del bloque C guión veinte (C-20) del plano de inscripción El Comandante radicado en el Barrio Sabana Llana del sitio de denominado Río Piedras del término municipal del Gobierno de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con una área superficial de TRESCIENTOS CUARENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO CINCUENTA METROS CUADRADOS (344.50 M.C.); en lindes por el NORTE, en veintiséis punto cincuenta metros (26.50) con el solar número quinientos noventa y siete del bloque C guión veinte (#597-C20) del mencionado plano; por el SUR, en veintiséis punto cincuenta metros (26.50) con los solares números seiscientos siete (607) y seiscientos ocho (608) del bloque C guión veinte (C-20) del mencionado plano; por el ESTE, en trece punto cero cero metros (13.00) con el solar número seiscientos cuatro (604); por el OESTE, en trece punto cero cero metros (13.00) LEGAL NOTICE con la calle street número siete ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO (7) del mencionado plano. EnDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- clava una casa. Consta inscrita NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA al folio doscientos uno (201) SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN del tomo sesenta y siete (67) de Sabana Llana, finca númeJUAN. BANCO POPULAR DE ro dos mil seiscientos noventa y uno (2,691). Registro de la PUERTO RICO Propiedad de San Juan, SecDemandante V. ción Quinta. Con el importe de MOISES RIVERA dicha venta se habrá de satisTORRES, MIGDALIA facer a la parte demandante las DELGADO RODRIGUEZ Y cantidades adeudadas, según LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de BIENES GANANCIALES Primera Instancia, Sala de San COMPUESTA POR Juan, cuyas cantidades ascien-

virá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $46,353.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $34,765.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 13 de diciembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el día 10 de enero de 2024, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el día 18 de enero de 2024, a las 9:30 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. De Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes ni posteriores que deban ser cancelados. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta,

posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores.

Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 9 de noviembre de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL.

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MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Demandante, Vs.

RAMON ANTONIO PARGA CUEVAS, CARMEN GLORIA RUIZ LOZADA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: FCD2016-1002. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de

superficial de 299.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 23.00 metros lineales con el solar número L-3. SUR, en una distancia de 23.00 metros lineales con el solar número L-5. ESTE, en una distancia de 13.00 metros lineales con la calle número 7. OESTE, en una distancia de 13.00 metros lineales con el solar número L-14.

Enclava una casa de hormigón reforzado dedicada a vivienda.

Consta inscrita al folio 91 del tomo 1127 de Carolina Sur, finca número 48955, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Carolina.

Propiedad localizada en: Calle 7, K-17, Mountain View, Carolina, P.R. 00987, t/c/c Urb. Mountain View, L-4 Calle 7, Carolina, PR 00987, t/c/c Calle 7 K-17, Mountain View, Carolina, PR 00987-9073. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Ramón Antonio Pargas Cuevas, seguro social número xxx-xx-7014, por la suma de $20,872.69.

Notificación 112783814. Anotado el 11 de agosto de 2014 al folio 242, asiento 2, Libro 12 de Embargos Federales de San Juan I. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Ramón Antonio Pargas Cuevas, seguro social número xxx-xx-7014, por la suma de $39,873.61.

Notificación 635012910. Anotado el 24 de marzo de 2010 al folio 204, asiento 3, Libro 9 de Embargos Federales de San Juan I. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Ramón Antonio Pargas Cuevas, seguro social número xxx-xx-7014, por la suma de $2,951.41. Notificación 170648615. Anotado el 17 de agosto de 2015 al folio 18, asiento 25 Libro 15 de Embargos Federales de San Juan I. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Ramón Antonio Pargas Cuevas, seguro social número xxx-xx-7014, por la suma de $88,738.08. Notificación 204587616. Anotado el 5 de abril de 2016 al Tomo Digital Karibe de Embargos Federales. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Ramón Antonio Pargas Cuevas, seguro social número xxx-xx-7014, por la suma de $90,862.29. Notificación

271306117. Anotado el 30 de agosto de 2017 al Tomo Digital Karibe de Embargos Federales. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Ramón Antonio Pargas Cuevas, seguro social número xxx-xx-7014, por la suma de $76,726.83. Notificación 319389018. Anotado el 5 de septiembre de 2018 al Tomo Digital Karibe de Embargos Federales. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Ramón Antonio Pargas Cuevas, seguro social número xxx-xx-7014, por la suma de $3,451.66. Notificación 447068421. Anotado el 1 de febrero de 2022 al Tomo Digital Karibe de Embargos Federales.

PRESENTADA SU CANCELACIÓN el 25 de agosto de2023 al Tomo Digital, asiento 2023007324-FED. 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 mínimo de subasta la suma de $94,200.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $62,800.00 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $47,100.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 22 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascenden-

$9,420.00 para cubrir cualquier DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, otro adelanto que se hagan en Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera virtud de la escritura de hipo- Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro teca y $9,420.00 para cubrir Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, los intereses en audición a los Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la garantizados por ley más inte- parte demandada y al PÚBLIreses según provisto en la sen- CO EN GENERAL: Que en tencia al amparo de la Regla cumplimiento del Mandamien44.3 de las de Procedimiento to de Ejecución de Sentencia Civil; así como cualquier otra expedido el día 20 de abril de suma que se haga en virtud 2020, por la Secretaría del de la escritura de hipoteca. La Tribunal, procederé a vender venta en pública subasta de la y venderé en pública subasta referida propiedad se verificará y al mejor postor la propiedad libre de toda carga o gravamen que ubica y se describe a contiposterior que afecte la mencio- nuación: Propiedad Horizontal: nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no- CONDOMINIO COSTA MAR tifica y se hace saber la fecha, BEACH VILLAGE WEST de hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, Loíza. Apartamento SO-104.

SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU- Cabida: 1,460.84 Pies CuaBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, drados. EN LINDES: POR EL a los efectos de que cualquier NORTE: Colinda con pared persona o personas con algún medianera que lo separa del interés puedan comparecer a la apartamento SO ciento cinco celebración de dicha subasta. (SO-105) en veinticuatro pies Se notifica a todos los intere- lineales con seis pulgadas sados que las actas y demás (24’6”) equivalentes a siete constancias del expediente de punto cincuenta (7.50) metros este caso están disponibles lineales. POR EL SUR: Colinda en la Secretaría del Tribunal con espacio exterior del edificio durante horas laborables para SO, en veintitrés pies lineales ser examinadas por los (las) con nueve pulgadas (23’-9”), interesados (as). Y para su equivalentes a siete punto veinpublicación en el periódico The tiocho (7.28) metros lineales.

San Juan Daily Star, que es un POR EL ESTE: Colinda con diario de circulación general en escalera y pasillo comunes la isla de Puerto Rico, por es- limitados a los apartamentos pacio de dos semanas conse- del primer (1er) piso del Edificio cutivas con un intervalo de por SO treintiséis pies lineales con lo menos siete (7) días entre tres pulgadas (36’-3”), equivaambas publicaciones, así como lentes a once punto cero seis para su publicación en los si- (11.06) metros lineales. POR tios públicos de Puerto Rico. EL OESTE: Colinda con espaExpedido en Carolina, Puerto cio exterior del Edificio SO, en Rico, hoy día 2 de noviembre treintiséis pies lineales con tres de 2023. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA pulgadas (36’-3”), equivalentes RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL DE a once punto cero seis (11.06) SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE metros lineales. El apartamenPRIMERA INSTANCIA, CEN- to consta de un nivel y está TRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLI- dividido en los siguientes eleNA, SALA SUPERIOR. mentos: Sala-comedor, dos (2) dormitorios, cocina, closet, dos (2) baños con “vanity”, puertas ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de espejos, lavandería, balcón, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- patio, calentador de agua y NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA gabinetes de cocina. La puerCENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO- ta principal de entrada de este LINA SALA SUPERIOR apartamento está situada en su BANCO POPULAR DE lindero este y por ella se sale al pasillo común limitado a los PUERTO RICO apartamentos del primer (1er) Demandante V. ANGEL LUIS AGOSTO piso del Edificio SO y luego al de circulación del proyecMERCADO TAMBIÉN área to. Tiene una participación de CONOCIDO COMO cero punto ochenticuatro por ANGEL L. AGOSTO ciento (0.84%) en los elemenMERCADO, ANA CELIA tos comunes generales del RIVERA PEREZ TAMBIÉN condominio. Le corresponde a este apartamento los espacios CONOCIDA COMO ANA de estacionamientos número

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24 ciento ochenta y cinco (185) y ciento ochenta y Nueve (189).

Inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 216 de Loiza (ágora), finca #10,109, inscripción 2da, del Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada 17 de octubre de 2019, notificada en este caso el 31 de octubre de 2019, y publicada en un periódico de circulación general de Puerto Rico (“El Nuevo Día”) el 7 de octubre de 2019, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $117,812.85 de principal, más los intereses acumulados a razón de 3.750% anual computados desde el día 1 de junio de 2018, hasta su total saldo, recargos por demora y $15,299.00 por costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $152,990.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $101,993.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $76,495.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men-

cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. 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 del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2023. ALGUACIL HÉCTOR PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante Vs.

LYDIA ESTHER DOMINGUEZ MUÑOZ T/C/C LYDIA E. DOMINGUEZ MUÑOZ T/C/C LYDIA DOMINGUEZ MUÑOZ T/C/C LYDIA E. DOMINGUEZ DE ROMAN T/C/C LYDIA ESTHER ROMAN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00039.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, November 13, 2023

DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, 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 Carolina, el 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número B-2.

Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la primera planta del edificio B del Condominio Costa del Sol situado en la Avenida Los Gobernadores en el barrio Cangrejos Arriba del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada es de 1040.03 pies cuadrados equivalentes 96.714 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 28 pies 11 pulgadas con área exterior común de uso limitado; por el SUR, en 28 pies 11 pulgadas con área exterior común y área de pasillo del edificio; por el ESTE, en 46 pies 11 pulgadas con área exterior común, área exterior común de uso limitado, área de pasillo del edificio y pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento B-l; y por el OESTE, en 46 pies 11 pulgadas con área exterior común y área exterior común de uso limitado. Este Apartamento goza del uso exclusivo de un patio que es elemento común limitado el cual está delimitado por verjas según surge de los planos de la propiedad. Consta de balcón, sala -comedor, cocina, laundry, dos baños y tres dormitorios.

La puerta de entrada de este Apartamento está situada en el lindero Este. Le corresponden dos estacionamientos identificados con el mismo número y letra del Apartamento. Este Apartamento tiene una participación de 0.694359851% en los elementos comunes del Condominio. Inscrita al folio 7 del tomo 784 de Carolina Norte, finca 38278, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 81 del tomo 970 de Carolina Norte, Finca 38278, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, inscripción 9ª. Pro-

piedad localizada en: COND. COSTA DEL SOL APTO. B-2, CAROLINA, PR 00979. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $510,000.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 21 de marzo de 2086. 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 $340,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $226,666.67, 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 $170,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $325,522.97 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $81,476.12 en intereses acumulados al 3 de marzo de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.93% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $15,396.77 en seguro hipotecario; $5,915.00 en cargos por servicio; $1,302.26 de contribuciones; $3,368.45 en seguro; $1,425.00 de tasaciones; $420.00 de inspecciones; $475.00 de otros adelantos; $1,027.50 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del

pagare original en la suma de $34,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de octubre de 2023. JOSÉ R. CRISTÓBAL, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278.

1 de diciembre de 2004, ZADORA PUERTO DEL SOL, Karibe de la finca 21548 de Fay al PÚBLICO EN GENE- jardo, inscripción 2ª. CANCEconstituida mediante la INC, RAL; que en cumplimiento del LADA PARCIALMENTE en una escritura número 1232, Mandamiento de Ejecución de suma de $4,200.00 y MODIFIotorgada en San Juan, Sentencia expedido el 1 de CADA en cuanto a su principal Puerto Rico, el día 21 de agosto de 2023, por la Secreta- y vencimiento, siendo ahora su noviembre de 1979, ante ría del Tribunal, procederé a principal por la suma de y venderé en pública $185,000.00 con vencimiento 1 el notario Miguel García vender subasta por el precio mínimo de de noviembre de 2049, según Suarez, e al folio 56 del $190,000.00 y al mejor postor, consta de la escritura 353 otortomo 795 de Bayamón pagadero en efectivo, cheque gada en San Juan, el 30 de ocSur, finca número 36,036 de gerente o giro postal, a nom- tubre de 2009 ante el notario de Bayamón Sur, Registro bre del alguacil del tribunal, la José V. Gorbéa Varona. Inscrita que se describe a el 13 de abril de 2023 al Tomo de la Propiedad de Puerto propiedad continuación: M-1 Cond. La Digital Karibe de la finca 21548 Rico, Tercera Sección de Costa, Fajardo, PR 00738, y de Fajardo, inscripción 4ª. (ii) Bayamón. que se describe de la siguiente HIPOTECA en garantía de pa-

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar 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. Los abogados de la parte demandante son.

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Suite 209 LEGAL NOTICE 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Tel.: (787) 523-2670 DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFax: (787) 523-2664 NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA rdíaz@bdprlaw.com SALA DE BAYAMÓN Expido este edicto bajo mi firma BANCO POPULAR DE y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 31 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. PUERTO RICO LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, Demandante V. SECRETARIA GENERAL. JESÚS HERNÁNDEZ

GARCÍA, LUZ E. PADILLA NEGRÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, H.F. INC., JOHN DOE

Demandadas Civil Núm.: BY2023CV06126.

Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: JOHN DOE COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ a favor de H.F. Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $18,000.00, con intereses al 11.75% anual, vencedero el día

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO

APEX BANK

Demandante Vs.

JOSÉ GABRIEL SANCHEZ RIVERA; URBANIZADORA PUERTO DEL SOL, INC.

Demandados Civil Núm.: NSCI201500128.

(303). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, hago saber a la parte demandada JOSÉ GABRIEL SANCHEZ RIVERA, URBANI-

manera: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, localizado en la primera planta del edificio M del Condominio La Costa, del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Apartamento #M-1, con un área neta de 1317.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 122.40 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el apartamento M-2, en una distancia de 45’ 04”, equivalentes a 13.82 metros; por SUR, colinda con área común, en una distancia de 45’ 04”, equivalentes a 13.82 metros; por el ESTE, colinda con área común limitada, en una distancia de 37’ 0”, equivalentes a 11.28 metros; y por el OESTE, con un área común que da acceso al vestíbulo, en una distancia de 37’0”, equivalentes a 11.28 metros; y por el OESTE, con un área común que da acceso al vestíbulo, en una distancia de 37’ 0” equivalentes a 11.28 metros.

Su puerta principal está localizada en la colindancia OESTE. El apartamento consta de un nivel y está dividido en los siguientes elementos, sala-comedor y puerta de entrada con acceso al vestíbulo del edificio, cocina, área de lavandería, balcón, tres cuartos dormitorios con sus closets, unidos por un pasillo central, dos baños, uno con acceso al pasillo central y el segundo bicado dentro del área del cuarto dormitorio principal. Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina.

Le corresponde a este apartamento dos espacios de estacionamiento marcados con el #221 y el #222. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio el 0.00783%. Finca 21548 inscrita al tomo digital de Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $190,000.00, con intereses al 6.75% anual y vencimiento el 1 de agosto de 2021. Constituida por la escritura 81 otorgada en San Juan, el 31 de julio de 2006 ante el notario José A. Crespo Rivera. Inscrita el 13 de abril de 2023 al Tomo Digital

garé a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $15,176.90, sin intereses anuales y vencimiento el 1 de noviembre de 2012. Constituida por la escritura 354 otorgada en San Juan, el 30 de octubre de 2009 ante el notario José V. Gorbéa Varona. Inscrita el 13 de abril de 2023 al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 21548 de Fajardo, inscripción 3ª. (iii) MANDAMIENTO en Ejecución de Sentencia y Orden de Embargo emitido el 29 de junio de 2016 por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, en caso civil número NSCI201500128, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Oriental Bank, demandante v José Gabriel Sánchez Rivera, demandado. Por el mismo se ordena el Embargo de esta finca para que la misma responda por $181,229.24, más otras sumas. Anotado el 13 de abril de 2023 al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 21548 de Fajardo, anotación “A”. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 27 de abril de 2016, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $181,229.24 de principal, intereses al 6.75% desde el día 1 de marzo de 2014; intereses vencidos; gastos por demora y $19,000.00 estipulados para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, Puerto Rico.

Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $190,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS

The San Juan Daily Star 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $126,666.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $95,000.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura.

El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término

Monday, November 13, 2023

de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. 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. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de agosto de 2023. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.

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CIELO VIVIENDA LLC Demandante V.

MIGUEL FLORES COLÓN

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV04165.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada MIGUEL FLORES COLÓN y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 11 de octubre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $90,000.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: WINDSOR TOWER COND., APT 211, SAN JUAN, PR 00923, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Windsor Towers Condominium. Apartment 211 is located in the second floor of the building, in the section which composes the western part of the building. It consists of a regular rectangular shaped body measuring approximately thirty one feet two inches long by twenty six feet nine and half inches wide, and a rectangular shaped open balcony thirteen feet seven inches long by five feet seven inches wide that is a total area of nine hundred thirteen square feet and twenty five hun-

dredths of another, equivalents to eighty four square meters and ninety five hundredths of another, bounding of the South, with an interior wall, which separates it from the common elevators lobby, to which he entrance door for the apartament opens; on the North, with an exterior walls, which separates it from the common yard (front yard), on the Northern side of the building; to where the balcony opens; on the East, with a party wall, which separates it from the family unit (apartment) two hundred twelve on the West, with a party wall, which separates it from the family unit (apartment) two hundred ten. This apartment consists of one bedroom, one bathroom and dressing room, storage, a combination of living and dinning room, entrance hall and kitchen with cabinets a Westinghouse electric range, model X-F-130, counters and thirty gallons capacity water heater.

It has a covered parking space number four. Le corresponde a este apartamento un porcentaje en los elementos comunes de punto quinientos siete y en los elementos restringidos de cinco punto noventa y uno porciento ambos. Finca 19049 inscrita al folio 281 del tomo 470 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, sección V. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage LLC., o a su orden, por la suma de $90,000.00, intereses al 5.875% anual a vencer el 1 de diciembre del 2039, según consta de la escritura numero 505, otorgada en San Juan, el 16 de noviembre de 2009, ante la notario Magda V. Alsina Figueroa, inscrita al folio 2955 del tomo 1129 de Sabana Llana, finca 19049, inscripción 8va. Inscrita en virtud de la ley 216 de asiento abreviado. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, sección V. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 18 de agosto de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $75,510.42 de principal, más $14,770.38 de interés que continuarán acumulándose desde el día 1 de septiembre de 2019 hasta el saldo total al 5.875% anual, $2,637.53 de balance de cuenta escrow, $182.71 balance en suspenso, $718.74 de cargos por demora, $3,881.03.00 de otros cargos, $9,000.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad

con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $90,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $60,000.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 10 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $45,000.00.

El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del

acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura.

El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. 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. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de octubre de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

HECTOR L REYES GARCIA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: VI2023CV00069.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: HECTOR L REYES GARCIA. URB LA VEGA, CALLE B #142, VILLALBA PR 00766; 930 N 6TH ST APT 307, SHEBOYGAN, WI, 53081.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido

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término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kenmuel J. Ruiz Lopez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en VILLALBA EN JUANA DIAZ, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de septiembre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. VANESSA RODRÍGUEZ MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

tiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Edwin Serrano Peña cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Rico, hoy día 06 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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DAISY HERNANDEZ TORRES Demandante V.

FIRST BANK PUERTO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RICO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CUALESQUIER PERSONA SALA DE CAROLINA DESCONOCIDA CON MIDLAND CREDIT POSIBLE INTERÉS EN MANAGEMENT PUERTO LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA RICO, LLC, COMO LEGAL NOTICE CANCELACIÓN POR AGENTE DE MIDLAND ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DECRETO JUDICIAL SE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFUNDING, LLC SOLICITA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LEGAL NOTICE

Demandante Vs.

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV03463.

ISLAND PORTFOLIO Demandado Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE SERVICES, LLC COMO Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01204. PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMAGENTE DE ACE ONE Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIEN- ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉFUNDING, LLC TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE Parte Demandante Vs. UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL VALERIE M LOPEZ ORTIZ PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Parte Demandada DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI- DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02002. BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. RICO, SS. Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICA: SONIA E. VÁZQUEZ TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COMO POSIBLES URB SABANA GDNS, 9-48 AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE TENEDORES Y DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, CALLE 14, CAROLINA PR CUALESQUIER PERSONA EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA00983-2978.

DESCONOCIDA CON DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. POR LA PRESENTE se le A: VALERIE M LOPEZ emplaza y requiere para que POSIBLE INTERÉS EN conteste la demanda dentro de LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA ORTIZ. COND VILLA los treinta (30) días siguientes CANCELACIÓN POR DEL DIAMANTINO a la publicación de este Edicto.

DECRETO JUDICIAL SE APT C23, CAROLINA Usted deberá presentar su aleSOLICITA. PR 00987; URB VILLA gación responsiva a través del la presente se le notifica CAROLINA 88-4 CALLE Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Por Administración de Casos (SU- que ha sido presentada en 99A, CAROLINA PR MAC), la cual puede acceder este Tribunal una Demanda en 00984; 262 TACOMA ST, utilizando la siguiente direc- su contra en el pleito de epíWORCESTER, MA 01605- ción electrónica: https://unired. grafe. 1. En este caso la parte ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se demandante ha radicado una 3536.

Demanda para que se decrete POR LA PRESENTE se le represente por derecho propio, judicialmente el saldo de un (1) emplaza y requiere para que en cuyo caso deberá presentar pagaré hipotecario a favor de conteste la demanda dentro de su alegación responsiva en la Santander Mortgage Corporalos treinta (30) días siguientes secretaría del tribunal. Si usted a la publicación de este Edic- deja de presentar su alegación tion, por la suma principal de $78,380.00, con intereses al to. Usted deberá presentar su responsiva dentro del referido 7% anual, vencedero el 1 de alegación responsiva a través término, el tribunal podrá dicabril de 2037, constituida medel Sistema Unificado de Ma- tar sentencia en rebeldía en nejo y Administración de Ca- su contra y conceder el reme- diante la escritura 70, otorgasos (SUMAC), la cual puede dio solicitado en la demanda o da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, acceder utilizando la siguiente cualquier otro sin más citarle ni el día 28 de marzo de 2002, dirección electrónica: unired. oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci- inscrito al tomo móvil 1,578 de ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se cio de su sana discreción, lo en- Caguas, ante el notario Jose Orlando Mercado Gely, sobre represente por derecho propio, tiende procedente. El sistema la propiedad que se descrien cuyo caso deberá presentar SUMAC notificará copia a los su alegación responsiva en la abogados de la parte deman- be a continuación: URBANA: secretaría del tribunal. Si usted dante, el Lcdo. Edwin Serrano Parcela de terreno identificado deja de presentar su alegación cuyas direcciones son: P.O. como lote C raya diecisiete (Cresponsiva dentro del referido Box 71418 San Juan, Puer- 17) en la Calle número uno (1) término, el tribunal podrá dic- to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono de la Urbanización San Rafael, Barrio Tomas de Castro en Catar sentencia en rebeldía en (787) 993-3731 a la dirección su contra y conceder el reme- edwin.serrano@orf-law.com y guas, Puerto Rico, con cabida de ciento noventa y cinco punto dio solicitado en la demanda o a la dirección notificaciones@ EXTENDIDO cincuenta y uno metros cuadracualquier otro sin más citarle ni orf-law.com. oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci- BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del dos (195.51 m/c). En lindes: por el NORTE, en 10.91 mecio de su sana discreción, lo en- Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto tros, con la Urbanización Villas SALA DE CAROLINA

SONIA E VÁZQUEZ

26 de Castro; por el SUR, en diez punto cincuenta y un metros lineales (10.51 m), con la Calle número uno (1); por el ESTE, en diecisiete punto ochenta y dos metros lineales (17.82), con lote C raya dieciséis (C16); y por el OESTE, en dieciocho punto dos metros lineales (18.02 m), con el lote C raya dieciocho (C-18). Enclava una estructura para fines residenciales. Finca Número 46,652, inscrita al folio 150 del tomo 1,314 de Caguas. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré se ha saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Lizbet Aviles Vega, Urb. Los Sauces, Calle Pomarrosa #222, Humacao, PR 00791; Tel. (787) 354-0061, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de octubre de 2023.

DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINO. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, November 13, 2023

TEXEIRA Y CARMEN RIVERA RODRIGUEZ el ESTE: con José Torres y por y al mejor postor, por separa- vamen posterior, una vez sea SUBASTA, se publicará en los deja de presentar su alegación el OESTE: con Gaspar Virella y do, de contado y por moneda otorgada la escritura de venta lugares públicos correspon- responsiva dentro del referido Peticionaria LYDIA GONZÁLEZ GREEN área de acceso a la vía pública. de curso legal de los Estados judicial y obtenida la Orden y dientes y en un periódico de término, el tribunal podrá dicEX-PARTE EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL Enclava una estructura”. Este Unidos de América. Todo pago Mandamiento de cancelación circulación general en la juris- tar sentencia en rebeldía en Civil #: BY2023CV05010.

USUFRUCTUARIA; edicto deberá ser publicado recibido por el (la) Alguacil por de gravamen posterior. (Art. dicción de Puerto Rico. Se en- su contra y conceder el reme(705). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE en tres (3) ocasiones dentro concepto de subastas será en 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación tenderá que todo licitador acep- dio solicitado en la demanda o DEPARTAMENTO DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESdel término de veinte (20) días, efectivo, giro postal o cheque a la finca a subastarse, se es- ta como bastante la titularidad cualquier otro sin más citarle ni DE HACIENDA; TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRIen un periódico de circulación certificado a nombre del (de la) tablece como tipo mínimo de y que las cargas y gravámenes oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerciCA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS DEPARTAMENTO DE general diaria, para que com- Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera licitación en la Primera Subasta anteriores y los referentes, si cio de su sana discreción, lo enEE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOJUSTICIA; ESTADOS parezcan si quieren alegar su Instancia. Todo derecho, título, la suma de $226,500.00, según los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu- tiende procedente. El sistema CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA derecho. Toda primera mención participación e interés que le acordado entre las partes en el tante continuarán subsistentes. SUMAC notificará copia al aboDemandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV02992.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA . EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

SS.

de persona natural y/o jurídica corresponda a la parte deman- precio pactado en la Escritura Se entenderá, que el rematante gado de la parte demandante,

А: MARGARITA RIVERA que se mencione en el mismo, dada o cualquiera de ellos en de Hipoteca # 467, otorgada los acepta y queda subroga- Edwin Serrano Peña cuya RODRIGUEZ COMO se identificará en letra tamaño el inmueble hipotecado objeto en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el do en la responsabilidad de dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 ANTERIOR DUEÑA, QUE 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme de ejecución que se describe a día 19 de agosto de 2010, ante los mismos, sin destinarse a San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936CEDIÓ POR DOCUMENTO a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de continuación: URBANA: Solar el notario María G. Chévere su extinción el precio del re- 8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 Civil, 2009. Se le radicado en el Barrio Pájaros Mouriño, e inscrita al folio 118 mate. Se procederá a otorgar a la dirección edwin.serrano@ PRIVADO 600 DARROW procedimiento apercibe que de no comparecer de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con del tomo 1824 de Bayamón la correspondiente Escritura orf-law.com y a la dirección noSTREET, WARENSBURG, los interesados y/o partes cita- el número cinco de la manzana Sur, finca número 6,955, ins- de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil tificaciones@orf-law.com. EXMISSOURI 64099 Y das, o en su defecto los orga- A en el Plano de Inscripción cripción 12ma. La PRIMERA pondrá en posesión judicial al TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y PERSONAS IGNORADAS nismos públicos afectados en el parcial de la Urbanización Her- SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo nuevo dueño, si así se lo solici- el sello del Tribunal, en CAROY/O DESCONOCIDAS término improrrogable de veinte manas Dávila, con un área su- el día 9 DE ENERO DE 2024 A ta dentro del término de veinte LINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 días a contar de la fecha perficial de cuatrocientos veinte LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en (20) días, de conformidad con de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. A: LOURDES NOEMÍ A QUIENES PUDIERA (20) de la última publicación del metros cuadrados, colindando mis oficinas sitas en el Tribu- las disposiciones de Ley. Si KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, MELÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ PERJUDICAR LA REGIONAL. edicto, el Tribunal podrá con- por su frente que es el NORTE, nal de Primera Instancia, Sala transcurren los referidos veinte SECRETARIA Y AIDA ESTHER INSCRIPCIÓN DEL ceder el remedio solicitado por en catorce metros con la calle A Superior de Bayamón, el tipo (20) días, el tribunal podrá or- MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, MELÉNDEZ TEXEIRA. DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA la parte peticionaria, sin más de la Urbanización; por el fon- mínimo para la primera subas- denar, sin necesidad de ulterior SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. Por la presente se le emplaza PARTE PETICIONARIA citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, do que es el SUR, en catorce ta es la suma de $226,500.00. procedimiento, que se lleve a LEGAL NOTICE y notifica que debe contestar la Puerto Rico, a 1 de noviembre metros con solares de Sergio Si la primera subasta del in- efecto el desalojo o lanzamiendemanda dentro del término de EN EL REGISTRO DE LA de 2023. Laura I. Santa Sán- Dávila; por su derecha entran- mueble no produjere remate, to del ocupante u ocupantes de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO treinta (30) días a partir de la PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA chez, Secretaria Regional. Né- do que es el OESTE, en treinta ni adjudicación, se celebrará la finca o de todos los que por DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUpublicación del presente edicto. QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE lida Ocasio Ortega, Secretaria metros con solar número seis una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el orden o tolerancia del deudor la NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Usted deberá presentar su alede dicha manzana propiedad día 16 DE ENERO DE 2024 A ocupen. Se informa que la pro- SALA SUPERIOR DE CADESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA Auxiliar Del Tribunal I. gación responsiva a través del de Hermanas Dávila Inc.; y por LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en piedad objeto de ejecución se GUAS LEGAL NOTICE Sistema Unificado de Manejo y PERSONA EN GENERAL su izquierda entrando que es el el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo adquiere libre de cargas y graCOOPERATIVA DE QUE CON DERECHO Administración de Casos (SUESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ESTE, en treinta metros con el mínimo las dos terceras partes vámenes posteriores. Expedido AHORRO Y CREDITO MAC), al cual puede acceder PARA ELLO DESEE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- solar número cuatro de dicha del precio pactada para la pri- en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 17 ORIENTAL utilizando la siguiente direcOPONERSE A ESTE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA manzana propiedad de Herma- mera subasta, o sea, la suma de octubre de 2023. Edgardo Demandante V. ción electrónica: https://unired.

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA- nas Dávila Inc. Se construyó de $151,000.00. Si la segunda Elías Vargas Santana, Alguacil EXPEDIENTE. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se WILMARIE Auxiliar Placa #193. subasta no produjere remate, ni una casa de hormigón armado POR LA PRESENTE: se les MÓN represente por derecho propio, GARCÍA FONTÁNEZ que consta de tres (3) cuartos adjudicación, se celebrará una notifica para que comparezcan, KEYLINK LLC en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle.

Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando repudiando la herencia de la SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL MELÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo.

Guillermo A. Somoza Colombina, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 00936-6603. Tel (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016.

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma sello de este Tribunal, hoy 31 de octubre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL MELÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR RAFAEL MELÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, LOURDES LEGAL NOTICE NOEMÍ MELÉNDEZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO GONZÁLEZ, EDWARD DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUMELÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SAMUEL MELÉNDEZ NAL SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAGONZÁLEZ, AIDA MÓN ESTHER MELÉNDEZ ANA LUISA

si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante.

Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar al prueba de valor de al parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, RP 009695650, Teléfono 787-720-9553.

Parcela de terreno en el barrio Frailes del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, compuesta de CIENTO CINCUENTA METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE: con terreno de Ramón Ramos; por el SUR: con la finca principal; por

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA ISABEL HERNÁNDEZ VALLE COMPUESTAS POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02523.

Salón Núm.: (502). 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: SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA ISABEL HERNÁNDEZ VALLE COMPUESTAS POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA: SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, O 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 Bayamón, procederé a vender en pública subasta

dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón.

Consta inscrita al folio 17 del tomo 137 de Bayamón Sur, Finca #6,955, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Hermanas Dávila, A-5 Calle A, Bayamón, P.R. 00959. 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 Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $226,500.00, con intereses al 5.560% anual, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2088, constituida mediante la escritura número 468, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de agosto de 2010, ante la notario María G. Chévere Mouriño, e inscrita al folio 118 del tomo 1824 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 6,955, inscripción 13ra. Se le notifica a los acreedores posteriores anteriormente identificados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra-

TERCERA SUBASTA el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:15 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 $113,250.00. 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: Suma Principal de $108,323.01, con intereses a 5.56% anual, desde que dichas sumas fueron desembolsadas, siendo el primer desembolso el 24 de agosto de 2010, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más adelantos para el pago de seguros hipotecarios y contribuciones sobre la propiedad, entre cualquier otro anticipo o adelanto hecho por la parte demandante, más una suma equivalente al 10% de la obligación principal del pagaré $22,650.00, 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

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

YESENIA L BETANCOURT GARCIA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01881.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: YESENIA L. BETANCOURT GARCIA URB ROUND HILLS 1629 CALLE DALIA, TRUJILLO ALTO PR 00976-2734.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted

Demandado(a) Civil: JU2020CV00002. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: WILMARIE GARCÍA FONTÁNEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de septiembre de 2021, 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 3 de noviembre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 3 de noviembre de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Sheila Rivera Medina, Secretaria Auxiliar.

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, November 13, 2023

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To beat the best at the ATP Finals, players may have to mix things up

By STUART MILLER

T

he ATP Finals, which opened Sunday and runs through Nov. 19, is more than the most prestigious men’s tournament outside of the Grand Slams, it is also an existential conundrum.

The exclusive singles draw features the eight best players in the world, leaving no easy wins and raising the question of whether a player must change his game over the course of the week to best the best of the best.

The answer is a highly qualified “yes,” with a giant “but” attached. Paul Annacone, a Tennis Channel analyst who coached Pete Sampras and Roger Federer, said changes should be minor, especially since the early matches are round-robin, meaning a player can lose one match and still survive.

“I’m a big believer in figuring out your own identity and trusting what got you to the year-end championships,” he said.

“Then you just have to do it just a little better than the guy on the other side of the net that day.”

Charging the net, which can shorten rallies and help players take control of the action, is one tactic that the players can use against the game’s best defenders, like Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev, or against power sluggers like Jannik Sinner and Andrey Rublev, but it’s precisely those players’ skills that make coming up to the net after hitting a groundstroke such a risky move.

Still, Jimmy Arias, who is also a Tennis Channel analyst, said it’s one way to survive the week.

“It’s so hard to hit through base liners like Alexander Zverev and Medvedev, especially on a slower court,” he said, “so if you don’t come to the net against Medvedev, you’re kind of an idiot. If he hits a ridiculous passing shot from the stands, just clap and say, ‘Let me see you do that again.’”

The danger comes, Arias says, if you simply try to force your way to the net against an opponent who is dictating the points — although he adds that, given the quality of the opponents in Turin, Italy, that may become the only option.

Patrick McEnroe, an ESPN analyst, agreed, saying that “the ability to finish points, especially at the net, helps exponen-

Stefanos Tsitsipas playing a volley to Andy Murray during Wimbledon in July. Tsitsipas’s volleying skills may have helped him land at the ATP Finals, which will feature the eight best players in the world. Tsitsipas lost to Jannik Sinner, 6-4, 6-4, in the tournament’s opening match on Sunday. tially” against such elite defensive players.

Medvedev, who is known for stubbornly staying extremely far behind the baseline, gives himself time to reach almost any deep shot. The best plan is to come to the net or hit short-angle balls against him, McEnroe said, but noted that Medvedev succeeds because many players (Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz excepted) cannot execute that tactic well enough to beat him.

McEnroe added that the court in Turin, which is indoors, was low-bouncing (forcing opponents to lift attempted passing shots) and relatively slow, although indoor courts felt quicker because there were no elements like wind.

“That favors the aggressive player, but not to the extent that it did back in the day, so you need more versatility now,” he said.

“That’s why Federer and Djokovic have dominated there.” (Federer won six times; Djokovic is seeking his seventh title.)

He emphasized that changing strategies can be more nuanced than simply charging in. He suggested using the forecourt more often and hitting drop shots, low slices and short angle balls.

“It puts the other player in uncomfortable positions and allows you to then take the initiative on the next shot,” he said, adding that this is something they now stress at the John McEnroe Tennis Academy, the

school launched by his brother, where he is co-director.

“This is the biggest thing that has changed with Carlos Alcaraz, who has been playing those shots at least since he was 13,” Patrick McEnroe said. “He has the huge firepower and athleticism that these other players do, but now you’re seeing the need to move better and use that part of the court strategically. You’re seeing shots you never thought about, and players are using them consistently.”

Arias said that breaking down an opponent by making him change his positioning so he felt uncomfortable — something Federer would do with a short, low slice and that Alcaraz does with the drop shot — was essential.

“It’s not just needed for this tournament, but to beat the best you need that all year, but it’s something that’s slightly lacking in the game today,” he said.

While Zverev and Medvedev tend to camp at the baseline and let it rip, the analysts cite Rublev, whom Annacone called “so dominant from the back of the court,” as the most one-dimensional of the top players. Arias said Rublev and Sinner “play straight ahead, hitting it hard without opening the court much.”

But Annacone and McEnroe said Sinner was improving in this regard because of his

coach Darren Cahill. “He’s getting better at playing with subtlety and nuance,” McEnroe said, adding that Holger Rune also “has the potential to play that sort of game.”

All three analysts say that when Stefanos Tsitsipas is in top form, he is versatile and one of the better volleyers.

Annacone said that a player like Sinner or Rublev could win most matches during the year with their firepower, but that “each of these top players, aside from Novak, can be vulnerable on any given day against other elite players.”

Djokovic, as always, remains the exception, even among the exceptional. He has lost just five times this year and is 33-1 on hardcourts; since 2012 he is an astounding 108-15 indoors. (Alcaraz would have slotted in there with Djokovic, but he has scuffled a bit since Wimbledon.)

So Annacone acknowledged that while players can’t overhaul their identity for this tournament, when they reach the semifinals and possibly face Alcaraz or Djokovic, “you need to be creative and think outside the box,” adding that changing tactics midmatch was easier now that coaching is allowed between points.

“You have to be confident enough to do things a little differently, to adjust and adapt on your feet,” he said. “Try it, sometimes you’ll miss, but that’s life.”

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Star who defined a decade, and a coach focused on the future

By RORY SMITH

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mma Hayes first met Megan Rapinoe before she was Megan Rapinoe. Or, rather, just as she was becoming Megan Rapinoe. She was not yet a winner of two World Cups, not yet an Olympic champion, not yet captain of her country, not yet a powerful and urgent voice away from the field. Rapinoe was not even a professional soccer player back then, not quite.

Hayes’ job was to change that. In 2008, she had been appointed head coach and director of soccer operations of the Chicago Red Stars, one of the inaugural franchises in the startup league Women’s Professional Soccer. Hayes had a blank slate to fill, a team to construct from scratch. Rapinoe was her first call.

That, perhaps, is the best measure of how brightly Rapinoe’s talent shone. When coach and player first met, Rapinoe was just a 23-year-old straight out of the University of Portland, but the power dynamic already lay in her favor. She did not need to convince Hayes. Instead, Hayes had to sell her on the team, on the project, on the city.

And so she showed Rapinoe, born and raised in California, around Chicago, hoping to persuade her that the move to the banks of Lake Michigan would suit her. It worked. The Red Stars drafted Rapinoe second overall before the league’s first season.

The league did not last. It survived for just three seasons. By the time it closed down, Hayes had long since departed the Red Stars. Rapinoe, however, was just getting started.

As much as Hayes was convinced of Rapinoe’s promise, even she would not pretend to have known just how far she would go. This weekend, Rapinoe — 38 now — finally called time on her career. Her plan was for her exit to be framed by ticker-tape and fireworks, with one last triumph. But Gotham FC foiled that plan on Saturday in San Diego, topping Rapinoe’s OL Reign 2-1 to win the National Women’s Soccer League final.

Her team’s NWSL finals loss notwithstanding, it is no exaggeration to say that, for more than a decade, Rapinoe has been the defining player in women’s soccer. It is not simply that she was a key part in the U.S. victory in the 2015 World Cup and the driving force behind its repeat triumph four years later. It is that her activism, her unwillingness to shut up and play, turned the U.S. women’s team into something that transcended sports. As a consequence, she

helped set the tone for women’s soccer as a whole.

It is fitting that Rapinoe’s curtain call should come just as Hayes, the woman who did so much to launch her career, should return to the United States. Not officially, of course; at this stage, the fact that Hayes will be the next coach of the U.S. women’s team is merely an open secret, a fait accompli that must — for now — remain swaddled by a warm blanket of euphemism.

Anonymous sources will go only as far as saying Hayes and U.S. Soccer have been “in talks.” Chelsea, the club Hayes has coached for the past decade to considerable success, will only say that the 47-year-old coach will depart at the end of the current season in order to “pursue a new opportunity” outside of England’s Women’s Super League and the club game.

Quite what that opportunity might be is not revealed. Sure, maybe she’ll coach the U.S. Or maybe she wants to be a firefighter.

It’s anyone’s guess.

There is just one established fact, even if it is by some distance the most salient one. Hayes, winner of six league titles and five FA Cups and easily the most prominent manager in the women’s game in England, has quit her job. She has told Chelsea she is going. That, more than anything, reveals exactly how far those mysterious talks have progressed.

It is not hard to see why the prospect of coaching the United States appeals to Hayes. So rich is the team’s history that it remains the most prestigious job in women’s soccer. Given that she will be given salary parity with Gregg Berhalter, the coach of the U.S. men’s team, it will also be the most lucrative.

Hayes will have to earn that money.

The last time she took a job in the United States, her task was to help kick-start an era.

A decade and a half later, that is in the job description once again. The context, however, is starkly different. This time, before the start, Hayes has to oversee an end.

It might be vaguely possible to spin Hayes’ appointment as a return — her early career résumé also includes spells at the Long Island Lady Riders (which we can all agree is not a great name for a team), the Washington Freedom and the Western New York Flash — but she has not been hired because of her familiarity with American soccer’s modern landscape. She has been appointed precisely because she is an outsider to it.

It is not simply that Hayes represents a

Megan Rapinoe played her final club game on Saturday, for OL Reign in the N.W.S.L. final. considerable break with tradition. Almost all of her predecessors as national team coach have come from positions on the side of the Atlantic that has been slow to embrace contactless technology. The U.S. job was, in some senses, the reward for success in American soccer.

For decades, the United States was the driving force of the women’s game. Its professional league, in whatever guise, was the gold standard of the sport. Players from across the world, where domestic competitions were often professional only in name, flocked there. The national team was the pinnacle of that program, and therefore the zenith of the game.

This summer made it abundantly clear that had changed. The United States exited the World Cup in the round of 16. Its impact on the tournament was minimal. What happened in Australia and New Zealand illustrated a power shift that had been coming for some time. Two European teams contested the final. Five of the eight quarterfinalists were European.

Those nations, including the U.S., who drew large portions of their squads from the

NWSL tended to fall early. It was something that Hayes herself spotted.

“There is still a huge amount of talent in this U.S. team,” she wrote in a column for The Daily Telegraph during the World Cup. “But with so many of the squad playing solely in the NWSL, it doesn’t offer enough diversity to their squad in terms of playing against different styles.”

She would, she wrote, be “shocked” if young players continued to migrate to the U.S. to play in the college system when professional teams were recruiting — and paying so well — in Europe. In the future, she predicted, it would be “very, very difficult” for the U.S. to regain its primacy without “the right conversations around their model.”

That it will be Hayes leading those conversations is a tacit acknowledgment that her assertion was correct. By appointing someone who has built their career and reputation in Europe to overturn the reality that it has fallen behind, U.S. Soccer is effectively accepting the truth of it. One era is at an end, and it is time for another to begin.

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Have fun with people today. Talk about the fantasies you dream about coming to fruition in the coming years. Your emotions are strongly tied to your imagination. You could become defensive when someone starts to poke holes in your dreams. Use your intellect to defend yourself and the ideals you wish to live by in the future.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

It may be hard for anything to hold your attention today. Your mind may drift easily, and you may not have the patience to deal with situations that come your way. Do your best to wait until someone is finished talking before you jump in with your two cents. Be polite and respectful of others and they’ll be more respectful of yours.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Finding the answers you seek is easier when you take a more adamant position about where you stand now and where you want to be later. If you continue to be uncertain and relaxed about which way to proceed, others may take advantage of you. You have the strength and power to fuel your desires. It’s time to put these into effect.

Although some people may think of you as a space cadet when it comes to decisions and commitments, they may see a different side of you today. Don’t be surprised if others come around to your camp once they hear your side of the story. Somehow all the pieces are fitting into place just like you knew they would. Those who doubted you will be pleasantly surprised.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Your competitive side may be a strong force in today’s activities. Before you get too emotional about any situation, use logic and cold, hard facts to defend your position. Well thought out arguments presented clearly and concisely will be more effective than an emotional explosion full of tears and harsh words.

You’ve almost reached an important finish line.

Don’t give up. This is the time to kick into high gear and get moving even more quickly than before. Your emotions may remain out in left field as they merge with your most active fantasies.

Do your best to stay on track by looking forward instead of behind you.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

You’re trying to protect and shelter a certain part of yourself from others. This special spot in your soul that you hide from others is probably the most beautiful, since you nurture it so carefully.

Don’t give up this piece of yourself too easily.

Save this pristine, delicate place for someone most deserving.

It may be hard to find your mental and physical home base. Your mind could be wrapped in a cloud or some sort of imaginative time warp, so be careful how you proceed. Your head is in another dimension and you aren’t paying nearly enough attention to the road ahead of you.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

This is a good time to make decisions that bring together your need for practicality as well as desire for emotional freedom. It’s important for your mental health to have faith in your fantasies and your ability to see them through to fruition.

There’s a special portal open for you today with your name on it.

You like to recycle in your home and your workplace. Be a part of the solution instead of the problem by picking up after yourself and making sure that you aren’t leaving a mess wherever you go. The state of the environment is more of a concern every day. It’s up to each individual to make a difference.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

You don’t want to sit still for a minute. You may make people dizzy with your energy, and you’re itching to get away. You may be contemplating a long trip abroad. It’s fine to fantasize about all the choices out there, but don’t commit to anything today. Your imagination and spirit are a bit too high to settle on anything in particular.

Just enjoy all the choices for now.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

The source of your frustration may be people who seem to be sensitive and honest yet act abrasively and speak aggressively. Try not to be fooled by those who continuously offer one image while delivering another. Keep your guard up. Don’t waste your time giving people more chances than they deserve.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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